North Carolina Newspapers

" ' T 1. ' J ' ? V-?r- -. - " " Ss - . 1 r 'Prove all things: hold fast that which is good." j .. " ; T Vol. 6. ouTsira; ni:;c.; -march it, iser. No. 11. . W. L Douglas $3 Shoe. StvK-'j-hiraW. prfect-fittinjr. " by over i ,000,000 wearers. igks $150, $4X0 and $5X0 the productions of skilled . from the best material pos prices. Also $2-50 ana $2 Ten, $2-50, $2 and $1.75 Boys . , ,jnythebetClf,Ku"UCaKFrench Tatent Ca!f. "rnch Kwamcl, Vict Kid, etc., graded to corirnpotid with priceaof theahoea. If dealer cannot mpply you, write Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mast, turn r . 1 if A. MASSENGIIX & Co Dunn, N- C- TOWN DIRECTORY. CHCUCHKS. M' tbodlst Church. Rev.- E C. Sell, Pastor. 5.tv!(m- first Sunday night, and fourth' Sun day muriiiiiif and iujrht. Prayerruectinfr dnoday nllit. Kur.day school 'V-ry hwinlay morning at 1 o'clock, O. K. lirautham SUrriuteident. Uaftit rhuroh. Rev.L. R. CarroJl,iatr. H- rvicM! ' oTfiy necoud Sanday morning and in'ht. 1'rayf riHeting- evory Thursday nijfht S ,hiinlay SrlnMil every Sunday inorniiig, R. O Tat lr SuiTijiteudcut. Tr.'sb ti-riau ('hurrli.-Rov. A. M. Hassol Ia.-f'.ir.' S-rvicfs evory first and fifth Sunday morning and night. Sunday school every 1 '.Sunday morning, M. L.,V alvMui'rintend'nt. IMcj.li' Church Rev. I. VV. Rogers, ias- tir. rvice every third Sunday morning mi J nijflit. Christian Endeavor Society every Tji-sd.iy night. Sunday School every Sunday .-vMiin at o'clock, McD. HoIMday Sunt. Krou Will Baptist Church. Elder R. C. Jack ou,iuitor. Services every tsjfcoud Sun tlay morning and night. 1'rim it I ve Baptist. Church on Broad street M.lcrW. U. Turner, Pastor. Rgu'ar ttervi r. m on tiie third Satbath morning, and Satur - !y lfora, in each mouth at 11 o'clock. Kl ! l r 1 1). Otdd, of Wilson, editor of ion's r Landmark, i-n-afhes at this church on the fonrtti Sunday jeveniiifr in each mouth at'H iVlx-k. EverylKHly i Invited to attend tln-Bft nervices. i Young Mciik Union Prayerinvting every runday eveniiiff atj o'clock and Krilay night t i:3 clock. All are cordially invited to nttrud the? service. An invitation is ex t.iidxl totlm viaitorvi LoboKS. Lucknow Lodge, No. iU,. I. O. O. F. LoIge r.KJiu over J. I). Barnes' store. Regular meet ing on every Monday night- L. H. Lee. N. O.; f. II. Sexton, V. u.; jii. K. Urauthaiu, Secre tary. All Odd Fellows are cordially invited to attelMl. Paltuyra Lolge, Xo. 117. A- P. & A. M. Hall ver free Will BaptUt church. F. P. Jones. W. M ; V. A. Johnson, S. W.; E. A. Jcines J. W."; J. U. Johnson. Secretary. Regular roiiiiuiiiilcatioiis are held on the Srtl Satur xi.ty at M o'clock A. M ,' and on the 1st Friday til ,::o o'clock p. in. in each mouth. All Ma no ns in good standing are cordially invited Y attend these communications. ' . TOWN OFFICERS. I H,C. McNeill, Mayor. ' M. O Wad.-, Clerk. " K. F. Voung. Treasurer. . s J. A. Driver, Policeman. ,-': .- ! 'ommissionekS - - . K. Orantham. W. I. Thornton. ti. II. P;irk.r. . -E. F. Young. Cot N'TV 0TrCER3. I Sheriff, J. II. Pope. ( Ink. F. M. McKay. ; Register of Deeds, J. McK. Byrd. - Treasurer, J. D.Siem"e. Coroner, J. J, Wilson. i . - Surveyor, J. A. O'Kelly. i , i j County Examiner, L. B. Chajdn. i Commissioners : J. A. Oreen, Chairman. II. N. Bizzell and Nelll McLeod. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Attoraey-at Law. . SMITIIFIKLD, N. C. Careful attention t anj civil matters intni-tcl to his care in the courts of Harnett County H- L- Godwin, Att5rnet at Law." Dunn, - ; N. C. Otliet next door td Post Ofllee. . Will pruetiee in the courts of Harnett and ladjoininj counties and in the ; Federal Com ts. Prompt attention given to all busines W-E-Murehison, JOXESBOHO, N. C. Pnietiees Law in Harnett, Moote and otlier counties, but not for fun. Feb. 20 Iv. . ' Isaac A- Murehison, FA YE ITEVrLLE, .V. C. Practices Law In Cumberland, Harnett and anywhere services are wanted. : - j The County Union is the only paper published in Harnett count v. Subscription price $1. Subscribe now. WILLIS LEE TO HANG on March 25th fou the Mur der of Henry Stevens . - i ! Colored. i AVillisLeo, a white man aged about t0 years who left Harnett county soon after the war and moved to Edgecombe county and has.resided there since, has been tried and convicted of the murder of a. negro and sen tenced to be hanged on March 2oth. He lived near where Dunn is now and this county is the home of his bovhood. He has relatives and friends in the county who will read the fol lowing account of the trial taken from the Tarboro Southerner with interest : , "Guiltv of murder in manner and form as charged in the bill of indictment." and so said all of these : G. W. Thomas, J.J. Thorne, Henry R. Owen, W. H. Mercer, S. M. Crisp, J. 15. Owen, J. W. Howard C, A. AVeekes, J. R. Council, John Wallace, M. R. Thomas "and Hugh .Bryan. 1 And in this verdict Hon. 0. P. Mears agreed when he sen tenced Willis Lee, of the count of Edgecombe, to be hanged by the neck till he was dead, 4 be tween the hours of G A. MJ, and 4 P. M., March 25, 1897. j The undisputed facts in the case are about these: On Thursday, January 21, 1897, Marshall Lee,, a son of Willis Lee, was tried and sent by a justice of the peace to jail fof an assault upon his step mother. This and the attend ant circumstances, such as the handcuffing of the boy by a ne gro constable, Hoy t Staton, to bring him; to jail, so infuriated the father that he made many and divers threats against many persons of the. village of Speed, or Knight's Station, among whom was Henry; Stevens! As his anger grew, so did his potations, till he worked him- elf!up to that point that he had a fight with a merchant of that place, W. J. Davejiport, whom he believed was the instigator of the needless indignity' and perpetrated upon his son. After being knocked down and more or less beaten, Willis i Lee was taken to his house by jhis ner, a man who worked part with him in his shop, Mr. Hoard Mr. Hoard left him there? and went back to the stores and there while taking a drink heard a gun fire In a store next to Davenport, there did business a colored man named Henry Stevens, who at theltrial of Lee's soil was a wit ness for the prosecution!, and whose evidence, according to Lee, was a lie. L?e said so and in language forcible rather than polite, declared he would kill him. ' Between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, Henry Stevens, sitting in his j store with another colored friend, heard some one hail from the front. He went there and was shot down. His companion w.as so terrified that he did' not dare look out the door, but' rather leaped out the window and left. People soon gathered. Ste vens announced that he had been shot bv .Willis Lee. A guard was placed around house and a physician Lee's sum- moned, Dr. J. M. Baker, who found the abdomen penetrated and a wound very .serious, but a possibility of continued life, with a surgical ope ration." He 'phoned in for Dr. L. L. Staton. A" thorough examination by them satisfied both that any op eration' would prove fatal, if Stevens was so notified, , and realizing his condition, lie solr emnlv made and signed a state ment that he was shot by Willis 1 Lee. : Two ladies and . two gentle men were playing cards when the report of the gun was heard. The game was finished in a few minutes thereafter, , Their hus bands left to see boilt the un usual noise and tlreir spouses followed them ' to the porch, 1 -1 il. T ' rV ,nrl. 300:yards distant, imd! some one one said a man, the other a person enter or leave, carry ing a stick, or something like it. Lee, quite a while after the ; shooting, was taken to Stevens store, whither he went without hesitation or demur, and con fronted with Stevens, who ask ed him why did lie shoot him. To this Lee replied that he did not; that he was sorry that he was shot, had only heard of it when he was arrested a short time before, and God knew . he had no harm against him. Stev ens replied that he saw him with his own eyes. To this Lee again made earnest denial;' - The State endeavored to lo cate the murder at a point in front of the store by certain tracks, and insisted upon its contention. The defense show ed that the tracks made where the State alleged the murderer stood, were not made by Lee, that from this place the shoot ing and falling of the deceased was next to impossible and that from this place the contention of the State that the rays of the store lamp shown was not true, and that the rays could not be more than knee high at the place where the State located the standing of the slayer. T le negroes took up Stevens and emplo ed George H . case White, Congressman-elect, to prosecute him,, and during the whole progress of the case took charge of the court room with out so much as saying to sheriff S tailings,-by your leave, but took that leave for granted. Donnell Gilliam appeared for Lee and made a masterly de fense for him. What man could do, Mr. Gilliam did for Willis Lee. And in the years to cpme people who heard the trial will be found- speaking complimentary of Gilliam's stubborn, magnificent defense. His: speech closing: for the de fense was ornate, logical and powerful. In his representation of the State Solicitor Danie won new laurels. - He made a very strong speech, which with the elo quence and,pleasing bearing of the man must have had mu'ch weight with the jury. After the verdict a new trial was asked for and denied, and from this and the rulings of the court an appeal was taken to tlie(fcupreme court, . which will now pass on the life and death of Willis Lee.. Among the i majority of the conservative thinking men wljo kept up with the trial, the con viction of Lee was a surprise. There did not appear to 1e so many who believed him guilt less, but the majority did "not believe that a sufficient case for hanging had been made out. Taking it all in all, the pow ers arrayed against Lee, the al most impossibility of , the shoot ing being done from the point insisted upon by the State and those who aided the prosecution, the absence of light ' from the street shining upon the mur derer, the general inclination from the happenings of that day, to ascribe any violation to the man who had made himself so conspicuous as aStalker and violator, the Southerner with-j out meaning to reflect in any way upon the jury or any mem- ber of it, would still ask is it conclusively shown, that - Lee is guilty. A PERFECT WOMAN. When Sam Jones was holding his meetings in Dallas, Tex.t on one oecasion he said : There is no such thing . as a perfect man. Anybody, present who has ever known a perfect man stand up. ' Nobodv stood up. "Those who have ever known a perfect woman, stand up." j One demure little woman tood up. "Do you Jcnow an absolutely perfect woman?" asked Sami somewhat amazed. I "I didn't know her-personal- of the western country have al ly," replied the littles woman j readv signified their willingness " but I; heard a graat deal of her. J to f u"rni9h all the material neces She was mv husbands first' rp, rit;u.,4- Vi wife'" i i eary. - The:. contribution of sil- 1 j . j ver will be in the nature of a Train robbers held up a train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad near Calera, Ala., last Tuesday morning and robbed t he express car of $2,000 ' - - . js;.-. .1 .v - --J. - J THE GOSPEL TENT. Notwithstanding the rain and tent at this place last Sunday to cuss the doctrine of Sanctification. He preaches with gloves; oft and under his ministry sinners axe. The meeting will go on for A SILVER PALACE. The City of Omajia to Have One in 1898. Edward Rose water, chief of the bureau of publicity and pro motion of the Trans-Mississippi exposition, to be held in Omaha from June to November, 1898, acting for the exposition direc tors, recently approved the plans of a Chicago architect for a silver palace, his j palace is to be the most imposing feature of the exposition, and the cen tral figure in a portion of the grounds to be called El Dorado. As a distinctive j part of the great exposition it promises to rival the Eiffel tower or the Fer ris wliefef. The building is to be 400 feet, square, surmounted with mammoth ornamental tow ers, and the entire structure will be covered with rolled sil ver. Thevsilver palace ,will be used entirely for the display of the mineral products and prog ress of the west. The style of architecture is ".purely Gothic, and as this1 style! lends itself readily with its pinnacles, arches, flying .buttresses, and graceful and delicate forms, to the ideas usually associated with silver art work, it .has re ceived the general verdict of tipproval of the board of man agement. It will be arrangejil in the form of a square, with open arcaties and loggias at each story similar to the Vene tian palace. The corners will be adorned with octagonal tow ers, terminating with spires and pinnacles covered with the shining metal. The crowning glory of the palace., will , be the central lantern or spire, which is octagonal " in form, 250 feet high and 100 feet in circumfer ance. The roof of the lantern will be of glass. The amount of pure silver to be, used in covering the walls and dome of this mammoth building has not been definitely estimated. It will largely de- nend unon the thinness of the j sheets of pure" metal that can be used for this purpose. It was first designed to coat the build ing with silver paint, but this was indignantly rejected by the board of managers. Only the real metal was adjudged worthy of. this novel monument of artis tic architecture, and the miners loan, and when the exposition j is over- the building will iin , ourneu ana me bintr reiumeu i j - - l 1 . 1 to the original ownorss. Chica- go Times-Heraldl v mud ereat crowds thrdnged the -hear Evangelist Grumpier dis tall as if hewn down witii a broad- several days. NEW TRUSTEES APPOINTED. His Excellency, Governor Daniel L. Russell, has appoint ed the following gentlemen to be trustees of the Institutions named and their nominations the Senate were confirmed by on March the 8th : For trurtees of the ajrricul- tural department for the state at large W.' C. Sprinkle, How ard Browning, J. D. Maultsby, J. L. Ramsey, J. W. Bailey, ; by districts -John Brady, B. F. Aycock H. E. King, R. B. Lineberry, R. J. Joyce, G. E. Flow, S. kF. Shore, J. C. Ray, Jas. M. Allen. j For Penitentiary directors Claudius Dockery, W. H Chad bourn, E . T. , Clark, Hinnon Hughes, M. M. Peace, R. JR. Cotton, G. H. Cannon, A. Y. Sigmon, J. J; Perkins, for four years each. For trustees of deaf mute and blind institution1 at Raleigh B. F. Montague, to fucceed him self; James H. Young, N. B. Duke, C. T.i Bailey, K. W. Mer ritt. j For trustees of the Agricultu ral and Mechanical college, for. the state at large L. C. Ed wards, J. C. L. Harriss, G. E. Butler, W. G. Pool, John W. Hardin; by districts E. V. Cox, H. G. Conner, Dr. Matt. Moore, B. ILXacy, J. Z. Wal ler, II . E. Bonitz, Dr. Dr. B. F. M. B. Dixon, Kimbough, Dr. J. J. Britt. Lacy was nominated, but letter .was read from him in the secret session of the senate say ing his duties would not permit him to accept. Therefore, this place was left vacant for the governor to fill. In the list of trustees of the deaf mutes and blind institution. For members of the board of internal improvements Charles A. Cook and J. C. L. Harriss. For commissioner of labor statistics J. Y. Hamrick. ior two years) j : , For trustees for the Western hospital for the insane at Mor gan ton- V. S. Lusk Henry Mott, E. Ri Houston, T, George Walton, Samuel Huffman, John Pearson, Lee Whitener, A.l c. Sharpe, L. A. Abernathy (for four years) . , i For trustees of the Central hospital for the insane at Ral eigh J. D, Biggs, B. S. Utlev, Dr. Phil. J. Macon, Rev. T. T. Speight, Dr. Paleman John, W. A. Deans, Dr. B. Person, M. L. Wooid, George B. Curtis (for four years) For trustees of the State hos pital for the insane, at Golds boro Rufus Ham, F. N. Hus sey, C. Sj Wooten, John) S. Leary W. M. Henderson, Dr. J. E. Person, Dr. John D. Spi- cer, Dr. J. 'Sharpe, ReV. Joseph ferry (for four years). The Secretary of State has granted a charter to the J. D. ! Armstrong Live Stock and i tj . r' s- t y 1. iressea iieai VOinpanv tn ianu .vw cimmnn nd nrnkent tust master of Rocky Mount, is one r i ; i of the incorporators. Trll .tie If von love rna tell u.i m. Wait not 'till tlw Ktiiumer glow Fade in aittuiuuV eliauejul liht, Amter clouj- and purple iilh'; Wit nttill the winter hour ll ap with nw drM's all tin tl iwor. Tilt the 'tide of. life rum low i If )ou love me tell UK? ji. If yoij love mc fell me so. While tlie river' dream 11 v Uolds the love enclianted houri!. Steeped In music, crow.nd with flowers. Ere the uminers vibrant days VranUh 1m the opal haze ; ' Ere U hushed tha music flow it you love the tell me so. . I If yu love me te!l me so. Iet me hear the 5wert word low; Lot me know, while life is fair While in womanhood's tirst bloom, Ere hall come dark days days of gloom, In the tirst fresh dawning glow If yoM LfVe me tell me so. Lillian Whiting. NEW DISMAL SWAMP CANAL The new Dismal Swamp Ca nal may bo completed by Janu ary, 1898, according to Engi neering News .) The enlarged canal was commenced in March, 1896, by a Baltimore syndicate, which provided l,zvv,uuv in construction and equipment bonds for this purpose. The old canal was about 20 miles long, 32 feet wide on the bot tomland carried a minimum depth of 4 feet. It had five locks, and would pass barge 100 feet long, 1G feet wide-and drawing 3 feet. The nev canal will be forty fet wide at the bottom, (0 feet wide at the wa ter surface and have a minimum it depth of ten feet. Each of the new locks will be 250 feet long 40 feet wide, and have 10 feet of .water over the mitre sill. Ten turnouts are also to bo pro vided. It is -estimated that a speed of ten miles per hour can be maintained in the new canal, and the fifty miles between Nor folk and Elisabeth City can be covered in six hours by barges towecTby tugs, and fast river steamers can cover the distance m - :'Wa.l in tour hours, j it. tnis, ic true the new canal will be a power- fur rival to ! the present Albe marle &' Chesapeake Canal. Philadelphia Record. SA3I JONES AT RALEIGH. If all the church members in this town were to get to Heaven you'd have to sleep with your breeches under your head, or hey d be gone next morning, I believe if all the politicians in North Carolina were to die to-night and go to hell and j the devil wee to peep through the key-hole and see them coming, he'd close up shop and leave by the back door. If I wanted to ruin a man I'd run him for an office and him left. Y Ret, man can t go into noi a . but a clean man can't come out of politics. A clean hog can go into a mud-hole, hut who ever saw a clean hog come out? This is a! poor man's country and there's not a boy or gfrl in th- United States that can't do anything that a man ought to do. If a man's unfortunate give him a quarter. If he's a vagabond give him a foot. Don't wait for something to turn up but turn some thing up. Anvmemlerof the legisla - H,ro ;ri,n wmiiri mtp fnr n . Inrm U'nnt fit to hanrr on the ; KKAa mm mm. w mm r mm, m m, m m m,-j m, m m. mm i m mm . IiUpIc dMir nf-heli. The devil ! rrpt AliAmerI of him ami take down the sign. There are I i drunkards because there are ga-, i loons because the . law licenses , j them, the law licenses them bc . cause the legislators allow it, i and the legislators allow u dc - - cause church meralers elect them for that purpose. ' " !' . n iii.-:m Governor Russell has appoint- i rru ir vaA Won! ed Thos. H. button Lsq., Kep- r6utaiv from Cuu.Urlaud county ft ibe recent' legirfature, tobeiuJciof Kterii(:rlmiaal ..i.ii ,,,,,'rt . hucM JUle . i : A.V4A VJD. rou ask if agi:ngr?,,v,:7?c, of 1 o into polities. Yes, I ' ,aTff1Sa,urr.da' raornm r T rrta AND ) SAVE MONEY UADQ xte on ovtx ocACxnv mb mu yu amavclalmM mhmpr tmm fm m ct iMwktrt. Tti nnxr xxonm i KrkMt,kttw naailta eMpr ia4, iela mm CUSXUC. IOBAL mwU. tUmr IXUtm Arm Vail ?TIfcl rialWl Uwlaiar Wftla nr$ll.OOa4H Call mm r acat r wrtM Vr waat yr trad. na4 ITmri ti m ar cmui s will wta. wa will hava IU XTm aallasa tfta warIA f r4aM k CTTCa $10.03 aUwtait aelUa Of S0.O, ar a aatur $10. Sawlat(EIaclUBtar$S0.0Otaaa ya aaa bay froaa ma, ar aar Acut THE ES U HOUE EEUEQ niCHlKE CO. Xia. Bam lUav M Cwf r . M. , ron mu ai GAINEY & JORDAN, i i f i I - Dunn,: N. C. tate! news. '. ! ' ! aaMBMaAaaaBBaMaamaBBaBMiaHBMaaa) i 'i i Items ok news oatiikkkd fuoM all takts of. the State - : 1 ' ' Mrs. Martha Weir, was run over by a shifting train at Greensboro, and her leg had to be amputated, says the Record i Three women were a .Tested in Winston last I'uesday, charg ed with drowning a baby wlrfch was found in well in Kast Salem . Dr. D. II. Abbott of Pamlico county, has leeii appointed by the Governor, Railroad Com missioner to aiicceed MrK..i(. Beddingfield whose term of 'of fice has expired. ' Bob Morgan and John Hunt, a mm a both colored, wero plactnl in jail at Raleigh last week ' for stealing cows from . negrocn jy Wake county. ; k . Concord will hold an election Monday, April 19th to decido whether to issue. $40,000 of bonds to purchase and improve water works, improve t lie street and p ty off outstanding, debts. ' : I . . i The city of Wilmington will hold an election on the 25th of this month to elect city alder man one in each ward. The Governor will apjoint one in each ward. The city alderman will elect the Mayor: j Ah attempt was made to burn the Cedar Grove Inn at Clinton, on Saturday morning March Cth, by some incendiary but; the fire was discovered and 'extin guished before any damage Was done, says the Democrat. John Neel, who shot and killed David Craudall in. Pitt county on last Christmas-morning and for -whom Governor Carr oflcred a reward of $75, was captured in Bertie county last week and turned over! to the Sheriff of Pitt. A negro named Mac Dowell who was employed by Jones fc Batts, across the railroad, hot and seriously wounded another says iiiu i iiMJu iniit-n. Rev. J. L. Burns, a one-arm- ed uonieuerate soiuicr ana inn ciple preacher of Martin county, has received the apjointmeiit of keeper of the Capitol to sucued Capt. Roberts who has held tlffc position for nearly fifteen year's. Rev. Burns is a populist. The receipts for cotton 'ori this market up to this time thisytr - have been 23,771 bale. For a 'corresponding per iod last rear 1 . tliey were only 17,705. TltU increase in receipts is not due the fact that the crop than for last tho fact year was-larger previous year, but to the that it matured earlier and has more pmroptl v marketed y the Raleigh News and Ob rvf!r at the 10th, inst. j jr Ever McGilverv. an aired anj highly reMected citizen of p-ket township,' wan thrown from hi mule at Saiford ami sustained injuries from which he died at that place on Monday: . . ; . . He' was burned m Buffalo ceme- . tary Tuemlay. -.Mr. . Mc(.ilry f.1 . f '' " 0 ,lcr ,,n l'h hureb. VHi!.wifirviy..rl.im. Joueloro rrogres. iXgj !-! i i H 1 i j i i 1 : i 1 1 1 t 4 t I 1 ) i ! i ) f I i i 1 4 r ' . 1 - f