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VOL. V. ' WALTER B. SELL, Editor,
ELKIN, N." C, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2G, 189G.
EUBBARD & ROTH, Publics- NO. 7.
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THE FARMER'S THANKSGIVING,
. Tbs earth is brown, and skies are gray,
And the windy woods are bare,
And tho first white flaked o! tbe coming
snow
, Are afloat In tbe frosty air;
Set the sparks fly up from the htokory log
On tbe homestead s broad stone hearth,
And tho windows shake,' and tho rafters
ring,
To tbe lads' and the lasses' mirth.
Tbe farmer's face Is furrowed and worn,
And bis looks are thin and white;
Bat bis hand Is steady, his voice Is clear,
And bis eye is blue and bright,
As he turns to look at bis sweet old wife,
Who sits 1 1 her gown of gray,
wan ine coowett 'kerchief, and creamy
frills
She wore on her wedding day.
He bows bis bead to the laden board,
And the guosts they are silent all.
'Thanksgiving, Lord, for the sun and rain,
And the fruit on the orchard wall.
For the silver wheat, and the golden corn,
And tho orown of a peaceful life
The greatest blesslug that Thou canst give
A true and a loving wife!"
'iUu white-haired lover he bends to kiss
Her band In Its frill of lnoo,
And the faded rose on her wrinkled check,
with a proud and a courtly grooei
And the gnowflukas click on the window-
! pane,
And the rafters ring above,
And the angels sing at the gntes of God
Tbe words ot the farmer's love.
-Mlunle Irving.
HOilli AGAIN.
A THANKSGIVING STOBT.
a rtn.il a very sin
. gnlar name, Jane,
such a very singu
lar name. Oh, if
it should be 1"
The words were
a wail, in accents
of such utter mis
ery, that the strong
woman who heard
them felt her eyes
grow misty. She
bent over the
louDge where the
speaker, a silver-
helpless for years
Willi paralysis, was lifting beseeching
eyes to her lace.
"Don't take on, so, demy," she said,
soothingly. "There's many one, the
more s the pity, driven to suiotde by
Hunger ana com. way should tnis
one be "
Then she choked. Her nursling,
her baby, the child she vVrthipetl,
unvea cy nunger mapwj snioiae
"Bat, Jnne.!l' tn persisted.
"it is suq-rtlttnie. See," and
the poiniMrt'io one sentence in the
paper beforo her; "the only clue to
the identity of the would-be suicide
is a wedding ring marked 'John to
Delphine."
"I see," sail tho nurse, "but
but-"
And again the wished-for words of
comfort failed her. The paragraph
was no unoomraon one, merely the
record of a woman s attempt at self
destruction. She had thrown herself
off a bridge, clasping a babe close in
her arms, and had been rescued and
taken, quite unconscious, to a hospital,
Her dress was described and the in
scription on the ring given; that was
II.
But the paralyzed woman reading
the newspaper was journeying over
memory's plain, baok back twenty
five years, when s baby lay upon her
breast, the only one God ever gave
her. A blue-eyed babe, nursed ten
derly, reared in every luxury, petted,
indulged for twenty long years, the
idol of two loving hearts. Then oh,
the bitter rock on the plain one day
this child of so muoh love left her
home to follow the fortune of a man
who was so unfit for the care of her
weet girlhood, that her father had
forbidden him to enter the house
where his child dwelt.
1 The lovers if the very name is not
desecration, where on one side was
mercenary calculations, on the other
blind worship met at the.honseof
friends and planned an elopement.
When Delphine was gone, when no
doubt of her treaohery to her parents
remained, her father, a stern, hot-
tempered man, oureed her, and for
bade her name to be mentioned in his
house. And her mother, even then
helpless, shivered and moaned, and
silently prayed for the child whose
deoeit could not destroy her mother's
lore.
And for five years no line came to
tell them of repentance, no prayer for
pardon.
One letter from John Hoi lis, the
man who had so basely stolen young,
trusting girl from happy home to
follow his evil fortunes, the father
nswered, crushing forever the hope
of fortune that had prompted the
Tillain
Such letter as he read, grinding
his teeth with impotent rage, effec
tually prevented second demand
upon his father-in-law's purse, and
Delphine knew in that hour what
misery lay before her.
Bnt she made no appeal.
The future she had deliberately
chosen she accepted as her punish
ment, seeing at last how wickedly she
had requited the love of years.
"Mrs. Bernard, dear," Jane said,
oftly, caressing the hsggard face, at
last buried in the pillows of the lonnge,
"don't don't take on so."
"If I onlv knew, if I oclr fcnaw "
the mother moaned ; "and, oh, Jane 1 J
ins Ananksgining Day. How can 1
pray tLankfully if my darling lies to
day in hospital dying by her own
ctf Jane, 1 must see Mr. Bernard."
Jane" went willingly upon this errand,
bnt returned slowlv.
'ill. Bernard has cone out, ma'am." j
1
AN INTERRUPTED THANKSGIVING SERVICE.
"Gone out?
Why, he never goes
till after 10."
Down in the cosy library, where
James Bernard enjoyed the leisure
well earned by years of mercantile
toil, the morning's newspaper had
been opened deliberately, tue money
article scanned, the foreign news en
joyed, and the reador was idly looking
over other columns, when a sentence
seemed to spring out of the page be
fore him, so clearly it stood deiined
against the mass of print.
"The only clew to the identity of
the would-be suicide is a wedding
ring, marked 'John to Delphine.' " .
Eagerly every line of the tragedy was
read, the sweat standing in great beads
upon James Bernard s face.
Shabby weeds I" he muttered, "a
widow, starving 1"
Then in his heart arose a great cry,
breaking through the stern repression
of years.
"Delphine, my girl, my treasure I"
He could read no more. Only that
one pitiful record could he see upon
the whole broad printed sheet, and the
yearning bitterness of hisheart would
not be stilled.
"I must be sure," he thought, at
length. "I hope Delia will not see
this. Shall I see? No, my face would
betray me. I will not see her until I
oan tell her it is not our child, or"
What? lie would consider no fur
ther, but put on his overcoat and hat,
and hurried out into the bleak
November air. It was Thanksgiv
ing Day, and the city wore its holiday
air.
Stores were closed, and groups were
going to and fro with the expression
eipeotad pleasure brings upon faoes
worn with the world s cares.
The batchers' curt s rattled about
noisily and hurriedly, that turkeys
might be delivered in time to secure
longer holiday for the carriers.
Children with "going to grandma's"
legibly printed on their faces skipped
lightly over the oold pavements.
Nobody noticed the handsomely
dressed old man who strode rapidly in
the direotion of the city hospital, for
getting carriages, horse cars, every
thing but the necessity of satisfying
that dreadful doubt in his heart.
Now he sickened for fear this des
perate wretoh was his child; now he
prayed it might be, that he could
claim her for his own again.
"Here yes, sir," said the physi
cian, in answer to his inquiries; "liv
ing? oh, yes, she'll get over it; needs
food as much as anything. Oan yon
see her? Certainly Sarah," calling
a nurse, "take this gentleman to 39
pauper ward."
39 pauper," Isy upon a cot
that was scrupulously clean, perfectly
comfortable, yet sent a ohill to James
Bernard's heart.
Her babe, a lovely boy of some six
months, pale, bnt with large, dark
eyes full of intelligence, was seated be
side her, and the mother's eyes rested
npon his faco mournfully, but without
any delirious nre.
James Bernard staggered baok
little, and the nurse whispered :
"She's quite herself this morning,
though she will tell us nothing of her
self. Shall I speak to her ?"
"No, I I will speak to her."
The voioo was hoarse, choked, but
the woman upon the bed heard it, and
looked up.
Many cry of anguish, of dying
agony, of piteous appeal had rung
through that "pauper ward," but
never one of more passionate entreaty
than the one word, "Father!" that
burst from the lips of the womaa
snatched from death by a policeman's
rough grasp not twenty-four hoars be
fore.
The morning was dragging wearily
long in the room where every luxury
wealth eonld command was heaped
about Airs. Bernard's invalid lounge.
Trembling with excitement, mingled
hope and fear, the mother watched the
hands of the clock travel slowly over
the face. Again and again Jane had
gone to tho library, only to return t
make the er.e report.
"lie s not oon9 id yet, ma am.
It was past noon when the Ions
strained patience gave way.
1 "Jane you must go to the hospital,
t shall die in this agony of doubt.
Yon eVn see if if this is a stranger,
and if not oh, Jane, surely surely
her father will forgive her now."
if in answer to the err James
THE MORAL WARFARK,
Our fathers to their graves have gonet
Their strlfi. is pnst, their triumph won,
Jlut sterner trials wait tbe raoe
Which rises In their honored place:
A moral warfare with the crime
And folly of an evil time.
So lot It be. In Qod's own might
We gird as for the oomlng fight;
And, strong In Him whose cause Is ours,
Iu conflict with unholy power
We grain the weapons H has given
The Light, the Truth, and Love of Heaven.
Whit tier.
Bernard at this moment entered the
room. Upon his face there war a
strange solemnity, and not seeming to
see the quivering lips, the imploring
eyes lifted to his face, he kissed his
wife tenderly.
"Delia," he said, gently, "did you
read the newspaper this morning?"
"Yes, James I"
"You saw, perhaps, a paragraph de
scribing the attempted suicide of a
woman named "
"Delphine 1 James, you read it?
James James you will see if it oan be
our child.' James, you will forgive
her now I"
And the poor.holpless figure writhed
as if the poor mother would have
thrown herself at her husband's feet.
"You thought too," he said huskily.
"Yes, yes, Jane was going to go,
but now you will go. You will see if
our darling, our Delphine, has been
driven to such mad misery as .to try
and take the life we cherished bo ten
derly. James, yon will go?"
".Delia, you must try to be calm,"
oried her husband, frightened at the
terrible agitation, so muoh more piti
f ul from her inability to move, except
above her waist. It was awful to see
the white, thin fingers twisting and
working, the pale face so agonized.
Literally afraid to tell his tidings,
James Bernard took the little figure
in his arms. .
"If you will be quiet, love," he said,
"I will tell you good news."
She was quiet enough then, lying
panting with exhaustion in ner hus
band's' arms.
"Then you know !" she gasped,
"I have been to the hospital."
"And it is not our Delphine?"
"Delia, it is our Delpoine 1"
"Oh, James James 1" and here the
tears broke forth, and the invalid
shook with sobs.
"Oar Delphine, Delia."
"Dying?"
"Thank Heaven, no I She has had
hours of unconsciousness, but is ra
tional again, and she knew me. Her
illness now is not dangerous, only the
elect of" with a ohoking " sob :
"Starvation I"
"Oh, James James 1"
"She can be nursed back to life."
"There?"
"Can you bear it, Delia? She is
here I"
"And not with me? Oh, how can
yon keep her from her mother?"
In answer to the cry, James Bernard
left the room, motioning Jane to fol
low him. Only a few moments later
he returned, half supporting, half
carrying, a weak, trembling woman,
who sank, half fainting, into her
mother's arms.
There was a long silenoe, broken
only by the voice of Mrs. Bernard,
speaking low, caressing words and
mnrmurs in answer, faint And low.but
full of tenderness.- '
Then Jane appeared, asking:
"Is there no weloome for my bon
nie boy, the darling with grandpa's
eyes?'
And glad greeting followed the
painful, yet joyful meeting between
the parents and the long lost child.
It was sad story Delphine Hollis
told to sympathizing listeners; bnt
the miseries, the trials of the nnloved
wife were softened in the widow's re
cital, and over the dead was spread i
mantle of gentle charity and forgive'
ness.
'Dinner, Mrs. Bernard," Jane said.
at last, "and Thanksgiving.
And while she set the invalid's table.
James Bernard escorted Delphine to
the dining room to preside over the
bountiful repast providod there, with
heart fall of most Bincere and fervent
thanksgiving.
Tiielr First Thanksgiving at Home.
Mr. Nowbrvde (attempting to carve
the turkey) "Good heavens,
Mar 7 1
wbat nave you stoned tbis
with"
turkey
Mrs. Newbrydo (with dignity)
"Why, with oysters as you told me."
Mr. Newbryde (again trying to foros
his knife through) "But it feels like
rooks or stones."
Mrs. Newbrvde "Oh. ran mn.
horrid, cruel brute I That is the oys
ter shells. You always told me the
only way you liked oysters was in tho
shells Bool hoo I hool" Pack.
A funny way
to make money
Write jokes.
Thanksgiving Decoration,
The old question comes up again
and again as to how to devise some
thing novel for Thanksgiving decora
tion. The day is one pre-eminently
homely and simple in its spirit and
traditions a day set apart for return
ing Utanks because of the necessities
and every day comforts ot life.
Nothing is so appropriate in com
memorating the occasion as the em
bellishments from the harvest fields.
In drawing rooms nothing is more ef
fective than Indian oora and diminu
tive yellow pumpkins, the corn with
its long stalks and golden ears Btaokud
on either side of the wide doors or
grouped in corner, the small pump
kins with more ears of corn piled at
tbe base.
Vines of cranberry crowded with
the tiny red globes can trail across
mantel shelves or twine up and down
columns, while garlands of red and
green peppers, all sizes and shapes,
and great bunohes of wheat and oats
are rich and beautiful in efleot. FrnUs
of all kinds grapos, late pears and
peaches, rosy apples and purple plums,
mingled with their own foliage are
unique and highly typical of the har
vest home.
For dining table ornamentation a
novel and "most attractive mode is. to
out from the ordinary garden vegeta
bles shapes simulating flowers froo
the beet a deep red rose ; from the
yellow turnip, a tiger lily; white
lily or chrysanthemum .from the pota
to, with lettuce leave's for foliage,
while cabbage, celery, cauliflower and
the dozen other kitchen garden pro
ductions add blossoms to this original
bouquet. One of the ornaments serves
at each plate as a favor, while a huge
group mingled with fruits forms a fine
centerpiece.
It is a very simple matter to shape
these mock flowers, a sharp knife and
a little skill is all that is required.
They may bs prepared the day before
Thanksgiving and kept fresh in a
bowl of water.
Revenge,
"What are you doing that for?"
asked the old Gobbler of .the young
Tom, as he observed that fine looking
bird standing in a corner of the barn
yard on his left leg, and drawing in
and shooting out the right with
monotonous persistence.
"Hardening my muscles, replied
the young Tom, shifting to the right
leg and keeping np the performance
with bis left.
"Are you entered for theThanksgiv
ing games?" inquired the old Gobbler.
"No," responded the young Tom;
"I am entered for the Thanksgiving
dinner, and that boy who lives in tbs
big bouse has been coming out here
every day for a month to see how I am
coming on. Well, ifI must be eaten,
I must, but that boy isn't going to
give many thanks when he tackles my
drumsticks, that's all I" Harper's
Weekly.
A Tlruuirht fur Thanksgiving.
"Tie only way to regenerate the
world is to do the duty which lies
nearest us, and not to hunt after
grand, far fetched one for ourselves.
If each drop of rain chose where it
should fall, God's showors would not
fall as they do now."
Tale of a Tough Turkey.
Right up to the markot stall strode ho,
And bought a bird that was tea pounds threo.
Then quickly home to bin wife he sped.
And told her all that the man bad said
Ot how to pick and stuff and oook.
And so with loving hands sho took
That tough old bird that was bard and gray,
And Into the ovon she stowed htm away.
And then for their manied life wag young
With Joyous hearts they gat and sung
Until, as around the oiock hands spun,
She satd with a smile that the bird was dona.
And he laughed aloud, and bis joy was great,
For his stomach told that tbs hour was lata.
And he kissed his' wife and he cried tn glee
At the One old bird that was ten pound
three,
And said, "I will cut him now In two;"
And took his knife that was bright and new
And hacked away for an hour or so.
Till bis blade got dull and his movements
slow;
And then, with prayer and a moment's rest,
He took off bis ooat and then bis vest,
And baoked sway till twilight name.
And bis arms were sore and bis back was
lame.
And the houn wore on and the weeks sped
by,
And still, with sunken cheek and eye.
He worked away, and his wife sat there.
With patient face, in the game old chalrj
Until one day, as his knife bla le broke,
And bis withered frame sink down, she
spoke.
And said with a smile, that Was halt a sneet
i mouia mini you would team to carve,
my near. -
-Sail and Express.
The erudition of the State Geologist
of South Dakota will evolve probably)
some scientific explanation of the eub'
terranea'n vagaries of Mrs. Mary Jonnj
son's farm, but it will require also tbi
opinions of meteorological and bleycll
experts to satisfy fully the curlosltj'
of the public. From the details now
at hand one would hazard the opinion
that Mrs. Johnson has been living in
fancied security over a prehistoric bllz
&ard or tornado. Probablywhen this
ancient twister was performing In the
reckless manner common to Us kind
It was caught unawares by. a combina
tion of landslides and held in cap
tivity with its forces yet unexpended.
It is due to the happy thought of Mrs.
Johnson that she would like to have
a deep well that some expert drillers
reached this realistic cave of the winds
and released enough of the contents
at the pneumatic stratum of the farm
to Indicate its boundless wind possibil
ities. "As soon ns the nlr cushion Is
reached," says the chronicler of the
episode, "the wind rushes out with n
icreech like a locomotive, and sixteen
pound sledges are tossed Into the air
as lightly as feathers." A wind that
has been reposing In enforced Inac
tion for decades and possibly centuries
rod that on the slightest provocation
bandies sixteen-pound sledges as If
they were feathers and screeches like
a locomotive Is a farm product that
must receive the most thorough Investi
gation from every possible point of
view The meteorologist and State Ge
ologist may determine Its status In the
Bora and fauna of the region, and
may Issue wise and technical bulletins
ts to Its pnst history and future possi
bilities, but It Is apparent more prac
tical minds must be brought to bear
on the phenomenon to Insure obtaining
the greatest measure of utility. A bi
cyclist of experience would be nble
to tell at a glance or two whether It
would be feasible to run pipe lines
from the farm to all parts of the United
States as a supply agency for the Infla
tion of tires. It Is not Impossible that
tome similar plan could be devised so
that the Innumerable windmills of the
Nation would not be dependent longer
on nature's Intermittent supply, and
pachtsmen certainly would welcome
such a stable force as a panacea for
the vexatious calm that has been found
10 troublesome In the management of
regattas. I
A Mince Tie. "
The ' mince pie of to-day Is round.
Four centuries ago, to cat a round mince
pie would be to 6tJgmatlze yourself as
a Jew or a heretic. The orthodox shape
Is a long oval. It was doubtless meant
to represent the cradle In Bethlehem,
and tradition further asserts that the
strange mixture which makes tbe
mince represents the fruits and 6plce
with which the three kings In the
leeend filled the cradle.
CAPE FEAR & YADKIN VALLEY HI
John Gill, Itecelver.
CONDENSED SCHEDULE.
In Effect November 13th, 1890
NORTH B0CNP.
No. 2. Dally.
.Leave Wilmington 7 60 a. m
Arrive Fayetteville 11 00
ieuve i'Hjettevllle 11
Leave Fayetteville Junction 11 27
Leuve Sanford 1 00 p. m.
i.eave uninax a ou
Arrive Greensboro 8 18
Leave Greensboro 8 25
Leave fctokesdale 4 10
Leave Walnut Cove 4 40
Leave Rural Hall 5 10
Arrive Mt. Airy 6 83
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Dally.
Leave Jit. Airy 8 40 a. m.
Leave llural Hall 10 01 "
Loave Walnut Cove 10 32 "
Leave Stokesdale 1 1 07 "
Arrive Greensboro 11 53 "
Leave Greensboro 12 10 p. m,
Leave Climax 12 41 "
Leave Sanford 2 55 "
Arrive Fnyettcviila Junction 4 12 "
Arrive Fayetteville 4 l!i "
Leave Fayettoville 4 35 "
Arrive Wilmington 7 4j "
KOttlB BOUND.
No. 4. Dally.
Leave IJonnettsville B su n. m.
Arrive Maxton !M0 "
Leave JIaxton 9 50 "
Leave J'.ed Borings 10 18 "
Leave Lumber Bridge 10 33 "
Leave Hope Mills 1101
Arrive Fayetteville 11 19 "
BOUTII BOUND,
No. 3. Dnilv.
Leave Fayetteville 4 28 p. in.
Leave Hope Mills 4 49 "
Leave lied Springs 5 36 "
Arrive Maxton 0 00 "
Lfave Maxton 6 17 "
Arrive llennettsville 7 25 "
NOBTH BOUND.
(Daily Except Sunday.)
No. 16, Mixed.
Leave Ramseur 6 45 a. m.
Leave Climax 8 35 '
Arrive Greensboro 9 V0 '
Leave Greensboro 9 35 "
Lave Stokesdale 1107 "
Arrive Madison 1155 "
SOUTH BOUND.
(Dally Except Sunday.)
No. 15, Mixed.
Leave Madison , 12 30 p. m.
Leave Stokesdale 1 28 "
Arrive Greensboro 2 40 "
Leave Greensboro 8 20 "
Leave Climax 4 15 '
Arrive Itamseur 6 00 "
NORTH BOUND CONNECTIONS
at Fnyetteville with Atlantic Coast Line for
all points North and East, at Sauford with
the Seaboard Air Line, at Greensboro with
the Southern Railway Comiuinv. at Walnut
Cove with the Norfolk h. Western Railroad
for Winston-Salem.
SOUTH BOUND CONNECTIONS
at Walnut Cove with tho Norfolk Western
Railroad for Roanoke and points north and
west, at Greensboro with the Southern Rail
way Company for Raleigh, Richmond and j
all peints north and east; nt Fayetteville I
with tho Atlantic O ast Line for all points
South; at Maxton with tho Seaboard Air Line
for Charlotte, Atlanta and all points south
od southwest. W. E. KYLE,
1. Vf. FRY, Gca'l l'ass. Agent
Gen'l Manager.
ELKINMfg, CO
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Tho Centaur Company,
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OF WASHINGTON, D- C
Will Dispose of the Following; Judgments-
IIIIIMIIIIMIIIIIIIII
North Carolina.
B. P. Howell, Jonathan Creek, 190 00
J. II. Hales & Co.. Kenly, 218 00
W.D. Sadler & Co., Leech ville;$ 20 10
Layden & Yarboro, Lexington, 92 -45
James H.Sandford, Louiaburg, 303 74
Perry.Eenfrow&Son.Luoatna, 881 00
Isaao Williamson, Lucama, 159 57
J. A, Earles, Mausou, 1G0 05
B. L. Bennett, Middleburg, SO 41
W. J. Bradshaw, Monoure, 345 90
John Bell, Monoure, 606 03
Riddle k Johnson, Monteznma, 97 13
M.M.Mason&Co.,Moreh'dO,y, 124 00
B. K. Moore, Moriah 94 10
J. V. Mitohell & Son, Mt.Airy, 114 25
J. H. Cohen, Newbern, 180 45
B. J. Smith & Co., Newbern, 911 10
S. J. Jorrell, Oxford, 403 23
E. H. MoGuire, Oxford, 443 GO
S. O. Sharender, Fantego, . 136 25
Wm. B. Hutchins, Raleigh, 223 91
Thos. O. Jenkins, Baleigh, 181 18
Bice Bros., Beidsville, 227 43
B. L. Bennett, Bidgewoy, 99 00
F. Vaughan, Bidgewoy, 168 00
A. M. Long, Rockingham, 143 90
N. T. Shoro, Salem, 22 68
H. P. Duke & Co., Seaboard,' 16 50
O. V. Skiles & Co., Seaboard, 44 00
Fuller & Hyman, Smithficld, 24 S3
O. M. Conley, Statenville, 99 ?0
E. F. Manson, Swansboro, 65 00
T. W. Harris, Jr., Swauquarter, 54 99
L. Heilbroner Bro., Torboro, 139 BO
L. Heilbroner & Bro., Tarboro, 189 00
J. J. Wilson, Talbot,
211 62
Ducker tc Gurren, Tweed.
Wheeler Bros., Worrenton,
87 22
93 25
123 40
47 09
J. O. Morton, Washington,
Boston Shoe Store, Weldon,
John F.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 Bros. Pure Food Co., Win
ston, 'ii 07
Anderson 4 Co., Woodleaf, 286 00
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Hill k Benoy, Aberdeen, $ 91
W. T. Irwin, Ashevillo, 83
White Bros.. Aulunder, 196
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B. B. Burdon & Bro., Aulunder, 47 48
B. F. Mayo, Aurora, G3 40
B. B. Weston, Aurora, 187 62
J. J. Smith. Bath. 51 57
Jonea & Hancock, Beaufort,
L. Mangum, Benson,
T. O. Corson, Bethel,
E. Woolnrd, Banyan,
106 00
200 00
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Patterson &BrowD, Bryson City, 81 85.
C. A. Boby, Bryson City, 203 29
J. T. Wright & Bro., Condor, 89 34
J. W. Morkhom, Chapel Hill, 72 50
W. T. Williamson, Clinton, 478 89
T. E. Beasley, Colerain, 176 1
S. B. Freeman, Colerain, 73 1(i ,
H. D. Craddock&Co., Criswell,421 00
J. A. & I. K. Buckner, Dem- I
ocrat, 302 00
L. XL Lee, Dunn, 19 50
W. A. Slater & Co., Durham, 79 80
Thoxton & Potion, Durham, 87 85
J. E. Bonner, Edenton, 25 00
Cooper & Swain, Elizabeth
City, 172 60 .
J. F. Norris & Co., Elk Park.1,443 00
M. A. Wilkinson, Fair Bluff, 88 40
J. M. Chadwick, Fairfield, 90 88
J. H. Smith, Falkland, . 130 GO
Gainey & Jones, Fayetteville, J?6 0u
J. A. Vann, Franklinton, 144 45
B. T. Cliffton, Franklinton, 199 00 -Leroy
Kiug& Co., Graham, 41 98
T..B. Kico & Co., Greensboro, 345 92
Sample S. Brown, Greensboro, 336 47
W. K. Jordan & Co., Greens
boro 15 80
John B. Hooker, Hamilton, 82 60
J. C. Hoard & Co., Hamilton, 3dl 97
N. H. Taylor, Harlowe, 34 18
J. W. B. Basson & Co., Haw
Eiver 63 15
Britt Bros., Henderson, 18169
W. T. Cheatham, Hendorsop, 130 57
0, D. Tharrington, Inez, 50 93
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