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Xo our sorrow,
T
jg.DsAD A WD COmE ;
aim
iii-uii'M yourself to death, when
JKFFRSON DAlb BARNES
,v;tn, io inake you happy by selling you goods at' the lowest
,,rjc,-sever known in Dunn. We have an immense tnni-
Heavy anu r uncj -vxLocen.es, y uress Goods, Hats and Cans
i",,,1"m" ' A su,ue lJnce- ugliest price paic
uuiiu; x xurpuiiniie. aee us before you buy.
Yours to suit the hard times,
J. D. BARNES "
TOOD &
Bcxxne Old Btanci..
H.A K A Mll'PLY UK ALL THE
COMMON SCHOOLS. BUY NO W
YOUR CHILD WHEN THK SCHOOL
b'Lvl'KS. PKNCILS. CRAYON.
AND INK AT REMARKABLY LO'V PRI Es.
I -US", C'JQfcCtioueries. Statiou;ry. Patent Medicines, Coperas, Birax
Sulphur. Drug Sundries, Pt pper, Spices &o.
Tobacco, Snuff, Lamps and Lamji. Fixtures, lso Hall and Store Lamps.
"Prescriptions Carefully Filled."
We are headquarters for any
thing in our line.
to
? pRUGG-IST AND PHARM ACIgy
iLlon't keep, uor sell whiskey, but biv'e ciastaotly oa hand a full supply
of . "
PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Tuilt Articles, Cloth and Hair B-usies, Ssatiooory, Candy, Starvih, Sodi
Soap's, Lamps, Cigars, Snuff, Tobacco, and a variety of other thiugs.
Prescriptions Compounded with care and Accuracy-
Keojcniber I am Headquarters for anything in my line.
Thanking all I am yours to please with goods and prices.
N. B. HOOD, Dunn, N- C
Mr A. L, Pearsall is with me and he invites all his friends to call and
fee !i i in.
rROFHSSIONAL CARDS.
K. W. POTJ-.
Attorney-at-Law.
SMITIIFIKLD, N. C.
C:m-fiil attention to any civil matters
iiitnitr.l to his care- in the courts of
Harnett County
H L Godwin,
Attorney at Law.
Dunn,
Oilin'ou Liu know Square.
N. C.
Will .:ictice in the courts of Harnett
a.ljoinin counties and in the
l'loinpt attention given to allbusines
"W". E- Murchisou,
J0NESB0H0, N. C.
l''-i(ti(, s Law in Harnett, Moote and
nll" i -unities, hut not for fun.
'!,. '20 lv.
Isaac A- Murchison,
1 F A Y ETTE V I LLE , NT. C.
lai--tiees Law in Cumberland, Harnett
;iinl anywhere services are wanted.
J. C CLIFFORD,
Attorney at Law,
DUNX, X. C
111 praetice in all the court; of the
"ttt , where services desired.
V- l Jonks. AV. A. Stewart.
JONES & STEWART,
Attohneyc-at-Law,
! DUNN, N. O.
roinpt; Personal attention to Jill pro-
J'-ionarbusines. Practice any where
services required,' either m S ate or
general Courts.
The County Union is the
only paper published in Harnett
county. Subscription price
Subscribe now.
$1.
DAVIS '
But don't wear a long face
immense stock of
RAISTHA!V3.
SCHOOL HOOKS USED IN THE
AND HAVE TBEM HEADY FOR
OPKNs.
COPY ROOKS, PAPER, PENS
IS HARPY.
"LAUGH AP GROW FAT."
Those who buy their groceries from
L. P. JERNIGAN
can face the hard times with a smile. 'for
he makes 41 rices meet the demands of
the people.
Full line of
Fancy Groceries
always on hand.
ME A T,
FLOUR. SUGAR.
GOOD COFFEE for 10c per pound
TOBACCO
and of all brands.
SNUFF
Canned Goos, Tinware &c.
Sells everything found in a First
Class Grocery Store.
When you are in town call
and see me, and examine mi
stook. Yours truly,
L P JERNIG-AN-Lunn,
N C.
Wanted An Idea
Who can think
thing to patent?
some simple
B . ... Mo.. . tV.I tn m v krlnr Tiul wo&lth.
Writ JOHN WEDDERBURN A CO., Patent Attor-
n&T. WMMortoa. v. o.. ror tnetr pram parr 1
HOOD
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From The "Ril i-wil'ln "Runner
For ten vpnrs wp hnvp Iipph
roiien)eaiS V,e liae Oeen
endeavoring to purchase a lot
whereon to erect a building for
rri i?;n ;n i i , n
lhe Billville Banner; but until
recently,, when prosperity
struck us, and took up its abode
in our midst, we were unable
to do so. Yesterday the old
cemetery. was sold at auction,
and we bid it in for seven dol
lars. We are now moving The
.Banner. into one of the most
commodious vaults it contains,
and we are as cheerful as -we
can be, under the circumstan
ces. We don't believe - in
ghosts. Many of the dead in
the confines of our new. pur
chase were ancient bill collec
tors, and they got so tired run
ning after us tlmt , they were
glad to rest, and we feel that
they need all the rest they can
get.
As news items were short
this week, -we contented our
selves with copying a few of
the many epitaphs scattered
around us. It's true, they are
now in the class with the dead
matter, but we still think our
readers will- be interested in
them. Most of our readers are
dead-heads anyhow, so they
won't take this graveyard de
parture amiss. So here goes :
A BRIGHT FUTURES
Beneath this plain, pine board
The bodjT of Joshua Hight ;
"Cheer up," the parson told
him dying,
"Your future's very bright."
Slowly the sick man raised his
head ;
"Parson, it's most too bright,
he said,
"For I can see it blazing!"
HE S HAPPY NOW.
Samuel William Jenkins Stone
To glory went a-liummin' ;
He took hold of life's telephone
And hollered : "I'm a-com-
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ON WILLIAM BLIMM.
Beneath this stone, in sleep pro
found,
Lies Major William Blimm ;
He put five wives beneath the
ground,
But the sixth buried him.
She would not call him back
again.
Being of strong endurance ;
He left this weary world of pain
And also, some insurance.
A DOUBLE STANDARD MAN.
For thirteen years a Democrat
As solid as could be,
And all the time for silver
Sixteen to one, and free !
He ran for office, but his wrath
On folks he never wreaked ;
He'll never walk those golden
streets
Unless they're silver streaked.
TROUBLE IN STORE FOR HIM.
Here Spottswood Jones is lying
dead '
On earth he was a teacher ;
"I'll meet three wives in heav
en," he said
"Lord help you." said the
preacher.
ON A FERTILIZER AGENT.
Six feet beneath
This funeral wreath
Is laid upon the shelf
One Jerry Jones,
Who dealt in bones,
And now he's bones himself.
ON HER FIRST HUSBAND.
Sleep my husband, sleep away !
On another I' may lean,
But I'll make hira: every day
Hoe your grave and keep it
green.
A LIFELONG .OFFICE-HOLDER.
He's left this world of pain and
Strife
And reached the other side;
He held an office alL his life, j
Resigning when he died- j
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on mr. rober.
Here where the breeze the bios-
som shakes
ties-Andrew Johnson Rober;
He saw the devil and great
snakes:. I
Moral ; Good folks, stay sober I
icucr. uii-ivneum nuu tczemcj
The intense itching and smarting, inci
dent to these diseases, is instantlv allaved
t i,y. a?p - ? nauiberiaiu s Lye and
Skin ointment. Many very had cases
have been permanently cured by it. It
! is qaiiy efficient for. itching piles and
: a favorite iernedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chrome sore eyes. 25 cts. per box
Dr. Cadj's Condition P)ndcrs, are
just -what a horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but
medicine and the best in use to pnt.a
horse ia prime condition. Price 25
cents per package.
For sale by N. B. 'Hood, Drug
gist, Dunn, IN . C,
HIS LAST REQUEST.
Dying, he said: "Don't weep
for me,
My darling
don't !"
wife please
She looked as smiling as could
be,
And said : "You bet I won't !"
ON A PARTY WHO WAS LYNCHED
They lynched him to an old oak:
tree
That blossoms on the slope,
And then they made his family
Settle the bill for rope. .
ON AN UNHAPPY SPOUSE.
Sleep, nvy dearestt in the dust ;
Death gives to hope its birth ;
You're happy now, is what we
trust ;
You never were on earth.
Tie fac
limil signature
of
!i es
rapper.
Address to Cotton Mill Men-
A letter of which the follow
ing is a copy was mailed yester
day from the headquarters of
the Southern Cotton Spinners'
Association in this city to every
cotton mill in the South :
To the Cotton Milling Industry
of the South :
At a recent meeting of the
board of governors of the South
ern -Cotton Spinners' Associa
tion, convened. at Charlotte, N.
C, for the purpose of consider
ing the present conditions, the
following resolutions were adopt
ed :
First. Whereas, The present
slight advance of mill products
point to some little margins, we
deem it advisable to urge upon
all manufacturers the impor
tance of conservatism; in their
operations and would respect
fully caution against the, effort
on our part to over-proa uce
products by running extra time
or increased night work, and to
especially urge the maintenance
of prices as at present ; hold
firm for advances, ancF avoid
concessions toward reductions.
We have not, even now, a just
margin on our products, and it
should be remembered that we
are just emerging from a de-.
pression under which we have
operated for more than a yeaiv
and this should admonish lis to
stand a unit against falling into
such a calamitous condition
again. The price of cotton will
be higher and contracts should
only be made on such a basis.
2d. We appeal to all manu
facturers of cotton of the South
to stand firm. We feel that in
this appeal we are advocating
only the common interest of a
cause in which our entire sec
tion of country is most deeply
interested, as respects both cap
ital and labor.
3d. We hope that this appeal
and admonition will tend to at
least attract attention enough
to cause, those to whom it is
made to earnestly consider the
situation, and do what may
seem best to promote our mu
tual interests.
By order of board of govern
ors, Southern -Cotton Spin
ners' Association,
J. T. Anthony, President.
Geo. B. Hiss, Sec'y and Treas.
Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 20, '97,
Charlotte Observer of the 1st.
Bncklcn'N Arnica Sake.
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tor cuts, oruises, sores, nicer,,
salt rheum, fever sores, tetter,
chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions,
jand positively cures piles, or
'no pay required. It is guaran
! teed to give perfect, satisfaction
; or money refunded. Price 2a
cents per box. For sale hy N.
j B. Hood, druggist.
i
I Pousse Pate...
j
G And why not a pie-pii3her J
f as well as a coffee-pusher ? It's
V far more necessary. Do you i
suffer with dyspepsia ? Ayer's J
Cathartic Pills will cure you.
V Take a - . (!
1 PILL AFTER PIE. lj
The i'oMiury SMil: r Wife.
You hav" Iieaiil of the country editor's
life,
With it care and worry and doubt,
Of the s!i;il.bv genteel" of hi seedy
clothes,
Of his. diamond pma:.id hUealm repose,
His happiness, money and gout.
Bat say, have you heard of the editor's
Wife;
Of that silent co-partner, who.
With a blending of sentiment, beauty
and skill
With st-temperutc knowledge, tact and
will,
The whole :f Ins labor can do.
It is she who embroiders the garments
worn
By the editor's hard old chair,
Now dressed up witJi cushions," soft and
' neat.
And trimmed up with ticies and rib
bons sweet
Which once was so poor and bare.
If the editor's sick, or awav belaud.;
In need of more hand- or more haste.
She di'ects hN wrappers so they can be
lead.
And writes his leaders right out of her
head,
And willingly makes his paste.
She reades the magazines, papers and
books,
As the cradle she softly rocks,
While the edrtor sits in Ids easy chair,
With Ids linger, thrust in his hair,
She quietly mends his socks.
Then she reads the ads with the editor.
Just to find out wjtat each has paid, 1
But the column ad of the jeweler there.
So he says, "the harness ami human hair
Mu-t be taken out in trade."
o she wears the dress he gets for ads,
And rattles his sewing machine;
She uses the t utter and egg and things
The country 'subscribers so faithfully
bring,
With a cheerfulness seldom seen.
But her life, so full of many delights,
II is one datk cloud, alas !
Though she share. his tickets to the
circus a. id pl y.
To lectures and negro minstrels gay.
She can't ue his railroad pass !
When time hangs heavy on his hands
She beguiles his hours away
With joke and laughter, muicand so:.g.
And pleasant talk, and thus ripples
along .
The whole of each leisure day.
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Oh! who would exchange this s.veet
; content,
This simple and trusting life.
For that of a queeil of royal birth ?
For the happiest woman in all the earth
Is the country editor's wiff. Ex.
:i'Clric Ililfcrp.
-Electric Bitters is a medicine
suited for any season, but per
haps more generally needed
when the languid, exhausted
feeling prevails, when the liver
is torpid and sluggish and the
need of a tonic and alterative is
felt. A prompt use of this medi
cine has often averted long and
perhaps fatal billious fevers.
No medicine will act more sure
ly in counteracting and freeing
the system from the malarial
poison.! Headache, Indiges
tions, Consumption, .Dizziness
yield -to Electric Bitters. oOc.
and $1.00 per bottle at. i..l.
Hood's drug store.
Which Hide are You On-
We are a white man and be
lieve in the Anglo-Saxon rule,
and furthermore believe that the
time has . arrived when every
white man must decide whether j
he is a white man with a white;
heart or a miserable negrd lover
with a white skin and a black
heart. Every man, true man
who has respect for the family
of his! bosom, the protection
aud purity and chastity of our
fair daughters, must cease to be
on a special equality with those
who prefer negro rule. It is
nothing more than right; let
him go where he belongs, and
let every true man see that the
line between a negro lover is
indelibly drawn. In other
words decide whether you are a
white man in favor of white
man's government or negro rule
placed upon us by black-hearted
corrupt white men. Which side
are you on? The time has arriv
ed "when you must say. If you
decide to be in favor of negro
domination over your own race
and thus by your acts assent
willinglv to every apt that tends
to degrade our white sons and
daughters, theiou must neces
sarily find no social considera
ion at the hands of any true Anglo-Saxon
family. Oxford Ledger.
The South Wants Factories.
If the .newspapers of the
South accurately reflect pre
vailing, public sentiment, the
desire is becoming verv strong
I
i there to become a nianufactur-
mg section. Editorials com
mending the establishment of
factories frequently-' appear;
ine advantages ot Having some
substantial outlet for
the
agn-
phi hi mi nnnifi,u, i.i
market for these products, and tne liver does not act it's part.
LSotL 51$' Doyouknow this?
points raised. Tutt s Liver Pills are an abso-
The Landmark, an excellent lute cure for sick headache, dys
country newspaper, published1 a sourst omach malarh
semi-weekly at Statesville, . N.'j PePs,f' sour stomac i, malaria,
C, takes up this topic, making! constlpation, torpid liver, piles.
tne great increase
in bicycle;
riding a text. In one North
Carolina town $150,000 is esti
mated to have been invested in
bicycles and while the Land
mark likes the wheel, the edi
tor asserts that its introduction
means the sending of so much
money to the North. "When
we come to think of it," con
tinues the Landmark, "very
few of the things we buy are of
Southern manufacture. Nearly
allthe goods we buy out of the
stores are made in the North.
So are our agricultural imple
ments and machinery, and our
life and fire i n s u r a n c e
money goes to Northern compa
nies. In addition to this, the
governmental policy is wholly
against Southern interests.
Tariff and internal revenue tax
es are levied so that the money
is drawn out of this section and
m . 11 mi
none 01 it comes back:, llic
cotton and tobacco crops are all
we have to offer against these
demands upon us, and they are
quite consumed by the purchase
we make from our Northern
neighbors.
"The bicycle is bu.t one of
many things. It is a wonder,
as we look at the whole subject,
that there is a dollar left in the
Southern States. The' North
and Europe send to us for cot
ton and tobacco. Against these
we buy everything else away
from home. The .remed' for
this condition is the establish
ment in the South as far as pos
sible, of manufactories which
wrill make the things we buy.
We have all the while been an
agricultural people. We will
never become rich ind great
until we add to 'agriculture
manufacturing, and that not in
one line alone, but in all the
diversified lines of human en
deavor." ,
Ther; was. a time when the
South spurned manufacturing,
but to-day, so far as the pre
vailing sentiment of the people
is concerned, there is an im
perative ctill for the erection of
factories and mills. Whether
this wish will sufficiently inllti
ence the working of economic
laws to develop in the South
an extensive manufacturing sys
tem is one of the things which
the future will have to decide.
But the change in sentiment
itself is notable. Boston Tran
script. N1:iii1m nt tin- Ilentl.
Aug. J. Bogel, - the leading
druggist of Shreveport, La.,
says : "Dr. King's New Dis
covery is the only thing that
cures my cough, and it is the
best seller I have." J. F. Cam
bell, merchant of Safford, Ariz.,
writes: "Dr. King's New Dis
covery is all that is claimed for
! it : it never fails, and is a sure
cure for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds. I cannot say enough
for its merits." Dr. King's
New Discover' for Consump
tion, Coughs and Colds is not
an experiment. It lias been
tried for a quarter of a century,
and to-day stands at the head.
It never disappoints. jFree
trial bottle at N. B. Hood's
drug store.
m
A woman's character is lik
ened unto a postage stamp saj-s
an exchange. One black mark
ruins it. Man's like a treasury j
note no matter how many
stains it has it will pass at par.
When a woman falls from grace
her character is generally ruin
ed forever. On the other hand
a nian may straighten tip and
be received into the best society
again.- All of which is too true
hut lx'ino- true does not make
it right by a great deal.
Tatf s Pills
Cure All
Liver Ills
Secret of Beauty
is health. The secret of health is
the power to digest and assim
ilate a proper quanity of food.
T"U i i t
never uc acme wucn
jaundice, bilious fever, bilious
ness and kindred-diseases.
Tutt's Liver Pills
A Pointer for Clerks-
I once had two clerks.
Eames was getting $12 a week
and KobeW $lfi. Eames asked
for a raise. I told him that his
services would not, as yet, jus
tify it. He was' not satisfied,
even after I told him I would do
bettor by him just as soon as I
could.
A few days afterwards, Kpb
erts had: occasion to criticise
his associate for a very appar-
entlack of interest in the job in
hand. Eames answered, "Well
I guess I do it well enough for
$12 a week."
It was in that spirit his work
was done. He was gettingonly
$12, and was determined to earn
no more until paid more. Rob
erts, on the other hand, put in
his best efforts, and tried to
-inake himself more valuable
with every day that passed.
lam to-day paying. Koherts
$2,100 per year, while I was
compelled to discharge Eames
at the end of the first year.
From Hardware.
J3 T O TIIA.
Tk fio-
ilmilt
Out of Sorts-
Many cthnnron expressions
are of legitimate parentage, al
though most people .believe that
they spring up like Topsy. The
printing craft, for instance,
originated several very poptdar
' rn i.i m
savings. i ake the case ol
a
man who
is "out .of. sorts.
In a hand-composition printing
office the word "sorts" applies
to the letters and marks which
should be in the type case, but
which are -frequently missing.
A man who, 'in-the daws before
the coming of linotype; ma
chines, found his "e" box bar
ren or his comma box desolate
and bankrupt was said to be
out .of these particular sorts.
By his profanily the calamit'
was made known, aim by Ki
impatient remarks to thisday
is tlte man who is out or sorts
known, whether he is yc banker
or a Doliccman. Clncago Bee-
ord.
Gold Not WantoJ.
TheTreasury to-dav declined
the third oiler, made by a New
York banking house, to ex
change a million in gold at San
Francisco for curency at New
York. This firm . last week
made an unconditional oirer for
the transfer. Yesterday they
offered to pay the express char
ges of transporting the gold
across the- continent. These
offers were declined aud the
firm to-day held out as an in
ducement an agreement to pay
one-eighth of one per cent pre
mium on the transfer of a mil
lion. It brought a third refu
sal. Treasurer Roberts said the
government had all the gold it
needed, and there was; no ex-
cuse lor assuming uie nK ui
transportation. Then too, the
Treasury, which obtained lower
rates for transfenng money than
were given private firms, should
not use those rates for the ben
efit of others.
tt WOT WiW tl
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