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B I 1 1 ' I ' I I I 1 1 1 1 I I Daily f ree; PirfIWI & m Way to Will in bmincaa fa to fcav thinrt ia nock thm poU want and A let than know It. M l 1 1 1 M 1 I ,1 11 il VOL. V. NO. 47. r KINSTON, N. C FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1902. -PRICE TWO CENTS. ? ' 111 11 11 11 . . 1 1 1 . ' : . . ."."'i : : : --- I 1 1 OLD WORTH STATE HEWS AHD GOSSIP .-.i ' , ' ' ' "'' : . '-'i " ODD AID HTERESTHG HAPPEIIIGS. BeCOrd Breaking CatCllCS Of KaClerel Off Korebead City. 3Eea ''"'Sea Yialda Phenomenally-A Colored Babe Drank Concentrated Lye and Died IAve, Babbit la the Mall-Wheat . .rw. VdlnM A hnnt Newton, f ' . 1 i News and Observer: Mr. F. B. Area lell returned yesterday from trip to the eastern part of the State.' He spent a day or two at' Morebeard and says that the most ! phenomenal catches of Spanish mackerel that haveeyeroccurred at tnat famous nsnmg r. MinM annnir we vaan nw uoj.. ino Mmufov and .Monday night, said Mr. Arendell, ''one boat caught 7,000 pounds of m mackerel, ; another caught ' 6,000, pounds. Other (fishing parties caught large quantities all by seining running the catch of the day and night to over 26,000 f pounds. On the train .x ...i. U.-V..J .wt. mnmlflff niM pa load of these flab, weighing 20,000, going by express to w Ynrir." Mr. Arendell reports the leading nsnermen as raj tug w .i ' of mackerel at Morebead this aeaaon has naw been eanaiea at anr poms va ww coast. The trolling lor ttiis gameec oi an eea fish has just began and promises to be greater than at any previous season ' Drank Concentrated Ire. , wtlmlnortnn Messenner: The child of Rnwin Robbison. colored. Who resides nr Ninth and Church streets, died In agony yesterday morning from the effect f . dranaht of conoentratefl lye s and water. , The child, not quite three years old, was playing in the yard and found can in which there was some concen trated lye and rain water. It picked up the can and the mother hallowed to it to put I down,; but before she eould reach it the child had taken a drink out of the can. ' , .. i ' ' Sent a Itabblt bjr MaU. ' ' Greenville Reflector While Mr. J. W; Potter, mail carrier of rural free delivery route No. 1, was on his route Saturday, lie found a rabbit In one of the mail boxes. - He took the rabbit out of the box and found around its neck a string to which was a card addressed to a young lady in Greenville and a note re questing Mr. Potter to deliver it. ,He brousbt the rabbit In with him and de livered it promptly as directed.. SHORT STATE STORIES. - Danbury Reporter: Judging from pres ent Indications there will be sv very large crop of apples this year through- J out this section. The peaches are not iso promising. ' Newton Enterprise: The nearer harvest approaches, the worse grow the reports I about the wheat crop: The fly is re ported to be injuring what was' not fro zen out by - the severe winter. The general opinion is that . the crop in Catawba county will not average three bushels to the acre. It will not pay the fertiliser bill It is the worst crop since 1894 when wheat was killed by the 'severe freeze the last day of March, v Senator Hoar Denonnoas Philippine Policy, Washington, D. C, May 22. A notable contribution to the discussion of the Philippine question was made in the Senate today by Mr. Hoar, of Massachu setts. When the venerable senator be gan to speak, every senator at the ce pi tol was in his seat and for two hours and a half his address consumed he was ac. corded the most careful attention, not only by his colleagues on the floor, but also by the people in the thronged galler ies. He denounced the attitude of the gov ernment in the Philippines as one of the most wicked and foolish chapters in American history. - OOIIFOIIT. ,.'. May 21. Mrs. E. A. P.hodfs who has bn spend ing a iew vrrwssftt t'leasftntu.; J, returned j i.r. i. a. i.ao . i b suaJ ij. I.E-H'rs.I. M. L. rro k, cf r.itLianda, v'witeJ ilrs. t rock's l;.K Lun lay. i:;i 9 ju:;i Livcton. i has rctra3 to The IxktbbU are CominaV Large numbers of 17 year locust have made their appearanre in Washington and reports of similar visitations have reached the department of agrlsulture from Altoona, Pa., and Nashville, Tenn. Tbe department sent 0,000 poatal cards throughout the country asking tor im mediate reports on the first appearance olthe locnete. The department has toll record of their appearance in 1885, and ita experts know where to look for them this week, ' tnoiana. wun tne adjoining counties c f tneir neignnor states, are to be n ma k effected, by the pest. The department etomologtsts say- that yonog nursery trees and young shoots of mature trees are all that will sustain Injury from the visitation of the 1- costs, and that there is no cause for alarm over their appear ance. It la anticipated that the;' locust wilt be reported from other portions of PenMvttnla and TmnwiBee from New j Diaw&re, -Maryland. Vir- ginia, North Carina, South Carolina, Kentucky, .Ohio, Indiana, '. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and possibly a few other localities.: SHINE. 'May 22. Farmers are quite busy now, some put- I tin.. nn, KoJ. some plowing come ud very up cotton that has not good, and others chopping cotton. "Friday" Jones returned home last I can stay nnul crone are flnished or not. I and he also says Greene ooucty is not as v..uV. Mr. ' and Mrs. Joe Smith" visited In Wavne Saturday and Sunday. . They were accompanied home . by their aunt, Auss uary rar . Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jones and baby, and sister, Miss Addie Jones, of Saratoga, made a pleasant visit to relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Grant, were in Golds- J boro last Friday shaking hands with uu maaiug purcuiwin. Onlta a. nnmhar tit nnr rmonla araan ttiA sick list. . i , . Mrs. Penina Frazier Is visltlnjr her sick aunt at Bull Bead. ' Rev. H. H. Goff. preached at Ft. Bunn 8unday. r -. . ' 1 v Jerusalem has a flourishing Sunday school. , -' t Uw It Is Done. -, j :.,' The first object in life with tbr Ameri can people is to "get rich;" the second, how to retrain sr jod health. ' The first can be obtained by energy, honesty and saving; the second (good health) by us ing Green's August Flower. Should you be a despondent sunerer irom any oi tne effects of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Appendicitis, Indigestion, etc.. each as S etc Headache, Palpitation of the Heart, our Stomacn. Habitual Uostiveness. Dizziness of the Head, Nervous Prostra tim Low Spirits, etc.. yon need not suffer another day. Two doses of the well-known August Flower will relieve yon at once. , Go to J. . Hood and get sample bottle free. Regular size, 75 cents. Get Green s special Almanac. - W.M.HERBERT, . .. W. S. HERBERT. HERBERT fi HERBERT, Real Estate and Employment Agents ; and Promoters. - - -, ' Will Begin Business by June ist Hocest and Square Dealings in Real Estate Guaranteed. Property sold, leased and rented. Rentsor deferred payments promptly collected; only safe, substantial schemes helped along. ' ' X x' V ' , FLEEIK6 FROU ; .. MTHBYFIRE AWFDL DESTROCTIOH IH ST, PIERKE Second Eruption Causes Worse Mas- tation than the First Terrified CUIsens Say Islands are Doomed and Be to ba Taken A way E vldeaoe of a Blast of Biasing- Gas Which Leveled Even Solid Walls of Basalt The Dixie Arrives With ImnienM Carco of Stores. Fort de France, .Martinique, Wednes day, May 21. Streams of frightened refugees have been pouring into Fort de France from all the surroundingcountry. These people are not destitute, but they are terrified. They want only one thing, and that is to be taken far away frnm this island," with : which, they say, the gods, are. angry , and which they w ill destroy by fire before it sinks nnder the The consuls here and the officials of the war vessels iu the harbor are waylaid by scores of persons crazed with fear and begging to be carried away. v The U. S. 8. Dixie, Captain Berry, from New York, arrived today, after a quick and sate passage. ; The Dixie began land ing her enormous cargo of supplies early and the storehouses on shore soon be came : congested. This is the greatest difficulty of the administration. ' ' This morning the D. 8. S. Potomac, .with the commanders of the war vessels now here, went to inspect St. Pierre. With the greatest difficulty the party succeeded in making a landing. ' Tne effects of the outburst of yesterday were tremendous.. The huge : basalt towers and walls were hurled flat to the earth, i The bombardment of volcanic stones is not sufficient to account tor1 this and 'all evidences point to, the passage of a fu rious blast of blazing gas, traveling at enormous speed, and with incalculable force. The deposit of boulders ashes and angular stones is enormous. ' i The second eruption was many times more violent than that which effaced Sfc Pierre and swept Its people from - the earth nor has all volcanic activity ceased Vast columns of smoke and gas still pour from the great crater.; New fissures have opened on the mountain sides and are vomiting yellow whirlwinds, which rash intermittently now from one point, and now from another. C Boiling mud is also thrown out at . times in torrents that reach the sea and produce small tidal waves. , i " - . Merchandise Envelopes have been added to the materials carried In stock bv Tmc r bkb f BBSs jod ranting Department. V '1 9 WEAR THE SUMMIT OF LA SOUFRIERE, ST. VINCENT'S VOLCANO, La Soufriere, which means sulphur .mine, is the volcano which has killed inch a large anraber of ptople in the British inland of St. Vincent. The road piotored above was, filled 'with atoluM Uva when La boofriere was in action. ' . - ORIFTON. .'"' " May 22 - Mr, C. G. Gardner, railroad agmit at pooe N-et, spent yesterday h visiting pis parents. t Sheriff O.' W. Harrington, fpent last hight here on legal businetis. . ( Mr. HlggK. of the Greenville Supply company, Is in town soliciting orders. Miss Bessie Garris, of near Ayden, re turned borne vesterday, after visiting her sister, Mrs. w. J. Klttreil. . ' Mr; J. S. Keen. sr.. leaves tomorrow (or Sontbport, where he will attend the so'dters' reunion. ' Tobacco-farmers are about, through transplanting. , , Mr. C. . Dunn has started bis new mill to work. It is au up-to-date plant. "Allnfffor Skeeter Island." A "party left with nets. suns. etc.. and hard tack enough to last tonlxht on the banks of the giwat1 late-. Tne party was om DO-d of C. P. Gaklns, ''the king fisher,' be. W. W. Dawson and O. Gaskins, S. Patrick and J. E Lewis and i. V. Griffin, v We anxiouslv await their re turn and will report the result. , ; - - i r V I May 22, A good many from here lattended the picnic at Hugo yesteraay. Mr. 8. J. Johnson killed a mad .dog In his yard Monday. ' ' Mrs. J.E. Cameron left yesterday for Raleigh. , . Mrs. Beby Grubbs, of Klnston, is visit ing her sister, Mrs.R. L. Bio w. ' Me. and Mrs. Jim Savage went over to Green yesterday to visit relatives. ; t Mr. and Mrs. Flete Pitt man went to Seven Springs Saturday. Mfss Lutle Jones spent last Saturday with Miss Carrie Skinner at Kinston. Misses Carrie Jones and Addle. Langs- ton returned Saturday from Klnston. Mrs. Louisa Lwgston returned yester day from visiting ber son, Mr. C. B. Langston, oi aeneton.1 r Mra Annie Raspberry spent last Satur day with Mra. Sallle Bruton, of Klnston. j Misses' Bessie Jackson and Sack Bar- wick and Messrs. C. A. Broadway and Lon Ferrell attended the commencement at Klnston Friday night. ; HYOO. , May 21. The farmers of this section are all very busy. .. . '- Mr. M. E. Dall made a business trip to Snow Hill Monday. Some of our oeonle have gone to at' tend the Sunday school picnic at Hugo today. - Miss Ethel Hill, of Fountaiu HUL spent Saturday night with Miss K lorence uaii Mr, M. E. Smith and Miss Verna Hill. of Hugo, attended services at Ormonds- vllle Sunday ana spent tne aiternoon with Mr. M. E. Dail's family, a,. Mr. H. E. Edward ia moving to Klns ton today. . ORMONDSVILLB. May 21. Rev. E. Pope filled his regular appoint ment nere Sunday. Messrs. Graham Faulkner and Herbert Cumminars. of Kinston, are visiting Mr. . T. Frizzelle and family. L'ias Verna Hill, of Fountain Hill, and Mr. N. E. Smith, of Hugo, attended ser vices here Sunday. . A crowd of young people from here at tended the 8unday school convention at l'-jo Wednesday. The farmers are very eapr to get out 't tobacco plants since the rain Tues y night. Ladtre Can TVear Efooee , Mim!Wipr fM'r AHen't Foot-Fa T to b rUefl ililo ti.e rKM-. It ?r -.K-, w boft fr.t es v; c v t r- ! to l: it 'i-U t -( --- -. .' . i fif- i n 1ft, t - : k . I I - Te : t ft. - 'i . a t . f . - i p-.. " y i..Ji. Ai n S. C nai-.i, i-c Roy, h. V. I -2 J 9 I' ''r '77',, MERE MEN, ,' ;;,., Samuel Gorapers, president of the Federation of Labor, speaks, five lan guages." JerrySimpson Is a champion ping pong player. He beat Governor Too!p and several Montana stock millionaires at Helena lately. Captain Orren A. Hamblett of Wash ington baa purchased the historic Sam uel Wilson house at Mason. X. H., the home of the original "Uncle Sam." , Admiral Sir Henry Eeppel, now In his ninety-second year, has a great de sire to die at sea. ' With that end In Tlew be la constantly going on long voyages. - ' .Colonel Mott Hooton, who has been made a brigadier general; is a native of Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather was a captain in the Revolution ary army. -' ., ' ' '':-, . Senator .Clark of Montana is an en thusiastic outomobillst. He rides about Washington on a ten thousand dollar " French flier" which be bought last year in Paris. , . James R. Garfield, the new member of the civil service commission, haa been assigned the desk at which Presl dent Roosevelt worked while president of the board of civil service commis sioners. Edward L. Adams of Elmira. N. X". who has been appointed consul general at Stockholm, Sweden, was graduated from the University of Rochester In 187Q ana began bis newspaper career on the Rochester Democrat and Chron icle. ' Herr Kaurmann, whose election - as second burgomaster of Berlin the kai ser declined to sanction on account. It is supposed, of bis former political opinions, has suddenly become mad. Some people in Berlin are ascribing his madness to disappointment in conse quence of the kaiser's action. Under the will of Colonel Blanton Duncan, a wealthy Eentuckian who died recently in California, twenty-one Kentuckians and forty-seven residents of other states are named as legatees. Each is to receive $1,000. ; Among the beneficiaries of the will is Ab Ah Sam, a Louisville Chinaman, who bad long been a friend of the testator. PEN, CHISEL AND BRUSH. .Miss Lillian Thomas, , who painted the lust portrait President McKlnley ever sat for. bos taken that portrait to Washington, where it will be ex blbited at the Corcoran Art gallery. Bartholdi, who created the statue of Liberty now standing in New York harbor, has made a design for a colos sal monument for Belfort, France, to commemorate its three famous sieges of 1814, 1870 and 187L 4 In spite of his hurry while in the United States Prince Henry found time to give sittings to an American painter, George Burroughs Torrey. This artist has bad much success with bis present ments of society people In Kew Xork and Philadelphia. Mary MacLane of Butte, Moil, Is a young woman of nineteen or twenty years, whose book about herself out Bashkirtseflrs Marie BashklrtseS, was born in Canada of Scotch parents, spent ber childhood partly in Minneso ta and received her education in the Butte high school. Ebe thinks that she is the greatest genius that ever lived. PERT PERSONALS: Russell Sage's landlord has raised his rent, but Cod will temper the wind to tie shorn lanab. Milwaukee Sentinel. TTi:i some one plecse pass Miss Itary acLaae a Tore cf tle red, rod fSy e Ij Etarvin for. a'.-o a E-jsall tat:? cf fiasco sauce ta Caver It with. "V-ra- i. 5 lr'7J I r f7. jr " kf ' wn. MM A 'ff FRESH FACTS ; IH A FEW MIES IneresUng Items of the World's Events The Portsmouth (England) torpedo school has devised a line of torpedoes to prevent submarine attacks. ,'. The Moorish government has granted to France a contract for the coining of 13,000,000 worth of Moorish money. The restoration of Peterborough ca- thedral, which has been in progress for etgbteen 'years, bas cost over H0,0ca An annual cyclopedia for 1001 places the total 'gifts and buests in the United States last year at $107,300,000. One result of tne Anglo-Japanese al liance will be tbe prevention of prohi bition of Japanese in Australia, once suggested. Itussia is founding an independent bishopric in China, and the bishop elect of C'hurbln and Peking will be at the head of it ' The Royal Society of England has Officially decided that womeu are not eligible for the degree of fellow of tbe Royal society. i The British Lifeboat ; association is considering tbe establishment of a wire less service around the coast, including the lighthouses. " Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, is working for a greater Sydney through the annexation of outlying sub urbs and towns. No municipal tax levy will be made in Peterborough this year, the first tlnip when mioh an lnrldpnt waa ro. corded in England. . ' . Russian and other miners are being employed in English coal mines, and an agitation against their employment is being considered. ' Camel teams are now being need for the carriage and distribution of min ing machinery on tbe North Coolgardle goldflelds. Western Australia. Tbe census of the sexes in Canada shows that there are: Single males, L747342; females, 1.503.450: married males. 029.015: females, 005.031. Among a band of revolutionists which recently fought with Turkish troops near Mona stir was a woman dressed as a man. She was killed in the fightrng. ; Tbe urban council and school board of Kettering. England, being enable to agree upon a site for a building, play ed a r.orao 0f golf to decide it The councilors won. Ligbtuing statistics In the United States last year showed that nine-sixteenths of the persons struck recover ed. , Less than one-fourtb were struck in open ground. , At Plougnastel, a small town In Brittany, all tbe weddings of tbe year are celebrated on one day. In Febru ary last thirty-four couples were mar ried simultaneoHly. '-' Askal Chin. In Tibet,- is the lake which lies at a greater height man any other in tbe world. Its level is 10,600 feet The lowest Is the Dead sea. 1.290 feet below sea level , , . . Pewter making, one of England's Im portant Industries seventy years ago, has almost been abandoned. Cheap glassware and tinware have driven pewter from tbe market. The Phillips Brooks nouse, at Cam bridge, Mass.; now has 559 contribu tors, representing not only the United States, but England, France. Turkey, Japan, China and South America. The world's sine production in 1901 increased 28,237 tons over 1900, or 5 per cent The largest increase was in the Rhine district of Europe, 12.905 tons; the next largest in the United States. 12.802 tons. Emigration from Ireland bas decreas- ed. Last year there were 39,870 Wsh emigrants, a decrease of 7.237 as com pared with 1900. , Of the total 21,527 were females, and over 80 per cent went to tbe United States. Concessions have Just been granted to construct and ' run twenty-seven branch lines of the Swedish railways. The new lines will cover a distance of 250 miles in all, and It means that Swe den will again have occasion to pur chase a large quantity of rolling stock. The value of tbe coal mined in Ja pan is almost equal to that of all other minerals combined. It varies from tbe hardest anthracite to peat but the quality is usually Inferior to that of American coal. Modern machinery and methods have been Introduced In the operation of many mines. A boom In the use of mechanical mo tors throughout South Africa will en sue immediately on the termination of the war. No real development of Its boundless resources can be acebmpiisb ed so long as the primitive method cf transportation by ox wagon in districts remote from railways is adhered to. Mrs. Durham Cored. Deab Sir: I en a r"at f " 'r severe nervous fc"? ' , r :.i t-li " enrs 7e.Jy r. I. A -o vu i I rervrT!S f-j r'l t rc ' i r , a t -mer'lr' ' t. It '.e x -;9 !i t nvoc,J'-7 it rs a t'.cr- e... i I'D z: V.' Pwnf 1 c.fjy. Ulcere "7, iTrs.CourvrrIcr lot::
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