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Ifvonr small ad THIW YEAR was a Paying Investment 7Tl Try a larger one J i O IF1V TVoxt J Week, m vir in .vi3v v:v:rc. A. H. Mitchell, Editor and Business Manager. Located in the Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina. Established 1886. ONE DObl'AR per year in advance. EDENTON, N. C. FRIDAY JANUARY 24 1896. 3T. G4&m COL A SOUTHERN VOLUNTEER. FHJ.-K L. STA5T0J?. Yes sir, I fought with Stonewall, And faced the fight with Lee; Kut if this here Union f-'oes to war, Make one more gun for me . I didn't shrink from Sherman As he galloped to the sea; But if this here Union goes to war, Make one more gun forme. I was with 'em at Manasses The bully boys in gray; I heard the thunders roaring Round Stonewall Jackson S w ay. And many a time this sword of mine Has blazed the route for Lee, But if this here Union goes to war, Make one more jjim for me . I'm not so full o' fightin', Nor half so full o' fun, As I was back in the sixties, When I shouldered my old gun ; It mav be that my hair is white Sitch things, you know, must be , hut if this old Union's in for i 'Mit, Make one more gun for me . "I haint forgot my raisin' Nor how, in sixtv two, Or thereabouts, with battle shouts I charged the boys in blue ; And I s;.y; I fought with Stonewall,. And blazed the way for Lee ; but if this old Union's in for war, Make one more gun for me '. A Probable Murder. Matthew Bell, who is now in jail at Norfolk, Va., awaiting to begin a ten-year sentence for house-breaking and robbery, is feeling very nervous lest he might be taken back to North Carolina, where he is suspected of murder, and the circumstances are very strong- against him. The Carolina authorities are working the case up, and if they secure enough evidence will ask the Virginia authorities to"lend" them Hell, who may have to stand trial for the crime, which was the killing of an umbrella- mender in Littleton one day af ter I'.ell escaped from the con vict farm near Raleigh. A Large Serpent. Norfolk has two huntsmen who have a picture of a sea ser pent which they claim to have seen while in North Carolina, laying on the beach near Curri tuck. The monster is described as being 30 feet long and of the thickness oi a man's body. When found, the huge carcass was frozen stiff and lying on the beach just out of reach of the waters. The Norfolk Pilot prints a large cut of the monster. Aycr'sllair Vigor is eeitaiuly a re markable preparation and nothing like it lias ever been produced. No matter how wiry and unmanageable the hair may be, under the influence of this in comparable dressing, it becomes soft, silky, and pliable to the comb and brush. DAVID COX,Jr.,B.E. AKCIIITKCT and ZHZertford.. jST. O 1-4" Laud Surveying a specialty. 1'lans furnished on application. W BE. BOMB, Attorney st Law Ul)I2MoN,X C Practice n the Superior Courts of Chowan and adjoining counties, and in the Supreme Court at llaleigh. I ."Collections promptly made. DR. C P. SOGER T, Suriroon and Mechanical Edenton. N C. Patients visited when requested. 3 1 "J ?LE INQUIRY MAY SAVE YOU DOLLARS. Write for prices before plac ing ordersfor gravestones or cemetery work. Designs sent free. rTkTTPVTJ's: s? MARBLK WORKS, 111, 113 & 115 Bank St., Norfolk Va. Auctioneer. Having been appointed County Auctioneer and given bond therefor, all persons are forbid den to exercise the virtues of that office under penalty of law. A. J. Bateman, Broad Street, Edenton, N. C. BQIEO MURDER TRIAL. Testimony of Credle, the State's Witness. Try to Prove an Alibi. THE BELL BOYS ATTEMPT TO PROVE AN ALIBI. THE -TRIAL WILL CONTINUE INTO NfcXT WEEK. The trial of David Cradle, Win. Brantly and the Bell boys, for the murder of J. B. Bonner, oi Aurora, is s':ill going on at Wash ington, N. C, with unabated interest. Up to this writing only about sixty witnesses have been exam ined about half summoned 'o testify in the case. Most of these have testified on behalf of the State. The State has rested its case and the defendants' witness-, es are examined. The most im portant witness that has testified thus far is Cradle, one ot the mur derers who confessed the crime. He tells a straight story, and un der a most rigid cross-examination he has held up well and al lowed the lawyers not to get him tangled in any way. David Cradle said: "I am 25 years old. I was born in Hyde county. Cannot read or write. Lived in Beaufort county four years, in Aurora twelve months, and have known Brantley and Bell since I have been in the county. Brantley and I were ar rested Monday afternoon; we were taken to Thompson's hall. We were under guard. Next morning I sent for John M. Flow ers to come to see me. He came and I told him who was in it. He made no promises or threats. I afterwards saw Mr. W. B. Rod man and Mr. Fowler. No prom ises or threats were made to me at auy time. "I refused to testify before the grand jury because my brother told nic not to tell until he saw me again. I don't know what the effect of mv testifying will have upon saving my own neck. Uriah Bell told me one night about a club that had been form ed to kill and rob, on the order of Jessee James' book, only he said their crowd was a little smaller. He said, We have some good men in the club, but we want one more,' and he urged me to join. I asked who were in it. lie would not tell. He said the parties with him held them selves up and would not be sus pected. 'We are to rob and take anything we can get.' He asked if I had a pistol. I said no.' He said, 'Would you mind killing a man?' I said I did not want to kill anything. He said, you need not shoot anybody. We want you to take when we knock down.1 He said he would come to Flowers' that night. Flowers sent me for him that night to do some work. This was Thurs day, a week before the murder. I went after Brantley that night. I had never been to Brantley's before. I put the horse up and we took supper. Brantley sent his wife up stairs to Mrs. Gray's room. He said the parties would be there soon. Uriah Bell came and asked if we had talk over the matter and it I had agreed. Bell said, 'There are three in it. I don't think, we will get caught, they won't sus pect us.' Brantly asked Uriah Bell where the other party was and he went out and brought in Sherrill Bell. Sherrill Bell ad vised me to come into the club. He said, 'Uriah is plucky, Brant ley is a good man and I am pretty good, and I know you'll do your duty. We have pistols. You can take as we knock down. You come when Brantley comes each night.' "Brantley's wife was up stairs. I went to bed and got up early next morning. Brantley and I started to work. Brantly said the Bells were thought well of. Said he and Uriah Bell had been in the business some time and they had not been caught. Had opened some stores. "I went to Aurora Saturday evening I staid with Brantley. After supper Uriah Bell came land wanted to know if I had agreed. After awhile I agreed to come into the club. Sherrill Bell came and Brantley and Bell said thry had been into Alex. Hudueirs and V. A. Tompsons stores. Sherrill Bell saw Thomp son get $50, but said they only got $2. They went in a side window at Hudnell's. Uriah-Bell had the paper pledge I was to take. All of them got on their knees and the pledge was read to me. We shook hands. The ob ligations were to secrecy and heath if either divulged anything they did. Uriah Bell said 'I have been captain so far,' and they con tinued him as captain. We were all to obey the captain. It was then late but we went out to see what we could do. We went to Cherry's, he keeps open late and takes his money home in a bag. We arranged our position at his back door. He was to be knock ed down and robbed. The clerk came to the back door and said, 'The gate is open, some one is out here.' Cherry came with a liydit and we ran. Uriah Bell had gone for a club at the time and Cherry went home. Uriah wanted to know why we ran, and they said Cherry spoke of his rifle. "We then went and were to try Billy Hudnell and to rob the Hudnell store and make him open his safe. Bell said "We are too bold, we need masks. "Brants ley said he would have his wife make them out of black cloth. Hudnell's store was closed Suu- day morning. Brantley and I took a walk over the bridge. We talked over what they had done. Brantley said: "We made a water haul; next time we will do better; you need not get scared.' On the night before Uriah Bell said this. We came back, and Brantley went to church with his wife. Monday morning we went to Flower's to work. I brought Brantley home Wednesday. He said, 'Boys, we will meet at the Bells', come there to-night.' We went to try to get B. F. Mayo. Brantley's wife gave us masks ot black cloth. We took our places and Uriah was to give the signal. Some one came with Mayo and we did not get him. Bell said, 'We will go to Idalia and get Peter Cuthrell ' We arranged and went in a road-cart. Uriah was to give the signals. We were in a fence corner and saw some one coming, and thought it someone else and went off in the field. He passed and we did not get him. We wrere to go and get B. H. Thompson, if he was alone. We went and his clerk was in, so we left. Sherrill was to stay and get Will Baynor. We made a water haul again. We went home and to bed. "Next morning I went back to Flower's. I came back to Au rora Saturday night and took supper with Brantley. The Bell's came and Mrs.' Brantley gave us our masks and again we went to the stables, our meeting place. Bell said, 'We can get Bonner to night.' All was arranged. Brantley, Sherrill Bell and I were to go in front of Bonner's house and get in the fence cor ner and Uriah Bell was to. watch Bonner and give the signal by a whistle if it was the right man. Bell gave Brantley his pistol as he had loaned his to his brother. Brantley had brass knucks and he gave me the pistol. We went and took our positions. Some one was coming, and Uriah Bell gave the whistle signal. Brants ley led meeting Bonner, Sherrill followed and I behind. Brantley knocked him down with his brass knucks and we threw him over the fence. He struggled a little. We broke some rails. Bonner caught on his feet but Sherrill got over, threw him down and said, 'Please help me to keep him from hollowing.' Bonner begged and said, 'For God's sake don't kill me. I will you everything I have.' I put my hand on his head. Brantley told me to shoot him. I would not and he took the pistol from my hand and shot him in the forehead. I ran and so did Brant ley. When we had gotten about twentyfive or fifty yards away another pistol fired. We went through the field and across wire and other fences to Brantley's Uriah Bell ran as soon as Bon ner was knocked down. Don't know where Sherrill Bell went. We left him at the body. Uriah Bell came to Brantleysand want ed to know what he had done. Brantley said, 'I shot him.' He wanted to know if we robbed him and we said we left Sherrill at the body and we supposed he did it. He said, 'You both stay in and I will let you know if anything occurs.' Credle also said: Those are the shoes I had on. My hand was bloody and Mrs. Brantley put water in a vessel and I washed them. "Brantley was not bloody. He took the empty shell from the pistol and threw it in the fire. He gave the knucks and pistol to Mrs. Brantley. She put them away. She put the knucks un der the wash stand. There was a light in the house when we came to Brantley. He told Mrs. Brantley what he had done. She said, 'Well, you shock me.' We then went to bed and next morn ing we went to see the body. "Late in the afternoon I was under shed with one Paul. Uriah Bell and someone wa. on the op posite side of the street, he motioned me to come and I did, and he gave me Bonner's store key, and said, 'Throw it in the creek.' I took it and went to Flowers' and hid it under the fence. Brantley and his wife were there. Brantley said next morning that the Bells had keys and papers taken from Bonner's pockets. On coming back from the field that afternoon, before I told him Bell gave me one key, Brantley and I talked it over and and he asked about blood hounds which had been sent for, and Brantley said, 'It has been rain ing, they can't scent. I road here and you came by boat' We were going to Aurora. He said, 'They may suspect us, but don't get scared.' "I asked R. L. Tones if the blood hounds had come on Sun day. "We went to Aurora and were arrested on Monday afternoon. The Bells were arrested next day." The statement of nearly every witness that has gone on the stand for the State lias corrober ated the facts brought out by Cradle. The evidence by the defence has all been on the line of an effort to prove an alibi for the Bell Brothers. Strong effort has been made to prove an alibi for Uriah Bell as to his conferring with the gang on the Thursday night of the week prior to the week of the murder. One lady testified and every one else that Uriah Bell was at the Hall on the .night in question, Only one or two thought they Were posi tive they saw him at all times that night from 8 to 1 o'clock. The evidence by the defeice, thus far, is not of much weight, and does not go far toward prov ing an alibi. It is now' impossible to fore cast as to the end of the trial which will probably last until next week. TRIED AT MID-NIGHT. AND SKNTKXCEP TO TWENTY YEARS IMPRISONMENT. To preset ve the law and to avoid the likelihood of mob vio lence, Dr. Eugene Logan, who a few days ago outraged a 12-year old girl in his office at McMinus ville, Tenii., was taken from jail at midnight a:id given a speedy trial. The prisoner admitted his guilt and threw himself on the mercy of the court. He was sentenced to serve twenty years' in State's prison. No train was due to leave the town till day light and at 2 o'clock in the morning, escorted by a heavy guard, he was started in a hack over the mountains towards Nashville. His victim , Florence Gardner, in the daughter of prominent parents and was in the dentist's chair when the doctor took advantage of her. Though the hearing consisted of "snap judgment," the verdict is regarded as lenient by many people. Logan has a wile and two children and was highly respected previous to this crime. North Carolina Invited. Gov. Carr has received a letter from Governor Peter Turney, of Tennessee, asking through him, the co-operation of this State in the exposition at Nashville, be ginning September 1896, which is to celebrate the centennial of the admission of Tennessee into the Union. WHITE CAPS At Work in Carroll Virginia. County Ffave Become Desperate. Cowhided a Citizen and Hung Another to a Limb Three Times Until Almost Dead. White Caps in Carroll county Va., near the NorthJCaroliua line, have become desperate. During the past week they visited the houses of three different parties. One was Lacy Worrell, a man suspected of being a reve nue informer. They cowhided ! him unmercifully and ordered him to leave the county at once He is now in West Virginia and has sent for his wife and children Another victim was Will Dalton. He was hung to a limb three times until almost dead. .Then, after a severe flogging, was turn ed loose. He recognized several persons in the mob and the chances are that they will soon be arrested. Itf is believed the white caps are an orgauizedjband of toughs, committing these crimes, thinking that the distil lers in the county will be accus ed of the same. The Odd Fellows Orphan Home. The board of trustees of the Odd Fellows Orphans' Home held a special meeting at Golds boro on Friday the 17th inst., for consultation with reference to the erection of the main build ing on its grounds at Goldsboro. An amended plan was submitted, 1- , 1 11 wliicn, witn some smaii varia- tions, met with tne approval 01 the board, and a resolution was adopted to have the building erected at a cost not to exceed $ 1 0,000. Messrs. Nathaniel Jacobi, of Wilmington, Wm. T. Dortch aud-W. A. J. Peacock, of Goldsboro, were selected as a building committee to carry out the action of the board The committee will be ready to re- ceive proposals as soon as me 1 . ii. specifications are completed. m 1 Fined. Mrs. Pattie D. B. Arriugton, who was convicted in the Supe rior Court at Raleigh a few days ago of maliciously libelling ex- Judge Spier Whitaker and of libelling the memory of the late Chief Justice W. N. H. Smith, wzs fined $25 and costs. Barnes Bros., printers who published her paper in which the libels appeared, were fined 45 and costs. All of the sentences are regarded as light. The woman escaped because of her sex. The Solicitor asked the Judge not to imprison Barnes Bros., as they proved such excellent character. To Protect Our Coast. It is said to be the purpose of the Government to fortify at least two and perhaps three points on the North Carolina coast, using heavy modern guns and -torpe does. $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Addres, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. ) Sold bv Druggists, 75c Hall'sjP&mily Jills are the best. I'll Meet Them, Coming Back ! BT JOHN M. M ATTHEW. Tho years have pass'd, ia mem'ry still A record I caa trace O joys that crown life's pointed hill. Where I once had a place. The view was glorious to behold. Anticipation briirht. And all seemed rich as burnished gold As hope light up the sight. I little thought, how insecure. How treachrous, was the ground; Nor dream'd that happiness so pure In misery could be drown'd; For sweet content reign'd over all. And every fear was still; I had no fear that I could fall, Or e're go down the hill. While I was happy in repose. With joys on every side, A storm of circumstances rose, And on its troubled tide I found that I was swept along And fore'd against my will To join the sad and gloomy thi ong Going surely down the hill. And as, with most unwilling tread, I've kept the downward way, I've hop'd as such pass'd o'er ;my head 10 see a better day; Not yet ! says fate, and downward My pathway seemed to lie; And yet, I will go up the hill Once more, befoie I die. Full many bitter pangs I've had While on this darksome road; But little, this poor heart to glad, Or lighten life's great load; But still, a bright and lovely spot Occasionally will Shed hope around my gloomy lot, While going down the hill. Some few have pass'd me, going down riiey rush das with a will, With songaudshout.that voice to drown hich never can be still, I tried, in vain, their course to stop, They pass'd metwith a frown And mock'd the ear they saw me drop, And went on madly down. But many met me on the way; Methmks I sea them still, With happy smiles, which seem'd to say, vveremw"' up the hill : Not one gave out the helping hand To stay my downward track But pass'd me by the selfish band, I U meet them coming back! I'm nearly at the bottom now, The turning-point at hand, And soon I hope to raise my brow Up to that happv band Who crown the hill; and it I gain The pleasaut upward track I must confess, 'twould give me pain To meet them coming back. And when I meet tnem God forbid That I should malice bear Against them, for the ill they did When, ouce they met me there; No! I will hold ont both my hands, An-lall that I posses?! To soothe, assist and break the bands, Ofbrethreuiu distress. And if, by helping them I fail To gain the band around The hill top, I will not bewail, But take a middle ground, And rest content; And bless that power That plac d within my breast The wii, nud gave the means, and hour To succor the distress d. Julep. The foregoing lines were clipped from the Economist several years ago. The author was a native of Elizabeth City, N. C.was well known in Edenton. and is still remembered by a few of the older residents of this town. B. Should Have a Guardian. One of the young 111. n of Iertford, who' is evidently in need of a guardian, more than a wife, imparts the following sad information to the editor of the Courier of that place : "Edenton is an easy place to catch a sweetheart, but a hard place to get a wife." Poor fellow, you have our sin . cere sympathy. It is indeed de plorable that one in your pre dicament should be running around without someone to look after and protect you. We wish we could be of some service to you, but, as our girls are just a little choice and Lard y care to undertake the position of guardian, we fail to see how we can help you. Your plea is indeed a sad one and even now we are sheddincr copious tears of sympathy. We can only cite the wifeless wanderer to the beautiful poem : 'Be stillsad heart.and cease repining, Behind the clouds, the sun's still shin ing; Such fate is but the common fate of all, And into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary." Will Meet at St. Louis. St. Louis gets thr Populist National Convention, it having been called by the Executive Committee to meet there July 22nd. m Tobacco Exposition; The Chamber of Commerce of Winston is considering the feasi bility of holding a big Tobacco Exposition in that city during the coming fall, Dedicated. The Epworth Methodist Epis copal Church, South, in Norfolk, which cost $100,000, was dedi cated Sunday last. DOINGS OF THE WEEK. News Gathered Here There, and Everywhere. OF INTEREST TO ALL. rxcKF.n it and rrr in shatb for the niSY READER. Charles T. Harris, of Dover, Del., is dead. There will be big fight over his estate of $500,- 000. A new steamship is being con structed for the Southern rail way, to ply between Norfolk and Baltimore. Greenville, N. C, has been visited with a fire that burned a dwelling and in it were the records of the Uaptist church. The Cotton Growers' Conven- tson is 111 session this week at Memphis Teun. A large num ber of cotton growers from all over sue entire boutli is in at tendance. Wake Forest College now has 260 students enrolled, this being the largest number in the history of the college. It is expected that the number will reach 275 before long. The starch makers in Wiscon sin, Minnesota and North Dakota used last year three and a half million bushels ot potatoes, from which they got fifteen thousand tons of starch. A South Carolina woman has caused the arrest of a man - for kissing her after a courtship of two years. Ke did it so awk wardly that it aroused her in dignation. The steamer James Woodall, ashore at New Inlet, N. C, is breaking up, and her decks have washed ashore. Thirteen bar rels of sugar, her rope, canvass and blocks have been saved. The tallest man in this coun try is "Col." Powell, of Texas, for some years in the show business as an el en gated freak. He stands 7 feet y yz inches when he is not tired. He has retired from the show busis uess. The New York Financia Chronicle says if the cotton plant ers keep their acreage within reasonable limits this year they will stand a pretty good chance of getting 10 cents a pound for the next year crop. The prevailing sentiment among the members of the ex ecutive committee of the North Carolina Teachers Assembly, which for years has been holds ing it's sessions at Morehead City, is to hold this year's meet ing of that body at Wrightsville. An English steamer sailed from New Orleans a few days ago with a cargo of 203.622 bushels of grain, nearly 6,000 tons, which is said to be the largest cargo of grain ever ship ped from this country, except one from New York, which has never been duplicated, The grain-shipping business of New Orleans is becoming immense and is growing rapidly. The growing of pineapples seems to be a profitable business in Florida. The Jacksonville Citizen says the hundreds of acres' now planted in pineapples will be increased to thousands of acres in a few years. The plants are propagated from slips, and in crease very rapidly, as also does the product of apples. Some months ago there was a great sensation in Wilmington, caused by the seizure by the United States of the steamer Commodore, on the ground that it was taking arms to tne Cuban insurgents. The case was not proved. The steamer has eyer since laid at a wharf and now it is discovered that a day or two before Christmas all of the great quantity of arms and equipments on board of her were removed. It is said that they were all sent to Cuba. TENNESSEE'S EXPOSITION. TO BE HELD THIS YEAR AT NASH VILLE. Tennessee will be the first State in the Uuion to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of its admission into the fedcra tion.audshc will do it on a grand scale. The State was admitted into the Union on June 1st, iSy6. For several years the people of Tennessee hare been planning to honor the event in a fitting man ner, and they arc now building at Nashville, the capital city, an exposition that will be larger and more beautiful in detail than any exposition ever held in this country except the World s Fair at Chicago. The Expo sition will open September ist, 1 S96, and continue one hundred days. North Carolina Schools. There arc in the State 2 white and 7 colored normal schools; 5, 123 white and 2,424 colored dis tricts, with 4,8 1 1 white and 2, 296 colored schools taught. North Carolina has spent for public schools in 1895 vcr $Soo,ooo. Animals Wanted. Mr. T. K. IJruner writes the Charlotte Obscncr that the State musuem want a trood black bear "in the meat," a four-snatr buck and a well grown doe. a good red fox, a "mammy 'possum with a pocket lull ot kittens; it wants the "painter" from the mount ains, and four or five swan from Currituck; in fact, it wants anv animal or fowl illustrative of the natural history of the State. Parties who have on hand or can get any of these "goods" should write to Mr, liruncr at Raleitrh. The museum will pay the freight. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship constantly in repair. Dr. Johnson. IltLVO You V r Gen If you have not, you shall see it at ouce. 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