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THE PRES S VISITOR. . RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1897. $4.00 PER YEAR. NUMBER 6.095. TODAY'S AWFUL TRAGEDY Al. Watson Shot His Pretty Wife; Then Took His Own Life. HUSBAND ASKED TO GIVE UP DRINK. Watson's Pretty Young Wife Threatened To Leave Home and the Crazed If us band Shot Her and Killed Himself Mrs Watson Stands a Chanee of Recovery. Whiskey blighted the happiness and peace of a modest little home in this city early this morning. Before the people of Raleigh were astir end while most of them were asleep an awful tragedy was enacted at the cosy little cottage, No. 713 North Salisbury strest, the resi dence of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wat son. The young husband took his own lifo and. attempted that of his pretty young wife. No such episode has stirred this quiet city in years, and when the people came down the street this morning to business and heard the awful story of the crime they wero simply horror stricken. It is a pitiful story. The pretty youDg wife lies at her home at the point of death, and still she has not a word of censure for her husband who is stretched cold and still in the adjoining room. Crazy from drink, in a moment of madness, he shot his recently wedded wife who was ad monishing him to lead a better life and leave whiskey alone and then . blew out his own brains. Little Katie Pearce lived with her sister, Ada, Watson's wife. She heard the quarrel early this morn ing and witnessed the tragedy. Miss Katie is only fourteen years of age, but she is a bright and -brave little girl. This morning she. told the story of the allair to a reporter of the I'rkss-Visitor and she re peated it straightforwardly and without hesitation. Miss Katie stated that sh ajvoke this morning about C o'clock but the hour she does not know exactly hearing her sister crying. She arose, dressed and went into the room across the passage way to the bedroom of her sister and husband. Both were in bed. When Miss Katie entered the room young Watson ap parently changed his attitude and -commenced to caress his crying wife. "As soon as I went in the room he began to hug and kiss sis ter" the little lady said in telling the beginning of the affair. "Then sister got after him about his drink ing and begged him to quit. He wouldn't say he would and Ada jumped out of bed and went to the bur.au to get the razor, saying she was going to kill herself Sister wasonly joking to make Albert say he would give up whiskey. But I seized the razor and carried it into my room and hid it. Ada told me to come back, before I went outlay ing that she was afraid Albert would hurt her.'' "When I went back Ada was again in bed and Albert was trying to kiss her. He would catch her chin and jaw in a rough way and hurt sister. Al and sister got up and dressed and when sister went into the dining room he followed her. She asked him where she was going. Ada told him she was going where she pleased. Al kept repeating the question and she told him she was going away, if he didn't do better. Then he slapped her in the face and I told him he must not do that again. Sister said "I'll kill myself" and Al said he would kill her and kill him self too. Sister told him that would be better as he would not kill him self and be would be hung for kill ing her. He slapped sister again and I told him to stop or I would call soma one.- He said he wouldn't and then made the statement "I'll kill you and her too " "Sister and Al both went in the other room. They sat on the other aide of the bed. They were not there a minute before Al seized sister and threw bur back in the bed. He pulled a pistol out of his coat pocket, held it at her b dy and fired. He did not say a word, but got something out of his pocket put it in his pistol - and stood up by the window. I ... screamed and ran. By the time T was out of the room I heard the pistol fire." "When I went back in the room Al. was lyingon the floor and sister was still on the bed . She was pray ing. She prayed for Al. and herself both." "Al. was drinking yesterday. I don't know whether he was drunk but he was very drinky. Sister went up the railroad track and begged him to let whiskey alone. Last night he ordered her to put supper on the table She refused and he threw her down on the floor. He tried to put a plate of biscuits in her hands, but it fell to the floor and the plate was shattered. When sister got up she said she could'ut stand it any longer and was going to leave. She ran to the window to scream, but Al. called her back and tried to make up with her. They did not quarrel any more last night. " That was little Katie's story and it tells the whole story of the way ward husband and the innocent, du tiful little wife who was trying to correct her husband's errors. Mr. John Price, an uncle of the young woman, heard the pistol re port and was one of the first to reach the house. He said his neico was praying. She asked him if he thought she would live, and he told her yes. She asked him to send for Dr. Mar shall. When he asked her the cause of the affair she said, "Katie will tell vou all." MrS Watson, the mother of Albert Watson, reached her son's home early. She went in the room where hor wounded daughter in-law was. The young woman told her she hoped she was not mail wilh her and asked her to kiss her, Mrs. Watson told her mother-in w. "Al was crazy. That's whit the doctors told me. 1 know he was crazy for he hud a crazy glare in his eye. He had it once before. 1 know ho didn't mean to do what lie did." Neighbors did all they could to make the young woman comfortable until the physicians arrived and she was administered an opiate. Watson was carried in the ad joining roim anu stretched out on a lounge. It was appareut from the first that death musl necessarily en sue and nothing could be done for him. lie expired at 0.15 a. in. The bullet entered the back of the skull near the right ear. Mrs. Watson was shot in the rigLt side above the hip. The ball struck the spinal cord and paralysis en sued. She has been conscious all the time and the physicians say there is a good chance of her recovery. At 2:35 p. m , Mrs. Watson was resting easy. 1 he physicians al'ow no one to see her. Watson has been drinking of la e. Yesterday morning he attended Sun day school at Brooklyn church, but left before services were over. He was drinking yesterday and was at homelittle. His acquaintances say he was pe;uliar. A year ago he attempted to kill himself by taking a dose of laudanum. He worked at the Lobdell car shops and was regular in his duties last week. Ho was of a morose disposition, but why he should have attempted to take the life of his wife is one of those unexplainable mysteries which cannot be accounted for. Watson was 21 years of age and his wile was 18 years old. They were only married last July tho tenth. So far as isknown the couple liyed together pleasantly until re cently. 0. L Watson, the engineer who was killed in the Seaboard wreck December '95, was the fa'her of the young man. His mother saut mis morning that she could not imagine why her son committed the act. Mrs. Watson's mother, Mrs. Pearce, was at Auburn. Mr. J. S. Wynno went after hor through the country this morning. The pistol which Mr. Watson used in destroying himself was of ' The American Bull Dog" make, with five chambers. It contained four shells, two empty and twj loaded, when taken after the tragedy. The balls were 32 calibre. Passengers From Havana. By Telegraph to the Press-Visitor. New York, Ojt. 11. Twelve pas sengers of the Ward Line steamer Concho from Havana nv.d Mexico which arrived today were removed to Hoffman island for observation. McMlnlcy Pressed the Button. By Telegraph to tho Press-Visitor. Washington, Oct. 11 President McKinley pressed the button open ins the industrial section of the New Bedford semi centennial expo sition at 9:34 this morning. OPERA IFOR FAIR WEEK Celebrated Wilbur Co , With Over 40 Peo ple all the Week. The Wilbur Opera company and Susie Kirwin will open a brief sea son at the Academy of Music, ap pearing here all of fair week. The company is headed by everybody's favorite, Susie Kirwin. The productions to be seen will be the most elaborately staged, and the costumes of both the principals and chorus are said to be the richest ever sent out of New York. The management believe that standard and comic operas at prices within the reach of all can be made as great a success in this city as they are elsewhere. The scale of prices is the lowest ever known for gool opera. These productions are given under a total cash investment of more than $35,000 by a company numbering over forty people. During the opera season the re pertoire will embrace such choice works as "Migoon," "Madame Fa vart," "The Queen's Lace Handker chief," "Carmen," "Said Pasha," "Fra Diavolo," "Olivette," "The Two Vagabonds," "Bohemian Girl," "Martha," "Grand Duchess," "Ca valleria Rusticana," and many oth ers. The company is made up of such well known artists as Susie Kirwin, Clayton Ferguson, J. Clar ence Harvey, Chas. A. Fuller, Will T. Ellwanger, George Muzzy, Mar garet Baxter, Sara Carr, Maude Poole, Louise Roberts and a chorus of forty. Mr. Arthur C. Poll is the musical director. The company comes here direct from New York. Una uf the Loadins I. veins of the Season. "A Puritan Romance," a new ro mantic comedy which will be pre sented in tliis oily for the first time at the Academy of Music next Wed nesday evening, is a theatrical at traction which every theatre patron in the city should see It will be presented by a great company of New York favorites headed by Isa bcile Kvesson and -.telle Clayton, supported by V. If. Elwood, Myron Calice, A. C. Dcllwyn, C. W. Mac donald, L. M. Martel!, Grace Hunt ington, Virginia Buchanan," Imogen Eberle, Augusta Durgin, Fannie Hunt and others. The attraction appeared in Philadelphia all of last week and the press of that city was magnificent in its'praise of the stars ind production. The piece will besuperbly mount ed with special scenery by Physioc of the Carrie theatre, electrical and mechanical effects by King, costumes by Hermann and music by William Furst, the director of the Empire theatre ot New York. This piece is a laughing play and the Puritan of Salem will be presented from a standpoint entirely new to stage literature. The piece will be pre sented here but one night and will be staged with the same elaboration that it will be in metropolitan cen tres, where it soon en'ers on long runs in the principal theatres. Ilrcuking Ocean Records. The live-day trio across the North Atlantic, which has so long been talked of as a possibility of the fu ture, seen.s not so far away after all, since the new ocean greyhound Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse has broken the record both ways be tween New York and Southampton and Plymouth. The mammoth steamship on her eastward trip just "completed, made the run from Sandy Hook to Plymouth in live days, fif teen hours and ten minutes, break ing the record of the Fuerst Bis marck, which was six days, ni e hours and twen'y-four minutes. The new ship's westward run broke the record of the American liner St. Paul. She made it in five days, twenty-four hours and forty five minutes. A Seaboard Rumor. President Hoffman and Vice Presi dent St. John of the Seaboard Air Line have been in Charleston, S. C. Just what the object of their visit to Charleston was is not known to a certainty, but rumor has it that the Seaboard Air Liue and tho Charleston and Western Carolina lave already perfected or are trying to perfect a plan to buld a road in to Charleston and use that port op erating a line of steamers to New York and Boston in opposition to the Clyde line. Ye' lew Fever Aboard a Steamer. By Telgraph to the Press-Visitor. Baltimore, Oct. ll.--The tramp steamer Sonnehill arrived at this point last night with a case of fever aboard. She was held at quarantine. RAIN PREDICTED Prccceded Tonight and Tomorrow by Threatening Weather. A delightful rain fell over the city last evening. Mud on our streets today was a welcome stranger The rainfall last night was .36 of an inch. In Charlotte it was .16 and Wilmington none. The weather prediction is cloudy and threatening tonight and Tues day with rain. During Sunday a considerable storm developed in the uper Mississ ippi valley which has caused cloudy weather with rain at a large number of stations during the past 24 hours. The low area extends as a trough southward to Texas, and rain fell at many southern points. It is still raining at St. Louis, Mobile, Atlanta, and Chicago. The barometer is highest on the north Atlantic coast. On the Rocky Mountain slope the weather has cleared with frost in Nebraska. THE NEGROES ARE MAD. Want to Know Whv Thcv Arc to be Fx eluded From the Republican Club. The negro question is always a disturber and trouble breeder. It was ever so. The Young Men's Republican Club, of this State, which is sched uled to go through the launching process October l!Uh has the negro question to dispose of. A few d i.ys since Maj. J K Alex ander stated that the negroes would not participate i n the club, but would have a separate organization. This paragraph went all over the state and now the negroes are writtingletlers to Warren V. Hall, the secretary, and others demanding an explana tion. They want- to K now why they arc to be excluded . Mr Hall received a letter today from Howe, the negro representa tive from New Hanovi r and in this letter he raised merry ciiin about the exclusion of the negro. Bailey, of North Carolina, and Hall assert that the negro will assist and participate in tho orgrnization of the club. IlaU says he knows of fcur negro delegates who will be present. The matter will likely come up for final adjustment when the club con venes on the llUh. JUDGK STRONG'S DEATH. An Able and Learned l.uwcr and (iood Citi :n Gone Ex-Judge George Vaughn Strong died yesterday morning in this city in the seventieth year of his age. For several years past Judge Strong has not been himself and the fatal malady, softening of the brain, finally resulted in death. Judge Strong was a native of Sampson county and his father, Dr. Strong, was a physician of distinc tion. He married Miss AnnaCowan, of Wilmington, and from their union there resulted seven children, five of whom survive. Judge Strong was probably one of the best known and ablest law yers the Stale has produced. He was certainly oneof the mostlearned members of the bar, and for years he gave instruction in law in this city In recognition of his services as a legisla'or in the re-establishment of the University he was made a trus tee of the University. He has since set on the Superior Court bench, and during the Confederacy he was a district attorney of that government. Judge Strong was not only an able luwyer.but a Christian, kiud-hearted gentleman and a splendid citizen. He was much attached to the capital city and alwaysenthusiasticover its advancement. The funeral occurred this after noon at four o'clock. Wcylcr's Successor. By Cable to the Press-Visitor. Maihuh, Oct. 11. Bianco, Wey ler's successor, has declared his in teution to proceed with the greatest energy against the Cubau iusur gents and endeavor to restore equal treatment to all sections of the pop ulation of the island. His policy is to deal with the insurgents and ordi nary inhabitants upon the same footin He is desirous of putting an end to the horrors of war, and to establish peace by following the system he pursued in Cuba in seventy-nine. Blanco's statement is practically an announcement that the butchery will be continued. 1 Important Meeting. Capital Bodge, No. 147, I O O F., meets tocight at 8:30 o'clock. A full attendance is desired. Perbin Bus bee, N, G COTTON REPORT A Decline of .17 Reported in North Carolina. ESTIMATED AT 78. The Government lleport is 70 Compared Wiih 76.3 September 1st A De cline In F.vcrv Cotton Pro ducing Rtute Reported. Ry Telegraph to the Press-Visitor. Wtasiiiniiton, Oct. 11. The gov ernment crop returns indicate an average condition to October 1st of 70, compared with 76.3 September 1st. The average condition October 1st, 189U, was CO 7, There has been a decline iu every cotton producing state, the decline in North Carolina being 17 points. In Tennessee it was 12, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Arkansas 10, Indian Territory 8, Alabama, Mississippi ai.d Missouri 7, Louisiana and Texas 6, Oklahoma 5. Florida is the only state where the decline is not at tributed to the long continued drought. There is no lop crop or an excep tionally small one. Reportsof small bolls and short staple are very num erous. The only favorable reports are those relating to the conditions for picking which are in the main everything that could be desired. The averages by states is Virginia and North Carolina 78, South Caro lina 71, Georgia 70, Florida 76, Ala bama 7.'!, Mississippi 71, Louisiana 72, Texas 64, Arkansas 67, Tennes see !i.". Missouri 74, Oklahoma !U) and Indian Territory 8a. AMERICANS FORCED OUT reij;ners rook Their Place at Very Low Wages. r Telegraph to the 1'ress-Visitor. Ni v Youk, October 11 -Ninety- four American granite block cutters were yesterday replaced by a like number of Italians upon the shore road paving work. An Italian sup erintendent was first substituted for the American who had been em ploye!, and then the change in the workmen followed; Cody Brothers were the original contractors, out the work is now being done by George Fruh, under whose orders the Americans were discharged and the Italians engaged. The Ameri cans were getting $:! a day, while the Italians are said to work for $1 25 and more hours at that. A Large Procession. By Cable to the Press-Visitor. Rome, Oct, 11. A monster proces sion of fifty thousand merchants and shop keepers paraded the streets to day as a protest against the propos ed income tax. A deputation repre senting the protesters waited upon the prime minister and formally pre sented their petition. The premier promised justice to be done. Mckinlcy Will Vote. By Telegraph to the Press-Visitor. Washington, Oct. 11. President McKinley has arranged his affairs so as to be Uanton on election aay and the next day will go to Pitts burg and be present on Founders' day at the Carnegie public library. The president has also received an invitation from the commercial club of Cincinnati to be present at a bauquet to be given the Saturday previous to the election, ana will accept it if it is to be a nonpartisan affair. He does not care to be at a political dinner, and while naturally interested in the Ohio campaign, will confine his active interest to voting. Monetary Commission in Session. By Telegraph to the Press-Visitor. Washington, Oct. 11.- The mone tary commission convened at ten to day at the Arlington hotel. About one huudred communications on the general success of currency reform so far were received. Today 's meet ing was largely taken up in their discussion. The P-cadly Folding lied. By Telegraph to the Press-Visitor. Rochester, N. Y.,Oct. 11. - Sarah Backus was found dead in this city today doubled up in a folding bed. The bed closed during the night and she was unable to extricate herself and death resulted from suffocation. A Rise in Gold. By Cable to the Press-Visitor. London, Oct. 11. The Bank of England has raised the selling price of bar gold and eaglesone halfpenny. THE FAIR'S THE THING. President McKinley 'A rites 1 hut He Tan Not be Present. The State fair is only a week dis tant. Every one charged with prepara tions for the coming fair is up and doing. From all over the State come in quiries for space for cxhioits of hor ses and cattle. Cotton mill and other manufacturers are asking for space and many of Nashville's exhibitors at the exposition are writing for space. A good many business es tablishments outside of 'Raleigh are anxious to send exhibits. Applica tions are flowing in for all kinds of privileges upon the grounds. Num erous side shows wish to cdme. Governor Russell received the following letter from President McKinley Saturday afternoon: Execi tive Mansion, Washington, Oct. 8, 1807 Hon. Daniel L. Russell, Governor of North Carolina. Dear Sir: The President has re ceived the cordial invitation extend ed to him to be present on the oc casion of the Annual Fair of the North Carolina State Agricultural Society at Raleigh, October 1S-24, and desires me to express his deep regret that the state of public busi ness will prevent him from leaving Washington on the dates named. I beg to assure you, however, that the President greatly appreciates the compliment conveyed to him by this invitation and that he hopes the Fair may be an unqualified success May I ask you to be good enough to make known the contents of this letter to the other gentlemen who have signed the very courteous let ter of the 2d instant? Veiy truly yours, John Addison Pouter. Secretary to the President TODAY'S MARKETS. The Movements in New Vork pool Markets. By private wire to J. A. Duncan: ., OPEN- HIGH- LOW- CLOS- MONTHS. mo EST EgT IN(J January, fi 48 0 49 0 :I5 :;i- February, li 51 0 52 0 51 6 40- Mareh, (i 54 6 55 ti 42 6 4.'i- April, 6 4S ti 48 tt 4S 6 4! May, ti 63 6 OH 6 50 6 51- Junc, 64 ti 4 fi 6t 6 55- July, ti 6:.i 6 6! ti C7 ti 5S- August, - Sept'mb'r, - Oetolier, H 40 6 41 ti .10 6 ?0- Novemb'r,! li 41 41 28 6 2ii- December,! (j 35 ti 45 I 6 S2 fi 3:i- Chieago Grain and Provision Market. Thefollowing were the closingquo- tations on the Chicago Grain and Pro vision market todav: Lard Dec. 4.37; Jan. 4.42. Pork-Dec. 7 82; Jan. 8.72. Clear Rib Sides Dec. 4.50: Jan. 4.52. Wheat Dec. 1)1 J; May '.Mi Corn Dec, 28J; May 32 Oats-Dec. 1!) 3-8; May 22 1. Liverpool Cotton Market. The following were the closing quo tations of the Liverpool cotton market today: October ' 3.43 42a43 October-November 3.3K 35a36 November-December 3.33aJ4 33 December-January 3 33 32a33 January-February 3.33 32a33 February-March 3.33 3 33 March-April 3 34 33a34 April-May 3 35 34a35 New York Stook Market. The following were the closing quotations on the New York Stock Exchange : Sugar 1441 American Tobacco 87 4 Chicago Gas oil Manhattan 103 J Louisville and Nashville 58! Western Union 891 Jersey eentrai 04 j Burlington and Quiney 95 J Omaha 7i Rock Island 8SJ St. Paul Mi B. & 0 16 Chesapeake A; Ohio 2H Missouri Pacific 31i New Vork eentrai 1181 Southern Preferred 32! Union Pacific 22f Wabash Preferred 195 Chicago & North Western 124 U. S. Leather Preferred 611 Raleigh Market. The following are the quotations of the Raleigh cotton market today: Middling Strict middling Good middling . . Strict good middling CI The Stoock of Gold in this Country. By Telegraph to the Press-Visitor. Wasiiinoton, Oct. 11. The direc tor of the mint estimates the stock of gold in the country today at$712, 660,417. This is an increase of nearly 17,X10,000 over estimated amount in ; August. Nearly a million morethan the greatest pre vious record made in October 1888. OPENING OF SALOONS Or Tarter Spoke Yesterday About the fair Week Ordinance. In his sermon yesterday morning at the First Baptist church, Dr. J W. Carter, the pastor referred to the recent action of the Board of Aldermen permitting saloons to re main open all of fair week. Heasked if 18 hours was not a sufficient length of time each day for conducting such a nefarious business. He said it seemed as if some people supposed that the opening of the saloons at all hours was a necessity and that the people come to the fairs solely to patronize the saloons. The children of Israel, the minister stated, re mained in the wilderness 40 years without anything intoxicating to drink Zcke liilklns Disappointed The Progressive Farmer ; ysof theHayseeder: "TheHayseed appeared. One copy reached i at night, and we carried it. place of abode for fear it wouh the office in our absence. Afl has just our jrn ex- amining it, however, we brought li back to the office without increasing our policy in the fire insurance compauy. This is a sad blow to us. We feared we would be unable to purchase any coal, this winter, but had hoped the Hayseeder would suffice. As it is not sufficiently hot, we shall have to ask subscribers to pay up. Cold weather will soon be here " .Me ting of Ciii.-ns Tomorrow. There will be a meeting of citizens of Raleigh and vicinity tomorrow at 12 o'clock in the mayor's office to effect arrangements and prepare a program for the Road Congress to be held here duiiug fair week. The local committee of which Mr. W. J. Andrews is chairman, will be present. The object of the Road Congress is looking forward to the construc tion of a good public road from the mountains to the seacuast and the betterment of all the roads in the state. Officer F.xoncrated. Saturday night officer Conrad ar rested Clyde Faison for being drunk and down. Faison r sisted the of ficer who struck him over the head with bis "billy. " Faison charged that Conrad struck him without cause, and demanded an investigation. At the trial this af ternoon the mayor finfd Faison $10 and exhonorated Officer Conrad. National Temperance I nion. The twenty-fourth annual conven tion of the National Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union will be held in Music Hall, Buffalo, N. Y., Oc tober 2 to November 3, 1897. Spain Pressed for Money. By Telegraph to the Press-Visitor. Loiion, Oct. 11 An American di plom it who has just arrived here from Madrid says the con dition of Spain is even worse than the corre pondeuls depict" He says that the Spanish gov ernment is so hard pressed for money that it is attempting to sell all the public lands and buildings that can possibly be spared. Not only have the soldiers been unpaid since last March, bat the pension lists are in arrears. It ltuincd in Several States. By Telegraph to the Press Visitor. Chii aoo, Oct. 11. Rain fell last night in Illinois, Nebraska. Michi gan. Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, relieving the extreme drought in those states. Merchants and Manufacturers tree Street Fair and Trade Carnival. On account of the above Decision the Southern railroad will sell tick ets from Raieighto Knoxville, Tent!., and return at $12. 65 for round trip. Tickets on sale Oct. 11th to 14th, limited good to return fifteen days from date of sale. killed by Wiskey. Rev Father Tortolero, who died suddenly at the City of Mexico, is said to have been killed by whiskey, which' persons implicated in the Arroyo murder compelled him to drink. Miss Hattie Marsh and Miss Geneva Crudup are now wilh the popular and up-to date dry goods store of Sherwood Higgs & Co., where they will be pleased to see their friends. J. Schwartz makes an attractive announcement in today's paper. He always keeps the best, and our read ers will do well to see what he says. SHORT STATEUEIIIV Minor Matters Mflnipuhh''! for tue Man)'. AROUND IN fHKtl Pot pourri of the Newa i PlotaraJ n y ile Partlnanil?! I If Pat In f per Point and People Picked and Pithl Print t The Arnold Welles players left , Durham last week where they pear this week. I. Attention is directed to toels. nouncement in today's paper of fit' F.xcelsior Steam Laundry.-,, j Barnes Bros, today received ti State's paper, which was sbippe here by the Stewart Bros. Rev. W. C. Norman of Ed en ton Stf Methodist Church preached excellent sermons yesterday. - We were pleased to see Capt. L W. Smith out to-day after a seriout illness of several weeks' duration with fever. - , The town was billed today fo' Joshua Simpkins, the attraction a Metropolitan Hall next Friday evej' ing. - The box sheet for a PriUn J mance is on sate at,est bfn ti.!. : , ow.c. iiiamuiiinj-ij , u i aviiu.i ui luc scud', i. - I Mr. and Mrs. A. B-&f.l celebrate the 25th anniversi-'t their marriage next Friday, Ot 15th. There will be no cards in bat f;1 ) to ml city. Auditor Ayer states that counties have so far failed returns nf tay v.alujit.inn Trmw'O Currituck, Halifax, Surry and Tl son counties The marriage of Mr. Frank Mi sey, son of Prof. W F. Massey, ai. Miss Nellie, daughter of Mrj' Mrs. B. S. Skinner, will be? nized next Thursday, Ojtobe ' ., ,.u .. r i, .1 c i i V Spark's circus showed at ville, this county, this : Sheriff Jones went tc; L ij this mnmintr In spt nhnii license tax. fl Mr E H Baker, of L:i? if been recommended fotfPjt,. . in the revenue service"'!" Mr A C Mitchell, retard Baker had the highest trie on the civil service eligilXjsj Supt. John R. Smith sa" not keep any large nuieg prisoners in the central prr 1 : . u . T1. t lie intr iinrl rurintr frr t.hmr a farms is not so large as here, j The building committes A board of trustees of the Univa will hold a meeting here ne'xtttt day at which time the contract be given out for the construe the new alumni building whi cost $25,000. J. I Labor Commissioner Hamr ! mill men with the purpose opj taining whether the mills night and also about how mucTi'i is spun. Mr. Ham rick belief, consumption of cotton by tt' the state is larger than the piB tion, ' See what Mr. D. T. Jor-' to say about boneless haj "ad" today. He carriel clean stock and is quick tofe new goodsof merit. If youyjl store you will find a nice as: A of meats sugar cured and J hams, small English curedjt, small N. C sides, breakfast, f &c. M Rev. A. L. Betts, the ci j sionary, has a good meeting! M ills Baptist Chapel, i The I gations were very large lasf ' and the interest still lui' Several professions have b ' during the meeting. . Bervi' night at 7:30 p.'m.VAH i in the work are Invitedj - ' help. 'i'uxV Saturday night a burglr the residence portion oH ' Asylum. For some tJi been missing to a fr provisions werestotiy' of the Asylum bett' room. When he the cause, the thu fled in great faastrM is supposed to be ai j was in the empk I physicians.? Ha lto j working at the Asyt .7