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GOLDSBOllO, N. C, THURSDAY, APHIL 19, 1894.
VOL. VII. NO. 33.
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The Old Friend
And the let friend, that never
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vou li-:ir at the mention of this
excellent Liver iiio'll':: !! n d
people elioull not be j.ereuac i
that anything else will do.
It i.-s the King of Liver Medicine-;
is bettor than pills, and
takes the place of Quinine and
Calomel. It Rets directly on the
Liver, Kidneys and Bowels and
gives new life to the v.'liolo sys
tem. This i.s the medicine you
want. Sold by all Pruggists in
Liquid, or in l'owder to Le taken
dry or made into a tea.
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At John Ciiin' s Old Stnnd.
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Fold onTriiiht. no rvnt. no royr.lt y.
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Uim in a residence means a smh to all the
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anywhere. Any distance. Compete, ready for
never out of order, no repairing, lasts a life
ItiniH. Warranted. A money m.iUer. Write
W. P, Harrison & Co., Clerk 10, Columbus, 0.
when hhiu:-d. I an he iut r.n hy any rno.
S..urM mu-li, to -..ei.sla uii
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THIN PEOPLE.
B R E A K F AST -SUP PER.
GRATEFUL-COMFORTING.
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Xohody Knows but Mother.
Nobody knows of the work it makes.
To keep the homo together;
Xo1m.Iv knows of the slepsil takes.
Nobody knows but mother.
Xobixlv listens to childish woes
Which kisses only smother:
Nobody's ainel by naughty blows.
Xolxxly only mother.
Nobody knows of the sleepless casv
Bestowed on babv brother:
Nobody knows of the tender prayer,
Nobody only mother.
Nobody knows of the lessons taught
( )f loving one another:
Nobody knows of the patience long
Nobody knows !ut mother.
Nobody knows of the anxious fears
Lest darlings may not weather
The storms of life in after years.
Nobody knows but mother;
Nobody kneels at the throne above
To thank the Heavenly Father
For that sweetest gift, a mother's love
Nobodv can but mother.
A Start iii Life.
I low to make a living is a question
that has to be met by every man not
only for himself, but in the majority
of cases for his sons and in too many
cases, perhaps, for his daughters al
so. The praises that we bestow up-
j on men who are called self-made be
! cause they started in life from hum
J ble surroundings lead men to believe
1 that there are particular vantage
; points in life from which to make the I
i 1
! start "that insures a safe trip, a sue-1
j cessful career and a grand climax."
i In support of this notion we hear
young men constantly bewailing j
their fate, because they have no cap- j
; ital to begin business with; they j
1 wore born too poor or they lacked
; the necessary education to command
j a position in the world.
To expose the folly of these com
! plaints, let us take a practical view
j of the real opportunities along with
tne actual obstacles to success inai ;
beset the paths of the rich and poor j
success that !
youth of the land. We will take the
instance of two young men born of
equally virtuous parents and with
equal mental endowments. The pa
rents of one are rich and the boy at
tends the most stylish and approved
schools and academies in the haul,
ends his scholastic life with a colleg
iate diploma. He is now 22 years of
age. and so far as the practical busi
ness of life is concerned.- lit
i but j
born again into the world.
''ne
f life is a i
01 pleasure ai m;- Mite 01 iuc i.- at
ruling passion. The possession of
pochei money, max no naru-earneu i
experience ever taugut him the value
of, opens every avenue to pleasure
and dissipation. Men and women
who have drilled themsoives in every 1
measure or method that is most sur
to complete his destruction beset ins ;
path. If he possesses a latent love I
for liquor, cards, racing or any of i
the other weaknesses of our nature,
there is every opportunity and temp
tation open to cultivate the passion
in him. If he is a man of naturally
strong passions he needs must have
a strong nature to conquer these be
setting sins.
The boy born of poor parents re
ceives a primary education in the
public schools, where the teachers
have no fear of offending the parents
and, therefore, require every scholar j
u. come u-, to u u.u muhuu.u.
n'l. i. ... : li , l ,.i :.. jt. . .1 . !
i.ie on is ueu -.ouuueu in uie ea- ,
mentary branches, and-- if lie lias a
genuine love for knowledge he will
find no obstacles in the way of ac
quiring it that a little energy cannot
overcome. At the age of 17 or IS
his necessities require that he should
"go into business," which means that
he must enter a store or take up a
trade. Having never felt the im
maculate purity that surrounds the
youth of line clothes and tender
bands, he feels no mortification, but
an honest pride when he enters the
humblest position in the store. At
the age of 22, the time when the
wealthy boy is being born again into
ihe world, he lias acquired five or six
years of business experience. Hav
ing no time to waste or money to
squander, he presents no attraction
to the leeches of society. The gam
blers, the fast women and the pro
fessional "bracer" have no use for
him. His passion must be strong
indeed if he goes astray.
The rich boy, if he weathers the
storm, needs must enter a profession
and waste from five to ten years of
i,;.. i;r , r,,-. ntt.m,,, i,,m,i c-,.if
.
suTiPortimr. At this, the turninir
period of life, enters the vital issue.
Ciod lias implanted in our natures
loves and aspirations. He who feels
that he ha.j trod all the paths of
pleasure and of pride has no invent-1
he to further action, and is almost j
sure to become a 'gilded pauper," !
while he to whom these desires lire
sent a freshness, a hunger of the
heart, is sure to throw all his energy
into the fight that masters the sit
uation with an ease that challenges
the admiration of men at the ac
complishments of this self-made man.
Said nature to 1'hvhie "what vity that we
Who miL'ht t. lie frinrfs should so sohintii erin
r"n!!ithevolloyobJuei.inKdWhuwdatniy!uad.'' Its lHOUth WHS SDUlll and f ull of sharp
It is not stranuv that nature should i . , i i
ivnun,,rale apuinst the use of those i teeth, and it was puekered as if get
; rripinjr and drastie lilue niarliles, with! ting ready to whistle. And Joe
w hich oM fogies of niedieines persist in i sl,eaivj a stingray, a venomous creu
; uusiuir their patients. 1 hev are not on-; . .,
! ly ivvohinr i appearan.-e. l.ut oftimes j ture with a kind of a whalebone tail
! an eally injurious in their effects. Yet about three feet long and a sling at
, ii;;l lire ncetis some hell) in twinning ! v .. d,nt l.i- .1
olisiiiiale dys
liver troubles,
verv valuable
" 1 . v .' ,
iiiui fortunately she lias a
issir-tant in lr. Pierce s
Pleasant Pellets, which
f. -j 't ......
I'd at. l sugar-coated, nt
I elTectively though soothingly.
A HP'S HEAD SWIMS.
The Hoom is Turning Hound With Rill,
Hut That is Sot Strange.
My head is swimming now every
thing is sminiming. We have been
on the gulf today, anchored far out
on the coral reefs, and while we fish
ed the boat was gently heaving and
rocking on the restless waves, and
now that we are at home the same
mot ion has followed us. The room is
swinging like a pendulum. Sandford
Bell, the old veteran conductor on
the State road, told me that lie could
tell where the train was in the dark
est night by the swing of the cars
around the curves, and just so the
old sailors and fishermen can tell how
deep the water is by the breathing of
the billows. Major Shaw is an old
sailor. He lives down the bay a few
miles and came up this morning in
his own boat to take the family to
the grouper bank. My wife was
afraid to venture, but the girls and
I and Joe took passage on Ihe fast
little craft, and with a good wind we
crossed the harbor and through the
pass and were soon away out a cou
ple of miles into the dark-green wa
ters of the gulf. The old major
knows the haunts of all the fish the
tarpons and grunts and groupers and
red snappers and sharks. lie has
passed his three-score years and ten,
but is as lively and clieertui as a
school boy. Tire girls sang some of
their seafaring songs as we scudded
along and the major joined in the cho
rus and led the heavy bass like a true
chorister. lie took his bearings from
objects on the shore and when the
two lines met he gave Joe his orders
to let down sail and cast anchor.
We are now in the center of th
roupor bank." he said, "and if the !
,rrouivrs are not at home thev ouirht !
to be." j
''Now, if you girls get seasick you I
must brave it off. Feed the fishes j
but don't stop fishing. I had some j
Boston ladies out here last week and j
one of them fed the fishes every ten j
i minutes, but she never stopped fish-
never stopped fish-,
j ing and caught more groupers than j ida excels that of anywhere else. I
anv of us." '"What did she feed them I have been here since the loth of De
i with?" said I verv innocently. Thev : cember and we have not been with-
11 i j i as he replied: "I'out fresh trrown vegetables since I
can't tell you. for she did not take came. For three months we have
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y,
akfast at mv house.'' He had 1
on rigged up six lines of ten fath-1
am (l.R.h mounU.a Nvith
irwi
hook and a small hook and double
leaded with minnie balls. We cast
. f six-fathoms water and then !
1 4i,, ti,..,. ..-.. 4;,v.. J
began the sport. There was no time
to suv "have vou rot a bite?" No !
w..l..ili.lir a t.ork- no lvjlt, to .swim!
no pole to swing,
round, no limbs overhead, no nothing j for a few minutes. Mr. Anglin, of j passenger train at Silver Brook, Pa.,
but to let the read drop and the cord j Atlanta, was one of our party and ! Monday, resulted in the killing of one
slip through your hand and then a j he got out his kodak and stood on ! person and the injury of a score of
vigorous twinge at the bait and a pull j the wharf and took us alive, boat J others.
upwards as the grunt or the group-; and all and has made a fine picture j Trying to walk eight miles to at
er struggled against his sudden ele- j of the thirteen. j tend his daughter's burial, John E.
vation. In three hours' time we J And so we keep on staying in j Denehy, of West Millbury, Mass.,
caught forty-five groupers and 2."0 j Clearwater for somebody invites us I fell in the snow Friday night, and
grunts. The first bait was live meat ; to a sail or a ride or a frolic of some
from small conchs, but as soon as we i sort almost every day. We all stay
caught fish we cut them into bait, j well and good digestion waits on ap
using the heads on the large hooks I petite. Such delightful breezes don't
and simill 'nieces on the smaller ! Iilmv I'viTrwlieri' every d:iv in the
hooks groupers weigh from
, tfl t , umls , with-
1
f)ut Th.v an? ba,.,.(1 of.
ed like chickens and taste like chan-
nel cats. The grunts are a species
if largo bream, averaging about a
pound apiece. They are known as
the sailor's joy. and are the best of
pan tish. When taken from the hook
they grunt, making a croaking noise
just like little pigs when sucking.
We were out about live hours, and
our catch half filled a dry goods box
that was three feet square. I had
never seen such fishing before. One
of the girls caught two large group
ers and seventy-one grunts. Anoth
er caught seven groupers, but her
grunts were not counted. Joe some
times brought up two at a time
one on each hook. We fished until
the cords wore tender hands to the
quivk and we were actually tired of
catching tish. I thought about Mur
phy and Theodore Smith, and wished
that they had been there. Poor
Murphy, who, when the dogwood is
in bloom, goes down to the river and
watches his cork all the day long and
comes home swinging two or three
cats and an eel and a redhorse and is
I happv
i
We were not after tarpon this
time, but we saw a school of them,
with their silvery sides shining to
the sun as they sported on top of
the water. The old major caught a
balloon fish. It was about 13 inches
long, and had as an attachment a
balloon filament on its breast and
this was expanded or contracted with
its breath. It was pure white and
velvety, w ith beautiful lace points in
regular rows all over it and when
distended would hold a hatful of air.
The major said he had been fishing
here for eight years and had never
seen one before. Even Joe, who had
seen everything, had never seen one.
1. it , .. 1.1....1.
; laiye iiioiu 110111 a uuivi nnust n.
; iut it is barbed instead of smooth.
j The barbs of the grain or spear sank
into his liody and off he went for life
and liberty, carrying the !oat with
him, until he was exhausted. The J
girls brought home its tail and sting I
as trophies, but left the horrible !
creature in the sea.
What did we do with the fish we
caught? WI13' the old major walked
up town after we landed and told the
people there was a box of fish down
there and they could go down and
help themselves. Our girls are sup
plying our table with fish now fresh
fish that cost nothing but sport. In
fact, it is sport all the time, for it is
bathing or fishing or shelling or
crabbing nearly every day in the
week. They went out crabbing the
other clay when the tide was unusu
ally low and had uncovered the sand
banks. In the skim of the water
were numerous holes from four to
six inches in diameter and in every
hole was a crab. An expert runs
his hand down and seizing a claw
pulls with a strong, quick jerk and
lets go just as quick, as soon as he is
out. The creature when in the hole
is folded up and helpless, but as
soon as he is out he can strike a ter
rible blow with his claws a blow
that will go through a man's hand
and never let go until it thunders.
They brought home some that meas
ured eighteen inches froru tip to tip
of their savage fingers. Their flesh
is fine eating, they say, but somehow
I don't like to eat anything that is
ugh' except, perhaps, a hog.
Mrs. Aunsnaugh give us all a treat
on Friday. She chartered a boat
and took thirteen of us down to the
Indian pass and gave us a splendid
picnic there among the palmettos
and cactus that adorn the island.
Old Dad whetted his appetite on the
raw coon ovsters that abounded
there and he said they were good,
The women folks all bathed in the
surf while we men hunted for rare J
and beautiful shells. At the dinner j
hour we gathered at the festive cloth j
that was spread upon the sandy;
beach and such a generous feast ,
could not be found outside of Flori- i
da. In fact, the winter fare in luor-;
da
had strawberries nearly every
for dinner, and still they come.
We
1,.,,1 rm lli-it nw-iiw. nn,1
, ice water and three-story pies and
Uike all mixed im. and chicken and
e-rirs and etceteras too tedious to!Wini"m Iik'n of Lu S:lIk' X- Y-
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whart we were told to keep our seat
wharf we were told to keen our seat !
year. Such uniform good health was
never enjoyed
-
Mrs. Aunspaugh re
marked yesterday that there had
j been but two deaths in Clearwater
I since she came here three years ago.
i There has not been one since I came,
j four months ago. The old Major
Shaw said he came here eight years
mention. We spent a happy dayith,vw lurs01t 111 m"u (,t a tram
and when our boat touched the Saturday, and was cut to pieces.
ago to die easy (if consumption, but J 1,1 Uil ,,"USfc 4,1 'Al -
soon got well and is now strong and Middleport Steel Works, at Pome
active. And so almost everybody has ! - Tuesday. Ten were burned
a similar story to tell. The wonder four fata,b'-
is that every invalid who can get
here does not come. I'u.L Arp.
The Prisoners Hold Ctmrt.
elintun Dcmoenit.
There are now some rare birds in
the county jail. There are Elijah
Fortner and Odie Maluor, for shoot
ing, and John Lucas for cutting.
There are others for minor offences.
When a new r-ecruit is brought in he
is at once subjected to trial by a
court which the above mentioned
constitute. When Tom Mitchell was
committed for theft, he was at once
arraigned. Judge John Lucas was
on the bench, Solicitor Elijah Fort
ner attended to the prosecution, and
Odie Mainor appeared for the de
fense. The defendant was found
guilty and sentenced for a term of
two years in the penitentiary. lie
is also subjected to more or less haz
ing and freshing by the sophomores
in jail and finds life to be burden
some at times.
Wanted his Muner Hack.
Chiirli.tto Times.
Several months ago' Register of
Deeds Cobb issued a marriage license
to Mr. Graham Pat terse in and Miss
Lilla Burton. Monday he received a
letter from the would-be groom. lie
said: ''Enclosed vou will find license
I bought from you some months ago.
Will '0u please take it back and re
fund mono', as the girl just won"t
have me, and I'd rather have the $3
than marry anyway.
"What I Kat I)..-h Me No O001I."
I low often this expression is hoard
Life destroying dyspepsia has hold on
vou when you feel thus, and should not
he trilled with. There is hut one reme
dy that can permanently cure you. Dr.
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy,
made at Rondout, X. Y., a vegetable
compound endorsed by the medical prn-
j fession. Druggists sell it.
A NATION'S DOINGS.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
aul Condensed.
An oil tank exploded at Chicago,
Tuesday, kiliiugone man, injuring j.
Setting fire to the jail at Ijal'latto,
Mo., Thursday night, five prisoners
made their escape.
The entire family of Rev. G. II.
Sterling, of Bethlehem, Pa., was
suffocated by coal gas, Saturday
night.
Dwellings and outhouses were
wrecked by a severe wind and hail
storm in and near Burlington, Kan.,
Friday.
The Supreme Court of South Caro
lina adjourned Saturday, without
rendering a decision on the dispensa
ry law.
Fifteen hundred citizens, fully
armed, captured and lynched a negro
outrager at Iiushsylvania, O., Tues
day night.
An explosion of two cans of pow
der in a countiy store near Mount
Vernon, I ml., Friday, killed three
customers.
Falling through an elevator shaft
from the third floor, Friday, George
Graeb, of Pittsburg, Pa-., met in
stant death.
Two masked men held up a San
Francisco street car, Saturday, and
fled with the passengers' and conduc
tors' money.
Financial trouble induced Yank
Rumble, near Forsvth, Ga., to end
his life Monday, by cutting his
throat with a razor.
In an explosion of natural gas in
their home at McKeesport, Pa., Fri
day, Mrs. William Maseod and her
daughter were killed.
With the destruction of the Concho
Hotel at San Angelo, Tex., Tuesday
night, Ollie F. Berry, a ranchman,
was burned to death,
t Monroe, La., Saturday, two
policemen were shot and killed in an
afi'rav with two countrymen who set
out to "paint the town."
By falling into a tank of boiling
water, Friday, the three-year-old
son of Chas. Weinhardt, of Balti
more, was cooked to death.
While sitting by his fireside, Sat
urday night. Thomas Waldron, a
farmer, of Chillicothe, O., was shot
1,1 1,10 despair of Ivcrty, Mrs
threw herself
A collision between a freight and
perished.
While fooling with a loaded gun,
Peter Duane, aged 12, of Itidgefield
Park. N. J., Sunday night, accident
ally shot and killed Miss Belle Shields,
a visitor.
Masked men called young Edward
Cash from the bedside of his sick
wife, at Catesville, Tex., Monday
night, and lynched hiin without ap
paren t cause.
Four tons of white hot metal fell
Near Gainesville, Tex., Thursda',
Frank Crews, a farm hand, murder
ed Thomas Murrell, his employer,
and Mrs. Murrell, then robbed the
house and fled.
After shooting dead his nephew,
John Yates, who assaulted his aunt,
B. X. Edmundson, of Brooks county,
Ga., on Thursday, was promptly ac
quitted by a jury.
Because her lover had deserted
her, Miss Sarah Carter, a young
country girl, threw herself in front
of a train near Atlanta, Monday, and
was horribly mangled.
For taking undue liberties with
his daughter, II. A. Montgomery
shot and killed John Mullendore, a
young man and neighbor, at Hender
son Springs, Tenn., Monday.
Fire destroyed the American Glu
cose Works, at Buffalo, X. Y., Thurs
day night, causing a million dollar
loss. Ten men were burned to death
and eight others were badly injured.
Business troubles drove to suicide
Thomas P. Alexander and Patrick
II. Best, of Ilarrodsburg, Ky., on
Saturday, and William Russell added
to the excitement bv falling dead at
the latter 's grave.
When jealous Herbert L. Purlin
learned Sunday that he couldn't mar
ry the 10-year-old daughter of R. G.
Howard, near Luke Charles, La., he
shot her mother dead, fatally wound
ed the girl, shot her sister and was
mortally shot himself before his cap
ture. The Follard-Breckinridge breach
of promise suit, after a five weeks
trial at Washington, came to an end
Saturday evening, when the jury
awarded the plaintiff, Madeline Pol
lard, the sum of $15,000 to soothe(?)
her injured affections. Col. Breck
inridge gave notice of an appeal.
Finance and Trade.
Sxx-iul t'onvspondence.
New York, April 1G, 1S94.
The progress of business improve
ment during the last week has been
slightly retarded by the prevalence
of unseasonably cold and storm v
weather. This has momentarily re
stricted demand for some products
for current consumption; and labor
troubles have interfered with the
improvement in building trades, and
have caused some falling off in the
production of pig iron. The general
tendency of commercial and indus
trial affairs, however, is still in the
direction of gradual betterment.
Manufacturers of boots and shoes,
iron and steel and textile fabrics are
better employed, and the exhaustion
of distributers' stocks has compelled
larger and more general buying for
their replenishment. Operations ex
tending into the future are still con
ducted on a very conservative basis,
owing, in large part, to the uncer
tainty resulting from the delay in
tariff legislation.
Purchases of Spanish coin for su
gar payments in Cuba and a growing
demand for active capital in Europe
nave leu 10 the renewal 01 gold ex
ports on a considerable scale; but in
view of the large specie holdings of
the banks, the outflow of the yellow
metal has caused no uneasiness in fi
nancial circles. Merchandise exports
in two weeks of April have been
$435,"(3 less than the' were last year
for the corresponding period; but in
the previous four weeks there was a
comparative gain of "$7,7Ul?,014, and
owing to the heavy shrinkage in im
ports trade balances on merchandise
account alone are stili running
strongly in favor of the United
States. Failures in the United States
and Canada during the last week
numbered 252, as against 20U for the
corresponding period last year.
Cotton prices have declined i of a
cent per pound, as a result of specu
lative discouragement by the contin
ued liberal receipts and cautious bu--ing
for consumption. The amount
of.the crop in sight is already about
175.000 bales larger than the entire
production of the previous year; and
as yet there is no indication of the
sharp falling off in the movement
which has been predicted for several
weeks past. European stocks are
unusually large, and the world s sup
ply of American cotton is only 277,
()0 bales less than it was at the cor
responding period two years ago.
when the big crop of IS'Jl was being
marketed. Exports this week have
fallen off, but for the season the to
tai lias been vnj.uou uaies in excess
of that of the corresponding period
in lSirJ-tKl. Business in cotton good?
has been comparatively qukt, owing
in part to the check to retail distri
bution by unfavorable weather.
Bullish confidence in the wheat
markets was given a considerable
setback by the Federal crop report,
which showed the average condition
of the crop at the close of March to
have been 9.3 per cent, better than
it was a year ago. General and ex
tensive liquidation followed this pub
lication, and before the decline was
checked values were C cents per
bushel lower than Wy were a week
ago. i rom the lowest point, Howev
er, there has been a recovery of 2
cents per bushel in Chicago and
cents in New York. There is still
much of uncertainty as to the extent
of the injury to wheat by the severe
weather late in March and br the
continued deficiency of moisture in
the region west of the Mississippi
River. There are complaints of dry
weather in France and in some other
parts of Europe, and of continued
drought in California, which have
given some support to the specula
tion for higher prices. Export de
mand has continued moderate, but
the interior movement is smaller
than it was at the corresponding pe
riod last year, and visible stocks are
slowly decreasing.
Corn prices have declined 1 to
of a cent per bushel, owing to larger
interior receipts and the increasing
movement bv the water routes to the
seaboard. Foreign demand is not
active, but there is a steady, fair in
quiry, and weekly clearances from
Atlantic ports continue to exceed
those of the corresponding period
last year. There has been a contin
ued large export movement in pro
visions and fair activity in domestic
trade. Chicago speculation has been
more active', and prices have ad
vanced 80 cents per barrel on pork
and 35 cents per 100 pounds on short
ribs and lard. The Western packing
continues large, and since March 1
has aggregated 1,4. o, 000 hogs an
increase of 850.000 over that of the
corresponding season in 1893.
Woman's Logic
Over all Unit we nv. as it setiut-th to V',
Is the truth that we can nuit4a-h;
1 toll it to yon. you tell it to uie
And both of us mid. Vou teach.
I jin-aeh and firmly we all btliive.
For all of us know it is so,
Kut you it would Brieve aod me it would grieve
To reason out how wc know.
Vet we know that we know, we are strong that were
weak.
And f:iets rove the falsehood of fill ion;
I)r. 1'ierce uiade us whole, made u new. so to ieak.
With his own and our "Favorite rrescription."
A ix'ciiliar medicine for woman's pe
culiar ills. For all "Female Weakness
es," irregularities, periiHlical pains, it is
the only guaranteed remedy.
The child's first longing is for maturi
ty, the youth's for love, the man's for
p"nsjenty, the safe's for death.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Events for the
Past Seven Days.
Another tobacco factory is !eing
built at Statesville.
The State Dental Society will meet
in Durham May 1st.
Newborn's water works will lo
finished by May 1st.
A colored school teacher is in Fay-
etteville jail for forgerj
Henry F. Aberly, of Newborn, has
mysteriously disappeared.
Some Durhamites are making ef
forts to establish a city hospital.
The State Press Asstxiation will
meet in Morgan ton, May 23 and 24.
The Kinston ladies are organizing
a Confederate Memorial Association.
Several small frame buildings went
up in smoke at Wilmington, Thurs
day morning.
The State convention of the King s
Daughters 'will meet in Statesville
May 1(5 to 18.
A Wilkes county couple, having
the combined age of 123, were mar
ried last week.
The latest addition to the State
Guard is Com pan j' B. Fourth regi
ment, of Elkin.
Crabtree, the missing Durham
man, has been located, but has not
j been found 3-e,t.
Forest fires in Wilkes county last
week destroyed the timber on one
thousand acres.
A Davie county citizen was put on
the Iredell county chain-gang last
week for cruelty to animals.
Langdon Frye, of Catawba county,
was crushed to death by a heavy log,
Monday, while engaged in loading it.
The railroad depot at Dunn, with
a large amount of merchandise, was
destroyttl by fire early Friday morn-
At Wadeslniro, Tuesdav, the ten
year-old son of Joe Crowder, while
playing with a rifle, accidentally shot
himself.
The furniture factory af High
Point was destroyed by fire Thurs
day night. Loss about $35.(100 with
very little insurance.
Two persons have been arrested
for the murder of Ben McKenzie,
who was shot down in his door in
Moore county, last week.
In Cabarrus county, Monday, the
eight-year-old son of J. M. Coble, fa
tally shot himself br blowing in an
old gun, the entire load entering his
head.
David McAllister, of Wade, jump
ed from a third ston window of the
LaFayette hotel, at Fayctteville,
Friday night, sustaining serious in
juries. Paw Creek, Mecklenburg count',
has a monstrosity in the shape of a
calf which has no hair on its body.
has no eyes, and its skin is hard and
cracked.
In a bar-room fight on Big Rock
creek, Mitchell county, Saturday
night, Mann Garland shot and killed
a man named Lipton and wounded
several others.
A blockader named William Mey
ers, of Yadkin county, while attemp
ting to evade arrest, Friday, was
shot by revenue officers and danger
ously wounded.
As the result of an old feud, Frank
Montgomery, a citizen of Virginia,
just across the State line, was shot
and killed near Mt. Airy, Monday,
by Joseph Burkheart.
Two brothers, 14 and 17. years of
age, mysteriously disappeared from
the house of their father, J. S. D.
Siler, in Chatham county, Thursday.
Bloodhounds were put on their trail.
The Eagle cotton mills, in Iredell
county, were destroyed by tire Fri
day. Loss over $30,000, and no in
surance. A grist mill and twenty
five bales of cotton were also burn
ed. Rev. W. J. Hopkins, a Baptist
minister of Mooresville, Iredell coun
ty, was tried on a serious charge
Tuesday, brought by Eliza Alexan
der, a 3'oung colored woman, but was
acquitted.
The oldest person in Union county,
is Mrs. Mary Hargett, of Monroe,
aged 99 years. Although blind she
is in good health, and a remarkable
fact is that she has never taken over
50 cents worth of medicine.
A young boy in Mecklenburg
county is reported as dying from the
effects of a grain of coffee sucked in
to his windpipe six years ago. The
grain has finally lodged in his lung,
causing pneumonia and abscess of the
lung.
Alfred Everett, colored, who sev
eral months ago committed a crimi
nal assault on a young white girl in
Brunswick county, and afterwards
broke jail at Southiort, was captur
ed in Georgia last week and returned
to his original stopping place.
The Durham Globe learns that the
c ommissioners of Person county have
granted permission to a lot of Mor
mon elders, for one year, to hold
meetings in the court house of that
county, and that the elders asked
the Presbyterian minister to an
nounce from his pulpit the hour of
the Mormon service.
Teach Them to Iiead the Newspaper.
Under the above heading the Wel
don News gives some good advice ti
parents. A gotnl many people think
they canuot atTord to sjhmhI a few
dollars a year for newspapers for the
the children to read. They only look
at money and are forgetful of any
benefit the children may derive from
reading a gotnl paper. Teach them
to read. Here is what the News
says:
''Teach the boys and girls to read
newspajH'rs not seusational, trashy,
smutty sheets, but clean, respecta
ble, plainsH)ken pajx-rs. It will do
them more good than can be calcula
ted. It will give them food for
thought. It will cultivate a taste
for more extensive reading. It will
cause them to love home better. It
will make their intellect cleaner and
their hearts happier and better.
Then as they grow in wisdom, they
should also be supplied with lirst
class magazines and good books.
Such opportunities will be worth
more to them than mints of gold.
By all means cultivate a taste for
reading among the children and a
gotd ltKal paper is the In-st to begin
with, as the children can there read
about things that are familiar to
them about their town and county,
and concerning men and things of
which they have a personal knowl
edge. From this they can go on step
by step until they rank among the
most intelligent people of the land."
What I.ecaine f the Jus.
I.usionia Oazitte.
There is at hast one man in town
who has the courage of his convic
tions on the liquor question. In one
of his closets he has had a jug of
peach brandy for a long time. It was
getting along alxmt three or four
years old and increasing in fragrance
with each successive year, ft per
fumed the closet so that whoever en
tered it could smell the essence of
the ripened poach. It smelt good,
you may guess; in fact it smelt ten
good, and that explains why it is not
there to-day. The head of the fami
ly didn't want his children coming in
daihT contact with the temptation
and didn't want to go too near him
self. So the other day he took the
jug and emptied its fragrant con
tents on a pile of chips in the wood
yard. There was a gurgling sound
at the jug's mouth, a wild delirium
of fragrance in the air, a word of re
proach ''Boss, Boss, Boss!" from the
hired boy, and that jug of peach
brandy was no more.
A Terrible Accident.
Itutherford Herald.
On Monday morning alout nine
o'clock, the little grandson of W. B.
Walker was carelessty fooling with
an old style rifle when it was acci
dentally discharged, taking effect in
Mr. Walker's neck, cutting the jugu
lar vein, from which he bled to death
in a very few minutes. The lad was
alxmt 12 years of age, and was alone
with his grandfather at the time, his
mother having gone to a neighbor
ing house to see atxmt having her
domestic work attended to. As soon
as. the gun was discharged, and the
boy noticed the b'ood trickling from
his grandfather's neck, he ran for his
mother. The child has been arrested
at the instance of Joseph Walker,
son of the deceased. There is no
doubt in the mind of the public but
what the killing was purely acci
dental. Mr. Walker was 08 years
old, and leaves two sons and a
daughter.
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Hood's pills are purely vegetable, care
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Save by the use of one bottle. War
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fails. .Sold bv M.'K. Kobinson & liro.,
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It is said that it requires long practii-e
to enable one to think well on his feet.
Most of us lie down to it and forget to
get up in time to do anything.
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