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ELIZABETH CITY N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST .6, 1900.'
One Dollar p Year, in Advance.) The Official Paper of Pasquotank and Camden Counties. (Established 1886
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STATE ITEMS.
The Atlantic Coast Line paid
its State taxes last week, $24,448.
A $300,000 cotton mill is to
be built near Legion, Caldwell
County, in the near future.
The High Foint Trunk factory
will be in operation by Septem
ber 1, and will get out 150
trunks per day.
There is no beautifier of com
plexion or form, or behavior,
like the wish to scatter joy, and
not pain, around us.
The State Farmers' Alliance
met at Hillsboro, last Tuesday,
Major W. A. Graham, of Lincoln
County, is its President.
The progressive city of Dur
ham is soon to have a handsome
union depot, which will cost not
less than $50,000 when comple
ted. Judge Thomas Johnston Wil
son, one of the State's oldest and
most distinguished sons, died at
his home in the city of Winston
last week.
The yearly meeting of the
Friends Church convened in
High Point, N. C, last week.
Quite a number of distinguished
visitors were present
Halifax is the banner Demo
cratic county of the State. Many
of the other counties had large
majorities, but old Halifax lead,
giving a Democratic majority of
5.740.
President McKiuley has ap
pointed Daniel A. Tompkins, of
Charlotte, N. C, as a member of
the Industrial Commission, to
succeed T. A. Smythe, resigned.
The salary of the place is $3,600
per year.
Mr. Thomas S. Kenan has
been appointed Chief Marshal at
the unveiling of the Vance
statue, at Raleigh, N. C, next
Wednesday, August 22. He
will introduce Col. Richard H.
Battle, the orator of the occasion.
It is estimated that there are
$50,000 worth of buildings under
constiuction in Salisbury at the
present time. And some of
these buildings will ranK with
the handsomest in the State
Salisbury's growth is most grati
fying. Salbbury Sun.
The Lenoir Oil aud Ice Com
pany was yesterday incorporated
with a capital stock of $10,000
It will manufacture cotton-seed
oil and ice. The incorporators
are, J. E. Hood, F. C. Dunn, S.
L. Slaugh, C. T. Meacham, S.H.
Abbott, J. F. Taylor and J. W.
Black. News and Observer.
The Sampson Tobacco ware
house had its opening sale yes
terday, and it will go down as
the banner tobacco day for Clin
ton There were 10,000 pounds
sold here yesterday. The pros
pects for this year are good in
the tobacco business and this
means a good deal for Clinton.
Exchange.
A surprise marriage was cele
brated at Winston-Salem, last
week, the contrrcting parties
being Miss Celeste, the accom
plished daughter of Col. J. W.
Alspaugh, and Dr. Thomas W.
Page, Virginia's noted author.
The couple left for Berkley,
California, where they will
reside.
The Cherokee Scout says: "We
will raise our estimate of the
value ot the tan bark business
this season in Cherokee county
from $25,000 to 550,000, and we
believe it will even go beyond
this amount. Dozens of wagons
pass up and down our streets
every day loaded with this cash
commodity."
Mr. Campbell, of the Burt
mines, in Warren county, ship
yed trom here on Friday of last
week, a bar of virgin gold, the
product of a few day's "panning"
from the placer deposits, valued
at six hundred dollars. Among
other finds were several fantas
tically shaped specimen of ore
just as taken from the earth.
Over eleven miles of paying
placer is ready for work which
is made easy .by an artificial
canal which furnishes a large
and inexhaustible supply of pure
spring water. Rocky Mount
Motor.
The Democratic Sweep in North
Carolina.
North Carolina and all the
people thereof are to be congratu
lated on the clean sweep made
by the Democrats in Thursday's
election. Nobody who was at
all acquainted with ihe condi
tions in the Tar Heel State, or
with the temper of its people
doubted for a moment that just
what happened would happen.
Nevertheless, it is pleasant to
know the result, so desirable
trom every point of view, was
achieved without the attending
scenes of violence which were
anticipated by many.
While the main objective of
the campaign wras the elimina
tion of the negro as a menacing
factor in politics, a consumma
tion assured by the adoption of
the amendment to the State's
Constitution, what will be a
matter of no less keen gratifica
tion to many Tar Heels is the
enectual quietus tlie sweeping
victory of Thursday puts upon
as sordid and despicable a cabal
ot politicians as ever cursed a
Southern State in reconstruction
days. It was not only a victory
for white supremacy, " which
was the battle cry of the cam
paign, but it was no less a vic
tory for decency in public affairs
and for order and stability in
government. The Tar Heels
are a conservative folk, but they
have contrived to give to the
political huckster, who bargains
for ofhce as he would for a cab
bage, trading on the votes of his
ignorant and venal followers,
such a stinging rebuke as he
shall have cause to remember
for a quarter of a century.
The real significance of this
victc ry lies in the fact that for
the first time in ten years the
intelligent, substantial and pro
gressive element . of the Old
North State's population is in
full and undisputed control of
every branch of the State govern
meut without the prospect of
having to trim to the vagaries
of wild and woolly Populism on
the one hand, or yield unduly to
special interests and corporate
influences on the other, in order
to keep the whole eastern sec
tion of the State out of the slough
of savagery. Our neighboring
State, therefore, is really on the
threshold of a new industrial and
political era, if the men who
have come in with the tide shall
carefully use the opportunities
that this unparalleled " vote of
confidence has put in their
way.
The men chosen to office are
reputed to be of an unusually
high order, the best men the
party could have named, while
the selection of a Democratic
Legislature insures a Democratic
successor to Hon. Marion Butler
in the United States Seuaic,
North Carolina being at present
represented by a Populist and a
Republican in that distinguished
body. Virginian Pilot.
The History of Alamance.
A new and important contri
bution to North Carolina history
has been made by Miss Sallie
W. Stockard, a graduate of the
University of North Carolina,
whose latest work, "The His
tory of Alamance," has just been
issued from the press. It is a
book of real interest and histori
cal value, in whose preparation
much labor was expended and
wide research employed. It is
worthy of place in every libra
ry in the State.
The people of North Carolina
should encourage such efforts as
Miss Stockard is making to per-
petuate the glorious history of
the State and bring it to the at
tention of the world. They
must do so cr our history will
never be written.
"The History of Alamance"
ought to find a ready sale in
North Carolina, and in the
whole United States lor that
matter, because it gives the his
tory of the War of the Regula
tors, which was the beginning
of the American Revolution.
Here also that great Revolution
saw the beginning of its end
when Light Horse Harry Lee
put to flight Tarleton and Corn
wallis. They were on their
march of retreat when they met
and fought and again fled from
the Americans at Guilford court
house
As the author so well says in
her introductory, our young peo
ple should know the price of
their liberty and our old people
must not forget, for
"Good deeds dying tongueless
Slaughter a thousand waiting on that."
Alamance has vitally affected
the history of North Carolina
not only in those earlier days
but all along the march of time.
Cotton manufacturing in the
South had its beginning i.i an
Alamance cotton mill, when the
energy aud brains of Edwin M.
Holt began to make raw cotton
into cloth. A good account of
that beginning is given in the
book. "The History of Ala
mance" also contains family
sketches which are invaluable
to the people of Alamance couns
ty and their descendants. News
& Observer.
Fruit Growing in Eastern Caro
lina.
To its great reputation as the
center of a trucking section,
New Bern this season has added
that of being a notable fruit
market, for fruit grown in its
immediate vicinity.
The proof that fruit, and fine
fruit, can be grown in this sec
tion, has been successfully dem.
onstrated by Messrs. Geo. N. Ives
& Son at their Newport Fruit
Farm, a few miles below this
city on the A. & N. C. railroad.
The fruit grown for market
this season has been notably
peaches and grapes, a number ot
varieties of each kind.
These fruits have been most
successfully cultivated tor sevs
eral years, with this year show
ing best results, as the farm has
reached a more mature and ad
vanced condition of develops
ment.
The fruit of this season grown
at the farm ot Messrs. Ives has
been abundant in quantity and
excellent in quality.
Its excellence can be judged
by the demand, which has taken
the fruit as fast as offered for
sale.
In the firm's fruit store in this
city, the daily showing of fruit
from the NewTport farm, this
display has excited favorable
comment on all sides.
The shipments to State points
has made the Ives peaches and
grapes in special request over
such fruit grown elsewhere, and
buyers have been willing to pay
higher for the Newport peaches,
and these peaches have been
sought in preference to the Geor
gia peaches and others.
What the Messrs. Ives have
done can and will be done by
other fruit cultivators until the
fruit industry of Eastern Can
lina will be one of great propor
tions. New Bern Journal.
Bad blood is a bad thing to
inherit or acquire, but bad blood
may be made good blood by
taking Hood's Sarsaparilla.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
Who on Wednesday the 8th, at Indianapolis, formally accepted
the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
A Few of Bryan's Forceful
Utterances.
A republic can have no sub
jects. Rights never conflict, duties
never clash.
Love, not force, was the wea
pon of the Nazarene.
A war of conquest is as un
wise as it is unrighteous.
Force can defend a right, but
force has never yet created a
right.
Property rights are more se
cure when human rights are
respected.
It is not necessary to own a
people in order to trade with
them.
It was God Himself who
placed in every human heart
the love of liberty.
The real destiny of the nation
is to establish the principle of
liberty for the whole world.
History furnishes no example
of tuipitude baser than ours if
we substitute our yoke for the
Spanish yoke.
We cannot repudiate the prin
ciple of self-government in the
Philippines without weakening
that principle at home.
If true Christianity consists in
carrying out in our daily lives
the teachings of Christ, who
will say that we are commanded
to civilize with dynamite and
proselyte with the sword f
A colonial policy means that
we shall send to the Philippines
a few traders, a few taskmasters
and a few office holders and an
army large enough to support
the authority of a small fraction
of the people while they rule
the natives.
The whole difference between
a monarchy and a republic may
be summed up in one sentence:
In a monarchy the king gives
the people what he believes to
be a good government; in a re
public the people secure for
themselves what they believe to
be a good government.
Absolute Faith "Have you
faith in your theory about Mars
being inhabited ? " inquired the
skeptic. " I should say I have
faith in it ! " answered the man
with the telescope. " Why,
that theory is good for $50 a
thousand words every time I
r.boose to write an article on it."
NEWS ITEMS FROM EDENTON
Mr Tillery, of Richmond, is
visiting his brother, Capt. Til
lery. Judge Thos. B. Womack, ol
Raleigh, N. C, was a visitor here
last week.
Rev. R. A. Williss, of Eliza
betli City, was here Monday the
guest of his son.
Willie Moore, after a pleasant
visit to his father in Winthrope,
returned Saturday.
The steamer Haven Belle
which left for Nags Head Mon
day will return today.
Mr. W. S. Pendleton, of Wash
ington, N. C, is visiting friends
and relatives in town.
Mr. Thomas Warren is spend
ing a few days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Warren.
Mrs. Abram Bonner is enter
taining at her home on Church
street, Miss Knawef, of Belvi
dere.
Messrs. L. J. Moore, of New
Bern, and W. B. Waters, of
Washington, were in our ci ty
Saturday.
Mr. R. F. Cheshire has re
signed his position as clerk at
the Bay View aud Mr. Barlow
Harrell has succeeded him.
Hons. E. F. Aydlett, H. T
Greenleaf and J. C. Spence, c f
E. City, passed through thii,
week 011 their way to Columbia.
Mr. W. C. Coffield is relieving
Capt. Ferebee as conductor on
the accommodation train for a
few days. He is filling the
place very satisfactorily.
CAMDEN C. H.
N. W. Stevens was in E. City
Saturday.
Mrs. T. G. Gordon was the
guest of Mrs. W. S. Stevens,
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. T. B. Berry was the
guest of Mrs. T. B. Dozier,
Thursday afternoon.
Miss Nora Dozier spent Fri
day night with be: friend, Miss
Sallie Cowell, at Shiloh.
Miss Mary Evans, of Virginia
is delighting her cousin, Miss
Bettie Sanderiin with a visit.
Misses Sallie and Addie Luke
ot Norfolk, Va., are visiting
friends and re'atives near Shiloh.
The wiiter spent a few days
last week with her sister, Mrs
J. W. Creekmore nea Belcross
Miss Liilie Berry of N a f Ik
Va., spent Saturday night vcij
pleasantly with Miss Heine Sit
vens, Misses Jennie and Pell lid
gett were the guest- of Miss I
Nota Dozier, Wednesday after
noon. Mr. John Sanderiin, ot Nor
folk, Va , spent a few days last
week with his father, Mr. Caleb
Sacderliu.
Miss Maude Midgett was the
guest of her esteemed friend.
Miss Hettie Stevens near Shiloh,
a few days last week.
Mrs Claudie Hughes spent a
fegv days last week at Shiloh
and attended the protracted
meeting which- was in progress
there.
Miss Maggie Perkins, a
charming young lady ot Berkley,
Va., is delighting her sister,
Mrs. P. G. Bray, near Shiloh ,
with a visit
GERTIE.
SOUTH MILLS.
Miss Bettie Mullen is visiting
.Iiss Lydia Taylor.
Miss Lena Jacobs is visiting
friends in Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. G. H. Riggs, who has
been suffering with an inflamed
hand, is improving we are glad
to learn.
Misses Mary Hintou and Inez
Reid were visitors to the village
last week. Miss Jessie Crowson
accompanied them home.
The protra .ted meeting at
McBrides closed last Friday.
Large crowds attended the three
last days of the meeting. The
meeting resulted iu a quicken-
ine ot tne church ana one ac
cession to its membership.
A young gentleman who don't
take "sass" whacked a sassy
"nig" over the head with a pail
of hatnes last Friday. Our boys
are built that way. If fooled
with too far sticking plaster will
be in demand certain. Moral
Don't sass a gentleman.
Saturday night about nine
o'clock the bam and stables of
Mr. Robert Bullock were dis
covered to be on fi e. An alarm
was quickly raised and quite a
crowd was sochi on hand. Being
near the canal a water brigade
was formed, and to the surprise
of all soon had the fire under
control, confining i. to the out
buildings At one time it
looked as it that entire portion
A
of the village would be de
stroyed Great Ciedit is due
those who worked so faithfully.
The colored people deserve
praise Tor th efficient aid they
1 en lei ed.
MANTEO ITEMS.
Mr S C. Gray
frien is (?) in Cisco.
is
visiting
Miss Eva Evans returned to
her work -n Washington, D. C,
on Tuesday.
Quarterly meeting will be
held at this place on next Sun
dav and Monday.
Mr. and Mrs Whitcomb, ot E
City, have been spending some
time at fie Tranquil House.
Mr. Z W. Evans and three
children, also Miss Dtiia Coffield,
ot Cisco, are visiting relatives at
Mauteo.
Miss Ruth Evans left Tuesday
morning to do some shopping
in E City, and will make a visit
in Chowan county while away.
Miss Lonie Creef is on a visit
to her father at East Lake, and
will visit one of her college
friends in Hyde county while
awav.
Rev. G. D. Langston, of West
Durham, is making a visit to his
old friends. He preached at
Wanchese on Sunday morning
and here at night.
Mr. Dancer, of N. J , who has
been stopping at the Hotel Ro
anoke for several months left
Tuesday' morning for an extend
ed trip through Europe.
Rev. J. J. Barker is away on a
visit to his father in the western
part of the Mate. He expects
to return this week and begin
ais revival services at the M. E.
Church at Manteo.
E.
FROM MOYOCK.
Dr. S. M. Mann has moved in
his new ofhce.
Miss Bessie Askew spent last
week in K City.
Mr. S. E. Mann returned to
his home here Saturday.
Mrs. Annie Fultord, of Nor
folk, is visiting relations here.
Dr. S M. Mann and wife
took a trip to Norfolk Tuesday.
1. X. Sanderson, has accepted
a situation as bookkeeper in
Xorfo k.
J. P. Cox, of Black water, was
in the village, his old home,
Tuesday.
Protracted meeting at 3axter9
Grove will begin fourth Sunday
in August.
There is considerable sickness
among the people throughout
this section.
Sam. Sanderiin and Mr Ter
ault, made a business trip to
Norfolk Thursday.
The Protracted meeting at the
Baptist church lure will begin
next Sunday, 19th,
Mrs. Joe Bailey aud two
daughters Claia aud Mary, spent
Wednesday in Moyock.
Mr. F. C. Baxter, of Norfolk,
was in the village Friday, the
guest of Dr. S M. Maun.
Mrs. Jennie Gregory returned
to her home in Berkley, Friday,
alter a pleasant visit here.
Protracted meeting will begin
third Sunday in August at
Indian Creek M. B. church.
Mrs. Lula Sanderiin, of Nor
foik, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Hattie Sanderiin in Moyock.
Little Maggie Sanderiin who
has been quiie ill for the past
week, we are glad to say is some
better.
Moyock was well represented
at the Protracted meeting held
at Perkins Chapel, Shawboro,
laiL week.
Miss Mary Bailey, of Indian
Creek, Va, has spent the past
week here visiting her uncle,
Mr. A. P. Holt.
Mrs. Harriet and Nancy Cox,
of Hertford spent some time in
Moyock last week, the guests of
Mrs. J. B. Cox.
A party of young people met
at the residence ot W. P. Creek -more
and had a very pleasant
time Saturday night.
Died here Monday at the resi
deuce of her daughter, Mrs.
Sheppard Lee, Mrs. Sarali
Frias, aged about seventy years.
Mr. Eugene Charlton died at
his home here Thursday morn
ing, aged about 24 years, he
leaves a wife and one child. In
his death Moyock Baptist
Church loses one of its most ac
tive members and the commun
ity a good friend and neighbor.
MUMFORD.
Mr. Reuben Jones, of Berkley,
Va., is spending this week in
Newland.
Miss Nannie Jones, of Va.,
is visiting friends in Newland
township.
Mrs. Griffin Hewitt, of Va., is
the guest of relatives and fiienoTs
in Newland.
Mr. R. T. Bell, of E. City,
spent last Saturday with friends
at Rosedale.
Miss Mary L. Jones, of Berk
ley, Va., is visiting relatives and
friends at this place.
Mr. J. H. Hewitt, of Virginia,
is visiting relatives and friends
in Newland township.
Master Hermon Edney, of E.
City, has been visiting relatives
and friends at Rosedale.
Miss Nannie Spence, of E.
City, is visiting the family of
Mr. W. F. Williams at this place.
Mr. D. A Morgan, travelling
salesman for the firm of J. B.
Flora & Co., was in Newland
last Friday.
Mrs. Bettie Rhodes, of Prin
cess Ann county, is the guest of
relatives and friends in Pasquo
tank county.
G. B. Morgan.