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Published Every Friday. Located in the Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina. irculation Large A. H. Mitchell, Editor and Business Manager. "The Smallest Hair Throws a Shadow" I e Per Y. $1,00 S::iKi- i ) hv ( -nt.. Established 1886. EDENTON, N. C, FRIDAY. August 23. 1889. NO. 219. OUR MAN ABOUT TOWN! WHAT HE SEES AND HEARS DURING THE WEEK. Your "Man About Town" visited the Norfolk Southern R. R. depot this week and found the boys up to their eyes in business. This Road is lucky in having such a clever set of men to represent its interest in this locality. There is Edward Wood Esq. Agt. W ho ever saw a finer man, a more perfect gentleman in every res pect and one more thoroughly busines in all his dealiegs with his fellows? His popularity in Edenton is unex celled and richly merited. Then comes Mr. John Whetston who, though a comparative stranger in our mid9t, has made himself impor tant by business accuracy and promptness and by a becoming po liteness so essentail in every calling and so necessary in the life of .a gentleman. Then we take pleasure in mentioning Mr. W. S. Summerell the quiet, accomodating, attentive and popular young operator and tick et ajjrent. He, like Mr. Wood, was born in this community and' though young, has established a reputation worthy his age, himself and the place which he honorably and suc cessfully fills. Jim Robinson, the night watch, is sometimes seen about the yard in the day and. whenever seen, is full of natural and unpreten ding pluck and energy which makes him important in anything he under takes. He is regarded by everybody as a sale man in all things in which his prudence will allow him to venture. All the employes of the road, at this point, without exception, give the people, as meu and as representa tives of the road, entireaud perefect satisfaction. We would not forget, in writing up the men, to mention another and very creditable feature in which the entire public feels a common inter est. It will be remembered, perhaps, by those acquainted with railroads, as almost a universal fact that the dirt iest and most filthy places in every town or city is at or, near the depots and along the railroads passing through. This is not so in Edenton. The depot and wharves and the yard with all the buildings therein are kept in perfect order. There is nothing offensive about them and people can walk, in almost any weather, dry-shod anywhere about the yard or railroad enclosure. The Banitary condition of the entire prem ises is perfect and very creditable to the officers whose rule it is makes it so We know nothing, of the other places along the line of the Norfolk Southern and but little of the local agent s and other attaches but, if the' all come up to the standard of excel lence lich is here manifest, we can safeh congratulate the Road-owners, and the public with which these officers and representatives have manily to deal. - Among the improvements in prog ress, beside those which we have heretofore mentioned, we notice that ftjlr W. E. Bond is adding to his hjome a new apartment. The house or Mr. James Dowdy is reaching a finish which lends somewhat to its o riginal aspect. O. H. Darden'snew ftsnce is but another addition to the at tractiveness of his residence which is situate in one of the most charm ing sections of the town. The occu pants of the old W. R. Skinner residence are preparing for a needed new fence along the line of the street. Among the most charming spots in Edenton and the best improved is St. Pauls church-yard. It is de lightful to ma rk the excellence every where demonstrated in nature's adornments of the place and pleasant to note the care which the members of the society, to which its keeping is specialy committed, bestow upon it. Sacred memories are there clustered and in the silence of its undisturbed embrace lie the ashes of many of our best beloved of all early acquain tance. We are glad to see the place religiously revered and sacredly kept. Work on the Fair grounds is being pushed and everything gives promise of perfect readiness for the approach ing exposition. The Exhibition hall is a massive structure of excellent pro portions and contains room for every expected display. The track is said to be excellent. Judges prouounce it the best track in the State and even better than the race track at Norfolk. However this may be, we venture it will answer every purpose for which it was built, and will afford as much opportunity, for display of speed, as will be required. OUR DEVIL G0E8 TO CHURCH. The old Richard Woodard pro perty reminds us of soldier's winter quarters, such as were seen during the war. The number of tenement houses are built pretty much after that style and are about as close together. There may be money in them to the rentor but, they neither ornament, attract or make valuable the property in any way adjacent. One of the great mistakes made by property holders in Edenton is the erection of such houses, especially up on iots most desirably located, as are only suited as homes for the very plainest of the ordinary laboring classes of our colored citizens. This ought never to have been done and would not, had not the precedent been long ago established by a Re publican Board of Councilmen who sold of! the town common and other wise waisted the public domain. Not only did '.he Republican Councilmen divide oft the public reservation into small lots, putting them into the hands of small builders but, indivi dual republicans, in imitation, owning property on the outter limits studded it with shanties until, the '"new town" of Edenton, as it is called, looks like a negro refuge, during the late war, such as were seen around Slew Bern, Plymouth and Roanoke Island. To the burning shame of the white people be it said, the prettiest sections of Edenton, naturally, are occupied with huts and by negroes, and the town would to-day, because of this very thing, be under the control of colored men and officers but for the timely effort of one or two men who procured an amended charter from the legislature which, charter, ex cluded new Town from the corpor ate limits thereby keeping Edenton within the control of discrete white men who have managed it success fully and well ever since. THE OLDEST DEMOCRAT. T Our Devil says he went to church last ounaay ior me nrsc tune m many Sabbaths. After service was out, he stood upon the steps as the crowd pass ed out to see the styles, as he declares that's what half the people leave their homes on Sunday for. While he stood there, he tells us, the conversation of those passing him was exceedingly in teresting, when put together as he heard it. One person would pass him conversing, and he would hear a por tion of what was said, and another would come along conversing about something else, a part' of which caught his e;ir, and so on. And tbi., says the Fisherman and Farmer devil, is the way it sirung out: "Very good ser mon, Mrs. ." "Some sort of red stuff, trimmed with narrow blue braid." "No, L didn't like it one bit; 'twas cut too full around the fhoulders." "Didn't you see him? He sat in Mr. s pew." "Pshaw! Mrs B had one of them last summer ; it's old style " "What, a horrid nose he's got; I thought Annie said he was good looking." "Mrs. McCurdy sells it." "You don't say so. Have you got an invitation?" "I heard he was sick.'' "Yes. he is a very logical preacher." "Boh Mitchell has it lor 10c a yard." 4Did you notice that flashy plume she had on?" "No place for a young child, any way." "I got it at Brink ley's." "Got any tobacco, John?" "She bought It "at Belle White's" "Pooh! I wouldn.t speak to him, any way." "I should think Mary would be ashamed to wear such an out landish ." "Thej say that dispatch about Kilram is ail bosh." "Not half so pretty as Mrs. 's, though it don't look so bad, after all." ,4It must have cost as much as two dollars a yard." "So Miss Sallie said last Sunday." "Yes, it was very pretty." "1 don't see him once in a dog s age" "Yes, I'll be there at seven precisely." "I can't but am kuows all about it," ect. After this the devil says he went home deeply " convinced." , MRS. M. W. ELLIOTT DEAD. Death has again inva led the home of Mr. M. W. Elliott, of Tyner, this county, and, this time, selected as its victim the indispensable wife the invaluable mother. This is the second time, within the short space of a month, that the house of our friend has been wrapped in gloom. The first time, it was the death of a lovely daughter now, it is the death of the life partner of our friend. She died Thursday night, the loth, and was buried Saturday. We t?nder Mr. Elliott our condolence and commend him and his to the only source of real consolatio? in this their time of darkness and despair. A Centenarian in Indiana who has Neve' Scratched his Ticket. The oldest man in Spencer count Vi Indiana, and perhaps the oUlest in the State, is now living near Chrisnev. His name is Banjamin Moore. lie was born in Moore count v, N. C, December 25th, iTSi. This venerable pioneer was b:rn in one of the most important peri( ds of the Government at the moment when it was strug g ing lor its existence and in conse quence is older than his government, the same age as the confederation of the thirteen States.and six years older that the Constitution of his country. He was in his seventh year when the first President of the United States was inaugurated, and has a distinct reco1 lection of the older citizens meeting ar,d talking ab'jut the iuau guration of General Washington. Mr. Moore casr his first vote in 1804 for Thomas Jefferson, who was ele t ed his second temr He refers to bis first vote with pride, saying he is to-day the only man living wlio voied for Jefferson, and that he is the oldest Democrat above the sod. He has voted the Democratic ticl-et un scratched at every election from 1794 to the s nng ibSe). The Darties he has voted against are as 1 iiows: From 1804 to 1816 the Federalists; 1820, the Oppositi r; 1824, the Collection: 1828 to 1832, the National Republicans; 1836 to 1852, the Whigs, and against the present Republican party since 1S56 The old gentleman s ys he has watch ed the tariff issue since 1829, and the majority of the peop e have always been on the side of ihe Democratic party on the tar iff question He says 1 hat there is no difference between leveiand and Jefferson on this ques tion. Mr. Moore is living with his second wife, to whom he was wed e 1 in 1 S39 and both are now making their home with his son, who is now past seven ty eight years of age, but looking younger than most men at lift y. His ;oangest son is a sprightly young man of filty-two summers, whom the old man calls his baby. USE DRIVE PUIUPS. DIRECTOR! OUXTY it Vl;RN MKNT ', Sheriff Job. H. Terry. Superior Court Clerk Jno. C. Bud, Register of D.e.ls T. M. Strati, Treaau rer K. K. Pendleton, Coroner A. .1. Hatemau, Jailer Joseph Spruill, Commissioners W. P. Shepard, A. J. Ward, W.J. Webb, W. 1'. Jon.'. W . H. Ron nor. Bo; rd of Education Rev. R. B. Draue, V . B. Felton. Miles W. Klliott. Pullic School Superintendent Sumuel J. Skinner. Health Snp't. Dr. R. II. Wiuborue. CITY : Mayor J. R. B. Hathaway, Clerk A. T. Bush, Treasurer II. A. Bond. Sr. Chief Police Cbarl s Leaiy, Councilmen J. L. Rogerson, W. J. Leary, Jr.. M. H. Dixon, J. W. Bran mug. Alfred King, Anderson Lew toil. CHURCHES : Methodist Rev. Ernest Stevens, Pas tor, tierricea morning and evening of every Sabbath. Prayer meeting evtry Wednesday night. Sunday school every Sabbath at 4 p. m. Baptist Rev. F. M. Setter u hi te. Pastor. Pr aching every Sabbath, morning at M o'clock, evening at 8 o'clock. Prayer meeting every Thursday night. Sunday school every Sabbath. 4 p. m. St. Paul's Rev. R. B. Drane, Rector Morning and evening services every Sabbath. Evening Prayer every Wed nesday. Morning prayer at 9:Hi everj Friday. Sunday school every .Sunday evening. Mr. D. W. Raper has added a new grist to his mill and otherwise im proved it so as to make it almost new and capable of meeting every public demand, His business is booming. A Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life. It was just rn ordinary scrap of wrapping paper, but it saved her life. She was in the last stage of consump tion, told by physicians that she was incurable and could live only a short time; she weighed less than seventy pounds. On a peice of wrapping pa per she read of Dr. King's New Dis covery, and got a sample bottle; it helped her, she bought a large bottle, it helped her more, bought another and grew better fast, continued its use and is now strong, healthy rosy, plump, weighing 140 pounds. For fuller particulars send stamp to W. H. Cole Druggist' Fort Smith. Trial bottles of this wonderful Discovery free at Dr. W. J. Leary's Drugstore. Fisli &c Terrapin Trap I at. Dec. 28. 18SC. Adapted to River and Long Snore Fishing in 4 to 10 feet water. A Great Catcher! Send tor descriptive price list to i. It has been long thought bv m n of science that ha f the H s suffer d in this section of our State were due almost entirely to impure water con sumed, in one way or other, by the peopie. There is no doubt but that much of the water used by us is en tirely surface and, therefore, tilled with every sort of deleterious sub stance through which it necessarily tiiters before reaching the wells pumps and springs from which it is taken for ordinarv purposes. It m st. therefore, be filled water being a great absorbant, with ail ihe poison ous elements common to waste and putridity. 1 his being true, we shoulu ' seek to employ the new means of getting water which enables one to drive below even the river and sound beds and procure wafer from t he pure rock beds which lie beneath the depths as grand rese'rvors of nature's purest liquid. Some of our citizens are inclined to use the drive pumps. We hope they will and give them -a fair test for, in them we have some faith. JOHNSON & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF ITWYrYVYt YT Y Y v , m r1 V V A A A A 1 A I AVA A 1 A 7 A 1 AA A A AA'jXf 121 South Street, Baltimore, Md. NE TTING FOE- SEINES AND POUNDS WM. J. HOOPER & CO., 110 S. Pratt, near Light, 5 (8 a. BALTIMORE, MD., Manufacturers of O n m a w 1OOOWYVYVyYXXX mm. Gov. Fowle has been asked to open the fair at Burlington. as COTTON AND FLAX GILL NETS, n CORKS. SEINE LEADS. 4.C N K in Twine of all kind, Ma nilla, C ottou Sc. Hemp Rope. 1 a
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