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PUBLI8HXD AT HfjLMINGTQN, H. C, 11,00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. 8SSSSSS888888S8S8 im Zl j gssgS882f 8gg g88S88888888S88SS 88888888888888888 SSSS5S5SiSSS88g8aeS - 88S8888888S88S888 5S8SSSSS?S!2XS8Bg. 8S88888828S888888 888888S88S8888888 838SS8833888883SS st ee so t oo o oj o ta so e g g g " 188888888888888888 5 8 the Pat Office at Umtgtoa, N. C., at Second Clua Ifattct.l SUBSCRIPTION PmCE. The subscription price ol tha Wfrridy Star is ai iolt-! . " . - c:nf If topy i year, ponaga paia. ,fj og " D BMDU1I " " . . . IUI s montni " FORESHADOWING THE POLICY. President McKinley delivered an address at the Buffalo Exposition Thursday. As a whole it was a thoughtful, well conceived, well expressed and broad-gauged deliver ance that will attract' attention the world over and we believe favorable attention. While paying just tribute to American genius, enterprise and achievement there is a conspicuous absence of vain-glorious boasting, 1 " . J L i. 11 f t-i 0H3 vaporiuKo suine ot me more f A 1. I ' impulsive so-called American states men, who are apparently anxious to have some other nation put a chip on its shoulder, just for the fun of knocking it off. There is none of that kind of nonsense in Mr. Mc Kinley's speech, which is creditable tohini as a President and gratify ing to, the more thoughtful and sensible element of the American people, - After speaking at some length on such expositions as indices of the progress of the world, awakeners of thought and stimulants j to greater endeavor, the ties of interest that hind nations together, true now more than ever since rapid transit on sea and telegraphs on land and cables on the ocean floors have re duced and in some respects annihi lated distance, and referring to the progress that American enterprise h;i3 made in entering the markets of the world, he cast an eye to the future and gave his views as to the policy which should be pursued to make that progress sure and last ing, and that presumably fore shadows what, if Mr. McKinley can so influence the Republicans inr Con gress, will be the policy of his party a3 far as it affects our foreign trade. lie said: J "We have a vast and intricate busi ness, built up through years of toil and struggle, ia which, every part Of the country has its stake, which will not permit of neglect nor undue self ishness,' no narrow, sordid policy will subserve it. The greatest skill and wisdom on the 1 part of the manufac turers and producers will be required to hold and increase it. Our industrial enterprises, which have grown to such i great proportions, affect the homes and occupations or the people and the wel fare of the country. Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously, and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets re quires our urgent and immediate at tention. Only a broad and enlighten ed policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get more. In these limes of marvellous business energy and gain we ought to be looking to the future, strengthening the weak places in our industrial and commercial sys tems, that we may be ready for any storm or strain. "By sensible trade arrangements, which will not interrupt our home production, we shall extend the out lets for our increasing surplus. A system which provides a mutual ex change of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and health ful growth of our export- trade. We must not repose in the fancied secur ity that we can forever sell every, thing and. buy little or nothing. If such a thing were possible, it would not be best for . us nor for those with whom we deal. We should take from our customers such of their products as we can use without harm to our in dustries and labor. Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the do mestic policy now firmly established. What we produce bejond our domes tic consumption must have a vent . abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet, and we shall sel1 everything we can and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions and thereby make a greater demand for home labor. "The period of exclusiveness must go. -The expansion of our trade and commerce vis the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good-will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Re ciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of re taliation are not." "If, perchance, some of. our tariffs are no longer needed for revenues, or to encourage and protect our indus tries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our . mantels abroad?" The salient points in this are the recognition of the fact that interna tional trade is international barter; that where there is no buying thete cannot be selling always; that there fihould be no narrow selfishness in international dealings which would evoke counter-selfishness and pro- - voke reprisals; that exclusiveness in this day of progress is not in har mony with the broad and broaden ing spirit of the age; while there is and will be commercial rivalry there should be no commercial hostility; that by sensible, prudent procedure wo may win our way to success in mnoiv I V : j TTAT . TT-JTIT-r-r . T . .. . : . . v-- - ....... - ' ' ' 1 7 commercial competition, but we can not force it. " These are the essential points in this foreshadowing of the policy Mr. McKinley would have his party pursue. There is no vaporing prattle here about a great navy strong enough to face he. navies of the strongest or if need be the combined nations to awe our way to commer cial supremacy and hold it, but there is a declaration for friendly agreement to facilitate trade. "The"' period of exclusiveness mnst' go," he says, the Chinese wall must come down, and our gates must be opened to the trade of other nations bringing us products for which we have ubo in exchange for our products for which they have use. Being still a protectionist he qualifies his utterances . by insisting that due regard must be had to the protection of our own producers, and thus leaves the way open for him to still insist upon protection to our manufacturers, but he advises that when this pro tection is no longer necessary it be withdrawn and thus utilized in es tablishing reciprocity with nations whose trade we desire. This puts him somewhat in con flict with his friends, Hanna, Gros venor and Depew, all of whom op pose the idea of tariff revision of any kind, even on articles which are sold abroad for less than they are at home, because this, very tariff pro tection is, they assert, what makes that possible. But he has more sense and can see further ahead than any of them, for he realizes that with a divided party and a united party it will be only a time, and very little Republican Democratic question of time, when tariff revision and "the period of exclusiveness must go as a na- tional issue will win, and as a Re publican leader looking to the fu ture success of his party he believes it to be the part of wisdom to take time by the forelock and forestall the Democrats in making this an issue. , Of course he couples it with reciprocity, which is a half way ground for such a pronounced pro tectionist as he has been and is, but reciprocity, which it will be very difficult to inaugurate and make effective, will be incomparably bet- ter than the Chinese wall. , Theoretically the reciprocity which he has in mind may seem good, but, practically it will amount to little in ' results, and cannot be worked on; a broadgauged plan with out disturbing our trade relations with some nations, if it does pro mote them with others. England, for instance, is our best customer. She is a free trade nation, and im poses no duties on our products go ing into her markets. But we do levy duties on her products coming into our markets. There can be no reciprocity with her and what are we going to allow her as an offset to the surgeon may be unable to detect, f avors we show other nations, some Under the most favorable condi of them competing nations in some tions, after the bullet may have been products? 'Every nation will claim reciprocal privileges, and those with whom we have the best trade and most of it will get the fewest con cessions. But any departure which will lead to pulling down, or at least taking some of the courses off the Chinese wall, will be a good depart ure, by which the country will be the gainer in the end. "The period of exclusiveness must go." The Washington Star remarks that if Peter the Great were alive now he wouldn't go to Holland or England to learn the art of ship building, but would come to this country, where the present Czar had the Variag built and is so pleased with her that he is going to have some more .built. But the subsidy boomers say we ean't build ships in this country as cheaply as they, can be built in some other countries. The builders of the Variag had to bid against foreign ship builders be fore they got the contract. Out of the 299 deaths in the So ciety of Friends iu England last year, 159 were males and 140 females, whose average ages were sixty-one years and seven months. There were only fourteen children under five years of age. The un usual average of age" is the result, no doubt, of the good habits of the Friends, while the small mortality in the children shows that they are properly cared for. A young woman died in Pennsyl vania a few days ago in her 24th year, whose height was 36 inches. She was perfect in proportions She had numerous offers to go into museums, but declined to exhibit herself as a freak. - " One of the objections raised against J. Pope Brown, candidate I ior Governor, by some of the Geor gia papers, is that he parts his name in the middle; but he parts his hair all right. It is said that the Navy Depart ment is very anxious to have Ad miral Howison on the Schley Court of Inquiry. Assistant Hackett evi dently is. s ' iL MJHd A DEPLORABLE BLOW. ' There is no citizen of the United States, native or adopted, who does) not deeply deplore the attempted assassination of President McKinley, who thus suddenly in the presence of thousands of his fellow citizens, was stricken down, while smilingly extending his hand to the Judas like assassin. - Oar press dispatches, published yesterday, gave the details of. this shocking tragedy, the wires flashed them to the four corners of the globe and the wonder was that in the 76,000,000 of people in this country one could be found with malice enough in his heart to strike down a man so gentle, so inoffen sive, bo amiable, so broad-minded, so'approachable. It is a relief to know that he is not an -American either by birth or adoption, and that the venom that poisoned his brain and moved his hand to do is not a product of this oountry, either, but of the hot beds of anarchism on the other side of the ocean. In this case it would be charity to anarch ism and to this man to believe him insane, for most assuredly his vic tim had done nothing to incur the enimity of him or his associates. While the stricken President who in this terrible ordeal bore himself with the calmness characteristic of tne man, and fortitude to win admiration, lies on a bed of pain, with the' end uncertain, the whole country watches anxiously for the bulletins that come from his bed side, but nowhere are they more eagerly or solicitously awaited than in the South to whose people Mr. McKinley had endeared himself by his cordial treatment of Southern men, by his recognition of and high, cordial tribute to Southern virtue, manhood, valor and patriotism, and by his sincere efforts to obliterate sectionalism and bring all the sections together as equal and hon ored members of the family of States. Southern manhood could not do otherwise than, reciprocate the kindly sentiments and purposes of this broad-minded American and now, when perhaps sympathy is sweet and gratitude consoling the South with her warm but sorrowing heart turns to him and his in tender condolence and prays that the God of mercy may spare the life whose loss would be an ineffable calamity to her and to air this broad, sorrow ing land. HIS LITE IN THE BALANCE Of course everything that surgi cal and medical skill can do will be done to save the life of President McKinley, but while there is hope and while the bulletins sent out take the most hopeful view, there is always an element of uncertainty . in such cases, from injuries or causes that the keenest eyed physician or removed, it will necessarily be a long time before these internal wounds can heal, even if there should be no formidable complica tions, of which there is always dan ger. The patient's good habits of life, his avoidance of excesses, his general good health and robust body will favor him now, but yet despite these poison may lurk in the path that the bullet made and ac complish in secret what the as sassin shot for. It is to be sincerely hoped that this may not be so, for the death of such a cool, calm and well-poised pilot at the wheel would be a calam ity even in times of serene peace, but inexpressibly more so when the future is uncertain, when war clouds that may cast their shadows over this are hovering over other lands, and the man who wUl in the event of the President's death succeed him has been untried, and all that is known about him is rather against his fitness to fill with safety to the country the high and responsible position to which fate and an assassin's bullet may call him. - Possibly, realizing the awful re sponsibility that will rest upon him in guiding the destinies of this great country, with its 76,000,000 of popu lation, he may take his calm, conserv ative, unimpassioned predecessor as a guide, sober down, put a curb on his' impulsive strenuousness 'and show some of the dignity and self-restraint that should characterize a President of the greatest Republic the world ever saw and the greatest country on the earth. If so, the American people would be very hap pily disappointed. But we, in common with the mil lions of the American people, sin cerely trust that he may not have occasion to be put to the test. Gen. DeWet reciprocates the com pliments of Gen. Silchener by issu ing a proclamation threatening to Shoot every British soldier caught in the Orange country, after the 15 th inst. English soldiers caught down there stood a pretty good chance of being shot before this proclamation was issued. ... !..'. B . ..- : Weekly WHMINGTON, N, C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13; DR. HOGE'S POSITION. Declares His Course in Perform ing Recent Flagler-Kenan Ceremony Justified. LOOKED INTO CIRCUMSTANCES And Would Gladly Exchange Kentucky Divorce Laws for Those of Florida. Interview With a Lonlsville Courier-Journal Reporter, A reporter of the Louisville Courier Journal called upon Dr. Peyton H. Hoge and asked him if he had any statement to make in reply to' criti cisms as to his connection with Mr. EL M. Flagler's marriage. Dr. Hoge said:. - ,J r ' "I have no wish to make a statement on my own account. Those who know me will know that I would not decide such a matter lightly or without serious consideration. For the sake of the public interests involved it is however, proper that I should say something. There ane three theories of a minister's duty with regard to the re-marriage of divorced persons. One is that of the proposed new canons of the Episcopal church making it unlawful in any case. This would save the ministry , much trouble, but, in my judgment, goes be yond the 8criptures. Another is the theory that a minister has no responsi bility beyond the laws of the land. This is to leave marriage at the mercy of courts and legislatures The inter mediate theory which I hold is that it is the duty of every minister to in vestigate the facts of the case presented before he acta, and to decide each case upon its merits according to his best judgment in the light of the facts and of the word of God. Of course, if the parties have no claim upon him, he is free to discuss the matter." "What were your relations with the persons in this case?" "With Mr. Flagler I have had only a brief but very pleasant acquaintance of one or two years. He has impressed me as an unusually high-toned Christian gentleman. But . it was not on his account, but on ac count of my relations to Miss Kenan and her family that I was asked to officiate. I have known Miss Kenan from her early youth ; I re ceived her into the church and she has been associated with me and mine in some of the most sacred times of joy and sorrow. Her father is an elder in the church of which I was for fourteen years pastor, and is one of my dearest friends, true and tried. I would do for him and his anything that I conscientiously could." "What were the facts that in your judgment justified Mr. Flagler's di vorce and re marriage?" "Mr. Flagler's story has not been told. I must imitate his reticence. I can only say it sausnea me, ana it satisfies all who know it and who know him. The statements in the press have been full of misrepresen tations. 'Censure,' says Dr. Johnson, is the tax a man pays to the public for eminence.' It has been said that this whole matter illustrates the power of wealth to get what it wants. To my mind it shows its powerlessness to have the truth told about itself." i "It is said taat tne Florida law was secured by corruption of the Legisla ture. Do you know anything of that?" "I examined into it particularly, and have the highest authority for believing that not a vote was pur chased or corruptly solicited." "Do vou approve the law itself?" "I did not have to pass upon that question. The facts in the case justified the divorce, and to the lawyers this law seemed theonlv way to react tnis case. Of that I cannot Bay. I believe it was framed with such particularity as to make its application and consequent abuse very difficult, the provisions making it inapplicable where there is issue from the marriage alone cutting off 99 Der cent of nossible cases." "What do you think of the effect of this case on the increase of divorce?" "I think the dancers to marriage and the home lie in an entirely differ ent direction in the laws which allow incompatibility of temper, misunder standings, etc.. to sever the most sa cred of bonds. A man with light views of the marriage tie is not apt to seek a method of release involving vears of delav when so many States offer immediate release on the flimsi est rounds. I would eladly exchange the Kentucky laws for the Florida law. aa anv one mav see by following the dailv out nut of the Louisville Anuria." "It has been said that Mr. Flagler's divorced wife is constantly looking for the return of her husband. Do you Irnnw anTthinf of this?" "T saw that melodramic story. If thnrn is any truth in it. it is not for Mr maclev that she is looking. In the world in which she has long lived Mr. Flagler does not exist." CONFEDERATE RALLY AT J0NESB0R0 A Big Picnic and Speeches by Ueneral Julian S. Carr and Others. Special Star Correspondence. Jonesbobo, N. C, Sept 6. About 1.000 people were here yesterday to attend the Confederate Veteran's pic nic and one ' of the most enjoyable days in the history of the. town was spent Great speeches were made by Gen. J. S. Carr, Durham; Hon. H. L. London. Pittsboro; Hon. JJan iiugn HfT.AaTi TTarnntt: Hon. A. A. F. Sea: wnii. .Tnneshnro. and Judge Mclver, of Carthage. The day will long be re membered by the old section. soldiers of this Death of Mrs, Fannie Gilchrist Baker. Th Wavfttteville Observer of this week copied from the current number of the Presbyterian Herald a notice of the death of Mrs. Fannie Gilchrist Baker, for years a popular belle of Fayetteville: "She was born in Waltourville. a 0., and was the third daughter of the Rev. Adam Gilchrist, wno ior twenty-three years was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Fayetteville, and Mary Blaine, his wife, of Carlisle, Pa. She was also the widow of the late Judge James M. Baker, of Jack sonville, Fla., where her long and useful married life was spent Leav ing home in apparently good health, she succumbed after a brief illness, with only two of her beloved children at her bedside." As the Stab employs no trav elling agents, bills are sent direct to subscribers. These bills should re ceive prompt attention. V SAD DEATH AT BURQAW, N. C. Miss Mary McNeill, a Popular Young Lady, v : Passed Away Friday Evening. i Special Star Correspondence. BtRGAW, N. C, Sept, 7. Miss Mary McNeill, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. McNeill, of this town, died yester day evening after an illness of several months. She was twenty years of age and was just entering upon the thresh old of a noble vounar womanhood. Besides the heartbroken parents the deceased is survived by a sister, Miss Kltii McNeill, and four brothers, MessW. W., W. L , A. a, and L. She was conscious ud to the time of ner death and among her last words, she offered a beautiful nraver and told her loved ones around her bedside that she was "going tor live with Jesus." She called them to her and told them that, the could not : stay with them longer but was waiting for Jesus to come-Md lake her away. - ne was always a consecrated Uhns tian and did much eood in the com munity and was a member of the Bap tist church here. She was a student at the Womans' College, Bichmond, Va., during the session of 1898-99." The following year she attended the Bap tist Female University,' at Raleieh. and at both places she drew to her a host of friends, who will learn with sorrow the sad news of her death. In the school at Burgaw, of which she was a member of the faculty, she will be remembered as an able teacher and a maker of many friends who have already shown the high esteem in which she was held by their special interest in her during her continued illness. She was sick for months, and bore her trouble nobly. The funeral took place here at 4 o'clock this evening in the presence of a concourse of mends, the Hev. M. U. Walton officiating. The pall bearers were; Honorary: Messrs. W. M. Hand. Rev Mr. Martin, J. G. Brad- shaw and II. I. Bo wen: active : Messrs. Bruce Black, T. F. Croom, Empie Taylor, it Sanderson, Loftm Larkms and Dr. Thompson. INCENDIARISM IN BRUNSWICK. Barn of Mr. A. B. Drew Burned Thursday After Seventeen Previous Attempts. Riders of the Stab will remember that some tints ago an account was published i i these columns of sjste matic attempts being made to' burn the buildings en the plantation of Mr. A. B. Drew, a prosperous farmer liv ing in Brunswick county. The at tempts at that time numbered fifteen and . several of them were in broad open daylight with guards watching the buildings. The eighteenth attempt has proved successful for the incendiary, accord ing to this week's issue of the South- port Standard, which contains the particulars of the. burning of Mr. Drew's barn and contents. The work was accomplished last Thursday in the forenoon and no clue to the identity olJ&b guilty party or parties has been established. On Monday previous, it is said some fencing on the plantation was also burned. P0RMPR WILMINQT0NIAN IN A FIRE, Editor J. J. Darlington Had a Nsrrow Es cape la Danville, Va. In the Bichmond Evening Leader of September 6th, is found a special from Danville, Va., containing an ac count of a thrilling escape from a burning house by Mr. J. J. Darlington, formerly of this city, but now editor of the Danville Tobacco Journal Mr. Darlington had retired for the night and awoke half suffocated with smoke pouring in from the rear of the building where the fire had evidently been applied by an incendiary. He was too dazed to find the key in the door and pushed back to a window, but could not get it open. Finally he got out by breaking through the pan els of the door with his fists, although the key was in the lock. He will be laid up for several weeks. The house belonging to a landlord was totally destroyed at a loss of $1, 500 and the contents burned at a loss of $400 to Me. Darlington. Noted Outlaw Captured. The Fayetteville Observer contains an account of the capture by Sheriff Burns, Deputy Monaghan and special deputies Watson and Ingold of Alez. Gilmore, the notorious Cumberland county outlaw who has been accused of hundreds of crimes and convicted of many. Gilmore was captured at the home of a negro in Cedar Creek where he was dragged from under a bed, offering no resistance at all against the heavy odds. He has been in the penitentiaries of both North and South Carolina several times but has alwava'made his escape shortly after his incarceration. The last crime for which he is wanted is the burglary of th house of Mr. Frank McDaniel in Fayetteville.; A Fayetteville Engagement. Pavfttteville Observer: "The en- eaeement of Mr. E. A. Johnston and Mian .Tanift W. McDiarmid. of Man- fthARtar. was announced to-day. They are to be married this Winter in the PrAfltrotarian church of this city. Mr. Johnston is the son of Mr. William .Tnhnatnn. fha millionaire shin owner. of Livernool. Eneland. and head of the ereat Johnston line of steamers which ply to almost every port in the world. Miss McDiarmid, who is a daughter of our esteemed countyman. Mr. A. K. McDiarmid, is one of the most popular young ladies in this whole section, and one of the State's, loveliest daughters." Death of Minister's Wife. Friends in the city yesterday re ceived news of the death of Mrs. Mc Millan, wife of the Rev. Mr. McMil lan, pastor of the IPresby terian church at Lumberton, N. O. .Miss Bessie Mc Millan, daughter of the deceased, is very well known in Wilmington and has many friends here who will learn with great sorrow of her bereavement Btai 1901. COUNTY ROAD BONDS, Cleveland Purchasers Want to Abandon Contract On Ac- i - 1 count of Technicality, PASSAGE BY LEGISLATURE. They Say BIU Authorizing the Issue Did Not Pass the First Reading Proba--ble Suit to Hold Them to the Bargain. A sensation has been sprung upon the Board of County Commissioners. The recent sale on July 22nd of the $50,000 in New Hanover road bonds to W. J. Hays & Son. of . Cleveland, Ohio, who took them at ' par, bearing four per cent, interest, expected to place the amount of money available within sixty day a from date, but now W. J. Hays & Son want to withdraw from the contract upon the ground that the act authorizing the bond is sue was not passed constitutionally that it did not receive the necessary first reading, although they concede that the second and third readings were all right. The best legal authority is said to be on the side of the County Com missioners,' however, and it is learned that the courts will be resorted to in order to force the purchasers of the bonds to their contract, although no official announcement to this effect can be secured. The Board of Commissioners held a private session in the grand jury room at the Court House yesterday after noon, at which were present Chairman McEachern, Commissioners Holmes, Vollers, Montgomery and County At torney W, B. McKoy. Although noth ing was given out for publication, it is presumed that the bond matter was gone carefully over and a method of procedure laid out. 3 Of course the refusal of the bonds is not the. slightest reflection upon the credit of the county under the circum stances, but the problem will likely prove a troublesome one for the coun ty's energetic Board of Commissioners. When the bids for the bonds were originally opened there were three other bidders for the certificates and all were eager for them at par, the only difference in favor of Hays &S Co. being that they did not want a commission on the transaction. .The bidders besides Hays & Son were Kleyboldte & Co., Feder Holtzeman & Co., and Seasongood & Meyer, all of Cincinnati. The outcome of the litigation, if there be any, will be awaited with great interest A. & M. College Full. Master Clyde Piner, son of Capt. E. Piner, has returnedjfrom the A. & M. College, Raleigh, where he had a scholarship for the ensuing year. The institution was so crowded that a place could not be found for many of the freshmen and Master Clyde was among them. The attendance at the A. & M. is said to have broken all records. Marriage at Fayettevllle. Miss Janie Kyle, daughter of Mrs. Annie Kyle, and Mr. H. McD. Robin son, a prominent member of the Cum berland county bar, and both popular young people of Fayetteville, N. 0., were married Thursday evening. Both parties have many friends in Wil mington, who will extend congratula tions. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Littleton Reporter: Machinery has been bought for a large planing mill and fihnttlA -hlock factorv. The machinery is of the most improved makes 1 Danbury Reporter: In a sin-1 gle room log cabin one mile south of 1 Danbury live five people, therepre-1 sentatives of four generations. They U are negroes. Chadbourn Courier: The large store house and contents of A. Leach & Sons, at Star, was destroyed on Wednesday night of last week. The loss will reach $7,000 or $8,000, there beine about $5,000 of insurance. Cause of fire unknown. -r- Mount Airy News: The best farmers in Surry county failed this year to make an average crop. But notwithstanding the unfavorable sea son, the crops are fairly good. Econ omy and pains in saving, what has been made will go iar towards puuing the farmers of this section through. Fayetteville New Era: The many friends of Mr. R. W. Souther land, now a resident of Mobile, Ala., but for many years associated in dusi- ness in this city with McMillan Bros., sympathize with him in the great sor row which has been visited upon mm bv the death of his brother, Mr. Julius Southerland, who died in Mobile last Saturday. Wilson Times: The little four- year-old grandson of Mr. J. J. John son, of near Pikeville, Wayne county, enjoys tne peouuar uisuucuon oi Hav ing five living grandfathers. , He has one great-grandfather on his father's side Mr. Elish Holland aged about 95 years, and one great-grandfather. Mr. John Holland, aged about 73, and three grandfathers, Messrs. J. J. John son, Jim Bunn and Allen Holland. Gagtonia Gazette: ' A second crop pear with a bunch of blossoms for a third crop was sent us the other day by Miss Blanche Wilson, of Be gonia. Mr. La be Wilson says a second crop is not unusual with, this variety. The specimen sent us was sweet and good, and larger than the first crop of-manv varieties. They are har vesting the fine upland corn on the- Oneida farm. The entire stalks are cut down fast as they stand and are then set up in shocks. The stalks, with ear, fodder and all, will be shred ed by Messrs. Craig and Wilson . with one of their famous McCormick shredders. . i ( 3 1 ) I!
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