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ELIZABETH CITY, N C, FRIDAY, MARCH 26 1897
ESTABLISHED 1886
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THRILLING STORY
OF THE SB,
Loss of the St. Nazaire,
Hatteras.
off
ONLY FOUR SURVIVORS
SPRIXO
NOVELTIES
Dress Goods
Fashionable ! Of a
Designs.
Passenger List
Eighty-two.
OT
.,.1, l TTT1 Ti,,-, r2.Ir, T oQH-TTffano i .aij-u,
Wool Fabrics
owelty Silks :
In beautiful Patterns for Cos-; The variety of our Spring
tunics, Waists, ccc. ; and Summer Offering was
These at remarkably low j never before equaled in this
prices ! - 1 C1-ty.
Perfect fits j CLOTHING, HATS, Foreign and
Guaranteed.! lU)d SHOL5-
Domestic
Fabrics.
6
1300
Men's, Youths and
BT In Stock,
"ir
rn a?
as rpt 3
Of the very latest Styles and best
blocks should no with our
Spring and Summer
Tm f.11 tlif Intost Stvles and
Hh,h. Our SIO.OO line of! Spring Suits
Plaids are beauties; each suit
thoroughly made, sponged and
pressed by experienced tailors.
Clay Worsteds $4.50 per suit
up.
IV LL LINK of Hoys 2 piece j in Silks Gloria's, and Satteen,
Suits in plain and nobby effects, j from 45cts to $2.00 each, which
1)5 cents to & 1.5() per suit. ' is beyond competition.
Our line of SHOES is complete
in price, variety, quality and
workmanship.
We have a line of
IDimlba'alLiiis
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SHOES,
XT TO
) NOTIONS
DRY f
Goods I
Our Wholesale Department is on the second floor. In this
we have had the benefit of a forced market and the powerful
aid of CASH purchases.
A mammoth
Double Store
Extending
through from
Water St., to
the river.
CHAS.H. ROBINSON, Prop.,
glizabethGity.g.(g.
DEPART
MENT STORE-
B- ft I K
Wholesale Commission Merchants.
Fresh Fish,
TLRRIPIN AND GAME.
No. 221 Light Street Wharf.
BALTIMORE
Prompt Returns, Quick Sales-
REFERENCE
Citizens National Bank,
W. J llooner & Co.
Stencils Furnished Free.
Eatablished 1861.
SAML. M. LAWDER & SON.
W'uolesale Commission Dealers In
Fresh
Soft Crabs Terrapin, Etc.
135 Light St.
Baltimore, Md.
uiek Sales ! Prompt Retuine
REFERENCES
Tiii.hrsXafl. Ilank. Duns Mercantile Aww
Win..!. H oarer t Co. -T. Dukehart A Co.
Wizens Nat l. Bank. The J. S. Johnson l o
A. S. FOREMAN,
Successor to J. R. Wyuu & Co.
Wholesale Fish Commission
Merchants,
Killer & p.
V f V V
WHOLESALE COMMISSION
Fish Dealers,
NO. ? FULTON MARKET.
New York.
Samuel 15. Miller, )
Clarence G, Miller )
Sroecial Attention
Given to
THE SALE OF NORTH CARO
LINA SHAD.
Stencils anl Stationery Fdrni.shed ai
Applicatinn
WE EMPLOY NO AGENT.
S.L.STORERdCO
Wholesale Dealers atui Shippers of al
kinds ot
HO FULTON FISH MAKKE :
iEW YORIt".
We work harder for the inter
est of -the Southern fishe: mer
than any house in the busii itse
lf your St-'-"il h not ia ,'ao.l
let us know,
23fYe Employ no . rus
and Pay no Comaiissiou?.
o m:
I
ftavenprt IJorrifio.,
j Wholesale Giocers and
mission Merchants
And Dealers iu
Com-
TVo. Roanoke Dock.
Norfolk, Virginia.
Reference
Bank of Commerce; R. G. Dunn Mer
cantile Agency; Adams and Southern
Express Company, or any large busi
ness firm in Norfolk.
FISH,
-nj (Richmond, iVirginia.
Consignments of North Caro
lina Herring solicited, and pro
ceeds remitted in cash.
On account of our intimate
acquaintance.and frequent trans
action with the Grocery trade of
the West aud South we are able
to handle N. C. Fish to the best
possible advantage, aud we are
known everywhere as the largest
distributors in this marked.
the steamer V:lle de St. Nazaire,
which sailed from New York on
March 6 for Port An Prince,
Ilayti, only four are known to
have survived the disaster which
befell the craft about forty-eight
hours later. These four passed
through an experience such as
has fortunately fallen to the lot
ol few, seeing one alter another
m uie j i ouiers wno leu uie
steamer iu the large boat perish
of exposure to the cold or die of
hunger, some suffering during
the seven days in which they
drifted helplessly, without sail
or compass, pangs that drove,
them to madness before death
came to their relief. Among
the survivors is Seuor Tagado.. a
Sau Domiiigan, who was com
peled to witness the death of
his wife aud four children with
out being able to alleviate their
sufferings. What became of the
forty four persons besides those
mentioned can be too well sur
mised, although there is a re
mote possibility that one or
more of the three boats iu which
they left the sinking steamer in
the midst of the fierce March
storm, off the always perilous
Cape Hatteras, has been picked
up by a sailing vessel which has
not yet made a port aud made
known the rescue. The ether
known survivors besides Tajrado,
are Captain Uerri, Mr. Stauts,
the third engineer and the ship's
doctor Maire.
The St. Nazaire was one of
the West Indian fleet of the
French trans-Atlantic Steam
ship Company, and plied be
tween New York aud West In
dian Ports, commanded by Cap
tain Jaqueman. She cleared
from New York for Port De
France on March 6th. On the
following day, according to the
story told by one of the surviv
ors, a leak was discovered, but it
was not thought to be sufheient
lv serious to warrant a return
to port. By the middle of the
second day, however, the leak
had increased to a dangerous ex
tent, and a portion of the cargo
on the port side of the vessel
was damaged by the water which
had commenced to pour in in
great quantities. A terrible
storm arose on the night of the
second day and the heavy seas
together with the big leak ren
dered the escape of the vessel
from shipwreck au impossibil
ity. Realizing that the ship
was doomed, the Captain ordered
the four lire boats to be lowered,
and into them crowded the pass
sengers and crew. The boats
were soon swept apart by the
wind and waves. The boat
which was found by the Hilda,
six days after the sinking of the
steamship, is the only one of the
four that has been heard of.
The Ville De St. Nazaire was
vamea ac 300,000. tier cargo
war valued at 50,000 and she
carried $25,000 in gold. Agent
Fargel said he did not know
whether the cargo was insured
or not. Captain Jaqueman was a
widower aud two of his daught
ers are said to be married and
living in the South of France.
Engineer Stauts and Dr. Maire
have so far recovered from the
effects of their terrible exposure
as to be able to be up aud around
the saloons of the steamship
Normandie, wdiere they have
been taken to recuperate, Captain
Barri is resting easily at the
hotel Martin, New York.
Through his physician Cap-,
tain Berri said: "The supply of
ren were among the first to
succumb. After the water gave
out few buscuits remained Many
of the men were almost choked
in swallowing the dry stuff, and
in desperation they drank of the
.-ait water. 1 nose wno com
menced to drink the brine could
not stop, and in a few days they
became maniacs and died in
maniacal convelsions. Others
who resisted the temptation to
drink the salt water could not
stand the deprivation and died
DEATH il GYCLOHE.
Terrible Trail of Death and Des
truction in a Georgia Town.
KITE PROVED A FAILURE.
A,
ACADEMY WRECKED
Tested one for Initiation
of Candidates in a Sec
ret Order and had
Several ribs broken.
And Scores of Children
Perish in the Building.
from
hunger.
A special to the Morning
Those who re- I cvs - the 22d iust., from Ar
mained had not strength enough liugton, Ga., says:
to move, aud when the boat was A terrible cvcloue struck here
this morning about 8:30 o'clock,
picked up there were four of the
,.,.fi1-,rv t 1 . 't :V ' Icavirg behind it a trail of death
eve. thing I could to induce tuei .
unf orrimnrp nnrl tr i-r.t-. fV.m auu disaster.
J-'V-!-2AV t V JTV V- - 11 I 'ill
drinking the silt water and set
themselves to fight death, but
what I said had little effect.
KILLED HIS CHILDREN.
Wright Smith, an old one
legged soldier, had a dispute
with his wife in Summervilie,
a suourb of Augusta, Ga., on
Friday, which resulted in him
killing his two children and
then committing suicide. Smith
has lived happily with his wife.
who is his second, his first wife
having died some years ago.
He went out into the yard, and
seeing his two children by his
second wife, playing, dealt each
of them a blow with his crutch,
braintng them, and pulled a re
volver from his pocket and blew
his own brains out. The oldest
child was about five and the
youngest three years of age.
Couldn't Keep up.
It passed through the south
side of the town and totally
wrecked the academy and par
tially demolished several other
houses.
At the academv a number of
1 -
I children were assembled for
school.
The building was completely
demolished, and on removal of
the debris eight were found
dead and fifteen injured.
Five escaped with
bruises aud scratches.
sligh'.
17,
Otis Smith, of Atlanta,
wdio was arrested the other day
tor embezzlement, declares that
he committed the crime through
his desire to shine iu society.
"I have been asked," he says,
"why I did not go along aud do
the best I could 011 my legitimate
income to hold a place in society
in Atlanta. If you do not put up
the stuff you are not appreciated.
So long as ycu pay for the fun
you are a king bee, but the mo
ment you do not get in the push
with the cash, you are nobody.
I was in the push, and Iliad the
money to hold my own. I took
money to pay for theitie parties
germans, suppers, flowers, and
other presents, and I was like
the fellows who had hold of a
galvanic battery-I would not let
it go. After I once started I had
to keep it up or I was lost.
Give us a Re
St.
Although interest could not
be suppressed, everybody is re
lieved because the fight is over,
Sullivan is conquered, Corbett
is whipped and probably some
man will appear soon to wdiip
Fitzsimmons then we shall
have a rest from prize fighting
Norfolk Dispatch
The Governor's Idea.
Governor Sadler, of Nevada,
speaking of the recent Fitzsims
mous-fight, said : I don't think
it has hurt the State, on the
contrary, it will be a benefit to
the western populace of Nevada
by bringing people here who
spend some money and when
they go home they will talk
about our State. Some of them
saw the mines at Virginia City
and will talk about them aud it
may result in some eastern peo
ple coming here to locate.
food and water on the small
boats was exhausted the first
day, and then began the awful
struggle in which 31 out of the
35 persons in the boat perished.
Mrs. Tagado and her four child-
7 " If Tl
p i ss sir
Blood
If
When a horse is poor m flesh, fi
a new harness won t give him
strength. If a house is ccld
new furniture won't warm it.
If your strength is easily ex
hausted; vork a burden;
nerves weak; digestion poor;
muscles soft; if you are pale
and worn out, the t ouble is
with the blood. It is not so
much IMPURE blood as g
ruUK blood, rills won't
make this blood rich : nor will
bitters, nor iron tonics, any
more than a new harness will H
give strength to the horse, or
new furniture will make a
house warm For poor blood
you want something that will
make rich blood.
SCOTT'S EMULSION of
Cod-liver Oil with Hypophos
phites is the best remedy in the
world for enriching the blood.
we have prepared a book telling you h
more about the subject. Sent rree.
For sale by all druggists at 50c & $1.00.
SCOTT & BOWNE, New York.
THE DEAD.
Claud Roberts, aged 14, terri
blv mangled and internally in
jured.
Mollie Parramore, aged
crushed beneath a chimney.
Albert Butler, aged 6.
Alice Putnam; aged 16.
Willie McMurra, aged 10.
Kenneth Boynton, aged 7.
Mary Wellons, aged 8.
Maud Johnson, aged 10.
All the dead are terribly mu
tilated, being crushed and bruis
ed by the falling timbers and
debris.
Besides the dead, about seven
teen were seriously injured, sev
eral of whom will die.
About 7:30 there was a lull iu
the high winds which had pres
vailed, giving some promise of
a clear day. Prof. Covington,
going out to look around, be
held a dark cloud well fringed
with electricity moving rapidly
iu the direction of the school.
His trained eye at once told
him there was danger.
Hurryiug the children into
the building for safety the roar
ing of the coming cyclone was
upon them before they had time
to think. The storm increased
in strength and velocity and the
building began to shake aud
creen, as it it rocked in the arms
of a mighty force.
The building was wrenched
into fragments, so that the
pieces fell inward, and among
the first struck were Claud Rob
erts and Alice Putnam, who
were knocked into insensibility
or death at the first blow.
Little Willie McMurra had
been caught under the heavy
timber and the life was crushed
out of him.
Kenneth Boynton was the
next, who was seen vainly en
deavoring to escape from the
death trap, but too late, for the
fatal blow was struck.
Profs. Covington and Walker
both worked, notwithstanding
serious injuries, the latter per
haps fatally.
The scene was soon surround,
ed by the parents of the children.
The sight of eight little ones al
ready dead and of ten others
crushed and bruised and bleed
ing in all the phases ot torture,
was enough to wring the stout
est heart.
This is the most shocking dis
aster which has ever occurred in
this section.
The rain has been pouring
down in torrents all day, but no
one, either male or female, has
failed to do his or their duty in
administering to the suffering.
Every store aud business house
in town has been closed for the
day, and every countenance has
been saddened by the tragical
deaths of the children.
Depty Sheriff Curtiss, of
Highland Falls, N. Y., had an
experience in kite flyintr last
.1 Ml 1
wcck w;ucn win counue mm
to his bed for weeks to come.
Tlie Deputy Sheriff is an enthu
siastic member of the Oriental
Society. The society is noted
for the severe forms of its initi
at ion ceremonies.
Candidates who cannot sit on
500 volts of alternating electric
current without winching are
deemed unworthy of holding
liigh office iu the order. Curtiss
thought it would make the cere
monies more impressive to send
candidates up in a balloon, but
as it was too costly to procure
such a machine lie thought kites
would answer the purpose just
as well.
He and several other members
or the lodsre have been cxneri
menting with various kinds of
kites for the last week or two.
Last week it was thought a kite
had been constructed that would
carry a 300 pound candidate.
The inventors were doubtful
that the kite was sufficient to
hold up that weight, as a fat
barber in town had applied for
membership and it was deemed
important that he should go
through the initiation ordeal
without broken bones.
The kite was taken to the top
of the lodge building and Cur-
IL
WALLING
The Murderers of Pear! Bryan
Pay the Penalty.
JUSTICE AT LAST.
The Murder was one of the Most
Terrible on Record.
tiss got aboard. His compan
ions stood on the ground below
aud held the ropes. Curtiss
shouted to pull hard and over
the edge went the amateur aeron
aut and the kite. Straight to
the ground they went. The
kite was broken and so were
several of Curtiss's ribs. Sur
geon s have dressed the injuries.
lhe kite will not be used at the
next initiation ceremonies ot
the Oriental Society.
The Purchase of Cuba.
The base of Ayer's Hair Victor is a
refined and delicate fluid, which does
not soil or become rancid by exposure
to the air, and which is as perfect a
substitute for the oil supplyed by nature
in youth and health, as modern chemi
stry can produce.
President Cisneros and Gen
eral Maximo Gomez are said to
favor a plan providing for the
purchase by the United States
of Cuba for the Cuban patriots
by the passage of a bill by Con
gress assuming and guarantee
ing a Cuban debt said to amount
to $1,000,000,000.
Nothing is said about how the
United States is to make this
expenditure of money a profita
able one, but if it be true that
Cuba is for sale for 5 1,000,000, -000,
or perhaps for less, or what
it is worth, here is an opport
unity for die multimillionaires
of the United States to purchase
a county of their own.
Mr. Rockefeller, the Vander-j
bilts,and the Astors mid easily
make an arrangement and guar
antee the annual payment of
$4, 000,000 or $5,000,000.
Heretofore only kings and
nationalities have been secured
in the past generally either by
means of conquest or discovery
but in this advanced age, when
great capital is superseding all
other powers, a few individuals
have it in their power to pur
chase territories even larger and
more costly than that of Cuba.
Then these millionaires might
set tip a part kingly rule, or bet
ter than ail they might consti
tute this portion of their vast
wealth to promote the welfare
of the people of Cuba and the ad
vancement of individual liberty
and prosperity of the inhabits
ants of that island.
The United States needs no
additional territory. It already
has a debt large enough and a
country sufficiently extensive for
all our needs and purposes.
Every one must admit that we
have already problems anough
of our own to settle, and it is
the duty of every government
to promote the interest of its
own people before carrying out
plans to provide for the advance
ment of other nations. Rich
mond State.
Scott Jackson and Alouzo
Walling the murderers of Pearl
Bryan, were hanged together
from a double trap in the iail
yard at Newport, Kentucky, 0:1
the 20th iust.
Neither had anything to say
011 the scaffold, aud the double
drop was sprung at 1 1:41 x2.
DIED IX AGONV.
The prisoners both, stood with
bowed heads during the saying
of the prayer. Walliug's eyes
were closed in prayer; Jackson's
were open. When Rev. Lee
finished his prayer Jackson bid
farewell. Walling also bid fare
well. Walling whispered, "Go,
go, go."
They died ;n great agony.
Both were evidently strangled
and the necks were not broken,
as the struggling was much
more than usual. Both were
nervous up to the drop. Jack
son raised his feet and dropped
dead. Walling drew up his
feet and his body contracted sev
eral times in great agony. The
physicians pronounced both
dead aud the announcement was
made, but the crowds still ling
ered about the jail.
CROWD CHEERED.
Jackson was dead iu six mins
utes. Walling died first. The
crowd cheered loudly when the
black flag went up.
HANGED..
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Wh
is mado by
Ayer's Sarsa
rarilliu Jost
at this season
when Spring
and its debili.
tatinp days
aro with ua,
thero is noth
ing like Ayer's
Sarsanarilla
to put new
Iffo into the
sluggish sys
tem. It sweeps
away the dull
ness, lack of
appetite, Ian-
guidnesa, and
pain, as a
Lroom sweeps
away cob
webs. It does
not braco tip.
It builds up.
Its benefit is
last in ff. Do
you feel run
down? Tako
AYER'S
Sarjaparilla
Scud or "Curcbook." 100 pagct.
Free. J. C Aycr Co.,
Lowell. Matt
Miles
J ennings,
J5y. oo d o 0 a o
000c
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
JOHN WILKIXS ARRESTED AS A
SUSPECT F,Y THE SUl'TOI.K
POLICE.
Charged with the cold-blooded
murder of George W. Jones, on
March 2d, Tohn Wilkius was
arrested just before sunset Fri
day afternoon while fishing in a
near-by lake. Jones was found
dead beside the railroad tracks,
and the coroner's jury said the
train killed him, but subse
quent actions aud alleged threats
by Wilkins caused him to be j
suspected of foul play. He pro
tests innocence, and says he will
pay for the disinterment and
surgical examination of the dead
Sixiehsiiiifli,
8;uuk-is Mail. ling, Poindextcr St.
Mill and MarineForgings
A Specialty.
iT'Full line of Wheels and
Wagons kept in stock
All work done promptly and in the
most workm: . ike manner.
GiVc Me n Trinl
bodv,
dren.
Wilkins has six chils
Jones left eleven.
He Buried Booth.
At
on
Indianapolis. Incl. ,
Wednesday of last week, John
Parshall, an ex soldier, died
very suddenly of heart failure.
Parshall was one of the six men
intrusted with the final dispo
sition of the body of John Wilkes
Booth, the assassin of Lincoln,
all of whom registered au oath
never to reveal Booth's last rest
ing place. Five of these sol
diers are now dead, and the se
cret so far has been religiously
kept. Parshall was a member of
the Alexander expedition sent
to Utah to compel Bingham
Young to vacate his office.
An Unhappy Occurance.
It is. or should be, the highest
aim of every merchant to please
his customers; and that the wide
awake diug firm of Meyers &
Eshleman, Sterling, 111., is doing
so, is proven by the following,
from Mr. Eshleman: "In my 16
years experience in the drug
business I have never seen or
sold or tried a medicine that
gave as good satisfaction as
Chamberlain's Colic, Ch oler
and Diarrhoea Remedy. Sold by
W. W. Griggs & Sou.
Not long since a bolt of light
ning struck a barrel of water in
front of a Kentucky colonel's
residence, tearing it all to pieces
and rendeiing the inmates of the
house senseless. Now, says the
Lowell News, a court martial
has been called by all the other
colonels in the neighborhood
and a thorough investigation
will be made as to why there
was water in the barrel.
YOCI TAKE NO
RISKS
when buying shoes of us.
SPRING STYLES I-
NOW IN.
Ladies ( )xford Tics, laced and
button in the New Colors
now used
Nobby styles for Men and Hoys in Kcd
DOYLE & SMALL,
302 Main St. NOItFOLK, VA.
Mention Fisherman & Farmer.
ESTABLISHED 1880.
The .Most Reliable House iu
Norfolk.
FEUERSTEIN & CO.,
FISH COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
FOOT OF KOANOKi; DOCK.
Norfolk, Va.
Quick Sales, Prompt Returns.
References by Permission:
City National Jiauk; K. (j. Dunn
Mercantile Agency; .Southern aud
Adams ICxpress Co.
We respectfully solicit a share
ot your patronage. Stencils
furnished on application.
u a u
iilOiiSiieSS
Is caused by torpid liver, wlm-h jirevents dila
tion and permits fwxl u fenwiit and putrify in
the stomach. Tnen follow dizziness, headache,
3dl
insomina, nervousness, and,
II not relieved, bilious fever
or blood poisoning. Hood's
Pills stimulate the stomach,
rouse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, con
stipation, etc. 25 cents. Sold by all druggists.
Ibeonly Fills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Foils
ESTABLISHED 1887.
Fish
Commission
Merchants.
(Consignments Solicited,
Reference:
IJradstreet's or Dunn's Agency,
City National Hank,
Citizens National I3ank, Nor
folk, Va., or any shipper in the
South.
Norfolk, Va.