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"7 Wilson 'LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIm'sT AT, BE THY COUNTRY' S, THY GOd's, AND TRUTH'S.' CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R. $1.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE. VOLUME XXII. WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, MARCH 3rd, 1892. NUMBER 7. The Advance Hats and Caps! A Drive in Hats ! We are making a bier drive in Mats and offer Nobby Thatches for the dome of thought at prices that paralyze competition and popularize our hats. We are selling Fur hats at 50c,, worth Crush 75c, and the $1.25 quality we sell for 94c. We have a Settled Black Fur at $1.08, Man's sold elsewhere at $2.00. Not At Cost: Oh ! no ! We don't work for glory, but we guarantee our prices to be the lowest. Underbuy and undersell is our motto. The Cash Racket Stores. Nash and Goldsboro Streets. THE' WASHINGTON LIFE Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. ASSETTS, - - - $10,500,000. The Policies written by the Washington are Described in these general terms: f Non-Forfeitable. Unrestricted as to residence and travel after two years. Incontestable after two years. Secured by an Invested Reserve. Solidly backed by bonds and mort- gages, first liens on real estate. Safer than railroad securities. Not affected by the Stock market. Better, paying investments than U. S. Bonds. Less expensive than assessment certificates. . More liberal than the law requires. Definite Contracts. W W T. L. ALFRIEND, Manager, Richmond, Va? SAM'L L. ADAMS, Special Dist. Agent, Room 6, Wright Building, to-jy. Durham, N. C. T. C. LANIER. -PROPRIETOR- Wilson Marble Works DEALER IN XoMents, Bdtta, Tablets. Cemetery Work, A., Examine our work before purchasing elsewhere. Satisfaction Guaranteed, CornTllriieHandT'arbjrotreet Wilson, N. O. The Next Number Especially Good. TALES FROM TowhTopigs READ BY ALL MEN AND WOMEN. Published first day of December, March. June and September. DELICATE. DAINTY. WITTY. INTENSE. Every reputable news and book stand has It Price, single number, SO GENTS. S3.00 PEIi YEAR, postage FREE. This brilliant Quarterly reproduces the best stories, sketches, burlesques, poems, witti cisms, etc., from the early numbers of that much talked-about New York Society Journal, Town Topics, which is published weekly. Sub scri ption price, $4.00 per year. The two publications "Town Topiob " and " Tales prow Town Topics " together, at the low club-price of $5.00 per year. Ask your newsdealer for them or address, TOWN TOPICS, 21 West OA mm, H. Y. City. T?0 R SALE! A A good, erentle, fine family horse. Can be driven by anyone, and will work anywhere. Apply to W. L. CANTWELL, 2-25-tf. , Wilson, N. C TWO BELLS. (SPECIAL COR. THE ADVANCE.) The following gem from the fanci ful realm of poesy first sees light in the columns of The Advance. It was written by a young man who was, at the time, a student, but who has since become a leading pulpit orator in North Carolina. One morning he J heard the church bell peal forth a ; marriage ; three hours later it tonea a funeral. He was impressed, and penned the following. Editor. Merrily, merrily, joyfully pealing, Hear the church bell's music stealing Over city, field and fell; Hear its notes so sweetly welling, News of love and joy 'tis telling Hark ! it is the marriage bell. Slowly, slowly, mournfully tolling, Hear the church bell's music rolling Overeity, field and fell; Hear its notes so slowly ringing Notes of woe and sorrow bringing Hush ! it is the funeral bell. How our joys and woes are blended ! How our smiles and tears are ended ! How our hopes in sorrow fall As the stars and clouds at even Mingle in the blue of Heaven Bridal wreath and funeral pall. to my love. (special, cor. The advance.) I love you, love ! With a deep, strange love, Which deeper and etranger shall be ; Asthe river flows And stronger grows As it nears the waiting sea. I love ou, love ! With a pure, sweet love, Which purer and sweeter shall be ; As hopes grow sweet, As they pause to greet, The longed reality. I love you, love ! With a tender love, Which more tender and gentle shall be; As the tenderness Of a mother's caress When she faces death's mystery. I love you, love ! With a changeless love Which changeless and lasting shall be ; When the changing years, With their hopes and fears, Are lost in eternity. Wilson, N. C, Feb. 27th, 1892. MARCH. BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Like some reformer, who with mien austere, Neglected dress and loud insistent tones, More rasping than the wrongs which she bemoans, Walks through the land and wearies all who hear, While yet we know the need of - such reform; So comes nnlovely March, with wind and storm, To break the spelt of winter, and set free The prisoned brooks and crocus beds ' oppressed, Severe of face, gaunt-armed, and wildly cressed, She is not fair nor beautiful to see. But merry April and sweet smiling May Come not until March has hrst pre pared the way. THE PUBLIC VOICE. The Progressive Farmer has asked for answers to the following inquiry : How may the Alliance and the friends of reform best secure the rec ognition and enforcement of our prin ciples ? It published twelve answers last week, and promises to awaken much a. interest. One man savs "elect sin cere relormers lor law makers other, "forsake party affiliations, put orincioles above nartv and we are in a a it" ; another, "select men of honor" another, "elect poor men, bind them under strict obligation not to sell out or be bribed, and let the penalty for violation be to crush their skulls on sight" ; another, "put out good men not Republicans nor Democrats but independent of either" ; another, "vote for no man who does not stand squarely on the Ocala platform" ; another, "if we mistake not the temper of the 75,000 intelligent voters of North Carolina, we stand shoulder to shoulder for independent action, squarely upon our demands" other' "bv allowing no party affilia tion to break our line of battle" another, "form a new party" ; another, "educate the people" f Mr. Horace Palmer, of Warren county says, "to 11 r Tt 11 1 secure needed reiorms, roue ano Powderly, or Powderly and Polk, should be our presidential candi dates"; Mr. J. J. Coley, of Rocky Mount, says : "I would say put both feet sauare on the Ocala Platform and stay there. Do not equivocate Remain united and true to Alliance interest, and reform will follow efforts ; that we must get well organ ized and stay so ; that we must study reform, practice and preach it in high and low places. I am not by myself in these principles by any means." So much for the first batch. They mean something a new party - and defeat of every principle for which the Democracy has been fighting for years Republican success and tri umph and perpetuation in power a federal bavonet at every ballot box in tne ooutn-grearer narusniu u,u suffering. It will all be there. The body of Mr. S. J. Douglas, who was drowned at Tarboro some time ago, was found Tuesday of last week about a half mile from the boat landing, where he lell in, at a bend of the river. The body had to be buried immediately. BILL ARP'S LETTER. AN OLD FASHION AED NEGRO FROM WAY BACK. He Says Man Things, Among Them That He In For Temperance and Prohibition Did Yon Ever See a Negro Who Was a Prohibitionist? Bob came over last Sunday to see us. He used to be a tenant of mine, ' and we liked him because he had a ! big mouth and was always happy. He was a good worker and not afraid of the weather, but he was careless and left his tools most anywhere and barked my young apple trees when ploughing the orchard. I loaned him a new shovel to work the road and he lost it, but I couldn't stay mad with Bob long at a time. We never supposed that he could get mad enough to have a fight with anybody, but he was not on good terms with a neighboring darkey, and so one Saturday when both came from town and had taken a drink or two of red eye they undertook to settle the old feud and Bob killed him. It was a willing fight and a bad case all round and Bob got two years and would have got ten but for his good char acter, all his previous life. He has served out his term, and honestly feels that he has paid the debt, if he ever owed it. "How did they treat you, Bob?" "Well, sir, dey treat me purty well, purty well ; I can t complain. INo, sir, I can't complain. For de fust six mont I didn't like it well, for you see, me and de gyards hadn't got 'quaint ed. Bimeby, when we all got 'quaint ed, dey took a liken to me and tell de capen to take off my shackles, and he take 'em off. De best way is to make friends wid de gyard lust, jes like when a man want a frien of an other man he muches up the chillun fust, and dat gits de old man and de old 'oman, too. Den de next bes way is ter perlongest visit I eber made anybody in my life, and if we ever meet again, you, will have to come to my house." Did they work you very hard, Bob?" No sir, not overly hard got to do a full day's work, though, and dey knows prezactly what dat is. Can t fool 'em, and can't play sick unless you is sick, and hardly den. I neber lose but four days in all my time. Heap times I thought I was sick, and if I had been home I would have laid up shore, but dey said I wasn't, and dey looked like dey knowed and I didn t know and so I went to work, and shore' enuf I was an right by dinner. Colonel Towers he comes along every week or so and look roun, and he ax me if 1 had any complaint, and I say no sir, sepen I would like some poun cake, and he say he forgot to bring it. I tell you what, boss, de very best thing for a man to do when he gets dar is not go dar not to do nuffin to go dar for, and den when he gets dar de nex best thing Is to pervide by de laws. Dere is some folks in dar jes as mean an no count as folks outen dar. Dere is mean niggers and mean white folks everywhere you go. Some lolks cum in de worl mean and dey stays mean all de time ; but I say dis, dat if a man, when he goes dar, will haive hissef and pervide by de laws he kin git along and hav a tolerable easy time. De last six month I stay day I didn't have to work any. Dey made me trusty and I have charge of de dogs de track dogs when de nig gers git away de boss holler for Bob mighty quick. We had two track dogs ; one of 'em was a big, long eared houn dog could track mighty fast de oder was a small dog, 'sorter like a fice, but he mighty shore on de scent of a run-way. One morn- in' about daybreak de boss holler, 'git up Bob, git up quick, bring de dogs, two niggers got away.' So I brings de dogs and we put 'em on de track, and away dey went cross an old field and into de woods and was barkin every step. I throws de saddles on de mules in a hurry, and I got on one and de boss on Jtoder, and away we went after de dogs. De run aways didn't have more'n half hour start, and de track was powerful warm. And so de dogs run and de niggers run and we run, and bimeby after we gone about four miles we hear de old houn change his tune like he treed sumfin, and de boss say, 'Bob, old Sheriff have got 'em And shore enuf when we got dar de run-aways up in a white oak: tree a settin on a limb, and de old houn dog was a setten on de groun wid his head up a lookin it 'em and a barkin, and every time he open his mouf he say, so every one heard him, 'Too ooo of 'em, too-ooo of 'em, too-oo of em.' And de little dog was a settin' back on his tail and he say, 'dats a fak, dats a fak, dats a fak.' "Yah, yah, yah. Boss make dem niggers come down from dar quick and march 'em back to de stockade and give 'em forty lashes apiece, cos you see dey didn t pervide by de laws." Bob asked me one day if a man's soul could be split in two. "What do you mean," said I, "What kind of fool question is that ?" Bob spread his big mouth and said: "My boss was tryin' to devel me one day 'bout gwine to meetin' so much and he say: 'Bob, don't you know dat a j nieeerfain't crot no soul ?" And den hTm if white man j got a soul, and he say, 'of corse he had.' And den I say, 'Sposin' a colored man is a meuatur ana is ies nan ana nan, how's dat?' He study awhile and say he, 1 'low a mellater have jes half a soul. And den 1 say, 'look a here, boss, what kind of a thing is dat, dat half of a soul? Can you split a soul in two ?' He turn off and laugh, and say, 'Damfino,' and I tell I's gwine to ax you about it" And Bob showed his pearly teeth and laughed tumul tuously. When the prohibition election came oft in our county, the negroes were generally on the side of whiskey more whiskey and better whiskey. But Bob came up as a temperance darkey, and made a speech to the darkeys of his church. A whiskey man in the crowd interrupted him, and said : "Sho' as you is bornd, Bob Smith, effen you vote whiskey outen Cartersville "de grass will grow waist high in de streets." "S'posin' it do ?" said Bob ; "s'posin' it do ? Den we'll raise more hay and less hell, and dat's what's de matter wid Hannah. Yah ! yah !" Bill Arp. THE S. 8. STATK CONVKNTION To be Held in Newberne, Marcb 29-31. We have before us a copy of the program for the Eleventh Annual Convention of the North Carolina State Sunday School Association, to be held in Newberne, March 29, 30, and 31 next, to be presided over by Hon R. P. Dick, Judge of the Wes tern District of North Carolina, who is President of the Association. We notice that this Convention will be at tended by Mr. Wm. Reynolds, of Peoria, Illinois, who was President of the Fifth International Sunday School Convention, and who is now Superintendent of Organization for the International Sunday School As sociation. It will also be attended by Prof. H. M. Hamill, Superinten dent Normal Department of the Illi nois Sunday School Association. Prof. Hamill will convert the Con vention into a Sunday School Insti tute on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and present the following Conference Topics. "Sunday School Management" a. The Equipment, b. The program. "Sunday School Scholars." a. Their Attendance, b. Their Home Study. The following Training Lessons will be given. "Sunday School Teachers." a. Their Preparation, b. Their Duties, c. Their Mistakes. "Normal Work." a. Its Aim. b. Its Methods, c. Its Needs. "Next Sunday's Lesson." (The Convention as the class) will be taught by Mr. N. B. Broughton, of Raleigh. We also notice that the several Pastors of Newberne will on Tuesday evening give the Convention words of welcome, which will be responded to by some of the delegates. Rey. Wm. P. Fife, the well known evangelist, will attend and conduct the Bible Readings at the opening of several of the sessions of the Con-vention.- A large number of singers, a com bination of all the choirs of Newberne, under the direction of Mr. Toe K. Willis, of Newberne, will contribute for the Conven- areely to the music tion. Reduced rates of fare on all the railroads of the State have been se cured. Quantities of Periodicals and Lesson Helps from the various Sunday School publishing houses will be displayed for gratuitious distribution. The above clearly indicates that these'Sunday School people are going to have a good Convention. We hope they will, and that our local workers will see that a full delegation is sent from this county. Our county work needs the inspiration that this Convention will give to the attending delegates. All delegates will be entertained by the citizens of Newberne, and are re quested to promptly notify Prof. G. I . Adams, Newberne, of their com ing, that homes may be provided. The usual excursion rates are given on railroads. We notice the round trip rate from Goldsboro is $3.15. morr About the special, edition. The Kretliren of the Press Receive it Kindly and Say Pleasant Things Which nre.Ileartily Appreciated. "MOST CREDITABLE." The trade edition of the Wilson Advance is a most creditable publica tion. Tarboro Southerner. "SUCCESS TO THE ADVANCE." lhe Wilson Advance comes to us with 12 pages. Claude Wilson is destined to be a big journalist. Suc cess to him and the Advance. Greenville Watchtower. "IN IT." The Wilson Advance came out last week in a 12 page edition of 5,000 copies. It was very creditable and Mr. Wilson is in it. Concord Standard. "EXCLUSIVELY A 'WILSON' PAPER." The Wilson Advance, published at Wilson, in Wilson county, by Claud F. Wilson exclusively a " Wil- it 1 son paper comes to our exenange table this week, a 1 2 page paper, full of interesting reading matter and neat advertisements. Winston Sen tinel. "A GOOD PAPER" Claude Wilson recently got out a 1 2 page edition of the Advance. It was quite a creditable "write up" of Wilson, and showed energy and pluck on the part of our brother, such as only a newspaper man can appreci ate. Claude is giving the people of Wilson a good paper and the Patriot wishes him all the success he de serves. Greensboro Patriot It now transpires that J. D. Bridgers, 01 oneioy, wno recently assigned, is a forger to the extent of about $10, 000. HILL'S BIG SPEECH. HB DECLARES HIMSELF A PRESIDEN TIAL CANDIDATE. Appreciates the Honor! He Calls the Sherman Silver Law a "Tortuous and Un Oodly Jumble." Albany, N. Y., Feb. 23. The speech of Senator Hill in response to the call of ths New York State Con vention that instructed its delegate to vote for him as a unit for President, was received most enthusiastically. At its conclusion there were loud cheers. His friends are jubilant at his great success, and at this latest brilliant display of generalship. They claim that this is the first of enough States he will carry to make him the Democratic nominee for President. He spoke as follows : SENATOR HILL S SPEECH. Fellow Democrats: Your com mittee, summoning me to this pres ence, have apprised me of that unani mous vote which will make known your approval of me to the author ized representatives of the Democracy of the United States and be recorded in the annals of our Nation Conven tion. With what terms shall I ac knowledge this official act, my fellow Democrats, which, instead of pointing to some new untried career, might amply reward and crown the labors of the longest life ? From that great Cardinal whose "Lead, kindly light," has touched the hearts of all Chris tendom, let my gratitude humbly borrow this worthier response than I myself could ever frame to the great Democracy whom you represent. My respect for them obliges me to submit myself to their praise, as to a prave and emphatic judgment upon me, which it would be rude to ques tion, unthankful not to be proud of, of and impossible ever to forget. The reawakening of the Democracy all over our land is the most auspic ious sign of the times. When the people of France rose against oppres sion a hundred years ago, it meant revolution, a change of rules, and a social earthquake. When the Democ racy of America rise, it means an up heaval at the ballot-box, a change of their servants, and political reform. This is is true Democracy. This is government of, by and for the people. When you see the farmers arousing and allied ; when you see all the fed eration of labor stirring ; when you see in every State the great Demo cratic party up and afoot, it means that the reign of plutocrats is nearly over and the bright day of Democ racy is approaching dawn. The use of political parties is to promote the expression of the peo ple's mandates. The function of statesmen is to frame and execute the same by just and equal laws. The Democratic party has this proud record. It is swift in its responses to the people's needs. It makes choice of safe and wise statesmen to the stat utory landmarks of the people's pro gress, and release their energies to an ever larger liberty. Democracy is progress. Liberty is its vital air. Constitutions and laws ate the volun tary, self-imposed safe-euards of Democracy. If any words of mine could reach every fire-side in our land, this is what I would ask my fellow-countrymen at this time to consider. All our troubles all our dangers at this very hour, after so many years of Republican rule, are the direct consequence of that rule and flow from unconstitutional legislation by the very men who sit in shivering fits over what the De mocracy will do with power. On the other hand, the Democratic party, which trusts the people and would see all "broad based upon a people's will," is precisely that party whose creed has ever been a strict interpre tation of the Constitution and con finement of the Government to a few specific granted powers. I commend those contrasted facts to my fellow countrymen for neighborly debate and fireside meditation till the snows melt. The Republican party neither trusts the people nor obeys them. It now requires another upheaval at the ballot-box like that of 1890 to be convinced that the wicked work of the billion-dollar Congress must be repealed and the people's will obey ed. rellow-Democrats, 1 rejoice to know by those infallible signs, by the ground-swell, by the re-awakening of the Democratic hosts, by the arousal of high and noble young ambitions throughout the land, that we are advancing to a cordial union and another overwhelming triumph. We are advancing to a final re newal of the nation's verdict in the mad, insensate reign of autocrats and plutocrats in the billion-dollar Con press, whereby their verdict, now scoffed at and stayed, shall have effi cient execution in the election of both branches of a Federal Congress, and a Federal executive obedient to the sovereign people's will. Your message to the great and general assembly of Democrats, I rejoice to know, touches nothing of interest to New York, but what is universal and common to the inter ests of the whole of these United States. You stand for the whole Democratic faith and tradition, which in the billion Congress underwent the most powerful, deliberate, and revo lutionary subversion by the money power ever known in our history. The two McKinley laws now trans form the Federal power of taxation for revenue into an instrument of ex tortionate taking frorn the wages and profits of our industrial toiling mil lions by subsidies, bounties, and en hanced prices, a stupenduous incre ment for the wealth of our employ ers, less than 7 per cent, of all our people. ShaH these laws stand ? The Sherman silver law now trans forms the Federal coinage power of silver and gold into an instrument for the gradual expulsion of our gold for the establishment of an executive basis, and for the permanent reduction of every American dollar by 30 per cent, or more below the level of its true value during the whole period of our free bi-metallic coinage from 1762 to 1873. Shall such a law stand ? There has been no such leg islation for free men since Cromwell' called the law of England a "tortuous and ungodly jumble." The demand lor repeal of these edicts of the billion Congress has extorted from Republican leaders thek published purpose to refuse re peal. The admission is of great im portance. It is fresh evidence that I do not press too far the charge of disobedience to the people's over whelming mandate. The demand for repeal is a proposal of the largest measure of tariff reform, I admit, for it is a proposal to recover the whole ground usurped by the billion Con gress ; and it is even more, for it has apprised the country that their unre pealed existence for another year shall not erect the novel super added wrongs of the two McKinley acts int a finality. Repeal is not a proposal to stop at the tariff of 1883 as a final ity. My language expressly barred out that absurb idea. Moreover, when the tariff of 1 883 was the law of the land in the hour of our defeat three years ago, I said here in Alba ny : "The Democratic party nails to the mast the flag of tariff" reform." Tariff reform will remain and re quire progressive solution with the wise and politic method of abolishing, whenever practicable, one alter an other,; one indefensible tax at a time, where the two McKinley laws to-day replaced the tariff of 1883. But I do not flinch backward from the advance line of intrenchments which the Dem ocrats cf New York have won, kept and will guard. I do not-shirk a deadly grapple with the Republican revolutionists, whose banners no longer fly the tariff of 1883, but now fly the mad McKin ley laws and the wild Sherman law, and mock us from the citadels of power. The cause of tariff reform has lately made great practical ad vance. Secretary Manning, in his last re port of 1886, .advised congress to begin practical tariff reform by a single act ; an act for free wool ; an act untaxing the clothing of about' 60,000,000 people. One year later, in 1887, the Secretary s report was "writ large" in a message of the Pres ident. Now, five years later, one of our most enlightened economists, David A. Wells, writes to the Chair man of the Ways and Means Com mittee that the path of progress which Secretary Manning blazed first and alone is the true path. It is a maxim of sound policy, better fitted to win elections than to lose them, better dividing into easy chapters the les sons of a long campaign of education, to abolish whenever you can, one after another, one indefensible tax at a time. This is true progress. Let us rejoice. The Senate and the executive may now refuse the least, as they refused the largest measure of tariff reform, but of the future of our cause we, may now feel better assured. MERCHANTS PVKCHASK TAX. The Supreme Court Files its Decision in an Important Matter. From the Raleigh Chronicle of this morning we learn that , the Supreme Court yesterday filed opinions in what are known as the merchants purchase tax cases. In the one of Stevenson it is said that the tax is not on inter State dealings, but on the occupation of carry on business in this State, and graduates the tax on the amount of purchase whether made within or without the State. It does not dis criminate against products of other States, nor does it tax the non-resident or put him at any disadvantage as compared with a resident of this State. This is a privilege tax on an occupation and is authorized by article 5, section 3, of the State constitution, in addition to the ad valorem tax on property, and it is competent for the legislature to impose such specific tax graduated by the business done, and when it is uniform on all persons in the same class of business. The act treats all in each class alike, and there is no discrimination in either. The power to select particular trades and subject them to license tax cannot be denied to the legislature ; nor the power to tax such trades according to the different rules, providing the rule with regard to each business is uniform. Indeed there can be, strictly speak ing, no uniform tax on trades &c, taken together, because they are so dissimilar that there is no prac ticable means of arriving at what would be a uniform tax for all. For instance, how could a tax be uniform between the profession of medicine and keepers of ferries, &c. A fran chise tax could be put on some call ings, and it would not be illegal be cause some other occupation was not taxed. It is within the legislative power to define the different classes and to fix the license taX it will re quire of each class. All in the same occupation, as classified by the legis lature, must be taxed alike. The act provides that every merchant, jewel ler, &c. shall pay a license tax on the total amount of purchases, &c. This makes no discrimination in favor of or against anv merchant, &c, but it taxes the business of each alike. Subscribe to The Advance. NEWS OFA WEEK. What is happening in the would around us. Condensed Report of the News From Our Contemporaries. A Star correspondent writes from Rocky Mount, N. C, February 20th, that Dr. J. W. Sherrod, "living in Edgecombe county, near Whitakers, had the misfortune to have hisstables burned last night. In the tables were ten valuable mules, and tile corn and fodder. It was the work of an incendiary. A negro who was in the doctor's employ is suspected of being the fiend, who sought his ret venge in this way. The matter is being investigated. The loss is sever al thousand dollars." Mr. J. D. McAnulty, of Cabarrus county, is the inventor of a new gin. It is a double gin. In other words. this gin will, it is thought, do twice the work of the most improved gin. The saws are crescent shaped, and dress themselves with each revolution they make. The feeder is entirely different from anything yet given to the world. Instead of feeding from the top, the cotton reaches the saws from' the bottom, and all sand, nails, matches or other foreign matter are excluded and fall with the seed in stead of over the saws with the great danger of fire, that necessarily attends the old-fashioned gin. About 4 o'clock last Friday morn ing the store building of Bagley Bros., of Bagley, N. C, was burned. The entire stock of goods and post office fixtures were burned. Loss about $2,000. Insurance $1,400. It was doubtless the work of a malicious person. Bagley Brothers are good merchants and it is hoped they will rebuild at once. Mr. J. H. Stanley, an industrious farmer of Ingram's Township, says that he has a goose on his farm that was setting when Sherman's Army passed throueh herein 1865. Sh is fat and seem ingly as young as any goose but by the trials and tribulations which she has encountered is minus one foot. Smithfield Herald.' The old saying that people should "watch as well as pray," was illustrat ed in Elizabethtown last Tuesday, it is said, in a way that is not very pleasant to prohibitionists. Bladen county is one of the counties that re fused to grant liquor license at the January meeting of the county com missioners, there being a majority of one man among the "drys. The question came up again on the first Monday in February, and the mat ter was postponed till the first Mon day in March, but the Commissioners met again on Tuesday following, and Mr. C. W. Lyon, one of the dry Commissioners, being absent, (being subpeened as a witness in our court) application was made on Tuesday and the application granted. Lum berton Robesonian. Tom D Jr., ixon, The great New York preacher, who to-day is stirring that great city as it has never before been stirred, is a young man, and more he is a bril liant, eloquent orator preacher of great power and influence, and a son of the "Old North State," of whom all of us are proud. He now Writes For The biggest syndicate in. America, and his sermons are published by hundreds of papers all over the country ; such is his fame and popularity. The Advance is the only paper in Wil son that can publish his sermons. We have the exclusive franchise and have paid high for it, be cause we know our read ers will enjoy seeing what this bold, brainy, young intellectual genius says and does Kvery Week. Read the above favorable criticism, written by the leading critic of New York. See how Dixon has impressed him. TheA you will want to read from him every week. One way to do so is to take The Advance and get it every week one year for $1.50. Subscribe To-day ! NOTICE ! Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Wiley W. Edwards, deceased, before the Probate Judge of Wilson county, notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of said deceased to make immediate pay ment, andj to all persons having claims against the deceesed, to present them for payment on or before the 18th day of Feb. 1893, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. February 17th, 1892. John Y. Moore, 2-18-6W. Adm. FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS, (Successors to B. F. Briggs & Co.,J OFFICE OVER FIRST NAT. BANK, WILSON, N. C. We purpose giving the busi ness intrusted to us by the citi zens of Wilson and neighbor ing territory, our close and per sonal attention. We represent some of the best companies in .1 ii ' mm-i - me world. Wewant your surance. Come to see us. in- Millinery. MISS ERSKINE Announces that the Holiday trade so nearly cleared out the Holiday goods that the re mainder will be sold very low. Regular Millinery Business, with new attractions, will now be resumed. MISS P. ERSKINE, Wilson, N. C. Under Briggs Hotel. Scotland Neck Military School, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. Spring Term Begins January 25th, 1892. the SCHOQL IDEAL FOR BOYS. Two things aimed at : Health of body and vigor of mind. Charges reasonable. For information address, W. C. ALLEN, Supt. J OHN D. COUPER, MARBLE & GRANITE Monuments, Gravestones, &c. in, 113 and 115 Bank St., NORFOLK, VA. Designs free. Write for prices. 5-I4-ly. DR. W. S. ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, n. c. Office in Drug Store on Tarboro St. DR. ALBERT ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, n. c. Office next door to the First Nationa Bank. DR. E. K. WRIGHT, Surgeon Dentist, WILSON, n. c. Having permanently located in Wil son, 1 oner my professional services to the public. E"Ofhce in Central Hotel Building. Horses & Mules. I have now on hand a select lot of fine Horses and Mules at my Sale Stables on Goldsboro Street. The lot- consists of Fine Farm Mules And excellent driving draught horses. It is and to your interests to see these animals before purchasing elsew here. I will be p-lad to show them to you. Respectfully, J. D. 2-II-tf. North.Carolina, ) In the Superior Court Wilson county f Before A B Deans, C. S. C. J. W. Thorne, Admr. 1 Augustin Farmer, dee'd vs. Ino N Stancil and wife. Petition to Sell land for assetts. Mary N Stancil, L E Ceech J Bettie F Creech, Wm A Creech. The defendant, Wm A Creech, a hove named, w 11 take notice that a special proceeding, entitled as above, has been commenced in the Superior Court of Wilson county, for the purpose of sell- mg land belonging to the estate of Augustin Farmer, deceased, for as sets to pay the debts of said deceased, and the defendan t will further take no tice hat he is required to appear before the Clerk of said Court at his office in Wilson, N C, at 11 o'clock, a m, on Sat urday the 22nd day of April, 1892, and answer or demur to the Petition in said proceeding, or the Plaintiff will apply to the court for the rebel demanded said Petition. This, 24th Feb., 1392. A. B. DEANS, C. S. C J.D. BARDIN, Att'y for Plaintiff. 2 -25-6t The Advance for Job Work. in FARM