VOL.
JONESBOROi N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1891.
NO.49
Hi.
W. E. MtfRCHISON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Conveyancer arid Xotarf Public,
JONSSBRO, N. C.
W. D. McIVER,
Attorney at Law,
TROT. K. C.
Practice in Courts of Moore County.
50-ly
DR. J. A. BALLENTINE
yw Building, near Leader Office, J oncsboro.
DR. W. C. MELTON,
I'll vsician and Surgeon,
SANFORD, N. C.,
ofiVrs his professional services to Ibe citizens
of JCwre and &Uoinui counties, -ly
JONESBdfcO DIRECTORY.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
JOXtSDORO C1RCCIT.
Ret. J.YC.'N'owi-w- rofirnT nocfr.v n,i...
Jonesboro, 2d artl 4th Sundays, at 11 a ra and 7
lv"jc,H2aay cno every Sunday. S.tfam.
Morris Chaiel, 1st Sunday, 11 am; Poplar
Spri n jars, 1 rt Sunday a 1 3 p m, 3d Sunday at 11 a au
Sanf ord, 3d Sunday, 7 p m.
.PllESBYTERIAN.
Itev. D. N. MeLauchlin, Pistr Charges:
Jonesboro, 1st and ath Sundays at 11 a.ui, and
8 P-aa. Sunday School -every Sundny at
a.m. Prayer Meeting every other Wednesday
at 8 v.hu, alternating the M. E. church, Buffa
lo, 2d Sunday at 11 a.m; 4th Sunday alternating
with Pocket church forenoon and afternoon.
Pocket, 3d Sunday 11 a.m. and S p.m. 4th Sun
day alternating with Huffalo forenoon and af
ternoon. Prayer Meeting, Sunday al 8 p.m.
In palls has resigned as President
pro tern of the Senate.
The bill to make Solicitors salaried
officers has been defeated.
BAPTIST.
Kev.w.F.watsoi?, pastor. Charges: Jones
boro, 3d Sunday, 11 a m, and 7 pm. Also
Saturday before 3d Sunday at 3 pm. Sunday
School everj Sunday at 9.30 a m. Manly, 4th,
u a m, i p m. -
CHRISTIAN.
Rev. O. R. Underwood, pastor. Charges:
Grace Chapel, 1st Sunday, at 11 a m; Shallow
Well, 4th, 11 um. Keyser, 2d. 11 aan. Hoffman,
su, p.m. i)piar lRTancn. 1st, 3, p.m.
M HEW HOTEL LAFAYETTE
F.iYETTEVILLE, N. C.
a Finn Modern Hotel with every comfort, and
gd;Mt,(1 tr Winter Tourista visiting this woti
(krfully htnlttay and agreeable climate.
T. A. BARKER, Managek. -
Also Munnsrer of the fashionable hotels on
Cuiupobcllo Island, off Eastport, Me. 5l-ly
PATENTS,
Cfivrati. and Trade Marks obtained, and all Ta-
tcnt business conducted for MODERATE FEES.
Ol'R OFFICE IS OlTOSITlv V. b. 1'AlfcHJ
OFFICE. We havc.no sub-agencies, all "busi
es direct, hence can transact patent business
a less time and at LESS COST man loose re
cote from Washington.
Send model , drawing, or plioto, wun oescnp-
... y . . i , . C I
turn. e aavise 11 paienvaute or uui, nee ui
charge. Our fee is not due till patent is secured.
A hK)t, "How to Obtain ratems, wun reier
ences to actual clients in your State, county, or
own, sent free. Address
C. A. SNOW & CO.,
Opposite Fatent Office, Wash ragton, D
BcrrALO Lodge, No. 172, A. F. & A. M. Reg
uULt meeting, 3d Monday nifrbt. and thb Fesfi
val ttf St. John the Baptist, and St. John the
C.
Special Notice!
The crop prospects were never better.
So say our friends. (Especially
' those who used A CME Guano.)
JoxESBono Lodge, No. 127, 1. 0. 0. F.
ulur meeting, every Friday night
Reg
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayoh: J. R. Watsox, Etxj.
Commissioners: Dr. E. P. Snipes, A. J. Sloan,
. j. i. isouircy, A. A. r . caweu, Jr..
James Dalryinple.
Street Commissioner: J. A. Mclvcr.
Clerk: Col. A. A. F. Seawell.
Town MAusnAiJohn VT. Masemore.
General NevVs. '
Senator Vance has filed nis creden
tials. , . .
There was a horrible mnrder of a
"young lady lit Society Hill, S. C, a
day or two ago, for the purpose of
robbery. The negro murderer has been
Caught, jailed, and mayhaps, ere this,
titrated.
A bill appropriating 15.000 to the
A. & M. College has
Senate. O
London is to be lighted by electrici
ty. The wires will be laid under
ground.
A wonderful instance of a cata In
stinct is told the Record by Mr. 8 J.
Tally, of Matthews township, lie says
that some time last month his son gave
passed the : two cats to a negro brakeman on the
C. F. & Y. V. railroad, who carried
them at night to his home at Fayette
ville, shut up in a box on the train.
Three days afterwards one of the cats
The Wilmington Messenger is to be
sold by the Trustee on March 24th, at
auction.
The House Coinage Committee will
report adversely Upon the Senate TVee
Coinage bill. .
returned to Mr. Tally's, having escap
ed from its new home at Fayetteville
and made its way to its old home a
! distance of about sixty miles. Chat
ham Record.
The residence of Mr. Samuel Taylor,
at Mount Airv. N. C. was enter? a
Gen. Jos. E. Johnson was one of the few aays apo and hU of
pall-bearers
funeral.
ai uenerai onermansj $2,150. The burglars also choked
Mrs. Taylor and snatched $10 from
. Judge Chas. R. Thomas, of New-! her pocket as they were taking the
Berne, died a few days ago, aged about wtf ey therefrom. They were iden
sixty-two years. . t j tified in the persons of M. C. Taylor
Mr. W. C. Kimball and Mrs. Rosa ' f nd f man llin5Wmlf Stone. $100
J. Bryan were married at Haywood, j
M. 1. - . ..... t.B4 1. I
COMMUrilCATIOiMS.
BROADWAY.
We have had two fair days in Feb
ruary thus far, and a considerable rain
storm on Saturday night last.
v There are more parties, socials, shin
digs, etc., just now, than ever known ! their Homestead rights.
i has been offered for their arrest.
Later. Taylor has been arrested
and jailed. Stone jumped from a sec-
The centre of the population in the ond storv window and made his es-
United' States is shown by the recent f cape into a laurel thicket with no
census to be in Decatur county, Ind. j clothing except his shirt and drawers.
It is said that ex-Gov. Foster, pfj Recently, at Detroit Michigan. Mrs.
Ohio has been appointed Secretary of Andrew Orszek died suddenly and the
the Treasury. He is opposed to free Coroner decided the case called for in
Th tomb of Alexander the Great
has been discovered at Sidon. Th'ir
place where rests the remains of the
mighty Macedonian will no doubt he
visited by thousands.
The pilot boat in the employ of the
State has captured seven pirates, who
were accorded & hearing before Judge
Bryan, at Kew-Berne, and held to
bail to appear at the next terra of tbtf
Superior Court.
Representative elect Jerry Simp
son, who is in Washington, has not
been very favorably impressed with
the present House of Representative.
Xor have the other people of thj
country.
Verily this is the age of paper. Ex
periments made by officials in the Ger
man army demonstrated thathor?
shoe madeof parchment paper cement
ed, and pressed together in a. hydraul
ic press, is much more durable than
an iron shoe.
Deadlocks in Senatorial election,
which are very expensive to the State-
.in which they occur, will never bo
heard of when United States Senator
are elected by a direct vote of the
people as they should be. Bribery
and attempted bribery will also disap
pear, to say nothing of the general
j advantage of bringing the Senate
coinage.
vestigation. Yesterday he summoned : nt?arer luo Popie.
before, and-the amusements, so far as
we can learn, are more worldly. Co
tillions are now the rage, and while
the young mostly engage, some of the
older heads, hang around intensely in
terested. We can make some allow
ance for the j'O'ung rattle-brain, but
au old one don't need any. It is a
a great pity that some are built with
their most active end down, their heads
A bill has been introduced in the (a iury proceeded to hold an in-
legislature to amend the State Consti . tlues
oiirt,TT oct, f rr ' The iurv viewed tho bodv and then
vuvavtu ovi uo j 14 y iv r jvUm tvr nan v w I i y
j began to hear the evidence from the " tu.
; grief-stneken relatives. Suddenly one j zly reluctant farewell to the joy
The time is rapidly approaching
1 mg when a crood manv ninchback
w mm
nrtllA Wnmnn Wlttlfltr I1 r tha onmn cnrMirg an.! 1 ..t.i: lit.
lished for the deaf and the dumb, of, v- , VL 1
our State. Several points have been ! ?ren ... .The number worthy of even a pacing
suggested for its location. , !
"She is alive!"
At the same
There was a collision of two trains of color returned
in a New York city tunnel a few days ' and . while the horrified
w . I regret may be counted upon the Ba
moment a slight tinge ,
d to the woman's tace, gerstof oae 1,and nnJ lLerc wlU lbcn
be fingers to spare.
m
ago, - resulting in the killing of six, ; held their breaths, a faint rise and fall A HILL to amend the laws rtlatin" to
auu me vvuuumujj w uirtuy. j 01 me cnesT was percepiioie. 1 imnii 'ration and
The Ashevillc citizen has been
naturalization has
THEREFORE,
e arc -endeavoring to keep our stock of j
GENERAL IklERCHANDISE
(iKNERAL MERCHANDISE
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
constantly replenished
as our increasing trade demands.
And we solicit a generous public to
CALL OX US FOR
being such failures that they are fore- vocatiug the advisability m dividing;
ed to use their feet to amuse them-j-the State. It may not be out of place i
An nrl ! The jury was dismissed, a pnj-sician . ,
en ad-, J ' , been favorably rerMjrted to the House
iviriin ' summoned, and m an hour the woman J
lviaincr. . i . .
was apparently as well as ever. The of Representatives, home changes in
selves and entertain their friends; and ; to remark that the time is not vet.
let me, iu a low breath say, that some I
of the church members are engaging'
in this very innocent amusement, but j
you need not tell the preacher.
Rev. Mr. Shaw is conducting series
of meetings at- Salem
the present week.
church, the
physician saya she was in a cataleptic , the present laws are needed; but in
.1 trance. view of the very great importance of
A distinguished New York banker! . . . . . . . ,
i . m x,. , . From a nrp dpsniteb of th lOih ' tne 8tlMjt nd the ueaniow of aI-
has written Treasurer Bam that thej r rom a press uespaicii oi lue uui , , , ,
credit of North Carolina is as good on instant dateJ Chicago, we learn that . journment it would perhaps be wie to
Wall Street as the credit of the United j the band of Sioux Indi.ms which ar- . pontine the matter untl the next
Cf.fM t rivrju mere on iw ma. on iiieir reiurn
sesMon.
trip from .Washington to Pine Ridge,;
A bill authorizing and directing a. ,eft for tneir destinatin last night.! THE GREAT Sf RlKE.
GOODS
new
n
BOOTS and SHOES,
i
Ml Of
. EVERY DESCRIPTION,
KOTESand STOVE WARE,
CORX, BAC0X, LARD,
MOLASSES, etc., etc.
We notice that the egg market in ' geographical survey of the State has! T?Af-irft Ipavine rh'pf AtnripaTi TToncA !
Jonesboro is somewnat fluctuating, passeu tne fccnate proviuing. ror an made this significant declaration. 'I
one week a party is offering 15 cents annual appropriation of ten thousand ; tbe Sious 1 ceding
treaty, but when I saw the mouths of
dollars.
Senator Hill of New York will occu-' my people were closed in Washington,
cupy General Hampton's seat in the ; I told little Chief Noble that I would
and the next wishinsr to close out at
10 cents. Our Mr. Watson does not
like that kind of a deal. Cau't see
the money on the right side of the-g te Chamber, with Daniel, ot Vir-ino longer be a leader of ray people,
ginia on bis left, and Colquitt of Geor- , but would mingle with them as a war
Over 17,000 Miners Idlo In
Pennsylvania.
balance sheet. While Jonesboro claims
to have the best cotton market in the J gja on uk rignt.
State, and perhaps justly, we with ail
our modesty, claim the best egg mark
et of its size, and that 'our Make" is
good authority on egg values.
eggs, and consult our ..r. Watson on
futures.
Mr. A. J. Matttrows lost a mule last
week, colic said to be the cause.
:DUd near Concord church, after a
long illness, Mrs. S. C. McAuley. Mrs.
McAuley was a lister of Darius Thom
as, lately deceased. Sam Bows.
Recent advicen from the Conhell.-
ville coke region report the strike of
the coke workers as general. All tho
plants have closed down, and the onlv
About.oue thousand killed is the
report from a recent battle in Egypt
rJnr in thir rank rathpr thn lift mv i employees now on duty are the pump-
I voice asain in behalf 'of the white ! crs And watchmen. Order prevails at
man'1
; all points, and no trouble, for the pr
A!
so
Road Carts,
Patent Tethers,
And anything else you may need.
Promising our best efforts to merit
your confidence and patronage-
Watson & Godfrey,
J0XESB0K0, K. C.
. rustwfri lio Fvntian And th T)pr-!
isetter -t - Agency, and one of the interpreter
momo-Yhes under Osman Digma. The lat- j . ' . . . 4tT . ' . ...
. . , . j A . i oi iue pariy miu. iu icw ui mis
i last visit and the excitement last fall !
There is still a deadlock in the Illi-1 tnot aa I am no alarmist, th
nois Legislature ovr the election of j tne Fpiing there will be trouble.
United States Senator. Palmer re-:
Over
t Louis Scrimi, of Standing Rock!ent At ,east w Pprebended.
i k,viai are mie.
The Scottdale coke region U terribly
excited, and the coal miners at thirty
of tbe works throughout the dutrict
One
ceives 101 vdtes on every ballot.
hundred and three would elect.
The Democratic members of Con
gress have determined to support Maj.
C. W. Mc Clammy, the present repre-!
have stopped. Big and enthusiastic
xas-meetings are being buld at Brad-
honest, and is supposed to have saved :
w. , r i t .
Gathering Crapes for Keeping. seutative of this District, for clerk of i UI l iar B"u.1 ."V
All the later varieties of grapes
hould be gathered on a dry day when
the fruit is fully matured. There are a
few very early g'rapes that get beyond
their best and 'become tasteless, and
these should be gathered earlier.
n i ...t i t :t. i;!lu"
urapes saoum ue yKn r ve shftn see.
disturbance or their moons as is
the National House,
termination.
' a itnlMuul man nr1 urn 1,A nnt ! nl
An excellent de- i . . . . .. . . '
ana naa no iamuy, u was supposeu ne
eiaiths to have solved the problem of
perrjetual inotion, and will apply for a
patent sor an engine to be perpetually
j run by compressed air. ve will see; uejj an inquest, and the jury, with
" - t wuai we ul i ur. (.-nas. oienn. as nurreoru exam in-
On Thursday night, the ISth instanr, lord and Dunbar,
a thrifty and economical colored man Tbe pumpers bar been ordered by
named Sam Brooks, was ranrdered in the labor leaders to remain at work to
Greensboro. He was peaceable nd prevent the destructian of plants by-
water. TWe leaders will continue t.
address mass-meetiuga at different
works to stir up the strikers.
There are 100,000 miners in the an
thracite coal region of Pennsylvania,
and according to the Philadelphia
Press they fe in a deplorable condi
tion. A press reporter sjuumed tbe
duguue of a miner and sought em
ployment in one of the mine . Here
he obtained it, and worked long
enough to get acquainted with the
kept his money in his place of bui-
Oifie R. J. Jones, of Mexico City, Mo j neRSl jt j3 not known how much mon
ey was secured by the robber or robbers.
Mr. Y. M. Donnell, the coroner.
, h-..- j -tt Tnrintb month of January the edBrool
o,e, Trl , ! M7 rX KorU. CM UahW .t Su. . tlr of life. From
rv snouiu oe removeu. iuc cu(w,v..v-.-p 4 i. .. .
'Tn wot mrtA nvpr each r ans died:
a t-;r,e Tnl C Carseron, Dr. Walter
wn v a t 1 1 riecno Tin rwr i ra i r r" riiL iiio a
UUUVU OT A 1 14. W W f w-.w- 1
General Philemon B. Haw-
fruit from shrivelling. In this way Isa
bellas and Catawbas may befcept in fair
condition until January.
Brodie, Rev. Daniel Culbreth, Rev. TV.
C. Gannon an Col. Bobert F. "Webb.
Wil. Messenger.
to 14s death by blows on the head from
an axe in the hand of an assassin.
Suspicion points trongly to John
Sella rs, -colored, as being guilty, ad
he is mv, in jaij awaUiog his JLriaL
what he writes it appears that the
company store is made to absorb the
wages of the miner, and leave him
little or nothing the eal tho
xaoath