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VOL. 21. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1902. NO. 41.
STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered
From the North Carolina
Papers.
Mamie Goodrich, six years old,
was burned to death in Pitt j
county last week. Clothing
caught from the fire place.
The Baptist State Convention,
which was in session at Durham
the past week, will meet in Char
lotte next year.
The Wilmington chamber of
commerce contemplates inviting
ex President Cleveland to deliver
an address before it in the near
future.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newsome,
of New Salem township, Union
county, have 10 children and all
of them are yec under the paren
tal roof.
The board of education of New
IIanover county has employed a
music teacher to teach vocal
music in the public schools of
that county for a year.
The President has appointed
Richmond Pearson, of North
Carolina, Minister to Persia, vice
Lloyd Griscomb, Jr. promoted
to be Minister to Japan.
Thery is talk of an effort being
made to move the court house of
Rockingham county from Went
worth to Reidsville. Went worth
is isolated and has no railroad
connection.
The Asheville Citizen has been
enlarged and improved. Itisnow
an 8 page paper, with improved
facilities for gathering and dis
seminating news. It covers its
field and gives a good service.
In the Federal Court at Raleigh
last week Hulda Hines a white
woman of Wake county, plead
guilty to an indictment for illicit
distilling and was sentenced to
15 months in the penitentiary at
Nashville.
For about a month in each
year, just before Christmas, a
man in Elizabeth City gathers
mistletoe andshipsittoNorthern
cities. It sells for about $5 per
barrel. This season he will ship
about 75 barrels.
Seven men escaped from jail at
Marshall at midnight Thursday
night by sawing out the steel
bars in the cell windows. The
escaped included Henderson Mur
ray and Rice Hagan, both of
whom are under the charge of
murder.
Winston was visited Saturday
morning by one of the worst
fires in her history. The total
loss is ostimated to be $175,000,
with $110,150 insurance. Four
three-story brick buildings on
North Cherry street, known as
"Five Factory Itow," were;
destroyed.
Friday morning at 5 o'clock
Mrs. Ed". Jones, whose husband
is employed in the Seaboard Air
Line service at Raleigh, blew out [
her brains and died instantly
She was only 25 years of age and
had suffered an attack of paraly
sis. Her sister was nursing her!
and left her for a minute. On a
bureau near the bed was her
husband's revolver, and this Mrs.
Jones took and lying on the bed
shot herself in the temple. Her
mind was affected by disease and
despondency.
Fight Will Be Bitter.
Those who will persist in clos
ing their ears against the contin
ual recommendation of Dr.
King's New Discovery foi Con
sumption, will have a long and
bitter fight with their troubles, if
not ended early by fatal termina
tion. Read what T. It. Beall, of
Beall, Miss., has to say: "Last
fall my wife had every symptom
of consumption. She took Dr.
King's New Discovery after eve
rything else had failed. Improve
ment came at once and four bot
tles entirely cured her." Guaran
t<>ed by Hood Bros., Druggists.
Price 50c. and $1.00. Trial bot
tles free.
Fortunately for a man's peace
of mind he seldom hears other
people's real opinion of himself.
The Venezuela Affair.
Secretary Hay is surprised that
Great Britian aud Germany have
not answered the arbitration
proposal of President Castro,
transmitted through the State
Department at Washington. He
sent cablegrams yesterday to
United States Ambassadors
Choate, in London, and Tower,
in Berlin, directing them to bring
the cjuestion anew to the atten
tion of the two Governments and
press for a speedy reply.
The Britisli Foreign Office in
quired of Secretary Hay if the
United States was willing to'
guarantee the fulfillment of Vene
zuela's pledges. A negative ans
wer was given. Without such a
guarantee Great Britian is not
disposed to accept arbitration.
Germany is in the same attitude.
The Italian Ambassador, Senor
des Planches, called on Mr. Hay
and gave notice that Italy had
joined the allies in pressing their
claims against Venezuela, but
that she asks no permanent oc
cupation of territory. He asked
that United States Minister Bow
en represent the interests of Italy
at Caracas. This will be granted,
if agreeable to Venezuela
The United States Senate dis
cussed i" secret session the situa
tion in Venezuela. It was gener
ally agreed that thus far the
Monroe doctrine has not been
violated, but it was deemed ad
visable to maintain an attitude
of watchfulness. Senator Wm.
M. Stewart, of Nevada, advised
a strengthening of coast forti
fications.
In view of the situation the
Navy Department decided to is
sue definite orders to Admiral
Dewey for the movements of
each of his vessels during Christ
mas holidays, instead of giving
the Admiral, as had b en plann
ed, a free hand in this arrange
ment. The fleet will be kept
within easy range of the Venezue
la coast.
British and German ships have
appeared off the Venezuelan is
laud of Margarita, which is said
to have been desired last year by
Germany as a coaling station.
Venezuela apologized for the
arrest of the acting Consul of
Belgium at Caracas. The scare
at President Castro's capital is
subsiding and British and Ger
man residents are resuming busi
ness.?Baltimore Sun, 17th.
Education for Farmers and Farm
Boys.
A great opportunity is offered
young farmers and farm boys to
get a training in scientific agri
culture at the A. and M. College
this winter. The winter course
in Agriculture and Dairying be
gins January 2, 1903, and lasts
ten weeks. This is at a time
when hundreds of farmers can be
spared from their work, permit
ting them to obtain this import
ant training that will mean dol
lars and cents to them. Practi
cal instructions in all phases of
farm life is given: oneyoung man
of last year's class declared that
he made two hundred dollars af
ter he got home by having learn
ed some of the principles of feed
ing.
This training is a paying in
vestment, to the farm boy. We
hope all will attend who can.
The college charges nothing for
its work; the only expense is the
students board, room, books,
etc., which altogether amounts
to only thirty dollars.
Plan to attend the course. If
you have not already received a
circular write to Professor Chas.
W. Burkett, West Raleigh, N. C.,
for full information.
The Farm With the Most Acres.
It, is not always the farm with
the most acres that is the most
profitable. The number of your
talents and their size count less
than the way you use them. If
you have no more than fiveacres
of land to cultivate, be sure that
every foot is made productive.
If you have only one talent, use
it for all it is worth.?Young Peo
ple's Weekly. *
Silence may be golden, yet the
product of the still makes men
noisy.
THE VENEZUELAN TROUBLES.
What the German and British Claims
Are For.
The tier man and British claims
against Venezuela, it is stated,
amount to about $20,000,000.
Germany is the larger creditor,
having an itemized bill for al
most $15,000,000. Its demands
are for compensation for losses
sustained by German subjects in
the recent civil wars in Venezue
la, large amounts due to Ger
man merchants for goods sup
plied to the Venezuelan govern
ment, and arrears of interest on
the loan of $10,000,000 to that
government in T80G, two-thirds
of which was advanced by Ger
man capitalists and the rest by
the French and British. Castro's
government has staved off the
payment of interest on this in
debtedness for four years. The
Venezuelan president has spar
red with his creditors as skillful
ly as any poverty-stricken ruler
that ever owed and could not
pay. His diplomacy in this di
rection has almost equalled that
of the "sick man" of Turkey.
The purpose of the British and
German governments in sending
ships to the port of LaGuayra is
to seize the Custom House and
appropriate the receipts until the
debts are paid. Judging from
precedent, with the added diffi
culty that Venezuela's credit is
now bad with all nations, this
may be a slow process. Great
Britain in 1895 made a similar
attempt to collect a debt from
Nicaragua. The port of Corinto
was seized and the customs con
fi cated. The business of the
port immediately began to de
cline and eventually dwindled to
practically nothing under the
J. A: mu_ J-Ui.
lu itinu ucuupauuii. l nt; ueut,
however, was finally paid by
Nicaragua with the assistance of
her neighbor republics. A New
York banking house recently
agreed to lend Venezuela ?20,
000,000 if the United StnU's
would guarantee the repayment.
But this was an insurmountable
obstacle to the arrangement, as
Uncle Sam would not endorse.
It is stated that German capi
talists have larire investments in
Venezuela. It is estimated that1
the German money locked up in
Venezuelan enterprises amounts
to about ?50,000,000, of which
?15,000,000 is in the railways.;
British capitalists and mercantile
houses also have large interests
there, and there ureconsequently
a considerable number of German
and British subjects resident in
the republic for the purpose of
looking after these investments
and businesses. Castro in arrest
ing these peoplemade it iurther
impossible for the United States
to act a friendly part toward
Venezuela without antagon
inzing her powerful friends across
the ocean. Min'ster Bowen did
all that was possible in securing
the release of these people, but
their arrest was a declaration of
war that has since developed into
a most critical situation.?Ashe
ville Gazette.
ARCHER LODGE.
Mr. L. H. Champion, our teach
er, spent Sunday in the Penny
section.
Sunday School will meet next
Sunday at one p. m., and Turley
says we shall have fire.
Miss Beatrice Green has just
returned from a visit to her rela
tives, Mr. Thomas Sullivant and
family.
There will be services at Salem
Primitive Baptist next Saturday
and Sunday by the pastor, El- j
der J. A. T. Jones.
Miss Lizzie Wall and Miss Em
ma Griffin, of Haleigh, have re
cently visited Miss Wall's pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wall.
The school at Archer Academy
will close Friday, December 111,
for the Christmas holidays. It
will open again Monday, i>eeem
ber 29,1902.
Miss .linimie Batten, of Selma,
spent Sunday in this section, the
! guest of her brother. Mr. A. L.
1 Batten. W. L. S.
POLENTA.
I It is likely that there will be no
preaching at Oakland on the
; fourth Sunday.
Polenta Academy will close for
| the Christmas holidays next
Tuesday evening.
Mr. J. VY. (Ireen has two sick
| children, one of them very sick
with pneumonia. ?
Miss Mildred Young will spend
a few days of the Christmas holi
days in Smithfield.
"Baptise Center Hustler" is
causing a stampede of our boys
over in that direction.
Mr. Frank Wood is very sick
with pneumonia. At this writing
he is somewhat better.
Mr. Bythan Barbour is greatly
improved in health, and his many
friends are delighted thereat.
Wheat in this section is look
ing well. A much larger acreage
than last year has been put in.
Mr. Wm. Adams and Mr. El
mer Edgerton, of Smithfield, j
spent the first Sunday in this sec
tion.
llumor has it that another
matrimonial affair will, at an
early day be celebrated in this I
neighborhood.
Itev. Mr. Hall filled his appoint
ment at Shiloh last Sunday!
morning and preached a most!
excellent sermon.
A tacky-party is talked of for
the Christmas holidays. A f*ood
number of young people is likely
to contest for the prize.
Our Methodist friends of this
circuit rejoice at the return of
Itev. Mr. Fisher to this field. He
is beloved by people of all denom
inations, and is doing a good
work.
Mr. Edwin Martin has return
ed from an extended business
trip through South Carolina, but j
will probably go back to that j
State at the beginning of the
New Year.
During this week Mr. Sam W. \
Booker has been critically ill
with that dreaded disease gastri
tis. For several days his li e I
was despaired of, but on Friday j
night a change took place for the
better, since which time he has |
been slowly improving.
On last Sunday evening at a j
church conference of the membersj
of Oakland church, Rev. Mr. Mc-:
Murray, of Mecklenburg county, i
was called to the pastorate of
said church unanimously. He
was for several years pastor of i
the church, during which time he
made hosts of friends, and it is
to be hoped he will accept the
call.
Two brothers, William and
Sam Sanders, colored, had a dis
pute Monday evening about 3
p. in., about a debt one owed to
the other. It seems they ap
proached each other in a fighting
attitude, Sam struck William
over the head with a pitchfork,
fracturing his skull, which may
result in his death. William lies;
in an unconscious condition; the
constable is scouring the sur
rounding country in search of
Sam, but up to this this time he
has not been apprehended, As
yet it is not known who is to
blame, the version given by
those who witnessed the tragedy
being of a conflicting nature.
Since writing above Wm. San
ders has died. Sam Sanders is
still at large.
Typo.
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strengthens the stomach and
digestive organs. Cures Dyspep
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Troubles, and makes rich red
blood, health and strength. Ko
dol rebuilds wornout tissues,
purifies, strengthens and sweet
ens the stomach. Gov. G. W.;
Atkinson, of W. Va.,says: 1 have
used a number of bottles of Ko
dol and have found it to be a
very effective and, indeed, a
powerful remedy for stomach
ailments. 1 recommend it to my
friends. Hare A qon, R l,ed
l?etter, Hood Bros , Be son Drug
Co., Cavenatigh & Benson.
For Fire Insurance call on
John 0. Ellington & Co. Best
I companies, best rates.
SELISM NEWS.
Dr. R. J. Noble In Wreck at High
Point.?Local and Personal News.
Mr. N. R. Batten spent Mon
day in Raleigh.
Robert Millard Nowell spent
j Sunday in Wilson.
Mr. W. B. Driver returned from
a visit to relatives in Florida
last week.
Mr. R,K. Richardson returned
Saturday from a visit to his old
home at Wendell.
Dr. J. B. I'erson went to Wil
son Wednesday to the meeting
of the Seaboard Medical Society.
Mr. E. W. Yiek, representing
the drug firm of L. Richardson
& Co., is spending a few days
here.
Cotton sold on our streets!
Tuesday for 8% cents. Bring on
your cotton if you want the
highest price for it.
Miss Pattie Richardson return
ed to her home in Wilders town
ship after a visit to her brother,
C. W. Richardson.
Messrs. Clarence W. Richardson
and Harry W. Hood attended
the Baptist State Convention at
Durham last Saturday and Sun
day.
Messrs. John and Irvin Honey- ,
cutt left to-day (Wednesday) for
Durham to attend the marriage
of their sister, Miss Rutha Hon
eycutt
Dr. Taylor, a dentist from i
Warrenton, N. C., has bought I'
the office of the late Dr. J. W. I'
Hatcher and will be glad to serve
all in need of his service.
A musical under the direction
of Miss Lula F. Tisdale will be
the attraction Friday evening,
December 19th, in the new opera f
house. The programme promi
ses to be an interesting one to I
all who attend. Admission 10 j1
and 15 cents. Doors open at '
6:30, performance begins at 7:30. '
Dr. It. J Noble went to Char
lotte last Thursday to attend a j
meeting of the Shriners. He re
turneo Saturday morning. On j
his way there, at High Point at
5:20 a. m., the train he was on
ran into an open switch, into a
freight train standing on the t
side track. The train he was on
was No. 39, one of the South- i
ern's fast trains, and was going
nearly forty miles an hour when
it went into the switch.
The engineer thought he had a
clear track and did not know the
switch was changed until he felt
the engine leave the main line,!
put on the emergency air brake
at once, which reduced speed i
some, just enough to prevent se- i
rious damage to the passengers;
but not enough to prevent a bad
wreck. The engines on both
trains were badly broken up.
The baggage car of No. 39, next
to the engine was broken at the
end next to the engine. No dam
age to the day coach or sleepers.
No. 39 had a baggage car, a day
car and four sleepers.
None *of the passengers were
seriously injured; the worst was
a young lady from Richmond,
who was thrown against tin
dressing room door bruising her
face and blacking her eye, and
Dr. Noble, who was thrown for
ward striking his mouth against
the back of a seat which made it
bleed some, and giving him a
swelled lip. Several were thrown
against the back of seats, bruis
ing their faces or arms, but they
were of no consequence.
As soon as Dr. Noble ascertain
ed that no one was hurt in the
car he went to the assistance of
the engioeers and firemen. He
had them taken into a sleeper
and gave them medicine to re
lieve their sufferings, dressed
their wounds, and by the time
the physicians from High Point
arrived they were resting com
tortnbly. Soon the wrecking
train from Greensboro came,
bringing besides the "wrecking
crew," the su erintendent, Mr.
11. 11. Onpman.thetrain master,
Mr. G. V. Peyton aud two physi
cians.
The engineer of No. 39 had his
right leg broken just above the
ankle and two toes on his left
foot mashed. The engiueer of|
the freight train had his right leg
broken just below his knee.
The colored fireman jumped
from the engine before it st ruck
and was badly injured about the
head and it was feared iuteinal
ly. The white fireman on the
freight saw No. 39 coining and
began to throw coal into the
furnace and knew nothingof dan
ger until he was thrown against
the fire box of his engine. His
Hkull had u small fracture and
several teeth knocked out. but
was getting along nicely when
last heard from.
The enghieer of No. 39, Mr. A.
It. Rowzie, of Lynchburg, Ya.,
was praised by all for his brave
ry. in sticking to his engine and
making every effort in his power
to stop; and. but for his ei forts
no one knows who would have
been able to tell the tale. There
were over forty passengers in the
day coach. Sen ex.
SAMDERS CHAPEL.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Matthews,
of Sampson county, roosted in
this neck of the woods last Sun
day night. Mrs. Matthews will
spend the hollidays with her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. I'owell.
Mr. Matthews returned to his
huckleberry range on Monday.
Mrs. IJzzie Carr, of Duplin
county, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. C. S. Powell. Her son, Ben
nie, accompanied her, and says
he is looking for a school teacher.
He wants to say an almanac les
son. They have some funny
uamed places in Duplin, How
would Wolf Scrape, Swing Pig,
Lick-Lizzard, Tear Shirt and
Hot Skillet, sound to a school
tnarm? They tell wonderful sto
ries about the berry, truck and
melon region on the Wilmington
iud Weldon rail road.
Some of the National Wards
ilayed one of Old Dan Tucker's
ricks on one of Mr. C. 11. San
lers' granda porkers one day
ast week, viz:
Did Dan Tucker went a shoot
ing,
He found some hogs in the woods
a rooting,
He shot them down and left them
a shaking,
\nd that's the way he got his
bacon.
So get out of the route you pork
up killers,
t'ou better be hunting Old Peg
leg Williams.
House and yard cleaning in
new of the Christmas festivities
s all the rage now. Yard brooms
ind scouring mops are as thick
is war ships about Venezuela.
The Yu!e logs are being prepared,
ind the mistletoe, holly and
svergreens selected for theCbrist
nas trees and house decorations.
The good crops and prices re
vived have made it possible for
ill the country children to once
nore in realty come face to face
vith old Santa Clans. With their
Daddies' debts paid, new furni
cure in the house, and new cook
itoves in the kitchen, new suits
if clothes with hats and ribbons
co match, pork in the smoke
louse, and corn in the barn,
irightens the countenances of
ill and wreathes in smiles the
aces of the tots at the mention
if Chris Cringle and Santa Claus.
Sam Vick and the South Caroli
la Crum concerns them not.
If you see anything of Old
^anta Claus up your way tell
lim to fetch some itch medicine
lown this way. We forgot to
vrite him about it. X.
Revolution Imminent.
A sure sign of approaching re
volt and serious trouble in your
system is nervousness, sleepless
iess, or stomach upsets. Electric
Hitters will quickly dismember
che troublesome causes. It never
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ate the Kidneys and Dowels,
simulate the Liver, and clarify
Che blood. Rundown systems
leuefit particularly and all the
lsual attending aches vanish uu
ier its searching aud thorough
effectiveness. Ehctric Hitters is
inly 50c. and that is returned if
it don't give perfect satisfaction.
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