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INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OP NORTH CAROLINA. Splendid service. Polite agents. Has connection with Jackson, Rich Square, Bryantown, Lasker, Pote easi and Woodland. Messages sent to any point on the line for 10 cents. - Connects with Western Union Tel egraph Company at Rich Square. DR. W. P. HOORE, President. J. ft. WEAVER Seety. and Treas. General offices: Jackson, N. C. 1&7nll PftTJOr 1 have seven sty les of Wall Paper on h; 1 hich 1 will sell cheap. - -. TT r.nvNF.R. Iiich Square, in. o. We take pleasure in in forming the business pub lic that we will soon be prepared do your JOB P BIN II Give us a trial and .we will guaran tee Satisfaction. JAB.H. pAKtLER& C0 , -Woodland, N.C Cure; age. I have a lot of nicely cured sage put ip in 5 and I at packages, for tale. This sage was grown and put up by G. H. Barnes of Roxobcl to tupply the large demand for it. Let tne sell you. Mills H. Conner. NOTICE. Horse Trader , Doctors, Dentists andLawersof :hampton Cennt7 re hereby requeued and notiied to eome forward tnd pay tke privile ax, at fixed by Uw. W, S. BuriALei. ShevtS. Hides ! Hides! Hides! - - I am in the market for Hides Green or Dry for which I pay the highest market price. If you have any for sale one or a dozen and it -is not convenient for you to come te my piace of bnsiness write me a card and I will make you an offer. M. H. CoNXEB, at Depot, ..ch Square, N. C. F V7 CIC71F 1 ' bek on ft-i. Tt yn at tt ni d6(1 THE -'BAM ALBEHABLS AiBriel IILstory of How She Was Built. The ironclad .jraor Albemarle waS;Sbuilt for gthe Confederate Government, not in a public na vy yard, but in a corn-field on Roanoke river, in Halifax county, N. C, about twenty miles below VVeldon, on a farm owned by Jas. N. Smith, Esq., a highly respect ed and pariotic citizen of that county. The vessel was con structed under a contract with the Confederate Navy Depart ment by Gilbert Elliott, who em. ployed the carpeoters aod labor ers and furuisLed the material and equipped the boat, under the supervision of Commander James VV. Cooke, of the Confederate States Navy, a native of North Carolina. Gilbert Elliott, the sou of Gilbert and Sarah A. Elliott, was bom in Elizabeth City, N. C , ou the 10th of December, 1843. When the war commeuced, in 1861, he was a clerk 4n the law office of William P.. Martin, who, in addition to his law pnuHice owned a ship yard and a number of negro ship carpenters, slaves of himself and family. Mr. Mar tin took a co j tract with the Con fedrate States Government to build three wooden gun-boits at Elizabeth City, but he was soon elected colonel of the Seventh Regiment of North Carolina Vol unteers. went to the front, and was captured at the fall of Hat teras. Meantime he had leftGil bert Elliott to look after-the busi ness mauagementtxf his shipyard, with James E Snell as the boss carpenter,. In February, 1862. f-he Federal fleet captured Eliza beth City. The three woolen gunboats were burned on tho stocks, and Gilbert Elliott took all tools, equipments and carpenters to a point on the Elizabeth river, near Norfolk, and commenced the construction of another.' wooden gunbet there. Norfolk.soon fell into the hands of the enemy, and Elliott moved his plant and car penters to North Carolina. His friend, Colonel Martin, re leased from prison, re organized his command which was now call ed the Seventeenth Regiment North Carolina troops. He ap pointed Gilbert Elliott his adjut ant The carpeters "were hired out for other work in the interor and the youthful navy contractor went to the front with the army. But he had not long been in camp at Petersburg when he was ur gently solicited by Secretary Mallory, of the Confederate Navy Department, who had formed a. very high opinion of Elliott's bus iness capacity aud energy, to un dertake the buildiog of an other gunboat, this time to be an iron clad ram, as the career of the Merrimac (Virgiuia) has revolu tiouized naval warfare. Upon Mr. Mallory 's request, the Confeder ate States War Department graut ed Lieutenant Elliott a two years' furlough, and he was relieved of the. duties of adjutant, returned to North Carolina, gathered up the tools and the carpenters, and began his new venture at Tarbo ro, on Tar river, N. C. But the Federal troops occupying New Burno made araid to Rocky Mount oa the Wilmington and We'don railroad, burned-the rail road bridge, and returuingxvia Tarbo ro, destroyed youngEliiotrs iruubeat, "No. 5.' Although at this this time only 19 years of age, his energy and persistence were displayed by the removal of what was left of his ship-building plant to a more secure position ou the Roanoke, where the keel was laid for the famous ram In personal appearance Gilbert Elliott was slender, with a bril ianteyeand fine features, but having a full dark beard. The Secre'ary of the Navy did not suspect that he was contracting with a youth not 21 years of age. hen the Albermarle was tiuish vd after one year of almost super human effort, under great difti ulties, Elliott had not been taoght .he trade of ship building, but it nay not be out of place to men tion that his maternal grand faih er, Charles Grice, was a ship uilder in the early part of the oentury at Elizabeth City, N. C, juid ti.at Francis Grice, a nephew of Charles G rice, was a distin guished constructor of the United States navy, livingat Portsmouth. Va . and afterwards at Philadol phia, md besides other vessels. constructed the first class frigate Niagara at the Philadelphia navy yard, in 1856 -7 The plans of the Albemarle were drawn by Naval-Constructor John L Porter, at the Norfolk navy .yard, modelled somewhat after the Virginia, and as before mentioned, the actual putting to gether of the vessel was the work of James F. Snell, and among the carpenters were the faithful gang of negro slaves, who worked as cheerful as the white men A citizen of Halifax Peter Smith Esq., now a resident of Scotland Neck, in that county, became as socia ted With Elliott and Tender ed efficient service. The son of a 1 lanter, and a planter himself, educated at the University of North Carolina, Mr. Smith was a bqrn mechanic and genius in that art. i When the time came to put on the iron plates the work was found to be very tedious, as the boring had to be done with an old drill from tho Norfolk navy yard. Under the necessity Smith in ventedaud put into operation a drill which cut through the iron I'M; like an auger through an oaken plank, and the plating was then speedily" and effectively; done. When' thewar ended, Smith's friends'induced him to apply to the Washington Government for a patent on his useful invention, but he found that about the same time that he had made his drill an ingenius Yankee had invented one exactly simular, on the other side of the line, and already had his pateut for it. ' The history of the Albemarle, her construction, her famous bat ties, and her destruction by a tor pedo, are recorded in thejCeutu ry War Papers by Federal and Confederate contributors,! and other facts are given in a lecture delivered by Gilbert Elliott, in the city of St. Louis in 1887, but the narrative omits mention of himself, as aide to her command er, Cooke, in her first enconnter with the enemy at Ply m o u th. Before reaching thattowni; Cooke learned that aliue of torpedoes had been stretched across the river to blow a hole in the bottom of his craft, and he came to an chor, i i During the nigth Elliott sug gested to him that on account of the great freshet, he might float over the obstructions, aud volun teered to make a reconoissance With two sailors in a small boat, oars muffled, he slowly moved in the dark shadow along the river bank down to the enemy's fort and took soundings himself along the line of torpedoes, and had the great satisfaction of reporting to Captain Cooke that there was wa ter enough. Cocke did cot wait o hoibt his anchor, but sjlipped .his cable, moved at once, and passed safely over the torpedoes. After the victorious conflict with the enemy's gun boats the young ;iide then bore dispatche1 from Commander Cooke to General Matt W. Ransom, commanding U13 right wing of Hoke's army, and followed that officer in the grand charge which captured the enemy's strong fortifications; It" After this battle, the Seiereta Yy of the Navy established a navy ard a Halifax, w tth Com mande r Cooke in harge, and there Elliott undertook tob.uld a larger and more formidable-, iron clad ram, under contract, but the war end ed before she could be completed, and her frame was destryed .vhea Sherman's army occupied Eistern North Carolina. Thus six were destroyed unfinished, ard Cushiug's torpedo cut short jive brilliant careerof. the jAlbe marle. enabling the Federal fleet 10 hold the waters unmolested. Gilbert Elliott became a lawyer, practiced his profession in Nor folk, Va., St. Louis, and New York City, and died at his home on Staten Island, May 9, 1895. The foregoing sketch is from ) rsonal recollection of his elder orother, Charles Elliott, late cap tain and assistant adjutant gener 6 ral. Martin's Brigade, Hoke's Division, Confederate States ar my, Richmond Dispatch. THS FEUjT TSUJT. It Seek to Fix t Price of Ciop of 2,- j 609,00 Baahels Conti 0I3 Casbs i Plasis. ' ; One of the . utet combiner ; againnt the farmer is th peanut trust The following is from the New York Journal peanut crop in the United States placed it at 2, 600,000 brhels. J he arms of? the octopus are reaching out. A peanot trust is in process of forming. It is near ly completed. It will Boon be con sumated. j Its objects are; To improve the peanut; to control the price, and to extend - the blessings ol -the Ameiican peatv t to the colonies of the Uxited S'.ti- -; and to the pec-ple of foreign J tids. Upon the fac of t there ap pears nothing sinister in thu lat est trust, and the' usual tale is told by its promoters of how the con :rol of this immeii e market will be of benefit to tho producer and consumer alike. But that remains to be seen J ' If the trnst seeks to place tho sale of tl.epeanutiu a few hand?, to quell the competition of small vvnders, to' centralize .'the distribu tirn thousands will be hurled in to idleness and all it 3 concomi tants of deviltry. ". Most of the per.nuts are raised in te Caroliaag. Georgia is a great producer of them also. The deal has beeij conducted y former Gotorner Cameron, of Ohio, and a Mr. W alherby, of New York, who, dispatches to the Jour dal say, have just comp eted a tour of the South and made ar rangement with peanut cleaning establishments foi handling their outputs. They hare got the most of the cleaning factories into the trust, and t'aink that the combina tion will be completed within two weeks. You Should I Know. What Hood's Sarsaparillahaspow er, to do for those wh'LhrQjmpure. and impovishe blood. It makes the blood rich and pure, And cures scrbfala, salt rheum, dyspeysia, ca tarrh, rheumatism, inerveousness. " J If you are troubled with any ailment caused or promoted by impure blood, take Hood's Sarsaparilla at once. llood's Pills are prompt and effi cient, easy to take, eary to operate. Young Sliafter's Lessou The Cleveland Leader gives the recipe by which General hhafter learned self-reliance; saying that the story is told in that officer's own words. Once, " when I was a boy at school, our teacher called up the class in mental arithmetic, andjbe gan putting questions, beginning with the pupil-atj tho head. I stood somewhere near the middle, and next below mc. was a boy who wa,s three years older,.and consid erably ahead of me in bur various studies. "How many are thirteen and nine and eight?" asked the teacher. One after another the boys aud girls guessed aud failed; meantime I thought it out. The question had ju.-t got to me, when I heaid the big boy, who stood next, w is pering, apparently to himsel: ''Twenty -nine, twenty-nine, twen ty-nine." "Well, Willie," said the teacher, "let us see if you know. Come, now, be prompt." I cocked my head on one side, and stid, trium phantly, "Twenty-nine!" "Next! How many are thirteen and nine and eight?" I -Thirty," said the big boy be low. - - That. was just what I had figur ed it to be, myself; and I made up mv mind, then and there, to de pend on my own judgment ;or the f iture. Ever since when I have had anything to do, and have figured but what I thought to be the best way of doing it, I have gone ahead, remembering, when people criticised, or tried to thiow me off the track, how that big boy made a fool ot me in the mental arithmetic class. it is said that th soldiers who had'taken Hood's Sarsaparilla stood the long marches ia Cuba much Set ter than the others. Mm f An . rv-r v '-' 1 Makes the food more delirious and wholesome Bravest Act Before San Juan Hill Inspiration comes to men in moments of groat peril or re sponsibility and enable them to readily oercome great obstacles It is related of Nepoleon that at times during the course of a stub born battfe he would be seized as if by magic with some brilliant idea, which,: when executed, would result ia the complete riot of the euemv. These flashes of wisdom during he h t heat oi the fray are called strokes of ge uius Many such flashes make Nepoleons and Alexanders. During the late, war with Spain LieutenantColonel Jacob H.Smith now in com rand of Jefferson Barra -ks, was a Major iu charge of a battalion of the Second Unit ed States Infantry. The word was ',0a to Santiago,'' and the Major with his three companies, turned their faces resolutely to ward San-Juan Hill, where he and his men were destined to play one of the most heroic and inspir ationai parts of the entire cam paign. At Bloody Ford the! battalion came upon the Seventy first New York Regiment, scattered, de moralized aud seeking refuge from the sizzing bullets behind tress, rocks, and whatever obsta cie afforded protection. 'What is the matter here?" shouted the Major upon tae scene. ' as he came There were no officers in sight and the men replied that they had no officers and did hot know what to do. Major Smith searched about the field and discovered officers enough to control three compa nies. "If you will notgoahead," ai gued the Major of the regulars "at least move your men so tha others who are folio win, may pass without this hindrance, and so that the effect upon the regu lars may Lot be harmful." The officers said that they were willi; g to proceed upon the ene my and a number of men came forward and said that they were anxious to go with them and fight Three companies were formed from the Seventy-first New York, and these, command ed by Major Beck, followed in the wake of Major Smith's battalion, The remainder 01 the Seventy first New York was left behind at the creek. A mile: beyond lay San Juan Hi'l. Already there was fighting there, and the zip of the bullets which sped over the mov ing columns was annoying, to say the least especially to the ralli ed companies of the Seventy-first New York who were still a little timid, a natural feeling, it is said, for raw recruits in their first bap tism of fire. j Major Smith had been ordered to take position at the foot of the nilfas a support to the regular line, which had already advanced and was mi the thick of the fray. At the first sign of wavering he was instructed to advance to the assistance of the troops which had preceeded him. He stopped at tne foot of the hill and, mount ed upon his horse, rode some lit tle distance up the decleyity. and from a projecting k! noil faced about and looked down upon the tevel stretch of territory which broke against the foot of the hill. At his feet and below him on the plain was gathered four compa nies of regulars ranged in battal ion formation. At the heads of r the companies we ro Captain Mil Ier, the brave officer who sacrific ed his life oa the altar Of his coun try on July 10; Captain Rowell, Lieutenant Wilson and Lieuten aatCreary. Behind the first line was stretched another not so long. They were the three com panies of the Seventy-first New York. It was only 400 yards up the hill. There were 4 two block houses on the crest v. hich fired viciously at the two battalions of infantry at the foot of the hill, rWirwr u, hi, or,r!iWi ritinn ft. Major Smith j attracted; especial attention from the Spanish Mau sers. Bullets sanir close iohis ar until it seemed that they ! ctame iu swarms. One tore away a bit of his hat one took off a piece of .cloth from his coat sleeve one glazed tho heel of his boot one hit his stirrup. He sat there, as :mmovabIe as marble. He was a soldier and his orders were to wait Down in the plain the had en rain was falling among the men. Now and then one fell from his place wounded or dead. The situation was not calculated to keep up the courage of men who had but recently been rallied from a disorganized rabble: If these raw recruits were to be of any service in the field they must have more couraga Sitting upon his horse, looking down upon his men, with the bul lets singing close about him. Maj or Smith was seized with an in s pi ration. The battalion was al ready in regular formation. There was no baud to pass up and down in front of the ; lines as on dress parade. Only that terrible music of the Mausers broke upon their ears." ' Suddenly Major Smith drew his sword, as the men had often se n him do on dress parade, and called out, in clear, distinct tones "Carry arms!"; . , The. response was electric. The men forgot the bullets, the dan ger, the Spaniards firing into their . ranks from the top of Abe hill, and turned their attention to the manual of arms. It was a magnificent spectacle. History presents no parallel-where a body of warriers calmly and coolly stood under an enemy's lite and weut through the manualof arms as precisely" as if they were on dress parade. "Present arms!" Some did not respond. A bul iet had torn amay a finger or turn ed a face to the sky. "Shoulder arms!" The battal ion shouldered guns with soldier ly exactness It was true that the bullets came as fierce as ev er, but their minds were turned to something else, and. after all, they did not mind them, for they were soldiers, and it was a sol diers business to die. The inspira ion had the desired effect Any tremors which might have existed among the regulars were dispelled, and the three companies of the Seventy first New York took heart and renew ed courage. Their "nerves were steeled and thay would have bravely, gladly, joyously followed Major Smith's battalion up the hill a little later, when the orders came, and participated with him and his gallant men in the com plete rout of the Spaniards. They were detached, however, before the battalion of regulars marched up the hill and through the rain of lead to send a fiercer and more terrible torrent of bul lets into the ranks of the enemy. Generel Kent remarked to Maj or Smith that he had never seen men go into battle in better or d rand with firmer tread than thee commanded by Major Smith that day. Major Smith simply smiled and said: - '. - 'That was the result of an id spi ration." j The General had seen the men going through the manuel under a galling fire, and knew the signi xicanee of the reply. Major Smith has since been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Twelfth Infantry, another brave regiment worthy the gal lant commander 'who now con trols its destinies. St Louis Re public.; : 1 . mi Bestore full, regular action of the twweis. do not irri- -u ducats diKUT r- ganUm la perfect condition. Try them. ewtt. mm ! ocooooooooooooooooocccr; WE PAT THE FREIGHT AWO tll.SS O ALL IT CQSIS. mt. rocker. OtvM, and of. and two twrtar chiir. Highly polnti4 frame. fnubed mAhog- it, ana upno- Merea is ciur o Upeury, tarft iie, and suit able for any parlor in the laaj. t) 9 aai freight paid aaywkara oa tana. 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