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WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1892.
NO 42
TO TRUCKERS.
yiN INTERESTING CIRCULAR TO FRUIT
AND PRODUCE GROWERS.
The fruit and Produce Trade Association
If New York have issued an address to
he growers and shippers of fruits and
getables in the Atlautio Coast Statns,
italing that, owing to the enormous in-
icasc in truck and fruit growing through-
ut the Atlantic Coa.st States, it has be-
. i . ...
bnie more apparent caou year iu me re-
eivers of the jropcrt.y here that pack
ges of uniform size are not only needed,
ut imperatively demanded. The circular
lays that the inequality of sizs in paek-
ges has been annoying and embarrassing
o commission merchants and a loss to
nippers and growers.
The principal advantages of uniform
fcuckages are as follows: First, the pro-
ici'ty could be handled here to decidedly
letter advantage. Second, small pack-
ges cost as much for freight as the full
lize and sell for much less, proportionate-
k (be-.-uuse buyers are so prejudiced
aitist thein) (hereby making them very
Luprofitable to the shipper. Third, dif
ferent sizes require different prices to
orrespond with the package, the quality
If the contents being the same. Fourth,
ire are threatened with adverse legisla
ion in consequence of the irregularity of
lie packages in use.
For these reasons we recommend the
immediate adoption as far as possible of
he round hooped flour barrel as the
standard of measure, with the barrel crate
;iual in capacity to the standard barrel,
ouuded measure, aud the half-barrel
prate and third-barrel crate to be pro
portionate parts of the standard crate or
Barrel.
The dimensions of a standard flour
parrel are: Diameter of head. 17 inches;
diameter of bilge, 19 J inches; length of
ptave, 27 inches; length between heads,
25 inches.
MASONIC GRAND LODGE.
The Grand Lodge of Masons adjourn
at midnight last week having dispos
ed of business much sooner than it expect-
w i. It was decided that in January 1894,
the meeting should be at Wilmington, in
lonor of St. John's lodge of that place,
which will celebrate its centennial. This
will he the first meeting at any point save
Raleigh, and some of the members are
Jnot pleased with the idea at all, as they
ilo not like the precedent. The republi
cation of the Masons code was oidered.
.Vll Masons iu this State were forbidden
torn using the "cerneau" rite.
The following grand officers were
hected or iippointed, and were installed
fy Past Grand Master Blount: Grand
f laster, II. A. Gudger; Deputy Grand
piaster, J. W. Gotten, Senior Grand
Warden, R. J. Noble; Grand Secretary,
jl. W. Bain; Grand Treasurer, William
ritupson; Grand Chaplain, T. W. Nelson,
junior Grand Deacon, L. M. Tutten;
llunior Grand Deacon, ' J. A. Leach;
llraod Marshal, E. F. Lamb; Grand
word Bearer, W. E. Moore; Grand
pursuivant, l M- Persall; Graud Stow-
"Jj, A- K. Smith and A. L. Brooks;
'-rand Tiler. It. II. Rradley.
l-ixi: showing.
The iucr.'ase iu the number of cotton
P'uTics in use in the Souih d irin'' the
i'W ftndin t iantimli K'f IQ'tl ,i,.f.i-,L
r-'K to a statement prepared by the New
I'-taiw Cotton Exchange was, 149,000
I1' which North Carolina w is credited
5J.UJD, South Carolina 3t,00U,
b"rgia 5,000.
ortli Caroliui Ins now more spindles
running tlwu any Slate ia the South
-'S-ept Georgia, having passed South
.Curlitia during the year. Georgia is
1'"' i,000 spindles ahead of us. That
bo running at the Vauee Mills
"'iiys. It is thought that 3,000
put into the Salisbury Mills
- -- . 1 Vrf ITU HU14 VMOtL Itll
i cr
t Rc m.
'UN-, booaube the i'atint Sole
only one made that excludes
nd dirt.
SECONDSICHT.
THE REMARKABLE l'OWER OF A FIV-TEEN-YEAR-OLD
UIRL.
About five miles from this city, says a
Platte-City, Mo., dispatch, lives W. D.
House, a farmer, who has a daughter
with a wonderful power or gift. The girl
is about fifteen years old, and for several
years she has been considered by the
simple country folks around the neigh
borhood to be "odd." Sho has a dreamy
appearance and is slow of speech, but
when she does talk she shows that she is
above the average of girls of her age in
intelligence.
She is as well educated as most country
girls of her age who have had only the
advantages of the district school, but her
peculiarity is that she seems to have a
clairvoyant property or second sight. She
says that she can read letters without
breaking the seal, and on several occasions
she has done this with letters where it
was impossible that there could be any
collusion with those who wrote the letters.
She can also take a book and hold it
closed iu her hands and read from any
designated page in the book.
Dr. Porter, one of the oldest physicians
of this county, says that ho knows the
girl has an extraordinary power and ho
has thoroughly tested the matter. He
says that he wrote a letter at his office
and sealed it. He took this letter in his
pocket to the house and called the girl.
She came to him and shook hands. As
she did so she said, ''Doctor, you have a
letter for me aud you wrote it." She
then held his hand and read the letter,
which was still in his pocket.
To make a further test he brought one
of his own medical books to the house
and which he was positive she had never
seen. He gavd her the book and told
her to read on a certain page. He had
selected the page purposely, it being one
on which there appeared a number of
long technical words. Sh read the page
accurately, with the exception of the hard
words, which she said she could not pro
nounce. She says she cannot explaiu
how she does it, but it seems to be in her
head when she takes the letter or books.
UKIDAl, PA NCI US.
Married in white, you have chosen all
right;
Married in gray, you will go far
away;
Married in black, you will wish your
self back;
Married in red, you will wish yourself
dead;
Married iu green, ashamed to be seen;
Married in blue, he will always be
true;
Married in pearl, you will live in a
whirl;
Married in yellow, ashamed of your
fellow;
Married iu brown, you will live out of
town;
Married in pink, your spirits will siuk
"MUST HE MY MOTH EH."
A teacher was describing the charade
of Jesus Christ. Sho did not toll the little
boys of whom sho was speaking, but went
on and described His charaejer in all its
beauty and loveliness, self denial and
cheerfulness; and, ns she spile iu words
that brought tears to the eyes of the little
fellows, at last sho said to one liitle boy:
'Do you know who it is of whom I atu
talking?" and this little fellow said: "It
must beiny mother."
Sliiloli's Consumption Cure
This is beyond question, the most
successful Cough Medicine we have ever
sold, a few doses invariably cure the worst
casus of Cough, Croup and Bronchitis,
while its wonderful success in the cure of
Consumption is without a parallel in the
history ol medicine, Since its hrst ills
covery it has been sold on a positive
guarantee, a tost which no other medi
cine can stand. If you have a cough we
earnestly ask yon to try it. Price 10c
50o. unl$l. If your lung are sore
chest, or back lame, uso Shiloh's Porous
Piaster. Sold by W. M. Cohen.
TARIFF REFORM
THE ISSUE.
MR. MILLR GIVES HI8 VIEWS ON THE
COURSE OF THE PARTY.
"Your opponents say that you are op
posed to the free coinage of silver. What
have you to say iu reply?"
"I say what I have said all the time.
I have spoken often, in Congress and
out of it, for it, and have already voted
for it. I do not believe that it would
in the slightest manner relieve the finan
cial distress of the country, but I thiuk
that both gold and silver should be in the
circulation of the world to the fullest ex
tent possible. The people of the East,
of all parties and classes, firmly believe
that free coinage would be distastrous to
them. The people of Texas, at least
many of them, thiuk it would be a great
boon to them. In my judgment both
opinions are groundless.
"If we persist in the agitation of the
question and demand it in our National
Convention we will Ioe in our fall elec.
tion all our Eastern States and gain none
in the West. The result will bo the
election of a Republican House, Senate
and President and the passage of a force
bill, with the military in control of our
elections in the South. I have, there
fore, fo avert such a disaster to the
Southern peop'e, advised the postpone
ment ef the further agitation of the sub
ject until the tariff is reduced.
"On the tariff issue we have won the
country and can hold it, and put a hun
dred times more money in circulation
than by free coinage. If a free coinage
bill is reported in Congress I shall vote
for it, as I have always done, but I shall
not advise the report of such a bill. If
the tariff was reduced to a revenue basis
it would put in the pockets of the people
and in circulation more money than a
thousand millions of dollars. If our
mines were open to free coinage the
circulation would be increased 810,000,
000. Besides, reduction of the tariff can
be accomplished, and the other cannot.
"A reduction of the tariff to 25 per
cent, above the revenue basis would in
crease our imports $300,000,000, and
that amount of exports would have to go
out to pay for the imports. Eighty per
cent, of these exports are agricultural
products, of which cotton is the largest,
aud we have produced of that this year
3,000,000,000 pounds. Such an in
creased demand would increase its price
4 or 5 cents per pound, and that would
add to the pockets of the cotton growers
iu one year 8150,000,000 while free coin
age would not add one dollar to their
purses.
"The great monumental evil that is
destroying not only the prosperity of
the people but the political institutions of
thecouutry is excessive taxation on the
products of labor. It is concentrating
the weah of the country in the hands
of few thousands and condemning millions
to hopeless poverty. The whole attention
of the country ought to be attracted . to
this abuse, and every effort idiould be
made to tear ir out by the roots."
"What is the prospect of reducing the
tariff?"
"Everthing depends ou the present
Congress and tho course pursued by the
Democratic Natioual Convention next
summer. If Congress presses earnestly
for tariff reform and the Democratic
House passes a thorough revenue tariff
bill, ignoring and opposing protection in
every feature, and if the National convcu
tion will make the issue in tho coming
eoutest and give the people a sound Wes
tern Democrat as the nominee for Presi
dent, we will win, carry thu reform, arx
remain in power for years. Tho eoutest
iu tho convention, from present indica
tions, will be between Hill and a Western
competitor. Hill, iu his recent speech at
Albany, declared for the protective tariff
of lSO.i. Without giviug up all we
have been contending for, w cannot ac
cept his platform or his candidacy, and
we must look to the West for our standard-bearer."
John, try the Patui co.c Shoe. They
tie the best I over saw.
NERVOUS J2EADACHE.
A SIMPLE HUT EFFECTIVE REMEDY.
The ordinary nervous headache will be
greatly relieved, and iu many cases en
tirely cured, by removing the waist of
one's dress, knotting the hair high up on
the head out, of thu way, and while lean-''
ing over a basin, placing a sponge soaked
in water as it can be borne on the back
of the neck, ltepeat this many times,
also applying the sponge behind the tars,
and the strained muscles and nerves that
have caused so much misery will he felt
to relax and smooth themselves out de
liciously, and very frequently the pain
promptly vanishes in consequence. Ev
ery woman knows the aching face and
neck generally brought home from u hard
day's shopping, or from a long round of
calls and after noon teas. She regards
with insense dissatisfaction the heavy
lines drawn around her eyes and mouth
by the long strain on the facial muscles
and when she must carry that wVn counte ¬
nance to some dinner party or evening's
amusement, i; robs her of the pleasure to
be had in it. Cosmetic; are not the cure,
nor bromides, nor the many nerve sedatives
to be had at the drug shop. I'se the
sponge and ho wi.ter again, bathing the
face in water as hot as it cm be possibly
borne; apply the sponga over and over
again to the temples, throat and behind
the ears where most of the nerves and
muscles of the head center and then
bathe the face in water running cold
from the faucet. Color and smoothness
of outline come tack to the face, an as
tonishing freshness and comfort is the
result, and if" a nap of ten minutes can
follow, every trace of fatigue will vanish.
The same remedy is invaluable for sun
burn, and the worst case of this latter
affliction of sensitive skins will succumb
to the hot water treatment. The cold
douche should not follow in this case;
instead, a slight application of vaseline
or cold cream, which prevents peeling of
the skin, as the hot water prevented in
flammation. Nothing so good for tired
eyes has yet been discovered as bathing
them in hot water, and neuralgia in nine
cases out of ten will yield to applications
of cloths wrung out in water iu which
the hand cannot be borne. Harper's
Bazaar.
DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY
INCO.NURESS NO INDICATION OF THE
RESULT OF THE ELECTION NEXT
FALL.
The Lynchburg Xiws speaks of the
increased Democratic representation in
the present national House of Kepresen
tatives as follows:
"We hesitatingly say that these figur
es do not afford one particle of hope for
the future. On the contrary, they are
pregnant with mischief aud distraction.
Leaving out Connecticut, always Demo
cratic, and not a State named will east a
single vote for the candidate of the Demo
cratic party in 1 892, with the possible
exception of Michigan, which we hae
managed to fix by the doubtful process
of a gerrymander, Mid not one of them
will retaiu its present partisan status iu
Congress, which U due now chiefly to
Republican apathy, as is clearly sh wn
by a critical analysis of the votes. In not
one of these States did the Demo
win by reason of acquisitions 1
ranks, I ut in every ins'in'v
jop
Republican careless ties A
Take Massachusetts.''
presenting New
Democrats gai Is
rather three '
but the party,
than it was in
tied tho State 1
pubiican vote
Illinois, as repr
In this State the
congressmen, but
was 17,239 less lh.
Republican vote fell ,
"And so it jes. l'i
opinion, the shadow of a ,
Democratic party in New .;.
the Northwest; and it would
f..l!y to trim our suits to those trans.,
and altogether treacherous breezes."
COVERNCR HOLT'S.
EMANCIPATION
ADDRESS
ED.
APPltr.i'lAT-
The following letter from the most
eloquent and popular colored man in
North Carolina is one which is no doubt
most gratifying to Governor Holt:
Livinuston College, ')
Salisiiury North Carolina,
January 13th, 1802.
lo Ilk Kxvrllnwy, T. M. Hull, Go,:.
mitir of North Curolum.
Dear Sir: On my return from Kr if,
Pa, a few days ago Dr. Thomas oi 'Tlmuia:
ville kindly gave me a copy of your
speech delivered to the colored citizens
of Raleigh on the first of January, being
the occasion of the celebration of the
20th Anniversary of the Emuticipaiii m
Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln. I
read the speech carefully and 1 beg tho
permission to take the opportunity to
congratulate you on the broad, patriotic,
statesmanlike and practical spirit evidenc
ed in that address. The speech was indeed
masterly in its conception, aud opportune
in its "New South" tenor. To my mind
it argues no little significance when the
Governor of the great State of Nun.h
Carolina, consents to be present during
the celebration of the Emancipation Pro
clamation, just 20 years afier a civil war,
which meant the perpetuation of slavery
in this section of the country. It is more j
significant when the Chief Executive of
the State delivers an address on such an '
occasion, voicing not only his own con
victions, but thesentiment of the best
people whom he has the honor to repres
ent us their Chief Executive officer, in
expression of sympathy, wholesome advice
and substantial iuterestin their (uegrocs)
endeavors to become intelligent citizens
and in the development of a better, nob
ler manhood and womanhood. In such
utterances from our State officials through
out this section of the country, I humbly
believe one can see the dawning of a
brighter day, not only for the colored
people, but for the South as well, of
which he forms a large and indcspensible
part.
North Carolina has great natural re
sources and they are pre-eminently adapt
ed to productive labor and to great and
profitable enterprises.
We only need harmory, skill and capi
tal to turn to advautagc these resources.
Such speeches will hasten the solution of
the so called ' Southern Problem" and
finally result in the harmonious adjust
went of all our real and apparent antag
onisms. This done, justice and peace
will reign withiti our borders. Race
conflicts will bo the dream of the alarmist;
capital and skill at home and abroad will
receive a new inspiration, and we will
then realize that the Old North State
represents indeed and iu truth a happy
and contended people blessed by the
Lord.
I confess toan agreeable surprise at
your evident knowledge of and your man
ifest Concern in the material advancement
ot the colored people ot tne ooutn a
fait so often forgotten iu reference to tho
status of the negro iu this count j'TI
In conclusion, I beg to ask -Excellency
will kindly park
in the least degree, apptai
iu these lines of cor'
buie my action to
p sl,0 .',
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.
The latest calculation makes the world's
age l,52G,750,00O years.
The microscope shows that the hum
ble snail has 30, OHO teeth in its mouth.
The raven is the only bird known to
the entomologists which is a native of
every country in the world
The frog, owing iu its peculiar con
struction, cannot breathe with ti.e m.jiith
open, and would die from suffocatioii if
it wire kept open forcibly.
The eyeball of the owl is immovably
fixed in its socket; hence the look of wis
dom that that bird always appears to
have. In the horse an eye iu which the
white predominates indicates a k-ious na
ture. The descendants of a single wasp num
ber as many as I-JO.OOO in one season.
November is the fatal month which kills
them all off, except two or three females,
on whom depends the perpetuation of the
race.
The largest animal known to exist in
the world at the present time is the ror
qual, which averages 100 feet in length,
and the smallest is monad, which' is only
one twelve hundredth of an inch in
length.
No animal 'rum wore than five tees.
n113 01 claws U each tout or limb. Ihe
horse ou l liu ox two-toed, the
rhinoceros is three-toed, the hippopoU-
mus is four toed and the elephant and
huudreds of other animals are five-toed.
The city of Loudon is put down by
geographers as the center of the landed
hemisphere. Iu other words a radius
of about 0,000 miles on the curved sur
face of the earth, with London as a
center, would describe a eircumieiente
it closing more land than any 6,000 mile
circle that could be drawn from any eth
er city in the world.
The highest velocity ever given to a
cannon-ball is estimated at 1,020 feet per
second, being equal to a mile in 3.2 sec
onds. The velocity of the earth at the
equator, due to its rotation on its axis, is
1,000 miles per hour, or a mile in 3.6
seconds. Therefore, if a cannon ball
were fired due west and could maintain
its initial velocity, it would beat the sun
in his apparent journey round the earth.
If we were to count all the islands in
the world we should find that they mount
ed up into the hundreds of thousatds.
There are over 1,000 islands under the
flag of Japan, and in Georgian Bay, the
northern extension of Lake Huron, where
we find very few islands on the maps,
most of them, tf course, quite small. It
w;,s among these beautiful wooded little
islands the Huron indians took refuge
when they were assailed in 1GPJ by their
implacable foes, the Iroquois. Among
tli j labyrinthine channels the Iroquois
could not successfully pursue them, 8nd
those who escaied o the islands save
themselves from tiie extermination w'"'
befell tl i'hul.;ATV