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Hip:- PUBLISHED AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY Vol. IV No. 284. KINSTON, ; N. C, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1902. Price Two; Cents, ;),s cfENINO' h GEIIERAL1E17S. Matters of Interest Condensed Into , . - f , v ' ' i -Brief Paragraphs. Acting President Bchalkburgwr and other member of the Boer government ' -were in the laager captured at Noeitge dacht, Transvaal colony, by a detach ment of mounted national econts under Col Par, bot they succeeded In escaping capture.- ; 8ophia Beach, a guest of the , Park Avenue Hotel, in New York,' who- was burned abont the face and body Satur . jt&v morntnu diad In a hosnltal In that city Sunday. 8hei the nineteenth vic tim of the fire. AU the other victims in the hospitals probably will recover. An enthualaetlc meeting of Boer sym- pathisers was held in wasningtoa eon day afternoon, and resolutions ! were adopted calling on President Boosevelt and congress to use all their power to prevent the further exportation of horses ana males to tlie ungnsn in douwi oi rica. . In addition . to this, a collection -was taken np for the benefit of the Boer widows and orpnaoB. ; With death staring him in the face, ' JoeeDh Peters, a signalman in the em- ' ploy of the Pennsylvania railroad, saw a train bearing down on him at the Am boy function of the road at Bah way, , near the city of New York. ; He was unable to free himself from the " impending danger. ' Peters bad caught his foot in the frog pf - the switch and was unable to get it oot till the tram dashed upon him and crushed Hun to deata. , ; A sensational sequel to the altercation ' in the senate between Senator Tillman and McLaurln Saturday afternoon wao that Senator Tillman's name was erased from the list of guests, Invited by Presi dent Boossvelt f a meet; Prince Henrjr Monday night.' It is said this will not be " the only sequel to tbe; episode, as the matter will not be allowed to drop as was flfet expected. Tbe bribery charge will be fully investigated. -n Sewed in fins small compartments In -twit of red flannel, nearly f 40,000 worth , of unset diamonds, were, it is alleged, emuggled into this country by a passen- gar who entered New York on the K.ron: tins Wllbe)m.' The passenger gave bis name as Michael Leinkran. and. claimed - New York as his home. He says be was gives the belt in Bremen by a stranger, : who told him to take It to a relative In ". the City, He disclaimed all knowledge of . Mr. and Mm. Daniel Kennedy, of Cueh raneville, W.Va.. wire drowned 8unday afternoon in tw Ohi river, ner Hister Tills, W, Va. Tbey had been on a visi to ', relative, and about 8 O'clock that after noon started from the lower ferry land- ing fr trelr home ecto the river, x Wen close tn the Oh'o sid the broke and precipitated Mrs Kennedy,, who wa In advance of her hn-band, into the river. ',llr. Kennedy made a brave attempt to 1 M '. 1. . 1 - 3 . A - rescue nr, snn nan mmimn puo-wuw when the ice broke under him. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were well known through' out the state. , , A Havana special sa.v: The nwalSat tirdav oih-d his summing up in the, Hu nan postnl fraud eaxes. He said the de fendants wer guilty, und-r the ; postal code of h United State a well as under similar laws of Cuba. Re charad E W O. Bathbone with appropriating money secured upon two duplicate ' 1500 war rants, with unlawf hlly drawing a per diem : allowance and; with conspiracy with C. F. W. Neely ! and W. II. Reeves. The fiscal asked that sentences be im posed and provided in the original In dictment. Oonnwlfor Beves asked for his client's discharire-eaylng that .he (Beeves) had only obeved the orders of his superiors. ' Counsel will continue his argument in Beeves' behalf. j- - - A special from London says: The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Express seys that the police,; learning that some 500 etu'ente bad arranged a meeting to be held in a certain theater last Friday night, quietly filled the gal leries of the' theater with a thousand Dvorniks. After the performance had ended at midnight the students remained in the pit, tb Dvorniks still in the gal lery. At 3 o'clock In the morning, at a given signal, the Dvorniks suddenly de scended and attacked the students, beat ing them with clubs in a most brutal manner. The students had arms, ribs and heads broken, and some of them were killed. A large number of them have been sent to hospitals, while others have been imprisoned. , - r ? i Prince Henry, ofsPrussia, representa tive of his brother, the emperor of Ger- many, as me lauucuiDK ui iw im r Ame'rican-bnilt yacht, reached New York Sunday, and was cordially welcomed as a guest of the nation. The land batter ies that guard the outer harbor sounded the first greeting salute of twenty-one guns, the rifles of a special naval squad ron assembled in his honor reechoed the sentiment. There were verbal meetings from the representatives of President Iloosevelt, the army, the navy, and the city of New York, andapreaterowdlined the way in t) e city to t e German svl ors and the prim1 of Cerrnany. The prifee was plea! with L; preetijr. He bowel and waved hU ham' in response to te cheers. The mval vimtor and I arty left New York at 1 p. m. for Wash- inton. ' . . J. E. Hood, the drnir'-t, will r. ' "id tou yocr nnnpy if ytn ar not est! - 'led ':er uii! Cliambrlau' trm h and Liver Tah'-t. Thev curs dwr T8 o tl.e stor .v h, l.!lir.utiess, cont'pat'on f -,i l aiache. rrce 5 cents. Sarcjk-s r y ;r for sale at The I'Kri JDOVEH ITEMS. February 84,1902. ; Mess. H, P. Woodeon, A. P. Thompson -and C. A. Daugherty spent Sunday iu Newbern. . , . ( . ; ., ,. ' Mr. and Mrs. C F. Koonce.of Kins'oo, were visiting at Mr. Geo.B, Wilson'eSan-r day afternoon. ',-r:.r..-::.' ' : ' Mrm. B. F. Jobson returned Sunday from a stay of several weeks in Pennsyl vania, bringing back a new, fine boy to a proud father. , i MissBettie Thompson, of Goldeboro,: and brother, Mr. John M. Thompson, 1 1 Smlthfleld, came Saturday night to visit their brothers. Mess. A. P. and L. 6. Thompson. ; i - Mr. B. H. Parrott has bought a part of Mayor Will Tyndal's property; with in the town limits, and he informs o that he intends erecting some good dwelling houses on it next fall, where the new street will be. opened. Miss Belle Hines, of near Caswell, spent last week with Mrs. W. A. Wilson. Misc Belle and Misses Lillian Carpenter and Mittie West, accompanied by Dr. Bay Pollock, took a trip over the Goldsbon Lumber Co. railroad to ihe convict camps Sunday afternoon. , ; Mr. C. Maesenglll, who resigned hie position with the Goldnboru Lumber Co., and left last week to take a position at jungedaie, . ;,-, returned today. Mr Maesenglll says be would not carry hir family there as there is no school, no churcb, nor anything bnt woods, and lie would not remain there without his fam ily. ( ; - We wish to again ' jog the memory" oi our town autnomies tbat tbose wni have paid the taxes are inquiring what use is the money tq be put to. Asfanger who visits our V town can s-f scarcely anything to suggest that it Bcorporaieo ana tax paying innaoi tants uaturallv feel some coucera uboa the sanitary conditions and sidewalke of the town. We bav entire ontldence in srood intentions of the itentiemen wh hare charge of the affairs but suggent tnat tney are slow in auttng. ' ! We thank The Fheb Prkhs rennrter for nis kind expresniou of opinion of "the coming attie town oijjver," pubiisneu id coaays. issue ana are espeviany giao that he mentioned its great need of bet tec raftroad an-omodations for ; pas sengers hers Dover does surely feel tbat tte administration,, nowever progres. slvellmay be, is not giving us justice. and we mnst .tomx that if f reeideot Bryan would view the situation be would see to It that Dover, has. nice rec ognition. A neat, comfortable wait log room lor white ladles .is badly needed and in the name of th many ou we ol rsvwnM-here fir the. fomnan.Vi we -Mk We lrarn that Mr. A. S. Arm tit, band saw filer, and Mr IV Hner, hel niachank! tor th 0ldel-oro Lnoiber To t win id a lew days vr th-lr -onn-tlon with the company and lavn Dover. Ruth these getit'eiiM'O. wb' ranie here strangers, U tie uiorv t tjtu a enr ago, have con1ncted thmselief as Kwurlemen .f the old school ' and bv their affable and discreet manners, have gained the onfMeTice and g'tnd will of alt who haw 'tiinywd an ai-qiiainfance w ih them Mr. Arment's fnui ly live here too, and N most nitrniv eerme , Kverv one whom "shear ntakn m-'nrion of their Waving ioin us in aincerv regret at their lepartnre. - . , Fav orite Nearly Bvrjrwheir.e Constipation means dnllnees.depresslon. beadach. generaUy t niaordered health DeWirts Little Early Risers stimulate the liver, open the bowels and relieve .; this condition. . Saw, speedy and thorough Thv, never;- gripe, r Favorite Pills. E Hood. . .-, l : ' :p-Modern Misstoas. . Communication. " " . . . . -. .'. , , The growing misstonarv interest in th Christian church, or Dieciphtof Christ, all .oyer , the country, reminds us - all pgain of the wonderful power of the mis sionary movement. Now every nation on earth is wide open to the gospel. Not so a century ago. Therhristfan chnrcb has missions in ndia., China, Japan. Africa, Turkey, Bngland,' Norway,' Sweden ,.- Denmark. Cuba, the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippine Islands. . They nave 371 mis sionaries and stations in 1 those fields. Wrowing educational institutions are springing up. also, in ,tbe lands. Some of the strongest men in this relurious body have gone out to Japan and China and other heathen lands. They are helping to shape a new Chrimn civilisa tion on tne ruins ol Hoary Taitn, c la Ja pan, for instance, there In now a pnhlic school system that will eompare with our own in America. The Imperial Uni versity in Tokio has more than 9.000 students. The postal system of Japan is pronounced as good as In America; the telegraph wire stretches to every part of the land. All this and mom has been done since the advent of the mis sionary, less that fifty years ago. The annual offering for foreign mis sions in all the churches In this commun ion Is the first Sunday In March. It is expected that fully 1 200,000 will be raid for the work this year. Last year 1171,000 was secured for the work in i.'ant lands. The Christian church has eome to be one of the leading religious bodies In the country. They number more than a mil lion, and the grotn lost year is said to hve been abont 50.000. The number of chnrr dies is over 10.000, and the Dumber ff p,'i :-t.-rs fully 6.000. Tbey are also huildlng up a number of splendid educa tional Institutes In different parte of the country. . F. C. M. Socimr. Ton Know Wtst yoa rt TsMnj' leca--" '- 7-rrn i u r i ' :y pr-ntf d on tverf hot t low-' f t,,at t t s-r y i-rm nd quinine ia a te e- Iwira. io cnr. .o i . 50c. PERILS OF ALASKAN TRAVEL Ctter Carrier' Heroism Deserfli A letter telling of the perils and hardships of travel la Alaska has been received by Mr. Henry Recbtlu. die- buing clerk of the depurtrngnt of Justice, from A. It. Heiltg; who is the clerk of the United States district court for the district of Alaska, says the Washington, Tost Mr. Ileillg la stationed at Eagle, Alaska. The com-, munication was tinted at that place Nov. 30, 1001. The letter inclosed the voucher for Mr. Heillg's salary for the mouth of November, j "I received the check for my salary for August on Nov. 15," lr. Heillgi eaid. "This is the last received, by! reason of the slownosu of the malls on account of the difficulty in travel tills time of the year. The mail carrier going down stream was fastened in the ice and obliged to float with it toil miles beyond his destination before he could be extricated from his danger ous position by men on shore. The carrier coming up stream broke) through the ice and sank twice, but managed to roll over on a cuke of ice on coming up the second time- and scrambled on a dog to shore. The mails, being sled, wpro not injured, c when he felt the Ice brcahing under him he yelled at thQm to mush on,' and they went ahead. r "He found a cabin, without matches or fire, whoso owner was out examin ing his traps. For a time he tried to avoid freezing his legs by pounding them with a club until they were raw, but finding this unavailing and being in imminent danger of losing his feet or legs he ran back to the river, broke a hole in the Ice and stood in the wa ter until the owner of the cabin re turned ;;" "When he arrived nt Eagle, all his toes were black as coal and both, feet were covered by what appeared to be one large blister. After a day's treat ment be started on foot for Dawson, a hundred miles away, ngntnst the.pro tests'of every one here., who urged him to wait longer on account of the dan ger of blood poisoning, t But the indom itable will and energy of many of these carriers and their strong deter-! minatlon to get the malls through on time would not let him, be persuaded, i and In two days we heard by wire of his safe arrival at Forty Mile, about fifty njMcs toward Dawson, tie should bo at the latter plnce row. though we have not yet heard from him. "The season has been unusually mild, the thermometer having not yet gone lower than '40 degrees below eera In the absence of wind, of which there has been very little this year. 30 de grees below Is the; favorite tempera ture for tavcl, and for walking about the town no one thinks of wearing an overcoat, But when the breezes blow pnd the mercury goes below one wants to keep under shelter.' , , MISSIONARIES FEAR REVOLT Letter From Fnsma. Kerea. Telia of , j Aattforetga. Feeling-. - A letter received at Lapeer, Mich from Mr. and Mrs, R. II. Sidebotbam, Presbyterian missionaries at Fusan, Korea, tells of a probable outbreak In that : country, snys the Chicago Inter Ocean. They say: " Tne foreigners nt toiku are in a state of alarm. The governor here bates i the ; foreigners because of the wny they nave obtained land ana be cause the land they have has been con secrated, according to heathen rites, to the spirits and should not, according to heathen belief, .be desecrated by the foreign devils,' as we are called. .The Taiku officials have had a grievance against ' the missionaries for a long time, and finally the governor has agreed upon a plot to murder the for eigners and Is waiting for a favorable time to dispatch men to de the horrible work. Sixty miles north of Taiku a body of Boxers has formed, and tbey loudly proclaim their lntenelon of anni hilating the white skinned people. The Taiku people are hemmed in and have no possible way of escape Americans In Japan think that a general uprising In Korea must come and that it will be the signal for combat between Russia nnd Japan." ' : ; ..- ; ;; . ' Slightly Hlxed. . 'Who was Ananias?" asked the Sun day school teacher. After a thoughtful pause a band went up toward the. foot of the class. ; 'very well. Tommy," said the teach er, ;. "you may r tell us who Ananias 'Please, ma'am," said Tommy, "he wuz th' fellef wot sed he swollered a whale." Ohio State Journal. Still ta taa Bine". I hear your engagement with young Gotrox has been broken off, said the first fair daughter of Eve. "Well, you are entitled to another hearing," rejoined fair daughter No. 2 as she held up a graceful hand on which a solitaire sparkled. "You can see for yourself that I to still in the ring." Wtea you want a physic that Is mild end gentle. ea.y to take and pleasant in e"oct use ChaniSerlain's Stomach and f i--r 1 hVt. Tri'e, 5 cents. Sample' r ror box cnarant?ed. For ea!e t v J. E. n.x).i's drc? store. 0FF CAJPE HORN Copyright, J901. by C E. Lewis. 1 ; tfe were lauklng a fairly 'good .rtiu round Cap Uoiu Into the i'iiclUc lu ' thtwhaiiug 8l,ip Botcou Ught wuvu one morning we sighted a hvs v. UlcU wok sailing such an ecccunlc cauitw that; we knew there uiunt be trouble aboard. She was under plain Kail only, and we ran down tq her to discover that She was abandoned aud taU.ug care of herself, 1 was one of tae fau; men sent off In the mate's boat to board her, and when we had brought her to the wind our captaiu c;mu aboard for a personal Inspection. TLc brig tras the Princess of LouUc::, out ward bound, and a new craft aud a fine one. We could find nothing wrong with her. She was as dry as a bone, aUf right aloft, with water and piovl Blots in plenty. She had carded crw of twelve, nud there bad been naif sickness or mutiny. The crew Lad simply provisioned . the boats aud shoved off, leaving a stanch craft to drive about until, some gale sent her tofthe bottom or a current carried her ashore on a rockhound coast Her log, was written up to three days be fore we found her, and It had nothing to say of any trouble aboard. Here was a knotty problem to solve. That a good ship loaded with a vulu abre cargo should be abandoned by iuu crew in miuocean wltnout seem ing excuse was a puzzle beyond our ken. After a search lasting for three hours and with nothing-new coming to the surface the mate and eight men were put aboard as a crew, and it was decided, to sail her Into a Chilean port The. salvage would pay better than looking after 'trfiflles.',f;Whea we; got sail on her, she was found to be very fast, and those of us who made up tha crew felicitated ourselves on havli: a regular picnic Jn taklug her up the coast, i All day long we kept a sharp lookout for the boats vhlch had left her, but darkness fell without our bav In caught sight pf them,; Of course there, bad been talk and argument and speculation au day . long, but never man , uaa uiuteu at anything super natsnraL Sailors will tell you of haunt edj ships, but they are always ,old -ettiift - WIth-'ber paint hardly dry and her rigging not yet fully stretched it was impossible to connect the Princess with anything . uncanny. A landsman would have as boou looked for a ghost In a new comer cottage. There was a surprise in store for us. however The watches bad been chosen, suppcf nnisiicil and the off watch sent below when the alarm came. The four men of the off watch suddenly rushed on dock from the forecastle and cried out that murder wak being done In the bold of the ship. The hatches, had been taken off during the captain's visit, in the morning and men sent down to Inspect tue storage of the cargo, and the Idea that anybody could be below bad noi occurred to any one. une watch re ported cries of distress and groans o agony, and all of us except the steers man made our way Into the forecastle to Investigate. Almost ; at I once ve beard the cries and groans, and I can toll you that they were of a nature to take the pluck out of a man. The cup tain at ouce ordered the fore hatch re moved, and I was ordered to tie a lantern and go down among the cargo with him, , We spent half an hour down there; climbing about and calllrg out. and during this time not a groan or n cry. was heard from the unknown. Xo sooner; had we given tip the search however, than they recommenced, and sail was sliortened to allow the whaler to come up. Her captain came aboard and listened to the cries, and, then we spent two hours hoisting out cargo ue til the hold could be thoroughly rum magod. It was given such a close In spection tbat not a dead rat would have been overlooked, but "no human being was found.' Then the cargo was replac ed and the hatch put on, and the cap tain gav us a piece of his mind. , He was yet blasting our eyes for a lot of cowards when a man who had skulked below reported the. cries again. It was a knockout for the captain nnd an up set for us. We stood right up and re fused to stay another hour aboard the brig. In this emergency we were sent off to the whaler, the second mate and eight new men were transferred, and the craft made saiL Two hours later the brig lay to and signaled, and it was the same thing oyer again. ; ; ; ; I don't believe that sailors are more superstitious than landsmen. Had this been a haunted house" in a city the re sult would have been the same. The cries and groans brought shivers to every listener, and the new crew not only refused duty, but not another man would leave the whaler for the brig. Captain and mates affected great indignation and were brutal In their language, but nevertheless we knew that tbey were also under the spelL When daylight came, the brig was searched from end to end, but even as we t searched we heard the strange noises. The final result was that she was abandoned again, and ss she wr.3 The Beet Preecriptioa for M&iaria C-.i!1 r.J Fri Wt! tl Gc-' 7nu t-eWw lor.. f-nevfe A Fay. Tr. e never seen afterward she must have foundered tn a gale. We reiiorted her at Santiago, and her log v ns left there for the owners, aud since then I have listened to a hundred different theories advanced to explain tlie mystery. Whr.t scared us off frightened her original crew off, but none of her bouts ever made land or was picked up. There was no ghost, of course: neither was there a stowaway. The noises wcri pot made by cargo rubbing together, by rats or by bilge water roll Ins about. There was no straining of tlni'iers. If you want to know what I think. I will tell you. I believe that n swordflsh struck and pierced her bottom, his sword driving clear through Into the hold under some hoary box. and that he lived for several days and emitted the sounds we heard. M. QUAD. Tbe ilapiine Wax Tree. "Japan wax," as it is called, is ob tained from a tree, Rhus suecedanea, which is f mud tn Japan. China and throughout the Eart Indies in general. In the Japanese language it la called haje or haze. The tree commences to bear fruit when five or six years oil and Increases its product every year till at the age of fifty years a single tree will produce 33Q to 400 pounds of berries, from which seventy to eighty pounds of wax can be obtained - The wax Is formed In the middle of the berry, between the skin- and the Seed, like the pulp of a grape. It is extracted by boiling the berries in wa ter and allowing It to cool, when tbe wax separates from the skin and seed. sinking to tbe bottom of the vessel In a solid cake. The specific gravity of this wax Is .070 and Its melting point 131 degrees F. It is largely used, el ther alone or mixed with tallow, by the Chinese In tbe manufacture of candles. ! This tree should not be confounded with the "trfllow tree" of China, which has "a pith of solid tallow In all trees tbat have fully matured. The Fashloa of the Horn. . A servant girl happened to be en gaged at a farmhouse where the mis tress was known to have a hasty tern per. On the; first Saturday night the girl was at the farmhouse she was told by the mistress to clean the boots ready for Sunday. '.The mistress, on coming Into the kitchen later on, saw that the girl had cleaned her own boots first, so she took; them np and threw then) into a tub of water that was standing by and bounc ed cut of the kitchen. -The girl said nothing, but when she bad cleaned the other boots she threw them also Into tbe water. "Whatever possessed you to do that; girl?" asked the mistress on coming ngalu ia the kitchen. The glrffsimply replied: "Well, ma'am. ; please ma'am, thought it was tbe fashion of the bouse, ma'aml" T-ondon Tit-Bits. Loadoa It Wm, Unydn's "Dictionary of : , Dates" makes the statement that tbe old name of the city - of London was written Lynden or Llypdln, meaning "the city on the lnke..f y An old tradition gives os to understand .that London was founded by Crute. a descendant of JSneas, end called New Troy or Troy- novant until the time of Lud, who sur rounded the "toti with walls and nam ed It Caer-Lud, or Lud'a town. This latter la probably the correct version of tbe story. If for i:o other reason be cause it is an easy matter to detect a similarity between the crpresslon Lud's town and Lom.ou. ' It Is claimed by some writers that there was ar-Jtyou the same rpot 1.107 years B, C. and It Is known that the Romans founded a city there called Londlnium A. D, 6L ' Wkea Uk Wh Prcclosa. - Common as is silk nowadays. In ear lier times Jt was a most-precious ma terial. When it was first brought into Europe, silk commanded three times its weight ta gold, and so valuable was it deemed that In the reign of Tiberias law was passed forbidding it to all save noble ladles and prohibiting men from wearing it on the ground yof its effeminacy. Bo unusual .was it even 200 years later for a man to wear silk that every historian of the time of Tjellogabalus noted tbe .fact that tbat emperor had a silk gown. - For ages it continued at an abnormally high price. Charlemagne - in tbe year 780 could send to, King Offa of Mercla no more valuable a present than two silk coats. Gaasbllmg Far Prayer Book. The ladles of the town of Arensburg are passionate card players. Since they are not allowed to play at the local clubs they make up games at their friends' bouses and gamble all day through. 7 As soon as the cash funds run short they take to various articles. mostly toilet belongings. Thus one lost to another her corset, one lost a bon pet, a third some lace and perfumes. and they even go so far as losing their prayer books. Arensburger Tageblatt I have iH Chambers inV Cons'! Hem- edy for a camber ut years and have i o hes.tincy in saying that it Is the rest remedy for co'ics. colds and rroop I ave ever ud in my family. I have rot Wr1 to exi.ri try rHT1fVf-,r in this rrtiiT. iUs J. ,. ,'i.Hii.K, ,N.,ith Mur, Mm b. For fale by J K. Hi J, Jr -t. STATE JEWS; Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form, 'The Tarhoro Southerner says the busl ness men of Trboro will make an effort ' b r-entKbiich a tobacco market in that town. j )" , - v. v- Ke we ;omea from Greensboro that In a Neighborhood row near that city Satur day night a white man by the name of bhaffoer. and a negro named Hubbard,' were killed and five persons were In jured. Duplin Journal: The severe cold -weather baa stopped the growth of ber ries, cabbage and all : other plants ex- . posed. If the mercury does not "get a' move on" May will hardly find as with ; 5,000 packages per day as she has in, former years. Clarence Finger, a negro, was tried be fore 'Squire J.Allen. at Lincolnton Mon day, charged with rape on a nine-year-' old white girl of respectable parents. A ' seven-year-old child was an eye witness. Screams brought help and frightened the negro away. Be was committed to jail ' In default of a 500 bond. ? The Tarboro Southerner, - evidently -speaking with some inside information, ' says that , rYalter H. James, who was r pardoned recently by the governor, is oot tbat man's real name, and that he comes of a good Virginia family.' The statement is farther made that executive clemency was exercised at the Instigation of James'. brother. , , ,t t ,,, - Asbeville Citixen: .The people of Vorth ' Carolina ought to demand of the next , ' legislature an appropriation for improve-; ment of the public toads of tbe State. In ' fact tbey ought to select their candidates for the legislature with this view and pledge them on the stump to do all in their power for the promotion of good roBos m Kortn taronpa. A negro named Joe1 Smith, of Wayne county, went to Goldtboro last Thurs- day in company with, his sister-in-law, Ella Smith, and wagered tbat he conld drink more whiskey than tbe conld. The -whUkey was bought and the two re turned home. Friday morning Ella was " fonnd dead In her bed. Her sister, Joe's ' wife, gave him 20 to buy her a coffin. ; With this Joe vanished and has not been " seen since. , , , '- 'i r A Bohthern Pines special says: On Sun day a man by the name of Booth, from New York state, was found tn tbe woods near here, almost frozen and insensible. " A negro cared for him a day or two, bnt conld not provide for the. man's needs. 'Squire 8haw, hearing of the sad case, has provided for tbe man's physical needs and sent Dr. Ferguson to attend tbe case. ' Later developments eveal that tbe man ' was dragged and robbed. He is a piano toner by profession, ' Durham Bun: fteveral North Carolina tobacco men, both planters and deok-rs, nave oeen asiea wnat enect the pro posed tariff reduction on Cuban tobacco would have in this State. Thev all sure : that it will not hurt the North Carolina , tobacco, for the Cuban article is the leaf used tn cigars, while the North Carolina weed is need In smokinsr tobacco and , cigarette. The only injury which tbe growers in this State could suffer would be that some cigarette and cine-smokers might take to cigars instead, when tbe Utter become cheaper. . . - 1 An Asbeville special savs: ' Work la . rapidly being pushed on tbe gallows upon ' which will be executed the two Emma burglars, Johnson and Foster, on Wed- : nesday. The work is being done in one . of the carpenter shops in the city, and ' not in the jail, as that would have been an unnecessary cruelty, since the doomed men would have not onlv heard sverv blow, but the operations would have - been in plain si srht of their earn. Sheriff Lee has decided to have a dronol six ' feet. . The men will stand upon a plat fornj which works upon a pivot. An up- -right post will support It in front, eon- . nected wUh tbe death lever. Just above the men's beads will be the ponderous beam to which tbe rooa will be attached. The rope, an inch hemp cable, has been . "in stretch" for several days, with a 500 pound weight attached. 6BVI N 8FRXNG3 ITEMS. February 22, 1902. We had only one flarht that ran ha charged np to the snow. Hlsa Mattie Ivev is visitinir friends at Bellair and relatives in Newbern. i ' Borne of the boys felt that last Monday and Tuesday were very much like Chrhnv Mr. John Grimsley, of froldtboro. was with ua Kriday night. We are alwavs glad to see him. ; ;. - j ; i , v We went greatly pleased at tbe im proved appearance of Tas Face Fbess . and wih for its editor the greatest meat- -ureof snrcees. - Mlsees Bessie Williams and Sue Carr. ' of Mt. 1 Olive, who have been vieiting . Misses Esi and Mattie Uuefi. returned home Tuesday. Theodore baa our sym-, pathy. ." . u- . ; -.- s' '. i - Mr. Fred I pock and mother. Mrs. J. B. Ipck, of Bellair, Craven countv. spent . a few day last week with Mis Ida - pock, who is attending school a the Seven Springs High School. . Mr, Wheeler Oot Bid of Hla Rheu- : matiem. . ). ' "Durirg the winter of 1808 I was' so Um in id v ioints. In fact all over my bod. , that I could hanily hobble around. wbn I tougbt a totue oi tuamDeriam s F'sm P.Vm. rrom t; Bret application I Lfg-an to get well, and was cured an 1 have worked steadily all tv year. IL VFTEi.rn,orthwoi J. N. i For sale by J, K. Hood drvpti -t. 1 t .V. - &
The Kinston Free Press (Kinston, N.C.)
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Feb. 25, 1902, edition 1
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