North Carolina Newspapers

I) I '4 I,? i I K'lV.y rr?pril'. to -Print Y.mr;' TK1TKU HEAD-NOTE lIIrADS, rxi:Loi-K, stifrnxo tags. CAllD. DODGERS AO. . PEMEMBEH WE DO; ALL KIND OF J OB ' I'm N TING AT IfARD TIME PRICES. ' " ' . . , t !.!... V have an - inorea'S circulation thereby giving a splciulid Advert wing meJiuiu ' . rs o n n a 9 M Hi O tl t o u ' w 11 is inferior to?paclca6 soda. is the '-whole story about of Imitation trads narks and labels. ARM MB i tt tVt rtf ffSC. PSt$ D0 mCre than 0ther W&Se soda never spoils ill UCiwiCSjW-S fiour universally acknowledged purest in the world. Made o-i j fcy CHURCH & CO., Kev Ycrk. Sold by grocers everywlicre. Write, for Arm end Hammer Rod: o ' valuable JSeclpcaF'REJE. : " ?r:cn ?5fl53SeEaC3S3C5SSCCSn3nS23H9HeHaEaaiV! Town Dirctorjr. ' Mayor A. K. Wilfi-.n. ' , (:.nnni-i,..ers K. t . Yonng, J. rcjK-. Dr. F. T. Moore, D. U. Hood. ' Marthal M. L.::Wad. II. C11UKC1IES. v Methodist Fvev. C. .W.- Cain, pa? tor..t'rviees at 7 p. in., Vvery iiit Sun kiy, and 11 a. in. and If p.'m., evciy . fourt 1. SiTwday. I'rayer-meeting every Wednesday niglit at 7 o'clock. Sunday K-hool everj'i Sim.lay morning at 10 o'clock; G. K Grantham, Suj)erinK".d dent. Meeting of Sunday - school Mis sionary Society every fourth Sunday aftertrKti. Young Men's prayer meet ing' every Monday night. IVe-byrei!:! llev. A. M. H;iss(ll, Pastor.-' S-Vvsce.s every lirst and fifth .Kmidaj mMIm. ui. and 7 p. in-!ind:iy M-hoof "- iy Sundaj- evening at 'oVlocfe. Dr. . I. '11, UjnioV Superinten dent. " ' . ' - Dieii le- Uev. J. J. IIarjor, Pastor St-ri -s every third buudjy at 11 a. in. aad 7 p. in. "Sunday school at 4 o'clock. Mr. Ld IlallAnee, Sjiiei intemlent, Prayer meeting every Thursday night tt 7 o'clock. . , . MMoiift-V Baptist Sunday pehool every. Su'iday morning at ID o'clock. K.; Taylor. Superintendent. Prayer, jiie eting very Thursday night. Free "Will Bantist.-Kev. S. II. Wor- i l. y. Pastor. Services' every Fourth t Siioday at a. in. Suiulay n hOof every Mr..day evening at 3 o clock, Ir:unius I.ee, Superintendent. . " . Primitive Baptist Fdder Burnice Wood, Pastor Scrvkes every thiri. Sunday at 11 :i. iu., and Saturdny before t!ie third Sunday at 11 a. in. ' - , .LOIKIES. The Lurkuow Lodge No. 115 I. O. O. i- kk-iv Tuesday nielst at N o . toek. K. G. Taylor, X. -G.: J. W. Jordan. V. G.; . C McNeill, Secic; tary. . Palmyra Lodge. No. 17. A . F. & A. . M. Regular communications every .third Saturday and every " fireC ".Friday night. Yi-itin"" ifaons invited to attend. J. Secret ary; "Prdfssioml Cards- Lee J- Best, AlTOKNEY AT LAW. Dunn, Vrarticn in all tlie ccurVs. tion ta ?H buiiuea." N. V rromj ;-t atten- J W-'E- Murchison, . Attorney at Law, . Jonesbouo. . r - . rractices In all the sarrouudin counties. D. H- McLean, Attokney at Law, ;.-i.oral Fr'aetire. VUI attend thp; e.virtR . . of Harm-it. CuiulrrtuiU. Jalin&ToK naiuui i'u couuties. " . T Dr-" J. BV Daniel; lKinn4-Harnett County, N. Q. Cur.oor a oveclslty No other disc? tr-ht.-.l. lVritir-Jy will not vicit patients a riutikji. i'niTil.'t4j on C&ncer. its 1 reat- iH. i.t aj:dCaro. will be mailed to anyaddress ' f H-K'Ilirie, ' " , ' A ttORXEY'A T LA IV, ' Tract lee iivthe gtite.aud Federal Courts. oth;h' attention -'.is assured to lasineas intrusted to him. atl JAS. PEARS ALL, COTTO'x.ntYF.R,- H.E P RE SENT ING V i.m ALU. cinLM A AT DUNN, B2NSON, FOU U O A US, WADE AND GODWIN, X. C. . f llice at D, il. -IIimnVs Dru DTJNN. S.U S;cre. -JOTEL piyiNE, UNDER NEW MANAQBiMSNT. This i to i iforin tlie p'lMiC that-' the ahovi- n Mn,-d Hotel has been Kenovat-d. lief'iriJ'lu'd and" Carpeted throughout and 1 will si. ire . no etlmt- to iieae ei i y on-!v top w'th ine. ripeciul i?.-r.c:t;i;g pur,I"e p.iiiou:'.ge gtncrall. . 1 son, y'Ui'n i i please. JNO, A. OAIL, PrcpiLtcr. ;.- , ... ; i ' " ' " v . - - i -V: 5 TUA. & lTnAN-Profirietdr VOL. IV. .MD HiJt. a ' NEWS ITEMS. Nws From all Parts of the 'World Gathered From our Exchanges. The 'los by Thursday night's fire in BufTaloN. Y , is placed at $200, 000, nearly covered by insurance. At Spokfix-j, Washington, the Com mercui! ?ar:k, a private institution, wiih;n o".iira! f $50,000, suspecded payment. It ha'l few depositors. Out of the 63,000 000 pope in his co.iiitrv ;n 1800. 20:000 000 were of foreijn- . narentBire. and of these 9.003,000 were of foreign b'rlh. ; . The. storm that parsed through this country la-t Wednesday night about 1 o'clock, is reported as duins much damage to Northern cities. Some lives were last ar.d many left wiUiout a home. . ' Henry .Westott, of Bridgeton. N. J., a member of the life-saving stas tions of iOape May and Aalantic Ci'y. a'th gh n!y 24 "ears ofugJ, !sas a recrd of 43 lives saved. Atlanta. Ga., which is somelirars called the Cliicsgo of tlie Soutii. is a fTU-it f tllg !l flit - -5iwin--mT 1 lias be t'tuo the pi'puluiion it had twenty five y-iara ago. P.sioffice Inspectors Whiteside, .jnes and Buda have caused the ars rest of P. II. Bowke. stamping clerk of the Savannah, Ga , Polollicc for stealing mail. The s't.re ar.J stock of F. M. Jenny fc Co., 8nd the poslolllce at Mil leys, Barnv?li county, S Wednesday night. S., wtA-e burned Suppose to be Lhe work of an iticeeisry Loss bes '. tween -4.300 a.d $..000. The la'est disease cure? in Ger many "is a shepherd who lives in a small village. Thousands of persons COme to. Mhim from aH pats j "of Germany, and he is said to have jbetn remarkably successful. The. French government is con structidg wUh all possible rapidity 12 gu:"boats and CO harges, which wiTl be sent in sections to .Madagas car for the use of the French expedi t:cn. , Klamath Falls,) Ore,; Dec. 29--At r iiuer.Lske, Lake count v, Oregon Christmas Ev;c, while a large -party-was attending a Chtisimas tree, a lamp exploded, causing a- fire, in which forty-one persons were burned to death and fom injured. Aurora, 111 . Dec. 91. The private bunk of K. J. Wright and C. V Stevens, at Somonauk. was looted by exiert- las!, night. The safe was blown open and all i's contents taken about 8,000 .in money and 1.000 in diaui';r.s 'The bank has a capital of $25,000. and a surplus of $16,000. i It will nen on ti-ne this morning '' and wili not be atfecled by the rob ' bery. ilmington Star. j Helen. Ark. Dee. 27. Pistols, igur.s and kries were used in a figlil iver a cr-p oramo at inn iiouse. ' r ...lie Aiimi viih-d two neirroes. in ! Btintly, mortally wounded two others i ami fceing shot by another of the party, fell dead on the bodies of his victim-, Allen's father brought the body here to-da' for burial. WiN miugton Siar. A young woman in Boston. has lost lH)tii les, which had to be amputas ud because she had a weakness for ! 'r stocking?. . Red is a dansrerour color to fool with. Many a: fellow has started out to lo a little red painting in the turn and has beu laid up for several days wUh the big j. head ' . The man who advertises . his goods is Ike .aaa wh seSlstheta (WL Is X- m' tt SODA! n 'PROVE ALL THINGS, AND HOlB FAST TO THAT WillCH IS GOOO.- DUNN, N. p., Dear little girl. givl niht, good night, The pretty bird i tt their neU are ? till. We ttaiclnd tiv tuu tie i.e sank li-oip &Uz ' ' j Uvt lrt'? tops on vo!h1it hill, V'vo stars h..ve,cine isiiice t!ie daylight went ; i'hfy lil-tst h i angels lliat Uoi h:is sent f 'lo watch inr; lille i:l the whole niht tliiuugh. ' i Dear li'tle girl, good night, good night, hear tlieng.-j hi thet inealiv CJill, Thy croak and j croak ia the eveuing light . j ! Dowii in the pond ty the old stoue j wall. ' - .1 th uk perlnps that thy tell Hie flowers N vtr to fear, though th world is dark They kiow the lire fly" light of the h..ur t AH niofht long; i:h hi cheerful spark Dearliltle girl, good night, good night' .Uear little head, with your silky hain Dear little form,! that I hold so tight. -ozy and warm in the oM-armeu chair. White lids are veiling the eyes o clear, Over the their lhieness the fringes creep, Slower and slower I rock you, dear, My little girl, lasleep, asleep. Tha Last of a Great For tune- The whir'igig of 'time brings of us to some strange landings. Every body know-gliow r cli a man W. T Blackwell, of Durham "Buck" Bluckwell used to be, lie broke eotno yesrs" ago. Sa'.uj 1 'y he .was sold 'oul-'-lock, stock and bajrei. The last, "of hi belongings went, ' In the Durham Suii of Friday he h id 1 a coramunic tlion, and these are seme, of the tilings he eaiil-: "I helped to lay oil the first streets and build them before the town had the money to do it I, for a long time, built more houses than all the rest of the people oft he town put to-, gether- I was one of the hrst build ers of the churches we now h ive. I was the one that st,arte-l th first to baeco market in the S ate. I have built nearly all of the warehouses for tho s'ai'e of leaf tt bacco that are here now nr.d those that have been lost ' I helped by fir1 -very body tha1. moved to k'urham ih.it- l.itr and ut to tlve years aso I was one o! the first to take hold of every 'enters prise that-' was I sailed that would benefit Durham or her pe-pie. I have worked U;c above number of years in oram in for tiie town of Durham and her peop le. and next Saturd iy the last of my property is to be sold and I divided among the good people I have imported from all over the broad and to this city. " I " great . I want to invite one and all to at yoti will tend this sale, and I hope coma with a3 good grace and with . as much earnestness as you did when I befcd vou to co us c a-id settle among us and live uitti us 'and help . build up. the city. - " While it makes no rtllfjrence to mi wheth er you come or hot, all the twenty tour years work and all tte money I have been . in improvements .to by enpyed by some one. and has passed out oT my hands! foever, a;il I stn left without a dollar, ho financial standing and no 'friends to bag of, and those I have, if any, have no financial smdtnT; to aid me as I have aided hundreds ia the twenty years p-.pt, a id if yu ever expect to get any aid ut of me or anything I have done in the waycf business and working for the sUsis'iug come nex' Saturday to Vhe sa'e i.nd help your aAlf fnr flvprv thin? that I possess is up and you caj never expect any m'-re help or a.d from your old friend. This is 2 complete rouiyi-up and I am at the end of mv r w and can't cn one way or anr)ther. " S this is:the eml'of it the end of t.i.e row for a main who once "counted iiinicv bv iirtohs. as mau do devils'" j There is something inexpressibly touching aWqt it. And yet it 'is a manly letter tuere is uot a whine in it. Ex Genius. The reply of Larenc rJarrVti to the young bctrtsti. who asked l ira; why some actresses succeed . whie others with more talent fai', apidUs ti other callings th&a that of the stage. -My child," 'said he', busU ness tact, push and intluence will reach the goa', wh "e simple genius will faint by ihe ), X Y. World. JJucli't-n A i -nil a S:i!re. j "lhe be-:lve m tn - w."..i i. r ci.'v . niise?, Salt P.h-n. F. ver Sores lett.-r, c::rKed I'nnk-, Chlllblain-s Corns. a;d r.!i kiu Kmpthii-1 and pos i.iveiv cures Piles, or no ifty.' tt " J guaranteed to g've perfect satisfaction " . u.v funded. Pii-? 25 cent? per ' fc- x. For sale by Harper A llod. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1395. A -1IE4C m. t sRpz.-g ALAK- The Dradiy. Keroitt.Be Lama Carnsa liOTi-b, Nweet Uttle Glel Affeeiiugr Funeral Bessie MeDcfhe Atkinson, the lit He daughter i f Mr. a-'d Mrs. J. W. Atkinson, a darling, winsome tot. the firy of tfu; hou'iold. the pet of .f the neighborhood, was horribly Ourned on Friday evening the 2lst, at the resi ont f Mr. Mulntyre. by the overturning ar.d explosion of an oil lamp. Evry effort was' made to rescue the child "but the injuries were fatal; and notwithstanding the exer tions of medical'skd!. tbc little sulf erer passed awny at 11 o'clock on the following daj. j The fm;eral exercises '..took place from the First Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock; "and the crowded ho-ist1. lhe swimming eye, the bearsstained cheek, the touch ing musii, the fervent emotion in eyery word of .the 1 ving pastor, and the bowed heads abou', the t'ny' grave in the New meter f, attested the universal heurtfelt 8 ympfthy for the bereaved ones. . . j How hard to put away this cusived flower, who e perfninc was so pass ing sweet to the wearied fatlier after tl.e labors of ,-tiie d iy ! How hard to watch in vain for tSits dancing sun beam of the hearthstone, which shone with such pure - radiance down into the lender heart of tlj snxious moth-i er ! Kut now the lovely furrn bears no scar of the fierce breatue of flame; "a saint upo.n its garments whte this sacred blossom, wears the Reaper" has sheaved it with the bearded jraiii," nnd laid it in the garner of God Fayetteyillfc Obsers ver. Little Bassie ai welisknown n Dunn,Aher father having kept the Hotel at this plce for sometime, etteville, This sa loo no f over many hearts in our town, and tlie family have-our deepest .sympa thy. Ed It Kaites a DiTrence.How a Tlilttj ' y is aia. A good: many of iu said" Sen Hto'r Pilmer last evening, are per haps sayiug things about .the Presi dent we wouldn't tay-befo;e his face- A great deal depends,, however, on the way' you say it. I remember taking Tom Mirritt, of Illinois,' to ' ee Pretident.; Cleveland one day. Mcrrilt iutt-jrs," and that is prob ably the reason the President "laugh" td at what be said. Shaking the President's hand, he remarked : It's b:b-beea a long t.st-Hme, Mr Pres-Pres-President, sinc I was here. It w-v-waS during the last; Democratic adminis-issis-admihistrs tion. before the war.' ;So 1,( ng ago ? the President ins quired. t ' "Yes, Mt. Prcfe-Pres-rresident. I swo-swo-sw(re' then lh-ths'that I would hot ker kerkercome again till there was arvother, -. Democratic administration alaala-elected and in tbntnd; and I. 'ain't .surssur-certain. Mr'. Press: re s-PrCsideot, but'h-bai wh but what I hayo ker ker-ker I have come . too . soon now. N. .Y. Sun. . -- A Year's Newspapsr Writ How much does a newspaper -man write iu a i ear? An old newspaper "woBkcr has sat down arfd fig'iVedlt out. He figu-.cs that he writes an average of a column andt half every day, exeeptTor" his Sunday paper, when he .contribute three columns. .This makes -twelve. columns' a week, and, allowing for two-weeks ,vca-ion, he has fifty weeks in a ycar An or- dinury book of short stories uituUius about TidlOOO woid. therefore Ins y6ars labor i equivalent ttf .twfrivty booke. At this rato of;.cumprbou the feat of ManoQ Crawfod in, pubs lishing t vo books par annurrtltoe not strike the newspaper man a a incredibly liard task, even allowing for the extra.amounof thought ins volved in -torr writing. Mr How. ell .considers a . tlioussnd . WJefrtiy one in the South to patronize ood lay' work; Thomas Janvier is satisfied with 400 words, or a tle over a quarter of a column.- Ex. This paper will be sent to any ad dress on receipt of $1.00, j Encourags Homo -Indus tries. 4!We she old kep ur mo ey at home" has been ?aid so often that it has become almost stereotyped, but it can't be said too often, j We have to learn las lesson, if we have not al ready learned it, thai whatever as sistance may come from other sources rhe main reliance of - th Southern eople for whatever prosperity they may have depends - upon themselves upon the tud uttlizition of the we ilth-pro luc:rg resources with which natu-eha so bountifully fayor kI this section, resorces the full ex tent of which- no living man has a full conception. All tli :&t has been wiitten or said of these gives but a vag le conception of what they are, fr there 's not n day tiiat doe not reveal home hid' den treasure ?.hich has been walked over for centuries without their ex istence being suspected. ; It has been known for ages that coal exi ted in (he Sou1 h and Cor a hundred yeara or more it has been mi ;ed on a small scale, for local use, but whoever dreamed of the marvellous deposits t hat explorations have since brought to !iih:? There arey1 coab beds enough alrpady tested to supply, the present demands of the world for a thousand years, atid jet therais scarcely a day that new discoveries are not made. So with iron.' The presence of Ui at lias been long known, aud in some localities the ir6n was' worked by blacksmiths and others, but no one dreamed- of the mountains and the immeasurable veins that are now known to exis", or that in the year 1891 Southern iron manufacturers could, successfully compete with the World, as thfy are now d dng. ; Ttie exis.ei.ce of marble has been long known, .but .no one ever iin ngined'that in the three States of North' Carolina, Georgia and Ten nessee alone there is more uncovered.' so to speak,' than the world could use coveries of new deposits have been mhde in Georgia which have been traced over t'uirty miles. ' Here are a few of the wealth producing resources, under the surface. x ' Who can estimate the money value of the forests between the Potouias and the Rio Grande? A rough es timate may be made of the value of the merchantable timber when sawed up, in the rough,, but this gives no conception of theN value tsf this same lumber when turned out in finished form. It is tfasTskiil of man that lives it its final virtue, as it does the iron and the maftjre' dug , out of the earth .. , Man did nothing to create these; nature did that for him; but they are his to utilize, to, turn mto sources of comfort, weaUh and porer. . Nature will not do that for him, as she will riiit harvest, the grain he 'pl tnts- She will rurture and ripcTrit, but he must harvest. " - . , ' So whatever the character or abuns dance of crude 'materials may be. whether tliBV lie the creation ofnji ture alone, or the work of rralure through the agency of man t they must4be fully, utilized to produce t heir "full value. No. country ever got rich but of the crnde materials she produced, but countries have be come rich by converting the - crude materials 'produced by t.hem or ot'her T countries into .finished shape for Ui use of man. A' purely agricultural country never becomes rich, because the margin of profit, as a rule, is too ,m'a.li between, the cos of produotipn and. the selling price-to make riches. rini hv a verv shfvw lirocess a".d lhe constant obsorvav.ee f the closet economy. And this would.be the ex ceptioo. not the rue. :, The Soifth Iihp produced cotton, enough to have ma!e ii r the richest section of the re:t in the world, bat for many yea, she was' content to make it, . $nd let others spin arid weave sud get. rich I ou, 0r jt ijut 8he has seen the folly 0r iLat and every vear now acids to tbe nuajber of Itercottou factories. FV-rv factory built rot only keeps wrue money si hone, - but brings in 'some' money from other sections and makes the South that much the stronger to forga " to tLe front, and ci ap the full benefit of her industry LrrJhnuM iliprefore. be the - aim of hr homo- industries oi wnatever Character they may.be, an 4 to give them the preference even if tha sme article might be purchased for a InGJe le,s from other sections. Cor thiivthe money of the South wouh.Ibopt $1.C0 Pjr Year In Advanced NO. 42. mme, and' the -infant" industries would be encouraged and sl engthen ed until they became, strong; and powerful aud able to coroiete with similar industries in" arj portion of ihe world, it the same time givihg employment" to our .irork'tnea and to "killed Lbor. and making a better d a neare- market for the pniduc.'? of the field and the forest aud the mine. ; " ; .If the rule were; adopted there are thomands of iuduslnes that would -pring up and flourise in this section every one of which would be a factor i n the Sou hV f u tu re pi ospeity wealth and power, Wilmington Star. " Prosperity in Noitli Carolina- r We c'ip the folkiwing article from the News & Observer of the 19th. The New York Mail 'and Express publishes in its Christmas editi6n ' number of letters from representa tive Sjuthera mea in regard to tlie social, politilaL and commercial pro gress" being made in tW variotfs States of the South. Each man ex presses his own views in h's own way and the consensus d:moustratcs. that the South of to-day is ,alhe to the opportunities of the b ur au l l as embraced them. Mr. V, E. Ashley, president of the Rdleigh Chamber ol I Commerce awd Industry contribute;- Lhe letter from North Carolina, and being a Northern man. -who bus made the South his home by adoption his Views are of erpeclal interest We qu te : , "The manufacturing industries of Nortu Cafoliuaare to-day as profitas table in their bcyeral lin'es as are those of any State in the Union. Over 75 per cent of them kept on working, and paid currency for wages duripg tbe summer, and fall of i8l)3. Many of them ' paid dividends in January 1894; more did .the same in Jqly last; and now nearly every one except, perhaps a JfowgpfT mill rm iuonej. ' "Society hgre is practically ' in: same as it is in the North. and West where I have lived. 'Social recogni-. tion cau be obtained her by honetsy. common sense and politeness. Our political condition cannot ha sur passed . We . Democrats have been in power for over twenty yea's, and had lull control oi the election raa chinery; but when, by out own count ing, we found that the Republicans and-Populists' had cast more votes than we had, we simply turned the offices oyer to ihetn,' bade them God speed" and returned, to ouf farms, stores and office, a d went to work as-usual, only a little harderv 'No people can excel those of this State in their respect for the law. Naturally each one likes best thdse who agree with him. . but political difference do not interfere W.tU butt ness relations. . j;- . If you will pardon. a personal re ference, I' will. say that I came to this S' ate' in 1870 from a. smail village near your C'ty. I Jiaye.seen our rai! ws mileage more than doubled; saw mills, planing miils. foundries etc.,' more than qualrupled, an I our cotton mills increaie almost ten-fold, until aow we have nearly twicJ as many mills, and more spindles than any other Southern State, and. yet' we do not epin all our cotton or use all our water powers. - '. - . In conclu-don, we have plenty of good labor, while and colored. Poor emigrants are not reeded. , The man to succeed 4n the South' to-day mu-t have means and skill to d- siime one thing better than we '-can. He will find nearly all his c rai).iitors. Araer icaus, as ies than. 1 per cent, of pop ulation is foreign bora. . . ";.. I . The Tallest Man in the ' World. 1 Aecordinir le Berlin paper, the tallest, man in tbe world at tlie pres et time is now to b3 seen In th Passage panopticum in that city. He is the Arabian Hassan Ali who bas trrown tu the enormous height of 9 feet 2 inches, although he U only 16 years old. It is believed tht he will continue to grw for several yes'8. Hassan' AH. was born near the Sidah Ammou? oasis, in Egypt. He has the Arabian cast of features but d.es not possess tl e asnal grace, t is needless iQ auj", of his people. Before him. tbe arae papers say. the taiJest man' was the CMnesa g'aat. i Sh&ng Yn Sing, but even wheirJ Hearst old he was a half foot or 'Cure Usrer. Ex. PUT YOUR "AD5 CHE CENTRAL TIMES : AND SEE YOU I L BUsji:ESS " . .' j: . prosp :rt. '.;..;; RATES RE AS3X ABLE.' he energy of a business mn is by tho judged by' ids home pacr world at farge. ESTATE-ft EWS, . .' '-,'-"'; " ' .4 TEHIS 0? I.1TE.UST IS TAK'fl FR3 ! CU.l IXC!UGE Arrangements are being made for the errecttun of two new cotlou mill in Wilmington. . - The.typographcil union on Wil- nlmjto has disbauded and thro trn up .Uucir charter. ,-.-'. he - -. . .';.. -" -,. Cora Ilaynes. colorrd,of SadfHbury smotherod ber child to death Thurs. day night while drunk. Island Beach Hotel near Wrfghtss ville was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Loss $30,000, insurance $14, 000. ; ' ' . ' , ' . i : . The. cotton factory here will be start ed up oh January 15th. This irifor mat ion we gather from a reliable sou'c". G d.lsboro Headlight. A man in Craven county rjy the nlime of Enoch T. Bennett was killed last Monday by a falling tree while utling limber. 4 tuiuicu uiau uaujcu lee VvUls Sreth was d owned in the Catawba iiver 'Tuesday by the capsizing of his boat. " j, ..' A Mecklenburg county farpier and merchant who puts his money under and behind b xes for safe keeping was robbedrhursdav night of $1,000 The safe of W. P. Neal & Co., "of liOHisburg was robbed Thursday night of about $1,100 and some pas, pers of value. ' The Oyster, Fish, Game and Ins lustrial Fair at !Neberne ' 'will be neld Feb. 18th to 23rd. 1835. The A 1,.-. - I VI- Ji t railroads rates. rill sell tickets at reduced A young Tover of 20 years who lives at Graham, found himsalf dis- appointed and attempted to commit- -r-.:-t. mwxTajroT fcaKing lauaauuui and later by the use of a razor.. A '.crowd of drunken negroes atn tacted a young white man in Anson county Satutday night while on the public road and beat him nearly to death'. .. Col. Fred A. Olds recently present fed to the State Museum an Exceeds ingly interesting relic, It is an old fashioned flint and steel "gun which was used by the Fayette tMlle Indes pendent 'Light, Infantry in the second war with England jn 1.8 If. The gun has on it the following inscription : F. I. L, I. Association.- 1793." Fayetteville Observer. . ' Thc Gpldsbo)ro Argus of recent - date" says: The -North . State CoU tqu Mill of this city, was disposed, of esteruay Dy its. owner oir. u. u. Gulley. to Mr. W. R. 'Pai'kerj of this city, ana an experienced cotton mill operator. He. will at aq: early day start the mill at the. Toll ...operating. cap t ci ty, i nd wi 1 1, .wei are ' a uire, s uc ceed admirably With . the enterprise. It is a splendid and valuable prop erty. The A'rgns.,v -wishes, liim the fulltst measure of. BttCQs? with the enierprisc.,- - 'i j -v "A party of small boys were on the graded chool ground! yesterday dur tngthe, foot ball practice. ,They bad a shoe box full of powder and from lhe box - a fuse protruded. They .lgiiteu the ruse and withdrew, out as the explosion failed to materialize some of the more rmpatfent ones went up to 'rel'ght tiie'fasel -Just as they reached the " box tbe powder exploleL Three boys, sons of Messas. C. McNellU. pal Gallagh er and Joe Baker, were badly burned the tatter's son serious! . JHU c'tb ing was ignited, and! hj4 face was so thivUy burned that 'thy skin' peeled v. -a. I t-w.' -r ' irom it. Luariotte news, j- At ldalia. twenty -it w mites f m ; Newber'', on Ci.nsi.uias evening, James F. Bcrcion, 'unprovoked, brutally. murdered jimei lH Wasjn. a constable, wi.o arretted hiiu for as- . sault wilb deadly wcajmn. wait lied and h.eld uodr foprjo be taken to"- Wath Bergeryii gutrd tf ngtor. jiil kCinriltiy. fWwhjeIar at midnight seye.ntysflve mask&l men tok Ber--weroii from the guard, irun Idm to & tree half a mile a way,- tidillel his body raifd left it. hanging till midday rhuYiajit. Watson was a good peaces able citieW Bergeron y"as a quar- peioFa'e DuBy and he people of the negMKHil generally say that he only got his d:eertt News and Ob setrT. - -