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OLBSBORO
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ESTABLISHED 1887.
GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1901.
VOL. XV. NO. 16,
Long Hair
' About a vear non mv hair m.c
coming out very fast, so I bought
a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor. It
stopped the falling nH m.H m
hair grow very rapidly, until now it
is 45 inches in length." Mrs. A.
tsoyasion, Atcnison, Kans.
There's another hunger
than that of the stomach.
Hair hunger, for instance.
Hungry hairneeds food,
needs hair vigor Ayer's.
This is why we say that
Ayer's Hair Vigor always
restores color, and makes
the hair grow long and
heavy. $I.tO , totIc. All drurjists.
If your drupcist cannot supply you,
aend us one dollar and we will express
you a bottle. Be sure and rive the name
of your nearest ei press office. Address.
J. CAVER CO., Lowell, Mass.
Don't tla thx r.r .
jinjr uuu (iruscrvo J;ii! In
theold ftisuioued v. ;.v. Scul
them ly tho iic.-,"i:il-l:.
ubsoluiely bv.to v. y by
a nun coating of lhi
Ilclincd i'urauino. IXus
no tu. to cr odor. I i
air 1 1 prh t and criJ
proof. KuMly r.pplKtl.
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Full llrontinn nil!
each cake.
Sold everywhere. M.'u!;1
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f Prcxuole a luuriBOt growth,
i, : - o-g I Wever Tails to Bestore Gray
iQJrfcfi Hair to it. Youthful Color.
m&Xy Cure icip dise a hir tiiu.j.
Constipation
Does your head ache ? Pain
back of your eyes? Bad
taste in your mouth? It's
your liver ! Ayer's Pills are
liver pills. They cure consti
pation, headache, dyspepsia.
25c. All druggists.
Want your moustache or heard a beautiful
brown or rich black? Then use
RIIMINfiHAM'S nYEfcir.
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60 c. or O'-jw- o. R P. H.n rr.. -"' " 1 J
Fall and Winter
MILLINERY.
.lust received a li line cf fall
anl winter ready-to wear Hals.
Wo are showing everything
new and up-to-date in the
Millinery
line. Call and see for your
self. Will .Make Pliers Hight.
Miss May D. Carter,
Xortli of AhIut Klvnrl.
TO BARGAIN-SEEKERS !
Those who are hunting the host
f ) is for the least money will
lin.l our place headquarters.
We keep an immense stock of
Dry Goods, Notions and Shoes.
W :ne irei:tn'l to -lI tliein at any
time and to evt'iy lily nt the hinallest
iiKtigiu of profit. It will pay all who
are hunting for hargains to cail at
OIKV il 11(1
See What We Offer.
You will not only save money on
all you purchase hut will have
Ihe'sati-faction of knowing that
you bought new and seasonable
goods.
Southerland, Brinkley & Co.
for FEE!
POSITIONS GUARANTEED,
Under $3-.00 Uah Deposit.
Riu road Tare Paid
PB all yr V) Both 8o s. Very Chap S"er4,
Oeorflsv-Alabaia Iluslnosa College,
Macon, Oeorgitv
Life's Scars.
They say the world is round, and vet
I llfllMI tliinl- U . J
lt Biuaie;
bo many little hurts we Ret
jl mm tUi uers nere ana there.
But one great truth ia life I've found,
hile iournovinor in fh
Tlie only folks who really wound
tuose we love the best.
The man you thoroughly despise
fan rouse your wrath, "tis true;
Annoyance in your heart will rise
At thinp-s mere strangers do;
But those are only passing ills.
This rule all li-P i,.,-.
The rankling wound which aches and
tnniis
Is dealt by hands we love.
The choicest garb, the sweetest grace
Are oft to strangers shown ;
The careless niein, the frowning face
Are ffivpn In nr rwn
YVe flatter those we scarcely know
tt e piease me neeting guest.
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those w ho love us best.
Love does not grow on every tree,
Nor true hearts yearly bloom ;
Alas! for those who only see
This cut across a tomb!
But, soon or late, the fact grows plain
To all tlirmionll SlllTnu''c .
The only folkswho give us pain
tre inose we love the best.
Ella Wheelkr Wilcox.
Definite Purpose.
The aim of all men is success in
life. They have many different am
bitions, but all want to succeed in
some way in acquiring money, in
obtaining social distinction or in
winning fame and high place and a
few are content if they become good
citizens and do they duty. What
ever thtiv ambitions may be, it is
essential to success that they should
have a definite purpose and pursue it
with an unchanging intent. What
ever their ambitions may be, it is
essential to success that they should
have a definite purpose and pursue it
with an unchanging intent. When
a sailing vessel is bound to port
against a head wind its captain is
obliged to tack in order to maintain
his onward course. He sometimes
appears to the novice to be sailing
away from his destination, but he is
onlj' going about to get a long reach
for his goal. He does not sail this
way and that in blind confidence that
after a time he may strike a favoring
breeze that will carry him to his des
tination, but he tacks with a purpose,
and that purpose is to control the
wind that opposes him and make it
subservient to his will.
Sometimes men also appear to
have adopted the tactics of the cap
tain sailing against a head wind.
They diverge from the straight
course to return to it again. They
cannct do this intelligently unless
they have their course well laid out;
unless they know their point of des
tination. When a man has a definite
purpose in life he can afford to yield
a little to a head wind, if thereby he
can use it to his advantage; without
such purpose he is at the mercy of
the'elements. As the observer thinks
the captain of a vessel is sailing away
from his port of destination when he
is on the losing tack, so an observer
may think that the man with a pur
pose has abandoned it if he fail to
advance in a direct line; but this
may be, and very often is, an erro
neous conclusion.
In early youth one cannot with
safety and surety decide upon a defi
nite purpose. A few trials may have
to made before he is quite sure of
his bent. But before be has reached
manhood he should make up his mind
what his aim is to be and he should
keep that aim in view at all times,
no matter how persistently adverse
winds may force him to tack. Pov
erty is generally the chief obstacle
to the prompt realization of one s
ambition, or seems to be; but in
reality poverty is very often a bless
ing in disguise. If the definite pur
pose in life is strong enough, poverty
serves only to stimulate one to exer
tions that have a distinct educational
value. The great painters, sculptors,
authors and statesmen of the world
have not been men who had their
paths made easy for them by wealth,
but the struggling students with
nothing to help them but a definite
purpose in life and a determination
t.n succeed.
It is not absolutely necessary that
one should be poor in youth that he
m.i v nfliieve distinction in old age
hut it is necessary that he should
have a definite purpose and make
enfri fires for its attainment. .Many
poor youths succumb to the difficult
ies they encounter difficulties that
help to "train those who succeed; but
there are difficulties of another kind
that beset those whose paths are
mn.de too eas v for them. 1 hey some
times loiter by the wayside or are
diverted from their purpose by the
timptations they encounter. The
saving principle for rich and poor
;ilike is to have a definite purpose in
life to be pursued notwithstanding
any difficulties or temptations that
may present themselves. It is in the
overcoming of these difficulties and
temntations that men are made
strong and fitted to do the greater
work" that gives them distinction
when they have attained the end for
which they aimed.
Haw to Cure Croup.
r.. i? r:,.nu nlin lives near Amenia.
Da hess'county, N. V., says: "Chamber
lain s Cough lienieuy is
i t,., u.-..r ncl. It. it a fine child
ren's remedy for croup and never fails
to cure." When given as soon as the
child becomes hoarse, or eyen after the
croupv cough has developed, it w ill pre
. nt tl. attack. This should be borne
: '.:.! nmi o Knttl of ihe Couch Rem
ill ilium ---
i.. i f ot ii-.ml rpnilv for instant use
as soon as these symptoms appear. For
Miller's Dnig Stove, Goldsboro, J. R
Smith, Mt. Olive.
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WHEN STARS FELL.
Bill Arp Tells or the Shower of the
Leonids in 1833.
Shakespeare tells of man's seven
ages, but his seven does not fit our
day nor, indeed, did they fit his
own day with any distinct lines of
demarcation between them. They
glide into each other and it is hard
to tell where the one quits and the
other begins. We have infants and
school boys and lovers, but very few
are soldiers, and not one in a hundred
ever becomes a justice of the peace.
His sixth age does not do justice to
our men and women of three score
years and ten, for most of them grow
fat instead of lean, and our big manly
voices have not turned to treble, nor
do they pipe and whistle in their
sound. I can still sing base to the
long-meter doxology and my wife
can sing "Mary had a little lamb" to
the baby. As to the seventh age,
which he pictures as second childhood
and mere oblivion without teeth or
taste or eyes or ears or anything,
we never see them our old people
die before they get to that. But in
the life of every, man and woman
there are epochs, events, mile-stones,
as it were, that stand out prominent
in memory and mark their progress
from youth to old age.
My earliest recollection is the kill
ing of our dog Hector, who was sup
posed to be mad, and it grieved us,
for we loved him and he loved us.
Next I recall the falling of the stars
in 1833. My father held me up with
my feet upon the top railing of the
bannisters. I saw them come down
in myriads as quietly and softly as
snowflakes and they went out as they
neared the earth. They were separ
ate and distinct as the stars, but as
near together as sparks in the chim
ney of an old time blacksmith shop.
George Lester was my playmate and
lived close by and the next morning
he and I bunted all over his mother's
garden to find some signs of the stars
that fell, but found none. While
they were falling our negro cook,
Aunt Ailsey, was down on her knees
praying, and as she clung to my
mother's night-gown she called on
Jesus to come and take us all to
heaven. That night was an epoch,
and it is worth being 75 years old to
have witnessed it.
My next remembrance of note is a
journey to Savannah with my father
and mother and brother, where we
took a sail vessel for Boston. I re
member the magnificent double row
of china trees in the long street, and
I wonder now if there is a person liv
ing in Savannah who was living there
then and remembers that row of
beautiful trees that are long since
dead and gone. I remember that
voyage of thirty-three days around
Cape Hatteras, where our ship was
almost wrecked, and mother held fast
unto herchildren and silently prayed
for deliverance. I remember when
we reached Boston and how, after
our visit was over, father bought a
carriage and a pair of horses, and
we journeyed by land from Boston
to Georgia and never crossed a rail
road, for there was none to cross.
I remember our stop at the Natural
Bridge iu Virginia, and how we walk
ed away down in the gorge and look
ed up and afterwards stood on the
bridge and looked down from the
dizzy height.
When I was about ten years old 1
had another epoch, for I had a fight
on Sunday at a camp meeting and
got licked and my fine Sunday clothes
were all spoiled with mud and dirt.
A country boy said I was a town boy
and was dressed too fine and he was
gwine to take the starch outen my
ruffled shirt. And be did. I fought
as hard as I could, but he licked me
and I cried. I had gone to the spring
to get some water and the fight came
off there. My father whipped me
next morning and the school teacher
got ready to whip me again, but I
showed him my legs and he let me
off with a talk.
My next episode has left an indeli
ble impression. We had to walk 2
miles to school and about half way
there was a big gully that we used
to slide down in. One morning Bill
Maltble and Overton Young and Jim
Wilson and myself stopped to slide
down, and Bill pulled out a deck of
cards and said he would show us
how to play. I had never seen a deck
before in my life, but I had hearn
tell of 'em. They were mighty pret
ty, and he taught us how to shuffle
and cut and deal and turn Jack and
play seven-up. One morning Tom
Wilson and Jim Alexander came
along as they were going to school
and heard our racket in the gully and
they caught us playing cards. They
slipped up on us, for we were com
pletely absorbed iu the game, and
Tom said: "Well, you are the young
est set of gamblers I ever saw in my
life. The sheriff will get you and
put you all in jail before night." I
never was scared so bad in my life.
I couldn't study my lessons nor eat
my dinner at school and watched for
the sheriff all day long. But that
cured me of card playing and I never
handled a deck again until I got to
college. College was a good place
to play cards then; it is a good place
to kick a ball now. Tom Wilson aud
Jim Alexander were good-hearted
boys and never told on us. Tom died
years ago and Jim died last month
in Atlanta. He got to be a great
doctor and everybody loved him
When I received the telegram that
told me he was dead I felt like an
other prop was gone and that now
only one was left his brother Tom
in Rome. Maltble is dead and Young
and Jim Wilson. All my schoolmates
are dead except one, and all my
school teachers and college professors
are dead.
For several years there was no
epoch no epoch. Every day was
alike until I began to notice the girls
with a peculiar longing emotion and
brushed my hair more carefully and
carried a cleaner handkerchief and
wore tighter boots well polished. In
fact, I got to be a dandy in my dress.
Shakespeare makes fun of the lover
and dismisses him with a line. Says
be sighed and wrote poetry about
his sweetheart's eyebrows. We beat
that in our day. I didn't sigh a bit
for my sweetheart was as bad off
about me as I was about her, and we
were too happy to sigh. We soon
became engaged, and she fixed the
day away on in June, but I judged it
backwards to May and then to April
and at last to March, to all of which
she blushingly assented. I wrote
poetry, too not to her eyebrows,
but to her from head to foot. Here
is the last verse, which is only a sam
ple of what I could do in those hal
cyon days:
'When incense on the sacred altars
burned
Its odors seemed in fragrant clouds to
rise,
So may my wishes all to heaven turned.
Procure rich blessings for thee from
the skies."
This is pretty good, I think. In
1S64 some Yankee soldier came along
and sole the album and carried it off
as a trophy and gave it to his sweet
heart. She kept it twenty j-ears,
and married another fellow and sent
the album back to him, and he mailed
it to my wife with a nice apology.
He is a gentleman, though it took
him a long time to repent and re
form. Of course our marriage was
epoch a big milestone. My wife
was only 1G and as docile as a pet
lamb. I took her young, believing I
could train her if she needed train
ing. For a year or two I could make
her do just as I pleased, but later on
I could make her do just as she pleas
ed, and now she makes me do just as
she pleases, too. But it is all right,
and I have got used to it.
Yesterday I received a letter from
a friend asking me to help him about
choosing a wife. He is a widower,
with one child, and wanted a woman
over 30 and under 40 a settled wo
man and he said he would make her
a gooil, loving husband, etc. Well,
I talked it over in the family and
named several good old settled girls,
and my wife stopped sewing and
said: '"I don't think you are a very
good judge of marriageble girls. You
had better let this matter alone." I
didn't like that remark, and replied:
"Well, when I was a young man
maybe I was a poor judge, but I
think I could do better now." I am
sorry I said it, for a woman can't
take such jokes and keep calm and
serene. 1 11 be more careful in the
future.
But I must reserve some epochs
for another letter. The birth of our
first child was an epoch, but after
wards that business ceased to be a
monopoly and became monotonous.
Bill Arp.
Wonderful Montana Care.
A new and wonderful natural cave,
believed to be one of the largest
known, has just been discovered in
the canon of the Jefferson, on the
line of the Northern Pacific Railway
about 50 miles east of Butte. A par
tial exploration of it has been made
by a small party.
Several days were pent in the
cave and explorations made covering
an extent of 10 miles or more to a
depth of nearly 1,000 feet. A large
river with a cataract of about 100 feet
was explored for a distance of sever
al miles without discovering its
source or outlet.
A few articles of stone and copper
utensils and some bones, believed to
be human, were also discovered in
one of the large apartments explored
There were other evidences that at
some time in a prehistoric period the
cave was used as habitation. The
belief of J. W. Gilbert, a scientist
with the party of explorers, is that
an earthquake closed the entrance to
the cave and killed its inhabitants
The present opening to the cave
was made by some lime quarrymen
at a point 1,000 feet above the bed
of the Jefferson River. I bey were
engaged in blasting rock. The stal
actitesand other natural decorations
are the most beautiful ever seen.
A mono- the tciw of thousands who have
used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for
coins ia grippe uiiriug tue past lew
years, to our knowledge, not a single
case has resuiteu in pneumonia, inos.
Whitfield & Co.. 240 Wabash avenue.
Phieaorn. f.iie of the most urominent re
tail dritgists in that city, in speaking
nf this, savs' "We recorui.ieiid Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy for la grippe
in many cases, as u noi ouiy gives
nromot and complete recovery, but also
counteracts any tendency of la grippe
to result in pneumonia.'' For sale by
M. E. Robinson & Bro., J. F. Miller's
Drug Store, Goldsboro; J. R. Smith,
Mt. Olive.
AT HOME AXD ABROAD.
The Sews From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
A wood alcohol debauch at Bever
ly, Mass., killed two men, and two
will probably die.
Miss Emma II. Kiog, a trained
nurse of New York city, who was
inoculated with tuberculosis germs,
has developed consumption.
The Dennison Manufacturing Com
pany's building, in New York city,
was badly damaged by fire Saturday.
Loss, $175,000.
J. B. Hamilton, a merchant of Ben
nettsville, S. C, was tbrowu from
his buggy Sunday night, sustaining
a fracture of the skull from which he
died.
Demanding a wage increase, brew
ery employes, in a meeting at Shen
andoah, Pa., Saturday, threatened a
strike against Eastern Pennsylvania
brewers.
The Bank of Sturgis, Ky., was
robbed of $35,000 on Friday night.
Nothing was known about the rob
bery until the bank was opened the
next morning.
Big storms and blizzards are re
ported from Missouri, Nebraska and
Wyoming, and also from the South
ern States, and the coast cities are
enveloped in fog.
A woman who has passed here un
der the name of B. Deress, but whose
real name is Gertrude Rosamund
Bonday, committed suicide at Lynch
burg, Va.f Friday. j
John Hood, a white man residing
in Chattanooga, Tenn., was arrested
Saturday on a charge of attempting
to assault the 12-year-old niece of his
wife several weeks ago.
The Schley Court of Inquiry pre
sented two reports, Admiral Dewey
signing the minority report in favor
of Rear-Admiral Schley and Rear-
Admirals Benham and Ramsay
against him.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel of Ford
City, Pa., was destroyed by fire Sat
urday morning. One man is missing
and several employes and guest were
injured by jumping from the second
and third floors to the ground.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Lola
Ida Bonnie, charged with the murder
of James Seymour Ayres, jr., in the
Kenmore Hotel, Washington, D. C,
on May 15, returned a verdict Friday
of not guilty, and the defendant was
set at liberty.
Miss Lydia Purcell, of Harford
County, Md., is in a critical condition
at her home, the result of being burn
ed while ironing. Her wearing ap
parel was burned from her body and
her mother, who attempted to extin
guish the flames, was badly burued.
A span of the Big Four bridge
across the Miami River at Troy, O.,
went down Monday as a freight train
was crossing. The fireman of the
train was killed and the conductor's
hand was badly scalded, but the en
gineer escaped without a scratch.
William J. Ewton, aged 52 years,
an employe of the Edgemoor BrKlge
Works, at Wilmington, Del., while
going to work Monday morning wa9
struck by a locomotive. His skull
was fractured, one leg mangled and
he was taken to the Delaware Hospi
tal in a serious condition.
Levi Garret, a young French Can
adian, of Rumford Falls, Me., is in a
critical condition as the result of
knife wounds received at the hands
of highwaymen Saturday night. They
secured $150 which Garret had drawn
from the bank to defray the expenses
of his wedding, which was to have
taken place Sunday.
Mrs. Lindley C. Kent, aged 46
years, oi nmington, .Dei., wite ot
a prominent business man, Monday
morning locked herself in the bath
room and cut the arteries in both
wrists. Then she filled the bathtub
half full of water and got into it to
drown. Next she took a pillow and
held it on her face, and suffocated.
While she was at work in the York
Silk Mills at York, Pa., Friday, Miss
Daisj- Stees' hair was caught in a
belt. With rare presence of mind
Miss Jessie Jacoby, an intimate friend
of Miss Stees, grasped the belt. The
excitment of the moment gave Miss
Jacoby such strength that she sue
ceeded in throwing the belt and thus
stopping the machinery.
While mixing vitriol and other
chemicals in a vat at the works of
the Eddystone Manufacturing Com
pany. of Chester, Pa., Mondy, James
Cassidy fell into the vat and was
badly burned. The acids ate away
his clothing before workmen could
pull him out of the partly filled re
ceptacle. It is feared that he will
lose his sight, but it is believed that
his life can be saved.
Six masked men broke into the
Northern Central Railroad office at
New Freedom, Pa., Monday night,
and made an ineffectual attempt to
blow open the safe. Charles Shaef-
fer, a Northern Central engineer,
discovered the men at work, and four
of them attacked him. Shaeffer
knocked one of his assailants down.
and a hand-to hand fight ensued
Shaeffar was overpowered, robbed of
his watch and money and the men
escaped.
Last Week In Trade Circles.
Special Correspondence.
New York, Dec. 17, 1901.
Business continues active. The
holiday trade is in full swing, and as
a result of previous prosperous con
ditions is likely to exceed that of any
former year. Industrial activity is
unabated, although in some lines the
approach of the holidays and the pe
riod for stock inventories has caused
a little slackening of new demand
The closing of inland navigation
promises a little relief to the car ; of employment. The tenement houses
famine in some directions! by releas-' were 8aved bv great exertion,
ing equipment hitherto employed for j Ou Tuesday night near Mazeppa
the traffic of the lake ports; but there 'one Bill Dancy assaulted W. L. Pos
is still widespread complaint of a ! ton with a piece of scantling and in
congestion of freight business due to I defense Postou . L; uck Dancy on the
the scarcity of cars. The inadequacy j head with a jug, cutting a gash on
of the railroad car service in a season
when the cotton crop is short and j shattering the jug. Blood and whis
the corn yield scarcely two-thirds of j key flowed freely,
normal forcibly illustrates the great ! It is stated there was a big fire at
growth of the general trade and in- j Troy Monday. It destroyed the prin-
dustry of the country. The enormous j
expenditures in contemplation for i
new transportations and other indus-j
trial development, the -big contracts!
already entered upon the books of j
manufacturers and the wide and gen- j
eral employment of labor would ap-
pear to giveassuranreof a prolonged ;
continuance of the present favorable
condition of business. Business fail-
ures during the past week, according !
to R. G. Dun & Co., numbered 273 j
in the United States and 17 in Cana
da, against 240 in this country and
26 in Canada during the correspond
ing period last year.
Cotton prices have advanced 3 16
of a cent per pound as a result of a
preponderant bullish sentiment in
the trade due to recent Government
crop estimate. The movement con
tinues liberal, and the exports corn-
v , . ., , ,. .
son. There is considerable diversity
J
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of opinion about tbe approximate ac- j beea ruQ for ft and there .g nQ
curacy of the official estimate ofajdoubtbut the fife was the work of
yield of 9,0.4,000 bales, and many j aQ incendi Mr. Sellers estimates
consumer continue to operate con- j loss &t iusuraDce $390.
servatively, while others are antici-
pating requirements in fear of a!
fr!h,rnnv,nW in r.rires. To the !
close of last week takings by Ameri-! of Rockingham was discovered Sat
can spinners, North and South, had ! urda m"ht in lime to Pre,reDt ?
aggregated 1,308,938 bales, against ! damae' A colored man passing dis-
1,276,273 bales for the corresponding j
period last year. The cotton goods
situation is stronger, and values show
an upward tendency; but the actual
advances for the week have not been j
numerous nor important. The in
creased cost of raw material, how
ever, has made sellers reluctant to
make commitments for the future on
the basis of prices ruling on "spot"
goods, and many offers have been de
clined by manufacturers.
Receipts of corn at primary cen
ters have moderately increased, but
in many sections interior prices are
5 to 6 cent cents Der bushel hiaheriknee. About 200 shot were taken
than in Chicaeo. and there is a een-
eral disposition to hold corn and mar-'
ket cattle and hogs. The effect of
high prices is seen in the small move -
ment of corn to the seaboard and re -
duced exports, as well as in thp has -
tened marketing of immature live
stock. Bradstreet's compilation
shows exports of corn for the week
to have been only 278,000 bushels,
atrainst 4.853.000 bushels for the cor -
responding week last year, and since
Jul v 1 the clearances have shown a
comparative decrease of 64,000,000
bushels.
Th highest trrain Drices of the
Dresent season were recorded Mon -
day last, when Chicago quotations
for May deliveries touched S3J cents
per bushel for wheat and 691 cents
per bushel for corn. . Since then
there has been a reaction of 3 to 3
cents per bushel in wheat prices and
of 2 to 3 cents in quotations for corn,
Active speculative buying caused the
advance, and profit taking and
"short" selling on the theory that
the upward movement had been tem
porarily overdone explain the decline.
The movement in spring wheat has
continued large, but interior receipts
of wiuter wheat have been very
light.
You may Snap
yoir Fingers
ct Dyspepsia
There is a quality in Royal Bal
ing Powder, coming from the purity
and wholesomeness of its ingre
dients, which promotes digestion.
Food raised by it will not distress.
This peculiarity of Royal has been
noted by hygienists and physicians,
and they accordingly recommend
it in the preparation of food, espe
cially for those of delicate digestion.
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WIUIAM gT, NEW YORK.
ALL OYER THE STATE.
A Summary ot Current Events for the
Past Seven Dajs.
The Continental Furniture Com
pany, with a capital of $25,000, has
been organized ia High Point.
On Friday morning the entire plant
of the Riverview Knitting Mills at
Tarboro were destroyed by fire. The
loss'is $50,000, insurance $35,000. The
entire spring stock was destroyed
and nearly 100 operatives thrown out
j the forehead several inches long and
cipal hotel of the town and a half
dozen or more other buildings. The
cause of the fire was due to some
coals rolling out on the floor after
the occupants of a room had retired
for the ni-M.
t Critt. the keener of Robeson
county's cbainL'anir. was accidentally
;kined Mondav. near Red Sorinlrs.
m .. nrit t,,i; Kie hnob-
to (he fire restiDg on ;s and lhe
fire heated the unj causirjg it lo dis.
charge. The shot took effect in the
back and ranged upward. He lived
four hours after the accident.
The gin house, together with its
contents, consisting of a gin con
denser and feeder and about ninety
bushels of cotton seeds, of W. B. Sel
lers, of Morven, was destroyed by
fire Thursday night. The house was
situated on Mr. Sellers' Sneedsboro
place, about four miles from the place
. .. ,, , . .
nf his rsilpnpf Thp irin h.arl not.
'"'
bastardly attempt to fire the town
covered a small flame of fire on the
steps leading to Everets's hall. He
beat it out with his hat and threw
! dirt on it. An examination showed
that kerosene oiy.had been poured on
the steps. A vigilant watch is being
kept to prevent the repetition of such
an occurrence.
Garfield Covington, a young color
ed man, was badly injured by an ac
cidental discharge of his gun while
out rabbit hunting. He had the gun
cocked and as he was jumping over
a log something caught the trigger
I and discharged the load into his
out oi ms leg, out mere is a great
ble in bis knee- It is thought prob-
aoie ini" ms Wlli Have lo
: taken off.
! Yard Helms, 45 years old, who liv
, ed near Cherry ville, Gaston county,
j was burned to death Monday morn
! ing. He was drunk and asked i
j passing friend to build him a fire in
i his house (he being in bed). The
! man built the fire and left. About
i an hour afterwards he returned and
found Helms about 200 yards from
j his house burned beyond recognition.
i AH his clothing was burned off ex-
i cept a thread or two around the
1 waist. He leaves a wife and several
children.
Uriah Robertson, who lives about
, two miles east of Monroe, was fatally
j shot Sunday night at his home. E,
j w Roberts did the shooting. The
ball entered the left side, passed
i through the abdominal cavity and
lodged in the back. The wound was
seen to be serious from the first and
Mr. Roberts surrendered himself and
is now in jail. He claims that he
did the shooting in self-defence, that
Robertson was assaulting him with
a bottle and a chair. He bears an
ugly wound in his forehead as proof
of this.
May Keep the Statuette.
Washington, Pec. 17. Among the
exhibits of the State Department at
the Charleston Expoition is a statu
ettee of Washington regarded as the
finest work of its kind in this coun
try, and the ownership of which has
been a subject of considerable differ
ence of opinion.
It has been so long in control of
the department, however, that it is
likely to remain property of the Gov
ment. The statuette is by Baron
Marochetti from the original statue
and model by M. Houndon, made in
Paris, where it was exhibited from
1785 to 1790, for an equestrian stat
ue which according to Thomas Jef
ferson, at that time Minister to
France, was sent to America by
Houndon with the expectation of
receiving an order from Congress to
have it cast in bronze. But the model
was destroyed by fire in Washing
ton. For years it has been treasured
highly by the State Department,
but it was never regarded as being
the property of the department and
some attempts have beenru ad e to
restore it to those more clearly en
titled to it. It has attracted the ad
miration of thousands of visitors to
the Diplomatic reception room of the
State Department, and by those
competent to judge of sich things
was rated as by far the most artis
tic equestrian statuette of Washing
ton in this country.
It is about 24 iuches high and from
the tip of the horse's tail to his nose
is about the same length.
Get the Most
Out of Your Food
You don't and can't if your stomach
is weak. A weak stomach does not di
gest all that is ordinarily taken into it.
It gets tired easily, and what it fails to
digest is wasted.
Among the signs of a weak stomach
are uneasiness after eating, tits of ner
vous headache, and disagreeable belch
ing. "I have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla at
different times (or stomach troubles, and a
run down condition of the system, and have
been greatly benelited by its use. I would
not be without it in my family. I am trou
bled especially in summer with weak stom
ach and nausea and tind Hood's Sarsaparilla
Invaluable." E. B. Hiokmas, W.Chester, Pa.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Strengthen and tone the stomach and
the whole digestive system.
MEAT MARKET!
Under Arlington Hotel.
Have opened a Meat Mar
ket under the Arlington Ho
tel, where I will keep at a
times choice
Beef, Veal, Pork,
Mutton, Lamb,
and Sausage in Season.
Polite attention find quick deliv
ery guaranteed. I solicit a share
of your patronage.
I 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.
ACME MACHINE WORKS,
GOLDSBORO, N. C.
MACHINIST AND FOUNDERS.
iK.viH:iti-5 i:v
Hew and Second Hand Machin
ery of Every Description.
"Ames" Engine and Boilers, "Iine"
and other saw mills. Van Winkle (lin
Machinery, Shaftings, Pulleys. Hangers,
Boxes, Couplings and Set Collars.
WE MANUFACTURE
Engines, boilers, cotton presses, grist
mills and saw mills.
A Large Stork of 31 il 1
and numbers Supplies.
Repairing a specialty. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Your patronage solicited.
FRANK BOYETTE, D. D. S.
All manner of ojK-rative aud mechan
ical dentistry done in the best manner
and most approved method. Crown and
Bridge Work a siecialty. Teeth ex
tracted without pain.
"Office in Borden Building oppo
site Hotel Kennon.
DR. J. M. PARKER,
Office Front of Fonviell's.
Tth Pulled mad No Pain.
nnblf. tfc Firmmmrt, or a avnr.
A line carriajre double the plraaureof drir
lug. luteudiiig buyers of carriutrea or iiur
nesa can save dollars by sending for th
laree. free catalogue of the Elkhart Carriage
ad Harness Mtg. Co Elkhart. luJL