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Published Every Friday.
A. H. Mitchell,
Editor and Business Manager.
Established 1886.
27Zj? EDEWTOJY
GRADEESCHOOL.
The next Fall Session will begin
Monday, Sept. 17th, 1888.
Prof. L. A. Williams,
Mits. R. F. Ciieshire,
Principal.
Assistant.
Other teachers of high standing and
experience will be employed in
due time.
The well known ability and worth of
the teachers employed to conduct the
School, and its record during past Ses
sions, are a warranty that its pupils will
receive the best and highest education
to be had in this locality.
The Trustees invite the co-operation
and patronage of all citizens.
Pupils from other districts are invited
to enter the School.
Those who desire to pursue the higher
classics, or to prepare for college, will
find special arrangements for their
benefit.
rates:
First Grade, -
Second fc - -
Third " - -
Fourth " - -
annual: quarterly:
$10.00, - - $3.00.
$16.00, - - $4.50.
$20.00, - - $6.00.
$30.00, - - $3.00.
gfTTERMs: Half at beginning, and
balance at middle of each Session.
Charges will be made on all bills frcm
date of entry of each pupil to the end of
the quarter, except for those entered
under special arrangements to the con
trary. Deductions will be made only
in eases of protracted illness.
Resident children who are dependent
upon the Public School Funds for edu
cation will be received into the School
without charge. Those entitled to this
benefit, will be promptly notified.
Good Board can be had at moderate
prices.
For further information address or
apply to the Principal or the Trustees.
13y order of the board of Trustees.
B. F. Elliott, President.
T. C. Badiiam, Secretary.
Edenton, N. C, Sept. 15, '88.
EDENTON HIGH SCHOOL.
F. P. HALL, - PRINCIPAL.
The Next Term Begins
OCTOBER 1, 1888.
No guarantee is needed by those who
patronized this school during the past
year for ita thorough work and rigid
discipline in the future. It aims at
something higher in education than a
mere accumulation of facts at bringing
all the powers of the mind into vigorous
exercise and teaching the pupil to reason
and think for himself at laying a solid,
substantial for higher education, and
fitting its students for- the practical
duties of life. Only a limited number
will be admitted this term so that every
pupil may be under the immediate care
of the Principal.
Reports will be sent out monthly, as
usual, bringing the standing of each
child in review before the parent.
As the school will be limited to 86
those wishing to attend had better apply
at once to J. R. B. Hathaway.
Committee VV. D. Pruden, J. R. B.
Hathaway, Jno. C. Bond, T. B. Bland,
Edward vood.
Edenton, N. C, Aug. 10, '88.
I am appointed by the County Com
missioners as regular auctioneer of
Chowan county, and will be pleased to
serve the public when called upon.
Terms: On real estate 1$ per cent. On
chattle property and liye stock 2 per
cent. Mileage 5 cts. extra.
I will be found at my store on Main
street at any time. Call on me. I will
treat you right.
May 17, 18S3. A. J. Bateman.
The
EDENTON,
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
BY II . A. R.
Young men, don't waste your sweetness
Upon the desert air,"
Don't lavish your affections
On one that has no care.
Don't idolize or worship.
The girl that stole your heart,
Until some mutual feeling
Is proven on her part.
Young man don't waste your sweetness
In such a foolish way;
First find out if she loves you,
How much, and if 'twill pay.
Now she may treat you clever,
And make you feel at ease;
Still that's no sign, my worthy,
That chalk is made of cheese.
So, then, waste not your sweetness.
Unless you really know
That she reciprocates it,
And proof enough does show.
Her smiles may be bewitching,
Her eyes may sparkle, too;
But ah ! her heart, you know not
If it belongs to you.
Oh, then, waste not your Bweetness,
Nor do not waste your time;
For what will it avail you
To dangle on her line?
That is, if her intention
Is nothiDg more or less
When she gets through with playing
You're duped, you must confess.
Reflector.
"JAKE'S LETTER."
Rocky Hock, Sept. 1288.
Mr. Editor : Perhaps a little
news from our section will not be out
of place just at this time. Our farm
ers are becomine- interested in the
great Alliance movement which is
now being agitated throughout this
Southern land of ours. Agents are
actively at work endeavoring to
organize the farmers into one great
National Alliance by the coming
cotton season. Men of other trades
or professions have their organiza
tions for their own protection. The
farming class, who constitute the
back-bone and sinew of the country,
have here-to fore been a very disor
ganized set. They have Dot been
working in harmony with each other
in a manner that should characterize
a grand fraternity. They are now
beginning to realize the importance
of a concert of action. Knowing
that they constitute the greatest bulk
of our population and by a united
effort they can wield a potent infla
ence in commercial and national
affairs, they have resolved that their
influence shall be felt.
Dr. Seawell, of Moore county, a
representative of the Farmers' Alii
ance, visited our community last
week, and addressed our people at
Rocky Hock Church; at the conclu
sion of his speech a club of seventeen
members was organized, although
the attendance was small, it not being
generally known that the Doctor
h would address the farmers at that
time and place. Another meeting
is to be held at the Gall-Berry School
House tomorrow night, at which
time an opportunity will be offered
for others to join the club.
It is needless to say that the
Alliance is meeting with some oppo-
sition, and that too, among the very
class of people for whom it is designed
to benefit. There will always be
some opposition to anv measure that
is designed for the public good.
Our late crops have been cut
off
very much by the prolonged drouth,
Smallest Hair Throws a Shadow."
N. C, FRIDAY. September 21, 1888.
Stock peas are a perfect failure.
Potitoesare sorry, but think the
recent rains will materially benefit
them.
We learn that Mr. H. C. Nixon
has purchased the farm owned by the
late Capt. C D. Ellis.
Our County merchants are getting
in their fall and winter stocks, and
are offering their goods at very reas
onable rates.
Mr. Lee Coffield is visiting rela
tives in this vicinity. He left this
county about five years ago, and
went to the extreme western part of
this State. He is now a thrifty
merchant, located at Topton, Chero
kee, county, rle reports that crops
are good and money plentiful in the
West.
Alore anon. Respectfully,
"Jake."
POSSIBLY A BLESSING IN DIS
GUISE.
The wav in which the people of
the South have undertaken to defeat
the basrciniT trust is worthy of the
probably, was a whole section of coun
try so bent udoii devisinir ways and
means to destroy a monopoly which
had suddenly sprung; into power. Not
only the cotron growers, but all other
classes as well have been seekuiir to
find a substitute for jute bagging
Jute is a foreign material, and the
money to pay for it must annually be
sent out of the South. As a result of
the attempt to torcc the price up
through the trust, it is almost certain
that a substitute of Southern origin
will be found. While various experi
ments are beine mane to proauce a
suitable material, out of pine straw,
veneerinsr of e:uin. elm and other
s, it is probable that the nnal
solution will be in the shape of goods
made of cotton. Out of the South s
rroaf fltkOtr crlrt tln1 fll lvm fr k ttir
work of Southern mills will doubtless
come in future the material that is to
wrap the cotton for shipment. When
this is done the production ot it will
annually require from 100,000 to 150,-
uuu uaies oi cotton, aua most oi rnis
will be by Southern mills. This
would add almost one-third to the
consumption of raw cotton by the
mills of the South, and would be
another erreat advance step in the
progress of that section.
It seems probable that the Lane
Cotton Mills, of New Orleans, have
produced a material which will meet
all the requirements, which can be
made by any cotton mill, and on
which there is no patient or royalty to
prevent its production by others.
This material has been carefully tested
in iew uneans, ana uie xinies-
Democrat, m concluding a lull review
of its merits, says :
4VVecan imagine no better solution
of the difficulty than this. Let us re-
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view luc . T , TV
here a bagging that can be produced by
the millions of yards in a few weeks,
and by the factories right in the center
of the cotton country. As every mill
can make it at a moment's notice, and
does not have to depend on supplies
from India, there can never be a corner.
The use of this material will create a
demand for a low grade of cotton now
difficult to sell, and will advance its j
price nan a cent a.pouna, masmg in j
this item alone a handsome profit to the
South. The bagging is as elastic as jute,
strong, as well adapted to covering
- ni a
cotton; it will stand hooks, compresses ,
o-rl honH hnornt Pvprr Irirwi it Wlii nvr.
tent the cotton better from dirt and from
water, and affords it ample ventilation,
In the matter of price it can compete I
with jute, and. as it can be used again, it !
will actually prove cheaper to the plan- I
ter than the Indian product."
If the formation of the bagging !
trust should result in the general
adoption of a covering made of cot
ton, it will have proved a blessing in
disguise. Baltimore Journal of C0111-
inerce
THE IIEROP:S OF THE
SWAMPS.
FEVER
Philadelphia Telegraph.
There is one pleasant story which
comes up to us from the plague-stricken
town of Jacksonville, Fla. It is that
all the clergymen of the place, without
a single exception, are at their posts,
nursing the
sick, ministering to the
UMng, ana reverently pavmg
1 . . 1 . .
the last
rites of religion to the dead. While
we give so much glory to men who in
the tumult, fury and excitement give
their lives in battle, these brave men,
who tight the insidious, often more
dangerous enemy, the pestilence, in
its chosen stronghold, should hot be
forgotten nor deprived of any honor
that is their due. It is much easier to
die heading an impetuous, impulsive
charge, with all the world looking on
through the published accounts, than
to sit quietly down by the side of one
who is afilictcd with a deadly, conta
gious disease. This is what the
..w. vij. ,..IU pii. B,i.niff ui
Jacksonville are doinsr in
their peril-
oils day. They are taking their lives
in their hands hourly, with noble,
serene courage, facing death through
their simple sense ot duty. There is
something sublime in duty like this,
and those who rise to the height of it
hould be not only gratefully, but
J
SUPPORTING LOCAL PAPERS.
The people of Radford will not look
in the direction of advertising the town.
They will even attempt to cripple their
town paper by patronizing offices of
other towug with their job work and 60
forth. Still everyone expects the Dem
ocrat to boom Radford for all it's worth.
Radford (Va.) Democrat.
We have seen many cases of this
kind, and some business men seem
to be incapable of appreciating the
fact that every good local paper does j
its town ten times as much good as it
is ever paid for. Men having large
interests in a town ana aeeu v con-
cerned as to its troirress often trv to
see Uow little they can do for their
own iocai papers. The papers of
the South are to-day doing far more
for the ?rood of their countrr tlum
they receive credit for. Day after
Mnv and week after week their arp
telling of its advantages of soil,
climate and minerals and of its pro-;
grress. I ne tacts which tuev cive
are widely published in other papers, J
and thus the good work is carriec
, , . , .
ed far
pejonu meir lmmeaiate circi
e of
readers. The Journal of Com
merce has often noted with admira
tion the great work that Southern
papers are aomg. ana regretted to
see how poorlv 'in many cases thev
are supported by the people whose
interests they are serving. Journal
Qf Commerce.
It is said that the oldest man
living
rTTr'n oin la I oTTlnw! I '1 mritJ 1 1 1 mi "v f
is James James,
J 7 ' C
bauti Rosa, Mexico, who was born
near Dorchesta, S, C, in 1752.
irculation Large.
Price IVrYcmr (Jl.OO
single Co; y r ' (Viim.
NO. 172.
NOKFOLk 6QUTHEKN RAILROAD COM
PANY. Schedule in effect april 30, 1888.
Mail Train leaves Norfolk 10:30 a. in.,
daily except Sunday, and arrives at
Edenton 1:45 p. m. Leaves Edenton 2:1 5,
and arrives at Norfolk at 5:80 p. m.
Accommodation leaves Norfolk at 6:00
p. m., arrives at Edenton 12 00 p. nt.
Leaves Edenton at 4:00 a. m., arrives at
Norfolk 10 a. m., daily except Sunday.
Close connections at Norfolk with all
rail and steamer lines.
At Elizabeth City with steamboats
for all points on Pasquotank, North and
Alagator rivers.
At Edenton with N. S. Railroad
companj'V steamboats, Plymouth, Mary
E. Roberts and Hanger, for ail joints on
Chowan, Scuppernoug Little, cashieand
.Roanoke rivers, and JamsevilJe & Wash
ington, and Albemarle & Raleigli Rail
Roads.
The steamer Plymouth, plying be
tween Edenton and Williamston, will
go to Hamilton on Tuesday and Friday
of each week, leaving that place at 2
o'clock a. m., on Wednesday and
Saturday.
Norfolk passenger and freight station
at Norfolk and western Railroad Deiot.
Freight received daily, except Sun
days. Through tickets on sale and baggago
checked between Edenton and Elizabeth
City and Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York by Bay Line and Old Domin-
. J Ik 7 A T 1 V ft
f Norfolk, and between Norfolk
. Washington, Plymouth, Williamston.
Windsor and Jamebville.
M. K. KINO. General Manager.
o .
EASTEItN CAROLINA DISPATCH.
AS'
HSIG
LINE
Regular line of steamers between
Atlantic & North Carolina R. R., New
Berne, Washington and Elizabeth City.
Daily all rail service between Edentoii,
N7 York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Norfolk.
Through cars, as low rates and quicker
time than by any other route.
Direct all goods to be shipped by East
ern Carolina Dispatch, as follow: From
Norfolk by N. S. R. R.; Baltimore by p.
w. & B. k. li.; President St. Station,
Philadelphia by Pennsylvania R. R.
Dock St. Station; New York by Penn
sylvania R. R., Pier 27 North River.
E. WOOD, Agent, Edenton, N. c.
J.C. ETHERIDGE&C0.,
Cotton Factors
AND
General Commission Merchants
No. 5. Roanoke Dock,
Norfolk, - Va.
Country Products of every description
solicited;.
Reference: Marine Bank.
D. etiiei;iix;e, Currituck, n. c
Etheridge, Fulgham & Co.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND COMMISSION 3IERCIIANTS,
lu, 17, 19 & 21 Commerce Street,
Norfolk, - - - Va.
jC7Specialtics Cotton, Lumber,
Corn and Peanuts.
Refer by jerrnisiou to VV. S. Wilkin
son, Cashier ank of omrneice, Nor
folk, Va.: Caldwell Hardy, Cash. Nor
folk Nat. Bk.; J. R. Cojland, Pres.
Fifrua'b. Bk. Suffolk, Va.