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SOLD AN ENTIRE TOWN.
The Deserted Village of HaIbertson Rough
 For Se ,OOO.

For &s,OO0.
 Sheriff Allen R. Shinn has just had the unusual distinction of selling an en sire town. Two thousand dollars wA the pros paid, and tho title of the He brew settlement of Halbertson, N. J, passed at public sale from the Cumber land Land and Improvements company to the New Jersey Loan and Investment company. who had a mortgage upon the entire tract and foreclosed on it.
 What they will do with the place if uot known. Halbertson was started some years ago 10 provide homes for ths Russian Hebrew immigrants, Twenty. two houses were erected on the tram and large factory put up For tint the village prospered, but the class q people there were not active and thrifty, and gradually it became deserted viL lage, not one of the inhabitants re. inaining.
 Maurice River township bgilE largs schoolhouse there. which, like the oti,. er buildings, is unused. This iz te ueyed to be tie first casa on record Of sheriff selling an entire town. --,Phils 5ei2hix Prsss
 1t Wasn't lis Fauis.
 Jacks Maipma-There were three slices of cake in the pantry. Jack, and u0xy thara is only oua Hnxv doao that
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The appearance of the Norris block, on Third avenue, is being im- proved by tiie removal of the iron awning.
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MT. I. F. Walls came down from Little Rock yesterday and Is at the Arlington.
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The hagfish, or myxine, has q custom of getting inside the cod and similar fishes and entirely consuming the in. terior, leaving only the skin and the skeleton.
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New imported din pickles. olives, and mince meat. at Joe c. Meyer.
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Mir. L. B. Ramsey, Of Camden, is q Pine Bluff visitor today.
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The Atwood-Lawton nuptials will be celebrated at the First Presby te- rlan Church this afternoon at i:30 o'clock. Rev. j. l.. Caldwell will officinte.
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Mr. sam R. Alien, of Little Rock is q Pine Bluff visitor today.
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Doesn't Know It All.

"What do you study at school, my little man?
 T am studying the history of France, sir. 7
 "Indes'l. What can you tell me abeus Charlemagne:a
 "oh, sir, We have only got as far as Adam and Eve Polichinelle
 The medical departments of mcqueen s household costs s2 roo yearly and com prises q persona
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Mr. F l.. Barkley, of Little Rock. is registered at the Truloek.
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MT. J. A. Miller. of Plum Baynn, is visiting in the city today.
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VIII Houston, the negro who stole Il ytkc of oxen and sold them to MT. ReucIl, was bound over by Justice Yacc today to await the action of the Gand Jury.
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Mr N. Fl Lockhart, of Wrights- vile, is n piue Bluff visitor.
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Attorney NJ. l.. Althelmer was at Dewitt yesterdnl. on legal business
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Miss Tlla Brooks, of Sherrill, is visiting in the city.
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Mr. ]. W. Ora vford is at varner today on legal business.
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Mr. J o. Hutchesun, of Magnolia is registered at the Arlington
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Miss Jennie AItheimer is quite sick at her home on West Rarraquc street.
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Dr. McMillln and wife, of Little Rock, are visiting in the city today
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Miss plerson, of Stuttgart ls in the city shopping, today.
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Patrolnlnn,s ssalI.

X grand ban will7bc given for the purpose of raising finds to buy an ambulance wasQn for use in thecity. Preparations are being made to make this ball 4 magnificent success.
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Mr. j. <. Williams. of Sheridan, is in the city.
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From weanesday-s Daily }

NIT. J. L. Williams, Of Little Rock, is in the clty.
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AK0u NEED Hooul .oarsapaIills if your blood i5 impure, your appe tite gone, your health impaired. Moth ing builds up health like HOODS,
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Judge T. E. Sorrells came up from is homo in the country today.
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Miss Gilman, of sherrin, Is visiting u the city.
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Mr. Fred Atwood, brother of Mir, Harry Atwood, arrived in the city this morning from Cairo, to attend the Atwood-LawtOn nuptlals.
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Tri-State Medical Association Meeting at Memphis, Tenn, Nov. F and lS. For this occasion the Cot ton Belt Route will sell tickets, Pine Bluif 10 Memphis and return at one and one-third fare, $6.15, on certili- cate plan tickets on sale Nov. l5 to IS; return limit Nov. 2t.
 Fl. Bringman, Agent.
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sfr. Sol Calm came down from Lit tie Rock this morning.

Seth Low to Van You're not so many''
 Van Nyck to Seth Low--'Oh, 1 dont know. think 1 am, Tam many.
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From T harslay's Daily.
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Capt. II C. Daniels, the insurance man of Little Rock. is calling on his Pine Bluff friends today.
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Mr. E. l.. Borkley. an insurance man, Is in the city to adjust the losses caused by tho burning CT the gin on the Taylor ploce. the iusnr- anee for which was carried by the R. II. NJ. Mills & Sons agency.
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MeCammon & Son have recently repaintcd the interior of their drug store, on Main street It now has an oak finish and presents a very handsome appearance.
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1t Wasn't Ills Fault.

Jacks Maipma--There were thres slices of cake in the pantry. Jack, and now there is only one. How does that sRpnan7
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There were five cases before Judge Brown this morning wherein pleas of guilty to violating the stock law were entered
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
Makes One Tired.
Gurhau. Sun.

1t is calculated to make one
tired when he hears wise advo-
cate of the gold standard tell what
he knows. We hear him with
much pomposity say that he wants
gold as a money because there is
never any fuctuation Ill the price
OF gold. Of course there can be
no fluctuation in the price of gold
when there IS nothing to compare
1t with but gold, any more than
there can be anything colder than
ice when we have nothing else
colder to compare it with than ice.
Gold cannot fuctuate from itself.
then Why are such slugs of wisdom
dropped on the tympanum of our
ears? If gold had never been
heard Of, and we were using silver
there then could he no fluctuation
III silver, for there would be moth
ing to calculate from any more
than under a gold standard there
is nothing to calculate from but
gold. To vary the monotony won t
they give us some other chunks of
wisdom?
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
Cotton Silk.

A new field, says the Savannah News.
will be opened up for the use of cotton.
ordinary upland cotton-or rather mar
row field will be greatly broadened-pro-
v1ded recent invention of Oswald Sew
lert, of Saxony, proves successful, as is
promised. The process of irnparting TO
cotton sllk-like appearance by '''ner-
cer1zlng, it, or treating it with strong
alkaline dies, is not new one, but Sey-
fert S process for producing far better
results, according to the consular reports
OF May, promises to revolutionize the il
dustry. The former processes for giving
cotton silk-lilSe appearance necessitated
keeping it stretched until it was washed
and dried, but Seyfert, the features Of
whose process are kept secret, gets this
effect by 'mercerizing" the cotton Sin a
strongly stretched state at low temper
ature," and then washing it out without
tension. The product by this method is
said to be far superior to that produced
by the older methods, and also superior
to the silk produced from wood pulp
treated with acids and other chemicals.
1t has all the lustre of natural silk, takes
the die more readily, is strong, and can
be used on the hand or power looms. It
is said in the Textile World for Nav that
lustreing process is used with great sue
cess at Argentellil, France, and also that
| fabrics finished by this recently patented
process are advertised for sale already in
Germany. There is impaired to the warm
fast color and a permanent gloss and
the fabric is unaffected by washing.
THE yarn is colored at the time of gloss
ing the Textile World says, that is,
both operations are practically one. The
color becomes exceedingly fast, resists
washing and exposure to sunlight, sea
air, etc, and, in short, all the influences
to which fabrics are usually exposed"
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
Nepotism In the Senate.
New York World.

One OF the pretty pickings OF
some of the Representatives il,
Congress consists in appropriate ing
the sum allowed for tue hire of
secretaries. Each member of ,Le
House Is allowed sectet,rr1 al
Sl ,2oO q year. The members
themselves draw out a small fra,
ton OF this 10 stenographers ond
typewrl,ers and keep the rest,
while Others get the work done by
members of their families. S,ill
Others do the work shenlse, YES
and pocket the money.
In the Senate the Secretaries
draw their own Pay under a rule
OF that body. The House las n,
rule on the subject and lets down
the bars to all sorts of ahnse.
The only way the Senu.ors swell
their incomes out of their altos
ance IS by appointing members Of
their households as secre,a.,,.s
A former Senator appointed Lis
wife, seventy-odd years OF age l,,s
private secretary, and thus ken,
all the money in the FANNY
Nepotism prevails in every D,.r,
OF the Senate organization
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
After Five Years.
Spartdnhurg Herald.

It will be remembered that five
years ago a young married woman
living with her husband and three
children on q farm about eight
miles east of Srartanburg, clipped
with the son Of a neighbor and
went to Arkansas, taking her three
children with her.
The forsoken husband did not
follow her noI attempt to have
his erriEr wife return, but con-
tined the ever tenor Of his way Oh
the iarm. Some time ago Letters
were passed between the wife and
husband, and strange as X may
seem, the husband invited the I'M
faithful mother of his children TO
return and sent her money for
that purpose.
The woman and her children
came IN on the train from Atlanta
yesterday. Her father, a vener-
able gentleman with long, white
beard and a careworn expression,
and her husband We're at the depot
and the meeting was very affec-
tlonate one. The husband pressed
his children to his breast and
kissed them as he sobbed, "No,
you could not help it, while the
father wept with his hayward
daughter.
They left at once in a wagon
for the old farm, and it is said
that the woman VOWS that never
again Will she wander from her
DUN fireside.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
The Voices of Sena tors.

Orator Puff, 50, the old story
runs, had two tones In his voice.
So has Senator Allen Of Nebras-
ka.
There are times when the utter
ances of Senator Allen are as soft
and sweet as the zephyr which
fans the yellow daisies in a mead
ow. SO low, so whispered are his
words that the reporters make ear
trumpets of their hands, and then
fail to catch half of what he says.
Unless one sits on his feet like
Paul and Gamaiiel Of old, there
is naught to be gathered of bis
talk. All this, however is When
he begins his speech. In less than
ten minutes his voice l. ringing
through the chamber and ecoing
against the walls at the other end
of the capitol. It is no trouble
then to hear him. It is a question
rather, where one shall flee to
find quietude and peace.
This matter of voices in the Sen
ase is more or less interesting.
Senator Quay has the thinneSt.
most piping voice of all, while Sem
ator Fairbanks, of Indiana, has
perhaps, the weakest voice for a
tall man. He talks smoothly and
we'll, however Senator PERI ms
has ;, wonderfully clea4. md Dis
tinct enu1ciation. Every word
carrying to the fnrtharnst limits
OF the chamber. Senator Morgan
talks in II mouod enc. For honrs
he Will speak and It phonogr:tph
record would show scarcely a Use
OF fall of his voice. Senator
Thurston has some thing of the
same equilibrium of tone, but his
voice has deep resonant pitch
The greatest voice in the Senate,
however belongs to Lindsay, of
Kentucky. Lindsay is a big man,
anyway, with tremendous girth
of abdomen and all other POI lions
OF his anatomy in ike proport ion
He weighs about 300 pounds.
His voice matches his size. 1t is
the most reverberating, thunder
Gus, believing voice that ever is
sued from the throot of s. n.5n
When Lindsay talks the very foun-
dations tremble, AM if he had
shouted a few times at the walls
Of Jericho, Joshua would not have
needed a horn.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
Business Mans Talk to q Farmer,
Superior (Neb.) Journal.


No." said the hardware man to the
farmer, as he tied up the package of
nails III the paper, 'as you say, the peo-
pie talk about the low price of what they
have to sell, and don't say word about
the low prices of what they buy Take
those nails now. What do you suppose
those nails would cost you ten years ago?
Just about six cents a pound, and now
you can take the whole lot at three cents
pound, and extra wrapper thrown in.
That's not much, you say. Not so much
on little lot Of nails, perhaps, but 1e
cents isn't much on that bushe1 of pota-
toes you brought i'll just now, and that s
all the difference in price from ten years
ago, and yet you gru1nble at the low
price. It's not the ponnd of nails that
hurts me. Everything i'll MY store has
gone down in the same way. Your wheat
and hay aud butter aud eggs and cbi,k
chs bring you substantially tbs same pm
ces that they did ten vars ago Yon
farmers forget that you have things to
buy as well as things to sell. Want to
buy q plough this yesr2 That's a dandy
for S12. Ten Yeas ago I'd have asked
$40 for it. That 81 sa, ed for you in one
clip, There's better planter than the
one I sold YOU ten years ago for Goa
whole lot better. Take it along for $40.
Remember that binder You bought from
HE ten years ago for $139? Must be
worn Out, eh? III sell you a 50 per cent.
better one to-day and knock off the $50.
You farmers don't know when your
well off.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
War Between Doctors and Newspaper Men


Newspaperdom.
The Southern Illinois Press Association
haseadopted rule requiring newspapers
to omit the title of DR." in referring TO
medical men, reducing the disciples of
Esculapius to plain Mr." This step
was taken to discipline the Southern
Medical Association for expelling from
its nempersIip two advertising physi-
clans. In Ohio strained relations exist
between the medical fraternity and the
newspaper men, because of the activity
OF the former in their efforts to control
nominations for the Legislature in both
parties, with the hope of passing bill
prohibiting the sale of proprietary medi-
cil1es. The Ohio editors threaten, in
case the doctors are successful, to men,
ton the name of the attending physician
II the published announcement of each
death. The sooner medical men wake to
the fact that their code of ethics has no
place in this age of advertising, the bet
ter it will be for both doctors and news
paper men.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

Governor Taylor, of Tennessee,
has appointed Thomas B. Turley
United States Senator to succeed
the late Senator Isham G.. Harris.
Mr.. Turley is a well-known law
yer. His home is in Memphis and
for years he has been the law part
ner of Senator Harris. Heis SO
years old and q man of command
ing appearance. He has never
been actively identified with the
politics of the State although he is
an old-line Democrat and an adj
vocate of free silver.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

L there IS any person whom You
dislike, that is the one of. whom
YOU should never speak.-Ce-
Gil.
We cannot c 'ntrol the evil
tongues Of others; but a good life
enables us to disregard them.-Ca-
to.
The cheerful live longest in years
and afterwards in our regards.
Cheerfulness is the offshot of 90, a.
ness.-Bovee.
He IS incapable of a truly good
action who finds not pleasure in
contemplating the good actions
of others-Layater.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
Some Reforms.
Chatham Record.

The hypocrisy Of the ''reformers'' in
their professions for '1oca1 self-goverr-
lnent" was foIcibly illustrated in every
county i'll North Carolina OH last Mon
day.
In the campaign in 1894 and 1896 the
reform" speakers and newspapers cried
out loudly and Justify for the local self
government" or, as some of them called
It, for ''the right of the people to govern
themselves" by electing their own Off
GERS. And yet, strange to say, these
''reformers" have not allowed the people
of any county in the State to have vote
or voice i'll the election of single, soil
tary officer of their public schools!
Had you thought of this?
On the first Monday in June a county
board of education was elected in every
county-not by the people-but by the
court house ring" of every county-by
the county commissioners, the register Of
deeds and the clerk of the Superior
Court. And on last Monday a supervi
sor of public schools was elected in ev.
cry county-not by the people-but by
the county board of education, the regis
ter of deeds and the clerk of the court
And also, on that day, five school com
nl1tteenen i'll every township were
elccted-not by the people-but by the
county board of ed11catiOu
And thus it is, the management of al
our public schools i'll every county is Ell,
trusted to officers not one of whom is
elected by the people!
And this is called "reform"
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

In abiding to the fact that
Kansas City's population has in
creased 1900 in one year, the
Star asks: "Who did it?" A
possible explanation recalls the
Femark of a Republican statesman
who tried to account for the DEM
ocratic tidal wave which followed
the enactment of the Mckinley
law OF 1890. "The women did
It," he aid.-Galveston News.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

John Griffin, of GAINESVILLE, o., says:
Il never lived day for thirty years with
out suffering agony, until box of De-
WITS Witch Hazel Salve cured my piles .
for piles and rectal troubles, cuts, bruises
sprains, eczema and all skin troubles De.
Wits Witch Hazel salve is unqualified
]. d. Mcmillan.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

1t is said that the bones of
many soldiers killed and buried
around Malvern Hill during the
late war have been lifted from
their graves by some remarkable
phenomena.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

Reports come from Missouri
that the fruit crop of the Iron
State will reach a value of 500
100000 this season, which will be
more than the worth of the wheat
crop OF that State and Illinois
with the cotton crop of Missouri
thrown IN. Apples and peaches
are the great staples.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

The various Confederate veteran
camps i'll New Orleans have COM
bined TO establish an intelligence
bureau for securing employment
for Confederate veterans and their
sons and daughters.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

The Democrats have carried An
napolis, Md, by a small majority,
electlng mayor, counselor and four
out of six aldermen. The CITY
gave Mckinley over POO majority
last fall.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

Correspondent Creelman, who
has been doing Ohio for the New
York World, risks his reputation
as prophet by predicting that
the Democrats will carry the State
in November.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

"They don't make much fuss about it +"
We are speaking of DeWitts Little Early
Rsers, the famous little pills for consti-
patton, biliousness, and all stomach and
liver troubles. They never grippe. J. d.
Mcmillan.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

The register of deeds of Wayne
county issued marriage license to
David A. Williford and Miss Mary
Marget Lucy Levy Jane Sarah Ma
tilda Love Divine Seymour Carrie
Bell Caroline Bartlett.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28
VIRGINIA COLLEGE
FOR YOUNG LADIES.
Roanoke. Va

Opens sept-9, 1897 One OF the leading Schools
1or young ladies In the South. Magnificent
pullolngs' all modern improvements. Campus
ten acres Grand mountain scenery in Valley
q Va famed Tor health. European and Amer
lean teachers. Full course Superior adyan-
taSes IN Art and Music. Students from twenty
States. For catalogues address the President.
MATTE P. HARRIS, Roanoke, Va.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

Burning, itching skin diseases instantly
relieved by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve,
uneqtalled for cuts, bruises, burns. 1t
heals without leaving scar. J. D. Nc
MILAN.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

"With sentiments of great es-
TEEN / am, very respectfully and
truly yours.
''R. E. LEE, General"
Mr.. Davis wrote, declining to
accept the resignation, and Gen
erai Lee remained in command
until Appomattox.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

Pineapple gardens planted two
years ago at ST. Petersburg, Fla,
have proved so successful that the
acreage given to them has been
considerably increased.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

The Leather Gazette drives \
peg OF truth into the right spot
when it reminds its readers that
the advertisement that fails is
the advertisement that tries to do
everything at once and convincos
nobody of anything in particular. >
One thing at time is one Of tba
laws of effectiveness in general
advertising.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

There is time for everything; and the
time to attend to cold is when it starts
Don't wait till you have consumption,
but prevent it by using One Minute Cough
Cure, the great remedy for coughs, colds,
Group, bronchitis and all throat and lung
troubles. J. d. Mcmillan.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

II crave but One Minute" said the
public speaker in husky voice; and then
he took dose of One Minute Cough
Cure, and proceeded with his oratorv.
One Minute Cough Cure is unequalled
for throat and lung troubles. ]. D. Nc
MILAN.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

1t is reported that ex-President
Cleveland will, in November, be
formally rendered the office of
president of the University of Vir-
ginia.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

1t heals everything except a broken
heart, may be said of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. Piles and rectal diseases,
cuts, burns, bruises, letter, eczema and
all skin troubles may be cured by it
quickly and permanently. +. d. McMil-
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-07-28

The Bristol, Tenn, Courier SAYS
one North Carolina nlountaineer
Of his own free will "swapped his
wife and seven children to a neigh
Dor man Of the mountains for his
wife, q musket and a moody bull. ="