MEADLIG
ESTABLISHED 1887.
GO'LDSBOIiO, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1893.
VOL. VII. NO. 4.
jur Lier
Is the Oriental ealntaticn,
knowing that good health
ran not exist without a
healthy Liver. "When thej
Liver is torpid tho Bow
els are sluggish, and con
stipated, the food lies
in tho stomach undi
gested, poisoning tli3
Llood; frequent headaches
ensue?; a. feeling of lassi
tude, ce.-pondency and
nervousness indicate how
the v. 'noic fy.t:::i i.i d
Tanged, Simmons Liver
Regulator has been tho
means of restoring r.ioro
Ieople to health and
iappine?r, ny giving them
a healthy Liver than any
agency known on earth,
lit acts with extraor
dinary power and efiicacy.
Rev. R. G. Wn.nr.n, Princeton, X. J..s3y;:
"I limi not!. In- ln-lps so much to keep lue in
working cuiuiit: .n as Shiimr-ns Liver Kegululur."
See ili'-.t yon yet the Genuine,
v, itli ;ct c n front of w rapper.
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A Happy Welcome
I S ;l'Al!ANTKKl TO THOSE WHO
xx Inch is
I line
Imp
v il h t he choicest of
lte.1
Liquors and Wines !
All the lat.-t drink
manipulated i.y
.1 and
itiul men.
if
Domestic end Imparted Cigars,
4 xi) a l.;;;k lot of fink to-
V ,:,eeo. for 1'iire North Carolina
C.rii Whi-kcv mv place is headquarters.
.Mr. ndlea Iloxxeil is with me and
Would he pleased to see his friends.
Jas. L. Dickinson,
At .John (iinu's Old Stand.
The Fun That Adam Missed.
That Alain was ;i lonely man
I'm ready tn believe.
Although Itis numy days wore b!c:
Willi nature's fairest Eve:
ly niaiilen aunts ami cousin's fair
Tlie man was never kissed.
Ami thus I often tliink about
The fun that Adam misled.
It seems to me his life was like
Ail oft-repeated dream :
lie never treated girls and paid
Three dollars for ice ereani;
lie neer, when a little hoy,
Uy grown-up giris was kissed:
And w hen he died lie never knew
The fun that he had missed.
lie never went security
And had the note to pay:
He never saw his hank cashier
Stal gracefully away:
In ail his life he never by
A n;other-in-Iaw was kissed;
Hut why go on ami "numerate
The fun that Adam missed'.'
Perhaps, if
Hut then.
He'd l,c too
e li in;' m
peculate':
lid not ine
kle fate.
whv
To play with tii
1-or centuries tlie wanton winds
His unknown grave have kisse
Perhaps he sleep's the better for
The fun that he has missed.
Honor Thy Mother.
! We do not know who wrote the
I following paragraph. but it does
! credit to the heart and head of the
! author whoever it was. Head it,
! young man. and if you have a mother
j love and honor her as he did. Here
i is the extract :
Honor tin dear old mother. Time
j has scattered the snowy Hakes on
j her lrov, plowed deep furrows on
lief cheeks, but is she not sweet and
j beautiful now? The lips are thin and
shrunken. hi;t those are tho lips
I which have kissed many a hot tear
! from the childish check. They are
; the sweetest lips in all the world,
j The eye is dim. yet it "'lows with
1 the soft radiance of holy love which
j can never fade. Ah! yes. she is dear
I old mother. The sands of life arc
nearly run out but feeble as she is.
; she will go further, and reach down
; lower for you. than any other person
! on earth. You cannot wall: into a
; midnight where she cannot see you:
can not cute!'1 a prison whose bars
; will keep ht r out; you can never
mount a scaffold too high for her to
: reach, that she mav kiss and bless
you in evidence of her deathless love.
When the world shall despise and
forsake you. when it leaves you by
the wayside to die unnoticed, the
dear old mother will gather you in
her feeble arms and carrv vou home.
and tell
vou aim
you
your virtues, until
ist feel that
our sou! is di.-
figured
tenderly,
with hop
by hypocri
Love her
sing vears
heer he
tiou.
A (Jd Name.
A young man does not always find
it eas to get on in the world with
out cd i'a at ion. orfamilyintluor.ee. or
personal friends, or property, or
health: but he will find in the long
run that it is far easier for him to
make his way among men without
any or all of these advantages than
to make substantial progress in the
world without the reputation of a
good character, even though he has
all these other possessions. Char
acter stands for something every
where in spite of its frequent slight
ings. Men who are themselves lack
ing in a good character appreciate
and value it in others. A band of
robbers would want an honest treas
urer.. The young man whose word can
not be believed, whose honesty is not
above suspicion, and wht.se personal
life is not what it ought to be. is not
the young man that the business
world has open places for. He may
have health and wealth and family
position, and a host of friends, but
if he is without character he is at a
disadvantage in every position in
life. When a young man who has
lost his jfood name makes an honest
effort to recover it he finds his way
upward is a hard one a great deal
harder, it! spite of all other helps,
than it would have been if he had
made a rignt start wiinout tnoso
helps.
Friends are comparatively power
less in their efforts to win confidence
for one who has proved unworthy of
it on former occasions. Then it is
that the young man is likely to real
ize as never before that "a good
name is rather to bo chosen than
great riches." even as a worldly in
vestment. Because it is so hard to
rct on without a good name, or to !
regain it when once surrendered,
and every young man who has that
possession ought to count it above
price, and to have a ( are lest he
lose it.
Who tlie lliiirs Are hi Cafawiia.
Ni.-wt.tn KnU'qinNt.'.
Tl:
of in
ic very first man we have heard
this" county to refuse to take
silver ami uenianu a gout note ior
money he was negoliatin
a neighbor, was one of the most ex
t remo Third Party men and pro- heen boiled and scraped and filed un
fessed friend of free coinage. We j til it was thin and clear and translu
have gold bugs right in our midst I vent. The charger was a small tube,
and they are not Cleveland Demo- made or a turkey bone or "possum
crats either. ! leg or boar's tusk, and hold just a
As a general rule, it is host not to cor
rect cosli vetiess hy t In- use of saline or
drastic medicines. When a purgative
is needed, the most prompt, effective,
and beneficial is AVer's Tills. Their
tendency is to restore, and not weaken,
the normal action of the bowels.
The lirst training school for teacher?
was organized in Prussia in ll:i.'.
the old nu n;.
Aip Tells About ''Old Ilctsj" With Its
Flint and Steel Lock.
The ages have their names historic
and prehistoric. There arc the stone
age. the bronze age, the iron age, the
golden age and the dark ages, but
the age in which we live may well In
called the age of invention. Never
before in the history of the world
has there been such an era of won
derful inventions and contrivances
for the use and comfort and conven
iences of mankind. And it does not
stop or even call a halt. Every year
brings new surprises, and now when
wo hear of some bold, incomprehen
sible proposition we do not dare to
say it is impossible. There is no ad
vance in literature or painting or
( architecture or oratory or many oth
er arts that rcuuire the highest or
der of intellect. Indeed, it is to be
lamented that we no more have a
Shakespeare or Milton or (ioldsmit.li
or Hums or Tom Moore; no more a
Raphael or Michael Angeio; no more
a Cicero or a Hurke or Webster.
Pipe scholarship has declined, and
this generation has neither time nor
taste for it. but in everything that
lessens labor and cheapens the nec
essaries and comforts of life, we are
far ahead of our ancestors.
I was ruminating about this be
cause I happened to come across an
old-time ritle with a Hint lock and I
handled it with reverence, for it had
tired and fought in Jackson's war at
New Orleans, and was still preserv
ed and honored by the great-grandsons
of the soldier who loaded it be
hind the cot ton bales and. waited to
sec the whites of the enemies" eyes
before he pulled the trigger. The
name of this ritle was etched in a
rude way upon the barrel, ami it was
"Hetsy." All of them had names in
the olden times feminine names,
such as HetV' or Hetsy Jane or Het
sy Ann or Susan or Polly or Mandy
or Kalline. Many of these old time
rifles are still in use. but tlie old flint
lock has gone. Such a lock is a cu
riosity now. A town-raised boy has
never seen one. The hard ware stores
have cease? to keep them. The gun
makers have ceased to make them,
and yet these are the locks that did
the work' in the revolution and tlie
last Hritish war and made many an
Indian bite the dust, many a deer
'(1 lul.kov .iv,. t
meat to the
hunter. 1 used to sell these locks
when I was a boy clerk in my father's
store, and could talk fluently about
the hammer and frizzen and roller
and tumbler and the
pan. We sold flints bx
dog and the
the score
flints that were warranted sure fire.
The flint was made fa.-t between two
clamps in the cock or hammer, and
when the hammer was projected for
ward against the steel frizzen the
contact made sparks to fall and they
fell into the little powder pan that
was attached to the touch hole. If
the touch hole was stopped up there
was a "flash in the pan" and that
was all. If the Hint did not make a
spark, then the rule was to "pick
your flint and try again." The pow
der in the little pan was called the
priming, and if it was not securely
covered by the frizzen and got wet
in tho rain, it would not ignite and
hence the soldier was enjoined to
"keep your powder dry." Those old
time expressions are still familiar
and historic. Sometimes we still
hear a backwoodsman say "now
cut your patches." which is an ex
pression of defiance and conies from
the mannerof loadinga rifle. A small
piece of cloth or rag was laid over
the muzzle, the bullet laid upon it
and pressed down into the bore just
enough to clear the knife and then
the cloth or patch was cut oil' smooth
with the top of the gun. Tho patch
ing had to be just thick enough to
make the bullet go down tight when
forced by the ramrod; sometimes it
went too tight and would get lodged
hard and fast and had to bo blown
out by putting powder in the touch
hole. The bullets were all molded at
home and if the necks were not cut
oif very smooth, it made them deflect
a little and miss the gunner's aim.
j This deflection was very bad until
rifles were invented. Rifles mean
little spiral grooves extending from
j the muzzle to the breech. They give
the ball ar rotary motion In-fore it
leaves the gun and keeps that mo
tion in its flight, and even if a ball is
a little one-sided or irregular, it will
go straight to the mark. Tho gun
took its name from tho grooves that
were called rifles.
For vears and vears a man by tlie
name of Hogers made rifles in Atlan-
j ta- Ga- all(1 the.v were celebrated all
ver the South. Tho equipments of
" 1 ,"1 rw
to loan to!aml were all l:ome-maue. il is pow-
! derhorn was a cow's horn, that had
charge for the gun. A charge of
powder is just enough to hide a bul
let when in the open palm of the
hand. The charger hold that much
and had a lip on one side. The pow
der was carefully poured in the gun
and then the patching was next in
order. Now put on your ball and
cut your patching and rain her home.
Then the frizzen was thrown back
with the thumb and the touch hole
and ihe pan were tilled from the
powder horn, while the gunner held
the stopper between his teeth. The
frizzen was shut down and Betsy
Jane was loaded. The shot pouch
was made of (leer skin or coon skin
and ornamented with the tail of the
animal and sometimes with beads
and embroidery. It contained vari
ous things besides the bullet molds
and the bullets and patching. There
was grease for the lx-k and gun wip
ers and flints and screw driver and a
wire for the touch hole. Hotsy and
her turn-out was as much a part of
the household as the baby. I used
to trot after one of those old rifilcmen
and carry his squirrels and see him
walk round the tree or watch and
wait until tlie little fellow shyly ex
posed his head and crack went the
gun and away sped the ball into his
eye. A good rifleman never broke a
bone in the body of his game. I
know one now who will shoot a
chicken or a guinea in the eye at
sixty yards oil' hand. When his
wife wants one for dinner lie takes
down Hetsy and stands in the piazza
until one comes in sight.
But the old locks passed away
when the percussion came. Then I
got to selling caps instead of flints.
And now the caps have almost passed
away and the muzzle-loaders are go
ing. There is no powder horn nor
ramrod. Hetsy and Jane are out.
Good gracious! If Jackson's men
had had these breech-loading double
barreled guns, with a bag full of
shells, there wouldn't have been a
man left of all packenham's army.
But I don't like those modern mur
derous weapons from Krupp's great
guns down to the mean, little, sly,
devilish, hip-pocket pistol. I wish
they were all abolished, specially
the pistol. I verily believe that
Judge Hammond told the truth when
lie charged the grand jury that ev
ery man who carried one about with
him was a coward. "Yes, gentle
men. I charge you that a man who
carries a pistol habitually has got a
streak of cowardice running down
his back-bone as big as a fence rail
and that's tho law."
But the old-time ritle is a quiet,
peaceable gun. It is dignified. It
makes but little noise and it takes a
cooi. unexcited man to use it in a
proper manner. A man who is mad
enough with another man to kill him
never says I'll get
him. But he sa
rifle and shoot
"1 11 t'ot me a
double-barreled shot
his brains out," or el
him with one of tin
sneaking pistols and
gun and How
:- he slips up.n
o little, dirty,
hoots him mi-
awares.
But the millennium hasn't come:
yet. and folks will keep on killing ;
folks awhile longer. Ever since I
Cain killed Abel and Lattice h killed j
the young man. folks have been kill
ing folks and the devil is at the bot
tom of it all will the time ever come j
when a man will not resist evil; j
when the Christian who is stricken !
on one cheek will turn the other to
his foe? Bid the Savior moan that?
If he did, how many christians are
there? Bir.t. Aiu.
The Ilillvillc Banner.
Congress ain't passing any bills to
speak of. Wo don't think they'd
even pass a 10 bill.
Five niggers lynched in Mississsip
pi! The North and West will have to
hustle now to catch up.
We have named our last boy Hez
ckiah. We are going to get even
with Cleveland, if it takes ton years.
Wo voted six times and got one
post office. That's why we're glad
now that the returning board threw
out three of the votes.
An exchange says a man "rode
sixty miles on a clearing house cer
tificate." Hanged if we thought they
had wheels to 'em, too!
That boy that Cleveland didn't
have was fortunate. If he had ever
struck this worffl they'd have named
him Nebuchadnezzar, sure.
We don't ask nothing of the pres
ent Congress. We're having such a
good time cussin' it that wo have put
off joining the church till next year.
The candidates for Coventor in
this district went on an excursion
last night; consequently, there are
only three men and one editor left in
town.
We hear a good deal of talk now
about the Wilson bill; we don't
know much about it, but we think
the dollar bill would fill the bill in
this locality.
They burned a negro in Virginia
the other day. That was wrong;
when a feller is raised to rope, they
oughtn't to make such a sudden
change in his raising.
W'
A Little Fatherly A K !'.
"If you ever marry." said an old gen
tleman to his son, "let it be a woman
who has judgment enough to superin
tend the gettingof a meal, taste enough
to dress herself, pride enough to wash
her face, and sense enough to use Dr.
Tierce's Favorite Proscription, whenev
er she needs it." The experience of the
aged has shown the '-Favorite Trcsori
tioli" to he the best for the cure of all
female weaknesses and derangements,
(lood sense is shown by getting the rem
edy from your druggist, and using it
whenever Vou feel weak and debilitated.
It will invigorate -md cannot posilly
do harm.
A NATION'S DOIXiS.
The News From Everywhere (lathered
and Condensed.
Five thousand ounces of gold,
worth $134,000, have disappeared
from the Philadelphia mint.
Fire at the Lion store at Ander
son. Ind., Saturday, burned to death
J. E. Biggins, a floor-walker.
Yellow fever is epidemic in Bruns
wick, Ga. The residents are filled
with terror but cannot leave the
city.
Footpads waylaid some twenty
employes of a St. Bouis firm Satur
dajr night, and robbed them of their
earnings.
Fire in the business center of Em
poria, Kan., Friday, did $100,000
damage. Thirty-live horses wore
cremated.
For killing his wife and t wo daugh
ters, George Schnious was convicted
at Pittsburg, Pa.. Saturday, and
will swing.
For being insolent. Pave Pooler,
colored, was killed at Cordele, Ga.,
Tuesday, by James Pate, a young
white man.
Essaying to marry a negress, Louis
Simmons, a white man at Lebanon,
111., was thrashed and. chased out of
town. Friday.
Tho directors have unanimously
agreed that the Columbian Kxiiosi
tion should be opened for the last
time October iii.
White caps murdered Redmond
Burke, at Breckinridge, Mo., Mon
day night. He had been in the habit
of beating his wife.
Two masked men held up the stage
near Tahlequah. I. T.. Monday, and
after robbing the passengers carried
off the mail pouches.
Burglars blew open the safe of
Wilbur & Co., wholesale grain deal
ers at Phillips, Me., Monday night,
and secured ssJo.OOO.
Edward Hagerman, a seven-year-old
boy. committed suicide at St.
Louis. Mo., Saturday, by hanging.
Xo cause is assigned.
A terrific burst of wind and rain
at Chicago. Thursday night, did con
siderable damage to several of the
World's Fair buildings.
Five miners were killed and live
others wore seriously hurt at Ply
mouth. Pa., Tuesday, by an explos
ion of gas in a coal mine
Ford's theatre building, recently
j collapsed at Washington with fatal
i result, will be rebuilt by tho govern-
j niont at a cost of l.o.ooo.
I By the caving in of a sew er system
at Iudianaiwlis, Ind., Saturday, two
' workmen wore killed, and two others
: wore dangerously injured.
While out gunning with his broth
er. John Haigh. aged P.t. was in
stantly killed. Saturday, by the ac
cidental discharge of his gun.
Four children of William Stager,
living near Logansport. Ind., took
poison Monday, because they were
not permitted to see a parade.
While on a visit to her daughter at
Hah-yville, X. J., Friday, Mrs. Ruth
Bailey, aged (.5. committed suicide
by cutting her throat with a razor.
Falling seventy foot down the
whctfl pit of the great Niagara Falls
tunnel, Sunday, James Cressbury
and Isaac Roland, were fatally hurt.
While tho family of C. M. Raney,
of Decaturville, Tonn., wore asleep.
Monday night, robbers entered and
robbed them of 4.700 and their jew
elry. Lynchers hanged and riddled with
bullets Riley flulley, the negro as
sailant of Mrs. Nannie Nored, a
widow, at Pineapple, Ala., Tuesday
night.
Trying to shoot Elias Smith for
going through her yard. Mary Ruth
erford, of Coal Creek, Tonn., Satur
day, instantly killed his companion,
James Lowrey.
The new opera house at Canton,
111., valued at 100,000, was destroy
ed by lire Thursday night, and about
fifty persons were burned or crush
ed, several of them fatally.
While building a chimney to an
eight-story building at Brooklyn,
Saturday, Charles Bardery lost his
footing and fell to the ground a dis
tance of 113 feet, meeting instant
death.
Tlie entire family of Benson Wrat
ten, consisting of himself, wife and
three children and his aged mother,
were found murdered in their home
near "Washington, Ind., Sunday.
Robbery was the motive.
In a collision between two sections
of a Big Four train, returning from
the Worlds Fair, at Manteno, 111.,
Monday night, nine persons were
killed and twenty injured. It is
claimed that the engineer of the sec
ond section was asleep when the
crash occurred.
Three children of Milton Myers, a
wealthy farmer, near Millersville,
Tonn., were cremated by the burn
ing of the house, Friday night. The
rest of tlie family barelj' escaped
with their lives. Mrs. Myers, with
an infant, jumped from a second
story window, and is now in a pre
carious condition. Loss in property
about 12.000.
Last Week in Trade Circles.
Sh.-cuiI Corrc'siK.ndenee.
New York, Sept. 23, 18'J3.
The tendency toward business re
cuperation has continued during the
last week; but the pace of the im
provement has boon slower. The
hopeful sentiment that became an
active force in commercial affairs
immediately after the passage of the
Wilson Repeal bill in the House has
been kept alive by reiorts from
Washington indicating a probable
resort to unusual methods to stop
the obstructive tactics of the silver
Senators and to secure prompt ac
tion by the Senate. But the long
delay in securing the needed relief
from the operation of the discredited
Silver Purchase law has retarded
the growth of confidence which is
essential to the healthful expansion
of business. Monetary conditions
are much more favorable, and finan
cial affairs would furnish little ground
for uneasiness if security against the
disturbing effect of vicious currency
legislation could be obtained from
Congress. Bank reserves have in
creased, and further progress has
been made in the retirement of
Clearing House certificates. There
is little doubt but that more of the
latter would have been repaid but
for the lingering distrust resultng
from the inaction of the Senate.
Evidences of improvement in trade
and in the outlook are not wanting',
in spite of the benumbing effect of
Senatorial indifference to the de
mands of the business public. Many
more mills and factories have start
ed up, and the distribution of manu
factured goods has moderately in
creased. Although railroad earnings
decreased KJ per cent, in August,
and reports from 50 roads showed an
aggregate loss of 1 4.20 per cent, in
the first week of September, there is
promise of bettor future results from
expanding- trade, a larger grain and
cotton movement and an increase of
passenger travel to the W7orld's Fair.
Merchandise balances in the foreign
trade are still growing in favor of
the United States. Exports from
Now York alone in three week's of
September have ln-on 4.7l0..IS4
larger than they were the corres
ponding period last year; ami im
ports in two weeks have decreased
s'.i;t;s.552. Failures in recent weeks
have boon loss numerous and loss
important: but tho aggregate of :."!
during tho last week shows an in
crease of 21 over the total for the
previous week.
Cotton prices, after a fractional
decline early in the week, have re
covered, owing to more active trade
ir. Liverpool and Manchester, and
sHvulation encouraged by unprom
ising crop accounts. Since Septem
ber 1 the crop movement from the
South has boon smaller and exjMirts
to Euro? a little larger than they
were during the corresponding pe
riod last year. Domestic spinners'
takings have been much lighter, ow
ing to curtailed consumption; but
demand is improving', now that a
large number of mills have resumed
operations. Prices of print cloths
have advanced of a cent per yard
as a result of larger orders; and a
hardening tendency has been devel
ops! in similar qualities of staple
cotton goods. The general demand
for cotton manufactures has been
moderate and conservative; but the
aggregate sales have increased.
There has been a reaction of i of a
cent per bushel from the advance of
the previous week in wheat prices.
Bullish sentiment has been tempo
rarily weakened by increasing visible
stocks at home and abroad, and by
larger shipments from the farms.
Exports from this country approxi
mating 5,000.000 bushels per week
since the bog-inning of the crop year,
supplementing receipts from other
sources, and the largo stocks pre
viously on hand have congested the
European wheat market.
Corn prices have advanced J to 1
cent per bushel, as a result of
speculation, which has been given a
bullish impulse by the belief, encour
aged by official data, that the yield
for the year would be something like
200. 000. (too bushels short of probable
consumptive requirements. This
was the case last year, when the de
ficiency was more than offset b'car-ried-over
stocks. The latter will be
smaller during the coming year,
though probably sufficient to balance
the decrease in yield. The corn crop
is now secure from the risk of fur
ther accident. Exjiort demand has
boon fair; and weekly shipments have
recently been about twice as large
as they were a year ago. Chicago
prices of hog products have sympa
thized with the rise in corn, and are
higher than they were a week ag'o
by 20 cents per barrel on pork, 17
cents per 100 pounds on ribs and i2
cents per 100 pounds on lard.
Little, Hut Lively.
'Little drops of water.
Little grains of sand.
Make the mighty ocean.
And the pleasant land.'"
Anil dropping into pros, we would
say. that Dr. Pierce's Tlea.Jant Pellets
are mild, but prompt in relieving con
stipation, sick headache, bilious attacks,
pain in the region of the kidneys, torpid
liver, and in restoring a healthy, natur
al action to the stomach and bowel. 2"
cents a vial. One pellet a dose. Little,
but lively. The use of the old style,
drastic pills is an outrage on the human
system.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary f Current Events for the
Past Seven Days
The boiler of a saw mill in Swain
county, exploded Monday, killing
six men.
Two new 'cotton mills are being
built at Castonia. and one near
King's Mountain.
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John McGoe, of Johnston county,
was jailed at Smithfiold, Tuesday,
for illicit distilling.
A minister of the gospel in Iredell
count' is a candidate for a position
as storekeeper and gauger.
The People's Bank, of Winston,
which suspended alxmt a month ago,
resumed business Thursday.
Tho State Fair will ojkmi on Octo-lx-r
17th, on which day Senator
Vance has consented to speak.
The fish scrap factory of B. Bell
& Co., near Morehead City, was de
stroyed by fire Tuesday night.
Jim Cutting-, of Davidson county,
was drowned in a creek while bath
ing near Lexington Sunday even
ing. Goo. Hagler, of Union county, was
badly gored Monday by a vicious
bull, while loading the animal to
water.
Tho railroad between Wilmington
and Newborn lias boon completed
and trains are now running on regu
lar schedule.
A white convict named Prather,
while attempting to escape, was shot
and killed by the guard near Win
ston on Saturday.
The plug tobacco factory of J. W.
Swift & Co., with a prize house, was
destroyed by fire at Durham. Satur
day. Loss about 35.000.
Edward Sharp, colored, was killed
by a train at Weldon, Sunday morn
ing' while attempting to take a ride
out of town on the bumjicrs.
During a drunken row between
Frank Mvers and Gaither Johnson,
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in Wilkes county, Saturday evening
the former was, stabbed to death.
J. L. WoodrufT. who was sent back
to flag a train near Asheviiie, Tues
day night, fell asleep on tho track
and was horribly mangled by his own
train.
Joe Morrison, aged IS, of Ruther
ford county, while in an intoxicated
condition on his way home Friday
night, fell into a ditch and was
drowned.
George M. Roberts, of Cleveland
county, engineer on an Air Line ma
terial train was killed near Seneca,
S. C, Monday, his train being wreck
ed by a misplaced switch.
John J. Farrow, of New Hanover
county, wktle on his way homo from
Wilmington. Saturday, was shot
from ambush by a negro named Sam
McKoy, and seriously wounded.
A Rockingham correspondent of
tlie Winston Sentinel says Willis
Johnston, son of Elias Johnston, has
married the mother of his father's
second wife, and wants to know the
status of relationship between Willis
and Elias.
While a Miss Ilix and a Mr. Dick
ons wore to be married at a revival
meeting in Halifax county, Thurs
day, the brothers and father of the
young lady objected to the match
and knocked down the bridegroom,
after which a general fight ensued.
News From Everywhere.
Of New York's 40,053 immigrants
during the months of July and
ugust, nearly half came from Rus
sia and Hungary.
A lighted cigarette set on lire the
buggy in which Miss Kate Martin,
of Unionville, Ya., was driving to
hurch, Sunday, burning- her to
death.
The village of Criglersville. Ya.,
was swept away by a flood, Tuesday.
Several people were drowned, and
over 50,ooo worth of property de
stroyed. As Frank Palmer, of Brooklyn, N.
Y.. had one wife and couldn't get
another, he cut his wrist, Friday,
with a razor, but was arrested before
he bled to death.
An open switch derailed a passen
ger train at Ravenna, O., Thursday,
causing the death of the conductor
and fireman. The passengers es
caitHl with slight injuries.
At Benton, Ala., Tuesday night.
James Miller shot and killed E. E.
Curtis. Both parties were promi
nent merchants and the killing was
the result of an old feud. Miller sur
rendered, and claims the shooting
was done in self defense.
Bent on hanging Thomas Smith,
colored, who had murderously as
saulted Mrs. Sallie A. Bishop, a mob
and the soldiery of Roanoke, Ya.,
clashed Thursday, and nine of the
mob were killed, and about forty in
jured. The negro was hanged and
cremated a few hours later.
Iont Yon Kdqw
That to have perfect health you must
have pure Mood, and the l-st way to
have pure blood is to take Hood's Sar
saparilla. the best blood purifier and
strength builder. It expels all taint of
scrofula, salt rheum and all other hum
ors, and at the same time builds up the
whole system and gives nerve strength.
Hood's Tills mav lie had by mail for
25c of C. I. Hood& Co., Lowell, Mass.
Maj in Xorlh Carolina.
Wa-,Linrtin Star.
Many of the farmers in North Car
olina labor under an impression that
they have a pretty rough time and
that North Carolina is a good State
to emigrate from. A good many
have accordingly emigrated and
there are very few States west or
southwest where North Carolinians
and their descendants are not found,
while in some they form a very con
siderable portion of the population.
In some respects North Carolina may
not be the equal of some of those
Western or Southwestern States,
but take it all in all she is the equal
of any of them and superior of many.
They may have larger cities, num
erous railways, fertile and cheap
lands, and wide ranges for pasturage
of cattle and sheep, but they have
blizzards, cyclones, floods, droughts
and various other visitations that wo
know little of in North Carolina,
where if they come at all it is only
at rare intervals and in mild form
compared with the Western and
Southwestern article. On the aver
age our lands may not be as rich but
the same industry and push that is
necessary to succ ess in any of those
States would make the North Caro
lina farmer comfortable or rich, in
less time than he, with tlie same
moans, could become so out there.
These are rock lottom truths.
An A fleeting Scene.
The celebration of the Jewish fes
tival, the Day of Atonement, was
marked by quite an affecting scene
in Richmond, Ya. It seems that a
prominent memicr of one of the syn
agogues of that city had lately sued
for a divorce from his wife. On the
day of atonement, however, both ap
peared in the synagogue p-rf-ctly re
conciled through the intercession of
friends and are now a happy couple.
In accordance with ancient Hebrew
custom during the ten days jxMii-
tcnoo iniorveniiK' 1m-1 wihmi R.isli
iir , i . -. -C- ' .1
: Hoshannah ana torn kippur, thov
are required to forget and forgive all
grievances that they may have
against their fellow men during the
past year. This is most commenda
ble in all rcsr.octs.
A Convenient EHigy.
Wo road in the papers that a party
of gentlemen in Oklahoma, conclud
ing, recently, that it was their duty
to hang President Cle volant! in effigy
on account of his financial views,
real or supiosod. and being in a
hurry about it, seized a convenient
negro, labeled him '"Cleveland," and
strung him up. This was undoubt-
j edly a good time and a lalxr-saving
scheme, but it is open to some ob
jections, and. as friends of tlie black
man. we 1iok this particular form of
improvising effigies will not grow in
favor.
.Misplacement of a Comma.
A jopuiar captain's wife was more
than usually anxious over tho safely
of her husband, and accordingly
handed a parish clerk a slip one Sun
day morning, bearing the words
' Captain Wilson, having gone to
sea, his wife desires the prayers of
the congregation on his behalf." Un
fortunately, by the misplacement of
the comma after the "sea," the con
gregation were told that '"Captain
Wilson having gone to see his wife,
desires the prayers of the congrega
tion on his behalf."
It should le in Kvery lluUHe.
J. T. Wilson, 371 Clay St., Sharps
burg. Ta., says he will not ! without
Dr. King's New Discovery for coiisuni
tion, coughs and colds, that it cured his
wife who was threatened with pneu
monia after an attack of "La Grippe,
when various other remedies and sever
al physicians had done no good. Itoliort
T.ai lK-r, of Cooksport, T;u, claims Dr
King's New Discovery has done him
more good than anything he ever used
forlung trouble. Nothing like it. Try it.
Free trial bottles at J. H. Hill & Son's
Drug Store. Large bottles, 50c. and
1.0o. ;
Never butter your pie plates, but
dredge them lightly with Hour.
W. P. Drop, druggist. Springfield,
Mass., writes: "Japanese Tile Cure has
cured lady 7 years afflicted; could not
walk halt iuiieiii lastSyears: now walks
any distance." Sold "by M. IL Robin
son tfc Hro.
How much ln-tter we like certain l-o-ple
when we find that they are not so
good as we thought them.
JIbsoIateJy
Pure
A cream of tartar baking
powder. Highest of all in
leavening strength. Latest
U. S. Government Food lie
port.
Royal Baking Powder Co.,
10 Wall St., X. Y.
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