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OL. XII. NO. 17.
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Situation.
CrampsX Croup,
Colic, ,"V'S'
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"Bin Kills?!
.ie (iolden Side.
Tliere's in:uiy :i rest on the road of life,
If we could only stop to take it;
Ami nmny a tone from the better land.
If the querulous heart would wake it.
To the sunny soul that is full of hope
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth,
The grass is green and the llowers are
bright,
Tho' the wintry storm prevaileth.
Better to hope th' the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted,
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep
through,
When the ominous clouds are rifted.
There was never a night without a day,
2s'or an evening without a morning;
And the darkest hour, tin proverb goes,
1 i the hour before the dawning.
T !-es manj- a gem in the path of life
iich we pass in idle pleasure,
Vi..ch is richer far than a jeweled crown,
Or the miser's hoarded treasure.
It may be the love of a little child,
Or a mother's prayer to heaven;
Or only a beggar's grcateful thanks
For a fup of water given.
Better, to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden tilling,
And do God's will with a ready heart.
And hands that are sw if t and willing,
Thau to snap the delicate silver threads
Of our curious lives asunder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled
ends.
And sit and grieve and wonder.
Neglect or Duly.
One of the commonest offenses of
men of affairs is neglect of duty in
the management of public or even
financial iust;tutrons. Sometimes
they are persuaded to enter a board
of managers simply to fill it up;
sometimes because of the business
or social distinction membership will
give them; sometimes to accommo
date a friend with the use of their
names. In any of these cases they
have presumably no special interest
in the work to be done, and they
neglect their duy. If they attend
the meetings it is only as a matter
of form. .They do not inquire into
the business that is beiny transacted,
ar.d have only a hazy notion of the
work that is being done or its cost.
These are the men who are managers
only in name and who are subjected
to reproach and contumely when, as
sometimes happens, the institution
thus neglected fails financially or be
comes the subject of scandal.
Discussion of no practical value
are sometimes entered into as to the
wisdom of one-man power, but near
ly all organizations of men drift into
a condition where one man controls
the policy and arranges all the de
fills of its bnsiuess. lie gains the
confidence of his fello w-managers in
his wisdom, prudence and honesty,
and they yield readily to his advice.
This is in general a wise course, pro
vided always that his fellow-managers
do not neglect their dut', but
keep themselves fully advised re
specting the management of affairs.
When a bank fails the directors us
ually plead that they left everything
in the hands of the president or
cashier, having the utmost confidence
in his probity. Precisely the same
condition may obtain in a bank that
succeeds, the difference being in the
man to whom the real management
is entrusted. In the one case the
managers are subjected to obloquy;
in the other they are honored; but in
bith they have neglected their duty
if they have not had a check upon
president or cashier by keeping them
selves fully advised respecting the
business transacted.
Sometimes a member of the board
of managers of an institution dis
covers his neglect of duty in time to
make amends. His duty then is not
t ) resign, but to assnnie the responsi
bility for his dereliction and do
what he can to correct any faults he
may have discovered. The attitude
of the public toward directors who
do not direct is entirely reasonable.
Although it may be necessary to the
successful conduct of an institution
to have a single executive head,
clothed with almost absolute author
ity, it is also desirable that he should
have supporting him a board of
managers thoroughly conversant
with all that he is doing. The dire
ctor who does not meet this expecta
tion is neglecting his dut-, and this
is true even though the institution
may be honestly and well managed.
L'pon realizing his neglect it is not
the duty of the manager: to resign,
but to correct his fault. Not until
he has done his duty is he justified
in yielding up his trust.
If he cannot afford time to proper
ty ultc,nu i. uui. a a uuaiui
he should sacrifice the honors of the
place, but not until he has made pro-,
per inquiries to learn wtietner the
institution has suffered through his
neglect of duty. If it has he has no
moral right to desert it, but should
feel bound to right the wrong he has
done. If, or when, he can present a
clean bill of health he should either
ma.ee up nis minu 10 luiuii nis uuty
or resign his office. The observance
of this rule would prevent the one
man rule from wrecking a bank.
How To I'rrvent l'lif umoniu.
You are perhaps aware that pnenmo-
nia always results from a cold or from
an attack of la grippe. During the ep-!
iil.-mie of l:i (ri iiiiie n. few Vears :ifO '
when so many cases resulted in pne u-
monia, it was observed that the attack
was never follow ed bv that disease when
Chambe, -Iain's Cough Remedy was used,
1 counteracts any tendency of a cold
or la grippe to result in that dangerous
disease. It is the best remedy in the
world for bad colds ami la" grippe.
Kvcry bottle warranted. For sale by
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Son, and Miller's Drug Store, Golds-
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IT MAY BE A MASCOT.
Arp on the Way the Figure 9 Appears in
the New Year.
1899. I was ruminating about this
riddle of the 9's. 1 and 8 are 9, and
that makes three 9's in a row. 18 are
two 9's, and that makes four 9's in
a row. The three 9's make 27, and
the 2 and 7 make 9. The four 9's
make 3b", and the 3 and C make
9. Maybe this year of the 9's
is to be a mascotte, and we will have
peace and prosperity in the land.
Maybe the lion will lay down with
the lamb, and the nations shall beat
their swords into plowshares and not
learn war any more.
Maybe, I say. But there are some
signs of peace on this side of the
water peace between the north and
the south. McKinley lias made a
break of it, and if he can control his
part', Congress will fix up our con
federate graveyards. Then the next
thing will be to pension our confed
erate veterans and widows just like
they do theirs, and last of all, to
apologize. I never will be satisfied
until they apologize and beg our
pardon. Any gentleman will do
that and feel better for having done
it, for they know by this time that
they were in the wrong, though it
has taken a long time for them to
find it out and repent. Surely we
are the most forgiving people in the
world, or we wonldn't make so much
ado over the offer to fix up our
graveyards, for the truth is, our wo
men have already fixed them up and
our dead are comfortable under their
care. But it is a sign of good will
and foreshadows an apology in the
near future. Tom Reed wants to
get ahead of McKinley in the south,
and I expect will introduce a Bill of
Apology at the next session. Pen
sions and apologies will be his slogan.
It won't take a great deal of money
for our veterans and widows, for
there are not many left, but it will
cause those who are left to live long
er, for
'Time cuts down all.
Both great and small,
Kxcept a pension soldier.
They do not die,
But multiply
And never grow any older.
An old friend told me that
alienation between the north
south was owing more to diet
the
and
and
climate than it was to slavery
or
negroes. Said he, they live on cold
bread and canned goods and codfish,
and drink ice tea, while we live on
ham and eggs and hot rolls and beat
biscuit and drink coffee. Their diet
is as cold and shivering as their
climate, while ours is rich and warm
and stimulating like our sunshine.
Hence, they are inclined to be cold
hearted and selfish. We feasted Mc
Kinley down here on southern food,
and warmed him to the heart and
made him feel generous and kind,
and so he made that confederate
speech and wore that veteran's
badge because he felt good inside. If
he had stayed down here a few weeks
longer he would have spoken for
pensions and apologized.
Maybe there is something in that,
for I have observed that northern
people who domicile with us for any
length of time always take our side
and defend us. But my candid opin
ion is that the classes at the north
who are most in the way of peace are
editors and preachers. The editors
want some scandal to feed their
readers on and the abuse of the south
is like regular stock and trade and is
always in demand. It is a good
cement for the party and keeps it
solid, for if their readers differ on
home politics they can always har
monize by abusirg us. The leading
New York republican paper is just
as malignant since McKinley made
his southern tour as it was before.
Mr. McKinley played on the har
monican, but The Press won't dance
to the music.
As for the preachers, my candid
opinion is the majority of them have
no more real religion than did Henry
Ward Beecher. Like the editors,
they rely on sensation to fill their
pews and their pockets. With a few
exceptions, their Thanksgiving ser
mons had neither love to God nor
charity to man, and they went out
of the text to give the south a slam
or a stab. I used to have great re-
i spect uud reverence for ministers of
j lh(J ff0Spel. j reaIy believed they
were aU ordaincd of God for the sa
cred calling, but in my later years
that reverence has weakened and it
seems to me now that most of them
are only ordained of men. The pul
pit, both north and south, has been
degraded and has lost its high stand
j ap( Hard,y a week pasges but SQme
preacher has committed some crime
and created a sensation. Churches
are torn asunder andj;jje people
divided into bitter factions. Sensa
tional preaching is the order of the
day, and every now and then a
; scandal with a woman in
the case
Undignified and bitter con-
j troversies in the newspapers feed
. the public mind and delight those
i - i t ti , 1 en,
who are outside of the pale of the
j church.
j was caued Gn yesterday for
' , ,
; charity for a poor, unfortunate
family that lives a few miles awa3',
,,,1 ..,c iVf,wmol lint 11, r r,iil,r
daughter, a girl of seventeen, who
could help the aged couple at all,
had married an old Baptist preacher
of sixty, and after a few weeks he
abandoned her and left for parts un
known. The story is a pathetic one
and he ought to be caught and sent
to Indiana and lynched. This lower
ing of the standard of morality and
good old-fashioned Christian pastor
al preaching is especially noticeable
in the two great leading denomina
tions of the south. I am gratified to
say that the Presbyterian and Epis
copal churches have not yet shocked
the public with any ministerial scan
dal, though their preachers are as a
class inferior in pulpit eloquence to
those of half a century ago. No
minister of the olden times would
have carried his sectarianism so far
as to seek to expunge from the Pres
byterian hymn book that beautiful
hymn :
"There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Innuauuel's veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that Hood,
lose all their guilty stains."
This hymn was composed by Wil
liam Cowper, the poet, and is em
balmed in the sweetest memories of
our childhood. But this preacher
wishes to have it expunged because
he says the third line smacks of
baptism by immersion. Oh, my
country! And now some of our At
lanta and Nashville preachers are
ventilating their political opinions
about the war and the Philippines in
their pulpits, to the disgust of every
hearer who differs with them. Thev
forget that the pulpit is not theirs,
and their call was to preach the
gospel not politics.
Well, I suppose that some of out
sold ier bovs of the late war will soon
be on the pension rolls. I see that
seventy-two of an Ohio regiment have
already applied. Ohio beats the world
on pensions, and has learned all the
tricks of the business. One man up
there was detected in having drawn
three pensions for the past five years.
During the war he was transferred
three times, and so he made three
different applications in different
counties, and his sore leg went
through all right, and he now tells
that his lawyer put him up to it,
and he gave the lawyer one pension
and he kept two. The general opin
ion at Washington is that at least
one-half the peusions granted are
frauds. But pension money circul
ates freely, and that is a good thiug.
Well, we had a good old fashioned
Christmas at our house, and were
thankful that no affliction or calam
ity had befallen us during the past
year. We had sixteen of the poster
ity at the festive board, and they did
eat turkey and et ceteras amazing.
Next March comes our golden wed
ding, and then all the distant boys
and their wives and children are to
gather at the family mansion, and
my wife and I will be calm and
serene. I read in a life insurance
paper that only one married couple
in 1,000 lived together fift years.
And so the event ought to be cele
brated. Bn.i. Arp.
Raising Cotton For 2.t7.
Mr. F. W. Brawley, an educated
and prosperous young fanner of
Iredell county, tells the Statesville
Landmark that he made 24 bales of
cotton last year at an average cost
of 2.97 cents per pound. The 24 bales
were raised on 2S acres. On one
tract of eight acres he produced 9
bales. Mr. Brawle', who is a grad
uate of the University, and is appl
iug his knowledge to practical farm
ing methods, says he kept careful
account of the cost of raising this lot
of cotton and finds it to be 2.97 cents
per pound. This includes the seed,
which he sold for 9 cents per bushel.
There was an average of 1,510 pounds
of seed cotton to each of the 24 bales
and the bales are supposed to aver
age 500 pounds of lint each, but as
they haven't been sold they have
not been weighed.
Mr. Brawley's experiment shows
that cotton can be raised at a profit
even when it is sold at 5 and 6 cents
per pound. Mr. Brawley says he
counted every item of cost in raising
the cotton except his own time. He
did not make a hand but he super
intended the farm, and if his own
labor is counted at a pretty fair
figure he considers that he made a
fair salarj for himself on this crop
of cotton. Mr. Brawley's father, Mr.
D. C. Brawley, has long been known
as one of the most successful farmers
in south Iredell. Ilejnade an inde
pendent fortuue by tilling the soil,
beginning a poor man. His son is
following in his footsteps with the
addition that he has the advantage
of a college education and is apply
ing his knowledge to successful agri
culture.
I.a Grippe Suceesxfullj Treated.
"I have just recovered from the sec
ond attack of la grippe this year," sa3-s
,ur. )as. a. .jones, puoiisher of the L.ea
der, Mexia, Texas. In the latter ease
I used Chamberlain's Cough Keinedy,
and I think with considerable success.
only being in bed a little over two days
against ten days for the former attack.
The second attack 1 am satisfied would
have been equally as bad as the first but
for the use of this remedy as I had to go
to bed in about six hours after being
'struck1 with it, while in the first case I
was able to attend to business about two
days before getting 'down.' " For
sale by M. E. Kobinson & Bro., J. H.
Hill & Son, and Miller's Drug Store,
(ioldsboro; and J. 11. Smith, Mount
Olive.
A NATION'S DOINGS.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
i and f'ondeused.
Severely cold weather prevails in
Alaska, and Lake Bennett is freez
ing over.
A violent storm of wiud and rain
swept over Mobile, Ala., Saturday,
tearing off roofs and uprooting trees.
Two tramps who had been given
shelter by John Wellner, of Lafay
ette! Minn., Tuesday night, murder
ed teir benefactor during the night.
An explosion of gasoline wrecked
the store of Keil & Son, at Pember
villej O., Saturday night, killing Au
gustus Keil, a member of the firm.
Domestic trouble induced Mrs.
George Wietinger, of New York, to
kill herself and suffocate her four-year-old
daughter with gas, Monday
night.
By the wreck of a Houston and
Texas Central train on a trestle,
near McKinne, Tex., Monday, forty
passengers were injured, some serious-.
A deadlock continues in the Dela
ware Legislature, the Republicans
being unable to organize the House
after taking fifty ballots on the spea
kership.
The worst blizzard of the winter
struck Central Kentucky on Satur
day. The rain turned into a sleet,
followed by snow, and all traffic was
impeded.
In desperation with an attack of
the grip, Samuel Barrett, a railroad
station agent at Nashua Junction,
N. II., committed suicide with poi
son Saturda'.
The collapse of improvised bunks
a hall at Columbus, O., Friday
night, caught 200 members of the
Fourth Ohio Regiment in the wreck,
and some were severely injured.
At Middleton, O., Tuesday, Philip
Kueh was shot and killed by John)
Gifford, who then committed suicide
in a quarrel over a crop of tobacco
raised by Kuch on Gilford's farm.
An explosion of gasoline in the
steam laundry of II. L. Greer, at
Mil ford, Del., Thursday, caused a
fire which destroyed that structure,
and seriously damaged several stores.
Ninety persons were panic-strick
en by a fire in a East Ninety-seventh
street tenement, Ne.v York, Sunday
night, and Henry Mernstein leaped
from a window and was fatally in
jured.
While attempting to put out a fire
in her home at Philadelphia, Sunday
night, Mrs. Margaret Welsh was fa
tally burned. The blaze started by
the accidental upsetting of an oil
lamp.
During a fire which occurred while
they were alone in the house, Grace,
John and Eugene Wesley', children,
were suffocated at their home, near
Catonsville, Md , Thursday, while
the parents were in a neighboring
field.
While making repairs at the mouth
of the Cayuga colliery, near Scran
ton. Pa., Friday, -William McIIale, a
mine carpenter, opened the wrong
gate of the hoisting shaft and walked
into the abyss. He fell over M0
feet, and his body- was crushed out
of shape.
Foreign Affairs.
The Filipino Parliament will reas
semble at Malolos, Thu-sday.
General Ludlow h ' d ril'js
seized in several priv .; ms s
Havana.
There is a movemeni in France to
abol' ; representation of the col
onics 'arliament.
a i rg has protested against
Gemuy's restriction of livestock
imports from America.
According to the latest advices the
American troops have not landed at
Iloilo, Philippine Islands.
All the Spaniards on Balabac, one
of the Philippine Islands, are re
ported to have been assassinated.
It is stated in Madrid that a thous
and monks in the Philippines have
died of ill-treatment by Aguinaldo.
A terrible storm continues to rage
on the British coast and in the Bay
of Biscay. Many lives have been
lost.
By the bursting of a boiler in He
witt's shipbuilding yard, London, on
Monday, nine men were killed and
about 40 injured.
Great Britain has demanded that
Spain sell her a coaling station in
the Balearic Islands and also other
strategic points. "
Aguinaldo has gone to Iloilo to put
himself at the head of the Filipinos,
with a view of possible fighting with
the Americans.
General Otis has issued a procla
mation to tho Filipinos, holding out
the hope that they will one day have
a free government.
Serious strike riots have taken
place at Nagy-Komlos, Hungary,
the mob overpowering the police,
who narrowly escaped with their
lives.
A big mob has destroyed the In
ternal Revenue sentry boxes and
stoned the gendarmes at Niscemi,
Sicily, as a protest against excessive
taxation.
National Capital Matters.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washixjton, Jan. 6th, 1899.
Mr. McKinley is still playing foxey
on the Philippine question, and he
will probably keep it up un til the Sen
ate ratifies the treaty. The message
he sent with the treaty of peace to
the Senate was purely formal, and
might have been put in four words,
"here is the treaty," although the
administration must be in possession
of much information relating to the
present critical relations between
our troops and the Philippine insurg
ents which the Senate, and the people
would like to know. Not a word re
ceived from .Gen. Otis by the admin
istration since the insurgents in pos
session of Iloilo virtually defied Gen.
Miller and his troops, who had been
sent by Gen. Otis to take possession
of the town, has been made public,
except that reinforcements had been
sent to Gen. Miller. Although the
news from Manila is carefully censor
ed it has made it plain that the situ
tation is alarming and that a fight
between the insurgents and our
troops is among the daily probabil
ities. Should the natives start a re
volution against our authority, it
would undoubtedly result in increas
ing the sentiment against our keep
ing the Philippines; that may ac
count for so much official reticence.
The treaty of peace was taken up
to day by the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the expec
tation is that it will be reported to
the Senate sometime next week.
Opinion differs as to how soon a vote
will be reached. In fact, there will be
nothing tangible upon which to base
an opinion until the opponents of
the treaty indicate their intentions.
It is claimed that 70 Senators have
promised to vote for ratification.
Even if that claim be correct, enough
Senators would be left against the
treaty to prevent, if they are so dis
posed, its being voted upon at this
session, as the appropriation bills,
not one of which has yet been passed
by the Senate, the Nicaragua Caual
bill and other measures will all be
pressing for action, with the proba
bility that an extra session will be
necessary growing stronger every
day.
Jerry Simpson was in his seat
when Congress reassembled, for the
first time this session, lie is the
same old Jerry; defeat hasn't soured
him at all. lie savs he is still in poli
tics and expects to be as long as he
lives. He is strongly opposed to the
large standing army provided for by
the Bull bill, and will be heard frcm
before the bill is jammed through
the House.
Southern men who come to Wash
ington these days nearly all have
something to say about the proposi
tions to admit Confederate veterans
to government Soldiers' Homes and
the pension roll, and the substance
of the opinions of nine-tenths of them
is contained in the following remarks,
made by Mr. A. D. McClure, of Geor
gia: '"If any one supposes that the
southern people have the remotest
idea that the veterans of the Con
federate Army or their friends ex
pect pensions of the U. S. Govern
ment, or even reception into the
Soldiers' Homes, grievously mis
taken notion is cherished. Our people
are not dreaming of any such idea,
! for they are too sensible to entertain
any proposition so utterly romantic,
not t snv absurd. The old Johnnies
first-rate without any
bcu i om Washington. Our pen
sion list is already big enough, and
there is no need for futher burdens.
The whole idea is Quixotic and the
very first to denounce it would be the
proposed beneficiaries."
Whether the public gets a chance
to see the report of the army board
of survey, which is now secretly in
vestigating the charge of General
Miles, that the beef furnished our
soldiers in Cuba and Porto Rico was
"embalmed'' with chemicals, which
rendered it unfit to eat and danger
ous to health, will depend entirely
upon what Secretary Alger says
after the report has been submitted
to him, and what he will say will de
pend upon the nature of the report.
If it be against Miles, it will be
published as widely as possible; if it
confirm his charges, it will be
pigeon-holed for keeps. The beef
trust is working hard to convince
the board that they used no chemi
cals and that the beef furnished the
soldiers was the same that the trust
sells in every large city in the country
all the time. Gen. Miles is conducting
a independent investigation, through
the office of the Inspector General of
the army, and the War Investigating
Commission is also dallying with the
beef question.
Talk of the administration putting
a candidate in the field against Czar
Reed for the Speakership of the next
House is again prevalent. It is said
that Mr. Reed has been asked to de
fine his position towards the Hull
army bill and several other measures
in which the administration is deep
ly interested, and that if he does not
agree to aid in putting those measures
through the House, an administrat
ion candidate for Speaker of the next
House will at once be brought
out. Such talk has before amount
ed to nothing and will be so now
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Events for the
l'ast Seveu Days.
While felling a tree in Randolph
county a man named Denny Allred
was killed by a limb.
Jas. McRae, colored, of New Han
over county, was killed Saturday
oy me aceicentai discharge of a
gun.
The citizens of Whiteville are
getting up a petition, asking the
Legislature to establish a dispensary
there.
Continued ill health induced Mrs.
James Young, of Stokes county, to
commit suicide Monday by taking
strichnine.
A company with a capital of $3.
500 has been organized at Ashboro,
Randolph county, to establish a
chair factory.
Nannie Hill, colored, living near
Winston, was arrested Tuesday,
charged with strangling her eight
days old baby.
The Bank of Guilford, at Geecns
boro, closed its doors Wednesday
morning. J. S. Cox has been ap
pointed receiver.
A well developed case of smallpox
has made its appearance in North
ampton county. The man came from
Norfolk a few days ago.
In Gaston county, Saturday, the
wife of Thomas Helton eloped with
Asbury M. Abrani, a married man,
both leaving large families.
The Democrats havinggained con
trol of the board of education of New
Hanover county, all the negro school
committeemen have been ousted.
The four-year-old son of David
Thompson was burned to death in
Union county, Tuesday, during the
temporary abseuce of his mother.
Fire at Charlotte, Friday night,
destroyed the buildings occupied by
the Shaw-Howell Harness Company,
and Liddell & Co., causing a $75,000
loss.
Prof. John J. Blair has resigned
the superitendency of the city schools
of Winston to become superint
endent of the Wilmington public
schools.
In Wilmington, Monday night,
some one slipped into the residence
of Mrs. M. L. Brown and left an in
fant on her bed. There is no clue
to its identity.
The State Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction has been notified that
ex-Sheriff Edward Tillett, of Curri
tuck county, had embezzled nearly
$3 (100 of the public school fund.
The county commissioners of
Sampson county, on Monday, refused
the granting of liquor licenses, and
Clinton is therefore now a "dry
town" for the first time in its his-
torv.
deaf white man named J. W.
Cook, of Scotland Neck, was run
over and instantly killed by a train
at Rocky Mount, Saturdav, while
walking on the track that leads fo
the cotton mills.
The 18-months-old child of Ola
Anderson, colored, of Caldwell coun
ty, was burned to death Monday
night. The mother left the child
alone in the nouse. ine house was
burned and the child with it.
The eleven-year-old son of Jeffer
son Bishop, in Forsyth county, got
his father's bottle of whiskey Satur
day night and drank about a half
pint of the liquor. The boy died be
fore medical aid could be secured
While Rev. J. M. Rose, pastor of
the Morganton Presbyterian church,
was attending prayer-meeting Tues
day night, a burglar entered the
manse and stole 10 in cash and
srold chain from the desk in the
pastor's study.
At Barnardsville, Buncombe coun
ty, Friday, the bursting of a machine
in the pin factory of Mason vt Dixin-
son caused the death of J. B. Whitte-
more. A piece of the machinery was
thrown through Whittemore's body,
causing his death in three hours.
During a drunken row in Ashe
county, Saturday night, in which
John Hampton, Joe Stansberry and
John Goss were the participants,
Hampton and Stansberry were shot
and killed and Goss at last accounts
was not expected to live, and is pro
bably now dead.
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