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HEIGHORHOOD NEWS.
ITEMS GA'IHEREb HERE
AWD THERE
BY CHARLES MORGAN.
SOME THINGS HE SEES AND HEARS AT
TOINTS WHERE YTE HAVE NO
REGULAR REPORTER.
Mr. J. T. Speight, of Cisco, is
quite ill.
A revival is in progress at the
M. E. Church in Hertford.
Master John Wilson, of YVood-
ville, is now a student of Hert
ford Academy.
Miss Lucy Gaskins, of Wind
sor. is visiting: Mrs. A. Bunch
near Cisco, N. C.
Miss Lizzie Jones, of Centre
Hill, spent last week with Miss
Mary Lvans at Cisco.
Mr. Aug. Harrell, of Rocky
Hock, seriously cut his foot with
an axe a few days ago.
Rev. J. A. Speight, of Berk
ley, Va., visited his brother last
week in Bertie county.
W. J. Dale has erected
blacksmith and repair shop at
Cisco, Chowan county.
Miss Annie Parish, of Hert
ford, is visiting the family of
Mr. T. C. White; at Cisco.
Mrs. A. D. White, of Winfall,
spent last week in Hertford with
her brother, Mr. Uriah Speight.
Miss Lizzie Thompson, of
Okisko, has gone to Baltimore
:o work in a Millinery establish
ment.
Mr. J. J. Fleetwood, of Hert
ford, is in Hyde and Tyrrell
counties this week purchasing
timber.
Miss Lizzie Speight, of Per
quimans county, is visiting the
family of W. 11. Fowler, near
Winfall.
Miss Leora Coflield closed the
school last week she has been
teaching at Champion Branch,'
Chowan county.
The District M. E. Conference
will be held on the 15th and
17th of July at Evans' church in
Chowan county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hollowell, of
Byrum's X Roads, spent last
week with her son, R. B. Hollo
well, near Rocky Hock.
Miss Sallie H. Jones, who has
been conducting a very success"
lul school at Rocky Hock, N. C.
closed same last week.
Mrs. A. A. Parish, living near
Edenton, spent a part of last
week with the family of Mr. J.
W. White, near Rocky hock.
Mrs. W. S. Stafford, living
near E. City, lost a pocket book
last week containing about $50,
but fortunately it was found and
returned.
Messrs. J. H. Evans and W.
R. Taylor, of Harrellsville, spent
several days last week with the
family of Mr. R. B. Hollowell,
near Rocky Hock.
Rev. J. H. Speight, of Berk
ley, Va., preached last Saturday
and Sunday at Rocky Hock
church. Large -congregations
were out to hear him.
Mr. W. R. Taylor, formerly
of Harrellsville, N. C, who, is
now electrician in the Artilery
school at Old Point, Va., is visit
ing relatives at his old home.
Mr. L. V. Owens, who is
teaching in Bertie county, closed
his school on the 6th with a
grand enteitainmeut. The ad
dress was delivered by Rev. Jack
Riddick, of Windsor.
Rev. D. W. Griffin, of the
Baltimore Conference, is visit
ing relatives in Perquimans
comity. Mr. Griffin is a Chowan
county boy but now resides at
Frostburg, Md., and is doing
well.
Miss Maggie L. Evans closed
the public school on the 2d inst.,
which she has been teaching in
the lower part of Pasquotank
county, and has returned to her
home in Chowan county.
The little infant son of Mr. K.
II. Bunch, living near Rocky
Hock, drank concentrated lye a
few days ago, from the effects of
which he is suffering very much.
Parents should be more careful
with the lye can.
Mr. Z. W. Kvans, who is con
ducting a very large merchan
dise and lumber business at
Cisco, N. C, has recently en
larged and improved his mill,
and will soon make extensive
improvements 011 his dwelling.
Notwithstanding the fact that
the catch of fish in the lower
sounds has been larger this sea
son than ever before known, the
Chowan river fishermen have
had a very poor season and the
catches by them have been un
usually small.
Your reporter's visit to Rocky
Hock, Chowan county, a few
days ago was exceedingly pleas
ant. We met a fine lot of peo
ple, kind, courteous, obliging and
industrious, and we believe them
to be the most prosperous lot
of farmers it has ever been our
good fortune to visit. Their fields
are all flourishing, their farms
are neat and clean and nearly
every body seems to be cut of
debt and own their homes.
SLEEP WALKER TOOK.
WIFE'S GOLD.
MYSTERIOUS THEFTS THAT WERE
CHARGED TO SERVANTS.
A little over a year ago Mis.
John Harkiss at Allegheny, ?a.,
missed from time to time several
articles of jewelry and some
trinkets. She suspected her
servant girl, who bed al .vays
been trusted implicitly. A watch
was set on her, but nothing
wrong was detected, though the
thefts continued. Finally last
Fall the servant was dismissed.
About two months ago an
other servant was employed. As
soon as the weather began to
have a touch of Spring about
it the thieving again commenc
ed. Mis. Harkiss, in telling
her troubles to a neighbor not
long ago, got an idea that, put
into execution, solved the myss
tery. She set about to watch
her husband, and one night last
week the mystery was unravel
ed. Mr. Harkiss, while fast asleep,
got up from his bed, dressed
himself, and taking a small arti
cle, made his way downstairs,
unbolted the door and started off
towards Bigham's woods,. Mrs.
JIarkiss's brother, who lives
with her, was sent after the sleep
walker and followed him down
a steep embankment and over
a fence, which the somnambulist
scaled in an easy manner, to an
old pile of logs and underbrush
in the woods, where Harkiss
hid the article he had taken.
The brother-in-law marked the
jlace and followed the man back.
The next day all the missing
articles for over a year back
were found under the logs.
A Fatal Result of a Feud.
A feud which has existed be
tween the families of Bud Har-.
vill and Jack McCombs, promi
nent farmers of Cullman, Ala.,
over the location of the division
al line between their properties,
resulted Saturday in a battle bev
tweeu Harvill and one of his
farm tenants named John At
well, on one part, and McCombs
and his eighteen-year-old son on
the other. When it was over
Atwell lay dead on the ground
with a bullet in his brain. The
younger McComb was fatally
wounded. The elder McComb
was shot in the leg and body.
Harvill fled and is being pur-
sued by enraged friends of Mc
Comb. That is a good story which
the distinguished Afro-American,
Booker T. Washington,
tells on one of his race, who
thought that as long as he be
longed to his master it was no
theft to eat his master's chick
ens, his reply to his owner's
remonstrance being: "Well,
massa, you'se got less chicken,
but you'se got more niggah.
The latest results of pharmaceutical
science and the best modern appliances
are availed of in compounding Ayer's
Sarsaparilla. Hence, though half-a
century in existence as a medicine, it
is fully abreast of the age in all that
goes to make it the standard blood
purifier. The Washington Gazette's Bath
correspondent writes that Capt.
Tarkeuton caught Monday per
haps the largest sturgeon ever
caught in Pamlico river. It
measured nine and a half feet in
length and weighed about 300
pounds.
t remature baldness may be prevent
ed and hair made to grow on heads al
ready bald, by the use of Hall's Veg
etable Sicilian Hair Renewer.
Brown "Do you think the
telephone has increased busi
ness?" Jones 'Certainly; three
quarters of the people you call
up are sure to be busy." Puck.
The North Carolina Building
and Loan Association, which
has its principal office at Chars
lotte, was placed in the hands of
a receiver Saturday.
Humors, pimples, boils, are very
annoying. They quickly disappear
when the blood is puriEel by Hood's
Sarsaparilla.
He "Don't you think you
could learn to love me?" She
"I would not have to learn, if I
ielt inclined to love vou." In
dianapolis Journal.
Tetter, Salt-Rheum and Eczema.
The intense itching and smarting, inci
dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain's Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
have been permanently cured by it. It
is equally efficient for itching piles and
a favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes. 25 cts. per box.
Dr. Cady's Condition Powders, are
just what a horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but
medicine and the best in use to put a
horse in prime condition. Price 35
cents per package.
The Tramp Printer didn't
do a Thing to the
Woodville Blower
(Atlanta Constitution)
When the editor of the Wood
ville Blower got sick and had to
leave town for a week, he got
Randolph Hortou Tucker to get
out the paper. Now, Mr. Tuck
er was not an expert editor, but
he could write nice little verses
and sweet sm Jling society items
and said he could manage the
office first rate. He wanted to
show a little extra enterprise,
so he made a big spread on local
news and wrote up the notices
for the advertisers in fine style.
When his copy was all in he
went home light hearted and
happy.
But alas and alack ! The
tramp printer who was the fore
man, printer and pressman and
who had not been fully sober
for a month, got the news and
business notices all mixed in
making up, and when the Blow
er appeared items like the fol
lowing greeted the astonished
citizens :
"Go to Smith's for fresh Jer
sey butter. Guaranteed to te
strictly all wool."
"Stubbs & Tubbs dealers in
green hides, rags, iron. etc.
Meals at all hours."
"Reward of $10 will be pa;d
for the arrest and detention of
one of the most desirable resi
deuce lots in town. When last
heard from, was working on a
steamboat in Alabama."
"Get your meils at the Snide
House. Fresh steak and hash
every 30 days, made of the finest
corrugated steel and warranted
to last a lifetime."
"Some verv artistic fresco
work has just been don on the
interior of Judge Hamp Rollins,
who was again elected justice of
the peace last week."
The effect of this breezy issue
of the Blower was such as to
cause Mr. Roi'delph Tucker to
abandon journalism and seek
the more congenial calling of
book aeent in another State.
Money in Wasps.
Along the banks of the Cape
Fear River, in North Carolina,
are lowlands, behind which lies
a higher level, or bench. The
lowlands are subject to more or
less frequent overflow by fresh
ets, which are destructive to
crops planted thereon. A minis
ber of years ago a farmer, resis
dent in the vicinity7, made a
very comfortable sum of money
by insuring his neighbor's crops
against these freshets. His un
varying success as an insurer
was for many years a profound
mystery to the people of the
region. The years when he de
clined to insure were invariably
years of destructive overflow.
The years when he was willing
to insure were equally certain to
be seasons of exemption for dis
aster.
In the earlier days in -New
Kusdand this man's readirsr of
the future would have brought
him some unpleasant experience
as a dabbler, if not an adapt, in
black art. In the Middle Ages
ot Europe he would probably
have beeu revered as a prophet
or saint. Yet his information
came from 110 occult source. Ob
servation had shown him that a
certain species of wasp, which
built its home in the ground
build some years on the low
lands, and other years upon the
higher level. Experience taught
him that when the wasps built
on lowlands there was no fresh
ets, and when they built on
higher ground, the lower would,
some time during the season, be
submerged. The man had sim
ply noted an instance of that
little understood prescience man
ifested bv certain insects and
animals, a better knowledge of
which might even be of service
to our national Weather Bureau
It was only at his death that he
revealed his secret. Evening
Post.
How's This?
Wi offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarih Cure.
F. J- CHENEY & CO., Props.,
Toledo, Ohio. J
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
"West & Trvax, Wholesale Grocers,
Toledo, Ohio.
Waiting, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nal', acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price 5C per bottle. Sold by all drug
gists. Testimonials free.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
The Bashful Young Man.
- A bashful young man was in
vited to a dinner party and was
paired with the most handsomely
dressed lady in the. room.
His seat at the table happened
to be in front of a roast fowl,
which he was expected to carve,
and a fried sole.
The poor man had never done
such a thing before in his life,
but wishing to make the best of
the situation he commenced by'
asking the lady very politely if
she preferred anything in partic
ular.
She replied that she would
take a little of the sole.
He had no idea where the
sole lay, so he began to cut off a
slice of the breast.
"The sole," she said.
Then he tried the wing.
"The sole," she repeated.
This time he tried the leg.
"The sole," the lady said, in a
still higher key.
He, moist with presperation,
lost all patience, stuck the fork
into the body of the fowl, saying:
"Take it, body, soul and all,"
putting it on the lady's plate,
from which it rolled into her
lap, much to the consternation
of the whole company.
The young man was never in
vited to a dinner party again.
Spare Moments.
April "Wisdom.
15e sure that your blood is pure, your
appetite good, your digestion perfect.
To purify your blood and build up
your lir th, t 'food's Sarsaparilla.
This mediniue has accomplished re
markable cures n1' ''-'d diseases
It is the One True Blood Purifier
Hood's -jr-Vimrilla has power to
make vou well by purifying and en
riching your blood, giving you an appe
tite, and nerve, mental and digestive
strength.
A Chinese Love Letter.
Here is a good sample of a love
making missive from the Flow
ery Kingdom. It is from a man
who desired the daughter of a
neighbor as a wife for his son:
"On my knees I beg you not
to despise this cold and common
request, but listen to the words
of the matrimonial agent and
give your daughter io my slave
of a son, so that the pair, bound
by silken threads, may have the
greatest joy. In the beautiful
Spring time I shall offer my
weeding presents ana give a
couple of geese. And let us
hope for long and continuous
fortune, and look forward
through endless generations to
the fulfillment of genuine love.
May they sing of the plenty and
have every joy. On my knees
I beg you to consider my pro
posal favorably, and throw the
mirror-like glance of your eyes
on these lines."
To this letter the father ot
the bride replied that he would
attend to the portion of h;s
"poor and poverty st;ickeu
daugh'er, that she miht not be
without bedclothes, cotton cloth
ing, hairpins and earrings.
Therefore it was to be hoped
that the couple would have cons
stant fortune." Tit Bits.
A baldness makes one look prema-
I turely old, so a full head of hair gives
to mature life the appearance ot youth.
To secure this and prevent the former
Ayer's Hair Vigor is confidently re
commended. Both ladies and gentle
men prefer it to any other dressing.
Last year there were 175 ocean
wrecks involving a loss of pro
perty amounting to $7,000,000,
and drowning 1 5,000 people.
get ready
Every expectant mother lias
a trying ordeal to face. If she does net
there is no telling
what may happen.
Child-birth is full
of uncertainties il
Nature is not given proper assistance.
Mother's Friend
13 the best help you can use at this time.
It is a liniment, and -when rejnilarlv ap
plied several months before baby comes,
it makes the advent easy and nearly pain
less. It relieves and prevents " moraine
sickness," relaxes the overstrained mus
cles, relieves the distended feeling, short
ens labor, makes recovery rapid and cer
tain without any dangerous after-effects.
Mother's Friend is good for only one
purpose, viz.: to relieve motherhood of
danger and pain. :
41 dollar TM1 lOt,tlfl tit. nil tinier af-rvr4 ry Artf.
by mail on receipt of price.
ITrIT.R "RTWiK AntainirifT rilnoMa Ir.ma
tlon for women, will be Bent to any address
uuu application 10
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO..
Atlanta, Qm.
25 so ssgmM&&
1 1BQAT TTTPT V PTTIP lUTETn to anyrw
pto and booklet fre. Id. STFItJ.I"fi RESFMT tfi..
S, EL MR a EL
The Old Reliable
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ELIZABETH CITY, N. C,
can be found at his old stand at the
Short bridge, over James Spires store,
Zimmerman Hall.
Canvas Furnished
f at Factory Prices.
Awnings, Tents and Flags a
Specialty.
All orders by mail promptly attend
ed to. Old Canvass bought and sold.
P. O. Box jj, Elizabeth City, N. C.
. P. Ives Co
Blenders of
Old Whiskies.
11 Conimer'i:il I'Ijko,
Norfolk, Va-
Write for Samples and Prices,
Is the way you like
we have it,
All from our own slaughter house and fresh
everyday. Buy your meats of
Caleb Walker,
Steal 2nTc 1,
CITY MARKET,
AND GET THE BEST.
Finest Poultry at The Lowest Prices. &
Let us have your orders, they shall have our most careful
and prompt attention. Remember Stall No. 1, City Market.
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M.ELLIOTT ,PR0PRIT0 f(
Best the Market afford-
Neat lioouis.
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'J'. Special rates for board and
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WHICH 13 THE ELACKtE LINE
BE NOT
Deceived I
By venders of Spectacles
and Eye-Glasses. They
are not
Opticians,
But if they were, they
could not do justice to
their patrons in that way.
There is located at Eden
ton, N. C, a
Scientific Optician
who has a reputation to
sustaiu,who will treat you
right and is reliable.care
ful and practical: so say
two of the leading physi
cians Dillard and Mc-
Mullan. Respectfully
B. E. BYRD,
The Optician.
Having just added a new lot
of type, borders, ornaments, &c,
for the proper and effective dis
play of advertisements, this oN
fice is better equipped than evci
to do your wmk. Give us a
rial.
CATHARTIC
ALL
DRUGGISTS t
of constipation. CascanU are the UmI Laxa4
Chiraco. floatrval. fan.. wXra Twi.
X. ir. MUN1EN
Sail Maker
AwningsTentsa d Flags
Old Sails Bought and
Sold.
Orders by mail will receive
prompt attention.
Cor. Water and Matthew Sts.
(Over W. J. Woodlcy's Store.)
P. O. B OX 1 32. !
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
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CorrespondenceSou.'. I
your MEATS, fresh is way
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Beef, Veal,
Mutton and
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Lodging by the Week
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Of Building Material,
Scroll Work, or
Mouldings of any kind V
IF SO, correspond with
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LAKGrL CAPACITY. BEST WORK.
Splendid Shipping Facilities.
Nothing but the best work sent out.
It will be to your interest to let ns quote you prices-
tSAMPLES FURNISHED ON REQUEST.
No Orders Too Large-None Too Sm all .
jetableTVcparationfor As
similating iheToodandReguti
tiqg the Stomachs andBowels of
PromotesTifcsUon.ChccTfuI
ness and Best.Contalns neither
Opium.Morphinc nor Mineral.
KotNAecotic.
ImkdUSJit
JXmftnaint .
ItirmSetd-
A perfect Remedy for Constipa
tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea,
A Vorms .Convulsions .Fevcrish
ness and Loss OF SLEEP.
Tac Simile Signature of
TEW YORK.
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EXACT COPV OF WRAPPER,
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before talang me'jiciue!
When yon feel dull,
aching and stretching
just remember that the
next thing will be Ma
laria Chills and Fever.
To avoid this, use
ol Si-. iL
"SEJ
the great SF'rm.It Ii3,2TatlTT if taken in tii::
will save you a long spell of sickness, and much
money. It is for the
Kidneys, Liver and Stomach
and will cure OorXStlpatlOrL.
A Safe Remedy for Young and Oid-
Regular Size 25 ad 50 Cents.
MADE BY YEAKEL DRUG CO., BALTIMORE MARYLAND.
THE CITY
The Choicest Meats
It will be to your interest ) j LOWESTCAS l'RIC I.S
to give us your orders, f- IN THE CITY. )
e Fresh Vegetables a specialty.- .
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Has opened a SALE, EXCHANCK,
BOARD and LIVERY STABLE
On Water Street,
And solicits the patronage of hi.
Friends and the tmblic frenerallv.
cared for at the
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