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WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1891.
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IC Ml Mr I Ai
A BIG ESTATE.
CORMANTHE STRONCEST
THISSECTION
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
HICH LIFE IN
It .
ORLEANS (IRANI)
IVIfS TO 111;. 0R0.AN1ZA-
searches
w tin- texistiiriee of the secret
lMjIrjd.'.Jlalm." Tlie cvi-
M Irurfu seve ral sources fully
them-ielves tn attt'St its
ilio fact is supported by the
f blood curdling crimes, it
impossible to discover the
r secure witnesses. As if
list exposure, the dagger or
celed as the deadly weapou
0 the breast or baek of the
leutly do iis fearful work.
1 their motto, Jealousy and
ily found solace in these
ile the burning vengeance of
sought satisfaction in the
an enemy,
jf llie Mafia and many of its
e Duw known. Anion; them
rn iu this city, of Italian ori
heir power for the basest pur
said to their eternal disgrace,
number of ihe society is com
pose, nt Italians'?. Sicilians who left
their Dative land iu ost instances under
assumed names to avid convictiou and
punishineut for ''rimrhev,; committed;
and others wei cM':jil eoovicts and
bandits, outlaw 1 in thi own land, seek
ing tho city of N-w ' );as, for the con
genial compatii ii I'lheir own class.
-Plicae men kuc.i iIu'm 'i retribution of
the law in Ital ! r liuln ls have been
shotdowu at sii. i v ( military iu (he
iltauis ot Me. : ' 1 1 1 1 1 a second
wilt. To day there is recorded ill
.eJhce ot the rattan t oiimii in tins
itjthe uames of suiiie ele ven hundred
tiling and iSieiaii- landed here during
wnl Years iitist, shortin' the ollieial
corJs of their crimiu il.ty in Italy aud
.cilj. Hundred.- ! ll.etn are uuion
today. We d . t i)"t the Italian
itdDuicul wuuid ralber be rid of them
ube charged with their custody and
t'shment. Such is the well known
. t;ter of a part of the Italiati colony
as it i.s ci'lej, who an domiciled in this
city and its vicinity. It cannot be ques
tioned that secret organizations whose
teachings ate hostile to the fundamental
principles of the government of 'ie
United States lilil.-t k a couliuual uie
nace to the order of society aud the ma
terial wel "I whole people.
Whether I .. n-tiic -( 'Mafia, socialist, na
tionist, or ' -ever it m.ty l'o, whether
located in N "t ' in, Chicago or New
I York, the
1 ato and u
with a ma
acts, whos
rankest tr
Wa uia;
m: t' their members ere
lu.uiite seditious opinions
t irihiemy toward overt
.i.iriiis-ion partakes of the
mv thai the many societies
elrirtercd lor the laudable
x-rci-iii a healthful iuflu-
ii- di J artments of the body
u hearty approbation and
ve of t'ood resulu. But in
i those is the Mafia, whoso
ht uel act is in opposition to
. oiiietiiplated by every
: i' ,ed w orld, and in open
t created an
I purpose oi
rnce iu va
politic enj
e produi
kked to
rj tlioti
iiua oi
loft
e V 'he statutin of this Sta
ind e cherished tradition!
ito and
editions of our
IiX is truly regarded as the
Jiment of the wisdom of all
r? its just execution the
JJard of suiiety by tho puuioluucut
sinsnrcfsors; its just cxecutiou ex
ff 1 1 c .i. . i . :..
resses toe win oi mu peopiu m uuuujiu
'ari,i;i of eruti . but where this loity prin
p is condemned by the practice of' as-
inn, iii I rn-1 . vene or spite, and con
sli r....,t mi.!, r this most bindiu' oaths.
fin 1 p iw. ii s the etforts of the law
' Ii r h the iiiief actors aud to secure
"it!.-, it In comes the duty of the peo
Jc in the x-r.-ise of their sovereign
pt-
t.t'ii .
tvir aeeree or conueuina
.'el Jict has been rendered
rii.it
tb
the Mafia is brokeu it
v-'d as an element of dau
u ', f leprous growth iu this
power '
uu st ue oi
.... . i
fccr a crca
cOi mnunit
1 Inn Hie;
oi. 'jure hi 1 is made ii h
d healtliint by taking Hood's S.irsa( ti
ll. It liuies sciotala, biilirneuiu, all
ood disorders.
Sr. NlKW
if
Hid ral.ge of our n
8:().r),000,(HII I.l'j'lllATKlN IN WHICH
l'EOI'l,E OP I.ENOIll AND HUHKOUND
IN(1 COUNTIES AHE 1NTKHESTE1I
IIEIIIS MEET IN KINSTON.
Col. I. A. Sugg, Messrs. E. A. Moye
aud C. 1). Uotiutree, of Greenville; Mr.
A. It. Ilolton, of l'itt county; Messrs.
J. E. Edwards, Jr., J. J. Edwards and
J. J. Warren, of Greene county; John
B. Hill, W. F. Stanley, B. F. Scarboro,
Capt. W. J. rojie, J. E. F. Harper,
Moses Spivey, Mrs. Elbert Edwards and
Rebecca Komegay, of Lenoir county;
Major S. Drew l'ope, and Mr. W. F.
Uountree, of New Berne, wcic present or
represented at a meeting at Hotel Tull
in Kinston last Thursday to take some
aeti in to co-operate with other heirs in
tho leeovery of an immense estate iu
New York city of which they arc claim
ants. They organized a North Carolina
branch of the Edward's family associa
tion for the purpose of formulating plans
looking to the recovery of the ltobt.
Edwards' property, the tax valuation of
which is 8(15,01)0,1)00, aud which the
New York World estimates the real val
ue to be g-Jt'.T ,000,000.
There are between 1500 and 400 per
sons interested as heirs in tbis suit,
residing in the States of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Texas, the Dakotas, Colorada,
Mississippi, Florida, Kansas, Wisconsin,
Iowa, West Virgini-i, Virginia and North
Carolina. If the claimants win the suit
about one-fourth of the amount would
come to this Stale. Nearly half of tin
heirs live in this State, mostly in tin
counties of l'itt, Greene, Lenoir, Craven,
and Wayne.
"The history of the family is an inter
csifng one. Three brothers, Hubert
Uriah and John Edward-', came from
Wales to this country betwecu the years
1 770 and 17S0, and settled at or iwur
the city of New York. Robert Edwards
purchased a tract of land consisting of
thirty-five acres, near the towu limits.
There was but one house ou the laud,
and this the Edward's family occupied
The chest in which the brothers brought
their wardrobes and valuables has come
down through some live "cneratious
in the family, and is now in the posses
sion of Uriah Edwards, of New Castle
It is a lar")', substantial aud curious
piece of furnituie. Hubert never mar
tied, but was a soldier under Washington
iu the Revolution, aud never returned
home. Uriah and John, after the war was
over, moved to Yiigiuia, and Uriah died
there. John either died in Yirginia or
removed south or possibly to Canada
Uriah left his farm aud slaves to his el
dest son, John Edwards, who had re
moved to Franklin county, Ky. The
negroes were brought to Kentucky by
the heirs of John Edwards and the land
was sold. This land near New York
the family always understood, was leased
by Robt. Edwards, for ninety-uiue. years
at what time or to whom they did not
know, but always understood it would
come to them at the end of that lease."
Kiuston Frtr I'rm.
KINSTON AND PLYMOUTH K. It.
Our people will be glad to learn that
the Plymouth, Washington and Kiuston
It R via Washington to Kinstoti will be
built at an early dale. The last General
Assembly granted this corporation a char
ter. The load is already constructed
about oue half of the distance from Ply
mouth to this place and we learn that
tho wok will be coutiuued. The com
party has purchased a depot site at Ply
mouth. W aslnngton feujrct.
"Tired all Hie l ime,"
Sav uianv Poor men and women, who
ceciiicd overworked, or are debilitated by
change of season, climate or life. If you
could read the hundreds of letters prais
ing Hood's S.irsaparillu which come from
people whom a has restored to healtl
you would be convinced of its merits
As tins is impossible, why not try I food
Sarsaparilla yourself and thus realize its
beiieiit? It will tone and build up your
.ssteni, cive you a i;ood appetite, over
come th t tired f .'eling and make you
feel, as t,ue womau expressed it, 'dike a
new creature."
COL. llltlUHT THINKS Til E JIAllVLANIJ
SENATOR 18 THE MAN TO HEAD THE
DEMOCRATIC TICKET NEXT VEAIl.
Col. Bright, ex sergeant-at arms of the
United Slates Senate, and who was scr
;eaut tit-arms of tho National Democrat
ic convention that nominated Mr. Cleve
land when he was elected, in a talk with
ie Gazette's correspondent to day, said
he was a personal fiiend of Mr. Cleve
land and respected him highly, but that
the good of the party induced him to say
that in his opinion the ex president would
be the most unavailable candidate that
could be nominated in 'D-. The colonel
kuows all the prominent men in the
Democratic party, aud says those with
whom he couversed ou the subject agree
with him aud think that Senator Gorman
is the most available man that could be
nominated. Ho says that parties, like
armies, have scouts and that those of the
Democratic party report that in the
North as well as in the South the Demo
cratic voters say they not only want a
man for president who will support Dem
ocratic principles, but who will be a
Democrat under any and all circumstances
and that Gorman is just such a man.
The colonel docs not think the Democrats
are going to have a walk over next year,
and says it therefore behooves them to
Hclect their strongest man. He says he
does not believe Cleveland could carry
Now York if nominated, but he is certain
that both the factions of the New York
Demoerocy would unite upon Gorman.
He also says that Gorman would not dis
appoint the popular opinion concerning
him, which is that he would if elected
'stand by his friends." He says that
from what he hears from Northern dem
ocrat he really believes the fact that Gor
uiad hails from Maryland would help,
instead of hurting him iu the North, as
the Democrats of that section are desirous
of showing their nationality, and could
do so in that case without subjecting
themselves to adverse criticism, as Mary
land never seceded and as Mr. Gorman
was a Union man all through the war.
He says that Gorman with a hickory
broom in his hands would sweep both
sections of the country Washington
Correspondent Alexandria unzntte.
Gi.OHUIA DECISION.
The drummer has acquired a reputa
tion all over the country, but the follow
ing comes as near giving him justice as
anything known :
"Perhaps the iieerest lawsuit ou xe-
cord one that deserves a place in the
legal records of Georgia was that which
was reccutly decided in Morgau county.
A drummer hired a mule and buggy to
go in the country; the mule became con
trary and backed the buggy into a fence
jam. llie urummer plied tlie whip and
the mule kicked back. Tho mud flew
but the drummer held his own. When
patience ceased to be a virtue, the com
mercial gfiitlcnieu drew from his pocket
a Smith and Wesson howitzer and killed
the long-eared source of danger. The
owner of the mule brought suit against
the drummer for the value of his quad
ruped, whereupon the jury brought in
the following verdict : "We, the jury,
find the defendant not guilty, and the
killing a case of justifiable homicide.' "
Erysipelas.- I. L. Irvin, of Thomas
ville, Ga., bays he was nlllicted with
Erysipelas for trn years aud was only
cured when P. P. P. was used.
Tetter, Salt rheum and Cancer arc all
cured by P. P. P. The effects on these
diseases are perceptible after the first bot
tle of P. P. P. was used.
Randall l'ope, the retired dru.'gist of
Madison, Fia , says P. 1. P. is the best
alterative in the market, and he has ban
died and sold all the sarsaparillas and
blood medicines that were advertised.
For sale by W. M. Cohen, Druggist,
Wcldoo, N. C.
The time is rapidly approaching when
you canuot with a clear conscience say,
"There's no flies on me."
I.ID1K
Needing atonic, or rhlMrcn who want build
in;; uji. li'ii(l lake
BltiHVS'slllU.1 n J i l l"),
It Is plpAKAitt tn take, en res M.ii .ria. Incli
luiliou, lUlioUfUtni niitl Liver Cuuiplaiiilf.
AS A MANt'FACTi;iUN(l CENTER.
The Koanoke Canal Company, with
its ll'ijOOO horse power, the Great Falls
canal with its 7,000 horse power, and
tin! Evans horse power capable of being
developed to 5,1100 horse power iu Wcl
doti; the large water power to be devel
oped near Halifax; the magnificent power
at Rocky Mount at which is now in op
eration the largest and best equipped
spinning factory in the State, aud ou ac
count of its peculiarly advantageous situ
ation, the unequalled water power of
8,000 horse power, at Springhope, togeth
er with many other of less importance,
and the cheapness of fuel for steam pow
er, mark this vicinity as destined to be
the treat Manufacturing center of this
portion of the Southern States.
The question will uaturally be asked,
on what grounds do we predictate such a
positive and sweeping conclusion? We
will endeavor to briefly give them.
Ou account of the valuable crops this
section produces, our farm lands yield, on
au average, probably a larger amoutit per
acre, than any other portion of the
United States. Our two principal prod
ucts, cotton and tobacco, have to be man
ufactured before passing into the chan
nels of trade. Fruits and vegetables
;row to perfection and in abundance
This section contains a great variety of
the most valuable timbers of the South
It also has large mineral resources' of va
rious kinds.
The climate is as near perfection as is
known in any country. We have but
little frost or snow in winter, while our
summers are comparatively cool, and
work can be prosecuted without any
drawback, throughout the whole year.
Our labor is good and much more set
tied than that of the North, while at the
same time wages are lower.
We have direct railroad transportation
with the North, South and West, and
few miles of railroad brings us to deep
water navigation. To sum up, we have
unexcelled water power, cheap fuel, the
raw matcriil, cheap and good labor, am
ple transportation facilities, and a favor
able climate, which combined, constitute
favorable conditions as to bear us out
full v in the statement that this section is
certain to become one of the great manu
factoring ccuters of Ameiica. Rocky
Mouut Argonaut.
hi: CAN AMD DO
Guarantee Dr. Acker's Blood Elixir, for
it has been fully demonstrated to the peo
pie of this country that it is superior to
all other preparations lor blood diseases,
It is a positive cure tor syphilitic poison
ing, Ulcers, Kruptions and Pimples
It
purities the whole system and thoroughly
builds up the constitution.
For sale at W. M. Cohen's drugstore
Wcldon, N. C.
THLX'KINC. IXTICRKSTS.
The trucking interest from Goldsboro
to Wilmington is becoming to be enor
inous. In a few more years will assume
such mammoth proportions that we look
for great and lust ing advancement through
out this section. While we cannot ex
peet anything from minerals and such
other moneyed interests as they have iu
Central and Western North Carolina, we
can hope that what we make will h
as
productive of wealth arid permanent pre
polity as anything else, and we are confl
dent t lint through the agency of these
small industries we will become a mighty
power in the material advancement
North Carolina. Wail and sec Mt
Olive 'hh'ijxim.
Merit Wins.
We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling Dr Kin
New Discovery for Consumption, Dr,
Kinz sNew Life Pills, Itueklcn's Arnie
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have nev
er handled remedies tit -it sell as well,
that have given such universal saiisf'ac
tion. We do not hesitate to guaranti
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund the piiee, if satisfactory results do
not follow their n. These remedies
I iu' ,v'ii their grea' popularly purely on
their merits. W. M. Cohen, druggist.
THE ATTENTION ISIIE IS ATTHACTIM)
THIlOl dlKUT THE ENTIRE SOUTH
NEWS NOTES FUOM A SPECIAL COR
RESPONDENT. Charlotte, N. C, May 13.-1 feel
it quite certain that the readers of the
News will be interested in the attention
our Queen City Charlotte is attracting
throughout tho South. Like other
points in the "Dixie" country, new ener
gy has been called into play, new ideas
ormulated and possibilities carefully in
vestigated. In these researches Char
lotte did not wait the coming of stran
gers to organize land companies and sell
the stock for the purpose of raising capi
tal, but her own citizens, at least six of
her wealthiest, Messrs. E. D. Latta, E.
P. Springs, O. P. Heath, Dr. M. A.
Bland, F. B. McDowell and J. L. Cham
bers organized, twelve months ago, the
Charlotte Consolidated Construction
Company, and with the large capital paid
in bought 450 acres of land bordering on
the Southern corporate limits of Char
lotte, and since that time they have trans
formed this properly into perhaps the
loveliest spot in the Southland. The
town has been named Dilworth, in honor
of Mr. Edward Dilworth Latta, the actU'
al founder of this beautiful addition to
Charlotte. The handsome lake of 1200
feet in length, within the grandest of all
Southern retreats, Latta Park, is one of
the prettiest sheets if water to be found
hereabouts, and when the property is
formally opened this will be equipped
with boats of unique patteru for the en
joymer.t of visitors.
The musical festival which closed here
last Wednesday night was a success in
every particular. Ihe attendance was
largo and of a most respectable charac
ter.
Great preparations are being made for
the forthcoming annual celebration of
Mecklenburg's Declaration of Indepcn
dence on the 20th inst. This date will
also be marked by the opening sale of
the Four C's company, whose advertise
meut you are printing in another column.
llie Aorth Mate Uuo, composed ot our
most enterprising young men has raised
a 81,000 fund for the display of fire
works at Latta Park on the night of the
20th. I am directed to extend to you
a cordial invitation to be present on that
occassion. F. A. S.
yritANCi: duvotiox.
A strange story iu which a cat is a
pathetic character has come to light at
Paoli. A little boy of that village owned
a cat that was a great pet in the family
But tho cat would have nothing to do
with any one except the boy. The latter
died, and for two weeks the cat would
come as usual every uioruiug to the door
and going in the room, would cry very
mournfully and walk over the child's bed
hunting for his lost friend. Finally the
cat disappeared, only returning occasion
ally. At last one ot the child s sisters
saw the cat iu the graveyard, where it re
mains, only reluming for food. It keer
guard at the boy's grave and can be heard
at uight crying pitifully. Atlanta (,oi
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CONSUMPTION CUHi:i).
Au old physician, retired from prac
tice, having had placed iu his hands bj
tin East India inusioriary the forinii
of a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy aud permanent cure of ( onsutnp-
liou, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and
all throat and Lung Affections, also :
positive and radical cure for Nervous De
bility and all Nervous Complaints, nlle
having tested its wonderful dilative pow
ers iu thou.-and of ca-os, has felt it his
duty lo make it known to his suflerin
fellows. Actuated by this motive and a
desire to relieve human suffering, I w
send free of charge, to all who desire
this recipe, in German. French or English
with full directions tor preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addiessing with
stamp, naming this paper W. A.
Noyes, 820 Powers' Block, Rochester. N.
Y. tipr iJO ly.
niii inspr.pe" i,
Indigestion, und So .:. h oisorders, UfO
BilC".VS aiT'TEItS.
AU dealcn keep U. $1 per liottlo. Ocr ''leting
trade-iuurk iuidcrotac.il red lu.es uu vi .'.'itr.
I.M.MOIlALITV IS WINKED
ENCOCKAU ED I1Y ARlS'i
C1ETV.
I was talking recently with a 1
on the subject of social life amoi
nobility, and had expressed surprisi
it should supply to tho newspapers
much material for scandalous gossip. 1
replied that the men and women of rank
conducted their immorality in such an
open way that newspaper writers could
uot fail to hear of it; in fact, that vice
was openly countenanced by the aristoc
racy to au extent that canuot be under
stood by men and women of the middle
class. When a hostess invites a house
full of guests to her country place she is
extremely careful to select ladies that are
particularly congenial to certain men,
carrying this habit to the extent of bring
ing couples together whose intimacy is
the talk of the town. A duke who has
bceu persistently chasing some other
mau'i; marchioucss for years makes it a
rule not to accept an invitation unless
his favorite is to be of the company, and
he will even go so far as to write to this
effect to his hostess, who at once includes
the marchioness in her list if she be not
there already. This custom of looking
out for one's amorous interests in social
intercourse prevails in tho strata of the
aristocracy from royalty down. And it
is a little odd that a nobleman without a
favorite is a unique personage. It has
also been surprising to people when first
introduced into the society of the British
aristocracy to find with freedom the in
delicate phases of life aie discussed and
commented ou. Miss Endicott, au Amer
ican girl, when she entered society here
as the wife of Joseph Chamberlain, be
came so incensed at a discussion at the
table of a duchess where she was dinning
that she rosa and left the room. By
this time she has probably become used
to it, and no longer exhibits her Demo
cratic breeding by expressing her disap
proval of vulgar conversation. One of
the vciy uoticcable habiu of English
society women is to pet young men. They
call a tall, strapping young fellow of
twenty "sweet thing" aud "darling boy,"
aud stroke his cheek or kiss him in a
careless way, of course. Experience,
however, must have long before proved
to them that tall boys of twenty arc com
posed of somewhat inflammable material,
are capable of returning the kiss of a
pretty woman, even if the osculation is
"careless." Young uieu brought up
under this sort of tender patronage arc
not going to stand off and treat a woman
with shy respect when they grow out of
the state of boyhood, and the consequence
is that Lady Freshlips fiuds her "boy" of
twenty a very dangerous suitor at twenty
five. The large companies at country
houses also conduce to extreme familiari
ty between the sexes. The women are,
as a rule, as horsey and doggy as the
men, and they grumble just as high. All
of them have name and wealth to fall
back uu, and it is more than easy to
drift luxuriously into au existeuce where
everything that gives a uiomeut's pleas
ure is seized upon, and as very wrong
things are the most attractive these scr
zures often lead to results that cannot be
contemplated by the moralist. Chicago
Herald's London Letter.
A YOUNG MAN'S FmNCY.
Large allowance is to be made f
sweeping assertion of tb -'
the spiiug a
turns to ill
is not t
whose
and he
man lo, i
General
most obvio
ed by S. ;
isii, ionic
lariat allit
man is true
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