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ONE DOLLAR per Year, in Advance. ELIZABETH CITY, N C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 1897 ESTABLISHED 1887
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Miller & Jo.,
WHOLESALE COMMISSION
FlSli Dealers,
NO. 7 FULTON MARK lvT,
New York.
Samuel H. Miller,
Clarence O, Miller J
Special Attention
(liven to
I.1KSALE OF NORTH CARO
LINA SHAD.
Sr.Dcils ami Stationery Furnished on
Application.
K EMPLOY NO AGENT.
W. HAFF
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Wholesale Commission Dcalei in
:D lililSH USE
yt) 1 Fulton Fish Marketj
l?r North Carolina Shad a
Specialty. No Agents
S.L.STORER&CO
WliuifMie Dealers and Shippers of all
kinds of
1; FULTON FISH MAHKET
TV i : W V O 1 1 .
We work harder for the inter
est of the Southern fishernier
than any house in the business.
If your Stencil is tiot.in ood o -do
let us know,
I-?-" We Urn ploy no Agents
and l'ay no Commissions.
E W. Albaugli & Son
Wholesale Commission Merchants
Fresh. Fish,
TERRIPIN AND GAME.
No.iI21 Light IStreel Wharf,
HALT1MORE
Prompt Returns, Quick Sales-
REFEIIENCE.
Citizens National Bank.
W. J Ito.,-r fc Co.
Stencils Furnished Free.
Established 1861.
SAML M. LAWDER & SON.
W'mih'sale Commission Dealei s in
Fresh Fish
riv.ft Crabs Terrapin, Etc.
125 Light St.
Baltimore, Md.
11 irk Sales ' Prompt Returns
REFERENCES
Ti t.l. i s Nat l Hank, DunB Mercantile Atretic
Win.. I. Hoj) ei it i'o. I. Dukehiut Co.
1 liiiw Nat l. Bank. The J. S. Johnson Co
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Wholesale Gioeers and Com
mission Merchants
And Dealers in JUH
-1 Richmond, Virginia.
Consignments of North Caro
lina Herring solicited, and pro
ceeds remitted in cash.
On account of our intimate
acquain'.ance.and frequent trans
action with the Grocery trade 01
the West and South we are able
to handle N. C. Fish to the best
possible advantage, and we are
known everywhere asthe largest
distributors in this marked.
A. S. FOREMAN,
Successor to J. R. Wyun & Co.
Wholesale Fish Commission
Merchants,
No. Roanoke Dock.
Norfolk, Virginia.
Reference
Bank of Commerce; R. G. Dunn Mer
cantile Apency: Adams and Southern
express Company, or any large busi-
Come South Young Man.
Norfolk I 'irginiav.
This is the way the Atlanta
Constitution speaks to hundreds
and thousands of the people in
frozen regions of the North and
West, who feel that they have
made a mistake in ever settling
in those sections, and it is right.
The latchstriug, so to speak,of
the South hangs outside and
these people will always find a
warm welcome in the Southern
country. In referring to the
condition of the people in the
Northwest, our contetnpory
says :
"It is time for these suffer
ers to consider the imiua
ments held out by t ie South.
If they do not like to come
alone to a strange section,
let them organize colonies.
But there is no reason why
they should not come singly.
There is not a locality in the
South where the right class
of settlers would not receive
a hearty welcome. Sectional
prejudice is a thing of the
past, and a man from
Maine or Nebraska feels as
much at home in Georgia asJ
anywhere else. 1 he South
is the HI Dorado of the future.
She has the natural resources
and the advantages, and her
opportunity is at hand. The
first decade or two of the
twentieth century will witness
a great business and industrial
awakening here. Direct trade
with Europe is coming, our
ports will swarm with ships;
our producers and toilers will
be busy; our farming lauds
will be in demand. Now is
the time for immigrants to
come. Why stay in a land
where all the forces of nature
are against you? 1 11 the past
Southern countries have been
the centres of the highest
civilization and the greatest
posperity, and history will re
peat itself. Come South,
young man!"
These are facts that cannot be
controverted. On the contrary,
the success of thousands of sets
tiers fiom the West and Norths
west who have cast their lots in
the South, are living witnesses
for the advantages this section
promises over all others of this
country.
ESTABLISHED 1S86.
The Most Reliable House
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Norfolk.
FEUERSTEIN CO.,
" WHOLESALE-
FISH COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
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Norfolk, Va.
Quick Sales, Prompt Returns.
References by Permission:
City National Bank; R. G. Dunn
Mercantile Agency; Southern and
Adams Express Co.-
We respectfully solicit a share
ot your patronage. Stencils
furnished on application.
E.M.WHLKER&CO.,
Currituck C. H., N. C.
Shippers and Packers of all
kind of
j-ESH JVATER jISH.
BASS and PERGH
A Specialty.
ail Kind of GM.
All orders promptly attended to
when accompanied with a part
cash and balance C. O. 1).
These i(oods arc all fresh and ship
ped daily to all parts of the country.
Give us Your Orders.
ESTABLISHED 1887-
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Consignments Solicit cl.
Stuucils Furnished.
S CAPITOL
Laid in Hums by Flames
ANCIENT STRUCTURE.
LOSS NEARLY A MILLION DOL-
LARH. WILL BE REBUILT.
A ire, which started in the
rooms of Lieutenant Governor
Lyon some time Tuesday morn
nig. swept through the ancient
Capitol of Pennsylvania, at Har-
risburg, and within an hour and
a half after the breaking out of
the flames the structure was in
ruins. The Senate and House
were about to reconvene for their
afternoon session when the fire
burst through the walls, and the
lawmakers were driven for their
lives to the open air. As far as
known no one was killed, but a
number jf people were in the
building trying to save furniture
and other effects when the dome
fell in, and it is possible that
some one may be buried under
the ruins. Quite a number of
people were cut and bruised or
half smothered by smoke but r.o
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one was seriously Hurt. The
most valuable of the State and
legislative records, which were
in the building, were saved, but
the records and statistics of the
Department of Public Instruc
tion, which included much val-
uable information bearing: upon
the public schools ot the Stat?,
were destroyed. The Legisla
ture will find a temporary home,
the Senate in the rooms of the
Supreme Court and the House in
United States District Court, in
the postoffice building, and the
legislature will at once take
steps to have the Capitol rebuilt.
The total loss is estimated at
nearly a million of dollars, on
which there is an insurance of
but $200,000. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
Husband choosers club.
At Hagerstown Indiana, the
Oriole Club, composed of thir
teen young ladies, hasbeen form
ed. The particular object is to
advance the interest of the mem
bers matrimonial. Should any
Oriole develop matrimonial
symptoms her course will be
watched, 'and her interests foster
eel by her sister members. There
are many duties required of
members, but the most import
ant is to observe the habits of
young and marriageable men,
and to discuss their characters
in club meetings.
As to Adversity..
"Sweet are the adversities of
poverty," sings those who have
never experienced their bitter
pangs. There is no sweetness
in adversity but there is somes
times a good deal of revelation
in it. It brings out a man's true
traits of character and shows him
who are and who are not his
friends. It shows how quickly
those who buzz about him in
the sunshine of his prosperity,
desert him in the hour of adver
sity.
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Your
Cough,
like a dog's bark, is a sign that
there is something foreign
around which shouldn't fce
f. r r? You can cuiet the noise.
but the danger may be there I
just the same. SCOT i 'S
EMULSION cf Cod-liver Oil
is not a cough specific; it does
not merely allay the symptoms
but it does give such strength
to the body that it is able to
throw off the disease.
You know the old proverb
of "the ounce of prevention?"
Don't neglect your cough. A
book which will tell you more
on the subject sent free on re
quest. Your drugget keeps Scotfs Emul
sion of Cod-liver Oil. Put up in 50
cts. and $1.00 sizes.
SCOTT & BOWNE, New York.
PENNSYLVANIA
REFUSESTO TALK.
A Maine Man Who fias Been
Voluntarily Silent For Years
There lives in Miluridge, in
Washington county, Me., a man
who defies all human explana
tion. His name is Winfield
Wakefield, says the Lewiston
yonrnal.
This extraordinary person dif
fers lrom the rest of mankind in
that he can speak, but won't,
and was never known in all his
strange life to utter a single word
to any person other than his
father and mother. It is truly
an anomaly. Now, whether his
failure to talk with people is due
to eccentricity, embarassment,
or birth, nobody seems to know.
Manv believe him obstinate, and
laving kept silent for so many
years, the habit has so grown on'
him and that he now cannot
break from it. This diagnosis
of the case is hardly correct, we
believe, but the man's face bears
visible traces of set determina-
ion a determination never to
relent when the mind is once
made up. But the man is not
obstinate, at least, those who
enow him best say he is not.
When his father was alive
Wakefield used to converse with
lim freelv, but he now talks onlv
with his mother. From her he
has acquired a fair education,
learned to read and write. In
the, presence of all other people
he never talks. Some of his
neighbors have often overheard
him talking with his parents, but
every eflort, every ruse to get
him to speak outside, has failed.
Hither lis? cannot or will not talk
to people.
Day after Wakefield has work
ed by the side of other men with
out speaking a single word.
When interrogated he will mere
ly express his indisposition to
reply by a bland smile, yet fully
manifesting his determination.
He has been threatened with
bodily injury unless he would
speak, but intimidation could
not avert him from his extraor
dinary purpose, and he could not
be coerced to speak.
One day a gentleman, just to
try the young man's nerve, seized
him roughly by the coat collar,!
and with an oath threatened to
throw him lrom a high staging
in a shipyard. But Wakefield
did not quail. He only smiled
at the threat. Once it was said
of him that he had promised his
parents that he would speak on
arriving at the age of 21, but the
promise was not kept. Wakefield
is now about 40 years old, He
is unmarried, and since his fath
er's death is his mother's only
means of support.
The people hereabouts thought
he would speak after his father
died, but he did not.
Wakefield does .not avoid so
ciety, nor does he fear publicity.
He takes his misfortune, if such
it is, rather philosophically, and
is not one whit sensitive about it.
When he was a boy he always
engaged in sports with the other
boys, played ball and other games
but never spoke to a playmate.
He even now attends places of
amusement and dances with the
iris, but the fair oiks always find
lim a silent partner. None now
challenge him to conversation,
for they know how useless it
would be to try to get him to talk
to them. It is the most remark
able case we ever heard of, and
probably the wTorld does not af
ford a parallel.
One Dead, the Other Dying.
Bailey Eidson and Lovell
Whitesides engaged in a fight
on the public square at Frank
lin Ky., Saturday. Whithsides
used a knife with such deadly
effect that it is thought Eidson
can not recover. After being
separated Eidson secured a pistol
arid, returning, shot Whitesides
killing him instantly. White
sides is the son of a prominent
THE CABINET TO DATE.
MAJ.McKINLEY HAS NEARLY
C &5PLETED HIS CABINET.
Secretary of Agriculture Named.
Jas. S. Wilson, of Iowa, Will be
the Head ot That Depart
ment. The announcement made by
Hon. James S. Wilson, of Iowa,
on Monday, that he had been
tendered the portfolio of Agri
culture by Major McKinley, and
had accepted, fills the Cabinet
with reasonable certainty, exs
cepting the offices of Attorney-
General and Postmaster General.
THE CAB I : DATE.
The McKinley Cabinet to
date, therefore, may be given as
follows .
Secretary of State John
Sherman, of Ohio.
Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage, of Illinoise.
Secretary of War Russell A.
Alger, of Michigan.
Secretary o. the Navy John
D. Long, of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Interior
Judge McKenna, of California.
Secretary of Agriculture Jas.
S. Wilson, of Iowa.
Governor Long and Judge
McKenna have not announced
the certainty of their appoint
ments, and there is a bare possi
bility that the Massachusetts
statesman may be displaced by
General Steward L. Woodruff, of
New York. One of the unfilled
portfolios will, of course, be
given to a New Yorker, and if
the foregoing list, giving five
of the eight offices in the Cabin
net to the West, should be the
fixed slate, there is no likelihood
that either the postoffice or juss
tice departments will be directed
by a Western man. One East,
ern man and one Southern man
are expected to be appointed to
these two vacancies, prominent
amont the latter candidates be
ing Hon. H. Clay Evans, of
Tennessee, since the declination
of Judge Nathan Goff, of West
Virginia
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Music as a Panacea.
After the water cure we now
have the music cure, and the
French and German papers are
devoting much attention to it. It
is'seriously prescribed as a cure
for nervous diseases, and it is
claimed that it can remove some
maladies in the space of a few
weeks. It is also asserted that a
musical hospital is about to be
established in Munich, where the
patients will be regularly dosed
at proper intervals with instru-
m?ntal and vocal music.
The idea that music can cure
diseases of the body is by no
means novel. Everybody admits
that singing possesses almost a
magical power. It was by in
cantation, accompained by the
strongest instruments, that the
sorcerers of antiquity prepared
their charms and their evil do-
ings. Jby playing tne narp uavia
soothed the sadness of Paul.
The belief that singing cures
not only the ills of the mind, but
also the maladies of the body, has
been perpetuated till the present
time. At the end of the eigh
teenth century Princess Belmont
Piguatelli, the patroness of all
talents, and particularly musical
talents, became ill. ne was
visited by Chevaliey Raaf, the
celebrated singer, who happened
to be in Paris at that time. No
sooner had he come into her pres
ence than she begged him to
sing an airette. The singer con
sented, and chose a piece by
Hasse called "The Saxon."
While he was singing the fever
of the princess ceased complete
ly. Her medical attendant, who
was present, said to her, point
ing, to the artist: "There, ma
dam is your real doctor." The
Journal de Paris of April 15
1788, from which this story is
taken, adds that the princess was
comnletelv cured after a few
visits from the Chevalier Baaf.
According to The Journal En
cyclopedique, 1776, Dr. Duval
cured a woman sixty years of age
who was strickened with paraly
sis by making her sing Christs
mas hymns. Of course nobody
can guarantee the truth of these
statements, but it is beyond a
doubt, for all that, that singing
has an extraordinary influence
over a trrcat manv people. This
A.
is proved by the daily experience
I that everybody is able to verify
with tacihty.
It is by singing that men en
gaged in heavy work lighten
their burdens. The song of a
nurse soothes the pain of the
child calms its impatience and
often communicates to it a gay
ety which is clearly attested by
smiles. Homer and Plutarch
tell us that the ancients had ahab-
it of singing at the end of each
meal, in order to dissipate, or at
least reduce the effects of wine.
According to Gallied, singing
has the effect of calming the fu
ries of intoxication.
Why not go far hack? At no
time was the power of singing
more clearly demonstrated in all
its grandeur and eclat than dur
incf the French revolution. Men
dangerously wounded performed
acts of heroisn while singing
"The Marseillaise" and such to
day is the power of certain songs
upon men of most healthy minds
that every time liberty is pros
cribed the songs are forbidded.
Music, therefore, has an incon
testable influence upon the hu
man organism. But is this in
fluence great enough to turn it
in certain cases into a cure?
That is precisely what the ex
periments to be tried at Munich
will tell us in a lew years. An
alienist doctor, on being con
sulted on this subject, showed
less skepticism than was expect
ed for him. In the hospital of
La Saltpetriere, for example,
it was remarked that the concerts
given by the Lyounet brothers
had a most beneficial effect up
on certain subjects. Who, there-
ore can foresee the results that
may be obtained by a skilful
nanipulation of musical perfor
mances? "Now" concluded the
doctor "in regard to mental mala
dies we must never be either
too skeptical only separates rea
son lrom madness, vvlio can
say that a musical zephyr may
not be powerful enough to blow
away the grain and allow reason
to dissipate insanity?" New
York Sun.
The Farmer's Creed.
Progressive Farmer.
We believe in small well till
ed farms; that the soil must be
ed as well as the owner, so that
the crops shall make the farm
and the farmer richer.
We believe in thought draint
age, in deep plowing, and iii la
bor saving implements.
We believe in good fences,
barns conveniently arranged,
orchardsand gardens, and plenty
of home raised hog and hominy.
We believe in raising, pure
bred stock; or in grading up 'the
best to be gotten until they equal
the thoughbreds.
We believe in growing the best
varieties of farm crops, and sav
ing the choicest for seed.
We believe in fertilizing the
brain with phosphorus as well
as applying it to the soil.
We believe in the proper care
and application of the barnyard
manure.
We believe that the best fer- j
tilizers are of little value, unless
accompanied by industry, enter
prise and intelligence.
We believe in rotation, diver
sification and thorough cultiva
tion of crops.
We believe that every farm
should own a good farmer, and
that every good farmer will even
tually own a.good farm.
B. Irby.
Prof of Agriculture, A. & M.
. College, Raleigh, N. C.
M0U1
MURDERS
TERRIBLE FIGHT IN POLK
COUNTY, N.C.
TV0 DEAD, ONE DYING.
Knives and Pistols do the Fatal
Work.
A horrible tragedy was enact
ed in Polk county, N. C, a few
miles above Spartanburg Mon
day night about 1 1 o'clock.
Will and Joe Gunnel, two al
leged moonshiners, were cut and
shot to death bv a man named
Jenkins, while Jenkins lies mor
tally wounded. The facts of the
killing as near as could be obtain
ed are as follows: Will Gunnel
and Tenkins became in-
volved in a difficulty Saturday
night in which Gunnel was cons
siderably worsted. Monday
night, while Jenkins was on his
way home from his fathersin
law's house he was met in the
middle of the road by the Guns
nel brothers, W ill and Joe, who
atacked him with knives. Jens
kins made a desperate resistance
and drawing his own knife sev
ered Will Gunnel's jugular vein
at the first blow. Joe then
knocked him down and sprung
upon him, continuing cutting
and stabbing. Presently, Jen
kins succeeded in pulling his pis
tol and shot his antagonist
through the head, killing him
instantly. When Jennkins cut
Will Gunnel he lost his knife,
and had he been unsuccessful
in getting the pistol would have
without doubt been murdered
then and there by Joe Gunnel.
As it was he was carved to pieces
and at last accounts there was
scarcely a shadow of a chance
for his recovery. The sympathy
of the entire community goes
out to Jenkins, who acted solely
in selfsde-fence.
CONGRESS OF MOTHERS.
The first National Congress of
Mothers will meet in Washing
ton February 17 for a session of
three days. The meeting will
be conducted by mothers, and
attended by mothers irom all
parts of the country, and will
result, it is hoped, in the gener
al establishment of mothers'
clubs throughout the land.
The object of the Congress is
to consider questions bearing
upou the better and broader
spiritual and physical, as well as
mental, training of the young,
such as the value of kindergarten
work and the extension of its
principles to more advanced
studies, a love of humanity and
of country, the physical and men
tal evils resulting from some of
the present methods of our
schools, and the advantages to
follow from a closer relation bes
tween the influence of the home
and that of institutions of learn
ing. Of special importance will be
the subject of the means of de
veloping in children character
istic which will elevate and en
noble them, and thus assist in
overcoming the conditions which
now prompt crime, and make
uecessary the maintainance of
jails, workhouses and reforma
tories.
These matters will be present
ed to the Congress by men and
women well known in such
work. Arrangements have been
made by the Washington corns
mittee to have Mrs. Cleveland
receive the delegates at the
White House on the afternoon of
February 17th.
State of Ohio, City op Toledo,
, art lvtLAS VUlAiY.
ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of
F. J.Cheney & Co., doing business in
the City of Toledo, County and btate
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be enred by the use of
Hah's CATARK.H Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 6th day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1886.
A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
Send for testimonials, free.
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Hall's Family Pills are the best.
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