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JF VMI WE GUARANTEE TWICE AS LARGE A CIRCULATION IN IREDELL AND ALEXANDER COUNTIES AS THAT OF ANY OTHER PAPER PUBLISHED. STATE SVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1901. NO6, VOL. VIII. 2 r-4 II i : fflHH WORKS . M.nfnnitp.nrrMaUlfi known"- o the trade and 1 (IcUIUIC ail tv i uuo 'J i " the best quality. 1 Best Material, Firot Statesville, N.. C. ' . Or STATES'!!-3 i!ci-,.;:: t v-t,:i lWuhir' Hanking 1,;i,:yiWh.:' , ; ...ia on time ch.--K on siKui. , .:... si,ec-iai attention paid to collections o C(lli,rt,ral unc j cd lo;-t rates. ' Accounts of Corpor f. favr.il)!.- terms. . - Eclipse Portable : .'. ,, ..Ttiifiticou-, racket siting i.;,.,.!' h!'.--U ud cut.ie.rope lYed, th .n,)sJ -..s.sitiveiVedcver put on a sa ' ;i; also Friek Company s ENGINES AND BOILERS, ,i.'-!-..ibl-: on- .viu-fls or sills. Sta -i ,,,..-v : 'ines and boilers, any ,i,o,' i:Vtb. -reat hill' climbin Kdiose traction engine. A few Cotton tiina at low prices'. S'ates iiir, IS. I Sloan Olotliing Co. 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J The) ascot Printiuff'Cd, - is better prepared H:ari ever-before .to turn out. attractive up-to-da.te pritit--inr, and t prices that estonish thoe who have not favored us with orders. - 100 Cards, 50c. With a batnlsome Card Case with your name engraved on. the case. Any style printed on card. ENVELOPES, AT I.OW PRICES. 3680 Letter Heads, Note Heads,Bill Heads, Statements, Pamphlets, Circulars, Etc r at low prices, Send for prices and sample. T . THE MASCOT PRINTING CO. 1 CROWSOVft S-RpyCR. PROPR'S Vi VTTJ JLiJt IB tj thecrv of wotn?n whose housework is be-, o'td vht;lr nhvsicnl powers. v.'omcn r.-otl to know that ail cleaning is made eary Ly f Washing Powder It's as good as an extra pair of hands in the household. It saves time and worry. 1 Largest package greatest economy. THE X. K. FA IK BANK. COMPANY, Chicago. St. Ijouih. New York. Boftton. Philadelphia. North Carolina, Iredell County. Superior Court. G. H. Nelson and wife, I,illie " -ivcisou, j . b. ;reen and wile. Caroline Green, T. M. Ciross a mil wife, Ida Gross, and J, a. Ste-t NOTICE. venson VS. - : uicuwrn iase m lice that an action entitled as above has been com menced inth- Superior Court of Iredell county for partition of the S. Stevenson lands be tween his heirs, the above named parties to this action. And the said defendant win further take notice that he is required to appear . n the 25th day of January, igoi, at the couit house in Statesville, Iredell county. North Carolina mid answer or demur to the petition in said action or the plaintiff will apply to the Court foi the lehef demanded in said petition. December 15th, igoo. J. A. HARTNESS. Clerk superior Court. - ClassV work and Lowest Prices tw.oj.Us .received subject-, t de posits. oney loaned on goou Circular Saw Mill W.S Turner. Over Posion Bros call your our line -of inducements on to CiOi.0 out. Sloan Clothing Co. Pcrjsln .J a ;i:N x-.u buy Ramon's Livek Pc:: ToNiC Pullets you do not buy a ;r,-.v- icine, but a Complete Treatment for -r.ess, Constipation and lieadacht-s.- It k- !v o distinct medicines, but sold for one price 2 x:. The Pills bring immediate relief; . the-"Peiu-t tone up the nervous system and invi : i 1000 Circulars. 75c, Size 5 x S. Advertise what you have to sell with a cir enjar. Small one easier read than a large one. Sue Renter Wanted. WANT a good renter. Applv to Dec. 20th, 1000. v W. E MAWNE. New Stirling, N, C, Renter Wanted. A RENTER WANTED to work a two-horse crop. Good land and stock fi-ruished. Ap ply to E. F. WATTS. December 20, iooo. Shiloh Township Notice to CreditorF. '"CfAVING qualified as administrator of the estate oi .peter Hampton, deceased, tne un dersigned Jhereby notifies all persous having ciaims against the said estate to preeut them to him for payment within twelve (12) months from date of this notice, or it will be plead in bar of their recovery. This December 14th, 1900. G. w. CI.EGG, J. B. Connelly, Atty. Administrator. I 53 .:2K STATh XKWS. Lucy Barber, colored, who I in Salisbury dronned dead at vod her home one day last week. Robert O. Burton's will has teen probated. He leaves all his prop erty to his wife. .His estate U val ued at 4,000. I The Dixie Furniture Co., is the name of another new manufacturing enterprise recently organiz;;d at Lexington with a capital of" $15. 0(!'. A strong company composed -f Silisburiaos has purchased the tel eoone exchange at Salisbury and has elected Mr. E. C. Heins raana yer. Mr. Ileins formerly, lived in Statesville. 'Mr. (ieo. Pack has offered to give Buncombe county a lot in . Asheviile valued atS2(),000, as a site for a new eoii'-t hou.so If tlie county will remove the present one and give its site for a public park. it is said that the plans have been ordered for Salisbury s new depot which is to be built in the spring It is proposed bv the Southern to givp Salisbury one of the handsom est depots in the State. Bishop -IT. M. Turner, a prominent negro preacher of Georgia, has., re signed as president of the College of African Methodist Episcopal church es Bis resignation, it . is said, is promoted bv. dissatisfaction in the college. William Boylan, of Raleigh, has completed arrangements to build a. five-story hotel there. It will be ou the European plan, with 60 guest, rooms, and will be on the block north of the postofhee. Work be gins March 1st. R. E. L. Bunch, formauy yeans. in the passenger department of the Southern Railway, and only recent ly appointed assistant general pas senger agent, for that road, has left the Southern to become general passenger ayeut of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. ' The China Grove" Furniture and Material Company, is a new concern just or'ganized uuder the lavs qf West Virginia, for the purpose of making balusters, spindles, brack ets, e'c. at China Grove. Dr. G.A. Ramseur is president, and Mr. Ore wiJer, secretary and treasurer of the company, it nas a capital stoclf ot mm, 1)00. Two little sons of Mr. G.W. Scott, of Acadia township, Davidson coun ty, aied Thursday after Christmas from eating what is supposed to have been poisoned candy on Christmas lay. The children were three and ive years old. They were sick two days and died in an hour and half time of each. '. Tommy Weatherman,, of LonLr own, Yadkin county, a very indus trious man, received a very painful wound last week while in quest of game, vv mie ne was standing on a eg bagging some game, his gun ipped and fired some how, the oad went clean through his wrist and made a considerable aperture in n his side. He will probably get along wit bout having his hand taken off.. : The Charlotte News of the 3rd. ' Barron, of says: itev. JJr. A. U. Charlotte, unlike some men. beo-ins the New Year one finger short. The Doctor was at the Southern station to meet a friend. IFhile talking to a party at the lunch counter, he un wittingly stuck his little finger into the cigar cutter, and off went the end of the finger. The Doctor suf- ered a good deal during the night with the injured member. Victor Shankle, a 1G year-old ne gro ooy, who uvea about two nines below Norwood, was accidentally killed Tuesday night of last week. Shankle ran in between two dogs that were fightiDg intending to sep arate them, when1 another colored boy standing near by shot at the dogs. Instead of hitting them, however, Shankle became the vic tim and was killed almost instantly. The shooting was proven to be pure ly accidental, A young white man, passing un der the evidently assumed name of J. L. Robert, has been pardoned by Governor Russell. He is . a New Yorker, of good family. He was in Raleigh two years ago, went-to Greensboro and while drunk obtain ted goods under false pretences. He was sentenced to the penitenti ary for live years and began his term there eleven months ago. On ly one man, J. C. L. Harris, his law yer, knows his real name. An Asheviile dispatch of the 3rd says; Hugh Ivey, a 13 year-old messenger boy whose parents live in Salisbury, was led by a desire to purchase oranges to rob the mails. Yesterday he went to the post office and secured Dr. T. C. Smith's mail on representation that he was employed in the store He took out two checks. Smith's name was written on the back and the boy presented one at a grocery store and another at a bank. Payment was refused. The boy was bound over to the United States court. 1 Col. Olds' correspondence, Jan. 3rd: Your correspondent had a spe cial interview today with Insurance. Commissioner James Richard Young The latter said there are now 28 life insurance companies doing bus iness in the State and 87 fire com panies, 7 of the former and 4 of the latter having withdrawn in 1899 af ter the enactment of the Craig law, requiring domestication. The reve nue this last year to the State was $93,000, whereas in-previous years it was only $84,000. J It must be remembered that the companies, 11 in number, which as above stat ed, withdrew from the State, used to yield it $12,000 revenue. The Legislature did a wise thing when it established thie insurance deoart- . ment, as it yielded $9,000 more an- jnually than ever before. Mr. Young has certainly managed it with zeal and ability " "7 makes Quality and not 1 quantity De Witt's Little Early Riser valuable little liver pills W. P. .Hall, Jr; Attack on the South. Washington Dispatch, Jan. 3. . The radical element among the House Republicans who favor cut ting down the representation from the Southern States in which the franchise is abridged suffered defeat today because a number of their col leagues refused to act with them. The issue was precipitated quite un expectedly; The leaders had de creed that the Reapportionment Bill should be taken up today, . but before it could be called Mr. Olm sted, of Pennsylvania, offered as a matter of privilege a resolution cit ing the alleged abridgement of the suffrage in Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina and directing the Committee on Census to investigate and report the facts to the House in order that a Consti tutional basis of representation could be established for those btars The resolution created a sensation It was a surprise even to several of the Republican leaders. The leaders on the Democratic side sought in vaiu to head off the resolution with points of order, but the Speaker ruled against them. Then they be ijan a filibuster, openly avowing that they would tight every proposition looking to the reduction of repre sentation from the Southern States to the bitter end. Several of the Republicans - were secretly, in sympathy with them and their in difference to Dthe fate of the Olm ts td resolution in the end gave the opposition the victory of the day. Many of them quietly paired with absent'Democrats leaving their ab sent colleagues, unpaired. As a result when the question of consid eration was raised against the reso lution it was defeated, 81 to 83. Although the vote was a strict party vote, two Republicans. Laadis (Ind.) and Maun (Ills.) answered present but did not vote. - The situation with reference to the Reapportionment Bill is greatly complicated as a result of the in junction of the Olmsted resolution Chairman Hopkins, however, is con fident of victory for his bill. He thinks the Olmsted resolution may pass in a full house and that the in vestigation may b? made but that the matter will end there. (Mr. Olmsted called. up his reso lution again Friday and It was referred to the census committee after a sharp debate in which Con gressman ivluttz ably uerenaea North Carolina.) Christmas in Yancpy. The Burnsville Black Mountain Ea gle says: I Tuesday was a sad day in i;hree different parts of the county so far heard fron, made so, we are inform ed, in every case by the too free use of liquor. The result is three men were shot, one of whom is dead. Bob Riddle, who lived just over the line dividing Buncombe and Yancey was shot and almost instant ly killed by John Gardner in the Peusacola neighborhood. They had attended a shooting match together and returned to the house of a neighbor, where the shooting occur ed. Garder was arrested, but later made his escape. On Cane river, near the postbffice, between 12 and 2 o'clock, . Monroe Styles and Will Bert Austin met and reuewed a row which had been start ed Monday night at Styles' heme. Austin received three or four shots from a 38 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol in the hands of Styles. Styles was brought to town and placed in jail Wednesday night by Sheriff Wilson. In Egypt, Anderson Edwards was shot through the shoulder by Mose Higgins. It is said Edwards is not seriously hurt. Higgins escaped. Hearing Kndcdin Railroad Taxation Case. Wilmington, Dipatch Jan., 3. Examination of witnesses for the S'tate in the railroad tax assess ment case came suddenly to an 'end here this morning. When the court convened at 9:30 a. m. several of the counsel were on the train leaving the city. Judge Connor, who re mained over, moved to adjourn the hearing to some date to be agreed upon by counsel later. As plans had been announced for examining wit nesses here todaT and at Warsaw to morrow and next day, the decision to postpone the hearing to an in definate date occasioned considera ble surprise. The reason for the charge 6f plan, it was learned, was that negotiations for a settlement had been opened and were pending. Therefore, it was decided to suspend examination of witnesses. Counsel refused to reveal the nature of the negotiations. Labor in North Carolia a. The report of State Labor Com missioner Lacy as to trades says 34 per cent of replies recieved from re presentatives of thirty thousand mechanics in North Carolina report, an increase of wages over last year of 44 per cent. Work overtime 76 percent. The report say s the cost of living has increased. Eighty-live per cent of adults and 83 per cent of apprentices read and write. Aver age number of hours work daily 10$; nearly all favor the 9J hour day es tablished .by law. Sixty-seven per cent favor indentured apprentice ship Seventy-five per cent report improvement in education. Ninety five per cent favor compulsor j edu cation. Sixty-five per cent report financial condition good.' Question Answered. : Yes, August Flower still has the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thought of us ing anything else for indigestion or .Biliousness. Doctors were scarce, and they seldom beard of Appendi citis, Nervous Prostration oi- Heart failure, etc. They used August Flower to clean out the system and stop fermentation of undigested food, regulate the action of the liver, stimulate the nervous and organic ortf inn r$ tVna ct'Cto m on1 fhat ie oil J they took when feeling dull and bad 1 witn neauacnes anu oiuer acnes. i You only need a few doses of Green's i . .. . -j : -ii 1 3 1 a . 1 1 August Flower, in liquid form, to mie ?a!?! 1Lnth 'saieW.F; LAST YK AU'S CROPS Int nesting Figures from Agricultur al Department's Report. The Statistician of the Depct ment of Agriculture estimates the United States wheat crop of 1900 at 522,229,509 bushels, the area actual ly harvested being 42,495.395 acvv and average yield per acre 129, bushels. The production of win'er wheat is estimated at 350,025.409 bushels and that of spring wheal at 172,204,090 bushels, the area actual ly being 26,235,897 acres in the for mer case and 16,259,483 acres in the latter. The winter wheat acreage totally abandoned in Ohio. -Jichi-gan, Indiana and Illinois is finally placed at 3,522,787 acres and the spring wheat acreage totally aban doned in North and South Dakota at 1,793,507 acres. The 1 extraordi narily rapid rate at which the winter average of Nebraska is gaining ui m the spring wheat average of that State has necessitated a special in vestigation of the relative extent to which the two varieties were grown during the past year. The result of the investigation is that while no change is called for in the toa wheat figures of the State 590,57.' acres have been added to the winter wheat column at the expense of the spring variety. The new seeded area of winter wheat is estimated at 30,282,564 acres. While this acreage is slight ly greater than that sown in the fall of 1899 as estimated at the time, ih is ouu,uo4 acres less tnan tne area that was actually sown, the discrep any being due to remarkably rapid development of winter wheat grow tug in iseorassa witn wnicn, as above stated, the depaitment re ports had failed to keep pace. A comparison of the newly seeded acreage with that of the fall of 1899 shows that of the-eleven States and territories that sowed one million acres or upward with winter wheat one year ago, Pennsylvania, Missou ri, ivansas, California and Oklaho ma report an increase amounting to 971,703 acres, and Ohio. Michigan. Indiana, Illinois, Texas and Tennes see a decrease of 1,780,191 acres. The average condition of the grow ing crop on December 1st was 97'1 per cent, of the normal. There are many complaints of the Hessian fly, bat iow condition figures reported from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee 86, 80, 87 and 84, respect ively, arefully offset by the excep tionally highcondition reported from Kansas, Missouri, California, Okla homa and other States, in all of which it is above normal. The production of corn in 1900 is estimated at 2,105,102,516 bushels; oats, 809,125,909 bushels; barlev 58,925,833 bushels; rve, 23,995,927 bushels; buckwheat, 9,566,906 bush els; potatoes 210,926,897 bushels and hay, 50,110,906 tons. The area from which these crops were gathered was as follows in acres: Corn, 83,320,782; oats, 27,304,795; barley, 2,894,282; rye, 1,991.320; buckwheat, 037,930; potatoes, 2,011,- 054 and hay, 39,182,890. The corn crop of 1900 was one of the the four largest ever gathered, while the oat crop has only once been ex ceeded. On the other hand, the bar ley and rye crops are the smallest with one exception in each case since 1887; the buckwheat crop is the smallest since 1883 and the hav crop the smallest with one excep tion since 1880. Boers Active. Uneasiness in South Africa pyer the Invasion of Cape Colony. Cape Tjown Dispatch, 3rd There is a fever of excitement here .1 . I 0 A over tne continuea success 01 tne Boer in vasion of Cape Colony. This morning guns were landed from the guard ship Monarch as a precaution ary measure Enlistment of volunteers contin ues, and men of all ages are offering their services as soldiers to resist the burgher, invaders. There have bten so many enlistments that many business houses are seriously crip pled and merchants are 4 already making protests against the deple tion of their working forces. In the rural districts numbers of recruits are being obtained. There are various opinions as to the seriousness of the situation. Many are extremely alarmed, fear ing that the available British troops are unable to cope with the burgh ers. Others contend that the Boers are being allowed to move south ward so far s that they-can be crush ed and will be unable to return to theO-.ange Fre: Sta'e or tie Trans vaal. It is claimed tnat within the next few weeks there will be remark ble military developments and that they will end the war. There are many conservative men here who regard the situation as ex tremely grave. Many old resideuts ot the colony still consider an upris ing of the Dutch as quite likely to occur, and find no comfort in the proclamation of martial law and the landing of guns from the guard ship. FrequentJ reports are arriving concerning the successf ul.operations of the Boers in various sections of the colony, and there is reason to believe that the invading army is much stronger -than the British" military authorties are willing to admit. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., was last week inaugurated governor of the State of New York. , The inaugura tion of Governor Odell was one of the most elaborate ever held. No Right to Ugliness The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be at tractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nervous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Elec tric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complex ion. It will make a good-looking, nharmintr woman of a run-dowu in valid. Only 50 cents at W.F.Hall, Jr. 's, drug store. ' Some Goldsboro Dispatch 4ih. After a lingering illness. due in part to the weight of years, ex Gov ernor curtis ii. Urogden passed a-v.'vat nis home near this citv at me nour ot 4 o clock this afiernoon pernor brogden ;:. 1 most re mark ib'e man in many rospfeis. At one time in lite, by ri:;d p.-onnnv be amassed quite a fortune, the bulk of which he lost on persona! securi ty f o- his party confreres lie was born in Iblo and was therefore in hie u H 1,1 ft ft I, . TT . . 11 i 'f;u-unu year. ne.-iM Vtll ilS native county, Wayne, in the Legis miuit; Ui 10r0 aUU icVi ). rOliOWlDg tnib, lor some ntteen years ne was com rt roller of the treasury. In 1872 he was elected Lieutenant Gov ernor on the Republican tiy.iet with Gove mor Tod R. Caldwell, and suc ceeded to the Governor's office on the dt-ath of the latter. Subsequent ly he served two terms in Congress as the representative from his dis trict. His was an irreproachable life honest in all his dealings. He leave ah estate worth between $5,000 and $10,000. He never married. ' Ignatius Donnelly Dead. Minneapolis. Minn., Dispatch, 3rd. Ignatius Donnelly, politicial au thor, sage, aged 70, died at 12:30 this morning. Ignatius Dounelly, known as "the Sage of Nininger," has been conspicuous in the political and literary field for many years. Mr. Donnelly came to Minnesota thirty five years ago, and sine that time had been a member of both houses of the state legislature and represented hisdistricb in Congress He ha ? pronounced ideas, and dur ing, his political career had been a member of . nearly every political party known iu the state. Mr. -Donnelly was an able deeD thinker., and he was thorough Shakespearean scholar. Mr. Donnelly was famous for his promulgation of an ai leged crypto gram in the works of Shakespeare. by which he thought to prove , that t rancis Bacon wrote these works. He was the candidate for vice- presiaent on the middle of -the road Populist, ticket at the last election. Mascot Champion Coffee Drinker-. Sampson Democrat. A man named Watkin's, from Wayne ivunty, was recently a pa tron of y.i. Joe Nolly's restaurant. He enquired of the proprietor waat he vi hou'd charge him. for as much coffee as i. ; could drink. Joe nolite- ly replied , "5 cents, sir." "All ngni, " fcaid Watkins and a pot was toon emu ied. Another not full was set up and Watkins finished it u;. drinking in alb forty-five cuds of coffee at uo sittiug. This is vouch ed for by a number of SDectators. The Nollv House will hereafter be conducted upon the European plan. One Hundred Years Ago. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. One hundred years ago a man could not take a ride on a steamboat. He couid not go from Washington to New York in a few hours. lie had never seen an electric li'ght or dreamed of an electric car. He could not send a telegram. He couldn't talk through the tele phone and he had never heard of the "hello Kin. He could not ride a bicycle. He could not call in a stenogra pher and dictate a letter. He had never received a typewrit ten communication. . He had never heard of the germ theory or worried over bacilli and bacteria. He never looked pleasant before a photogapher or had his picture. ta ken. ; He never heard a phonograph talk or saw a kinetoscope turn out a prize tight. He never saw through a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary with the aid ol a Roentgen ray. . He had never taken a ride in an elevator. He had never imagined such a thing as a typesetting machine or a type-writer. ;- He had never used anything but a wooden plough. He had never seen his wife using a sewing machine. He had never struck a match on his pants or anything else. He couldn't take an anesthetic and have hio leg cut off without fee ing it. He had never purchased a ten cent magaziue which would have been regarded as a miracle of art. He could uot buy a paper for a cent and learn everything that had happened the day before all over the world. He had never seen a McCormick reaper or a teif-binding harvester. He had never crossed an iron bridge. In short, th .re were several things that he couia not do and several things he did not Know. You are Might. Durham Herald. We are not bothering about who are the twelve greatest North Caro linians, as they appear to have all died sometime ago. If given our choice we would much prefer to be a little live man to a big dead one. This is the month of the State Legislatures More than thirty of them will betrin their sessions be tween the. first and the middle of January. Insizthey range from the nine Senators and the twenty one Reoresentatives in Delaware to New Hampshire's unequalled body of nearly, 430 members .in both branches The variety is not con- i Ex-Governor Brogtlen Dead, j Facts as toV His Career. fined to the ratio of representation, jbave consulted physicians and used Rhode Island uays its legislators i patent medicines, but Ramon's Liv onlv a dollar a day, but. California er Pills and Tonic -Pellets excelled and Nevada nay eight a day.- Maine irives only $150 a ye3r, but New York and Pennsylvania pay $1,500 a year. . " : ; : The merited reputation ior curing ed by Deviitts Witch Hazel Salve, plc' ny1""-. , counterfeits Be sureto get only - uewiu s aatve.u raau, CJKXKRAI.Jf X K VS. Rev. A. C. Dixon , a native of North Carolina, now a leading B.ip tist minister of Brooklyn, N. Y has been called to a church in Bos ton. The man who killed, Barron von Ketteler, tbe German minister to China, in June last, was beheaded last week in Pekin in the presence of a large number of spectators. Five men were killed and one bad ly injured in a head-ou collision be tween two freight r trains on the Yazoo & Mississippi -Valley railroad at Melton, Miss.T last Tuesday night. james uiDoous, a most promising young man, son of Jonu S. Gibbons, a leading wholesale grocer of New Orleans and nephew of Cardinal Gib bons, was killed in the very heart of the city one night last week bydes- perate highwaymen. During the year just closed only 4o miles of railroad-were construct ed in this State. Alabama built 192 miles, Georgia 104, Mississippi 120 and South Carolina 173J If North Carolina expects to develop her great forest and mineral wealth, she must add to her transportation lacilities. Miss Mary Odom, a "girl! about twenty years oi age, whose lather is the proprietor of a boarding house in Bennettsville, S. C, has been con victed ot. being a "blind tiger' and sentenced to four months in prison. The governor has refused a pardon. The girl sold liquor in defiance of the of the dispensary law. - Will Turk, a boy of seventeen shot and killed Kimball Aiken, near Ea tenton, Ga ,last week. Thomas Turk a Drosperous country merchant, was engaged in a fight with Aiken, also a prosperous merchant, when he called on his young son Will to shoot Aiken. The boy did not hesitate, but fired at once upon his father's antagonist, who fell dead. :" A reception and ball in honor of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was given in Lincoln, Neb., last Wednesday eve ning. Gen. Vifquan,' of the retiring governor's staff, caused a stir by relusing'to appear in public With Gen. Lee because the latter once bore arms against the union. -Vifquan was a brigadier general in the union army. . . Field Marshal Lord Roberts arriv ed in London Wednesday of last week from South Africa. . Ilis. re ception was cordial, but the demon stration was not ittended by the intense enthusiasm and enormous crowds which have greeted the re turning volunteers from time to time. Lord Roberts was given an earldom by Queen Victoria4 .-. Major General James E. Slaugh ter, an ex-Confederate leader who died in Mexico City last Wednesday from pneumonia, aged 87 years, was a West-Point graduate and com manded the Confederate forces at the last light of the war between the States at Bonas San Jaijo, Texas. He was also a veteran of the Mexi can war, having accompanied Gen eral Scott's army to Mexico as a lieutenant. The Ship Subsidy Steal. The encrmitv of Mr. Hanna's pro posed ship-subsidy grab is clearly set forth in some figures from the New York World. For $9,000,000 a year, the amount proposed -to be paid in subsidies to already prosper ous steamship lines under the pro tense that it will "promote the for eign commerce, ot the United States, "the government couid bor row $45,000,000 at the present rate on its Donas, w nn $4uu,uuu,uuo tne government could build a fleet of steamships that would more than double the tonageof our ocean-going merchant marine and turn them ov er, free of cost, to private steamship companies for operation. When threatened by pneumonia or any other lung trouble, prompt relief is necessary, as it is danger ous to delay. We would suggest that One Minute Cough Cure be ta-. ken as soon as indications of having taken cold are noticed. It cures quickly and its early use prevents consumption. Y h. Hall, Jr. Both branches of the Pennsylva nia Legislature met in biennial ses: sion last week and the feature of the occasion was the battle between the Quay Republicans and the allied forces of the anti Quay Republicans and Democrats for control of the House of Representatives, resulting in a victory for the Quay forces. Pepsin preparations often fail to relieve indigestion because they can digest only albuminnus foods. There is one preparation thaf digests all classes of foo-J, -a nd that is Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It cures the worst cases of indigestion and gives in stant relief, for it digests what you eat. W. F. Hail, Jr. Phillip II. Lybrook, postmaster of Winston Salem. dieJ about 12 o'clock last Thursday, in a hospital at Philadelphia. He was carried to the hospital the latter part of Octo ber. While it was known that his condition was serious there was hope for his restoration to health until December 30ih, when there was a marked change for the worse. The remains will be seat to Stuart, Virginia, the native home of Col. Lybrook,' where the funeral services will be held on Sunday. Col- Ly brook. was in his thirty-third year. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds will be appointed in his place. Rocking the Cradle. J. Delaughter, Sparkman, Ark , ;avs: For the past fifteen years I , them all. I could get no relief fpr ; constipation, and after using oae ; box I was as sound as a dollar. Af iter tailing a number of my good friends, they tried th medicine and werec-uredi and now we are' all rocking the cradle oi me away ,m Derfec heaith and enjoyment. My of jmon's Pills. For sale -byN. R. Tunstall, Druggist, His I, if-Was Saved Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citi zen of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a wonderful deliverance-from afright ful death. Intetlingof it he says: "I was taken with typhoid fever that ran into pneumonia. My lungs became hardened. I was so weak I couldn't even sit up in bed. Noth ing helped me. I expected to soon die of consumption,-when I heard of Dr. King's New Discovery. One bottle gave great relief. I continu ed to use it, and how am well and strong. I can't say too much in its ' praise..' This 'marvelous medicine is the surest and quickest cure in the world for all throat aud lung tibuble. Regular sizes 50 cent s ard $1.00. Trial bottles freo at W. F. Hall, Jr.'s. Drug Store; every bottle guaranteed. J udgo S. B. Adams, the secretary, is in receipt of a check for $143.oi)0 from the Southern Railway for the semi-aunual rental of the North Car olina Railroad. , Ten-Year-Old Indigestion. ; VV. II. Peters, Nathanton, Ky., writes. I have suffered untold mis ery for ten years with Indigestion and Biliousness. I was treated by five physicians but pbtaiued only temporary relief. I began to use; Ramon's Liver Pills and Tonic Pel lets and have been co'istahtly im proving, and have a fair prospect of being permanently cured. For aula' by N. R. Tunstall, Druggist. . - . Mattlmw Harris a young negro, man was. 'arrested and jaiied Friday in Greensboro on a warrant; charg ing him with assaulting Eliza Mc Adon, a 14-ycar-bld negro girl. The crime was it most diabolical one, the victim being dr agged and carried in to a strip of woodland, whero she was fearfully abused. She is in ;a critical condition and may die as a result of the brutal, treatment re ceived at the hands of her assailant.' A Powder IJ ill IlpJoaim Removes everything in sight; so do drastic mineral mils: but both are mighty dangerous. Don't dy namite the. delicato machinery 'of your body with calomel, croton oil or aloes pills, when Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are - gentle as a .summer breeze, do the work perlect lv. Cures headache, constfpatio'n. Only 23 cents at W. F. Hall. Jr.'s, Drug store. - Two colored men, were taken, last Thursday night about 10 o'clock from thecounty jail in Madison; Fia., by persons unknown, carried into the Woods about a half mile- from town arid hung. The bodies' were also riddled with bullets. They were charged with the killing of Frederick ' Redding, a farmer two vcek.3 ai o. Volcanic FruptioiiM Are grand, but Sia Emotions rob like of loy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, cures them;'" also Old, Run ning and Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Cortisv Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pile cure on earth. Drives out Pains and Aches. Only 25 cents a box. . Cure guaranteed. Sold by W. FY Hall, Jr., Druggist. .' Mr. H. S. Blai'r has sold 1 he Ls noir Topic and Mr. Mark Squires be comes its editor. . . - - . ' This seasoa there is a large death rate among children from croup and lung troubles.' Prompt act ton wilT save the little ones from thn-e tor- . rible diseases. We know of noth ing so certain to g!7e instant relief as One Minute Cough Cure. It can also be relied upon in grippe and all throat and -'lung troubles -ct adults. . Pleasant to take. W. F. Hall, Jr. The Mt, Vernon Hotel at Salisbury has been sold to Mr. Kobt. J. Ljarl- say, of High Point, for $15,000 The father? Gone for the doctor The mother? Alone with her suffer- ing cniia. Will the doc- iissl come ? trffe';:'. Mr When there - p- - is croup in the house - you can't pettne aoc- 4 tor quick' enough. It's too dangerous to wait. Don't make such a mis take again; it may cost a life. Always keep on hand a dollar bottle of It cures the croup at once. Then when any one in the family comes .down with a hard cold or cough a few doses of the Pectoral will cut short the attack at once. A 25 cent bottle will cure a miserable cold; the 50c. size is better for a cold that has been hanging on. Keep be dollar size oa hand. About 25 years ago I came near dying -with consumption, but -was cured with Ayer'a Cherry Pectoral, since which time I have kept Ayer's medicines in the house and recom mend them to all my friends." T . . ...... rt-.- 4 . XJ MIA ill r. n n..i. Jan. 16, 1899. Bristol, Tt.-'H Write the Doctor. If you hare any complaint whatever 'and desire the -best medics! advice, write the doctor freely. Address Sr. j . c. atxb, lxtweu, Mast. k. 1 V f r t . . v A tfl n rti iA i f ! i 4