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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-05
1O-DAYS' TRIP TO WASHINGTON.
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Everybody expects to visit Washing
ton some time; in fact. it is a duty
every one owes to himself. What Rome
was to every soldier Of the empire, what
Athens was TO the Greek, Washington
is and should be TO every citizen of the
United States-his glory. his pride, his
inheritance; it belongs TO him; all its
magnificence. all its glory, all its fame,
its public buildings. paintings. statuary,
its monuments, its gardens, its Libraries,
It's museums, its streets its parks, and
he ought once in while take a look
at it. Congress now being in session
will add additional interest to the city,
already teeming with attractions.
The B. {: 0. announces another of
those popular excursions for Thursday,
Nav 9th The tickets will be valid ten
DAYS. and good for trip to Baltimore
and return at any time within the limit.
We show below train schedules and
rates of fare from this vicinity:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-05

Correspondence low IdleS Will pS
made from other points.
The long time limit on the tickets VIII
give visitors an opportunity to make
side trips to Mt. Vernon, Old Point
Comfort. Richmond, Virginia Beach,
Annapolis and other points.
For further particulars call on or ad-
dress nearest B. & o. agent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-05
CRAVENETTE

$ not gum or macintosh cloth, but is
abric finished bv a secret process where
" it is made RAlNPROOF, but does
,ot interfere with the texture or the
GODS. For sale in our Black Goods De-
artment.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-05
OVERAL0VE AFFAIR

George Smith Is Rejected by a Girl
He Loves and Tries to Commit Sui
cide--Cuts a Bad Cash in His
Throat and Lays in a Country
Ditch for Several HOurS--Walks
Into Bellaire and Gives Himself Up
to al Officer.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
Chew Rosebud Tobacco.

The 18th Annual Convention of the
North Carolina Sunday School Associa-
ton will be held in Wlnston-Salem
August 1926 next. It is confidently
expected that Mr.. VIM. Reynolds, Field
Superintendent OF the International
Sunday School Association will attend
the Convention and contribute largely
to its success. It is also expected that
Prof. H. M. Hamill, International Field
Worker, or some other prominent Nor
NAL Department worker will be present
and conduct the Normal work of the
Convention. A competent Primary
Worker of national reputation will at
tend and conduct conferences of Prim-
airy Teachers. Altogether, it is assured
that this Convention will be the best
ever held in the state. We hope that
this county will be represented by a
full delegation.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22

Few people know that all plants con-
tain digestive principles. They can
absorb their food until it is digested
any more than animals can. The
Mount Lebanon Shakers have learned
the art of extracting and utilizing these
digestive principles, and it is for this
reason that their Shaker Digestive Cor
dial is meeting with such phenomenal
success in the treatment of dyspepsia
The Shaker Digestive Cordial not only
contains food already digested, but it al
so contains digestive principles which
aid the digestion of other foods that
may be eaten with it. A single 10
cent sample bottle will be sufficient to
demonstrate its value, and we suggest
that every suffering dyspeptic make a
trial of 1t. Any druggist can supply it.
LAxoL Is the best medicine for chill
dren. Doctors recommend it in place
OF Castor Oil.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
Just Look!

Fine Japanese and straw cotton-warp
floor mattings Z, 9, IL, 15c. Lace cur
tains 3x7 feet 18c, 4x9 feet 42c, 4x1O
feet 45c. Curtain drapery yard wide
Sc. Mems Numbered shirts with cuffs
and collar 33c, 38c. OIL cloth floor
mats 3x4 feet 25c. Is styles Hamburg
and Laces at two thirds regular prices.
Eight day strike clocks % inches high
$1.98. Good Clocks 45c, 6Oc, 75c. Cur
tain poles complete I8c, zoe.
Ladies' patent tipped shoes SOC, 75c
and up. Unbleached sheeting Sc yd.
Sheeting 80 inches wide &c. Is styles
of agate ware at two-third regular price.
Table oil cloth 1Oc, 123c.
Good ginghams 81, &c., Calicos
Spring styles 3, &C., New lot wall paper
8, &C., 500 Black ribbon at half regular
prices, Linen table cloth 60 inches
wide $780,, Counterpanes SO, SO, 75c.
very heavy, Floor oil cloth 20 styles II
and 2 yards wide II, Is, zoe. New
styles smyrna rugs and other kinds 80
in &c., SO In 65c., 80 in $1.4O. Fine
jute rugs 70 inch 95c. Felt II feet
wide 25c. Moquette and brussels
A1dSSOCAS vi 1OOl OOC. WOTUu To-
Don't fail to get some OF our floor mat
tings. We are selling these mattings
for less than the regular wholesale
price. We have hundreds other style
goods in stock and receiving. Our
prices are low. Our profits small.
Terms cash. When you want goods
cheap go to cash store when you have
cash to spend.
Remember we prepay freight on all
goods bought at one time from us
amounting to $500 and oyer.
We are filling great many mail orders
and have never had complaint. You
buy goods from us and not satisfied
return them and we will refund your
money.
III. G.. SPIERS & DAVIS.
March Is, 1897. WELDON, N. c..
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
AULANDER NEWS.
to TEE conMoswrA1rH)

Correspondents to TIE CoMMoNwEALTH)
AULANDEa, N. c., April 20, 1897.
The farmers of this section are TAX
ing advantage of the beautiful weather,
and are making rapid progress in their
farm work.
A cold wave struck here fast night,
and overcoat feels comfortable.
Court at Wlnton last week was at
tended by good many OF our people.
His Honor Judge Bryan presided.
Hon. G. w. Mitchell went to Norfolk
this week on business.
The Mormons haye 4 preachers In
this section. We don't know the result
of their mission, but it is to be hoped
that the intelligence of our people will
not allow them to derive any benefits
from their labors
Work mas just started towards the
moving of the Baptist church in town.
When done it will fill a long needed
want to our people. The church, Is
not attended at night service by the
country people, and in bad weather
not by the people in town. Now we
can look tor we'll attended service on
all occasions.
Some of the republicans are making
strenuous efforts to get in all the Of
fees, and when no Office is in sight,
they hurry up their representatives and
try to have one made.
The Aulander Classical and CONNER
cial Institute is still making itself the
best school in Eastern Carolina. Com
mencement on June II and IL pro
misses to be best in the history of the
institution. A good crowd is expected
and everybody will have good time.
VERAx.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
BIG GOLD FIND.
ton Dispatch, 18th.

Lexington Dispatch, 18th.
Mr.. Frank Delk, of Jones Mine, RAN
dolph county, was in town Monday
and told the editor that Mr.. A. B. Full
Ter, of Tabernacle township, found one
thousand dollars in gold last Sunday
morning. Saturday night Mr.. Fuller
dreamed of finding money at certain
spot on his plantation and Sunday
morning he was SO impressed with the
dream that he took a mattock and
went to the place he dreamed of and
commenced to dig and at once found
one thousand dollars in gold, consisting
of SO, $40 and $50 coins. The money
is supposed to have been buried away
more than hundred years ago by some
old miser. Mr.. Fuller is no doubt the
happiest man in Randolph county to.
day.-Lexington Dispatch.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22

Mrs. A. Tween, residing at 72O Hen
ry St., Alton, ILL.,, suffered with sciatic
rheumatism for over eight months.
She doctored for 1t nearly the whole OF
this time, using various remedies rec
commended by friends, and was treated
by the physicians, but received no re-
lief. She then used one and half bot
ties OF Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which
effected complete cure. This is pub
lished at her request, as she wants 9th
ers similarly afflicted to know what
cured her. The 70 and SO cent sizes
for sale by E. Weitehead & Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22

The COMMONWEALTH has repeatedly
urged the farmers of this section to
SOW wheat, but only few raise wheat
at all. It is gratifying to learn that
the wheat crop throughout the State is
fine and promises a heavy yield this
year. Surely there 10 no money to a
North Carolina farmer in raising
wheat but almost any farmer can raise
it cheaper than others can tor him.
Flour at home means that much home
independence.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
PURE Wa TER FOR EASTERN
CAROLINA.

There is a prevailing opinion amongst
people who live in Western and Pied
mont Carolina, and with some on the
borders of the Eastern section, that
Eastern Carolina Is a graveyard. They
believe that everybody who lives in
this section the year round is sallow,
stupid, lifeless and ready to die all the
time. They think that we have to
blow back ''wiggle tails, mosquitoes,
tadpoles, or polliwogs, whenever we
drink water, and that chilis sit around
on logs and stumps like so many sprltes
of evil, ready to pounce upon us if ever
we set foot across the door-sill between
sunset and sunrise.
This is all mistake. Eastern Caro-
lima, for the most part, is remarkably
healthful. We say this from observation
and experience. The writer was rear
ed in the plne-tree section of Harnett,
where the long-leaf pine belt stretches
many miles across the sand ridges and
for nearly fifteen years we have lived
almost the whole year round in Scot
land Neck and no chill has bounced us
yet-night or day.
But notwithstanding we have good
health generally in Eastern Carolina,
we do need some improvement in the
water. We need purer water, if posi-
BILE; for in many places the water is
not good. We need overflow wells that
will give constant flow of pure water.
In communities where such wells have
been secured the health of the people
has greatly improved. Such has been
the case in some parts of Virginia in
counties bordering on North Carolina.
Eastern Carolina needs the same i'm
provements, and once commenced the
work would go grand1y on.
We have been led to these Observa-
tions by a statement we saw that In the
upper Cape Fear section Arteslan wells
are being sunk to depth of from 2OC
to $50 feet with result of excellent
water.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
TROUBLE ABOUT A COLOREL
CADET.

The following dispatch went out from
Washington April 14th:
Congressman Shattuc, OF Ohio, yes
terday nominated D. J. BundY, color
ed lad of Cincinnati, to cadetship at
Annapolis. He has been urged to with
draw the name, but says he will stand
by the appointment. There have been
some murmurs of disapproyal from the
Naval Academy, and threats OF the
students to resign.
'"The boy earned the appointment
fairly" said General Shattuc, to-day.
"There was competitive examination,
and two colored lads, one of them
Bundy ,outstripped theirC Caucasian COM
petitors. One of them, however, prov
ed to be oyer twenty. and therefore was
dlsbarred. I had told them the COM
petition was open to every eligible boy
in the district. Bundy, who won, is
one eff the handsomest boys ever saw.
Yesterday I sent his name to the Sec
rotary of the Navy, and he will be ap-
pointed. I have received no commui-
cations from the students at Annapolis,
but several Congressman have told me
that it was an unwritten law not to
allow colored boy at Annapolis. They
told me if I persisted it would break up
the school, that other students would
resign.
"Let them resign and be damned, I
replied. That boy earned his appoint
ment fairly, and I'm going to see that
he goes to Annapolis and receives fair
treatment, if its in my power to do So"
General Shattuc says if the lad is
willing to subject himself to the humili-
alton he will naturally encounter at
owing to his color, he
(Shattuc) will see him through. Cen
eral Shattuc says he has been informed
that no colored boy ever graduated at
the Naval Academy. General Shattuc
says he has 1900 negroes in his district.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
REVIVAL MEETINGS IN MARTIN

Correspondence to The COMMONWEALTH.
WILLIAMSON, n. c., April 10, 1897.
The series of meetings at the Baptist
church came to close on last Wednes-
day night. DR.. J. D. Hufham, who
assisted the pastor, did some fine preach
ing and his many friends here were
glad to see and hear him again. Three
united with the Baptist church during
the meeting.
Mr.. J. w. Watts who has been very
ill for several weeks, seems to be slowly
improving, though he Is still confined
to his bed.
Rev. G. L. Finch preached in Hamil-
ton last Sunday and lectured there on
Monday night.
Mr.. J. w. Barnes, of Wilmington,
who has been spending few days with
his daughter, Mrs. G. L. Finch, left on
Monday last.
Rev. A. J. Parker is holding a sue
cessfuI meeting at Vernon church, a
few miles from town. He was ably
assisted last week by Reys. S. A. Gotten
OF Conetoe and B. F. DeLoatch of Will
liamstOn.
Rev. B. H. Melton preached in the
Disciple church here last Tuesday
night. He is an Evangelist and recent
ly conducted very successful meeting
in Plymouth.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22

The following North Carolina BOYS
will this week graduate from the Med
ical College of Virginia, says the Dis
patch II. NJ. Bonner, Aurora, N. e. ;
Chas. w. Keel, Brantsboro, N. c. J. B.
Pearson, Jr.. Fremont, NC; Marvin
P. Skeen, Farmers, N. c.; G. r. Whar-
ton, Rufhn, N. G.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
avaaAH is' WELDON.
NEW GOODS AND NEW PRICES

Our buyer is now in the Northern
markets, visiting the manufacturers
and big sales, buying tor cash such bar
gains as we never have seen before. We
are receiving these goods almost daily.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
WHAT TO DO.

There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. Kllmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy
fulflls every wish in relieving pain in
the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and
every part OF the urinary passages. It
corrects inability to hold urine and
scalding pain in passing 1t, or bad eff
fects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to get up
many times during the night to uri-
nate. The mild and the extraordinary
effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized.
It stands the highest Tor it's wonderful
cures OF the most distressing cases. If
you need medicine you should have
the best. Sold by druggists price fifty
cents and one dollar. You may have
a sample bottle and pamphlet both
sent free by mail. Mention The Com
and send your address to
Or. Kllmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
[uDsoN's ENGLISH KITCHEN,
1877 Main ST., NORFOLK. VA

ls the Leading Dining Room in the
City for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict
y temperance Place. All meals 25c
Hudsoni Surprising Coffee /,
spectaltY. 1857
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-04-22
HOW TO FIND OUT.

Fill bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand twenty-four
hours sediment or settling indicates
indicates an unhealthey condition of
the Kidneys. When urine stains linin
it is positive evience of kidney trouble.
Too frequent desire to urinate or pain
in the back, is also convincing proof
that the kidneys and bladder are out
of order.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-21
s WELL-lNF0RNED
YOUTH.

M AsrER W no
vi can tell ne what
useful article We get
from the whale 20
Johnny Whale
bone.
Master Right
Now, what little boy
OF girl know, what
we get from The
seal 2'
Tommy seal
iug-wax -/ffH BIS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-21
WHAT THEY
FEARED
TN really wor
| ried about the

IN reHi'H
| RED about the
baby, said Young
Mrs. JorkinN
Charley worried
about her too
is her health
falling p
Oh no IFS her
,u,nre bo,her> u.
We found her the
other day irving To-
put her too' j." her
mouth. and "e re
..fr fn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-21
HER MEMORY.

EDITKEsS " This
l. joke dates from
Pharaoh : time
iiunlorist . How
careless | WAS TO sub
init II to YOU, when !
might have known
YOU would reniem
her II. G0/icU
PVGi.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-21
MAS IT t0iNCl
DENCE

IT may De- mere
| coincidence
' aia he drought
. ..ry "Itonc that
such i the e'-
What t.
s,ked,he o'he ran
WHY evcr me
call on i''e ..'-
.oas md ihe DOR
ma, turned - hat
.be WELDON Is
upside down so
IN and al r. as
star, for The rect
-PkN r
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-21
BEGINNING EARLY

BEGINNING EARLY.
Mrs. GoLDsTEfN
n key key
Felix has >vallercd
a penny"
Mr.. Goldstein
" Not a great poy
Alrctty he wants TO
Shtart IN peezlness
- a penny Under
slot machine. - TIT
Bits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-21
CONSCIENTIOUS
ENDEAV0R
u. LAVE YOU never

:. UAvF YOU never
ii tried to de
s,roy your thirst for
liquor p
" YES. I've been
irving to drown II
Tor the last ten
years Hek Ne
it.
The news & observer., 1897-01-22
CONGRESSMAN FOWLER ON
PRITCHARD'S ELECTION.

Clinton, \. c., Jan 20.-The Hon J.
Il. Fowler. Congressman-elect, was in
teryiewed by n Messenger representative
here yesterday, and in answer to the
question as to what would be the result
Of Senator Pritchard's election as to fu-
ture political affairs in the State, said
1T will satisfy the real friends of sill
yer and drive the spoilsmen and pie
hunters into the Republican party where
they belong. No Populist who bolted his
party caucus has any further claims to
Populism.
THE Republicans have shown their
hand Their game is to absorb the Pop
ulists, which will prevent any further
dickering with them in the State. l
understood fusion to be a cooperative
move, and not an absorbing process.
Those Populists who voted for Pritchard
against DR.. Thompson have shown their
preference for Republicanism and all
that it stands for, to Populism and free
silver. Wilmington Messenger.
The news & observer., 1897-01-22

Mr.. Broughton be entitled to the seat, is
i wrong, an injustice to the voters of the
county and the people of the State.
The action of the contestee, he said,
showed plainly that he thought his case
IL weak one and that Broughton's cause
was a righteous one and a fear that the
Legislature would so decide; Young had
waited until the latest possible moment
to give notice of this. taking of evidence.
Mr.. Peele suggested that instead of
waiting for these dispositions to be taken
just two weeks before the close of the
session-the committee either send a
subcommittee out to take the depositions
or summon the witnesses before them in
person and proceed at once to decide the
contest.
Further remarks touching this particu-
lar point were made by Mr.. Douglas.
He said the contestant was anxious to
have the matter determined at once
and he was perfectly willing to do any
thing to accomplish it. To do this he was
willing to waive the thirty days notice
and brush out of the way every other
technicality If Broughton was entitled
to the seat, the committee ought to let
him have it. il Young was entitled to it he
ought not to be kept in suspense about IT.
Mr.. Douglas said he was willing to sub
NIT TO anything reasonable to accomplish
this: he did not care who was appointed
! to take depositions, so that he were fair
impartial man.
The contestee claims, said Mr.. Douglas,
that he wants q speedy trial. Now in all
fairness | put to him this proposition:
We will waive the thirty days notice
required to be given, now will they go
l. +l,aS, nut
tions"
Mr. Harris replied by saying that the
contestant had consumed all the time
since election in taking depositions but
was now trying to hasten things in an
undue and indecent manner. "They
ought to have gotten in a hurry n long
time ago, now let them be fed out of
the same spoon that they fed us out of.
We want our own time in this matter"
Mr.. peele replied that the contestee
had been wanting in diligence in that
he had allowed forty three days to
eIapse without taking any steps in de-
Tense of the seat now held by him
TO allow further time, he argued, would
be to defeat the ends of justice and the
will of the people
This closed the argument and all who
were not members of the committee We're
asked to retire in order that the case
might be taken into consideration.
A decision was arrived at within the next
half an hour. The committee denied
the motion, and unless something further
is done by the committee in regard to the
matter the contest is at an end.
The Mecklenburg cases will be taken
up to-day, when the argument of counsel
will be resumed in the cases of Clanton
and Williamson against Reid and Ran
son. The committee will meet this after
noon at four O'clock.
The news & observer., 1897-01-22
A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
Augustus Pounds Asks to be Allowed to
Give Bail.

\ writ of habeas corpus was yester-
day sued out by Augustus Pounds. The
writ is returnabIe before Judge Mont
gomery next Tuesday, in the Supreme
court room.
Pounds is now in Jail here charged with
assault with a deadly weapon pointing
q gun at A. b. Marshburn, of Mark $
Creek township, whom he killed. He
says he killed Marshburn by accident and
;lhe evidence on trial seems TO have borne
out this statement, so he was bound
over to court III a $500 bond for point
ing the gun. The trial was had before
A. T. Mial, Jr, justice of the peace,
the morning after the accident, and ac-
cording 10 Pounds, he was brought to
jail at once without being given an OPP
portunity to see his friends and raise his
bond.
In his petition for a writ of habeas
corpus Pounds sets forth that his friends
were on the way to Raleigh to give bond
and have him released when they were
informed that Mial had, as a magistrate,
sent word here not to allow him to give
bond, as additional evidence against him
had been found
1t is further alleged in this petition
that after the trial and after Pounds had
been put in jail, Magistrate Mial, with
out serving a process of any sort upon
him, and without giving any
one related to or interested in him any
notice, and while, he was in jail
at Raleigh, had the same and other wit
nesses brought before him at his office
in Marks Greek township, many miles
from Raleigh, and examined them in re-
gard to the charges against Pounds. AT
ter hearing this evidence in this illegal
manner Mial wrote an order TO the clerk
of court as follows: You will not allow
Augustus Pounds to give bond as | have
additional evidence"
Pounds also claims that his imprison-
ment is Illegal and that he is able, ready
and willing to give the bond required of
him by Mial on his trial.
The petitioner, Pounds, is represented
by Argo and Snow and the State by J. c.
L. Harris.
The news & observer., 1897-01-22
NEW PLAY AT THE ACADEMY

That large portion Of the theatre going
public which favors farce comedy will
receive much qualification in the an
nouncement that Rich Il Aeader's come
dians will present Fl. Grattan Donnelly's
successful comedy, "A Pair of Jacks"
at the Academy Monday night The
play is n continuous string Of fanny situa-
tons, the dialogue bright and sparkling,
and this seasons presenting company is
q uniformly good one. The fun begins
when the curtain goes up and does not
cease until it goes down on the ludicrous
finale in the last act. The dance of the
"Bacthantes" and the Oriental dance in
troduced in the second and third acts are
entirely new and novel, and never fail
to create a furore.
The news & observer., 1897-01-22

NOTICE 70 CREDITORS OF RALeIGH PAPER CO.
N0azF .. AXE cAP9E5St to9ET, In rHn SUPERIOR COURT
z. II BelvIn. Cashier, &C, VS. The Raleigh
Paper Company, j. N. Holdiug Lessee, ana
". w Nass, Trustee.
in pursuance OF an order duty emade and
entered 10 said action the creditors of the
sad Raleigh Paper Company are hereby
notified to come in and make themselves
parties to said action.
II. III. YOUNG,
Clerk Wake Superior Court
Jannery lS, 1897.