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JADVERTISERS f A IN THE I FISHERMAN & FARMER 4 i s Reach a Class whose Patronage f l Viv Ioiitill. J IP 'liiiFinnisiiri. Fan OF YOU Were far to fuce with prospective cui tomer what would you uv to inun sale Hay the Mme in in advertisement orar many rtMirri.rtmone a pro w-Ubvouil they knew how you could A. H. Mitchell, Editor and Business Manager. Located in the Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina. Established 1886. ONE DOLLAR per yearilt advance. EDENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 2f9 1895. TSTo. SOB. aero . BLOODSHED IN BATH, a mob of drunken negroes i take possession of the historic Town. Officers Defied apd Attacked. Til KK ATS OK Bl RNING, PII.I.AOlv AND j ....... .1.-1, uliiL'nv Till? UlflTI-'W; ilv- 11 l Kl'lirt ..... . . - - " - ...... (!! THKIR I.KADKRS AKRKSTRI) AND uNi: SHOT, PROH.IU.Y FATALLY. NK i.KU'vS ATT li MIT TO RKSCt'B THEM. Tillv MST KKSPKRATli LEADER STILL at i. A RCK And olTlawKd. Cli bs, KNIVKS AND PISTOLS USED. A special from Washington, N. C to the Nc7us& Obsct-ocr of the '2iid, says: Saturday night about hi o'clock, news reached here of u r ice war at the historic town of bath, about 16 miles from here. It stems that the negroes em ployed at the R.R. R. cSi L. Com paiiv, two miles below IJath, and negroes from the mills of A: B. Covington, several miles further on, caused the trouble. These negroes are paid off on Saturday, and usually go to Bath to spend their money. On sev eral occasions they have been ar rested ior petty misdemeanors, and this has engendered bad blood, and they had made threats tint they would go to IJath and take possession of it. Accordingly early in the night, about 100 of the negroes, with several of their most desprate leaders, went to Smith's bar, in Hath, and began to fill up on mean whiskey. By j o'clock they were nearly half drunk, and the trouble began. They grew bois terous and indulged in the most profane and foul language, in terspersed with threats of a ser ious character. Pistols were shot oil" in the streets and the negioes openly defied any attempt at arrest and declared that they would do as they pleased and the whole town of Bath could not prevent them. At this juncture town officer T. C. Taid and Deputy Sheriff N. A. Whitey and a small posse at tempted to arrest the ring lead ers, but failed. Paul was wound ed, receiving a painful cut in the hand. Geo. M. Woolard, in living to arrest a negro named Stewart was struck on the head with a club and severely hurt. Special deputies W. P. Ward, W. COden and Miles Shepherd also received wounds, but not serious. Finally Smith succeeded in clear ing the negroes from his bar, but locked in Paul and Respass and one other officer to protect them from the angry mob. Prom the bar the negroes made ?lieir way to the Racket store wheie a number of white men had assembled, and a second :-c! iiumagc took place. Pour white men were hurt. V. B. Ward was struck in the face while Li ving to arrest a most desperate negro who had a club. James D.ivis got a blow on the fore head. A bystander was struck in the eve and on the head and one of the officets was severely cut. The white men at last suc ceeded in driving the rioters out of the Racket store and barring and locking the doors, them selves on the inside. The ne groes then returned to the bar, declaring that they would kill Paul before morning. But tliJ officer was locked in the bar, and tailing to effect an entrance the mob returned again to the Rack et store, keeping up their bois terous threads and making night hideous with pistol shots, inde cent language and loud chal lenges for wdiite men to show themselves. Dr. I. T. Nicholson was the only man Unit leit tne store lim ing the seige. He was not mol ested. . , . .-. . 1 . .1 At three o'clock Sundav morn- j in- the rioters left the town, de-! daring that thev w ould return Sundav night and renew the at tack. During the trouble the officers telephoned to this place for aid in suppressing the rioters, and Company G of the N. C. State Guard was ordered in readiness by Col. W. B. Rodman, that they might be able to start at any mo ment as the sheriff's posse on the steamer. The troops were held in readiness until 11 o'clock Sunday morning. Col. Rodman has received authority from Gov ernor Carr to call out the military under orders of the sheriff, if it becomes necessary to preserve order or suppress riot. After the riot Saturday night two colored participants in the fray, Wiley Pitts and Charles Stewart, two of the leaders, were arrested. On Sunday morning the offi- If you want Wend Produce FRUITS AND VEGETABLES have always received especial attention with this house,and that RESULTS attained have been Uniformly Satisfactory can be at tested by our numerous patrons in this vicin ity. We shall have increased room, better facilities and greater outlets the coming season and shall give the same earnest en deavor towards pleasing and giving satisfac tion to our shippers. EGGS AND POULTRY ! i are products that we also handle with satis-! factory results, and we anticipate increased patronage from the fact that we shall be able to dispose of larger quantities than ever be fore, and we think to better advantage as well. Shall "I I have shipped produce to F. S. GIBSON for several years and he has given entire satisfaction. A. K. Jordan. I have shipped F. S. GIBSON truck for two years and find returns good. T. J. Hoskins, M. D I have been a shipper to F. S. GIBSON for several years and he has given me entire satisfaction. I. J. Moore. cers and special deputies set out to make the arrest of the other leaders. Solomon Lanier and Samuel Clark were taken. They were found in a house near by. They refused to be arrested and tried to keep the officers front en- tering the house. But they forced their entrance and arrest - ed them. Clark was first taken, Lanier was upstairs. When the officers climbed the steps they f,,n,wl i nistol oointed in their ; faces, but they grabbed Lamer and disarmed him. In the scuf- i ile he rolled down the steps and escaping through a door ran for the woods. He was followed by the officers and shot in the nip and ankle. He is badly wounded and his recovery is doubtful. The four negroes, Solomon Lanier, Sam Clark, Charles Stew-! nage, has such excitement and art and Wiley Titts, were tried terror taken possession of the Sundav morning before Justice j staid old town. J. M. Marsh, and bound ov er to j But all is quiet tonight, though court. Failing to give bond they jthe people still fear that the at were started from Bath to Wash-j tack may be renewed at any lllvtOU OU SCllOOliei iu-jhiuu., Capt, Bragg, under guard of arm ed men. W hen the boat nan put out a short distance another boat loaded with negroes followed, seemingly with the intent to re tlm iivisoners. In a few ,,,..,(M,i two other boats, loaded with negroes, put out from Bay Side, having been signalled Irom the Bath boat, and all gave chase to the boat carrying the prison ers. Fortunately at this moment the tug Nellie lily, with Sheriff Hodges and twenty-five armed iiwMi steamed tin and took the prisoners aboard. The Neptune j x ,..t..T-ofl to li:ith. and the two! 11. Ill l llN-'V 7 Bav Side boats also returned, but the Bath boat continued to Wash ington, arriving about sunset. One of the negroes on the boat, Gerrard Whitehead, was arresieu Sunday night at the house ot 'David Bryant by sergeam. j. iv. Grist. A negro named 1 honias Bon ner is ueiieveo w ji instigator of the riot. He is a desperado and tli2 same man who resisted arpest in Washington, N. C, two years ago. He is consid ered the worst negro in the coun-t,- chief of Police Fowler and a' posse went out Sunday to find him but failed. Upon an affidavit of town offi cer T. C. Paul, a proclamation of outlawry, signed by Justices J.S. Marsh and T. B. Clayton agambL Thomas Bonner, has been posted. Upon hearing of this Bonner is reported as declaring that he would kill any man who attempts to arrest him, and he would not be taken alive. Bath is a village of about 250 inhabitants, founded in 1706, and IK M to a I Send you a j has had a varied and interesting j history.- For many years it was I the capitol of the colony and the home of the Governor, who was ;said to be in collusion with the famous pirate Teach, or Black j Beard, wdio made his rendezvous j there, and shared iir his spoils - from the sea. A church in good j condition, built of brick sent j from England in Queen Anne's j time, is still occupied as a place of worship, leach s caldron where he repaired boats can still be seen. In 1722, 011 that mem orable September 12th. when a wholesale massacre of whites at Elizabeth City, Edenton and Wilmington by the Indians was planned, every wdiite person in Bath was slain. Never since that fearful car- unit KILLED FOR NOT PAYING TOLL. At the toll gate, near Lynch- Iburg, Va., last week, William Weinman, the toll keeper, got into an altercation with a man named Walter P. Willis, about j the latter refusing to pay tolls. Weinman's son, John came up during the squabble and while i William, it is alleged, held Wil- y Tom Weinman struck the latter over the head with a sin gletree of a wagon, knocking him unconscious. Saturday night W7illis died from the effects of the wound and both of the Weinmans are in iail charged with his murder. Willis is al leeed to have been too intoxica ted to have defended himself, and was forcibly dragged out of his btisrsrv because of his refusal to pay toll. San Francisco has a first-class sensation in the discovery of the bodies of two girls iu the tower of a church. Both had been murdered, and the circumstances point to a young man who is a medical student and a Sunday school teacher in the church, as the perpetrator of the double T T 1 . J crime, ne is unaer arrest, anu is strongly suspected of the com mission of two other murders, Tarboro bank. is to have a new UN U I ! i "Olcl IRelia-"ble Siiii 108 SPRUCE Street, .?EDDLSl)ISILfflHB You Have This Market Stencil, And R. S. MITCHELL, SOLICITING AGENT. A MYSTERIOUS POND I.VNAR KCI.IPSFi IRIE1) IT UP AND ON ST. Patrick's day ai.i, thk fish i,i:kt. Near Logansport, Iud., there stands a small body of water commonly known as "Palmer's Pond." Many peculiar and in teresting phenomena are related of it. On the night of the moon's eclipse, March 13, the pond, in which usually from five to filteeu feet of water stands, went com pletely dry. Several families who lived nearby and had certain knowl-. edge that the pond had been full the evening before were greatly astonished bv the occurrence and hastened to relate the news to their neighbors. Manv came fid inspected the bare bed that day, but those wdio delayed their vis it until the dav following" were disappointed, for that night the pond resumed its usual fulness. Those who viewed the basin during its empty condition saw nothing in the shape of a fissure or outlet ot any kind; neither was there any spring apparent whereby the pond might be fill ed again. The only theory advanced is the possible effect of the moon's influence. In support of this theory it is said that about twenty-eight years ago the pond was observed to go dry under precise ly similiar circumstances. With these two exceptions it has al ways been one of the most stable and constant bodies of water in the locality. Through the worst of droughts it has maintained a constant depth ot never less than five feet, which in the spring and fall is frequently iucreased to fifteen feet. With other remarkable stories told of Palmer's Pond it is said that on St. Patrick's Day, 1873, all the frogs and tortoises in it formed in line upon its bank and marched overland a distance of a quarter of a mile or more to the Wabash River, where they again took to the water. This unique spectacle is said by many reputa ble citizens to have been viewed by them, and it is certain that 1 . 1 1 to-aay tne pona contains no specimen of either of the species named. Philadelphia Press. ! Ml I Ml I I I I 11 II II 0 The Groods. Needs Them, Keep You Posted This Season? COMING BACK TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. It is reported that many of the Populists of North Carolina are coining back to the Democracy and are shedding their Populistic heresy as fast as they can. They realize what an awful mess the fusion Legislature made of their State and they are heartily tired of that sort of politics. What a pity it is that good men will al low themselves to be led off into these by-ways of politics to find out too late the fatal error of their action. There is one thing that all Democratic people should bear in mind. If they do not get good government under the prin cipals of Democracy it is the fault of the men who control and not of the party itself. Those who are false to the principles of Democracy and betray it for sel fish ends 5,110111(1 be cast out. They should be made to obey the dictates of sound policy and to learn that those who under take to prostitute a noble part- to base and unpatriotic purposes must fail they may prosper for a season, but in a.littletime their schemes must come to naught. Norfolk Landmark. COLONIAL RELICS. The Colonial Committee of the Board of Woman Managers for the Cotton States and Inter national Exposition is gathering many rare and interesting relics of Colonial and Revolutionary days. These exhibits will be, in most cases, loaned by private in dividuals throughout the Union. From their nature, these relics are not for sale, and in many in stances have never been on ex hibition before. Among others, will be a desk owned bv George Washington, and now in the pos session of a private citizen. This collection of colonial relics will be one of the most interesting ever seen in America. Don't allow your head to swell, even when the world praises you Secure a couple of brass hoops and fasten them around your cranium if you can't do better They may save you much an noyance and prevent the loss of your reputation. r3 rcai-rriri-i-riJfi i FISH, OYSTERS, GAME, &c. ThOUgh practlCallV v ; the business our success is already assured. j We have been compelled by its steady growth I to seek more room, and have taken the premises No. 322 S. Water St., to use for this purpose exclusively, and shall endeavor by giving the same earnest attention to YOUR SHIPMEETS to make it mutually profitable and satisfactory. Our people are trained and experienced and our facilities are now such as to warrant a belief in such a result. THESE ARE SIMPLE STATEMENTS OF FACTS, that are easily susceptable of conferniation. DIGEST THEM thoroughly. LOOK US UP, and we feel sure that if you are not already patrons, you will become so. WE INVITE CORRESPONDENCE and will gladly furuish any information as to methods, prices and con ditions prevailing at any time. I know of no better man in Philadelphia to ship truck too than F. S. GIBSON. I have shipped him for sever al years and returns are always satisfactory. J. C. Sittkrson. I have been shipping truck for the last four seasons and have shipped to several firms, but foand none as prompt in returns as F. S. GIBSON. H. E. Williams. A BAND OF BURGLARS. Billy Williams a noted crook arrested at WashingtonCity some days ago for complicity in a rob bery, has made a confession to District Attorney Birney, which shows that Washington has been for the past year in the hands of a gang of organized thieves and cut-throats. The gang has plun dered, robbed and waylaid, and even went so far as to plan for the murder of Sergeant John C. Daly because he was in the way and frustrated some of their crimes. Among the crimes set out in this confession are the following: Robbery of the branch postoffice at Georgetown; robbery ot Dyer's grocery in Georgetown, when $300 was secured; the burning of the Lady of the Lake; wreck ing of John Clark's safe at Roy- lyn; the shooting of Charles Ormeat the :'.'ateman-lvuglish fight near Bladensburg, when an effort was made to steal the gate money; the holding up of R. A- Golden;the robbery of the Wash ington and Alexandria Steam ship Company's office; the rob bery of an old man in George town of the savings of a lifetime, aggregating $ i,; 00; attempt to waylay and rob John and Clar ence Caray in charge of the for eign book 01 the Alexandria track and finally the plot to murder Sergeant Daly. Billy Williams is an old-time criminal. He has been appre hended on a number of charges and served eight years in the Virginia penitentiary for the murder of Policeman Arnold of Alexandria. He returned to Washington and appeared to be leading an honest life. At the time of the Ford's Theatre dis aster he was one of the most en ergetic workers in helping re move the debris and rescuing the sufferers. His confession, it is said, implicates a number of well-known sporting men, but the authorities refuse now to mention any names. Our advice to young men and old ones is, don't write until you are thoroughly convinced that you know what you are writing about. 2 wOlVwA new in thiS branch Of KINSTON INCENDIARIES CAUGHT. A NKOKO ARRKSTK1), CONFESSES HIS (II'IIT, AN'D IMPLICATES THREE OTHERS. TJie Richmond Dispatch says: There were four large fires in Kinston, N, C-, during the months of February and March, and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property was destroyed. The flames were thought to have been of incendi ary origin and a citizens vigilance committee was appointed and the community patrolled, but to no avail. On March 28th the services of the National Detec tive Agency, ot this city, were engaged in the matter, and its officers after a great deal of hard work succeeded in locating and arresting Alex. Rouse, colored, as one of the guilty persons. Rouse was taken before Justice L. F Moore, and was sent on to the Superior Court. He has since confessed his guilt and im plicated three other negroes, who will be arrested at once. The people of Kinston were greatly agitated over Rouse's ar rest, and there was much talk of lynching him. Notwithstanding the lavish appropriations made by Congress during the past five or six years, the annual expenditures of our government are not by any means the largest of any govern ment in the world. France, which has not more than half the population of the United States, will require $665,000,000 the present year to meet all the demands of her government. The interest on her national debt is $370,000,000, and the expenses of her army and navy will reach $180,000,000 more. There is of course loud complaint of burden some taxes in France, but this is not unnatural when three items of her expenditures reach the enormous sum of $550,000,000. Norfolk Ledger. Sword swallowers ought to try saws awhile, lhey are more toothsome. It is not good to be passionase or quick to anger. FIRE AT WEST NORFOLK. iTHK ATLANTIC AND PANVIU.E j RAIL.ROA1) PROPERTY HIRNKP. j WITH A LOSS OV $60,000. Saturday morning about 2:15 o'clock a disastrous fire broke out in the old warehouse of the j Atlantic and Danville Railroad I Comnany, at West Norfolk, and as there were no facilities what ever for fighting the flames, the whole property was soon burn ing furiously. The old ware house is about 30 by 75 . feet long, and close by was the new house, 600 feet by 100 feet, just completed, to which the fire spread and entirely consumed it. By this time the whole neigh borhood was aroused, but not a bucket could be found to carry water in, and those who were willing to assist were compelled to stand and see the destroyer do its work. There was a train of nine loaded box cars on the track near the warehouses, and these, with their contents of lo cal freight and guano, were burned. There were two rail road barges tied to the wharf, but they were not noticed until the fire cut off the approach to them, and these two were burned to the water's edge. A bucket brigade could have saved the en tire property, but unfortunately none was at hand, and the loss from this oversight will reach about 560,000, on which there is only a partial insurance. The fire originated in a room used by the hands while waiting for trains, the stovepipe running through the roof. There was no one to watch the fire last night, and the pipe set fire to the wood work. The tug Sallie, in command of Capt. Martin Huntley, made an effort to save two of the Atlantic and Danville transfer barges, but only succeeded in getting one to a place of safety. The cover to the one saved was burned, but the fire was soon extinquished by a stream from the tug. KILLED IN A SAWMILL. At Cross Roads Church, Davie county, N. C, last week Lee Wrooten, a good fanner, was standing near a saw mill. One end of a shawl, which he had on, was caught in a revolving shaft, throwing Mr. Woo ten on the same. He was whirled around and terribly bruised and man gled. He died in a few minutes after the machinery was stopped. CONFEDERATE M ENT. M()NU Every band in the State that can possibly attend the unveil ing ceremonies is earnestly re quested to communicate at once with the Chief Marshall, O. j. Carroll, at Raleigh, in order that ! positions and quarters may be assigned them. MEMORIAL WINDOW. Mrs. Z. B. Vance will attend the next commencement of the Salem Female Academy. It has completed a handsome memorial window of Senator Vance and at the commencement it will be pre sented with due ceremonies. - If Capt. Buck Kitchen could only get a nubbin how happy he would be. The man who of all other Democrats was the most bitter, the most truculent in his denunciation and condemnation of the Radicals is the man who is dependent upon them for an office they voted to give him, but which he will probably never get. It was a bad day for him when he flouted Democracy, jumped the track and landed in the Radical inclosure. We have not abused him for his unfortu nate escape because we remem ber his gallantry as a soldier and his services to the Democratic party through more than twenty years. But his case is lament able. Oh, how much harm a pone of bread can do! IVil. Mes-senger.
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