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Si : . . - EVEN H PUBLISHED EMERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY. Vol, III No. 216, KINSTON, N. 0., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1900. Price Two Cents GENERAL NEWS. J ! .. . flatters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphe. Dewet, the "Boer general, baa again outwitted the British and escaued. The average salaries paid school teach en in the United States Jast year were f 45.24 a month for man and f 38.14 for women.' In a bead end collision at Deearc, Mo. "Wednesday, between freight trains, two trainmen were, killed and lour injured Both engines were demolished. The New York Tribune publishes a let- i m r T m xer iroin aoarew uarneine, lavorinir an isthmian canal, but opposing any treaty with England upon the subject. Washington City on Wednesday cele brated in great shape the 100th anni versary of the establishment of the seat ot federal government at Washington. ; shows McKinley's plurality to be 143, 606 Odell's plurality is 111,126. Bry an carried only four counties in theetate The British chancellor of the exchequer announces to the house of commons that the Transvaal shall be made to pay considerable proportion of England's war debt. General Roberts has issued an order Drescribins the circumstances under which Boer farm houses must be burned He orders provisions and cattle taken from all farms. . Florence Wickham. wife of J. E. Wick . bam. committed suicide at Fort Jervis, N; : Y., Wednesday morning. He had fonnd a man concealed in her room and told her be would institute suit for di Torce. Advices from Colombia report deeper- ' ate fish tins: in uearly every state. The most desperate fighting is now going oaj in, the department or uouvar. tot gov ernment forces are getting the best of the Insurgents. : The revolt of the students at the Uni versity of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, con tinues. The faculty is investigating the affair and the board of trustees has been called together. The students are fight imr against both the president and the commandant. r: ' An Alabama deputy , constable was shot Wednesday and probably., fatally wounded by occupants of a wagon which be thought was hauling blockade liquor, thev taking bim and the officers with , him for highwaymen. One of the officers returned the fire and wounded both oc cupants of the wagon. It is stated as a curious fact that if the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is rati fled at the present session of con orress :i it will ' be by tne aid of , Democratic votes; nac Borne euumeru v Democratia. senators are so anxious to ' secure the construction of the isthmian canal that they are willing to pink their V. . . . xl I , .1 antagonism to the treaty in order that, by getting it out of the way, an obstacle ' to tne canai may oe removeu. . The steamshiD "Empress of India," ar- tA at. Vinttrin. : K. OJi Wednesday. brought details of one of the most stormy passages on record of the great" typhoon which ravaged Hong Kong on iov, 10, (Causing heavy loss of ; life , and ' immense loss o snipping. pi : -v escaped wreckage and general debris was atruwn ; avervwhm-ft. i The British flTUn- boat Sandpper foundered and 'some of k. inn i-vvb ' 1 1 ltna 'i nn ' m m dpi can ship Benjamin Sea well went 1 ashore and in all 77 steam launcnes were wrecneu and over 2,500 natives were drowned. " GLENFIEJLiD ITEMS. ' December 18, 1900. Miss Myrtle Heath of Institute, spent Sunday wlta uus uzzie Moore. There were no services at - Rainbow Sunday, owing to the absence of the pas- tor. ;. 'y i ? ; x ;yM t &?y ,v Mr. Jeff Price and son of Seven Springs, spent several days this week at Mr. Chan. Lassiter's. .. sy ?t' Miss Lola Sutton, who bad been spend ing several days with Mies Bela Sugg, re turned home Sunday, v y .H ' ! : v . Misses M vrtle Tucker and Pode Jones, and Mess. Jno. Jones and George Tucker, 6f near Kinston, spent Saturday night and Sunday at Mr.. J. J. Moore's, v 7 Bad Coughs' If yoo tivft tiica pst i little colLpernaps viacgir tad mclisscs or a litt!c honey will stop yoTir lhi! court-.. vca t tsa tScrc's Ift . - a w J g:t Acer's Cizrry Pccioril wnile yoa ire liout it. It cures tie cisj cscs, tsl tlie tiriest cf tl: tiri cscs, toa There is nottir.3 so Hi fcr a cc?S it coining. r-';i. j-i r '.it It i rn t TkTTllto Crase, About the middle of the seventeenth century the tulip became known in Germany, and a scientist named oes ncr gives the first description of this flower. First only the yellow variety was known, and then other colors were produced by crossing. The Dutch, par ticularly the citizens of Haarlem, pro duced the most wonderful varieties of this flower and obtained enormous prices for them. Tn 1G34 the trade In tulips assumed n peculiar turn. It degcuerated into sort of a game of chance, so that in 1673 the authorities felt called upon to interfere and to Issue edicts against extravagance In tulips, as they former Iv had acalnst trains and laces. This Interference would seem to bo justified if one rends that in 1C0G a single flower of this sort, called the Viceorl, was paid for with two cargoes of wheat four cargoes of rye, four fat oxen eight fat hogs, 12 fat sheep, two casks of wine, four barrels of beer, two tons of butter, 1,000 pounds of cheese. complete bed. a suit of clothing and a silver tankard. . Another bulb, the Semper Augustus, was paid for with 4,000 gold guilders and a coach with a double team of horses. In Haarlem the tulip craze reached its height in the decade from 1C30 to 1640. when a price of 12,000 gold guilders (about S'J.000 American money) is recorded for a single bulb. A Joke of Sydney Smith's. On the occasion of a dinner Sydney Smith was the puest, and when the evening was oer the host thanked the wit heartily for the entertainment he had afforded. "I shall not forget tou. Mr. Smith." he added. "Thank you. Take care you don't forget your self tomorrow (it was Saturday) in church," rejoined Smith, whereat the host. Kershaw by name, rather bridled up. "I hope, sir, I know bow to behave myself In church!" "Well." said Smith good temperedly,.'If I catch you smil ing I will call you by name." "You mayf rejoined therlslton. . "The thing Is absurd.' I will give you a donation to the York hospital If it happens." i- On the ensuing morning Smith read the prayers reverently, as he always did. then ascended the pulpit, looked around the church and rested his eye on the visitor whose name was Ker shaw. That gentleman said afterward that he did hot know what possessed him, but so It was he gave a broad smile. : Thereupon the preacher was seized with 0 violent inclination to sneeze, and, applying his handkerchief with suitable action,, he sounded "ker ker k-ker-shaw" three tfrueg ' over. Fronj 'The Reminiscences of Half a lntury,'T Dy u. w. uney. Crlffbt's Threat to Ilia Wife. : Two characteristic ' anecdotes of John Bright "are given In Sir Edward EusseU'a memoirs, which' hejhas pub lished under the title "That Reminds Me-" Bright was supposed to be a total ah staiuer, but once when Edward Mlall was very: nervous at the prospect of having to make an important speech in the house, Bright said: - . "Well. Mlall. If I were you,. I'd for once go aud have - a pint of cham pagne. , - ' -, Mr. Miall did as he was told, and the result may be judged from the narra tors comment that -'champagne on, aa unaccustomed Interior Is cot always a curative or a tonic." ' F' ' ., if Bright r"rarely ' had'any dlfferenr with his wlfe,";- but . occasionally the were not at one; about 'the children. Weed, they came to a point of absolute disagreement.- he used to say: " : r "Now I tell , thee, if thou doesn't do what I wish, I'll go straight 'to Mr, Gladstone and ask hrm to make tne a knight" to which the answer invari ably waa:'t-'7i:i 'v .:j -4 r;f - . I Oh. anything rather than that! ' I' - . Great Bawl. A i Walter" Damrosch , once related an amusing experience that befell him in Orange. The musical director took up on himself the tast tf graining, a cho rus In that burg. They were studying Mendelssohn's "Elijah" and had reach ed the chorus. , - . ; , "Hear us, Baal; hear us, mighty god!" the male voices were booming out sonorously, when Damrosch cried out, as Is his wont: "No, no! Not that wayA Not that dreadful howl! Don't tay Tir-a-V Soften a littfre. Give a mere musical sound to the words. Say 'Whereupon," be says, "the Orange- Ites took up the strain ajraln: "Hear cs r.iwl! Hear us Bawl! ITrar us. xn ty god." Tbey quk'Jy'reallzod the peccl'a- f.t2C5s of tLe sentiment and brcka djwa la lau-tttr." SIMMON 8 - AND AYCOOK. Supper Given Laat Night in Honor Of the State's Two Most Diatin guished Oltizens. Pleaaant and Beneficial. A number of the friends of Gov.-elect C. B. Aycock and Senator-elect F. Af. Simmons gave a supper in complimeoito mem ac tne Lyiicn iiotei ihh uigoc, com mencing a few minutes after 9 o'clock. The following were in attendance in addition to the honorable guests: W. D. Pollock, George Rountree, L. Harvey, Col. W. A. Bobbitt, Plato Collins, Dr. II. P. Harper, Sr., Dr. It. H. Lewis, H. E. Shaw, W. A. Mitchell, Mhyor Geo. B. Webb, N. J. Bouse, Y T. Orinood, Sheriff J. C. Wooten. J. W. Grainier, T. C. Wooten, Judge O. H. Alien, B. F. Pow ell, E. B. Lewis, Chan. F. Harvey, W. D. Suggs and W S. Herbert. Music was dipensed by an Italian band. Mr. W. D. Pollock was toast master and presided with grace and ability. Dr. H. D. Harper led in prayer. Then those assembled partook of the following menu: .- Oysters Stewed Fried Pickles Craektr Coffee Tea Chocolate Chicken Salad Wafilks Cold Ham Turkey Cranberry Sauce Celery Viscuit Bread Wafers Ckeamed Potatoes i Chocolate Cake - ocoakut Cake Peach Cream Fruits Cbeese Straws Coffee Whipped Cream Everything was prepared in the very nicest manner and the supper was rel ished aud enjoyed by all. Then Mr. Pollock introduced Mayor Webb, who extended the freedom of the city to the gut sts North Carolina's two most distinguished citizens in a few ap propriate remarks. The mayor made a gem or a welcoming , speecu, notwith standing that he was sleepy from the banquet of tne previous evening. Senator-elect nimmons responded to Democracy Is Immortal," in a perfect speech of about fifteen minutes. He said the words , "Democracy Is Immortal" derived much of their importance and interest Irom tne tact tnat tney were ottered by Zsbulon B. .Vance, North Car olina's greatest and best beloved, cJLtizep, lie said man is Dotn mortal and im mortal. The mortal part dies; the im mortal partthe " divine essence, the spirit lives forever. Democracy is also both mortal and immortal. The mortal part, like that in man, dies, but the prin cipal part, like , the ' spiritual part of man lives forever. The ? principle of democracy is immortal and will never die. 'jjenveracy Is ' of -the peo ple, by the people and for the people. He referred to the grand history of Greece And Rome, and dwelt upon the glorious development of Greece during' her nrt 300 years wnlle the pure democratic principle prevailed, and of her great achievements In peace , and war, in the arts, learning, etc i But after 800 years Greece acquired a little outlying territory by conquest and undertook to govern it despotically, thereby sowing the seeds of destruction," which undermined the democratic character of her own people and eventuated in the destruction of dem ocracy in her home government. For centuries thereafter it seemed that the Erinciple of democracy was obliterated, ut not so; it was not dead; it lived in the" minds, and hearts of : individuals and after centuries of quiet . broke out into active life again. ; , ' H said the true nrinciole of. dem ocracy in its broadest sense sis the prin ciple of the Democratic party, vizr The sovereignty of map and wilL eventually be recognized the world over. - TneeoeecholMr. nimmons was learned. elegant, eloquent, interesting and inpir-; ing, and we do hot believe has ever . been , surpassed for such an occasion. - j and Our Sacred -HonorTwas .responded to by Gov. Aycock in a short and pra-v tital speech, in which he -. explained that at the time of using the words in connec tion with the determination of the people of North Carolina to secure Anglo-Saxon supremacy tbey were meant in all serious nees. Itat it has fortunately tamed out that no necessity arose to sacrifice life to secure white rule, and that we shall . add to our honor; and , to the material wel? fare of . the State under Anglo-Saxon government by fostering her educational and industrial as well as. her agricul tural interests, -;'. - -i -' . - ' "The Judiciary of North Carolina" was fittingly responded to, by Jndge- O. H, Allen. He began by -quoting: Addison, who had said of ebrne. question t hat t here was much to be said on both sides Of the subject. He thought that the fact of the intelligence of the North Carolina people, though largely illiterate, was somewhat due to the knowledge dippenwd" by the judiciary and the bar under the system of rotation in holding court, and related an incident of a Method iet preacher who -wt North Carolina and located ia mis- 8i-tippi, where he became not only a pre siding elder but alsar-a superior cou't udge, hol ling both otnees at the same time and filling them . ably and accept ably. - . . ' "Our Hope for 1004" -was responded to briefly but hopefully. encourHgicgly ftnd ablv bv Hon. T. C. Woott-D, who i-6 he Slate electoral ticket at the I.it elec ion. -; ' "The 'r.c?"; t-bat, U Je political machine, was responded to by Mr. Plato Collins. He said that a good many peo pie have a perfect horrorofthe"machiDe" in politics and imagine that if it was de feated there would be a big explosion and that the air would be full of flying wheels, cogs, bursted boilers, etc. He pointed out that what is called the "ma chine" is nothing more than organizat ion and begins with the people, starting at the township executive committee, and goes up gradually until we have the national executive committee. Mr. Col lins made one of the best speeches of the occasion, and all of the speeches were good. . Mr. E. B. Lewis in a few appropriate remarks presented Hon. F. M. Simmons with a mammoth persimmon, grown by Dr. II. D. Harper in Kinston, to which Mr. Simmons replied in acceptance. Dr. H. D. Harper was called on and made a short talk, in which hevoiced the nentiment, not only of his hearers but the entire State, in saying that the State's intereHts will be in safe hands the next four years with Aycock as governor and Nmmons representing her in the United States nenate. All present expressed themselves as (find at having been there at one of the mow t enjoyable occasions of their liven and the meeting broke up about 11:80 o clock, all feeling that tbey bad not only Casced a pleasant evening but bad been eriefltted by the social intercourse. Harry LindleyOo. Funny Harry Lindley and his excellent company presented "woman Againr, Woman," a four-act comedy drama In the opera bouse last night. Mr. Lindley has a tine reputation as a comedian in Kinston, having appeared here nearly ten years ago, and he sustains the reputation already made. He Is not the entire show though, for his support is excellent. The specialties were all new and very good. There have been a great many worse companies of this class to appear here, and but few better ones. "The Castaways" will be presented to night. Seats are on sale at Woodley's drug store. - ' Black Diamonds, Black diamonds are comparatively rare and correspondingly high ; priced. They are th:orlFdQFtimei(alnad.'af tlje white ones, and fire cannot harm them, however great the heat, bdt if a drop of water should touch them while heated they will explode and leave nothing but a little heap of sand In their nlncft. Their beauty Is not remarkable, butfind,y ,f thl ded bu8 on account of their extreme hardness they are invaluable for dressing sur faces impervious to the friction of any other material. The largest black dia monds .are set in the end of a 'round short bar of stecl, with a handle of wood, and are used In dressing emery wheels that have lost their "trueness," A black diamond is the only substance that will not be ground away by con tact with the emery surface. : . ' Black diamond ere also used as points in scoring pencils which are used by sealers ef weights and meas ures to mark glass' receptacles. They are , used by dentists for drilling teeth before filling them with gold. In ap pearance tbey look more like a shining little splinter of Iron or grain of coal than a precious gem', and their chief mission Is a distinctly commercial and not an ornamental one. . No Oae la iiilit Him. "I have called," said the reporter, "to Bee. if you wish to add anything to our account of your wife's reception this evening. We have most of the details 'and a long list of hames, , including those who will assist her in receiving." I "Ho," replied s the business man; "there's only one account that I'm ex pected to take- any, hltcrest In, 1 and there'll be no one to assist me with thafPhiladelphia Press. ' - '-j, Wby Sb Failed, "No; be didn't engage that rapber.N ". - ' - stenof ... .1 .. .. . "Why notr , ' ; . ; -"Why' you see,' when sue answered bis advertisement he wrote and asked her qualifications, and she replied by sending bim a photograph." fv ;4WeU?"i'Ovv4Ji :r d MM "Well, his wife beard of it, and he didn't engage her." Chicago Post. .- . . : Natarc'a Wlatr trKm.r As he jesult of 20 years of experi ments 'atr, Bothamsted. England. . It Is shown that in the winter months more than half .of . the amount of, .rain that falls penetrates Into the soil and becomes- available , for the. supply, of springs. whil In the summer, only one quarter of the rainfall is absorbed by the soil. The maximum quantity ? of, rater Jq the'sdil Is "at a depth. of about J" Mtttieiu: ia C Etru'-Vl: t": l.hA-ntr: Bucrwo :ciin Tamjiw.'' k' rna the nonn 11 it (ail tocnta.' .IV W STATE NEWS. ntereHtin.tr North Carolina Item In Oondeneed Form. There an outbreak of Kiimllpox near -Wilt.ou, Uraiivilie county. Fifty persons vere expoi-ei. It in id the infection wiih from ittt'on ItiigKirig. The grand jury in the federal court at UtileiKh letunx i) a trut lull HgHinBt War- if ii (rieeu and F. B. Arendall. of the peni tentiftiy. for the ert-ape cf the federal convict IVaree. The Ashevillrt Citizen states that Mr. Rutherford P. Hayes, son of ex President Hh.wh, hi puu'haHfd property in Ashe ville Hiid will tnnke it hin home. He will iiui d a hfindHoiue log bungalow.1 Henderson Gold ijniii: The gentlemen who diHtill rnonntnin dew. vulirarlv efil'ed how paw, and the makers thereof, commouly Htlid nioorirthinerH, have at ht befii projierly cltHnimd. TheAshe ville Citizen sjeaks of tin m an "nnregia teitd chemist of the mountains " Srtlibury Sun: After having been buried t hive w eeks, the itmaius of the late Lvi Truvih, who wn thought to have been murdered uear Newton, were txlitinied Hi.d a ud examination made, and the urprisinu fact developed that the ( tva-e'l whs not murdered, but caine to his death from the effects of a cam erous growth imide the ukull. Ex-Congressman Fowler Bays that notice of contest has not been nerved on Mr. Thomas, but it in true that he will contest the right of Mr. Thomas to a HHHtiu the next congresn. He charges that votes cast for himself in Craven, June. Ousluw and Dupjin counties were eoutited for Thomas. Fowler went to Craven Wednesday evening, presumably to take atiiduvitH. In the federal court at lialelgh Wednes day Ed Jackson aud Tom Faulkner, white, aud a negro named Ellis were convicted and ' sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary for robbing the postoihee at Gilbert, Vauce county. These men are members of a gang of ; counterfeiters and moonshiners, and are old offenders. It is believed that their robberies cover a wide area. , , , ,., ? ' GreenHboro Record;. hie.Jby one the ... opponents of State education fall by the " wayside. Dr. Shearer, of Davidson, was perhaps tbeiirHt; Dr. Kilgo is getting it in the neck, and the last is Brother Bailey, of the Biblical Recorder, who was smashed by Dr. Huffman and the Baptist convention last week. It is well to speak a few of them have only pasted over the river. The Lord works in a mysterious way his won ders to perform, or words to that effect. The new assessment of property for taxation in North Carolina that of 1900 will f how an increase of fully f 8,000,- 000. Seventy of the V0 counties in the State show an inrmww if f S 698,596. There are 18 cuutitb which abowade- ctvasfi in the am ant of m aaniUDent for 1 fK0. TbU dmM tsacvaia to C88, 128. The nrt y k S8 counties, therefor, U 7.1)1 0.v Wa the r tunm arervrHird fr tf hi counties which have im t y -.(ut tmL taelacrease in the aimeimaml 4 f for 1900 ' willbeinexreMoff1,UUO.UUU. , The report of the oprriatendeat . of , public m-boiU aura there are this year 186.328 white poil-.au Increaee of 5,000, , end 71.504 coUred polls, a decrease of 240. The report of the eehools is made . ' Eublic. It sho ws" th year'n receipts to e 11,018.000; disbursements 95Q,000; average length of white schools 14 . weeks; negro schools 14 weeks; number 1 of white children of school age 489,000; ; colorHl 222.i00; numlter of wnitesehools 5.047, colored 2,844; value of school property 1 1,077,000; attending schools 142,000 white, 64,000 negroes. Of Interest to Farmers. y ' It is desired to call the attention of the farmers, fruit growers, truckers, and all -others interested iu agricultural pursuits," in North Carolina, to the fact that the entomologist of the department of agri- culture, at Raleigh, N. C, desires them -to end him specimens of any injuri ous insects that may come to their notice.. They are-also invited to send, y specimens of any insects regarding which y they desire information, and such infor-i -mation will be given so far as possible. ' : It is desired to make the department of as gnat practical benefit to the people as ' possible, and no tffort will be spared to attain this end--: V''yy-'X:' '. . 'During this winter, the f rui$ growers,, , ( are especially urged to make a careful exVj ' amination of their trees, and send aB7 ' insect or suspicious twig to the depart" . ment so that the matter may be investi gated, if it is of importance. . As this of flee is for the benefit of th. people, : we j hope that they will hps it to the beetolt their ability, by correspondent or other. wise.'' ;-f v-, t- : .- ;i c : "-. !i r;;d" . An effort is being made to build rpa.( ' collection of insects Jor the agricultural department and, for- exhibition in the St ite niUsehnirThe aid 6f all n aked foL i?e'nd anyVrwii-Imrtm or Inquiries to,'ni;r 1 ;miu8 FBlKQSlrKRJk.rJa!li!'' I v vV.ifttin:Artokaolog1s;uca Department of Agrieultare,- v fiubecribe to Thi.Fbes PBSsiv;'
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