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The U X EI . In laudius F. Wiison, Editor, IET ALL. ri THOU AIH'ST AT, BB THY COUNTRY'S, THY COD'S, AND TRUTHS'." $1.50 n Year, cash In Advance VOLUME 1 WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. FEB, 26, 1891. NUMBER 6 W f 1 i V ! ULLARFS LETTER IOiV TOM BAKER VERTED. WAS CON- he ' BECAME A PREACHER BROUGHT ' MANY7 SOULS TO CHRIST HIS STYLE, OF SINGING. j- Uncle To in Barker, was much I of a man. He had been - wild and reckless, and feared not God nor regarded man, but one : day at a camp meeting, while Bishop Gaston was shaking up the sinner and scorching them ver the infernal pit, Tom, got ilarmed, and before the meet ing was over he professed re ligion and became a zealous, outspoken convert, and declar ed his intention of geing forth linto the world and preachinsr the gospel. He was terribly in earnest, for he said he had lost lots of time and must make it up. Tom was a rough "talker, bnt he was a good one, and knew . right smart of eciiptare, and a good many of the old fashioned hymns by heart. The Conference thought he was a pretty good fellow to send out into the border cbuntry among the settlers, and so Tom strad dled his old flea-bitten gray, ami in due time was circuit riding in north Mississippi. In course of time Tom acquired notoriety, and from his muscu lar eloquence, they called him old "Sledge Hammer," and after a while, old 'Sledge,' for short. Away .down in one corner of his territory there was a black smith shop and a wagon shop and a whisky shop and a post office at Bill JoDes' crossing; and Bill kept 'em all, and was known far and wide as, "Devil Bill Jones," so as to distinguish him from 'Squire Bill, the mag istrate. lJevii Bill nad swore that no preacher should ever toot his horn or sing a hymn in tbe settlement, and if any of the cussed hypocrites ever darefl to stop at the crossroads, hed lake him dance a hornpipe and sing a hymn and whip him be sides. And Bill Jones meant just what he said, for his trade at the anvil, had made him a strong man, and everybody knew that he had much brute courage. And so Uncle Tom was advised to take roundance and never tackle the cross roads He accepted this for a time, and left the people to the bad influence of Devil Bill ; but it seemed to him he Was not do ing tha Lord's will, and when, ever he thought of the women and children living in darkness and infidelity, he would groan in spirit and exclaim "What a pity ! what a pity !" One night he prayed over it with great earnestness, and 'vowed to do tie Lord's will if the Lord would give hinx light, and it seemed to him as he rose from his knees that there was no longer any doubt bo must go. Uncle Tom never dallied about anything when his mind was made up. He went right at it like killing snakes; and so next morning as a nabor passed on his way to Bill Jones' shop, Uncle Tom said:-. jMy friend will you please carry a message to Bill Jones forme? Do you tell him that if the Lord is wil Un', I will be at the crossroads to preach next Saturday at 11 o'clock, and I am shore the Lord is willin',: Tell him to please norate it in the settle ment about and about, an ax me women and children to come. Tell Bill Jones I will stay at his house, God willin'. and I am shore he is willin', and I'll preach Sunday, too. II things git aloug harmonious. When Bill Jones got the mes sage he was amazed, astonished and his indignation knew no Dpunas. Lie men ana carsca at the 'onsult'. as he called it the onsulting message of old Sledge and he swore that he would hunt him up, and whip him for he knowed that he would not dare to come to the cross roads. But the nabors whispered it around that old Sledge would come for he was never Known; to maEe an ap pointment and break it and there was aa old he rse thief who used to. run with Murrel's gang, who said he used to know Tom Barker when he was a sin ner and had seen him fihc, and he was much of a man. So it spread like wild fire that "Old 1 Sledge" was coming, and Devil Bill was gvvine to whip him and make him dance and si nor a hime, and treat to a gallon of peach brandy besides. Devil BUI had his enemies of course. for he was a hard man, and one way or another had gobbled up ail of the surplus of the nabor hood and baii given nothing in exchange, but whiskey, and these enemies 'had long hoped for somebody ta come and turn him down..-:TJiey, too, circula ted the astounding news, and without committing themselves J to either party, said that hell would break loose on Saturday at the crossing, and that old Sledge or the devil would have to go under. On Friday the settlers began to drop into the crossing under pretense of busi ness, but really to get the bot torn facts of the rumors that were afloat. Devil Bill knew full well what they came for, and he talked and cursed more furiously than usual, and swore that any body who would come expecting to see old Sledge to morrow was an infernal fool, for he wasn't a cbminir. He laid bare his strong arms and shook his long hair, and said he wislied the lying, deceiving hypocrite would come, for it had been nigh on to fourteen year? since ha had made a preacher dance. Saturday morning by nine o'clock the Bettlers began to gather. They came on" foot and on horse back and in carts, men women and children, and before 11 o clock there were more peo ple at the crossing than had ever been there before. Bill Jones was mad at their creduli ty, but he had an eye to busi ness, and kept behind his conn ter and sold more whisky, In an hour than be- had sold in a month. As the appointed hour drew near the Battlers began to look down the narrow straight roa.i that old Sledge would come, if he came it all, and ev ery man whose head came In sight just over the distant hill was closely scrutinized. More than once they said : 'Yonder he comes that's him, shore. But no, it wasn't him. Some half a dozen had old bull's eye silver watches and they compared time, and just at five minutes to ten o'clock the old horae thief exclaimed : "I see Tom Barker a risin' of the hill. haint seed him for eleven years, but gentlemen, that are him, or I am a liar. And it was him. As he got nearer and nearer, a voice seem ed to be coming with him, and some said, he is. or talkin ter hiself, another said, I will be durned if he aint a prayln, but very soon it was decided that ha was "singin of a hime.". Bill Jones was soon advised of all his and coming up to the front says, ooys, aarnea n ne aim er singin fore I axed him, but 111 make him change his tune till he is tired. I will pay him for his onsulting message. I am not a-gwine ter kill, boys. . 1 will leave life in his old rotten carcass, out mats an. Hit any un you want to hear old Sledge preach you will hare to go ten miles from these roads to do t. Slowly and solemnly the preacher come. As he drew near he harrowed down his tune and looked kindly upon the crowd, lie was a massive man in frame, and had a heavy suit of dark brown hair, but his face was clean shaved and show ed a nose and lips and chin of firmness and of great determi nation. Look at him, boys, and mind your eye said the horse thief. "Where will I find my friend, Bill Jones?" All around they pointed him to the man. Rid ing up close he , said : "My friend Jand brother," the good Lord has sent me to you, aud I ask your hospitality for myself and my beast," and he slowly dismounted and faced his foe as though expecting a kind .re ply. The crisis had come and Bill Jones met it. You infer nal old hypocrite, you cussed old shaved faced scoundrel did you Know that I had Bwored an oath that I would make you sing and dance, and whip you besides if you ever dared to pizen these cross roads with your shoe tracks ? Now sing d u you, sing, and dance as you sing, and he emphasized his command with a ringing slap with his own hand upon the parson's face. Old Sledge recoiled with pain and surprise Recovering in a moment, he said, well, brother Jones, I did not expect so warm a welcome, but if this be your cross-.roads manners I suppose I must sing, and as Devil Bill gave, him an other blow on his other jaw he began with : "My Soul bo on thy guard." And with his long arm sud denly and swiftly ga?e Devil Bill an open hander that near ly knocked him off his feet, whilst the parson continued to sing in a splendid tenor voice. 'Ten thousand foes arise." - - Never was a man more arous ed to frenzy than was Bill Jones. With his powerful arm he made at Ola Sledge as if to annihilate him with one blow, and many horrid oaths but the parson fended off the stroke as effTsily as a practiced boxer, and with his left hand dealt Bill a settler on his peepers as he continued to sing : "Oh, watch and light and pray. The battle ne'er give o'er." .- But Jones was plucky to des peration, and the settlers were watching with bated breath. The crisis was at hand, and he squared himself , and his clench ed fists flew thick and fast up on f he parson's frame, and for awhile disturbed his equili brium and his song. But he rallied quickly and began the offensive, and he sang : V 'Ne'er think the victory won Nor lay thine armor down " He backed his adversary squarely to the wall of his shop and seized him by the throat, and mauled him as he sang: "Fight on, my soul, till death" Well, the long and the short of it was,that Old Sledge whip ped hi; humbled him to the ground and then helped to res tore him, and begged a thous and pardons. When Devil Bill had retired 'to his house and was being cared for by his wife Old Sledge mounted a box in front of the grocery and preach ed righteousness aiad tem perance, and judgment to come to that people. He closed his solemn dis course with a brief history of his own sinful life before his conversion and his humble work for the Lord ever, since, and he besought his hearers to stop and think. Stop poor sin ner, stop and think, he cried in alarming tones. There were a few men and many women m mat crowd whose eyes, long unused to the melting mood, dropped tears of repentance at the preachers kind and tender exhortation. Bill Jones' wife, poor woman, had crept humbly into the out skirts of the crowd, for she had long treasured the memories of hei childhood when she, too, had gone with her good moth er to hear preaching. In secret she had pined and lamented her husband's hatred for relig ion and for preachers. After she had washed the blood from his swolen face and dressed his wounds she asked him if she might go down and hear the preacher. For a minute he was sunt and seemed to be dumb with amazement. He had never been whipped before and had suddenly lost confi dence in him?elf and his infi delity. Go along, Sally, he &ns swered, if he can talk like he can can fight and sing, maybe the good Lord did send him. It is all curious to me, he groan ed in anquish. His animosity seemed to have changed into an anxious wondering curiosity and after Sally had gone, he left his bed and drew near to the window wheje he could hear something for himself. Old Sledge made earnest, soul reaching pray ers, and his plead ing with the Lord for Jones' salvation and that his wife and children reached the window where Bill was sitting, and he heard it. His wife returned in tears and took a seat beside him, and sobbed her heart's distress, but said nothing. Bill bore it' for awhile in thought ful silence, and then putting his bruised and trembling hand j in hers, said : Sally, if the Lord sent Old Sledge here, and may be he did, I reckon you had better look after his horse. And l&ute enough Old Sledge stayed there that night and held family prayers and the next day he preached from the piazza, to a great multitude, and sang his favorite hymn : Am I a soldier of tho cross ? And when he got to the third verse his untutored, but musical voice seemed to be lifted a ll ttle higher as he sang : Sure I must fight if would roign, Increase my courage Lord. Devil Bill was converted and became a changed man. He joined the church, and closed his grocery and bar and helped to build a meeting house, and it was always said and believ ed that 01d Sledge mauled the grace into his unbelieving soul and that it never would have got there anv other way. Bu.L. Arp. If you are eftVed a bottle of Sal vation Oil, without wrapper, or mutilated or defaced, don't buy it at any pne?, you may. be sure that there is something wrong:, it may be a worthless" or dangerous coun terfeit. Insist upon getting a per fest, unbroken, jjenuine package, in a yellow wrapper. ; The people of Ashe ri He want a new State, with AsheviUe a3 tne Capital. Try if:. It will cure you. Dr. Bull's Cough -Syrup.- All dealers keep it; Price 25 cents. -Dr Sparrow, of Baaufort coun ty has invented a glass birial case. Rir ssrofnla in every form Hood3 Sars&parilla is a radical, reliable remedy. It has an unequalled record of cures. HOW TO DO IT. EXPERIENCE OF A GUILFORD COUNTY FARMER IN GROW ING TOBACCO. DIRECTIONS FROM THE PLANT BED TO THE CURING BARN. Just how to grow and prop erly manage tobacco from the time of peed sowing till th crop is ready for the market is a subject of very great im portance to the planters of this Piedmont secti"n. It will.be impossible for me to gn e the readers of the Jour nal, in this short article, a full description of the subject. It requires good judgment, proper care and close attention with a sufficient amount of work to make the growing and cultiva tion of tobacco a success to the planters and also a success to the manufacturers and dealers. While I claim to be a planter and have had some success in the cultivation of tobacco, I do not claim to be (according to my own estimation) a farmer. There is a wide difference be- tween a farmer and a planter. All farmers are planters, but all planters are not farmers. I regard farming a very nice and pleasant occupation, if proper ly managed, and one that re quires more forethought and deeper research than many of the learned professions. The farmer gets one hundred cents on the dollar in payment for the time he spends in right thinking before he attempts to do any farm work. Brains and muscle should work togother. He should consider the soil, the different kinds of seasons, strive to avoid the routes of failure, "make every edge cut," "make hay while the sun shines," and yet for all that not be a "skin flint." THE SEED BED. As early as possible in the month of January, when the ground is dry I select a dark soil, in the woods, facing the South, East or West, as a prop er place for burning the seed bed. I burn wood on this bed until the -ground is dry and dusty. I then dig twice over, leaving most of the ashes on top of the ground; then pulve rize the bed thoroughly by raking, then after smoothing over the bed I sow on eyery ne hundred square yards one heaping tablespoonful of good seed and onefourth of a bush el of fertilizer, then put on a light coating of hog's hair or wheat straw. This will pre vent the ground from "freezing and spewing up." -Then pack tho'trround i by trampling or running roller over the same. Small poles are then ' laid across the bed three feet apart. Then place on these poles the canvass made for the purpo?e which maybe drawn tightly and pinned at the edges of the bed to th9 ground with wooden pegs or sharp sticks. The cov ering should not be over three inches abovo the ground. Oon tinue to burn and sow as above described till a sufficient quan tity of seeds are sown to plant the crop. KIND OF SOIL TO SELECT. ' The kind of land to select on which to plant the crop, should depend entirely on the de mands of the market. When jood, waxy and mahogany wrappers and fillers are mostly in demand and sought after by the buyers I would advise the planting of red or dark. If there be a greater demand for rich yellow wrappers, cutters and fillbrs, I would advise the planting of gray soil, which has a red subsoil. If bright yellow cutters and smokers are sought after, plant gray sandy land, with yellow subsoil, and you will be sura to "hit the market." If cigar tobacco should be wanted, save all the leaves of succors that come af ter the crop is gathered in, and you will have an excellent ci gar wrapper and filler, which will make a first-class smoke if cured off the stalk. PBEPAKIXG THE LAND. v I have for the past few years planted mostly old and poor land. Soon after spring begiirs I usually with one horse turn ing plows, throw my tobacco land in beds 3 J feet apart, which lie undisturbed till near planting time. I then with a large shovel plow run deep fur- rovs between those beds in which I drill four wagon loads of stable manure and four hun dred pounds of fertilizer to the acre. I list on the manure and fertilizer wjh a turning plow, I then strike or cut off the large list and "pat" hills three feet apart. The top of the hills so made are some 3 inches below the" common lev jl, so the dirt is easily moved up to the young plant when set. This plan does well both for wet and dry seasons. For new land my plan is to have it level then run furrows or rows 3 feet apart, apply 2 loads ma nure ana two hundred pounds fertilizer to the acre and pro ceed as above stated for oid land. PLA.NTLXG AND CULTIVATING. . The "proper time for setting out the plants is from the 5th of My to the 10th of June. As pooii as the young roots of tne pJaots take a new start to grow, w;icn they will in 8 or 10 days, the harrows and" hoes should start in stirring, the ground and as soon as the plants jet larger and stronger, arger plows may be used. Just if ter the land has been packed by rain when dry enough the plowing should be done and hoeing at leisure. Flowing and hoeiag should be repeated every 10 or 15 3ays ill the tobacco is large anough to top." TOPPING. Every planter must judge for himself as to how high or low the tobacco should bs tapped. Plants should be topped some what according to their growth. By topping at 8 or 10 leaves you get nne, eilky and Mn wrappers, cutters and smokers. So the planter must be govern ed according to demands and prices, as before stated in the selection of soil. METH0D3 OF CURING. For the last three years I have used with success the patent wire sticks introduced by Captain W. II. Snow, of High Point, N. O., and fully de scribed in f irmer issues of the Journal. I am fully persuaded that this method should be adopted by all planters cf to bacco, as time, labor, fuel and storage room are saved by the use of it, with many other ad vantages. I have bgen told by large dealers in fine leaf that they prefeired buying tobacco cured on the stalk, assigning as a reason that the tobacco cured off the stalk is generally light! without any body and hard to get in handling order. - I agree with them that if the tobacco is poorly worked; made without a proper amount of fertilizing, that the tobacco will be li zht and chaffy. So it would be if cured on the stalk or by any other process. The secret is this, brother farmers, we top too high, do not fertil ize enough, plant too much, Dlant too thick, do not work enough, and try to cure the tos bacco before it matures. The process of curing has nothing to do with changing the tobac co when it leaves the field a good waxy tobacco to a li?ht, chaffy plant when cured. Do S ou believe it? What say you ail? M.J. Mc'Michal in Wins ton Tobacco Journal. CLEVELAND AGAINST SILVES- A Fateful. Letter That Takes Eim Out cf tha Sacs. New Yokk, Feb. 12. Between 600 and 700 people attended a mass meeting at The Cooper Union to night to oppose .t" i eUrer bill. In rtpponse to the Keform Club. Chas. S. Faircbild, exsSecretary of the Treasury, nominated. E Ellery An derson, president of the Reform Club, for chairman of the meeting, and he was elected by acelama tion. Mea'ion of Grover Cleveland's name was the signal of a prolonged bai&t f applanst, nd when the Secretary bad finished reading his letter the apilau.se was deafening. The ex-president 'wrote a3 follow: 816, Madison Avenue. Fet. 1 0, 1891. E. Ellery Anderson, My Dear Sir: I have this afternoon received your note inviting me to attend tomorrow evening a meet ing called lor the purpose of voic ing tbe opposition ot the business men of car city to the free coinage of silver in tbe United Spates. I shall not be ab'e to attend and ad, dress the meeting a you request; bnt I am glad that the business in terest of New Yoik are at last, to bo heard on the subject. It surely caunot be necessary for me to make formal expression of ray agreement 'Mi thne vr'io bes lieve thr.t the greatest perils would be initiated by the adoption of the t-cheme f-mbraced iu the measure noy Dv-udiiJi in congress for an unlimited coinage of silver at our mmts. 11 we utwe deveioneu an unexpected capacity of assimila tion of a largely increased volume of currencv, and even if we have demonstrated the usefulness of such an increase, these conditions lall short of insuring us against disas ter in the present situation. we en ter upon the dangerous and reck lesa experiment of free, unlimited and independent silver coinage. Yours very truly, Groyer Cleveland, Tne above letter uas caused wholesale comment and condemna tion. liepnbUcans praise Cleve land, csteueibly for having the contage" of his . convictions, but really because they think he will b8 nominated in 1892 and thus the silver question will be eliminated from the platform. OUT OF THE EAOE, The Washington Post of.Friday, says : It is given out on authority seeond only to that of Mr. Cleves land himself, that the exvPresident will not be a candidate for tbe nomination in '92, that his mi?d is fully made np on this point, and consequently he stands in tbe way of nobody who wants the honor. If snch be the case there need be no farther anxiety as to the -effect of his recent silver letter, and the situation bepomes materially cbans j ged if not simplified. Bnt JSew York remains the pivotal point, as it were, with Maryland, New Jer sey, and the bounding West to hear from. Below we give some lopinions on the letter. . Cleveland must go. Senator Pugh, of Alabama Tbe appearance of Mr. Cleveland's let ter in connection with the meeting of the "gold bugs" is a direct att tempt to influence pending less islation; agaiast free coinage and against the will of the people. Free coinage will be the paramount is sue in 1892, as it is now; and my people will not vote fo'r any man whose attitude on this question is hostile to theirs. Whew they are confronted with the question wheth they shall throw Mr. Cleveland overboard or free silver, Mp. Cleve land will have to go. He will not get the vote of a single Southern State in the next Democratic coo vention. VANCE CALLS IT DEFIANT. Senator Vance, of North Carolina J Mr. Cleveland's position on the silver question is not a common difference, bnt- a defiance of his party. His wholegattitude on this subject is one of defiance almost an insult to' the Democratic party. It is now a question whether the Democratic party will sacrifice its principles or give np Cleveland. Under the circumsf a-icG I prefer my party to Mr. Cieyeland. FEEE SILVER AND STATES EIGHTS. Representative Bland, of Mis souri. Cleveland was quiet du ring the fight on the iorce bill, when we were struggling to preserve the rights of the wnole, people and prevent a revolution, but when jthe money bags of Wall streets are threatened he rushes to their aid. It is redicalous to regard any man as a candidate for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket who i3 not for fre8 silver, NOT A "PRACTICAL STATESMAN . ' ' Senator Barbour, of Virginia I have never regarded Mr. Cleve land as a practical statesman, and his views on the silver question further confirm my original opius ion. lie must hs ve obseved that a large majority of the people have declared in favor of free coinage and as his views are in the oppQ tite direction, he can hardlv ex pect the Demoratlc party to pan der to his. theories. KILLED HIS CHANCES Senator Morgan, of Alabama. I deeply regret that Mr. Cleveland cannot be the nominee of the Dem ocratic party. His attitude on the subject of free coinage, which is the issu8 of the next Presidential campaign has killed whatever chances he may have had lor nomi nation. WEST AND SOUTH ONE WAY. ' . Among Democrats in the House various opinions or tne uieveiana etter are entertained, The Soutb and Western men as a rule declare Cleveland disqualified for the Press- idential nomination, while the Es tern meu take an opposite view of the situation. GOING WEST FOR A MAN. ExPresident Grover Cleveland has declared against the free 6oin ase of silver. If, as has been sup posed, he has aspirations for anoth er term in the White iiouse, ne may dismiss them at once. The farmers of this conntry will never vote to elect a man to. the Presix dency of the United States who is in favor ot measuring tne vaiue oi the country's money by the amount of gold which can be gotten Into circulation m these States. We are no; at all sorry to see Mr. Cleveland disappear from the prob lem of tho Presidency in the year 1892. We say this, -because we are sorry to see tne tara oi New York, with its hordes of cor rupt Democrats, dominating the national elections. xew iorK is the great money centre of the country the heart of the trusts and combinations ot the country and a President from that State stands too near that centre to be capable of entering'heartily into public administration lor tbe good of the entire people. Unless we are much mistaken, the Farmers Alliance will have something to say in naming the next President of the United States ; and it is cer tain that this great organization will not name an anti-silver-man. We bid Grover Cleveland a good- day, with the best wishes for his luture happiness. Progressive Farmer. Dark rings around tne eyes in-. dicate the existence of worms. Has ten to use Shrinuer's -Indian Ver mifuge Ao expel these- miserable pests. It is a safe . and reliable agent. Always use it 'according to the directions, and, -if will do its work well. NEWS 03? A WE2K. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD AROUND US. A CONDENSED REPORT OF THE NEWS FROM OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Mr. Ackman, of Xew York has started a poultry farm in IsTew Berne. A Weldou hen has taken to the woods and lays an egg daily np a tree, sys the Nawj. Bingham Scneol will be move d to AsheviUe, the city giving $30, 000 and several acres of land. Congressman McClammy is be ing pushed for the clerkship of th next National House of Represen tatives. - The Teachers Institute of HaiU fax county will commence oa March 6th, conducted by Prof. E. A. Al derman. W. S. Moore, Esq., of Grecnsbos ro, shipped within ibe last few days fifteen thousand and five hundred rabbit ekius. When a man dies m the Society Islands they paint his body; bat in thi country his character is the thing that is frescoed. Ghosts are disturbing the citi zens of Garysbarg. one man has purchased a dohble barrel shofc fun and now bids them defiance. A three dollar and a half mule kicked a two hundred dollar horse to. death in Woldou last week. The horse belonged to Dr. I. E. Green. ' An electric lamp on the Isle of Wight can be seen 45 miles, and a paper can be read by its reflec tion 14 miles. It gives 6,000,000 candle power. A Cabarrus county white oak th'-ee feet in diameter and fifty feet to the first limb, yielded -5,927 clab boards and over ten wagon lad8ofwood. Tbere is an engineer on the North Carolina Railroad who ia CO years old and owns property worth 1100,000 who runs an engine, reg ularly through pure love of the work. The barn, stables, ten barrels of corn and two mules were burned on Dri J. fi. Bakei's Be,ll Place, 6ix miles from town this morning at about 5 o'clock. Tarboro South erner. The Sanford Express says that the gas caught fire in the Egypt coal mine last Thursday morning. Mr. Jo3. Mills tind a colored man were. very badly burnt about tfce head and face. ' The Argus reports great excite ment in Goldsboro on Wednesday over the appearance on the streets of a rabid t'og. A uumber of dogs were bitten and .several people had narrow escapes. The .Kinston Free Press says that S.'W. Dawson shot a negro who was trying to shoot him. The negro was not killed. The shoot ing was caused by a dispute over the division of a crop. : Charley Alford, a yoang mulatto boy, who has been in the employ ot Mr. Win. M. Sauders for some time, was p'.aced ta jail Wednes day night, charged with stealing a, watch. Smithfield Herald. Mr. Robt. W. Pndgen, for some time a resident of Selma, commit-' ted suicide last Friday by taking laudanum. He was, about 55 j-ears old and report says draok consid erably. Smithfield Herald. An Indian woman, who is said 'lobe over 11 4 years of age, ap peared before the county commis s'oneis and asked to be sent to the connty home for protection during the balance of her days. Concord Standard. The last murdered woman found in London is the ninth victim at tribtited to "Jack the Ripper'' since the spring of 1S89. In addk tion to these were three other wo men murdered, and the perpeta tors have all escape ;. The new reading clerk of the Colorado State Sen ite is Miss Ans ria'W. Kdiy, a young and very ptetiy vora:in. She reads rapidly, clearly a;il w ith correctness of ac cent and proiiauciatioD. She is the first woman to hold such a pos sition. A daughter of Mr. J. A. Rayle, of this vicinity, who is visiting in Guilford, writes to her father that on the 13th day of January she fonnd two ripe June -apjies on a tree on her grandfather's place in the county mentioned. States ville Landmark. Mr. Thrash rtceutly sold his farm in Cherokee county, which four years ago he bought ior $4,000, for $52,000. He was yes terday offered $38,000 for the Lowndes iarm, an advance of 6,- 000 oyer what it cost him, but be refused the offer. Asheville Citi zen John Hessian escaped from the penitentiary at Baton Rouge, La., dn ring December, returned volun tarily last weekta the institution He learned of the grave iliness of his mother, and determined to go to her. .He nursed faithfully at bis mother's bedside nntil her con valescence, and kissing her good bye, went back to serve out his troi. Several polioi'tnea "knew of Hessiau's whereabouts when he was out, bat they were aware of his mission, and, as one of them said, ''didn't have the hear! to give him away." The Sun says Dnrhara has a genuine blood and flesh glass dan cer, who dances with his bare fret on a box full of broken glass. The name of the dancing man is John Strayhorn, a colored man about 25 years of ag. The curious part of hia dancing is that his feet are not even scratched by the sharp pieces of broken glass. ' John Carlisle, a well known far-, mcr of this county, is charged with committing an outrageous assault upon the person of his, step-daughs ter, Lizzie Keeter, Tuesday of last week'. He was promptly arretted and taken before Justice M. H. Ularlc. The justice gave him a hearing, and then committed . him -to iail without bail. Weldou News. i There was a sight to make'the eyes of gold miners glitter at the Central Hotel last night. It was a $3,000 gold brick just from the Brewer mine, People lifted it about and um-ed and ah-ed, and took on over it at a great rate be fore it was finally locked np in the Central's Sate for the night. It went to the assay office this t morn ing. Charlotte News 7th. Miss Ella Ewing, of La Grange, Mo., is 18. years old and 8 feet inches tall, weighing 260 pounds. It Is ten feet from the tip of oi finger to that of the other band, I ujsed four balls of yarn in every cue of her stocking?, said her mother. It takes thirtytwo yartfi of ordinary cloth to make a dresa fc-r her, and the cloak we had madt for her cost 104, and it's very plain cula at that, said her father. we are not entirely free Irons all evils of tbe present, if cot weather prophet is to be beloved. Hie name is W. T, Foster, and hie home ia in St. Joseph, J!j. He pre diets great blizzards, cyclones aid tornadoes with a genial cheerful ness that takes the edge eff. He says that from May , 1891, uetil May 1, 1892, the year will be ose ot general destruction throughout, the United States. The period ef great disturbances will begin dar ing the early part of May, while Mars will bo passing its eqninoc tial, Mercury passing the sob's equator. But while these storms will be severe they will not com pare with those that will occur 1V ter in tho year and during the ear ly part of '92. The most heroic story of selfeac rifice aad brotherly love we hare ever read comes irom Chicago. Jjhn pickeraon, a Knight Tem plar, had a Cancer on his thigh. It was removed by a surgical opera tion. The incision wan po large and deep, nature was unequal to tbe task of restoring tbe skin. The physicians decided to gratt skin on the woond.. 144 square inches were necessary. The Command ery of which he was a member of lered to give that' amount, and a small strip was removed from near ly one bundled of them and plant ed on Dickerson's hip and thigh. The operation will be a success and Dickerson's life is saved. Can tbe annals of fiction equal this? By than Bandera, a respectable Johnston county negro, of Clayton towurhip, made forty bales of cots ton last year, says the Smithfield Herald. Ilia son - was enticed away to Mississippi, a'.o : i year agofby "Beg Leg" Wi!i;jj. He got tired and wanted -to comr home. His father sent him the money, but he had to steal away in order to got back. His treat ment was distressing. It was eel healthy and many negrces died. They gave him and his wife 8 lbs. cf meat and a half buahel meal per week as rations and when they gave syrup only 6 lbs of meat. They charged him 7 cents a pannd for flonr and would not let then have more than 5 pounds at I time. " Tbe Methodists of the world have once in every ten years, what if called an Ecumenical' Conference composed of representative Metho dist divines and laymen from ell over the world. It met ten years ago, in 1881, in London and made a profound impression npon the re 'igious world. It meets again next October in Washington City. It will bo composed of 500 delegates representing the various bodies ef M?thodism the world over. 300 ef these delegates will be from the United States and 200 from for eign lands. Tbe College of BUb ops of the Southern and Northern Methodist churches were requested by their respective General Confer ences to appoint tbe delegates fHu their respective branches of ttw.church to this Ecumenical Con ference. Tbe Bishops of tho South em Methodiat church met in Nash ville, Teun., en the 15th in st. and appointed the delegates to repre sent tbe M. E, Church South in this great holy of Methodists. From the North Carolina Confer ence, the Bishops appointed Rev. Frank L. Reii, D. D. editor of the Eaieigh Christi in Advocate, and Hon. Tho. J. Jarvis, ExiGovernor cf North Carolina. From the Western North Carolina Confer ence, lis v. L. W; Crawford, Profee. sor ot Biblical Literature in Trlni tv College, and Gen. R.B. Vance; ex-member of Congress from the ninth District. Tbese are excel-, lent appointments and North Car olina Methodists will be well and ably represented in this great gathering of Methodists from all parts of the world. State Chroni cle. So extraordinary successful has been the work of Old Sanl'e Oa tarrh Cure, that dealers can sell ne other. . Price pnly 25 cents.