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LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
Friday Mornning Dec. 23,189".
A merry Christmas to all our
readers.
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Mr. C. C. Aycock went to Wil
son Wednesday.
Mr. John Garris has moved
mto town again. i
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Miss Della Wadsley returned
to Baltimore yesterday.
Frank Short left Thursday
for a visit to Smithfield.
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Miss Bedie Darden returned
from Wilmington Thursday.
MijvPerry Barnes was homo
• from5Richmond Saturday.'
Master Vv alter Beddar.d leaves
today for a pleasure trip to Pitt
county.
Mr; C. F. Johnson has moved
to J. W. Smith’s house on rail
road St.
You will find a very interest
ing letter from Cuba in another,
column.
Mr. Arthur Best is home from
Trinity College to spend the
holidays.
Mr. A. R os cower editor of the
Goldsboro JleatUight was in town
Saturday.
Mrs. W. H. Speight is expect
ed oij a visit to Fremont to-mor
row -noon.
Mr. and Airs Ik ('. Cobb are
visiting at Mrs Ellen -Dardens
this week.
Rocky Point
gliter Airs. J.
There will not be any paper
next week. Oi.tr
want (lie week off.
Mr. M. K. R-ritt
Thursday to meet his little
daughter on tire noon train.
Mr. Frank Aycoek who is at
tending Turlington Institute at
Smithfiekl returned home Mon
day to spend the holidays. f
Nice line of STATIONARY at
J. R. Smith's..
Airs. A. D. Flowers and chil
dren who havr been visitin'" in
Fremont for some time returned,
to their home in Cemora -Mon
day.
compositors
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was in town
Airs. Jones' front
is visiting her dad
Miss Matfie Dexter, who has
been Yisitirnr he-r sister, Mrs. ,f.
D. Davis, ,.for several months,
returned to her home in Mary
land yesjtorday.
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« Rev, Albert Barnes, wye ami
baby chime up from' "Wilmington :
, 1
yesterday on a visit to his faih-;
or and Mrs 1 la rue’s, sister,
Mrs. J. B. Hooks.
Buy your DRUGS from J. R.
Smith. Fremont, RFC.
We are sending put statements .
to all our subscribers who are
indebted to us for five paper
making out our account, .s' up to
• the first of January lUe.'d. Please
do not neglect this mat ter even
(though it be but a small amount.
Goldsboro lh n.l Ur;'-.t: We were
at Fremont last Saturday and
fully convinced 'ourselves that
. the buyers there wcre pavi
ten cents pei’ bV pounds of cot
ton above IheGoklsboro market.
How they can afford to do it our
local cot ton buyers, who are
buying for the largest cotton ex
porters of the country, are at a
loss to comprehend it. if better
grades are got carried to Fre
mont than they aVe brought
here. The resuIt is 11 ia11 onr
merchants are the sufferers while
Fremont's business men are the
gainers.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
A Merchants meeting of ‘Wil
mington has recommended that
the General Assembly give New
Hanover county a no-fence-law.
Dunn, X. C., Dec. 20.—The
entire plant of the South Dunn
Manufaturing Company was de
stroyed hy.fire to-day at G p. m.
The plant had been in operation
live or six years, making cheap 1
grades of furniture. The loss'
will'-foot up close to £10,000, in
cluding stock and material on
hand. We are unable at this i
writing to learn the cause of the j
: fi re or the amount of insurance I
j. carried.—Star.
London, Dec. 2 ».—A dispatch
from Shanghai to a newspaper |
here says a powder magazine I
situated in the centre of the
Chinese camp at Ilaug Chow ex
ploded, levelling a square mile
of houses. It is estimated that
3,000 soldiers were killed, in-'
eluding the general commanding
the forces. • The American and
French missions are both sup
posed to have been damaged, but
it is said there were no fatalities
among the Americans.—Star.
•'Washington, Dec. 20.—-Sena-'
Cor Butler,', of North Carolina,
to-day gave notice of,jin 'amend
ment ho will introduce to the
y ; nsion appropriation! bill pen
sioning OA-Conf.-derate soldiers.
The amendment follows:
■ ‘‘That from and after the past
sage of this bill, every pension
law now on the statue books
shall apply to every invalid sol
dier, widow, minor child, depen
dent relative, the army nurses
and all other pensioners who
may be able to prqve their claims
under the present pension laws,
without! regard to Whether said
.soldiers was enlisted in the
Fedora! or / Confederate service
of the.civil war of 1861-65; pro
vided, that those enlisted in the
Confederate service shall not
dray; any back pensions prior to
the passage of .this hill, bu t their
claim under existing laws shall
begin, and become operavtive
with- the passage of this bill."—
Morning. Star.
WASHING TON LETTER.
(From Our. ReguIsit*^-CorrespondehL), .
Washington, D. C. Dec. JO, 1898-.
Circumstances 1 have brought
the expansion question very
much to the front, in . Washing
ton. •. President McKinley’s
f ’
speech at Atlanta, in which he
asked ‘-Who will haul dow the
ling?" is regarded as comitting
him in favor of expansion, and
of retaining.the Philippine^, and
it hasehtljiused the expansionists
in Congress, and out of Con
gress. ( Then canid Col. Bryan'S j
visit, to Washington for the j
double- parnc.-o of trying to
prevent Senators cl-his party
opposing the Tat ideation of the
'treaty of Peace, which he says
should not figure in ' the fight i
against expansion, and of soltdi- i
tying his party'in both brandies
of. Congress against expansion, j
He succeeded so w 11 in the .first i
that it is npw generally expected
that the treaty will be ratified by
tin Senate before the close of
this s ssion of Congress, al
though it-cannot be sent to the ;
S mate until the fir ■. w< ek in
January, lie wasn’t so success-;
ful in. his other object.‘. lie
build n e< rous ' ■ spat >rs
R( pr* sentalives of his party who
told him plainly that they and
their cerstiiueuts believed that ‘
it-was the proper thing fur this
government to keep ail the tor-,
ritgry it aeuuiieu in the war
with Spain, and that so long as
the administrJltion policy was
legitimate expansion, and not'
:pevial ism, they expected to
cordially support it. Col. Bryan
admitted in conversation with
his friends that public sentiment
at the present time is favorable
to expansion, but he argued that
it will soon be changed and will
suppoit the position he has tak
en.
Members of the Anglo-Ameri
can Commission no longer speak
hopefully of»success in the nego
tiation of a treaty that will re
move all friction between this
country and Canada, and estate
1 ish com mere i a 1 rec iprocity. On
the contrary, they now regard
any satisfactory ' agreement on
reciprocity, as improbable, if not
actually impossible, apulThe ne
gotiation of a treaty 'embracing
any points of real importance is
very doubtful. The Commission
has adjourned until January' .">,
when a last attempt to agree on
something will be made.
Col. Bryan's friends are divid
ed as to whether the New
Yorker who was quoted as fol
lows in a local paper, meant to
be complimentary or1 otherwise:
“I think Bryan would have made
one of the greatest actors that
ever trod the boards, and even
now, if he Would adopt the
stage, there is -almost the cer
tainty of success. He is a born
actor, and had he started in
time, would have outshone the
greatest we have seen in this
generation. Ilis Chicago speech
that won him to nomination for
President was a masterly bit of
acting—so was his going to ‘ the
war. I don’t mean by that to
accuse him of insincerity, but it
is the very nature of the man to
play a part. He has a magnifi
cent face, fine voice, and magne
tic presence, all of which would
have lifted him'to the topmost
place had fate decreed him to be
a Thespain.”
The gentlemen who are trying
to bring about an extra session
af the next Congress for thosole
purpose of financial legislstion
have not succeeded in getting a
promise from President McKin
ley, but they are still hard at
work trying to bring additional
pressure to bear upon him. They
have adopeted one unique method
of incluencing the President—a
petition from republican mem
bers : of Congress, asking the
President to call an extra session
of Congress in the Spring, and
to state in the call that the ses
sion is called solely to consider
financial legislation. This peti
tion is now being circulated for
signatures, and is s,aid to have
obtained a considerable number,
bolt they do not include the party
loaders. • Regardless of this pe
tition an cl other efforts, of the
same parties, an extra session is
generally regarded as' among the
probabilities, but it will not bfc
co jo lined, if held, . to financial
legislation.
Same okl Congress; same old
talk about working through the
holidays;-same old joint resolu
tion providing for a Christmas
recess of two weeks, from the
hist inst. Amen!
FRANK B9YETFE, D. D. S.
(Everything1 in the line of Den
tistry done in the best style.
Perfect satisfaction guaranteed.
C g^Oiiiyo in front rooms- of
Borden Building, over Bizzeil
Bro. & Co's, dry goods store.
Goldsboro, X. .0. ;
Caveat?, and Trade-Marks obtained and a!! Hat
,ent business conducted for Mooerate TEES.
Our Crnce is opposite U.S. Patent Orricr
[and '.re nan secure, patent in less time than those
i re mote frerft \Vashingten.
[ Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip
tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of
ichaige. Oar fee not oae til! patent is secured.
[A r»#M®HLET, “How tn Obtain Patents,” with
,cost of sail..- in the L'.S. and foreign countries
sect free. Address.
Op?. Patent Office. Washington, d. C,
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XMAS GOODS!
We have just received a nice line of CHRISTMAS'AND HOL
IDAY GOODS—
TOYS, DOLLS, VASES, CHINA WARE, GLASS WARE and
other things too numerous to mention.
Corae in and examine our stock of Candies. Nuts. Raisins, Ap
ples, and v
WEST INDIA ORANGES. <
Prices on every thing very low. Tr addition to the above wo
have on luin.d a
GENERAL LINE OF MERCHANDISE.
Call in and see us. .
Yours to serve,
!-. J. B. & J. A. Books.
FREMONT, N. C.
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The Almighty Dollar is 1 ary or than ever be
fore when spent in buiyng goods from us.
Come to our store. Examine our goods.—
-Prices will do the rest.
Standard Prints acts per yard.
4x4 Heavy Domestic 5e per yard.
The best 5ccheeked IIoniespuH in Town.
And a full line of IT ATS, CAPS, CLOTH INC,
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, LADIES CAPES,
TRUNKS &e.
All at ROCK BOTTOM prices for casfi.
Yours for business,
Peacock, Davis & Co.
FREMONT, -.• • N.C.
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which we offer cheap. Come in
and supply your wants while you
can.
Great Reductions.
oh white goods, they must be
sold at some price. .Come in and
examine same. We also have a
Variety Of Goods,
Consisting in part of Dress Goods,
Pi reels, Challies, Lawns Sat teens,
Sh irts—launtiered a n d u n lev.nd• r
eil, Pereed and Xef/liyee.% Indies
Vests, Men's Gauze Shirts, (duffs
and (dollars, Umbrellas, Gloves,
Suspenders and lots of other
goods that we are going to run
Off at some price.
PRICES TELL THE TALE.
So don't delay, but come and
and take advantage of this op
portunity while you can.
We will l>e sure to give you the
benefit of real bargains.
We want your patronage.
We feel sure it would be to your
interest to
Come To See Us.
We also carry a good lino o
^rocieries both fancy and heavy
also Canned goods.
'•We can sell you Molasses <|
15c per gallon. 'If yon want i
good chew be sure you get
Big: Tom 10c. per plug
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Barnes & Flowers.
Fremont, N. C
1C JUST AS GOOD ADULTS.
WARRANTED* FSiCJSOcts.
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bouaht tbrre pr, a alrcst ,* y<i.r. In oil -.aji px*
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tt'jvpr v>M an an.r':«Uih> f»v<? *;;p|j nutrci-iS sjtta*
la&Uua su y^ur tui-- Ivu * truly.
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Alartle Works.-f*
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J Siicccssors to <i. A. (jrunthain,
ZUox^2± GOLDSBOKO, N. C.
WE ARE AGENTS
PRICES
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FIT BEST.
MOST STYUSt%
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