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W W W V cry H.ek. 1 1 o v. .................... .j: -NO- '30 . WEEK .JOTTINGS. pr- !i---"V?rv of lmmenselv a ,,,.). r, fields in the barren ,.,,), I - 'i ..iisnf Alaska has been ,),,. ,; .. of a few boisterous I .. - -ttintr off a little war ; imine war would si t.j;i ; . ft-cious heroes. i :i made in the South, H i -Irpped to Kew York, n resold and shipped Southern Mills. Kill y .-ill one -summer and wing all next summer iiu ' 1 I'M" dirv ! 1 1 : ; ' l p I u liu ua will i:., iiiiKnglish navy yard for n - ji:.uling and repairs. Does Kiijl.tiid own an interest in the a 1 1 ! i i w ration. Th iiu ill ))ill is law and Con-Lriv- has adjourned. The ! !!!- will now see prosper - Tli- County Commissioners i an avr Pitt county $f00 or li.-rh.-ips more than $1000 by one linl'-art next Monday. That little art would be simply to re srind their order for an election n the school tax question. No lawyer of much ability lul's is unconstitutionality. It i well known that in this ' "limy t litre are townships which will not hold an election :uid that in none can there be a l"-al election as the books &c !i;ue not been opened accord-in-!- law. The State constitu tion is dead against descrimina ti"i and unless every township in the State votes for it the t;iie cannot discriminate by those that do vote for it i I'.. nns at the expense of the "ill And again such a tax iil ne.M be collected until di' Supreme Court passes upon 'f- That means a long suit. Win. will pay the cost ? The "UHty, for the fusion legisla t'li-.-N have provided for such Nii'-. at r ho expense of the "inly in which it is brought. W ill the Commissioners force a '"ii h-ii a debt of $1500 or - ' ' mi the tax payers these 'n d t hues We shall see- !: is a sign of better times :! :i eolored Baptist Associa has denounced cri luminal ' inlts and those who commit '''"in. Such was done by the named association in ses ! :i at Houston Va., It also ' 1 aied its willingness to perate with the whites in 1,1 nixing to justice those guilty ;uh crimes. The average is a good citizen and u il I so remain if not stirred '! hy debased ivhite men. The 1 i eh-uient in every commu ! ; is in favor of law and order, there is a large worthless and they do the harm. ! action of the association no a o meets universal approval. MvocaU'S of more taxes are I "i- to make the ignorant be- !i' I lint if they fail to vote for fi' sci,,,,,! tax they will be v against any public ; " Thevare telling that II !he s( he.oi ta.: is not carried will be no more public -!hIs That is an effort to ' 'ive by lying. The August "lion has nothing to do with present public school sys- J tem. It will remain the same jnst as it is now, and there is now enough money to run the school, just as long as parents can afford to send their ehil dren. JOHN II. BLOt'NT On Thursday lan a handsome menu ment was erected over hU grave to mark Blount, formerly of Hertford, but later lu ?X A 8imP10 inscription, nnn Hff, .name'datC andPceof birth and date of death, ie the only record of h lfc that is graven on the .tone, but it in enough. Sculptured words neither add to nor detract from the fame of one who has crossed the narrow comities of mortal life. His friends remember him as he was to them, and standing with bowed heads beside hLs earthly 'tomb, they reck not of marble and chiseled phrase, but In silent contemplation an. reflection lind a sufficient epitaph in the fact that "he was and he is not."- Tar boro Southerner. AND IN C-ONOKESS, Too. Great, indeed, iiS fusion! Warren Car vcr is the name of the fu.s!on light who was elected to the Legislature from Cum berland county. Tuesday revenue olli cers found u larL blccknd." distillery on his place and he was arrusted for moon shininf;. There were lots of jailbird in the two !ast legislatures. Again, grsa. i Fusion. Lincolnton Joum. School Tax Advocates. 01 the 1,110 negroes listel for poll tax in Anson county last vcar only 378 had beon collected by 'the sheriff when he was allowed his in solvent list. Ex. The hearing before Ken Craig as to fraud in the lease of the North Carolina railroad has been adjourned until August. ProVecl Ilia Lovp. They Nycro two worklnfl girl?, and thoy happen od to moot tlio other day at Uio restaurant whero thoy cat lur.cheon. Tho brunetto ordered bakcl Leans and lemonade, nw the blond w lcc ted fruit cako uud coffee "Tomorrow is pay duy, von know, " sho said Jn reply to tho inauiriug lpok of tho other. 'Oh I Well, havo you hoard the news about Mary? Sho's resigned. " "I know," eaid tho blond. "I was in hopes I'd be tho first to tell you. Sho's going to bo married." "Yes; in a. lovely bfuo bilk. I forget the uanio of tho man she's going to marry. He isn't veryocod looking, tluy 6ay, but Mary saya he' intellectual. Sho says" "Oh, pshawt You can't tell from Mary." "No; but Sadio's seen his photo graph, and sho says ho wears glasses. ' ' "Docs he? Well. Mary's lncky. if Rhu is redheaded. Why, ho would just, do anything in tho world for that girl" ' ' Humph I " said t he brunet to. ' T haf ! tho way she talks now, but you can't tell (v thing about it until after they're, married." "You can tU It tasy enough in this casa. He's pcpvM it airoady, " paid the Dionu warmly. 10 Said he'd dio for her, I suppose, returned tho brunette scornfully. "Lota of 'em talk that way beforo they havo to pay tho butcher. " "This isn't talk anyhow . Ho'n proved his lovo, I tell you. " "How? Did ho h-avo hor hf-, or tell her that her hair is golden?" ''NVither. Ho sold, his bicycle to buy her un engagement riDg. Chia Tribune. A 8tnuif NnriH?ry. On tho slopes of th Himalayas the native women have a most curious plan Ox dipesiug ot their babiis and keeping them quiet while they are engaged at v?ork in tbo fields during tho greak'T part of tho day. Before tho mothers eet Oat to work in tho morning thoy wrap their habits in gwaddling bands, leav ing nothing but thoir littlo fax ex posed. Then tho babies are taken and laid under a ledgo of rock from which water is falling, and by means of a baniboo tho waterts mad.- to drip gen tly on each babys forehead. Tho effect of tho dripping water is most soothing, and soon tho littlo ones are all aloop and remain motionless till taken up by their mothers on their return from their work, when they are carried off to bo nnwrappod, driod and fed.' The Wonderful Marching Ant. iui Du Challlu tells i f th- doings of a quc-or African species of ant, which marches tlirough the forests in a regular l lino, mis line usually averages about two inches in breadth and is often sev eral miles lorn?, with not a break In tho column. "All along U$ lino," Fays tha groat traveler, " largo ondficrce looking 3n.ei.Act as ofrtVkVcpingtiilngular afmyan order. 1 ' GREENVILLE, X. Q., EASTERN PITT COUNTY AND GREENY1L1 E, THE HOME AND MARKET OF THE BRIGHT LEAF 1 KOM hClb K)K THK KUTITKK A WOIID u two ai:oi r on: maukkt. ITS FACIUTIKS, io. tastcrn North Carolina, as well any other feotions oi the Cnited states. The iirst sottk-rs iouiul the Indian, cultivatn,, n " . T ' " learned its ue. , f . . At what period Pitt county hus t' a. a . t , . 1 ai,,.,U!!, t ,e h.story of the State. oncer, found t.,oir way fron, Ik' Jamo. ver iottlrmcnU to ,1,, and here lm e doubt that settU- ment s wen m-uin . .. " -rt-.ou uatOs and HiTtfor. imuki.,, 1rUl , l" -c viv, tiiuwu we nave no ins torv of actual . 1 1 l. ni.M.r than about 1 ;:(. .s0 it is with Pitt vain' i county. Many m tthmontb had been T maue in the rainlico conntiy loni; pieious to the settlement of Path in 1705, and it is not to he douhteu that those s-.'ttlemontd extended into whatjs now Put county alon Tar rner, and even higher. Thoe first pioneers, conpieioid of the forest, found tobacco cultivated hythoTus caroraa inhabiting that se"tion. Among the first settlers tobacco must have been the principal crop As early as ib7i;, while the settle ments weie principally on the north" side of Albemarlo sound and num bered probably :j(0f tobacco h. the amount of 800 hogsheads waa ex -poned At eoinetiiiM'3 a 1C( as money, fees, salaries and due often being made payable by law m tobacco and other produrU. The growtli of its cultnie is shown bv the fact that it? exportation ke;t pace with the progress of tho colonv. During the latter part of the ad- j ministration of Gabriel Johnston a i governor (K-U-fL') tlic iHMiulath.M ! of the coau.N was about 4.(0, a.,,1 ; yea.. The "grade or llU rountv the exports of toba.-coK.o.onOhn, j totucto is kh. When progperty urd and giadcd. it las never fail As the excitement and dissen&ions ed to command as high, and more which culminated in the devolution oftvn higher, prices than that of any ..... iihukcvi, illieillll'U was jjiven to raisins :iimiliii and after that war the cultivation of to bacco seems to havo extended west ward and cotton to have aucreedtd it in the east, until it has been but few years ago that the cultivation ot tobacco was regarded as almost im possible of success in the east. We remember but a few years .igo an "up the country' man, telling 0t tine tobacm 'ami m lMt -S county. Little attention was piid j such talk, but llnally it w;Va tried, j Thrt nrj T 1 ia . I ... . . 1 The success of the trial was wen- derful. It was of xd .malitv. r.! 1 1 r 1 . r ; color, and cmna;nlod the highest i prices on tl o ?-st markefa. j The later pioneers 1.1 tobacco iais I ing were Messis (I. K.. K. S- and 1 , K. Kvans. T. J. St unci 11, A. A. Forbv and Jacob Joyner, who cul- 1 tivntrd considerable ciops in 1J. From that p r;..l the acreage in - j creased. The .juahtv o,f the tobac- co was very u'O'kJ. and the prias it couifnamb d on the ton icc market , :istonished. tubacco mui. N gn at ; lame did Pitt County Tobacco n...ke. that a u alehouse at Crenviile w a. ; talked of. A large crop was m.iJe m lt!i and that iettk-t) the matter in favor of making (Irn n r 1! U- a to bieco market. Tii" next v iti a stock lomimiv .... kt.eu'oiv.a w ucii mow torm wa er-mii:-! .rnl tlu ( '.r. i. ville etiuen! thi -ll.iw of tl,Hr ware w. robots-, built. The ucc- f hotm. 1W thr remainder of the .1ULY.10, 1SD7. TOBACCO. of the Kastern in s' TtIrvi brought ood nricti, the ctou wu " iiUTcaain- For lS.:i the luilea mre l,ol,"- I 14 tho ; i Milters wanliouae u&j huilL 1 Tint cWu ih ii.il bt. IS'MJ lilt .4c U't'Tf- nrr w.h-l.ouW t.u.lt. Tl.c .M,, th,, R.a, r, , , f ,,,. lm . 0K,g' )f1., WlU!d. Kr la.t h, j we.o J v (,iHH.fUK H,liml, :lm, thi, . , . . . j - proline to i-xowmI tliaU The iirgi year thru- uui our small prize houv As tlu-mar kt t rew, ' more pM. houses iu Imllt until n.w the (JrM'nville warchoiue l;is three, the Planter ono, the Star one, and there- are ix others A hogshead factory was established in 1 Si 4 aI,d lias licen kivp busy sup plying the inciea3ing demand. Uat season there were eleven resident buyers on the market bcmleg many transient ones. Then to sum up the advantages of the Oreeiviiie market we find that it haa four largo warehouses, aycrp ng nearly VOiXj gquaro frL.t of (lour each, twelve large prize I.oum, this season thert- u ill U-about eighteen resident buyer.-, besides transient ues, eiperineed wan-housemen to Ivwk after the sellers inteifBt. two banks with unlimited facilities for cashing ciweks and a capacity for bundling L'5 fHM)mX) pounds of the weed. It season ;((t( were paid out fcr tobaco sold on this market. This oason it mil be ovtr ?1 HM (H0. The tobacco crop of p,n countv "v -"v vi' hwjiiij in I countv l.na ....lii. 1 ..." other section. The (tteenvill.. mr ket has alwayj been uoUnl for iU good prices. People who come from the upper counties are always en thusiastic over 4'itt county" a a tobacco growing county. Many havt made considerable money out of it. The continue to romc every year. KVANs. t KITf -H KK ro. II. . Kvans, !. K. Kvans and A. H. Critcher, Kyans, Critcher A Co are Proprietors of the d'reenyille uartdeuae. The Messrs Kvani 8re ;lti nnc ntir fum, t . ct6 Mr Critcht-r u from Pcraon county He is a tobacco man raned .1 in the business. Ho has Uvn in Pitt county several years lie mar ried a sister ol the Mra K.ans ami has long lecn associated with them in tobacco farnrng irpen they m IS'jo they bv-ome proprieton cf the (Jtcenville Warehouse. All being exjrieiiled tobacco men their success was natural. Their judg ment of tobrcco was a most import ant factor in ma kin- tobacco on the tlooi of the irfinvillc bring good price il worth. They had a good business that scuou. but th season 01 1!0 WtAi mucj, tll.tUr lhey sold much more tobacco and ucre doing a I.trg and satijfactory bu&ineis, both for themsrivn and their ciiUtner when a mov storm i I tbv .--.. mm i .. - -x,. vi.t uri Mi. ti iiri inc SUr. The UirrnnlU Tt h.M, i .... ment :ver theold one. It u Ur-rr. haj more li-ht and nrri ctno A Co, Ncii Krr.ul , ant,'r ntciire for the ln!uir., i. " ' ' ,n tf.c r .i . "iiriiirw Thoy hayc cemmind of lt the mm.. fT nccrfwry to hanJle ii ieral mil. lioni iKnndp of to!ucn at.J refrr jou to their formei ciutoii.r f,r any, riroinnemlaticn auUd. vSe C 1) Itauntnr, Wilrx Itrou. II L Conard and T K UooWt Konn- KIH'C.WlnXM. CEwir siFiisr itXiLE wmjis. mi kh;i:xiumu). n i . o-n. S-rtrn.. r -.I-. ir7. n.l u: r . J(HN r. si AiaioiuM uii. Prr .;.li ,,. C r. r ,,Mt,4i. Kits S;L,Jrt !"! V-r lu Hhcnail u a fuli Cra.lat, i, a. H.untoii...., U,.rM-,,r.1 ttiuiu;. ouSU liitrurti..n. ,r furl f. r ,.a,t n, !r r.i.l on or a!drT i.ijca Siirrrbti 25 Free Kritoi.ujs.ni j. Al;, Iff otn fr m it ri at WLllxtl ln.l.i... Hth ycir. Or.r 200 turirut In a I 1 partmcnt crlj. I.ttrrary, limine. r,l Normal Murci. I'.trvllrnt advaiita 8nd for catalogue and prt cilai u. Irof. V. T. WLltarii. 'b. n.Whliw-tl (uliford coonty. N. t. Tie Stale Ncraal acd Icinstna! towtit. Offer the ynune worm of the tboroaeh profrf.nal. I trrary . r!w V 1 C cnlinc anl in.1ulri; nlunlinn. An nual rsprnc 'M to fn rcultr of Z, memWr: M..rr than IrtJ rrcular .tu dent., rr.ctir. ,cuhI of (Hifli. for tracbrr. Mnn- lUsn 1,1311 mttr.runiM rrj.rrontlnS v ry county in tlM.i." rcH thrif. ( . rrr.,r..l. rtx lnvil.,1 from IIkw tcirinc romiftil tr.!nr.1 teacher. Towrurr l.ar.l in fr.rm.tori. all free-tuition n; p leant, uiu-t ! m.Jr before Aututt !!. For rata o-ur an-1 It. formation. a1drxi l'rjitKNT Cham.kh P Mrlvr.a. Oak Ridge Institute. KOUTY-Mixril V K.N It. Twenty two jtr un.lrr j.n -.u t.ru. cijialji; Jl'l ludcn! ttrnlr1 t.i jtr. . brfb :ralt rolUje- rrrtorr c with ireUl drpartrnmt of li..kk. t -inc, Shorthand and Trlejrr. I, T T;.. a--Srl and ht r,ulid fill in -cho j , the South. Ucit on hejlthful nd l.-,u-tirul "T f mt o u t the tin,, For I -dutiful and n. rttoru" aMr- . I'rof, J . .t M If. IImI.T. ik Hide. N I. North Carolina Coileic of kumWm sndHecbanicArts uiu.rr arrTKxnr.k :ru, lc ThorouKb clemic, nr-Uifir mtti technical our. F.i Hnc-d ir . Uta In every department For County Student. f xi in For allothar Student. "in'it Apply for ( atalocue to M.KXAMr.a t Holuiuv, I.U l . 4 K4 PEACE iEJtitote for Toau Laiics, ItAI.F.Ifilf. N. v.. ! thoroujtb and Ut...1 t tu forefront of female ducat n Snd for cattUeor. ,X A 4" Norfolk (;ollfM Fiji: yoi ni, !.tu All lertuK-nl rt, I.iu f a . X u te , Kloeotkin. I!uidc nnd'r nxn-crnt iaatrartor. (barfe utr tl.an any Cbool r.f rqoal tdTinU;e In Ih coun try. Sel f r eatalocue. A. 1. I'lF Ell, I'rm . Nnrfclk, Va THE UNIVERSITY. Focty-aeTen Teebr, IU Student (Hammer School tVi), total 5?; tard f month; three i,f rntne; thr full roaraea; Law and Me.ltral School an4 Hebool of Pharmacy; Jrdaat core Teacher ; He bo la rah I j r.l )n foe t-- I dj. Atldreaa. J raroiDrjrr ALXicmvajr. Chaf.l Hill. .N t; 3 CT3 A TZLZ . iirv . ; " Tr 1 ''"i to- .... t - 1 h; a I The fln,.,' 4,1 - i ' 1. 1 . m,l ltl n-t I " IB m k f - v m I i ..... I 1 -'"ctrrrh. U. . l.c...l.w.11,lltk , ' ' ra, . ,., n " " firm m,R.h. s,.n , sr.,'",, tucrx bnjirjft m.. . r..M r.Lf.,uVj4i,;iI , 1 .1.1 r. .itf ,.f ... f..r .tlf , .. 1; ""1'r' ca.tnm. u: I l;,!7", """ - Tbe other m.m .f lU h" Mo,m r,..ara r Ar..f,OIll ;fll0 (tfifr rll .md f.ioral.Ji km,,,. na'9 f.rm -.M J f,t.,,,fl th lllflu l j I'licvs mt a tiu,,-, , .s,r a4, i i r- - - 'THi:i: urn Lv Tho hUU-n Warrl..... K4.... ' t r A (. rn,.riftorg u f(. ,4r ritof tlu f.u,r WiffLoaie. ( !. .l th, .n.rLrt a,t M, m r ."Tnl-cr .( ,..ull, of tot r th- pr,.pr.t(.r.. Mr (; y y tt on. ,f ,., f;rt tot,,, ...,lf4,, "d ruv ,.f ,u ir.l ,.(om-m ,fi . Mi tl I, Jo,,r . lIr huslliMK w4i,.,oum-i, ho u Uvft II ll-M.u.lrt.luY Tn f jr. Jth .Mrrirh.f.1 IMCII 4riJ le (.rwny.llc market o.c" int..-, of ,1 J vurcftn tl.. .1 ptlh a,.. ( t.f,r. Iri mm roni'i.s j mo) 1 1 Mntm U .iri hnuif . K-iUi r..l Mojo propriety, a ,oc mm h loHai.ls t.uiblui market. .Mr KorU a hJ , t j-i!t ,ir. ' tho H. i ;, rs-.t, nurkrt arul alM, !! U toic U-crmiL a t tfrl .u... mii. Mr Moye ig a (XJ ,.,uu. tii larmii. I h. Tlantcri has hal : l irt;. jn!nm of ,-jur, tiuir its 0IUI.-. It jiirr-AM. of t.,Mir,t r.cc ffiT .J1 i iilar-, tnc ul Ut j-jr. Il.ti k.il i.v tm.I. f . r 1 n.l mu aji t.y 'A'-mer.if i not, n f((m- IIM II 1. fo!f ?f. t t . .pl. l lies I hf ir.- t. lib- m.4ikt i ai i.nt but I- a -n-jl .!ht- fin. .,.,. With a.npb M4ii hu. pltiif ,f pn.- hou. bt of b'jif.. tiitlim ifol lj.uk f.ic;lilis if.i lb. ii.iir of the bright tor.Acro ftrtioti of l.a-itcrii ' 'ril:na. it rn it 4i a f.tr larger bu.nifj than err l--foir. Thrr : i... r4 for t(r .rttirr' goin 'U hr,. ';riii:r hu'i I ... .. I .11 ...... . ft . a 1 market of tn r.it ar l the UI any any h r . W M : .nd J. 1. I'tevntftf. Bond & Fleming. A rrj a r t a- a T la w . (irwevtlkp. N. t. Ir ct :n !! t h e Mir1. Henrj- Sheppard, i:i:m. inTATi: auknt. Ial F.tat" 1U f(ht tad IUU e.- - leetrd. If cuaca UratoJ, etc. OfSre rvr 1 1 dr to Uaak f ree JoifX H. Ml ALI, W. H. Niau Wajhinur.t X C 'irrrntill. X t! SMALL and LOXC, Attorney xcd Coan-sclori at 14. GiiKOvlLLK, X. i: 1'racUcx- la all the courU. gan. root. LCJinntg 1 . i . DENTIST C.REKXTILLt, N. C. teaJ-Onioc ore r Old I'rick htoir nxt door to Kit Hrar-fea
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