Golds Headlight. $ TTT7' 1 ilJJjJ boro ;sT A!! LI SUED 1887. GOLDSBOltO, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1899. VOL. XII. NO. 42. l)o vou get up with a ! '!;t.re a bad tr.ste in v-.:r ir.oiith? Ilicii ov have a poor a-rcMe and a wcflk diges ., ,:,. You are frequently ,;:;:v, always feci dull and .!:vwsv. ou have cold Kind? and feet. You get hut little benefit from your food. You have no ambition if work and the sharp pains r r.curalia drt through vjr body . Th u is the cause cf all :!vs trouble? Ca-: Mipated bcwcls. Paying Double Prices i i'iii c i, c of" over Sooo bar- r ; r C'!i.t:t:utd in cur ,cn- . er.il C.iUii.'s::e of Furniture A a : i -: 1 i i ueiiKl ( ioods. V.; s:ive you from 40 to 60 I cr Lent, on everything. Wi,v I iv at ret.iil whJn vf.u know .t. of ik Whi. h ralalnirne !n -5- ,j. :": r , $.;.::. you want'.' Address this way, ,, VJI.LILS HISES & SON, Baltimore. Md. Dept. Oft'.Y TASTELESS :S JUST AS COOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE SOcts. ; AI.ATIA, It I.S., NOV. 1G, 1S'J3. 1 : V no ('.,., m. Louis, Mo. ' Wo tld laMt year, fiOO bottles of ,: I. - I Ti:l.i:.-S (1111,1, 'IONIC ami lmvo n .- ttlru:ily thiti year, lnatlowrcx- ' : .1 .-:ir. in the ilrin: business, have ' ' - . 1 rt 11 l.i iimt t'avi' :ui h uuivuraui oiiLis- -3 i jut Xuuie. Vyurstrulv, Ab.StV.CAEK JfcCO. .-a , itnl luuiuitcetl ly all FRANK BOYETTE, D. D. S, :'!! imr in the lin! f Dentistry ''- '.ii !!,,: -1 Mylc. r.i 'uli-and eniwii I, :, -J.i 1 in!! v." i ('-' Mlicc in li-i.nt fiHims of IJunlen ' 1 '''! J. over l'.i..' H I 'r. & Oil's lry Drs. John and William Spicer, I'liysiciaiis ;iinl Siiri?MMis. Ln. v. I- N"llli..n:ll Iti.illt. ;oij)sr,)ii), x. 1 V.-r 1 ln-ii- j 1 f- . u i:il ices to ,: 'i'' lor tin' tivatiiK'iit of (list-uses ' i.iinU. ainl in (rciicrul practice. DROPSY tiiiile lo-iii.-dies. Havt-curi'il manv tiiui.Saiid ta-es . n 1 1, 1. In trn Ja-vilt l-'t two thirds. .fall svuiptoiuM rwnuv- Kin,,,!,,,!, .) TEN DAYS irvatiucnt free, a. H. GIC-iES-S SUMS. B..i K, Atlanta, Ua. " i -FT Jy Keep Your ESood Pure A Y it vt'ii have neglected your s7 . i-- a long time, you had A ,v;c?s SarssparUSa y j. .-:im. It will remove all impurities that have been ::.otimuistin-n in your blood I 1 and will greatly strengthen y Yri'.e tl.a Doctor. ii. .y aometldns; about ji..ii.t:- recen o the test ft ' Ii'i J. ('. Aver, LiAvull, Muss. No ' ;' t'lls ah X I ' a:. i;t l;.ci-c'., Jcuiug j v . :t it ; f c::.t:.,r;- 4yy A 1 V ' .:. "I'ur'.aiw! 'in 1 Y j - '. - c. ; r, free, an.l ; j X f TT!!? turn'k'oV ii j f: . X ,1 ':-KeVr;.e;;:: x It ; , i 'ui ci.'j (-f over Sooo bar- , ! C'M.t:i:iicii in cur ,cn- 1 NTO Some Things Forever. Some things shall be forver; Mutter may change, as matters must; l he mountains crumble into dust, I he titles forget their ebb and How, 1 he earth no more its verdure know, the moon its light to darkness burn, .stars fade away, suns cease to turn Some things shall be forever. Some things shall perish never; 1 he wealth of gold, thediamonds worth, Shall vamsh with the miser earth, Honor aud glory shall be o'er And fame, e'en time shall be no more. Kingdoms shall crumble, and the hi.rh Shall f.ill, and death itself shall die Hut some tilings perish never. Some things shall live foryer; Reason shall perish never more, Memory shall keep her treasured store And will shall live, imperial will, And love or hate, for good or ill, This mystery of being, I. This conscience, self, shall never die Some things shall live forever. Some things shall be forever: Truth shall be changeless blessedness. Just ice abide and righteousness. And peace and heaven be their abode. God shall forever more be God, Shall sin with truth run parallel, And hell eternally be hull? Sonic things shall be forever. Cheerful Labor. The hardest task is made easy when it can be done cheerfully. The willing worker thinks only of the labor in hand and finds pleasure in doinj,' it. The unwilling worker is dissatisfied and renders himself un happy by vain regrets. Although these are the merest truisms known of all men, the knowledge is not always turned to useful account. If the labor we all have to perform may be made either a source of pleasure or of discomfort, we should surely take some pains to learn how to work cheerfully. That is one of the reasons why care should be taken in choosing an occupation. Unless we are interested in our work we cannot do it well, nor can we go to it day after day with a cheerful disposition. Nor can we work cheer fully, even at a congenial occupation, unless we have become habituated to labor regularly. Much of the happiness or unhap piness of our lives depends upon the habits we form when we are young, and happiness comes not to those who pursue pleasure, but to those who learn to carry within themselves a cheerful and contended disposition. The pleasure-seeker must have change and excitement he cannot content himself with a dull routine of work; but the great majority are required by force of circumstances to labor daily, and, therefore, it is the part of wisdom to learn to work cheerfully and to seek pleasure in labor. There are other pleasures to be found in life, but they. will be ap preciated more keenly if they have been earned. To realize this it is only necessary to note the zest with which the cheerful worker enters upon a brief holiday, and the lang uid air of his fellow who on the same occasion seeks an outing, but to whom the holiday has no significance because his indulgent parents per mit him to live in idleness. The well-to-do often envy their poorer neighors because of the keen appetites of those who work hard and have few luxuries; they have as much reason to envy the cheerful worker to whom a holidayr is a great event. The hours that most people can give to so-called pleasure are few in numbercom pared to the hours they must give to work, and their happi ness will be greatly increased if they can learn to labor cheerfully. This is largely a matter of mental habit and the young should start right in forming habits. The first thing to learn is promptness in begiuing a task. The more one stops to consider about going to work the more dis tasteful the idea becomes. There is no trouble about getting out of bed in the morning when one is called, provided the summons is instantly obeyed. Hut it becomes more and more difficult to get up the longer one lies in bed thinking about it. So also there is no trouble about going to work of any kind if one starts at the appointed time, instead of lingering and making a vain effort to postpone the begiuing of the day labor. Good habits having been formed in the matter of starting, activity and earnestness in doing the work will shut out idle thoughts and enable one to do the appointed task cheerfully. Idleness is the parent of many vagrant thoughts; the cheer ful worker becomes so intent upon his task that he thinks of nothing else. Cheerful labor has in this a good moral influence, and every one should therefore endeavor to acquire such habits as will make work a source of pleasure. The man who never failed is a myth. Such a one never lived, and is never likely to live. All success is a series of efforts, in which, when closely viewed, are seen more or less failure, The mountain is apt to overthrow the hill; but the hill is reality, never theless. If you fail now and then don't be discourage. An Kpltlemic of IMarrlioe. Mr A. Sunders, writing from Cocoa- nut Grove. Klu.. suvs there has been ,,,.it,. :in enideinic of diarrhoea there. He hud a severe attack and was cured In- fniir ilnsi's of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He suvs he also recommended it to others ami they sav it is the l.est medicine they ever used. " For sale by M. E. Robin son & Hro., J. H. Hill & Son, and Miller's Drug Store, Goldsboro; and J. R. Smith, Mount Olive. AKPON TRUSTS. Bill Deems the Tension Trust the Big gest Trust of All. David saith "Put not your trust in princes," and if he had lived in our day he would have added nor in mill ionaires or oil trusts or sugar or vviskeyor tobacco or even in chewing gum trusts." "Trust in the Lord and do good is the only trust he commended. I wonder why these combines are called trusts. I reckon it is because the combiners know it is a rascally business and they will have to trust one another to tote fair and divide square, for they can't enforce it by law. These trusts seem to be a modern invention a North America idea an idea of our north ern brethren to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The consumers of oil and sugar and such things are not complaining of the price nor wouid they complain if they got them for nothing, but these combines are founded on selfishness and greed. They disturb the general welfare des troy the equilibrium and put the pub lic inconstant peril. They can raise the price when they wish to and there is no competition to keep it down. If competition dares to build up against them they can destroy it in a week or a month. They have no heart or city or kind consideration for their employees, but can reduce their wages or discharge them at their pleasure. They defy the law and bribe courts and lawmakers. Now, it may be possible that the oil trust or the sugar trust sell us those commodities as cheap or cheaper than if there were no trusts, but we would rather pay more and have a free fight. It is all a one-sided busi ness and the old maxim that "com petition is the life of trade" has been virtually destroyed. We old men have ceased to lament the destruction of the hundreds of small industries that before the war enriched our state and made the peo ple happy and contended. The time was when there was a wagon shop and a blacksmith shop at every cross roads a hatter's shop and two or three shoehops in every village a tan yard in every settlement and little mills on every creek. Iiut big fish have swallowed up the little ones. Their products may be cheaper now, but the producers have had to move away or go to plan tingcotton. North ern capital takes our iron and timber and hides and wool and after paying freight both ways sells back to us what we had been making at home. Time was when 1 ware shoes made in our village made from leather that was tanned not faraway. Time was when I was proud of the wool hat that Hen South made made while I was looking on. I remember that the whipping post was planted not far from the hatter's shop and how I ran home on one occasion to keep from seeing a white man whip ped. "I will meet you at the hat ter's." was a time-honored maxim, but is not now. Time was when once a week I rode the little bay mare to mill three miles away and left my grist so as to have a race back with some other boy. And there was a country school on that road and the boys waylaid us because we had dared to cry "school butter." This reminds me to say in passing I received a letter the other day from some Alabama schoolboys wanting to know the origin and mean ing of shool butter. My father was an old time school teacher and said that in his boyhood the expression was "school butter" and signified that "our school it better than your school," and is always provoked a collision. Some very hungry boys corrupted it into "school butter." But the town boys never go to mill nowadays; the mill comes to them. Home made shoes and hats arc thing of the past everything comes from the North, and is made by a trust; and on almost everything we use or consume there is a duty or tariff, and we pay our part of it to keep up the government expenses and pay the pensions and light the Filipinos. Talk about trusts that pension trust is the biggest trust of all, and the most corrupt. How the north stands it I cannot understand. Ohio gets $13,000,000 this year.and Geor gia has to pay her quota of the $Ki0, 000,000 and gets nothing. I bought a pocket knife today for 50 cents that I could have bought in London for half as much. Just think of it my brethren, $0,000,000 in tariff taxes annually to support a million pen sioners, one tenth of whom are en titled to it under the new-law and nine-tenths are frauds. If this was all that Georgia paid we would be happy, but our state has to pay her part of $8,000,000 more than it takes to run the national machine. Alto gether we pay not less than $10,000, 000 annually for the privilege of re maining in the Union How is that for oppression? I tell you, it takes a vast amount of patriotism for a man to love his government and fight for it. The only way to be a patriot is to shut one's eyes and go it blind. It would not do to think about our grievances, for they interfere with our digestion. Besides all these troubles there is a long, dry drought upon us, and our gardens have dried up and the mon ey has given out, and the cook is sick, and I have to hunt up the kind ling wood and fire up the stove be fore sun-up and go to market, and there is a picnic on hand tomorrow and one of the little grandchildren got hurt on the joggling board. It tore the flesh from her ankle, and I almost cried; and our dog and an other dog got to fighting right over another dog and knocked her down and scared her into fits, and I couldn't run to her as fast as I wanted to, for my corporosity interferes with my alacrity. Besides all this, the town is kept in commotion about jug bus iness, and it has got into courts and into the churches, and folks have taken sides and friends are alienated and a man don't dare to go to town hardly for fear of being drawn into it. "A soft answer turneth away wrath," but they are not soft in these parts. "When a man's ways please the Lord Ife maketh even his enemies be at peace with him," but his ways don't seem to please the Lord in Cartersville, for his enemies are not at peace with him. The great question here is not about drinking or selling whiskey, but is about the right of a man to order a bottle or a jug from Atlanta for his private use or for medicinal pur poses; and its agitation and denun ciation has made as much talk as the magna charta, and both sides declare they will take it to the supreme court of the United States of North America and the Philipines. Then, again, Hon. Pope Brown, the zealous president of the State Agricultural Society, says the state will not prosper any more uutil the negroes are sent away or colonized; but if they won t go, what is to be done about it? He says that educa tion has ruined the negro as a labor er, but how is it to be stopped? The rich fools at the north keep on dying and leaving money to negro schools, and our law-makers keep on making appropriations for them and taxing us to educate them to oppose our people and take sides with our polit ical enemies, who are killing negroes in Indiana because they want work. And now the war party want ne groes to go to the Philippines and fight other negroes. That would be a good deliverance all round, but I don't believe they will go to any ex tent. The nigger is in t lie wood pile, and he is here to stay. Let Li in stay as long as he behaves, and if they won't behave and be good citizens they will suffer in the flesh. Our people are tired fooling with them, and desperately in earnest. I reckon we can get up excursions and take all the bad ones to Indiana aud drop them. They will go on an excursion. Bill Ari A Woman's Bank. The Fifth Avenue National bank of New York has 5,000 women deposi tors. It is situated at the corner of Forty-fifth tteet and Fifth avenue, in the midt of the residences of wealthy classes, and is almost ex clusively patronized by rich women, who keep their household accounts and pin money there. The receiving tellers are very busy during the first few days of every month, when the patrons of the bank bring in the al lowances they have received from their husbands or fathers, but the rest of the time they have compara tively few depositors to take care of, and have plenty of time to assist the paying tellers in cashing checks that have been drawn to meet grocery or dressmakers' bills. A (Jirdle of Bicycles. It is estimated that there are now in use throughout the world about 14,000,000 bicycles. What this number of wheels means may be real ized better, perhaps, when it is said that if they were put in line, allowing a space of nine feet for each machine, they would reacli almost entirely round the world at the center, or the point of the greatest circumfer ence. To be exact, it would take 14,590, 814 bicycles to encircle the earth, allowing nine feet for each machine. It would be a difficult matter to as certain an absolutely correct esti mate of the number of bicycles in use, but it is likely that 14,000,000 is something below the actual num ber. IS IT ltKiHT For an Kditor to Itec-oiunieri 1'atent Me.Ilcine? Kr.nn Sylvan Valley News. Hrt?vard, N. C. It may he a question whether the editor of a newspaper has the right to publicly recommend and of the various proprie tary medicines which flood the market, yet as a preventive of suffering we feelit a duty to say a good word for Chamber lain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. We have known and used this medicine in our family for twenty years and have always found it reliable. In many cases a dose of this remedy would save hours of suffering while a physician is awaited. We do not be lieve in depending implicitly on any medicine for a cure, but we do believe that if a bottle of Chamberlain's Diar rheoa Remedy were kept on hand and administered at the inception of an at tack much suffering might be avoided and in very many cases the presence of a physician wouitLnot be required. At least this has been our experience during the past twenty years, l or sale by M. E. Robinson & Iro., J. II. Hill & Son, and Miller's Drug Store, Goldsboro; and J. R. Smith, Mount Olive. A NATION'S DOIXUS. The News From Everywhere (fathered and Condensed. While deranged Saturday, Benja min Lang, aged 84, killed his wife at Boston, Mass. Fourteen hundred striking cigar ette girls have returned to work in Richmond, Va. A Knights of Pythias picnic train was wrecked near Danville, 111., Sat urday, and three men were killed. Five hundred convicts in the Anamosa penitentiary, Des Moines, la., have struck for better rations. At Neillsville, Wis., Tuesday, Miss Alice Willan and Mrs. Neil Morrison were thrown from a buggy and killed. C.-azed by jealousy, William Kelly shot and killed his wife in Lowell, Mass., Monday, and suicided in like manner. Two men were scalded to death by the collapse of a steam flue on the river steamer St. Paul, at St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday. A train struck a crowded carriage at Indianapolis, Ind., Monday, and killed seven-3'ear-old Hazel Shaffer and injured three others. Branson Troy was killed by light ning at Morgantown, W. Va., Wed nesday night, during a storm which unroofed many dwellings. A trainload of negro miners was fired on near Cartersville, 111., Fri day, one woman being killed and twenty other persons wounded. Mayor James Balbirnie, of Muske gon, Mich., was shot and killed Fri day by a disappointed office-seeker, who afterward committed suicide. A combination of nearly all the Virginia and North Carolina peanut factories has been effected. The trust will have a capital of $5,000, 000. The steamer Margaret Olwill went down in the storm off Lorain, Lake Erie, Friday night. Twelve people were lost, including the captain and his family. Being out of work and despondent, George J. Booze of Canton, Md., committed suicide in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Friday morning, by shoot ing himself in the head. As the result of insomnia, mel ancholy and nervous prostration, Hon. Charles F. Collier, of Peters burg, Va., shot himself through the head Thursday morning, dying in stantlv. Five men were drowned in the Mississippi river near Clarksville, Mo., Thursday, by the overturning of a skiff. Thev were 'overnment laborers engaged in the river im provement works. All southwest and central Texas was visited by terrific rain storms Monday, which have practically tied up all the railroads in that section. Many hundreds of acres of farming land are under water and much cot ton will be badly damaged. A l.'i-year-old boy named Thomas near Athens, Ala., Tuesday night, stabbed and killed his older sister, who had quarreled with him for not helping support the family. He then turned on his aged mother, who had come to her daughter's assistance, and slashed her so terribly that she died in a short time. A few months ago the boy and his father were out hunting, when the latter was shot in the back and killed, suppositively by his son. Foreign Affairs. There have been 13 cases of yellow fever in Havana this year. The new Supreme Court at Manila has begun to hold sittings. A severe earthquake occurred Monday at Pisa and Florence, Italy. The transport Grant, carrying the Sixteenth Infantry, has arrived at Manila. The British fleet has been ordered to mobilize at Chatham, England, July 11. The transport Ingalls is on the way to Santiago with money to pay the Cuban soldiers there. The turbulence at Saragossa, Spain, continues, and fresh troops have been stationed in that city. Sixteen new cases of 3'ellow fever and four deaths from the disease were reported in Santiago, Cuba, Tuesday. General Wilson has taken meas ures to punish the Americans who caused the recent riotous outbreak at Cienfuegos, Cuba. General Otis in a cablegram de scribing the situation in the Philip pines, says 12 per cent, of the sol diers are reported sick. The gunboat Albay has notified the people of Batayan, Philippine Islands, that they must raise the American flag or be bombarded. Brigands captured Benedetto Leon ardo, a millionaire, near Salerno, Italy, last week, and released him on the payment of $10,000 ransom. Captain Dreyfus arrived at Rennes, France, Saturday morning. A court martial to try him has been appoint ed, with Colonel Jouaust as president. Financial and Commercial. Special Correspondence. Nkw York, July 3, 180i. Business during the past week has been less active in some directions, owing to impending holidays and the fact that in some departments it is the custom to make semi-annual stock inventories; but these adverse influences have had this year much less than their usual effect in con traction of trade. All the statistics available indicate a volume of gen eral business greatly in excess of that of any former year at the cor responding period. There has been no unfavorable change in trade con ditions. The industrial situation is particularly strong. In some indus tries the order books are so crowded that producers are unable to accept new business, and in many others production is so largely sold ahead that new engagements can be taken only for distant delivery periods. The exceptionally active condition of the manufacturing trades gives strong support to values and maintains a large distributing movement even in branches of trade in which there is a temporary slackening of new de mand. The crop outlook has been improved by generally favorable weather, and there is sustained con fidence and hopefulness with regard to fall trade prospects in the' agri cultural sections as well as in the manufacturing and commercial cen tres. Business failures during the past week, according to R. G. Dun & Co., numbered 181 in the United States and 22 in Canada, against 254 in this country and 15 in Canada during the corresponding period last year. Cotton prices have declined J of a cent and recovered 1-10 of a cent per pound as speculation has been influ enced by crop reports; but the latter have been in the main favorable, and there has been a considerable liqui dation by contract holders whose ex pectations of a rise in prices had been persistently disappointed. De mand from spinners and exporters has continued moderate. Domestic trade in cotton goods has been rather quiet at first hands, but a good bus iness is expected after the coming holiday. The feature of the cotton goods trade has been a continued ac tive inquiry for export, and as mills running on export grades of staple goods are largely oversold the bulk of the new business lias been for dis tant future shipment. Values of cottons are firmly maintained, in spite of the recent decline in the price of the raw staple. The wool trade is active, andpriyes are strong in all markets. The new clips are rapidly passing out of growers' hands into those of Eastern dealers and country operators, who are gen erally holding for higher prices; and manufacturers are buying more free ly at prices for wools in the grease, which indicates an advance from the recent lowest rates of anywhere from 5 to 10 cents per scoured pound. Wheat prices have declined 2 to 21 cents per bushel. A bearish sen timent has been encouraged in the speculative markets by the generally satisfactory progress of the winter wheat harvest, and by the continu ance of an unusually free movement of wheat to market centres both in winter and spring grain sections, but particularly in the Northwest. Crop conditions in the spring wheat belt are fairly favorable, although there is considerable complaint about excessive moisture, aud the situation as a whole does not suggest the probability of a yield equal to that of last year. The big receipts, how ever, and the nearness of new wheat shipments have prevented the de velopment of much strength in the markets. Foreign crop advices con tinue unsatisfactory from Russia and Roumania, but from other parts of Europe they have generally fa vored the expectation of reas6nably good harvests. There has been a fair export demand for wheat, but the requirements of exporters have not been sufficiently large nor ur gent to give much support to values. The world's wheat resources for the coming year are still a matter of un certainty, but the situation so far as at present understood encourages the belief in export trade circles that European demand will be fully equal to the probably reduced surplus which this country will be able to spare for foreign shipment. Prices of corn have receded 1 of a cent per bushel, owing to very large receipts in primary markets and the steadily improving condition and promise of the growing crop. There has been a good export demand for this cereal, but it has been met by abundant offerings, and the recent tendency toward a reduction in vis ible stocks has been arrested. The supply in sight is moderate, howev er, and interior reserves of corn are believed to be comparatively small. The hog movement to packing cen tres in the West has continued large, but there has been a good distribu tion of product for home consump tion and a considerable increase in exports both of meats and lard. Chicago values of speculative sta ples have been well maintained, and prices of hams have ad-vanced as a result of increased consumption. ALL OVER THE STATE. A S ii m mar j of Current Events for the Past Seven Days. A vicious bull gored to death George N. Sellers, of Macon county, Saturday. Fifteen houses at Gaston ia were burglariously entered within two nights of last week. The Winston and Salem postoffices are now one. The consolidation was made Friday night. Bostou capitalists will rebuild the Benbow House, at Greensboro, that was recently burned. In a drunken row at Wadesboro, Monday evening. Will Sturdivant killed Doreman Till man. Both colored. The slayer is in jail. Richard M. Johnson, colored, of Cumberland county, while cutting trees Friday morning was struck by a falling limb and instantly killed. William Hamilton, colored, aged 15, was drowned in Green's mill pond near Wilmington, Wednesday, while in swimming with companions. Ned Niven, colored, of Anson county, got his hand caught in the feeder of a threshing machine Tues day and sustained injuries from which he died soon after. Quite a sensation was caused at Wadesboro, Thursday, by the arrest of Wilson Readfern, a well connected young white man, on the charge of looting a store by means of a false key. An employe, a "trusty" and an ex convict have been systematically robbing the commissary of the peni tentiary at Raleigh. They were discovered and captered Wednesday night. Luther Marshall attempted to com mit suicide at Enfield, Tuesday, by shooting himself in the right breast with a pistol. His recovery is doubt ful. He had been on a spree for several days. Francis Emery Sumner, a leading merchant of Asheviile, was arrested at Charlottesville, Va., on Tuesday, charged with deserting his wife and children and eloping with Miss Annie Ellerby, of Gaffney, S. C. Wesley Booth, aged S2, who lived near Cary, was struck by a Southern train Saturday afternoon while on his way home from Raleigh. He was driving across the track and was un der the influence of liquor. Horace Lane, a young white man, was carved to death by John A. Joney, in Cleveland county, Thurs day, the outcome of a love affair. Lane is the third of his name and family to meet a violent death in tLe past few years. Tom Meadows, of Graham county, who was thought to have suicided some six or eight months ago, died at the hands of his wife, who shot him. The recent grand jury of that county found a true bill to this effect against her. The steamer Mayflower, the mail, passenger and freight steamer, plying between Plymouth and Windsor, capsized and sunk in the thorough fare between Roanoke and Cashi rivers, Friday afternoon. The crew and all passengers were saved except an infant who went down with the steamer. It is supposed that the boat was overloaded. Odd Items of Slate Xews. In East Durham, Wednesday night, Raleigh Floyd and Miss Fannie Floyd, a blind couple, were united in marri age at the home of the bride. The Davie Record says that Mr. Richard Campbell, -of Rowan, was in Mocks ville last week, wearing a pair of shoes which he has worn abut a year and which were made out of the hides of six squirrels. Arthur Williams is a genius among rogues. Some time ago he broke into Braswell's store at Battleboro, was caught and placed in jail. He escaped, returned to the scene of his former operations, broke into the same store, stole $15 in cash and made good his escape again. According to tae Lincoln Journal Archie Huffstetler, aged 27, a blind inmate of the poor house, and Sallie Ingle, a widow aged 37, with four children, who was until recently an inmate of the same institution, were married Saturday night at 10 o'clock by Esquire Philip Carpenter. The mother of the groom is also an inmate of the poor house. Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum bating powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. ROYAL BAKIMO KJWQt CO., NtW TOOK. What stODS Neuralula? Dr. M1W Pain PUta. mm Ail Excellent Combination. The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known reined v, Svitrp of Figs, manufactured by the Califokxia Fig Syrup Co., illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxa tive principles of plaDts known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxa tive, cleansing the system effectually, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers gently yet promptly and enabling one to overcome habitual constipation per manently. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and sub stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the Califokxia Fio Sviii p Co. only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE. KV. NEW TORS, N. Y. For sale l.y all Druggists. Price Soc. per buttle. ISA SYSTEM BUILDER.GIVES APPETITE & CORRECTS THE LIVER. TASTELESS , Chill tonic is sold Strictly cn its Merits. If is The best Chill Tonic at the smallest price, and your money refunded if if fails to cups you. (fsT'Kor sale by Kobiiwin tV: Hro., and all druggi-ts ami medicine dealers. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM CletDM ud betutinef the htii. Promotes ft luxuriant growth. Never to Be. tore Gray Hair to Us Youthful Color. Curt caip diiMKi Ji b&ir tauif. c.nd II Wat lru(,r; VIRGINIA COLLEGE l'r VlllMi LADIES, lloam.ke, Va. Oi-ens S.i.t. l.-tli. One of tli.- lead i ni! S-li. x.ls for Vomii! I.adu's in tlie South. .Nhiftiilici-iit Imilil- all iiPMtern improvements. 'uinus ten acre-,. (irand mountain scenery in alley of V a., famed for health. KiirojK-an and American teachers. Full course. Su-rior advantaevs in Art and Music. Students from twentv-seven Mates. For catalogue ldrcss t lie President. .MATTli: P. UAKKIS Uoaiioke, Va. Write for the free booklet: lihyme for Thirsty 1'itiu t." ' Merry Mnires Rootbeer time is here THE CHARLES E. HIRES CO.. Philadelphia, Pa. Maker of Hires Cundens' U Milk, Ckk-ftesin'ft r.cll.ft IMuoaa rM. Pennyroyal pills mi Hnaui In Iffsd and ttuld netaltloX Mia. aiad with b'.os nbboa. Take Vr i Mthn. tortus tmoroua ub4(UU V twiuad'tatvm. i brogjnata. or a4 4ft. in alaror fur parttenlara, l--timonl.l .1, J Kellef tar l-ftllt,' teller, b retara ir mail, a " w . falpbeaterCkcaaicaltlIadlMa 11 nee. Sou Lr aL locL ImiutM. l'lliLADA.. I'A. J. M. PARKER, Over Miller's Drug Store, Paiiiless extraction of teeth and root bv the new drug. -KL'CAINK IIYDKO- C'LOKA l E " Sab-and effective when skilfully used. (3T SPECIAL attention given to mak ing false teeth. BooMe ping, Business, PHONOGRAPHY, Type-Writing Teiegraphj am GENERAL W.R.SMITH, LEXINGTON. KY.f For circular of hi famous and responsible COMMERCIAL COLLEGE OF KY. UNIVERSITY Awarded 31 edal t VTorld i Exposition. Refem to thouaand of graduates in pnaitiotn. Coat of Fall Kaalaru Coarse, including Iui. tion, books and Board ill family, about t-O. Shorthand, Type-Writing, and Telegraphy , Specialties BgTh Kentucky University Diploma, under aeal, awarded graduate. Literary Course free, if deain-J. KoTaralloo. Enter now. Graduates successful. In order to ie r UUrrt reack J, adtlrea only, GENERAL WILBUR R. SMITH, Lexlngton.Ky. tirte. Kenluck v I'nwmity rrtourcrt. .Aiai.ujn, and mad aearly louu Uudenit in attendance but year. YANKEE J BICYCLES Ntrlrtly First Class With Nickel-' ' Dialed Ijiuiu and Hell. , (second-hand Wheels, all makes, 9S.OO up. Mapped C O. l. ou approval. Write for catalogue aud full particulars. YtHi:t t'Vtl.K CO. S; South JiiiitUtu PuilttUt-lrhi. I' igi LOOK FOU TUC fLjc' f NONE CtNUINS RED CROSS. ESSBmXK WITHOUT IT. V af IF- 'Ik LfU