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GOLDSBORO, N. C, THUKSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1901.
VOL. XV. NO. lf.
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CMICMFSTCR'S ENGLISH
.Motlier's Song.
Of life's thorny, rugged track.
As we tarry, looking hack.
Tender memories sweetly rise
To t lie simple and the wise.
And among the various throngs
Softly eehoes mother's songs.
First o'er every sunny head,
In its little cradle bed,
Kent the tender face and true,
With the love-light shining through,
Crooned the baby lullaby,
Crooned the baby lullaby.
When the little feet could walk,
And the lisping tongue could talk.
Then was put to loving use
Wiser (?) songs of Mother Goose,
Till the baby laughter rang
Merrily as mother sang.
Then as growing girls and boys,
Tasting childhood's dearest joys,
Mother's voice we loved to hear
Singing songs of hope and cheer,
Chanting hymns in her sweet waj',
Hymns whose echoes live to-day.
nearest mother, airs divine
Ne'er can seem like hymns of thine,
Klessed hymns we hope to hear
When the heavenly land we near,
Hymns of welcome, hymns of peace,
When all care and pain shall cease.
Envy and Jealousy.
Among the commonest faults that
mar humanity are envy and jealousy.
They are complementary faults usu
ally coexistent, en vy being the de
sire to possess that which belongs to
another; jealousy being the desire
to keep in exclusive possession some
thing which may be one's own or
common property. Envy has a
somewhat broader sense than covet
ousness, which is prohibited in one
of th , commandments, but it at
least includes covetousness if it is not
a synonym therefor. It is a petty
and contemptible fault, but like
many other faults, may be develop
ed by habit. Its development may,
therefore, be resisted by the cultiva
tion of generosity and sympathy.
The natural disposition of an envi
ous man is to exalt his own success
and decry those of other people,
even those whom he is pleased to
call his friends. He soon develops a
venomous, malignant disposition.
Some ac-quain tance or friend passes
him in the race of life; instead of re
joicing in the hitter's success he seeks
depreciatory explanations of it His
eavy leads him to detraction, and he
explains that not his friend's merit
but some fortuitous circumstance led
to promotion or proved the turning
point in a successful career. Re
flections of this kind render the en
vious man morose and unhappy.
He is not only envious of his friends;
he is discontented with himself. He
bars the way to his own advance
ment by the evil of his disposition,
for he is not an agreeable companion;
he sacrifices the friendships that
might have been of service to him,
and by his brooding over imaginary
slights and wrongs he chills the en
ergy that might have served to help
him in his own career. Far from
encouraging the growth of an envi
ous disposition, one should aim to
repress it.
If we cannot rejoice over the good
fortune of others we should at least
refrain from envy of them, attending
strictly to our own discharge of duty
in the confident belief that rewards
will come to those who deserve them.
The reasons for success or failure
are not always obvious; sometimes
chance plays a part in determining
the course of one's life, but in gen
eral there is something more than
mere chance; there is merit of some
kind back of every advancement.
One workman remains at the bench
all his life; another of no greater
manual skill becomes a foreman, is
admitted to the firm, and at the end
of -) or :-() years is widely separated
from his fellow-apprentice. To the
superficial observer the men may be
on terms of equality, but there is
generally some difference between
them, not necessarily a difference of
intellectual power or manual skill,
but a difference of character. It
may be that one is timid, retiring,
lacking decision, the other bold, en
terprising and bright; the one is a
good servant, the other is fitted to
command; the one remains a work
man, the other is advanced and given
control of a shop or department.
One man has agenius for business;
another of equal or greater intellec
tual power lacks enterprise, the abil
ity to master details or the patience
to keep accounts; the one will suc
ceed where the other fails. But there
is no reason or excuse for envy on
! the part of the man whose equipment
has proved inferior. He should re
i joice that his friend or companion
has succeeded, or should at least
I banish from his mind any feeling of
Irnw. contenting himself with doing
! his own work to the best of his abil
ity Envy accomplishes nothing,
hut tends to make its victim misan
'throtjic. It is a fruitful source of
' unhappiness, and instead of inspiring
! such emulation as might be of serv
I ice, tends to paralyze effort and thus
! render the envious man less and less
' lit to compete for the prizes yet
i within his reach.
i How to Cure Croup.
Mr. II. Cray, who lives near Amenia,
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1 cirs mnp.lv for croup and never fails
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I child becomes hoarse, or even after the
croiipv cough nas developed, it w m pre-
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HAS DONE XO GOOD.
Bill Arp Says Educating the Negro Has
Keen a Failure.
A neighbor said to me, "Major,
what is all this racket about this
rumpus this swimporium about the
nigger? Have they broke loose?
Have they riz again? You remem
ber how they used to rise before the
war, but they generally went to the
corn field or the cotton patch. I've
been readin' the New York Journal
and it looks like something must have
happened out in Mississippi or some
where and the bishops and "college
folks and Yankee women are mightily
bothered about 'em."
Well, it is amusing to read these
stale platitudes and theories about
the negro. A few of them are sensi
ble, some of them a delusion, and
some of them almost idiotic. With
most of them education seems to be
the panacea for everything and some
of them want kindergarten schools
for the babies and separate schools
for the mothers to learn physiolgy.
Some of the northern female antiqui
ties want social equality and hint at
miscegenation as the coming remedy.
Some say that separation is the only
solution and the negro must go, and
some say that money spent on their
education widens the gulf between
the races. One very sensible writer
says stop their voting and stop pay
ing taxes for their education.
Take them altogether and they
don't harmonize on any plan, though
a large mojority, with Dr. Curry in
the iead, are for education more
education. Well, it is possible for
even so great and good a man as Dr.
Curry to be mistaken. He and Bish
op Candler and some others on that
line have made a long business of
educating young people, and are nat
urally disposed to magnify its impor
tance, but it seems to me when we
try an experiment for thirty years
and spend over one hundred millions
of dollars on it, and the negroes get
worse instead of better, it is time to
halt and try some other method.
These negroes are a new genera
tion knowing nothingof slavery. The
northern idea seems to be that these
are the same negroes we had before
the war, and that they have recently
emerged from slavery and semi-barbarism,
and must be educated into
good citizenship. This is a mistake.
The old-time negroes had a very good
education not in book learning, but
by contact and association with their
masters and their masters' families
and neighbors. Education is not all
gotten from books. It comes through
the ear as well as through the eye.
Our old-time slaves were better edu
cated for usefulness and happiness
than are the college graduates of
to day. They had more common -
sense and far more morality. We
had among them carpenter, masons,
blacksmiths, tanners, shoemakers,
tinners, wagon makers, painters,
paperers, railroaders, and we had
good farmers and ginnersand millers
and hostlers.
Among the women we had weavers,
carders, spinners, seamstresses,
chambermaids, butter makers, cooks
and nurses and they were all educat
ed in their business. I owned a car
peuter who could plan and build a
first-class house and make a hand
some mantel and run a modern stair
case, l owned anotner w no grew up
from infancy with my children, and
who could paint and paper and cook
and put down carpets and do other
useful things, and he was my faithful
bodyguard during the war and is
still devoted to my family. Educa
tion why, the children taught Tip
to read, and that was enough for
him, and he was always contented
and happy. He had the daily benefit
of example and precept. Why is it
that we have now over 4,000 convicts
and did not have one then? All this
maudlin philanthropy has come from
the idea that our negroes were sav
ages until freedom came, when the
truth is they were better fed and
clothed and housed and far happier
than the poor of the northern States.
I do not remember to have ever pun
ished but one of our slave our own
boys got most of the whippings and
the negroes grew up in fear of it.
It is not the lack of education that
increases crime and fills our prisons,
for it is recorded that 47 per cent, of
the convicts can read and write.
What is wanted is good moral train
ing and the fear of punishment for
crime. The negroes get none of this
from their parents or their teachers
or preachers, while in slavery their
race trait of stealing little things
was curbed and restrained, but it has
come back in full force and now all
of this generation will steal with but
few exceptions. We have not had
but one domestic servant in twenty
five years would not steal, or, as
thev call it, take little things on the
sly. We expect them to steal and
ar3 never disappointed. It is just as
much a race trait in the negro as it
is in the Arabs or the posterity of
Ishmael. It is to the credit of the
negro that he will not cheat you or
betray your confidence. It is to the
discredit of Jews and Gentiles that
they will cheat you or deceive you if
they can "honorably."
But the most alarming trait among
the negroes is their utter disregard
for chastity and their conjugal obli
gations. A large majority of the
negro women are harlots and their
children are bastards. This lack of
womanly virtue is no drawback on
their social standing or their church
membership. If a woman belongs to
the Daughters of Zion and pays her
mite to the preacher she is one of the
saints. A negro is never turned out
of the church. They never suffer
from remorse or the stings of con
science. They fear ghosts and grave
yards, but not hell or the devil.
Their religion is a compound of emo
tion and superstition. Neither the
jail nor the gallows gives them much
concern, for they spend their time in
eating and sleeping then go straight
to Jesus. They are a curious and
interesting race of people. Imita
tive as monkeys, they readily fall
into all the vices and follies of the
white folks negro boys all smoke
cigarettes. The young bucks about
the towns and cities wear tan shoes
aod the girls wear spectacles and
black stockings because the white
girls do. A lady who has recently
gone to Washington city to live
writes to The New York Press that
she cannot get a reliable or trust
worthy negwi servant, and says:
"Have all the good negroes gone
down south to Booker Washington's
school? What has become of all that
faithful, dog-like service the south
erners tell us about? I have tried a
whole procession of them, and they
have worn out my patieuce. The
last one I engaged came next morn
ing at 10 o'clock wearing a white
tulle hat and a pink satin bodice!"
But we still find them willing and
useful at my house, and patriarchs
like my wife and myself who have to
keep open house for our numerous
offspring and kindred and friends
cau hardly get along without them.
I can still black my shoes and go to
market and the post office and work-
in the garden, and I don'tmind mak
ing one fire in the morning, if I feel
well enough to get up, but there are
numerous little things I don't like to
have to do. Old Uncle Tom is chop
ping wood for me now, and my wife
has just sent him a cup of coffee and
some biscuit to help out his dinner.
She has great regard for these old,
humble, good natured negroes. I
don't believe Uncle Tom would steal,
for he says it was whipped out of
him when he was a boy. Pity it is
not the rule now to whip them and
save them from the chain-gang.
What a den of negro burglars and
thieves there must be in Atlanta,
judging from the daily business of
the recorder's court. I reckon it is
as bad in the other cities, but we
don't hear of it. Bishop Gailor says
the Tennessee people have tried edu
cation long enough and the people
will no longer be overriden with a
horde of trifling, illiterate and im
moral negroes. Mississippi declares
that although the negroes outnumber
the whites, they pay only 10 percent,
of the poll tax and get back CO per
cent, for their own education, and
that has got to be stopped. If a ne
gro wont pay a dollar a year for the
education of his children tbey don't
deserve it, and the people have de
termined toquit spending half a mil
lion a year upon them. Georgia
seems determined to do the same
thing and our people will all say
amen. Let them have the taxes they
pay and no more. Education is too
cheap anyhow. Nothing is prized
that costs nothing. Old Colonel
Howard, whom everybody in this
community loved and honored, was
one of the best scholars and the best
read man I ever met, and he told me
that he had but a few months' school
ing and he prized his education all
the more because he got it hard, for
he was poor and had to work by day
and study by the light of a tallow
candle by night. . .
Well, this is enough for one time
whether it be orthodoxy or hetero
doxy, it is my doxy and nobody is
responsible for it but myself. I have
some cardinal principles about the
negro that I dare to maintain. I
would lynch every brute who assault
ed a white woman. I could see him
massacred or burned or hanged,
drawn and quartered. If this be
treason, make the most of it. I
would pursue him with arms and
pitchforks as Israel Putnman pur
sued the wolf that devoured the lambs
of his flock. Even the law excuses
such homicides when done in the heat
of passion and before a man has time
to cool. A father or a husband or a
brother of the victim never cools. It
rankles and stings to the quick as
long as life lasts. If the officer gets
the brute first let him keep him, but
I have little respect for the officer
who runs his horse to get him first.
continued on second pace
Among the tens of thousands who have
used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for
colds la grippe during tne past few
years, to our knowledge, not a single
case has resulted in pneumonia. Thos.
Whitfield & Co.. 240 Wabash avenue.
Chicago, one of the most prominent re
tail druggists in that city, in speaking
of this, says- "We recoiui.iend Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy for la grippe
in many eases, as it not only gives
prompt and complete recovery, but also
counteracts any tendency of la grippe
to result in pneumonia." For sale by
M. E. Robinson & Kro., J. F. Miller's
Drusr Store. Coldsboro; J. R. Smith
Mt. Olive.
AT HOME AND ABKOAD.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
The bank at Douglassville, Ga.,
was robbed Thursday night of 12,500.
By the derailment of a switch en
gine at Wagoner, I. T., Monday, two
men were killed and two injured.
Three robbers while breaking into
the bank at Chelsea, Iowa, Friday
night, killed the watchman and es
caped. In a collision of freight trains on
the Baltimore and Ohio at Mounds-
ville, W. Va., Tuesday, Conductor
I. C. Kelley was killed.
Three masked men broke into the
depot at Wilmington, O., Monday
night, bound the operator, robbed
birr and the safe of $75 and got
away.
Fire Saturday destroyed the stor
age compartment of Forter & G tas
sel's cotton warehouse at Shreveport,
La., and 1,500 bales of cotton. Loss
$110,000.
The dwelling occupied by a family
named Klee, residing in Carnegie,
Pa., was burned Saturday. Two
persons were burned to death and
seven wounded.
In a collision between a gravel
train and a freight train, at Morris
ville, Pa., Thursday, a third engine
was crushed between them and three
men severely injured.
In a fire at Bayou des Allemandes,
La., Saturday, Misses May Ernest
and Flossie Delabretonne, members
of prominent New Orleans families,
were burned to death.
E. J. Matthews, president of the
American District Telegraph Com
pany and a prominent broker, fell
from his horse while riding near his
home at Valley Forge, Pa , Friday,
and was instantly killed.
With her throat cut with an ax,
Mrs. 11. J. Roland, wife of a poor
farmer at Macon, Ga., was found
dead in the yard Monday, but there
is no clue to the murderer.
Moses Harris, who for 45 jears
has been a miller at Auburn, Ya.,
has inherited half the $80,000 estate
of his brother, in Missouri, whom he
has not seen since he was a youth.
On Tuesday, Lee Malatesta, a weli-
kuown man, was shot and killed by
Timothy O'Shea at Memphis, Tenn.
The men, it is said, were engaged in
a fight when the fatal shot was fired.
John E. Hughes & Co.'s loose leaf
tobacco factories and a factory occu
pied the American Tobacco Company
as a storage warehouse at Danville,
Ya., were burned Friday. The total
loss is nearly $140,000.
Three persons killed and and 33
injured is the result of a head end
collision between two passenger
trains on the St. Louis, Iron Moun
tain and Southern Railroad near Mal
vern, Ga., Friday evening.
While James Gilmore was driving
across the tracks of the Wilmington
City Railway Company at Wilming
ton, Del., Friday, his wagon was
struck by a car and wrecked. Gil-
more was instantly killed and his
body wedged beneath the wheels.
Ben Knox was shot and instantly
killed at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday,
by Tossie King, who had been au
thorized to arrest Knox for the al
leged killing of Deputy Sheriff Dis-
monkes at Artesia, Miss. Later it
developed that Knox was innocent.
The dry goods store of Langfeld
Bros., at Wilkesbarre, Pa., was en
tirely destroyed by fire Monday, and
clothing stores of Simon Long's Sons
and Weitzaukorn Bros, badly dam
aged. Loss, $130,000. The fire was
caused by a spark from an electric
light wire.
A gas machine that was being re
paired at the Yancey Generator Co.,
at New Orleans, La., Friday, explod
ed through the carelessness of an
employe in approaching it with a
burning lamp. Jules Marchand, fore
man at the works, was killed and
Charles Fichtell had his nose taken
off as clean as if it had been severed
with a surgeon's knife. He may die.
Four boxes of dynamite, left in a
small shanty at William Penn col
liey, at Shenandoah, Pa., Friday,
exploded, demolishing the shift en
gine house and the three other frame
structures near by, and breaking
glass in dozens of houses in the vil
lage adjoining the colliery. A num
ber of employes about the building
narrowly escaped death, and several
were slightly injured by the fiying
debris. The shock was felt for miles
Foreign Affairs.
Tunisians at Souk-el-Djeman have
risen against the French.
English Liberals have decided to
ure the sending of a commissioner
to South Africa to end the war.
M. Halju has been arrested at
Sofia, Bulgaria, on the charge of
murdering ex-President Stambuloff.
John Philip Sousa has made such
a success in England that he has ar
ranged to secure permanent control
of a theatre in London.
The engine of a Canadian Pacific
freight train rolled down a high bluff
above the Brazil river, in British
Columbia, killing two men.
Financial and Commercial.
special Correspondence.
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The past week has been marked by
a continuation of the favorable trade
conditions previously prevailing.
Notwithstanding the lateness of the
season new orders to mills and fac
tories have continued numerous, and
in many cases the demand for deliv
eries on contracts has exceeded the
capacity of the industries. The dis
tribution by jobbers and retailers is
remarkably active in all parts of the
country. Higher prices have been j urs- - - soorue, oi unionvuie,
established on cotton, grain and hogld'ed Monday night of consumption.
products, and the general tendency j
of values have continued upward, i
Dun's Index Number, which covers
350 quotations of commodities, was ! that the office and store of the But
3.7 per cent, higher on December 1 j lers Lumber Company at Boardman
than on November 1 this year, and i
11 per cent, higher than it was a was i
a year ago. ine same aumoriiy
makes a favorable comparison of the I
failure records for last month and
for November, 10. The whole
amount of defaulted commercial lia-
bilities last month was $9,070,440 a i
decrease of $3,229,870, or over 2G per j
cent , from the total for November
last year. ;
The Government estimate that the
cotton crop of the present year would !
not exceed y.u44,uuuoaiesnaScaUsco
a net rise of 5-10 of a cent per pound
in prices. This yield would be more !
than 700,000 bale short of last year's j
production and of most of the expert
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estimates of the current yield, and .
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over 1,00,000 bales short of maxi-
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mum trade guesses about the prob-1
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able size of the crop. It is in har-
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mony with the seasons movement,!
which to December 1 amounted to ;
4, 1 a, la uaies; uuu uu au atrmj;c
. O . ,r . t . ,-. t
about half the cotton crop has usual
ly come into sight by that date. The
estimated vield is 1,000,0(11) bales
short of the estimated requirements ,
of consumers of American cotton, j
but neither home nor foreign buyersj 're consumed, llie total loss is
iokn,.l TOO. .o.aA
appear to be seriously concernea j
about future supplies, and are pur-i
chasing cotton chiefly for current j
needs. The cotton goods trade has :
been moderately stimulated by the
advance in the cost of raw material.
Buyer have shown more disposition j
to operate at old prices, and have j
been generally able to do so for goods i
already in stock; but manufacturers (
n many case have refused offers on ;
the same basis for fabrics to be made
for future delivery.
Corn prices have further advanced
1 j to 3i cents per bushel, and quota
tions for oats are about 3 cents per
bushel higher for the week. Com
pared with figures current a year
ago Chicago prices are 27 cents per
bushel higher for corn and 23 cents
per bushel higher for oats, while the
comparative advance in wheat prices
values is only 5 cents per bushel.
The high cost of coarse grain is due
to the short crops, and the relative
advance abundance of wheat has thus
far prevented a proportionate rise
n its price; but speculative senti
ment is strongly bullish, particularly
n winter wheat sections.
There is complaint of a deficiency
of rainfall in the winter wheat area
west of the Mississippi River, but
the fall sown grain has not yet been
appreciably injured by the drought.
Export business in corn and oats is
almost at a standstill at ruling prices,
but the clearances of wheat continue
large. The markets for hog products
have advanced sympathetically with
grain, and as compared wun prices
ruling a week ago Chicago quotations
are higher by 45 cents per barrel on
pork and 12 to 25 cents per 100
pounds, respectively, on ribs and
lard. The movement of hogs to
packing centers is large, owing to
the high cost of feed and to the
drought in many parts of the West; I
and for these reasons much of the 'spent almost all of Monday night
supply is of light weight. Domestic j searching for the negro, but without
and foreign demand for provisions is I results. When the woman was at
adversely affected by the high prices; j tacked by the negro she was alone
but exports still compare favorably
with the shipments for corresponding
period last year. Wheat prices have
have advanced 21 to 3 cents per bush-
el in New York and Chicago, where
spring or winter wheat constitute an
equally good delivery on contracts,
but in other markets the price has
advanced 4 to G cents.
Makes the finest flavored, most delicious food
ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO.. 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
i A Summary of Current Events for the
j Past Seven Days.
j A soap factory has been establish
ed at High Point.
State Superintendent Toon is ill
with pneumonia at his home in Ra
leigh.
Walter Glenn, a carpenter, fell
from a scaffolding in Charlotte
Wednesday afternoon, and received
injuries which resulted in his death.
Miss Kate Osborne, a daughter of
She was about 20 years old and a
most estimable young lady.
A dispatch from Wilmington says
was destroyed by fire Monday night.
The loss is about $20,000, covered by
insurance.
Rev pk. s. Webb, a well known
minister of the M. E. church, died at
his home near Greensboro Wednes
day night, aged about 50 years. Mr.
Webb was a chaplain iii the Confed-
erate army.
n..ai, TT.,n .. .,,i; r.
,l H Telenhone Com nan v. was
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gd Xuesday at charlotte. Joseph F.
ShannoDj tfce ,iead lirj did the
shootin and cla5m3 it was in self.
(jefence
' ,
VV' C f ar Carthage,
was autiucuianv &uui n line uuutiiii'
J s
last week. The gun was resting on
.
tne ground, the muzzle pointing
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toward his shoulder when his dog
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ran up and struck the hammer, dis-
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CllCV b III 1113 ICI l OUUUIUCI .
Gilbert Mo'lins, who lives on New
Hill plantation, in Brunswick county,
lost 3,000 bushels of rice by tire Mon-
day night. The rice was stowed in
a barn and the building and contents
-, --.. . UJ lujuiauu:,
"e orWa in? nre is unknown.
j. l. Townsend, of McDonald, had
tjie misfortune to lose his entire cot-
ton gin plant Sunday night. It is
not known how the fire originated.
When first seen it was bursting
through the top of the building and
jt was impossible to control it. The
ioss js aont $1,500, and was insured
for $700. In addition to the the gin
and fixtures there was a considerable
amount of cotton and cotton seed
burned.
J. D. Pearce's store, at Fayette
ville, was burned just before 8 o'clock
Monday night. Mr. Pearce and sev
eral others were in there a few min
utes before, and he shut up the store
to go to a singing, and had been out
but a few minutes when he discover
ed the fire. The factory hose was
used to prevent the spread of the
fire, but it was not secured in time
to save the store. The stock amount
ed to about $l,r(0 and was insured
for only $300.
At the Union copper mines at
Gold Hill, Rowan county, Friday,
Will Billinger and Mark Ingram,
both colored, employes of the copper
mine got into a difficulty while on
duty about something one or the
other of them said and Ingram shot
Billinger in the body three times
with a pistol. The wounded man's
death is probable. Ingram imme
diately fled and has not been appre
hended. If the shooting result fa
tally it will make the third killing in
Rowan county in two weeks.
Constable Dave Scott, of G reens
boro, has a warrant for the arrest of
Lee Donnell, colored, who attempted
to rape Mrs. II. E. Summers, the
wife of a farmer residing three miles
I southwest of Greensboro. The ofti-
cer and a crowd of thirty-five men
I at home, with the exception 01 two
i small children, who were playing in
! the yard near the house. The affair
j has caused a good deal of excitement
and intense feeling in the neighbor-
hood. The negro is CO years old and
1 and has several children. One of his
sons has just completed a sentence
, on the county roads.
Leading
Chefs &
Pastry
Cooks use
Royal
Baking
Powder
Absolutely Pur e
Put in Coffin loo Soon.
Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 10. Bud
Wilson, the convict who killed R. H.
Naylor, a guard of the Yell county
Convict Camp, last December, was
hanged today at Danville. Before the
lid was placed on the coffin the body
began moving about. Wilson opened
his eyes and his whole frame shiver
ed. He was taken from the coffin by
the deputies and carried up the steps
to the scaffold for the purpose of
hanging him again. When the plat
form was reached the body became
rigid, remained so for a moment
and the became limp. Wilson was
examined carefully by the physi
cians, who finally pronounced him
dead, death having been caused by
strangulation.
Assaulted and Then Burned.
Dayton, O., Dec. 10. Mrs. Em
ma Kassner, was assaulted on Jack
son street lastnighl by two men who
leaped from a buggy and choked her
into insensibility, after . which they
set fire to her clothing. She was res
cued by a negro, who has disappear
ed, and connot be found. The police
are investigating. The woman's hus
band, who is a socialists, claims that
they are the victims of designing
persons who oppose their views.
An Ancient Foe
To health and happiness is Scrofula
as ugly as ever since time immemorial.
It causes bnnches in the neck, dis
figures the skin, inllames th'i mucous
membrane, wastes the muscles, weak
ens the bones, reduces the power of
resistance to disease and the capacity
for recovery, and develops into con
sumption.
A bunch appeared rn the left side of
my neck. It caused LToat pain, was lanced.
and iK-carne a running sore. I v:tnt into a
general decline. I was T5ii:idetl to try
Hood s sarsapanlla, a:id when I Had taken
six bottles my neck was healed, and I have
never had any trouble of the kind since."
Mrs. K. T. Sxydlr, Troy, Ohio.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
will rid you of it, radically and per
manently, as they have rid thousands.
In New Quarters.
This is to inform our friends ami
customers that we have removal
our stock, consisting f Dry
(ioods, Notions, .Shoos and Hats,
to our new store on Kat Centre
trect, where
We are Better Prepared
to give you rare ami valuable lar
gains. Ye thank one and all for
the very liberal patronage bestow
ed upon us in the past and hope
to have a continuance of it in
the future.
Special Sales Have Heguu
in every line we handle, and as
we have only the latest and up-to-date
gootls in our new store,
you will wive money by coming
at once to get the '-pick of the
market." A hearty welcome is
extended to all.
D. W. COBB & CO.,
East Centre St., next to T. II. Stanton.
MEAT MARKET!
Under Arlington Hotel.
Have opened a Meat Mar
ket under the Arlington Ho
tel, where I will keep at all
times choice
Beef, Veal, Pork,
Mutton, Lamb,
and Sausage in Season.
Polite attention and quick deliv
ery guaranteed. I solicit a share
of your patronage.
1 will pay the highest market
price for fat cattle, and it will pay
you to call to see me before selling".
Respectfully,
J. II. TRENT,
Under Arlington Hotel.
Phone 155.
MALARIA FEVERS,
chills, aiie and kindred ailments can be
prevented by taking
SHANNON'S CHILL TONIC
on the first attack and cured by its use
when the trouble has taken hold of the
system.
It is the most effective medicine of its
kinil. Made from harmless but power
ful drugs.
PRICE SOc.
This is only oue of the many excellent
things carried in our stock of Drugs and
Medicines.
JENKINS & PARRIES,
Kast Walnut Street, Goldslmro, X C.