KINSTON: Dr. J. K. Stockard of Burlington, late chief surgeon of the second North Carolina regiment, has been appointed a surgeon in the United States army. It is stated that doctor has received orders to report for service in the Philippines.

The Raleigh Post says during his service as chief surgeon in the second North Carolina regiment, Dr. Stockard distinguished himself for incapacity and incompetecy. His appointment is in keeping with the conduct of the war department.

The F'ayetteville Observer says: Everybody kuows Elmira McNeil, the colored woman evangelist, who took such an active part in the Fire Baptised Holiness meeting, recently held in this city. After that meeting disbanded, Elmira took up a subscription to carry her to Africa, where she said she was going to carry this new Fire religion. It is said she got as far as Raleigh, found her divorced husband living with another woman, and is now in Wake County jail awaiting trial on a charge of murdering that woman by administering poison.

August 3, 1899

KINSTON: The large wagon scales in front of Mr. L. J. Moore's store have been repaired. Shelters ore being built in front of Mr. C. A. Vick's and Mr. W.F. Moore's stores..Lumber is being hauled for two nice shelters in front of Dr. A. R. Miller's and Mr. W. D. Rayner's stores.

The A.&N.C.R.R. will begin running another freight train next Tuesday, making a freight in each direction every day.

A car load of watermelons shipped from Goldsboro brought the shipper a check for $4. Northern markets are overstocked.

A large party of some of Kinston's nice people will leave for Morehead City this afternoon. They will stop at the Atlantic Hotel.

The new bell for the county was carried to the court house this morning. It will be placed in position in the court house Tower as soon as possible.

Mess. C. A. Vick and W. F. Moore have moved into the two new stores between the Dime Bank and Mr. J. B. Cummings', Mr. Vick occupying the store next to Mr. Cummings', and Mr. Moore next to the bank.

Greenville Reflector: It strikes us that the best way for our people to treat the Mormon elders now spreading their doctrines through this section is to have nothing to do with them or their literature.

Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer: Patrick Creedman, white, and William Richards, colored, both of Nash County, were discharged from the penitentiary Wednesday. They were serving short terms for burglary in the second degree.

Last February, while on the Northampton farm, they were frostbitten because an inhuman overseer made them work in the field, thinly clad, during the time when the temperature was at zero.

Richards lost all his fingers and Creedman can barely use his feet. These men, both barely grown, are disabled for life, and so is another, yet a convict, who is in the hospital.

The discharged convicts attracted considerable attention at the depot as they were on their way home. Lewis Summerill is the name of the brutal overseer, and is to be investigated.

August 7, 1899

Miss Katie Jones, 15 years old, was drowned at Cedar Point last week.

At Oxford court Cornelius Parham was awarded $500 damages against the Seaboard for putting him off the train at Franklinton.

The coroner's jury at Nashville returned a verdict that Farmer killed Eatman in self-defense, and Farmer was released from custody.

Including five new suits that are to be brought at the next term of court, there are 20 divorce cases on the Guilford superior court docket.

Leslie Allen, aged 23, son of Mr. R.W. Allen, of Greensboro, was beating his way on a Southern Railway train last week and was killed between Lexington and Concord by falling from the train.

Durham Herald: In the recently appointed list of storekeepers and gaugers for this district Durham got three appointments _ one a Populist, one a negro and the other a white Republican. Truly politics make strange bed-fellows.

Revenue Collector Duncan has been notified of the seizure of the plant of the Cypress Whiskey Distilling Company, of Wilmington, for irregularities. He was also notified of two captures of illicit distilleries by Deputy Collector McDonald.

The State superintendent of public instruction is issuing a circular in which he says the apportionment of the public school fund is very improperly made, as is shown by the fact that while in the past ten years the school has increased $700,000, the length of the terms has not increased.

At Oxford court last week Engineer Wingo was allowed $1,000 damages against the Southern railway. He jumped from his train when he saw that an accident was unavoidable and had one of his legs crushed. He was the only man on the train who was hurt, and would have escaped had he remained in the cab. He sued for $25,000.

Lincoln Journal: Miss Joetta Nixon, daughter of Mr. James Nixon, was taken to the insane asylum at Morganton on Wednesday. It is a sad case.

At the last term of our superior court she was the prosecuting witness in a case against a prominent young man of Newton, who was charged with ruining her under a promise of marriage. The case was compromised. Constantly brooding over her spoiled life, the poor girl became a wreck.

KINSTON: No town in Eastern Carolina has more natural advantages than Kinston. We have two railroads and water transportation; the town is surrounded for fifteen miles in every direction with the finest land in North Carolina; our farmers produce good crops of cotton, tobacco, fruits, trucks, grain, etc.; we have nearby timbers of nearly every description.

But our natural advantages are too numerous to mention. However, a town may have every natural advantage and will not progress unless its people are united and progressive.

And The Free Press takes some pride in the fact that the business people of Kinston are progressive and co-operate together, because it has been hammering along that line for thirteen years _ to get our people united in plans and measures to advance the community interests. It was slow work at first, but now nearly all of our people realize the advantages of pulling together; and of advertising in The Free Press, which has helped by attracting people from longer distances to come to Kinston to do their trading.

The Free Press calls on Brother Creecy to correct his bad mistake in saying that Kinston "had so few natural advantages." We have very superior natural advantages.

The drinking of ice water is pronounced by scientists to amount to a real crime, and Dr. Brubaker has declared this question one of the utmost interests in typhoid fever. He says that if all water should be boiled and filtered there would never be a case of typhoid.

The temperature of the stomach at the moment the ice water enters it is about 105 degrees; the water is 32 degrees. The chilling of and contracting of blood vessels is therefore great, and to the ice water is ascribed the catarrhal condition of the stomach so often suffered from.

Dr. Brubaker says water should not be taken with a meal to any great extent, but that hot water taken before breakfast prepares the stomach for action, stimulating the gastric juices and washing away the remains of the last meal.

Another glass of hot water taken between breakfast and luncheon will be found beneficial and better than all drugs for curing indigestion, since in passing into the blood the food products are carried along with it.

Exercise, too, is necessary to help on the action of the stomach.

The Storm On Our Coast Caused Much Damage at Ocracoke. Several Vessels Wrecked and Two New Inlets Cut. Those Drowned at Swan Island All Men of Large Families. Two Survivors Saved Themselves by Cutting Away Their Masts. Four Others Missing.

Beaufort, N.C., Aug. 21 _ Sixteen men were camping on Swan Island, near the mouth of Neuse River. During the recent storm the island was overflowed, compelling them to seek the main land.

In the attempt all of their boats were capsized, except one, drowning fourteen, consisting of four Smiths and four Salter brothers and six others.

All were married and men of large families. They were citizens af Piney Point, Carteret county.

A crew of four more, who were camping on another island, are missing and are undoubtedly drowned.

The two survivors saved themselves by cutting away their boat's masts and throwing their cargo overboard and drifted ashore. They witnessed the drowning of their companions, but were powerless to aid them.

Washington, N. C., Aug. 21_ The Old Dominion steamer Ocracoke on her arrival here last night from Ocracoke gives a horrible report of the storm on the island. On Wednesday and Thursday, 16th and 17th, the wind blew a gale sixty to seventy miles per hour. All houses on the island were badly damaged, and some entirely demolished.

Gen. F. G. Terrell, of the Portsmouth Life Saving Station, reports the following wrecks:

Schooner capsized at Royal Shoal, crew missing.

Norfolk & Southern lay boat ashore.

Schooner L. A. Willis, Capt. Griffin, of Washington, wrecked near Ocracoke Inlet, two men lost, four saved by crew of Portsmouth Life Saving Station.

Sloop Helen Roxie, Capt. Kelly, ashore on the beach.

Schooner ashore on Harbor Island, name unknown.

Steamer Neuse, of the N&S Railroad, ashore at the mouth of Pamlico River in about 3 feet of water.

Out of the twenty fishermen on Swan Island, fourteen were lost.

It is also reported that two new inlets have opened on the north side of Ocracoke with about five feet of water in them.

Northwest lighthouse is considerably damaged and lost one boat and all provisions.

The family of Capt. David Hill, of the steamer Ocracoke, were occupying their summer cottage on the island. They barely escaped with their lives, the cottage and contents being a total loss.

Names of Drowned Fishermen

Morehead City, N.C., Aug 21- The following is a list of persons drowned while away from home fishing last Friday during the terrible northwest storm: Kilby Smith, John Smith, Elijah Smith, Wallace Smith, John Styron, James W. Ellis, Henry Willis, Joe Lewis, John Lewis, Joe Salter, John Salter, Kilby Rose, Bart Salter, William Salter.

The storm in the eastern part of Carteret County was extremely severe. Many hundreds of banker ponies, sheep and cattle pastured on Core banks were drowned. This was the worst storm in this part of the country in years, it having been twenty years to a day since the terrible storm that washed away the Atlantic Hotel at Beaufort.

August 25, 1899

Mr. Geo. L.. Buckman and son, of Washington, N. C., were drowned during the storm on Ocracoke island.

At Bogue, Carteret county, Thursday, Mrs. Dora Taylor was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of Mrs. George Taylor.

At Greensboro Thursday the dispensary board pleaded guilty to the charge of selling whiskey to a minor. Judgement was suspended upon payment of costs.

The Fayetteville Observer says that in 71st township hail fell on Tuesday night three inches deep, some of the stones being as large as hen eggs. Cotton was completely stripped.

It is stated that the Dismal Swamp Canal, extending from Portsmoutb to South Mills, N.C., is now open to navigation. The owners of the canal made the first trips over it Monday and Tuesday.

It is said that all the banker ponies were drowned in the recent terrible storm on our coast. A gentlemen from Beaufort tells the Goldsboro Argus that one man counted 52 dead ponies within a distance of a few miles.

Mr. Samuel Cook, of Danville, Va., was killed Wednesday night by jumping from a train near Avalon, says a special from Winston. He was told by the flagman not to jump. His head struck the oil box of the passenger coach.

In Alamance county two little girls were going home under an umbrella during a storm. Lightning struck the umbrella tearing the handle into splinters. The girls were stunned, but recovered. It is wonderful that the children escaped instant death.

Wilkesboro Chronicle: They are having plenty of snakes up in Union township. Last week one day Jim Jones killed a big rattler in his house, and the next day another one was found coiled up in the dinner pot. The largest killed in the township so far was five feet long and twenty-two rattles. It was killed by Sam Stanley.

In Johnston county, Mr. Sol Mitchell was repairing the dam of Barnes' Mill. He had struck hardly half a dozen licks when the whole dam suddenly gave way and the water rushed down upon him, submerging him and hurling him along the bed of the stream for a mile to the river below, where his body was found later in the day.

So mighty was the force of the water that it tore every shred of clothes from his body, crushed his head and bruised and mangled his body