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it? Iree;i Press I I . I I I 1 . 1 1 I t im Idiertislcg THE WEATHER: Cool tonight, warmer 8undsy. i.-s S - 1 property worded Mtm . people ttiokiof about -JulysarfUDS ,. 11 g.l . 1 ! I I I I 1 I t I I I 1 ' I I' PUBLISHED EiZEFY- HFTEINOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, ggrpQ N 0 Saturday, JUNE 7. 1902. VOL. V. NO. 60. PRICE TWO CENTS. I 1 1 1 I I 1 I ' 1 ' I MlLY I m I mm . 'HEWS AUD GOSSIP CDD IXD I3TERESTIHG HAPPEMGS. A lABd of Plenty. ' Aurora, N. C, June B, correspondence The Morning Poafc Notwltb8tandlng OLD HORTH tne lateness 01 tne apnng poww pian. ol q. cott0n will be injured be ing was at leaet' two weeks later than yond repalr ud BnU)- it r&ina aoonto anal, the crop baa matured aome four baoco will be a failure Corn looka well day In advance of last year. Soma mall ahlpmenta were made In May, but , . ahlpmenta commenced In earneet yeater - day when the Aurora and Washington 1 ' Transportation Company, connecting with the Atlantic Coast Line at Wwih- ington, carried 450 barrels, the Old Io- - minion line to Bellport 800 barrel, mat Ing the ahlpmenta 750 barrel the first day. The ahipment for today will be over 1000 barrels. The potato crop In ;-: this aectlon la good and will probably' . Amount to aome 85,000 - or 40,000 '- ' barrels. This only Includes a email aec tlon of country around Aurora,, , but , 'within a radius of ten mllea around '' Aurora aome 75,000 or 80,000 barrels of Irish potatoes will be ahipped within the next twenty days. IW. .m,n . r n . looking well, although the lack of rain baa been felt to aome extent, but baa en- bled the farmers to put their crops In -!.. .t .m.n . Wtt believe thi-, the.aetern part of the state, baa many advantages. The farming lands are not aurpaseed In any county. No floods or droughts, tornadoes or de- tractive winds, and the health of the people la aa good aa in any part of the tats. All that are looking for the beat place come to see cs. t.'- Trmedy on Farm. i Particulars of a tragedy which oc eurred in Madison county Monday after noon were learned . Thursday. Jaras Bice waa killed near Middle Forka by Qua Murray. Murray bad accused Bice : of alanderlng his character. Rica waa found dying in a cornfield. A bullet had entered we oacx ana penet ratea dim heart. Middle Forka ia seventeen miles from Marshall, tne eonnty seat, ana is a mountaiu district. Owing to the loca tion of the place It was not until the day following the killing that news of tbf killing reached theaherff and coroner. 8HOBT STATE STORIES. . Tbe annual convention and tourna ment of North Carolina Firem n'a asss'i elation will be held In lUletgu July 22, 23 and 24. s J. T. Corbett, ex-postmaster of Salem, was found guilty of embetzlement of rug- : latered mail matter and of packages con talning jewelry. Charlotte, June 5. The postofflne at King's Mountain wae entered by thieves last night, who blew open the safe and seen red seven hundred dollars worth of atampa und about f 50 in cash. - Statesville, June 5. The Yadkin county Democrotic convention met today and unanimously endorsed Judge Walter Clark for chief justloe and Charles H. , Armfleld for associate justice of the Su preme court of North Carolina ; ; Clarkton Exprvss: Mr. 8. 0. Wooten has the finest cotton we have seen. He has one field of fire acres that 'he ia ex pectiog six bales from. It Is in excellent conditon and with good weather will be In bloom by the last of thla month. ? Charlotte, June.- Special. Mrs. Stone wall Jackson this afternoon pione-l th outhern cross of honor upon nineteen Confederate veterans here. The exercises were very simple and impressive. The State has chartered the Hyman Supply Co. of New Bern, builders ma terials and mill aupplies, capital fifteen thousand dollars, also the Purvis Indus trial and Training school, colored, New Bern. - , . Cary, June 5. The entire plant of th- Cary Lumber company was totally de stroyed by fire early this afternoon. Tb" most conservative estimate of the loss eustained places it at 50,000. The in surance amounted to less than $20,000. The blaze started In the boIWr roon bow, it Is unknown. Charlotte, June R. The depot of the Southern railway at DavMoa wao rottei yesterday and about 33 in cosh wr 9 1 run .1. A Cairo by tbs came of T.T1 Ari lour w . a - , "ctv 1 cf t'..e t' ft y I a w i c .1 t' f A'l i: if 1 1 -lei! t t : 1 la r r irt T- i .f in. I Statsvllle Landmark: The flock sheep of Mer. Samuel Archer, Gibeon and W. H. Adderholt baa been moved from Mr. Gibson's, at Fancy BUI, to Mr. Adderholt's fans, io Bethany township, 8inoe the sheep were bought about a month ago 2.000 pounds ql wool aave been taken from them and there are also 100 young lamb. I vftw iwb JonraaJ: ' Tht frtm.r In tnwn vaatardaT were comnlaintno- nf the dronghlL They report crops as badly In Tet The eultivathm la nertect. no arass m the crop,. a few daya ago the pro pec t were merer brighter. . , Attention Sunday Schools. ' Each Sunday achool In Einston is re quested on tomorrow to appoint a coio- mittee of one to meet with the executive committee of Lenoir county Sunday school association next Monday, June 9th at 10 o'clock a. m. in the. office of Attorney Y. -T. Ormond. Toe object of this meeting is to formulate program and select committee of arrangemeut for holding Lenoir County 8unday School association, which meets In Einston on July 24th. la view of the facta thatj Prominent speakers and a large crowd I . jil.i P " th Stole Sunday Sunday aaaoclation mfln reuruary we ur each Sunday achool to aendagood active wait. w uu. m...r nmuymmamm, .... oeearioM will be aeredit to the Sunday tbe n of KlMton nd aUcon- cerueu. Y. T. Ormond, president. , J. J. Bookbs, secretary. ' VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT. I toe Tint nt9 It Tklt Work h Cleaaliaea. First in order In activities of this kind cornea cleanliness. Clean streets and public places, clean private prein ises wlh these secured the first greut transformaflon . in the community takes place," says Sylvester Baxter In The Century. When . nuisance breed ing rubbish Tieaps are cleared away and vacant lots, covered with all aura of Utter, are cleaned up, everyl.od.. notes the Improvement and ia inteisi ed in seeing it maintained. Orderliness of course goes band Id hand with cleanliness. The latter can not be secured without good order, and with good order there is an aspect of neatness that commands popular re spect It pleases the public eye. Ncur it evervooav will desist from tlirowiiH? rubbish into a well kept place uud from scattering torn up paper or other Utter in a clean street Public senti ment ia easily cultivated in favor cf public cleanliness and order. ' A notable instance of its growth i. to be found in the agitation agalnit spitting in public places since it wo determined that the practice 1b u danger to public health. The posting of notices, with regulations against lr, and the frequent discussion of the sub ject in tbe press have made a strong impression upon public sentiment, oik! in consequence the offense is not prac ticed to anything like the same extent in communities where there has bctu neb agitation. This Tear's Veils. Veils are growing finer and Oner and beautifully less. Those that are spot ted are either chenille or black velvet A very recent fancy is a large chenille spot at wide intervals, broken by an infinitesimal woven spot the ground work of filmy cobweb pattern. ! i ' ) ; rw.siCROP PROSPECTS ? ARE BRILLIANT ill Influences Tend to Stimulate Gen eral Trade Conditions.' ' - . New fork, June 6. Bradstreet'stodft says- .yV ."yl'v.t-Yi1 )-C'.. -' ' "Crop prospects taken aa a whole are really brilliant, railroad ' earnings are enormoua despite tbe small grain ton nage, bank clearings are quite heavy notwithstanding tbe speculative dull ness, and failures are fewer: in number than in recently preceding years. Ths ending of the Boer war, it la also thought, will have a tendency to stimulate export business in manufactures though inter fering with trade in horses, mules and other articles of export. - On tbe other hand, tbe industrial situation, though improved by the ending of blast furnaces and teamsters' strikes la still . a depres. ing one, owing to the prospect of tht anthracite coal strike proving a long and bitter one, threats of a strike in th Virginia bituminous fields and the gen eral unrest noted among workers In a number of Industries. , "Corn and cotton crop reports an positively excellent and in striking con trast with a year agol , Winter wheat is turning out better than expected in such states aa Kansaa, though recent rains have Interfered with harvesting in Okla homa. Fruit crops promise to be verc large and a favorable reflection of thin Is already noted in sugar prices which are firmer. . "Warmer weather has stimulated spring re-order business in dry goods, rather more activity being noted by job bere In delivery of which la impossible this year. A large volume of new busi ness la also reported In this Una, 8 tee) bars are reported stronger. Agricultural implement men have placed most of their ordere la finished products a year In ad vance and are now bidding freely tor pig iron for next year'e - delivery. Tbe nominal price for steel plates will not b advanced. -) ' '!: .."Business failures , number : . 15& against 163 last year." . , The) Colored Graded SonooL This was a prosperous year with the school, better work done than ever be. I eighty-four baa been admitted to a bos fore. The principal, L. D. Merrltt, baPltaI to Denver. She is tbe mother of iriven satisfaction to the mt,miii anA the board of trustees, yet there are aome I colored people in Klnston that never ap preciate educational efforts, but desire to rale or ruin. This faction doe not like the views and ideas Imparted to our! young people. ' Mr. Merrltt has done more J lor tbe colored people than any teacher I we ever had. Organised a eocietv witli I 150 members, a chariatable Institution to cats for the sick and bury the dead, and is the financial secretary of the so ciety. And his reappointment by th? board of trustees to succeed himself given universal satisfaction to patrona of the! school. A Colored Cmzuif. Judioial Convention. At a meeting the Democratic executive committees for thi third judicial ' district held in Kinston this day the judicial con vention of the 3d district waa called to meet in juntton a rj o'clock m., on Thursday, July 10, 1902. By order of the committee. This June 6, 1902. T. C. Whitakeb, ch'm. R. Williams, sec, , ' OUB BATTLESHIP AT KINO EDWARD'S CORONATION, The United Ststes 1 to b represented st the naval psnaiit in Einff Ed ward eorurwtinn by on of its newest and moat formidal whleh is th flagship ot Rear Admiral A. & Crownioshield. who no aquadma, FEMININE CHAT Modjeska says that stage fame ia like Dead sea apples. . Mrs. D. 8. Grant and Mrs. Sartoris will spend tbe summer In Coburg. Can ado, where Mrs. Grunt purchased a beautiful cottage last year. r. Dr. Marie F. Zakrxewska, the pioneer woman phyulciun of Boston and found er of the New Engluud Hospital For Women and Children, ia dead. Misa Jane Addama, head of the Bull House Settlement, Chicago, was se verely Injured in a railroad accident on ber return home from tbe convention of women's cluba In Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Hannah Barrett baa Just cele brated ber one hundred and second birthday In Boston. - Her father served in the Revolutionary war and waa un der Washington in tbe Valley Forge campaign. - ' Helen Keller, tbe deaf and blind girl, baa written an autobiography which wiu aoon appear, miss iveiier is now u student at Radcllffe college. Her book, wbicb la written in sign language of tbe blind, is said to be remarkable for tbe excellence of its style. A strange case la that of Mrs. Mary Elvira Gillespie, who at tbe age of iuuwu irniiureu, luciuuiug uueeu sets of twins, but all have drifted away from ber, and she knowa not the ad dress of one of them. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbllt has pfneed a window In Trlnitv church. Newnort aa a memorial to ber nustmnd. The window represents a Christian knight seatea ana boiaing in ula right nana a sword, tbe point of which rests on tbe ground, and in bis left a shield, upon which la a cross, resting on the left knee. Julia A. Harper, wife of the late James Ilarper. : founder of Harper & Bros, and once mayor of old New f ork city, has Juat died at her home in Gra mercy Park. New York city. She was i eighty-one years old and waa much younger than ber husband, who, bad be lived until now, would Lave been 107 yeara old. CURTAIN CALLS. Paul Arthur ia still holding his own In London aa a matinee IdoL Joe Welch baa been engaged by Klaw ft Erlanger for "Mr. Bluebeard.1 Mr. W. J. LeMoyne, tbe veteran ac tor, ia confined to bis house, seriously Isabel Irving baa algned to play leada with Richard Mansfield for the rest of tbe season. . It is quite likely that Mr. A. W. Pi- nero, the English playwright will visit New York next winter. The French comic opera season in New York closed with the pocketbooks of the managers in bad shape. ; In upper New York it is proposed to build a hippodrome where circus per formances may be given all the year round. Jacob Adler, the famous Yiddish ac tor. Is seriously ill, and It ia not known when be will be able to appear In pub lic again. John Philip Sousa has written a new march which be baa named "Imperial Edward" and dedicated to "His Most Gracloua Majesty Edward VIL" . Sharlaar the Beard. It Is believed that the custom of shav- i i: .3 the beard was introduced at Rome la the year 300 B. C According to riiny, Scipio Africanus was the first P.otuan who shaved daiJy. Wild Bnaaaaa Dave Seeds. ,'!M varieties of bananas have be?a - 1 in Ceylon, Cochin C! :na and the ,;:nis. Thee cf cccrse Lave Lut they are Inferior t tl e I r ; J varletlea The lr."ra Is J ly suckers, and it ia ia tl'f ' t' t the piaut is peri ''t;:aici ia ' '. -' y. Britiah water in hf of formidabla battleship, the uinoU, now eomraands the Jf trupejui 1 Swartaai Causae, A chimney lis feet high ydl away ten inches in a high wind without dan- ter.,y;r:::w ,::yyy ;y,yJ Te Word MeaiIr. The word "meander" com from the river of the same name. wV)se course was so devious that It furulsVl uwu l,v every modern language witnv new Bvord. " I'oaatev Thn London. Esquimau Is the only place in tbe British empire that exceeds London in cloudiness. Esquimau is also tbe damp est place In the empire, while Adelaide, in Australia, la the driest Ceylon . is tbe hottest and northwest Canada tbe coldest possession that tbe British flag floats over. ' a Monster Petition. The biggest petition ever presented to the English parliament waa the Chartists' petition in 1848. It bore 6,700,000 signatures. : Th Res Tree Reeor. ' Six thousand ia the record number of roues produced by one tree at a time. Thla waa In nolland. on Mine. Reg- new'a land. A Marecba! Kiel at Whitby has had 8,500 blooms on It at the same time. ' Venetian Glassivorkera. ; Most persons employed in the Vene tian glass industry begin to lose their sight when tbey are between forty and fifty years of age and In a short time become totally blind. Thla blindness Is caused by tbe excessive beat and glare from the giasji furnaces. Bladooa and Meat. . The Hindooa are said to regard us aa no better than cannibals because we eat meat ' China's Moon Galtar. The yuekln, or moon guitaV, of China has four strings, tuned in palra at in tervale of the fifth. The drum is usu ally decorated with Chinese figures in various grotesque positions. ' Balrbrashea. Hairbrushes should be washed in strong, tepid soda water, then rinsed in clean cold water and placed in tbe air not in the sun to dry. A. Slaa-nlar Notlea. Previous to the visit of James I. to the University of Cambridge, in 1615. tbe vice chancellor issued a notice to the students wbicb enjoined that "Noe graduate, scnoller or student of this Universale presume to take tobacco in Saint Marie's Church, uppon Payue of finall expelllnge the Universitie." , laow Crystals. There have been noted 151 different forms of snow crystals. . Like Kile Mad. The Nile mud, which renders Egypt a habitable country, la said , to bear a atriking resemblance to that which ev ery season is brought down by the Mis souri. Sir Walter Scott's Marrlaa-o. Eir Walter Scott was a genlua of the very first order. He succeeded in every department of letters, but bis greatest happiness waa in hia wife. He mar ried her after a short acquaintance, and it was a genuine love match, last ing until the day of ber death. Dlarestlon promoters. Onions, garlic, leeks, olives and shal lots stimulate the circulation. Increase the saliva and gastric juice and pro mote d'restion. Lark Aboat Shos. A Yorkshhernan win tit in Lis riht Le before pr'.'.irj it en when goicg cvt ta i -I ; t I . Vt".- erl i r y c i Y a t) 1 v : j . i : v i X -J' $ l' I tns s-r L .'. c t of ,t:.-d's t'-'..t tot FRESH FACTS EI A FEW MIES Items of Interest for Kale and Femili , By a majority of sixty-one the French chamber adopted a motion extending the period for which deputies are elect ed from four to six years. Paris, according to the latest census returns, has a population of 2,050,000 persons, of whom over L200.000 are ei ther foreigners or provincials. ' A number of Viennese ladles have started a dress reform league, with the object of suppressing the corset and introducing e new kind of divided skirt There is a man in Havant, England, who, having been completely bald from the day of hia birth, has now started a . fine crop of hair at the mature age of ninety-two.- . . , The Union veterans of German birth are to raise a fund for a monument to General Frledrich Wllhelm von Steu ben of the American Revolution to be erected in Washington. A motor omnibus may now be seen plying in London streets. Tbe vehicle is run as an experiment by the Road Car company between Hammersmith roadway and Oxford circus. Experiments with petroleum for fuel are being made by tbe Norwegian navy. Of the refined oil imported annually into Norway $003,000 worth comes from America and $09,000 from Russia. A gold plate which Charles Bona parte pawned in ortltr to pay the trav eling expenses' of bis son. Napoleon, to fixrollltary achool at Brienne bae.been placeirn the town museum at AJaccio. Subseqyuit to a recently promulgated law a yourWf France of any height above five feet if be weigha 100 pounds, is liable to conscription. Pre viously the minimum height waa 8 feet 2 inches. Smallpox in the United States, aa of ficially reported from Dec. 28, 1001, to March 21, 1002, reaches a total of 24, 194 cases, with 70S deaths. Tbe total for the same period in 1901 waa 11,490 cases, with 140 deaths. . Germany's oldest army veteran has just celebrated bis ona hundredth birth day t his home near Osnabruck. Us Is a master 1 milder named Wellmayer and Joined the Thirteenth (Westpha Han) infantry regiment in 1822. - All the tenants of the Paris news paper kiosks have been personally warned by the police commissioners of the respective districts against expos ing for sale any Journal or publication which may be personally offensive to King Edward. ' To secure prompt dispatch of busi ness tbe Japanese war offlce baa done away with the chairs used by the Jun ior officials of the accountants' de- . partment as well as those provided in the waiting rooms. Tbe result la stat ed to be most successful Tbe Turkish nary consist of eight een cruisers of from 2.000 to 8,000 tons, twelve coast defense ships, six gun boats and twenty-aix torpedo boats, but every, one of them is useless except a few small gunboats stationed at dif ferent ports along the coast Among the treasures preserved at tbe residence of the Earl of Clarendon is the original gilt key of Hyde pork, sent by Queen Anne to Lord Chancellor Clarendon to give him at all times "ad mission to tbe parks' of London a relic of singular historical interest Tbe capacity of Ireland for sending out emigrants haa been one of the marvels of the world. During 1901 the island seut out 89,870 emigrants, or 9 in every 1,000 of populatidn, of whom 80.5 per cent were between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. Even this large total is some 7,000 smaller than that of 1900. ' - . The national convention of the Eight Hour Day Supreme Grand League of America will be held in Minneapolis Sept 22-20. Tbe purpose of tbe con vention la to bring together representa tives from every state in the Union and from all commercial and Industrial interests. The call for tbe convention Includes employers and employees. It is reported that the ameer of Af ghanistan having appointed a council to assist him in tbe administration of the country, Blbl Halima, Umar Khan's mother, because she was not consulted, requested biui to dismiss it This the ameer refused to do. with the result that the plotting and counter plotting have Increased more than ever. Tlerra del Fuego is full of minerals, among which is no small proportion of gold. That there is to be a boom ia mining down in that part of the world there Is no doubt ' When the discover ies shall be made which will accom plish this result no one can rred!ct, but there are in movement operatlor i which at any time tuny result In e j:'. difteoverlfs n will attract attention. er S !ifxs A '-n't Toot-' -. If r lr s i powder to b t- ?'n i i or DC tQM i r . nd bw i i , : . ,-- ft' ' I --. t i v-- ' An' O.saw-a, ..
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