North Carolina Newspapers

T7TV f TEEEE'S CMT CUE THE ADYEBTISE. t Till VMATIU.I: f T Warmer tonightaud T TrtwiiV. THAT'S ALL TEE TI2E. t i Willie 11 11 k'A i i i i 1 i i i r i l.l.t.I.l.t.;-I'I'l'l PUBLISHED EMERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, tfoUV-rNo. 295. KINIXS. N. O.. MONDAY, MARCH 10. 1002. Price Two Cents. 1 . 1 . 1 1 . 1 . 1 -I . I . I-. 0 FresSo : 1 Ifiili COUNTY , .COURT 111 SESSION. Jzi'j TisisMs Eates Interest! . CiarfttoJiirj. He Define! the Lawand the Variety ; Of Orlmes Explains the Duties , Of Grand Jurymen--Names of Talesmen Drawn Cases Called And Disposed of. - Court convened this morning at 10 o'clock frith Judge E. W. Timberlaks presiding and Solicitor Bodolph Duffy. - The following were draws as grand jurors: - Mesa. A,- W; Taylor, Bryant Daven port, D. A. Whitfield, T. D. Bines, B. B. Alexander, J. P. Hooker, C. E. Phillip, Bam Smith, I. 6. PoweD, B,T,Langston, J. W. Dawson, Jr.; W. T. Kennedy, - Staten Sugg, J. F. Joy'ner, J. M. Ford nam. O. T. Parrott and R. JL TunstalL ,. Mr. Geo. West was sworn in by the clerk ' as foreman. ' The judge's charge to the grand jury ' consumed an hour and , twenty .minutes. It was a clear,, able explanation, of the law and the .duUesl olt grand jurymen. v..I his chargej ciW( )iman; cases to illustrate and, make, plain the facts he was Impressing upon the grand jury. Be explained ss to what constituted a crime, when a person la an accessory be-; fore or after the fact. ' He said crimes were divided into two' classes, felonies and misdemeanors, and explained ss to what crimes come under felonies and 'misdemeanors. He said for four crimes did the law provide capital punishment, murder, burglary, arson and rape. He . went Into full explanation of all these, and especially was his distinctions finely - drawn as to what was the difference, between murder and manslaughter. The judge explained what constitutes larceny, said it was generally considered that to commi t larceny it had to be done ty stealth, but this was not bo, larcency coald be committed by artifice, trickery, to. For Instance, a man bought goods . with the understanding by ' the one firm when they were purchased that they would be paid for immediately upon de livery and the buyer refused to do same this would constitute larceny. Is his ex planation as to what was incendiarism he said if a person set fire to a jail for the purpose of escaping it did not constitute Incendiarism. Be spoke about selling liquor without license, said of course this ' was easily recognized as against the law to sell whiskey on Sunday. Said InNew Tork some prominent people thought splritous liquor ought to be sold on Sun day, possibly the grand jury might, or he might think so, but this was hot the law and that they should follow the law re gardless , of their own opinion. The judge spoke embracery and bribing a jury, explaining the difference, ' and said . special care should be exercised in . this matter. ., The judge said the law should be en forced, thathe remembered, while holding court in New Hampton county, he asked a convict prisoner if be had ever been In jail or worked on the road Said he was sentenced to 12 months on the road in Lenoir county, that after working a short time the road superintendent told Lim to escape, that he didn't want to work a white man. The judge said he xiidn't know if there was anything in this, , but that the grand jury should thoroughly investigate it and find out and if things were being run in such manner proper measures should be taken. (The man referred to by the judge is Thos. Rouse. He shot a party in Lenoir county, was sentenced to the roads, but escaped and went to Wilmington. Ilere Le committed an atrocious crime, knock-f.-jr a little girl on the head with slight jrovocation, and was Bent to the peniten tly. IZt. Wootn was road superin t rjent at the time Rouse was serving in Lenoir end he emphatically denied the r.r- f" it ion. The jadje was eepe i' " f v -9 on w tat is commorJy known j 1 a ) t::!.r, Fill when a man "7 1..'.. -r- r::ented and tLcabj -f , 1 j 'ry ought to 1. 1 a ' s's i1 : 3 cotp- 1 t'l ; " itx m .! 1 'jrj t'.e car.! t 1 '.?':" - --tt' 'a in 1 . - , : ,; . it. State vs. Noah Johnson, concealed weapon. Fined $10 and costs."' Stats vs. Win. Button, larceny. Judg ment suspended upon payment of costs. Stats vs. Jesse Stanley, assault upon forget Stanley. Plead guilty. Judg ment suspended upon payment of costs. Stats vs. William James, colored, as sault with deadly weapon. Plead guilty. Judgment suspended upon payment of costs. There were three cases against Charles Holland, charged with selling liquor on Sunday, without license and to minors. In one case he plead guilty. In the other cases be was found guilty. Judge's de cision reoerred. State vs. D. G. Turner, house breaking. Plead guilty.' Stats vs. Calvin Hardison, assault with deadly weapon. Case continued for want of witnesses. - State vs. John H. Bouse and James Williams, cruelty to animals, ". Defendant called and failed to answer. Capias is sued. ' 8tate vs. W. F. Baker, assault with deadly weapon. Judgment suspended on payment 01 costs. , . . V ' - Stockholders' Meeting.' The stockholders of the Bank of Kins- ton held their annual meeting In the bank building Saturday. , The usual div idend ef 8 per cent was paid. One not. able feature about the business is that the surplus now equals the ; capital stock, 21,000, There-election of alltbeoffiwrs is a source of gratification to all, and shows that each officer rendering good service. , Moi mon Conference, The Mormon conference will be held fn the opera house tomorrow afternoon, heirfnnimr at 2 o'clock. President Rich. of Chattanooga, writes that he will be unable to attend on account of very im portant business elsewhere claiming his attention. However, Ber. A. C. Strong; of Chattanooga, has been secured and Is expected to arrive this afternoon and ad dress the convention during the session tomorrow afternoon, baw mills is Tins BOtrnr. ; Capitol Invested is North Carolina S13, 885.08T. Valoeof Predicts ais.nasf. ,598. The census bureau has Issued a prelimi nary report on saw mills, plaDing mills (operated in connection with saw mills) and timber camps of the United States In 1900. It shows a total of 83,035 estab lishment with an aggregate capital of 611,611,S24, with 43,822 proprietors and firm members. These plants have a total of 12,530 salaried officials, clerks, etc., drawing f 11,260,608 In salaries and an average of 283,260 wage earners drawing total wages of f 104,610.591. The value of products aggregated f 560,- 832,084, which Includes 1422,812,061 for saw mills; $107,622,519 for planing mills, and $36,898,404 for timber camps. The capital and value of products of the Industry, respectively in southern states follows: '' ;.'--;' i Alabama....$13,020.183 $12,867,51 Arkansas 21.727.710 23,959.93 Florida....-. 14,937.693 10,848,403 Georgia...... 11,802,716 13 704,923 Kentucky. 9.805,404 13,774,911 Louisiana..-.. ' 2,093.044 17,408,513 Mississippi..... 17,387,538 15,656,110 N. Carolina.... 13,385,097 , 14,862,593 8. Carolina...., 6,187,727 5,207,184 Tennessee,.;... 12,900,695 18,127,784 Texas ...... ...... 1 9.1 61 ,2(55 1 6.29R.473 Virginia..- 9,299,046 ' 12,137,177 SOME MARCH WKATHEB. Bow ft Condacted Itself for Fifteen Year . rt. The followiog data, covering a period of fifteen years, have been compiled from the weather bureau records at Blelgh, for the month of March: The temperature (Inures are; Mean or normal twrnperataiv, 50 drives; warm est month was in 1894, with an average of 45 degrees; highest temperaturw was 89 dpgres on March 22Dd, 1894; lowest temperature was 19' degrees on March 7th, 16E9;the avernjre data on which first "killing" frost occurred- in . spriug, was April 8tb. In the w ay of precipitation, rain and meited snow, tl re"ord shows an aver age for the mon t'l r,f 4 21 inches; the greatest monthly preeipltatir -J7.23 inches ia 189 1; the latt mittthly irec!pi- t t"'a w 153 i.i ! i 1 1 ; t . ,to-t smountof pret;i ': - ' 1 . " 1 li f"j twrity-four twi- i -'ra l.n-ns 2 C 3 i oa:mll': '1 1 1: b 1 ,t If- ' tt; ,t f . - fir ' i i 1 f 7fWy-r r u : i t ) ( : r t .J" ti k : :r c f 1 )i '3 ) v ' i 2 I i c.i I " sic'i i:h, GREATER TODAGGO POSSIBILITIES FOR iiORTII CAROLINA. COXGRESSKAI EOODT'S GOOD WORK. He OMiins Special Ytloable Ccscessica For This State. Four ETxperts to be Asaigned to the State to Teaoh Farmers How to talse Sumatra Tobacco, Which Ia Worth $1,8X per Aore Con tract Rural Delivery Billed. Washington; March 10. Congressman Moody scored a victory for the State Sat urday before the housecommitteeonagrt culture, of which he Is a member. He had inserted In the Jnding agricultural bill an amendment providing that a party of four experts be sent to North Carolina to experiment in the culture of Havana filler and Sumatra tobacco. Commis sioner Patterson and State Chemist Kll gurs are immensely gratified, : for they hays been working with this object in view for some time. North Carolina Is the only southern state that will get these tobacco experts. Congressman Moody showed conclusively to the com mittee that as a result of the soil sur veys mads in North Carolina there le land in the State as well adapted to the growth of this high grade of tobacco as that m Cuba or else where. The visit of the experts means that the fanners of North Carolina are to be shown how to make this high grade tobacco ; which commands such fancy prices.. Evidence has been adduced before tbe committee in the past few days showing that hills In Connecticut which . wers considered worthless are yielding $1,800 an acre from the cultivation of this tobacco. The experiment td be mads In North Carolina Is the most ' Important tey from an agricultural standpoint that has been 4aken In years. Congressman Moody also added North Carolina to the list of States enumerated in the bill which are to have the benefit of the soil survey fop another year,. These surveys are ; alternated - between tbe states, and North Carolina was not in the list this time. Commissioner Patterson and Dr. Kil gors spent five hours with the house com mittee on agriculture Saturday. They Saaeratitloaa .ef Today. ; - There are villages near the Universi ty of Oxford where no notion of med ical science bus penetrated and where charms are the only recognized cure for disease. A woman who has lately been lecturing In the neighborhood on sanitation found that whooping cough was slways treated by spider. The spider was sewed into a piece of mus lin and bung on a curtain rod, and the death of the spider meant the end of, the cough. Not long ago a child was seized with the Illness, and the doctor ordered "poultices on the chest." When be returned, be found that the mother had carefully laid the poultices on tbe oak chest which stood by the bedside. The remedy appeared to her perfectly natural... Coaaeleaee Stamps, The postofHce department has a "con science fund" of its own. Not at all un usual Is It for people to use a poorly canceled stamp and then to regret cheating the government but of 2 cents. In order to secure peace of mind the 2 cent culprit will send a good stamp to the department with an anonymous ex planation. This stamp Is turned over to an official of tbe flies and malls di vision, who pastes it on a large card and draws a couple of pen marks across it ' The effect would be just as good If the repentant canceled tbe stamp himself. Tho Hompa of Camel. The humps of camels are mere lumps of fat -Jd not provided for In the framework of the skeleton. When the animal Is In good condition, the humps are full and plump.- On a long Journey where food is scarce the humps are en tirely absorbed, the skin covering them hanging over the fianlc liUe an empty box. - , ; Tnrkrilan Lorrrt. In Turkestan every weJInj ecjsse Bcnt bcjrlns vita the payment ' rubRtant'al consideration to the girl's rnrents. If the d''l J"ts her lover, the c ;- r.'.cnt gift -bus, to le returned t 3 the rnrents have another acsn t r to tve as n substitute. How to Cure tlie ( . '... ; ' ' r-.'. '1 r t, l.ry s 1 t'9 heard Secretary of Agriculture Wilson end the director of forestry, Mr. Pinchot, tell of tbe'work of their departments.' At the conclusion Commissioner Patterson was honored with an invitation to ad dress tbe committee. His response was a most happy one. occupying ten mln Dtes. ' Mr. Patterson told of the effort of the North Carolina department to co-op erate with the national department of agriculture. 4 He also referred to the great work the latter is doing. 1 The m-etlngsof the house committee On agriculture are executive, but Con gressman Moody obtelned special per mission for Mess Patterson and Kllgore to attend.' .! 4 I An effort will be made this week to tav a meeting of the North Carolina delegation so that united action can be taken with reference to the river and harbor hill. 'The Tar Heels are not alone in their condemnation of the measure as at present constituted, and it is claimed that the opposition will be formidable. To Defeat Contract fropoaltlos. ' .Washington, March 10. -Six days have been spent In general nVrre upon the free rural delivery bill by the house of representati ves, and that without a sin gle objection from any source. Today is being d-voted to Its consideration under the five minute rule, and then it will be overwhelmingly defeated,? Two argu ments. In the main, have been advanced for It that unless tbe service be put under contract the expense of maintaining it when it shall have expanded to the limits which everyone wants to see It reach, will be so great that it will imperil its continued existence, and that the 50 000 to 100,000 carriers Imminent In the ser vice will compose a political machine so vast and powerful that congress nor the president will be able to resist its de mands. ' Against tbe bill, it Is urged that the contract system , Is hateful . to the senss of the American people and that the adoption of that system will Inevi tably ten, to cheapen the delivery, of mall to tbe farmers, when they - are en titled to the best that tbe government can give them; and that putting the rural service on a contract basis would be a discrimination In favor of carriers In cities. , " ; ; HOB8EKOTJC8. Oscar Ames Is training 20 horses at Wheaton, 111. : A mile trotting track will be built at Atlanta, Ua. ' Carey C.,2.15Ji, by Conductor, will be taken to liDgland. The American Trotting association congress wIH be held May 6. The dam of Country Jay, 2.10 has oeen Dooied to AJJerton, 3.09V. Ton Bet 2.11tf, by McKlnney, will be a grand circuit campaigner this year. .-, Lord Sumral, 2.10& will becampalgned in 1902 by A. a Porter, of Volga. 8. D. The pacing gelding Hobo, 2.21& by Charles Caff re j, will be raced this season. Sweet Alice, bv Snltan. nnt nf tht, Aum i Onn ard Silver, 2.08, is regarded as a 2.10. , James L, trotting record 2.09, by Dexter Prince, will be outas a pacer this year. L. E. Jackson, of Jamestown, N. T., bas purchased the pacing mare Expo, 2.24J. The American Saddle Horse Breeders' association will meet at Louisville, Ky., April 11. W. L. Wilding, of Salt Lake City, Utah, will race his trotter, Saxican, 2.24, over eastern tracks. D. C McDowell, of 8chuyler, Neb., has lately purchased the stallion Glen Wilkes, 2.25, by Wilkes Boy. EterliDg B. Holt, Indianapolis, Ind., wil breed a sister to Cresceus, 2.02Jf, to Bex Amerlcus, 2.11 X.' 1 A gray pacing stallion, said to be owned In Cleveland, has been pacing miles around 2.10 at Selma, Ala! La3y Nestor, 2.20& by Nestor, owned by CI "a. Grand t, of Freeport, 111., ia Li f 1 to Ear'y Heaper, 2.CCX- Conli not Treathe. hs, colu. crot1?, rr!" bronrLf 's t -roat an I lur-rt-ou ' s ereq'iirkJy 1 1 r One I 'nun Cor U Cure. Oe . Co'" Cure is rot a wro erryc- 'a f :v-1 'v t ry re- "IOV" 3 . t ; 1 3 t Expert cowboys are breaking a band' of 500 Oregon horses near Big Horn, Wyo., for the use of tbe British army. Oracle T., 2.20, by Game Onward, is in foal to Sphinx. 2.20X She Is nwned by Henry Horn, Jr., of Du Quoin, III. v Th Nstareth, Pa, Fair Association will celebrate tbeir. seml-ceutenBiaf 'uext September, and have a big exhibition. , . Di Vernon. 2 22X. the dam of Dreamer, 2.14V, by Jay Bird, is this year in foal to Moko, the great son of Baron Wilkes. , Miss Whitney, 2.11 g. by Bdgemark, will be a starter iu the Brighton Beach $10,000 purse or 2,12 trotters, and in the Massachusetts $15,000 purse at Besdville. - Ben Liebes, a green trotter, 17 bauds, by Mc&inney, 2.11& dam by Bbert Mc Gregor, will be brought east by the Cali fornia trainer, Will Durtee, this year. Flock Brothers, of Williaraaport, Pa, are wintering Gentry, 2.13K, Ahheusr, 2 25, and a green candidate for the races, which stepped a mite in 2.20, last year, .', , . ' ' Bobby B., 2,20V. by Deacon Hunter, owned by Wayne Bean, of Kulpsville, Pa., will be sent out for a lower mark this season. ' " . - What the Trafflo la. . :,y The ancient Romans, at whose sump tuous banquets truffles played an Im portant role, supposed that their ex istence was one of tbe material results of thunder, i More modern botanists have classed It as a species of mush room.,; but it caij scarcely., bo termed sucb-vTo be exact, the truffle Is a tn berculqus. fungus, a sort of morbid ex travasation of vegetable sugars anal ogous to oak balls or nutgatts and doubtless originating, as these latter, from the sting of an Insect, ' . ' Aecldeatal Dtaeharara of m Pun.. -A capital pun may arise by pure ac cident as recorded In Buck e's "Book of Table Talk r , A Mr. Alexander Gun was dismiss ed from a post In tbe customs of Edin burgh for circulating some false .ru mor. The dismissal Is said to have been thus noted In the customs book at tbe time, "A Gun discharged for mak ing a false report" , , V;'-';';.'Sa'v'as;e. fa- Arabia, , j 5 " With the' Arab a first cousin .'of ' the gentler ; sex holds an option on the young man, and if he desires to wed outside of tbe family he must first, re nounce her and secure his release. .The next in line is bis deceased brother's widow. As Arabia and Turkey are polygamous countries there is often a chance to provide for several who. may have first claims on the bridegroom. Woman's Home Companion. Why H Never Tired. ; He had taken pains when be applied for work to assure the farmer that be never got tired. When his new employ er went to tbe field where he bad put the man at work, be found him lolling on his back under a tree. . " : "What does this mean?" asked the farmer. , "I thought you were a man who never got tired?" "I don't" said the hired man calmly. "This doesn't tire me." ',r A Stroaa- Hlat. , A little girl went into a nelghlwr's house one day, and some apple parings lay 00 a plate on the table. After sit ting awhile she said, "I smell apples." "Yes," the woman replied, "I guess you smell jthese apple parings on the plate." - . - , "No, no," said she, '"'taint them 1 smell. I smell whole apples," - . His Hope. "I hope," said the serious man, "that you haven't been betting on the races.". "I hope so, too.'! said" the young man with the red necktie and tbe restless eye. "I hope I will wake up tomorrow and find out that the whole thing was a wild dream. But there's no use hop ing." Exchange. Be Bnre You're Rlsht. While It la true that there comes a tide in the affairs of men which, etc., there are so -many people every year left stranded high and dry that some caution would seem to be needed about picking out your particular tide. Syra cuse Herald. :-::':':, ,: - Andrew Clark was accustomed to oeflne old age as the period of life at which a man no longer adjusted him self to his environment : ,' There is no beautlfier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around you. ' For Tbe Complexion. V r The complexion always sufTerers from biliotiTOees or constipation. Unless the bow' we kept oppn the impurities fmrn tl.a body eppear in tlie form of nn- :.t y err; lions. Dev. ltt's Little l.ariy ors kwji t' e liver and bowels in FRESH GOSSIP OF THE OLD NORTH STATE. Odd and Istercstlr Eappesisgs Froa Efsry Section. T A Persistent Burglar Shot Insur anoe War probable Mail Clerk With Smallpox, New Outbreak , In Charlotte Go vers or Offers Reward-Fatally Torn by Cogwheel A burglar or burglars seem to have made a special mark of Mr. : N, H, Nell, who lives not far from Raleigh. His home has been visited four times recently and on the fourth round he got a shot at the burglar and ' knocked him over and drew blood, but the fellow got up and ran off. The thiof was of the fish pole variety and before being detected had hooked Mr, Neil's trousers from a chair, rifled the pockets and replaced the garments. Had he been content with that be would have saved himself trou ble but he tried another window and roused the inmates. W. N. Niven, a colored mail c)erk reached Wilmington from Charlotte, with a well developed case of smallpox. He was sent immediately .to the pest house, as was also the assistant, mall agent, W. H. Tbomae colored, of Ham let. The mall ear 1n which Niven came' to the cfty was held over and fumigated, as was also ths mail agents' room In the postofHce building; where the colored man was found In tbe active discharge ol his duties. The action of ths Greensboro fire In surance companies in declining to follow the example of the Southeastern Tariff association In making a 25 per cent, advance in rates may result in a rate war. Several old line companies have written their local agents in regard to the matter, Several years ago tbe Southeastern Tari If association made a signal failure in a fight against, the Greensboro companies.; ; , ; . Governor Aycock bas offered rewards for the capture of two criminals. Three hundred dollars is offered for the man who killed John Caton at Waeh'ngton. Catoa was shot down through a window while he was playing with his little brothers and sisters. A reward of ' $200 is offered for the arrest of the wretch who set firs to the Southerland Seminary near Asbeville. ' Mr. Clarence Shepherd, of 8alem, aged twenty years, accidently shot and killed himself. He was a earpentetby trade and had just returned hpme from work. He picked up his pistol and began fooling with it, when it fired. The ball entered the cheat and the young man died in a few minutes. , Sheriff Geo. A. Burns, of .Cumberland county, died at Fajetteville y Friday morning after four days of Intense suffer ing from pneumonia. He was the very picture of robutt health up to tbe pre vious Saturday morning, but was taken with a chill in the afternoon of that day and within a few hours pneumonia de veloped. . Jack Bell, a young man seventeen' years old, while leaning over a cog wheel, oiling the machinery In the copper mines, at McCoys, was caught by the cog wheel and the entire front of his body torn apart, dying instantly. Henry Worley, who tried to rescue him, lost three fingers. J. L. Crook, of Charlotte, when return ing home from a Mt Saturday night met a man In a railroad cut, who, In passing struck him with bo me blunt in strument and left him lying insensible on tbe railroad track. He recovered con sciousness in abou g an hour and got into town. Dr. Geo. T. Winston will lecture at Mt. Mortah Academy at Auburn, Friday, March 14. In April Prof. W. B, Cullom, of Wake Forest, N. C, will lecture Governor.C. B. Aycock will deliver the commencement agrees May 15th. Thel2-year-oLleonofMr. Fate Icean- hour, near Taylors vl'le, was killed by the discharge of hia ;, while crossing a log over a creek. Ila f 11 and the load went Into his head, lllllr:? him almost In stantly. , A new cotton r to le erected at a five ia the town. Spray, which v ' '. .-. Mrs. : Dear Sir: I r 4 ( l 1 1 ? cf t :- 5 ( . r' ji 1 5 f t (' 1 " "f 4 5 1 t : r. j i'.r.i r' . ( ; v ' j i ti s ' . h I ' : j 1 '.- :. ; --i ! .! ' t ' : v 1 o i 1 ic . r 1 : i t. 1, . f .. r len r,-; i ! 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