North Carolina Newspapers

?3)je fbMil price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents. VOL. 22. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1903. NO. 6. STATE NEWS. Wilksboro voted last week to ' establish a graded school. Senator Simmons has appoint ed Wm, R. Smith, Jr., of Weldon as a cadet to Annapolis. Greenville has voted $'75,000 of bonds for a graded school and for public improvements. The State printing commission has awarded tbe contract for all the State printing to E. M. Uzzell of Raleigh. The safe ir the postoffice at [ Windsor, Bertie county, was cracked Wednesday night and robbed of $-100. J. A. Braxton, 27 years old, drowned himself at Kinston Sat urday by deliberately plunging into a shallow pool of water. He was suffering from excessive in dulgence in liquor. Capt. William R. Kenan, of Wilmington, died in Johns Hop kins hospital at Baltimore Tues day. He was collector of cus toms at Wilmington duringCleve laud's last administration. The sheriff of Guilford reports to the Auditor his collection of 1902 taxes netting the State f25.900.57. This is $2,000 more than the State has ever re ceived from Guilford before. The negro James Bruce, who fatally wounded Officer Robert son in Henderson, in the tight there Thursday night, died of his wounds at Rex Hospital in Raleigh Saturday morning. Mr. A. J. Johnson, of Sampson county, says the huckleberry crop of Sampson, which is usu ally worth $50,000 to the coun ty, has been cut off 75 per cent, by the cold snap. The straw berry crop is also damaged, probably 25 per cent. Vance Spivey, the negro con vict who was under sentence to be hanged on May 16,committed suicide in the jail at Halifax Tuesday night of last week bv cutting his throat with a piece oi iron which he took from the bot tom of his shoe. He was a ter ribly vicious negro and exceed ingly dangerous. At a meeting of the committee Thursday night, Thomas S. Rol lins was unanimously elected chairman of the State Republican Executive Committee to succeed ex-Senator Pritchard, resigned, He is a son-in-law of the latter, The committee recommends ex Judge Robinson, of Goldeboro as member from North Caroline of the Republican National Com mittee. Prof. J no. B. Carlyle, of Wakt Forest College, says there art now 314 students there. Tfu commencement will be May 24th 27th. Rev. E. O. Dargan, o Louisville. Ky., will preach tkt sermon on Sunday. Mondav Congressman Claude Kitchen de livers the address to the law class. Tuesday Rev. I). R. P Johnson pastor of the Fifth Ave nue Baptist church, New York will deliver the literary address Tuesday night Mr. J. Wm. Bailej will be the alumni orator, and ? banquet will follow. Wednesday the graduating exercises will b< held. A patent has been granted Mr Howard F. Jones, general super intendent of the Carolina Tele phone and Telegraph Company lor a very much needed device viz: an instrument that the far mer can hang up in his ban while curing tobacco and set i to any degree of heat that bes suits the tobacco, and it will no tify him bv an alarm bell at th sleeping place that the tempera ture has reached the dange Eoint above or below the degre e determined upon. Thisdevic will enable one man to do th curing and get all the rest he dt sires. It will also prevent "scald ing" or "running" of the tobac co, and enables the farmer wh< has good judgment toinvariabl make a good cure of his tobacco Often fine barns of tobacco ar ruined by the attendant fallini asleep or "taking chances" upo the heat being as he "thought i was." 9 Dr. ira Remsen, president of j -Johns Hopkins University, will j deliver tne commencement ad dress at Davidson College May The Anti-Saloon League people \ in Asheville have decided to nomi- j natea municipal ticket and to make their lirst tight against I liquor by trying to control mu nicipal offices. 1 hirteen graduates in medicine, five in pharmacy and six inlaw) received diplomas atthe Leonard School of Medicine and Pharmacy and Department of Law of Shaw University, colored, in Raleigh' last week. Mr. It. I). Heath, of Charlotte,! through his pastor, Rev. T. F.' Marr, has given Trinity College #2,000, to be known as the Heath I Scholarship Fund, and used to aid worthy poor boys in securing { an education. The sheriff of Cherokee carried i three convicts to the penitentiary. Upon his return home he sent i the Auditor his account for .#152. ? 10. He charged 405 miles atten cents a mile and per diem. The account was not allowed and was sent back. Mrs. Helen Green, of Charlotte, whose finger was broken in a runaway which resulted from her horse being frightened by an en gine on the Southern Railway, has been awarded #500 damages against the railroad by a Meok ? lenburg jury. 100 WET TO PLOW. But the Week was Moderately Fa vorable tor Crops. 1 he weekly crop bulletin issued by the North Carolina section of the Weather Bureau for the week ending Monday, April 13th, says: The past wreek may be described as moderately favorable for agri cultural interests in the eastern portion of the state, and as rather unfavorable in many west ern counties where the precipita tion was heavy enough to com pletely interrupt farm work. Rain occurred generally on the 7th and 8th, and the night of the 12th, and the soil is still too wet j to plow- in most counties, espe j cially in the west. However, j: 1 nureday, Friday and Saturday j were fair and warm and con siderable plowing was done on the uplands. The temperature averaged above normal theentire vveek and ranged as high as 80 degrees on the 12th. Vegetation . has advanced rapidly in the ex , trerne west aud forest trees show t considerable growth. The only . disadvantageous feature at present is the backwardness in I plowing and other preliminary preparations. ? Planting corn made some pro ' gress on uplands, and early " planted hascomeupnicely. Prep , arations for cotton have begun in thesouth and the large amount of fertilizer being used indicates that a large crop of cotton will be planted. Tobacco plants are ? very forward and fine for the season, transplanting has just ? begun, an unusually early date ? for the commencement of this ' work. Winter wheat and oats t are still fine, though complaints of some damage by excessive moisture and rust are more nu merous; frost caused some yel . lowing, which will disappear with - warmer weather. Truck crops >- are doing well. Irish potatoes , are being planted and a largs , portion of the crop is up. Ship - ments of truck and strawberries i are becoming quite heavy. t The concensus of opinion in t regard to the damage caused by - the freeze on the 5th is that the e injurv is less than expected, r Peaches, apples, plums and cher r ries undoubtedly suffered serious e injury in the central-west por e tion, but less in the east where e the fruit had set to considerable '- many correspondents state I- that there are plenty of peaches :- left; many apple trees are now in a bloom and are safe. The dam y age to strawberries was less thar i. 20 per cent, but much greater tc e truck crops away from the coasl g line, esfiecially to pens and beans n necessitating considerable re t planting. Warm, dry weather it needed. General News Items. Fully 200.000 visitors enjoyed I Easter at Atlantic City, New Jer sey. The United States Entomolo gist estimates that the loss of l'ruit by insects is about $300,- [ 000,000 annually. Serious labor troubles have broken out in Europe. Holland | and Rome, Italy, are the immedi ate sufferers. During the past year 1,520 lo- j comotives were constructed at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. Many applications have been filed for the post of consul gener al at Guayaquil, Ecuador, de spite the yellow fever epidemic raging there. Two persons were burned to death and five more or less injur ed in a fire which destroyed a res idence in Indianapolis early Sun- j day morning. A dispatch from Evergreen, Ala., says that a wind storm vis ited the northern section of the county Monday, destroying con siderable property and killing Henry Soldeu. Brigham Young, president of the Council of Twelve Apostles of | the Mormon church, died in Salt j Lake City. He was born at Kirt-! laud, ()., in 183(5, and was the eldest son of President Brigham Young. The appropriations thus far: made for the Louisiana Purchase! Exposition aggregate $10,000,-1 000. And there are more to come. It looks as though the big show is to be a record-breaker as to j expenditure. Rufus Durst, a young white man, at Pleasant Cross, S. C.. Monday, shot and instantly kill ed John Shaver, aged (50 and the ' father of a family. The trouble grew out of a dispute as to land rented by Shaver. Ex-Senator McLaurin.of South Carolina, in an interview says the Mohawk Valley Steel Compa ny, of which he is vice-president, has let contracts for the building of an immense iron and steel plant at Brunswick, Ga., to cost $10,000,000. The Hon. Edward M. Shepard i has accepted an invitation to ad dress the Alabama Bar Associa {tion at its annual meeting in Montgomery in Junenext. Judge ! Alton B. Parker is to addressthe Georgia Bar Association about the same time. The Peking correspondent of ! The Times says the Imperial Pos | tal Service organized under the Maritime Customs is attaining I great proportions. The postal matter in 1901 amounted to 5, 000.000 items and in 1902 to , 11,000,000 items. Punish Arnold, 15 years old, at Newnan, Ga., was killed Mon day afternoon while playing base ball. He was struck over the heart by a swift ball and fell to i the ground. Physicians were j summoned, but the boy expired j within a few minutes, i] The Southern Pacific steamer El Rio ran down and sank the schooner Margaret L. Ward, 28 miles east of Galveston bar Mon i day. Two children of Captain i McKown, of the schooner, and i one man were lost. Others of the crew were rescued. I j Adlai E. Stevenson, former vice [iresident of the United States, ost his hair and mustache and , received painful burns on his face, head and hands while trying to extinguish a fire in his home. He ( retreatedbeforetbeflameseaught ! his clothing. The loss to the [ house was $1,000. The writer of the famous poem, ' "Little Things," beginning "Lit II tie drops of water, little grainsol i j sand," Mrs. Julia A. Fletchei - Carpey, celebrated her 80th birth > day at her home in Galesburg > III, on Monday last. She wrote l j the poem in 1845, when she ?-as . a teacher in a school in Boston - and her purpose' was to persuade * her scholars of the value of little \ things. WILLIAM J. BEST DEAD. Once Figured In This State?Built Road From 6oldsboro to Smlthtleld. A dispatch from San Francisco < say? that Win. J. Rest, of New York, died of apoplexy at San Rafael Monday. In 1880 Mr. j Rest was an important person-! age in North Carolina. He came to this State as the representa tive of wealthy New York bank-, ers and business men and pro posed to buy the Western North Carolina Railroad, then owned j by the State. Gov. Jarvis called J the Legislature in special session in the spring of 1880 and the1 road was sold to Rest and his associates. He took possession j of the road but his schemes for j the management were so extrava gant that his New York backers deserted him and the road was sold, through the influence of' Col. A. R. Andrews, to the Rich mond & Danville Company. The close of his career in this State is | thus given by the Raleigh Post: "Air. Rest afterwards enlisted the support of a Boston bank and several wealthy Rostonians and endeavored to secure the re turn of the Western road to his control. As one step in this direction he leased the Atlantic and North Carolina road, and entered upon the construction of the North Carolina Alidland Rail road from Goldsboro, intending to build an air line from the lat ter place to Salisbury, thus con necting with the Western road, in case he could recover the lat ter, and establish an all-State line from Morehead to Tennessee. Under this scheme he completed the road from Goldsboro to Smithfield. His efforts to re cover the Western road created a great deal of excitement and no little animosity among public men of that day, Governor Vance espousing the cause of Mr. Rest while most others, especially western men who were anxious | for the completion of the road, and had lost faith in Mr. Rest because of his first failures, felt j assured of the good purposes of I Col. Andrews and the Richmond & Danville authorities because of their earnest activity after as suming control. Mr. Rest lost in his contention, his Roston | bank failed, and this resulted in his surrender of his lease and loss of the Midland-Goldsboro and | Smithfield link. "Thus ended the career of Mr. Rest in this State. He was a genial, whole-souled, impulsive Irishman, and his aspirations for a line, elaborately furnished, Wall street office, suitable for a president of so important a factor in Southern development as the Western North Caroliria Rail road were as soothing to his soul as they were alarming to i his financial backers."?Staies ville Landmark. Last Inter-Society Contest. The last inter-society contest for the session at Turlington In i stitute took place last Friday night. The following query was dis !cussed: Resolved, That the Fifteenth Amendment to the constitution of the United States be repealed. The debaters were: Affirma tive?J. F. Rrinson and J. L | Jones; Negative?Oscar Creech and J. R. Rarbour. The committee rendered thefol , lowing decision: Debate won by negative. Rest reader?0. R. Rand. Rest deciaimer?Clarence John | son. , Rest reciter ?Miss Virginit ! Stephenson. Hakes A Clean Sweep. There's nothing like doing f . thing thoroughly. Of all th< E Salves you ever heard of, Ruck ? len's Arnica Salve is the best. I . sweeps away and cures Burns . Sores, Bruises, Cul s, Boils, Ulcers > Skin Eruptions and Piles. It'i < only 25c, and guaranteed t< , give satisfaction by Hood Bros. * Druggists. 1 I ?' I O K Stoves and Ranges. WASHINGTON LETTER. Special Correspondence of Tub Herald. Washington, I). C., April 15, 1903.?The scandal in tne Post Office Department is one of the most flagrant examples of Re publican administration furnish ed since the war. The charges? and they are well fortified?dis close a colossal scheme of jobbe ry. Several officials have resign ed. Others don't dare. Several of the high officers of the depart ment seem to have plundered right and left. In view of the millions annually spent for the uostal service it is readily seen how venal officials could "rake off" enormous sums yearly. The jobbery apparently grew up under llanna's man Perry S. Heath, who as First Assistant j Postmaster General was a politi cian if nothing worse. The de partment was administered like a Chinese province and whether or not Heath was a direct bene ficiary his methods bred up the rotten system now being pitch forked to the sunlight. And this sort of thing has been going on while letter carriers, post-office clerks and railway postal employes are underpaid and overworked. If the contracts for carrying the mails over the railroads were as economically let as they should be and could be, and the purloin ed millions were saved to the gov ernment, the postal employes could be paid decent salaries and there would be money left over besides. Fxposure in this case came as a result of a row among officials. Robert J. Wynne, who believes in having his authority respect ed, got mad at some of the well intrenched officials who were amused at Wynne's efforts to di rect. Wynne was recently ap pointed First Assistant Post master General. The other fel lows had been in their jobs for years and were rated as experts. So Wynne resorted to the fa miliar device of starting a fire behind his enemies and the dis closures resulted. There is considerable comment here over the special train in which the President and his com i panions are making their flying trip over the country, and from the tail gate of which ue is mak ing his bid for the Republican ] nomination. That train is a marvel of magnificence. Nothing like it was ever seen before. Com I pared to the President's train those of King Edward and Kaiser William look like an American I train of immigrant ca's. The fact that this train is a "dead head" train is what is causing the comment here. The Presi jdeutand his retinue of clerk*, (stenographers, newspaper men, ! telegraphers, etc., are guests of the tailroad companies over whose various lines they are car ried in this superlatively luxu | rious style. They enjoy the "hospitalities" of the railroads, tor if there were , any arrangement for reduced ; fares it would be a flagrant viola tion of the interstate commerce i act and the recently enacted Elk . ins law. What do the people of the country think of the proprie ! I ty of the President of the United ,, States accepting this "deadhead" favor at the hands of the rail . roads when they are going to the Congress and to the administra , tion almost every day and asking favors? That is a question for . the people to answer. This "deadhead" trip is in striking contrast to anothei special train trip that will leavi . the city of Chicago next fall That special train will carry e i delegation of congressmen anc their wives for a trip through tht territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Indian Territory anc Arizona, in order that the mem i bers thus carried might see foi e themselves the country and th< - people in those territories tha t were denied statehood by the Re i,! publican party. The entire expense of this trip s train, mileage and everything ) will be paid out of the pocket o , that public-spirited Democrat William Randolph Hearst. H is doing it for the benefit of th I people of those territories am not as a pleasure junket for con pressmen. He will do it because he believes those people should have justice at the hands of Con gress, and he is not asking any favors at the hands of railroads. W hieh method of special training over the country do the people think is more becoming of these two, and which the more truly American in spirit? Some of the leaderrs of the Democratic party were here re cently and they discussed the probabilities and possibilities of the future of t he party and possi ble or probable candidates for t he presidency on the Democratic ticket. It is the consensus of opinion amoug those to whom I have talked that no man can or ought to be nominated who did not loyally support the party and the ticket in '96 and 1900, and that will eliminate several names that have been mentioned in this connection. Among them is the name of David It. Francis, of Missouri. There is no doubt that some of the friends of the latter arequietly starting a boom for him as a sort of a feeler. They figure that he will acquire great prestige as the head of the World's hair, and that the convention will be held in St. Louis on ac count of the Fair. They seem to forget that the people won't for get that he was a bolter in 1896, and that he can not carry his own state delegation in the con vention. Senator Gorman has his friends among those who have talked recently, and so has Judge Par ker, of New York. They nearly all agree that the man should come from the East, and one man who is a leader of the party on the floor of the House said the other day that there was a man in the East who would have to be reckoned with as a potent factor before the next convention and who. he said, was the real hero of the masses of the people in this country, and that man is \\ illiani Randolph Hearst. "Prosperity strikes" is the very significant designation of a New York newspaper for the strikes on April 1, when several hundred workingmen stopped work be cause their demands for higher wages were refused. The work ingmen are simply striking for some of the prosperity which the trusts and monopolies have been enjoying for several years. The workingmen, along with the rest of us, have been paying the high prices and rates which have made the trusts and railroads prosper ous. and they are now asking for their share of prosperity. As a matter of fact it will take an in crease ol 40 per cent in money wages to put real wages as high as they were in 1897, for, ac ; cording to Dun's tables of prices, the cost of living is 40 per cent Higher now than in 1897. Yet we call this prosperity. Chaki.es A. Edwaicdb. /MICRO ours. The farmers in this section are nearly ready to set tobacco. VY. E. Smith has just received his spring and summer stock of goods. We are very glad to note that Mrs. Jane Smith, who has been quite sick, is improving now. Mr. George Wiggs, who lives ; near here, wears a smile as long ; as your arm. He is the happy father of a 10 pound boy. { Rex. Robbed The Grave. A startling incident , is narrated i by John Oliver of Philadelphia, 1 as follows: "I was in an awful i condition. My skin was almost r yellow, eyes sunken, tongue 1 coated, pain continually in back - and sides, no appetite, growing r weaker day by day. Three phy J sicians had given me up. Then t I was advised to use Electric - Hitters; to my great joy. the first bottle made a decided im , provemeut. I continued their use . tor three weeks, and urn now a f well man. I know they robbed the grave of another victim " e No one should fail to trv them, e Only 50 cents, guaranteed, at J Hood Bros., drug store.