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ST FISHERMAN & FARMER A. BY H. MITCHELL- Entered at the Post Office at Elnabetta Cit 3 5 ond class matter. KLUABETH CITY, Nov. 25 1898. 1U 111 his A TOUCHING SCENE. I have seen the American flag iu many countries and circum stances. I have seen it floating at the head of a great war squids ron. I once saw it carried, ragged and wet with blood, but trium phaut, from a battle field which was sterwn with the corpses of men who had died to defend it. Hut nowhere has it seemed to mc more touchingly and im. pressively used than in a homes ly little scene, which I happen ed to be a witness during the civil war. In August, 1863, I was going from West Virginia to Pheladel phia through Pennsylvania. The south-bound trains that summer were heavily loaded with troops and provisions for the army but rroin back thev carried few a o passengers. At Pittsburg, when the tram rolled into the station, a great, silent crowd waited for it. A splendid funeral-car stood in the background sui rounded by trr.nns. and the street was filled r by a long line of closed carriages A voluutcer officer in the Union arm v. who had been a man of j " influence and high position Pittsburg, had been killed the last battle, and now native city mourned for him and did him honor. The cofliu, rich in decorations w covered with .lowers, was reverently borne from the car The troops presented arms ; the standard?, draped with black, were lowered, and the air was hilled with the solemn music of funeral marches After a short delay, the train rolled on its way. Late that afternoon it stopped at a little station among the Alleghany Mountains. The station-house was but a rough shed ; a pig was rooting under the platform. Iu the background was a squalid cabin in a potato patch. The whole landscape spoke of barrenness and helpless poverty. Standing on the platform was a woman, a poor country girl. She wore an old, patched gown that clung limply to her thin body, and a calico suubonnet which she had thrown back that she might better watch the train. A little barefooted boy clung to her, but she did not heed him. Her face was 'pinched and bloodless. She leaned for ward, staring with childish, dilated eyes into each car as it passed. There was a grating sound as the trainmen dragged a rough pine box from the freight car and laid it upon the platform. The woman went ut to it. and without a word or a tear dropped down and clasped her arms about it. There w as not a man on the train who did not uncover his head, but she saw nothing of the many strange, pitying eyes fixed on her. Her boy came to her, crying, "Where is pap a! You said h would come !" She did not hear or answer only clasped the box closer. The tragedy was so squalid, so hopeless, that tie onlookers saw c uly its cruelty. Wh should this poor farm boy be struck down, and this helpless wife and her child be left to struggle and to suffer ? Why need there be this waste ol human l ie ? Just then a man ran out oi the sta tion carrying a tailored old flag and spread it prouuly over the box. And at the touch of it, it seem ed to us who watched, as if our country laid her hand on the poor coffin and said : "This is my son. He died for me. Pay reverence to him." The train steamed slowly away. The setting sun threw its low light over the lonely group on the platform the woman and her child and her dead but the flag ennobled this poor martyrdom. Never in the trium phs of peace or fury of battle it express with more emphasis the majesty of our country than when it claimed the poor volun teer as its son, one of its heroes to be be honored for all time. fl. Y. NEGROES MEETING. Speeches Made Denounceing The White People of the South. SOUTHERN LADIES TOO EASY TO INSULT. What Do the YThite Republicans of North Carolina Think of This? If Such Speeches Had Been Made in the South the "Orators" Would be Done Away With in Short Order. Special from New York, says : Despite fhe best ofiorts of its organizers, the meeting of neg roes at Cooper Union tonight to denounce the action of the white people at Wilmington, N. C., evinced a spirit of revenge. Some of the speeches were moderate in remarks, but the others which aroused the most enthusiasm spoke of "the day to come, sooner or later, when the blacks should revenge them selves for all the persecutions they have undergone," and one speech was along the very lines which resulted iu the Wilming ton riots. An amendment to the resolu tions which advocate retaliatory measures was smothered. The meeting was called to order by T. Thomas Fortune, the negro editor, who introduced ex-Minister to Hayti Barrett, as chairman. Letters of sympathy were read from several persons. Then Fortune made a speech, in which he appealed against the "mobcracy of the South," to the belter feeling of this great couutry. When he asked how negroes should demand their rights, the answer came from all parts of the hall : "Fight for them ! fight ! might ! ! !" Fortune attempted to calm the crowd, but a man yelled : "No, no; kill em ! Kill em! Give them what they give us!" Fortune finally got older and continued, as follows : "I can't blame any man for feeling some resentment, but he's a fool who butt's his head against a stone wall. Let the white men of the South proclaim themselves a lawless element. But let us have patience." Lawsou N. Fuller Mas the next speaker, and he expressed the opinion that "the Southern ladies are too easily insulted, anyway. Joseph D. Peaker, president of State Summer League of Con necticut, dsmanded a union of the colored race. Then George W Brown, one of the negroes who escaped from North Carolina only to meet violence in Virginia, was intro duced. But he had nothing to say. Dr. Scott, a preacher from North Carolina, made a speech when a white Southerner present said : "H would not have lived to finish it if he had made it in the South." He pointed out the high lavor in which the blacks were held before the war, and said the same would be ttue now if not lor the increasing prosperity of the blacks, and other express ions. W. H. Brooks, another negro "preacher," said in the course of his speech : "Let us keep cool Keep a grip on yourself, and your teeth tight closed. Win Deacefully if you can, but it not well, if there's nothing else to do, if you've got to die, don't die by youiself." Cheers and yells. The Wilmington negro Manly, did not show up. The soouer a cough or cold is cured without harm to the sufferer the better Lingering colds are dangerous. Hack ing coughs is distressing. Why suffer when such a cough cure is within reach? It is pleasant to the taste. Griggs & Son. editorial retractiug the one written by Manly, but he would not publish it. If he had done so there would have been no race war in Wilmington. He accepted the advice of others and the folly ot his course is shown by the events which fol lowed. "The intelligent colored peo ple of the State did not endorse the utterances of Manly, and if he had acted wisely there would have been no bloodshed iu Wil mington. And then, too, the commit te of colored citizens ap pointed for the purpose of sup- pre.i:ng Manly's paper blunder ed in not making known at once their disapproval of Man ly's course, and their determina tion to get rid of him. I do not believa that it was the intention of the white citizens to wreck or destroy his office, but when the committee of colored citizens were apparently indifferent to the suppression ot Manly, this enraged the white citizens and the wreck of the ofhee followed. "Prior to the recent regreta. ble occurrences the relationship existing between the white and colored citizens of North Caro lina was most cordial and ami cable. I believe that peace will be secured permanently, and that the former pleasant relationships will be restored. But the white men of the South will not tolers ate any reflection upon their women, and it is a mistaken idea to reflect upon them, whether it be by Mr. Manly in North Car olina or by Mrs. Grannis she was in New York, while Mr. Manly was in Wilmington. "Our people can easily adjust the present condition of atiairs by using good judgement. It is this quality, when propetly exercised, which will mean our salvation. Wild speeches and abuse will do no good. The negro is in and is of the South, and it is there that he must triumph. He can do this by using all endeavors to avoid the increase of predudice agaiust him. I oelieve tliat tne negro of the South will rise to still undreamed heights in the South, even if he must come to them through fear and trembling." The Best Plaster. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound on to the affected parts is superior to any plaster. When troubled with a pain in the chest or side, or a lame back, give it a trial. You are certain to be more than pleased with the prompt relief which it affords. Pain Balm is also a certain cure for rheumatism. For sale by W. W. Griggs & Son., Druggists. NEGRO CONDEMS MANLY. John C. Dancy, Colored Collect tor of Customs at Wilming ton, Makes Statement in New York. (New York Times, 20th) John C. Dancy, the collector ot the port of Wilmington, N. C, is iu the city, and yesterday at tended the services at the Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, at Tenth and Bleecker streets. The pastor, the Rev M. R. Franklin, is entertaining him at his house. Mr. Dancy left Wilmington last week du ring the progress of the race war in that city, but he denies emphatically that he left for tear of being a victim of the wrath ot the white citizens of Wilmington. In conversation with a reporter yesterday Mr Dancey talked at length of the present perturbed state of affairs in his State. "Manly," said he, is responsi ble for the whole unfortunate condition of things. When he published his editorial reflecting upon the white women of the State, I with other leading col ored men of Wilmington held a conference with him and urged him to retract the article. We even went so far as to write an Constipation prevents the body from ridding itself of waste matter. De Witt's Little Karly Risers will remove the troble and cure Sick Headache. Biliousness, Inactive Javer ond clear the Complexion. Small, sugar coated, don't gripe or cause nause. vSon. Manteo. Miss Bessie Davis returned to her home in Beaufort, N. C. last Saturday night. Mrs. Albert Evacs is very much impaired in health; so that she is unable to continue her sewing. Wc hear that Dr-F. P Gates is looking for a place iu Man teo, with a view to moving here, again. Mr. Dan Sawyer left Monday night on the Ray for Norfolk, where he expects to occupy his time in engineering. Miss Mary Richardson diec last Wednesday evening after several months illness, and was buried Thursday afternoon. Mrs. B G. Crisp returned last Saturday nig'jt with her chib dren, after a lengthy visit to hsr parents. She and her husband have rented 100ms at Air. Thos. Midgett's. Quite a number of the people of this place are preparing to at tend the N. C. Annual Confer ence of the M. E. Church, South, which convenes in E. City next week. Mr. Solomon Baum of Prin cess Anne County Va., a former resident of this place, was brought here for burial, Monday night ; and was hurried iu the old family burying ground at Mi. Frank Meekins,' Tuecday morning at ten o'clock. He died in the 35th year of his age. Mr. Patrick Etheridge, who was very badly hurt during Court week at Mr. R. C. Evans store, by stepping on a bananr peeling, that caused him to fall, and has been at Mr. Thos. Mi lgett's under Dr. Fearir g's treatment, was moved to bis home at Buxton on last Monday. E. Griggs & uch in Little Is especially tnio of Hood's Tills, for no medi cine ever contained so great curative power in so small siiace. They are a v hole medicine LI chest, always ready, al ways efficient, always sat isfactory; prevent a cold or fever, cure all liver ills, Sick headache, jaundice, constipation, etc. 25c. The only Pills to take with Iiood"s Sarsaparilla. ills r vv Vr Av Jvjtrr FOR j WANCHESE. Miss Leona Hooker is teach ing school at Body Island. Mr. T. H. Baruum, of Body Island, spent last Saturday night and Sunday with us. Sheriff Cudworth returned last Saturday night after a pleas ant trip to E. City and Plym outh. Rev. N. Cox preached an excellent sermon last Sunday nigh d will lecture here next Saturday night. Rev. J. Barker will preach his last sermon here next Sun day morning on this appoints ment. We hope to have him with us next year. A remarkable thing occurred here last week. Two young men of tiiis place were out hunting, and seeing a rabbit.one stopped for the other to shoot him, and the rabbit came and jumped upon the ones knee who had stopped. He caught him and now has him tame. M'r. R. Z. Willis, of Norfolk, came last Saturday night to visit relatives and friends in this place. Mr. Willis was in the battle in Cuba, he held a posi tiou on the "Montgomery," and this being his first visit home iu three years, we have made every effort to show him a good time. After a grand reception given at his home last night, several conveyances were sent up and all enjoyed a fine drive to the steamer. Call at the store corner of Broad and Water streets and yon will find a fresh select stock of everything used by the housekeeper. low PRices And fresh goods are what everyone is looking for and a call from those search ing for bargains will con vince 3011 that HOWELL, The Grocer is his store is trade a leader and the place to When you ask for De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve don't accept a counterfeit or imitation. There are more cases of Piles being cured by this, than all others combined. Griggs Son. Mumford. Charley Brite, of Norfolk, spent part of last week in New land township. Clan Carver, ot Norfolk, is visiting relatives and friends at Mumford. Mr. William Brothers, of E. City, spent part of last week at Mumiord, the guest of W. T. Stafford. The M. E. Church held its quarterly conference in Newland last baturday and bunday. Messrs. R. L,. Ilinton and Bill Ware, of Mumford, went to Norfolk to purchase some mill machinery for their mill in Newland township. About Catarrh. It is ca' sed by a cold 01 succession of colds, combined with impure blood. Its symptoms are Dain in the head, dis charge from the nose, ringing noises in the ears It is cured liv VTnotVn Sat. saparflla which purifis and enriches the moou, sootns ana reDuiias tne tissues ana relieves all the disagreeable sen sations. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. Mailed for 25c. by C. I. Hood & Co., Iowell, Macs. IN EDRNTON. Corner Streets, buildini Broad and Water in the Woodard hhhhhhl mwm THE- NAT10NAL SALOON, B. F. FRANCIS, Prop. In the Woodard building on East tide of Broad Street, is the FINeST IN eDeNTON. For choice Liquors, Wines, Cigars and Tobacco, there is no place bet ter prepared to supply the trade. Ha rG stocZ: of choice goods constantly on hand at prices in keeping with the times. EVERYBODY INVITED to Call. No souveniers but fine goods at Low Prices. i. 5 in J in V M 1 l4lJ4J3JLp - n '. . w pa 2 Vf4 teJ f.i v$ M W.B. BASNIGHT EDENTON, N. C, Respectfully Solicit a share of your PATRONAGE EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO DRIliK. FINE WINES WHISKIES, AND BRANDIES. Cigars and Tobacco a Specialty. IF YOU NEED A We can supply and then Fill it. Give us a call. Prompt at tention and courteous. treat ment awaits all. TF BARG-AIN NEWS be good news, this story will justify its headline. There is much in that which follows that has never been printed before-prices given that we think are whollv wihtout prtcedent, and on goods which, as you know, are not mly merely reliable, but desirable, stylish, largely exclusive in pattern and fairly pric before this price-cutting started. I Handsome styles and new design in dress V(XJLXC09 Calico ; also the usual styles light or baby calico challenge price ,'cts. the yard. Apron check Ginghams, the VTlQ llciHiS-, usual 6c. quality while they last, our challenge price is -4j cts. the yard. Ejj 1 j 1 This 111 o.s l fashionable rOtlClCiO.CIlj for Ladies tailor um,L in all this season's ne v and popular shades really a quality, this challenge sale price is 79c. the yard. We secured a handsome Bleached Cottons, Fruit of the ,oom and An- droscoggins bleached cottons one yard wide, 10 yards is our limit to one customer, our challenge price 5 Jic the yard. jT "1 One lot of twelve pieces of li JXOOvl-O Dress goods known with us as lot X; these are all wool goods and some have silk mix tures, these goods are usually sold everywhere for 25c. the yard, our challenge price iDc. Zis another lot of Dress goods of a much better grade, J this lot is comprised of all wool and silk mixtures, Tricots, Flannels and all wool storm serge, not a piece in the lot not worth 35c, to make "Em" hum, our challenge price is 24c. the yard. OIIIV. T t5A V lLjsilk velvet on our ree -.: North, goods worth 75c the yard, had we marked this you would have considered them cheap, but we never -a bargain, but are- willing to give our trade an equal fit, so have place our challenge price at 39:. the van!, and black. Plaids leiige price 60 in silk velvet worth 8c the CIS, y:ir n iw -fM -Jim i Good quality Silesia, worth IJJLiIlUi3 i2ic, chtlleiipe price ctS- Keystouc Cambric usually sells for 5c per yard, cli. price 3 cts- Percale, One Yard wide, worth 10c per e price 6 CtS- We challenge the town on Blankets. Prices from 50 cts- per pair up. j jTil -1 Beautilul styles 111 1 Ollting iylOtll, ing Cloth, w r challenge price 7 CtS- per yard. Trim- iht?fi' X-C't-.A a - 4 1 59S35ZSBZ2K3! Capes, Double Capes known with us as lot Number 1, trimmed in black fur and braid really worth $1.50; we only have eleven of "cm' our challenge price is 98c. lett, to close the lot C -rCkC ot T- 2 a better quality black, cape really 1? worth $2. $o; this is also a double cape trim" med in Fur, beads and Sutache braid ior this cape, our dial" leuge price is 1.08. C npp While we are on the subject of capes would fl call your attention to our Gray Melton Cloth Cape known with us as lot No. 3; this is a very handsome and showy garment trimmed in gray fur and black and gold coK ored Sutache braid, this is exceedingly cheap at our regular price $2.25 but for this sale, our challenge price is $1 38. II A DP D ot No. 4 is a small quantity oi plush capes us vill IJlj Ud price $2.50, trimmed in long black Angora Fur, we have placed our challenge price at $i.58c. ITfiQ lc a paper, 6 papers for 5c, is our dial. A 1.1 leiige price. A. A. One yard wide, HrOWll COttOnS, worth 6cpcr yard, our challenge price 4 CtS- the yard. COTTON FLANNEL, price 3 h CtS- the yard. Good quality worth 5c per yard, our challenge fVFi 1 li n t"v VVe liave mai,y articlcs in tlr A i AXAvX , linery department for less usual value, the Rough Rider has usually sold for $1.0.,, nee 8c, Boys soldier caps, challenge pi ice, Girls Tans, challenge price, 15c. i enge pne One lot 500 Ladies and gentlemen's handkerchief's uoilh each, our challenge price, 5c each COTTON FL 4lNNEL, Better than the above lot' really worth from 7c to 8c the yard, our challenge price is 5 CtS. the yard. COTTON FLANNEL, Better grade of goods, really i 10c quality, our challenge price 8 CtS. the yard 5oo Hats for men and boys really worth from to $2.00 each, one treat lot bo:irlit at ribai-i, our challenge price Sc. Sunn a ,tir-rn Best Machine spo'.i c ton, challenge prie 1 gfcs Sunday shoes for some others would wear OllUtJo "era" seven days in every week, really worth 51.25, challenge price 89c. sizes 2 to 8's both button and lace. Shoes, Lakewood, this is the name of one of our most popular selling shoes foi Ladies both in Spring Heel and Heel both button and lace, common sense and the new style coin and bulldog toes worth 51.75, chal lenge price $1.25. O "K All of our $2.50 and $3.00 shoes for Ladits k31aOv5&9 for this sale only, the challenge price 1.98. Cotton Flannel Drawers for men, really a good quality, fullsizes, guaranteed to fit, really worth much more, our challenge price 25c. per pair. Drawers for men; a better quality, usual price 50c, challenge price 35c a pair. Ofl A Dl Lily Boquet and Butter Milk Soap, Pun! I 3 cakes in a box, challenge price 5c per box. Good quality of Talcon Powder, clut.. price 8c box. The Best Hook and Eyes, usual price 5 c now 3c. or two cards for 5c. Last, but by no means the least, upon 1I1 i -is our stock of ready to wear Clothing lor Boys and Children. It is our intention to out this entire stock, heuce we offer extn-a low prices during this Challenge Sale. People who wish to Save Money will trade here. People know what we advertise to do WE DO- KB 54 and 56 TTater Sreafc, Slizabouh ty O. T TI A N M PICKED ERS Mr. A has seen 1 V. C. 1' Mis : ontou. i fnoinis a Licili home i 1 trip i Miss ford, is t )iirges p'leisel pressed the tune Mrs. nesttas 1 davs wit Mis. : Mrs. T. lleltfot' Irieuds a bcth Cit Nothi on for d ions. '1 son, Stc FOR ano ui sell die: The ' by the ;1 ny was and we ally pat A ved dwMice o 1 he elit supper Just 1 ot Calil'J sins, p peaches! Robins' The chinch last Sua an x )j excelleil at both 1 from M Noi f! 1: jdacc, J a tew d shake fiiend.i. Tlu livery ran aw; street, cj hk'y- and gr( tered u It is chroui Gertie Pcrebe at lier an 11 In Aifed i were ti Thursil family The week street, street if pine sit and ot will iu in MaU ord. woik. VA couutrl ware al more, Tud exhib xneasul bear i pound! by Ch lin far! city. have li borho hunte one tl Tha H BaJ Sigoaf
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