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7TTL TT n filming! DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHPOBT Affl) BRUIISWICK COUPTY. VOL. l.-Xo. 45. SOCTHPOHT, X. C, THURSDAY. ' JAXUAltY 1. 181)1. I'ltlCU YiXll CIIXTS , SANTA CLAUS Will Soon Arrive. -:o:- He has sent his stock for the coming Holi day Season, and will make our store his headquarters. The best assortment of Christmas Goods ever shown in this city. (illllH, Pistols, Drums, Wagons, Baskets, SHOO FLY IIORSHS Violins, Vases, Books, Jewelry, Cutlery. Talking Dolls, Doll Carriages. Cups and Saucers, Wash Sets, And many other novel and useful articles. Come One and All. Ouistmas will soon lie here. Don't put-off your purchasing too long. Come s!iilt the assortment is compete. fUJTimiE & RUARK D0S11HR. ST GEORGIv & CO Dealer.- in AM) .si r.VLL Sl) EXXMiSE OUR NilW ;-iCK OK HA.TS iAKD CAPS.t:;;;;;;,;;;:':T;::!;;; -O SHIP CilANDLKHV, HA HI) WARE, A:c. D0SHER. ST. GEOEGE & CO.. Xmas Presents! As the Christmas season comes but once in twelve months and '-each and every person is expecting the congratulations of the season with a present. I take pleasure in inviting husbands and wives,,young gentlemen and ladies, Ixns antl girls to come and select something useful and ornamental, for their favorites. I am now displaying a few pretty TOILET OASES, PLUSH WORK BOXES, SHAVING CASES, GENT'S DRESSING CASES. PLUSH BOXES STATIONERY, PICTURE FRAMES in oxidized silver and plush. Whisk Brooms in Plush Cases. Wall Pockets which are beauties, and a full and varied assortment of toilet articles. ' Hespect fully, D. I. WATS0X, Dnicgist. WASHINGTON NEWS. :o: GATHERED BY THE LEADER'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. VA8i1rxGT0x. D. C, December 29.- Congress is engaged in playing a farce comedy, with the American people fori the audience, which is certainly ludic-! rous enough to be enjoyed by all, were J it not for the wide-snread fear throimh.l out the audience that a tragedy not i : 1 1 on the program, in. the shape of a!60 terrible financial panic, may bethel afterpiece of the show. " j When a joint resolution; providingrmofning of-the.24th. ;Tle fire is snp-" for the usual two weeks .Christmas ; posed to have leen caused by a defec-, recess was introduced in the House, ; the over virtuous and over industrious ! Senators cried out agaiiwt such a waste of the people's time and announced j the intention of the Senate to continue i business right' through the holidays, j and if necessary to sit even through , Ttr, . , , n 1 Lhmt.n day V hat was, he re, t? Just about wljat was Ictl by ! those wtio Had neard sucli talk before. The Senate on Christmas eve, finding ! ' "i itself short of a quorum adjourned to ! Saturday, and on that day having but I eighteen members present-it adjourned j until to-day,, when it again met without ! a quorum. The prospect for any real business being transacted this week is very slim at this writing, and the House is even worse off than the Sen ate in the matter of attendance. So that, as may be seen the majority of ! both II,.. ,.H ontf r takimr tlw 1 holiday, which they lacked the manli ness to authorize by the adoption of aj joint resolution, and this is what is j called modern statesmanship. No wonder that the Farmers Alliance and kindred organizations are growing in membership so rapidly. - By the way, speaking of the Farmers Alliance, there is a small branch of the ' order ere, known as "Capital'! Alliance No. 21," which -is attracting i g e a great deal of attention, owing to th general curiosity among our public men to know more about this wonder f ul organization. This Alliance is under the immediate control of the Maryhmd Statti .limce, nd nxet? semi-nionthly at tlie office of the National Alliance," t.v official oran of thco.-ij; nization. i'ii; i rt v'ipi o. iiy iind t'.; y art grovvmg iv.ovt- i.uii.erous e.'ery iay, are am-.-h :;r;i: to learn ;n a :e;:ii officia! v. ay. vu Mi-.'Hyan, ihv? Uniud n ?!;i.i.,tt.r to Mexico,-who iia bo :. h:-re c nferrii:g will,-Mr. Harri son ani Mr. HIai.ie. ha.- I'ts u ;n tr.iCEtd to t-ndeavor to promote a system of reciprocity between- Mexico and this t. . It is regretted though that u aas given no evi- : reeiiprocity with ;- fur all, probably . . . .. l . . '.'a:.' our caiomer; anu r- n- i aior cent as to n:s the res-: lu ti n v ong ress ' instVu 't;n; -tl.e i 'resident to. take steps toward the negotiation of a tnaty with Orta! Uritain. providing for Canadian reciprocity. The nomination of Judge Urown, of the United Slates District Court of; Michigan, to be the. successor of the late Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme, Court, which was at first somewhat coldly received, because Judge Brown was not more widely known, it is now thought to be a very good one. There is no disposition on the part Southern Democrats in Congress to j Farmer and Chief. jstneted on account of high prices, but ,nore uiau rum u-n.w imvn cenw on side-track Mr. Cleveland as a Presi-j Alwut tWo 0-cIk on Sunda . the dollar. dential candidate on arcount of bis?- t tr . , . ! One ihoUKaml g!rl returned to work aenuai cauaiuat, on account oi ms lng an &ann 0f irc was gounjj (rom Spam a Minister of Financ hais: ''. . . .. v financial views, and to boom a West- j the iuieigh A: Gaston railroad shops I sued a decree declaring that Siin? t iaric s tnreat mills at .Newark, cm man, and ex-representative Wm. j and the entire department was at must follow the protection movement ' .tenlay morning The cow II. Morrison, of Illinois, now a mem- rt L-x t : X i : I IV I lTg uW4y of 0.4 ton rnson, ot Illinois, now a mem- the Inter-State Commerce Com- ber of mission, is being talked up as a strongja. The new round house of the ana axauaoie man. 11 is ieiievea oy a great many people here that Senator - elect nnceTt,iiairnian ot tne Democratic j in flames. Tne night was intensely National Committee is using his influ-!colJ and although the fire boys did ail ence against Mr Cleveland. j that human effort could do the massive Senator Plumb,whohas an independ-1 structure and its contents of iron ent sort of a way of expressing his sen-1 hor n t w timentii, says: -Oh ves, some people; , ,,- 1 - - . complain because Congress dWn't on bu,ldui-' anJ 'pneS -ttiinat.-l at legislate. Well Congress did legislate, j 00,000. Ilaieigh Chronicle. 1 It legislated until it came near bursting ! - up the whole Hepublican pi rty." . Te .cttipokt LruER 1 a year NORTH CAROLINA. Nwi Clipped From Vluble EirhMp From the Old North Stat. Granville county is practically out of debt, and will soon get $5,000 from i Vance county. The depot at Mooresloro was broken Pen antl ucarIy one hundre1 of money stolen thcr'from- The Charlotte Chronicle announces tljat the street cars in that city will j he operated by electric power. The Bingham School Academy and gymnasium hall were burned on the- j tive Hue. v The Town Commissioners of Wades- j )QriK imve onlered an election to be j held on the first Monday in February, to gee whether the hog shall have tliej freedom of the city or riot. I On. Wednesdav tlw VJth nlf ihnl ' tUm Q, j k C,ly was totaily drtr,.yI hy Brc. Iaxb ; was totally destroyed by fire. Iss about 83,000. It is clearly shown to !.... lwin i. :. i i t J tV.,. , f ;.'.. 1 1 be the act of an incendiary. A squad of Mormon preachers are m the city, and we understand have preaching at stated intervals near Fisher Hill mine, six miles south of the town. Greensboro Record. Kinch Freeman, the negro who murdered Mr. Ad kins and his mother on November 14th ami who was cap- tured in Norfolk last week and lodged 1,1 th Wton jail, was lynched on the morning of the 24th ult. A car-load of negroes passed through Wilson Friday, on their way South, rbo negroes of this section have fared this year and it will be no easy matter to induce them to leave a cer. tainty for the unknovn. Wilson Ad. vance. The Duke Cigarette Company on Christmas eve surprisseel all their em- ployes by paying them just double the amount of hii or her weekly earnings. So by this means the total pay roll was 87.000; .63,500 of which were vas $7,000; $3,. ")00 of which were jiven away by the glorious Dukes in Christmas gifts. Mr. Thomas M. -Webb has received the valuable gold medal awarded by the U. S. Government for life-saving in -recognition of heroic conduct at the rescue of two ladies, Mrs. Hayes and her sister, from drowning at Wrightsville Beach last summer. Wilmington Star. Dr. Von Ruck reports favorable progress in the 'condition of the young j lady parent who was inoculated with ! the Kock lymph oa Saturday after- noon at his sanitaii .m for tuberculosis of the throat. All symptoms as pre - viouslv outlined were apparent. Ashey'ille Journal. T.nttm a1 jL.vnima- indr - - - - .-i-. K frc J; Watson, heraunt, m the southeastern y.iri rf t!tf city, was so badly burned on Christinas nijnu;., mat she died a few -hoars later. She was the daughter of Capt. Geo. Scales, who was at one time Chief of Police of this city. Raleigh Chronicle. t .i i a ome of our farmers gathered good nrnr of hv thn rvt f1l Onr Ttn- tion has leen callej to a gcxd quality i that was made in November. North Carolina's advantages as to soil and! climate should be widely advertised in thu blizzard stricken North and North - west. AVhat would they think up 5 there of hay making in November.- the ene o( the most destructive and I of America and Europe, repeal portions i unmanageable fire RaWh W.Wr!ft UrJr f road with seventeen locomotive en- ! gmes standing therein were wrappel WEEKLY HEWS SUHHABY. ; entirely destroyed ly fire Iat nigSt . :o:L . ; $uoo,ooo. HAPPENINGS IN THIS COUNTRY A fire in the Kennedy limine, ".it AND IN EUROPE. ' tanooga. Ten u., did $l.".0iM da : ..ge , vesterdav. ! . . Wednesday. Dec 24. ' Another furious snow-storm ned There 'was a slight earthquake shock. Hly ytentay at point U the wy at Knoxville, Tenn at G o clock ye frw,n Vergiuia rot 'anada and from the terday inoniing Atlantic to the Pacific Tlw wea:her Yesterday was the anniversary of " T It 1 1 . I - 1 : iienry y . urauvs ueam ana me corner gt(me of the Heiirv V. Gradv 1 Hospital was laid at Atlanta, 13a., the ' Grand Iodge of Masons conducting ; the excreie. . jn a ftrovn, Daro Mj . w. , T s District 1 Judge for the third disttict ' 0f 1 Michigan, ha been, uomiiwted by president Harrison to U- Ass iaU? justiCe of the Supreme Court of the Unitel States, in the place of the late Justice Miller! ... v i iiiuiu iiie UIUU.-I ti t-ai iiit'iit at, v v :()rleas. nearly 30,000 uf Id j (JriD1 and t,c .wj, rat fr w Grippe and the death rate for last u'lV'L- if irrua'nr than nrnr Iwifuru . . . . . , , , ... rvrLnl (.rnmt Hirimr tin. tim.. thnf the yellow fever epidemic prevailed, twelve years ago. The number of deaths recorded last week was '2'Mi. Thursday, Dec 25. . . , , . .... It is estimated tiiat at least . . ., i . , are now out, in the railroad strike in , , . . . .,, , . , , . , . advancing ind a gas famine is feared. 1 he new thirty loot ruled gtm was tested at As'bury I'arkN. J. yestenlay, t by the (jovernment engineers. The! J . i i it ' test was quite successful, shells being thrown a distance of fifteen miles out j to sea. 1 .Three? persons, anarchists, one of j them a woman, who were concerned in the escae of the Hussiaai, Padlewski, who murdered Gen, SeliverskoiT. have 1 I II l ocen. smiencea. in tans, to-serve; I various terms of impristmment. i ! A great quantity of Christmas mail J , . , . - ... . . stored m the basement of Chicago si I rieketv old (loverment bui.tlinir. was j 'destroyed yestenlay by the bursting i " of a water-pipe which was occasioned.! bv the settling of the walls of the j building. Lj. .... i. ...... .i;.;n.... ,! warehouse at Cartner's Station, Tenn . j , iv rm i . w mm 1 was destroyed by fire last night, lhel - - , . , , , ) warehouse contained Parrels of whiskey which was also burnetL i nt hss will Ihj aljout $0,lUU paJtially ) covered bv insurance. Friday, Dec. 2 Great snow storm at St. L uis. Mo., i yesterday. Almost .impossible for' 1 street cars to run. Railroads badly ? bhwkaded. 1 Vmnl- -R niekinson d Minnie ! Brundace. were drowned in a mill ; :- nontl at Ann Arbor. Mich.. Christmas ! day. iney : 3 rr.. . i ... were college. ; The Masonic Temple, at Baltimore, i with nearly all the records for more j than a century lack, was destroyed by fire yesierday, together with all Ithe paraphernalia, uniforms, relics, etc.. and the fine library of the Grand ' Lcxi- T loSS is llCaV "'"OUUting to about $450,000. A machinist of Aicroh, O , Georg j W. Daraway by name, has perfected j a process and machinery which promise 1 ! to revolutionize the fiberwarc business hn the United States. The ue of fiberware goods has been hitherto re- Urease the duties cm liormnK J cattle preserved ami salted mwts. flour, rice and cereals from January 1st next Saturday, Dec 27. The loss of life hy the bumiuj of the Chinese steamer Siiawbai i-r Nanking, will amount to nearly two hundred. Tlie Edisto Phosphate and Yriilizt-r Works near Charleston, S. i, wer ha lieen intensely cold. Daniel W. Taloott, head Itfmkkeejirr ' for lar firm of lumU-r denier in : Albany, X. Y. 'has Urn arretted. charged with the einUz larjw um of money fr emUzzlement-of a n.W, hi cm 1 - v ' 1)1111 weekly rvvirw says, that the holiday ' trade in New Y rk ha ; ,HHn reniarkably heavy and at most lK)int g"l. wlueh is by no jiunn evidence tlmt the lihtm- of the-j "" ?narla?t springs from any gen- i rHl cmliarasjMnent of business or j industry. Foreign trade is heavy and . ' , . . """. " '-r K-.-U-r llu.s ; 'r' h"w " " l" r c""t "v" ;tliosi for thi- sh ton.. v.-.r ? 'Trade at Atlanta improving, cotton 1 moving more freely. Trade fair ul j New Orleans. On the-whole, lalnu j has nevvr 1hii more fully iinployet than in the latter tiart of l.S'.H).- Kx- jiHjr,s from X,,vv York for ,iM 'three weeks of Decemlnr were 7 1mm ; "'.' : cent greattM" than for last viar, imlK.rt j - ' 4 , were "2 ier cent, greater, railurefor ithe week IUVA against ?2 for t lit I ,. icorresptmiliug wiimc last year. Sunday Dec 28 . . . ,. 1 he resignations of the entire police . , i- i w handiMl in and accept!,, owing o their j inefficiency in dealing with C. iftmas! revellers. A Iniilcr in a small sausige factory at Cincinnati. O.. blew no rarlv vis- j tt,rdav no . wrtTklJl. vvrul ! - ;dveilimrs batllv. killmir one little irl aIl1, ilfjurig six eople seriously, - r hroke out m tlie oroom slioi . , ; ! H um,rn .pns.ui. .miouni, V I .. mt 1 t 4 vesieruav mornimr. i iw slate simuh was entirely destroyed and the store i room ot tlie collar shop ami the chair ! shop- were jwrtially ourne.1. Two!, firemen were badly injured by filling. .. .-. , , - I h wind blew at the rate of twenty, . . . six miles an hour at New l ork r ndav. - i the temiKTatureatM a. m. was t went v- .ive digrees aUve z-rt. Thirte!! imhes of snow havi? fallen. At ' t Farmiirgton, Me., thirty and one half! j iic1ms of snow have fallen during tlu i past two weeks. j , .Monday, Dec 29. j The r.-rt that a n-ceiver ha4lln i,lK'll,t,?,1 for t,M Knoxville Southern road i unfounded.; - Iondon com- ti .. v 'V 1. .. i i nu .ew i otk auti mittees on tri'i VirgiliU State Ik bt have it is announced, definitely agreed i XKF7PS upon a plan which it is exited. the(;rt.y Vhitt.,Ml RI FlnneU. Virginia LegMatui will approve. ! Also a fine assortment of Christ- Tuesday Dec 30. Latest ad vid-4 from Great Britain indicate that tlMTe may IW a general strike on all railrcails there. 1 One of the largest dry pnls hou-s ! in Anniston, Ala , -II. C. Marks Jk Co , ' have failed, with liabiliues aggregating ' 25,000, ass ts SH0f0CI. ? im i . . ,t i i - t 1 m': in)m un anKing j h"UM?of S. A. K.n k Co., of :hicago, - 8 l,,at u" - iW mrt ' lo Iri t A 1 A aft T I ft IT A - i , . 1 , 7 V , f ! frum horlly and will 1U-1, 1 Mn' Thre m-n Micn full v rob th :'UkH r-; -day. Two of tlicnn nigageI tin att-u- Uioti-of xv caht-r whil tli-r came in l hind bim an I kii-kd ,i l.rss l.r a Mow outhe iw-d. Tln-y y with .Liuo.- TIms v Cavp riiA! aiHl rrurl I" of fie '- rob! r after a run f ; WUttlHllIt IM f tlw flhW! by a hoi from ila-tr revol i ? ittofv w n.vi ml, 1. RACKET STORE! rilK Ultllil.VAl. UK DUlAItTEItH OF SANTA CLAUS." GREAT NOVELTIES IN itiu tn iv nitt, 11 IUA 1 I'lCrihK ili AT LOWEST PRICES. 1 Come and sv iMir gooil.( and hear i our priixs. Ufre purrhajjng. t.j. wkscott; Just RereivcMl a targe stock f FINE CLOTHING HATS A XI) CAPS. BOOTS & SHOES Wliich will be sold at the Lowest Prices at my store. t JOSEPH .4. BELL, DKAI.KU IX ciioici: (inocEiuEs, ami ajidl line UH A US A 1) TUBA ICO. t;-;: '' " "7" " ' A few of the Goods which we have just received and to arrive this week. T , ((tents all Wi! Scarlet Shirt?. Oent Whit! Sfiirts. laundrul anil i unlaundriel. ; Large asortment of Mwnk and Ijulirn StiK-kmg. - I.rgi H-Hvy CllJfirter., Ptl to $!.2r Indies Fine Wool MlXixl Viti, iCrejie Svehh! in Dre Uoodn at th Mno pr(. a4 ra:c,m. ; AD V-d Trirot. . ,, , . . .' . . . ; .u u mi nr?s r ium-it, it fi plain ' ..,.t ..!.;.! Vnrt W , Smiin,r- vnrv r!,.H.r, j mas presents which will be o h in time for the Holidaj trade. Call on Vn uiitl Kjivr 3Iunex ' 1)11 KW A: liAVIK. KKAL ESTATE ttj t : . t-mj;' ?. c oucrmg a mjw txuming Lots 33x132 bctrat from $125 k . i and Upward tO thoSO WOO Will build luitablo houses. - These Lots are well located and good title will be given. WEEKS ic SIHTH (Jonwr Ibrxc and Moore Street. HAXKI.XS & MITCH HI A Ii-a-r iii okxkual hkim iiandisf:. Ujv 4ofk of , "C" I ClarSf TollUfTO, SntlfT, &T iirirr turrit tl For Fresh Meats Poltrj.Fjgs,
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