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.. ." tSr'Subscriotion received for nil peri
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..-taken for school supplies. Latett Stin
kard Novels. Pencils, pens, inks, eto.
Dre&Hin Well
is an art, and tbo man who
Sim bis garments made to measure
by ns has found the key to that art.
It doesn't require any arguing to
how you that you can get a better
tit and more style in a suit or over
. oat when they are moulded to you,
v F.M. Chart w It k.
,101 Middle Street
City property of alt classes Tor sale,
cash or on time. Some of the best house
.and lots in the city are included, nnd on
down to the cheapest tenements. .
. Also we have a number of parlies who
"want to buy In preferred location., soil
will pay you to see us if you really want
itoseU. .
' Houses to rent in various parts of tin
dty.-. .'..-.,
Farm lands at most any price you
wvanb
Collection of rents a specialty. .
. E. E. HARPER.
; Sear Post Office,
127 MIDDLEEST
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v - , At Priooi to suit the iimes,
TSTA ohoice selootion of Per
antes and Toilet Artiolos.
Farmers.
'.pVe have A FULL LINE of
, ' CUITIVATOILS,
and all other Farming'' Im
plcmontsatUOCK BOTTOM'
rrici:3.
T". ' ("II ANTS-V( i:nn sell yon
wm1h a v ttniitaetlirets price.
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THE STATE CIPIE
a Left tiire of M Cosl
as 1895.
Skinner Fnt In Republican List.
Strained Relntiens Between Rus
sell and Pritchard. Lively
. Contests for Offices.
- JorKXAi. BiniKAr, )
RuiKion, N. C. March. 13. '07. f
The cost of the State legislature will
very closely approximate that of tin
legislature of 1895 $72,000. It served
two days without pay.
The regular populists have blacklisted
Congressman Harry Skinner and now
put him down as a Republican.
There Is some comment on Gov. Rus
jell's delay in giving out the names of tin
next State Directors of the North Caro
lina railway. Tt is said at the executlvi
lepartment that the lists will be printec
and all given out at once. The forme
directors have been notified of their re
moval.
The strained relations between Gov
Russell and Senator Pritchard become!
more apparent day by day.
One wing of the Republicans now
lieaps ridicule on the bolting populists a
'greedy fellows,.' who- care for nothinj
javo office." -
Improvements at the Agricultural nnf
VIeclmnical, College continue. The hos
iiital will bo built during the summer
flic heating arrangements are defective
iwing to lack of boiler power, and tw
irg e boilers will be put in.
There is quite a lively contest in prog
resa for the U. S. attorneyships of th
Eastern and Western districts, as well a:
or the assistant attorneyship. The ham
if Governor Russell is said to be felt ii
his matter too,
Granite will arrive here next week t
bo
cut into headstones for the graves o
the North Carolina soldiers buried a
Winchester, Ya.
Secretary of State, Cyrus Thompsoi
eceived a letter today addressed Dr
3yru8 B. Watson, "Secretary of State
)ne came the other day addressed Hon
'ofcn Sherman, Secretary of State of N. C.
The steam titters arc now at work ii
he Agricultural Department's building
vliich is to have nu independent hcatinj.
lyslem.
Dr. Monroe, who is selected by Gov.
tusscll to the head of the Western hop
Hal for the insnne, nt Morgnnton, is salt1
o be a Democrat.
There appears to he no' prospect for i
itnte baseball league in North ('arolini
his year.
The legislature fixed the license tax or
Ire and accident insurance companies a
$200 and on life companies ut '-Cl. Tin
tax on all gross premiums is 2 p:T cent
The cost to the State of the electioi
;estn in the legislature was f 1,691.
Gov. Russell is manifesting much in
ercst in having North Carolina meke i
liighly creditable display at the Tennes
tee Centennial Exposition, opening Ii
April. '
Telecmphle Ilrua.
Commissioner Eva Boot h, of 1 lie Sal
vation Army, who has been seriously il
in Toronto, Ont is pronounced to be
nit of danger.
At a fire in the Chicago House, Huffs
'o, Teddy O'Donnell an 1 William iian
alian, lioarders, were suffocated in thrli
cds. Other inmntes had narrow evapes
Tho keel lias been laid at the I'nioF
Iron Works, San Fraud -too, for the bat
.le-ship Wisconsin, the contract foi
which was let by the gnrormrnt si
months ago.
The Japanning department of the tan
ucry concern of Want-hard Brothers A
f.ane, of Newark, N. J., was burned and
one employe and four firemen were in
lured. ,--
The hoop Iron" Association has beet
lissolved. This was caused by the re
fusal of two leading firms to continue
the organization, and it oxplrcd by limi
tation. The market is now an own one
Tho large store of the Phillipsburg Fin
Brick Company and thrco dwellings ad
joining at Phillipsburg, Pa., wvre d
itroyrd by fire. . The fire originated in
the store. The loss will reach 417.000,
The Jenny Electric Motor Works, '
Indianapolis, hid,, was entirely destroyed
by fire. Th loss is fSO.000 to8a,fi00 and
Includes building, machinery, 'slid pat
terns. Tho total Insurance amounts U
about 135,000.
Allen A. Alford, son of Gen. Alford, ol
Texas, has been convicted of forgery and
sentenced to two years in Sun Qucnlin,
Voting Alford succeeded In nuving placed
to his credit in the First National Bank
of Los Angeles. Cel., a forced draft foi
1,000. , . . ,
Thrco members of the government
commission. to Insiiect steel plants are
said to have been slightly injured in an
explosion at the Carbon Steel company1
works, at Pittsburg. ' One of the party
struck a match In a cold furnace, and an
explosion of ens followed.' The three
men were burned alwiit Uiri face, lint not
seriously. ' "
THE COTTON MARKETS. -
x March 13.
Mat delivery in New Tork closes at 7.03,
The fluctuations are light ami the
ti iitiHuclhuis in futures small.
Yours truly,
J, K. LtTIUM.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure .
Celel rated for its greatj lenvenini
itrensth and Jhealthfuluess. Assi res thi
food upainst aluninnd all forms of adul
teration common to tnc cneap oronos.
;royal baking powder co;
NewVork.
STATE OF TRADE.
Steafly Improvemsnt
All Lines.
Rise iii Sugar and Coffee Expected
Demand for Woolen Hoods. Pros
pects for Ilia her Prices for Corn.
BnlUsh Indications.
Boston, Mass., 1
March 12, 1HI7. '
The outlook in general business con
tinues to show a slow but steady im
provcnu'tit. Every week the number ol
nills and factories in operation growt
larger.
is iikt.' ii. msixtss.
Storekeepers who can take atlvanlagi
of cut prices on silver and colfee jut
low may do so with profit, as a rise it
,)riccs is likely to conic later in lh
nontii. Some time in the latter part o
April or May, however, suirar prices an
ikelv to break very serious, jinlgini
Tom certain developments which arc not
et to be made public.
Prints of nil kinds are cheap, just now
ind nre lil;ely to be so for part of thi'
nonth anvway. Tl.e rush for woolei
id worsted goods of all kinds continues
mder the assurance that prices will ad-
anee decided in n lew montiis.
There is nu advance of 1.00 a case ion
dp nnd split leather bouts. Shoe price
ire also alio wing a ten leney to advance
nd will iie much higher in n few weeks
All wool cheviots se,tn to be the favor-
le suiUnr, iiiilgin Iron the rush ot
rdrrs. The mills are a'icady refusiug
udcrs tliat thev would hnve been glad to
et a month ago. Those who sell ging-
Minis liuil that the hili grade goo Is sell
uuch better then the low grades.
TO FARMKKS.
To read any talk an ad van e Ui the
iriee of corn n ay teem astounding; bho
et we nre inrtino l to think that tlirdsyt
.vhen corn was '-King" are not yet over
A committee headed by Senator Piatt
if Connecticut bus been investigating
he proposition to allow inamifi etiircrt
use American-made .alcohol without
he Internal revenue lax of about 250 pel
;ent, winch is now paid. A provnion to
hat effect may go Into the ni ,t tnrifi
nil. If it docs and becomes n law, from
10,000,00), to IHl,.KNl,IKNl, hushclsor corn
i year will go into alcohol to Ih iisi il in
nanufactures, patent medicines, vai-
lishes, drugs, hats, Sc. The entire e
xirls of corn last year were alsuil lftO,
100,000 biishol". The new feature of tlx
;)ingley Inrilf bill will make a maiketfdi
icrhaps half tn iniich nion- corn and Mil
mrely means higher prices for corn i
he law is enncte I.
The removal of the tax will not apply
lo American-made alcohol used in am
jray but manufacture; alcoh.il In intoxl
ants will probably lie taxed heavier than
it was in the McKinley law. Imported
ilcobol of liny kind will In' subject to
cry high duty. s Mm. This seems Ii
promise more real benefit to every funnel
han to any oilier single provision of the
llngley bill. .
Of course if corn prices go up after tin
passage of the bill, pork prices are like!)
to advance. In the event of the enact.
nent of the recommendation of Kcnatoi
Piatt, the prospects of corn will be bet lei
than they l.avu been for years. We heat
from a member of the "Ways ami Meant
committee Unit Ihe committee is cli selv
llvlded but will probably vole for tin
proposition by a small majority,
The market for hay promises to lie lit
tle better lliis month. As we predicted
prices on bides arc stronger. Eggs and
butler are about the same, but prices an
likely to be a Utile better on cheese.-untll
the output of the factories meets Hit
present demand, Pork prices wen
strong, last week, ns predicted. It is
good tune to buy agricultural machinery
of any kind. Prices will advance befnrt-
tho spring Is over. Softie cotton broken-
are talking of higher prices in the neai
future; but we tev nothing to Justify thai
talk until tho mills are using much more
cotton than they arc now. -. '
The good business iirr woolen ;ood
h ui started the mills to buying in more
wool again. Our prediction of still
higher prices holds good, j filorlos an
afloat aliout a "corner in wool" but there
is no such corner as yet.
" l OTIISK SrsiKSK. ';
Those holders nt Southern lumlier who
hold on to their stock on our advlco ran
already congratulate themselves on the
unproved tone In the market. Sera
Iron should show better prices soon
Hie bi-istrike of the granite cutlers in
the East should help the granite business '
in the West.
IS SElTRITIKS.
The week has been dominated not
done by the Influences of tnc inaugura
tion of a new President and the inception
of a radical change in the policy that is
to govern seventy millions of people for
the next four years, but also by the dis
turbances in European politics that makes
in International war imminent.
The first was a f.-ctor that strengthen
ed still further the underlying conditions
Wlich make far higher prices and the
:oursc of the stock market reflected the
fact that the event was largely discount
id. The second influence is depressing
in its nature at the first, as it means thai
Europe will unload such American se
curities as she holds upon this market
but later on a war will be vastlv bene-
Scial to our trade iclations and will act
is a powerful stimulus in reviving
trooping industries,
A European war means that we sha.l
'ja called upon to export immense sup
plies of all kinds, raw materials and
nanufacturcd articles, and the stock
narket must noccssarilly feel the bene-
it of this tremendous o.i'sidc activity.
U first-class railroad Blocks are looked
npoii as purchases and the so-called
"Vanderbilts" are in especial favor since
ihc success of the scheme for refunding
certain maturing bond issues of Ihe Luke
Shore road.
We can safely advise our readers who
lesire (o invest surplus funds in a way
so obtain quick and sure returns, to buy
Jmahn, Burlington, St. Paul, mid the
;ilt edge stocks such as New Yoi k Cen
tral and Lake Shore while they should
ivoid getting on the long side of the in
biatrial, especially .Sugar and may
nake money by selling Louisville A
Xashvillo short.
jiOMfl Ol Ll.e I'lKtllfl-N.
New Yoi:K. Most of the talk of the
lig light is about the instructions ami
,Tllcs which ltcferee Siler exacts
-.o enfore .in the coming fiht. Those
vbo sue in a position lo know
vera emphatic in their b.-liif ihal
iiler's nuiioiiccnicul wi.s premature
.'or the exact meaning of the Marquis o.
iucensbi'i-ry rules is well known to even
nigilisl ol c'xpi'rieiu-i', The majority o
he sports believe It would have be.
nnre advisable to wait until at lea-.
Tuesday before male in:; public Ihe con I -
Ions. Mow the rim ipals will have :
veek in which to practice various tricks
m l schemes which will brini thcin u
o Silcr's interpretation of the rules.
Of course, the main joint that wi'l
ie practiced will Me tro. !i i.,il lulling
iood judges ci.iiui tal KiUMinmons ex-
els at in-tlg'iling an I will have a shaih
he better of it. Co.'.i ,1 admirers are al
o inclined lo believe tbiswav tin, bin
ly that Coibett is too clever to h i Pit.
minion's get on to him. Kitzsimmnns'
reat effort as has been demonstrated in
nost of his contests, is his short arm
ilows. When delivered at close quarters
hey are invaribly destructive and wenk-
ns his opponent.
Siler's announcement has hud some
licet on the betting. Corbctfs adherents
.vbile apparently eager to waiter, did so
villi various stipulations. Most of the
vagcrs were made on probable resu t.
iome of Pilzsiinnions' friends who held
o ,t for 7 lo 10 are now compromising M
t i 10 and 5 to 4. Several waiters at 0 o 4
m Corbet! have been recorded.
Offers to wager that the men will
ver fight have been made. These nei.
ire ol tho opinion that there will besonii
quibble over the lilies before March 17
,nwor Friend says be is ready to plan
Mil nitaiiist IIMI (hat there will il i.
my battle, rrieml has also hern co i -
nlHsioneil to wager l,l0l to iiS.)0 on
!orbctt. Sam Bernard, the comedian.
v no thinks corbett will win, lias over
i 700 invested on the mill. J. Duke M i
'ay, got down another bet of jt?00ti
f:Mi0 on Fit.simmnns. Jos. Artliu:' o,v
leclares that be will increase bis sum
from fi.ftuO to .-,(iii0, and back Fiizsim
moils.
At the Hotel Mil thorough lim i
Hidenly, of Boston, wagered ir2,000 even
in Corbott with Henry Summers, ol
(amnion, Eng. Jimmy Haves also tiok
he Corliett end of tbn e wagers of H I
jven, t red Inrnl made a few small r
vestments on Filxsiinmons. Despite tin
l ilk Hint there Is a lot of Corliett nionev
in sight, I arnl says that he could not
In i It.
Major McLau.hlin, the well known
California sporting man and mine own
ir, recently arrived in this city. The
itajor, who is stopping at tho MoT inn
louse, somewhat surprised his fri tuts
oy stating Hint he has not wagered n cent
in the result, nnd that he does n t In
'jsnil to. He is a Fltzslinmons m 1 1
he core, and it IS said that the chain
plon's to.OOO side stake, Is really M tj r
McLaughlin's money.
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fake Laxative Bromoulnliic Ta vl
VII druggists rofunj the minsv if I' Isil
ocure. 230
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receiving every day largo
lines ol exquisite novelties in
MOTIONS, I.l,17'
We believe that a-a inspec
tion will convince yon ot their
Superiority in both style and
quality.
Our Grocery
Fmbraces every necessity in
that line. You know the va
riety is there. You know the
QUALITY is there.
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We ha c 1 lit n'.r plii-es ilmvn on wtw
i"l -line w t. W'e ,elier Miwed utoVe
I wood now in yniir door fur (lac. a load.
' it a nnd im 11 11 1 --!. This wood is kept
1 oiiili r hnn- shed anil never gels wet in
inlay wealliel.
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1 Shingles. Marl, Brick. I.nlln-s and Fence
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