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The Democrat. E. E. HILLIARD, - - - - Editor. Published Every Thursday. Knirrnl 'it tli'' I't, si-Office at S'-otlavf X-k, A. . S- ! '(!,. MnHr. tjippsday. fj:i;ri'ary -". xor correct. The Kinston l V is in error in saving that Prrmtlev, one of the prison ers in the Ponnor murder trial, corrobo rated Credit; in his confe-:-ion, although he swore to the contrary on the stand. I'.rantley did not ;ro on the witnes taiid at and the only tiling the public ha- Iieard from him at all l.-; his eon fe:--ion. CHEEKY IS XOT THE ?.AME. That medicine concern in offering to jrive "a pretty dinner set of III' pieces" to papers that, will run a I0.''o inch advertisement a year, has ,;'-;ic beyond the place to he called '-cheeky." Put some of the papers are anxious to ec that "pretty dinner set," and are running the ad. Perhaps it is worth ! ; hut they want about P-" worth ol advertising for it. THE VOTE (H SILVER. La.-t Friday the yote was taken in the Hou.-e on the silver hill sent down from the Senate. The vote stood "$ Democrats. 2." Re publicans, ' Populists and 1 Silverman NO in all for it : and '51 Democrat-, IS! Republicans ilo in all against it. It will he ob.-erved that 27 more democrats voted fur it than against it. lint what has Congress done yet? Criticisms are cheap and easily madc we know ; but if the present session 1 Congress has done anything worth building a monument for we have fail ed to note it. the xi: w iierxe fair. The New IVrne Fair cess from the fir.-1. 1 t lias been a sue iv;.s. a lino idea to give a mid-winter exhibit of game, fish ami oysters of Pattern Carolina ; and no mure popular movement lias ever been set on foot in North Carolina to show any part of the State's great and abundant products. The Fair opens next .Monday Febru ary 21th, and will continue until 20th. Large preparations have been made for its success this year, and all who attend may safely calculate on witnessing the best of the fairs yet held by the Asso ciation. The managers have spared no pains m getting things in readiness for a great fair. It will be a rare opportu nity for those who have not before done so to witnes- the wonderful treasures taken from the waters and game for ests of Kastem Carolina. Lovers of sdoek and tine fowl- will have n o:nor- tunity of .-eeing some of the finest in the country. There will be il.ie dials of speed on the race track and soine- tiling at tlie lair to in'-i ; ail w inj uo. ! l J:e managers s;iy 1 1 pass pieviott-- e'.Fort ey expect I' sur and if thev do. it will l e an exhibition worth the time and expen-e of seeing, for it has been a fine exliil it every year for the eight vears it ha been runninp. Noises at ni!it arc always 0'. a -rated, but rvie tlie les- r.-. rming. When one is suddenly awakened, the senses do not readily adjust themselves to the situation, and people of nervous temp erament are liable b be unduly terri fied. Not every op.e would act as de liberately as did a J I art ford lady who was recently aroused by strange sounds coming from tlie room in which her iive-year-old by wa- sleeping. Her hu--band being absent, there was no other person in the h.ousebut the hired pirh Summoning all her courage, she i-lid out of the bed. crept across the lloor, and found her child suffering from an atiack of croup. She imme diately turned up the gas, and, beir g one of tbo-e w i-e parents who are al ways provided against emergencies, ad minister! to the little ieilow a dose ol Ayer's Cherry Tectorial. In a few minutes lie was relieved, and the moth er returnee, to her couch thankful that such an effective remedy as this was in her po.-cs;on. No household, in w hich there are ount: eh en should be without it. Impoverished blood causes that tired feeling. Hood's Sarsaparilia purifies, eiirichcs and vitalizes the blood and gives vigor and vitality. Yon: l'ltr.sKNT Need Is pure, rich blood, and a strong and healthy body, because with the ap proach of spring and the beginning of warmer weather your physical system will undergo radical charges. All the impurities which have accumulated during colder weather must now be ex jvelled or serious consequences will" re sult. The one true blood purifier prominently in the public eye today is Hood's Sarsaparilia. Its record" of cures is unequalled. Its sales are the largest in the world. A few bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilia will prepare you for spring by purifying and enriching your blood and toning and invigorating your whole system. JURY" TRIAL. The Kinston Free Pr!3 has rocently had a pood opportunity to make ob servations of trial by jury. It discuss- i e- the matter editorially a- follows : j -In the firt place, our county cor::-; mi.-donvrs hae an important re-pon- j ,-ibility re-tin on them. They are re- j quired to -elect only such person- as; are of good moral character and of sui- j ticient intelligence. It is a rare thing! j to see many of the most intelligent men ol a count v on me jur , mm at mo-t only a few. and they are gener ally taken off by the lawyers on one or the other side, who make use of the peremptory or other challenges, allow ed by law, to benefit their client-. Then the tales jurors are summoned by the sheriff from the by-danders. Thi- gives the sheriff too much power. If he is an old o.'iicer he is apt to be frionrlly to one or the other t5de, and if inclined to do so can .-elect the friends of either side into the box ; and we under.-tand that friends of defend ants, especially, are often gathered from over the county and purpo.-ely put in view of the sheriff so he will be apt to call them in the box, not know ing that they are friends of defend ants. "Resides all this, the bystanders are not the proper persons for tales jurors. They arc apt to be parties or witnesses m some other cause and may use the jury seryice to benefit their special in terest ; or they may be idlers hanging on for a job, and as such are unfit to pass upon important questions, requiring good judgment and an appreciation of the grave responsibility resting upon jurors. "Lvery juror, tales or otherwise, should be drawn from a well purged jury box. This would be troublesome, but nothing should be in the way oi a fair trial. "A tales juror, who has served as a grand, petit or tales juror within two years preceding the term of court, may be challenged by either side. The fact that a person lias recently served as a juror ought not to disqualify him, but rather to recommend him. To say that his experience disqualifies him is a ictlection on the system. This cause ot objection is used mainly to enable ingenious lawyers to take oft" objection able jurors anl Have the friends of their clients, who may be of the by standers, called into the box. 'Another, and a very serious defect which we notice, is the great disad vantage the State labors under m criminal trials. In the trial of misdemeanor.-; and felonies, not capital, the State has in ail two peremnhirv chal lenges of jurors, while the defence has four to eacii defendant ; and in capital cases the State has four peremptoiy cliallenges to each, defendant, and the defence has twenty-three to each. This is the explanation of so many ac quittals of guil'y men. 'As an example, take the late case f r burning tried in this county, with tour defendants. The State could take off only two jurors peremptorily that is, without assigning any cause, such as relationship, having formed an opinion, etc., while the defence could take off sixteen peremptorily. This oracticallv amounted to allowing the ue ,r. IV lit C to select its own jury and they got a good one, for them. 'This al.-o exolains the outrageous erdict in the ShemweH case, the ver dict in Carteret county in the insur ance fraud c.i-cs, and the still more re cent verdict in the Donner murder case, where cold-blood murderers got oil with a term in the penitentiary, wheieas they deserved death. Able and shrewd lawyers with the aid of miluential clients and their rel atives and friends, can, with the law as it now is. pick just such a jury as they desiie. The blame is not so much in the lawyers or their clients, so long as they do not resort to corruption, but the fault is in the jury system. The names of only the best men ought to be put in the jury box. The law disqualifying those who have re cently served ought to be abolished. Tales jurors ought not to bo selected by the sheriff nor from the bystanders. Fach side ought to be entitled to the same number of challenges in crimin al as well as civil cases. The reply to the la-t, we understand, is that the State being more powerful than the defendant ought not to have the same advantage. This is plausible but not sound. The State furnishes a prosecut ing attorney but the defence is nearly always, especially m important cases, repm-enied by local counsel who have the advantage of the State in selecting a jury ; and when the defendant is un able to employ counsel, the court (an impartial judge) can, if it deems prop er, appoint counsel and require the service. We need some radical changes in the jury law. We do not favor a change from the trial by jury but we do favor the changes in the jury system as above outlined. The system must be changed ; or the public will not rely upon the uncertainty and the insecuri ty to life and property now afforded by com t trials, and instead of a decrease there will be an increase of lvnch law." 'Bacteria do not occur in the blood or in the tissues of healthy living body, either of man or' the lower animals'" So says the celebrated Dr. Koch. Oth er doctors say that the best medicine to renrlor tbo blruul i .a-frrtl,. iiealty i.s Ayer's Sarsaparilia. A FATAL BLOW. Robert Moore Strikes Samuel James With a Dye Paddle. t tamfs dies IN ABOUT 18 HOURS. Morid n- afternoon about I o'clock J curt until ! oebx-i I u!ay morn-PoU-rt Moore, a young man who has j in jr. Crave fear- were entertained a been liunp in Scotland Neck tor fev- j to the re.su of the blow, and the onl vmn v.f'it. to the knittinp mill and went into the dye room where a vounir man. named Samuel dimes, s0n Mr. Henry James near Hobgod. was at work. A diiliculty of words ensued and Moore struck James a severe blow across the head with a dye paddle. Jamr fell to the ground and never spoke again. He died Tuesday morn ing about U :"0 o'clock. A warrant was: issued against Moore soon after the blow was struck and he was brought before Mayor J. A. Ferry for trial, Mr. Claude Kitchin appealing for the defense. There were three wit i i e-ses e x a m i i ; ed . THE EVIDENCE. (;7;,ude Allsbrook, a young man Who works in the mills, testified that as he was passing from the mill by the en- i i-it: 1 . gine room Mepnen l.ni-, a i-'jicj man w ho was working m the dye room, called him to come there and stop Moore and James from fussing. Wit ness saw Moore in front of James walk ing backwards. James had a paddle m his hand but did uot look like he was going to strike with it. Witness thought James was trying to get out of the room. He did not un Jerstand well, but Thought James called Moore some kind of a son of a . Moore reached around., got a dye paddle about four and a hall feet long and struck James. Witness was about 10 feet from them. Mr. Kitchin asked witness, "Did you hear Moore say anything to James?" 'No," answered witness. 'Did Moore look scared?" 'T did not notice. I did not think they were going to fight." "Do you know what they were quar reling about?" "No ; do net know how it began." "Could Moore have been scared and you not notice it?" asked Mr. Kitchin. 'T did not notice. lie did not seem scared to me." Witness said that James was within the paddle's reach when Moore struck him. Moore made one step to strike him. Stephen Ellis, colored, was next ex amined. He said Moore came into the dye room by the engine room and James was looking at his (Moore's) ear muffs. While looking at them and handling them James' hands having dye on them he got some of :t on the side of Moore's, face. Mr. Cay or Mr. 13 racy spoke to him about the dye on his face and Moore pulled a glass from his pocket and look ed at his face and said, "That's all right, I'll get him." Witness said he did not kno'v whether Moore was mad or not. After that Moore came into the dye room. James wa.s standing on a box. Witness went out into engine room and returned. When he came back Moore was standing with a potato rake drawn back. Witness heard Moore say to James "God d n you, I'll burst your head open with this rake il you bother with me." James said to Moore, "Bob, go on out of here. I don't want any trouble with you." Moore cursed and said he was not going anywhere until he got ready. James then asked witness to go after Mr. Smith and ask him to come and see if he could not get Moore away. .Moore still had the rake drawn on Jatne?. James walked up to Moore and said, "Hand me this rake," took hold of it, snatched it and Moore let it go. James asked Moore again to go on out and Moore stiil said he would not go until he got ready. Moore then walked back wards like he was going out and when he got to tiiedoor, instead of going out, he turned and walked by the door about five. or six feet with his back towards James. James came from the dye tub and said. "Bob, 1 asked you to go on otit of here ; and you won't go. If you won't go out I'll get some one who will put you out." James laid his paddle down bes;de a bench and started out like lie was going after Mr. Smith. He stepped side-wise from Moore towards the door. Then witness called Mr. Alls brook. Just as Mr. Allsbrook got to the door Moore struck James with a dye paddle, knocked him down and said, "God d n you, I'll kill you.'" He struck only one blow. About that time Mr. Bracy came in and Moore said, "I've killed him," or "I'll Kill him," and Mr. Bracy said to Moore, "You ret on out of here." Witness Ellis works at the mills in the same room that James worked in. Mr. G. W. Bracy, engineer at the mills, was last witness. He testified that he did not see the row at all. Claude Allsbrook called him and when he came into the dye room Moore met witness md said, "Do something for him, I have killed him." Witness told Moore to get out and go on away. Witness went to James and found him, as he thought, dead. Tlie wound was over the left eye across the head. He then went for Mr. Smith. It is about 10 feet from dye room door to where James was lying. Mr. Kitchin asked witness, "Did you notice for any paddle near where James was lying?" "I did not." "Do you know what Moore was over at the mills lor?" "I do not. When he fint came to the mill? he came to the en pine room and tn'.A m !, had teen to Omsphen-! ! ourV mill and was nearly froen." i Mayor I'errv here ourned the ! I court did not allow I-nd but left the i defendant in the custody of othcer Dunn. .-ami:.- died. Tuesday rr.' niing about the time lor opening court, news came that James had just died. A new warrant was is sued against Moore, charging him with the killing of James, and the same wit nesses were called. Allsbrook and Bracv swore to and signed the testimo ny they gave 1:1 the evening before Stephen F!':s was examined again by defendant'.- counsel, but hi testi mony was sub-tantialiy the same as it was the evening before. He said that as James started from the dye tub with h is paddle he was dragging it behind him ; and he did not say in his exam ination Tuesday morning ju-t what he said Monday evening about Moore's going backwards towards tlie door of the engine room. Moore was committed to jail to await trial next week. Physicians were called to see the wounded young man soon after he was struck and he had good attention. The entire community deeply regrets the whole affair. The young men were both under twenty years of ago. James was brother to the young man that was killed about two years ago at Hoi .good by a newsboy. Great sym pathy is felt in the community for the families of both James mid Moore. INQUEST HEED. Mr. James, the father of the young man who was killed, telegraphed to Weldon for 13. F. Gary, county coroner, who came on the aiternoon train, and had the following persons summoned as a jury of inquest : W. E. Whitmore, J. W. Bell, J. S. Taull, T. W. Fenner, C. Speed and E. W. Hyman. The jury in a body with the coroner and Dr. J. H. Pope viewed and examined the body of the dead man and returned to the Maj-or'd ollice to take the testimony. Dr. J. R. Pope was called and testi fied that he was called to see James about an hour alter he was struck, lie found that James had received a blow- on the Jcft side of the head, with the skull crushed in, and that he had no doubt about the blow causing deaUi, which occurred IS hours afterwards. Mr. Fenner asked, "Do you think tbo mine blow would have killed any other man?" "Yes; I think it would have killed almost any man." "Do you think any previous wound on his head had anything to do with his death?" "No ;" it was not broken where hi head had been previously sawed open. His skull was thicker there than any where else, though there was a sink there." This closed Dr. Pope's testimony which he signed in the presence of the coroner and jury. Stephen Ellis was called and testi fied substantially what he had twice before, w hich has been given in detail above. Claude All-brook was called and tes tified substantially as he did on the preliminary examination Monday af ternoon, adding that Moore after he struck the blow looked at James before Bracy came in and followed witness and Bracy as they were going to James and looked at him again. G. W. Bracy was called and stated as he did Monday afternoon. F. L. Bell was called and testified that James was at his house Sunday night, Feb. loth. He asked James it he was going to church, and he said he was not. He said, "I am afraid to go, for Mr. Bob Moore said if he caught me on the streets I would have him to whip or kill." Witness told James that he would not go then. James did not go until after two hours had passed. This closed the evidence. THE VERDICT. The jury, with E. W. Hyman as fore man, after a few moments of consulta tion, returned and rendered the follow ing verdict : "That deceased came to his death by a blow given by one Rob ert Moore with a deadly weapon, to nit, a dye paddle." -Notwithstanding the prisoner had been committed to jail before Coroner Gary came, he thought that the citi zens generally desired that it should be done, and lie held tlie inquest on the affidavit of Mr. James, brother of the young man who was killed. $100 Rewakd, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there i.s at least one dreaded disea.se that science has been able to cure m all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. .Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting acting directly upon the blood and ' mucous surfaces of this system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by build ing up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its cur ative powers, that thay offer One Hun dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F.L Chexfy it Co., Toledo, O. fSold by druggist, 75c. STA TE SEWS. TU.. Pro ir jis" Firmer, which ha for evcra! yei-s leon the orr.ri of the Farmer's Allianoo !-e farmers- .i;j:u:cv North Carol i the National Alliance. Mr. I"ui- CiU in M h a -e of 1'hilaJcl- j tU of the rm d J. C McNaughton fc Co.. operating the Mar tin Luml-er Co.. at Fyerei!-. i dead. gay- the Wilh.im-tvn There are now C: inmate- in the Soldiers' Home at K.delgh. writes Col. F. A. O'ds to the Charlotte ,.r,rr Their health has been gd during th winter and there have been only two deaths. Dr. George B. Pernor, of Kenans ville, committed suicide in Columbia. S. C, a few days ago. He wa- carried there for special tieatment. and his physical condition was the oatt-c as signed lor the deed. The Pocky Mount correspondent to the Sunday'" Richmond Ji?j- f.V.'i --aid that at a inu-ieal entertainment given by Miss Pe-sie Worthington at .he opera house Friday night .f'.o was raised tor the Vance memorial lnnd. By tele phone connection the people in Tarbo ro. St. Lewis and Kim City heard the mu sic. The trial at Clinton last week of Dr. F. J. Cooper and Redden Butler, charg ed with the Roseboro express roblx-ry. resulted in a erdict of not guilty- The trial consumed a week and when the casewas given to the jury they ren dered a verdict in two hours. Juuge Staibiick's charge to the jury was highly complimented. A special to Sunday's A'co i- Ob server said that in Swain county two white men and a negro filled up on mean whiskey at a stiil house, teased an Indian, ran him o!f, and when he resisted they attacked him with knives and cut him so badly he died in a short time. The negro was caught but the white men were at large and a reward ot -f2tH each has been offered for them. Gold Lea f : Henderso n experienced the sensation or an earthquake Mon day night. The shock was very per ceptible and lasted several seconds. It was accompanied by a roaring noise resembling the rumbling of a train of cirs in the distance. .Many oi our people m different parts of the town distinctly felt the oscillating, quivering motion of the earth and heard the sound following. At one place some tumblers resting sid-3 by side on a table shook against one another and kept up a regular tintinnabulation o if rattled together bv hand. The shock came about a quarter to !.) o'clock Is needed by poor, tired mothers, over worked and burdened with care, debili tated and run down because of poor, thin and impoverished blood. Help is needed by the nervous sufferer, the men and women tortured with rheumatism, neu ralgia, dyspepsia, scrofula, catarrh. Help Comes Quickly When Hood's Sarsaparilia begins to en rich, purify and vitalize the blood, and sends it in a healiner. nourishing, invis- orating stream to the nerves, muscles and organs of the body. 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