3V wmitJjfirlii Jiefalfr price one dollar per tear. ''TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.1 single copies three cents VOL. 21. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1902. NO. 8. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Brief Summary of the Week's Happenings. Some of the Most Important News ot the World L o n d e n s e d tor the Readers of the Herald. A $100,000 oyster combine was formed at Norfolk, Va., Mon day. The Lower House of Congress fassed 145 private pension bills "riday. Andrew Carnegie has offered Binghampton, N. Y., $75,000 for a library. United States Consul-General William McKinlev Osborne died in London Tuesday. Sol Smith Russell, the well known actor, died in Washington Monday with hiccoughs. Two hundred horses were ship ped from Norfolk, Ya., Monday ior use by the British in South Africa. A locomotive on the Lacka wanna railway exploded near Dover, N. J., Monday and turned completely over, killing the en gineer and fireman. The (Jaliiornia express, east bound, on the Atchison road, was wrecked near Medill, Mo. Tuesday five persons were killed and twenty-three injured. Reports from various sections of Wyoming indicate that the unex pected storm of last week killed 12,000 or 13,000 sheep, the losses running from 20 to 10 per cent. Three persons were killed and about 30 injured, eight probably fatally, in the cyclone which swept over Joplan. Mo., Friday. The property loss is estimated at $100,000. President Roosevelt may make an extended tour of the South next fall. He has half-promised some Southern people to go as far as New Orleans, for he is im bued with the idea of personally greeting the people. Last Tuesday at Uermantown, near Philadelphia, Dr. Harry H. Price was married to Miss Susan Turnbull. of Worcester, Mass., who has been his sweetheart for forty years. Dr. Price is 6.V years old and his bride 70. By the explosion Saturday af ternoon of the upper powdt r mill of the Shenandoah Powder Com pany, at Kreb's station, about tour miles from Shenandoah,Va., five employes were instantly kill ed and all the buildings of the plant were blown to pieces. Thomas Foley, of English, Ind., is suing for divorce on the grounds of cruelty. During a drunken spree his wife tied his hands and feet, rubbed salt on his face, hands, and clothing and left him in the field where the cattle might lick him to death. John Morris, of West I >a y, Saratoga county, X. V , thinks he is the oldest man in the State. He was born in Canada, and while he thinks it was in 1780, he has no way of proving it. He lives on a small farm with his wife, who is almost a centena rian. Owing to failing sight Elias Leinbach. who continuously since July, 1N.~8, has been the post master at Leinbachs, I'a., has tendered his resignation, no take effect at once. He is the oldest postmaster in point of service in the United Siates. He has been a Republican since the formation of the party, but because of his popularity was not disturbed during Democratic anminisfra tions. Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, who was Secretary of Agriculture in the last Cleveland cabinet, died Sunday afternoon at the home of his son at Lake Forest, ill. Mr. Morton was 70 years old and had been in failing health for several weeks, but his death was a great surprise to his friends. Mr. Morton was born in New York but located in Ne braska in the 50s. He had been engaged in newspaper work the most of his life. SOUTHERN EDUCATIONAL CON FERENCE. An Enthusiastic Gathering ot Educa tors at Athens?Gov. Aycock's Speech. The auDual meeting of the gen eral education board, which has for its object the promotion of education in the South, was held at Athens, Ga., last week and Gov. Aycock, of North Carolina, was one of the principal speakers. A dispatch from Athens says: Governor Aycock's subject was "Education and the Voluntary Tax." He was repeatedly inter rupted by applause and when he ceased speaking the entire audi ence rose to cheer him. Governor Aycock said that the State of North Carolina had determined that every child of the State, white and black, should be edu cated. If there were some who do not think that the negroes ought to be educated, he did not agree with them. No uneducated force, he said, could do as good work as one that had been train ed. The speaker's closing words to the audience and to the North ern visitors told how the North and the South, once contending for union and independence, were now united in a more glorious independence than had ever been eninvpd. Hon. Hoke Smith, another speaker, referred to the address of Gov. Aycock and said he wish ed that all politicians were as manly and pure as the Governor of North Carolina. The speaker declared that every man, before he voted for a candidate for pub lic office, should ascertain now that man stood on the school question. Reviewing the great amount of money which the South contributed to the cause of negro education, Mr. Smith said he spoke of the offering not as a subject for which the people of the South deserved praise, but as showing their intelligence and justice. "Would we be so fool ish," he said, "as to leave half our population groveling in ig norance? These black people did not come here of their own ac cord. We brought them, they can not go away and we do not want them to go. Then it becomes our duty to educate the minds and hearts of the negroes as ?-e svould educate the minds and hearts of the whites." At Saturday's session the gen eral educational board proposed to make the following donations, under conditions named, to the cause of education in Georgia: four thousand five hundred dol lars, oi.e-half of the balance nec essary to complete the Winnie Davis Memorial Hall; $7,500 to provide 50 three-year scholar ships of $50 each at the Georgia State Normal School, to dupli cate the 4(5 scholarships provided bv the women of Georgia; an offer to duplicate for a neriod of three years all new scholarships of ?"?() each that the women of Georgia may provide before Jan uary 1, l'.HKh to a number not exceeding fifty. The total con tributions will amount to about #1 !),."?<)<>. A Dray Load ot Pennies. Herman Boyce, a German gro cer, has made a fad of saving pennies for 21) years. Today he deposited them in a bank. There were ID,700 pennies,and the bulk was so heavy that he had to take it to the bank on a dray.?Goshen, Ind., Dispatch. Holds up a Congressman. "At the end of the campaign," writes Champ Clark, Missouri's brilliant congressman, "from overwork, nervous tension, loss of sleep and constant shaking I had about utterly collapsed. It seemed that all the organs in my body were out of order, butthree bottles of Electric Bitters made me all right. It's the best all around medicine ever sold over a druggist's counter." Over worked, run-down men and weak, sickly women gain splendid health and vitality from Electric Bitters. Try them. Only 50c. Guaranteed by Hood Bros. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. i Some Happenings of the Week Tersely Told. Many Items of Interest Concerning Tarheeldom Clipped and Culled From the State Press. Mr. \V. YV. Mills, of Biscoe, has given $1,000 to the Methodist orphanage at Raleigh. Mr. Douglas Miller, of Albany, N. Y., has bought 1,000 acres of mountain land near Asheville to establish a sheep ranch. A company has just been or ganized at High Point for the manufacture of youth's pants. The capital stock is $15,000. According to the census reports North Carolina with 203,025 acres in tobacco raised 129,598, 400 pounds valued at $8,038, 691. State Treasurer Lacy has ap pointed P. B. Fleming, of Louis burg, teller in the State Treasury to succeed Chalmers (ilenn, re ; signed. The product of North Carolina lumber business in 1901, was in j quantity sawed 1,286,638,000 ] feet valued at $11,067,909.33. The south has 11,465 establish ments, about 33 percent, of the whole. While trying to board a mov ing freight train at Hickory Sat urday, Coland Whitener. 1 . Quartette?Home Where The Lillies Bloom?Mrs. Edger ton, Miss Preston, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Richardson. Messrs. R. M. Nowell and X. E. Edgerton distinguished them selves by singing "Because I Love You." v^uite a luunuer 01 young peo ple from Clayton came down to attend the musical. Mr. Early Hughes, of Raleigh, spent Tuesday in the city. He took a very important part in the musical Tuesday evening. Every one is looking forward with much pleasure to the com mencement exercises of the graded sc 100I next Wednesday evening. T. (). B. SELMA NEWS. II M. No well went tj Raleigh Monday. Mr. Atlas Batten was in town yesterday. M. C. Winston spent Wednes day in Raleigh. Br. .1. A. (iritfin, of Clayton, was in town Tuesday. - Miss MinnieStrachanof Prince ton, was in our town Tuesday. Mr. Claude W. Smith, Claim Agent of the Southern Railway, spent Wednesday night here, the truest of his sister, Mrs. Clem R'chardson. Miss Mattie Ellington, of Man chester, Va., is visiting Mies Fan nie Jackson. Messrs. C. W. Kicbardson and N. R. Batten went to Archer Lodge Monday. Miss Addie McKinnie was in our town Tuesday, the guest of Mrs. R. A. Ashworth. Mr. Hugh Mitchener and Misses Nola and Blanche Mitchener at tended the Fzzell and Youngblood marriage Wednesday. Mrs. R. B. Whitley returned from Raleigh Wednesday where she has been for a week under the care of Dr. R. H. Lewis for her eyes. The closing exercises of the colored graded schools will be on Friday night. They have quite an elaborate programme. Prof. John R. Hawkins, President of Kittrell College (colored) will de liver an address at 11:30 a. m. Friday. The funeral ol the Rev. Ray Phillips will be preached at Pine Level by the Rev. John Sasser at 11 o'clock a. m. on the second Sunday in May. The Masonic services will be at the burial ground at Mr. Ed. T. Futrell's after the services at the church. Mrs. T. E. Best, of Chapel Hill; Mrs Dr. J. B. Robertson, Misses Pearl Robertson, Nannie Leach, Culbreth, May Gulley, Lessie Barnes and Beat rice Ellis and if ?? * ? *? ' .Messrs. is. m. itooertson, .J. >1. Turlev, W. H. and I). 0. McCul lers, VV. E. Stallings. Macon Har ris, Will Griswold, John Talton and Arthur Gulley, of Clayton and Mr. J. Early Hughes, of Ral eigh, were in town Tuesday even ing to take part in and attend the entertainment given by the ladies of the M. E. Church, which was greatly enjoyed by all. The recitations by Misses Whitley and Waddell were fine. The coon songs by Mr. J. Early Hughes, of Raleigh were splendidlv rendered as was the vocal duet by Messrs. X. E. Edgerton and Robert Mil lard Nowell LEACHBURG ITEMS. Planting cotton is 1 he order of the day. Quite a number of young peo ple attended services at Oakland last Sunday. Mr. H. T. Garrard, of Norfolk, Ya., came home last week to stay a short time. Messrs. Robert Lee and Eu gene Stevens spent last Sunday evening in the Perlina section. The Sabbath School at Shiloh church contemplate having a Sunday School pic-nic at the church some time during the summer. There seems to be a great deal of attraction over in Pleasant Grove township for our young dudes from the way they have been going over recently. The annual pic-nic at the Old Banks Bridge on Swift Creek, near Mr. Starling Johnson's, will be held Saturday before the sec ond Sunday in May. Every body is cordially invited to at tend with baskets well filled with good eatables. "Sol." An Enjoyable Occasion. On Friday night April 2">th, 1902, were witnessed the closing exercises of the school near Penny, taught by .Miss Lillie Long. finite a number of patrons and friends of the school were delight ful y entertained from 8 o'clock to i 1: HO o'clock. The exercises showed excellent work by both pupils and teacher. In addition to the declamations and recitations which were enjoyed very much, the piano solos rendered by Misses Kuby, and Yerna Penny, Norma Sorrell and Lovie Austin, were especially interesting. Last on the programme was a song "flood Night" and then all went home feeling that Miss Long had won what she justly deserved, the best wishes of the patrons and friends and a (hsire to have her tench for them again next winter. T. I. 8tti>kxt.