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THEJVUTQ QRKCnCBORO. Its Opportunities for the) i Investor, Ila.nnf2etnrer and Homeseeker. Mr. G. T. Kearsley, of this city, writes the following interesting Manufacturers Record, of Balti more: ' ' - The passing by the legislature of North Carolina: of the bill author izing an issue of $300,000 in bonds to extend the present system of water, lights and sewers in Greens boro is but another evidence of the rapid strides in her progress, which hag more than doubled her popula tion in a few years. It now num bers 13,000. '.W Greensboro is one of the centers . -- - ' m I of Southern cotton manuiaciuring, there being over one hundred cot ton mills within a radius of fifty miles, which by unparalleled suc cess, are attracting attention, and n . n a rm ova nranarintT T C aouoie meir capacity. One of the largest, the Proximity Mills, at Greensboro, employes sev eral hundred people, and expects to make large additions to the plant. This, with others, is controlled by Cons Export fc Commission Co., or iireensDoro, wno are creuneu wuu annual sales, of $5,000,000.- It is reliably stated that a yarn mill "costing $300,000 will be erected here during the present year, which will give employment to a large number of hands. In fact, mills are springing up throughout the State. h - . .. " """" . Tnis local tooacco maraei snows over 5,000,000 pounds sold last year, on which something over$l, 260 was paid daily to farmers. Greensboro is rapidly developing . i i i ; ' . line is .now represented, its rail roads having permitted the jobbing trade to expand wonderfully espe cially in reaching the Southern sec tions. The finishing mill at Greens boro, which finishes the product of the cotton mill, is one of the few in the South, and its products are shipped to India, Africa and else where, j - Although there are numerous manufactures, the excellent rail road facilities posseesed bv Greene- boro indicate it will become a prominent textile and lumber-man ufacturing point, having twenty five naRRencrer- trains dailv. The Southern Railway has shown its interest by recently completing a handsome freight station of brick, 300 feet long, and is erecting, an elegant passenger station costing $50,000. Greensboro is the "Gate" for traveling men ; they come and go by the hundred, owing to the convenient passenger train service. The city has three banks, with two trust companies soon to open, their j rr i I 1 I . oT. HOOTS. AliC BCUUU1H 1UU1UUO OlttlO institutions for white and colored, -female colleges, graded schools, etc., and almost every religious denomination has its church. What is said to be the finest of fice building in this State is in course of erection, costing $35,000, which will relieve the Congestion on those lines. The soil of this section permits raising all cereals, and is very productive! In the past attention of farmers has been principally devoted to cotton and tobacco, which resulted in a lack of developing other agricultural interests. More wheat, j corn and bacon are now -raised, which the fact that more than 400 j per cent. of wheat drills were sold in this State last vear than anv mevioua - - j s ; year confirms. 1 . The developments in North Car olina are in their infancy, both in textiles, lumber, iron and railroads. On every hand manufacturers are paying handsome dividends and putting their surplus into new op erations. annnv(i hv nn rliatnrhimT j j labor agitations or dissatisfied ele ment. The lumber industry is large and growing. There were 323 lumber mills in' operation in the State laet year. New railroads are projected in many sections, and all now operated in healthy financial condition. It is expected the Nor folk fc Western system will reach Greensboro in due time, which will add another trunk line to the sev eral systems now entering'here and open a new fHld in Southern Vir ginia to our manufacturers and jobbing interests. ' - The climate is all that could be asked, as the severe winters of the North are not known, nor the long hot summers of the South. But situated between the two, this sec tion enjoys a delightful medium and permits outdoor work ten months in the year. There are some elegant estates, with handsome improvements and highly cultivated people. The lat ter, as a class, are . polite, hospita ble and courteous to strangers. This is the paradise ef the quail hunter; the mild climate stimu lates their breeding, and winters do not freeze them out. There Is no tax: on non-resident banters, but laws prohibit the quail from being shipped out of the State. North Carolina offers a most inviting field to capital, and the investments that are looking southward will de well to consider the undeveloped re sources of this State. To the bomeseeker of energy and advanced ideas it presents many attractions, especially to farmers. Good lands can be secured at pric es ranging" from $10 to $30 per acre, which, under modern meth-; ods, will bring handsome returns,1 with good markets at their door. It is only a question of time before these various advantages will be secured by energetic, hustling Northern and Western people, and North Carolina will be known far and wide in her manufacturing and agricultural prominence. , G. T. Keabslst. Sending Coals to Newcastle. A writer in the Charleston News and Courier suggests that there are some fine, rich ponds and bot toms in that vicinity that, in his opinion, are admirably adapted to the growth of celery. "It does re ally seem," lie adds, "that we ought to be able to produce all the celery Used in the home markets without importing from the Northwest as is now done:" j Celery is a great delicacy and there is always a brisk demand for a first-class article. It does seem a strange thing that Charleston should send to the North-West for an article of this character that can be produced at its very doors. But that is justj like us. We peo ple of the South have been depend ing for so long a time upon the North for our supplies that it is hard for us to break away from the bad habit j People around Charleston do not raise celery because they have not thought about it. They have not studied the question, they have not made a scientific test. That is an other trouble with the Southern farmer. He does not know what his ground will grow, nor does he know what sort of products are in demand. "Celery." Nonsense. That's the sort of truck that wom en raise just like they raise flowers. That's trifling. Yet we venture, from this little hint let fall by the News and Courier correspondent, that the farmer in that neighbor- hoed who will this year produce; a good crop, of first-class celery will clear more money for the invest ment than his neighbor will clear on his cotton. j Says the Indianapolis Sentinel: To-day agriculture presents the only field for men who desire to be indeDendent workers. It has been demonstrated that combinations cannot so well manage large tracks of land as a quarter or half section of land, j It is because France is broken up int&Jittle farms that jit holds its own. i vYVnen the Ameri can people come to consider that agriculture is a noble science wor thy of the best brain, and that we, as a people, are ignorant concern ing it, we will be much wiser than we are now. ) There is a splendid chance in the world today for the educated far mer who farms intelligently on bus iness principles. Richmond Times. Late to bed and' early to rise, pre pares a man for his home in the skies. But early, to bed and a Little Early Biter, the pill that makes life longer and better and wiser. Howard Gardner. Trusses and Crutches at Gardner's, cor. opp. postomoe. Mr. C. F. King, the well known newspaper correspondent, formerly a citizen of Charlotte, is now con ducting a daily column in The Boston Traveler, Lowell Mail, Law rence Telegram and Manchester (N..H.) Union, over the signature, "The Idler,"- with his office at 307 Washington' street, Boston He has lately been on a visit to North Carolina and in recent issues j of the papers named writes entertain ingly of the impressions, political, industrial and other, which he de rived from visits to Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh and Southern Pines. The South, he says, is all right. He finds many changes for the better since he was in the state last; "To my mind," says he, "the South Is on the eve of the most re markable industrial advancement in her history. She is in a good humor with herself and at peace with all people of the earth." "The grand old Commonwealth of North Carolina," he says in a letter from Raleigh, "has undergone a great change j during the past year." Then he tells of the passing from political darkness to light and of how much better off every thing and everybody, including the negro, is, on account of it. Mr. King sets great development in the state, in various directions, and his letters are helpful and encouraging. Charlotte Observer. i These are dangerous times for jibe health. Croup, colds and throat troubles lead rapidly to Consumption. A bottle of One Minute Cough Cure used at the right time will preserve life, health and s large amount of money, Pleasant to take; children like it. Howard Gardner. 1 - : ; - h "She' Talked Too Much." Call at Gardner's and get a free cepy., 1 "; Gotham's Golden Bays. , "In the thirties came a sad and ruinous epoch of financial suffer ing to the citizens of New York, and 1837 was one of the gloomiest years the city ever knew in all its fluctuations of prosperity and pan ic," says a writer on "New York's Soeial Life," in the February La dies' Home Journal. "It was not until the sixties had begun their Aladdin-like reign that the era of extravagance actually dawned. Af ter 1837 men trembled and hoarded, but all the engines of prosperity were ' set in motion between 1840 and 1860, and there came a time when wealth, was so great that lit erally the possessors were without any legitimate uses for it. Their past had nothing to suggest to their future, and men, with most eagerly assisting and devising women, set about establishing new bases of existence. The Prince of a certain country had a palace that had taken. a 'grande dame's' fancy; why should not an American citi zen, a sovereign in his own right,' have one like it, only ten times finer? - . : ; "Now came the thirst for show, for entertaining,f or splendid rivalry in extravagant expenditure, which has not yet teen checked, and which may not even have reached its climax. The American woman who lives like a Duchess must wear the insignia of her order, and the Metropolitan Opera House each winter is barbarous with its show of gems worn in ostentious fashion. and women are written of in the newspapers as apparently being only distinguished from one ano ther by the wearing of jewels which cost thousands of dollars more than those worn by their rivals in ad joining boxes." Buy Vick's Little Llvsr Pills if you want the best tonic. Mild Dill. The New Smokeless Powder. A test of the new smokeless pow der for use in the large calibre gunB en board of our naval vessels has yielded-some remarkable re suits which excite elation among ordnance officers in Washington: An ordinary 13-inch rifle, " thirty Ave calibres in length, was used in the trial, with the regulation pro jectile and a charge of 325 pounds of the new explosive. A muzzle velocity of 2,500. feet a second was obtained, which far surpasses any result hitherto secured in this country, if not in the world. Heretofore the brown prismatic powder has been the best known to our navy. It was this powder which did such terrible execution at Manila on May 1 and off Santi ago on July 3, 1898 ; yet a charge of 525 pounds of the brown pris matic powder in the above de- scribed gun, with the same projec tile, gave a muzzle velocity, of only 2.100 feet per second. This veloc ity sufficed, however, on the emer gent occasions referred to; but the fighting power of our navy would have been largely augmented had the men behind the guns had such smokeless powder as that just test ed. The results of the test will assuredly create a lively interest among ordnance authorities abroad as well as at home. Traitors and Rebels. f Sh Talked Too Much Call at Gardner's and get a free copy. The Christian World described recently a characteristic Spanish occurrence In 1837 a finance law was passed which gave the nuns in certain cloisters a pension for life; but from that time to the present no case of death has been reported. The youngest nun in 1837, was seventeen years old, the eldest was seventy yet till 1898 they all lived and drew their pensions. Finally the minister of justice grew sus picious and declared such pensions at an end, unless proof that the nuns of 1837 still live be given. New York Observer. is to be regretted that the im perialists are unable to treat! those who oppose thsm . as patriots and have begun to call them traitors. Aguinaldo is now, since the ratifi cation of the treaty with Spain, a "rebel," and there is a disposition in some quarters to apply the term to Democrats who think he i ia "rightly struggling to be free." ; In the same quarters there is a dispo sition to repeat in the Philippines f the errors of the reconstruction era. The maxims of that neriod of abandonment of the constitution are quoted with approval as having blazed the way for an imperialistic policy. . Dominion was then exer cised over the South without jre card for the constitution, and the same thing, it is argued, can I be done now in respect to Cuba and the Philippines. Thus the 'crimes of one era betray us into another. When the constitution is violated it is not for "just this once," but is a baleful precedent for all coming time. Baltimore Sun. Trusses and Crutches at Gardner's, coropp. postomce. He Knew One. v atts uia you ever , Know a aoctor wno wouia taKe ms own medicine? j j Potts I think I did once, an old backwoods fellow who prescribed whisky for' nearly every possible complaint. C ASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Haro AInays Bought Bears the Signature of 0 o Neglect should never be laid at the door of a housewife. H may oe sfce works harder than her neighbor, but doesn't go aoont it in just the right way. Jier neighbor uses nj H w Q. oA i and keeps her house twice as clean with half $ the effort. Gold Dust Washing iWer In, X given many a woman -the reputation of bein X a queen of housekeepers. Do you use iti iH IS . 1 1 YlCItS LITTII UVER PIUS KEEP THE FAMILY WELL. NEVER CRIPErVEGETABLE. M1 or aii nDif crrnriFc r ' Landreth & Sons' reliable Garden Seed fresh at Gardner's, corner oppo site post office. Schlatter, the self-styled divine healer, publishes a card over the name of 4Gbarles McLean, M. D.," challenging Colonel Robert 6. In gereoll to a public debate on the Bible at any time or place that suits him, and offering to put up $100 as an evidence of good faith. "Schlatter" says that as soon as he has met Colonel Ingersoll in debate he is willing to be buried alive, providing a legal permit can be ob tained. She Talked Too Much." Call at Gardner's and get a free copy. The report of the" war investi gating commission declares that the charges of incompetency in the War Department were unfounded. General Miles is censured for pub lic criticisms of army meats, and the commission asserts there was no evidence the beef was treated with chemicals. NO CURE-NO PAY. That is the way all drnreista eeU GROVE'S TASTELESS CIIILL TOSIC for t hill. FeTer and Malaria. It U simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteleuform. Children lore it. Adult prefer it to bitur nauseating tonic. Price, 60c CHOOSE TOUR DRUGGIST CAREFULLY. -A drogtrist can do more harm or good than roost people give him credit for. There are dif ferent qualities in drugs Jnst as there are in dry goods, and to the outsider all qualities go by the same name- The difference between pure, high grade drugs and cheap, inferior drugs of the same name, means the difference between keep ing sick and getting well. When a doctor writes a prescription, he means bent quality. When some druggists fill a prescription, : they think onlv about big profits. Choose your druggist carefully. . . . W. WAED. Hes I I have the finest herd of REGISTERED HOGS ! In the South, j 1 Pigs for sale at reasonable prices. John A IToiing. Notice Sale of Land. Having been appointed by the heirs of Peter F. Kirkman, deceased, as agent to settle and divide h's estate between them, I will se 1 on FRIDAY, MARCH 171899, at 12 o'clock, at the residence of the late Peter F. Kirkman, to the highest bidder for cash ' the following described lands, situated in Fentreps township, Guilford connty, to-wit: The home place on which the late Peter F. Kirkman lived, one mile southeast of Pleasant Garden, com posed of three tract?, adjoining the lands of Dr. W. Coble, W. D. Hardin and others, and con taining an aggregate of 239 acres more or less. At the fame time and place, another tract generally kn6wn as the Coltrane place, two miles southwest from Pleasant Garden, adjoin ing the lan 1s of El wood Hockett an o'hers, con tain ing 60 acrs more or less. - l Also will sell some corn, oats and hay at the sa-i e time and place. This 9th day of February. 1899. W. D K1IIKMAX, Agent, Desirable Farm for Sale. 175 acres of highly improved land well adapt ed to the growth of VY heat. Oats, Corn Tobacco, and especially Clover and Grasse 30 to 4 acres now in Clover and Grass. The farm is well wa tered by springs and small, streams running through it. G--od well of water, 7-room dwell ing, large gram and feed barn, and all necessary outbuildings. Fine early Peach Orchard; aleo an Apple Orchard of selected variety of apples: Pears, Plums, also fine selection ot Grapes, all just coming into bearing. The farm is located conveniently to Schools Churches. Mills. Mar kets and Railroad, and in one of the healthiest localities in tbe state, a family of U having re sided on the farm ten years and not having re quired the services of physician during the time, i An adjoining ftO-acre tract can be obtained, i Terms to suit purchaser. Apply ; at Patriot Sice . j . j tf j A CTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED EVERT where for "The Story of tbe Philippines, by, Marat Ilalttead, commissioned by the Got -ernment as Official Iltstonan to the Wax De partment. The book was written i in army camps at San Francisco; on the Pacific with General Merritt, in the hospitals at Honolulu, in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in the insurgent camps with Aguinaldo. on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in tbe roar of battle at tbe fall of Manila. Honan za for agents. Brimful of original pictures taken by government photographers on the spot. Large book Low prices. . Big profits. Ireirht paid. Credit given. Drop ail trash v unofficial war books. Outfit tree Address, F T. Barber, Sec'y, 8 tar Insurance Bldg Chicago. for infants and Children, j The Kind You Have Always Bought BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF In Use For Over 30 Years. TNC eSNTAUM eOMNNT, TV MUMf THICT, MCWVOMR CrTV. WAR, WAR, WAR! Among the Furniture Men of Greensb oro. The New China Store has added, to fill up tbe house, a line of Oak and Mi. hogany BED ROOM SUITS, ROCKERS, TABLES, Springs, etc . an.I will f tnem lor a very small profit, as they are only carried a& a side line to my ery business. I am sellinjr unie Crockery than any house in liret'iihorfi. kri it is because I sell cheaper. Low Dricea will draw trade. I . - , . V - ' -, 1 CTNkt Door to Wikifibld Hardwari Co. j TBE GUILFORD ROLLER MILLS; GREE1TSBORO, IT. C. I We solicit the trade of this section and guarantee satisfaction ca custom work. We make a specialty 4Our Parent" and.IUttle Ground" Flours, Meal; kc, which for the money cannot be equaled. ; Remember the place, "The Mill at the Depot." - . ; GUILFORD. ROLLER VLILLS CO. nnn n nn WA Insure your property against fire and see us before placing it, : get OUR KATES. We have strong companies, and all businefi trusted to us will have prompt and careful attention. BOYD & GLENN, Room No. 6 Katz BuiLowa. anner ill' WareKouae 1TSBOEO, 2jT. C. We desire at the beginning of another new tobacco yer to ret'-"- our tnanKs and express , our appreciation j to our friends and cuuf ' for their past favors and liberal patronage. It is knowii ;o"tnt ol f: that we have the best market in this country and that j ; The Banner Leads in Big Averages. Our buyers are now ready for allf2rade8 and kinds of your totif and we claim the advantage of having a buver for every kind. f them 8hlD tO foreicn RiarbAra nnH ata in a rraifnn navTthf veff -1 est market price for all export grades, wjiile others are rcpr Dtt'; t 1 . 0 . . . .... . j .at lti mo larger manuiaciurers in America. There is active oty; between these buyers. The buyer for the American Tob'trcM. O). obr home manufacturers use all classes of stock. .While tliip h tr- fel safe in saying that YOU CANNOT FIND A BETTER MARKET than Greensboro for your entire crop, from the. commonePt fj':ef lV finest hricrht and mahnomnv wrannAr . , i - . The Banner Warehouse is fullv eouinned and onerateil h?4 ... ienced warehouse men. No one will give your tobacco m'"'re csrff-. tintion or exercise better judgment in selling than' will r)'11" l',Ti our auctioneer, and W.J. Blackburn, whn h rKarue of the tU. have had many years experience in the wareTiouse busine. .f y mo wunu oi louacco ana will get vou its liuii vaiue. O1 l.U ' 1 t 1 . . . . J . . . '. ...it- Cu ouaiiu, our weigu ana paymaeier, discharges his duty corrt'.- - rf scienciously. W. L. Wharton and "Sheir W. Porter, our boot Ee IX. Sharp, Will B. McKinney and W.J. Branch are all at the KD B, see that you and your stock are properly cared for day and nigN- Hoping to see you soon, we remain your friends, SLilTH. BLACKBURN & CO.
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