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WE GUARANTEE TWICE AS LARGE CIRCULATION IN IREDELL AND ALEXANDER COUNTIES AS THAI OF ANY OTHER PAPER PUBLISHED.
STATBSVILLB, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1897.
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Removing Pain in the Side
Chest or back
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is none better. For sale at
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Ih In Daily,
Calico 4 eta.- per yd. Heavy 10 cent Outing for 8 cents per
vd American indigo blue Calico 5 cts. per yd.; best heavy
sheeting 5 cts. per yd.; Good Coffee 10 thfor $1.00.
Hats, Shoes and Clothing
As low as the lowest.
See me
J.
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Oit. 14th,
1VS I sell a good Standard Acid
MTOUWANTTOSEE
Some Beautiful Goods
JUST STEP IN AND TAKE A LOOK
At the new things lam getting in. A part of my China !'
ftnd imported Glass Ware is just in. I would be glad I
to have the ladies, especially, to come iti and see these
ijoods.
IF YOU ARE IN
Need of Specks,
I CAN FIT YOU CORRECTLY,
With best quality of glasses.,
R .H Rickert,
Qotton Is Low
ITiW V SO -l 0 W IN COM P AH 1 SON WITH THE
I'll ICES IN OUR STORE.
No house in town in our line can touch our prices. Don't take our
word but come and see for yourself. We have more experience in,
our line than any other house in town. We know how to buy and
what the people want.
Good Goods for the least Money.
Come and see us-, you will be astonished at the bargains we are off
ering. .
Now York B-aclsot CothJng Sous
SfjOUNSKY & ADLSON
In comer of Cooper Hotel and next door to St. Charles Hotel. -
IF YOU NEED ANYTHING IX THE '. .
Overcoat or Mackintosh Line
This fall you want to see what nice ones we are showing. No
matter what you want to pay. We can show you theDressi
est and Best top coat your money, will buy. In
tinder wear ' .
We can show you the most complete stock carried in this mark
et, at prices to suit all. We have just received
.1 NEW LOT OF ' '
Klondyke Hats and Caps.
No trouble to show goods. So come and-see' us before buying.
Yours,- ' .
Sloan & Shelton
-aesville N. C. CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS
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4jT4iEARLOAPog champion grain Prills
Just arrived, Oliver Chilled Plows, are the best in the world,
Anchor and Babcock Buggies,
J,None Better."
One and two Horse wagons of various Brands. We have a very
handsome line of -
Coal Grates, Cook Stoves and Heaters.
This is a good time to repaint your house. We offer the best
material. Sewing machines, Corn Shellers.
A Complete Stock of General Hardware.
W. A.. THOIIAO d Co.
Statesville, N. C.
fiLl Prettiest Cheapest
Nicholson's. We have'not
small advertisement, but
competition, but undersell
c& Nicholson,
Dealers in Furniture and Buggies.
IS
PORUS PLASTER,
been tested for years.
It has
There.
W. F. HALL, JR.
DRUGGIST.
QIVE US
YOTJU WORK.
WE G VA UANTEE TO SA VE
YOU MONEY OX ALL KINDS
OF JOB PRINTING, SUCH AS
LETTER, NOTE AND BIL1
HEADS, ENVELOPES, CIR
CULARS, JAIfflS, c. SEND
FOR PRICES. I
The Mascot Job Office
before you buy.
PERRY.
East Broad Street.
for wheat lower than any one; else.
THE JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
EDITORIAL HOTES.
We frequently read" of a man kill
ing his sweetheart or his wife and
then committing suicide.lt isagreat
pity that the fool arid criminal does
not begin operations at the other
end of the line. '
The. bimetallism-by-international-agreement
dodge, which the Repub
licans worked in the last campaign
for all it was worth, has about play
ed otit. The question is becoming
simplified, and in the next contest
it will be free silver-and bimetallism
against the single gold standard.
Upon that issue thousands of silver
Republicans, who relied upon inter
national agreement in the last cam
paign, will be. with us.
Our Republican . exchanges are
still harping on the McKinley pro
sperity. They say that it has' al
ready come and that it is only the
thick -headedness of the people
which prevents their seeing it. The
gold pretended- Democrats started
out on the same line;- but, as they
have not entirely lost the old-time
Democratic habit of telling the
truth and being candid, they soon
had to draw in sail, especially when
5 cent cotton got to be a standing
efutation of their position. If Mc-
iinley's prosperity consists in the
present conditions, then may the
good Lord deliver us from any more
such prosperous times.
The Asheville Citizen says "that
D. M. Luther, Esq., a member of
the State Democratic committee
from the 9th district, will advocate
before the committee at its approach
ing meeting the plan of making the
next campaign squarely on the
Chicago platform and white 'supre:
macy in North Carolina.
We are with Mr. Luther in his
fight. A surrender of either of
these principles of the party can
but mean hopeless and shameful de
feat. Neither must one of them be
exalted above theother they should
be our Siamese twins, our double
slogan of victory in future cam
paigns. No alliance with any other
party or with any disgruntled ele
ment of our own party, which com
promises in the least these two vital
principles of the Democracy' of
North Carolina, should be made.
The work of the committee and of
the party should be to uphold the
eternal principles of the party first
aud then to adopt such a wise party
policy as to make victory for those
principles certain. We mayhave
the most beneficent set of principles
ever devised for the government of
men; but, unless we occasionally
win a victory so that those princi
ples can be incorporated into laws,
they benefit no one.1 The counsels
of the members of the committee
who believe in all of the party's
creed should prevail. A campaign
run by men who are Democrats on
State affairs and something else
when it comes to National questions
1 1 -1 i ' 1
can only end in disaster, rut only
all-around" Democrats on guard
The bankers and bond-holders,
not satisfied with the present suff
ering and hard times caused by cur
rencv contraction," will endeavor at
the appproaching session of Con
gress to have a bill passed to still
further contract the currency by
the retirement of the outstanding
greenbacks and Sherman law coin
certificates, amounting to about
$500,000,000 and which bear no in
terest and pass at par with gold;
issue interest bearing'bonds to take
their place, and allow the National
banks to issue bank notes on the
bonds. They are not satisfied with
the present amount in interest bear
ing bonds which Tias been needless
lv saddled unon the tax-payers of
j "
the country, but they ask the coun
trv to retire a half of million of
money, which bears no interest, and
issue more bonds so that they can
get safe investments for their mon
ey. , The bankers are not satisfied
with the present advantage which'
is given to them to issue - between
$200,000,000 ' and $30OV0OO,00G of pa
per money, which cost' them noth
ing, to the people; at. the highest
rates of interest known to the law,
but they ask that they' be allowed to
fesue 'some $700,000,000 &nd have a
monopoly of "the1 jpariefrmrjney of tbi
. . . . ; mi f '.' ' At1 i n i
government', xnis is me goiu-oug
program. It has the support of
Cleveland and his few followers to a
man and most of the Republicans
Opposed to the bill will be the en:
tire Democratic and Populist repre:
sentation in uongress5 tne suver
Republicans of the West and a few
regular Republicans wfro. still have
a little conscience left. The proba
hilities are that the opposition will
be able to prevent Jthe bill's pass
age.in the present Congress, but the
greed of the bankers and bond-hold
ers never sleeps and the question
will come up in future Congresses,
The silver men in future contests
must not only fight for more money
but to hold what the country al
iady b.tts.
Local-News
' Mr. Henry McLe'h'rid,' of 'Shiloh
township, took a lot -yt c'att'e and
hogs to Richmond. Va.f last eelc-
A six-year-old sini of tin , late
Clark Thompson die? Mast Thursday
of typhoid fever and was5 buried at
Concord church, l
Mr J. F. Ostwalt, of Fallstown
township, goes Mr. Combs, of Stony
Point, one better on his second crop
beans. Mr. Ostwalt ate sewond crop
beans and roasting ears -combined
one day last week.
Mrs. E. 'M. Correll, a sister of Mr.
D. W." Lowrance of Coddle "Creek
township, died in " Edna, Texasi on
the 7th. She was a native of south
Iredell and has many friends and
relatives there whoVegret to hear
of her death.
Catawba Visitor: The Hickory
arid ' Newton Telephone Co. , are
making arrangements to extend
their line from Claremont to Cataw
ba. The contract for the poles- lias
been given to B. M. Morrow Esq.,
who expects to commence work" on
them the first of "next week.
Charlotte News, 18th: Col H. C.
Cowles, of Statesville, came down
this morning and is today busy with
Federal cd'urt affairs. The next
term of this court will .convene in
Charlotte the second Monday in De
cember, which is the 13th. " Several
cases of importance will be disposed
of at this term.
The Charlotte News, of the 18th,
says: ur. J. J. aiowt, ol btatesville,
one-time leader of the Republican
party of this State, spent last night
in the city. Dr. Mott has been
since its inception one of the moving
spirits of the silver Republican
movement, which was begun by the'
withdrawal of Senator Teller and
other. Western Republicans from
the party. He wrote an open letter
to Governor Russell a few days ago
on the situation in this State, which
has been widely commented upon.
PERSONALS
Mr. Boyer Tomlinsou, of Harmo
ny, wno nas Deen in ttie west lor
several yearshas returned homo,
and will not return West-
Mrs J, U. Lampre ht went to
Charlotte last week to attend the
marriage of Miss Vogel which took
place yesterday.
Salisbury World, 19th: Capt. and
Mrs. T. J. Allison, of Statesville,
are visiting Mrs. M. L. Chunn on
East Inniss street.
Watauga Democrat: Mr. R. C.
Rivers, with his wife and little babe,
is off to Iredell couuty pn a few days
visit. He will return leaving Mrs.
Rivers with her mother for a few
weeks.
North Wilkesboro Hustler: C. Sr.
Tomlin was in the city this week
supplying our merchants with dry
goods and notious. His raanv
friends were glad to see him, of
course.
Marriage of ah Irrdell Man nt the
Hobi!-
tal in Morganton.
Morganton Herald:
Mr. Sidney R. Morrison, of-Iredell
county, and Miss Blanche Sniith,.ii
cnarming aeiitaani at tne estate
Hospital, were married at the Hos
pital, at 3:30 o'clock, on Wednesday
afternoon. Rev. J. M. Rose, D. D.,
pastor of the Presbyterian church
of this place, tied the nuptial knot.
The ceremony was witnessed bv
Messrs. U. S. and E. H. Smith,
brothers of the bride, . of Caldwell
county, and a number of attendants
who were invited.
The happy couple left on the eve
ning vestibule train for their home
about six miles from Statesville,
where the groom possesses a fine
farm. - l'
The Herald joins their Hospital
friends m etendmg best wishes tor
their future .
(The groom is a son of M. G. Mor'
rison, Esq., of Bethany township,
and is one of that township's best
young farmers. We congratulate
him. Mascot.)
Mooresville News.
Mooresville Record.
Dr. J. R. McLelland has been
elected as a director in the North
Carolina Midland Railway.
Mr. F. A. Sherrill and two chil
dren, of Statesville, spent Thursday
night in Mooresville. 1 "
At last our town is lighted up,
The lights are fairly good and will
answer the purpose until we can do
better.-
The 20-months-old child of Mr,
and Mrs". T. F. Young, of Harris
bare Was buried' at Coddle Creek
last Monday morning.. i '
A house on Dr. Mott s farm near
Mt. Mourne, occupied by James
Webster, caught fire last Sunday
from a defective flue and would have
been burned but for a timely dis
covery. ,
The py Under head bPriQut of Mr
C. E. Vail 's engine at his cqttongin
on Wednesday and buried itself in
the ground near where Mr. Voils
was standing. The damage to the
engine is about $100.
Mrs. Eliza Moore, of this place,
while doing some work about her
yard, fell last Monday morning and
broke or fractured a bone in or near
the wrist. -The greatest pain she
will suffer will be from the fact that
she cannot 'work to advantage while
the WOund ishe'alin'g.
Stale News.
John Strickland, of Pitt county,
suicided one. day last week by tak
ing laudanum, i
A negro Jtioy was' killed last week
on Cameron & Co's tram-road at
Vass, Moore count'. . ;
" There have been :G0- cases of ty
phoid fever at One cotton factory in"
this State this year.
It is. said that Robert M. Furman
will be the editor of the new daily
paper published at Raleigh.
The Seaboard Air Line road will
straighten its track so as to leave the
town of Gaston several miles away.
.'- Eli Henson, of Concord, cut his
foot tvvo weeks ago and died' Wednes
day of last week with blood poison.
W. J. Pre vat t, one of the largest
merchants of Lumberton, failed last
week. Assets $15,000; liabilities
11,MM).
PurviSj the negp murderer, was
hanged at Lillington, Harnett coun
ty, last Wednesday with neatness
and dispatch.
A house belonging to the Cannon
Manufacturing Company 'and near
to their mill in Concord.- was-burned
last Friday.
John W. Walker, an University
student from Charlotte, had his col
lar bone broken in a football game
at Chapel Hill last week.
-Capt. Hull, A- C. L. yard conduc
tor at Aberdeen, Moore county, was
run over and killed by a shifting
engihejast week.
The physician at the convict farm
in Halifax county has been forced to
resign on account of undue intimacy
with the female convicts.
. A test case will go up from John
ston county to have the Supreme
Court decide the constitutionality of
the imprisonment for tax law.
A. A. Trexler's cotton gin, near
Rockwell, Rowan county, was burn
ed one day last week. He lost ten
bales of cotton and some cotton .seed.
Charles Patton, an engineer be
tween Salisbury and Greenville, S.
C saw that the driving wheel of
his engine was broken, jumped and
broke his arm, one day last week.
A sad accident was noted on the
train at Ruffiu Wednesday, when
Miss Mary Aimes. of ""Tallahassee,
.. died suddenly. She was being
taken to Baltimore to undergo an
operation.
The barn of the Summerrow House
in Newton, was burned Sunday of
ast week. Loss $300. It was only
bv hard work that the Summerrow
House was saved.
The body of Purvis, who was
hanged at Lillington, Harvett coun
ty, last week, was unclaimed aud it
will be given to the University
Medical School for dissecting pur
poses.
Robert L. Abernethy, of Moun
tain Island, Gaston county, has not
bad his hair cut since Bryan was
defeated and he says that he will
not have it cut again until William
Jennings Bryan is elected Presi
dent.'
The Hickory Mercury says that
Samuel, little son of J. P. Campbell,
ot Mountain v lew Alliance, was
burned, so badly by a fire which
broke out in his father's house last
week that he died soon afterwards
By hard work the house was saved
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Ex-Sher
iff Greenwood, of Roaring River,
is in trouble again. Last week the
revenue officers found about 900 gal
Ions of whiskey in his watermelon
patch. They dug it out of the ground.
The whiskey was "sent to Winston.
The penitentiary authorities have
made a contract with S. - P. Hilder-
brand, of Cohoes, N. Y., to furnish
him with any number of convicts up
to 350 to make shirts inside the pen
itentiary. He is to pay the State
24 cents per dozen for the
shirts
about
made and to commence work
January 1st, 1898.
Fayetteville Observer:
Ex
Sheriff Hector McNeill, went
a gun-
ning Friday and bagged a mink,
that is he killed a mink as it was
running off with one of his chickens
bringing it to the ground with a well
directed aim at a 25 yards range;
Not bad for a gentleman 9.0, years of
age. - :
High Point Enterprise: The In
land Printer of November has the
picture of the log cabin in which
Andrew Jackson was born. This
reminds us that the last of the old
Court House - at Brown's Cross
Roads, Randolph county, where An
drew Jackson made his maiden
speech at the bar, can yet he seen.
Part of the floor sill remains under
the debris of the old rocky chimney
which has toppled over,
Asheville Citizen: Information
from Marshall, where the Circui
court is in session, is to . the effect
that Sheriff Ramsey, of Madison
county, has resigned befause of the
probability of action being taken
against him, at the instance 6:
judge Jiiwart, alleging neglect of
ofhcial'duties. Whiskey is said to
be the cause of the trouble." Severa
days -ago Ramsey visited this city
and was found on West College
street in an intoxicated Condition,
GENERAL NEWS.
The Queen of Spain has pardon
ed the Competitor crew.
Another man has died of yellow
ever in Pemacola, Fla.,
Albert Frantz was electrocuted at
Columbus, Ohio, Friday for murder.
QPrairie fires in western Texas
have destroyed many sheep and cat
tle:
A, hurricane in Ecuador destroyed
the town of Lore to and killed many
people. ,
A' gang of fraudulent patent at
torneys has been broken up in Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
Henry Sherry, a lumber operator
of Oshkosh. Wis., failed last week
for $1,000,000.
A race riot is on in Washigton,
nd., on account of the employment
of rre?ro coal miners".
Robert Sims, colored, was hanged
at Jonesboro, Tenn., 'Wednesday of
last week for murder.
Eleven persons were killed in Mu
nich Bavaria, Germany, last week
by the collapse of a cellar.
An explosion of gun cotton in the
City of Mexico Friday killed four
men and wounded light more.
In a wreck near Huntington, W.
Va., last Thursday, the fireman was
killed and several others were injur
ed.
The toll gate war is "on" again
in Kentucky. All of the toll gates
in Jessamine county were torn down
ast week.
Henry Hey ward, colored, of Char-
eston, S. C , came in contact with
an electric 1'ght wire Friday and
was killed.
!'.
Hemy Clay Johnson, colored, was
langed in St. Louis, Mo , last Thur
sday for the murder of a newsboy
over a game of craps. .
A cotton planters' convention will
be held in Atlanta, Ga., December
13, to consider ways and means to
reduce the cotton acreage.
William Moody, of Augusta, Ga
juarrelcd with his wife, last Thurs
day, she went to her parent's house
and he. shot and killed himself.
Mrs. Josephine Schilling, reputed
to be the wealthiest woman of Port
Gibson, Miss., recently married her
deceased husband's secretary. .
The Georgia Senate has concurred
in the House bill prohibiting foot
ball in that State. The Governor
will sign it and it will become a law.
The New York World says that
thus far this season eiffht persons
have been kilijd in football games
and 2u8 maimed, 1 of these for life
The steamer, Bluff City, was burn
ed Weduesdc y night of last week at
Manchester, Ills. All her passen
gers and crew were saved. Loss
$100,000.
A man in Pitts, Ga.,: claims that
he knows the - murderers, of Hon
John M. Clarion, ' who w-as killed
several yGav.- .icroin Arkansas over
politics.
Arthur Blair Moody, of New Ha
ven, Lfi., has -ieen arrested in JNew
York for swindling society women.
He got thousands out of them by his
oily tongue.
At aaance i.i iNew York city one
night last wcvk Edward Mackin was
filled by his partner in the dance
a woman we:r iinr l'tO pounds, fall
ing on him.
Edward D. Hayes, a negro medi
cal student, shot and wounded his
sweeyheav'tj v Washington, D. C,
Friday, aud then shot and instant
ly killed him -!f.
lne mail carrier was held up one
day last week at Warren, Idaho, by
alone high v ay man and the mail
robbed of $4.00 ). The sheriff went
in pursuit of the robber.
At Cayuga Out-, yesterday Mrs.
Adele Sternaman was found guilty
of murder of her husband and was
sentenced to be hanged in the court
yard of the jail in that town on Jan-
uary zu, ioi.
In an acck"u:-r.t on the Fort Scott
& Memphis i s a.d near WalUngford,
Ark., one, nigat last week, one pas-
nger was fatally injured and 22
others, more, or less injured. The
cha,ir. car. and sleeper were burned.
The Tennessee Railroad Commis
sion has iDcreased the taxable valu
a,tioA of tho. railroads, telegraph; and
telephone lness in that State ; $33,
0,00000 over the' valuation of last
year.
Mary McLaughlin shot her husband
and then hers.-lf Sunday night in
Boston. Mass, Both are fatally
wounded, S:o committed the crime
to prevent hex- husband's being re
moved to a liixital,- where he was to
be operated upon.
Rev. Hugo Stubenvoll, a Lutheran
minister of Racine, Wis., was' fa
tally stabbed Saturday night while
returning f rora church. He had
threatened to prosecute some boys
who persistently disturbed' his ser
vices. - y - '
S. P. Carv. tobacconist of Rich
mond, Va., ; 'tempted to open a
drawer in which was a : pistol. : The
mstol was discharged and the ball
inflicted a fatal wound on Mr. Carr,
whodiefa atfoutfWbhtiurs Bft'erwar'ds.
STATE NEWS
Salisbury is going to have street
cars A company has been formed
to put them in.
Near Elkin one day last week
Henry Hinson stabbed Jim Thomp
son so badly that he died. The, quar
rel was the result of a drunken row.
Henson escaped. .
The News and Observer says the
bicycle fever has struck the blind
institution in Raleigh and a number
of the inmates are trying to learn
to ride the wheel.
There are now 122. first-class State
pensioners, z4.i Znd. : elasaE' ora
class, 1902 4th class and 2739 wid
ows (4th class) who draw pensions.
The number increased 49 during the
year. ,
Hendersonville Hustler: Four of
the U. S. prisoners recently placed
in jail here, escaped Saturday, night
through a window in which an open
ing was made with a knife. One of
them returned.
Mt. Airy- News: Miss Mary L.
Fawcett, cashier of the First Nat
ional bank of this city, has returned
from a visit to relatives and friends
in the Northern cities. There is
only one other lady cashier in Hie
United States.
Governor Russell has commuted
to life imprisonment the death sen
tence of George Johnston, "colored,
who was convicted of rape, commit
ted on a colored girl, in New Han-
ov-er cpunty and sentenced to be
hangetu to-morrow. There wsa
doubt of his guilt. .
Freemont correspondence Golds-
boro Argus: Old Uncle Elisha Hoi
land, now nearly a hundred years
old, preaches occasionally, and to
have his fun, tells the boys that he
has a new set of teetli coming out,
which they can feel if they wish to,
and when they feel for teeth Uncle
Elisha bites the finger.
Fayetteville Observer: Last night
the large hanging lamp in the hall
of Mayor Cook's residence, on Cool
Spring street, broke from its chain
and fell to the floor.bursting into
bits and igniting the oil in a flash.
Mayor Cook was away from home at
the time, but his wife and servants
subdued the rapidly spreading
flames by throwing the Colonel's
new overcoat over it. No damage
was done except to a part of the
hall carpet and to the overcoat.
Sylva Sentinel: A condition of
lawlessness, almost approaching a
reign of terror, is said to exist on
Upper Scott's creek in this county
Outrageous assaults on travelers
along the public road are said to
have been committed without any
provocation whatever. Private
property has been wantonly injured
and destroyed. Some arrests have
been made and parties bound to
courts and warrants have been, is
sued ftr others who have not yet
been caught, and yet the outrages
continue. The air brakes on cars at
Balsam have several times oeen in
terfered with and rubber hose cut.
Train crews are said to be in a con
stant state of apprehension.
State Labor Commissioner Ham
rick reports at Raleigh that almost
all of the 6,000,000 pounds of tobac
co no-iV growi west of the Blue
Ridge is shipped to England and
there prepared for use in India,
Buncombe county acoae pow pro
duces 2,41(7,1 pounds annually,
,and s,s much as 5,0,00,000 pounds has
been grown, there in one year. The
; entire western collection district
Ireports 14,913,560 pounds of plug
tobacco and 371,000 of smoking. As
to apples the labor commissioner
found that over 150,000 barrels will
be shipped this season, one county,
Haywcod, alone furnishing 30,000.
The yield of one orchard was sold
by Mr. Smathers, of Haywood, on.
the trees for $1500 cash.
Little JSiver News, ;.
Deferred hwa, lat week, '
Mr. I. F. OHne Is quite ill at pre
sent.
Mr. Henry Layle and Miss Nora
Austin were married on the 11th,
Rev.- J. A. Downs officiating. On
the 5th. Sunday in October Mr,
Robert Layle, a brother of Henry,
and Miss Rebecca Austin, sister of
Miss Nora above named, were mar
ried bv Rev. J. A. Downs. Mr.
James Fox is very sick with fever.
Mr. Sip Jolly arid bia sister, Miss
Amanda, of near Taylorsville, are
visitin ' in this community. The
first frost that killed anything in
this section this fall fell last Thurs
day night. Fire broke out in the
woods ia several places Thursday
afternoon and night. One of Mr.
Joe Beatley's little boys is quite il
at present with fever. "tr. C. J
Jolly i - attending him.
J. D. C.
Little Hiver, Nov. 16-'97.
On Wednesday night of last week
near Bryan, Texas, while gambling
for pecans, a negro named Genera
rhAth.im was stabbed twice and
killed. Another negro, Tom Sweat;
was arrested vfor ti-e crime, acd
while being conveyed to Millioan by
a Tosse was taken frok the guards
tfnd st i'ung to a tree bytegro y
t.w Price f Land.
Chatham Record: rUl
The low price of land was strik-.
ingly illustrated on last Saturday,
at the attempted sale of the Miss
Mary Smith land, situated in this
and Orange county. There are
nearly 1,500 acres in this valuable
farm as productive as any in this
section of the State and although
it was offered in smalll lots (averag
ing 100 acres), yet the total sum bid
was a little over $6,000. Tlie build-ings-and
improvements on the land
alone cost nearly that sum. The
bids being so"low none were accept
ed, and so there was no sale, and
another effort will be made ' next
year, but will any ' higher bids be
offered then? '
This land was devised by "its for
mer owner about ten years ago, to
the Protestant Episcopal Church in
this State, and was offered for sale
by commissioners, appointed by
that church. Miss Smith devised
another valuable tract of land, sit
uated in this county, to the Univer
sity, and most of this tract was
sold several years ago. ;
A High Old Time la Winston.
Winston was greatly excited Wed
nesday night over the arrest of J,
W. Bradford, 60 year old, for as
saulting a fakirv The police chain
ed Bradford's wrists together and
refused a cash bond for his 'appear
ance. Says the Journal: "In this
horrible , and revolting way they
reached the jail to find a big crowd
of representative citizens awaiting
them. The crowd guarded the jail
door, determined not to let thenvin
carcerate the man whom they, had
learned to love because of his long
faithful services as a public oflicer.
The officers were thus forced to ac- '
cept the bond and $40 in cash was
put up as a collateral for a $25 bond.
The scene at the jail was a wild one.
The crowd was desperate and ready
to do almost anything. The treat
ment of Bradford was cowardly,'
and there cropped out an ill-feeling
toward him on the part of the
officers." '
An Interesting Character.
Leslie's Weekly:
Charles Broadway Rouss, the
blind millionaire, is known, far and
wide over the country as a man of
sterling character and strong indi
viduality. But comparatively few
know of his intense love of music.
Every Sunday evening the doors of
his home are opened wide with real
Southern hospitality, and there is a
gathering of distinguishedmusical
folks who take an . undoubted de
light in playing and singing fortius
brave old soldier. And his enjoy
ment is so heartfelt and so evident
that all who take part in the even
ing's entertainment are unconscious
ly incited to do their best. Mr.
Rouss is especially fond of the old-
time songs and of the "fiddle," and
nothing stirs him to so much enthu
siasm as "TheArkansaw Traveler,"
rattled off in truecountry-fiddlcr
fashion. As the old hero of '61 sits .
with his chair drawn near to the
musician of the moment, his white
head uplifted, his kindly blue eyes,
moistened withears, he is a fine
type of the old' Southern soldier.
The riiraasAS niirod bv Hood's Sarsana-
rillaare many, because most ailments dis
appear as soon as the blood is enriched
and purified by it.
Right Yen Are, Brother Daniels.
Raleigh News and Observer:
There is no half way house. There
is no place for any man except in
one of these two great parties. The
gold Democrats, who love gbld and
protective tariff more than the prin
ciples "of Jefferson, Jackson and
Bryan must necessarily land in the
Republican party. Those who are
schooled in the principles of Demo-
craoy, and love tne party crccu .
more than the Republican doctrine,
will come back home. They will
have to choose whether they will
have to render civic worship to
Democracy or to Mammon. . - .
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The slightest catarrh of one of these
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recent letter to Dr. Hartman, says:.
"I was troubled for ten years with,
chronic catarrh. I used Pe-r.u-na
for about eight months, and I must,
say that I am perfectly cured of the
disease. It will be two years next;
June since I was cured, and r have
not been troubled with any of my
old symptoms. "
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chronic catarrh will be sent free to
any address for a short time by Tbe-Pe-ru-na
Drug M'f 'g. Co , Colum
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