Slje Smitljficib Herald price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copier pive cents. VOL. 25. SMITHFIELD. N.C.. FRIDAY. AUGUST lO. 190<i. NO. 28 -r^ ? ' WITHHELD 13 READY TO BOOM. Its Tobacco Market Has Bril liant Future. OLD TOWN HAS WAKED UP. The Days of the Court House Council of State Have Given Place to Busi ness. Commercial and Manu facturing Progress. .start Correspondence to News and Observer.) j Smithfield, N. Aug. 2nd.? For years the spirit of Smithfield was like its location, satisfied | with its isolated site as the town center of a prosperous communi-! ty. The railroad, even, which went by at a comfortable die tance, failed to fret the town. It was a typical county-site, con tented with its big brick court house set in its ample grove of trees, its few stores, its wide streets and the modest residences of a peaceful and unambitious people. Life in Smithfield up to within the last decade, must have bad the raiment of a dream. There was no business to hurt, enough to support life, nothing save the sense of peace and still ness to attract. But it is not the beatitude of the simple life that draws new blood and awakens dormant energy; the magnet in America is restlessness. To-day the town of Smithfield, as it is physically perceived, is still rest ful: in the people who live there the nervous energy which for so long it eluded is everywhere man ifest. Time was when the courthouse square always called successfully with its green grass and its cool ing shade to an old-time com pany of easy-going gentlemen I who propped their phairs against , the walls of the temple of justice, I j filled their long, reed pipes, blew the blue curls of meditation into j the soft air and. settled the fate , of nations with the easy just and 1 gentle satire which can only be found in those whose fate is pre ordained to the ways of peace! Now, the square is just as in- i viting, the trees whisper above j, the grass with as much of a lure , as ever, but the council of State i f is missing. Some of the old mem- j, bers have passed away in the ( quest of the traditions by which , i uf.v (jatieriieii iuen it\ ft*. ieiiv- j ing behind them memories which , are restful to turn to. Others | that were there recall the times j with a smile that holds a regret | along with its superiority. Young ( men who stood at a distance and | listened, never thinking that thcv might never join the circle, feel old to remember it at all. For Kmithfleld has acutely realized itself to be of the world. It has no time for court house conclaves. Its people are doing and plan ning. Only, with a dignity such as marks old blood iu the newest communities, the town looks its age, is reminiscent of the finer, quality of the peace which it has left behind for the fever for re- | su'ts The residence streets hold ! | this old look, into which is creep- ] iug nevertheless the occasional t monument to a new prosperity. , The houses are mostly white splotches among green trees, wide- j sprawling residences with green t blinds and well-houses in the r yards, moss-covered. Hut here t aud there residences rise which e look like the fashionable suburbs t of a city?cool, airy, in good ( taste, but "of the century." Sat- t isfactor.y as this is, it is for a c sigh. The times have passed. The business streets strike the 1 present day note more insistent- t iy. Where once a flop-eared mule 1 dozed before the "general store" 1 or the saddle horse champed his t bit while his owner tarried to ( talk the news, there is the action. ( bustle, business of a modern 1 town, which is already scheming e to be a city. The stores have i caught the notion of display, j. Their windows are decked. Their t shelves show the latest wrinkles, i f Along the sidewalks people are i in a hurry. In the stores the t clerks are "on the jump. E very- I body uo longer knows every body else, and one cau mind bis own business without feelmg that he is thereby laying himself opeu to suspicion. At the same time, "there is a difference.'' This is no "railroad town." It pro claims itself to be a place with its own deep significance. It is busy but kindly. Within comparatively few vears, Smithfield has gone into the manufacturing business, wil b the Smithfield Cotton Mills, of which Mr. W. M Sanders is presi dent. and with Batting Mills, of which Mr. S. S. Holt is the head, j tiotti tbese enterprises are re-f markably successful, employ much labor, sprang from local capital. Anotner cotton mill is on the point of being organized by Smithfield stockholders, the site wanted having beenpurchas ed by gentlemen identified with the enterprise The traveler, if he comes up the hill by convey ance from Selma, emerges from the fields to alight at a handsome brick hotel. the"Tuscarora Inn," ; which is modernly appointed aud which has proven a success iu spite of its accommodations, which critics declared atthestart were too ambitious for the place. The main business street is thronged with busv retail estab lishments, dry goods, hardware and clothing stores and several drug establishments which would do credit to a city; among the last being the newly opened Hud son Drug Company, whose store is one of the most tastefully equipped in the State. Of whole sale establishments there are three large firms: W. M. Sanders, The Austin-Stephenson Company and the Smithfield Supply Com pany. These all do an immense business with the entire surround ing section, having ample capital and making a success propor tionate to the magnitude of their business. Muggy companies aud livery and sales stables also meet with much success. The business section of Smithfield shows thef importance of the place as a cen-1 ter and indicates the fact that the commercial interests are j meeting and profiting by the re ( sponsibility and the opportunity. Just now, however, it seems j j that Smithtield is destined to be come most important as a tobac co market. The Met ion which ' surrounds it makes the leai in ? juantity and of a quality unsur passed, Like other tow us, it has 1 pf course suffered from low prices ' or tobacco, but in a way, the 1 Jepression in price has proved its ! pest advertisement as a market. 1 For the Smithfield market is 1 inown throughout the tobacco ' section as one of the best that ' pas ever obtained, for prices. It ' pas thus developed in adversity ' ind is prepared to enjoy the 1 prosperity which will come like a 1 vave when tobacco again reaches 1 i normal figure. This season in ' :he tobacco business has started I veil, the first breaks having oc curred on last Tuesday, with av- 1 ?rage prices of nine cents a pound ind with fancy prices in many in- 1 stances for the higher grades. \lthough the cultivation of to pacco has fallen off during the period of depression, Smithtield ast season handled 4,000,000 pounds and will well exceed that 1 ?ecord this year. . The two warehouses which pandle the tobacco business are :he Banner and the Farmers'. The former is owned and operat ?d by Messrs. Skinner \ Fatter- I ion.the latter by Boyette Broth- ( ;rs, natives of Johnston and resi lents of Smithfield. The tobacco pusiness, touch and go as it is in character, when it succeeds acts ike magic on a community. With ligh prices, tobacco money seems aidless. It moves more rapidly ;han "money" of any other sort. i\ hat it touches it seems to elec ;rify. Town after town in North 1 ^arolina has known the wonders c pf its genius. And, with this J pusiness, Smithfield is waiting. ( mcceeding during hard years, 1 vaiting to do a generation's 1 rrowth in a season when it comes I he time to rub the golden lamp c or which the ieaf is sponsor, ft 1 s interesting to watch this old ;own. waked up and going ahead py sheer determination, gather- ( iutr momentum for the riches which tobacco holds over her head! lu that day, there will be more of theold, white, sprawling houses to go, aud more and more of the modern residences such as have already been erected by Dr L. L?. Wharton, T. C Jordan, W. L. Woodall, J. It l uderwood, aud others, aud the streets will lose something else of their old-world chann which must go because, after all, it is outworu. In the meantime the town works.grows and waits with industry. Hut one old thing about Smith field I hope will never go, and that is the Johnston Democrat ic convention. That is a survi val which has lived to beaprom ise. It seems the ideal arrange ment which men have been look ing for always, of a really popu lar representation. Every mau comes as his own nominee He participates in the convention. If things don't go to suit him, he can vote against them. There j is no suggestion of a gag-rule. If one has anythiug to say. he says it. Most of them have some thing to say, and say it, if their! fellow citizens will let them. The! risk of silence there is one of the incidents of a Democratic condi tion, where the majority sits in j the saddle with its wrist holding! the curb. Therefore, though the convention looks cumbersome, it gets along famously. Speech is permitted only when it is worth something. The way in which the Johnston delegates! rode over oratory yesterday was ' a breath from the green woods to a mau who has been listening too many years to set speeches. The convention is an outpouring | of all the people. What it does is bound to be satisfactory. It does just what it likes and as suddenly as it likes. The nomi- j nation of Mr. Jones for the Legislature was accomplished on impulse, after three ballots had' been taken without his name be ing in nomination. Mr. Jones came down to Smithfie'd to be one of two thousand or more delegates. He went back home the representative of the people. He was the most surprised man in the crowd, which had not thought of tiim in connection with the place five minutes be fore they voted for him. There; rou have Democracy. You can't 'slate" a whole people, make; them grist for a machine, or vote them for anybody because some-1 body else wants him. TheJohu-j ?ton county convention is some thing which does not obtain else-1 where. Significantly, it will be recalled that Johnston sat tight and refused to fly iuto fidgets1 when Marion Butler was ascen lant. What use to fret was there or her? She named the men torn herself anyway, without iictation and by a convention which was superior in its inde aen Jence to control. However much Smithfield may rrow let it be hoped it will never jecome so large as to put the convention habit behind it. K. L. Gray. Blanchard-Duffy. The following invitation has jeen received bv friends here: 'The pleasureoi yourcompany is, requested at the marriage of Mrs. Hervey Riddle Duffy nee Juliet Anne Core to 11 [lev. Charles Way land Rlancbard 11 >n the afternoon of Wednesday, the fifteenth of August nineteen hundred and six at four o'clock ! i Twenty-eight Bollock street Newborn, North Carolina.'' A Mystery Solved. "How to keep off periodic at acks of biliousness and habitual constipation was a mystery that Dr. King's New Discovery solv sd for me, " writes John N. Pleas int, of Magnolia, Ind. The only nils that are guaranteed to give >erfect satisfaction to everybody ir mouey refunded. Only 25c. it Hood Bros', drug store. Ball's Mason jars preserve, hotter Stevens Co. ? THREE LYNCHED AT SALISBURY. Lyerly Murderers Strung Up and Shot. OFFICERS PLEADED IN VAIN. Mob of Three Thousand Stormed Jail at Salisbury Monday Night and Wreak ed Vengeance on Three Negroes ?Two Bystanders Shot. Charlotte, N. C., August 0.?A uiob of three thousand determ ined men, shortly before 11 o'clock to-night, forcibly entered Rowan county jail at Salisbury, removed therefrom three of the six negroes charged with the; murder of the Lyerly family, at Barber Junction, July l.'lth, and lynched them. Nease and John Gillespie aud Jack Dillingham, supposed to be the principals in that crime, were the victims of mob's vengeance. The remain ing negroes, Heurv Lee, Geo. Frviu aud Bella Dillingham,were not molested, and later to-night officers hurried them to Greens boro. The mob began gathering at sundown. Mayor Boyden promptly ordered the saloons closed, and with other prominent citizens, Cnited States Senator Overman, Judge Long who was holding the special term of court to try the negroes, and Solicitor Hammer, stood on the jail steps aud addressed the crowd, which at that time numbered two thousand. There were howls aud cat calls from the mob, but for a time there was no move. The mob lacked a leader. While citizens were appealing to the mob two men slipped through the crowd aud were en tering the jail with hammers. They were discovered and ar- 1 rested. The mob continued yell- 1 ing, but there was still no con certed move. About t) o'clock Mayor Boyden called' upon the local military company, the Row an Rifles, for aid. They assem bled quickly, but were supplied 1 only with blank cartridges, hav- 1 ing co orders to shoot to kill. 1 Fireman McLendou,of Charlotte, a Southern railway employe, was 1 shot in the stomach by a bullet said to have been tired by a mem-': ber of the mob. He was fatally | wounded. Will Troutman, a negro drayman,was also serious- ' ly shot at about the same time. Moth arp said to have been acci- j dental, occasioned by shots Hied by members of the mob with the evident intention of frightening ( citizens. At 10 o'clock there was a stir in the mob. It was augmented by fully 500 men, who came, it ' is said, from Whitney, where the * Whitney Reduction Company is 1 developing the Yadkin Water ' Power. It was but soon after- ! wards a crowd of fifty, forming a sort of flying wedge, made a break for the jail doors, over powered the ollicers and effected ' an entrance. The great crowd '' outside surged in behind the 1 leaders and in a few moments the ' leaders emerged from the door 1 with their victims. The negroes were quietly , marched northward toward 1 Spencer, but a halt was made at ( Henderson's ball grounds at the ' edge of the city. There the ne-| groes were given time to confess 1 the crime. John (lillespie wept ' piteously and begged for his life. ' Tiring of its efforts to secure statements from the negroes the ropes were brought forward and , adjusted and three were strung ( up to the limbs of one tree and ] with howls and curses the crowd ] riddled thp dangling bodies with , bullets. By 12:30 o'clock it was , all over and half an hour later ] nothing remained of the immense j throng that had packed the , streets but a few groups of men ( discussing the lynching. , A farmers institute was held here yesterday as per program published in The Hkkai.u. A full account of it will be given next week. i OVER 300 LIVES LOST AT SEA. Italian Ship Slro With 800 on Board Goes Down Off Coast of Spain. Cartageua, Spain, August <>.?| A terrible marine disaster oc curred Sunday evening off Cape I'alos The Italian steamship Siro, from (ieuoa for Barcelona. Cadiz, Montevideo and Buenos Aires, with about 800 person* on board was wrecked off Harmigas; Island. Three huudred emigrants, most of them Italians and Spaniards, were drowned. The Bishop of San Pedro, Bra zil, was lost, and it is reported that another bishop is amoug the missing. The remainder of the passen gers and the officers and crew got away in the ship's boats or were rescued by means of boats sent to th?*m from the shore. A number of fishermen who made attempts to rescue were drowned. The Siro struck a rocky reef, known as Bajos Harmigas, and; sauk soon after, stem first. Harmigas Islaud lies about two and a half miles to the eastward of Cape Palos. The captain declared the steam er had 545 passengers on board and the crew numbered \27 men The Siro had 171 passengers when leaving (ienoa, but addi tional Spanish passengers were taken ou board at Barcelona, where the vessel touched a few hours before the disaster. The disaster occurred at five o'clock Sunday afternoon. The vessel began to settle rapidly im mediately after she hau struck and a terrible scene of confusion ! and panic ensued ou board. Thej fishermen along the coast sought to render every assistance in their power and went out with boats which brought many sur vivors ashore. Most of the offi cers and crew of the Siro are among the saved. Miss Woodall Entertains. Wednesday evening, August 2nd, Miss Dora Woodall enter tained a few of her friends and relatives at her homenearSmith field. Although her quests were unexpected she made it very pleasant for them. Cream, cake, and melons were served abundantly and after sat isfying the inner man with good t things the young people gather- j ?d in the parlor where Mrs. .lohn K. Sanders sang and played sev- ( ?ral old time ballads, such as 'Annie Laurie," "Old Oaken ( ducket," "Mocking Bird," and . jthers. Then Mr. and Mrs. E. H Woodall and Mr. Marnes joined | ier and sang some of the best old j hymns that the writer has had :he pleasure of hearing for quite awhile. I'ncle Jim and Aunt Bet , oined in the fun and did all they , lould to make all present enjoy I themselves. As the midnight lour was drawing near we re- > urned to the dining room and :ried to finish up all the goodies, j is we were not satisfied to let ( inythiug spoil. But to our sor "uw it proved too much for us. | \s the clock was striking twelve , ve bade Miss Dora good night, ; hanking her tor the pains she | lad taken to give us a good time, j diss Woodall has been a student j )f King's Business College for the last year She will return to j taleigh where she goes to fill a ] ?ery promising position. We < vish her much success in her new > vork. 3. W. B. | < Galveston's Sea Wall nakes life now as safe in that jity as in the higher .uplands, j S. W. Goodloe, who resides on < Outton Street, in Waco, Texas. ' leeds 110 sea wall for safety. He 1 writes: "I have used Dr. King's I New Discovery for Consumption j he past five years and it keeps i ne well and safe. Before that | iine I had a cough which for years had been growing worse. Now it's gone." Cures chronic' [loughs, LaGrippe, Croup, j Whooping Cough and prevents! Pneumonia. Pleasant to take. Every bottle guaranteed a* Hood Bros', drug store. Price 50c. and >>1.00. Trial bottle free. HOW OUR SENATOR MOST DRESS. Sheriff Powell Gives His Views of the Convention -Sanders Chapel Personals. The biggest thing of all?the great two thousand delegated Democratic convention in Smith tield on the 1st. The previously reported mutteriugs of discon tent, broke into the grandest en thusiastical, electrical, Demo^rat ical storm that ever swept the habitation of the children of men. Like the great comet of 1860 tnat threatened to drag its tail on the earth and sizzle us into a pan of cracklings, it was only a periodical combination of astronomical and mundane non understable wonder. We have nominated our candidates and handed them the Democratic banner, and they are all blue hen's chickens. Tbev will scratch away the leaves and we will all have a dance and open tbe"Jack pot" with a "full hand." The cider and wine muddle will be amicably settled, our amended "Fee bill," and iucreased school bind assured. We cannot turn .Johnston over to the Scalawag Carpetbagger Vultures who re constructed us and put that in fernal "Canby Constitution" on us by sending our votes to Charleston to be counted. We are the same old wood-birds peckiug on a limb. We will go "half hammered" and have a regular "hoe down" on election day and forever and eternally scotch old Johnston in the Dem ocratic party. Fvery nominee is <). K. Our Senator must rig up a variegated wardrobe. For Johnston, any old clothes, a horny hand, have a (per) Simmons record and a "skint" eye. Sampson needs see him in a hard hat with quart marks, low quartered shoes thatshow "zebo" legs through drop-stitched socks, stand tiptoed with a huckleberry stick, recommend bob tailed dogs and know a "big blue" when be sees it. Harnett will expect a wire-grass hat, cow-leather home made copperas and soot-dressed shoes, tied with "shoe ends" or rawhide squirrel strings, a home made Jeans Jim Swinger with gourd buttons, a plaid muffler and doubled string of chinqua pins around his neck, praise Flora McDonald, eulogise Charles, the L'retender, Swear muttou hash seasoned with pennyroyal, su perior to Yarborough House ser vice, never alludes to a doodle and keep that same skint eve. Miss Sarah Whitley, of Jack sonville. Fla., is visiting: her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Whitley. She is a little tanned, < but her averdupois showsclimat ic and ration(al) surroundings. Dr. it. D. Holt, of the U. S. Hospital service at the Cherokee reservation, is visiting his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Holt. Mrs. Jessie Scale, of Ehren, [?"la , is visiting: her aunt. Mrs. sheriff I'owell. Miss RossieHardee,of Clayton, s visiting: her friend. Mrs James hesnut.at Kx Sheriff Powell's. Mrs. Maude Chestnut and Bet :ie Matthews, of Sampson, are risking their parents, Mr. and Mrs.C.S Powell. We don't kuow low many graud-childrei^ there ire but they are making: Rome lowl. When Mr. E. H. Woodall goes to church orSunday School, now, tie walks so uprightly that he 'sorter" leans back a little. There is a big: pumpkin in his rarden, and an eleven pound boy in his mind. C. S. P. The End of the World if troubles that robbed E. H. Wolfe, of Bear Grove, la., of all jsefulness, came when he began taking Electric Bitters. He writes: "Two years ago Kidney trouble caused me great suffer iug, which I would never have survived had I not taken Electric Bitters. They also cured me of General Debility." Sure cure for all Stomach, Liver and Kid uey complaints, Blood diseases. Headache, Dizziness and Weak ness or bodily decline. Price 50c. Guaranteed by Hood Bros', drug store.

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