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The Wileon '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 17th, 1892. NUMBER 9 ats and Cans! A Drive in Hats ! We are makings big drive in Hats 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 73 and the Si. 2 5 quality we sell for 94c. We have a Settled Man's Black Fur at Si-o8, sold elsewhere at $2.00. Oh! no! We don't work for p-lorv, but we Qaiarantee pur prices to be lowest. the Underbuy and undersell our motto. is Nash and Goldsboro Streets. THE w ASHINGTON LIFE Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. ASSETTS. - - - $10,500,000. The Policies written by the W ashington are Inscribed in these general terms: ; X n-ForfeitabIe. j t'nrt-stricted as to residence and j travel after two years. j Incontestable after two years. 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This brilliant Quarterly reproduces the best stories, sketches, burlesques, poems, witti cisms, etc., from the early numbers or that much talked-about New York Society Journal, Town Topics, which is published weekly. buD Bcription price, $4.00 per year. The two publications ' Tows Topics and " Txi.es from Town Topics " together, at the low club-price of $5.00 per year. Ask your newsdealer for them or address, TOWN TOPICS, H West MSlM.Y. City. F,R SALE 2,ood. 1 eutle, fine family horse, y anyone, and will work Can be dri ven anywhere. Apply to W. L. CANT WELL, 2-25-tf. Wilson, N Not At lost The Cash Racket Stores. I. C. LAMER. WASIT FATE ? (SPECIAL COR. THE ADVANCE) A thing inexplicable is Fate. 'Twas at college in an Eastern State, I met her. She seemed so frank and'fair, that I, Indeed, thought my very best to try And get her. To me she seemed to reciprocate, And while I loved her, always ate Confections; But, ah ! now sadly I aver That all this did not win me her Affections. A note received from this maiden vain, To you will probably all explain : "Dear Charlie," It ran, "I was married to-day, At the M. E. church,. to John McKay He's jolly!" LINES To the Memory of Jessie Parker Tyson. BV R. L. W. (SPECIAL COR. THE ADVANCE.) Death laid his signet upon thy gentle brow, . And claimed thee for his own ; Thou art happy and;-rejoicing now, Around the spiritual throne. We are lonelynow without thee, Our hearts are bowed vith grief; j May God teach us to submissive be, And acknowledge him as Chief. For us this life is now so dreary, That we think of that promise bfest ; "Come unto me all ye weary, Come, and I will give thee rest," For thee life's journey soon was o'er, Thy course was early run ; Thou hast only gone before, Thy sufferings now are done. 'Twas hard to give thee up, . Thou, in thy womanly prime ; But thou hast drained the bitter cup, "Thy will be done, O Lord, not mine." They laid thee in the cold dark tomb, And left thee there alone", God's angels hath dispelled the gloom, And borne thee to his celestial throne. Sleep on, sleep . on, thou noble one, Life's battles now are o'er; Thy heavenly joys have just begun, To end, ah ! never, never more. May we meet on that golden shore,. And be forever blest ; Farewell, farewell, forever more, May thy soul enjoy sweet rest. Elm City, N. C, March 7th 1S92. AS TO POLITICS. "Hill's broke loose in Georgia," remarks the Knoxville Tribune. The Iowa State. Register is for "Blaine and Ruskipracity," and don't you forget it. Col. W. R. Morrison thinks Sena tor Palmer too old for a Presidential candidate, and so thinks Senator Vance. It is whispered that either N. B. Broughton, of Raleigh, or Charles M. Cooke, of Louisburg, will be the Democratic Congressional nominee for this district. The Charlotte Chronicle announces upon authentic inlormation, that Col W. H. H. Cowles, member of Con gress from the'Eigth District, will not j stand for a re-nomination by the j Democratic Convention this year. - Col. John S. Cummingham "one j of the most prominent, tobacco men j in North Carolina and a member ofi Gov. Holt's staff," is reported by the Atlanta Constitution as saying : "We in North Carolina are all lor , Hill." Here is another "reliable gen tleman" who is mistaken. We are not all for Hill. Some of us are for Cleveland, some for Gorman. All of us will be for the nominee of the party Newberne Journal. Gen. Russell A. Alger, being asked by a Tribune reporter as to his atti tude toward the suggestion of his name for the Republican Presidential nomination, said : "I have, until re cently, been undecided as to whether I would enter the contest for the nomination, but in view of the ex pressions which have come to me from earnest Republicans throughout the country I have concluded to enter the field. You may say this for this for the information ol my friends both at home and abroad." The Asheville Banner, from its Republican standpoint, thus defines the Democratic situation in the Old North State : "There are three ele ments in the Democratic party, the straigbtouts, the Demo-Alliance, and Alliance straights, each contending against the other. It is now a debat able and doubtful question which whips. The straightouts want the ticket made up of uncompromising, hide-bound, double-distilled Demo crats ; the Demo-Alliance favor a kind of fusion, or mongrel ticket, while the Alliance straights, like the first mentioned, want it Alliance from 'end to end.' May the Lord help them." It is said that during his now famous Brandenburg speech in which Emperor William called on his Bran denburg subjects to 'stand faithfully by him, and said that all persons who did not like his measures had better leave Germany, some one suggested to the Kaiser "Your Majesty should not forget Russia," to which the Emperor sententiouslv replied, "Rus- sia ! I will puverize Russia." On this being reported by his minister to the Czar, he sent at once for the Ger man minister and he said : "Tell your Emperor that when he wants to begin pulverizing, I will throw half a million men across the frontier with the greatest pleasure." In these days of parleyings, diplomatic conferences j gave their endorsement to these pnn and the like, it is truly refreshing to ciples. observe the straight-forward talk of the Impressed with the solemn convic Czar of all Russia. tion that the enactment of the princi- AN ADDRESS, THE ALLIANCE 'BY THE GATES TO J ST. LOUIS. TO DELE- The Action of the Conference Recited and Its Platform Endorsed The Labor Con ference and the Third Party Convention Were Different Meetings. To the Members of the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance : Having been honored with a com mission from you as delegates to the Industrial Conference at St. Louis, on the 22d inst., we, the undersigned, deem it due you that we should ren der at the earliest practicable moment, a truthful statement of the work ac complished and of our action as- your representatives, in that body. The six organizations embraced in the official call issued by the commit tee on confederation were represented by 737 properly accredited delegates. To these were added the delegates of seven other kindred organizations, (on the recommendation of the com mittee on credentials) making in the aggregate over 1 ,000 delegates, and representating almost every State in the Union. The committee on plat form consisted of 120 members, rep resenting every State and every or ganization. This committee labored faithfully and without intermission for 14 hours and presented as their unanimous-report the following: We have already printed the long preamble, but give again the platform. Ed. finance. First We demand a national cur rency safe, sound, and flexible, issued bv the general government only, a full legal tender lor all debt, public and private ; and that without the use of banking corporations a just, equit able and efficient means of distribu tion direct to the people at a tax not to exceed two per cent, be provided, as set forth in the sub-Treasury Plan of the Farmers' 'Alliance, or some better system ; also, by payment in discharge ol its obligations for public improvements. (1.) We demandfree andimlimi ted coinage ol silver. (2.) We demand that the ampunt ol circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita. (3.) We demand a "graduated in come tax. (4.) We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all nation al and State revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economically and honest ly administered. (5.) We demand that postal sav ings banks be established by the gov ernment for the safe deposit of earn ings of the people and to lacilitate exchange. LAND. Second The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people and should not be monopolized lor speculative purposes. Alien ownership of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corpora tions in. excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the govern ment and held for actual settlers only. transportation. Third Transportation being a means of exchange and a public nec essity, the government should own i and operate the railroads in the in j terest of the people, j (1.) The telegraph and telephone, like the postofhee system, being a necessity for transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interests of the people. While some parts of the above address may seem at a mere glance to make partisan political distinction, yet upon careful study one will clear ly see that it is non-partisan and further, will be impressed with the truth of its premises and the ability of the committee who framed it. It was adopted with only a few dissent ing votes and the platform was adop ted unanimously and received with great applause. The conference having completed its work as a rep resentative body, then adjourned, sine die. i the mass meeting. After the adjournment a mass meeting was called in which a great many delegates took part as citizens, together with a number who were not delegates to the conference, and pro ceeded to take steps looking to polit ical action. The result was a call for a national convention, to be held on the 4th day of next July, in the city of Omaha, Nebraska. This action was entirely distinct from the work of the convention of labor organizations to which you sent us as your repre sentatives. It will be seen that the conference did not by its action bind any one of the organizations represented nor any member thereof to the support of any particular political party. In a spirit of concession and compromise all the various States and sections and all shades of political opinion, sought only the common good of the whole people and with remarkable unanimi ty, adopted a declaration of principles which in their judgment will restore ! peace, prosperity and justice to the country. It will also be observed that this declaration or platform em bodies essentially the great principles enunciated by our order at St. Louis in 1889, at Ocala in 1890 and at In- j dianapolis in 1891 The undersigned and unanimously ' therefore heartily pies into law and the faithful enforce ment of the law, will bring relief to our distressed industrial people and inure to the common good of all in terests and "classes, ves earnesdy ap peal to all Alliancemen and all patriots of whatever calling to aid us in elec ting to office only such men as will faithfully promote these principles and faithfully execute the laws. It is gratifying to state that all the Southern States were represented in the body and every delegate voted for the platform. Marion Butler J. F. Brinson, J. T. B. Hoover, W. C. Wilcox, E. C. Beddingfield, P. H. Massev, J. F. Johnson, A. C. Shuford, H. M. Kent. J. C. Brown. HEBE IT IS. The Alleged Senatorial Combine. A nti-C le veland Many of the newspapers and poli ticians who cling tenjeiously, if not desperately to Mr. Cleveland, have for several months proclaimed to the country that there is a Senatorial combine, and that Messrs. Hill, Gor man, and Bnce are in league to work. the machine, as they term it, in na tional politics just as they have work ed it in New York, Maryland, and Ohio. They started this talk when the Speakership contest opened, and when Judge Crisp, and not Mr. Mills, carried off that prize they widely de clared that the "senatorial combine" had elected Judge Crisp, that the cause of tariff reform had received a terrible blow for the time being, and that Mr. Cleveland had been betray ed and humiliated ; just as if Judge Crisp had not honestly won and truly merited the honor bestowed upon him. He was elected Speaker be cause he had fairly earned the dis tinction, and because he had such a great following in the South, the section that is sure to roll up the greater proportion of electoral votes that the Democratic candidates' will receive next fall, and the section that was entitled to the position. "The senatorial combine" had very little to do with making Judge Crisp Speaker of the House, and Mr. Gorman is in no such combine. Mr. Gorman ever since he became so prominent as a result of his successful tight against the force bill, has been spoken ol favorably himself in all portions of the country as an available candidate for the Presidencv. and it is taken for granted that Maryland will in due season, present the claims of her lead ing public man, just as Indiana will present the name of ex-Governor Gray, Iowa that of Governor Boise, Kentucky that of Senator Carlisle, and nossiblv Illinois that-of either 1 j Col. Morrison or General Palmer. Mr. Gorman is not for Cleveland and in that particular only may he said to belontr to a senatorial com bine. That combine, from the lnlorma tion obtained here, also has among its members. Senator Pujih, of Ala bama ; Senator Colquitt, of Georgia ; Senator Coke, of Texas ; Senators Barbour aud Daniel, of Virginia ; Sen ator Vance, ol North Carolina, and indeed many other strong men who are marked as leaders in politics in their States. They are not for Cleve land, and haven't been for many for many moons. Washington Cor. Richmond Dispatch. Korifc Carolina' Seed Law. It may not be generally known that North Carolina has a seed law which requires all dealers in seeds to label each package of seed with the date of the year in which the seed were grown. This does not apply to farmers who sell seed in bulk from his farm to his neighbor but to seeds men who make a business ol making and seelling seeds. The object of the law is to prevent the sale worth less seed which have probably been grown for several years. The law makes it a misdemeanor for any seed house to put up seed in packages and offer them for sale without the date ot the year in which they were grown and subject to fine and im prisonment lor such ohense. The State is indebted to Mr. R. H. Gower, Representative from this county, in the last legislature, who drew up the bill and introduced it in the house and by his efforts became a law. It is a very good law and one that has been needed in this state.-T-Smithfield Herald. It is Settled. The several bills introduced by Senators George, Harris and Vance, to repeal the 10 per cent, internal revenue tax on the circulation of State banks, have been adversely reported upon by the Senate finance committee ; and this action settles this question. A great many per sons believe that the repeal of this tax and the re-establishment ol the old State banks would result in sup plying the country with the abundant and elastic currency which it is sup posed to need. We have never be lieved that the people, having gotten accustomed to a paper currency back ed by coin in the treasury or United States bonds, and as good in one part of the country as it is in another would take hold of the issues of State banks again with any confidence or readiness. This may or may not be I a correct opinoin, but at all events the action of the Senate finance com mittee precludes the idea that the matter will be put to a practical test at any early day. Charlotte Chronicle. NEWS OFA WEEK. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WOKLD AKOl'M) tts. A Condensed Report of the News From Our Contemporaries Gleaned Here and There For Bny Headers. St. Mark's Episcopal church, of Charlotte, has been robbed of its com munion service, valued at $50. Josiah Pully, who lives near Earps boro, Johnston county, was arrested last week for illicit distilling. Hon. John K. Gilmer, ol Greens boro, is suffering from the same dis ease that killed Gov. Scales, and his condition is critical. The Dunn Times says that Mr Geo. VJpr Riser wag married to Mrs. Daniel McDougald last week. The groom is 85, a- veteran of the Mexi can war, and the bride is no "spring chicken." There is a great deal of talk of the reduction of the cotton acreage. The farmers are enthusiastic in their sup port ol the new movement. Secre tary ol State Coke, says : I have heretofore planted 260 acres in cot ton ; this year I will plant only seventy-three." Thepeople of Raleigh will buy a solid silver service which is to be presented to the cruiser Raleigh. This cruiser, which is named in honor of our capital city, will be launched at Norfolk, a., in April and will be christened by Mrs. A. W. Haywood, a daughter of Gov. Holt, who per- lorms this'service upon the invitation ol the Secretary ol the Navy. A Raleigh special of the 9th says : To-day about noon the boiler ol an engine used for the purpose of oper ating a mill eight miles south of here, exploded, killing instantly John Stevenson, aged 18, son of Col. L. D. Stevenson, a prominent farmer of this connty. He was blown fifty yards and torn to pieces. Another boy was injured. The pressure on the boiler was too great. Mr. T. W. Ross lives in this coun ty about five miles from Durham, in the Sandy Level neighborhood. One of his cows presented him with a peculiar freak of nature on Monday last. It was a calf with two separate and distinct heads, with four eyes, and both heads ioined to the body at the neck. We are told that it was a most peculiar looking animal. It lived but one day and died on Tues day. Durham Sun. Geo. H. Wylde, who had a wife and children in England and mar ried another in Greensboro and then moved to Kinston, was tried at Greensboro week before last and found guilty, the jury agreeing on the verdict in twenty minutes. He was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial was over-ruled, whereupon the defendant took an appeal to the Supreme Court, and was released under a bond of $1,000. The Manufacturers' Record, of Baltimore, was sold Monday of last week, by R. H. and William H. Ed munds to Walter H. Page, editor of the Forum Magazine, New York ; E. H. Sanborn, of Philadelphia, and Thos. P. Grasty, who has been for three years the chief Southern corre spondent of the Manufacturers' Re cord. The policy of the paper will not be materially changed. E. H. Sanborn will be the new editor. Among the directors of the new com pany will Mr. Page, Mr. Grasty and Mr. F. S. Presbrey, now manager of Public Opinion, Washington. When Spurgeon died at Mentonc, his congregation were notified by a dispatch, saying: "Our beloved pas tor entered heaven this morning," and this was posted on the doors of the Tabernacle and published every- where, some days alter, aunng a memorial service at the Tabernacle, while the body was still in transit through France, the presiding clergy man was handed a foreign telegram in the pulpit. He opened it, but somehow failed to read it aloud. It is related now that the dispatch, sent from some place in the Riviera, read: "Mr. Spurgeon not yet arrived. Peter." A special of the 29th ult., from Ridgewav to the State Chronicle says: "Capt. B. M. Collins, a prominent Allianceman and Democrat of War ren county, has, since the bt. Louis Convention, avowed his determination to withdraw from the Alliance and have nothing more to do with that organization. It is evident from the talk of Alliancemen in different parts of -the State that an effort will be made to wheel the State Alliance into the Third party. Action by the Al liance in favor of the Third or Peo ple's party would undoubtedly result m the defeat ol the Democrats and a return of the State to negro rule." Mr. Jasper Miller, of Columbia, was in the city yesterday and taxed Mr. Wittkowsky with having stolen his thunder in the matter of the new variety of cotton mentioned the other day in this paper. Mr. Miller says it is called the Allen silk cotton and that he bought a lot of the seed from Mississippi eieht years aeo and has been cultivating it ever since. For the poorest bale of it he made this season the cotton in this particular bale having stood unpicked in the field until after Christmas he real io3 cents per pound. The yield of this variety, he says, is 25 per cent, greater than the average. In rich soil this seed needs to be planted 18 inches apart. This cotton can be ginned by the ordinary gin but the gin doesn't want to be run very fast. Charlotte Chronicle. bushel from the crib in Polk county. The Rev. Dr. J. W. Carter, of the First Baptist Church, Raleigh, will preach the Baccalaureate' sermon at the University before the graduating class, on Sunday, May 29th. The - Goldsboro Argus says that Mr. C. W. Smith, of Wayne, has a gander which has been written up in the New York Herald. It ran the gauntlet of Sherman's army and is believed by the best authority to be 90 years old. Wednesday of last week in Ral eigh, . B. Burwell, Y. L. Kirby and B. J. Boykin were elected executive committee of the insane asylum. W. R. Crawford, Jr., was re-elected steward. Mrs. Goodloe, of Scotland Neck, was again elected matron. The Durham Globe learns that the right to use the Keely cure in North Carolina has been bought by the Dukes and other Durham capitalists. It says they will pay $30,000 for the business and establish houses here and there. Colerame a town in the county of Bertie, has no competitor in the State in some respects. There is no gamb ling nor drunkenness ; there 'has not been prisoner in its lock-up in three years ; not a cent of taxes have been levied and streets are kept in good condition hy the voluntary work of the citizens. Some time ago a gentleman ot this city received a letter from one of them (one of the "green goods" men) to which he replied -by wire, asking for samples of goods. In reply to this he received a genuine greenback dol lar, with instructions for his trip North. He did not go, but wired the parties : "Goods O. K. Send sam ples of larger sizes and if satisfactory will start at once." They did not send any "larger sizes," but our Hickory friend is in a dollar and the "green goods" men are out two, counting two telegrams sent collect. Press and Carolinian. And now it is in order for everybody to attempt to do likewise. Ed. The barn and stables of Mr. Jas. M. Oliver, near Princeton, were de stroyed by an incendiary fire, Sat urday night. Everything in the barn went up in smoke, but the live stock in the stables was gotten out in time. A correspondent from Black Creek informs us that there is a notorious negro possessing a lady's fine gold watch. Several ladies of this city who have lost gold watches recentlv have written on for information. The petition for Weightman Thompson, urging the Governor to commute his sentence of. death to life imprison ment, is receiving very few signatures. A counter petition recently gotten up by the citizens of New Hope, town ship, is being largely signed by both races, praying the Governor not to interfere. An illicit distillery run by J. J. Odom, in Grantham's town ship, was destroyed by Deputy col lector Grimsley Thursday and the owner put to flight. Another moon shine distillery was captured by Mr. Grimsley, near Newton Grove on Friday. The man who was opera ting it fled as the officers approached. Goldsboro Headlight. The effect of the decision of -the Supreme Court in the Witaungton and Weldon railway case is to subject to taxation 298 miles of branch roads, with the equipment, foiling stock, etc. ; for which perpetual exemption from taxation has . heretofore been claimed, as follows : .Wilson Short cut to State line, 1 25 miles f Halifax and Kinston branch, 85 ; Tarboro branch, 16 ; Nashville branch, 24 ; Clinton branch 16; W ashington branch, 24 ; Halifax and Weldon (consolidated,) 8. The length of the "main" line is 154 miles, from Hali fax to Wilmington. The exemption of that the court leaves an open ques tion, as it was not presented on this appeal. To your correspondent it appears very much like all the roads in the State will soon be put on an equality so far as taxation is concern ed. It will hardly be long before a test case is made as to the main line of the Wilmignton and Weldon. Public opinion is a powerful thing, and it is very strong against railway exemption from taxation. Just now all the matters are of deep interest. Raleigh Cor. Wil. Messenger. , Hill Does not Commit Himself on the Sil ver Question. "What is to be the policy of the Democrats regardig free silver?" was the question I propounded to Senator Hill, of New York, to "day. Mr. Hill smiled one of his know ing smiles and replied with an in nocence childlike and bland : "I am a new Senator, and I have not as yet been able to discover that the Democrats have a policy about anything." As the Senator turned to go away I plumped another question at him :- "Senator, the burning question of the hour is how will you vote On a free silver bill if one comes before the Senate ?" The Senator was unprepared for so leading a question, and it evidently disconcerted him. A moment late'r he made this guarded statement : "I will not cross thatbridge until I cometo it." Then, as if fearing that more difficult bridges might be thrust before him, he turned and walked 1 away. In his lecture on Shakespeare at Indianapoln, Col. Ingersou said "The sublimest line in the English lang-uaee is. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." Corn is selling at 60c. per VANCE FOR HIM. SENATOR GORMAN IS THE MAN, SO SAYS OIK Jt'NIOR SENATOR. He "Formally Starts" the Room Cleveland and Hill lioth Out Gray or Stevenson Would Do. Senator Vance, of North Carolina, to-day formally started the Gorman presidential boom. A delegation of Tar Heel Democrats ca' ed upon Senator ance and Ransom at the capitol to consult with them about the coining convention for the selec tion of delegates to the Chicago con vention. Senator Vance said to the Sun representative, after the delegates hrd left, that the Democr. .ts of North Carolina have about rea- 'ied the con clusion that neither Hiil nor Cleveland should be nominated at Chicago, and they are looking the field over for an available man outside ot New York, and think that Gorman is the mar.. In reviewing the political situation in his State, Senator Vance said : "Our people are very sorry about the factional fight in New York, for it prevents the nomination of a candidate from that State. The quarrel be tween the representatives of Senator Hill and Hr. Cleveland has gore so far that it would probably be fatal to the party to attempt to force either one of them upon the convention. The Democrats of the South are anxious to win, and they want to see a man nominated who can bring out the full strength of the party j North as well as South. In our State we regard Senator Gorman as the most desirable man from every standpoint. His wide experience with T public affairs and his unblemished, rroral character, in addition to his sagacity as a leader, make him very strong VWUI UU1 LICUpJC. XllCy lldVC tUllv naence in nis judgment, ana almost every other man you meet regards Gorman as the candidate to put up, unless the situation in New York changes. If the convention deter mines to have a Western man, there are but two men in sight who seem to me to have the requisite political strength to make the race. I refer to Cov. Gray of Indiana and ex-Assistant Postmaster-General Stevenson of Illinois. Of the two I regard the latter as the better man. He has several elements of strength which few Western men possess his ex perience as a member of Congress and as Assistant Postmaster-General." As to Senaior Palmer and Mr. Campbell Senator Vance said: "Palmer is undoubtedly a good old man, but his age is the principal objection to his nomination. Ex Governor Campbell is a bright voung man, but he could not carry his own State at the last election, so he is out of the question. The other strong men who have been mentioned are only partly known outside of their respective States, and it might be a difficult matter to give them an ac ceptable introduction. With Gorman it is different. He is as well known and as much loved by the Demo crats of the country as an' man one can find. You have my permission to say this Jor me, and to add that North Carolina is for the candidate, whoever he may be." Washington Cor. The New York Su::. Or Leai t, Tbat'a Answer The Vv Imprt y This Boy's i I s. When a cockney emigrates to America and gets a job at teaching school, then his troubles begin. There was one of the genus tried it on near Gambier, Ohio, so the story runs, whether it be true or not. ' 'Arry.Hadams, you spell saloon," he dictated to the spelling class. "I don't know how," said little Harry frightened by the strange use of aspirates ancj "aitches." "Don't know 'ow ? Why, young hignoramus ; s dpon is spelled'with a 'hess' and a 'hay,' a 'hell two 'hoes' and a hen." Harry was worse at sea than ever then ; so one of the boys" was sent to the board j to write it plainly lor the class to see. The lad could make his letters, but did not know how to join them in regular running writing style, and left them unjoined thus: s-a-l-o-o-n. The teacher looked at it a moment and then asked with some asperity : "Why don't you puC.fit together right ? Why don't you put that 'hay' nearer to that 'hell'?" The boy's eyes snapped and he answered like a flash, "'Cause I was afraid it would burn up." The class was dismissed for the day. But the geography class proved another pitfall. One of the boys, while writing the names of European cities, snelled Venice, V -e-n-n-i-c-e. "What," cried the teacher on his rounds ; ''his that the way you spell Venice ?" "Yes, sir," said the lad. "Suppose Hi was to tell you that there was honly one 'hen in Venice, what would you say I should say that 1 the price of eggs would be pretty high, sir." Then there was an explosion. Total Visible Supply of Cotton. New York, March 5. The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 4,683,540 bales, of which 4,177,049 balds are American ; against 3,520,642 bales and 2,859,743 bales respectively last year ; receipts from plantations 96,079 bales ; crop in sight 7995,466 b ales. Every certificate we publish regard ing Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is genuine, and we will pay a reward of i,ooo to any one proving the contraiy. W. E. W ARREN FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS, (Successors to B. F. Briggs & Co.,) 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 the world. We "want your in surance. Come to see us. 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- SCIIOOL IDEAL FOR BOYS. Two things aimed at : Health of nils and vigor of mind. Charges reasonable. For information address, W. C. ALLEN, Supt. J OHN D. COUPER, MARBLE & GRANITE Monuments, Gravestones, &c. 1:1, 113 and 115 Bank St., NORFOLK, VA. Designs free. Wnte for prices. S-14-iy. 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, I offer my professional services to the public. 3f"Office in Central Hotel Building. m jilules. I i;. we now. on hand a select lot of fine Horses and Mules at my Sale Stables on Goldsboro Street. The lot consists of Fine Farm And excellent driving draught horses. It is and to ypur interests to see these animals before purchasing elsew here. I will be glad to show them to you. Respectfully, 1. D. FARRIOR. 2-1 I -tf. North Carolina, ) In the Supe rior Court Wilson county j Before A B Deans, C. S. C. J. VV. Thome, Admr. Augustin Farmer, dee'd Petition to vs. i Sell land Jno N Stancil and wife, f for assetts. Mary N Standi, LE Ceech J Bettie F Creech, Wm A Creech. The defendant, Wm A Creech, a bove 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 ing land belonging to the estate of Augustin Farmer, deceased, for as sets to pay the debts of said deceased, and the defendan t;v. ill further take no tice hat he is required to appear before the Clerk of said Court at his office in Wilson, N C, at 1 1 o'clock, a m, on Sat urday, the 2nd day of April, 1892, and answer or demur to the Petition in said proceeding, Or the Plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in 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 Wo rk. Mules