North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. V-NO. 93. KLNSTON, N. O, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1002. PRICE TWO OENTa OLD IIORTH STATE ira aiid gossip OK) 1XJ IZIEHESTIKG HiPPEXIXGSJinunkipal authorities and yoar readers Cropa Destroyed by Hall. ureenrme Beflector: Later ' reports Irom tbe wind and hail storm, Toeeday evening, ihow that considerable damage was done. Tbe area covered by tbe hall waa not large, but so far aa it attended destruction followed. The worst of It earned to be near Mt Pleasant church and a Uttle to the north of there. The greatest sufferers vert Mrs. Nona Brown mid Mr. W. J. Fleming, on both of whose fame tbe crops were literally mined. On Bberifl 0. W. Harrington's farm sev eral buildings, Including stables, were oiown down, killing a male and Injuring mm onve none. Mr. I. A. Mavo and one of hit tenants were caught out In the storm and both were painfully braised IV tne Ban atone.' Killed by a Flym Bock. Greensboro. July 15. Anderson Wat kins, a colored employe of Bev. L. W. Crawford, was killed by a flytog rock while the city force waa blastlnsr In the Vdell quarry, near Cedar atreet, -at 6 o oioct. tie was riding on a load of . t a t. h atraw and waa 850 yards from the blast when a rock weighing two pounds struck him, qn the fegv breaking a blood vessel. Ttt phyalclane were summoned, but the- man a led in 30 minutes. He waa an excellent smmi of family. Short state stories. : "North Carolina produces $17,000,000 Worth of oora, only fl5.000.000 worth 1 :oI cot ton and about $7,000,000 worth of tobacco annually, all of which goes to I prove that the old north state la one of I tbe most progresslre fat the union. I Yadkin Ripple; Mr. W. G. Hobspn of Conrad, this county, has a week old calf that carries Its heart In a rather peculiar pioce, n Deing under Its neck, between Its I ?r!ind lad Thto to a stont. "tealthy calf, except this deformity. - Durham. Jnlv i I ored. was crashed iii,!.. wut 3:30 bv th. n, . ditch a-lvm. aw L x wo otner negroes were also hurt. One of them, Jim Jackson, Is thought to be seriously Injured. This is the second em " . . death arising from cave Ina or something aimuar. Rockingham, Jnly 14.-Jule Morrison, oolored, who has been paintins here for I Mr. J. H. Lewis, was killed by the train I near Rockingham yesterday - morning. I His coat was found only a short distance I from the depot, near the old mill, while I the main part of hlsbody.badly mangled, , was found about three miles down the road towards Hamlet. Qillsboro Observer. The prospects for VODaccO and corn In flrn.nra vn ' " - wqw ;, w V better. Bberifl Hughes saya that In the fine Knott section of Cedar Grove town- awp.wnere the people are all happy and contented, tbe tobacco crop , looks finer than he ever saw ft, and corn looks like It was arowinir on rM, rW w. Bo far as we have been able to learn the w - w vv i above Is about the condition of corn and I tobacco all over the county. I t.uovyn, juit 14. &U8S Alinnle MLby, a young white woman of Etokes county, was arrested near Quaker Gan baturaay, cnarged with the murder of her child, one day old. The child was found in the woods about one mile from the house where the woman was stay- leg- A young man who lived In the neighborhood, but whose name was not learned, has also been arrested, charged with complicity in the affair. Goldeboro Argue: Judging from the quantity of tobacco flues which are be ing hauled out of the city by farmers every day, the tobacco crop must not be as short a first expected. All the tin ners of the city have an extra force o' hnd8 employed in their flue making de partment and then tLey do not seem ab'e to take care of tie many rush orders w hich are cont!aocG!y coming In. The cmpoftbacco la tlo frst which the firoirrat3oat!;et.,-:',ct. Iicuines off a le-eta month av.r - i cf U.e cotton crop. now it Tli first or-; "-1 i.i : ra- io'!6 lfl to ", z how to rr-ila ; Civn 1 ribt&fped I t r I X-one. 9 Arr;ri- I 9 frt ' f a:, ! v i fr j C t 1 f i 8TATB FIREMEN Monlolpal Authorities Urged , 10 , Enoouraga Them. - May I oak the courtesy ot-our vt generally to ton importance of sustain- ing the North Carolina State Firemen's association In its efforts to protect from loss by Bra the Uvea and property of our citisens'Xs;4-H-'W' Under lawe passed by our last legisla turesee chap. 677, laws of 1901 it ; is now imperative upon the authorities of every Incorporated tow In the state jto organize a system of fire protection 'and inspection, and to report every Ore to tbe Insurance commissioner at Raleigh. i Every citizen in North Carolina is In terested in this subject, and It Is the desire of the state association to leave nothing undone that will be beneficial to the de sired end, . . K At the convention to be held In Raleigh on July 22nd, 23rd and 24 th, matters of very gTeat Importance,, especially to towns having no organised departments, will be aiscusrea oy practical ana expe rienced men, and it la to be hoped that every town in the state will be repre sented.'' The tournament on the 23rd and 24th will be very Interesting, and will amply repay any one for his time in attending the same. The railroad rate from Klnston Is only fl.65 for the round trip to firemen and delegates and It Is only one fare4 for the round trip to individuals from any point In the state. Local living ratea will be reasonable. ' Every mayor and chairman of fire com mittee in the state la invited to attend and participate In our dellberatlona. The writer Jecognlzing the never fall- jing courtesy, power and influence of tbe press, also extends to yon, my dear air, the courtesies of the floor in the discus- sion of mattere pertaining to the pre- TntIoB protection from fire I May I ask that yon will urge upon 7oar dtlzena the Importance of having ' wwumvuj cu xeynwuieui The alight expense will be money well epentm the Interest of the public welfare. xnanirwg you m advance lor your courtesy In giving publicity to the mat te', and hop"Sr that I can reciprocate Tour kindness at Raleigh, I am yours, Ac, , ... Jas. D. McNeill, ' President N. C. 8. F. Ass'n. Demooratio Executive Oommittee. The county Democratic executive com- mittee la requested to meet In the errand jnry room on next Saturday the 19th of July, for the purpose of reorganizing and to fix the date of calling tbe county con- ventlon to nominate county officers, eto A Jull attendance desired. J. W. GKAOfoiB, Ch'm. A Gentle Hint. In onr style of climate, with Its sudden changes of temprature, rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled In a single friends and relatives are so frequently taken from us by neglected colds, half the deaths resulting directly from this cause. . D0",e 01 "oecnee s uerman Byrup ept aihATit vrinf himfl inr Imrrnnlntn nan rlfl nrnvent unrinns etckneeR. a lArm Wtnr'. bill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or lour doses, i or curing Con Rever ConirhB. Cronn. or anv dlanaee nl the Throat or Lungs, its succeses is elm- P,r wondertul, aa your druggist will tell you. Get a sample bottle free from J. E. Hood. Regular else. 7 Sets. Get Green s Special Almanac - ax .-Air::. . -i ! " HEW A1ID OLD . 'y FRESHLY TOLD 'J----r. - ! Iteus of Interest for lifruMoti The most dangerous elemeiit oi Clo tnlnatlng gaa la carbonic add. . " ; j French charities in. London are to benefit by1 $1150 collected in Paris by the,FIgaro.- k .,' " ) . Electric railways are rapidly; dis placing the old fashioned diligences In Switzerland.. - .'t " One of. tbe fire department horses in Baltimore :la extremely fond , of . 11m burger cheese and eats It with evident Successful efforts have recently been made in Westphalia to induce the conn- try people to retain their national cos tumes. Recent analysis baa - shown the wa ter of a spring on1 Rlpon race course. England, to be strongly impregnated with epsom salts. ' One', hundred and fifty landladies have been summoned at Vienna for taking in boarders without tbe permis sion of the police. ,' . - A. Japanese larch, twenty-four' inches high, 160 years bid, waa sold in Lon don recently at the rate of a shilling for each year about 140. t - . A white badger, which la almost aa great a rarity , as a white blackbird,' was killed recently by -the Axe Vale (England) badger hounds. .. Connecticut : pays a bounty of SI for each fox killed within Its borders. Labi year tne payments on tola ac count amounted to 114272. i ,, The total number of farms in Ala bama la given at 223,220, of which 129,137 are operated by white- fanners and 04,083 by colored farmers. - Sweden's last census records the low est death rate yet attained by a civ ilized nation. During the last' ten years it only averaged 16.49 per 1,000. According to tt. Flngge, air will go through the walls of a closed room at a rate depending on difference of tem perature between the Inside and the outside,;- '.' ;,-, ' -Nelson's j walking- cane,: which was picked up on the deck of the Victory after he was shot at Trafalgar, is now in tbe possession of a resident of New port, Mont-' The Russian government , baa ap pointed a commission to investigate agricultural methods and the condition of the peasantry In . Russia, with view of improving both.,.; . ' - Searchers have found a hoard of S2,- 600 in the dwelling of a supposed pau per fl who has died at Pontesbury, Shropshire, . England. . Four hundred dollars waa, discovered in an old glove. The . marveloua Improvement ' of Egyptian industries - during " recent years and the country's present well governed condition v have made the place a splendid market for American trade A coalfield. on the Black sea, 140 miles from Constantinople, is being worked vigorously, but the poor qual ity of the coal mined will prevent its coming into competition with- the American, article. , It has been discovered that cereals may be expanded by dry beat in a moist atmosphere to three times their natural size. This makes them very palatable, their flavor being varied by the degree of heat used. ; Naples was raised in twenty years from the position of one of the world's unhealthiest cities to one of the health iest, the government having under taken and encouraged great move ments. In sanitary, reform. ix. :i LAI W PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S fisMmora IH1L mr Onlw Rmr. a Lrnw family SpewliDg th (nmmer, is an ideal apot lor nenatioa and pleaar. The bay is withia eaay raaob, affordios; the best of yachting and fishing, and then an a comber of pleudid irivM. - - JASON. ' .''!'. 1 July 15. Rev. Mr. Lancaster filled his regular ap pointment at Mewborne'a church Sun day. , ! Crops in this section are looking very promising. The mud and rain storm did much damage here last Monday. Mrs. John Seaman of Saratoga to quite sick at Mr. R. W. Sutton's. Prof. George Mswborne and family are visiting friends and relrtlvea in - and around this place. Mr. W. D. Memborns's dwelltno? is near- lug completion, and Its looks add much to our utue vunage; ' - .Mr. IL A. Phelna of Elroy and Miss Zance Hoys of Beaton visited at Mr. R. F. Uadley'S Sunday. ' Miss' Helen HDldford of near Goldeboro lavlsitbiMlsa;JCatto Leigh. Cobb this week, r , 1 Messrs. Will Whitley and Charlie Grant of Elroy. Jim Jones and Rufus Mew- borne of LaGrange, Will Newaome and Luby Wells of Shine, Kd Button ana sis ter. Miss Alice, of Falling Creek and Miss. Sophia Mewborne of LaGrange, ; visited i bere Sunday. Our Items have failed ta appear for some time owing to tne busy times ana scarcity of news we start again and will try to be more punctual. . I would thank any one to help ot up something worth wrltlnsr. - It 's hard on the Item- izer to have to keep up with every one and self to. ' Most of our neoole are atralnst the rn ral free delivery and Want the postoffloe back again. - '.'---'ABBA.' - - - tv Jalyl7. W hada nice rain Tuesday. The re cent showers made the crops-look very promising in this section. Mr. H. B. Hill visited relatives near FalllngOeek Saturday and Sunday. Ulssea Irene Jones. Mamie Pate, Messrs. Q. T. Snlllvan and L. G. Pate visited t Mr. A. D. Sugg's Sunday. . Sme of our people attended services at Mewborne's church Sunday. . Mr. John Shackleford of near Farmville visited at Mr. P. M. Harrison's Sunday. There will be quarterly meeting at the church here next Saturday and Sunday. Listen for the weddinir belle that the Rabbit Town correspondent spoke of to ring 8unday morning. HYOO. Jnly 16. Mrs. E. E. Hardee of Hardeesville to spending some ti me here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Taylor. Several from here attended church at Hookerton Sunday afternoon. Miss Lillys Patrick who - has been spending some time here left Monday af ternoon lor ner nome at snow iinu Mr R. M. Dean and N M. Ormond of near here, says a cart comes In nice to call on the girls with if buggies are all OUt -.- ; - , - The farmers are very bury curing to bacco this week, most all the crops are looking fine in this section. . : The Smallest Porl. The smallest people in t'ae world are he natives of the Andaman islands, a tlie bay of Bengal They average i feet 11 Inches In height and about seventy poenda in weight Good Road. As early ss 18G7 the improved raac ' '-.oil t'shways ef France had a total 1 nrtli of 200,031 m'.lcs. while the I - i of unfinished fc'-hways was n f ate l at 17i,C )T tiiles, most of K b is now finished." ' ((uatla'a C pacify. ' ! Cana'a c-'lmates that rt' ' a ci ac!y cf Canada lei ? t'...in i:V C30." There ) t T.re r,.;;, 3 cf eraLla HOME AT OYSTER BAT. Ialui. wlmra'Pniaiilaiit HanxmiU nA Vim I MERE MEN. Gonrales de Quesada, Cuba's first minister to this country, came bere five years ago aa a Cuban republic agent He is still in his thirties. . Webster Davis, formerly assistant secretary of the interior, la to leave Kansas City and take up the practice f law in Mew Tork city. J. Lewis Boyden of Norwood, Mass., who la superintendent of two Sunday schools in that city, baa just cele brated his eightieth birthday. Frederick A. Euntxsch, surveyor of customs of Syracuse, N. X has one of the finest collections of paper money of any one in tbe United States. . j Major , Pond,: the impresario, la in his sixty-fifth year and began life as a Journeyman printer. He once set type for three months, with John, Brown. ' Professor Morse Of Salem, Mass, has been decorated with the Third Order of the Rising Sun by the emperor of Japan, an honor which he rarely be- jstows. - Admiral 'Crownlnshield pronounces his name. "Crunshel," Just as Majori- banks la pronounced "Marchbanks, Beauchamp "Beecham," Cholmondeley "Chumley" and Methuen "Mevvn." ; John D. Long Is a triple ex ex-congressman, ex-governor and ex-secretary of the navy. Tufts college has Just conferred upon him a title which will stick, that of doctor of laws. F. N. Finney of Milwaukee, WtoJ baa purchased the famous rug known aa the Empress Eugenie's prayer rug. It la made of silk and waa given to the consort of Napoleon IIL by tbe shah of Persia. , A. W. Paine of Bangor, Me., will be ninety years of age in August and baa practiced law at the Penobscot bar for sixty-seven years, and be is probably tbe oldest lawyer In point of practice in New England. M. Combes, tbe new French prime minister, was formerly a priest, and as the real executive he will now be charged with the enforcement of re cently passed statutes which will drive half of the priests of France out of the country. ' . , , !' CURTAIN CALLS.. The next Drury Lane pantomime will be "Mother Goose." ; Kate Upper has been- engaged for Julia Marlowe's company. Delia Stacey is one of the engaged for "Codfish Aristocracy. E. S. Willard begins bis American tour in Montreal on Sept 29. " Ada Lewis has been engaged by David Belasco for next season. It is reported that Charles Frohman will have nothing more to do with one night stands. ' v- ; A ten-year-old girl. Carmen d'ABall va, is writing a play for tbe Comedie Francalse of Paris. i Miss Grace Heyer is to succeed Mrs. Clara Bloodgood In the role of Mrs. Lake In "The Way of the World." - Otis Harlan is playing his old role of George Washington Fishback in Hoyt's "A Texas Eteer" on a southern circuit Mr. Nelse Erickson, a real Swedish cctor, will play in Ton Tonson," un der P. L Kennedy's management, next season. . ' PI r: FEATHERS. Whole corn is the best grain to give atn!.t ', - - -v. Sweet milk is relished by young chickens and Is good for them, but it should not take the place of water.' - Too many roosters with the hens wCl usually result ia a larje number of un fertile cs and weakened chickens. , If the hens are allowed to make r In the stnUos, they may not only create Ith therein, but will alio carry Lea ia w ith them. TIIIELY TOPICS TERSELY TREATED. a mm I t 9 111 J t Wl.-' mn iocai siories, caiionai roics. No man has a right to do as he pleases unless he pleaaea to do right '" " It Is better to know everything ot something than something of everything. ' The one who falls often and gets up again displays more heroism than the one who never falls. . Most ' christians are afraid to : mix religion and politics and so vote against the thing they pray for. - " ' Low living and high thinking elevates a people,' but. low thinking and high living demoralizes them. N , ' When a public speaker keeps saying "I think this," and "I want to say," his head to generally as hefty aa a toy balloon. There la always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. Society Is a troop of thinkers,- and' the best heada take the best places. What would be a plain drunk In the case ot a common Individual to "Indie- position." la the case of the millionare, yet a drunk b any name acta Just tbe In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trlval character are the ones which strike the despesl to tbe grateful and appreciative heart. i The law to mads a terror to evil doers by sending to prison the poor man who takes a loaf of bread to satisry tne cry oi his hungry little children, and electing to. . some' honorable position the man who ateals millions. - United we staud.dlvldefllwelall. Citizens , of Klnston. caste that In your hata or on the sleeves of your coats ,to that yon will be sura to see It when you start in to oppose innovations that mean the im provement of the place. . Friends. Klnstonans, countrymen, all who have at heart the prosperity, pro- arress and arrow th of Klnston as a tobac co market and agricultural center, listen 1 It to meet and right and proper, tnat the cltv as a whole do something to at tract tbe bucolic cltiien bltherward. The farmer likes to see things and hear things and learn things when he comes to town, and it to quite natural that he would travel a few miles further to market nis wares in tbe town which offers the most entertainment. Tlmelv Topics proposes to make a farmers' day or farmers' week If thought better. The day or days should be devoted exclusively to the farmers. Queen street should be prettily and profusely decorated r with flags and bunting, a barbecue should be provided In tbe grove, there should be games of ball and other athlet ic sports for prizes, such as foot races, lumping and vaulting and above all there should be a band. ' All this should be supplemented by the merchants with a carnival of special low prices. - Such an entertainment as this would cost very little and Its benefits to the commercial Interests of the city are beyond , calculation. It to not alone the trade of this day or these days, It is the new faces It would bring to town and the favorable impression that would be made upon them which would mean years of trading ( hereafter. .- , ,-. ... .,., Timely Topics" Idea of it Is to make this a yearly event, which everybody will be In favor Of if the first one to handled rightly from beginning to end. , The suggestion to not original. A few years ago Timely Topics rode into , Newark. N. J., on a trolley rather early in the morning., The streets were a mass of decoration and a general holiday air prevailed. Timely Topics could recall no holiday for that date and upon asking what was going on was told it was "Farmers' Day." Later on the farmers were very much In evidence. Many of them lived so lar away they had started tbe previous evening, camped during the c'rht tad got la early. Others came la trains anl trolh'ps. , ; There were picnics and mueic ia the put"c prks and eTery store ocred some !il l"3u anient. That is what Time'y To; ! -3 r- 'J onaerrji"r ecala fur Khr-t :i. lb-re's money ia It WLst do yoa th'-k?