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Great Gathering3 Of sPsople.to Hon
oriGood Woman's Memory.
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AN UNcRATEFUL MAN
now no Iseqn,sed q Young woman.
Love Summoned TO Testify in n
Case of Fraud :. somol Case. Dispos-
.ed%of iu Federal court colonel
IIHrrcii Hnd Yeliows revcr-Ad-
viseu to Rnise Horses.
IN UNcRATEFUL MAN

4 Raleigh, N. c., Nov. IA special
from Weldon says:
The funeral of the late Mrs. Sallie
Long Prescott wife OF Col. A. Prescott
(who died at her home here Saturday
copal Church Sunday afternoon at 8
O'clock. Theoseryices were conducted
by the rector, Rev. j.. Il. Chambers.
The funeral procession was one of the
largest ever seen in Weldon. She was
beloved by all, and the people came
here from Jackson, Halifax, Henderson,
Garysburg and other points. The
oaslSet was covered with beautiful
floral offerings. Everyone appeared
anxious to show by words and acts
how dearly she was beloved. Every
body was her friend, high and low. rich
and poor, all alike feel a great person.
al loss in her death. Always delicate
herself, yet she never failed to respond
when others were sick or in distress
and by her gentle words and kindly
deeds she became a ministerlng angel.
May her soul rest In peace Is the eX-
preston of every heart in Weldon.
Tho remains were laid to rest in the
family square In Cedarwood Cemetery,
here to sweetly slumber until the res
direction morn.
BASE INGRATITUDE.
The Newton Enterprise of this week
contains the following:
About Il year ago q young lady in
the Eastern part OF the county put a
mortgage on her land to furnish
young man she was engaged to marry
Sl25 to go to school on. A short time
afterwards he wrote to her for more
money. She did not send It, and tho
fellow notified her that their contract
was off. Yesterday the land was sold
by the mortgage to collect his note.
SUMMONED TO MISSOURI.
Mr.. d. II. Senter, of the Secretary of
States Office, was subpoenaed yester>
day to attend Federal court in Kansas
City Mo-, In the case of the United
States VS. Ben II. Morse. of the alaska
Klondyke Mining and Improvement
Company" 1t will be recalled that
detective came here some time ago to
see whether the company had been in
: cornorated under the laws of North
Carolina as alleged by Morse, who VIC
timized widows by collecting balances
on worthless stock supposed to have
been bought by their deceased hus-
bands. Mr.. Senter is wanted to testl-
fy that no such corporation has been
chartered by this State, and will leave
for Kansas City on Sunday next.
FEDERAL COURT AT WILMING-
TON.
Judge Purnell has returned from Will
mington, where he has been holding a
two weeks term of Federal court. Two
men, both negroes, were sentenced to
the penitcntlary, and several others.
both white and colored, were given
terms in jail. One of the negroes sent
to the penitentlary gets term of ten
years for robbing the postofflco at Bur-
IT nn1 SnVtf1 To- 4, l,,1r MT
other. an old crippled negro from
Laurinburg, was sent up for year and
day for retailing without license It
was his third offence. The postoCfce
robber had only recently finished a
two-years' term for Tobbing Il post
Office. He was sentenced in May 1897,
the first court Judge Purnell held at
Wilmington
COL. HARRELL HAD YELLOW
FEVER.
A letter received here from Havana
announces that Col. Eugene G. Harrell
has for sometime been i'll with yellow
fever. 1t was thought for awhile he
would never recover, but he is now
much better. and last week he was able
to leave the hospital, though he is
terribly emaciated and wasted by his
sickness. He has many friends here
who hope for his speedy return to
health.
ABOUT HORSES.
The November Bulletin Of the De-
partment Of Agriculture will be largely
devoted to the horse. the idea being to
lay before the farmers of the upper
Piedmont and mountain sections the
desirability of breeding the French
coach horse, a good seller, which has
brought much money into parts of Vir-
ginia.