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Only a Day.
Only a day, only arlay
That is a very short time, we say;
lint think of tho one that has jtist gone
by :
Does tlio thought bring with it oy or a
si;h?
j We are one day nearer life's end to-day
j Thau we were before yesterday passed
j away.
i Only a day. only a day
There isimieh to do let us not delay,
A smile to give here, and a kind word
there;
There are trials to meet and burdens to
bear,
A tear to shed for somebody's sorrow;
And it may be too late to do it to-morrow.
Only a day, only a day
Hut let us not dream it idly away;
If no great thing we are called to do,
Let us still in everything be true;
Kaeh dav may we gladden somebody's
life,
Lor "only a day" is too short for strife.
Only a day, only a day
Hut never again will it pass this wav:
Let us not neglect to do kind liitle
things,
Xor stoop to the word or look that
stings;
We may have to-morrow who can tell?
We have to-day, let us live it well.
Jane Thackkk.
The Tower of Faith.
The rrcat power of faith is seldom
realized. It may not literally move
mountains, but it accomplishes other
tasks that seem as difiicult. In or
ganized society the rreat co-operative
enterprises that have revolu
tionized methods of transportation,
communication, and even the cus
toms of men and women, have been
brou-rht about by faith. In primi
tive society eaeli man is for himself
and distrusts his neighbor. Two
cannot work or hunt together. Af
ter many experiments, faith is grad
ually developed, to be rudely shaken
at times, but to maintain on the
whole a steady growth.
In the higher civilization of to-day
there is no greater power in the
world than faith. Men have learned
to trust each other. They put im
portant letters in an iron box on a
street corner. Presently a man of
whom the writer of the letter has no
j knowledge comes along, takes off the
I letter and it passes through perhaps
! scores of hands before it reaches its
destination. It may contain an or
I der for goods sent to another man
j unknown to the writer, and the re
cipient ot t ne loiter promptly snips
goods to his unknown correspondent,
who again entrusts to the postofliee
the money to pay for the same.
Faith makes possible the commerce
of the world. We know that some
men commit wrongs and robberies,
but we know also, that the great ma
jority can be trusted, and in this
faith we conduct many of our busi
ness enterprises. The co-operative
undertakings of capital alTord a still
more striking example of faith in
the integrity of business men. It
would not be possible to organize
such great enterprises as are reijuir- j
ed to transact modern business if I
men were not willing to trust stran
gers, or, in other words, if they did
not have faith in humanity.
Physicians admit that faith can,
to some degree at least, produce phy
siological effects. Disregarding al
leged cures by so called faith doc
tors, it is known that the effect of
drugs on the human system is con
trolled in some measure by the faith
of the patient in the skill of a physi
cian of known ability. Instances
have been frequently noted where
patients have failed to improve un
der the care of a strange physician
hastily summoned, but have radied
at once upon the arrival of their
family doctor, though the latter has
made no change in the treatment.
The difference may be accounted
for, no doubt, by the change in the
mind of the patient, for mind has a
strong influence over matter. The
patient attended by a strange doc
tor in whose skill he has no faith is
troubled in mind and not in a fit con
dition to begin the process of recov
ery, but his mind is set at ease when
his family doctor arrives. Hut faith
is the real spring that controls the
change. Sometimes the faith is in
the unknown, but its effects are the
same; as where the family physician,
being assumed to be deficient, is
obliged to call in a specialist whose
great name gives assurance of relief.
Here also, without change of treat
ment, the patient may be benefitted
because faith has cased his mind and
inspired him with hope.
Hut faith cannot be made to order.
Tt is born of experience. As to some
things, it is a matter of vorr slow
-rovth. but is a great comforter and
it is better to have too much than
too little faith in humanity in gener
al and in particular men who have
made good and great names for
themselves. The simple-minded and
ingenuous may suffer occasionally
from putting faith in the unfaithful;
but they will in general get more en
joyment out of life than their more
prudent, distrustful or cynical neigh-
bor;
Many merchants are well aware that
; their customers are their best friends
' and take pleasure in supplying them
j witii the best goods obtainable. As an
; instance we mention Perrv L- Cameron,
; prominent druggists of Flushing. Mich- j
' igan. 1 hey say: '"We have no hesita-
tion in recommending I liamberlain s
Cough llemedy to our customers, as it
; is the best cough medicine we have ever
Isold, and always gives satisfaction."
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AKI' AND HIS WIFE.
They Are the Only Ones That Are Sow
at the Old Homestead.
Half a chicken half a dozen bis
cuits, a little hominy and butter and
a small pot of coffee. It has been
about forty years since wife and I
sat down to as little as that. Of
course it is enough for us, and more
than enough, but it looks so sting';
only two of us now, except when we
send off and borrow a grandchild
our home daughters and the little
orphan have gone to Florida for the
Winter. My wife says she hears the
rats galloping in their rooms up
stairs every night. They have found
out the girls have gone. My wife
wasent sure that rats made the rack
et, and so about midnight, when
dec) sleep falleth upon a man but
not upon a woman, she aroused me
and asked what it was. Being pre
maturely deaf on rats I couldent
hear anything; but to satisfy her I
took the candle and went upstairs in
my nocturnal garments and hunted
all over the rooms and closets and
under the beds, and found nothing,
of course. I dident expect to find
anything. She is just lonesome and
sad, that's all, and she dident like to
hear me snoring while she was rumi
nating about the scattered children.
All of the ten have left us at last,
and by and by old Father Time will
separate us too. Of course we could
go and live with some of the married
children, and they would be glad to
have us; but I never saw an old cou
ple that liked to give up their own
home and fireside. The habits of
forty years are hard to be broken.
Half a chicken is enough, but even
that is a sign that we are alone we
two. I dident feel like saying grace
over such a stingy meal. "Why did
ent you cook it all, Aunt Ann," said
I. "Cos it'll be better for supper,
sir,"' she said. Hut we send for a
grandchild now every day or two
and swap them around, and they are
always glad to come. My wife's
greatest pleasure now is petting the
grandchildren. She says she is near
ly blind, but I see her sewing on
something every day fixing up
something for their pleasure and de
light. A child without a grand
mother does not have its share of
happiness. Evorj' grandmother is a
Eugene Field, though they can't
make poems of their feelings.
I was talking about Field the oth
er day to my friend Ferris in George
Adair's office, and he said he used to
set type with Field for the St. Louis
Times, and the boys always had a
good time in jefling with him.
"What's that," said I. "Well," said
he, "we dident throw dice for the
cigars.
"What
but
we
t?"
threw em quads."
th;
said I. "Well,"
tting is counted by
a quad piece, and
little nicks on the
said he, "type s
the ems. It is
there are three
shank, and jef.ing was played by
taking up a handful of quads at ran
dom and throwing them down upon
the table, and the one who showed
up the fewest nicks lost the wager.
I remember that Field was generally
the unlucky boy, and had to pay the
cigars. There were seven of us who
generally spent our leisure time to
gether after our night's work was
done. There was Heiny Huff and
Fatty Smith and Dummy Edwards
and the Monk and Betsy Ileyd and
Gene and myself. Betsy was a boy.
None of . us were bad or wild, and
Gene w;r as amiable as he was un
luckv. There was more in him than
we knew then, and I always felt a
pride in having been one of his com
panions. You know that Charley
Lewis was another type-setter and
took the pen name of 'M Quad'
while on the Detroit Free Press.
Setting type is a good school for a
boy. He is obliged to learn litera
ture whether he wants to or not, and
there is many a one who has made
his mark besides Ben Franklin and
Eugene Field." "But what about
the 'quad'?" said I. "Oh, that is a
Latin word and means how many.
We were paid not by the number of
ems but by the measure of them. It
took two e's or three i's to make an
"Angelina," said I (when I feel
very loving I call my wife Angelina,
like the hermit did). "Angelina,
my dear, wouldn't you like to go to
Atlanta and hear Damrosch opera?
You haven't heard an opera since I
took you to hear Son tag and Steffa- j
noni and Max Maretzek in New
York in 183IL Just think of it
that was forty-two years ago." "Oh,
it costs too much money," said she.
"Only $2," said I. "Two dollars for
a good seat in thebalcon'. Suppose
we go and hear 'Siegfried.' " "Jes
sie ought to go," said she. "Jessie
understands music and never has
heard an opera on the stage." That
settled it. I had heard it hinted
around that my wife would like to
go, but wouldent ask me so I had
to ask her. We have been. Veni,
vidi, audi and I am satisfied. Four
hours on a hard wood seat will sat
isfy any veteran even if the angels
j were
making music. It was all
German to me. I heard Jenny Lind
sing once and that was music. I un
derstood that and I was charmed.
It thrilled me and filled me with un
utterable rapture and all I could do
was to weep with emotion. But this
German business tired me awfully
and I slept right good at times. I
can sleep bolt upright and never
move. When the music was soft
and sweet I enjoyed it, but I could
ent see anything hardky.
Siegfried was mending an old
broken sword and I liked that old
time blacksmith shop, but there was
a tall woman in front of me with a
big black ostrich feather in her hat
and she bobbed it around so I dident
even see the anvil cut in two. It's
an outrage. The lady behind me
had no sucli obstacle. There are no
feathers on my head. The clink of
the hammer and the screech of the
file were good and the music chimed
with both delightfully. Siegfried is
a good blacksmith and ought to fol
low the trade in my c; "re-":-. r i-h
they would sing in English. I'll bet
there were not ten in a hundred of
that audience who understood a
word that was sung. They go there
because it is considered the thing to
do. It is fashionable. Of course
there was some sweet music and so
there is in a church or in the parlor
or in a minstrel show and it don't
drag along for hours. Siegfried had
to kill a dragon and it took him a
half an hour. It was a drag on sure
enough. I could have killed him in
a minute with that magic sword.
But the birds did sing most sweetly
and that lad' that was hidden up iti
the trees ah, that was delicious. I
liked that. The drums and horns
all hushed for that. Sometimes
when the whole orchestra was in
full blast fiddling and blowing and
drum beating for dear life and stop
ped all of a sudden it scared me. I
thought something had bursted or
the boiler had collapsed or the air
brake come uncoupled.
The suddenness always awaked
me and once I jumped so my wife
noticed it and asked what was the
matter. I told her I had a slight pal
pitation and was threatened with
heart failure, which I am. At times
it seemed to mo the musicians were
trying to drown the voice of that
woman that Siegfried found asleep
or dead in the woods and sang her
to life again, but they couldent do it.
I never heard such a voice in my life,
but I was sorry that she was lame.
She couldent walk at ail hardly. My
wife says she was just tangled up in
her shroud or maybe she had been
dead so long she had lost the use of
her extremities. She was the star
one of the great singers of the world
they say, but she couldent do justice
to herself with all those horns a
blowing. Siegfried had found her
asleep in the woods reclining on a
moss.- bank, and as he had never be
fore seen a woman he thought she
was an angel and wanted to wake
her but was afraid. For a long time
he tiptoed and circled and at last
ventured to touch her and his plain- j
five voice seemed to plead with her
to awake, but she dident. By and
by he got ...bolder and leaning over
pressed his lips to hers and drew
back as if he had committed the un
pardonable sin. Well, of course,
that waked her of course it did; and
after she had come to herself she
looked lovinghr toward him and be
gan to sing and oh, such notes. I
don't know what she said and Tdon't
care, but there was love in it lots
of love and he caught the malady and
sang back at her and just such mel
ody I never heard. It took him too
long to wake her up, though. I think
I would have waked her in half the
time.
But all operas have an end some
where and this one finally closed jus,t
intimeforustolo.se our train and
we had to wait nearly three hours
for the next one. llus vexed me i
and I considered myself the injured
person, but I dident complain no I
never complain. My wife and daugh
ter say that it was grand, and as I
went there to please them it is all
right with me. It was grand, gloomy
and peculiar. They had read the
opera before and knew what the
singing was about, and they told me
how Tannhauser and Lohengrin
were composed nearly fifty years
aro and were introduced
were introduced in I'aris
and Vienna and nobody liked them,
and they went dead and slept for
thirty years until Liszt took hold of
them and revived them out of his
great regard for Wagner. He edu
cated the musical world up to Wag
ner's standard and now they are
played by the week in Baireuth, the
greatest musical center in the world.
By the week is meant that it takes a
whole week to go through one opera,
for it is not cut or abridged like it is
over here. The company will play
all the morning and have a recess for
dinner and continue in the afternoon
and again at night and the next day
and so on until the whole thing is
finished. Merciful father! what would
become of me if I had to endure
the like of that? Bill Arp.
Not a few who read what Mr. Robert
Uowls, of Hollands, Va., has to say be
low, will remember their own experi
ence under like circumstances: "Last
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remedies, none of which did me any
good, until I was induced to try a bottle
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The
tirst bottle of it so far relieved me that
I was enabled to attend to my work,
and the second bottle effected a cure."
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M. E. Robinson & Hro., ami J. IL Hiil
& Son., druggists.
A NATION'S DOINGS.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
Fire almost wiped out Kosse, Tex.,
Sunday night. Loss, $73,000.
Norwich, N. Y., had a $73,000 fire
Saturday night. Several men were
seriously injured by falling walls.
During a quarrel about a girl at
East Lynn, W. Va., Friday, Albert
Adkius fatally shot Robert Carey.
Five men were killed in a collision
of two freight trains on the South
ern Railway, near Pe3Tton, Georgia,
Thursdaj'.
Afraid he couldn't manage his
$300,009 estate, Alfred N. Tripp
hanged himself at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., Saturday.
A magazine containing 2,000
pounds of dynamite exploded at
Lockport, 111., Friday, and shattered
several buildings.
While driving across the tracks
near Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday, Chas.
E. Hall and Miss Ida Hopkins were
killed by an Erie train.
Despondency due to ill-health,
prompted John II. Husted, a wealthy
Colorado miner, to shoot himself
dead at Denver, Monday. m
In attempting to cross the railroad
track at Bristol, Pa., Sunday,
Mrs. Elizabeth Black was struck by
ail express train and killed.
Four masked thieves held up a
Mission street electric car, in San
Francisco, Cal., Thursday night, and
robbed several of the passengers.
Seven members of the family of
George Wheeler were poisoned at
Bellefontaine, O., Sunday night, af
ter indulging heartilyin mince-meat.
Great damage by floods is report
ed in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and
Texas. In Kansas there has been
rain or snow continuously for eight
days.
At Palatka, Fla., Wednesday
night, J. A. Smith, of Saginaw,
Mich., was cremated in a fire which
destroyed Mrs. Jas. Goss' boarding
house.
The body of Harry Ilayward, who
was executed at Minneapolis, Minn.,
for the murder of Miss Catherine
Ging, was cremated at Chicago,
Friday.
The worst storm for years prevail
ed over North and Central Texas
from midnight until G o'clock Tues
day morning. Much damage was
the result.
Desperadoes held up John Hess
and his wife, sister and brother, near
Pueblo, Col., Saturday night, and
murdered them for their money and
valuables.
AtluistSt. Louis, la., Saturday,
Charles II. Thompson, principal of
the colored schools, shot and killed
his wife, from whom he had been
separated
While attempting to save her two
little children from a burning upper j
room, Mrs. Josiah Felter, of Haver
straw, N. Y., was burned to death,
Monday night.
While returning home from a
dance, Monday night, Edward Imu
ran, Jr., and his affianced,"" Miss Em
ma Max, were killed by a train near
Fergus Falls, Minn.
On the charge of setting fire to
his house, in which his little daugh
ter perished while asleep, Edward
Lynn, of Scranton, Pa., was arrest
ed Thursday and jailed.
Jealous of his rival in love, Absa
lom Watson, of West Chester, Pa.,
shot dead Benjamin Luff, Tuesday
night, while walking on the street
with Miss Annie Moore.
At Greenville, N. II., Wednesday,
Mrs. Joseph Fagnaut presented her
husband with a pair of daughters.
She is his fifth wife. Fagnaut was
already the father of twenty-five liv
ing children.
Tramps killed Mrs. Hester Curtis,
an aged woman, near Lafayette,
Ind., Sunday night, for her money.
Mrs. Curtis had been the mother of
twent3-five children, including seven
pairs of twins.
The residence of I. Townsend Bur-
clen, on iiauison square, iew lorK,
was entered by burglars, Friday
j night, while the family were at the
opera, and diamonds wrth $03,000
were taken therefrom.
A mob set fire to the house near
Lebanon, Kj, Sunday night, in
which Mrs. Thomas J. West lived
with William A. Deveres, cremating
the former and shooting dead the
latter, he having murdered the wo
man's husband.
At Des Moines, la., Tuesday, S.
R. Dawson shot dead Walter Scott,
his new son-in-law. Scott married
Miss Clara Dawson against her fath
er's wishes, and immediately after
the ceremony went to her home to
get her belongings, when a difficulty
occurred.
Twenty-three persons, mostly wo
men and children, were crushed to
death, and thirty or more injured,
some fatally, during u panic which
occurred at the Front Street Thea
tre in Baltimore, Friday night.
Some one c ried fire while the theatre
was crowded at a dramatic perform
ance and another person turned off
the gas from part of the building
thus precipitating the panic.
Last Week in Trade Circles.
New Yobk, Dec. 30, 1893.
Special Correspondent.
The normal holiday dullness of
wholesale trade has been intensified
during the past week by the contin
ued uncertainty with regard to the
financial situation. Stock invento
ries and annual settlements have
engrossed a large share of mercan
tile attention; but the desire to
await definite action in relief of the
Federal currency disorder has been
distinctly evidenced in the hesitancy
of speculation and the general ten
dency to greater conservatism in
commercial lines. The expectation
of early recovery in trade when the
new year shall have opened is large
ly contingent upon the removal of
existing causes of distrust, pending
which enterprise is likely to be held
in suspense. Bank clearings show
but a slight falling off in spite of the
holiday interruption, and according
to Bradstreet's the total of $1,145,
000,000 for the week is fully 3o per
cent, larger than in Christmas week
last year, and 17 per cent, in excess
of that for the same week in 1893.
Business failures in the United
States and Canada during last week
numbered 302 rgainst 301 for the
corresponding period last year. Ac
cording to R. G. Dun t Co., the ag
gregate of liabilities involved in fail
ures for the entire year, while much
smaller than thoefor 1S93, will vary
but little from those of 1894. Fav
orable features of the business situa
tion are the continued increases re
ported in railroad earnings, and the
enlarging total of merchandise ex
ports, which for three weeks of De
cember from New York alone have,
gained nearly 20 per cent. Imports
in the same period have decreased
18' per cent.
Cotton prices have receded TIG of
a cent, owing to the narrowness of
legitimate demand and speculative
timidity pending a clearing of the fi
nancial atmospk.re. Spinners have
bought only iw actual wants, and
the export movement has continued
comparatively small. Business in
cotton goods has been of limited vol
ume, as jobbers have been more in-
j tent on closing out broken stocks
during the progress of inventories
j than in making preparation for fu
j ture wants. Th- dullness of trade
j and weakness in the market for the
raw staple have given bu-ers the ad
vantage on many lines of cotton fa
brics: but in the absence of any gen
eral demand few open price reduc
tions have been made. The total vis
ible supply of cotton for the world is
4,0!!2.314 bahs, of which 3,714.114
bales are American, against 4,826,
730 bales and 4,494,551 bales respect
ively last year. Receipts of cotton
during last w.-ek at all interior
towns were 137.357 bales; receipts
from the plantations, 233,439 bales;
crop in sight, 4 795,804 bales.
The Congressional movement for a
restoration of (10 per cent, of the old
wool duties has induced a better
than usual holiday inquiry for the
staple at old prices; but business in
many instances has been restricted
by the unwillingness of sellers to
meet demand except at advanced
rates. The woolen and worsted
goods trade has continued quiet; but
additional lines of heavy fabrics have
been opened for the inspection of
buyers, and the new season's busi
ness may be expected to get fairl'
under way early in the coming
month. Prices of some makes are
slightly higher than those of last sea
son; but the price position has not
yet been fully tested, and the renew
al of tariff agitation complicates the I
settlement of values on a basis satis
factory to both bu'ers and manu
facturers. Grain prices have fractionally ad
vanced, owing in part to a better
export inquiry for wheat and to a
more moderate interior movement as
a consequence of bad roads and the
reluctance of farmers to sell at cur
rent low prices. The improvement
in values, however, has not exceed
ed J of a cent for the week, and there
has been no activity in speculation.
Western receipts of wheat, although
smaller than in previous weeks,
have continued to exceed those of
the two preceding crop 3-ears, and
visible stocks ai e steadily increasing.
The statistical position, as revealed
by the crop movement thus far, in
clines traders to distrust the accura
cy of the official estimate of the sea
son's production. There has been a
steady, moderate export business in
corn, but no notable activity; .-ad
the slight rise m the markets has
been due chiefly to the restricted
shipments from producing sections.
The Western movement of hogs to
market centre-, has fallen off, owing
to bad roads, and the speculative in
terest in prou u is has been narrow
Exports of hog products have
of good volume.
been
Now Try Thl.
It will cost you nothing and will sure
ly do you god. if you have a cough,
colli, or any trouble with throat, chest
or lungs. Dr. King's New Discovery
for consumption, coughs and colds is
guaranteed to give relief, or money will
lie paid back. Sufferers from LaGrippe
found it just the thing and under its use
had sjM'edy and perfect recovery. Try
a sample lottle at our expense and learn
for vourself just how good a thing it is.
Trial bottles fr. at J. II. Hill Son's,
Goldsboro, and J. R. Smith's. Mt. Olive.
Large size 5(e. and $!..
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Events for the
Past Seven Days.
Forty bales of cotton were burned
at Enfield, Tuesday night.
Frank W.Thornton, Fayetteville's
largest dry goods merchant, made
an assignment Thursday.
The town of Liberty, Randolph
county, was nearly wiped out by fire,
Thursday night. Loss, $100,000,
During a fit of insanity, Friday
night, William Miller, one of Davie
county's wealthy eitizens,fatally shot
his wife.
William Iseley, of Haw River, was
accidentally killed, Tuesday, by the
discharge of a gun in the hands of a
friend.
J. W. Jackson, of Thermal City,
was knocked dOwi and robbed of $83
by three negroes in Charlotte, Satur
day night.
At a negro festival in Alamance
county, Tuesday night, a row ensued
in which Nash Lovian was shot dead
by Bill Vincent.
At a colored sociable ia Cabarrus
county, Wednesday night, Henry
Yorke shot and killed John Steele,
his rival in love.
James Ellington, white, not being
entirely sober, stepped into an open
well at Henderson Christmas morn
ing and was killed.
Charles La Rue, of Alleghany
county, fatally shot his father-in-law,
Richard Ingersal, Sunday evening,
the outcome of domestic trouble.
While out bird hunting near
Greensboro, Tuesday, Bill Irby was
accidentally shot in the knee by
Frank M ricks, dying shortly after
ward. In an altercation over a dog be
tween Richard Lassiter and William
Butler, at Neuse, Wake count-, Sa
turday, Butler was nearly carved to
death.
Christmas morning1, James Norton
shot and killed Jack Gosnell, in Mad
ison county. Norton shot at anoth
er man but missed him and shot Gos
n ell's brains out.
Wesley Watson, aged 22, was kill
ed near Ararat, Surry county, Wed
nesday, in his attempt to jump from
a passenger train on the Cape IVar
& Yadkin Valley road.
Duncan Laniont, a drugguot at
Hope Mills, Cumberland county, shot
Charles Wishart and then committed
suicide by taking poison, Saturday
night. Whiskey was the cause.
Sam Baldwin, a negro tenant on
Calvin Wooley's farm in Montgom
ery county, on Christmas day, com
mitted a criminal assault upon
Wooley's four-year-old daughter
1 he last mail ot the southern ran
into a dump car near Salisbury, Sa
turday night, instantly killing L?e
Kerr, a colored section hand, and se
riously injuring another, named Tom
Johnson.
While on his way to visit a neigh
bor, Scott Currie, a white farmer of
Richmond county, was assassinated
Saturday night by four white men,
all of whom have confessed and are
now in jail.
B. F. Turlington, of Wilmington,
while on his way home' Thursday
night, was waylaid by three negroes,
knocked down and robbed of $310.
One of the robbers, Martin Dixon, is
under arrest.
Dr. Peck, of Newborn, while rid
ing in his buggy near there, Tuesday
night, was attacked by two negroes,
who clubbed him until he was un
conscious nnd then robbed him. His
injuries are severe.
A team of mules belonging to Kel
ly Woods were drowned in the Yad
kin river, in Davie county, Thurs
day. The animals took fright from
the master hollowing for the ferry
man and dashed in the river.
Frank Adkins, of Montgomery
county, while handling a gun in an
intoxicated condition at Upshur
Williams' house, Wednesday, the
weapon loaded with bird-shot ex
ploded, seriously injuring Williams,
his wife and son.
Albert Speaks, a desperate char
acter and a great blockader, was
found hanging to the rafters of an
old deserted school house in Iredell
county, Christmas morning', with
his hands tied in front of him; sup
posed to be a case of lynching.
Tuesday evening the Smithdeal
Hardware Company's powder and
dynamite storage house one mile
from Salisbury exploded. George
Weaver, aged 18, was instantly kill
ed and his brother Ira, fourteen
years of age, was badly hurt. The
cause of the explosion is supposed to
be George's shooting at n target
placed on the storage house. Walls
were cracked and glass broken in
and near Salisbury.
Three little white boys, William
Barnhardt, Charles Seamore and
Charles Parker, of Concord, on
Christmas day tilled a one-inch pip
ing two feet long1 with dynamite and
touched a match to' it, with horrible
results. Both of Barnhardt's eyes
were blown out and his face terribly
burned. The little fellow is yet alive,
but is a great sufferer. The other
two were badly burned but not fa-
tallv.
Absolutely Pure.
A cTvam of t:inar b;Uin? I '.w.lcr. Highest ot
all in lfiiv.'iiii'ii Mronttli.--Latent t nited State
rt.vern:nont i'i! Kfjwirt.
Uoyal Hakim; row ! r Co.. J 00 W all st. X. Y
THE HUSTLERS ON TOP !
Call at their tore and see the tremen
dous stock of new goods, bought In-fore
the ri-e. Extra heavy White Homespun,
only .Vts p. r yard, (.'alioes, (Jing
liams and Hieaehings. unlv 5cts per
yard. 'J.(HK) yards of Pants Cloth from
HI to 45cts per yard. Cheeked Home
spun from lets to the best Tcts per yard.
Rig .-toek of Shirts and Drawers. )ver-
uts ironi '." to Micts. I ixlcrshirts
from l!5ets to all wool at oOcts a piece.
Wire buckle Suspenders from 10 to 25
cts per pair.
Boots and Shoes !
Nearlv :.OK pairs, fresh new good-.
bought before the rise, that we are de
termined to gi e our customers the ben
efit of. Hats, from '.'0 cents to the best
$1.00 Hat in the city. A big stock of
Towels, Socks, Hlankets, Trunks and
Vali-es.
Gre
Groceries ! !
uiillO
'inc.
We ha-
a hi:
.-lock of Sugar, CotTee,
Flour. L
Ragging
(Jlasswar
of other
aid. Molasses, Cheese, Meat,
and Ties, Crockery, Tinware,
e. Knives and Forks, and lots
rroods too numerous to men-
tioii. t hat we are ! tf i mined not t be
undersold on. Nearly 15 kinds of To
bacco from "J) to iVDets per pound.
SnulT from ;;0 to 4') cts per pound.
E.L Edmundson & Bro,
IKE CHEAPEST MEN IN TOWN.
I Feel
g Badly
M
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lay
TZ V"e ask this repeatedly, because serious
diseases oftfti follow trilling aiiments,
If vou are weak and
1 Brown's
I Iron
generally exhausted,
nervous.
appeuie ami can i m
work, begin at otire
taking tiie most re
liable strengthening
medicine, which is ra
1 Bitters
?nrowri s iron enters.
Benefit comes from
Brown's Iron Bitters,
J the very first dose
n
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B DvsPEPSia.
Neuralgia,
Constipation.
CURES es
Kidney and Liver O
Troubles. M
Impure Blooo.
Malaria. Nervous ailments. M
Women's Complaints.
Get on'y the genuine it has crossed red J
jj lines on the wrapper. J
GROWN CHEMICAL CO. BALTIMORE. MO. Jj
csesonczsESseescseseBessa
Since IS'U I have been
a suiTere" from catarrh,
tried Ely's Cream Halm
and to a; I appearance-t
arn cuuhI; terrible head-gtf-raria
Hen.'- from which 1 lia.::
long suffered ar
V . J. ll.tcheoi k. 1-ati ixi.
Major L
Vol. & A. A.g St3S
( it'ii. Hutfalo. N
Y.
KLY'S t'UKAM KAI.M i.jK'ns an.l cleanse the nas
al passages, allays ain an.l innaniiiiatu.il. heals
the Mir.-s, protects the membrane from cul.ls, re
's the. senses of taste anil smell. 1 he Uslm is
ie.i direi tlv int-i the nostrils, is quickly abs.rl
!..! cives relief at once. Kl.V S I'INKOl.A
l'l"
15ALSAM is a surd cure for 1'oughs, Cltls. A
friee of Cr-.-aiu Balm. .Ml cents at druenLsts or by
mail. j:ly i;i:itiiki;s.
;; W anvil Street, New ork.
; H ATF.FU L- t )M F )HT1N( i.
EPF'S COCOA BESST'
!;-.- tlior.i.i:ii knot. I.'.lc of the natural Ius
which f..veni the .o-rali.ins of ditf.-stion and nu
trition, ami l-y careful nj-i'Iieation of the fine j r--
H'!1 i 'S of weil-seleetcl '.WOM. M r. Kf s has .is e
hied for our l re;:l.fast and su t a delicately fla
vnreii beverai;:- which may save us many heavy
d. (.irs bills. It is by the jsi.lici.Mis u-e of such nr
t;c:.'S of di 't that a constitution may U? gradually
bu.it .iv until st-ong enough In resist every tendeu-
to .list as.-. Hundreds of subtle maladies are
floating around us ready to attack wherever there is
a weak point. V. e may scal e many a fatal shaft
by keej.im; ..arr ives w. 11 fortified w ith pure I.I.nmI
aiid a pr. perly nourished f -.line." inl Service
liairetle. .Wade simply with boiling water or mi 'It.
Sold only in half-pound tin-, by i iroccrs, labelled
thus :
JAMICS Kl'l'S .V: il.. Ltd.. Ilonncpathic Chem
ists. London. Kniilaiul.
PINEOLA COUGH BALSAM
is excellent for all throat and lung inflammations ami
- - . for asthma. on-
ff' Mi.i.ptivc willinva-
rial.lv derive bcneia
sufTering from
a a chronic cold or
n aggravated by catarrh,
mt to use. I'rice of Cream
I'in.ola Ihilsam. 2ie. In
ill deliver free of exprc-s
an! tint.
Varr-:; St.. New York.
Iloth r
Halm, a.
rpianlitic
or jo 4at:
KLY 1
receipt
rni:us. -..
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BiMiinnuAl nil I r
CmiYrtUYKi. TIL.LO
-i'.X. urr k!i n lib.e. LAD.lt
;uV, n"Ai Brand
1 Ked kJ '
i fnaolber. H'f
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I. earTlcu'ar. t--ni3.iial'
"Hellif for I.adlc,"
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"i ll 1 . kul..ulf s..ufl MlNiHlMli
Mail. 1 !, !
ITS!
We havo a hook.
Tirppnrefi wnwiallv for vou. which '
we is'uil free. It treats of tha
stomach disorders worms, etc.
that every child U liable to (ar
ultu Prey's
PS for a half century. .,-v.
r 'i fir.. b. fr.r?'. '
i nas neen snccessiui:y usea 1 1
hunts VOiLHt .'.'l. tUii lA.'-O.
Best Cough Syrup. Tt G1. Use Kfl
in time. Sold pt trugg.s-r. r"
II'.',: 'z& sz-?-
Wmggg is-cas!.:;:
BS'Vi.tygi. w. Miint'ti
dirt, seated conch, of!.
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