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I t -" t. Bockingham pocket: I W. KNIGHT, ."Editor'-' and Proprietari Job Phiotik: " Office : LETTER HEADS, . - ' iOTl CATT. EVERETT'S; NEW STORE; NOTE HEADS, , - BILL HEADS, aTTMCRIPTIO bates: STATEMENTS, : ' - , . $1.50 . ENVELOPES, ' - .'. . rl jcircula.es, Six months, ......;.... -.75 n,r Tnonth8A! .40 gy AlrmibscriptioM accounts mtiat be . - . . CARDS -DODGERS, . v posters;; ; ; ' ' RECEIPTS, ' . ; INVITATIONS; . Satisfaction Guaranteed, i2. IP7 KNIGHT, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: $1.50 a Year in Advance. jgj- Advertising rates famished on ap plication. . i VII. Rockingham, Richmond County, N. 0.; June 6, 1889. No. 23. Published Every Thursday : Y' "t: " ' '" l -.-. i ' J ' " THE JURY TO TRY McDOW. PoTirteen Uegroes Foood'lha Panel of Thirty-Six Men. Charleston, S. C, May 29. The jury to try l. a. McJJow lor the m arder of Pt W. Dawson, editor of the News . aad Courier, in March last, was drawn to-day. Out of the 36 iu the panel, fourteen are negroes, a proportion of negrjdes unprecedent ed 8incei876, 'when' the' whites ob tained control of the State Govern ment. Some of the friends of the murdered man charge that the jury box has been tampered with in th interest of the murderer. The average proportion of negroes Arthur Middleton's .Descendants. nr7TTAr7 nrn-inr on juries since 1876 has been from I Vriy II 1 1 I JIIPIXC four to six in each panel. It is known U W UU I LZau U here that shortly before Dawson was AbSOlUtOW PlirO 6aa ue incurred the enmity of most of the leading colored Dreach- Thia powder never varies. A marvel of I t ..:.i : purityf strength and wholesomeness. Morej . l ttllu;ic WIlltcu economical than tbe ordinary kinds, and by. him he urged the Governor to cannot be sold m competition with themul- pardon the neeroes in Pickens coun- 9ncol fr f;rii0tr,n under sentence of death for On the banks of the Ashley river, near Charleston, stands Middleton place, the old. home of Arthur Middleton, a signer of the Declara tion of Independence, says the Youths' Companion. Though the hall was burned during the last war, the gardens, terraces and hedges re main substantially as they were 100 years ago. Sometime ago Mr. Wil ham Middleton went to London, and there met an old college chum who procured for him a ticket to the Queen's gardens. The proud gardener-in-chief took his visitors all about, and finally- stopped before the queenly treasure of the place. It was under a large glass case perhaps five feet high -a beautiful camelia shrub in gorgeous bloom. "Now confess," said the inflated functionary, "you haven't seen any thing like this before." "It is beautiful very beautiful,'' Met the Sheriff with a Gun. Frederick8Burq, VflU, May 29. Sheriff McDaniel, of ICing George county, went to serve fa notice on a negro squatter named Peyton yester day evening to vacate a dwelling which he was unlawfully occupying. Peyton met the Sheriff with a shot gun and ordered him-not to enter the premises. Thesheriff with his posse made an attapkn the house. whereupon Peyton seVfire to it. His family escaped from the flames by the help of the officers. Peyton escaped but was captured to-day and lodged in jail, i A middle aged negro man, uh known, committed rape on the little fourteen year old daughter of Frank McWhite, of Spottsylvania county, last Sunday. The girl was in an outhouse when the negro assaulted her. After accomplishing his pur pose, the negro, drawing a large knife Practical Arithmetic. Reduce 7 Jacks' to gills. - How many degrees in a. college ? How many sins make one scruple ? How many perfumes make a scent? Wedded by a Trick. A San Francisco dispatch says A young English blood of the city has for a year past been madly en amoredof a young lady of promi nent family, who, after attending a jXnTE'JOEES.'1 How many pounds make a prize San Francisco school, was sent to a "Is your wife a brunette, .Torn ?" 'No, sah, she is a perfect lad-,sah." The office-3eeker hasbeen weigh ed in the. balance and found want ing anything he can get. fight? Reduce 3 gallons of whiskey to drunks. ; - -'' " How many seconds are there in a duel? How many feet make a book agent tired? leading eaucationai institution in Los Angeles. The girl liked her ad- It is not, putting things in the right place that bothers a man so mirer very well, but not quite much as finding the right place after enough to venture on the uncertain j he has put things in it. sea of matrimony with him. The behests of lovej however, sharpen a lover's wits. Last Wednesday the young lady "What a persistent woman hater Evergreen is!" "I didn't know that he was." "Why, he has been married four times."" iitn. nf 1 aot toat. ahnrf. ' riolt. ilum nr nhosnhate Dowders. Sold only in ans. l7 under sentence Kotal Bakino Powdeb Co., 106 Wall lynching a white man who had rap at., A. x. "But tell me, you haven't ever er throat, threatened T ra to cut her throat and throw her bod v. nis mena ere aum . . j .e i j i j . chronic vertigo before the cider gave l . i i .1 rru : :j i mjui, t ne uhu uune. lue iiiri is saiu iu ue How many minutes in a previous accompanied by her ardent friend meeting r ? ana several intimates, visited tne Brown I .understand you told How many barrels in a political Baldwin Theatre, after which supper Wejlg tliat i am a regular chump. campaign? followed. The. wily lbver shortly Jones Nothing of the kind, sir. Add one oyster to each plate of afterward proposed as a joke that Vm not going round teUing the Roup in a church festival, and de- they be married by one of the party. public what X think termine the rise in nrice ner t.late. 1 ne unsuspicious young gin con- tr - r r 1.1 - i A Tr sentea ana tne iormuia was gone .a jvuushs paper is through. A Maine grocer bought ten barrels ! Johx W. Cols. Fbank McNeill. cole $ McNeill, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ROCKINGHAM, N. C Office on corner of Academy Square. Burwell, Walker & Guthrie, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rockingliam, 1ST. C. Office opposite the old postoffice. Hotice. I will begin my Bcbool at my house on. MONDAY, MAY 6th. Terms at the usual country rates. Considerable reduc tion if paid up monthly. M. J. IV. McASIVIIjIj, Ellerbe Spnags, N. C. AprU 22d, 1889. ire. sfiftn anvthincr tn annrnaoh this?" j o r-i - " if . j. ,i i o j o "It is wonderful. It is marvelous." in a very critical condition. The " a a" spenus mree quarters oi being a Jugtice of pea "Rnf"Rflid therliRnnnmntefl hPflfl necro made eood his escape, but an uour iryiug io un.ocs uieiroui She at once told her family abont gardener, "you have not answered posses are searching the country for door with a button-hook, how much tQe ftffair prominent attorneys were my question. This surpasses any- him and if caught he will be lynch- Pu ai uie ciuo uunng tne consulted, dozens of telegrams and thing of the kind you have seen, od. The whole community is up in eTeuuib 1 pages of correspondence were inter- A man puts $5,000 in the hands changed, with the result that an of a Wall street broker, with instruc- opinion was rendered that it would I !Wi& Bur Cases ed a negro girl. It was intimated in the article that while virtue was not held as high among colored wo men as among white women, the principle was the same and the chastity of colored woman should eh ?" arms, and no mercy will be shown be guarded as jealously against ruf- "I did not answer you," replied him. Bans as if their skins were white, the Southern gentleman, "because I Soon after the publication of this was unwilling to hurt your feelings ; article the negro preachers called a but I have in my garden at home meeting and decided to boycott and growing out of doors, a camelia Dawson and his paper. Only three thirty feet high, that has 6,000 bios of the leading colored ministers re- soms." fused to lOin in the DOVCOtt. The "Sir " ni th irafHpnpr "if that is others denounced him and his paper so you are Mr. Middleton, of South accident; 1 have not bee"n Jaid UP in the pulpit and withdrew their Carolina. I know that bush. It church notices from its advertising was planted by Maclaux in 1780." columns The presence of such an unusual number of negroes in the jury to try the case looks to Dawson's friends Ever since Hurrison's election like an organized effort to acquit Col. Hank Taylor-of this town, has not certain The next morning the as- about it, but is of the opinion that tounded girl received & letter from the Pekin (China) Gazette has come her Englishman that they were tied to stay. It has just celebrated its hard and fast, the officiating friend, one thousandth birthday. a young attorney of good standing, j A young American girl? worth $6,000,000, has entered a convent. Why a girl, able to purchase her own tolu and support a husband, shoultl renounce the gay world is something that we can't understand. CASKETS, Pine and Common Coffins, And eyervthintr in the Undertakers' ne at reasonable prices. I have A Fine Hearse which will be supplied when wanted. I" Orders by mail or telegraph will receive prompt attention. W. T. HUTCHINSON, 5-tf Wadesboro. N. C. Invited Him In. "Hear me one moment, madam !" said the peddler at the frontdoor. "I have not been rendered incapable of active exertion by any sort of sad .1 1 six montns witn innammaiory rneu- matism ; I have not lost my situa tion oriaccount of my religious prin- Jollv Bachelor Friend "So. Fred, tions to invest the same in wheat Lk a inHivial WrA tn ....r th w i i . wv-.. i v u u 1 c maiiicu , ami. cituoc mc, iw iawvy uiucu urn iuat3 uy me irau- bonds sacuonr Answer $o,uuu. excited over the incident and pro- A man fails in business for $20,000. pose to enter court,-when names His creditors levy upon his assets will be' made public. and obtain $7,000 in settlement of The girl's family are greatly that determined friend of ours who was Miss Wilbur? And you have a temper yourself. Tell rue, do you agree? The Bridegroom (meekly) O, yes ; I agree. A Bov Kills Sia Sistar. mi. J 1 f i:4il Yesterday morning a sad accident ga came to a physician's office to occurred about 4 miles west ai Da- be vaccinated. - One of tbem under- Too Previous. ninlas T mm nnt a nnnr man hilt. A- n n : i: Ug two hours A discovers that B is am dome pretty well in my line of . business: I have not a wife and 7 '. . - three children dependent upon me McDow. The jury commissioner is been sweating the color off his blue for support, for I am a contented a mulatto. The excitement, here is suspenders in running after office, cneior, nappy in uie possebsiuu intense. The trial comes off about The office he wanted was boss of the of no hvinS relatives; lam not June 27th. Custom House, and he has been fi2- spying tor the ministry ; jour their claims. How much does his wife make by the transaction? An swer $13,000. A and B nlav a came of nnker. 1 J o tr 1.. .... . . . .i . i. f .1 il. .. .1 At the start A has $300. After play- College. Two children of wok io spea mr iue inner, mm John M. Henry, a boy about 12 piainea: : vuocior, mis is my sisier. an army officer. He therefore quits years oia ana ter aged v o the game. How much does he have years, were going out to work early arm left? Answer Nothing. in the morning, and as crows were Tf ar. a r. t" ,w,a r nn y quite troublesome, the boy loaded J I 1 I l 1 1 I An I W f,wrl AMtnf tr rnrcrtn TolliS lift rand at the rate of one mile in 48 UP 1S 8QOt Sun ana carnea n wun lX. , Z.ua-V , , t, . . , him. this: A young Methodist minister. iSMira onH annthorat tha rata rvt no 1 v3 irom her right, so washed both of them,"' mamma k 1 1. i J .1 I Via3 rv o A k a rrl iQtirtn t r t o n f 1 1 1 ftJ r -. " ' ".. mil.initfthftn,. ro;n as uioiwo were wenaing tneir """" uring.that if he got it he would raise nex oor neignoor am not mention I mq, , . ' way alon the boy in front, and the ence for a license. He was highlyr EPOCL asnaras in his front yard, horse your name to me 5 1 never 7 " " . , t T A nrl following closel v behind. fib recommended by the Presiding Eld- - mu - a c i 1: I j : .. i. : . u l 1. a ii me irauBiuuu irom ioiik, nuger- rauieu hi iuc uauii, auu uut un u ' . - UQrv,V, n-ko. tU a ing ana painiui sicKness to roDust the style they do in Chicago. It " - f "6" i . t . r . n8 " o Almost at the same instant the boy tne applicant s preacning auimie?. . npiiitn mnrira nn iwn in i.n mi ni i .1 . .1 i 1 1 nnvp nppn wan n? ior vmi icir uie ij whs nn v vpsternav mai ne sunnpn- j the individual. Such a remarkable event is treasured in the memory Was onlv vesterdav that he sudden lv became aware of the fact that we la8t len years- BteP inA aon 1 and the agency whereby the good have no custom house here tor him P", J -.-."b, llAlvu uuo w v -11 ubvaaBwa iq acwua 1 tvr UvOu n liuv iiv U"u aa a t v y was about to change the gun to the "Have you ever heard him ?" asked other ahrmlHer when h hnnrl o nri. the BishoD. "No, sir," replied the, Their Business Booming. dentally caueht on the trieeer. dis- Presiding Elder, "I have never heard; Probably no one thing has caused charging the entire load in the breast him, but he has heard me twice, and.. ly blessed. Hence it is that so much p08ed was a government institution And if jou'd like a cup such a general revival of trade at f th mu , . death in io Ko.r.1 in nriupnfEUlrio'R ttr F 6 , . . nfmfliflnra o -jbb nf trnnrl hard r - Dr. . M. lOWlkeS & Co. 8 DrUg . fi. ' 6 . ATTENTION. To Cash Buyers of General Merchandise. Having just established ourselves in our w store, at the old stand, you will find iour usual assortment of Dry Goods, Gro ceries, Hardware, Crockery and Glassware, VYoodenware. Hats. Sboes. &c, complete nd offered at prices that .will Surely Astonish You! I Bought for cash, and to be sold for cash, only, we can offer you superior induce menu, amd, to verify our statement, invite you cordially to come and see for yourself d be convinced of unexcelled bargains. Auction Sale Every Saturday f all kinds of General Merchandise, in good order and sold from regular stock, I "men, it you dou t want at my price, you n have at your own. The onlv exclusive Furniture Store in the town. Soecial attention is directed to nr eletrant line of Furniture. Bedsteads from $1.50 ap; Mattresses, $2.50 up; Chairs, $3.50 per set up ; Cane and opht eat Chamber Suits, marble bureau. $17, 00. Other nifai from $12.50 un Wash- Unds, Window Shades. Curtin Scrim, Ta ws Oilcloth, all latest designs. Toilet-Sets, nat Kacks. Cradles, Safes. Tables, nc tores, Picture Cord and ftails, Rugs, Mats I m lact, nearly every' article in the J) ur- pure ana Uphostery line, all at Dotiom lyices. A. P. STEWABT. i iiearu 111 piaiocui xuicvtiiv; jjilccio. 0f jbe DO many ieei tney owe ineir reijra- kind turned out to tion to health, to the use of the Great noyer's storage house for bones Alterative and Tonic. If you are Col. Hank has our sympathy in trobled with any disease of Kidneys, this his hour of deepest trial, but T --- O. U " 1 .kn.t I . ... Ajiver ui oiwmauLi, ui iuuk i that's the best we can do. we are be Dps- cuiiee or a glass ui guuu naiu ui- der, just say so. Step in don t bother to wipe your feet!" Puck. standing you will surely find relief bv use of .Llectric .Bitters, bold at 50c and 81 per bottle at Dr. W. M. Fowlkes & Co.'s Drug Store. The Southern Question. in no situation to either lend him a shirt or trust him for groceries. Arizona Kicker. Store as their giving away to their stantiy. unariotte JNews, dist uit. customers of so many free trial conies or ur. jving s ew uiscovery The year book of the Young Men's for. Consumption. Their trade is christian Association of the United Bimnlv pnnrmnns in this vprv v I n- vyuiio-i-u oUU..vrU " able article from the fact that it al- States and Canada, which has just he stood it like a hero." was granted. The license- A-Sop for the Territories. !1EVJ YORK LIFE 346 AND 348 BROADWAY W. H. BEERS, President. - Organized 1B45. Rsh Assets, $193,480,181. "Pms by State Standard, $13,500,000. Eme, 1888, $24,000,000. ; V' uwin fOTce, 129,911. s; -lQrance in Force, $419,886,505.- -V - ; , . B P. LITTLE, Special Agent, Five Men Crushed to Death. A Bug from Hnntersville. Danville, Va., May 30. An aw- ul casualty occurred here to-day. A force of men was engaged on a to-day mailed the News a sample of the kind of bed bugs they have to brick factory which J. G. Penn, to- .figM againgt up there Heis three bacconist, was building. The build ing was an immense affair, about 200 feet long and Bix stories high.- The bricklayers had just completed the walls, but there was no roof on the building. The wind was blow ing a gale, and one of the walls got out of plumb. A force of hands went to different parts of the build ing to brace the walls and were so engaged when the entire structure collapsed. Robt. Pruitt, D. N. Col lie, 3. B. Jdnes, Wm. Young and Buck Hooper were killed. Several others were more or less injured. . inches long, one inch wide, and has a back like a turtle, while hiagrip pers are big and strong enough to encompass a June apple. He came in a pasteboard box, and when turned loose on the floor, stamped ed the News 'office. He was har pooned and will be placed along side Esquire Hunter's human-hand ed pig in our' museum. Chrlotte News. Take the "cake," brother. Senator Quay last fall taught the. The Southern question is meat ways cures and never disappoints, been issued, shows the great work, unsophisticated something about and bread. Wilmington Star. Loughs, Lolds, Asthma, Uronchitis, sometimes forgotten, that the asso- the best way to- ferny- voters by the i . . i ii i i i i - i the junior flag went down bathed in woman's L before buying bv getting a free cities and towns in the United States Republican organ, of the city, now Every ano Canada there are 1,273 branch calls upon the Administration to go associations. W hen it is remember- one better and try -to secure the sup ed that the membership of each port of the territories-soon to become Enn Over by the Train. branch is considerable, and com- States by juggH the customs laws posed for the most' part of young to suit them. consecrating tears and baptized in trial bottle, large the best blood of the nation, all was bottle warranted. v getting size $1. Mr. J. Sossamon, of Huntersville, lost to us but the sweet conscious ness of duty performed, trust in God and hope of heaven. But in the fullness of time our Easter dawned 1 The South awoke to a new life. Death of a Promising Young Han. : ' Mr., Willie M. - Wall, son of Mr. S. G. Wall, died in Lilesville Monday morning-of - measles, aged 19 years. Willie was a clerk in the store of Messrs. Liles & Ingram when he was taken sick, and' by his gentlemanly "deportment and kindness won the respect and; love of all. who knew him. He was a member of the Meth odist church, and . a gentleman who knew him well told us he did not nesitate in saying that he" was one of the b68t-you.bg men in Lilesville townahiD. His sorrowing parents 4iva the Bvmnathv of all in their great bereayement:Wadesbbrc ijn? telligencer, 30tr ; - :- 'A Suggestion.. We have nothing in particular against the government, neither do we wish Indian Agent Babcock any harm. It seems to be our duty, however, to call the agent's atten tion to the factthat he is making an ass of himself and that he can resign any time within the next . three weeks. If wo were running this government we'd run him head first into the soil about the first thing we Tlie north bound passenger train men who are amorjg the most in- One of the important minerals in on the C. F. & Y. V. railroad ran in teiii2ent and enternrisine in their these Territories is lead, on which . 1 , TT ' 1 From the Potomac to the Rio Grande lo a crazy woman Detween nasty reSpective communities, it will be there is a duty of 2 cerrts per pound, the anvil rang with the clang of and Johns Station yesterday, carry- geen that ihe SCOpe of the associa- The importations of Uiis mineral honest industry, the plow moved on inS ner aDOUi y yarns oeiore me lion ig very iarge, and that its field from Mexico have increased largely in its furrow, and flowers bloomed "am couia ne nrougni to a stana- for usefulness is a very important since the building of railroads isto in all their original fragrance and. st'- Upon examination it was one H s pre-eminently a teacher that country. American producers beauty. Such is the present condi- louna mat sne nau received a serious of young merij not oniy morally but claim that the Customs laws aresys- .l- i.l t ! xL - I J t- - tion that the South cannot;be a con 11 n01 ,auu wonnu in ine neaa De- trolling factor in national affairs. sides internal and external bruises. The popular sentiment of the nation She was.still living, however, at last is averse to Southern domination, reports, ah enorts to stop tne 10 and if it were otherwise her mate- comotive were made upon her dis- rial condition and ; the individual covery, but the accident happened New york and Philadelphia have fortunes of her people demand the near a sorl curve ana cou,a not ,)e the finest association buildings, each full exercise of all iier energies and avoided under tne circumstances. costing $500,000. News-Observer, JayetteviJle uoserver. mentally, physically and socially, many of the associations being sup plied with gymnasiums and reading rooms and giving lectures and en- tertamments from time to time, powers. "The Southern question is bread and meat," in its literal mean- A Freak of Nature. "Bread and meat'' that supplies physical stiength ; "bread and meat" that frives mental nower ! -'bread r " . 'V i i! .:- r.... l l I an meat" that commands influ- ""J. tt-S08JI" lcfa manded one of her pupils to pur en,P with mpn nd nations. How wx W,U8S " we" ue'uPu- Vc much better would be the condition Mr. Bill Allen Fry tells us that there was hatched at his house re- i FOB DVSPEPSIA Uw Brows' Iro Bitters. Physicians recommend it All dealers keep U. tl.00 per botUe. Genuine has trade-marlc and crossed red lines on v rapper. A Wichita teacher, who com- of the South if the bread and meat Uhat gives strength of muscle to her j don't remember ever having of such a freak before. Carthage Blade. took hold of after breakfast Monday people were produced on her own field I loo long tne criDs ana smote morning. Arizona Kicker. ' ., r '. We wonder if the -striking miners of- Illinois think the-high tariff pol icy, a blessing to them. Durham Tobacco Plant. . , houses of the South have been in, the Northwest New Berne Journal. Whywill you cough when Shiloh's Dure will give immediate relief. "..-Price rlChcts:, 50 cts.; and fl, at--Fowlkes' drug store, , - chase a grammar received the follow ing letter from the girl's mother: "I do not desire that Mattie shall ingage in grammar as I prefer ber to ingage in more useful studies and can learn her to speak and write TESBIBXB. Two thirds of all deaths in New York city are from consumption or pneumonia. The same proportion proper myself-1 have went through- holds for most other cities. Relays two grammars and can't say as they are dangerous :, Dr. Acker's English did n6 gonM pfer Mattie to Remedy for Consumption will al- . . J j j ' j w v relieve and mav save vour life. ineage m German and drawing and for sale by Dr. W. M. Fowlkes & Co. vocal music op the piano," tematically evaded by bringing lead into the country in silver ore, which is free from any tax. The matter has been brought to the attention of Secretary Windom, andiis decision will determine whether lead in sil ver ore shall be taxed or not. Unless the Secretary makes a de cision in favor of. enforcing such a. duty, says the Press, the Republican party will be beaten next fall in more than one of the new State', and the defeat will be directly tracer able lb the short-sightednesa oi the Treasury Department. HFetofore it was the common belief that it was Secretary Winilom's duty to deter mine the meaning of the Customs laws as they exist, not according to the needs of the : Republican party. But if the President , rt-gards public ofjce as a private snap, "it is hardly (at be : wondered at that his part carry the same principle into thenx enforcement of the Customs 1awst-- , . lew york'Star. . r -, ' -- - A. i ; , .J
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