North Carolina Newspapers

?l)c Smitl)ficl& fUfalb. trice one dollar peb teab. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.'1 single copies three cehtb VOL. 21. SMITIIFIELD, N. O., FRIDAY, APRIL 25. li)<>2. NO. 7. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS, Some Happenings of the Week Tersely Told. Many Items of Interest Concerning Tarheeldom Clipped and Culled From the State Press. Madison county expects to har vest this year thelargest tobacco crop in its history. The fourth volume of the North Carolina regimental histo ry was issued Monday. A charter has l>een granted the Rhodes School Company, of Kinston, capital $6,GOO. Solicitor.I. M. (iudger, Jr., of Asheville, has entered theracefor the Democratic congressional nomination in the tenth district. Last Monday near Raleigh a flagman sent back to warn a train fell asleep on the track and was killed by the train he was to Hag. Nathaniel J. Riddick, who has since 1866 been the clerk of the Federal Court at Raleigh, has tendered his resignation on ac count of feeble health. Mr. Hugh A. Stead, a car coup ler on the Salisbury yard of the Southern, was caught between two cars and crushed to death Saturday morning. i rv Mrs. Amanaa mxon, wue 01 Rev. Thos. Dixon, Sr., and mother of Rev. Thos. Dixon, Jr., and of Rev. Dr. A.(".Dixon, djed sudden ly at her home in Shelby Friday. Henry E. Fries, of Salem, N. C., is securing options on twenty cotton mills in this State and South Carolina to put them in a combination under a New Jersey charter. The Odd Fellows of the towns of the State celebrate their anniversary next Saturday. Mayor George E. Hood, of Golds boro, will deliver the address in Wilmington. The State has chartered the W hi taker - H ar vey Company, Winston-Salem, which will man ufacture plug and smoking to bacco and will also buy leaf. Its capital is $250,000. The Free Will baptist church at Dunn, Harnett county, which had a Masonic lodge in thesecond story, was burned Saturday. Fire originated from a stove flue and there was no insurance. Mrs. Sallie I Robertson, of ? Salisbury, Jias brought suit against the Southern Railway Company for ?do,000 damages for the death of her husband, an extra gang foreman, who was killed in the Swannanoa tunnel last August. Mr. Sam Cohn, a butcher of (iohlsboro. who fell through a bridge near that city whiledriving across it a few days ago, died Friday from the effects of his in juries. He was never conscious after the accident and death re sulted from concussion of the brain. 1 he House ot Congress has passed Representative I'ou's bill to relieve the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege of the payment of $987 to the government on account of the loss of arms belonging to the government in the recent fire at that institution. At a meeting of the stockhold ers of the Norwood Manufactur ing Company, of Norwood, last week, it was decided to build a new cotton mill, which will oper ate weaving machinery exclusive ly. This will make two textile plants for that hustling town and the seventh one for Stanley county. Within the past year or two the growing of melons has be come an important industry in the section about Maxton and Laurinburg, in this State. The Wilmington Messenger says that Mess. Mathews A Rrmson will plant this year near Laurinburg 1,000 acres of watermelons and cantaloups and when the ship ping season begins they, expect to ship three train loads a day. j Andrew J. Planner, of Wilming ton, in Mtiiug his divorced wife for about $20,000 worth of property which he claim* she kept and1 should have returned to him. Tlrey have been divorced about three years. State Insurance Commissioner, ?lames It. Young, was married J Wednesday evening at New <>r-| leans, La., to Miss Virginia Nicholls, daughter of Chief Jus tice Nicholls of the Louisiana Supreme Court. The fire fiends have begun operation in Thomasville, near High Point again. Three places | of business were burned Saturday night and the people begin to : fear that unless the gang is broken up the town will be burned off the face of the map. Lawson Parker, who lived near Trinity, was shot through the throat by Ed. Sawyer and died later. Parker was on his way home after accompanying a young lady fronv a party, and Sawyer waylaid and shot him, the ball entering the right side of the throat and coming out at the back of the neck. Sheriff Sharp, of Wilson county, arrested Puck Eason Wednesday for the killing of J as. C. Ellis last February. For some time after the deed no clue could be found as to who comini ted the crime. Ellis' friends took the matter in hand with the above result. Demitv Mavn save the evidence. while circumstantial, is strong. The scene of the crime was at Saratoga, near Wilson. The Imperial Tobacco Com pany of England has entered .North Carolina as a competitor of the American Tobacco Com pany. Last week a franchise from the State was obtained au thorizing the company to open offices in Raleigh and conduct business in the State. Colonel Hinsdale, attorney for the com pany, said the present operations of the company would be con fined to the purchase of leaf to bacco in all the principal towns Already buyers have been en gaged for a number of leading markets. It is generally believed that the competition will result in a material advance in the price of grades of tobacco for which the two companies will be com peting. ? While plowing in a field on his farm in Montgomery county, Hack Morris unearthed the skeleton of a man, which, frcTm all appearances, had not been buried veiv many years. In fact, it is reported that some flesh still adhered to the bones and fhere was also some clothing on the body. As there was no bury ing; ground anywhere near where the find was made foul play is suspected, but it has been so long buried that no clue can be had as to who the man is. Some six or eight years ago a man named Burgess mysteriously disap peared from the neighborhood, all traces of him being lost, and it is now thought by some that he was foully dealt with and that, this is perhaps his remains. Bigfgest War Ships \lloat. Washington, I). C. April 21.? The two largest battleships in the world are provided by the Naval Appropriation bill as completed by the House Naval Committee today. The item for new ships is as follows: Two battleships of about 10,000 tons displacement, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, $4,312,000 each: two armored cruisers, of about 14, .">00 tons displacement each, to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, $4,650,000 each; two , gunboats, of 1,000 tons each, to cost $.'182,000 each. ; The armored cruisers will be exceptionally large for their class considerably exceeding the New York and Itrooklyn in tonnage. ' The amount carried by the bill is 1 slightly above $76,000,000, of which $28,000,000 is for new I ships. When a fellow is about to pro- i pose ami the girl is nervous, it is < generally because she is afraid some one will interrupt them be fore he gets it out.?Kx. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Brief Summary of the Week's Happenings. Some of the Most Important News ot the World C o n d e n s e d tor the Readers of the Herald. Nearly .",000 coke ovens are in operation in Wise county, Vir ginia. The estate of lie v. T. DeVVitt Talmage is valued at more than $300,000. Seven persons were killed by a severe storm in Southwestern Oklahoma Tuesday. Silver made a new low-price record Monday, selling in New York at 50% cents per ounce. Lightning killed Richard Roan aud Arthur Rogers, 12 and 15 years old, at Akron, O., Sunday. Alex T. Sannekalb, of Newark. N. J., last week wrote a poem on death, and then committed sui cide. ?John I). Rockefeller is said to have gi\en $1,000,000 to the cause of public education in the South. Jonas Livermore, a IUack wood, N. J., banker, has reached the age of 100 years, and is still active. Benjamin F. Barnes has been appointed assistant secretary to the President, succeeding the late 0. L. Pruden. John Newton, of Flemington, W. Va., was killed by a train while on his way to his brother's funeral Monday. An oil well just struck in Mon ongalia county, West Virginia, is yielding at the rate of 500 bar rels every 24 hours. The transport Crook sailed from San Francisco Monday for the Philippines with 500 men of the Eleventh Infantry. Frank R. Stockton, the well known writer, died in Washing ton of hemorrhage of the brain Sunday, aged 08 years. William Waldorf Astor has given 8100,000 for the endow-' ment for four professorships in University College, London. Sixty lives are reported lost in 5 the burning of the steamer City! of Pittsburg, on the Ohio river, near (Hmstead, 111., Sunday. The washing out of gold has i begun at Dawson, and it is thought that the Klondike will produce 830,000,000 this year. A prominent Renublican in Washington declares theoutlook for his party's success in the coming elections is not promis-, ing. During the three months ended September30, 1901. 725persons! were killed and 2,022 injured in train accidents in the United States. Two men were fatally injured, the fire chief prostrated and $350,000 worth of property de stroyed by fires in Dallas, Texas, Sunday. Last Monday five colored children were found starved to death about +0 miles from Mem phis, Tenn.. the father having de serted them. The cholera situation in Manila shows 110 improvement. There has been a total of .'588 cases and !$()() deaths in Manila, and 8.~<> dases and <>02 deattis is the prov inces. Kansas, Missouri, Iowa "and Minnesota were experiencing in tense heat Monday while snow storms were sweeping the Dako tas and several other Western States. The jury in the case of Edward Ratson, charged with the mur der of the Earl family, at Lake Tharles, La., have returned a verdict of murder in the first de gree. The penalty is death. "Captain Chas. E. Clark has de clined the appointment of spe cial naval representative at the coronation of King Edward and the President has named Rear Admiral Watson for that mis sion. It in given out from Washing ton tliat, at the request of cer tain Republican Senators, Presi dent Roosevelt has concluded to let (Jen. Miles hold on for the present, provided (Jen. Miles doesn't talk too much. J. P. Morgan, who is now abroad, has practically consum mated a plan to combine all the leading trans Atlantic steamship lines. London dispatches an nouncing the combination were comfirmed Saturday at the Mor gan banking house in New York. Colonel Charles Marshall, mili tary secretary of General Robert E. Lee during the civil war, and for many years one of the lead ers of the bar of Baltimore, died of apoplexy at his home there late Saturday night. He had been in bad health tor about two years. Late dispatches from Guate mala are to the effect that the whole Republic was shaken by earthquakes from 8:50 o'clock Friday night to S o'clock Sunday night, with only short intervals between the shocks. The dis patches of Sunday concerning the disaster at Quesaltenango are confirmed. It is estimated that 500 persons were killed and millions of dollars' worth of property destroyed there. SELMA SOCIAL CHAT. Mr. Claude Smith was in our midst Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Wynne spent Sun day with their daughter, Mrs. N. E. Edgerton. Several of the Bachelor Maids and Bachelor Boys, as usual, spent an hour or two with Mrs. Winston Tuesday evening. Mr. Wm. Richardson, who is General Agent of the Masonic Mutual Association, returned Tuesday evening from a two weeks' trip in Eastern Carolina. The Ladies Aid Society will have quite an enjoyableprogram for their musical on Friday eve ning, May 2. We hope many of our friends from the near towns; will be present. The "Tuesday Afternoon Book Club" met yesterday and enjoyed the discussion of the Newcomes, "The Life of David Hume," by Miss Jackson; "The Conquered Banner," by Mrs. Spiers; "The Life of Esop," by Mrs. Noble, and the "Current News," by Mrs. Carrington. T. 0. B. The Bachelor Maid. One may laugh al the love lorn and lone ly old maids, And pity their husbandlcss state, 1 ince their hones one by one they havt tenderly laid In the narrow graves fashioned by fate: But the other, who loses not maiden hood's way Of setting men's he arts in a whirl, She is not an old maid, though she's thirty to-day : She is simply a bachelor girl. Distinguish between them, sure any one can. The one places gaiety under a ban When the first wrinkle appears; The other keeps youth in her heart through the maze And the daze of life's uneasing swirl, And she wears not conventional spinster hood grays. So we call her the bachelor girl. She's piquant and pretty, she's witty and wise. Conversant with music and art. And she looks on the world with her op timist eyes As more than a conscienceless mart. Tea tipples and tabby cats both she ta boos, Th it hall mark of spinters, the curl; Oh, may her sweet presence the world never lose? Hurrah for the bachelor girl! ?Roy Farre'l Greene. 4 Wields A Sharp Ax. Millions marvel at tlie multi tude of maladies cut off by Dr. King's New Life I'ills?the most distressing too. Stomach, Liver and llowel troubles?Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Jaundice, bil iousness. Fever, Malaria, all fall trefore these wonder workers. 25c at Hood Bros. Drug store. VETERANS AT DALLAS. ? Next Reunion to be at New Orleans. < Dallas, Texas, April 28.*?The I Confederate Veterans assembled 1 in reunion here today and trans- 1 acted important business with ' a rush. (lens. Gordon, Lee and < Cabell were re-elected and (Jen. 1 jC. I. Walker elected to succeed I the late Gen. Wade Hampton as ' commander of the Army oW Northern Nirginia. New < Irleans was selected as the place for the next reunion. (Jen. Gordon was given no chance to retire. A voice from the back of the hall cried: i "The only way you can get i away from the office, general, is | by dying." |, So for another year Gen. ,i Gordon will be commander-in chief, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, com- i mander of the Army of Tennes- i see Department, and Gen. W. L. ("Old Tige") Cabell, commander of the Army of the Trans-Mis- I sissippi Department. Theelection was unanimous by a standing . vote. . Glowing tributes were paid to the officers and half the audience was in tears when the i meeting adjourned. i Long before the meeting opened the camp grounds began to fill | up and by 11 o'clock the largest crowd of the reunion was prsent. The bureau cf information gave ; out a statement saying that lodging for 140,000 people had been prepared. The estimated i number of veterans present was 12,000. SELMA NEWS. Mr. L. I). Debnam spent Thurs day in Clayton. Miss Laura Williams went to Clayton Sunday. , Robert Millard Nowell spent Sunday in Wilson. Mr. Ed. Oneal was in Oneal's a few days this week. Mr. E. Hugh Lee, of Raleigh, was in town Monday. 1 Mr. J. H. Williams, of Spring ' Hope, is here this week. , Mr. J. C. Hood, of Earpsboro, j was in town Wednesday. j .Mr. R. M. Nowell made a flying 1 trip to Clayton Monday. Miss Maggie Ricnardson is vis- 1 iting ner uncle, 11 B. Whitley. fMiss Bettie Keen, of Four Oaks, is visiting Miss Lois Warren. Mr. X. R. Batten, our chief of police, went to Raleigh Tues- ] day. I)r. J. A. (Jrittin, of Clayton, spent Sundav with his daughter. ' Mrs. L. I). Debnam, Dr. J. W. Ifatcher is at Kenly this week. All in need of dental work should see him. Mrs. J. A. Spires, Jr.,entertain ed the "Ladies Home Mission Society" Wednesday aft ?rnoon. Mrs. John Alden, of New York, who has been visiting Mrs. J. A. Spires, Jr., left for herhomeMon day. Messrs. Blake Baker, Millard Todd and Ruttin Richardson, of Wendell, visited our town Sun day. Mr. E. G. Richardson, of Ual- | eigh, spent Sunday here, the < guest of his brother, C. W. Rich- ? ardson. Mr. C. R. Williams, who had f part of his hand amputated last ? week is doing finely. He left for ( his home at High I'oint Wednes day. i Miss May Hell, of Mount Olive, 1 who has been visiting Mrs. J. A. ] Holt, has returned to her home, ' much to the n -ret of someofour young men. i I)r Art her Griffin, of Clayton, ' who has been attending medical : lectures in Richmond, was in , town Tuesday, visiting hissister, ' Mrs. Debnam. The closing exercises of the Selma graded schools will be on Wednesday. May 7. The public are invite 1 to attend. Will try to?ive program next week. Mr. Richardson and Dr. S. i Kend have taken the contract to ' put up the awning at the store oftheSelrna .Manufacturing Co. i They hone to have it up by the i first of May. ?. * i 41 The Selma Manufacturing Co., have had to employ two extra hands to assist in making tobac co fines to supply the demand. On Friday night, May 2, li)02, there will be a m isical given at the Selma Academy. Besidestbe home talent there will be musi cians from Richmond, Ya., Ral eigh, N. C., and Wilson. The program will appear in the next week's issue of The Herald. Senex. PER I.IN A NOTES. Mrs. W. A. Lee is spending this week in Clayton with her daugh ter, Mrs. (i. VV. King. Messrs Jonnie Stephenson and lunie Johnson visited friends in the Afta section Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. King and children of Clayton, spent Satur day and Sunday at Mr. Wm. A. Lee's. Mr. James Johnson, of Buie's Ureek, was home on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. H. Johnson, Sunday. Messrs. Claude Stephenson and Walter Coats, of Ieaehburg, spent Sunday afternoon with friends in this section. Mr. J. L. Johnson, our photo grapher, 6ays he is now making photos of ugly people that are pretty and making those who are pretty look real handsome. Miss Florence Stephenson, af ter spending a few weeks with rel atives in Willow Springs, passed through this section Sunday, re turning to her home in the Afta section. Jack and Gypsy. School Close at Spilona. On Wednesday night, April 9, 1902, were witnessed the closing exercises of the school at Spilo na, taught by Mr. Will. C. Wood all. By 8:30 p. m., a large crowd had assembled to hear the pu pils act their pieces, and from that time to 12 o'clock, the au dience was entertained in a most creditable manner, which showed excellent work by both pupils and teacher. The writer would be glad to a;ive the names of those who did so well, but space forbids. To say that it was one of the best ever held in this part of the county is not saying too much, [or every one was delighted very much. After the exercises were over, Miss Annie McGuire, of Smith field, recited so as to delight all who heard her. Also Mr. Abram Lassiter made a few remaiks that were highly appreciated. Nice music was furnished by Me-isrs. Feuny, Benson and Holmes. Mr. Wood all, by his hard work and energy has proven himself to be one of the best teachers in the county. Thus closed ont of the most prosperous sessions of ichool ever taught at Spilona. "X." Humors of Punctuation. The following shows the value af punctuation marks: Thomas Merrill's property is or sale. It consists of a cottage containing seven rooms and an icre of land. Edward .lones has opened a ihoe shi pin Front Street. Mr. lones guarantees that any one can have a fit in his store. The firm of Smith ik Thorndy ke s once more carrying on business it the old stand. The concern wants a man to sell 011 commiss on. Mrs. Wal er Darrel would like to hear of a good nurse for her child about thirty years of age, mil with good references. John Hangs who will sail for ?viuth Africa on Saturday would iike to find a purchaser for his rain able bulldog. The animal is no trouble as it w ill eat anything iml is very fond of children. l>r. Franklin White has return id from a trip to Switzerland. Speaking of the robust health of its peasantry, the doctor says: 'The strength of the Swiss woman is remarkable. It is nothing unusual for her to w ash and iron and milk several cows in one day."?Tit-bits. 1