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COURI Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. $1.00 Per Tear VOL. XXVIII. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 190?. la AS1EBQRO ER. JlL il 11 II A J. I.Cele, Cashier -E6 Dattik of RandJemoLn, Randlem&n! N. C. Capital paid In,' Protection to depositors. $20,000 40.000 Dibectors: S. G. Newlin, A. N, Bulla. W. T. Brvant. C. L. Lindscy, N. N. Newlin, J. II. Cole, S. Bryant Q O Barker and W K. Ilartscli. BR1TTAIN & GREQSON, ATTOKNEYSATLAW, Asheboro, - North Carolina. PRACTICE In tlw court" of KanMili anil 1 Joining- enuiillra. In Hut awl Fmlrral Courtt. Pnnu attention to Uulumaof all kinds. HAMMER & SPENCE, Attorneys - at Law E. MOFFITT, Attorney at Law, ASHEBORO, N. C. O.L. SAFP, Attorney-ftt-Law. BU State eal IMsrsl Carta at, OMmMiI sad Pra tt. Ail IrasUss rw"! to. : Dress Shirts GENTLEMEN! If yon want a Nice Drew Shirt for 60 cents ai gooa as yon nave been paying 75 centa to $1 for, Come to see ua quick. Wo are Head-quarters -for Shirts, Collars, Cuffs and Neckties. 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WASHINGTON LETTER. Indian Territory Troubles. Has the Pre (dent Lefe For Turkey? Seizin; Strip ol Land from Col umbi for Panama Canal. Seclal Correspondence Courier. Washington, D. C, Spetember 7. It will be remembered that at the beginning of the Post-Office Depart ment inve8tiiratiou the Postmiutfor General, Mr Payne, said with a lofty air Hint, t.llnro will nnfhiiir in if " and dismissed all the charges of ex Cashier Tulloch with disdain. Well the general public now knows how much there was in it, and how the deeper they dug into the muck heap cno mistier it gut. The Post-Office Department investigation is now Hearing the end and the report of fourth Assistant 1 ostmaster Uener al Bristow will soon be ready for the for the public, but the chances are tbat the general publio will soon for get all about the Post-Office matter because it will bo entertained with another investigation that is now about to be pulled off, the noise of fthich will reverberate from Tadmor ln-the-wilderncss to Yuba Dam. It is now up to tbe Interior Department to take a turn at the investigation grindstone, and the storm center of this investigation will be in the Indian Territory. Mr Hitchcock, the Secretary of tho Interior, had no idea, when he summarily dismissed from office without a bearinsr Mi. Clarence B. Douglas, a clerk in the luna department of tho Indian Agent's office at Muskotreo, that the situation down there was loaded with dynamite. 1 have known Clarence Douglas ever since we were barefoot ed boys together in 1875, and there is no man of higber character or clean er manhood in the Indian Territory or anywnere else, lie is not the man to rest under an imputation against ms honor, anil he has proceeded to get busy, lie demanded a hearing, and a recitation of the reasons for his dismissal. He cared nothing for the measley job. but he wanted jus tice. He has got nothing, and now there are whole gobs of trouble pes- teriug the Secretary of the Interior. The dismissal of Douglas is a fighter from the headwaters of Bitter Creek, and is camping on the trail of the Lilian who is at the bottom of a whole lot of the Hastiness in the Indian Territory, like a hungry coyote camp ine oh the trail of a cornulant iack rabbit Ue is now in Washington, where he is well known, and stands high among the newspaper men, in the fraternity of which he is an hon ored member, and he has been cut ting loose a lot of facts Anent the Indian Territory situation that has blown the cap off the crater and let daylight into some corners that some iKsople hoped never would be uncov ered. Tbe newspaper boys are print ing what Douglas says because they know he knows what he is talking about, and they also know that he will not lie. He has been interview ed not only by the local papers here, but by the correspondents of papers in St, Louis, Kansas City, and nearly all the big New York dailies. I saw Douglas and talked this matter over with him. What he said to me about it is only just to say that Mr. Hitch cock is honest and that he is doing what he believes to be for the best interests of the people of the Terri tory. The trouble is thut he is afflicted with a serious cose of too much J George Wright and it is a question if any satisfactory results will ever be attained by the interior I epartment in tho management of Territory affairs so long as Mr. Wright officiates as the white uzar, defacto governor and personal poobah of the administration in tbat country. As the official ice man for a north ile supply company, Inspector light would be a frozen success, his presence alone being sufficient to prevent loss to stack by a rising tem perature. He has administered mis information to the Secretary in large; alopathio doses, and the Secretary, acting on this has made himself very I ridiculous at times. U ntil there is a radical change in the management ot affairs there will be no relief for the six hundred thousand people in the Indian Territory from the deplor able conditions existing at this time. From information received since 1 have been in this city my opinion is radical change is imminent and that the pulse of the people of the Territory will no longer be taken from the wrist hieherto nsed for this purpoca. With almost a thousand annointees placed by the Secretary on the recommendation of the House and Senate members having in charge all Indian legislation, it can readily be seen what opposition a Territory man must encounter in his effort to secure congressional action, for any change means that some pet of a congressman loses a job, and that is the nunc in the oocoanut. ine remedy for the present situation is an act of Congress providing for a delegate from the Indian Territory elected by the people to legislate for the people, and the complete aboil tion of the caroetbair regime." Chairman Jamee M liriggs, of the Democratic Congressional Commit- b was in this citr last week and the first question he asked on his arrival bete was: "lias the Presi dent left for Turkey yet?" Tbat seems to be the question uppermost in the minds of nearly everybody ever since the action of the Presi dent in tending onr warships to Turkish waters on the strength of a cablegram, which afterwards proved to pe incorrect, uh oar vioe-oonsui had been assassinated. He has acted with his customary head-long, head strong precipitancy which may in volve the country In endless trouble adu expense. There is no man who tries to defend the "unspeakable" Turk and his methods, but the busi ness interests of the country are en- titled to some consideration from the man who occupies the highest posi tion in the nation, and to those inter ests he gives no thought at all. He is looking for the limelight, and he wants to stand in it at all times or else ho is not happy. Things have not been happening fast enough to suit bim lately, and he intends to mako them happen in order to at tract the attention of the general pub lic to himself and his personality. He knows that he does not stand well with a certain coterie of United States Senators; he has already sur rendered to the so-called "standpat ters" on tbe tariff question after all his brag and bluster about how he will demolish the trusts by rcducinir certain schedules; he has antagonised the Grand Army of tho Kepublic by his treatmcut of General Miles; he has acquired the enmity of all the officers of the army by his boost iug of ucneral .Leonard Wood over their heads, and he has been put to it to find something that wonld relieve him and again place him before tne publio in something like a decent attitude and attract the plaudits of the DeoDle. In these straits, he has gladly seized on this Turkish matter as something that would rehabilitate bin fallen fortunes and place him owe more enrupjwrt with the peo ple. There is no telling how fur he will go with this thing, nor what will be its outcome. If the people knew the man as we do here in Washing ton, they would not be surprised at any action ou his part. . There are some IhingB you can't say about a man because he is the President of the United Suites but some day the trnth will be told. Look out tor business snags. A good many of the warm admin' 5"- fsi.IS-J'iii. Jira1!""". tlie Richmond ladies strip of land through which it is proposed to build the Panama Canal. They argue that if Colombia will not grant the concession that tne united States cannot afford be to balked from the great enterprise by the constitu tional obstacles that the Colombians say are in the way of ratification of the treaty, tubers of the Kepu Oil can newspapers favor the fomenting of a rebellion in the State of Panama against the Colombian government and then landing a force of marines to nuke it successful. X Ins bold war of stating that the United States should exercise its uudoupted physi cal ability to ccrrce a weaker stute, is on a par with other imperialistic ideas that have been rampant nnder the present regime. But these vicious public advisers forget the terms of tho congressional enactment which authorized the buildinz of an inter- occanic canal, that if the Colombian government would not ratify the treaty the President of tho tinted States was authorized to open negoti ations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica and build the canal by the Nic aragua route. That is the duty of 1'resident liooeevelt, and to shume and palter and attempt to cu'ree Col ombia to ratify a treaty the Congress of that country docs not approve wouiu oe piuying into me minus ui the transcontinental railroads who have so far been able to defeat the building of the canal. There is very good reason to believe that the Nic aragua route would have been adopt ed if the railroad influence led by Senator Hanna had not been omnip otent in the Senate. This whole question may be fought over again at the next session of Congress, and it may become one of the issues in tho next presidential campaign, for the Democratic nomiee may be a man who has persistently advocated the Nicaragua route. CHARLES A EDWARDS. Skull Crushed; Hip Dislocated. The colored woman, Sell Taylor, who Btabbed Douglass Hairston, col ored, to death at- Winston-Salem, N. C, Monday night of-- last week, leaped from one of tho windows in the mayor's court room at 5:30 at her preliminary hearing on last Fri day, falling a distance of thirty foet Her skull was crushed and one hip dislocated. She was unconscious when picked up and the two physi cians who were called in say she can not live. She was removed to Slater Hospital. New evidence was pre sented to the mayor this afternoon, ndicatinir that the woman was guilty of murder. His honor ordered the defendant committed so jail to await trial at the higber court. As soon as sentence was pronounced the wo man arose and leaped out of the win dow nearest her, head foremost Mad Man Aimed Pistol at President In apeo' ing of the attempt made by Henry welbrener, recently at Oyster Bay to reach President Roose velt, for the admitted purpose of kill ing him, the President's Secretary says: The incident gives additional em' phasis to the fact that tbe constant iruard over tbe President is absolute ly necessary. The public knows of Welbrener'a mad act, bat it it only one of many of which tbe public never learn. The secretary says tbe secret service men are doine splendid work. It develop! that Welbrener actually aimed a revolver at Roose velt when the latter came to the door on hearing the commotion. He ad mitted to the secret service officer thit purpose to kill the President but cunningly avoided such confes sion in court STORIES ABOUT "BILL ARP." Ell Perkins Tells Some Which Throw Light Upon the Geniality of a Southern Humorist. Tho Atlanta Constitution of recent date published the following reminiscences of him by Melville JJ Landou (Eli Perkins): The whole life of Bill Am has oeen neen humorous and no man will slon work mticker and more cheerfully than he to hear a good ioke. When I asked him one day if ne really ever killed many Yankees, ne said: "Well, I don't waut to boost about myself, but I killed as many of them as mey uiu or. me. Speakine of pensions one dav. Mr Arp said every Yankee soldier ought to have a pension. "isut they were not all injured in tne army, were they.'" 1 asked. "Yes they all did so much hard lying about us poor rebels that they strained their consciences. Bill Arp told of au occurrence in New York when he want there to lecture in Chickerine Hall. He said he was standing on the steps of ine AStor House one afternoon with a friend, when a man with a decided military bearing hobbled up. He greeted my friend as he passed. "ihuts a line soldierly looking nun, i said. "Yes: he's a veteran Colonel Jones, of the Grand Army of the Kepublic. "Did he lose his leg on the battle- iid.'" "Yes; at Gettysburg." "Ah! Repelling Pickett's charge, suppose. "lo: a monument fell on it. They tell this storv in Rome. Ga.. about the Major: They say that in me summer ot 1S63 he was in a Richmond hospital. Tho hospital as crowded with sick and dyiuc they could to cheer and comfort the suffering. On one occasion a pretty miss of 16 was distributing flowers and speaking gentle words of en couragement to those around her, when she overheard a soldier ex claim: "Oh, my Lord!" It was ism Arp. stepping to his bedside to rebuke him she remarked: "Didn't I hear ou call upon the name of the Lord? am one of his daughters. Is there anything l can ask him for your .Looking up into her bright, sweet face, Bill replied: "1 don t know but von could if 1 wasn't murried." "Well," said she, "what is it?"; Raising his eyes to hers and ex tending his hand, he said: "As you are a daughter of the Lord, if I wasn't married I'd get you to usk Him if He wouldn't make me Ilia son-m-law. Major Andrews, a Yankee cap tain, was telling some jolly Rebs in Georgia about hisexpeiiencesatBull Run. "The only time that I ever really felt ashamed in my life was in that Bull Run battle," said the Major. "My horse fell under me, and I was obliged to ride an army male during the rest of the engagement. He finally carried me clear into the Rebel lilies." Yes, 1 remember the incident well," said Bill Arp, who was stand ing by. "I found that mulo with a U. S. brand on him the next day after the battle." You did, really?" said the major, hardly expecting to be corroborated so promptly. "Where did you find mm.' asked the major. Bill saw there was a door wide open as he replied: "Stone dead behind a fence. "Shot?" "No; mortification." A friend of mine, Major Munson, had charge of the Dal ton district in Georgia, when the humorist surren dered. It was a hard thing for him to do it, and it took a week or two for him to come to it but he finally laid down his sword. As Bill de lights to tell good stories on the Yankees, 1 cannot resist telling tne story of his final surrender, as Major Munson gave it to me. Of cour the Major puts in the Southern dialect a little stronger than Bill used it bnt the reader must remem ber that when the incident occurred Bill was still unreconstructed. "Most of the Confeds came in quietly," said the Major, "and seemed glad to have the thing set tled, but once in a while 1 struck a man who hated to surrender. One day a big, handsome man, with tangled hair and with irginia led mud ou his boots, came in to talk ot snrrenderintr. It was Bill Arp. " 'Doggone it sir, be began in tne Georgia dialect 'I have come in, sir, to see what terms can be secured in case I surrender.' " 'Haven't yon surrendered yet? I enquired. " 'No, sir! Not by a doggone sight! I said I'd die in last ditch, aud 1 ve kept my way. ' 'Whose company did you belong to?' " 'Belong! Belong! Thnnderatiou! I didn't belong to anyone's company! I fought on my own hook.' 'Where was it?' " 'No matter, sir; no matter. I can't be clashed. I can be insulted but not crushed. Good day, sir, I'll see the United States ween tears of blood before 111 surrender. Haven't a card, bnt my name is Aip Bill Arp.' "He went off, but in a week re turned and began: " 'As the impression seems to be general that the Southern Confedera cy has been crushed, I -call to see what terms wonld be granted me in case I concluded to lay down my sword.' " 'Unconditional surrender,' briefly replied. " 'Then, doggone it, sir, I'll neve lav it down while life is left. The cause is lost, but principle remains, xon can inform General Sheridan that Bill Arp refuses to surrender "Arp returned two weeks later, He seemed to have a hard time of it, s bis uniform, was ni rugs and his pockets empty. 'Look a-here tup lain,' he said as he came in, 'I don't want to prolong this bloody strife, but I am forced to do so by honor. If accorded reasonable terms I might surrender, n hut do you suy." The same as befme.' lhen you are determined to grind us to power, eh? Sooner than submit I'll shed the rest of my blood! Send on your armies, Cap tain; I am ready fo 'em.' "Just a week from that day Arp cAme in, said he'd like to surrender. rew his rations with the rest and went off in great good humor to his Cartersville farm-" Bryan's Eulogy at a Grave. William J. Bryan delivered an ad dress this afternoon ut the funeral of 'hilo S. Bennett, who was killed ae cidentally in Idaho last week. If was also one ot the honorary pall bearers. 1 he address was made ut the grave. Mr. Bennett was one of the presidendial electors on the Bryan ticket in Connecticut in the lost national election. Mr. Brvan said: "It is sad enough to consign to the dust the body of one we love how infinitely more gad if we were compelled to purt with the spirit that animated tins tenement of cluv But the best of man does not perish Wo bury the brain that planned for otners, as well as lor its master, the tongue that sjioke words of en couragement, tne nanus that were tended to those who needed help, and the feet that run where duty directed, but the spirit that domi nated and directed all rises trium phant ovei the grave. "If the sunshine which a baby brings into u home, even if its so journ is brief, cannot be dimmed by tis death; it the em Id growing to manhood or womanhood gives to the parent a development of heart und head that outweighs any grief that demise cau cause, how much more docs a long life, full of kindly iods, leave us indebted to the Father who both gives and takes away.' ine nignt ot death makes us remember with gratitude the ght of day that him gone, while we look forward to the morning. "To the young death is nr. appiil- ng thing; but it ought not to lie to those whose advancing years warn them of its certain approach. In the course of nature the King of 'errors loses li is power to affright i, and the interesting company on e further shore makes us lirst wili ng and then anxious to join there. is God s way. Aew Haven Dis patch. The Origin ol Coffee. As to tho history of coffee, the gend runs that, it wits lirst found owing wild in Arabia. Hadji mar, u dervish, discovered it in 12H5, 019 years ago. He was living of hunger in the wilderness, wlien, finding some small, round berries, he tried to eat them, but they were lnt- , He tried roasting tliem, and se he finally steeped in sonic water Id iu the li'il'mv of his hand, and 'omul the docoction as refreshing as he bad partaken of solid food. He hurried back to Mochn, und, inviting the wise men to partake in his dis covery, they were so well pleased th it that they made him u saint. The storv is told that coffee whs troduced into the West Indies in 23 by Chirac, a French physician, ho gave a Norman gentle man bv tho name of l'e (,'lieux, a captain of iifuutry, on bis way to Martinique, single plant. 1 ue sea voyage was stormy one, the vessel was driven out t her course una dunking ater became so scarce that it was distributed in rations. Do Clieux, tb an affection for his coffee plant divided his portion of water with it and succeeded in bringing it to Martinique, although weak, not in a hopeless condition. There he plant ed it in his garden, protected it with a fence of thorns aud watched it daily until the end of the year, when be gathered two pounds ot coffee, which he distributed among the in habitants ef the Island to be planted by them. From Martinique coffee trees in turn were sent to Santo Domingo, Guiulaloupe and other neighboring islands. The coffee tree is an evergreen shrub, growing in its natural state to a height of 11 to 18 feet. It is usually kept trimmed, however, for convenience in picking the berries, which grow along the branches close to the leaves- and resemble in shape and color ordinary cherries. Th tree cannot be grown above the frost line, neither can it be successfully grown in the tropics. Ine most uccessful climate for production is that found at an attitude of about 4,000 feet Anything much above this 18in danger of frost which is fatal to the tree, and when coffee is grown much below this it requires artificial shade, which materially in- creses the cost of production and does not produce as marketable berries. It is owing to this pSrti cular requirement that coffee has never been successfully produced in the U nited Mates, Success. It's an easy matter to master a grief that is doing a stunt at your neighbor's. - " THE HALIFAX TRAGEDY. A Southern Woman's Description of Oc curence Which Led to a Lynching. "Will you listen to a true story? It is horrible so horrible that not eveu the gifted Harriet Becchur Stowe could have described its heartrending nnserv. It happened yesterday. I he defiled, mutilated body of the little white girl is still unburied. Come with me and I will show yon the very siiot where the "horror" took jilace, not two hundred yunls from the court house, a stone s throw of the child s home. See enter this stable J beautiful blue-eyed, flaxen-hiu'red maid of M ears, the only daughter of widowed mother her joy, her pride, her darling. The child has sent by her mother to get some eggs that she knows are in a nest there. A black man sees her go in, and follows her. If the child knows he is behind her he doubtless feels no alarm. He is the hostler; she has know n him all ler life, sees him every day around he bum. When he reappears he locks the oor. Ills hands and clothes ar,- bloody, and he steals stealthily away. "ooou the mother, wondering that her daughter does not return, goes to tbe stable to look for her, hints the door locked, i'ossessed with the awful uneasiness that seizes every white mother of the South when her girls are long out of her sight, she calls to a little hoy passing by, help him to climb to the window. He culls the child's name, but there is nj reply. Peering about, he sees a bag in a corner. There is blood running from it, and he thinks he sees it move. Horrified, he screams, the mother faints. Soon a crowd from tho village is there. The lock is broken, they enter the stable, the bag is opened, the murdered child is before them. "That she was chocked into in sensibility to prevent an outcrv is evident, for her pretty blue eyes have started from their sockets, lo be sure that she will never be able to tell who has so defiled her the liend has cut her throat from ear to ear." The man hunt that followed and the swift, silent vengeance after the capture are described, and then it is added: "Once more, I beg, try to be sorry for tho white woiimu of the South. All are in danger; from the four year old babe to the grandmother of sixty live. "Ave, pity the white men too that are frenzied by such crimes, lieasou with them like brothers. Don tout rage them by culling them brutes. cruel, bloodthirsty, savage outlaws. Once more, in vour notices and editorials on lynchings, express sonic concern, some pity for the white woman whose ruin or murder brings them about She belongs lo your race; she is your countrywoman. Her ancestors fought iu the Revolu tion, bled in the war of 1 81 i, died bravely in the civil war. .She is worth your protection. Help to save her." "A Southern Woman" in New York Herald. HUSBAND SHOT WIFE. Emmett Boyett Killed His Wife in Kin uton, N. C, Last Friday. Fnnuett lioyett and Miss Lena Chestnut, daughter of a saloonkeeper on North street, ran away aUmt a year ago and were married. They were not happy and the parents ot the young womun persuaded her to leave her husband and come back to them. This she did some time ago. Boyett, who bad been drinking some, as if to nerve, himself, went to the Chestnut home and asked Mrs Chestnut, who was on the porch w ith her daughter, if lie might sre Ins wife alone. She iid, "No, sir." llovett at once drew a pistol and fired ou his w ife, tiic bullet striking her in the right breast. She turned to go into tho house and he fired again. the ball this tiuif crashing through her brain. She died almost instantly. Boyett came up the steps, fell bv his wife and lay there until Sheriff Wooicn arrived. The father of the murdered girl, ran after the sheriff as he went off with the prisoner aud attempted to kill Boyett but the oflicer protected the prisoner bv draw inir his pistol on the father and threatening to shoot it he came nearer. Boyett was locked up. He savs he is sorry he killed his wife and is will ing to die for his crime. Mrs Boyett had enteral a divorce suit against her husband. Worth Remembering. Governor Ayeock's suggestion to the colored people of North Carolina that "obedience to the law gives freedom from the law" is worth re membering by citizens of a country regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. JNortolk Publick Ledger. ThaU the Way te Talk. The Dispatch cannot be intimidat ed or prevented frem publishing court proceedings by threats of witl drawing patronage or lighting the editor in political conventions. If Tbe Dispatch must thrive on the protec tion of criminals, or go down in up holding the rights of the people, let it be crashed. Lexington Dispatch Let 1 Aloe. The Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad is doing yery well, now, 1 and has a bright prospect for good I dividends in the near future. Let jit alone. oldsboro Argus. ITEMS OF NEWS Lawyer J A Long will move from (irrensboro to his old home at Gra ham. Capt R P Ilobson is to marry Miss Iluth Brynn, da ighter of Col W J Bryan. Miss Josie Manner, of Salisbury, is lo teach iu the Durham graded schools tliiicar. Six were killed and 24 injured on the old 3 C's road near Yorkville, S, v ., last lliursdav. S K Marshall, of Surry, has enter ed the raco for Republican nomina tion tor cjongress in the eighth dis trict, The Davie Manufacturing Com pany, Mocks vi lie, is a new corpora tion to manufacture and sell collius, desks, etc. It begins with $1,000 stock. Mr P V lloyle, who was ut one time editor of the Jonesljoro Progress, ana who has since been connected with several other papers, has become telegraph editor of the V liming Mes senger. A S Kllison, naed 3:l-years. died in High Point last Saturday of brieht's disease. He formerly edited a paper in High Point, and wus atone time joint, owner and editor with J J I-arris, of the High I'oint Knterprise. Mr R O Fry spent several days in the Candor section last week survey ing lauu lor tne peach-growing cor poration recently organized. The corporation has secured land well adapted to peach trees, and a line orchard will he started soon. Tioy F.xaminer. Mr (J C Wiuninghain, son of Mr and Mrs J L Wiuninghaui, of this city, and Miss Mary Dobbs, of Mon recton, were united in marriage last Wednesday at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs N Green Dobbs, Rev W F Kcnnett, of S'okesdale, per forming the ceremony. The bride and groom are now with the groom's parents in this citv. (ireensboro atriot. Wcstnuge, un expert iron molder who was sentenced to the roads last w eek to work out a small fine, was released upon the application of Mr G T Glascock, who stood for the fine after an agreement with Westnage to work it out, but W ill s good resolu tion was short lived. He worked a few hours Monday afternoon and Tuesday ho turned" up missing. It w as clearly a case of misplaced sym pathy. Greensboro Patriot Two negro convicts, Malcom Sinith- ei inan, serving twenty years for the second degree of murder, committed in High Point Guilford county, and John C'reusuiun, serviug fifteen years, from Henderson county, second de gree of murder, escaped last week trorn the Central Prison at Raleigh. They had been convalescing from a long illness iu the hospital. Thev cut a hole through the ceiling, got on the roof, then by using a chain connected with the water tank, climbed down a four story wall of tin- building, then over tbe stockade without detected. The Prison au- thoritii-s offer f 25.00 reward. Rev J O Lcdbetter, of the Indiana M P Conference, writes friends here that he expects to run an excursion to Greensboro at the time of the re union of native North Carolinians here in October for. the Hcconimoda- ion of the ruauv from his state who wish to attend. Indiana, Tennessee and Missouri alone can furnish enough of the dispersed abroad to make the affair an unqualified suc cess, not taking into consideration the attendance from other states of the Union, liev W W Lineberrv, another i of the Old North State now living in Indiana, will be here for the reunion. A great time is in store for all who may come. GreeuslHiro Patriot. As to Old Ages. The Pope, has lived long but Thomas Purr aud Henry Jenkins are respectively credited with the ages of 152 and 109. Jeanne Senniphau was married when she was 127 and died wheu she was 128. Dr. Dufournel married at 116 and became the father of two children, and died at 120. Marie Prion reach ed the age of 15H. A woman of Metz, the mothei of 24 children, lied ut the age of 100. Surgeon Politman celebrated his one hundred tnd fortieth birthduy. Patrick O. Neil buried seven wives and died at 20, and a Norwegian peasant is re corded as dying at 160 and leaving two sons, one aged 108 and the other only nine summers. Mr Robert Taylor lived to be 134 and died of excitement on receiviug tho picture of Queen Victoria signed by herself. Au irishman named Krown, who was a habitual drunkard, lived to be 120, A French drunkard lived to be 112; be had a daily jag for 90 years, Durand d'Kstivel, of Cahors, lived to be 129. A woman of 124 drank strong coffee in great quantities all her days, while a man of 114 lived on fruit chiefly melons, chewed lemon peel, Portland Oregoman An Old Fashioned Ass. The loss reported to have been sustained by many North Carolina people on the New York stock market will hardlv evoke verv miir h sympathy. People who go "blindly iiiw a Bet uj li nail cireei sharper deserve no pity. One of these fleeced lambs being asked whether he ha a bull or a bear when the market broke on him, replied that he was neither, but that he was a plain old fashined aaa. And he spake a parable Greem i boro Tatriot SUPPORT SCOTS EMULSION irvu .as a bridge to carry th wcakcatd and (Urvcd tyiUm along until It cm Had firm Kipport in ordinary food. Sand lor tret ausph. ' SCOTT A BOWVE ri i aojis Purl Strett, NiwYoA. ua ,1.00 J tit drajflrt.!. . Wood's Seeds FOR FALL SOWING1: Farmers and Gardeners whode sire the latest and fullest inform tion about Vegetable and Farm Seeds should write for Wood'a New Fall Catalogue. It tells all about the fall planting of Lettuce, Cab bage and other Vegetable crops) which are proving so profitable to southern growers. Also about Crimson Clover, Vetches,' Grasses and Covers, Seed Oats, Wheat, Rye, Barley, etc Wood 's New Fall Catalogue mailed free on request. Write for it. T. W. 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