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LIGHTED FOR THE ILLUMINATION OF TAR HEELS, BOTH NATIVE AND ADOPTED. VOL,1. I. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, MRCH, 26, 1887. NO. 26. THE PINE KNOT. Eastern North . vJaroi ma. freight on the Norfolk Southern took a load of shad from" Elizabeth City at The route of the Norfolk South- l 5:20 and at 4 o'c ock this morning they ern Railroad. S were m the market at New York. We Lighted for the illumination of all. interest to Of peeil ! a Land NORTHERN PEOPLE who seek a home in the South It has some thing to say, and isn't afraid to say it. identified with the life and growth of Elizabeth City that it is not at all like ly that he will ever remove from it. Dr. John impresses one at once as a , man of sterling worth. He is an tinpom- are pained to se that the trail of the j promising republican, but thoroughly lightning rod mail is to be found in i liked and respected by everybody, in Moyock. The most prominent object fading of course, his political oppo- : I on the denot nlatform it this nlare was nents' We sPeaks of man.V of the most . . J , on the depot platform at this place was , successfu, business men of the town as On stepping into the cars of the a bundle of lightning rods. Let us having come originally from the North Norfolk Southern Railroad at Norfolk, hope that his career may be stopped j ern States and his testimony is that all one doesn't need to be told that he is before he desolates the entire country. ; UHXe succeeuea, wno nav.- really tried of Rich Promise and Great Fulfillment. We remember 6 to succeed. Dr. John is a born leader Eight Pages, Published Weekly. i ,. a .Al ,,r , . - , . . .,i A i ,L nuu uis paper nas a large in very long about it either. We had funny cartoon in one ot the illustrated : fluence for jjaod in the community. spent such a comfortable time at the New York papers It was called "The j Brother R. B. Creecy, of the Ecvno- N evv Purcell House that we rather opening of the season" and represented , mist, occupies pleasant quarters in the hated to leave the city without a an immense nura'ber of enthusiastic e building. He is Collector of the - ' t , , . . . . i ii i .j . rort as well as editor of a bright and j longer stop, but promising ourselves sportsmen in every conceivable kind of breezy newspaper. He trcate r ; another day at Norfolk on our return craft, "making up" to one poor little some good stories and a refreshing ,, ' .j i we settled dowii in our comfortable duck and blazing jawav at it with every draught of Juniper water. It. was JL 0111 A.U t6HT)10Il ar seats tor a pleasant ride through a so' t f firearm, from a horsepistol to a hard to tell which we liked - best, as ! region hitherto un visited by us. ' ; Parrot gi m, and the best thmg both were very pungent und sparkling. ; , ,,-,, . i. . about it was that the duck was just We did not hud L. P. Lamb. Esq., . ! It was a delightful day though the pningnnder watcjr without a feather editor of the Falcon, in his tine, well-' air was ar trine cool, making the sunny ruffled. This couldn't , have taken equipped otfice, but Mr. U. E. Broder- side of the car a place not to be des-" place in CnrritncH county. Not but ic, the associate editor did the honors is called to the interesting fact that pised. It was pleasant to look out of that there may bf4 plenty of poor shots and gave us an idea of the amount of ... . j , , i who. visit this rearimi from vear to bumes the fakon is doing. He is a ;thewm the yrnn.tr New Yorker of greai tact and ; - f ; the promise of earth's bounty on every abundance of game. Prim October to energy. Mr. Lamb doe a large ! ! hand. Long reaches of ploughed laud February Currituck sound is the resort anrmut of business and so is obliged to with its warm brown cheek unturned millions ot canvas Dac!. red head, ue neie, mere and everywhere, but wo ! to the blessed sun'; streaks and splash- black head and mallard ducks, togeth i . ... , - er with geese, swan and other fowls. es oi yivia green wue e early vege- Along the shores of the sound and on tables were growing; men and teams many of its islands v,.rtUMll snorts-a-iield. nlowirii harrwinp-. trptty men own extensive marshes and have 7 i " 37 OT O , 111 4 1 :i i-. 1.1 " j 'b i . - ero,tpti nimiprnns eluh hoi lilt- Kl 111 I H M liv HIT I IIM t-'l 1 I I 1 till lillll - - I , t ., . , , Trucking is also a and tenderer crops. Everybody busy, indllstrv in this count tun ot eagerness and expectation, We R. has seveml stations in Currituck er m the grand future of Eastern flitj)ast houses bowered deep in the and great quantities of peas," cabbajre. North Carolina, and' a gentleman of bloom of peach and cherry. Here potatoes and watermelons arn. shipped broad views. But time fails us. We stands a substantial farmhouse, every , . , i. - ... , . tttin . u u n-. i -f : . . J Fishing is nlso nn important mdustrv. cituens or Elizabeth City, whom it was In Camden cOnntv. hetween the our pleasure to meet; of Frank Vaughn Pasquotank and North rivers is a tract" Lsquire, lawyer and accomplished The Pine Knot did nnallv succeed in catcliint? him. and found in this energetic young man a true representative of the spirit of the new South. Judge C. C. Pool, who who is associated with Mr. Lamb in , business, we found to be a wide-awake mses. j j 1 - ' i l i i a verv important uu&me&s man, iuii oi lueas, auu ready v. The N. S. R. ; for new euterrrise. a thorouuh believ- reaches moroj people who are desirous of buying Manufacturing and. hue of its weatherbeaten erables be tokening solid comfort and abundance. In trout a clump of yellow blossoms glows like a. burst of tiarne against the dark background of sombre pines- It - r of land as level as a prairies fertile s writer; of .Messrs. (Jriflin Nc Temple. any one need ask. Corn is the leading leading lawyers, men whoare active in crop but it is well adapted to all the all good works, especially such as snail cereals, as well as crasses. cotton. p- coniribute to building up of thir be- ! is a wide level laud, traversed by firm tatoes. peanuts and truck. One Turn- loved city; of Professor Sheep, princi- white roads. Farming is evidently dred and ten 1 ushels of crn bv actual pat of a ilourishing academy in town, Mining Properties, done on a large scale, andcorn iscer- measurement ha v been raised on an aLd county superintendent of schools : . I ' ii . - acre of land without manure. This was All ihese and many more we met . and tainiy the staple crop. nf course exceptional, but a great deal conversed with and came away thor- ! At Hickory Ground we sped through of the land is! capable of . producing oughly convinced that in the hands of ; what seemed to be one lmire corn field, fifty bushels to the acre. The shipping such men as t) esc the future of the stretching out on both sides of the LAND, LUMBER, HARDWARE, HOUSE FURNISH INGS &C. &C. track as far as the eye could follow it. ! No neod to inquire if this is lich soil. ! The heavy growth of all kinds of vege tation attests that fact. 1 , ; AtA.entreviue we are remnn han any paper in North Carolina. 13oooCOPI facilities of the county are excellent, Albemarle section is bound to be as either direstly by the Norfolk South- lruitfulof great results as the present ern Railroad or else by one of its is full of promise, steamboat lines to; Elizabeth City and ; ' .' , ' thBuTwhileUwe hal-e been discoursing' THE NAMESAKE OF QUEEN BESS. ArA e about these sections of the Albemarle ; . - . . countrv tne train qas oeen swuiiv ap- " """i,v-" " home by seeing over a store, in large pehin our present destination, albemarle section. j fat letters the name of Wilson, and Elizabeth City, and we alight with a ! Elizabeth City, the county seat of below it "Post office " It was near this feelinsr of gratitude to the Norfolk Pasquotank, is" "beautiful for situa- point that we crossed the Albemarle & Southern Railroadjfor bringing us into tiouvf surrounded by broad waterways, ' Chesaneake canal and it was in thU t"is thriving place; just four minutes traversed by handsome streets and jCiieapeake canal, and it was in thi pagt twelvCf a most opportune adorned with subsUin- Gildings. vicinuy too mai we saw some young moment to reach ajCity full of fat shad orchards that it did us good to look at. and luscious ovstqrs. At the Albe- marie House we nnd M rs. L. tt. uncier- froin the fields on either side as our ' ,. ,1. it n . ..i surrounamgs, masinc in:s une uoiei a direct to Northern people who are in tending to come South. v. Subscribe iVow Only $1.00. It has one of the finest couri t. es in. the state, a building constructed upon no penny wise xr,bcy f . supplying what would just barely answer present , t. . "C ' 1 's. ' 1 -"' : " . UCCUO, Will. Willi ft IHUUCILUUrt'ML'Ul n train shot past. Enough certainly to ; real success and ail important factorin the future requirement of this rapidly make at thousand pies containing the attractiveness' pf this city, for the growing city. It has a population of . twenty-four each for the King of the traveling puonc. ; . .. , : arxiut o,00U, having increased since ! Norfolk Southern Railroad, if he has a I As soon as the inner man is refresh-; 18S0 raore than 100 per cent. Thi8 ' p - . :.u i J ed of course we must look in on oun wonderful growth can probably lie at- mu51u vuz HII UaS lj. j brother scribes.: Fortunately for tributed to the Norfolk Southern Rail- unvuun oi .iwjv-n. " v ivik , uiein me cuuwia fin liutautm -.j . roau more man to anv other -one have chosen other idays than Saturday agency, for it was in ISSl that this for publication, sol that the end of the roaj was constructed and its policy week doesn't find ihem worn, with toil, ; has alwavs been a most liberal one in tortured with anxiety and relentlessly j field last season, and the rank stalks i pursued by the;6py-deraandmg fiend towns aion its r;mte within th'u : lie in heaps over the ground. We meet of the composing - room." We found period raanv costly stores and resi- and pass a heavily loaded freight train ! Dr- Palemon John in the pleasant of- j dences have'ln-en built, manufactories nee oi me lyonn iuruuntun. iic i , nave erected, new streets opened '01e Virginny" behind and are trav ersing the rich alluvial soil of Eastern North Carolina. Here was a cotton . at' t ' f 6 , I V s r k , P Northern man. from Pennsylvania, but Advertise Now! LOW Jxates. poplarandgum. Last night the express j 0Ug a resident and so thoroughly J (Continued on fourth ptgc.)
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