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Sly ftmitljficli) Jlcrulit naoittiDOLUKmna. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." ~ mu oorm nrs mm ? ??^ - ? - _^ VOL. 25. SMITHFIELD.'N. C.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 81, 190(1. XO. 2(i. 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. From all over Eastern North Carolina comes news that there is much anxiety among the farm ers on accgunt of the condition of the crops, caused by too much rain. Buie's Creek Academy, Har nett county, opened August 21 with the best opening in its his tory by more thau 15 per cent. Thirty counties and three States represented the first day. The Executive Committee of the trustees of Wake Forest will meet in a few days to elect a Fi nancial Agent to canvass the State to raise the $ 112,500 to ward the f150,000 endowment. Secretary T. K Bruner and Curator H. H. Brimley, of the State Agricultural Department, expect to have the .North Caro lina "New England Exhibit" ready for shipment to Boston by September 10th, and it will be placed by October 1st. At Wilkesboro, in the Superior Court on Wednesday Hiram Higgins, who killed his son, Silas Higgins, submitted to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to a term of ten years in the State prison. The old man is 73 years old and in feeble health. At the meeting of the Raleigh township division of the South ern Cotton Aassociation on Saturday at Raleigh, a resolu tion was adopted requesting the removal of Secretary Richard Cheatham, of the Southern Cot ton Association, because he has been dabling in Cotton futures. A colored man by the name of Nathan Robertson was billed near Scott, Warren county, a few days ago. Robertson was beat ing his way on a freight and while the train was pulling up a grade near Scott he attempted to jump off and go to his home near by, but was struck by a cat tle guard and knocked under the moving wheels and so badly j mangled that he died in a few hours. The pipe organ which was pur chased last Spring bv the Bap-! tist University for Women, at Raleigh, is now being installed in the chapel. This orgau is thought to be the largest and j finest instrument in the State | and is one of the largest in the South, having three manuals j and forty-two stops. The open ing recital on this magnificent :nstrument will be given Mon-1 day evening, September 19, by j Mr. Wade R. Brown, assisted by several soloists and a large cho rus. The next State fair is going to be on a larger scale than any previous held, and the preiniums cover a wider range. One of the1 new features will be the competi tion by counties for the special prizes. The best display by any county in the State gets $100.1 The beet individual display of i agricultural products, garden | vegetables, fruits and home in dustries $75.00; second prize $27 50. W hile the individual who makesasimilarjdisplay from a two-horse farm on which he permanently lives gets $57.50. i There is a special prize of $25 for a mountain farm, and $57 50 is the prize which will go to the individual who makes the beet show from a one-horse farm, on which he lives permanently. There are also the special prem iums of $25 first, $15 second and $10 third for the largest yield J per acre of corn, cotton, wheat,! oats, tobacco, peanuts, field peas. Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, clover, rice, grasses, cabbages, watermelons, and $25 is offered for the best display of trucking j with $15 as a second prize and j $10 for a third prize ?Raleigh I correspondence Wilmington Mes-! senger. I NEWS FROM POLENTA SECTION. Mr. S. B. Hardie, we regret to chronicle, is cjuite sick at his home. Mr. W. M. Sauders' family is spending some days at their White (>ak place. At Oakland last Sunday Kev. Mr. Souders, the pastor, preach ed two instructive sermons. A revival service is being held at Elizabeth this week, Kev. Mr. Williams, the pastor, doing the preaching. Mr. W. r. Adams spent Sun day in this section with his wife, who is with her parents for the summer months. At an early date two new pub lic school houses will be built in ; this township. They will be built on the modern plan. Mr. H. T. (larrard, doing busi ness in Norfolk, Va., is at home for a short visit to relatives and friends, who are always glad to see him. So far as this section is con cerned, the fodder crop will nec-1 essarily be a short one. This is due to the fact that the rains of the past several weeks have pre vented the farmers from saving j it. What has been saved will be; of an inferior grade. ()n account of the rains cotton has also con siderably deteriorated. The cot ton crop will fall short of expec tations The revival services at Shiioh last week proved agreatspirtual feast tojthose who attended. Rev. Mr. Hudson, the pastor, did the preaching, and did it well. Bro. Hudson's ^consecration, piety and persuative powers, consti tute huii one of the best revival ists we ever heard. Besides he backs himself np with the teach of the Holy Bioie of which he is an apt student. Although not a graduate, he is even now a preacher of great power and is destined to do great good for his Master. As a result of the meeting ten souls professed to have found the better way, eight of whom joined Shiioh church and were baptised into fellow ship of said church on Sunday evening. The church member ship was greatly revived and it is i believed the condition of the church is very much bettered. Typo. SELMA ITEMS. Miss Carrie Long is visiting the Misses Etheredge. Misses Lila and Lillie Anderson are visiting their brother, Mr. I Davis Anderson. Mr. M. C. Winston left last Sunday night for New York and Baltimore where he will buy his fall stock of goods. Mr. Robert P. Noble and Mr. M. R. Glenn, of Asheville, who have been on a visit to Dr. R. J. Noble, will leave here for Raleigh next Monday to resume their studies in medicine. The paraphernalia for Selma! chapter R. A. M., arrived last Monday and was used at the reg ular convocation Tuesday night. | The officers look well in their new uniforms and the lodge in t its new dress is fine. Tobacco is coming in right free ly now. The farmers are begin- j ning to realize the fact that the buyers for the American Tobacco' Co., the Imperial Tobacco Co.,! and the 'independent companies are paying every cent that to- i bacco is worth and are bringing | it here and going away satisfied. Aug. 30. Sknrx. Carolinian Attempts Suicide. New York, Aug. 29.?A man giving the name of Macon Bacon, 20 years old and bis home at Raleigh, N. C., made an attempt to commit suicide to-day by jumping from the Brooklyn bridge. He was prevented by two men who jumped from a passing trolley car and turned him over to the police Later he! was sent to the Peycopathic ward in Beilevue Hospital for observatio i. I Around Sanders Chapel. Au ice cream cupper at Sand ers Chapel for church purposes ic slated for Thursday uight, the 30th. Now boys, aute up. don't let lattitude nor longitude bar j you Masters Millard auu Will Sand ers, of Caylipso, are rusticating in the ranch among relatives If you want a bull-oxen broken they are the boys. The sad news of the death of little Kdwin Moore, the nine tnouths-old sou of Mr. and Mrs. Ii. A, Moore, of Yuma, Arizona, on the 17th of August, has been received, grand-son of Mr. 1., B. Holt Our condolence is ten dered. Fx Sheriff Powell and sons, Beu and Daniel, and grand-son, Carl Sanders, attended the North Carolina division of Confederate Veterans meeting at Morehead on the 22-23. They report tine fishing, bathing, sailing and roy al entertainment by the citizens. Mr. Powell says the mosquitoes nibbed the girls and boys,but the old veterans hides were immune. Morehead is a "dry" town with dewey frills. The railroad bridge across the sound to Beaufort is nearing completion. The United States dredge boat. Cape Fear, poked its nose among the piling and railroad track, damaging it about $1,000. Aug. 29. X. Frenzied Finance. The good old time fashion of earning an honest dollar by tne sweat of an honest dav's labor has become historical in the realms ot modern finance. The glorious past of our forefathers is being lost in the maelstrom of commercialism. The quickened accumulation of enormous wealth through combinations and schemes that oppress the wealth-producing and laboring classes is a matter of which must! in the near future receive thej care and attention of the state j and federal legislatures. There is a constant growing \ sentiment in the miuds of many people in favor of paternalism which is but the outgrowth of a fear that control of all leading. industries is gradually being ab-j sorbed into the hands of a few millionaires. This country is slowly, but surely, following in ( footsteps of financial systems! that have for ages been pursued in the old countries of Europe. | We are yet young in growth and with tremendous possibilities for development lying ahead. If the present absorption of the leading industries of this coun try is not checked in some way the time will yet come when the i barons of finance in America will put to shame the power and wealth of feudal barons of old. We claim this to be a free coun-1 try with an equal chance in the' race for life to all men, yet there] are already many leading indus- j tries wherein competition has been shut out and the hands of the people tied hard and fast. The accumulation of millions of dollars in a few months or a few years by any man or set of men cannot be done except through the medium of oppres sion. The race along the road to great wealth has frenzied the people to the extent tnat thou sands now believe that the means, whatever that may be, justify the end so that financial success I is assured. It may take the peo- j pie some time to wake up, but that they will is just as sure as i that day follows night. rrom jubc sucn awaKemng revolutions have been caused: and empires made rotten and through human excesses and in- J dulgencies have been shaken from the face of the earth. Fren. I zied finance will yet meet its Waterloo at the hands of a peo- j pie who will not always submit! patiently. The wave of reform is already being felt from one| end of the I'nion to the other, and as it gathers strength from ! the support of the people tb?* na tion will be saved and the rights | of our Constitution enforced?I The Cotton .Journal. AT THF CAPITAL OF BE11LAH. Miss Mary Hollowell, of Smith tield, is visiting relatives here this week We had one of the heaviest rain and thunder storms yester day of the season. Mr H. F. Edgerton spent Sun day in Smithtteld visiting his family and friends. Miss Emma Matthews has re turned from where she has been visiting friends near New Bern. Kev. Dr. It. H. Whitaker, of Raleigh, tilled his regular ap pointuieut here Sunday night. The A. C. L. R. R. Co. are now doing some long needed repair ing at the depot and ticket office here. Mies Lola Griffin, of Spring Hope, returned home today af ter spending a few days with Sirs. \V. T. Bailey One of our highly esteemed young ladies. Miss Eva High, re turned home last Friday from a two weeks' visit in Wilson. Mr. B. E Dickinson spent Sat urday and Sunday with his pa rents near Stanhope, and reports that he received a good washing from one of our regular summer showers on his way there. We regret very deeply to an nounce the departure of Mr. Harper, formerly of Wakefield, N. C., who has been among us for the past seven months. During his stay among us we found him to be .a man of valuable consid eration. He will discontinue the insurance business and matricu late at Chapel Hill where he will pursue a course in various brauches, aud we bespeek for him a glowing success. Misses Maude and Lillian Kd gertou and Theo. Hassell took an afternoc^i drive and enjoyed same beyond measure. They ob served the evening landscape during the tour, they witnessed the sun and she wrapped the shadows around her, and with a lullaby on her lips rocked the eve ry world to rest, then saw her fill her diaper full of dew-drops and her basket full of dreams and slip back to the horizon of the morning and steal the stars. Then saw the gardens unfurl their flower-Hags, and the mead- > owe fell asleep, the songs of the deep woods melted into deep sighs,and the melancholy waters I whispered a pensive good-night to the drowsy birds and sleepy hollows It gives us pleasure to have among us Miss Annie B. Strick land, of Louisburg. The capital city of Beulah always welcomes her favorites as a mother wel comes her baby to her throbbing heart. There cannot be found a community upon which the sun looks and smiles in its journey in the realms of states than Kenly; it matters not where you may travel; for you may travel from where the turbid waters of the Atlantic lash the rock ribbed coast of Maine, to where the placid Pacific kisses California's golden strands, from where the rosy colors of the morn glorify the clouds nestling on our North ern mountains to where the spicy breezes of the gulf woo in jeolian strains our Southern pines, and the capital city of Beulah ever receives her favorites with a wel come as warm and as genial as our Southern clime, and with a hospitality as free and as bound less as our Northern skies Aug 29 Max. The End of the World of troubles that robbed E. H. Wolfe, of Bear Grove, la., of all usefulness, came when he began taking Electric Bitters. He writes: "Two years ago Kidney trouble caused me great suffer 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. General News Items. Fire caused a damage of $'-'">0, 000 in New York Friday. i >ue hundred aud forty Chilean towns were destroyed by the earthquake August 10th. Sheriff l.imebouse, of Porches-! ter county, S. ('., has been indict ed for turning a negro ovpr to lynchers last Thursday. Vice-President Fairbanks and Hooker T. Washington made ad dresses at the Ohio Colored Hdu- [ cational exposition Saturday. < >ue man was drowned and seven others had narrow escapes while out iu small boats during a storm near Atlantic City Fri | day. A number of dredges are dredg ing for gold in Alaska, and some believe the total Alaskan gold production this year may reach 120.000,000. The price of seats on the New 1 York stock exchange has sudden jly bounded up from $78,000 to j $93,000, at which latter figure ! one was sold Tuesday. (>wing to the washing away of a trestle over Moccasin river, in Virginia Friday a train plunged into the river, killing two men and seriously injuring auother. ( A shipment of 15,000 Iteming- 1 tou rifles, 800,000 rounds of am- J munition, and six rapid-fire Gat- ! ling guns were shipped from New ?' I York Saturday to the Cuban 1 I government to put down the in ] surrection. 1 In au attempt to assassinate' the Russian Premier Saturday*, a | bomb killed 28 people and i ( wounded 24, among the killed being Premier 8tolvpin's daugh-1 ter, several notable persons and | the three assassins. < )tticial statistics of the terror- | | ism in Russia last week shew that ( 101 officials, gendarmes, police \ and soldiers were killed, 02 were | wounded, 201 private persons ] were killed or wounded, .'54 spirit ] shops were plundered, private , and individual institutions were , robbed of $180,015 audState in- ; stitutions of $84,801. Besides J this there were over 100 armed attempts to rob banks, houses, j etc. Failed for $7,000,000. Philadelphia, l'a., Aug. 28.? ] The Real hstate Trust Company, ( organized in 1885, the deposito- : ry for nearly $1,000,000 of the , funds of the Presbyterian church . and holding $.'100,000 of the!, money of the city of Philadelphia , and $175,000 of the State de- j posits, today closed its doors. < The failure was caused by heavy ^ loans made by the late president,; <, Frank K. Hippie, to Adolph Se-L gal, a promoter, on alleged in- | sufficient security. A desperate j| effort was made to save the in- , stitution by the board of direc-11 tors through an appeal to the Clearing House Association, but that body declined to subscribe a guarantee fund of $7,000,000 , ( because of insufficient security. The liabilities are placed at , $10,000,000. with quick assets . of $3,500,000 and doubtful col- , lateral amounting to $8,000,- , 000. A fatal accident befell John McBridgea 12-year-old orphan : boy, in Jonesville Tuesday after noon. He had been hunting and ; put the gun on the grass. One I I of his companions, Charles Benge, ] I picked the weapon up and point ed it at him. John told him to put it down that it might be loaded. The boy then snapped it. There was a report and the charge tore a hole through John's left arm near the shoul j der, shattering the bone. Fhvsi- j cians were called in and amputa ted it at the shoulder. The boy i died Thursday night. A Mystery Solved. "How to keep off periodic at- i: tacks of biliousness and habitual 1 | constipation was a mystery that 1 Dr. King's New Discovery solv- 1 I ed for me, " writes John N. Pleas- I ant, of Magnolia, Ind. The only s I pills that are guaranteed to give i j perfect satisfaction to everybody I or money refunded. Only 25c. ' at Hood Bros', drug store. i PKICE OF THE CROP. President Moore Tninks This Year's Cotton will be Worth Eleven Cents. Charlotte, N Aug. 29th.? President C. C. Moure, of the North Carolina division of the Southern Cotton Association, will leave Monday for Hot Springs, Ark., to attend the meet ing of the central executive com mittee of that body, which is to be held there uext Thursday, Friday and Saturday?the 5th, <ith and 7th of September. The prime object of the meeting is to bear the reports of the several sub-divisions, and to fix a mini mum price at which the present crop shall be marketed. That wide interest is being manifested in this meeting is evi denced by the number of letters which President Moore is receiv ing daily from all sections of this and other states. Every mail brings him a dozen or morecom munications, from farmers, mer chants, aud business men gener ally. The recent decline in prices has intensified the interest. A majority of those who havewrit teu President Moore advocate 11,12 and 13 ceuts as a fair and equal price at which the present erop should be sold Due man jnl3' suggested that 10 cents would be enough. The great ma ority favor the first named fig ires. When President Moore was isked his views on the matter he replied that the price decided ipon would depend altogether in the reports received from the rottou belt relative to the condi tion and acreage of the present rrop. "The government report ast year placed it at n2 !> per rent.," said Mr. Moore. "I be ieve that the condition this sea iou is from 3 to 5 percent, below that of last, hence the report will ie approximately 78 per cent. I can assure you on that basis hat the minimum price will be more than 10 cents." While not xpressing himself. President VIoore intimated that he would lot agree to anything less than II cents. Reads Bible Through Every Year. Frankfort, Ind., Aug. 25.?The lev. David R. Love, "the grand ild man" of Frankfort, who has ust celebrated his seventy-fifth anniversary, is one of the re narkable men of the church in ibis state, and few men have de moted so many years to the Vlaster. The Rev. Mr. Love :omes from a family of Presby terians. His youth was spent in Scotland, and all the safeguards if thechurch were thrown around lim as a boy, the Bible being taught in the public schools. He was born near Glasgow, Scotl and, May 15th, 1831. On June 27th, 1840, when ;oming from Pictow to the Unit id States, he was shipwrecked off the coast of Massachusetts, his mother, brother and sister, with twenty-seven of the passengers, being drowned. Twenty-seven of the passengers were rescued by a tishing vessel, among them being himself and a sister. n'L?? vf- r .a?- J ~ - ? ?? UfU Jll . IjUVtf (IVCiUtfU LU t?U Ser the ministry he made a reso ution to give a half hour daily to religious meditation and jrayer, and to read the Bible through once a year, and the "esolution has been faithfully sept during all these years. He idopted as his motto, "Thou, rod, seest me," and this he ramed and for over fifty years t has hung in his study. While n the seminary Mr. Love did considerable preaching, and one dimmer did missionary worx on ;be Delaware and Rantan Canal. In Self Defense Major Hamm, editor and mau urer of the Constitutionalist, Eminence, Ky., when he was iercely attacked, four years ago, ay Piles, bought a box of Buck en's Arnica Salve, of which he jays: "It cured me in ten days ind no trouble since." Quickest healer of Burns, Sores, Cuts and Wounds. 25c. at Hood Bros', drug store.
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