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VOLUME 5.
SMITHFIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 26, 1887.
NUMBER 41.
'CAROLINA CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER.
M-W DYF.RTISEMEXTS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
FRANK THORNTON
GENERAL XEWS.
Sill
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HIS PESIW MEETIIW,
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Til K 1WST FKW WKF.KS I liavo Won in' the Northern ami Eastern Markets m-kine
o aruf -rthc PPKIS AXU Sl'MMEU TRADE. I am at home apiin, nd my
ar? il.iuy .-irrtviui on every train :uul sieamer.
v ." i t!iO 't-o of any U. stereotyped phrase, I will simply enumerate some of the Xov-
feaiied From Our Exchanges
in EiiflVi'cnt Sections of
(lie Counirr.
The town of Blackville, S.
C, almost entirely destroyed by
fire.
Ex-Yice-President William
A. Wheeler is seriously ill at Ms
home in Malone, X. Y.
HENRY BLOUNT'S
IMUl JUUti 1U AilMlVllU"
Published By Request.
We had occasion recently tt
make a journey through the coun
try to Nashville, and it was nec
essary for us to start some time
before day. We shall never for-
; eret the delifjhtf ul and thrilUng
St. Patrick's day was obser- . sensations of that ride, and never
way m many j will the glorious transfiguration
ved in the usual
of the large cities on the
1 inst.
19th
DRE3S GOODS.
0;
v ifi'l
Vo.!sn will be worn
(a in anv color os
and "speei-jlly early in ilie season,
material lesired.
Here I can show ere- ! escaped
A colored boy in Charleston,
S. C, was stabbed and killed by
four other negros ; the murders
COLORED DRESS SILKS.
!. k i Ic I to tUi-s irt:cui:ir department until the assortment
i v,i j th-v.i to able to get esactlv wha: jou waut ?
! Xew men taking the places
i of striking railroad brakemen
1 in Ohio were assaulted bv the
perfect. What more j strikers.
j Mormon proselyters of Bay-
: port, Mich., are creating or caus-
; .i lull lint' of these goods in all the qualities that we have always been familiar
!eMo ush new nit-kes as French A -mures, Sa'ia in Iuch$, Satin Riia lame Trico
itlicr novelties.
A'xvcs.
.Ui IVack Cahmcres from the cheapest to the best, md old fashioned Raven Black
occasionally wanted. I have the -r'""is of the dav. Spanish Netted Xuns
r. r.ati-tc Cloth, Italian Cord French Nuns Veiiing, Catch Long. Silk Wrap Henrietta
at I isVrian Ornve.
WASH FABRICS.
the splendid translation of
night into day fade from the
tablet of recollection. It was a
scene for heart nursed reverence ;
for beauty and glory, and splen
dor and awe and God was there.
When we started, everything
seemed wrapped in slumber.
Prof oundest silence reigned. The
breezes had stilled their sighs
uliU DiCJJV , CliUU tJLLt ICtl CO
seemed dead. It was a mild, se-
1 illC"illcli distil rhnnrp tlmt Tilnnfl ACJ1
21 iTt fJi ' only amid a midsummers night.
; The sky was dotted here and
It is proposed in Kentucky to there with smallest clouds and
make prohibition thorough by j while not big enough to dim a
extending it to include the man- ; single moon beam, or shadow the
ufacture of jugs. j radiance of the smallest of the
One-fourth of the milk deal- twinkling worlds around them,
ers in Boston -are set down by sti11 they threaded the scene with
the inspector of milk as profes- ! variegated colorings of beauty
sirmniiv- ieiirtnf ; ana suDiiimty as tiiey noaiea
STATE NEWS.
MR. REECi'ER'S SUCCESSOR.
!K G Is are sawn this season in greater variety than ever befor?. and promise to be
-v vo-:v.i'.a; Falludc to Toil? da Nord in iIaids, Checks and Solid Colors. Ratiete Cloth
i. i l-iir, an I S-sire 1. Criukled ecrsuckers in ripes. Checks jnd Solid Colors,
anu the new ateeus a-i-l oiuqrliams.
sr. v,id s rr.
it.
Foil-
is an entirely new production in dress material for Summer Wear,
vc'.r ;i I I want everv Lidv to se it.
li is just perfect- j
A most rebellious excitement
prevails in Newfoundland against
the British government because
! of the latter's action in the colo
ny's fishing laws.
"DTJ
ill
ti it
iLliliViiVli
7 I A
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every s:
s, Towell.
; in
( urt u
all popular makes. Gloves, bisery, Underwear, Table Linens,
Goods and everything else.
BUTTERIGKS DRESS PATTERNS.
noislessly and gracefully away,
like those white-winged birds of
ocean which fly on waves. The
; moon, though in its last quarter
, and having spent much of its
mellowing light and tranquiliz-
The Coimcticut Legislature intr charms was still sprinkling
i has passed and Gov. Lounsbury j down its chastened beams to min-
lias signed a bill restricing rail- i gle with the glory of the blink-
road traffic in the state on Sunday. ing stars, which now were not
It goes into effct next June. j ashamed to test their powers with
! mi . . i -- , ; thfir nncfi brighter rival. And
proceeding
spell bound with
The sheriff
has seized the
of Xew
of
York
while we were thus
T t v
. v w n t -i . . ! on our lonrnev.
. . - .... . t - r . i i ........ . i ; 1 1 n. r.. iju nn. tii tn tfrfi in t iif : '
iAM sole .vrci'.J lor inese wieorajea i anerns. ana can supp.y a iy wuu any pauern ue- t - - , 1 ,.1,. .... v,f c:in0 ,t
Afui.cieteaniperfectiineaiwavsonhind. i fertilizer trade; he has flisap. the eloquence of that silence and
fiTii mrinff Gl11nc f i thatscene whichpreached so beau-
ORDERS AND SAMPLES BY MAIL iSS. e large sums of fwmthepuipit mght
; oi uoq ana iis iory, we were
special eat ire of this Pepartmeat. Orders for samples are selected and The Hoil. Arthur Mac Arthur, nonrino- nnotlier TfPnP still more
!! f.w.l-.ll d orders far -roods, are accorded the sam attention as if the r.. . - ' ncanng anoilier feCene, bUH more
- - t-- - i IlSSlTWlM Tf lllSrifP ilT Tllfk C1111P111P I -i i.n Li;
S ' " granu, sua more suuiiuie, atiii
I court, oi ine iiisinci oi iomm
. ior were preterit in person.
FRANK THORNTON,
FAYETTE VILLE, W. C
; bia, ha
tion to
forwarded his
WHERE TO BUY YOUR DRUGS
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HOOD
more beautiiul : lor it was ap-
resigna- : nroaehini? dawn, when a struirirle
President Cleveland. toi 4.. .. V:.. n
take effect April 1. , terv would beffill Tlie smaiiest
Fifty thousand dollars of j of the stars, like little timid
the contributions of the Knights ; children, crept out of sight and
of Labor have been expended in ' hid. The deep blue of the sky
fitting up a sumptuous office in j now began to assume rosier tints,
Philadelphia for the sreneral olfi- I and steadily, for a few moments,
j cers of the organization. i the magnificent panorama went
i Aiin.r01 ,T,r,.,i.. jon, as angels glory crowned and
i a . v w v. vi
9
with fingers splendor tipped stood
on tne crimson stage oi etner,
7HI 0LD3ST LHUG
H;OTJSS IN niilTHPIELI) !
Vt ,M remind n.v friends that his house is now filled with a select stkof
disagreements be-
i " r,. . a r . n . .t o
IHCCIl .UCCCIO. JIUUUCJ illilL Oilll-
of the Woman's Christian Tern- and shifted the gorgeous scenery
oM.nn,,;nntrti,v-.i..Ar of theskies. Along the eastern
j one of Mr. Moody's coadjutor rimlfof liorizoii the spray of
11 A i .i ' molten srold flunir ud from the
i i r--7i i mii iii i ii I urTuru rn rna cup. ' '
! cess of the evangelistic move-'
I fast rushing stream of morning's
I
wit an j ii
I'M'r M A U l Mill I VIA i iVH il
i ill. il M i i h u uinj unuiii
f ment in Chicago.
lOiLET ARTICLES, BOOKS, CIGAR3 AND TOBACCO,
ICECOLDSODA AXDVARIOUS MIXERALWATERS,
:o:
I HAVE THE AGKXCY FOR THE CELEBRATED
I. B. SEELEY RUBBER TRUSSES!
I i:rRVTEE A PERFECT FIT IX THESE GOODS.
-- liwf fl sr rt-f "i 5 rrli 4" foil nrinn
i the star sprangled folds of night's
A number of suspicious look- ; receedinc dranerv. while high in
; ing men have lately been makiiig ! the widening blue. the moon to
frequent visits to the vaults of pale silver turned, as brighter
I the treasury at Washington, D. C. arrows, more rosy barbed went
during the hours allowed for flying across the way. The wild
public inspection. They have, flowers opened their dewful
been notified that they must not ; petals, and fresh from sleep,
come again, and the officers in breathed their sweetest perfume
charge of the vaults have been
instucted to keep a sharp look
out on visitors in future.
PERFECT FIT
IK VOJ' ARK THINKING OF PAINTING SOOX. CALL AT MY STORK
AXDGKl A COLOR SHEET AND KXA.MIXE .MY LARGE SiOCK OF
as an incense to morning. The
grass, kissed by the sun beams,
began to sparkle with the jewels
the night had left. The river
over which we at that moment
I Considerable excitement has
I arisen in political circles in Xew
I York City over the appointment I passing glistened in the reflected
! or Jas. C. Bavles as resident of i glory, and with a ruby ripple,
WUIT17 T 1? n OIT AVrri010PQ I the board of health to succeed j poured its waters onward to the
HI 111. IjVj A L, OI Lib Aj.M VluKJlS !General shal on tlie ground sea, while o'er the gilded tree
tops a nooa oi glory usnerea
II. I). BLAKE
of Williamson fc Plake,
Smithfield, X. C.
JOIIX Ii. HLAKE,
Late of Dewar & Blake,
Raleigh, X. C.
that he is a Knight of Labor.
Mayor Hewitt said that he did
in
the God of day, upon whose smile
BLAKE BROTHERS,
1 not know or care what organiza- the eyes of man can never gaze,
j tion Bayles belonged -to. If he j And thus ended one of the grand
I had known that he was a Knight est panoramas that mortals ever
SUCCE-SSOIW TO
WILLIAMSON AND BLAKE.
Will continue the grocery and provisiion business at the old stand.
Hfavy and fancy groceries, liardware, tin ware, crockery, &c,
inoat, meal, flour, lard, sugar, coffee, molassas, star lye, Hors
fords bread preparation, all grades chewing and smoking
tobaccos, Rail Road Mills, Gail and Ax, Ralph's and
Egerton snuffs, at wholesale or retail.
TJT
saw a scene wnicn
self did paint.
God Hini-
the
itisuiuniEiis'
TAX.
Shovels, Hatchets, Ilames, Traces, Iiackbands, Hooks, Single Trees,
Cotton Rope and a thousand other things the farmer is bound
to have.
iit.s for tlie Following Reliable Brands of Fertilizers
PIEDMONT "SPECIAL" for Cotton and Corn.
WEDMOXT GUAXO, for Tobacco.
I'OCOMOKE, EDDY STOXE, L. & R. ACID A: L. & R. Amoniated.
L BRAXD.
of Labor before his appointment,
he might have asked him if he
favored strikes and labor meth
ods of coercion. If he had favor
ed theni the mayor would not
have appointed him. j The state Treasurer is daily
A panic occurred at the Ro- : receiving letters from various
man Catholic church of the Xa-! parts of the country in regard to
tivity, corner of Dashill and 39th i the recent decision of the U nited
The amount of home-made
manures used by the famers this
year will be double that of any
previous year. This a step in the
right direction. M urfreesboro
Index.
A number of men from Ohio
contemplate locating in Xorth
Carolina will probably settle in
or near Xew ton, as they have an
eye on this place and surround
ing country.
It appears that another rail
road will soon run in two or three
miles from that place. It will
cross Roanoke River between
Xorfleet's Ferry and Palmyra,
and go on South..-8cotland Neck
Democrat.
For the week ending March
5th, the combined sales of leaf
tobacco at the several warehous
es amounted to 324,281 pounds
a decrease of 243,816 pounds
compared with the previous
week. Durham Plant.
While a Xorth Carolina jury
was "hung up" on the case of a
thief, whose trial they had heard
the criminal, at large on bail,
committed other thefts, was ar
rested, indicted, tried before ano
ther jury and sent to prison for
eight years.
On account of the low prices
of tobacco, many farmers are dis
couraged, and will raise more
bread stuff this year than here
tofore. Let every farmer make
his meat and bread first, and then
give his attention to cotton and
tobacco. Lexington Dispatch.
While over at the Court
House a day or two ago, the Reg
ister remarked that he was then
registering a deed, the value be
ing 10,240.00. To record a deed
of this amount in Cumberland,
is something beyond the usual
custom. Fayettetille Observer.
We understand that a disease
has made its appearance in the
eastern portion of Burke and
within a few miles of Hickory,
which resembles small pox. Sev
eral have died of it, and old army
men who have seen small pox,
can see but little difference in the
appearance of patients having
either disease. Piedmont Press.
Mr. Julius Poovev, who lives
about a mile beyond the Hickory
toll bridge, showed us, last Sat
urday, a white rat, rather a rare
animal in these parts. He says
that he has seen as many as half
a ddzen at once in his barn pick
ing up corn irom the horse
troughs. They are game fellows
and whip off the grey rats. Len
oir Topic.
Mr. Chas. B. McMillan's
three year old child,an intelligent
bright-looking boy, can tell you
without hesitation the name of
any State in the Union, and can
also point on the map any place
you may ask for. He does it so
easily that you would think he
could read, but he does not know
a letter in the alphabet. It is
truly wonderful. Faijettemlle
Observer.
Last week, on the 7th inst.,
Mr. C. W. Westbrook had aspara
gus for dinner not merely a stalk
or two, but enough (of this finest
and best of spring vegatables) for
a large family. It is very early
for it, and shows something of
what we may look for in that
line in the near future. An ex
change says he has seen the
Mammoth asparagus sell in Bal
timore for 1.00 per bunch. Ano
ther says it will pay as much as
$800 per acre. Fayettemlle Ob
server. Wheat is looking very fine.
There were 243 instruments
The Mule Murderer of Miss Tur
lington 8a id to bu a Suicide.
There has been considerable
Xew York special to the Phila- j talk in Raleigh, X. C, for a few
delphia Press says : At a meeting days past, about the case of Wal
of the officers of Plymouth ! ter Bingham, the murderer of
r. Ljinait Abott ?aid o be I lie
Clioce of llie OfSicer of the
CUiircIi.
Church last night, the question
of a successor to Mr. Beecher
was discussed. It was decided
that an offer be sent to a promi
nent Congregational clergyman
in this city. Although the name
is withheld from publication
until his decision is announced
it is currently reported that Dr.
Lyman H. Abott is the man.
Dr. Abott would not be seen to
day. A member of the church
and a near friend of Mr. Beecher
said that the question of a per
manent pastor in Plymouth
church is still unsettled and
likely to remain so for weeks.
The trustees will hold a meeting
on Fridy night. The same even
ing a public meeting in behalf
of the projected monument to
the late Henry Ward Beecher, in
the Brooklyn City Hall plaza
will be held. The arrangements
are not completed, but well
known speakers are expected to
be present, and there is every
promise of making a successful
start for the movement. Dr.
Tower, secretary of the Foreign
Missonary Society of the Con
gregational Church in this city,
will fill Mr. Beecher's pulpit
temporarily.
T45E WORK OF TIH: FORTY
ft kX I II C.G R i:ss.
Miss Turlington. Bingham's fam
ily have gone into mourning, and
his mother and sisters say he is
dead. Bingham's mother has
written to friends that Walter
had taken his own life, and she
letters stating that lie committed
suicide at Xiagara Falls, by jump
ing from a train as it passed over
the suspension bridge. It is
claimed by the family that the
description of the man who thus
took his life agreed with that of
Bingham, save in one respect
that being, that the man had on
a light overcoat. Walter, when
last seen at Raleigh, had on a
dark overcoat. Only one mem
ber of Bingham's family, it is
said, admit that Walter was in
sane, tnougii tnere is a streaK or
enu-
as the
by
to
insanity in the family. Most of
its members make a point of
never admitting this. Great sym
pathy is shown for the family,
particularly for Bingham's moth
er, who is a Christian woman of
the highest moral and social
standing.
WHY IT DOS'T PAY.
The Xew York Herald
merates the following
most important bill passed
the late congress :
1. Settling the succession
the Presidency.
2. Regulating the counting of
the electoral vote.
3. Repealing the tenure of
office act.
4. Forfeiting and restoring to
the public domain about fifty
millions of acres of land.
5. Prophibiting the ownership
of land by aliens.
G. Effectively dealing with the
crime of polygamy.
7. Referring all private claims
to the Court of claims.
8. Ordering a thorough inquiry
into the affairs and management
of the Pacific railroads.
9. Authorizing tlie President
to deal with the fishery troubles.
10. Regulating inter-State com
merce. 1 1 . Reducing the fees on pos
tal money orders.
12. Extending the free delivry
system to cities of 10,000 inhabi
tants. 13. Relieved the merchant
marine of a number vextaions
and needless burdens.
14. Redeining trade dollars.
15. Prohibiting the use of con
vict labor on public buildings.
16. Ordering the adjustment
of railroad land grants.
17. Allotting lands in sever
alty to indians.
18. Authorizing the issue
small silver certificates.
1 9. Giving money for congress
ional library.
streets, Chicago, on the 17th inst.,
the church was crowbtd and out
side on the steps leading up to
the church was a vast crowd, un-
States Supreme Court concerning
the tax on drummers. Until
the full text of the decision is
investiirated, it is the intention
Supplies will be
nients are made.
idvanced on crop time where suitable arrange
Very Respectfully,
able to gain admission. Suddenly of Treasurer Bain to abide by
there was a shap crack, followed j the existing law of this Stafe on
by a grinding crash and fully 200 the subject, and parties entering
men, women and children were I this State as commercial agents
nrecioitated ten feet, the front j within the meaning of the act
j door platform having given way. i will be required in all respects to
i Twent -three in all received j conform to its provisions. If,
more or less serious injuries. Airs, j however, it shall be found that
Kern, an acred woman had her ! the decision of the United States
back broken, and P. O'Connor ; Supreme Court is in conflict with
had both legs broken. Many the law of this State, then it will
people were injured by being cause such a deficiency in the ap
trmapled on. People inside the propriations for the agricultural
church were at first inclined to j and other departments as to
rush for the doors, but were calm-; necessitate an extra session of
ed owing to the words of the of-1 the General Assembly to supply
ficiating priest. ' the remedy.
of
SILENT SI I FEISERS.
"Farming doesn't pay."
Of course it dosen't. Why
should it? That bank on the cor
ner won't pay either. Present
your checks at the counter and
the teller would politely tell you
that there is nothing to your
credit there. Why? Because you
haven't made any deposit. For
the same reason that farm of
yours won't pay you anything.
You haven't kept your account
good. You have been drawing
on it constantly, and making no
deposits, until now the farm, like
the bank, refuses to honor your
checks. You can't fool the old
mother earth. She conducts her
affairs on business principles and
expects to get value received in
the shape of industry directed by
good sense and correct judgment,
before she responds to the call
for dividends. Farming does not
pay, nor does anything else pay
until you give it something to
pay with. Western Plowman.
SIR.
RELIE?.
admitted to probate in this coun
ty during the month of Febru
ary. A gentleman in the low
er end of the county informed us
a few days ago that he planted
last year 5 acres in peanuts and
on the same farm thirteen acres
in cotton, and made more money
on the peanuts than on the cot
ton. He sold his peas for 73 cts
a bushel. They are now worth
81.30. He also told us that the
farmers of that section would
diversify their crops this year
mora tnan ever before. Roanoke
News.
Senator Edmunds was recently
asked by a reporter what prom
nent Republicans he considered
were now at the front, but he
declined to answer. Modesty is
a delicate flower, and appears
oddly out of place on an iceberg.
In many human bosoms an
ocean of trouble is rolling and
tossing its billows in fiercest fury,
forcing its spray out at times
through the evelids in briniest
tears : but so bravely and so si
j v
lently and so unmurmeringly is
it borne that no one dreams of
the trials that are surging and
roaring in the hidden deeps with
in. That beautiful calm of for
titude, which mantles the brow
in such lovely serinity, and that
soft mild light of cheerfulness,
falling like sun beams from
Heaven and playing over the
features in such a glimmering
sheen of beauteous lustre, would
seem to whisper that all is peace
and rest within the grief-reefed
caves of feeling. But, oh, not
so. We cant dive through the
shining surface and see the rocks
on the bottom, against which the
waters strike and foam and surge
and seethe in all their terrible
fury. Xo,that is hid and it is given
unto the heart alone to know and
feel its throes and its agonies.
Many a smiling face beams over a
heart whose brightest dream is
broken and whose sunlight has
gone forever, even at a brilliant
sky sometimes droops its irides
cent beams of radiance above a
dark and sobbing and moaning
sea. Wilson Mirrdr.
The sermons on evolution
preached by Air. Beecher attrac
ted the widest attention. To Rev.
George Morrison, of Baltimore,
he wrote : "The formulated doc
trins, as I hold them, are: A
personal God, creator and ruler
over all things ; the human fam
ily universally sinful ; the need
and facts of conversion ; the
divine agency in such a work ;
Jesus Christ the manifestation of
God in human conditions; His
office in redemption supreme. I
do not believe in the Calvinistic
form of stating the atonement. I
do not believe in the fall of the
human race in Adam and, of
course, i do not hold that Christ's
work was to satisfy the law bro
ken by Adam for all his posteri
ty. The race was not lost, but
has been ascending steadily from
creation. I am in hearty accord
with revivals and revival preach
ing with the educating forces of
the Church and in sympathy with
all ministers who in their sever
al ways seek to build up men in
to the image of Jesus Christ by
whose faithfulness, generosity
and love I hope to be saved and
brought home to heaven."
A 8TRAiJi: WIL,i;
Edward Kuehl, of Omaha,
Xeb., 69 years old, was found
lying dead in a bed at 319 South
Tenth Street. Kuehl was a well
known eccentric character about
Omaha, He was shoemaker by
trade, but made a great deal of
money by telling fortunes. In
his will he directs that John
Baumer take charge of the re
mains and see that his body is
cremated, and all his expenses
and debts paid, and then that
the residue be offered to the
Franciscan Sisters. His ashes
he desired placed over a certain
bar in the city, where he was ac
customed to drink. It is thought
that the money and property will
amount to $3,000. Mr. liaumer
will take the body to Buffalo and
have it cremated at once.