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VOL. XXI. WELDON, N. C, T1IUUSDAY, J AN U All Y 8, 1891. NO. 40 THE STATE CAN HELP. BABEES AND BARNS. HERSELF, YET ANOTHER. REDBONES OF CAROLtM A AT HER HUSBANDS BIER. PICKED BY MACHINERY. STEEIi SI'IXlllE IIO1N0 THE WORK OF BLACK KINIIKRS IN THECOTON HELD. Tin; essential ft-iit n re is !53.'5 fingers or spindles !riji'cl injr through ami from a hollow cyliiuli r. These lingers arc ten inches long, niul liave tit, the end a brut-li or ti of fine wire, and set in four grooves radially is horse hair, vlijutl so it pr jci-ts from tin- lingers about ono-twcfih of an inch, the tip ami tins hairs on the side being the means of gelling the cot ton fro ui the bolls. The .spindles or fin gers are given a whirling motion by a sys tem of cog pear enclosed w ithin the cylin der. Moving forward, tins cylinder re volves, tbe lingers eotne in contact with the cotton, the whirling motion of the fitters entangles tbe cotton lint and if is picked, then carried upward and back ward until eh atiod from tbe fingers by brushes, and thrown into receptacles holding sixty pounds of seed cotton. The revolutions are so timid that the fingers which project at the spokes of a wheel strike the plant without a raking motion, for that would damage the plant. No injury come to tbe leaf it boll from running the machine over the plant. With a width of four feet, length seven feet, and a height of five and a half feet, the machine complete, weighs about 1,200 pounds, and is of easy draught for two mules. Thursday a party of gentlemen went to the Milliner place-, on the Kobinsotiville road, aud avv the Campbell machine in operation. The rows were lS.'i yards long, and were gone iiVi i twice, tbe result bting the eottoii was cleanly picked out of the b"IK the machine bt ing as thorough in this respect us tbe lingers of the negro. No injury to foliage, bolls 01 branches of the plant. In tbe morning, when the cotton was slightly damp, a gathering from one row made by tbe machine weighed a little ni"re than thiity pounds; the waste, knocked on tbe ground by the machine, was picked up by band and weighed five ounces. In tile afternoon with the cot ton perl'.ctly dry, tbe cotton picked we. ghed over twenty eight pounds, and the waste picked up weighed nearly time and one half pounds. Tbe time made was about Gve pounds a miuute or 300 pounds an hour. Al lowing time, liberally, for emptying the the receptacles, stopping for repairs, meals and so on, the machine could easily work ten hours a day and would gather 3,000 pounds at a total expense of not more than $15 per day, making the total cost of the picking of each bale SI. ."(). At present prices the cost is fully Slti. Waco, (Tex.) Day. Hues l-lxpcrU'iirc C.'uiintf It does, in every line of business and especially in compounding ami preparing medicine. This is illustrated in the great supcrioiity of Hood's Sarsaparilla ovr other preparations, as shown by the remarkable cures it has accomplished. The head of the firm of C. I. Hood k Co., is a thoroughly competent and experienced pharmacist, having devoted his whole life to tbe study and actual preparation of medicines, lie is a'so a member of the Massachusetts and American Phannaeuetiral Association m..l . e I . i . ...u co.iimues actively uevoictl io super- Using the preparation of and managing the biLMiiiss connected with Hood's Sar fcapHiillu. Hence the superiority and peculiar merit of flood's Sarsaparilla is built upon the tnostsubstanii.il foundation. In its preparation there is repre sented all the kuowh dge which modem research in medical seieiice has developed Combined with Jong experience, brain ork, and experiment. It is only neces Bury to give this medicine a fair trial to realize its great curative value. A farmer of Alpharetta, Ga., has au acre of cotton, every stalk of which is a deep red color, leaf, boll and bloom. This novel crop is the product of seed di rivdl three years ago from two stalks of red cotton found iu a Cotton fi 'bl. If tins liety can be perpetuated it will likely toeao a fortune fur the suc-'essful planter. UV LENDINd .MONEY ON LAND AS HAS P.EKN DONE HEKORE. Now that the ltepubliean Senatorial caucus has decided upon their bill for financial relief, it is apparent, the scheme is devised chiefly to help the. national banks in tbe financial centres of tbe country, and only those who have I'uited States bonds or gold or silver bullion can avail themselves of the privileges con tinued in the bill. Until there is elected a Democratic Congress and l'resident we cannot hope for any financial legislation that will help the agricultural portions of the country. The present Congress will not pa.-s Sena tor Stanford's bill to issue greenbacks to be loaned to tbe 'aimers, nor will it make the coinage of silver free. The enquiry here arises can the several Stales afford the necessary relief by their individual action. For instance, would it be constitutional for the incom ing Legislature of North Carolina to puss an act to issue, say, five or ten mil lion id' f ptr cent, bonds, the proceeds of which, to be loaned to the people of the several counties on unincumbered real estate at 4-1 per rent, interest, for a peri od of fifteen years. Not more than 1.000 to be loaned to any one person. Conceding tbe Legislature has nil eh pow er, would it he a good thing to do? We may form some idea as to this, from a study of the results of just such legisla tion upon tbe people of this State when a colony of Great Britain. It may sur prised sunn' to be told that in 17-7, the Gem r.d Assembly of North Carolina, as a relief to tbe people sull'oiing from a scarcity of money, passed an act providing for tic issue of S200.000.U0 in bills which wi re to be legal tender for debt, and were, to be loaned to the farmers of the several counties (precincts) for a peri id of 1 5 years, at 6 percent, inteiest. This interest and one-fifteenth of the priiicial was payable each year. Tbe county treasurer was authoii.ed to lend ou unincumbered farms to one half their value. If the interest was not promptly paid, he bad the right to distrain upon any personal property of the debtor he could find. If the interest was not. paid for three consecutive years, the county treasurer was then to re-enter and take possession and sell the land on thirty days notice. It will still more surprise some to be told, that the above scheme, opeu to so many objections, and presenting so tunny difficulties; in other words, apparently so visionary, met with 'joinplcte success. It was so beneficial to the people of North Carolina, that it whs substantially adopted in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, lihndo Island and South Caroli ia; and tbe plan was reci iniiiended to the Governor of Massachusetts, to the mother country for introduction iu all the colonies. It would seem but simple justice, that as the Na tional Hanking law denies to the farmer tbe piivilege of borrowing money from a national bank on his far in as security; and as Congress has gone still further ami legislated out of existence our State banks that formerly afforded this aid to the firmer, some plan should be devised ,v vr I.it-!i t!ieown-r of bind, a species of ,. . ,..,,1 , 1,1. : V:,n indest ructable in its nature, immovable; tbe very nun J sill of ail inner property as a basis of credit, Such a scheme must look to govern ment aid, either National or Stale, rather than to the banks. (o. U'. II. S. Bur (ii'iii at Slain Chroitirli: 1 ' j IJuilJen's Arnica !ulve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores,l'leers, Salt lUieum, Fever Soies,Tctler, Chapped hands, Chilblains Corns. and all skin eruplious,and positive ly cures Files, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded, Price 2.") cents per box. For sale by druggists at WVIdon, Brown iCarra.tny, Halifax, Dr. J A MoGwigan, EiiSe!'; W. M. Cohen, Weldon. Til K SINGULAR EXPERIENCE OK A PENN SYLVANIA FARMER IN CONNECTION WITH THE INCREASE OP II IS FAMILY. Fanner John Griscomb, of Daly's llun, is tbe most uneasy and anxious, man just now in the whole Fine Creek country. Farmer Giiscomb was married six years ago. He has a good bill farm, and is weli-to-do. A year after he was married a child was born to him. A few days later his barn was burned to the ground. How it caught fire be never knew. The barn was replaced with a new one. A year and a half later bis wife presented him with their second child. In less than a week his new barn caught fire while Griscomb was away lighting forest iires, and was destroyed Tire barn was rebuilt. The Griscomb family was in creased by tbe birth of a third child in July, 188(1. The next day was tbe fourth of July, and Griscomb celebrated by firing off some mild fireworks. Some how or other, sparks from the mild lire works got into tbe barn, and it went up in a fourth of July bonfire. Fortunately, tbe hay crop bad not yet been mowed. This successive signalizing of the event of every increase in his family by burn ing a barn struck Farmer Griscomb as something monotonous as it was expen sive, and be began to look into the fu ture with no little foreboding. But be bad to have a barn, and his neighbors got together, made a frolic, and soon raised the third new barn Griscomb had built within four and a half years. Tbe fanner prospered, and last summer his hay crop was so good that fo !?; ilt a second barn for storing bay in a meadow not far Irom bis bouse. Last Sunday Mrs. Griscomb again became a mother, this time adding twins to tbe family treasures. When farmer Griscomb was told that he was the father of twins, ho stood dumb for a moment. Then be ex claimed : "That's right! That's the way it ought to be ! I've got two barns now ! Twins is right ! A barn to burn for each twin !" The barns are still standing, but farmer Griscomb has men watching each one night and day. He says he will not be able to rest for a week, at least. "I think may be tbe crisis will be past, then,'' he says. But he is, beyond doubt, just now the most uneasy and anxious man iu the whole county. New York Hun. FROM NATURE'S STOREHOUSE. Comes all the component parts of S S. S. There is no chemical nor anything which comes from chemist's shop con tained iu it. S' S. S. is therefore a per fectly safe aud harmless remedy, yet so powerful is it that it has never failed to cure Blood JVisoii. It always cures Scrofula, if taken before some vital part is so seriously impaired as to render a cure impossible. It relieves Mercurial Rheumatism, and cures all sorts of Erup tions, Pimples. Blotches, etc., by eliuiin; -ting the poison from she blood. S.S.S. has cured thousands of cases of Skin Cancer, and many cases of Seirrhus Cancer. It is no experiment to take S. S. S. Treatise on Bluod and Skin Diseases mailed fV TIL K SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron chitis immediately relieved by Sbilob's Cure. For sale by W. M. Cohen. That Hacking Cough eau he so quick ly cured by Sbilob's 'lire. We guaran tee it. For sale by V. M. Cohen. Catarrh cured, health and sweet breath secured, by Sbilob's Catarrh Remedy. Price j0 cents. Nasal Injector free. At IT. M. Cohen's drugstore. Sbilob's Vita'izer is what you need for Constipation, Loss of Appetite, Diz ziness and all symptoms of Dyspepsia, l'rice 10 and 75 cents per buttle. For sale by V. M. Cohen. Sbilob's Cough and Consumption Cure is sold by us on 1 guarantee. It cures ConsumptLu iv.T sale by W. M. Co lun. STRANOE STORY OF A YOUNO (UUL, Dr. Richard Hodgson is preparing for tbe next issue; of tbe London Journal of P.-ychical Research an exhaustive paper on ibe case of Mary Vennuin, says the New York correspondent of tbe Pbila dolphin Record, and it is a strange story. Mary Vcnnum is a young girl, a real fhsh and blood heroine, living to-day with her parents in Rollins county, Kansas, and for the present clothed in her right mind But in her fourteen years she has lived two lives, two separate, individual exist ences. For almost a year this girl lived and talked and ate as an entirely distinct personality. It cannot he said that she thought she was this other girl into whose individuality her own hud been transferred, for she was that other girl. The Mary Koff whom she became and remained for noarlytwelve months bad died several years before. Yet where her life had been broken by death Mary Vcnnum took it up, continued its inter rupted duties, went to live at her old borne and could not be dragged away. She strongly resembled the dead girl aud iu pity they let her live in the Koff household, hoping, too, that she would be cured in time, for they thought that she was suffering from a disease. Her story finally got abroad, and it has puzzled no eud of students of such phenomena. Finally Dr. Hodgson, who is the secretary of the English psychical society, bad bis attention called to tbe girl. He has gone carefully step by step over Mary Yonnuiu's whole life, and not only authenticates all the strange details 0! this tide of transformation, but has gathered much additional material, which he will weave into bis treatise. Mary was subject to cataleptic fits; af ter one of these she didn't know her parents, and began to talk of things about the Guff house and articles in it that her parents knew nothing about. The Vennuin family took the girl to the Kofi's, as she was always pleading to be taken borne. f here she stayed perfectly content. From the moment she first stepped in side the door she treated all the members of the household as old acquaintances. She understood all their peculiarities as if she had been reared among them. She was perfectly familiar with every piece of furniture and every chair and picture, and seemed in every way happy aud con tented. Thongh she bad never even visited the place she immediately recoguized every object that bad belonged to tbe dead girl, and called it her own. One day she ran through the house several times as though looking for something, and she afterwards said to Mrs Koff. "Mother where is Gyp? I want to seo him. I am afraid be has not been properly cared for. Gyp had been the favorite pet of Mary Koff, and had been buried eleven ycais. His name had never been mentioned be fore Mary, and the Kofi's never remember to have spoken of him since their ae qiia'ntanco with the Vennums. Many other instances of like nature are given by the doctor. Mr. Hodgson claims thrt he can verily the story with the hot of testimony. He regards the affair as a rclinukablc case of thought transfeteuce, and explains it thus: "The girl was sullcling from freqont and acute attacks of catalepsy. While in this eon di;ion she Was visited by Mr. mid Mrs. Koff She reminded them forcibly of thiir departed daughter, whom she 10 seiiibled very miich. "Their daughter bad died of the same disorder, and bad displayed the same symptoms. What could be more natural then, if thought transference is ever pos sible without the aid of the si mos, than the inteli-e feelings toward their absent daughter, jusi aroused, should impress her pi l'sonalil upon the calab -ptie ebi;0? And wheii the communion bit ween the different minds had been onee e-tablish d ind'"iondeiit of senses, what should binder I its continuance for an indi liuite pi r od? A PECULIAR PEOPLE WHO DWELL CLAN NISIILY DOWN IN DIXIELAND. "There is a singular race of people in South Carolina called the Redbones," said Senator Wade Hampton. ' Their origin is unknown. They resemble in appearance the gypsies, but in complex ion are red. They have accumulated considerable property, and are industrious aud peaceable. They live in small settle ments at the foot of the mountains, and associate with uono but their own nice. They area proud and high spirited peo ple. Caste is very stronsr anions them. They enjoy life, visit the watering places and mountain resorts, but eat and keep by themselves." "When the war broke out several of them enlisted in the Hamptou Legion, and when the legion reached Virginia there was a great outcry among the Vir ginians and the troops from other States because we bad enlisted negroes. They did not resemble the African iu tbe least except in cases where Africans bad amal gamated with Indians. "This intermixture, which is common in the Carolinas, produces marvelous re sults. It takes the kink out of the hair of the African, straightens his features, and improves him in every way except in temper. These Afro-Indo people arc uevils when aroused." St. Louis Glnbr Democrat. A STRING OF PEARLS. The poet Tennyson can take a worth less sheet of paper, aud, by writing a poem on it, make it worth sixty-five thousand dollars. That's genius. Vanderbilt can write a few words on a sheet of paper, and make it worth five million dollars. That's capital. The United States can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp upon it an "eagle bird" and make it worth twen ty dollars. That's money. The mechanic can take material worth five dollars and make it into a watch worth one hundred dollars. That is skill. The mi reliant can take mi article worth seventy five cents aud sell it for a dollar. That's business. A lady can purchase a very comforta ble bonnet for three dollars and seventy live cents, but she prefers one that costs twenty-seven dollars. That's foolish ness. The ditch digger works ten hours a day aud shovels two or three tous of earth for two dollars and filly cents. That's labor. SWALLOWED THIRTEEN WATCHES. Pittsburg Dispatch. James McFadden, of Ben Springs, Cal., once tapluri d a beautiful speiimen of a sn w owl which measured four and one half feet fiom lip to tip of wing. lie sold him to a jeweler, who exhibited him in his show window. Everything went well until one day vv hen the jeweler nii.-s d a tray of wati lies, A thorough seireb failed to reveal where the mi-siiu watches wite. While thejevvebr was excitedly hunting for the iinnqeeci s be In aid a mullled lick ing Putting bis c;t to the breast of the owl the licking Wis distin tly bearl. In his anger the jcwi ler ik capitated the bird, and on opening its stoii.aih tii covt red tbirtein gold and silver watches Six of the wati lies were in an excellent slate of pri si rv 10 n 11, while seven of the number were iu :,ii,-es stao, s ofsiinila tin:). I'll iq filing I IP-gi:: nl a l"i urteelitl; watch vv.is Inoml Tbe sides of the watch bad be. n digo.-t- d, le.t the bands and face were still intaei . . .4. . Sleepless nights, made miserable by that teiriole cough. Sbilob's Cure is tie rem dv for you For sale at IF. M. Co- ben's drugstore. Will you suffer with Dyspepsia in Liver Complaint? iSotlob's Vitali;: r and guuiatiti ed to cure you. For sale by W. M. Cohen. j j, i( . m . 1'. 1 Suck, M e it c n st, use Shi ,ci 1 r ee i!5 cents. . M. t'olin. F ie b A DEVOTED WIPE COMMITS St ICIDE END OF A ROMANCE. A dispatch from San Diego, Ca!., under date of December 27th, says: A rarer story of love, devotion, death and suicide is seldom penned outside the pages of fiction than that which was enacted in National City yesterday. Nearly two years ago a coiq.le arrived, evidently foreigners. Both were young and rich aud they rented a cottage. They were known by the mime of Parisi, and had several servants and a number of prey hounds. Parisa was recently taken sick. Jany doctors were called, butbediedon Christ mas Day. The wife set med to be broken hearted. While the body was being em balmed tbe woman begged to lie under the winding sheet, but was refused. Presently the doctor missed the chloio form and found the woman lying beside the dead man, caressing bini and saying, "Why could I not go with you ?" The doctor tried to remove her. She resisted, and said: "Lotus lie together." Her voice was so thick that the doctor became suspicious, and found on investi gation that she had taken carbolic acid. Her mouth and chest were burned. She was accused and admitted it, saying: "Yes, I must go to my husbaod," and died. The' story came to light, through the bank, that they were Count aud Count ess Jesorf Parisa do llochkoffer, of Trieste, Austria. Tbe Countess (nee Mina Altof ) who died with her husband, was of German nobility, her lineage da ting back eight hundred years. She was beautiful, educated and an artist. The Count was the son of a man who was the head of one of the largest banking firms iu Austria. The Count was wild and his father sent him travelling, lie set tled here : short time ago. Mothers and Nurses should always re member that disappointment never attends the use of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price only 25 cents. No wonder people say the climate is changing, with all the queer went hi r we are having latelv. and to be free from catarrh is a privilege. We have, how ever, an excellent remedy for this ailment Old Saul's Catarrh Cure. Enoch's g'ory was that "be walkid with God." No man can have a higher or more blessed distinction All else fades and decays. Youth's beauty and manhood's vigor wither ii'ce the flowirs of Spring. Honor's gerlauds perish. The achievements of science jre short lived. 1'assiug away is wiitten upon every earthly thing. But holy walking with God is something which is both en during and glorious. It imparts a peri n ial joy, yields unabiding peace, conquers death and wins God. Presbyterian. When Baby was pick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a CI11I1I, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. Tr being definitely asceitained, fays Joe Howard, iu the New York Press, that the New York Wire! netted $800, 000 in ihe year 1SP0, li.e New York ID raid ?Ij Ml.tlllll, ai d the Hostou Globe $2.10,000. Prick Po.meroy, as be appears now adays, is a port'y. well dressed gentleman, whose attire is 'opped 1 ff with a slouch Int. lie is described as the same jolly, good natured, abstemious, cynical gentle man that he was of old. The mean teim of human life h"S giadtt.iiiy increase.! in ibe last fifty yeais Iro i thirty lour to ('..riy two years. Of ih.se who have attained tbe age i f sixty -i yea's, out of 1,001) forty three were ihe..lo..i,.!i , lor' v IV 1 tut I', tbhty fhe office ho'diis. l.irty two n H'ury, thirty IWoehr s. ! Aitit ti'i.i; Uvvv.rs, tw. tuv eL,U at' tweut '' -t-, ! e. . n! v M'Ven T.V tl. dots j rolessuis aim
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