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2 THE CONVICTS’FOURTH HOW THE HOLIDAY WAS SPENT ON THE STATE FARMS IN HALIFAX. GAMES, DINNER AND A CONCERT. Some Interesting Farm Statistics-- Over 200 Tons of Hay Have Already Been Saved aud Cabbage are Now Being Shipped—The Corn Crop is Good but Cotton is Small and Late— Crops in Good Condition as to Culti vation-Health ot the Convicts Good. Special to the News and Observer. Scotland Neck, N. C., July 4. Your correspondent spe : t the 4th of July at the State farm, near Tillery. It was a general holiday for convicts and employees, except the guard. The farm is simply magnificent. Maj. Mclver, the manager, says that four years ago when he first went there it was a wilderness, and was a hopeless looking job; but now it is the finest farm property in all this country. It being holiday, the convicts were especially jubilant. They spent the fore noon in gaming with marbles and other such sports as they are allowed in the quarters and enclosures. In the afternoon, after they had en joyed their holiday dinner, they gave a concert. A good crowd from Scotland Neck and Tillery and the surrounding community had gathered to witness their performance. They improvised a stage alongside one of the buildings inside the enclosure, and the spectators could take in a good view through the wire fence. Their concert consisted of songs and recitations and music. In one or two acts they appeared as regular negro min strels. They supplemented nature’s blacking with lampblack or soot, and you could easily discern the line where nature stopped and their own work be gan. They made music with a banjo, a mouth-harp and some bottles. They had a good day and seemed to en joy it very much. Maj. Mclver gave your correspondent some interesting statistics about the farm. There are 7,500 acres in the tract, 1,- 000 acres cannot be cultivated by reason of marshes and swamps. Os the 6,500 acres in cultivation there are the follow ing proportions: In corn, 2,500 acres; in cotton, 2,000; in wheat, 500; in grass es, elover and field peas, 600; in cane, potatoes, gardens and patch work, 400; in oats, 271; in tobacco, 25; in pastur age, 200. They have already saved 200 tons of hay this season and shipped a consider able quantity of cabbage The corn crop is good but the cotton is small by reason of the late season. All the crops are in good condition as to cultivation. There are 250 convicts on the farm and 70 employees. They work 140 head of team, have 30 lead of cutle and 650 hogs. The health of the convicts has gradu ally improved since the first year until now there are only four or five persons sick in the hospital out of a squad of 250. A physician visits the farm every day and gives them the best medical atten tion. Tney get water from driven wells 25 to 30 teet deep and have good water in most places. They put up two large ice houses of ice la3t winter and have all the ice water they need. It is to be hoped that the State will make an effort for the overflow wells on the farm, which, if secured, would greatly improve the qual ity ot the water. Maj. Mclver, the general manager, has a wonderful control over the whole force. Indeed he sc-ems to be a wonderful man to manage such a large interest with so little trouble. THE FOURTH AT ROCKV MOUNT Bicycle Races, Baseball, Concertsand a German Were the Features. Special to the News and Observer. Rocky Mount, N. 0., July 5. Yesterday’s bicycle race on the fair grounds race track here, in which Tar boro and Rocky Mount contested, was won by Mr. Joseph Whitehead, of the Atlantic Coast Lme. The prize was a SIOO wheel. Several small games of ball we e played during the day. At night the ladies gave a very largely at tended and enjoyable concert in aid of the music club. A brilliantly successful german ended the day’s festivities. Late yesterday afternoon Mr. Joel P: Daughtry was quite painfully injured by a wild ball while watching a game in the suburbs. Mr. Louis Brodie spent yesterday here in the interest of the new male school in Wilson. Dr. Charles E. Moore, for a long time a resident of this county visted friends here yesterday. Dr. Moore is now a citizen of Wilson. During this month and August several marriages of prominent young people will take r-lace. AN EMBEZZLER SUICIDES. Preferred Death Rather than Face the Charge* Against Him. Portland, Oregon, July 5 —Frank E. Davis, for live years representative of the Fire Insurance Association of Phila delphia, committed suicide by taking jjoison yesterday. Davis was widely known in the Northwest. He dropped in his office and was removed to the hos pital, where he died within ten minutes, and it was reported his death was due to brain paralysis. At the coroner’s investigation it was learned tbatDavia took poison with sucidal intent. Davis was a defaulter to the company he represented to the amount of several thousand dollars, the exact sum not yet being determined. Ho was charged by a special inspector of the In suran •« firm ‘with having embezzled money f,»r the past 3 years, which he partly admitted. He was arrested aDd begged ti mo till after the 4th to furnish bonds, and rathfcr than to face the charge against him took his life. A p-eliminary investigation into his accounts shows Davis has embezzled funds every month, which may aggre gate $.‘),000. THE SOUTH DID NOT CUT WAGES During the Panic as Did the Large Manufacturers ol the North and West. Raleigh, N. C., July 5. To the Editor of the News and Observer: I noticed in the paper of a day or two ago some comments in regard to the rise in wages in manufacturing districts. It seemed to express surprise that the in creased wages were all in Northern and Western manufacturing centres and none in the South. We wish to state that wages in the iron districts of the South have all been advanced according to the scale, with little advance in the price ot pig iron. As far as our information goes, wages of employees in other manufacturing inter ests in the South were not reduced, as they were in the North one or two years ago". } have heard a great many South ern manufacturers say that they have been paying the same wages right along. Therefore, you readily see that there is no necessity for wages in Southern dis tricts to advance, as the additional wages now being paid in the North are merely putting them back to their regular basis. Very respectfully yours, Wm. E. Ashley. 1837. 1895. Davidson College DAVIDSON, N. C'. Next Term Begins Sept. 12th. Ample Laboratories, Apparatus, Cab inets, Libraries, Reading Rooms, Gym nasium, Ball grounds, Tennis Courts, etc. Classical and Mathematical, Literary and Scientific, Biblical and Commercial. Send for a catalogue. J. B. SHEARER, President. JOHN W. EVANS CARRIAGE MANUFACTURER Northwest Cor. Morgan and Blount St*. RALEIGH, N. C Special attention given to ft -apalntlng ROARING GAP HOTEL. The Most Pleasant Summer Resort in the State. ROARING GAP, ALLEGHANY CO, N.C. OPEN FROM JUNE 1 TO OCT. 1, 1895. Wr TE TO A. CHATHAM, PROPRIETOR, ELKIN, N. C. Prices only tl M per day or ?25.0q per month. SELECT STOCK ot STATIONERY AND THE ~ BEST BLANK BOOKS. Finest line of Stationery in the city. Foi office and school supplies we have no equal in the State. Our business is modern in every particular. Mail orders promptly attended to RALEIGH STATIONERYQa W G. SEP ARK, Manager, Opposite Post-office, Raleigh, N. <. Glass Paper Weight con taining a photo of the Monument for 25c. Uses Mexican Mustang Liniment Omi has horses, ora has drivers. The News and Observer, Saturday, July 6, ’95. Lei ■ -v /ft: ■-• .- .-Jv-v . . / l / /• • j... j -. . "iv, ji... rl 1 .uimar, W. Va. v -t-a &li*M fc iIU l I liruicT Hood’s 5 -s~ ~ Z r A scrofulous or catarrhal condition of the liii -'tines is often the pr :: • cause ol Ci.iOiiic diaiTiuea, ami avu.-ii the tissues are built up and healed by the pure blood made by Hood s S;;r. - pari!l;». a cure is ofiecteil. LV:s<! tin-: “I b-dieve- i; mv duty to te” v\ hat bene fit J Nvci ‘-d from Hood’s riarsaps ril»H. i v.-us k- •‘ ed with chronic dicr rim-a f r yea. ~, and fcov&re Pa ns in the Sack of'my .: *.: and ftisf. in my side. I WBB treated o.r ; veo kucu.-.g physiciantq but found no relief. X was u«ivised by friends Hood’s *£> Cures to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I commenced taking the medicine last May and brire taken over seven bottles. I found relief after taking the first bottle and now fed better than I have for years.” William M. WilsoA', Pullman, West Virginia. Hood’s Pills are the best after-dinner Pills, assist digestion, prevent constipation. HOW IS THIS? The Spectator of (of N Y) tables for 1895 have appeared, showing the rate of interest earned by the 27 leading life insurance companies They show that the Union Central Life Insurance Co., of Cincinnati, 0., raiio for 1894 is 7.01 per cent, against 5 66 per cent, the highest of any other com pany, and 4 99 per cent, the general aver age This is an extraordinary showing for the Union Central, being 1 35 per cent above the ratio of any other company. That is to say, on an equal amount of money invested the Union Central earns as much as the best of the other companies and nearly one fourth mote Extending the comparison for twenty vears. from '875 to 1894, the average of the Union Central for all that time is 666 against 6 53, the highest of any other com pany, and 5.58 the general average. The Union Central average per cent of death claims for thirteen years, compared to mean amount of insurance in force, has been 0 65, or 65 cents for each hundred dol lars insured. The lowest aver ge of any other company has been 0 78 and the high est 2:10. The average of the twenty four other best companies has been 1.36. The above are the vital points of man agement in a life insurance company, and ! from the actual records we can g>aut all ! any other company claims and still have a margin left in our favor. The results of high interest and low j death rates are for the benefit of the in | sured. By * hese excessive virtues the old ! Union Central (now with mo e than |13,- : 500,000 assets) has b*-en for over eight years paying the full face of their policies to those who insured with us from 18 to 24 years ago, though they paid r.s but the same premium usually collected for a pol icy payable only at death W T e paid over 1125,000 in 1894 to the living holders of poli ies, so we have thoroughly de monstrated th;*t you do not have to “die to wiu” a cheap fife rate policy with the Union Central, though onr avals for 15 i fears claimed it c aid not be done by any I company. No company excels the liberality of our I policy contract as to cash at your com maud, pa’d-up policy, extended insurance, ! etc. There is no xestt ic’ ion as to residence | or travel. State age and write for cost. etc. Agents wanted for important fields. CAREY .1 HUNTER. Supt Va and IS C, lialeigh, N C Great Sale ol Copyrights, Book Plates, Manuscripts and Also the Name and Good-will of the Old Firm ol Alfred Williams & Co. We will offer at public sale for cash, at j the Alfred Williams & Co.’s Book Store, in the city of Raleigh, N. C., on Wednes j <lay the 7th day of August, 1895, at 12 o’clock m. Tne copyright and plates of Moore’s School History of North Carolina. The copyright and plates of Spencer’s First Steps in North Carolina History. The copyright and plates of Williams's Reader for beginners The copyrights of the North Carolina 1 Speller; the North Carolina Speaker; | Hymns and Songs for North Carolina | Schools, aud Busbee’s Justice and Form Book. A manuscript revision of Moore’- Schoo | History, by the late Prof. F. M. Hubbard, ! LL. I). The name and goodwill cf the old firm ; of Alfred Williams & Co. Also the stock of book sen deposit with I the University Publishing Company, un der agreement v\ ith the Education Board; various other books and artlc esof interest to the trade will be offered at the same time. Most of these school books are on the State list. A. VV. HAYWOOI), T M. PITTMAN Trustees. Raleigh, N. C , July 4, '895. Raleigh, N. C., Fob. 8,1W5. l/yon Mfg. Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gentlemen:—Having seen Mexican flustang Lini ment extensively advertised here Induces mo to tell you how useful It Is to persons In the livery buslnoss. I have used It for the past 18 years on my horses for almost every thing that horses are subject to. For sprains and stiff Joints Ido not think It has an equal, and for such things as harness galls and rubs It is wonderful. I once had a very fine driver who was thrown from his car riage In a runaway and so severely bruised about his shoul ders and breast that I did not think he would ever be able to get on a carriage again. 1 remembered, however, what Mexican Mustang Liniment did for my horses In case of braises and had him use It constantly, and In about two weeks he was as good a driver as ever, and not an ache or pain remained. I know you must get tired of receiving such letters, but I thought I would add one more testimonial to the useful, ness of Mustang Liniment. Yours truly, m '* W. H. LANCASTER. For 18 years tai livery and Transfer business. H. MAHLER, Silversmith and Manufacturing Jeweler, Sterling Silver Goods. Guaranteed ,000- 0 xManicure Bets, Pen Wipers, Silver Novelties, Tie Holders, Combs, Emery Balls, Paper ( utters, Belts, Mateh Boxes, Ladies’ Shirt Waist Sets, Coat Hangers, Lock Bracelets, Garters, Sleeve Links, Button Hooks, Books Marks, Scissors, Belt Pins, Hat Pins. 0 I also have the largest and best selected stock of table and case goods to be found In the city. No extra charge for engraving, V///AWAVA\VAVAVAVySV/*W/AV/A*TVA , TVA*AVAWA\SV*VyVA*i-SWy i; [)enny, Poor <s• Qo., | j! Dry Goods ij ij Commission iTerchants. | > 114 <Sc 116 Worth St., 36 Bedford St., 169 Jackson St.,\ i: New York. Boston. Chicago. DIAMONDS. “Symbols cf honesty, tokens cf purity, always th** same In faithful and honest value." SOLITAIRES From 1-4 Kt. to 2 1-2 Kts., set to the bestadvantage in Tiffany or any other modern pattern. Largest stock to be found in the city. Orders from a distance, when accompanied with satisfactory city references, will have our prompt end careful attention. EDWARD FASNACH, Diamond Dealer and Jeweler, RALEIGH, N. C. At wholesale and retail by Raleigh Ice Refrigerating Company. For tickets and prices apply at office of T. L, EBERHARDT, President. • 126 Fayetteville Street. I IF YOUR HEAD ACHES j —T AK E— ANTICEPHALALGINE. I —IT WILL — CURE IT2QUICK AND SURE. JAS. I. JOHNSON, Manfaeturer, RALEIGH, N. O. | THE BIGGEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN RALEIGH. 1h the Special of every Spring Suit on our cot nters that ire marked and sold up to the closing hour Saturday night at 122.50, $22 S2O and $lB for Fifteen Dollars. All you have to do is just to walk in and help yourselves. They are not a parcel of odds and ends—broken lots -bad sellers but rather the most popular garments of the season, the best, the very best that tailoring skill can create. Better than you could have made to order in nine-tenths of tbe tailor shops. We have turned the stock over bodily. The three and four buttou cutaways and sacks in regular and extra large sizes, long and slims, sbor's and stouts, all those exclusive styles that you have raved so over, are waiting to be snapped np by the army of shrewd buyers th,-t will lay siege to them to-morrow morning. J Let them go? We’ve screwed our courage up to the losing point, and you are welcome to them. TM® ©BqD® ©on® W®®Ds= S. & D. BERWANGER. HISTORY OF THE Legislature of 1895. Now In Press and Deliv ery in a Few Days. It is a carefully prepared synopsis of the work of the last Legislature in con venient pamphlet form, containing 160 pages. It exposes the incompetency of that txx y, contrasts its work with that of Democratic Legislatures, and shows wherein it wrought evil to the State. Sent, post paid, to any address on re ceipt of 10 cents in money or postage. Lower prices to news dealers and book stores for large quantities. All orders, large or small, must be accompanied by the cash. E. M. UZZELL, ! Raleigh. N. O. WARREN ~ White Sulphur Springs C. W. Cullen & Son, GWNERS AND PROPRIETORS. CULLEN POST OFFICE, VA. j Season of 1895 Opens June Ist. Terms : Per week, one person, f 15,00 Per mouth, one persou, 40.00 Two persons in one room, 70.00. Special rates to part’es of three or more. The Oldest Summer Resort in the United States. Established 1734. Good Fishing. Boating, Bathing Distance from Richmond & Danville R. R., 1 mile—Railroad station, Waterllck. Distance from Not folk & Western R R., 3 miles—Railroad station, Riverton. Distance from Baltimore & Ohio R. R , 4 miles—Railroad station, Middletown. EIGHT DIFFERENT WA TERS. NAM EL Y: \\ hite, Red and Blue Sulphur, Alum, Iron, Arsenic, Chalybeate and Lithia. On top of the “Three Top Range” of the Mesamitten chain of mountains; elevation 2, JX) feet above the sea. o Mosquitoes, Gnats or Malaria ; K- :■ ■ 13 I BnBBHMMMHIaHIIieBuinHBHMB CVDUII 1C Primary, Secondary or Ter Ua r - V Syphilis permanently cured in 15 to 35 days. You can be treated at home for the same price under same guaranty. If you prefer to come here we will con- I tract to pay railroad fare and hotel bills, and no i charge, if we fail to cure. If you have taken mer* | cin y, lodide potash, and still have aches and ! pains, M ucous Patches in mouth, Store Throat, Pimples, Copper Colored Sipots, Ulcer* on any part of the body, Hair or Eyebrow* falllna out, It la this Syphilitic BLOOD I'OISON that we truarantee to cure. We solicit the most oostlnato case* and cballenKe the world Tor a case we cannot cure. Syphilis has always battled the *ktll of the most eminent physl j clans. SjtiOO.OOO capital behind our unconditional i guaranty. Absolute proofs sent sealed on appll i cation. Address COOK. REMEDY CO., aui Masonic Temple. UIU'ABO, ILL. ! 23&Ii2£3uiuUiiiMMiiK9Msl
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