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Vol. 9.
DUrJIM, IM. C. IVIAY 31, 18.
No. 25.
QONTY
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On
Dunn,
Two
in the Spring a young man's
fancy lightly turns to thoughts
f love, but a young woman's
fancy seriously turns to
thoughts of
SPRING
DRESSES,
for the young woman
knows
well that . the young man
s
thoughts of love will turn quick
er towards her if she is diked
out in a dainty
UP-TO-DATE
NEW DRESS.
We have the stuffs that are
as thin as rainbow vapor and
as; delicate as the changing
nftor of a soap bubble.
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We also have a beautiful line
of Duck Serges, Percales,
Welts, Sattens and Cashmeres
in all the Spring Shades.
It would be a pity
w ere to miss seeing our
if you
line of
Shirtwaist
made shirts
goods
and ready-
F.C.Co.
We sell Warner's Corsets and
a nice line of Gauze Vests,
Hosiery, Muslins, Hamburgs,
Laces, Belts, Umbrellas &c.
You ought to see the latest in
Ladies' Slippers -they are out
of sight. f,
Now just a word to the Lady
house-keepers whose thoughts
are turning to house cleaning.
e nave not torgotten you.
We have just received a com
plete line of Mattings, Rugs,
Floor Oil Cloth, Curtain Poles,
Screen Curtains Ac. Linen
Window Shades at 25 cents.
I
Everybody knows that we
are. headquarters for "Coats'
Spool Cotton, Ball Thread,
Knitting Cotton, Turkey Red,
Embroidery Cotton and wash
Sirk in all shades.
We have added to our stock
a complete line of
GROCERIES,
Ciockeiy, Glassware, all kinds
of Snuff, and the cheapest line
of Tobacco in the city. We
'make a specialty of country
hard, and water-ground Meal.
We can sell you two large cakes
of soap for 5f, and four Boxes
of Lye for 19. You want
these goods. We want you to
have them.
PRICES:
Well, Tou know, or you
ought to ..know by this time
that there is never a question
of prices between us and our
customers. We sell so much
cheaper than any other house
that it gets positively tiresome
to talk about it.
Come to see us and we'll do
you good.
Very truly,
P. T. MASSENGILL,
Manager.
Bio
Cools
3NT.C.
In the other store we
the most complete line of
carry
Gents'
Furnishing
Goods,
Trunks and Valises
ever shown in the town, all the
goods are bran new and most
lines you ever saw. And our
prices will so surprise you that
it will be impossible for you to
resist them, even if you wanted
to.
We would like to
special attention to
call your
our line
of
Summer Clothing
1
jmi
which is the most complete
line ever shown in Dunn of
course, and what ' interests you
most the prices are cut down to
the very core. We advise you
tnlonlr nf mir stnplr hpfm-P hnv-
iner. we advise vou also to in-
spect our line of oHlKTo for
t. a eft nwnt nevPffiirHsv.ar pfv
n nnH nnnntitip ()nr
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mrices-are so low tnat it will
1 . 1 . 1 i
only take a dance to see what
opportunities we are offering,
Nice Percale Shirts for 33
cents. How does that strike
you? .
(gollars and" ,
An entirely new line of Col-
lars and Cuffs, we place before
our friends. The styles include
the very ' latest produced. A
more up-to-date line will be
hard to find. Prices of course
have received their usual "riz
up" so that they are hardly
noticeable. .
THE LABORER IS
WORTHY
of the very best goods obtain
able for his money. ' That is
the reason we are selling our
line of Overalls and Pants at
such reduced prices. Our bet
ter grades of overalls are made
as well and strong as it is pos
sible to make them and 110 one
can offer auy more.
Our line of Men's Fine Shoes
are absolutely the best in the
world. No one can contradict
this statement and tell the
truth. The Shoes of which we
speak is the W. L. Douglass,
sold by no other firm in town.
Last but not
of Spring and
least is our line
Summer Neck-
ought to see
it, for we tell you it is a thing
of beauty and a joy forever.
With best wishes, we are,
Yours truly,
G. K. MASSENGILL,
Manager Gent's Furnishing
Department.
Stores
ELOQUENT APPEAL
New York's Great Fight.
APPLIES TO ALL THE LAND.
The New York Weekly Wit
ness recently reported the pro
ceedings of a meeting of the
"Prohibition Union of Chris-
tian Men," held in that city, of
which Kev. A. O. Dixon, pastor
of Hanson Place Baptist church,
Brooklyn, is president. Among
the speakers was Mr. M. C.
Howard, of Rochester, organ
izer of the Union. His speech
in part closed as follows :
Men of New York, hear me !
If the Devil keeps on inventing
machines of damnation and we
continue to go in partnership
with him for a division of the
plunder, in another generation
our great cities will reap a har
vest of licentiousness and de-
baucherv that will outrival
Pompeii and Sodom.
The Devil has fused the sa
loon and the brothel into one
colossal machine to attack the
great centres of modern civili
zation, and unless we can fuse
the patriotic, law abiding, God-
serving citizens of the country,
and meet organized iniquity
with organized righteousness.
the situation is without hope.
One cannot look into the con
ditions that prevail here at the
present time without being re
minded of the two colored boys
who had begun the study of the
catechism together. .
One asked the other, "How
far are you, Jack?"
"Oh, I m just in original
sin ; How far are you, Sam?"
"I am far beyond that ; I am
past Redemption."
Well, it was probably not
true of Sam, and it is not true
of New York. But the situa
tion jn..thiscity its depth of
depravity, its open disregard
for law and the wide-spread in
difference of its citizens is posi
tively alarming. It does not
concern isew York: only. it
concerns the whole nation.
Our Civil Service is becoming
the favored roost for incapables,
thieves and plunderers. It has
become almost impossible to
1 1.1
carry on any public work that
does UOt lTSUlt 111 a raid OU tlie
1 . i .1
aid
Ireasury.
opce couuueu to our ciues,
lU-ua,V Hie UUITUUUOU IclVS IIS
I 1 J LJ 1 t . 1 n . i
leprous nana on tne otace ana
nation.
Canal scandal in New York ;
capital scandal in Pennsylvania ;
Allen law scandal in Illinois ;
City Hall scandal ; gas plant
scandal : street paving scandal ;
public franchise scandal ; Grand
Jury scandal ; Senatorial scan
dal ; war scandal. This whole
sale debauchery is perforating
the entire fabric of our civic
life.
How long is our commercial
life to be spared? When the
political field is filled up,
what next?
According to the commercial
reports an army of men went
astray as embezzlers -in recent
i 1 1 1 . 1 i
years, and roooed tneir employ
ers of over twenty-six millions
of dollars.
Gentlemen, there is danger
ahead if we do not stop this
wholesale public debauchery.
It is high time for the decent
citizens of America to wake up
and organize with no less, an
aim than to clean up house
to retire to private life some of
the scarred rulers of our great
municipalities ; to demand for
public officials a brand of men
who would rather fill a . hole in
the Potter's Field than to fill a
public office by licking the dirty
boots of the rum power, and to
close up the dens of infamy that
are rooting the civic fabric of
our cities and debauching our
young men and young women
by the tens of thousands every
year. v
We have fought one holy war
to throw off the yoke and Span
ish misrule in Cuba. I go in
for another holy war to throw
off the yoke of barroom misrule
in America.
8 Oh, ye reformers of New
York, stop your child's play,
corld your squirt guns, and help
the Prohibition Union of Chris
tian Men to turn on the hose.
I go in for cleaning out the
whole iniquitous system,
Do you say that it is imprac
ticable and impossible? Noth
ing is impossible that is right.
Nothing that is right is imprac
ticable. You say that I do nob know
New York ; that a fight like
that would result in wholesale
butchery : that assassination
would lurk in every dark hall-
meanest coward Yhat walks the
way and allev. Weil, the
earth can die a natural i death.
It takes a man to face death for
a noble cause.
I believe that New York
would be better off if some of
vnii trntlpmpn wprp in TTpnrpn
to-night. It might be pretty
hard on heaven, but if you died
in the ngnt it wouia wake up
the rest of the country to the
fact that the question now fac
ing it is whether we shall sup-
. . m
press tins iniquity or be op
pressed by it.
llie potato crop may survive
the dry rot. This republic can
not live on indefinitely and en
dure the wet rot.
in a speecn betore a ciuo in
London, Lord Roseberry called
attention to the liquor traffic on
the institutions of England and
said it is a political ring which
threatens to throttle and control
the commonwealth itself.
Tf tlinfc ia tvno (if TTxrlnnfl it
is doubly true of the, United
States, where every man, with
out regard to what he has, what
he is, or to what he knows, has
an equal voice in deciding how
and by whom we shall, be gov
erned.
And if America s 'experiment
ot popular government ever
fails in the words of Wendell
Phillips "it will not be incap
able Civil Service, nor an am
bitious soldier, nor venal legis-
islation, nor the greed of wealth
tw win nnt unirsnl snffmcrp
into eclipse : it will be rum, en
t ' to
trenched in our great cities,
making popular suffrage a fail
ure and a curse." . . ' " .
If the wages of sin is death
for the individual, the wages of
wide-spread national sin will be
death to democrac7" ; for you
cannot have a live democracy
out of dead individuals.
Whatsoever a man soweth,
and whatsoever a nation sow
eth, that shall it also reap.
In lod. the Virginius, an
American ship manned by
American sailors, sailed for the
coast of Cuba with Joseph, as
captain. She was captured by
the Spanish warship Tornado,
towed into the harbor of Santi
ago, and Captain Fry, of Tam
pa, and fifty-three of his men
were led outside of the walls
and shot down like dogs. Then
the Spanish soldiers thrust
their bayonets in the mouths of
the dying Americans ; then
came a division of cavalry and
rode their horses over the dead
bodies, mangling them beyond
recognition.
.Thus died brave Captain Fry
and his men, at Santiago in
1873.
Twenty-five years have! gone,
and a few months ago; there
sailed from the home of Cap
tain Fry a fleet of warships and
transports carrying the Ameri
can army, which in less than
one hundred days swept the
Spanish navy from the sea. and
captured the Spanish army, and
the flag that the Spanish tore
d6wn from the mast-head of the
Virginius was raised over the
governor's palace at Santiago.
Whatsoever a nation soweth,
that shall it also reap.
Nor is that all. Hamilton
Fish 'was" Secretary of State.
To his shame, Spain was never
called to account for that out
rage, and the first American
boy to be killed by a Spanish
bullet in the fall of Santiago
was Hamilton Fish, Jr., the
grandson of the Secretary of
State. Whatsoever a nation
soweth that shall it also reap.
To-day, I appeal to you by
all for which the martyrs bore
their agony and shame ; by all
the warning words of truth
which all the prophets haye
spoken; by the future that
awaits us ; by all the hopes that
cast their faint and trembling
beams across the blackness of
the past : and
by the blessed
thought of Him who for earth's
freedom died strike quick ;
strike hard ; strike now on
God Almighty's side."
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This Dos: Knew-
Policeman Glenn had an en-
counter with a bi?
dog near
lronville
yesterday. The ani
o
mal was getting to be some
what ill-tempered and parents
were afraid it might bite their
children as they passed - the
house on their way to school
Complaints were lodged at the
police station and Umcer Glenu
was detailed with a double-bar
relied shotgun to shoot the ani
mal.
The officer reached the house
which sheltered the dog and en
j1 the, ?ai;d keeping a sharp
lookout for the ferocious beast
The dog spied the officer before
the patrolman got a peep at
him. The dog seemed to di
vine wnat tne policeman was
there for and that he had de
signs on his life. The dog ap
peared to fully understand the
danger of the gun the officer
carried, and instead of rushing
out in front of the policeman,
as had been the dog's usual
practice, the animal took a cir
cle round the house, taking
good care to keep out of the
officer's sight. In turning the
corners- the dog
around them both
would peer
ways to see
that the coast
was
clear.
The
and
d,g kept, getti"g
closer
closer to the policeman's heels.
and at a spot where a favorable
opportunity presented itself the
big animal pounced on the offi
cer's back with "such force as to
throw him headlong to the
ground.
The dog grabbed the officer
over the breast and shook him
so hard that he dropped his
gun. Then .the dog grabbed
him by the legs and gave him
another shaking, but in all the
shakings the patrolman got no
L1J ,1-. rpi
uiuuu wiis uiavu. i ueu me
Then
dog picked up the gun and
trotted away with it in his
mouth in the direction
of the
river, and it is believed the an
imal dropped it into the Mau
mee. The dog has been taking
a vacation since the row. Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
Glorious News
Comas from Dr. D. B. Car-
gile, of Washita, I. T. He
writes "rour bottles of Electric
Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer
of scrofula, which had caused
her great suffering for years.
Terrible sores would break out
on her head and face, and the
best doctors could give no help ;
but her cure is complete and
her health is excellent." This
shows what thousands have
proved, that Electric Bitters is
the best blood purifier known.
It's the supreme remedy for ec
zema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers,
boils and running sores. It
stimulates liver, kidneys and
bowels, expels poisons, helps di
gestion builds up the strength.
Only 50 cents. Sold by McKay
Bros. & Skinner Druggist,
Guaranteed.
Let Her Go at That.
An aged rural citizens engaged
the local town poet to write an
obituary on his brother. After
numerous failures, the poet sub
mitted the following :
He left this world of sorrow
And entered heaven's gate,
With a spotless robe of glory on.
At twenty minutes to eight.
"Well,"-said the old man as
the effort was read to him, "hit
wus r'aly fifteei minutes past
nine wnen ne got mar, cor
ding! ter mv time-piece, but,
anyhow, he wus such a a liar
hit don't make no difference.
Let her go at twenty to 8."
Ex.
Volcanic Eruptions
Are grand, but Skin Erup
tions rob life of joy. Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, cures them, also
Old, Running and Fever Sores,
Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns,
Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns,
Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chil
blains. Best Pile cure on earth.
Drives out Pains and Achjes.
Only 25 cts. a box. Cure guar
anteed. Sold by McKay Bros.
& Skinner, Druggists.
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Bad Advice.
Positively tfie very worst ad
vice that the negroes of the
United States could get is that
which one of their Bishops is
giving them. This blindest of
blind leaders is daily preaching
a policy of armed resistance, of
open war with the whites.
Ihere could be out one end to
such a conflict, and any negro,
layman or, prelate, who does
not appreciate what that end
would be, and how speedily it
would come, is deserving of the
siucerest pity. A war between
a
the races would be a lamenta
oiy easy settlement or the race
problem, and," if by auy such
influence as Bishop Walters and
the few followers he may have
can exert, the existing situation
should be changed into a trial
of strength, the peace that en
sued would indeed be perfect
and permanent. The Bishop
should ponder a while on the
word "extermination." If he
does not understand it, men
like Booker T. Washington and
T. Thomas Fortune are compe
tent to define it for him. The
negroes of this country have
everything to expect from the
ssympathv, the aid, and the ul
timate justice of their white
fellow-citizens ; from a resort to
arms they could obtain nothing
e xc e p t destruction. Boston
Herald.
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Tha Kind You Haw Always Bought
The South 's Vanished Money,
According to the estimate,
pick-pockets carried off at least
$50,000 from the Confederate
veterans and the visitors who
were at the convention last
week. It is believed that a
band from. Chicago did most of
the stealing, for the men arrest
ed had nearly all return tickets
to the Windy City. Many of
the people here for the week
had never been mixed in a big
crowd before, and they were
easy prey for the thieves.
Major J. C. Alderman a vet-
ITT Y-
eran irom west Virginia, and
a former partner of Governor
Atkinson, of that State, was
boarding a street car when he
felt that he was being robbed
There were three men near him
and he grabbed the two nearest.
The third fellow, the one who
really got the money, disap
peared. Major Alderson's pris
oners were taken to police head
quarters, and next morning
transferred to a magistrate.
Bail for each was fixed at $300.
When the magistrate named
he amount, one of the men re
marked. "Oh, that's easy,"
and with a sharp knife ripped
open a secret pocket and
brought out a wad of money.
He paid $G00 to the magistrate
and went away.
"I can't afford to loose any
time here, he said, as lie
went away, "for these are
Southern people, and they are
dead soft." Charleston Dis
patch.
Discovered by a Woman.
Another great discovery lias
been made, and that to, by a
ady in this country. "Disease
astened its clutches upon her
and for seven years she with
stood its severest tests, but her
vital organs were undermined
and death seemed imminent.
For three months she coughed
hcessantlv, and could not
sleep. She finally discovered a
way to recovery, by purchasing
of us 1 bottle of Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption,
and was so much relieved on
taking first dose, that she slept
all night ; and with two bottles,
has been absolutely cured. Her
name is Mrs. Luther L u t z . '
Thus writes W. C. Hamnick &
Co., of Shelby, N. C. Trial
bottles free at McKay Bros. &
Skinner's Drug Store. Regu
lar size 50c ana $1.00. Every
bottle guaranteed.
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STATE NEWS.
Items of news oathkked from
all parts of the state.
A new directory of the city of
Raleigh gives that city, includ
ing its immediate suburbs, a
population of 27,972.
The sale of tags for fertilizers
by the agricultural department
shows a decrease this year of
ten per cent, over last year.
The Governor has offered a
reward of $200 for the arrest of
Ed Lowery, a Croatan, who
killed Tucker Dial, also a Croa
tan, in Robeson county on May
5th.
Jule C. Smith, a well known
planter and farmer near Colum
bus, Ga., was shot and killed
as he entered his residence by a
negro named Bill Harris.
George Weathersby, a white
boy 16 years of age, was taken
to the penitentiary for two
years last week from Mitchel
county, where ho was convicted
of the murder of another white
boy about the same ago over a
game of "crackaloo."
The toll bridge company yes
terday evening gave tho con
tract for the steel bridge across
the Yadkin river to the Virgin
ia Bridgo and Iron Company of
Koanoke, a. 1 ho bridgo will
be 700 feet long. It is to bo
built during tho s u m m 0 r
months, and work will begin on
the structure at tho earliest pos
sible moment. Salisbury Sun.
A. big celebration was held on
the battlefield at Cowpens, S.
C, Saturday, it being tho anni
versary of the victory gained
over the British there by Gen
eral Morgan in the Revolution
ary W ar. Amos J. Cummings
of New York, was present by
invitation and mado tho lead
ing address.
following number of
hides have been bought by Mr.
J. D. Payne at this place. Rab
bits skins, G9,50G; mink, 520;
muskrats, 456 ; opossum, '562 ;
coon, 6K) : house cat, o ; iox, a ;
otters, 7. The amount paid to
farmers for raUbits, meat and
hides, by Mr. Payne alone sinco
Christmas was $4,170.36. This
is a revelation to us as regards
the rabbit. We have always
regarded rabbits as useless,
only fit to be destroyed and as
only furnishing a little sport
occasionally for negroes and
others who had nothing else to
hunt for but the above figures
put the rabbit in a new light.
Burlington News.
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2 usually accompany anatmia.
SCOTTS EMULSION is a
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