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VOL. IV.
JONESBORO, N. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1891.
NO. 7
-PROGRESSIVE' " ENDOWMENT
eGUILOe
OIF .aLMZEZRICA..
$500 to $5000
In 1 0 Years, or Previous in Case of Death!
$2.50 tO $25-00 .
JONESBORO DIRECTORY.
SICK
I'd
-PER WEEK
Ko Initiation Fee. Premiums Paid
Monthly.
Vfnt PhouldEvxbyose Join the "Guild?"
lsiJlecause if you have any surplus cash
you cannot find a better way to Invest It. 2nd.
1 f you are in business, or are working for a sal
ary, or wages, you cannot do a better thins
for yourself than lay aside month ty as muoh
tin yxtM can In the "Guild," for It will not only
prove a moet profitable "Bavinjrs Bank" for
you while living, but will keep your mind at
tase, assisUnjr you in the time of sickness, and
jroviding for your family in case of death.
R. D. ROBINSON, M'ngr,
Raleigh, N. C.
J. D. GUNTER, Special,
4 i JONESBORO, N. C.
W. E. MURCHISON,
Lawyer 1 .Notary Public,
V j i.
Will Attend to business in the Superior and
Supreme Courts of tbeHtate upon invitation
lropeny supporica ana duckcu.
Will not attend Justice's courts (except in
.Tom-sboro and Sanford), without ua&ii in aa
vanoe. .-..
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
JOXESBOHO C1RCCIT.
Rev. J. E. Thompson. Pastor. Chanres:
Jonesbwro, 2nd and 4th Sundays at 11 am., and
1M p.m.: Sunday ecnool every Sunday at uw
a.m; Prayer meeting everv Thursday nlffht at
730 p.m. Morria unapeh 1st Sunday at 11 a. m.
and Saturday before at 3 p.m. Lemon Springs,
1st Sunday at 3sJ p.m. roplar Springs, 3rd
Sunday at 11 a.m.. and Saturday before at 3:30
p,m. SanlordSrd Sunday at 3:30 p.tn.; Prayer
meeting every omer w euneeuay nurnt.
PRESBYTERIAN.
Rev. D. N. McLauchlin. Pastor CJuursretf
Jomboro. 1st Sunday 11 a.m.. and 750 p.m.
Sunday School every Sunday at 9:45 a.m. Pray
er meeting every other eanesaay night, at
BAPTIST.
Rev. W. T. Jones, Pastor. Jonesboro. servi
ces every 3d Sunday at 11 o'clock, a.m., and 8
p.m. fcunday school everv bunday at 'J:V- a.m.
master gee and hatr. Perhaps he was
ambidextrous, he certainly was in his
hind legs. When we wished him to
turn to the right we would gay got.
This he would sometimes do after he
had gone forward about a couple of
rods, and when we desired him to turn
to the left we would yell haw in a tone
of voice that was mockingly answered
by the echoes on the east bank of the
river.
This was "just eight years ago" but
so far as we know tbat mule never has
"hawed" yet, at least he had not up
to that bright November morning,
when the sheriff came and we parted
from our mule forever.
Solomou once said "Bray a fool in
CHRISTIAN.
Rev. P. T. Way, pastor. Charges: Poplar
Branch. 1st, Sunday, at 11 a to.; Grace Chapel,
2d Sunday at 11 a,m; Winder, 3d Sunday at 11,
a. in. and 7, p.m. ,
Rev. G. R. Ukdehwood, Pastor. Charges:
Christian Light, 1st Sunday at 11, a.m.; Egypt
2d Sunday at 11, a.m.; Mount Pleasant 3d Sun
day at 11 a.m.; Shallow Well, 4th, Sunday at 11,
a.m.
w. h. McNeill,
Attorney arid Counsellor At-Law.
CARTHAGE, N. C.
Will practice in any of the Courts of
of the State. All business entrust
ed to him will receive prompt
and careful attention.
Office in Court House Building.
BurrAW) Lodge, No. 172, A. F. & A. M. Reg
ular meeting, 3d Monday night, and the Festi
vals of St. John the Baptist, and St. John the
Evangelist.
JoTSSBono Lodge, No. 127, T. O. O. F. v Reg
ular meeting, every Friday night.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Ma tor: J. R. Watson, Esq.
Commissioners: Dr. E. P. Snipes, S. n. Buc
hanan, J. it. Godfrey, J. A. ikulcntlne,
James Dalrymple.
Street Commissioner: j. a. Mclver.
Clerk: Col. A. A. F. Seawell. ,
Town Marshal: John W. Masemorc.
G
ODf R E Y,
COMMUNICATIONS.
Barton as an Agriculturist
Intensive Farming in Cumber
landThe Sore Trials of
Ploughing with an Illiterate
Mule. "
organization, with privilege to increase! The historic old log cabin ia St.
the capital stock. ! Louis county which the late President
We spent last night at the residence U. S. Grant erected with his owi
of tbat big-hearted man, Ex-Sheriff , hands and with logs cut and hewn bv
Black. We met your townsman, W. ; himself, is about to be removed from
H. Hancock there; he was ftot-sore its present site, and shipped to Chica-
and very dry. He was on his way go, where it will be re-erected for exbi
from West (or last) End and reports bition at the World Fair. The cabiu
meeting a poor old dejected 'possum now stands on a thirty acre tract of
with tears in his eyes and two days j land, about ten miles south-west of
rations tied around his neck. He had this city and five miles west of Jeffer
found that "Runnells" was not elected son Barracks.
and he was emigrating to drowning j
creek thought he could procure a few ! 5 1 .OOO.OOO.OOO.
crawfishes through the summer. But The late RadicIlReed Congress U
mmd you, Mr. Hancock took sugar calIed moU , the j,.
and cream his coffee, and did not Congress. But do you know what it
make his bow. , vnn ... . .4
a mortar, yet will not his folly depart Mr. John Richardson is happy a rntt -,.m , , ...
i.- w tv u ' -iu i t . t. 'va8t sum a thousand million dollars is!
from him." We thought of trying fine girl babv at his house, but he savs tt ,tu mi t
u- i u i. Li. t r i "e talk millionaires. But thu
. u j ia lira i inn rw a rnan m a
. ,
this experiment on our mule, but he
insisted on doing all the braying him
self. Once when we remonstrated
; TC&stPtl. tk.it rrmrVi nn. tn..nl
... 1 ' muutauu LIU 11-
We are sorry to report the serious :onil:rM rA wnrtll
with him about the frequency of this ! illness of Mrs. G. G. Muse of this town. sum j8 tuug 8tate4 b R
peculiarity he kicked the single-tree, Olad to see friend D. Mclntyre back "rf;n- .1 Preen a uo
, . , -4l . , 0 t 3 3lc3Jillan in order that the lmagina-
clevis and a portion of the plow beam. . from r londa. t . ... , . , , b
We are having quite a dry spell lust u;n:-
1 .1 mi sajs a billion dollars means the ex-
now, but hope ram will come soon pditure of a sum equal to I1C a
Our factory prospects are weaken- inute sinco the Declaratioa of InJc.
ing, owing to spinal affection. nfnAn m 1.
DEALERS IN
GENERAL
Merchandise
!
humming over our head. We let him
bray all he wanted to after that.
Talk about grief and in-growing toe
nails and unrequited affection and
financial embarrassment, but you can j
never know what true tearful sorrow j
is till you have tried to plough with a
mule whose early education has been
neclected.
We still farm more or less but we do
it on the vicarious plan; we once stud
ied vicarious agriculture for four years
under the most favorable auspices and
we think we can say without boasting
that we understand the business.
Oh, the pure joys and refining influ
ences of vicarious agriculture, with
what rapturous emotions do we don a
long "Prince Albert" and twirling
cane and stroll through the fragrant
meadows and listen to the partridges
, "Bob white-ing'? among the waiving
We never intend to say anything to nnvn ww i,re tnurtth tli hrA mpn
the detriment or disparagement of the
as thev toil while our own moist fore-
farmer. We are a farmer ourself and j head is fannej by the balmy breath
besides we may some day run for of
fice;.4hat is some office may seek us
and we know it will seek us more as
siduously if we do not antagonize the
"Alliance."
A few years ago, while still a green
i youth, the idea struck us that we
would make some money out of our
generous and responsive soil. We had
read Furman's formula till we could
almost hear the dollars click-oh the
glass slab at the Peoples National
Bank, Accordingly we bouuht the
requisite chemicals, mortgaging our
We are .now receiving our SPRING ! prospective cotton crop in order to
IT-A-ZEUZZ: itotic:
of June and skies of purest azure smile
o'er fields of emerald and gold. It is
also pleasant to see the plowboy as he
ploughs,and very diverting to observe
how he leaves his mule to watch the
stakes, while he gazes intently at the
furrow in a vain search for tha tradi
tional Jack pot that was buried long ! sen&er
, , . , since Christ was born. A correspond-
State and General News, ent in the Bostoa Po.t point, oni that
a billion dollars is as great & the total
The Michigan legislature has passed valuation attained by that city in 200
a bill to' elect Presidential electors by years. It has absolutely bankrupted
districts. ' a great, rich, puissant country to run
Jake Kilrain and Frank Slavin will such a Reed-Radical concern for but
fight on the ICth of June for a purse two years. If the United States bv
ul au,uw. any irony of fate should become tho
Gen. Armistead L. Long, who was owner of such a concern as that for
Gen. Lee's chief of staff at the time ten years it would not only see its
of the surrender, died at Charlottes- j Treasury empty as now, but the coan
ville,Va., on 29th ult. j try would not have credit enough "to -
North Carolina lost many useful, buy one mint julep on Wall Street,
prominent and some able men in April, j a Senator Vance taid of North Caro
Its necrology "shows: Col. William L. lina when the carpet-baggers and cal-
Saunders, Gov. Daniel G. Nowle, Jas. lawags were-holding high carnival at"
P. Speight, Col. John A.Cameron, Dr. Raleigh in the days at the Holden-
Jaraes R. Ellis, Col. Jnlius A. Gray, ' Kirk-Littlefield regime. Wilmington
Prof I. L. Wright, Dr. F. Scarr, Maj. Messenger.
Lucius W. Faison, Robert H. Hender-! " """"""
son, Dr. G. G. Smith, Capt. John C. j HumorOUS.
James, Dr. James W. Alston, Dr.' . .... :
Frank M. Garrett, Major William A. 1Ci- , 1 .
tT ... .?, TTT., . freezer m 1S4J, and woman has been
Hearne and John C.Haigh. Wummg- 4. .
0 fa i keeping it pretty busy ever since.
ton Messenger.
, "How was it that the Judze crranted
A despatch to the Wilmington Mes- vour divorce before even reading your
nger from Raleigh, says: Archi- petition?
ago.
PlilL Bauton.
CUMBERLAND.
A select party of our young ladies
and gentlemen enjoyed a delightful uoix
bald Andrews, the oldest man in the
State, died near Hillsboro, recently,
aired 107 vears. He leaves a brother,
Henry, now over 100 years old. They
were born near HilUboro, were farm-
ors, ana were alwavs temperaie men.
were great hunters. Henry,
STOCK, comprising
Dry Cocas
i con vice the dealer that we honestly I
j intended to pay for them.
"1
j There is nothing like a mortgage to
! convince a skeptical merchant of your
picnic and wood tick harvest out at j after be was ninetv years oi l, caught
CarverV Falls one afternoon last week
Our farmers are jubilant. Mr. Tom
m one winter s season over ninety
possums by ni-rht hunting. Aichi-
Gill, a Cumberland combination of! iM walked POVea miU.R to vote for
. . , . 1 strict iutegritv of purpose,
m ?7?t variety and at lowest prices, ;
vvitn tnese cnemicais, cotton seea,
Head and Foot Wear to suit. young
and old, all kinds ofGrooeries, -v
and at the right prices.
I barn Vavd "cewaner' etc..
: structed a compost heap: which when
1 7X StOOl Of all KilldS ! Cnt stralht down from the U looliea j lant by a large maj.
' shapes and sizes, Wagon and C ar-
1 if 1 1 - ".. 1 :.:
v ennor .mcKS ana Wiggins, preuici; ?. (jl0veland.
1 rri 1 1
on earn rain, inougn or course ne,
cannot promise in "the early aiid the
we con- n
ltllf-1 iillU.
Frank Slavin recently ca!l?d on John
peti
"Ho was my wife's first husband."
"Jinimieisa very unfortunate boy,
said Mrs. Sampson. "He joined an
athletic club, and the first time he went
there he broke one of the best record
they had.' MunseyH Weekly.
Irate Parent (in the door, to hi. clerk,
who is caressing his daughter) 4yonn
man, you are not hired to do that rt
of work."
Clerk "No, Mr, I'm doing it for
nothing. Texas Sifting.
A boy about twelve years o!d mn;-
riage Goods of all sorts. We
make a specialty of Steel
Shapes (or Plow Hoes)
and have them
j which was highly recommended by
! such progressive scientific aaricultu-
i riiitt: qc Prnf. FT. C. Davis nn (Jpor'rp
r.iado to our pattern, and having this ; . , . ,
i .ir , iNison Esq., and which was warranted
: Mt O .1. TT. 1 1 1
But our townspeople are not jubi- Rl a
rity. With all our persoa prentea ",In cuai.en-e 10
er power, our streets'
look like a sHndstorm on the deserts; : Z nana oyiue nana
wished him ail the iuck in me woria,
ton of a variety called the Pelerkin, ! afternoon are almost suffocated with ' and declared li n
, . , , ;him. "louarv the only one whoever
dust siraplv because sme of our mer- . ' . . .
j came 10 me 10 asK ior a iik5 saiu
Sullivan. "The others liked to talk
1
3000 miles away. I congratulate you.
L. Sullivan, the world's champion pu-' 1 , , n , " ... ,
A l. the door bell of a house on High St.,
like a coroner s inquest.
We planted aout five acres in cot- an(i our lovelv ladies, shopping in the
iseason bought largely, we believe we
can please the farmers better than
heretofore in thi lino. j We are now
'receiving fresh lots of
Guano and Acid Phosphate,
chants are tooiufernally stingy to chip
in toward sprinkling the streets.
Mr. A. B. Mclver has recently :
bought out the Overbaugh House and
to "third itself" when ginned. We
had it all figured down fine. We would j fanv sustains the reputation of this
make two and a half oOOth bales which j 0 Uotei. $ courteous manners
we would sell at 8 cts. to Bob Nimocks make him popular with all, and his
Slavin said.
utation and
I stand on my own rep-
want
the other day, aad said to the lady who
answered it :
Won't you please telephone to tl.
poVice station for me. I have found a
lot loy
"A lost boy. How old !
"Abont four years M, tuaV.m. At
, can talk, but he can't tell where hs
live..'
"Some awfully jior child, thy, h
i open to fiht any man in the world
i The meeting was entirely friendlv.
1
III) IllilU s, a UU AUl ,1 1 . !. ,
iur ut 1 lien wij JUU Tlt M , a IJ ' A
o hungry that ma w.id Le hadn't eat
en anything for n week. We thiuk
if vou
Nothinir but the "Acme", and
have never tried it you had better do
so this year.
or Capt. Arthur Williams; this, would : 0f fare U a dedight to he travel- People an iving at ParU, Texas from his folks lot him on purpose. M
'Purcell and other point along the says they ought to be ent to the Stale
!!? Thankful for past favors we so
licit the patronage of a generous pub
lic and promise our best efforts to
please.
Watson & Godfrey.
Jonesboro, N. C. March 4, '91.
ield us 100,00. Twenty dollars j i,1f. public.
would pay for our chemicals and with ; joa Hardee, the Chronicle's popu- Canadian river in the Indian Territory prison.
the remaining $S0,00, .we .would go jar representative is in town; his mar- ! say that the negroes are coming over . So they had. Docs he give any
down street and buy some things. As ! velous musical talent is a perennial from Oklahoma and are begging for name ?"
a matter of fact we made one crocas JeH-ht to our people. ! something to eat. Their condition U "Oh, yes. He says his name i
bag of seed-cotton, which we sold to j j paid to be pitiable. They were de!u- Burt
4,Jimn McNeill for Gcts, and invests! : CAMERON. ded into going to Oklahoma lat fall : "What! Has he light hair and Uu-
the entire amount in three plugs of j ' in large numbers and have found none eyes T'
"Queen Ann" tobacco and a clay pipe, j our arljoumed wedding met in ses- of the gool things promised them no: "Yesci.
Bat this was not all. During the ; sion on the night of the 23rd ult., but j work, no Government rations nothing "And one front tooth gone V
whole hot, sultry, sleepy summer, we j the speaker contested the seating of ! to afford them a chance to earn an. Yeci.r'
were sorely tried by our mule. Either ! the most important members, but Ed- j honest penny. Instead, tbey on saw , He tay own boy, Le L, and you
he had missed all educational advan- die and old Sim repaired with his ere- starvation at their doors, and are now walk him over a quick as you knm
tage, or he was a caraplete well-round- decrials to the office of S. E. Johnson .trying to make their way back to their how! Alo, tell yonr mother that
ed ignoramous. He could not distin- iEsq., for a recount. About midnight former, homes in
gaish rigUf from left and never did they succeeded in perfecting a lasting j Mississippi and ot
Tennessee, Georgia, p ople have become rich minding their
her Southern States. ' own business !" Dttroit Free Ire,