THE
COUNTY UNION
WEDNESDAY. January 5, 1808.
DUNN, N. C.
LOCAL DOTS.
Cotton is
ceii-0 to-day.
selling
for
Tlio New Year has brought
fjoine changes in business air:
our merchants.
-To-day is Old Christinas
and is regarded rby man y as the
real anniversary of our Saviour.
"An Old Christmas Party"
will be. given at the Town Hall
"to-night. Quite a pleasant oc
casion is expected. ;
Dm't write it 1897. It is
1398 and. another mile post has
I) 'en reached and passed on. the
Yoad of time.
Lane &, Galbraith have the
best mules and horses ever
brought to Dunn. Don't buy
until you see them.
Ti!e Union greets its many
roauors asrain aiter a vacation
of one week and ; wishes them
ali a happy and " prosperous
year.
; .Messrs. .bane cl iTaioraitn
v, i i ! receive another carload of
line Tennessee mules to-mor
row.
v We are glad to see -Mr. 11.
L. Cromartie who has been sick
since (lie iirst of November out
again. lie canie out Monday
I for the first time.
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Mr. J. W. Bailey, of Raleigh,
-editor of the Biblical Recorder,
will lecture, at the Baptist
church here On thb third Sun
day niirht in this month.
In this issue will be found
the annual statement of the
receipts and disbursements of
the county fer the I year ending
AOV. 30th 1897. Read it.,
i
Dont buy aanule or horse un
til you see Lane and Galbraith 's
Tennessee raised .mules and
horses. They are the r best on
the market.
We learn to-day that Mr.
Erasmus Lee, who has been
sick for several months, is sink
ing rapidly and is not expected
to live many hours. All the
members of his family have
been summoned to his bed-side.
In making . 3-011 r reso
lutions for the New Year we
would suggest that the business
men add one resolution that
will be a paying investment.
That is to do more advertising
during 189Sthaii ever before.
Look at the moon Friday
evening at about six o'clock.
It will bo in eclipse. -The shad
ow will cover about one-sixth of
the moon's surface. It" can be.
distinctly seen,if the heavens
are 'clear. 1 ; '
Mr. Wnij Pearson, a thrifty
farmer of the Poe's section,
killed a hog two-and-a-half years
old last week which weighed
630 pounds. This is the largest
nog we nave iieard ot being
killed in this section this win
ter. -
We suppose the . usual
number of good resolutions and
"swear-oil's" were made' New
Year's day. The Union is
like the-Georgia darkey which
Frank Stanton, the Constitu
tion's poet,-writes -'about. It is
so poor that1 i has nothing to
swear oft' from.
Rev. J. V. DeVonny, of
Wake Forest, is now at Buie's
Creek Academy teaching for
Rev. J. A. Campbell. He will
become an assistant in the
school and do some Missionary
work among the churches in
this section. He is a gentle
man of fine scholarly attain
ments and christian character.
He took the degree Of Master of
Arts at Wake Forest in the
class of 1S95. '
The county commissioners
met in regular session Monday
and transacted routine business.
They decided to biry a steel cell
and place in the jail at Lilling
ton to keep prisoners in and
save the expense of taking them
to the Cumberland jail. ' This
action is wise and will save the
county a deal of expense for a
small outlay of money.
Mr. O. J. Spears, of Lil
lington, was here yesterday and
toojv the train for Washington,
D. C. He is a candidate for
District Attorney, but the re
port has gone, out that he will
not get the place. The matter
will probably be settled this
week. O. J. has been faithful
but he has not been rewarded
for his services and he is getting
a little impatient with the G.
O. P.
The young ladies of the
town gave a candy party at the
town hall New Year's eve, and
quite a jolly crowd attended and
remained tip to ring the Old
Year out and the New Year in.
A very pleasant entertainment
it was as indeed all are that are
given by our fair young women,
of whom there is none fairer.
The county board of edu
cation met in session Monday
to apportion the school taxes of
tiie county and remained in ses
sion until to-day. Mr. Camp
bell, clerk to the board, phoned
us from Lillington this morning
that the board had appropriated
one dollar per capita to the
children in each township. He
says this amount is larger than
has ever been appropriated in
any year in this county save
one. Averasboro township gets
$927, to be divided among eight
schools.
Joe Ray, a negro boy about
1(5 years of age, was arraigned
befor Justice I. W. Taylor Mon
day evening charged with
throwing rocks and breaking
insulators on the telephone line
near Poe's. The trial was post-
ponded, until the second Mon
day in February. The boy
says mat ne cuci not intend in
jury to the line. Boys, and
men too, must learn that the
telephone line was not erected
to play with but; for business
and the convenience of the pub
lic, and-the owners will not
submit to any tampering with
it in fun or otherwise.
Be careful with your fires.
A bad fire was narrowly averted
here Monday night. Mr. H.
B. Anderson and his family
live over his store just across
the street opposite The Union
office. A rocking chair with a
matting cover on it was left in
the sitting room near the stove
Monday evening while the fam-
ilv were at supper. The mat-
ting caught fire from the, stove
and when found the room was
full of smoke and t the chair
burning. In a few minutes the
house would have been ) 911 fire
so that it would have been al
most impossible to have put it
out as we have no system of
water works, and that house on
fire would more than probable
burn every store on the east
side of the railroad. ,
ISicycle TouriiauiCnl.
The Bicycle Tournament was
the chief attraction of our town
uring the holidays, and not
withstanding that the day was
very cold quite a good crowd
was present to witness the con
test which began at 2 o'clock.
Messrs D. H. Mclean, V. L,
Stephens and A. M. AVoodall
were chosen judges and Messrs.
J j D. Barnes, W. II. Lane and
A. B. Harrell time keepers. -
The track was 166f yards in
length and the time allowed to
to go through was seventeen sec
onds. All the riders made the
time but some of them failed to
get many rings. Each Knight
rode three tilts and at the finish
A. L. Newberry, Knight of Cum
berland, had eight rings which
won the first prize and the hon
or of crowning the Queenof Love
and Beaut' ; G. K. Massengill,
Knight of Smithfield, had seven
rings which won second prize
and the crowning of first Maid
of Honor ; M A Hooks, Knight
of Mecklenburg, and W B Aus
tin, Knight of Johnston, each
had six rings and rode again to
decide which would win the
third prize. On the first tilt cm
the tie each got three rings, on
the second tilt Austin got one
ring and Hooks two. Hooks
was declared winner and crown
ed the second maid of honor.
The other Knights did admir
ably. Mr. J C Cox, Knight of
Wayne, won the booby with one
ring.
In the evening at 8 :30 a large
assemblage of lovely maidens
and gallant knights gathered at
Hotel Divine to witness the
coronation. Mr. Newberry se
lected Miss Ora Wilson as his
Queen of Love and Beauty ; Mr.
Massengill chose Miss Daisy
Shaw of Lillington, as first maid
of honor ; Mr. Hooks preferred
Miss Gertrude Harper with the
crown of second maid of honor.
Hon. D H McLeal in a hap
py style delivered the corona
tion address and when the
Queen was seated on the throne
prepared for the occasion, at
tended by her lovely maids
and gallant knights, it present
ed quite a pleasant picture and
indeed were they perfect Queens
of Love and Beauty.
The evening- was spent in
merry conversation and eating
confectioneries which were serv
ed. In all it was a pleasant
and delightful occasion.
People and Their Movement.
Mr. J. C. Clifford returned
Sunday from a visit to liis moth
er in Davie county.
Mr. Enoch L. Lee left Mon
day for Chapel Hill where he
will take a course in law.
Mr. McD. Holliday visited
his mother at Qrimesland last
week.
Miss Annie Scarborough,
spent Christmas here with her
uncle, Mr. J JW. Lane.
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Mr. Caliie Jordan, of Rocky
Mount,spent the holidays here
with relatives and friends!
Mr. L. W. Alderman left
Tuesday to resume his studies
at Wake Forest.
Mrs. Ella Atkins of Lilling
ton is in town visiting her broth
er Mr. H. T. Spears."
Miss Nellie Edgerton who
spent several days here with
relatives returned to her home
in Goldsboro Saturday.
Mr. W. T. McKay, of Ben
netts ville, S. C, spent, the holi
davs in this countv with rela
tives and friends.
Mr. L. S: -Atkins 'of Wash
ington, D. C, spent the holi-
days with his mother at Lil
lington.
Mr. William Smith, of God
win took the train here yester
day to return to the A. &M.
College at Raleigh.
Mrs. Effie C. Harper and
daughter Miss Meta visited rel
atives at and near Bensoii last
week.
Mr. Joseph Cook returned
Saturday from an extended visit
to friends in Johnston, Wayne,
and 'Sampson counties.
Miss Addie Byrd spent the
holidays in the city with . Mrs.
J . H . Pope . , She returned home
Friday.
Mrs. and Mr. W. H. Newber
ry of Florida are: visiting Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Newberry on
Broad street.
Master William Thompson,
the bright six-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. J L. Thompson,
spent Sunday in Goldsboro
with relatives.
,Mr. II. B. Hardy, of the
News and Observer, was in
the city to-day in the interest of;
his paper. I
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Best and!
little sons returned Monday!
from a visit . to relatives in
Goldsboro and Richmond, Va. j
Miss Lydia Adams, of Little
River Academy, j spent New!
Year in the city with Miss Net
tie Barnes.
M. A. Hooks, who has been
here helping his brother during
the cotton season, left today for
his homein Mecklenburg coun
tv.
Mr. J. R. Baggett, of Bass,
after spending vacation at home
with his parents, returned to
Chapel Hill yesterday where he
is taking a literary course. '
Mr. Lonnie juries and bride
nee Miss Ada Creech, of near
Benson, spent New Year in the
city with Mr. and Mrs. R. T.
Surles. '
Mr. B. F. Shaw, of Wood
ville, Fla., came home and
spent Xmas with his parents at
Lillington. He j returned to
Florida Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Gran
tham and little daughters,
Pearl and Blanche, returned
Monday from a visit to relatives
at Smithfield. -
Miss Lula Kirkman, of
Smithfield, stopped over here
Monday with her uncle Mr. D.
H. Hood on her way home from
a visit to friends in Red Springs.
She left yesterday for home.
Prof. L, C. Brogden, of the
Greensboro Graded school, came
down last Friday to visit friends
here. He left Monday for
Greensboro. His many friends
here are always glad to shake
his hand.
Iied.
The little infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. H. Lee died Mon
day afternoon December 27th
aged six months . His remains
were interred in the cemetery
Tuesday afternoon. He was
an exceedingly bright healthy
child until a . few - weeks before
his death when he was taken
sick with fever and pneumonia
and died despite the efforts of
physicians and a loving mother.
He now sleeps the sleep of the
just and pure in heart with
Him who said "Suffer little
children, and forbid them not
to come unto me, for of such is
the kingdom of heaven? '
STABBED fO DEATH.
Tom AtlZciiiM
Campbell in
31 11 r i e r . -I oli n
Cold Illoixi.
Early on' Christmas morning
the news was spread over
quiet little town that a colored
man was lying dead on the
ground in the southwestern por
tion of the town and that his
life's blood had flowed out from
a gaping wound in " the back
A colored man named Jesse
Jernig.m first found him lyin
i . t 1 ,1
aoout tortv va?vis irom tne 'road.
in an crun fiekl. The dead
man was John Campbell, i
blncksmith who had been em
ploed by the John A. McKay
Manufacturing Company for
two years or more and was
polite and quint jroan: and
peaceable citizen.
a
It1 was soon noised that
Thomas B. Adkins, a trifling
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negro man who has frequently
been h fore the Mayor for bad
behavior, was the person who
had murdered the dead man
who was lying about 150 yards
from where Tom lived. A
warrant was issued and the
Sheriff went to Tom's house
and arrested mm. 1 ora wTas
wounded in the right knee from
a knife wound. He was
parently drunk and said
ap-
"if
John is dead 1 can t help it.
I know nothing about it." He
was placed in the guard house
Mr. J. J. Wilson the Coro
ner,-was gone to Spout Springs
to hold the inquest over Ray's
body, and the dead man wras
allowed to remain on the
ground .in tne same, position as
he was found until the Coro
ner returned which was about
2 o'clock in the afternoon. He
summoned a jury and went
down and examined the body
of the dead man and had it re
moved to the Town Hall where
he held the inquest.
The jury, composed of Messrs
I. W. Taylor, S. M. Jackson,
W. D. Thornton, R. H. Core.
H. C. McNeill and Dr. .0. L.
Denning, after examining sev
eral witnesses rendered a ver
dict that the deceased came to
his death from a knife wound
in the back on the right side in
flicted by Tom B. Adkins.
The murder was committed
Friday evening between 6 and
7, o'clock aul several persons
knew that! Tom had cut John
Campbell. One witness testi
fied that he looked all over the
field 'where he was found but
could not find him. Another
testified that she heard the row
and afterward heard some one
groaning out in the direction
where he was:' found and that
she went to Tom's house and
told George McNeill about it.
Amy Adkins, Tom's wife
testified that John Campbell
went to her house and had
some whiskeyand that Tom and
John drank it and were both
drunk. Tom got under the bed
and was asleep ; she was cook
ing supper ; John told her that
she and Tom must come over
next morning and drink eggnog
with him. When John said
this Tom came from under the
bed and began cursing John
and drew a chair and ordered
him out of the house ; both were
very drunk ; John went out of
the house and Tom followed
him and at a wagon in the yard
John fell and Tom fell also;
John got up and went otW of
the gate, Tom after him ; they
both fell at the gate ; Tom fol
lowed him some distance down
the road ; Tom came back into
the house and threw, his arm
around her and she. threw up
her hand and struck , her arm
against a knife ; did not know
that he had a knife till then
and did not know that John was
cut ; Tom said that he (him
self) was cut to death-and was
complaining with the wound in
his knee.
Amy and a little boy about
five years of age were all that
were at the house at the time.
We learn since that there were
some other witness to the foul
deed that were not examined
by the coroner. George Mc
Neill the father of the little boy
said that when he went home
the boy told him that Tom had
cut John in the back at the
wagon. He also testified that
Tom asked him that night not
to let them lynch him.
The murdered man was track
ed by the blood from where he
was lying to the wagon in the
yard where the boy said he cut
him. There was blood on the
gate and he could be readily
traced by the blood on the
ground, going in a circuitous
route some 300 yards before he
fell. He was evidently trying
to get up town f ronv the direc
tion he took after leaving the
road.
The wound was made with
large knife which entered about
two inches from the back bone
between t Ik tr j th and eleventh
ribs penetrating the liver cut
ting a 'gash. sufficient for a man
to run his hand into readily.
He bled rapidly and soon fell
from loss of blood. His eyes
and mouth were closed and he
looked as if death was without
pain. He was lying on his
right side and no sign of a
struggle. .
John Campbell was about
forty ! years of age and was
raised in Fa vette ville . His
father, Jackson Campbell, is a
blacksmith and has worked
with McKethan in Fayetteyille
tor years, ine old man came
up and carried the body of Tiis
son to Fayetteville Sunday af
ternoon for burial.
Tom was taken to Fayette
ville jail on the same train that
the body of his murdered vic
tim was taken, away.. Tom is
about forty years of age also
and bears a bad name. He
professed to be on the best of
terms with John 'that evenin
but in his heart he had murder
and had made friends with him
to commit his heinous crime, as
it is learned that he showed the
knife that day and remarked
that he would get him a man
with it that night.
Tom and his wife did not
live very well together and he
often had quarrels with her
about her unfaithfulness.
Tom's Christmas whiskey
and jealousy combined makes
him another candidate for the
hangman's rope.
It has been sent out through
the press that there was talk
among the negroes of lynching
him but such was not the case.
,Be it said to the credit of our
colored people that they were
very indignant over the matter
but at no time were they ready
to take the law into their own
hands.
TO CURE A C01j1 IJf OIE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
ets. All Druggists refund the money if
t fails to cure. 25c.
Oldest Twins In
die Unite?!
States.
Messrs. Hugh and Hector
McLean of this county are prob
ably the ' oldest twins in the
United States. The Fayette
ville Observer of December 28th
says of them :
The McLean brothers, of
Harnett county, are the oldest
iving twins, if we may ludge
by the piece we publish below.
Hugh and' Hector McLean are
87 years old, consequently they
were born in 1810. They have
ived during all these long
years, tollowmg tne trade 01
tailoring, near Lillington in
Harnett county, making fre
quent visits, however, to this
city. They were here recently
walking around the streets in
the best of health greeting their
old, or rather, young friends.
They were never married and
are fairly well off in worldly
goods, borne years ago tliey
rad coffins" made after their own
design, in which to be buried.
The following is the article re-
erred to, and which has been
going the rounds of the press of
the United States, including the
pictures of the old ladies :
"The claim of the Newell
brothers, of Missouri, that they
are the oldest pair of twins in
the country, will not hold, ac
cording to a correspondent of
h e Chicago limes-Herald.
Mrs. H. H. Johnson, recently
of Kankahee, 111., and now of
Omaha, Neb., and Mrs. David
Noggle, of Janesville, Wis., are
one month older. These ladies
are the twin children Polly
M. and Anna M. of Benjamin
and Eunice Mosher Lewis, and
were born at Bristol, N. Y.,
May 29, 1815. They were the
youngest of fifteen children.
The twins went to Milan, Ohio,
when about seventeen, married
here, and in 1837 Mrs. Noggle
came to Wisconsin to live the
ife of a pioneer. Mrs. Noggle
is a woman of native ability
and can tell many interesting
tales of early life in Wisconsin .
She is the mother of seven chil
dren. The sisters are both in
ull possession of their faculties
and are as active as women of
sixty-five."
Malaria nrodnces Weakness, General
DebilitsV Biliousness. T-oss of Appetite
Inuigestion ana Uonstipauon. throve g
Tasteless Chill Tonic, remores the
cause which produces these troubles.
Try it and you will be delighted. 50
cents. To get the genuine ask for
GroTe'n. !?old and guaranteed by
Hood & Grantham.
FOR RENT. A nice desir
able residence with five rooms
with good garden. Apply to
J, J. Cook, Dunn, N. C,
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The year '97 has come and gone
and 1898 is here, so is the Dunn
Hardware and Furniture Com
pany, who desire toVeturn thanks
to their great number of friends
and customers who so liberally
patronized them in the year past
and gone, and assure them that
theyjiUjBndeaAor tojsell goods
at such prices
please them and
tinued patronage
.
For all kinds
the lowest prices,
"
DUNN HARDWARE &
FURNITURE COMPANY.
HOLLIDAY & PIUVETT.
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Nov. 17, 1897.
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as will again
invite their con
for this year.
of Hardware at
call on the
m)BlLG.
We have just
arrived with a load
of the best Ten
nessee Horses and
AI it 1 c 8 ever
brought to Dunn.
If you want good
SOUND, RELI
ABLE stock give
us a call.
5c Galbriath,
Dunn, N. C.
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