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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For President :
GROVER CLEVELAND,
Of New York.
For Vice-President :
ADLAI E. STEVENSON,
Of Illinois
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor:
ELIAS CARR,
of Edgecombe.
For Lieutenant Governor :
RUFUS A. DOUGHTON,
of Alleghany.
For Secretary of State :
OCTAVIUS COKE,
of Wake.
For Auditor :
ROBERT M. FURMAN,
of Buncombe. -
For Treasurer:
DONALD W. BAIN,
of Wake.
For Supt. of Public Instruction :
JOHN C. SCARBOROUGH,
of Johnston.
For Attorney General :
FRANK I. OSBORNE,
of Mecklenburg.
For Judge of the Twelfth District:
GEORGE A. SHUFORD.
For Electors at Large :
CHARLES B. AYCOCK.
ROBERT B. GLENN.
Public Office is a Public Trust. Gro
ver Cleveland.
I believe that the Administration is
responsible to the people for all the
acts of the officers of the Government,
and lhat therefore the offices should be
filled by friends of the Administration,
and that the men who condact the ad
ministration of public affairs, and who
are responsible for them, should have
the selection of their subordinates. To
the victors belong the spoils. Adlai
E. Stevenson.
Free government is self-government.
There ii no self-government where the
people do not control their own elec
tions and lay their own taxes. When
either of these rights is taken away or
diminished a breach is made, not in the
outer defenses, but in the citadel of our
freedom. For years we have been
struggling to recover the lost right of
taxing ourselves, and now we are
threatened with the loss of the greater
right of governing ourselves. The loss
of the one follows in necessary succes
sion the loss of the other. When you
confer on Government the power of
dealing out wealth you unchain every
evil that can prey upon and eventually
destroy free institutions excessive tax
ation, class taxation, billion-dollar con
gresses, a corrupt civil service, a de
bauched ballot-box and purchased
elections. From Hon. VV. L. Wilson's
speech at Chicago.
A CALL.
A Convention of the Democrats
ot Wilson county is hereby called to
meet in the Court House in Wilson
on Saturday, August 20th, at 12
o'clock for the purpose of electing
delegates to the Senatoral Convention
and canvassing the vote cast in the
primary election.
The Democratic voters of the va
rious townships are requested to meet
at their respective voting places on
Saturday, August 13th, at 10 o'clock,
for the purpose of holding a primary
election for the selection ot candidates
for the House of Representatives,
Sheriff, Register of Deeds, Treasurer,
Coroner and Surveyor. The polls
will be opened by the township ex
ecutive committee at 1 2 o'clock and
kept open until 6 o'clock. Each
township will at the same time elect
delegates to the county Convention.
The vote as cast will be certified to
by the township executive commit
tee and returned by them to the
County Convention and the candi
date receiving the highest number 01
votes will be declared the nominee 01
the Democratic party.
At the same time and place a new
township executive committee will be
selected to serve for the ensuing two
years.
Each townshio ts entitled to one
delegate to the County Convention
for every 25 or fraction ot 15 votes
cast for the Democratic candidate for
Governor at the last regular election.
The townships are therefore entided
to delegates as follows :
townshif: vote, delegates.
Black Creek 266 11
Cross Roads 157 6
Spring Hill 139 5
Old Ffelds 302 12
Taylors 74 , 3
Toisnot 243 10
Gardners 179 7
Saratoga 75 3
Stantonsburg 64 2
Wilson 660 26
Total 2,159
W. W. FARMER,
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Ch'm Co. Dem. Ex. Com.
Advice to Mothers
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used for children
teething. It soothes the child, sof
tens the gums, always all pain, cures
wind colic, and is the best remedy for
dairrhce. Twenty -five cents a bottle
A sore leg, the flesh a mass of dis
eate, yet P. P. P. achieved wohderful
results, the flesh was purified and the
bone got sound, and my health was
established, says IMr. James Masters,
of Savannah, Ga.
WILSON,
BILL ARPS LETTER.
DEAD LIONS AND LIVING DOGS COM
PARED. When great Men or Good Men I'ass Away
it is Well For us to Stop a Little While
and Contemplate Their Lives.
The wise man said that "a living
dog was better than a dead lion,"
and he explains by saying that "the
living know they must die, but the
dead know not anything, neither
have they any more reward, and the
memory of them is forgotten."
That may be true in the abstract,
but still I would rather be a dead
lion that the average dog. Dead
lions are scarce, but living dogs are
numerous. Dead lions were once
alive, and if we compare them with
humanity, they were a power in the
land, and the memory of them is not
forgotten.
Obituaries, epitaphs and eulogies
upon the dead are to the average
reader unwelcome literature. Biog
raphy will do pretty well, but an
obituary comes so close on to the
funeral that it smacks of death, and
death is never a welcome subject.
We haven: got time to consider
death. We will see the old fellow
later. But when great men or good
men pass away it is wellJfor us to stop
a little while and contemplate their
lives. We don't know what com
fort it will give them in the spirit
world whether any or none or
whether they hear us or .not, or can
read our thoughts, but there is
enough in nature and revelation for
us to believe that the spirits of the
dead are very near us, and are in
tensely concerned in everything that
we do. But whether we believe this
or not, it is good for the living to
contemplate the life work ot good
men and good women who have
gone before. Whether they be few
or many, they are the saviors of all
the rest the hostages who secure
peace and good government and
give protection to life, liberty and
property. A cynical, skeptical man
may sneer at religion and the church,
but he wouldent dare to live in a
community if every member of the
church were to move out of it. A
few men would have saved Sodom
and it is the few that save every town
and city. Leaving out of the ques
tion the grace of God, there is that
reverence which the bad have for the
good that is like a balance wheel and
establishes law and order. The ex
ample and influence of one good,
strong man in a community is more
potent than that of fifty wicked ones.
This is the natural tribute of evil to
good. Even the Devil has respect
for virtue in all its forms. Truth and
justice, chastity and temperance
stand alone, but vice has to have
props, and even then it is always
falling. "Murder will out." "One
lie calls for another."
Good men are scarce. You can
count them easily in every commu
nity. I mean the men of principle,
the men you can trust in all emer
gencies, the men of truth, whose
word is as good as their bond, the
men who stand firm in war and in
peace, in fire and in flood, in famine
and pestilence, in poverty and riches,
always the same and always true.
How many such are in Cartersville,
how many in Rome, how many in
Atlanta ?
Suppose there was a sign of fire
and brimstone unless we found fifty
in our town, and old Father Abra
ham began to look around, who
would he take ? Suppose he wanted
100 at Rome, could he get them ?
Could he get 500 in Atlanta, if he
were to ransack every church and
then run his seine through the opera
house while the high kicking was go
ing on r It s men he demands, not
women ; women would save us, but
good men, pure men are scarce.
They are scarce, but they are pre
cious. They make but little noise,
and yet they are seen and known by
the old and the vnung, and their in
fluence pervades the community
When such a man dies he is missed,
There is a loss a loss of citizenship,
and the Devil is happy and will fill
the gap if he can.
I was thinking about the death of
iust such a man, my friend and
kindsman in Rome. In all the rela
tions of life Henry Norton was a sue
cess, a model. It was a good thing
that he was born and lived nlty years
to illustrate our best humanity. He
was no saint he was a boy, and then
a man, and then a soldier, and then
a husband and a father and a citizen,
all his mature age a gentleman and
a christian. How easily he moved
all along the line the line of duty.
It seemed to be no trouble for him
to do right, tor he had no policy ; he
had a moral principle to govern him,
and it gave nun a strain. It gave
him pleasure and made him cheerful
and social and kind. He was wel
come everywhere. What a beauti
ful commentary on lite to see his
aged father almost smiling through
his tears and hear him say, "Henry
was a good boy. He was always a
good boy. He never gave me or his
mother any trouble or anxiety. I
never thought he would beat me
there, but he has a little just a lit
tle. I'll see him again in a few days."
What a record for a son ! "He
never gave me or his mother any
trouble. 1 wish tr at it was mine.
I wish that it was every boy's. How
it would disperse the dark shadows
that hover and brood over the par
ents' hearts hover and brood until
they would break if they could. One
day an old, careworn father stood at
the door of his shoo and said to a
friend :
'Go home and kill your boy ; kill
him while he is young."
I "What for ?" said the friend.
WILSON COUNTY, N. C, AUGUST
"To keep him from that," said he,
and he pointed to his own son who
lay drunk upon the counter in the
back room.
Rome will miss Henry Norton ;
the church will miss him, but who
can measure the grief of the wife and
children the wife a widow and the
children fatherless. But they should
nevertheless feel grateful that he lived
so long and lived so well and left
no stain or blemish upon his char
acter. And it is good for us to pause and
contemplate another lite one not
more true and beautiful but grander
in its work and far reaching in its re
sults. Cyrus W. Field lived a noble
life. He reached the goal, of his
ereat ambition an ambition that was
honorable, unselfish and for the
good of mankind. It took a great
mind to conceive of such a project as1
laying a cable tn the unfathomable
depths of the ocean, 'and it took a
hero to accomplish it.
After the first failure, when all
faith was weakened and all friends
ready to desert him, it is reasonable
to suppose, that, had Mr. Fields
died just then there would not have
been another attempt made for years
perhaps not at all. Providence
seems to raise up men for great
works when the world needs them
Bnd Cyrus Field was but his chosen
instrument to bring nations together.
Now that he is a dead, lion I have
great reverence for his memory.
When I heard of his sad affliction
on the conduct of an erring son, I
wanted to be near him and offer
comfort or sympathy. He had it
from thousands of hearts all over this
broad land and it would have done
him good to know it. I thought it
would. How vain are all things here
below when providence lays his hand
upon our domestic happiness, when
the peace of home is broken, when
the husband or wife or child goes
astray and brings a shadow over de
clining years. Mr. Field died of a
broken heart. His years were short
ened by grief. His father lived to
be eighty-seven and his brother
David Dudley, the profoundest law
yer of the age, is now eighty-seven
and Stephen J. of the Supreme court
is seventy-six. Dr. Henry M., the
genial and gentle editor of the Evan-
ist. seventy-three and their eyes are
not dimmed nor their natural force
abated. Yes, it must have been
grief that cut short the old man's
days, for they were all a loving fam
ily and all their utterances and emo
tions have been for peace and eood
will among men. Verily they will
have their reward and the memory of
them will not be forgotten.
Bill Arp.
r. Wharton on .Sam .lonen.
Rev. Dr. Wharton, who last week
conducted a series of meetings in
Charlotte, is out on Sam Jones. Dr.
Wharton says: "Sam Jones is just
beginning a" meeting in Knoxville.
A tabernacle seating about 4,000 has
been erected for him. It is a coarse,
frail structure, made of rough, un
plained boards, and the seats are
backless. And yet crowds throng to
hear him. In his first sermon he
struck the liquor traffic and the town
some hard blows. He makes the
people laugh at the church, at the
preachers, and at their own sins. He
rarely refers to salvation by grace, or
the need of salvation through Jesus
Christ. He is a moral reformer, with
small emphasis on the moral. He
has preached in Knoxville before,
and there is difference of opinion as
to whether his preaching did more
harm than good.
While I was pastor in Bakimore
he preached there in a rink seating
5,000 for one month and 2,000 con
verts were reported. My church
was near the rink, and we received 15,
most of them reclaimed backsliders,
and I think we received a larger num
ber than any church in the city. It
is safe to say that all the churches did
not receive one hundred additions.
I stood by him, not because I thought
he preached a full gospel, but because
he represented the right side. I do
not care to stand by him again. He
always declares that he does not ask
any one to endorse mm ; but it a
pastor in a small town refuses to en
dorse him, he is certain to abuse him
lor it. As a lecturer, making war
upon liquor selling, gambling and
drinking, Sam Jones is a success, for
he is a miuhty speaker : but as a
preacher, proclaiming the great tid
intrs of salvation through a crucified
and risen Christ, he is a total failure
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ELM CITY ITEMS.
The News From Our Enterprising Neigh
boring; Town.
(special cor. the advance.)
July, 26th, 1892.
The enrollment at the High School
is 85.
Miss Daisie Parker, that daisy of
daises and the loveliest of them all,
spent Sunday here.
Miss Flonnie Taylor, that sweet,
bewitching, little angel of the hills,
left for her home at Wake Forest
Sunday.
Mr. McDuffy is not dead. He
lives up in the huts. His presence
always troubles Fred. He does him
as he will.
Mr Charles Walston, of Saratoga,
is spending a few days here. He
reports the crops of corn and cotton
in his- part of the county as good.
The choir at the Methodist church
is practicing every
are getting ready
evening. They
for a series of
meetings that will commence soon.
Mr. E. D. Gordon left Saturday
for Ayden, N. C, where he takes
charge of a telegraph office. Ethnor
is a good boy and we speak for him
much success. He is missed among
us.
Messrs. W. H. Langley and Jacob
H. Barnes, two of our leading farm
ers, tell us they have good crops of
corn and cotton. Mr. Barnes has
been quite sick for sometime, but he
is now much better.
Rev. E. C. Glenn returned Mon
day from McKindree church in
Edgecombe county where he has
been for sometime conducting a series
of meetings. He tells us he had a
good meeting. There were about
25 conversions and 13 accessions to
the church.
On last Saturday night the little
infant of Mr. J. T. Watson died,
aged one week. Before it knew
much of the troubles of earth, it was
wafted on angle's wings to that world
where all is joy and peace and love.
It will serve as a strong tie to bind
Mr. and Mrs. Watson to t'.ieir
home beyond the skies.
At the last meeting of the Batch-
elor's Club the following officers were
elected and installed for the insuing
term : C. W. Massey, President ;
J. D. Dawes, Vice Presicent ; A. C.
Dixon, Secretary ; J. L. Barnes Treas
urer ; J. d. lJawes, Lecturer, the
club has been in existence only one
year. It has lost one member by
marriage. Many new members have
been added to the list. It is the only
regular organized club of the kind in
the world and we solicit correspon
deuce with a view to organizing clubs
at other points in the South. The
club will give a nice entertainment of
some kind in the near future. Ses
sions are held during the week for
the transaction of business. Secret
sessions are held on Sunday merit
when the secret workings of the club
are fully exemplified. Those wishing
information in regard to forming clubs
will address the Lecturer inclosing
stamp.
C.
NASHVILLE NOTES.
What tlie People of "Good Old Nash" are
Doing and Saying
(SPECIAL COR. TO THE ADVANCE.)
July 26th, 1892.
Mrs. Richardson is with her
daughter, Mrs. W. T. Bailey, who is
quite sick.
Mrs. Addie Betts, of Raleigh, is
visiting the family of her grandfather,
Mr. George Ricks.
Miss Maggie Trewaller ot Rich
mond, Va., is visiting her niece Mrs.
R. A. P. Cooley.
Rev. Mr. Moyle, of Springhope
circuit, spent Friday night in town
with S. E. Eure, Esq.
Rev. W. H. Cobb and wife, of
Whitakers, spent Sunday night with
Sheriff Ricks.
Capt. Exum and G. N. Bissett,
Esq., attended a fish fry at Bissett's
mill last week.
We regret to hear -that J. H. Col
lins and J. W. Harper each Jost a
little child last Monday.
Rev. G. A. Oglesby came over
from Sandy Cross, where he held his
quarterly meeting Saturday and Sun
day, and preached for us on Sunday
night
We regret to hear that Mrs. Caro
line Baker, wife of Josiah Baker,
Esq., is quite sick, though her con
dition was more hopeful on Sunday.
After spending two weeks in
Rocky Mount, Mrs. J. T. Morgan
and children, returned home on
Monday.
The past week has been a dull one
in town, as our farmers have been
busy laying by their crops and have
had no time to come to town. We
have heard of several who are curing
tobacco primings. There is some
complaint of draught in the neigh
borhood. X. X. X.
In France, when a funeral passes,
every man raises his hat to salute it.
The deceased person may have been
a child, a pauper, a beggar, it is no
matter; the cortege is saluted by
every man, whether he be prince,
millionaire or mendicant. It is a
good and lovely custom.
Subscribe to The Advance if you
want the news.
4th, 1892.
SARATOGA SAYINGS.
As Our Live Correspondent Gatheretltheni
for Printing:.
(SPECIAL COR. THE ADYANCE.)
July, 26th, 1892.
Elder Greenwood filled (he Prim
itive Baptist pulpit Monday.
Our polished towns, Mr. John T.
Moore, is in the country teaching.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Shelton visi
ted relatives near Moyton Sunday.
The wide-a-wake, John H. Speight,
is preparing to burn more brick this
fall,
The choir is improving greatly
under the skillful management of
Prof. Newsome.
We are under many obligations to
our young friend, Mr. B. M. Owens,
for some very nice peaches.
Miss Ella I. Moore is teaching a
Public School at Holdon's school
house this summer.
Several ot our farmers are curing
tobacco this week. The weed seems
to have done very well in this section.
Miss Fannie Peacock, a very faci
nating little maiden of the Stantons
burg section, visited Miss Lucy
Bryant last week.
Miss Sadie Felton, one of our
most charming young ladies, return
ed home Sunday from a visit to
friends near Stantonsburg.
Messrs. B. N. Owens, B. E. How
ard, W. J. Mercer and Prof. L. E.
Newsome spent Sunday in Eureka.
Truly Cupid's arrows are irresistable.
Mr. W. Z. Ellis, of Wilson, is in
town this week. He was called down
on account of the serious illness of his
little son, Herbert. We hope the
little fellow a speedy recovery.
The choir will go over to Sauls X
Roads the last of the week to help
in the revival going on there. May
the Lord bless the work of that pious
man, the Rev. M. Rose.
Shall We Have a Force Rill !
The most direct, but by no means
the only important effect of a Force
Bill, would be on the industrial prog
ress of the South. How rapid that
progress now is rapid beyond the
realization even of the men that are
bringing it about is set forth in a
compact article in the August number
of the Forum, by Mr. Richard Ed
monds, late editor of the Manufac
tuaers' Record of Baltimore, whose
life's study has been given to the sub
ject. Among the most signihcant
facts set forth by Mr. Edmonds are
these :
Since 1 881, the corn crop of the
South has increased 75 per cent., as
against 7 1 per cent, in the rest of the
century : the cotton crop has increas
ed from five and and a half million to
nine million bales an increase in
value, even with the present low price,
of two hundred millions of dollars;
in 1 89 1, there were nearly 45,000
miles of railroad in the South, against
less than 24,000 in 1881 a gain of
87 per cent., as against a gain of 56
per cent, in the rest of the century.
The passenger traffic of the Southern
roads increased during the same
period 369 per cent, as against an in
crease in the rest of the country of
only 168 per cent. In pig iron manu
facture the South's output jumped
from 451,000 tons in 1881 to 1,914,-
000 in 1 89 1 a gain of 2-1 per cent.
as against a gain for the rest of the
country of 78 per cent ; in other
words in 1881, the North and West
made more than nine times as much
iron as the South, in 1891 they made
less than four times as much. The
increase in the number of mill opera
tives in the South was 135 per cent.,
as against an increase in New England
of 1 7 per cent. And so in every line
of productive activity the marvellous
rapidity of increase is explained,
showing that in assessed valuations
the property of the South has in this
period very nearly doubled, and in
creased from $187 per capita to $271
a record that is propably without
parallel in the whole history of sub
stantial growth. And in spite of the
temporary depression caused by an
over-production of cotton, the increase
goes on.
Would it continue if a Force Bill
were to go into operation ?
This Question is answered in the
same number of The Forum by Mr
Hoke Smith, of Atlanta, Ga. The
negro is the laborer of the South
He has made the cotton : he has
built the railroads. Everything de
oends on the auiet and, industry of
the negro. And the negro has done
his work with effect, precisely in pro-
poition to the absence of friction be
tween the races. He made litUe or
no progress, and the country made
little or no progress during the days
of Reconstruction. A Force Bill
would bring back substantially the
same state of affairs as existed during
the Reconstruction days ; and South
ern industrial deyelopment would be
checked and thrown back. So Mr.
Smith, himself a conservative and
energetic representative of the young
er generation of successful Southern
men, argues with point and force.
I have been a great sefierer from
Catarrh for over ten years ; had it very
bad, could hardly breathe. Some
nights I could hardly sleep and had to
walk the floor. I purchased Ely's
Cream Balm and am using it freely, it
is working a cure surely. I have ad
vised several friends to use it, and with
happy results in every cgse. It is the
medicine above all others for catarrh,
and it is worth its weight in gold. 1
thank God I have found a remedy I can
use with safety and that does all that is
claimed for it. It is curing my deaf
ness. B. R. Spivev. Hartford Conn.
LIFE'S AIM.
"Desire not to live long, but to live
well :
How long we live, not years but actions
tell.
Who does the best his circumstances
allow
Does well, acts nobly, angels could do
no more-"
IN AUGUST.
BY MAY LENNOX.
The echo of a whispered word.
A fleeting cadence low and sweet,
Fresh as the songs the streams repeat,
Faint as the croon of nesting bird.
A deeper azure in the sky,
Fields gleaming gay with green and
gold,
Closed wings that droning half unfold,
As summer passes slowly by.
A breath of sadness scarcely caught,
A minor note to swell the strain,
a mossom howed by Jailing rain,
Gold strands with silver subtly wrought.
O, rare, unfathomed August days,
Rich with the glories of the past,
What will you bring us forth at last?
What lurks beneath your hovering
gaze ?
Indies Home Journal.
FAIR WARNING.
Bro. S. O. Wilson informs us that
Bro. Elias Carr stated to him Saturday
in this city that he would support Cleve
land and Stevenson. He was opposed
to the nomination of Cleveland, but
feels bound to support him. We under
stand that all of the Democratic nomi
nees for State offices expect to support
Cleveland. This makes a People's
party ticket imperative, for there is no
sense in putting in a vote against Wall
street with one hand and a vote for it
with the other. Progressive Farmer.
The above is plain enough. There
is but one thing left for Democrats to
do : nominate straight men who will
stand by the Democratic platform and
by the nominees from President down
and elect them. So far as we are
concerned, we will say right now, once
and for all, The Advance will sup
port no man who refuses to stand on
the Democratic platform and woik
for the Democratic nominees. So far
as our limited vision goes, we can
"see no sense in putting in a vote" for
the Democratic National ticket with
one hand and with the other voting
for a man who refuses to support the
national ticket. This is our position
plainly and bluntly stated. We are
constrained to say this because we
have heard men suggested for office
who publicly assert they will not
support the National Democratic
ticket. Such a man can not be elected
by our support.
The Progressive Farmer is doing
nothing more than it has all along
been guilty of, viz : leading the peo
ple astray. They are beginning to
see this. Reason is returning, and
many wavering Democrats are bracing
up. North Carolina Democracy will
triumph in November.
AN ICE LOCOMOTIVE.
Unique Invention of an Athenian l'rofeHHor
to Reach the North Dole.
An Athenian professor of mathe
matics named Damaskin has inven
ted an ice locomotive, which he ex
pects will carry biru to the north pole.
He has given an order for the con
struction of a large locomotive after
his pattern and is now calling for
volunteers to accompany him to the
Arctic ocean.
The locomotive is to have an
unique arrangement by which it lays
and takes up the rails as it runs.
Short pikes on the under side of the
rails will make the latter temporarily
fast in the ice. The locomotive will
be operated by steam and at the same
time will throw out enough heat to
keep the travelers from suffering from
cold. One cab, attached to the
locomotive, is to carry the provisions
for the exploring party.
The locomotive and cab will be
conveyed in parts to Spitzbergen,
Prof. Damaskin says, and will there
be put together. It will then be run
for the north pole at the rate of thirty I
miles an hour.
As Spijtzbergen is about 600 miles
from the north pole, Prof. Damaskin
expects to reach his destination in
twenty hours. He allows eight hours
for his observations and twenty hours
for returning, so that the whole trip,
from Spitzbergen and return, will be
made in just two days.
Prof, Damaskin hopes to be ready
to start on the journey late in Sep
tember or early in October.
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HIGH SCHOOL
(FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.)
FALL TERM OPENS SEPT. 5TH, 1892.
The town of Elm City is located 2
miles north of Goldsboro on the Wil
mington & Weldon Railroad. The lo
cality is naturally very healthy.
The social, moral and religious status
of the community is unsurpassed. The
leading religious denominations are
represented in the town. There are
several thriving Sunday Schools, and
preaching each Sabbath.
The School Buildings are commodi
ous and well furnished, and are amply
sufficient to accommodate one hundred
and fifty pupils.
Board can be had in good families
at very moderate cost.
Good assistant teachers w ill be em
ployed to meet the growing demands
of the school. Students will be pre
pared to enter the colleges of the
State.
Discipline mild, but firm and thor
ough. For terms and full particulars ad
dress the Principal,
C. W. MASSEY, (U. N. C.)
Elm City, N.-C
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