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' 'Prove all things; holdfast that which is good." ' J
"Vol, 9. PUIMIM, IM C. UULY12, 1899. No. 3Q.
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We
are often out talked but
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our friends and customers again. Thanking them for their
very liberal patronage the first half of this year, which has
more than doubled our expectations, we make you onev faithful
promise, that we will not ouly meet, but we will beat any
prices that are offered you in the
TOWN OF DUWro.
We Positively will not be
undersold,
though we lose money, for we
FUTURE
Now listen. It is just six
20th Century,
during
this time we must do
$25,000.00
worth of business. In order to
goods for less money, FOR CASH, than
are buying our goods for the cash, thus
nor cent, less than other people
goods at what they cost other merchants and make a good profit
As to -quality of our goods
come in ail have a talk with us. Well, we guess that you
would like to know who it is that is doing all this talking, we
are proud to tell you,
THE MASSEWCILL DRY
COODS COMPANY,
Wholesale and-.retail dealers in ,
Dry goods, notions,' clothing,
shoes, hats, caps &c.
Gents' Furnishings a Specialty.
All kinds of tobacco men s
TliPinnniftters. Twine etc. We
goods, but sell them for the accommodation of our customers.
Large lipe of fresh Groceries, Tobacco and Snuff.
Wo have with us this season
men Messrs. W. R. Marks and
xi..:- C-l .1 A oin fhniil'inrr rnti nnrl linninrr rnn rail 1 m o Vo
good crops and realize good prices.
We are yours to serve,
Hum
D-onii,
Dry
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never out done. We come to
know that such LOSSES are
PROFITS.
months, to the
do this we
shall sell better
anybody else. We
saving
from 15 to 35
see we can sell
pay. So you
they speak for themselves,
so
supplies such as .Lanterns,
don t charge any proht on these
the clever and wellknown sales-
K. r. buries, who will be glad to
c
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Stores
Some State History.
Edenton an
Old Historic Cen
tre. The Raleigh News & Observ
er is publishing a series of ar
ticles from William J. Leary,
Sf.j Esq., of Edenton, in its
Sunday issues, and we find
them full of historical interest
and contain many things that
llhe people of our own State
should know. In the issue of
ihe 2nd, Mr. Leary giyes a little
poem written by a Northern
man on "Edenton Bay," and
then writes :
The beauty Of the town does
not lie alone as stated in the
beauty of its bay, but in its
wide streets and beautiful shade
trees as 'well. I will venture
the statement that there is not
a more beautiful street in
America than Broad street with
its three rows of elms in rich
foliage forming perfect arches.
There are many points of his
toric interest, among them the
court house built ' of brick
wrought from England in which
court was held in 1717 or 1718,
md a session of the legislature
in i fzv. at which Edenton was
named in honor of Charly Eden,
who had been chosen Governor
in 1713, and who came over m
1714. Governor Eden had by
his popularity and grace won
the good will of the people who,
although the town had been es- j
cablished before, named it
Edenton to show their appreci
ation of the man. The court j
house is in a fine state of pres
ervation and, will compare
favorably with some modern
buildings. Strangers, when
gazing upon it can hardly realize
its age. The Episcopal church
was built of brick and in the
same solid workmanship as that
used in building the court house.
Some say it was commenced in
1708 ; at any rate it was com
pleted in 1735. It is a splendid
old building, whose founda
tions were laid due east and
west after the Oriental style.
The records run back to 101
and filled with, many amusing
things. The church yard has
some old tombstones of ancient
dates and rare inscriptions
among' them the following : "Iu
memory of Jeremiah Gallop,
January 11, 1799. 'Remember
me as you pass by; tor as you
are so once was I ; as l am now
so you must be; Prepare for
death and follow me.' " John
Davidson has also a stone to his
memory , dated iNovemoer iz,
T . t H.T I -i O
1753. It is a pleasant thing to
spend several hours among these
old records, tombstones and this
well-shaded graveyard, the city
of the dead God's acre. Among
the earlier buildings is one
-ii x i 1 ill-
erected Dy ijora ur ran vine ior
his land agent, Francis Corbin,
in 1758, which is in good condi
tion and stands the wear and
tear of time wonderfully well.
The house in which the mother
of Allen G. Thurman (the no
blest Roman of them all,) lived
still stands and is pointed out to
strangers, and those who are
interested in such things. In
Masonic Lodge room is a curious
relic a chair with all the im-
nlements of masonrv on it
v
hand-carved and made out of
mahogany. It is a very valua
ble relic and its value will in
crease with time. This chair
was presented by Lord Bald-
a -a 1. -W t
more to the Alexandria ioage
m v irgiuia, auu. ucu.gc
I illfiTtOIl.
LTV. Silt 111 It H UCU 11 t3 lXiwo
ter of thelodce. The Johnston
grave yark has many noted men
buried in its precincts. Among
them Senator Wilson, of renn
svlvania. who died while on a
visit to his friend. Senator John
son. I will close by reproduc
ing the resolutions passed June
19, 1776, by the vestry of bt.
Paul's Parish, which I believe
to be a record our people ought
to be proud of, and which will
be properly apprecioted in the
vears to come. The resolutions
read as follows :
"Bo it remembered that the
Freeholders of St. PauUs Par
ish met the sheriff, at the court
house in Edenton on Monday,
the 8th of April, then and there
pursuant to an act of Assembly
did elect the following persons
vears (agreeable to resolve of
Provincial Congress held at
Halifax the 2nd day of April,
and justified agreeable thereto) ,
viz. : Thomas Bonner, Wm.
Boyd, Thomas Beubey, Jacob
Hunter, John Beasley, Wm.
Bennett, Wm. Roberts, Rich
ard Harkins, David Rice, Aaron
Hill, Pelatiah Walton and Wm.
Hinton, we the subscribers pro
fesingour ailgiance to the King
and acknowledging the consti
tutional executive of govern
ment, do solemnly profess, tes
tify and declare that we do ab
solutely believe that neither the
Parliament of Great Britian,
nor any member or constitu
tional board thereof, having a
right to impose tax upon these
colonies, to regulate the inter
nal policy thereof, and that all
attempts by fraud or force to
establish and exercise such claim
and power oniviolations on the
force and security of the peo
ple of this Province, simply . and
collectively are bound by the
acts and resolutions of the con
tinental and provisional con-
freelv represented by persons
rrt r j.
chosen by themselves and we do
solemnly and sincerely promise
and engage and ihe . sanction of
wisdom, honor and the same
love of liberty and our country
to maintain and support all and
everv the acts, resolutions of the
said continental and provisional
congress to the utmost of our
power and ability. In testimony
whereof we have hereto set our
hands this 19th dav of June,
1776."
Signed in their- own proper
hand-writing : Richard Has-
kins, David Rice, Aaron Hill,
Palatiah Walton, Wm. Hinton,
Thomas Bonner, Wm. Boyd,
Thomas Benby, Jacob Hinton,
John Beasley, William Bennett
William Roberts.
A trip to rfee all these things
will be worth one's while and
will be worth more than the out
lay in pleasure, for I have not
told the halfof what the thought
ful can realize.
A Night of Terror-
M Awful anxiety was. felt for
the widow of the brave General
Burnham of Machias, Me.,
when the doctors said she could
not live till morning writes
Mrs. S. H. Lincoln, who at-
tended her that fearful night.
''All thought she must soon die
from Pneumonia, but she
begged for Dr. King's New Dis
covery, saying it had more than
once saved her life, and had
cured her of Consumption. Af
ter three small doses she slept
easilv all nisht. and its further
use completely cured her
Tins marvelous medicine is
guaranteed to cure all Throat,
Chest and Lum Diseases. Unly
50c and $1.00. Trial bottles
ree at McKay Bros. & Skin
ner's drug store.
The Kentucky Delegate and the
Colonel.
When the convention met
vpsterdav there was a
thinning out of the faithtui,
rUn 10H nnt ArriQ tA I .rm vi l 1p
if Htnnt
all summer. Many of them
Inner before vesterdav morning
were in a frame of mind and
pocket to sympathize with Col.
W.. of Kentucky, who-paid a
visit to New York some ten
or twelve years ago and put up
at a EuroDean hotel. He bus-
tied into an American rjlan ho-
tel shortly afterward, accepted
Mfo ftf in fnr ft rrnm and four
4 JL bV v m. w
meals a day, and had the clerk
send a nirrfrer instantly to the
n'tnor '. Wp1 fnr his hafTcacre.
uvi.v.. w w. rtn- o
'I've been payin' fo' dollars
Aw fnr- mv Trm Ainnfi nv(r
there." he exnlained. "and
vcy -"7 -
thev've been a-chargin' all my
r '
meals extra. Yes, sir! they've
. j . "
been a-chargin' me twenty cents
apiece for roasin'-years, and
I've been just fairly eatin my
damned head off." Louisville
Courier-Journal, 27th.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
Tha Kind Yea Hare Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Tongue Twisters.
Drimtaidhvickhillichattan is
the name of a small hamlet in
the Isle of Mull containing not
more than a dozen inhabitants.
How they pronounce it is a
mystery ouly to be solved by
some one acquainted with the
Gaelic, but the fact that the
Scots are a nation of fe words
seems easy to explain, if they
have many such words as the
above in the language.
A sample of Welsh nomencla
ture is Mynyddywlln, which is
the name of a parish close to
Cardiff, while another of the
same kind is Llanfairpwllgwngll
Perhaps, however, the Ger
mans may be fairly said to car
ry'off the palm in word coining.
How is this for a speciman
? or this one, Jungfrau-senzimmerdurchschwindersuch-toedungs?
The first means a Constanti
nopolitan bag-pipe player and
the last is the name of a young
ladies' club which adorns the
brass plate of a door of a house
in Cologne to this day.
Rabelais gives the following
name to a particular book which
was supposed to be in the libra
ry of Pantagruel's medical stu
dent friend Victor "Antiperic-atemetanaparbeugedanptecribr-aati
ones, Toordicantium,"
while Anantachaturdasivratak
atha is an actual Sanskrit word
to be found in any Sanskrit dic
tionary, and the word Glunin
stardysarchedes .occurs in Ihe
works of Platus, the Latin com
edy writer. Harper's Round
Table.
Spain's Greatest N3ed,
Mr. R. P. Olivia, of Barcelo
na, Spain, spends, his winters
at Aiken, S C. Weak nerves
had caused severe pains in the
back of his head. On using
Electric Bitters, America's
greatest Blood and Nerve Rem
edy, all pain soon left him. He
says this grand medicine is
what his country needs. All
All America knows that it cures
liver and kidney trouble, puri
fies the blood, tones up the
stomach, strengthens the nerves,
puts vim, vigor and new life
into every muscle, nerve and
organ of the body.. If weak,
tired or ailing vou need it.
Eyery bottle uai.anteed, only
50 cents. Sold by McKay liros.
& Skinne", Druggists.
Convicts 'Tracked by a Mule.
A letter from Valdosto, Ga.,
says: a rauier lunsiesnuii
story comes from down about
Genoa, la., of an old muie
which tracked a gang of es
caped convicts for two days and
led to their capture. I he con
victs were at Savage and Co's
stockade and made their escape
a few days ago. There were
no track dogs at the camp, but
A7heU 'kh
formed to hunt for
which the men had to ride was
an old muie mp nuu uecu uu .
si mi ar c. nase .manv limes ue-
fnr As soon as the men
started out they
noticed that
nose to the
the mule .put its
ground just as a ira uug
would and started off as if on a
trail. The muie was anoweu
to go almost as it pleased, ana
the men were finally convinced
that the mui3 was ngu.
chase was kept up for two days,
and the convicts were capiurea
below Lake City, a distance of
i
I
fiftv miles. Ihe men are now
convinced that tne capture ui
the .fugitives was due to the
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good scenting powers of the
rau e. Ihe story, tuouen "
i w-
sounds a litue nsny, cuiue?
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through entirely trusrworuiy
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sources." Baltimore oun.
A Frightful Blunder
Will often cause a horrible
Burn. Scald, Cut or Bruise.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the
ht, in the world, will kill the
pain and promptly heal it.
Cures Old Sores, Fever bores,
tti a Tl;ia T?olQ Hnvnfl all
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OK.1II Xruuiiuiia. ucsKiuovu.v
Cure guaranteed Sold by
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How The Trust Robs Farmers.
There used to be "big money"
in the tobacco crop for the far
mers of North Carolina. But
that was before the advent of
the cigarette trust, without con
science of any kit d In the
"good old days" prior to the
arrival of this grinding, greedy
oppressor the farmers of the
then fine tobacco section made
money "hand over hand." We
have often given glimpses of
the results and how the growers
of the gold leaf belt rolled in
money. Among' the
farmers the average
ran from $40 per
pounds to more than
foremost
of crops
hundred
$100 per
hundred pounds. It was a day
of fat things. Then the best
tobacco lands in Graoville rent
ed for $100 per acre rented,
and think of it. Now they
would not rent for $5. "What
change is there, my country
men?" There are men in those coun
ties who still make money by
tobacco, but it is "not a drop in
the bucket" as compared with
old prices since the great war.
In other sections since devel
oped intolobacco sections there
is profit found, and much great
er than in cotton at present low
prices.
But remember, when fine to
bacco in the leaf fetched from
$40 to $100 average for an en
tire crop, cotton also brought
to the planters from $o0 to $100
for each bale. In 1870, as we
well know, a bale -of average
size of good
$100. Years
$50 or more.
cotton sold for
later it brought
How much has
it been bringing for two or three
years not more than $25, if so
much
In South Carolina, tobacco is
profitably made by good far
mers. Mr. . A. Gregg's name
is familiar to newspaper read
ers. He lives at Florence. He
cultivated 116 acres in cotton,
realizing from it $2,447.40. He
had the same number of acres
in corn, for which he received
$840. He obtained $3,486.40
for crops made on 232 acres.
The cost of production is not
given, but the profit on 116
acres in cotton is put at $295.02.
He had a 25 acre crop of tobac
co upon which he made a net
profit of $1,529. It appears that
his 25 acre crop was five times
more profitable than the 116
acre crop.
In vears between 1867-1880,
we verilv believe that there
....
were farmers in Granville, and
perhaps in i. half dozen other
counties in that section of North
Carolina, who averaged from
$300 to $600 per acre in tobac-
TIT 1
co. we Knew sumo buui
Granville- a dozen or so.
It was common among the bet
ter farmers to make by each
hand oemployed from $500 to
$1,200. Dennis Tilley worked
six men and averagea L,tvv.
He was probable the most suc
cessful pf all in the county.
Wilmington Messenger.
Where The Compas, Came From-
The earliest reference to the
use oi the manner s compass
are to be found in Chinese his
tory, from which we learn how,
in the sixty-fourth year
of the
reign ot lioang-ti zo-i y.; ,
the emperor attacked Tchi-yeon,
on tne pi;Uns or lchiou-iou,
ana- finding his army embar-
rassed by a thick fog raised by
the enemy, constructed an in
8trument for indicating the
i i ...
south, so as to distinguish the
fnnr cardinal- noints. and was
w - . A
thus enabled to pursue his ad
versary and capture him.
The nower of the loadstone
i i
to communicate polarity to iron
s Raid to be for the nrst time
explicitly mentioned in a ini
I . . -
nese dictionary, hnished in a.
I , ., i t .
I). rzi. where tne loatisione is
defined as "a stone with which
an attraction can be given to
the needle."
The Chinese appear to have
once navigated as far as India
by the aid of the compass. Ex
change. '
lieV. VT. r.. I. .uuiuus ui
Centre, Mass., has been
l,ft
pres.aency o. u. -
i a - ti at wiirii'M i .t-r iiiiiiai v.
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Nature In strengthening and recon
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Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
Sick neadache,Gastralgia,Cramps, and
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For sale by Hood & Grantham,
Druggists, Dunn, N. C.
mere They "Hang Out"
"I was traveling through a
thinly settled district up the
country some time ago," said
a drummer who can't tell a lie
when he sees one, 'and had oc
casion to stop at a small town
off the line of the road' The
only vehicle I could get at tho
station was a ramshackle buggy
driven by an old darky, and as
we snailed up the road I amus
ed myself by pumping him
about people and things. Fi
nally.it occurred to mo to get
some pointers on the best place
to lodge.
" 'Look here, uncle,' I. said,
'where do folks generally hang
out here?"
The old man gave a sudden
start and glared'at me with evi
dent apprehension.
" 'Well boss,' he replied in a
hoarse whisper, 'they mos' gen
er'ly hangs out on that big
dies' nut tree vonder, second
lim' frum tb bottom.
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Druggists.
E. W. Weatherford, an engi-
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neer on the southern .uanway,
was shot and killed while asleep
t. rn
on a - passenger coacn at i us
combia, Ala , early Saturday
morning. His son, John
Weatherford, has been arrested
charged with committing the
murder.
ID
ITUCtS
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Babies &nd children need
proper food, rarely ever medi- j
cine.
. Ii iney co not uuivc i
their food something i$ i
on
wrontf. They need a little
! help to Set their digestive
machinery working properly.
o
iJU or
rnn IVER OIL
tTTHrfrPOPffOSPttTZS fUM 4
I
will generally
correct this
difficulty.
If you will put from one
fourth to half a teaspoonful
i in baby's bottle three or four 1
times a day you will soon see !
I a rrcrked Improvement ror
I uw children, from hall to
1 a teaspoonful, according to
age, dissolved in their mux,
if vnu 10 disire. will very I
soon show its great nourish- J
I ing power. If the mother's
milX does not nourish the
baby, she needs the emul
sion. It will show an effect
at once both upon mother
1 and child.
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SCOTT 4 BOWNE, ChmUt, Nrw York.
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Two BiQ
to serve as vestrymen for one
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