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G. K. GRANTHAM. Editor.
Render Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's-
$1.00 Per Year. In Advance.
VOL. III.
DUNN, HARNETT CO., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1893,
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OUE WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Ttierr is innocent blood on the
head of intangible power known as
the Government of th United States.
Widows nnd the orphans weep for
the husbands and fathers sacrificed
on the altr or legislative economy
and adu. listrative disregard. Over
t!ie whole Ca)ital city there i9 motirn
iivj for the dead, sympathy for' the
injured. Of all the horrible occur-
rencea which this city has experience
ed none approach the awful cataa
troplie which but a few days ago
startled the pubiic puHe. The fall
i:;g of the floors of a Government
structure in which nearly five hun
dred government emplo3'cs were at
work is one of those happenings that
discourage descriptive effort. But
the damage has been done, the crime
cms", in muted, and no comes the
question of respousibility. For sev
eral years there has practically been
but one opinion as to the safety of
the building used for the Pension
and Kecord Division of the War De-f-ut
tiDect, and yet men and desk. and
li t-eabinets were crowded into it un
til every available foot of space was
utilized. Again and again his Con-rc.-H
been appealed to for the relief
which a few wisely expended dollars
would bring, over and over have
properly-feared clerks made public
their only too well grouded prophe
cies of disaster. Ami the 'petitions
have never received a moment's at
tention iroin those to whom they
were addressed. It was a notorious
y unhealthy and rotten shell, utterly
unfit for habitation, but the econo.
taisU' ears were stopped up with
. ophiitrtes and their judgement warp
hi by Hie instincts of cheap demas
goguery. Yet the calamity of ike
present may b lepeated tomorrow
in some one of the other government
rookeries in the city.
In another building in this city
owned by the government are hud
dled together in a shameful manner
2,700 beings, one third of whom are
females. This building is notorious
unsure and time and time aiiain the
attention of tho3e high in authority
and responsible for the condition of
jitfttin has been called to it, and time
and lime again have those authorities,
none less than the Congress of the
United States, cast as'de ths words
of warning and appeal so earnestly
made. This buildiug is the governs
raent printing oiflce, the greatest in
the world, and unquestionably the
least secure. It needed not the ap
pealing disaster of last wek. a dis
aster which shocked the whole civi
lized world, to bring home t those
compelled to labor lu this building
the lesson of the catastrophe. For
not a day of. years past has come and
gone that has not brought to those
uoiphfye of this great government
the realization of how near they
stand to death by falling walls.
Among the Democrats who stand
atound the hotels and long and dream
of faUsalarid sinecures that never
Cw:ae there is criticism of.every de
partment save one. That depart
is the Department of the Treasury.
They love Mr, Carlisle for corpes he
has made. The ineriy whir of the ax
in the vast building is music to them
Tbej- buoy themselves with the be
lief that that the splendid Carlisleao
example must iu time prove catch
ing. J
The Russian extradition treaty,
which has been the subject of negoti
ation between the two contracting
paities for more than six years, has
at last been formally proclaimed, and
will henceforth be the law of the land.
I. wiil go into effect June 24. It is
asserted by State Department offici
als that the treaty is similar in scope
to all our recent extradition treaties,
though it is admitted that in practice
the administration of the articles may
have a different result m view of the
essential difference between the judi
cial systems of the two countries.
, Mm. Cleveland will leave the city
in a fortnight to open the summer
home at Buzzard's Bay, where she
will spend a portion of the season,
alternating between that resort and
the country place on the Woodley
road just outside of the city, of
which she has so recently taken po
session. Upon first moving into the
latter place the President and Mrs.
Cleveland ban concluded to spend
the entire summer there, but these
plaHs have not undergone a changf .
The days at the country place on
Woodley road are spent in unevent
ful quiet by the Presidental family.
The fine afternoons arc spent by
Mrs. Cleveland in riding about the
country or calling at the White
House in the victoria for the Presi
dent, to accompany him back for
their late dinner.
Perhaps Mr. Bissell raay finally
conclude to take the bridle off of Mr.
Maxwell
It is coating the Natian altogether
too much to keep Congress supplied
with deinaoiTueu.
SAND FROM THE SEASHORE.
This is the season of the year
when those of our people who, for
pleasure or fur health, are partial to
the seashore, are becoming impatient
to get their trunks strapped and be
off. For all this section of the coun
try Wilmington is the Mecca of those
seaside pilgrims, for thence thej
scatter in different directions to the
neighboring resorts, which are now
very jusify recognized as among the
very finest on the whole Atlantic
coast. There is no other city along
the coast that can offer such a diver
sity of resorts. No other city can
hold a hand to Wilmington in this
respect. Even those surrounded by
resorts in number and attractiveness
to approximate Wilmington, cannot
by aay means approach the facilities
of that city for reaching the resorts.
People who are a little nervous about
getting to. close to old ocean, can
take the Seacoast train and get off at
Wrightsville sound. If they want to
get a little nearer the ocean, they can
take. the train and go across the
sound to the Hammocks, a wooded
island where a hotel nearly a.quarter
of a mile long is located, arid which
separated from the ocean by a sand
hill and the Banks channel. In case
you want to get still nearer, you can
again get on the train, cross the chan
nel and ride two miles along the
beach to end of the road, where there
is a cluster of hotels, from the piaz
zas f which you can sit, and toss
youj cigar stub into the surf. This
is the land route, and would in itself
be a great card for Wilmington, but
there is the river route. Twoelegent
steam boats ply up and down the
river toHching at Carolina Beach.
Fort Fisher and Southport. Carolina
Beach is 15 miles below Wilmington.
ThB boat lands at a long pier, from
which a train carries the visitor
swiftly across a narrow strip of coun
trv to the beach where there is a hotel
and a mile haadsome cottages, all
lined out along the water so that
only a pathway separate theoa from
the ocean. This is sa'td ?o tie the
prettiest beaca Soaih of Atbury
Park. At Fort Fisher there is a ho
tel and a number of cottages. The
fume of Southport is well known, and
it maj' interest the up country peo
ple to learn that Miss Kate Stuart
still presides over the historic little
white house by the Waters edge. Of
such an excellent character is the
transportation facilities, that one can
take in the resorts down the river, re
turn to the city, take the train and
visit the resorts from the 'sound to
the end of the road, all in one day.
It is only in recent years that facili
ties for reaching these places have
been afforded the public, and the re
sult is that each summer sees a great
er throng of visitors there than the
preceding season. That the natural
attractions ot these resorts are not
excelled by any along the entire
coast cannot be questioned. The
wonder is that they were not develop
ed long ago. Caaolina Beach is al
ready a Coney Island on a , small
scale, The way of reaching these re
sorts has been made a great deal
easier, and more convenient, too, in
the past year or so, for Charlotte
people, wnd everything now seems to
fit in just right. The Carolina Cen
tral Railroad Company recently dis
carded Rarus schedules and put on
Nancy Hanks. Their ' trains wi i!
take you out of Charlotte after din
ner and 1 and you in Jthe City by the
Sea before sunset. Or, if you want
to take it quietly that is. if you
want to go to bed in Charlotte and
wake up in "Wilmington, you can
take a sleeper at the depot here at 10
o'clock at night, and. if you have a
good conscience, you will slep
soundly until next morning, when
tlia porter taps you on the shoulder
and you look out the window, not
upon the familiar scenes about Char
lotte but upon the rice fields, the lily
spangled canals and the green level
stretches of the Cape Feat country.
The track no longer runs through red
clay cuts and over high fills but
along on either side is a narrow strip
of white sand; masses of tall ferns
and thick green grass, dotted with
wild flowers of all hues and sizes line
the road. The train rumbles along
through a semi-tropical stretch, until
there is a screech of the brakes, a
slackening of speed and the big iron
bridge over the Cape Fear is crossed.
Then on the morning air the traveler
detects the scent of freshly sawed
lumber and hears the racket of the
numberless saw mills that line the
river. The train rounds the curve
by Hilton rove, where there are
hundreds of life oaks from whose
branches the gray moss of the coast
country hangs in profuse clusters,
then you get the scent of the turpen
tine and rosin, and as you look out
upou shifting scene of mills, distil
erics, warehouses, ship yards, docks
and shipping, the train comes to a
stop under the shed of the Carolina
CeHtral depot. What nexi? Why,
of course, you will want a good hotel
and an excellent breakfast, and here,
too, everything fits in cleverly, for
the Orton House porter is there to
meet you. For a long time, Wil
mington's greatest drawback was the
lack of a good, hotel, but with the
completion of the Orton, that draw
back disappeared. The Ortsn is a
first class house in name and in fact
and is conducted on the basis of a
Ponce de Leon, while its rates are
those of the ordinary hotels through
out the State. A stop at the Orton
is really one of the delights of a visit
to the coast, and once there one feels
lished this season on Wrightsville
sound, by Dr. J. A. Hodges. For the
present, Dr. Hodges has rented the
comfortably fitted up cotcages of
Capt. E. W. Manning, proprietor of
the Atlantic View Hotel, and already
has a number of applications. His
guests and patients board at Capt.
Manning's Hotel. It Is a great
place for sick children and in
valids. They have the personal at
tention daily of Dr, Hodges, and the
constant services of a slotted, irain
ed nurse. The establishment of this
sanitorium s a most commendable
move, and its success is even now as.
sured. Dr. Hodges makes his char
ges to cover everythig board, lodg
ing, services and attention of nurse
and physician.
WHERE OLD TIME CHIVALRY EXISTS.
With the exception of Charleston,
there is perhaps no southern chivalry
survives to so great an extent as in
Wilmington. In an uours stroll about
the streets of that town after the bus
iness of the day is over, one can meet
sonrv-ea of persons whose manner and
bearing proclaim them types of the
old Southern gentleman. But lift
:he kiiocker and enter their homes
and you are made to feel nt once that
3ou are in the presence of Iieflnemeot
and Hospitality.
The streets of Wilmington are dot.
ted with elegant old mansions, buiit
after the stately ideas of the fine old
gentlemen of ante-bellum times. i All
are large and spacious, and some
haye massive fluted pillars from foun
dation to roof, supporting broad por.
ticos around the four sides of the
house. The grandeur of these old
houses has by 'no means departed.
Their former masters aud mistresses
having passed away cherished be
their memory; we shall never see
their like again yet the descendants
who take their places are imbued
with the same lofty spirit of chivalry,
the same sense of open hospitality,
and as they grow older they grow
more like those were who had gone
before them., i
Wilmington has taken on new life
to a wonderful degree lately. A visi
tor aotices that a great many old
landmarks have disappeared, and in
their places, elegant new buildings
have gone up. The new county court
house with its marble corridors and
marble wainscoting, would paralyze
the average Mecklenburg magistrate.
A7 number of very imposing new
stores, a new bank, express office and
insurance building have been erected,
an elegant electric car by stem is in
operation and the town is being dot
ted with new buildings very much af
ter the style of Charlotte. Charlotte
News.
ATLANTIC COAST LINE.
Wi'mington & Wcldon Bail Road
and Branches.
CONDENSED SCHEDULE-
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
A Home Without a Newspaper-
What is home without a news
paper? A home without a newspaper
is no home at all. It is a kind of
dreary den a rendevous of bedbugs
and fleas, where the inhabitants live
blissful ignorance of what the world
is doing. It is inhabited by a class
who do not know who is president,
or what he is president of j-wbo never
find out that a thing has happened
until after every one else has forgot
ten it. The children grow up in rags
and dirt while the wife generally
finds consolation in- darning socks,
huggiog a pipe loaded with long-,
green tobacco, and the man genially
! live her'iu.se he-caa t iie and he is
an irresistabk inclination to tarry km bims?m He goei
awhile before going further on. j . eeliQB daya. and docs aot
A SAKIXOilL'il BY THE SEA. ' fcu.JVT w:q Ini ii VOllag for, but ji.St
A new institution, and one of im-stake iLc ticket beaming the naiu
portance uot only to Wilmington but j bis grfcat grand-grandfather rote-lfor.
to the State, is the Samitoriam estab- Salisbury Herald,
, I Ho. 231 No. 27 INo. 41
Dated Feb. 23 '93. Fast Mall Daily
I Dally I Daily. exoa
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Leav WeMon. 12 SO 5 if 6 00
Arr. Rocky Mt..- ! 1 40 6 S 7 6
Arrlv Tarboro.
Leare Tarboro '.
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ArrtTe Wilson...... I 3 IS 7 00 7 40
Leave Wilson -1 2 3
Arriv Se I ma.. ....... I S ?P .....
Arr Fayettevllle... 1 & to -
Leava loldsboro.- .1 IS 7 40 " 8 30
Leave Warsaw . 4 14 9 39
Leave Magnolia.... 4 27 8 40 9 44
Arr. Wilminffton- I 00. 9 SS 11 25
TRAINS OOINQ NORTH.
- No. 14 No. 78 No. 40
Dally
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La. Wilmington- 12 S3 t 15 '4 0
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T.oave Magnolia.... 1 54 I 10 57 j M
Leave Warsaw... I 11 11 J 8 IT.
Arrive OoMsbor-K. 2 55 I 12 05 7
Lea. Fa?f ttviHe' - t) .... .
Arrive S.'lrua 11
Arrive Wilson I 12 80
Leavrt Wilson f 3 X" "i
Arr. Rocky Mt I 4 f.3 !
Arrive Tarboro....
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Arrive Weldon 5 05 ::
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Daily except Sunday.
Trains on Scotland Neck Branch Rna ! Veava
Weldon 4 00 p m.. Halifax 4 22 p ml arrive at
Scotland NeckS 15 p m, Oreenville 6 52 m,
Kinsten 8 0 p m. Returning1, leaves Kinstoa
7 10 a m. Greenvill 8 25 a m. Arriving at Hal
ifax at 11 00 a m, Weldon 11 25 a m, daily ex
cept Sunday.
Local freight' train leaves Weldon af 10 15 a
in, arriving Scotland Neck 105 am. Qaeen
ville 5 ?0 p m, Kinston 7 40 p m. Returning,
leaves Kinston 7 20 a m, 'Greenville 9 55 a'm.
Scotland Neck 2 2 p m, arrive Weldoa 5.15 p
m, daily except Sunday.
Trains on Southern Division, Wilson aad
Fayetteville Branch, leave Fayettevili W0
a. m.. arrive Rowland 12,15 p. m- Returning
leaves Rowlaud 1 1.15 p. ml arrive Fayette
vllle 5.15 p. m. Daily except Sunday.
Train on Midland UC Branch leaves Golds
boro, N. C, daily except Sunday, 600a m; ar
rive Smltlifleld N C, 8 30 a m. Returning
leaves Snaithfleld, N. C. T 30 a. in. arrive
Ooldsbro.N. 9 30 tt.ta.' v, -
Tjain on NashvUbJ Branch leaves Rocky
Mount at 5 15 p m arrives Nashville 5 55 p. m.
Spring Hop 6 3 p, m. Returning, leaves
Spring Hope 8 00 a. m. Nashvil! 8 35 a. m.
arrive Rocky Monnt 9 15 . m.! daily except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch iervea Warsaw for
Clinton, daily except 8unday, ate 00 p in aid,
1115 am. Returning, leave Clinton at 8 20 a '
m and 3 10pm connecting at Wrrsaw. with.
Nos. 41, 40, 23 and 75,
8outhbound train on Wilson Fayettaville
Branch is No 51 Northbound la No 5u. DaUy
except Sunday.
Train No 27 South aud 14 North will stop
only at Rockyjiount, wilaon Goldsboro aud
Magnolia.
Train No '78 makes close connection at
weldon for all points North dally. All rail via
Richmond and daily except Sunday via Bav
Line, also at Rooky Mount daily except Sun
day, with Norfolk and Carolina for x of folk and
alii points North,vla Norfolk. ,
Train leaves Tarboro, N. C, via Albemarle
k Raleigh R R.. daily except Sunday. 4 40 pm
Sunday 3p ra; arrive at Willlamston. N. ('..
7 18 pm and 4 20 pm; Plymouth 8 30, p m.,aad
520 pm. Returning leaves Plymouth. N. C.
daily except Sunday fi 00 a m, Sunday 00 a m
Willlamston 7 30 a m, CMm. Arrive at
Tarboro, N. C. 10 40 a m and 11 20 a m.
JOHN F. DIVINE. Qen. SVt.
R. KENLY. General Manager.
T. M. EMMERSON. Trafflc Maaager
Many Persons are brofcea
down froca -overwork or household care.
Brown's Iron Bitters Rebuilds the
system, aids digestion, removes exceea of htie.
ff-nf core TT"f r- Get the genuine.
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Will Practice in all the surround,
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JONESBORO. N. C.
Apm-n-a.
A HEW LAW FIRM.
D. U. McLean and J. A. Farmer
have this day associated themselves
together ia tlie practice ef law lu all
the coarU of the Su...
Collection i and genGCii pfijtk;
solicited
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