Published Every Friday.
A. H. Mitchell,
E'lifor and Humih-kh Manager
Established 1886.
27 EDEJVTOJV
GRADED SCHOOL.
The next Fall Session will begin
Monday, Sept. 17th, 1888.
Pkof. L. A. Williams, Principal.
Mrs. R. F. Cheshire, J Assistant
Miss Myra L. Darden, i Teachers. '
Other teachers of high standing ami
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 pant Sea
eioi.s, are a warranty that its pupils will
receive the best and highest education
to h had in this locality.
The Trustees invite the co-operation
a"'1 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,
Scct-ul kk -Thud
" -Fourth
" -
C;v Terms :-
annual:
- 810.00,
- 816.00,
- 820 00,
- 880.00,
quarterly:
- 00.
- S4.50.
- $6 00.
- 8.00.
Half at beginning, and
balance at middle of sach Session.
Charges will be made on ail bills fr m
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 citses 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.
By order of the board of Trustees.
B. F. Elliott, President.
T. C. BaDHaM, Secretary.
Edenton, N. C, Sept. 13, '88.
EDENTON HIGH SCHOOL
k 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 its thorough work and rigid
discipline iu 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 rincipal.
Reports will be seat out monthly, as
usual, bringing the standing of each
child in review before the parent.
As the school will be limited to 36
those wishing to attend had better apply
at once to J. R. li. Hathaway.
ommittee V. D. Pruden, J. R. B.
Hathaway, Jno. C. Bond, T. i3. Bland,
Edward Wood.
Edenton, N. C, Aug. 10, '8S.
MTMII1,
I am appointed by the County Com
missioners as regular auctioneer oi
Chowan county, and will be pleased to
serve the public when called upon.
Terms: On real estate 1 per cent. On
chattlw property and live stock 2 per
cent. Mileage o 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, 1SS8. A. J. Bateman
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EDENTON,
CHRISTMAS BELLS.
BY CARO A. DUG AN.
0 hells ! sweet hells ! across the years
Half gay, half sad, your chiming;
Old joys ye tell; old sorrows swells
Throughout your tender rhyming.
O merry hells ! this Christmas day
How loud and clear your ringing !
Such love and mirth o'er all the earth
Your lusty voices flinging !
O happy hells ! through coming years,
V e hear in your glad sending
The message still of peace, good will,
All jarring discords blending.
O bells of God ring on our souls
To grander action nerving,
Till all our days are Christmas days
Of loving and of serving!
NEW NORTH CAROLINA BEAU
FORT COUNTY.
CAPITAL, WASHINGTON SHE GETS IT ALL.
The town of Washington and the
county of Beaufort is decidedly in
luck. Either that or, the appointing
influence, believing that charity begins
at home, has been quite equal to his
obligations to exercise that particular
virtue. From recent elections and
appointments one would think our
traus-Albemarle friends of the First
Congressional District, living in and
around the charming town of Washing
ton, had leased public and official con
sideration for their own and exclusive
benefit. When Judge Fowle was a
candidate he would make the people
know that Beaufort was his home, not
Wake. Judge Shepard stepped on the
Circuit Court Bench from Beaufort
and after a while went higher, by con
sent of the party and people of the State,
went to the highest position which his
judicial asperatiens could possibly take
him. Mr. Brown, of Beaufort, wa a
Cleveland elector in the last campaign
and for his valuable services in the
native county of the incoming Gover
nor, whose wishes are consulted iu all
appointments lately made since the
election, he is appointed Superior Court
Judge. Not yet satisfied and other
appointments being still to fill, Mr.
Satterthwaite, of Washington, is ap
pointed Executive Clerk, and Mr.
Sam' 1. F. Telfair, of Washington, pri
vate Secretary to Governor. All these
appointments we fear, (but no we don't
for it won't make any difference because
this is Beaufort s time in), we started
to say that all these appointments and
election and nominations from Beaufort
would spoil Bro. Latham's chances for
Reading Clerk of the Senate but it
ought not for Latham is in no ring and
tolerates none. He is a square man
and worthy and, although he lives in
Washington, just now, we hope he will
receive the position which we and many
others have asked in his behalf. Give
it all to Beaufort. Draw a line around
her ?nd call her the "New North Car
olina," for such she seems at present.
You call appointing your relatives
to office nepotism, why not call appoint
ing men to office from your native
countv Homemania or oue such kin
dred but more expressive and emphatic
term?
The Supreme Court adjourned last
week to assemble again on Friday
before the first Monday in February
next.
Smallest Hair Throws a Shadow."
N. C, FRIDAY, January 4, 1889.
RANSOM FOREVER FOR US
AND OURS.
When disinterested men from other
States are consulted as to the North
(Carolina Senatorship they all, without
dissent, unite in our opinion and that
is that Gen. Mat W. Ransom should
be returned. This, they believe, is
demanded by the best interest of the
democratic part) and essential to effect
ual representation of North Carolina
and the South in the law-making depart
ment of the . National government.
This belief is not founded upon Gen.
Ransom's intellectual superiority or,
upon his special fidelity to party and
State for, although, in these respects,
he commands our highest admiration
yet, there are men in the State quite
his equals. W e base his claim upon
nothing purely partisan or, strictly
personal but, upen advantage, growing
out of essential experience and an ex
tensive and most eueficial acquaintance
with public men and measures as well
as a most thoro'jfh understandimr of
the ways and means necessary to further
usefulness which is absolutelv essential
to iniiuence and efficiency hi that body,
of which, he has been an honored influ
ential member for so many years. We
hope no member of the Legislature
froin the East will listen to any prop
osition looking to change in the State's
representation in Congress and we
hope our friends from the West will
forget men and fkvorites and, in making
choice, think only of the general good
of the whole people.
EXAMINATION OF SEEDS.
The Bulletin of the N. C. Exper
iment Station, No. 59, just received,
contains the result of an examination
of different varieties of grass and
clover seed which were found on
sale in the State. Mr. Gerald
McCarthy, Botanist to the Station,
gives the method for conducting
these seed examinations both as to
the purity examination and to the
germination test; showing that a
given sample of seed may be poor,
1st, on account of the impurities
other than pure seed present, ami
2d, owing to some of the pure seed
having no vitality will not be able
to germinate. Seed therefore must
be both pure ami vital.
Of the samples examined, the
average of all gave only 5G per eent.
of pure vital seed, or other words
nearly half on an average was of no
value to the farmer. In one ease
is mentioned the presence of barely
10 per eent. of pure vital seed.
The necessity of pure seed is ap
parent to all, for not only is it not
desirable for the farmer to lose the
cost of expensive preparation of the
land, but especially is it harmful to
introduce seed of hurtful weeds as
may very easily be the case where
the seed are of low grade and eonse
quently very impure.
It is announced that soon would
appear a series of articles on useful
forage plants in order to carry out
in part that portion of the State law
governing the Station "to ascertain
if other crops may not be advanta
geously grown on our soils " The
first of the series will le on the sub
ject of "Lucerne."
The Baptist Board of Missions
have appropriated $10,000 for mis
sion work, mostlr in North Carolina. 1
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STATE NEWS FROM
CHANGES.
EX-
Raleigh's ice factory heretofore
operated by a New York Company
has been purchased by two natives
of the city.
It has been decided that the next
session of the Teachers' Assembly
sh.ll be nt Moreliead City, from June
18th to July 2d.
The plans which Morton laid to
force North Carolina to acknowledge
the miserably fraudulent special tax
bonds have so far amounted to noth
ing.
Much of Gov. Node's forthcomi ng
message will he devoted to the neces
sity of a rairoad commission, the
appointment of which he will earn
etlv mj,e.
Notice has been given th it an
application will he mule to tiie next
session of the Legislature tor an act
to prevent stock running at large in
Pasquotank county.
Minister Jarvis was given a hind
some and hearty reception Wednes
day, Dec. 26th, by his fellow-iov. ns
mem at Greenville. His ersonai
popularity is extremely great there.
The Stite Auditor has completed
his list of rail ways assessed for taxes.
There are no less than fifty -one roads.
The gain in mileage during the past
year has been over 200 miles. Tins
shows rapidity of construction. 'Thir
teen railways are now in course of
construction
The question of poll-tax qualifica
tion for voters is looming up in this
Mate. A bill will undoubtly be in
troduced at the coming session look
ing to that end, and it is thought
that, with the large Democratic
majority, there is a prospect of its
becoming a constitutional amend
ment. PRINTERS IN CONGRESS.
N. Y. Tribune.
More printers are in the House of
Representat ives than members of any
other single occupation or profession
except law. Amos Cununings. of
New Yo.k, was a tramp j rinter, and
has set type in every State in the
Union. Senator Plump was first a
printer, then an editor, and finally a
banker, Galliner. of New Hampshire,
was a printer but afterward studied
medicine. Farquhar, of New York,
is not only a printer, but was once
president of the Typographical Union,
"Tim" Campbell was a compositor on
the New York Herald when he was
elected to the New York Legislature.
O'Donnel. of Michigan, learned the
printing bosiness, and bus alwavs
kept at it. Dingley, of Maine; Koran,
of Ohio; Nichols, of North Carolina;
-Wickham, of Ohio; Hudd. of Wiscon
sin; and Yost, of Virginia, were all
printers.
"Why," does any one ask, "why
does the battle press hard to the
very end? Why is if ordained lor
man nt he shall walk, ail through
the course of life, in patience and
strife, and sometimes to darkness?"
Because from pitience is to come
perfection. Because from the dark
cloud is to come the lightning-flash
that opens the way to eternity.
Orville Dewev.
Circulation Large.
Pl1 lVr,:ir $l.GO
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NO. 186.
GAUZE BOOR COOK STOVES.
These are the latest improvements iu
Cook Stoves.
Health and Economy,
Result from their Uje.
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xxi J XUl AA.V a aaa4.
Persons interested are invited to ex
amine the Stoves at cur Store. Prices
moderate.
HOOPER & CO., Edenton, X. C
NOTICE.
By virtue of an execution in my
; hands for collection in tavor of Wrn. S.
! W iggins. P. H. LVatiH and J. dm B.
Wiggins vk T. VV. Paiker. I will Hell on
Monday, the 7th day Ol January, 1889,
about one acre of land, in Chowan
countv , the property of T. . Parker,
adjoining the pioferty of Suffolk dfc
Carolina Railroad company and others.
J AUKS C. W ARKEN ,
: Edenton, Nov. 21, Ms. Sheriff.
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Jos. li. n i.'o.A M, Nanseraond, Va.
Etheridge, Fulgham k Co.,
COTTON FACTORS
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
15, 17, 19 & 21 Commerce Street,
Norfolk,
- - - Va.
Specialties Cotton hum ber,
Corn and Peanuts.
Refer by permission to W. S. VYjlkin
son, Kshier ank of omrnerce, Nor
; folk, Va.; Caldwell Hadry, ( ash. Nor
folk Nat. Bk.; J. R. Copeland, Pre
farm s. Bk. Suffolk, Va.
J C.Ktberidge, o n Williams. CHWIIUmm
J.C. ETHERIDGE & CO.,
j Cotton Factors
AND
General Commission Merchants
No. 5. Roanoke Dock,
Norfolk, - Va.
Country Psoductsof every description
solicited. Reference: Marine Bank.
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