North Carolina Newspapers

' ' ""' "' " 1 V i WILSON ADVANCE. Published Every Friday At Wilson; North: Carolina, -by- JOSEPHUS PAMELA - E4iUr ani Pwprirtw -:): Sl'BSrrilPTION I'ATK.S IN ADVANCE ( ine Y-ar ' ! S,x Months - IW rtTMoney in " 'at by MoneJ' Order or Hrtp'sttTfl litcr at our 'risk. -orric-K-Tariiri Strwf. in the OI.1 Post iitfiif ll-ii'lii'K NEWS OF A WEEK vrilKIMCI) FROM ALL PARTS ()! Till: WOULD. VESLI I SOS- O LEASE SOS Oetywayo.the KingolZiiIu-land, is dead. Sa -Frai.cis.-o had a -'00,000 tire last week. A man was cremated in Pennsyl vania 1 ; t week. It takes ?I,iMi,()(i( per month to pay the nation's iiensioners. llu- public debt was reduced ?m,0ihi.(iO ) tim ing the last mouth. Mr. Spiirgeoti.the Loudon preach er, is dangerously ill with the gout. The Beaufort people are going to build a new hotel on tlie site of the old Atlantic. In charity it may be better to give than to receive; but iu "kiss-, ing it h about equal. Ed. Oldham. Senor Barca, niintster from Spain to the United -States, committed suicide last week by shooting him self with a pistol. When Mrs. John Mc.Clellan, q MitHintou, Peun., went to open her kitchen stove she found a black Hiiake in the oven. John Gilliam, Georgia's noted ne gro hater and ku-klux is dead. He had lived in a swamp fourteen years, avoiding human beings. General "Wade Ilainptou claims that to his grand-father, belongs the 'honor of gathering the first cotton crop-raised in the South. John Wanamaker, the Philadel phia dry goods man, invented $2(K,(Kl(t in advertising last year and mailt; a million dollars by it. Cicero said there is an eloquence in silence. Cicero evidently used fo crawl up .stairs in his stocking feet when ie came home from the lodge. 'A -snake 'coiled, itself, about the leg of a Lynchburg (Va.) negro boy, ami lashed the limb severely wit h its tail. It then unwound itself and fell off. - .Mr. .las. C Brommell, of War renton, has purchased the', Martin county "Times" and wilt continue he ' papers- We, wish him much success. A remarkably rich gold mine has been developed near llilesville in Stanly county, where ore that as says $2,000 t,o ton is now laying on the dumps. Freddie . tiehhardt, Mrs. ' Laug try's Iteau, is not altogether desti tute of sense, as many persons have supposed. He votes the dem ocratic ticket. The first bale of the new crop. 'of com on was sold at Albany, Ga., Ju ly 5th at 25 J cents per pound. It was raised by Primus V. Jones of Baker county. An Overton (Mo.) man set 'fire to a brush heap. As the fire begun to blaze, the whole heap . turned into -writhing rattle snakes, who leisure ly crawled away. Cabarrus county has adopted the new road law lequiring the roads to he worked by taxation, the levy for the purpose being - 8c on the $ 100 and 24c on the "poll. - It is estimated that the paid absenteeism of government oftiei als and clerks from their work costs the lo.intry in the neighborhood of f. 1,000,000 annually. The New-York Commercial and Financial Chronical,- estimates the average of the present cotton crop at 17,li9,ooo acres, which is the largest ever yet" re ported. " ' " We heard of an amateur singer up in Guilford county-who frightened a pair of canary birds to death. It must been a clear case of killing two birds with one's toue. A young man iu Keruersville is reported to have .committed suicide by swallowing a 'paper of pins all because his girl "went back on him." He ws badly .f " . " A snake of the viper species, with two small daw feet attached to its ImmIv, Vviis killed near Boone ville. I ml. It stood perfectly erect iiHn its feet when attacked. The "Reporter and Post" says Thomas Richardson, of stokes count y, recently worked one whole , Sunday on his farm, not knowing what thn- of the week it was. A Lowell gentleman, who claims to le neither an epicure nor a iHet urn no w both, says that eating apple, pie without -cheese- is like kissing a Kv Wjti,out a squeeze- Gov. Jarvis s,K,ke at Poplar Tent Fair, Cabarrus ,.0Untv, last week. The display or stock was. fine, oue bull tipping the scales at 3,292 pounds. 3000 IKH)ple were present, Jay Gould's toml is to cost $5$,- oo, a iiu nave room for sixteen per And the chances are he will I uo nearer heaven - thau the "au uunedin a t wo dollar coffin 1 VOLUME 13.-- An exchange gives an account of the death of a glutton who ate at a single meal a whole turkey, a leg of mutton, a pound of cheese; several pounds of bread and a bucketful of wine. As Mrs. Gotlieb Iletzel, of Hag erstou, Md., stepped from her bed she trod upon a copperhead snake, and it bit her foot. -Although she has suffered intensely, she will re cover. " Among the patents issued to North Carolinians in July we find one issued to John (J. Williams, of Scotland Neck, on a machine for measuring bagging and other fabrics. -A poet by the name of Brown, living near Polk City, Iowa, wag j pelted with eggs because he said that the law ought to be allowed to take its course and not for the mob to hang Harlan. Tne "Record" says a lad in Chatham county took two or three bird shot in mistake for pills, and afterwards reported that she felt much better. Such is the strength of imagination. The first woman to arrive in Car bonate, Col., received an. ovation, marked bv such substantial tokens ol welcome as a town lot, a mining claim, and the money with which to buy a silk dress. Here is another piont in favor of the Darwinian theory. There is a boy in Norristown who "sprang from a monkey." The monkey be longed toau organ grinder, and at tempted to bite the boy. Near Lynchburg Va., a huge moc casin snake was seen robbing a birds nest in a mulberry tree. Af ter it was killed it was found to con tain four young cat-birds, a quart of mulberries and three kittens. .Female-'. 'drummers are not un known. Miss Ella T. Green "trav. els'' for a St. Louis house, and re ceives 1,000 per year for her ser vices. A New York firm also has a 'lady saleswoman" on the road. Th-e last number of the "Siinny South," published at Atlanta,' Ga., has a wooden cut of Rev. Dr.-Aber-uathy, President of Rutherford College, N., C, ! accompanied-' by a sketch written by E. Washing ton. ,'.--;' -': . j .-' Mr. John W. Mathus, of Sampson, came to his death last week, says the 'Caucasian,-' froui being thrown violently froi.n his seat iu his bug gy, and falling between the--shaft, and wheel of the vehicle, breaking his neck Messrs. L. AV Humphrey, H. F. Grainger. James 15. Cherry, E. ('. Yellowley and Dr. J. F. 'Jones, Di rectors of -the Goldsboro, Snow Hill and Grcenviiie Railroad have called a meeting of the hoard.. Will thev build f Peter Strausse, of Meekville, Peiin., was bit by a -copperhead snake. His entire body liecame swollen, his teeth dropped outand he lost his eye sight. Medical aid was useless. His jaws set and he died in spasms. - A Mr. 'Randall, of Atlanta, Ga., j cowhided two young bloods for ! sending hw-sister a watermelon in- J side of which a black doll had Iteen ; skillfully inserted and writing her a letter, the contents of w'.iich were obscene. Sensible! Raleigh has 1701 residences and 200 business houses, according to Mr. Richards' statement in the "Ob server." City Council orders the houses fo bo numbered at expense of owners. The mail delivery will then begin, by carrier. A man named Barker, living oh Hurricane Creek, Ark., in the cen tre of the State; killed his daughter, upon the announcement of her in tention to marry a certain man agaiust his wishes. The 'neighbors hung Barker fo his front door yard. An egg found iuside of rattle- snake, killed by Dr. Kinuer, of St. Louis, contained a-live! v young snake. Dr. Kinuer killed .it, ran a needle into the poion -gland,' and picked a young-sparrow, which in stantly showed symptoms of poison ing. The Superintendent of the Wes tern Union is overwhelmed with griet because, owing to the wicked strikers, a telegram .from a dying man did not reach his mother-in-law until it was too late for hr to hasten to his bedside, and sooth him in his last moments. When a lady living in Chelsea seut to London for a doctor, she apologized for asking him to come such a distance-. '.'"Don't speak of it," answered the M. D. "I hap pen to have another patient iu the neighborhood, and can thus kill two birds wi'h one stoue.'" There is lunch excitement iu Trenton, N.-J., over an article -which appeared in the "Times,'" of that, city in which an attack was made on the character of the wo men .and girls who are employed in factories. The workingmeu are in censed and loud threats are made. The editor has beeu hung in effigy. 7 E TERRIFIC STORM. :o:- HAIL FOUR FEET DEEP IN SOME PLACJS IN IOWA. THE 1 CROPS DESTROYED. De Moines, Iowa, Aug. 9. Dis patches from Gray give particulars of a terrible hail -storm", which be gan there at about 7 o'clock Tues day night and lasted over an hour. The hail is over the tops of the fences in some places, and trains were held uutil the section men had shoveled the hail from the track. In a spot of four acres, between Gray and Audfisborn, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, hail still lay 4 feet deep. The largest hailstone found at Gray was - thirteen inches in circumference. Standing crops are completely ruined. The area devastated is over two miles in width, and extends as far, North west as is heard from. The corn ciop, which was so promising on Tuesday, is to-day more than a failure. Thousands of acres are beaten into the ground, and will not even do for feed. In mauy in stances the stalks are broken off as though done with a club. Small grain, which was still standing, is beaten into the earth, and it is uot worth fifty cents an acre. Most of the small graiu had been cut and was iu the shock, but this eveu has been greatly injured by the storm. The rumbling in the air at the approach of the storm was appalling, and re sembled the sound of a train cross ing a high bridge, only the uoise was much louder. Cattle suffered terribly, and in many cases were almost beaten to death. But little wind accompanied the storm, but the rainfall was one of the heaviest that ever visited that region. A dispatch from P.rayton says : All corn in the track of the storm is cut off about a foot, aliove the ground, and small grain is complete ly destroyed..- Two houses are re ported as blown down and demol ished. A child was blown from its mother's arms, and was not found until the storm had abated. An other house was blown from its foundation, and a mowing machine driven through its walls. Farmers are left destitute of crops. Nine cars were hurled from' the .track at Lorah, and Gihuan's elevator was totally destroyed. A special from Odebolt says that that place and the surrounding country was visit ed by a terrific wind, hail and rain storm. The hail destroyed all of the corn and small grain that re mained uncut, and greatly damag ed grain in the shock. Some stock is reported killed. The house of Peter Larson, seven miles South, 1.1 1 ' ... ... w.is - mown Mown. His wile was killed, and he was severelj injured. The barn of Mr. Draper, four miles East, was struck by lightning', and burned. All the buildings on the fair grounds are a total wreck. Howtney do it out West. LoeaJ journalism, even in the East, is not wholly devoid of per sonalities, but the following from a Western paper takes the cake: The Marble Hill 'Register' refers to its local rival as follows : "The ignorant, contemptible, mean, sneaking, cowardly, self-important, low-ilnug, dirty, outlandish, back bit ing, self-styled, 'politician.' dead bent, whiskey bloat, back woods bummer, beer-inflated, big-headed, soft-skulled over rated swamp an gel who claims to edit thel swamp paper thinks the editor of the 'Reg ister," terribly ignorant. Let him look at the twenty seven mistakes iu his last issue ; let lam remem ber the 'biantaut in the issue be fore; aud let hiin not forget that he used 'ardorous' for 'arduous' in ! a leading local in his issue of June 24th." Oh, you dirty whelp ; you poor, crawling, creeping viper; you du ty scum of t he dirty, stinking stagnated swamp; yotV mean, big! jawed, slab-sided, ttuoek-kueed bow-legged, bandered shanked, pup; lost, as you are, to honesty, to priu ciple, to justice, to common decen cy, do you imagine you can rule God's country the hills! Go back ..l 4- - - . mo mtt-utrsspuui uuiii WUICU ypu nave crawieu auu mere remain. Don't come out of your den to abuse respectable jeople. Go to school, Kelly, auu you may learn . ii :.. . . . ,V t - . MHuriiiMiig .i fi. iveii.v n reply is awaited with interest. The Strongest Man on Earth l.eorge Jageudorfer is probably the strongest man in the world. lieisoi medium . Height, but of more than proportionate breadth ami depth ol chest. His forearm is bigger thau the calf of an ordi nary man's leg,' measuring fifteen and one half inches, and the muscle near the shoulder is eighteen inch es iu circumfereuw. His legs are also inuscularly developed, and sometimes' he lies prone on his back and plays sportively - with 200 pound balls, which he tosses about Wieson Advance. tET ALL ,.I , s XIIOIT Ain'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY COD'S, AND TRUTHS WILSON, N0ETH CAROLINA, AUGUST 17. 1883. much as ordinary men would toss as balls of the same size made of india rnbber. His "finger-lift," meaning a lift by the second finger of the right hand, is 550 pounds. It is a cannon that he lifts by a ring and holds while it is fired off. His shoulder-lift is a horse (the last weighed 9G0 pounds,) which is a test of plain strength such as has never been seen before. The litter stands on a platform, the horse be neath, and the lift is one of pore strength, without any mechanical assistance, save straps over the shoulders. When Jangendorfer exercises with dumbbells he "puts op" 250 pounders, and juggles in the air with 100 or 140 pounders, much, as the ordinary gymnast han dles five and ten pounders. lie carries five men, two on each end of the pole, and one ou his shoul der, and can resist the pulling strength of three strong men with the second finger of his right hand. He purposes, as soon as arrange ments can be perfected, to; lift a 1400 pound elephant. Philadel phia Pres. . Kiss Quick Hobody Is Looting. One evening last week, ' while coming from Long Branch on a boat, a maiden fair to see sat with her lover in the corner. The writer sat outside, near the win dow, - "Do you remember when we first met, darling!" he asked. "Yes, pet," she answered, in oleomargarine accents. "Do we love each other as well and truly as we did then?" .. "Yes, sweot." "Will we always love each other as we? dd now ?" 'Yes, dovey; I that we may '!' "One kiss, then trust and pray Quick nobody is looking." - 'With eyes uplifted, looking love she pursed her cherry lips, and just as the critical moment arrived a cruel, horrid man with a hump backed nose and saw-buck eves poked his head through the win dow and remarked : "You didn't see anything ov my terbacker did yer f I was sittin' in that corner. O, no ! nere it is ! Beg pavdonl" and as he fished paper -of tobacco from his coat tail pocKet his head disappeared. She resembled a Roman mother pleading for her babes, and it she id had a Gatling gun with her there would have beeu murder. Colored Church .Mortgaged for an Excursion Train. The colored excursion train from Winston to Columbia, wmcli was scheduled for Monday, failed to conic to time, and great was the disappointment of many here who had prepared' rations for a three day's trip. The excursion was got ten up by the colored church in Winston, and failing to raise the necessary -money oiusiue . two oi t he trustees of the church borrowed G00 from a Winston financier and eaotialist sriving their notes for $800,' mortgaged the church as se curity for the payuient'ofthe notes. The contract price ol the excurs ion train was 1,200. As soon as notified that $000 of the amount had been deposited in the bank to the credit bf,the railroad the train was dispatched from Richmond and arrived in Winston on time. The trustees scratched . around ..indus trious! v for some hours trying to raise the other $000, and ffnally failed. The railroad pocketed the deposit and 'steamed.back to Rich- mood. The interesting legal ques tion now arises as to the validity ofjflie mortgage; that the con tract is usurious; that excursions to Columbia are not in the line oi serving God; that finally "de mort- gage am no i-wmii iiu ..oo There is considerable feeling in Winston over the matter. Greens boro "Patriot" ; Appearances Are Decettfnl. "You never can tell man from his appearance," said Judge Dick- erv, of the Supreme Bench, in chat the other day. j"When I was on the Circuit Bench a few days ago, down in the interior of the State, I saw a man in the court room w ith his hat on. I knew there, were some Quakers iii that T-ininirv. and I supposed he was . , - - one. lie was a witness, and when he came up, thinking to respect his religion, I asked him wh-U he want ed to do. swear or affirm. To my surprise he answered promptly: don't make a bit of difference to we which way." I fouud out af terward that he was bald, and keptJjishat ou for that rea son." Chicago" News" Mr. A. L. Bledsoe, a promising youth, only 1C years of age, the son of Mr. M. Iu Bledsoe, of Barton's Creek township, went out in the woods squirrel hunting yesterday. By some acci lent he shot himself in the neck, dying In a short time from the effects of the wound, says the "News-Observer." BEAST OR HUMAN. -:o:- I THRILLING TALES OF WILD . PEOPLE. f,- TUE WILD MAX OF CAMAS. A wild woman, or perhaps the mate of the gorilla recently cap tured, has appeared near Lafay ette, Ind., and is terrorizing the people. Mrsl Frank Coffman, the wife of a well-known farmer, saw'it the other day, and "thus describes it: Mrs. Ooffuian was passing through the timber when she sud denly saw to her righ t a hideous creature formed like a womau, with long black liair floating in the wind, and the whole body covered with short gray hair. The crea- i ture was breaking twigs from a sassafras bush and eating the bark. The noise,, made in breaking the bush prevented its hearing Mrs. Coffin an 's approach. Frozen with horror the farmer's wife stood and gazed on the remarkable creature before her. Suddenly the wild woman turned, and, facing her civilized sister, glared at her with a baleful light of hate. Raising her long hairy arms she gave an unearthly shriek and darted away into the forest.; Almost paralyzed with fear Mrs. Coffman gazed af ter the wild creature for a moment, then, with agonized screams she fled homeward. Her cries of fear attracted her husband, who was at work in the field, and he hastened toward her, reaching her side as her knees gave way with weakness resulting from mortal terror. He carried his wife to the hous gave the alarm, and soon half a hundred men aud boys, accompauied by dogs, were on the trail of the wild woman. She was hotly pursued, and several times came near being caught, but eluded ,her pursuers with wonderful skill and cunning. For fully half a mile of the chase she was never out of sight. Her feet touched the ground but sel dom. She would grab the under bush with her long, bony hands and swing from bush to bush, and limb ta limb with wonderful ease. She seemed only endeavoring to keep just beyond her pursuers, uutil, coming to the swamp, she disappeared as suddenly aud effeo tivelv as an extinguished light and tfb searching served to ascertain her whereabouts. Chicago Times. ANOTHEB OF THE CEITTEES ! The celebrated wild man of the Camas prairie was killed recently by some parties traveling through the prairie. While the travelers were camped iu the foot-hill on the edge of the prairie one of thein. named Micklehauey, went a few hundred-yards from camp to kill some (Tucks, taking with him a shot-gun loaded with large shot. When only a couple of hundred yards from the camp the "Wild man of Camas" jumped up from his hiding place, and after running a short distance stopped and look ed at Micklehany through biq large clear eyes j for a moment, then, with a shriek that struck terror to the hunter and caused him to shudder as the echo resounded through the forest, the man, with the ferocity of a savage . least of the jungle, made for Micklehany so fiercely that iu order to insure his own safety he emptied both bar rels of the gun into him, when he fell apparently dead. Micklehauey went to him when the strange be ing began to revive. And he put his foot on the man's neck and called to his comrades lo bring an ax, which they did with all possi ble haste. The man recovered just as they arrived, aud with a pitiful moan regained his feet and started to ran. The ax was thrown at him, and as he turned his head to look back it struck him iu the cen tre of the forehead, aud he dropped lifeless to the ground. On examination he was found to be rather tall, with full, clear eves, and an extraordinary large head ; appeared to be about forty five years old, although not a gray hair could be seen. The wavy black hair of his head hung low down onto his body, and his bushy beard was about two and a half feet long. The growth of hair about two inches in length. This was also black, and very fine. The finger aud toe-uaila were two iuches long aud resembled claws more than uails. He was wrapped in a long robe made or rabbit skins. The skins were sewed together by sinews. Ou examining the place from which he made his appear ance it was found that he had a very comfortable bed, which was made of the soft bark of sage-bush. It was under an overhanging rock and was well protected from the wind. Near the bed were two rabbits, which had most likely been killed by stones. About ten years ago an insane stage driver left Boise City, and has never since been heard of. The "Wild Man of Camas" may be the same, havirg taken up his abode in the then desolate prairie but seldom visited by white men. The "Wild Man of Camas" has,since first been seen in 1873, been dread ed by the lonely traveler aad pros pector, who will be relieved to know that he is dead. A Happy Man with Two Whres. Some fifteen or twenty years ago Mr. James Price married a very nice lady, and after they had lived together several years, some nine or ten years ago, she tried to indnce him to go with her to Baltimore where they could educate their children. He would not, and hhe moved to Baltimore, carrying hr children, leaving Mr. Pri::e in Golds, boro. They corresponded a short while. Mr. Price lived here alone. Not hearing from her in seven or eight years he knew not but what she was dead, so he married a second wife some three months ago.J, Last week wife No. 1 came to Clayton, thinking she could in duce her husband to accompany her to Baltimore, now she had ac cumulated some property. She heard of his second marriage aud did not go to his house, but went out and stopped with one of Mr. Price's 'neighbors. He ol course went over to see her, and a scene followed. She told him she woULl retnru to her home and leave him undisturbed. So yesterday even ing they passed our office. Mr. Price was carrying the valise of his first, or Baltimore wife, to the depot, where 'she--took the train fo- that city. Clayton "Bud." Cracking Wheat into Flour, Minuesota millers no longer "grind" wheat into flour. Thev crack it, and the people of the Northwest claim that the new process makes their hitherto in ferior wheat the most valuable in the world. Burr stones are things of the past and Hungarian steel rollers have taken their places. These rollers are about 30 inches long and eight inches iu diameter. It takes about 5 sets of steel rollers to finish the flour. Each set of rollers runs closer than the pre- ceediiig. After the wheat passes each set of rollers it is bolted or sifted through coarse! cloth. This cloth lets the disintegrated par tides of the wheat through and passes off the bulky or larger pieces, which are ruu through an other aud a closer set of rollers and cracked again. The last rollers have little else but wheat hulls and waxy germs of wheat, which do not crack up, but mash down like a piece of of wax. The germ of a. kernel of wheat is not good for food. It makes flour black. By the old millstone process this waxy germwas ground up withthe starchy portion bolted through with the Hour. By the new system of crack ing the kernel instead of grinding it. this germ is not ground but flattened out and sifted or bolted out, while the starchy iortioiis of the wheat are crushed into powder ed wheat or flour. AH the big mills of Minueaj olis ' now ..manu factured by the new process. From the Montgomery "Star." Faith Cnre. At Old Orchard Beach, Maine, a Doctor Charles Cullis is perform ing some wonderful cures of dis-' eases through what he calls the 'layiug hold of the promises, and the "efficacy of prayer." He has several assistants,' among whom is the. Rev. J. M. Sutherland, lately known to negro minstrelsy fame as "Senator Bob Hart." The doctor impresses his patient, that they must first become christians, "and then pray to be healed," not simply that you may be rid of suffering, but that "when you are healed you may devote your lives to the glory of God, Then, he says, all that is necessary is that the patient "shall have faith." The meetings have been largely attended by the sick and the well, devout- and the scoffers. Scores of cures of all manner of diseases arereported by joyful believers, but the skeptical allege that but few of the cases cited indicate the need of snjer natural interpositions. There is a young lady in Pitt count-, says the "Reflector," who began teaching school for the first time on Monday -ef last week, There was an attendance of twenty-two scholars the first iay, and of that number twenty were of one name and the other two were of the same name as their teacher. We doubt if there is another such school in the State. Editor of the Durham "Reeor der," Hackney, single but anxious to ge'. married, inserts the follow ing advertisement: Wanted, a modern young lady's forehead, not having seen one for several years we are willing to paj- a fair price for a glimpse at the genuine arti cle. No banged or otherwise mu tilated specimens wanted. In get ting the forehead Ilackney thinks he will get the whole girl Sharp dodge! STATE POLITICS. AN INTELLIGENT GREENE COUNTY MAN'S VI EWS. TUB CA MP A I OX IX 1SS4. Speights BibdgeN. C.July 31, I8S3. Notwithstanding the aver age Virginian has the credit of possessing more state pride than any other American, yet your peo. pie, and esiecially those of Peters burg and vicinity, have always manifested such a kind aud deep interest in the prospect of the "Old North State," that lam sure they will read with interest any thing pertaining to. our political situation and prospects. There is no doubt that a big. effort will be umwv iv.v jwui iu .jiiuvueiz.e North Carolina. All the 'power and iufluence of the Arthur admin istration will be brought to bear against us. Federal patronage and money as they were used in Virginia, will lie the principal ap pliances. The close contest for congressmaii at-large last year has invested the enemy with fresi;our age, and ho is counting on cap turing the state, but he is count ing' his chickens before they are hatched. Our friends in the Old Dominion uiay rest assured that North Carolina will le all right against the intrigues of outside conspirators, or traitors at home. LAST YEAR'S VOTE. It is true the vote last year was very (-lose. There, were, several circumstances that oje.rateTl against the democratic party..- Iu the first place it was an off-year, and thous ands of white men failed to ... vote who will be on hand at the next election. There was no enthusi asm,' no excitement to bring out the vote that is always '-polled iu presidential elections and that alone will make victory certain. In the next place, the prohibition question, which was fresh ou the public mind, lost us several ' thous and votes. That question is now settled beyond resurrection and cannot affect us again. Besides these two .potent '.causes.' the. elec tiou for Senator to succeed Gov. Vance will be decided at the. next election. This fact will give strength to our ticket. . We shall have both Senators Ransom aud Vance in front to lead us and with their great popularity, and power ori the stump, there will le no such word as fail in the democratic vo cabulary. The close vote of last fall will but inspire with renewed energy and spirit, and cause' every true white man in the, state to fed the importance of his vote and do his whole duty. At the hist elec ion the radical candidate fell short of the vote of his party in the pre vious election which proves that it was indiffeleuce on the part of dent ocrats, and iiot accessions to the opposition that made the contest so close. The democratic, majori ty in North Carolina on a full vote cauuot fall short of 20,000, and we are going to set our peg at those figures for 1884. GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES. -' 1 At this early day there is not so much said about the gubernatorial candidates- Several democrats -have been mentioned, but there is no telling yet who will be our stand ard bearer. Capt. Octavius uoke chairman of the democratic com mittee, and brother of Senator Coke, of Texas, is 'frequently and favorably mentioned. He is very popular and a fine stump speaker. lion. a. m. ocaies, at present a member of congress, is also very proinineut. He, too, is a very strong aud popular man. He has had large experience in public affairs, and is popular with his party all over the state. Besides t hese, the names of Judge Gilmer, lion. Jos. J. Davis, and Col. R. F. Armtiehl are favorably .mentioned.'- .'-' On the republicans-side it is un derstood to be , the Klicy of Dr. Mott, the leader aud boss, seconded by nattonand Gorham, of Wash ington, to run a renegade demo crat. The disaffection among the radicals last year, caused by the course of ex Collector Wheeler and Keogh, has been reconciled by the appointment of Wheeler as collec tor and Keogh as marshal. You know, nothing will keep southern white radicals satisfied but office. When they lose that, they begin- to kick. All that is necessary to quiet them is to give them a little provender in the way bt office, and they instantly stop their kicking and become as geutle as lambs. IS HE A RENEGADE? It is not positively known who will be led by Mott & Co. to the slaughter pen. It is currently rumored that Judge Fowle, hereto fore a prominent democrat and prominent aspirant . for the demo cratic nomination for governor MlA 1 4 Qff AlAf IdkYl Wilt lull IhA t-i . ... , tim. The rumor has been publish- ed iu the papers of both parties. -NUMBER 27 The democratic press has Iteen called on Judge Fowle fo deny the charge if it is untrue. He has so far remained silent. The rumor at first was discredited. ' Mr. Fowle has been true in the past, and his scathing aud withering denuncia tion of the crimes and rascalities of the radical party in North Caro lina had been so conspicuous that no one could believe that he would prove false to all his past course and principles, aud destroy 'all his future prospects aud good name by such a suicidal course. I am not myself prepared to believe it. lie owes it to himself, how ever, if the rumor is unfounded, to nip it In the budand allow no suspicion to hangover his heretofore fair name. I hope for his sake, that it is not true. But if it is, 'If he shall choose to ally himself '- with the radical party, and jon his fortunes with those very men he has Wen ex posing and denouncing for many years, his fate will lie sealed," He will fall Hke Lucifer, to rise no more. SANKEY iu the "Index-Appear. . A Novel Snit. Says the Shelby "Aurora" A hovel lawsuit has boguii in Ruth erfordton and there is a 'woman in it." A married man, an ex mer chant of that place, has sued a fascinating and handsome young man of ltiitherfordtoii lor stealing away his attractive wife's afl'ec- t' n? aud hi will leave it for the jury to decide the value of a wife's love. The young man asserts Ids inno cence and alleges jealously, to w hom "trifles light as air are strong as proofs of holy writ.'' Domestic thunder purifies the --atmosphere and a separation is the result. The "Scientific American" says that an improved bran of Hour has been patented by Mr. Ileurv ( G Hall, of Fayettevillc, K. C. The iuvCution consists of plungers for forcing the brau or other ground material into the barrel, bag, or package. Means are provided for the escape of the air from Itetweeii the particles of the substance Imv ing packed, to enable it to pack more closely than is itossiblo by the common methods of packing. The New York Time says that a North Carolinian has asked per mission from the Postoffice Depart ment to send four-pound cans of whiskey by maiK He says they v ill be easy to handle, that there will lx no breakage, aifd that it "will break up a lot of blockading through the - country, and throw freight 'money into the iostal of fice." ' Capt. Kwann, engineer -on' the road in-tween Greensltoro and Goldsboro, says that a short dis tance from Raleigh yesterday a crippled 'dog w as discovered lirnp- 'ing along the side of the track, and that just before the train reached' it it gently placed its neck upon the rail and calmly awaited death. Its head w as cut smoothly off, and Captain Swahn says it was a clear case of suicide, Greensboro "Pa triot." " A genuine whip snake, six feet long attacked D. B. Taylor, ot Char lot ..to Va.. ami tried to jump into his wagon.' With every jump it would crack its tail like a whip, and with such force as to make the hor ses prance. Mr. Taylor dually suc ceeded in knocking it senseless1, and one of his sons cut off its head. After the head was eut off it snap ped at the boy. The St. Louis "Republican" re lates that at a wedding receitlvyiif Illinois a parson, who is gelerajly ready at repartee, was'-' completely nonplussed by an aged matron, who after hearing the words, Whom God hafli joined togethe 'et no man pat asunder," exclaimed With great earnestness, "Or no womau ' either, for they're just as bad as the men."' Maj. Burke, manager , of the "Tiiiies-Democrat," has been ap pointed Director General of the World's Industrial and Cotton Ex position which will open . in New Orleans' December 1884; in accept ing the appointment he subscribed the amount of his salary, $15,000, to the stock of the Exposition and donated the stock to the Agricultu ral and Mechanical College of Lou isiana. That's true editorial liber ality! North Carolina is having a rail road boom. In progress of building are the following roads Cape Fear 'and Yadkin Valley, Chester and Leuoir Narrow-Gaujje, Western N. C. Duck town Branch, line from the Raleigh & Gaston railroad to Warrentou, from Richmond, Va to Ilidgeway, from Trenton to Core creek with Atlantic and North Georgia, through Macon county . This is a total of seven. There are iMjople'm Norwich, Conn., who believe that a robin lu that town fastened a string to the limb ofa .iear tree, wound the string about its neck and then drop ped from its pearch and in a few moments died of strangulation while its unhappy mate Rung it J requiem. WILSON ADVANCE. -:ot- Rates of .VDTE12T1S1.XU. One Inch, One tnwnioa. - One MonUt J. . Threw ModUu. "' " Six Month On Yer . 1 S OD 8 tin ..is m Liberal DUoounr win be m,le fr l-am-r Advertisement aU for Cnnttwcu by the Yvwr Oath miut accumimnx U AJwrU.m nt nlei rood reference la riven. 1000 - VICTIMS. ::- THE DREADFUL RKSFLTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE. I XFOltTVXA TE I TA L V. liOSDox, July, 20 The town of ' Casumicciela, on the islaud" of Isehia, near Naples, in Italy, whs almost entirely destroyed by an eorthqnake last night. The ter rific shock was first felt ulmut !:.lo o'clock, when a majority of thv people Tof the upper classes weie at the theatres. Intelligence from the ruined town coino picceine il, lint each successive dispatch adds to the horrors of the cal unity. Almost all the houses in Ca-sainic ciola, it is said, were thrown down and it is lM'liev-d thatx at least 3,000 jH-rsons were killed and near ly as many more injured. , AH es timate of the numWrs of dond and injured', however, are necessa rily ituHMtect. Some of the iuhab- ; itauts of the town escaped to I he sea alter the first shock, and made their way to Naples with the start ling news. A gentleman who was staying at the hotel I'iccola Scnti neila, and who barely escajn'd with his life, relates that he only had time to secure some candles to light him through the darkness of the ruins Itefdre the building went dow n. The. hotel, it is said sank into the earth and buried many of its inmates. The centre ot the urea of this shock was the same as thaj. of two. years ago, but the radius much wider. The shock : was felt miles out at sea, and also, it is asserted by some of the ieope residing on the outskirts of:' Naples. The towns of Forio and Laeeeameno, which-are not far from asamic ciola, were greatly damaged. Large uumlers of men, women and children who escaped from Casuniieeiola were ton veyed to Naples by steamers, and their des- enptionsof the disaster jirc in- 5 tensely interesting. According t the statements of many persons, the first shock was followed by an . . owning of the ground in many places, while in other places there , was no movement whatever. Wa ter gushed suddenly out of springs that previously had not been known. The walls of the large theatre, which was a wooden strue ture were rent asunder iiiul him- d reds of persons iu the audience made their ' i:scav through the, openings. Several ImhIci s in I he large bathing-boose burst, scalding and burning peophiw ho happened -to be near them. A man", who lived in the v!ciuil ol Ihe bathing establishment saysrthafr- as he e--cajM-d from the place the wall fell close ou his heels, ami he raulo-' ward the sea shouting to flu terri fied people who were standing about, , "To the sea ! To the sea.!" . The great excitement that pre vails in Italy over this great calam ity inay Ik- imagined from the fact that there were about 2,00'' visi tors iu Isclria, including many " wealthy I'omaii and - NeaMlitan families and several Deputies who were' taking the! baths (lo re. Steamers loaded with the dead and injured are constantly aiming at Naples and the hospitals arc rapid ly filling with the sufferers. T ie public takes no intercut iu anything else and each new batch of ar rivals from Ihe ruined town is eagerly scanned lor identification. A dispatch from Koine aiiuoiiiin d that the Minister of Public ' V oik has gone to Casamicciola to nr-ni.-ize measures of relief. Af Lacco thctv arc m my dead and wounded. At I'oiio Un churches were ruined, but no one was killed. At Scrrara l.V were killed. The troops have rccoved the body of Signor FiOicntini, Prefact of Lassari. All steamer plying between Tw-.hia and the mainland were immediately: char tered by the Government' to bring the womidcd from the Island. When William Miisselwhite. of -Tateville, Ga., wa bit in the leg bv a rattlesnake be cut off its head ; and bound the cut end to the wound. He then chewed nearly one pound of tobacco, drank more than a quart of whiskey, and lived. The snake was five feet long and had seven rattles. Wm. C. Cochran, a native of Per hou comity. North Carolina, died iu , Philadelphia last week worth three millions. The Raleigh "Farmer & Mechanic" says he married a daughter of Lord Erskine auu made, a fortune as a wine merchant, re -tiring from business lo 171. The Montgomery "Advertiser" says Northern visitor there "fre quently express Barprie, w hen they go into our hardware and agricul tural furnishing utoreK, to find that everything is brought from abroad. From a farm wagou to a hhoe jeg, from a grain separator to a clothes pin, from a mowing machine to a gimlet handle, throughout the en tire range of farm, shop and house hold articles, there is hardly one that does not bear the imprint of a northern shop." There i a tre mendous sermon in this, but, a M.r mon that fall on unheeding i j U-'