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Vol. I. Winston, K C, Monday, September 17, 1883. No. 19. THE DAILY PILOT, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. M. I. & J. C. STEWART, Editors. ADVERTISING RATES: One inch one (lay one week ' " one month " three month Oiw1 column one ly " one week " one month " three months $ .1 00 3UO 5 00 moo 5 00 10 00 20 00 40 00 Fur furtlvr particulars and special cash rates, rail on or address TH E PILOT PUBLISHING CO., Winston, X. C. Jas. M. Crumpler, House and Ornamental PAIN T E R , SALEM. N C, Sol's leave t announce that he w slws.vs' pre p.:ri t do all kin la of painting, kalneominini' airi p:i;'r Iruuriug. at chert notice aud on reas- iiuaule terms. , . -, , ; ; t E. J. ALLEN, JEWEL E R, And dealer in Watches, Clocks, "Jewelry anil Spectacle, North-Side Court House Square, WINSTON, N. C. Watch Repairing a Specialty. Ang. 87. EUGENE E. GRAY, ! Attorney-at-Law, A Charlotte special to the Pe tersburg Mail" says: Yesterday two white girls, Mary Loraine and Sarah Lace, one of them very comely, deliberately left their homes with (foal black negroes. The -parents and brothers of the girls got on the track of the fugi tives and armed with shot guns pursued ,them hotly for a few hours. The brother of one of the girls got within five hundred yards of her. She was riding behind her dusky lover on the same horse. The brother hailed them and raised his gun t6 shoot the negro but desisted for fear of killing his sister. They were better mounted, and the horse with the double load distanced the pursuers. One of the gentle couple was arrested on the outskirts of Rockingham, and .there , L. noy. -sUciig. .talk of J lynching the man. Nine cases of this kind have occurred in six months, and all in the same section of the country, white women in each case running off with negro men. WINSTON, x. c. Office over AVachovta Nat. Bank. SMITH & BROWN'S DRUG STORE, VVinstoln, N. C, . Is headquarters We are informed by Mr. A. B. TJhenulFthat probably the first post office ever established in Sampson county was at Mr. Black man Crumpler's place, a few miles west of Clinton. It was estab lished somewhere from 1820 to 1824. In those days letter writing was either a luxury or a necessity. Po'stage was ten cents for a sealed letter 30 miles, and more in pro portion to distance, up to 25 cents anywhere in the U. S. Think of the difference. Now we send a letter anywhere in-the country for 3 cents, and in less than 15 days it will cost only 2 cents. While this is so with us, our sister repub lic of Mexico is reducing her do mestic postage-from 251115 to 10 cents. Clinton Caucasian. It is said that Charles " Reade, the famous English novelist, is engaged in writing a series of lives of the patriarchyof Scripture. A new lock for mail pouches will go into use" simultaneously with the new two-cent letter post age stamp on Oct. 1. Fifty thous and keys have been sent out to postmasters and other persons authorized to have them. They were sent in separate regis tered envelopes, and" every one of them reached its destination. Two hundred thousand of the new locks, have been distributed. They are of corrugated steel, and are lighter and are Said to be stronger than those now in use. The Comptroller of rjhe Cur rency says that bur total circula tion is $1,575,000,000, of which $83I757o is paper and $743, 347,000 is coin. All of this, how ever, is mot in the hands of the people. Gov. Knott has designated Oc tober 12 as the day for the execu tion of Ellis Craft, who was twice found guilty of the murder of the Gibbons children at Ashland, Ky. A Mississippi farmer. has discov ered that a" good article ofsugar can be obtained from the sweet potato. Perhaps this will open up a new industry in the South At lantic and Gulf States.! ' The German Lutheran-Theological Seminary, irTSt; Louis, 'known as Concordia College, was dedi cated last Sunday. It is the high est institution of learning in the Lutheran Church. A boat modelled after the old " Maid of the Mist " passed safely through Niagara whirpoolia the presence of 40,000 people. There will be twO thousand dif ferent articles from North Carolina on' exhibition "aY the""' Boston exhibit. ' The wheat crop of Kansas is estimated at 35,000,000 bushels; and the corn crop at 200,000,000. D. D. SCHOULER, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS CHEAP JOHN, would announce to his friends and the public in general that he has just received another large ship ment of DRY GOODS, Clothing, Hats. Caps, Cutlery ; HOSIERY, . Plated. Ware. &c, and goods suitable for the fall and winter months. BED COVERING, BLANKETS, i comforts; - SHAWLS, &c, tfec, all of which will be- offered at prices' less than ever before heard of. Call and see for yourselves. . ' ' ' -NEXT DOOR TO POST OFFICE, WINSTON, N. C. Sept. 5. tf. a j.s. edwell; Boot&hoemaker OVER BREWRR'S BARBER SHOP, Winston, N. C. I am prepared to do all kinds of work in my line, such as making and repairing boots and shoes with neatness and at low prices. Call and Fee me before contracting elsewhere. ltf. LJ Tate & Johnson, Next door to Pfohl A Stockton's, UNDERTAKERS, And manufacturers or Tate's Improved Little Monitor Separator. We have just received another handsome lot of Walnut and Gloss White Caskets. Our new Queen City Hearse is one of the flncrt in the State. In short onr Cndertakine deportment is complete in every respect. Call nd be con vinced. " Aug. 27 lm.
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