?y - -a-...,.-..."-- It Tavb to Grv vomnierciut, -rxniing Letter Heads,. Bill Heads, Note .Heads, Rtat.nenta, Business Cards, . Envelopes, eto.,; ', ' - Executed . Neatly and Promptly. THE PEOPLE an invitation to trade with yon. mm The best way to invite them is to 4- vertise in THE TIMES. 'BU8BABD- ft E0HMM;, NQ7 ; VOL. V. WALTSE B. SELL, Sditor, ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22, 189G. is ws jew - ' BILL ARFS LETTER HE FINDS FOOD FOR THOUOnt IN THE TKUfHFCL CAMERA. , Photo Gallery iy ' the Country aids Marks Civilization's Protroti,. Tbe photograph gallery in a oonntry town is one the most pleasing ..marks of Christian civilization and the ad vancement of modern soienoe. j-I pass by one every day and it is gratifying to ace its natrons awaiting their tnrn or coming out with smiling faces and all arrayed in their best apparel. It is a family discussion before they como what dress to wear, what ornament., and hr tt. kir ob.ll tje arranged, or whether to sit or stand, whether side view or a front or whether tho baby shall be taken ulonoor with -tsmolher. All classes are ou an equality before the camera, for the sunlight of natnre , i as no favorites. So far as fanes and features are concerned, the camern tells the truth, the whole truth nurl nothing bnt the truth. : This morning as I passed I saw ft" countryman' sit ting on the steps with a child In his arms. His wife and little girl were inside awaiting their thru. I used to luow itim before be was married, and so I stopped and -gave him my hand. His folks were poor, honest and industrious, and I have great respect for all snob. The women do the housework and have the care oi the children. The men cultivate their little farms, work the roads, sit on hc - juries, nurse their sick neighbors, bury the dead, go fishing on Saturdays and take tho family to meeting on Sundays. They are generally Populists, not be cause of any political principles in volved, but because of affiliation and association. Most of their kind are Populists and therefore olannisb. They stick together because they are either poor or less than rich. Their fathers fought in the late war, and those will fight in the next if it comes in their days. It may be a rich man's wat, bnt it will be a poor man's fight. "Are you going to have the baby's picture taken." "No; not this one," said he; "I wanted my wife's and onr little girl's. They are in there. I I thought I would liko to have them about the house, for life is uncertain, you know. Jim Moore's wife died .ast year und Jim says he would give tho world for her picture, and Jack Brown lost bis little girl iu June. She was a mighty purty little thing, but Jack hain't got no'pioture and so I conclud ed to have some.taken for fear of acci dent.,7 - r "That is all right," said I, "but sup pose you die; wouldn t your wife liko to have one of you? "I reokon she would. She mention ed mar, dui pictures aou i oeoome a rough man like me, and besides, it would oost more money than I havo got to spare. The winter is comin' on and we all have to havo shoes auu stockings and the like, and my cotton crop was powerful short, bnt I will have mine taken sometime. I reckon all your folks have got 'cm, haven't they?" Love for wife and children is tho best virtue of human kind, and poor folks have ss much of it as rich ones. Yes, more. Many of them haven't anything else to divide their affec tions. It is a pleasing thing to see them at the pioture gallery aud to wit ness their pride whoo the work is done and the faces of their loved ones uru before them ou enameled oardr, irckh and clean from the artist's hand. What a wonderful art it is. I renum ber well when the first daguerreotype was taken in our town. It was only forty years ago, and when our first lit tie girl was four years old we had hr-i picture taken. She was a little beauty then, and I thought the picture war the sweetest gem on earth. We hv it now in its old-fashioned case. Th little girl is long since a mother u.i.' has pictures of her own little ruU. and they are much finer in their flni-1-but I prize the first one most. Item rics me back in memory to the (Java : my sweetest, fondest, proudest, pa rental love. I idolize that obild ana I lore her dearly yet, but she left ns for a young man she was no kin to in the world, and who has never done anything for her but to give her a ring and books of poetry and a little French candy now and then. We hod to give her up to him, and as Tom Hood said : "3hs took onr davliabt with bar And the J 7i that we love best, With morning light npon bar brow And pearls opon her breast." Daguerre was a benefactor to the emotional aide of onr nature. He was a French artist a painter of pano ramas of cities liko London and Paris and Naples. He used the rays of the sun through colored glass to heighten Ihe effect of bis paintings, and kept ou experimenting with sunlight until iu 1839 he caught it oo the king and made it stick to met&J'.ic plates and re flect tho images thrown npon them. His escoeea wm partly accidental, part ly design, and he himself was aston ished at his discovery. In 1840 Aragu luade the announcement to the acade my of soienoe and Daguerre was made an oftWr in the Legion of Honor and voted a pension of 6,000 franos a year. He died in 1851 and a monument was erected to him in Paris. But like all inventions, Daguerre 's was crude and imperfect Photogra phy has grown oot of it and seems now to be the perfection of art It is used in making the exact likenesses of all the great works of art and nature and bringing them in reaoh of the millions who fcsve never seen and never will see the original,. All the monuments, pyram ids , ch urch es, cath edrala, bridges, mountains and wa-.erfalls all the grand old paintings of Kaphatl and Kembrandt, all the sculpture of the old masters and even tho aspects of the moon and eolipsoa of the sun and the reproduction of the ancient manu scripts of the Old and New Testa ments. The lightning itself cannot more instantly speed its way than pho tography now catches a bird on the wing or a raoe horse on the turf cr a meteor in the heavens. Just so it was with the looomotive, the spinning enny, the sewing machine, the tele graph and tolcpuone. All weie im proved from time to time by the can ling of the human brain and human bund until they now seem to be per fect, bat they are not. On the mantle near me I see a cabi net photograph of a well preserved old man who has a sweet little black-eyed grind rbili! on bis arm, while her head rtsts trustingly Upon his shoulder and touoLdik. iia vnrr.U ohock. film looks shyly and timidly at you, but clings to "the eld man as the tender vineclidgi to too old osk that the storm has riven. 'The old man's face is" calm an 4 serene. 1 like those pictures for the children's Hake, and wish thai ; I was so ooupled with every little grand child and that my wife had some to tnatoh them. I was ruminating that when I am dead and gone and that lit tle girl iiiotner,. mayDe slid wii. ahow the pioture to her child abd say. "I never knew my father, for he died whea -I ve jrwuUfft bat ihmt old man was my grandfather and he was good to me and I loved him very dearly." Maybe when I am in the spirit land I will some times be near, tor and hear her talk that way maybe so; who knows? Flowers and music are the sweetest girt of Ood to mankind and pictures and painting the sweetest that come from the hand of man. Bat of all the oomeras that catch and bold fast the images of art or na ture there are men of science who as sert that none are equal to the retina of the human eye. They say that ev ery look or glance or vision makes an impoession there. An impression jo delicate and unpalprble that saillions may lie upon its glassy curface and the last thing seen is on ihe top. They say that if a man is fimrdered while he faces the murderet Ihe assailant's face and form will be found npon the victim's eyes. Some experiments have been made to prove ibis, but they were imperfect and un satisfactory. Maybe it will yet be proven. Biiii Abp in Atlanta Consti tution. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Secretary Carlisle bos telegraphed Hon, George M. Davis, of Louisville, Ky., that be Was prepared to deliver Ave speeches in Kentucky In tavor of Palmer and Bnokner. He names as the dates agreeable to him Octo ber 32d, 24th, 26th, 26th and SOth, He says he prefers to make his first address In bis home town of ovington, and the other four anywhere in Eentuoky his friends my select. Secretary Carlisle Is carefully preparing bis speech, which In substance will be delivered at all the live points at which be will speak. Louisville Is one of the other points where the Secretary will speak. There is the same activity now among the friends of the admin istration as there was Immediately before the selection of delegates to the Chicago conven tion. Secretary of the Navy Herbert bas also announced that he will make three speeches In Alabama during the week before the elec tion In th interest of the Palmer and Buolc ner movement. A special dispatch to the Evening Star from Balelab N. 0. says: The Populist State committee bas rejected the Democrat propo sition to fuse on the State, Congressional aud Legislative tickets. The reasons given are, first, that owing to the nearness of the elec tion arrangements could not be made on the other side and, therefore could not receive loyal support; second f.hat fw Democrats in August ignored the proposition for complete fusion. The Populist committee suggests the voluntary withdrawal of the Democratic nominee for Governor and the concentration of Demooratlo forces on the Populist nomi nee. The vote In the committee was 16 to 2. Fusion continues on the national tloket. M'KINLEYITES WIN. The Colorado Silver Republicans Without Standing in Court. The Supreme Court of Colorado, bas rJe oided that the Silver Bepublican party is without standing in the court and that the only vestige of the organiration rests with the followers of HcKlnley, as the bolters by repudiating the platform .of the 8U Louis convention forfeited all claims to recognition In this State. The court goes Into an eihaus ive review of the proceedings Incidental to the contest and then concludes that the Mo Ktnley men cannot be deprive! of their right of a SUte through the autocratic action of a Stats ofldolal whose duties are merely .cleri cal. The ruling gives the McKlnley men the right to suggeM judges sod clerks of election and practically places all the machinery ol me election in their bands, owing to the fact that the clerk of Araphne county, where th greatest vote is east, Is a strong adherent of the gold standard. The same situation occurs in El Paso and Pneblo counties . ROBBED A TOWN. A Gang of Desperadoes Loot Peria, Tenri., and Fire the Houses. Agsng of masked men looted the little Sown of Peria, in Henry county yearly Wed tesday morning. Xhe cltieens were awaken ed at o'clock by the sound of an explosion and the firing of gans and revolvers. These residents who were daring enough to leave ihelr houses were warned to return under ?ftin of death. In order to intimidate tbe people tbe gang kept up an lnoesssut dis charge of their firearms. There were eight nen in the party and all were heavily mask M. After robbing a number a stores tbe jaMset fire to several buildings and then led to tbe country. After the fires bad been tabdued a posse was formed and started In Kirsult of the marauders. The ex.tot amount r money and valuables secured by tbe gong not known, but It la estimated thU the? got .way w th at least M.OOOin money. Talk of a Tobacco Combine. Humors that have recently attended the sharp upward movement In tobacco stock of negotiations pending for control of large to bacco manufacturing plants by foreign cap italists have crystallzed Into a definite report that a London syndicate has been formed wltbs capital of 600, 000 and bas purchased and will operate abroad the foreign patent rights of the National Cigarette and Tobacco company. Tbe National company. It is al leged. Is building fifty clgaretie machines to be delivered In Englaod l y January 1st. In the domestic tobacco trade th ire are persis tent rumors of impending staitllng develop ments of a strong omhination on Standard Oil lines. 7 The news epitomizedi . WatUajrtea Items. The new Ministers from Hsyti and Korea were formally introduced to President Cleveland. Secretary Olney has appointed Dr. James Howard Gore, of the Columbian University, and Mr. Thomas Wilson, Curator of the Na tional Museum, United States Comralst jners to the International Exposition to be opened in Brussels on April 21, 1897, The United States Supreme Court began Its annual session In Washington, The Secretary of War Is receiving the con gratulations of his friends over .the good health of Mrs. Lamont and a new born little daughter. Ths Comptroller of the Ourrenoy has re ceived a telegram announcing tbe failure of the First National Bank of Eddy.New Mexico. The bank bad a capital of 30,000, and it last report showed an Indebtedness to deposi tors of about 75,0O0 Dr. Burgess, Sanitary Inspector of ths Ma rine Hospital Hnrvlna at Havaoa, in a recent report, says that yellow fever oontlnusN to be spldemlo there, and ne Is informed thiit tt Is so In most of the places Where Spanish soldiers ars found. ; Beoretarv Herbert awarded .contracts fora imt forgincrs to ths Bethlehem Iron Com-" posy and Mldvale Steel Company. - v A - - .'. .; V .''' Osnaestte. William Delrh was killedEmily Rue and Mary Sobnadke were fatally and two other girls seriously Injured py a runaway team at Union Hill, N. J. Tbe Edgar Thomson Steel Works, ef the Carnegie Steel Com.oasy, Bra J JooJc, jTVjsu., wins pat in operation In all departments after a suspension, whloh was due to a total lack ef orders. New orders were received. Xhe Homestead Steel Mills of the same com pany have also been started after an enforced shutdown An alleged plot of Highbinders, in Boston, Mass., to assassinate every member of the Chinese Christian Union in that oity, has been revealed to the police by a member of the Highbinders. - John . Krueger. a sleep-walker, went into Saloon Keeper MeLschele's bedroom, New York City, and was shot dead under the Im pression that he was a burglar. The Illinois Central Ballrosd Company re ports the largest gross and net earnings In its historv. - Theodore Moyer, head baker of the Man hattan Slate Hospital, on Ward's Inland, New York City, was killed by an insane patient, who struck him in the head with an ax. D. O. Crawford, the St. Louis (Mo.) mer ohant who discharged twelve clerks because they said they were for Brvnn, was arrested tor intimidation on a warrant the Democratic State Oommtttee got out. The Marine National Bank of Duluth, Minn. , closed its doors and the bank examiner is In charge. Tbe bank has a oapititl of 260,000. Inability to make collections and heavy withdrawals ore given as the cause of the failure. I Major McElnley reoelved at his home in Canton 300 early settlers from CuyahOKa Uounty, Ohio, not oneor whom was less than seventy years old , Many womeu were amon g tnem. Three men were Instantly killed by a full of rock in tbe Lafiin Mine, at Wilkesbarre, fonn. Walter Hunt, of Plainfleld, N. H.,shot and killed Irving Smith, a farmer, and then killed himself. In a fight between a Sheriff's posse and the Oreen gang of outlaws at Oolagb, Indlau ierrltory, two or tbe outlaws were killed and the others were captmea, The Greens have been aollvely "on the road'1 for three months. inree women lawyers ware appointoi as receivers in as mauy cases by Juslioe Mao- Lean, or the supreme court, New York Oily. The Indiana State Board of Eloolions do elded that tbe National Democrats should adopt the title "gold standard" on the elec toral ticket, instead of National Democratic, as was desired. The spot eosh price of No. 2 red wheat, the standard grade, in Now York, was eighty cents on uotooer 13, the highest point readied in the present upward movement. A oare'nl canvass of the political situation Indicates that fusion bos been effected be tween the silver forces In seventeen States. The prioe of bar sliver dropped to Gi cents an ounoe, tbe lowest figure It bas reached in three years. George Jessup and Frank Thompson, of Brooklyn, while wheeling In New Jersey were held up aud robbed by two masks! tramps. County Clerk Knopf wa arrested at Chi cago charged with issuing 2000 fraudulent naturalization certificates. Mary Hepler, eighty years old. was run down and perhaps fatally injured by a trualt In New York Olty. Police hr.d to rescue tho driver, John Hunt, from a mob. The body of Miss Grace Diokerson, who disappeared from her borne In Brooklyn September 22, was fouud In Wykofl Swamp, near Cnnarsle, Long Island, by'hunters. She had been dead one day, and the n'ystery is unsolved. . The people of Oxford, Mass., are greatly alarmed over the presence of a firebug. He got In his work when the farm house owned by tbe Chaffee brothers, about one and n quarter miles from the town, and occupied by William Troreau and his family and Eli Duprey and his family, was entirely con sumed, with all Its contents. Willie Duprev, an eleven-year-old son of Ell Duprey, was burned to death. Large sums of money were raised for mis sions at the meetings of the Christian Mis sionary Alliance in Carnegie Hall, New York Oity. A filibustering expedition in aid of the Cuban revolutionists, whloh left Florida waters, carried 200 men aud one of ths largest cargoes of war munitions sent to Cuba since the rebellion began. The Indiana State Board of Elections fcy a vote of i to 1 deoided to denythe petition of tbe National Democrats to go on the ballot under that name. Governor Matthew had the deciding vote and east it agiinat the Governor Morton,' of New York, has dis missed the charges of malfeasance in neglect of duty against Superintendent Lathrop, of the State prisons, but recommends that he Investigate the state of affairs in the Anburn prison. The Baltimore Baseball Club won the Tem ple Cup series from the Cleveland team, de feating the latter in four successive games. The players of the Cleveland team will eaoh get 117 for bis share of the proceeds. The Baltimore men will divide about $2500 as their shore, and each man will get rbout 200. An explosion occurred in the big rolling mill of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail road Company at Danville, Penn. A man and a boy were killed, six men seriously hurt and seven other men Injured. The dead are: John Cosselman, an employe of ths mill, and a Hungarian baby, name un known. Bocoo Moralito. a laborer formerly em ployed by a Brooklyn (N. Y.) gas company, shot and killed William Matuas, the foreman who bad discharged bim. The Dauntless sailed from Palm Beach, Flo., with a large filibustering expedition in aid of the Cuban Insurgents. News was brought to tbe Port of Now York by tbe officers of the Fuent Bismarck that the American Liner Paris bad broken a propeller shaft about 820 miles out; the Steamer declined assistance and continued on her way. It is reported among ths stndents of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, that William D. Ogood, the famous football player, has been killed while fighting with the Insurgents in Cuba softest the Spaniards. BOSTON'S OLDEST VOTER. Joseph D. Jones Has Nearly Keaehed the Ag of Ninety-niue. The oldest inhabitant In Boston, and, In cidentally, the oldest voter, Is Joseph David Jones, and he is an inmate of the Home for Aged People in West Springfield street. It Mr. Jones lives until December 80, 1896. he wilt have reached the age of ninety-nine years. Thin aed cttiren is wide-awake to the topics of ths times, and is Intensely in- 1 ""'"l ' JOSEIH D. JONIS. terestod in the Presidential election. Mr. Jones is a registered voter, and declares that he will exercise his privilege as a sovereign citizen just as long as ne is aoie to ao so. Mr. Jones was born, in Boston, not far from r aneuil ttatl, in 1797. In bis early nays he was a dry goods merchant, and later became a manufacturer of tinware. It is remarka ble how well be retains bis faculties. His mind In clear, hU hearing is acute, but, as he himself puts lr, "I am oompeiled to use glosses when t read." He is active on bis fi'ot and the only aid he uses when walking Is a small cane. He Is registered as being ninety-nine years old. BANK ROBBERS KILLED AT BAY. Tried to Escape With Their Booty, Bnt Wer Surrounded. Three bold robbers were killed and two citizens wounded during an attempt to rob the Bank of Meeker, at Meeker, Ool. The citizens were not dangerously wounded. The dead bandits ore George Harris, Charles jones ana wiruam Binitn. TLe bandits, with drawn revolvers com' pel led Cashier Monlton to throw up his nam's, ah the employes ana the customers were told to hold np their hands, and were warned, on paiu of death, hot to move. The leader of tbe trio then ordered Mouiton to n in oh ahead to the safe and unlock It. He did as ordered. A shot fired In the bank had alarmed the town, and while the robbers were leisurely gathering their booty every man in town was arming mmseii to meteetb. As the robbers followed the orowd cut of the bank they were confronted by a dozen men armed with V, inehostera. The bank was surrounded, re treat was cut off and they bad to fight or surrender. To be caught meant death by lyuening or otnerwise, and tne rooDers con eluded to fight. The bandits, Jones and Smith, fell to the ground at tne nrst volley, piercea Dy nne bullets. Hnrrln, the last of the trio, was shot through tne Dack. DOUSLE MURDER AVENGED, i Cr-iiy Sliooraaker Rills Two Policemen and is Riddled With Halls. Threo men were slain and two others woundod, ono perhaps fatally, in Columbus, Go. One of the dead men was J, A. White, a shoemaker, who, aided by bis nlneteen-yenr-old son Henry, killed two of the city's policemen. Officers Adams and Jackson gave White summons to appear before the Beoorderfor disorderly conduct. He ma'Je threats against the oflloers, although he then went home. He subsequently repaired to Bumsey's bar, where he was met by his son, Henry wuite. ADout mat urns u racers Jackson and Adams appeared at the front of the bar. White flung his gun to his shoulder and ft red several shots without stopping. Of. fleer Adams fall dying at almost the first shot. One of tbe first shots struck Officer Jaokson In the abdomen. Father and son then started up First avenue toward their homo on Sixteenth street. A large number of the police foroo of ths cliy armed theaieelves with Winchester rifles and proi'Pedol to White's house smd smashed In t be door. JJefore White oould lire several miliots had entered his body, fired by the of lloerx. lie died in a few moments. - LONE BANDIT ROBS A TRAIN. 4 The Union rnclflo Fast Mall Plnndersd a Uiilo.ua IVsjr in riah. . mo union ,-netua fast mall and express train stopped at a water tank near Nintah station, eight miles from Oglen, Utah, about 1 o'clock a. to. ' , i ' v A man rose up out of the darkness behind the lank and pointed a pair of revolvers at the engineer and liremau. He ordered ths engineer to pull the train about a mile beyond the lank. Then ths bandit put cotton sacks over the heads of the fire man and the engineer and compelled them to get out of the cab and walk with him to tbe mntl car. The mall oar was forced. th clerks thinking that three men were engaged In the operation. Several registered msll bags were thrown oat. Ths bandit took these and disappeared In the nnderbrnsh at the mouth of the Weber Canon. ihe registered mail thrown outhr th-mh. ber woe the through California pouch. Jt contained an unusually heavy amount at iuouey, one package of 2S.00J alone bain consigned to tbe Wells-Fargo Bank, MUTINY ONAlF0NSO XIII. Forty Spanish Gunner Bebsl, Bat Ars Overcome and Fat In Iron. A dispatch from Ferrol says that a mutiny has ooourred on board the Spanish warship Aiionso u., lying at that port Forty gunners rebelled and attempted to seize the boats and go ashore. A fight be tween the mutineers and the marines and others on board tbe ship ensued. Tbe revolt was suppressed and tbe mutineers ware nn . In irons. Oyster Bods Destroyed. Engineer Sanford, of the Connecticut State Shell Fish Commission, received noti fication that the natural oyster beds in ths vicinity of Bridgeport and Slratford, 8700 acres in extent, have boss covered with sand by the hurricane and tbe oysters destroyed. The beds comprise tho greater part of ths publio oyster grounds of the State, and the loss caused by the siorm is estimated at tbOfiOO. l:oatin Illicit Distillery Belied. United States authorities raided an 'illicit distillery In South Boston, Mass., and seised CfiROLINA NEWS HOT A CATHEDRAL. The Episcopal Church Will Devote All Energies to St. Mary's School. At a special metting of the standing committee of the Diocese of North Carolina, held at the Bishop's house, October 9th, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: - Whereat, In the opinion, both of the BiBhop and of tbe reotor of tbe Church of the Good Shepherd it is impracticable at this time to develop sud carry out a Cathedral for this dio cese, as for other causes, so espeo ially because the efforts of tho church men of North Carolina should be cop coutratcd upon the permanent , estab lishment of St Mar je School there fore, ' "Jtetolved, That in the Judgement of the Standing committee, .acting un der the sanction of the resolution adopted by the convention of May, 1896, tbe action of the Bishop, and of the convention of 1895, , in accepting the Churoh .of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, as the cahedral of the Diooease, should be rescinded, and by the authority reposed in the Bishop and Standing committee, said action is hereby rescinded." -'; ' '; The Bishop assents to and Joint in the above aotion. " . .-.. Fusion Is Complete. ' At a full meeting of the Dpmooratio central crmmittee in Raleigh Monday night it was decided to make a prop osition to tbe f 'oculists for fusion on congressional. State and county mat tera the decision was unanimous. The committee was in session from o'clock till 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Chairman Manly made this state ment: "The negroes have all gotten together and it is time for the white people to get together for their pro teotion and for the accomplishment of the fiee coinage of silver, and to this end we have made a proposition to the Populists for complete fusion." The proposition was not made made publio until Tuesday which was too late for these columns. It is understood to yield five Congressmen and give the Populist ohoice of Governor or Sena- ror with an equitable division of other offices. The Debt Statement. The State debt statement has been made public. The 4 per cent, con solidated debt is $31,360,700. To com plete the taking np of all outstanding bonds requires only $255,000 more of 4 cer cents. The 6 per cent debt is 82,720,000. This is for bonds issued in aid of the construction of tne .North Carolina railway. The State receives from the Southern railway for the lease of the road $195,000 annually and six years later is to receive $210,000 annually under the terms of the ninety- nine year lease. Presentation of the Punch Bowl. Wednesday Governor Carr and staff, with tbe presentation committee, ac companied by prominent ladiea and gentlemen from all over the State, went to Sonthport, a few miles below Wilmington, to present the BattleShip Kaleisrh, of the United States JNavy, named after the capital of this State, and one of the finest war ships afloat, the beautiful punch bowl presented by the people of North Carolina. At night a royal reoeption was given the officers and visitors. Boy Sent to the Penitentiary. Marion Bing, a young white boy, who poisoned his father, Dr. Bing, and his family last March in Surry county,, and who was sent away to the West, returned home recently and was instantly arrested, tailed, tried and convicted and has been taken to the penitentiary to serve .five years. His crime nearly cost the livs of his en tire family. Adjutant General Cameron has re ceived a letter from C. S. Merrill, of the Cuban Belief Corps, New York, asking him to send, at bis earliest con venience, a roster of tbe State troops and his latest report- of their era ciency. Clerk Brown, of the Bailroad Com mission, is now busy preparing and readincr the proof of the report of the Board of Commissioners, which is now in tbe hands of the printers and will be issued about the first of the new year. Requisition has been made in vhe Secretary of War for fifty more rifles for the A. and M. cadets at Raleigh. The number of studenda exoeeds any former record. Fire at Murfreesboro iast Saturday swept away an entire block. The total loss is estimated at about $40,000. Insuranoe very slight Among the burned buildings was the Episcopal church. The Superintendent of Publio In struction bas sent $1,000 to the State Industrial School (colored) at Winston. Winston also raised the same amount. Chairman Holton says the official Negro vote of this State is 120,000. Wild oats cost as much as ever. In plte of the fact that everything else has been greatly reduced in price. ELKIN Mfg, CO HIGH GRADE COTTON YARNS, WARPS, TW1YES, EMTING COTTON , ELKIN, .... N.C. cr -1 r What is rv L MM Cnstorla is Dr. Samuel Pltcher,n preneriptloii for Iufants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphlno nor other. Narcotic fuiostauce. It is a harmless substKul for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing. Syrups, and Castor OH. It is riensnnt. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castor!; destroys Worms and allays , feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour . Curd, cures Diarrhoea and "Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and. flatulency. : Castoria assimilates the food," regulates the stomach , and" bowels, giving healthy and natural aep. Cas- . toria is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. j r Castoria. - "Castoria 1 an excellent medicine for chll dren. . Mothers havo repeatedly told me of Its good effeet upon their children.' D. G. C. Osgood," ' Lowell, Mass. ' Castoria Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day Is not Yav. distant when mothers will consider the real interestoifteir children, and .se Castoria Instead of the various JACk nostrunu which ' are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium morphine, soothing yrup oiiif lber hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending tbem to premature graves." Dr. J. P. Kinchblob, Conway, Ark. The) Centaur Company, 77 T FOR lial GiiD OF WASHINGTON, D- 0.. Will Dispose of the Following Judgments- North Carolina. B. P. Howell, Jonathan Creek, 190 00 J. H. Ealea k Co., Eenly, 218 00 W.D. Sadler & Co.,Leeohville,$ 20 19 Layden & Yarboro, Lexington, 92 45 James H.Sandford, Louisburg, 803 74 Perry.Renfrow&Son.Lucama, 864 00 Isaao Williamson, Lncama, 159 57 J. A, Earles, Manson, , 100 05 B. L. Bennett, Middleburg, 30 44 W. J. Bradshaw, Mononre, 845 90 John Bell, Monoure, 606 03 Biddle & Johnson.Monteznma, 97 13 M, M.Mason Co., Moreh'dO'y, 124 00 B. B. Moore. Moriah 94 10 J. V. Mitchell & Son, Mt.Airy, 114 25 J. H. Cohen, Newborn, 180 45 B. J. Smith & Co., Newbern, 911 10 8. J. Jarrell, Oxford, 403 23 B. H. McGnire, Oxford, 443 bO 8. C. Sharender, Panteiro. 136 25 Wm, B. Hutohins, Ral--5gh, 223 91 Thoa. O. Jenkins, Raleigh, 181 18 Bice Bros., Reidsvillc, 227 43 B. L. Bennett, Ridgeway, 99 00 P. Vaughan, Ridgeway, 168 00 A. M. Long, Rockingham, 143 90 N. T. Shore, Salem, 22 58 H. P. Duke & Co., Seaboard, 16 50 0. V. Skilos A Co., Seaboard, 44 00 Fuller k Hyman, Smithfield, 24 33 O. M. Conley, StatesvUlo, 09 SO E. F. Manson, Swansboro, 55 00 T. W. Harris, Jr., Swanqnarter, 64 99 L. Heilbroner & Bro., Tarboro, 139 SO L. Heilbroner&Bro Tarboro, 189 00 J. J. Wilson, Talbot, 211 82 Dnoker ft Garren. Tweed. - 87 22 Wheeler Bros., Warrenton, - 93 25 J. a Morton, Washington, . ,123 40 Boston Shoe Store, Weldon, 47 09 JohnF.Hardison, Williamston, 109 15 W. J. Harris, Wilson, 809 81 W. Corbett. Wilson, 764 60 Wm. Harris; Wilson. 71 07 Mitchell & Askew, Winston, - 83 09 King Bro. Pure Food Co., Win ston. . 23 67 Anderson k Co., Woodleaf, 1 286 00 SEND BIDS TO . . . Tho National Collection Agency, WASHINGTON, D- C- mi TBncl77nU" HP irJM RIGHTS. fM nirrsl A PJlTEST For a prompt answer and ah bone opinion. wrlt to Ml N Ac CO.. who fasve bad Drlr fifty vaan experience la t bp patent bnaineaa. Common ir. tlon strictly onnfklenllil. A Handbook of lo fonrat.lna conoemtDs; Pa tenia arid bow to ob tain tbem sent free. Also a oaiaiogua ot w teai 4nn acientlno books sent irea. ratenM taken tbrotiBb M'inn cvx moeira rpeaai notleeliitbe !rierllle American, and thoa ara brrmeht wlo l betnre tbe rnMIc wttb- ot met to tne InT-emor. This ftnlenriiri naner. Isenea weeny, elesari'ir illnst ratert. has cy far the largest cinmiation of any eev Titifie work in Uis) woriil. S3 a year, psmr.'e crn-s sent free. HnUflmg Petition, monthly, f: V)a Tear. eopiea. g. cents. K tvy siuboat oop'a ni beau Iful biases, in colors. an1 DDOtorrsnh of nfw booses, wiib plana, enshimc nutmers to show tos latffet dfsnns sp'l serure or-ntra'-T. AoMr' T(!lf DniirlS 2 I Castoria. ; ' " Castoria Is so well adapted to children that I recommend It as superior to any prescription known to me." . . . H. A. Ascites, M. D., in 6a Oxford St., Brooklyn, . " Our physidans In the children's depart ment have spoken highly of their experi ence in their outside practice with Castoria and although we only have amoas out medical supplies what Is known as regular products, yet we ore free to confess that tha merits of Castoria has won us to look with "fiMiPiupon It." ifKiTBD Hospital and Dispensary, Boston, Moss. Allen C. Smith, . Murray Street, New YoriTclftyV- SALE! North Carolina. Hill k Benoy, Aberdeen, S 91 79 W. T. Irwin, Asheville, 83 66 White Bros., Aulander, 196 70 B. B. Burden k Bro., Aulander, 47 48 B. F. Mayo, Aurora, , , 63 40 R. B. Weston, Aurora, " 187 B2 J. J. Smith, Bath. - ' 61 6T Jones k Hanoook, Beaufort, - 106 00 L. Mangum, Benson, . . 200 00 T. O. Carson, Bethel, 25 00 E. Woolard, Bunyan, 872 00 Patterson & Brown, Bryson Oity, 81 85 C. A. Baby, Bryson City, 203 29 69 84 72 60 478 89 176 14 73 70 J. T. Wright & Bro., Candor, J. W. Markham, Chapel Hill, W. T. Williamson, Clinton, T. E. Beasley, Ooleram, 8. B. Freeman, Colerain, H. D. OraddockCo., Criswell.421 0& J. A. ft I. K Buokner, Dem ocrat, 802 00 L. H. Lee, Dunn, 19 60 W. A. Slater 4 Co., Durham, 79 80 irm mi m Thaxton ft Pat ton, Durham, 87 85 J. E. Bonner, Edenton, 25 00 Cooper ft Swain, Elizabeth City, 172 60 J. F. Norris A Co., Elk Park,l,448 00 M. A. Wilkinson, Fair Bluff, 38 40 , J. M. Chadwick, Fairfield, , 90 86 J. H. Smith, Falkland, 130 60 Gainey ft Jones, Fayetteville, ?7J 00 J. A. Vann, Franklintoo, , 14 45" , B. T. Ciiffton, Franklinton, 199 00 Leroy King ft Co., Oraham,- 41 98 " T. B. Bioe ft Co., Greensboro, 845 92 -Sample 8. Brown, Greensboro, 836 4T W. B. Jordan ft Co., Greens- ' " bore r . . . - ,15 80 John B. Hooker pamilton, , , 82 60 J. C. Hotrd ft Co., Hamilton, 8rfl 97 N. H. Taylor, Harlowe, ! 84 181 J. W. B. Basson ft Co., ' Haw J v , , River - - - "! - 63 15 Britt Bros., Henderson, . , .18169 m W. T. Cheatham, Henderson, 130 67 O. D. Tharrington, Inez, " 60 98 ' The Charlotte Observer DAILY &. WEEKLY OALDwaix a TstOktrEUra, Publishers. I. P. Caldwzll, Editor acBSCBiPTiour pbick. Year, Months M 00 $3.00. II W. 11 00 .( . .w. DAILY Tear, Mouths wsesxt Oaasavaa, Full Telerraphk eorvlcs. Mid large corps DoTcspobdrnts. Bert advartlstna sacdlniB bet Teen washing ton, K O , and Atlanta,, O A. - Adlreaa, OBSERVER, f a SMITTK, W t Wanted-An Idea Who earn think of some aim nle thins to netenlr Protect your Mea: tber OHM WfcLDEl-.Br bring you wealth. Write Ji CO , Pstent Aitor. rera, Wasbinaion, u. C . for Ihelr $1 " Pnsw ofler and list "t two hundred lurec-iona wanted. Tt 1