'^1 THE DUNN DISPATCH vouT"~ ' ------ - — --a ' t _ DUNK, fl^B INJURY TO THREE Vfcfli CM FALLS INTO CEDAR CREESE George Ctiictday, Mioses Cam R11J'.s and Barrington Have Narrow Escape C.i.irce L. C.rni niiuy, hi/ dnuglitcr. Mi < AfciKv (‘niuiLiioy. and M.w Rlbil uan nytou lu.il j. narrow escape- from dostft Sue.lay • nlplii when an huuv nac-bi.e in which they umi iscfin** r^u ort ai .li'o sti.iM Cedar Creek, 1«V.» t lyeUiv'dlr. aid ',eft a)| 0l Uiem In u body blueej condition. Mr. Csrins.h.y's Injnrit/. arc about lb h.ud. wn.es it badly ba-.Uisd throcifh havitar been rocked from ./.ac to side of the iur »< it turned over three l.’mr* in its proxies/: from the I "Mill, e to :h» stream fur brlnw. III. iniu roe »'Oi at first considered very serious, but he was obit- to a turn home >fnoaiay n.nm.np. Injuries to the youn.K women »ero not *o seri ous a. tho. c of Hr. Cannaday. Their ehe.ilneis and aims were bruised and ■Vlirf Carn.yday /u/Uii.e.l a a'iplit in fu*** to her ankle. It war a hired ear that the tirr*. ora a . I. -1 l ! . I. . . . . .* .* « m.i. mar. whu wa^ drivtrr vrheti ih« U' C'ti. r.t occTsrri'd. It had bom pn>» e< vtenlnyJ signed h nurr.l*ci of oidem deposing ! cf th< iir>t ondi mnat.on proceeding*1 instituted i.i May 1CIH. against 8.000 1 acix*s of *he land now cnmprtnirg' Comp B’ng*. It is not expected that the proceeding? b* ought in June,' lt>18. the accond tract of 140, I OOOu. reH v.*itl be terminated for sev eral month* No further steps can be1 taken u.ti.! the 'commi ‘sionci < ap I pointed by Jutl^c Coniine al the Jicnr-1 i»»g July 12, make their report. Mr. T. i>. W»iti »», special counsel for the, government in the matte. , ataU-d yo*- i ti-rday that a sport ja not expected i for sewr*) m;*nlhd. Deputy Clcik S. A. A>he, Jr., atat ed yesterday his ofRee had boon 'un able to k curs servicu on approxi mately orve-fifth of the more defendant* In the case, on account diraet lYrwnal eervico will be ao-i, rilled where possible, but Judge Con nor yesterday uuthorued service by publication in a number of cases. J mi;** Connor yesterday held cm fcr*9.icve with a number of attorney* | . j . . Ii.... »V_ . .^1 torn u-hirli begirt September 6. An unusually urge nunib-r of civil ea-sea are on the cbjckrt. TKt MOB TO BbAMF Vhat wa* e ilrplrniblr and datrew Ing aira.r al Graham, but it is the r.rttlt of n-.ob t-clion. It U that even «f it be true, as appears, that the m-ii vho met (iri.lh wa-. an Innocent by-' •funder; and even if if bv furth.; time, aa alleged, that th. miliu-r compnny fired rrcklcaaty and without toaxon. Gut for the threat and r.|> parenl certainty of mob action, th. military company would not have been sent to Graham and the tragedy would not have occurred. The crime was well calculated to excite men to fivnxy. Thne ruipi-clj were oader ar rest, and l» kill them, ax the popu lace tit. RiLcned, would have meant putting at left two, possibly three, innocent men to death. Anil if it had been established hvyonrl question that any one 01 nil the silfpecu were guil ty. the threat of mob union was with out exedco. Evoryhody knowa thorc is no poaiiblc e-cape fur a negro con victed of violating a white woman. While the negroes escaped the mob’s fu»y the mob mennea was tko indiroct result of the death of an Innocent man. The report indicate* that the sol diers on guard of the Graham jail •hot too son'i and without provoca tion. If that be true they mutt bear *.n» and nndor order* to 'hoot are on guard. * pee ta tort har» no butinere within the danger tone. If they take the riak of giatifylng thei ■ eurioalty they are in a mcatur© rc'ponaibla if they pay the penalty. It U well alio for riotera to andci at»nd that when aoldier* or officer* of the law are ydt on roar.I to re atrain the lawlrm thy are there to do butinew if nureraary. That wn demonalrated In Charlotte with aw ful roiialta. It ha* again been deraon atrated at Graham and it will bo do menitrated again whonerer moba ran amuck If the law la tv remain *o preme—and it will—8tato«vilk Land mark. . Mr* Berniea Sm'dh *** bore lari week to ylalt her drier. M'm Martha Taylor. 8h* returned to her hnmr In OcMaboro Saturday afternoon. Mr. Smith waa hate with her Thurw toy. I TYPHOID IS PREVALENT 1 IN MANY COMMUNITIES Slate Board of Health Advises Uaa of Every Precaution r Raleigh, N. C„ August 1.—Thw* t hn\ c been reported to the Dureau of Epidemiology of the State Board of Hralth since July lith ssrvcral sharp • outbreak, of typhoid fever. From Granville and Columbus counties there are vrpurtrd two in .SUdow of three cates of typhoid fe ver in the same family. From Ca l' tawba ar.J Columbus counties there are reported two malacccj of five 'cases in a family, and. as if to cap ' the climax of IhL. se.iss, from Wilson , county more has been reported an ; .11 stance of six caws of typhoid fever ' in one family. I .,£>Ph.0'J. t,',rr '• •t*11 contagious, •till infectious andmtlll one of our most rirarily enemies among the com 1 niU 'cuihle diseKsed. Though greatly reduced thicughout the State as it' ; whole, vuch insli.nces ss Iheae just1 cited serve to diow that It will spread fiocs pc.son to person until whole fam'llea will contract the disease, un less rigid and udcuuale pracaut'.ona ■bis observed. And in spite of the beat of treatment, typhoid fever m claim nrj? a death from avery- eight to ten Cil. Bl. The nc'-nl slate wide rffo-ta to j ward irapruvemunt of sanitation, par llicularly In nopect to sanitary privies land vaccination against typhoid fever, hav- greatly reduced the amount of. the direaec. The deaths last year were about 50 por cent what they were in 1 IVl 4, but Kill there la room for Im provement. Alamance and Gaston 1 | .— ' ~ umtinrie < jly MlfCiwful vuccinMtion CrtmpMigna. i !'* sinl-i-n nod Mecklenburg counties i I have just betru.i aiinilar effort, to | \»»rd tamping out this infection. I jj.d.nstoii. Duplin, Anton and Ruthrr- i fold countit-a will begin campaign! in I Inc neat trw day*. Through them i treatnv-.its riUsena arc given efficient < , pn/Uriaoii for yrnra to comr Thr SUne Blind of Health recommend* 1 I -Due e. trv citixen take i-uvem ngu ot :t> (i')iorl niity nrrrcnled to avoid I typhoid fever. Hurh outbreak! a! i tnrse in which whole families are rick i at once can and must be prevented. t DESCENDANT OF WRITER OF ! NATIONAL ANTHEM DIES ? | Baltimore. Md... Aug 2_John 1 I rauru Key. K2 yearn old. a Confed- * • rat vct.-rnn aiul grand ntpin-w of n Hradcit Scott Key, wntcr of the "Star Spangled Banner,” died at Con ladviate SoidlciT Home, PikasvilJe t this sfiernoon. n Mv. Key served throughout tka Civ- t il War in Company J», Klrat Jdaiy ii Ian.i infantry, and in Stewards artil- g levy. He participated In the Battles b Mason1* HUB Muamon'i p MiB, Rdt#fk»apock Rivar, Front a EBB gfrEBI MtmSffwfttr.^rnTi’ > took part in the defense of Rivhmund f rd ei. that city was invaded by Fed- ‘ r al iroopa. » COTTON ESTIMATE : GIVES INCREASES: Government Givaa Condition of n Crop at 74,1 and North r Carolina at 77 J . . - . a m aauiu^ ivii) fc, -iriLitBava if more than a million bale* in the prospective production of cotton over Hi* indicated yield a month ago was forecasted today by the Department ol A g .culture A total of 12,619,000 < I bale* was estimated fTOin the condl- ♦ | iior. tf the crop July 20, while 11,. ( j 460.000 baler «» forecast from the 1 condition of Jun* 25. i A production of 11.460,000 bales i was forecast from tha condition July 22 which was 70.7. Production last i year was 11,329 755 bales and tbc|< ' n.iditicn on July 25 a year ago was i C7.1. The ten your average condition | , on July 25 ia 75.0 per cent Conoitinn of the crop by State* on ' July 25 was: I Virginhi, 74; North Carolina, 77; i South Carolina, 77; Georgia, 68; Florida. 94; Alabama, 67; Mi.asiseippi, 71; Louisiana, 71; Texas. 74; Arkan sas, 7H; Tennessee, 76; Missouri. 81; 'Oklahoma. 85; California. 86; Arise- i ;«u, 86; all other Stales, 85. Good g.owing weather during July I vauved much improvement in the pio*p«eta of the crop, th* condition | having advanced from 70.7 per cant of a uoimai on Jun* 25 to 74.1 por c*nt on July 28. Th* crop's condition was 7 points higher than It was a year ago and a little more than a point below th* ten yc-ar July 25 av erage. AUTOMOBILES RAISE THE HUMAN STANDARD la hoit a driver gets mad at aa auto > mobilo hi* friend laaghs at him. Because of this fact the automobile . l* doing its part to raise human stand -lards, and to develop human charac i Iter - Beating a dumb brut*, hurts the -1 man mors than the animal. Men have i been less brutal since slavery was I abolished; they will be still lea* hm t {tel when the workhorse la retired to ■ the pasture. pi A man who la in the habit of beat i. ing hornet It assy to beat women and • children. Anyone who drives as astomobile IRISH SITUATION CAUSES CONCERN Practically No Ciril Law ia Ira land South of Boyne River At Preeont Dublin, July .11.—Fears that Iriah situation, which ia daily growing more IritM1, may bunt into a gtears 1 conflagration at any moment ore ci preased in r.apon»ible quarters her*. At the present there ij practically no c.vil law fouth of the Boyae river, *x-n village* suspected of haiboiing ne". responsible for allacl* sgainst f»< armed force* of the crown arc ilxo sapectrd here, th* police being lartlculai ly over Ule stuck* made in their fellow member*. In the nimniune. the Sinn Keinrrs in carry ng no their campaign havo nearly ti-aird the country of larmeka. They arc now turning their ittentioa to country house* where ailitary force* might be housed, and number of those havr hern bumod luring I he last ten day*. A'.lark* on a roast guard station or the purpose of capturing cxplo ive* have been stopped, it having icen established that this practice fas imperiling the lire* of ucaman, rho could not be warned of marine anger* except by those guards, lomts of coast guard* arc not im sunc, however, and a number of hear havr lately received attention i fact, h l? commented. nothing in teland is safe at present that might •thei he used against the republican overarm or thit ra'ght assist it Banks Call ui Caaed* Irish bank* which do businesa with ic bank of k'ngland and noceamrily lake periodical shipment* of bullion > the latter institution have coiled i military authorities for armed uurds for the lorries that move the ullion at night. This hga lod to re orta that bant reserve* am ha lag rghtcned nrrvoue person* on tne ighte*t provocation, end the police Land idly by, eccmingly Tvajuing tat Interference might lead to eume ilng more rrriour. Jurt bcfote mid lght. the curfew hour, the orderly lement* stream away to their home*, ut long after thu there are many Lrairglen about the etrretr. At street coiners, night or day. an, be seen numerous "gur ien" rep* erecting both sides of the or.flict They are ready for action, t « momentd notice. Some of thcae t«« come from the United Staten nd Canada. WHAT IS SUCCESS? To gain wealth i» not the only Mie em. nor la it the grtatrrt. because he man who ii working min the uim f acquiring wealth alone ha* a pure y uelfirh aim and often become* very arrow In his opinion* on the more mportant iwuce of life. If “tliie” were *11 of life, the man rho posreew* wealth may be con idered enviable at lea*!, an money till purchase many romfort* of which Kiverty in wholly devoid. Dut on the other hand the man *ho i« living for other*, living foe the lenefit and betterment of hta fellow nen, i* far greater and often for hep ■ier. He i» happy to nee othern made nippy. Alwayi reedy to rearh out a tel ping hand to a brother in need, al vay* ready to bring comfort to the orrowing and encouragement to hoae in deipair. He kai. few enemlve and many 'r.cnd*, and though he enuy live and lie unnoticed by the worlJ at largo, la ha* erected for himaair a mono nent that no power on earth can le^troy, namely the blearing* of thorc -V- 1 .. II ._■ V_ h«_I. .1 >n lo ■ happier and belter life. Let at, therefore, bow our head* lo the Skilanthropitt tathor than to the dee pot, the peacemaker rr.thcr then to the hem of many battles, to the heal rr of wound I rather than to the ma ker of nueh, and therefore I say the men who has door the meat for Uu uplifting of humanity, the man who hm done the mod toward* spreading light and comfort and happiness among hi* fellownteu. la tho greatest sod mod successful man — Exchange Services will he held in Divine Street Methodist church aa usual Bun day mor ning and evening. The pastor, Kev. Jano s M. Daniils, will preach. forma tha habit of thinking about his trouble* instead of fooling about them. If his engine knock* ho dooon’t kick oi beat it; he looks at the spark plage and tho commutator In doing this ho learns to control his feelings and look for causes.' It is r.ot necossacr to arrest man for failure to put blanket* around thHr automobile radiator* in mid winter—even the automobiles that u*ed to ha parked in front of aalooni mare always nlcoty blanketed, wkils hones ost-d to stand at bitching posts for hours in sero weather with nt protection. Tho automobile is just ono mani festation ef how all progress I* In terlocked. Tho efBcinnt thing la al ways tha human# thing. COX CmiTTERS FROIWUBUCANS Many G. 4|»/Follower, DU Caadidata Dayton, OJBC^2.— Receipt of I extern fro* Republican! *1 well ■■ Pi■"IM dh|ll>) ■ atrong po altion for tbuIImt of Nation* wax announced to&B>y Governor Co*, the DimocraUc^MaMoatia] nomioaa, after a btuy dS going through his mail and cotnpgpog Saturday’. »ro L'rans fur hia aMflaatiun. Roiv than naif hia letUre'^ih hara and at the c-duirtma nda| olBce, Covernor Cox laid, dlgelMB* league declare of Sanata^Htding, hi* Itepub "Many aydJ^Kpomocrat*.’’ xud Covernor eUte that they we a line dpud^KfUasy other* arc! from KcpubMHWtd It ce Ulnly look* a* If th^B^fcondant Rrpul.l' c;.n void whie^^W followed with g <-*t intcieat U^^^aole league pcn for Grant Britain to gain con trol of the oil trad* at the world, to ehoui we (hall forever afterword pay ;nbute They have destroyed public tonfticnca in the | raut parking in luatry with what h naful result! no •nc can forecast. There is no don t evils grew up iinong big business because the men' who operate such businesses are inertly human, an I the possession power, logethar oith the struggle -o obtain it, bracdrprrogance. These 11. n mado mlaUhndj but It la mighty poor policy to smash our big concerns ind leave the way span for foreign -rt, whom wa bava shown the wav, to ■tart where our owa People have been compelled to leave off and give them (he privilege of grewing rich off our necessities. It dooo not seem to be a *1.0 wise national policy to pursue. We can and should control business within certain bread limits, but noth ing Is an suicidal as smashing buai rvrai and killing enterprise. The trou ble i« that, the Amt..can people ate forever anticipating trouble. A con ri-rn grows to jar#* proportion and begin* to brunch out. We limnedls ■cly become frightened at what may happen and start 'enacting laws to Head off trouble that may never de velop. We aiv alwmp crossing bridges bcfoic wa got to Atom; always ex pecting and antic lasting the worst Other nations mite the opposite view They endeavor through lavor •ibl* laws and gu i athmantal subsidin* xn build up grant ^surprises In th. belief that the moro business the na tion can do the bettor will bo the condition of all the people of thot ration. Perhaps they are wrong, but at any rate Ibot i* the way the world plays the game, and aa long as wa sit in a world gams, from which there is nc oecape, we shall have to abide by Ui _I - - 1___ _S_ sL. _ » « - _ There ia no MW in becoming 1 frightened at bogie^ for after all, the 'people through that* government held the supreme powm can become wronger than all tie people. What America needs mag* than anythin.); else is 'he poiac asd the goad acme to face facta eeol/ and understand Ingty.—The Country Gentleman. -1 I » Nearly 1,00 negroes were here Monday to witaaaafka ball game be tween Fayetteville pad Durham and to attend the danem that supplement ed the event- Far atm iOle was vtetor nua by the scare of • In 0. winning the State eolored eharaplnnahlp. Goad order marked the aeeaelo" '*-''•Th ou:, only one figbt eemlni ihe joheervation of the police Ui,—. I—It 'That, by the way, avaa between two I white spectators who disagreed aa to the relative merits «f tbs two teams Howard and Ed WOhlaa managed tbs event which was staged la the fail I Grounds. James W. Driver returned Honda] from a visit to Aflknta rout PERSONS RILLED | IN AUTOMORILE ACCIDENT Tw» Others is MosMse Carried Ti Spartanburg Hespital WUh Crushed Skulk Spartanburg. 8. C., Aug. 2_Poui persons err deed, two err dying am , two were Injured as a result of brio, I crashed beneath their autemohik which crashed through the railing el s bridge over the C. C. and O. rail way at Msyr>, 8. C.# yesterday after noon and fell JO feet to the railwai tracks below. The dead are John Wilton Norris, Luater Hunter, Samuel H. Clark and Mia# IIa Gilmar. Misa Mary Ellen Rodger* and Mia Cal lie Rael nr* dy ing in a local hospital with crushed «kuJIs, 8. F. Sutton, who wn drhrinx the automobile, has lacerations of the scalp and conruaion of the brain. 4*f2 Lottie Gilmer ha* a broken ara. Mi Sutton with seven companions vat returning from a trip to the northern section of the note. when, in turning a sharp curve at Mayo, the michlno hurtled through the railing ■ t and re# Ik. ak___.L •ntire party to the track/ below. All number* of the party were from Lletidalv, this roonty. T EXTILE DEPARTMENT AT THE STATE COLLEGE Thu Taxt.l* Department of North Carolina State College which i* the Textile School or North Carolina ia a busy place this rummer The Unite ed State, government through the nffire of market* are using the equip ment of the Textile Department on which to make a number of important on all grade of cotton which will be of the uimoit importance to Cotton Manufacturer* and Cotton * rower*. The work l» directly in charge of Mr. W. G. Blair of the Hurwu of Market* and he U assisted by Mr. W. C. Polk of the aamo Bureau, alia by Mr. Nelson and Mr. Price of the rextile IVpaitment faculty and two Itudrnti of the Uixlilc department. Last year wai ene of the most ruecMaful yeori In the hirtory of the textile Department, a larger number >f itudont/ taking th* uxtile count ilau-i in any p furious year and more than in any other textile school In the Joath. Another signiSIcaat fart la that, ’or the seventh year In succession, he National Association Of Cotton anufacturvru which ia on* of th* argext association* of it* kind ia the vurld awarded the atudenta medal to hi* school In order to qualify foi ■he medal the lextilt scsool must ure a good equipment for Untrue .on ia cotton muaufacturing »»d the nslrucUoo must b* of rucogni—* itnndard. • “ SHARP RALLY WHEN REPORT RECEIVED QoTsmmcnl Cotton Estimate Followed by Bulliab Figure* From Now Orleans New York, Aug. 2.—The Cor cm mr..t crop report placing the condi lion *t 74.1, and the indicated yield 12.510.000 bale*, was followed by » sharp rally on eoraring which war ft raulsted by bullish ssuon-end hg urn. from New Orleans Dccensbei contract.* advanced from 20.75 to 30.83, or lOK points from ths low level of the morning and 85 points above the closing price of Saturday closing at 80.68, with the general list closing very steady it a net advance of 36 to 102 points. The market was unsettled during the earlier trading, owing to report* of continued depression in the dry good* markets at home and abroad, con tinued favorable weather in the South, and incruamd nervousness ov er Earopesn political conditions. The weakness of the stork market follow irg the railroad rate advance was alto a ni - a • . I *« _f ai___ ■ j m wiiiivii ui« "Main m vwaap over of American cotton for the ana ton and carried tha price ef Oetobe up from 80.94 to 81.90, while Janu ary advanced from 89.00 to 80-18, n and Godwin, on the north and 'n other counties, arc so situated as to attract a large part of the cotton trap to thair gins and thus causae Sampson county to fail to got credit for thousands of bales of cottoa prev inced in its bounds. A similar condi • 'on exists along the Wilmington rail road for forty miles, tha to-vna of •fount Olive, Calypso, Narson, War saw, Wallace, RosehUI securing other ’hoosand' ar Sampaoa’s bales for hair glue. The consequence is that he country it given credit for th« jreduction of only thirty thousand hales ef cotton when It is almost as ‘Ui cdly forty tbouswnd. A similar condition exists with re tard to bank deposits, possibly, or •eiy probably, a million dollars of tinpton county funds being banked n the towns just beyond Its borders. Vising tha ft (rare* of the North Cer )tns Department of Agriculture aad making allowances for the value of ighl thousand hale* of cotton outl asted to be ginned in other counties, be crop valor for last year amount >d to the amusing sum of tl&,6Wl. '00, not counting several truck and terry cron*, with the execution ef Irish potatoes, and the berry crop thu /ear runs Into the hundreds of Ihou sndu, it is assumed! nor is the value it timber products included. It Is, accordingly, a fair estimate U ay that the gross income from Samp ion county products to the raw to* he last year totals sixteen million! j value which la almost 6vs hundred try tor man, woman and child >f whatever coIot, In the county, or stimaUng the average family at flvi •embers. Is about $2,400 per family And still, tha resources of the coan ty are oaly touched. Hundreds oi thousands of seres of as good lend ai I ha sun shinas upon are uncleared I while ether hundred* of thousand! it acres have not vet attained thefc fall productivity, the gospel of thi new agricultural not yet having «uf r Aclantly percolated into ovary quarter ! as to causo full fruitage oa all farm But Or* gospel is spreading rapldlj r and new heralds from othor countries ittrachd hither by the manual op I portunitler, arc bc*pH*g to instill i into the mind* of the more backward t Recently high sBeisb of tha Dur I ham and Booth*™ and of the Bca ■ hoard Air Una railroad had oceactoi ta traverse the northern and western , sections of the county and it it statu > that oa# of the representative* of tk latter rood declared he had nova f us* such a degfu* af nroaprrtt; ■ awvosg farmer* aa attained ta tha h section of the county. And that brings tha writer ta tfc n subject af the .Roanoke and >010011 • burg raOraad, which is projected to tha wsatsra past of the county, as Will attend from Katomborg. dm wen known achool era tar and ntdil cob* aranllr, through the vlltogu of Eou ao4« to Ouaa «r Beama, according to the degree of inteiutt mantf aetod byeach of tbcm towns. Tb-a road la practically assured. the imiunt of stack required to build the •rctlon between Eoasoke and Halim bnrg having been Mfurad and it bo • ng thought eaey to aoeure from the lotgnv terminal, whether Puna «r tVnaon, the amount mraaaoi j to njakc Uw extension. Tbo road followa along the route of tbo Tflghmm log* gteg road loading Uto Dunn, which *Hra* a manna of oacudng material for eonetmctlon without tuelnalm at Dunn or Ben eon and thus eatables oat to foroeaet a dan i nwaelUlan brtwa^n them tow^W l^^ noko-flaleakueg aection has aetmlly been constructed. A meeting of atockhoMcn was held 'in', week at Salem burg end a nmni neat organixaUon waa affected, a full •’«ard of directors being ——■*. who elected Mr. C. S. Royal, a prosperoas merchant of Bslcmburg. president: **r D_*- Barring, a wealthy farmer nt Bcmng'a township, treasurer, and **”' WjJ. Jones of Salambaug, ssc ^t*r^- JW company's oBcaa will he The uervey for the rend to in pro r*wes and CTsaatim are actually being purchased. The teak of ceaetnigtoeu »« S»f»«d over to Mr. Tlkhmaa, the well known lumberman of Puna, who usance the nupoadUUty of caw ■tructing the road and equipping it with locomotives and care for a art This mad is deaUaad, even la Ita raota mod an pretantiees, to open up oao of tha richest agricultural eee tmna in the State and win add vastly o tha agriculteral wealth af tto caisa ty in a vary few yearn Bat tha pre aoten af this road have larger ambi tlona for U than that outlined above, the writer has been Informed, and the intention is, sooner or fetor, be ggvvgavaggstt... this eanaectioa St should he re* called that there to a aaore pretentious KJcct then the above and that is to Id a read from Wilmington through Clinton to Raleigh thus span lag op a fifty mile strip of tha vary beat of Sampson's lands and feign areas of tha Isolated lands af Pander end Johnston counties, besides giving Clinton the rail facilities that art ne cessary for it to attain the growth and dignity that would long ago have been its portioa if it had had n north and south line. But It has bean deem ed feasible to hold up tha agitation of this road and the beginning of relive solicitation for (tosk aubserip :ioas til) tha financial world has stead led itself and estimates shall have bnrems more stable. But there la no Intention to let tha project die. and as soon na practicable It is hoped that representatives of the propooed termi nal cities and of the intervening points may traverse the proposed route and convince tbdmaalvc* or the a maxing possibilities ef the country sad of the practicability of moktng the rosd a paying institution frasn ita very opening, for the truth is, the strip of country to be traversed will alone aVord more batiaem for the road than was afforded by a hundred mue tvnp earing we mvj rent of tlie Wilmington tad Weldoa read. The Had ton Company of Atlanta i* Just finishing iU eecomd paring con tract la the town of Clinton within the ln»t three yean, end the town through this meant hat how trans form »-d. The town now haa felly fear mile* of sheet asphalt street* and a bout six miles of sidewalks, tho for mer including tha fol breadth paring of the pits* areas abort the cotut iqotft. Clinton has practically doubled It* population within tha last ton years though bo factories hero been erected to iacreoac Uta rate of population growth. Tho town is bniH and eutth •d Strictly upon tha agriewHaral In tel «U of the section. Probably at no time tn the history of the town have more pretentious, building opetntioaa been in program. The cotton warehouse la foot appro aching completion; the forUheor fac tory It fat course ef eon tti net ion; Mr. Henry Vane is erecting n mammoth Ford garage, while namarou* reei deneee arc planned or under way. Alt* twveral bnUdlng* are pro jested. Rote born and tha ether towne ef , the eomstfy are aim tbowia* many . sign* of program On the whole, the outlook la Hsmp tor is fine, and the big old eonnty , ertU afford roam for all daatmhu comer* eel her dean ere Opened ! wide for each. BRIDE KILLS HERSELF WHILE SHE UBS IN BED i Chattanooga, Tana., Aug. t.—Mrs. i B. H Wooten, aged SO, a bride of I two weeks and former school taaeher, Red soieide at the lay la had her boaband 1st* loot night, fired a bullet Ms bar ♦ ample. I i was taken to polite head i end nqiUMWd and Inter > m raiaamd. The roe pie came ham ■ Sanday from Dallaa, Tag., what* they f were married. Ho ream la assigned * for the nMde.