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, 1888-10-28
Wants HIS Father,s Estate.

CINCINNATI, Oct. GA lawsuit be-
gan to-day that will make one of the
brightest pages in the legal history of
Cincinnati. 1t is a cause to recover thou
sands of dollars, the plaintiff claiming to
be a son of a deceased colored man who
left his fortune to an adopted daughter.
Eugene Berry was once a turnkey at the
Hammond street station house. 1t was
not known that he had any relatives, and
the right Of the adopted girl to the prop
erty he had accumulated was not uues-
toned until the present suit came up.
The plaintiff, Robert Berry, says his
father and mother were married during
the war at Moundsville, w. Va. The moth
er escaped to Canada. She heard her
husband was dead and went to Hayti
with an emiGrant agent. There an Eng
lish nobleman, Lord Eldon, found the
plaintiff and employed him as a valet.
taking him with him all over the world
and back to England, where several years
were spent.
During a visit to Spain Robert married
a Spanish woman and brought her to the
United States. She died and Robert
ShLhI SIhClibdb, "uCIC lt IdD dCTOSS
old Eugene Berry and learned they were
father and son. They did not live to-
gether, but the son claims the old man
never denied the relationship. The de.
Tense is that there never was a marriage
between Eugene Berry and the woman
who went to Hayti, but the plaintiff has a
witness who tells of going to a cabin in
West Virginia with a party of colored
people to what they said was "a weddin'."
This witness remembers that Eugene
Berry and the woman who became Bob's
mother stood up before a tall white man
who read to them and they said some
thing to the tall man, and then the tall
mar put his hands above their heads and
prayed, and that after that a cOlored man
got up on a table and played a fiddle, and
they danced and ate postum fat and corn
pone till daylight.
, 1888-10-28
Stocks ana Cattle Markets.

New YORK, Oct. 27.-With the ex-
ception of one stock-Reading-the mar
ket was extremely dull to day and weak
almost throughout. the bears and traders
hammering the list from Ne opening to
the close, which was weak at the lowest
prices.
Governments steady. Money . per
cent. Mining shares steady.
Congratulated dull. Lake, $l7.35
Petroleum opened firm at sc, but after
"a slight advance in the early trading be-
came very dull and sagged off slowly,
closing steady at 853.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific 6's. 1914; American Express.
i'll: Canada Pacific. Sc; Canada
Southern, 54i; Central Pacific, SO; Bur
lington, ITO; Delaware. Lackawanna,
1891; Denver & Rio Grande, Is; Erie,
2S5; Lake Shore, 1898; Louisville &
Nashville. 90; Michigan Central, 49,;
Missouri Pacific. TAI; Kansas & Texas,
III; New York Central, 1888; Northern
Pacific, 263i preferred, 6l5; Northwest
ern, lllS; Oregon improvement, 729;
Navigation, "a; Transcontinental. 80;
aclnc flali' oO4i IIeaulng, oOBi MOCK
Island, 1919; Milwaukee & St. Paul,
66B; Texas Pacific. "a; Union Pacific,
65B; United States Express 49,: Fargo,
1873; Western Union. SAG.
CHICAGO, Oct. observation-disclosures
1000, market nominally steady; beeves,
S.. 00(95. 25; stockers and feeders, $l.90
as. IS; cows, bulls and mixed, 81. $50
ESQ; bulls, $2,0O@2.45; Texas cattle,
81. 60(@3.S5.
Sheep-Receipts 1000; market steady;
natives, 81. 500 90; Westerns, 81. 75(G
$40; Texans, 81. 5O(93.I5.
Wheat-Market steady. Cash Il6,
November 1l64, December lis, May
1lSs.
Corn-Market steady. Cash and No
vember 40 l5-l6, December 39s, May
393.
, 1888-10-28
Death of a Telegraph Generation.

SANDUsKY, o., Oct. 27.-WIllis J..
Cook, the noted telegraph operator, and
familiarly known as BIT" died at the
home of his parents here to-day, aged 81,
from blood poisoning resulting from ma.
larial fever contracted at Aspinwall,
where he was chief operator in the service
OF the Panama railway. He was known
far and wide as one of the greatest experts
of the craft, and several years ago was in
the service of the Associated Press at
Washington on the New York and Wash
ington circuit. His remarkable feats of
telegraphy there made him famous among
operators throughout the country.
, 1888-10-28
Warning Women.

ATLANTA, Ga. - :. 27.-The appear
nee of Mrs. Belle K. Abbott, a leading
literary woman, with about fifteen of the
leading women of the city in the city
council this afternoon created quite a SEN
sation. They appeared to claim an APP
preparation of 800 per month which had
been given the Woman's Christian Asso-
citation. That association was composed
originally Of women who excluded the
discussion of prohibition. They were as
tonished at their last meeting by the en-
trance of the members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union in a body,
who paid their expenses and became
members. They then turned all the
officers out and scooped them out of exist
ence. The scooped women retired and
continued to draw the appropriations.
The scoopers 1t was who presented them
selves, and with tear dimmed eyes
claimed the appropriation. The matter
will undergo a full investigation.
, 1888-10-28
PRICE OF CATTLE.
I Tt FKfGt Ut GAfFEE.:
Chicago's Stock Market in an
Unsatisfactory Condition.
Good Natives and Rangers
Scarce and Wanted,
But Poor Stock is Down to
Low Water Mark,
The Cattle Market,

Special Dispatch to THE LEADER.
CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-The general cattle
market is in a most unsatisfactory condi-
ton and must remain so until the present
unprecedented supply of poor and com
non stock is disposed Of. Prime native
cattle continue scarce and are selling fully
as high as a week ago and the best offer
ings from tie ranges are all wanted at sus-
tanned figures. Medium and common
natives, however, are coming to market
in the largest numbers seen here this sea-
son and the run of COWS, bulls and ranch
stock generally is this week pretty nearly
the largest on record. Hence it is not to
be wondered at that this poor stuff is down
to low water mark-as low as ever before
in the history of the Chicago trade. Old
cows and thin bulls never sold as cheap
as they can be had right at the present
time. Common Texans are also coming
forward in great numbers and steers are
1O9l5c lower than last week. Some
light weights selling down to 50 .00(02. %
about as low as at any time this year.
Eastern shippers and dressed beef firms
are giving their attention principally to
the better class of Western rangers and
Texans which they prefer to the natives
on sale. Fair receipts of rangers are ex-
pected ext week, but after that promi-
nent dealers look for a gradual falling off
until the season closes. At Western points
offerings are now heavy and the feeling
weak, while in the East there is little
change. Dressed beef men are paying
So. 1904. % for native steers and ship
ping beeves go at SO. 00(05 go. Very
few cattle are bought to ship alive at be-
low 1896, and comparatively few sales
are made at above SIS. 90. Wyoming and
Montana steers averaging LOO to 1,450
lbs. sell at SO. 1904 35, receipts from
the latter territory bringing the better
figures. Colorado Texans have sold at
81. 50(93.00 and Montana Texans at
$3.00@3.40. Through Texans go at
50. 35(03.3 80 for steers and at 81. 1902. 20
for COWS Shippers who are in from the
ranges report the general cattle business
out there in much better shape than it
was a year ago.
The market for butchers and Gamers
stuff is in very much the same condition
as that for shipping grades. Choice COWS.
which compose only a very small part of
the supply, are nearly steady, but poor
and common stock are lower. Offerings
are greater than the demand and trade is
~lifeless. Cows sell at 81. 25@2 IS with
very few trades at above 50. so.
Stockers and feeders are not as active
as last week, but prices for prime feeders
have undergone little or no change. Light
stockers, however, are slow and neglected
and large offerings make the feeling
heavy, so that almost any fair bid will be
accepted.
, 1888-10-28
BrutaIlY Outraged.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 27.-Nineteen men
were arrested for the brutal assault of
two young women, Lydia June Seals and
Lizzie Shelby, aged IS and %. The
girls were from the neighborhood of
Olneyville, and claimed to have come
here to seek employment. They we're
forced into a stable in a deserted quarter
of the city and brutally outraged. The
Seals girl cannot recover.
, 1888-10-28
Closing quotations range as follows:

Sheep rule slow and weak. Receipts
are moderate. but shippers have struck
bad markets East this week, and dressed
mutton operators have their refrlgerators
so full that they can do nothing until the
surplus is disposed of. Commission men
are advising their customers to hold back
their shipments until the demand i'm
proves. Natives sell at So 2O(93. IS. with
Arizona, Colorado and Texas focks 81. 10
(m3 80.
, 1888-10-28
Eureka.

The place to buy the finest quality of all
kinds of groceries, choice winter apples,
new sweet cider, Iowa and CHEYENNE
creamery butter, pure cider vinegar. fresh
eggs, ranch butter. celery and all kinds of
vegetables, dressed poultry. Cash buys
more goods for the money than ever be
fore known in Cheyenne. Call and be
convinced. Respectfully yours, G. w.
Stanley, BOG West Seventeenth street.
, 1888-10-28

What on earth is the. reason people
will not, can not, or do not see any differ-
euce in nheap nostrums put up by Cheap
John houses or irresponsible parties at
enormous profits, rather than take a med.
icine of world wide reputation and one
that is giving universal satisfaction at
equal price? No medicine in the world is
giving such unparalleled satisfaction for
purifying the blood as Beggs' Blood Pu-
rifier and Blood Maker, and every bottle
that does not do its work will cost y-u
nothing. For sale by w. n. Hunt, drug
gist.
, 1888-10-28

Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child. softens the gums, al
lays the pain, cures wind collie and is the
best remedy for diarrhga. Twenty-Five
cents Q hottie.
, 1888-10-28

he largest stock of fine brandies, old
WHISTLES, choice Hqueurs and superine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth aud Ferguson
streets.
, 1888-10-28
Know all Ncn by these resents Z;

Know ali wen by theso Presents :;
That the Union Pacific, the Overland
Route" and the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Ry. commencing Sunday, Oct
%, will run Pullman Palace Sleep
ers through daily from Denver to Chi
cago via Omaha and Council Bluffs.
, 1888-10-28

A large line of fall overcoats Just re-
ceived at Hellman's.
, 1888-10-28

4 historical Dept; Chsvenue, Hyo.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29

"Jasper, where did you get this pct
ture from" asked Mr.. Newton that
afternoon of his head clerk.
Mr.. Newton was the proprietor of the
art store where Hope had sold her paint
ing.
Jasper narwood hurried to his en-
ployer's side to see which
picture was meant.
"Oh, that one, " he replied - Ae
caught sight of the one the old gentle,
man was looking at so earnestly. Il
bought it this morning of a lady. 1t is
. very good one" ne added
The clerk thought he was examining
it as to its commercial value, but M
Newton's next question showed this had
not entered his mind.
SIS that the lady's name or tbs title !"
he asked abruptly.
TIE title, Mr.. Newton; the lady's
name was Grey, and"
But Jasper Uarwood never finished his
sentence, for old Mr.. Newton had
grasped the back of chair and would
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29
THANK SEWING

'0r the hay and the corn and the wheat that
is reaped,
For the labor well done, and the barns that
are helped,
FOR the sun and the dew and the sweet
horeycomb,
FOR the rose and the song and the harvest
brought home
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving.
For the trade and the skill and the wealth in
our land,
For the cunning and strength Of the WORKING
mans hand,
For the good that our artists and poets have
taught,
For the friendship t1at hope aud affection
have brou-ht-
Thanksgiving thanksgivingl
For the homes that with purest affection ar.
hlest,
For the season of plenty and well-deservad
rest,
For our country exten led from sea unto sea
The land that is known as the Land Of the
Free
Thanksgiving, thanksgiving.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29

.roe oF -
} --,' '''' '-V' '1o 'l9 growing
'''''' q anu poorer unHi the deere-t
'0's' ""3 coupled WIN the kee1eI
A"5 u.'H Vi o'73Faoe.
Then followed the secret hurryiDg
away OF the husband and father, who in
an hour OF terrible temptation had thrown
AWAY his honor a d princip.e.
Branded with the c.ime Of forgery the
poor wreck Of humanity fed to a distant
tia e, and no'Al g was heard Of him for
TWO Io'S agom ing Yeas. At lat came
the 'ldl' g thAt he lad been k led in
drunken OIawI in san Francisco. The
Slo'H was 100 Inuch IoF the feeble wife,
anu nope d" her mother lad away IN
4i'' '''a. S'0 p " young woman yet' ouE
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29

Her mOtherin the happier days had
been skllIful with brush and pencil, aud
had taught the little that she knew tc
hope 1t had served to brighten man7
a weary hour for both mother and
| daughter, and after the mothers death
dope had gone on in her own wav paint.
ing all the Ole scenes she could relnem-
Der, often denying herself many com
forts that she might buy the few touches
OF color
Youth easily takes COURAGE, and the
picture brought new life to Hope. The
next morning, with the picture tied an
in paper, she Let out for q certain picture
dealer, whose windows had often at
tracted her attention.
She tired to still her wildly beating
heart as she entered the store and in
q.ired if they bought pt ntings.
"Ha,e you one for sale.' asked the
clerk, looking curiously at the Shabby,
slender gure.
"Ies,' returned Hope, beginning to
unite her marcel
ness" said the clerk and Tafa-a t--.' f5u,lo Jusl
could reply she was ushered into Mr.
Darvood,s o:f;co +an ~ -'-N 1l',-.- 80
man ar,so - ho- on+.Sa. '- .,.. .,'',3
in.nirad nrha+ 10 oo,Ii '.'l.' t''I,'''y
trer rhl;nc Tr,-o~. 1I.l' -I.' ~ ''' --''' " ''n
naner and bo,do1 1,;ro ~ ,.:l.,. '1 VIC
s,aot.on ,r.o~ ..L1+ 49,. Wv t''N,0'0 io' III
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29
PRICE $4,000.
FARM NO. 2.

Two hundred ana seventy five acres,
two and one-half miles from Scotland
Neck, One hundred and twenty-five
acres in cultivation. Good Dwelling
House and good water.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29
THANKSGIVING DAY
Beneath the honestead,s slon:ng eavoa

Beneath the honestsad's slop;ng caves
we gather round the board.
AND for the GOLDEN harvest sent
Give thanks unto the Lord
ou6 from the bursting barns and bins
Oh spare a thought pray.
Hor those VINO kept in wintry woods
1he first Thanksgiving D4yl
1he face Of heaven was yelled and dark
And all the world beneath
VI wthered wood and void, lay hid
Within a snowy sheath.
They shivered in the b tier blast
For thinly clad were they;
The pilgrim fathers long ago.
Who Kept Thanksgiving Day.
With all his train Of feathered danes
Behind b m in a row,
They saw lordly bird with plumea
Like polished metal go.
The aim was sure, the bullet true,
In throes Of death he lay:
And feast ns on his ia nty flesh,
They kept Thanksgiving Day.
Inc graves wherein their fathers Steps,
Tne fields and tells Of home,
Were leagues beyond the forest dark.
Across the wintry foam.
Though want and fear abiIed there,
AMI peril barred the way:
Yet, lone y in lonely land.
Ihey kept Thanksgiving Day.
In all the pleasant fields about
Upon the frosted vines,
Sweet Gin Ierellas fairy coach,
The ye low pumpkin. shines:
And still with all his train of danes
The turkey struts away:
AS in the W nter whitened woods.
That first Thanksgiving Day.
Our fathers graves are on the hill
The children at the knee,
Inc Storehouse full of gooily things,
How grateful they should be,
1hey thanked the Lord for perils passed,
And for the right to pray;
Then let US dou5ly thank Him now
For this Thanksgiving Day.
-Itnnte Arrtng.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29
FARM NO. l

-Four hundred acres, two and one-half
miles from the beautiful town Of Scot
land Neck. About two hundred acres
in cul walton. One good Dwelling
House, one good Gin House, and other
ont-hou,es. Good orchard and good
water. Location des rable.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29

50 rE HERE is nothing
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29
3-22-17.

IL I>F" Wonders exist in thousa nds of
UEE forms. but are surpassed by the MAJ =.
nee7 - n,ot,9 o,9 oI invention Those who are IN
living ~ ON on 'oe work that can ba done while
T. USI,ett oh@ should at once send til -1r address
nee f91 e., 8 Co., Portland, Maine and recetye
earn from s. to s25 Der day ana ~ Tn, H
taI r9r r'ony my i've, You are started Tree CanI-
slngIe dav4 4a,'+ Some have made over $50 In
8-2S-ly.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29
have fallen but for the time.y aid Of h:I
c.erd.

As soon as he recovered he began tc
question Darvood. Did he know Tho
artists add ess. and question after ques
ton followed, but the clerk could tel
him almost moth ng.
"The lady had called in the morning
and 0 cred the pi.tlre for sale. He had
liked the picture and bought it. Tne
lady had given her name, but the address
he did not know
Jasper, every one in the store must
be questioned, " said the I'D gentleman.
as he wrIng his hand, in evident anguish.
and so the astoni>hed clerk set abo t
asking every man and boy in the pace if
he knew any one named Hope Grey. It
would have seemed ludicrous to Oar
wood bat for the distress Of his EN-,
ployer.
He met with no success until he came
to one of the little boys who busted the
counters.
es, he knew Miss Grey. She lived
next door 10 him, and when his mother
was sick Miss Grey came in and:
bat Mr.. Newton didn't listen to an
more. Having checked the boy ana
found out the name of the street ana
number Of the house, he hailed cab and
was soon on his way to the place.
1t never occurred to HIM that thi,
might not be the Hope Grey he sought.
Some instinct told him his long search
was ended.
Hope sat alone in her little room, when
she was startled by loud knock, and
moment after the door opened and the
long separated father and daughter were
face to face
1t took some time to tell the story Of
John Grey's wanderings.
He had not been killed in the drunken
brawL. but it had been in this same place
that he had first awakened to a sense Of
his terrible position.
To return home was dangerous. for
the shadow of the law hung over him;
but after amassing fortune the longing
Tor his family became so strong that one
morning he set OF for the East. ready to
lace the danger of imprisonment if he
could but see his loved ones again.
There was no need to have changed
his name. No one would have recog-
nlzed in the tine-lookjng gray-haired
man the forlorn creature who had crept
away so miserably ten years before.
But the coming home had been almost
useless except for the one result VIII ch
had lifted forever from h m the stain of
crime. Every dollar had been paid back
and he stood once more a free man, but
Of the wife and child he had left in
poverty and shame he could find no
race.
The belief that both were dead had
inally been Y eldcd to, when Providence
lad placed in his way the object of his
earch.
The wife lay in her narrow bed, and
hat darkness could ne er be taken out
If his life, but the child was left to him,
tnd he thanked the Father of the father
ess who had protected her AL these
ears.
The next day was Thanksgiving Dav,
nd no three people we're happier than
ne three who ate their turkey in John
lewton's home.
Jasper Darwood was there, too, for the
Id gentleman mn :ntaios +ba- b,4 fL;
uying the picture Hope would never
ave been found, but Jasper Darwood ,
nows that Hopes brown eyes had
reat deal to do with the purchase.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29

eyes ached, and then. ght. to
be d scharged because a thy drop of
blood from her prjcked fingers fell on a
bit of velvet! To the frieudIe,s orphan
girl t was bitter misfortune and her
whole nature reDelIed against the in US
!ice.
foor Hope, The pat ten years had
been to her continual struggle for exist
snce. In this time she had seen her
mother lad in the grave and her,elf left
Alone in the world, with only her own
labor between starvation and life.
She was slender, graceful girl, whose
resoute, cheerful spirit shone through
her clear, brown eyes; but to night the
brown eyes were dina with unshed tears,
and as she sat by the window and ga/ed
put into the drilling twilight she gave
herself up 20 the memory of the past.
Far back in that pat she was child
again, surrounded by all that loving
parents could pro ide, and as she dream
ed of these DAYS the tears rolled down
the pale cheeks and the sensitive mouth
quivered with emotion.
A few years had brought great
changes. The precious loving mother
hal slowly died of want aad sorrow, and
the helpless child could only weep in
bitter anguish at the loss which left her
utterly 1riendless. rom the day the
,arth hid her mothers tender face from
view, Hope knew she stood alone in the
world.
Slowly and painfully the terrible dark
lays came back to her as she sat in the
gloom.
The father had liked the social glass,
nd then TO lowed an unconquering
hirst that had literally drank up busi-
less, home and nanhj BOD.
Again Hope eeuld see the sad pleading
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29

! II I NE IS nothlng
'left in my lite to
be thankful for, 8"
Hope Grey felt,
as she climbed
up the stairs that
led to her mite of
a room on the top
floor of the tene-
mcnt she called
hone.
All day, with 8
choking sob in
her throat, she sat
in q damp, cheer
less room trim
m no hats until
/ rs and
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29

UIIEHEH V NJ" " tftIf9U are tnOSa Who T031
nilIFI mis- and then act; they win ma
5ct t,h@ honorable emnloymeHt that viii
~, ne pFontS are large and sure FOR every indus
,nrlt mIG49 person; many have made and are now
80 ing several hundred dollars month II ia
saSy Ior any one 10 make s. ana uJwar:s n4r
0r CI5E ~ no no IS Wiling to work, Either SIX yoiia.,
fbfr,C-' CaplIdI not needed; we start YOU Evrry2
ts az Ca can DO IL as well as any one Write -
ne w ior Iul .a'ti .ulars, which we mail
e9s StIns0n & Co.. Portland Nana
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-29
PRICE $2,75O.
FARM NO 3

Two hurdred acres, two miles from
Scotland Neck. Eighty acrrs Fresh
Land, Good Dwelling, some out-houscs
and orchard, and good water.