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SIX SIX Failles, fa: ONE DOLLAR per,Year, in Advance. ELIZABETH CITY N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1898.. Established 1886. The Best Advertising Medium in the Albemarle District The Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina. Circulation Doubles Any Other Paper Published in This Section. The Most Wide-Awake and Successful Business Men use the Fisherman & Farmer Columns with the Highest Satisfaction and Profit. ASK the recovered dyspeptics, bilious suf ferers, victims of fever and ague, the mercurial diseased patient, how they recovered health, cheerful spirits and good appetite; they will tell you by taking Simmons Liver Kkgli.ator. The Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medicine In the World! For DVSPEPSfA. CONSTIPATION. Taundice. sion of Spirits. SOUR STOMACH, Heartburn, etc. This unrivaled remedy is warranted ot to contain a single particle of Mhrclkv, or any mineral substance, but is PURELY VEGETABLE, containing those Southern Roots and Herbs which as) sli-Tvise Providence has placed in countries whers Liver Diseases most prevail. It will cure Ski', Diseases cauaed by Derangement of tha Uver and Itonfls. The SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are a bitter cr had taste in the mouth ; Pain in the Back, Sides Jjintf, often mistak.n for Rh-umatisni ; Sour SUmiacli ; I rss of Appetite ; Rowels alternately coMive and lax ; Headache; lxss of Memory, with a pamful sensation of having failed to do something which aught to have been done; Debility; Low Spirits; a thick, yellow appearance of the Skin and Kyes; a dry Cough, often mistaken for Consumption. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend th. disease, at others very few but the Liver, 'he larcmu or;;an in the body, is generally the seat of the di'ease and if not Regulated in time, great sutTering, wretch cdness and JKAT1I will ensue. The following highly-esteemed persons attest to the virtues of Simmons Liver Keuclaior: (Jen. W S Holt, Pres. Ga. S. W. R. R. Co. ; Rev. J. R. Kelder Perry, Ga.; Col. E. K. Sparks, Albany, Ga.; C. Master son, r.sq.,SherifrHiUbCo.,Ga.; J. A. ISutts, Rainbridge, (ia . Rev. J. W. Lurke, Macon, Ga.; Virgil rowers, Supt. Ga. S. W. R. R.; H,,n. Alexander H. Stephens. We have t?sted its virtues personally, aid know that for Dyspepsia, Hilioustiess and Throbbing Head, adie, it is the best medicine the world ever saw. We have tried forty other remedies before Simmons Liver Regulator, ami none of then; gave us more than tem porary relief; the Regulator not only relieved, 1. tit cured 1 I FLK-KA1H AMI M lisSfcNliEK, MaCON.G. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY J- 51. ZK1LIN & CO.. Phils aelphia. Pa. Fred Davis, Wholesale and Retail DEALER. All Grades of Coal constantly on Hand. (Nothing but the Best handled. All Coal screaned before) leav ing the yard. Orders filled promptly and Ship incuts made to any point. Yards, Northeast corner i MATTili: V AND WATER STREETS, Near City Market. , Elizabeth City, N. C. IW Phone iv AND TRUE. 1 Must be Rig-ht. No matter how little the price we name you in o.ir store, there U never any cheapening of the quality. Unusually reasonable prices never signify a lowness of th -j grade with us, for that is'nt good merchandizing. It's always the quality first then a price that will make it sell quickly, so that any item selected from our stock may be relied upon. It is always the best that your money can procure. To keep the selling interest and to clear remain ing stocks of seasonable gools, these special clearance values are offered. It's splendid economy to keep in close touch with our store through January, for so many digerent lines are placed upon sale, at clean sweep prices, that it makes interesting shopping. Dress Goods, Capes, Cloaks, Men, Women and Children's Shoes, Blankets, Gloves, Mittens, S:c. January "Mean-Sweep" Seasonable lines right in the height of the sea sun's needs with every trace of profit, and oftentimes a ja:t of the first cost, eliminated. There's more than your money's worth in every item. It pays to buy of us through January. Clothing, Wool Underwear, Hats, Caps, .Sic. You'll Make (A Mistake And you'll probably write it Jan. ist, 1897. That's the usual thing. You'll make , a mistake, as well, if you fail to make your clothing purchases at our store during the January Clearance Sale. It's a season when profits are lost sight of a "house cleaning" time, for all season able g'oods must be soid, and clothing buyer's receive the benefits. Splendid values all through the store every item bristling with the lowest, clean-cut price every article tbc stylish, dependable kind. TZE3-IB Department Store,: Nos. 64, 66, and 63 Water Street, Elizabeth City, N. C: US. IMCK SENTENCED r,FTS FIFTEEN YEARS IN STATE PRISON AT AUBURN. cfcp Received Her Sentence - Calmly-Thorn Showed Very Little Interest W hen In formed of Mrs. Naek's Sentence. Mrs" Augusta Nack, jointly charged with Martin Thorn of the murder of William Gul' densuppe, a bath rubber, at Woodside, L. I., m June ot last year, was sentenced Jan. 10th to ic vears in the State prison ai Auburn. The good time allow -j j .... ance attainable would reduce the term to ten years and Five Thorn was sentenced to be Wtrr.mted this week, but the appeal bv his attorney acted as a stay. Mrs. JNacK receivcu nci sentence calmly. She will be taken to Auburn as soon as the neressarv forms of proceedure can be gone through with. In sentencing her, the court Qn,iclit to lmDress upon ner max although she was equally guilty i i J with Thorn, she naa inaue a wise move when she decided to hernnip a witness for the State. Judge Garretson said the court was bound to recognize me as sistance Mrs. Nack had rendered in testifying against Thorn. When Thorn was informed by Warden Sage at Sing Sing, oi the sentence, he showed but ittle interest. ' Thorn said he would rather hae died this week than have any further de lav. He intimated that he did not expect a new trial or a com mutation ot the death sentence. EiluntteYonr Howrit Willi raret. I Candy Catluir' if, cure i oust ip;il ;:i forever -1 10c. 25c. if C. C C. fail, clriij;;risi.s v fund money Wfifin'S HPPn.5 re crvriaTIv crown and ' w w . r e . selected to meet the needs and requirements of Southern Growers, Wood's Descriptive Catalogue is most valu able and helpful in giving cultural directions and valuable information about all seeds specially adapted to the South. VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS, Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes. Seed Oats and all Garden and Farm Seeds. Write for Descriptive Catalogue. Mailed free. T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, - - RICHMOND, VA. THE LARGEST SEED HOUSE IN THE SOUTH. (Selling. A NEWBERN SCANDAL President of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad in Trouble, New Bern Ablaze With Indignation President Hancock is Charged With Rape and Seduction of His Jece. A Suit Now Pending For $ 1 0,000. President Robert A. Hancock, of the Atlantic & North Caro lina Railroad, is in serious trou ble at Ne w Bern, N. C, and the story of his crime is a most re volting one, over which the m- dignation of the people of New Bern has never before been so much aroused. It seems to be the general opinion that Han cock is a guilty man, and some very strong terms are being used as to the puuishment that ought to be visited upon him in case he is proven guilty. He is charged with the seduc tion of his wife's niece. Miss Anna Abbott, and it is probable he will be indicted for rape. It stems that Hancock took his wife's niece, Miss Abbott, (who has been living with Mrs. Han cock to help her in her domestic work) to New York on a pleas ure trip, and while there one night he came in her room and forced her . She says he told her if she did not submit to his wishes he would eave her penniless in New York and not take her back to New Bern. It is also alleged that he took her to Washington aud otiier points, aud by threats; compelled her to r.dtnit him in to her room aud sleep with her. A few days ago the girl became tired of beinyr persecuted bv ! Hancock, breaks down and tells the pitiful tale to her mother. This created a sensation ; so! Hancock drove the voung ladv roin his house, had her sister discharged as teacher in the gra ded schools, aud threatened to go to Washington and have her ather's half pay stopped, the father of the girl haviug lost his mind, is retired by the govern ment on hall pay. He went to Washington a few days ago and it is thought he went for that purpose. Miss Abbott is a girl Ihat is thought a great deal ot by the people of New Bern and is about 1 8 years of age. . Papers have been filed with the Sheriff, charging Hancock with seduction, and a writ has been issued out of the Superior Court by the girl and her mother, suing Hancock for $10,000 dam ages. Miss Abbott has secured the services of Clark & Guion, W. D. Mclver and A. D. Ward ; in fact, there is not a lawyer in New Bern, it is said, who would take the other side. Hancock has engaged lawyers from Ral eigh, It is alleged in the com plaint that the first offence was committed in New York at the Astor House, followed by other most revolting allegations. Ev ery effort is being made by Han cock's relatives to keep it out of court, and make a compromise of the affair. Hancock was a member of the last legislature, and is well known throughout the State. In case the charges are found to be true, it is the opinion of all that Governor Russell will at once remove Hancock from the presidency of the A. & N. C. Railroad. LATER. Later reports from New Bern say : There is another turn in the Hancock scandal. Mrs. Abbott notifies her attorneys that she is not able to push the prosecution and has to withdraw. This took the attorneys by surprise, but is no more than has been expected by some. Mrs. Abbott has been under a terrible strain for the past week by parties pressing her to withdraw the complaint; that the attorneys were after her money only, etc. Rev. Lumly, an ex Methodist preacher, and connected with the Abbott and Hancock famis lies, has been here several days insisting on smothering the scandal, and, with others, has succeeded in getting a withdraw al. It is also reporte that the girl will make a statement re trading her charges, but the at torneys say it is false, as the girl absolutely refused to retract. Mrs. Abbott has the deep sym pathy of the community, and as her husband is afflicted and in the asylum at Washington, the woman is at sea in the case. The girl's father is a Mason, and there is some talk that the Ma sonic fraternity will lend assist' ance to prosecute. SHE SWALLOWED THIMBLE. A Dispute Between Physic ians is Settled by 31eans of the X Bays. Eight weeks ago yesterday Ellen Harris, the 6 -year-old child of Mr. W. E. Harris, of Harrisburg, N. C, swallowed a small brass thimble. She devel oped bronchial trouble in a few days, and could not swallow. She was fed by means of tubes inserted down the oesophagus. After all ordinary means were exhausted, Dr. Henry Louis Smith, of Davidson College, N. C, who was first to operate the. A rays 111 lxortti Carolina, was sent tor. He located the thimble to the Uft of the backbone, the small end upward, pointing to ward the left shouldei. The thimble was seen in the child's body by fifteen or twenty per- sons, i here are two tubes run ning down the neck, the oesa phagus, lying immediately in front of the backbone, and the wind pipe, which is immediately in front of the oesophagus. As several of the doctors held to the oesophagus theory, an experiment was devised toascer tain beyond a doubt in which of the tubes the thimble had lodg ed. The method taken of deter mining this was the passing of a flexible steel tube down the oesophagus. Dr. Black inserted the tube while Dr. Smith watch ed it jo down from behind the the back of the body. At the first experiment the tube seemed to go through the thimble (the thimble being an open top one), but by shifting the body, a posis tion was obtained in which the steel tube, it was seen, passed clearly outside of the thimble-; thus proving that the thimble was not in the oesophagus. Last Saturday morning at the Charlotte Medical and Surgical Institute, an operation was per formed, and the thimble remov ed. The child is doing well. SCROFULA, One of America's most fa- g $ mous physicians says: "Scrof- i $ ula is external consumption." $ Scrofulous children are often $ beautiful children, but they $ lack nerve force, strong bones, 6 stout muscles and power to g $ resist disease. For delicate w $ children there is no remedy $ I equal to 1 Scotfs Emulsion J 5 I of Cod-liver Oil with Hypo- is phosphites of Lime and Soda j It fills out the skin by putting t g-ood flesh beneath it. It makes I the cheeks red by making rich S blood. It creates an appetite for food and gives the body j power enough to digest it Be s $ sureyo get SCOTPS Emol $ 50c and 91.00 ; u druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. CCCCCCCCCCCCC Distress In Cuba. A True Story of The Suffering On The Island. WOMEff AND CHILDREN ar starving How Charles W. Russell Says Some Two Hundred Thousand Cubans ?re Daily Suffering a-1 t- ia- And Dying From Diseases Produced by a Lack of Nour ishment, Hon. Charles W. Russell, Assistant United States Attorney in the Department of Justice mg women and beautiful chil returned from Cuba, where he dren, invaded the cars. Between has spent two weeks investigate the stations, although I traveled ing the conditions prevailing on always by daylight, as the tjains the island. do not run at night, and was To the Associated Press, Mr. observing as carefully as possi Russell said: ble, I saw no signs of the recon "I am very glad to be inter centradoes going away from the viewed on the subject of Cuba, forts. If they had gone, it takes because I feel it a solemn duty seed, instruments, land and three to humanity to endeavor to or four months to raise the make the American people real- vegetable which could be soon ize the terrible distress which esc produced, and nowhere away exisis there. Much h.s been from the block houses was there written on the subject, but any sign of vegetables growing. judging others by myself, I feel quite sure that because we do not commit, and have not in our history commited such atrocities as Spain is committing on that island, the American reading public regards the reports as biased by the preconceived opinions of newspapers or gross- ly exaggerated. "I spent just tvvo weeks in Cuba, visited Havana, went south to Jaruco, southeast to Guines, northeast to Matanzas, eastwardly about two hundred ! miles through the middle of the country to San Domingo, Santa Clara and Sagua La Grande. I visited Marianao, a short dis- tance west of Havana, and saw along the railroads 30 or 40 towns or stations. In Havana I visited the Fossos, the Hospital Prison Aldecos, where I talked with the father of Evangelina Cosio Y. Cisneros, and a place called the Jacaba. I found re- concen'radoes at all three places, and hefiro everywhere ahont c 0 .. 1 the streets of Havana. The spec tacle, at the Fossos and Jacoba house, of women and children emaciated to skeletons and suf. ferings from diseases produced by starvation, was sickening. In Sagua I savv some sick and em aciated little girls in a children's hospital, started three days be fore by charitable Cubans, and saw a crowd of miserable look ing reconcentradoes with tin buckets and other receptacles getting a small allowance of food doled out to them in a yard. In the same city, in an old sugar warehouse I saw stationed around the inside walls the remnants of twenty of thiity Cuban families. In one case the remnant consist ed of two little children of seven or eight. In another case where I talked to the people in broken Spanish, there were four individ uals, a mother, a girl of 14 and two small girls. The smallest was then suffering from malarial fever. The next had the signs on her hands, with which I had become familiar, of having had the beri beri. These four were all that the order of coucentra ion had left alive of eleven. At San Domingo, where two rail roads join, the depot was crowd ed with women and children, one of the latter, as I remember, being swollen up with the beri beri, begging in the most earnest way from the few passengers. "San Doningo is little more than a Tailroad station in times of peace, but at present it has a considerable population living in cabins thatched with the tops of royal palm trees, composed of the survivors of the reconcentra does. The huts are arranged close together in a little clump and the concentration order re-. auired and apparently still requires these people to live within a circle of small block houses commonly dignified in the dispatches by the name o ions. KJi course, tnev had no work to do, no soil to till, no seed to plant and only begging to live on. I do not know the exact measuic of thedead line circle drawn around them, but therr was certainly, if any order had newly permitted them to go a short distance further out. they ha(1 not gone and were not . T tu glng- Practically they are . J r ,' Prisoners. At every one of the numerous stopping places along the road a similar collection of huts could be seen, aud at most of them beggars, often nice look- Nearer the larger towns the circle of concentration seemed to be somewhat larger and some planting of vegetables, tobacco, etc., few persons, possibly some of them reconcentradoes, found employment. "All along the railroad, as lar as could be seen, were stretches of most fertile and beautiful country, with very few trees, even on the low mountains, ana ost of these the Royal palms. I saw many dozens of burned cane fields and one evening, go- inS from Guines to Havana, saw the sky lighted up all along the road with fires, principally of the tall grass of the country but partly cf cane. The whole laud was lying perfectly idle, except where I saw three or four sugar mills where cane was growing, but in all such instances the mill and cane were surrounded by the foits, manned by soldiers, . . , r . 1 1 t who are paid as i was 101a, oy the owners. Except 111 the cit les, 1 saw no indication Uiai any V '- C . . . ! - A . n . kaitin oFnr. reiiei vv iiiiicvci was ucmjj ouui ded to the starving people, Nei ther in Havana nor elsewhere did any priest, religious woman or other person seem to be pay ing any attention to the wants of the starving, except that at the Fosses, and some other pla ces, chaiitable Cubans were nurs ing the sick. The church, be ing a State institution, was, so far as I could see, leaving the victims without either bodily or spiritual relief. In fact, the gen eral air of indifference to suffer ing which seemed to prevail ev erywhere was astonishing. "As the country was stripped Ayeis Cherry Pectoral j costs more than other medi cines. But then it cures more than other medicines. Most of the cbeap cough j medicines merely palliate; they afford local and tempo rary relief. . Oyer's Cherry Pectoral does not patch .up. or palliate. It cures. Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, Whooping Cough, and every other cough, will, when other remedies fail, yield to Ayer's Cherry Pectoral It haa a. record of 50 years of cures. Send for the "Curebook" ') free. J. 0. Ayer Co., Lowell, Man. ot its population by the order o concentration, it is easy to be lieve that 400,000 persons were gather .d behind the forts, with out food, medicine, or means o any kind to earn a living, excep where in the larger cities some few could find employment in menial offices. Judging by the orphans I was shown at Jacoba, Aidecoa and elsewhere, and from all I saw and heard, I be neve mat liali ot tne 400,000 have died as the result of starva tion. 1'TTnow from the official register of the city of Santa Clara, which ordinarily has a population of about 14,000, that the number of deaths for Decem ber was over 900, and showed an increase, considering the loss of the former 1,000 from its total population. The exact figures for December are 971. At that city the government was dis tributing 500 single rations per day out of a total appropriation for the purpose of $15,000. This was not relief, but a mere pro longation of the sufferings oi a small part of the reconcentradoes of that city. "So far as any evidence of re lief was visible to my eyes or was even heard of by me in all my talks 011 that island, the sur viving 200,000 people are i;i the same condition and have the same prospect of starvation bc fore them as had their kindred who have died. There is as much need of medicine now as of food, and they are getting neither. "The excuse given by the Spanish sympathizers in Cuba is that the troops must first be fed, aud it is certain tha' many of the soldiers are sick and sul sering for want of proper food I saw many myself that looked so. I was informed on all sides that they had not been paid lcr about eight months, and that most of the civil olficials had not been paid for a similar pe riod. It is, therefore, most probable that Spain is practi cally unable to supply the mil lions which are immediately necessary to prevent the death of most of the survivi ;g recoil centradoes ; but this leads to po litical questions, which I desire to avoid. "No order of permission from General Blanco can save the lives of many of them. Indeed some of them are too far gone to be saved by the best care and treatment. What they need is instant pecuniary assistance to the extent of $20,000 a day, dis tributed by our Consuls. Twenty thousand dollars would be but ten cents apiece for medicine, clothes and food. Whether Congress should make an ap propriatiou, as in the case of the San Domingo refugees and other cases, is not for me to say ; but I beg the charitable to be lieve the statements of fact which I have made and to try to realize what they mean." Hon' This? We offer Ouc Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Ball's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo O. 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 & TruAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kiknan mar vin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. - Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. " There are 100 cases of measles of a very bad type, at the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville. So far no deaths have lesulted. Doul Tobacro Spit ax! Smoke Tour Lire Away. To quit tobacco easily and forerer be ma? jetlc. fall of lite, nerve and vigor, take No-To Bae, the wonder-worker that make weak men strong. All druggists, 30c or II. Care guaran teed Booklet and sample free. Atldrea ter:ing Remedy Co., Cicaa cr We' York For the murder ol Blanche Lamont, Theodore Dux rant was hanged Friday morning . at .; San Quentin prison, . Cal. He died courageously, and to the last maintained that he was innocent of the crime. is. an. trr-.. w. i iiK writing ikttii n:.o a It l'J " Uich li it- tr'jw in i. j atMl a V f'.i(T !. A r t 1 , TViY I I., d In .1 .rjujr. Inl 1 if (r ilil. 1kk. (Mailorders filled pront M ) WU mail i'voiH irci l n.l cbarcroa. our noir liirun i...i.ii Iirui. containing Ftirultur. Drat-rrk. Lamps. Sfarrtx, Cr,ckry. Mirror. Pietur. lleddlQ. Itefrtjre.atoni. iufy tarrUupa. Ko. T-.! in Um n.t oro !lptr book ever puNMied. and we pay a1 lot tare. Our lnh.-r.nk.i w.i Cataloa-uo. howtn carpets la color. M alao loura tor tho uaktn. If earprt aamplea rt wan :. mail na c. in tampa. Tlwre u no reason why you hould pay your local dialer dO per cent, prvnt when you can buy from the mill. Drop a line now to the money-Bare!. JULIUS HINES & SON, Baltimore, Md. 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