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"The funniest snake I know any
thinT about is one found in Africa,
which lives upon eggs," said Osteol
ogist L-icas to a Star reporter. "It
has a curious projection downward
from its backbone, just behind the
head, which is like a tooth, the ex
tremity Villi; actually tipped with
enamel. This toot h-like appendage is
a mot important function with re
lation to the creature's method of
getting a living. ! voald be Uitti
cult to find a more astonishing illus
tration in m.tine of the adaptation
Of structure to necessity.
vVnen the snake swallows an egg
the latter is pased through the gul
W until it encounters the sharp
tooth 1 have spoken of, which breaks
the shell. Thus not only is the food
rendered ready for immediate diges
tion, but no portion of the fluid is
lost, hs would be the case if the
snake were obliged to bite into the
egg with its mouth fangs.
It seems surprising how many
snakes are able to swallow animals
hisger tlnm their own diameter, un
tif it is considered how particularly
well ii 'ture has adapted to the pur
pose the structure of their jaws.
I lie lower J.uvbuiK, indent of lit-ing
in h sini- p:ec- : m iv v conuected
in f ! !..' t'V an : S'ie iig.nir-nt, 80
that tin two liuii s are capable of
reat extension. Again, the halves
ni t
Imwr jawbone an- attached to
ba-k, ( tlu
ani
mal e in inak-an enormous gap.
To proper': pn pare the ikrleton
of a mi. ike is one of the most diflieul'
pi-o-s of v oi k in my Hue of busiuess.
erj nts of .!! sorts come to the
Smi; l-soni.iii in two shapes. TYe
sina'l r ones art usually in alcohol,
whii ti.ebig ft Hows art-api to be
simple dried am! poisoned iy s a
in in an arsenical solution. In the
preparation of a specimen very sharp
ami uVih ate scissors are employed,
with forceps to supplement them,
the flesh be.ng carefully removed
so far as is practical with these in
struments. Then recourse must be
had to scraping of the bones until
thev are perfectly clean. Some time
the skeleton is soaked in au acid
preparation for the purpose, but this
destroys the ligaments, and it is not
easv to put all the parts together
again rightly. In the preparation
of delicate skeletons the great thing
is patience. There are two very
finely prepared skeletons the great
thing is patience. I here are two
very finely prepared skeletons of big
snakes in the natural museum, and
in making them ready for exhibition
the utmost care was taken to pre
serve the cartilaginous extremities
of thj ribs, which with ordinary
treatment are lost, without these
little pieces of cartilage the serpent's
skeleton can hardly be Said to be
complete, inasmuch as they are the
feet upon which the reptile walks,
as it were. In fact a snake wa'ks
on the ends of its ri'-s iunl iu mat
manner achieves loeoin jtum. .onie
big serpents however, like the boa
and python-, ivaiiy have hind K.s.
though they are quite rudimentary.
They have no poison glands, but
they can bite terrifically with their
many teeth, which turn inward like
hooks, so that a person once se.zed
would have little chance of disen
gaging himself save by chopping off
the head of the animal." Washing
ton St; r.
Olvorrrn In .f ormondom.
Mormons recognize two classes of
divorces, as well as two kinds of
marriages, writes a correspondent of
the St. Louis Globe-Deinocral, from
Salt Lake City, Utah. One separ
ates for life; the other for the future
Hta'e. For divorces of husband'? and
lirst .vives the civil courts a.e re
Burled to. l'lural wives have no
stand ng in civil courts. Thi- was
decide l by the lnited Stat-s Su
preiii 1 ourt in the case brolly hi
tv Ann Kl.za ttyaiuit Brigham
Young. The
on iy divorce remedy
for I'Uiral wives is througii toe
eimr-'h. Being invested with su -preme
authority to unite, the presi
dent .;" tiie church can unloose.
Church divorce is a logical result
of i L-do trine of plural and ee.estal
niai r age. l'lural wives would be
badly off if there were not some way
of throwingoff a galling yoke. Be
sides this, people married for eter
uity, if it were not for the Church
divorce, would be b-ft tied together
for the next world, although thev
obt lined ab.-.olute divorce in a civil
court Parties sealed for eternity,
after obtaining a civil court divorce,
must be unsealed by the Church, or
else they will lind themselves still
joined together iu the resurrection.
Mormons who 'live been spirit
ual, y married and then divorced by
the civil courts may remarry for this
world. But tiie -omen cannot re
marry for eternity without being
unhealed from the former husband.
'I br Seaboard Syntrm.
The Georgia Southern and Florida
lt-iilroad, running between Macon
and l'ahrka, Fla., lejsed to Mr. John
31. Kobinsun's Seaboard and lioanoke
system for a term of ninety-nine
years is 25 mi Us in length, and
with a new roid to be built by Mr.
Robinson of the Seaboard and Uoa-nok.-
to Klberton, Ga., where it will
connect with his Georgia, Carolina
am! Northern Koat'., to the North,
givmg 1 he system two hours udvan-
t.igi- over ihe Richmond and Danville
between
Florida.
New York aud Central
jrad(,nii!g the trackway of the
jiarro ':;!:. bijdge across Smith
Uiv.j-, to widen the gauge jf the
l)auwlle & New River road.
VOL. IV. NO. 8.
POPrLATIOX BT COl'XTIEft.
The Official Firnrea frm upervUr
Prtr.
Alamance,
Alexander,
Alleghany
Anson,
Ashe.
Beaufort,
Bertie,
Bladen,
Brunswick,
Buncombe,
Burke,
Cabarrus,
Caldwell,
Camden,
Carteret,
Caswell,
Catawba,
Chatham,
Cherokee,
Chowan,
Clay.
Clet eland,
Columbus,
Craven,
Cumberland,
Currituck,
Dare,
Davidson,
Davie,
Duplin,
Dm bam,
Edgecombe,
Forsyth,
Franklin,
Gaston,
Gates,
Graham,
Granville,
Greene,
Guilford,
Haiiax,
18,271
9,430
6,523
20,027
15,628
21,072
19,176
16,763
10,900
35,266
14,939
I8.H2
12,298
5.6G7
10,825
16,028
18,689
25,413
9,976
9,167
4,197
20,394
17,c56
20,533
27,321
6,747
5,768
21,702
11,621
18,690
18,041
24,113
28,434
21,000
17,764
10.252
3,313
24,484
10.039
28.052
28.908
13,700
13.346
12,59
13.851
8,'.i3
25,462
9,512
27,239
7,403
14.879
12,586
10,939
10,102
17,805
15,221
46,673
12.807
11,239
20,479
20,707
24,026
21.242
10,303
Harnett,
Haywood,
Henderson,
1 1 1 ford,
Hy.i-.
Iredell.
Jackson,
.Joiiuriton.
Jones,
Lenoir,
Lincoln,
McDowell.
.Mncoi',
Madisi !i.
Martin,
MeokleL'burg,
Mitchell,
Montgomery,
Moore,
Nash.
New Hanover
Northampton
Ouwlow,
Orange,
Pamlico,
Pnsqiiotank,
Render,
Perquimans,
Person,
Pitt,
Polk,
llando pb,
Richmond,
Robeson,
Rockingham,
Rowan,
Rutherford,
Sauinson,
Stanly,
Stokes,
Surry,
Swain,
Transylvania,
Tyrrell,
Uniou,
Vance,
v ake,
Warren,
Washington,
Watauga,
Wavue,
Wilkes,
Wilson,
Yadkin,
14,948
7,146
10,748
12,514
9,293
15,151
25,519
5,902
25.195
23.948
31,483
25,363
24.123
18,770
25.096
12,136
17, 90
19.281
6,577
5,997
4,225
21,259
17,581
49,207
19,360
10,200
10.611
26,100
22.67)
18,644
13,790
9,490
1,617,943
iuncey,
Total,
About the Fair.
ix-low the Standard give3 a list of
articles on which the Fair Associa
tion offers premiums. The list is
published now because these articles
being of an agricultural nature some
time will be required. The attention
of the farmers it respectfully called
to the list :
Best bale of cotton, growth of
1891, exhibit I by producer, of
which affidavit shall be tiled; best
bushel Miy wheat; ditto white
wheat, bearded iucluded, not in
ciutliug Mny variety; ditto red
wheat, bearded included, not in
riuding May variety; t.ext bn-htl
white corn, yellow coru, red oats,
woin oatH. other vaiie'y, rye, clover
seed, orchard gr sri see 1, other va
jiU'ty giass seed; b-Rt collection ot
! 4.THS hhiI, tpe imei' of chv-r, mi -1
c aid gntNtt, timothy grn?, utn r
i riLiitv iTuw-j finlit neiiM: next col
lection held peas; best bubel tal'ln
pens, fcvet petatoes, Irish potatoes,
giound pi ns; best two bushels slock
'eels; beM bushel sugar bee's; best
specimen of broom corn, cotton
Min.k, corn o;i stalk, not less than
six st.iiKH, sorghum cane, not 1 si
than one Lalf dozen stiiiks, sorgUum
not b ss than a pint, ieaf tobacco in
(sand, tobacco iu any form; best sack
No! th Carolina dour, roder process,
rrouiid with burrs; Dt:8t bushel com
meal, half dozen bundles celoiy,
koecunens eg plant, cabbage, long
stalk cabbage; best variety squash,
onions, tomatoes, table beets; best
exhibit of carrots, parsnips, turnips,
ruta baga tnruipB; best bale clover
hay, timothy hay, orchard grass, red
top, other variety, no bale to be less
thrtu 100 pounds; best and greatest
variety Irish potatoes; best exhibit
of sulsily or oyster lant, three
pumpkins, cornfield beans on the
vine; best collection pot herbs; bes
assortment and greatest variety of
gaiden seed1, properly classed; best
display of vegetables by one ex
hibitor, not less than 10 varieties;
best 100 ears white corn. 100 ems
yellowjeoru, bushel of barley, three
cushaws.
The Globe's private opinion is
that the way to cure the wife beater
most successfully is to publicly whip
the man and educate him afterwards.,
This might run the fellow out ot
the country. But suppose it did?
It would be better if he were away.
It is a good general proposition that
a man who whips and rummers his
wife will not support her. The
scoundrel who would take delight
in strikinga waman, who had nursed
1 and raised his children, would not
toil to
Globe.
support her Durham
It was the steamship Craighead,
Galveaton to Liverpool, with 5,000
bales of ficttqa that went ashore
Ocracoke Inlet.
The
THE t'OTTOX PLATFORM.
Thrlninranor Qnrntton Somr Light
on the kabjert by m Buyer.
Editor Standard :
Your local Wednesday in reference
to insurance on cotton and cost to
the producer wa calculated to cre
ate a false impression. You insinuate
that the cost of insurance 13 two
dollars per bale more on the new
platform than the one at the depot,
whereas the diflerence is merely
nominal viz : A thousand dollars
insurance on the depot platform
costs $50 per annum, and on the new
platform $52.50. ho you see there is
a difference of only two dollars and
nftycetits per thousand instead of
two dollars per bale.
I have no doubt but that the in
surance will be much lower on the
new than the old platform as soon
as the new is fully completed and all
matters properly adjusted. Cer
tainly there ia Jess exposure on the
new than the old. with the old shell
of a depot and old warehouse near
by and a continuous pasainsr of
trains, tc Again, we have the water
woiks up town, which will very ma
terially reduce the rate of insurance
when all things are properiy ar
ranged, as they will be.
There has been a good deal said
to stir up feeling and excite preju
dice against the new platform. It is
charged by some that it affects the
priceof cotto-i very materially. This
is too insignificant for a sensible
man to talk about. The fact s that
if the buyer wauts to ship his cot
ton North it costs him ten cents per
bale to take it from the new to the
Id platform. This is counterbal
anced in a great measure by the
convenience of the new platform to
Luu, tvin? him time and travel to
and from the depot, sampling, grad
mg ana shipping.
I do not r now who your informant
cotton buyer was, but as I buy
some coUon, and fear that some one
may attribute such a reckless state
ment to me, I conclude to give you
the facts iu the case.
Yours truly,
C. G. Mo'TGOM."RY.
Concoid, N. C, Feb 26.
Ht.RALIHX; 11 Y THE
Salisbury Herald that Kef oat it Big
Kupplement.
One of the directors of the Gold
Hill mines arrived from London last
week, and is now in Cold Hill
makin ; a thorough examination of
the property. He will make a re
port to the board of directors when
his work is completed. Salisbury
takes a good deal of stock in the
Grottoes Improvement Company.
Clerk Watson, in serving his
first time in a court, did his work
satisfactorily.-: " Seven Devils "
will be the theme of Rev. Cashwell,
at the Baptist church, Tuesday
night. The tobacco manufac
turers of Salisbury now have on hand
a larger supply of leaf tobacco than
they have ever had. beiore at tris
season of the year. The Wes
tern N. J. Railroad has doDe a very
creditable thing in establishing at
the car shops here a reading room
for the use of the engineers and hre
man employed on the road.
Francis W. Poole, formerly of Rowan
county, died at his home in Toyah,
Texas", on February 4th, 189 1. His
remains were brought back to this
county by his brother, I. A. Poole,
who w'as with him at the time of his
death, and interred in tne cemetery
at St. Matthew's church on February
10 h. lie visited relatives in this
county at Christmas and had only
returned to his home a few days
when he was attacked with pneumo
nia and erysipelas, from which he
died. Unless there were two gen
tleman by this name, Mr. Poole was
a brother of Dr. C. M. Poole, of
Rowan, both of whom were school
mares of this writer.
Capt. T. L. Nrlgle Dead.
Capt. Thos. L. Seigle died Friday
morning at 8 o'clock, after an illness
of nearly six months. The cause of
lis death was heart disease, follow
ing an attack of the grip. He was
born in Lincoln county, June 11th,
! 1832. His fatner Aasa IMinsvlvm-
ian and h's mother a Miss Hoover,
of Lincoln couiry.
l'h'j Chariotte Chronicle Siys of
him:
He was regarded as a man of spo.
les-i eh trader, upright and honorable
iu all his dealings ; a man of broad
brain and tine business ca; icily.
He was kind hearted a.d get, in , and
a man of wide spread charity. The
most lasting monument to his mem
ory, ;s the beautiful rtructure St.
Mark's Evangelical Lutheran cnurch,
1 o his management, liberality and
untiring efforts and work the city
owes this beautiful addition to in
handsome structures, and the Luth
erans an exquisitely fitted up house
of worship. He personally super
intended the building, and his beau
tiful taste is nowhere more clearly
seen than in the perfect blending of
the interior of the church. The
handsome furnishings and Mosaic
windows in the church are also last
ing tributes to his lib-rality.
Capt. Seigle was confirmed into
the Lutheran faith in 1850, in Lin
cob, county, and has since then been
a faithful consistent member of the
church. He was the life and main
spring of the Lutheran church in
this city, and it will be hard to find
one bi till bis place, indeed his death
is a loss to the city generally.
Capt. Seigle was a trusiee and di
rector of the Y. M. C. A. building,
which is draped in mourning in re
sp. ct to If 8 memory.
In It True
After three weeks rain, we had
one lovely clear day on Sunday. Is
there anything 011 earth like sun
shine? Suushine is to the earth
what love is to the human heart.
Salisbury Truth.
That is an unfortunate compari
son ; many a sinful old bachelor
knows nothing about a "heart,"
1 fitted up as you haye it.
Stan
CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1891.
A ?i OTHER STATELIEST
About Expennea In Handling; Cotton
by the Firm of Cannon A 1'etsor.
Editor Standard:
ComDarative cost of handling 100
bales of co ton delivered at depot
platform and at platform up town:
Cost to Cannons &!Cost to Cannons &
Fetzer for hand-- Fetzer for hand
ling 100 bales cot-j ling 100 bales de
ton delivered j livered on plat
depot platform : form up town :
One-half cost of One-half
weighing, 5c. weig h i n g
bale. - ttf.OO; at 5 cents
Insurance we do not bale, - $ 5.0
deem necessary, as Dummy for
we can get railroad, delivery to
company receipt for depot, - 10.00
the cotton whenever insurance
it is delivered on: necessarv
platform, and after
to cover 100
bales cotton
per annum
12.10 per
lale.$210.00
If the cot
ton deliver
ed on plat
form under
this policy
tmount'd to
1500 bales
the cost per
100 bales
would be
receipt is taken the
cotton is at the risk
of the railroad com
pany, no matter how
long it remains on
platform, and we:
have known it to re
main several days on!
account ot the rail
road being scarce of
cars.
14.00
j Total, - $29.00
Cost on depot
I platform, - 5 00
:Ad dition al
j cost up town 24 00
When buying cotton regularly in
the fall season it becomes necessary
for us to get railroad company's re
ceipt for all cotton the tne day it
is boutrht- This we can do when we
have it. u depot pUtform. If up
town we cant ot, as the agent of the
R. &. D. Railroad Company informs
us that the. will not receipt for cot
ton unless in the.v cars and ou heir
track at the depot or on the platform
at the aepot.
As all costs of handling eot'on
necessarily comes out of th pro
ducer, every dollar additional ex
pense jnust reduce t.epiice paid
for the cotton
The following are questions pro
pounded to Mr Dusenbury, the de
pot agent, and his answers to the
questions:
"Blease inform us if jou will re
ceipt ior cottou on pl-itferm up
town?"
"No, sir."
"If not, will you receipt for it
when loaded in your cars at the
platform up town?"'
"No, sir. Have, as yet, received
no instructions from superior offi
cers as to handling of this busiuess."
Ca.mnons & Fetzer.
i'onf mpiible KelfiMhnrnit-
There is a piece of meanness for
which there is no excuse, indulged
in by the American News Company
(we think this is the name of the
concern) at this place. They will
neither permit our bova to sell the
Sentinel on the train at our depot
nor will they do it themselves. Ther-J
ought to be some way to punish such
a piece of contemptible selfishness.
Many of our patrons in leaving on
the evening train would be glad to
take the paper along with them, but
these newspaper autocrats forbid our
boys entering the train at the depot.
A concern that is so infamously sel
fish deserves 110 patronage from the
public. Winston Dail.
Shell 'em, brother. Pour hot
shot on 'em. They have the world
they and the wagon they ride on.
ill
Khali Knrb Things Be.
Will this thing never cease ? First
there was the Italian peddler hawk
ing his goods on the square. That
was stopped by the police. Then
the ever green and fruit tree man
took the Italian's place. Now the
collection has been added to by the
appearance of the patent non-combustible,
untiring; unbreakable, all-the-year-ronnd-churn
man, who elo
quently assists the fruit man in
drawing a crowd and holds the audi
ence spellbound with practical illus
trations of the utmost ease with
which the lacteal fluid may be coaxed
into the finest butter, an.l all while
the churner sits in a rocking chair
and reads a book. Why not tele
graph at once for the steam merry-go-round
ih'.t. was here soni-time
ago, and s t it down on I he square?
Everyihing seem to yo there now,
and unless something is done soon,
some one will want to cover the
square and run a museum Ashe
ville Citizen
4'oal Dlwovcrcd.
Editors Recoid: I see in a late
nu nber of the Fayt ttetille Observer
that there has been coal found in
Montgomery :ml Richmond coun
ties. 'This is important, if true, and
plainly indicates hat it is the out
crop of the Chatham or Derp River
basn. And this swpposition is
greatly strengthened from the fur
ther important fact that there is a
large quantity of red based stone
found, and is now worked to a profit,
as a quarry in Anson county lying a
little south in the coal said to be
found iu the above named counties.
If we could in some way manage to
procure a good diamond drill po we
could put down a drill hole for a
thousand feet or more, there can be
but little or no doubt that work
could soon be done that would re
sult in vast benefit to the State and
many localities in different parts of
the community. Action, in Greens
boro Record.
Every few days a hanging by a
mob is reported. We are not sur
prised. With 103 hangings in 4,000
murders in 1S90, it is not surprising
at all that the people enraged 'ak
the law in their own hands and deal
death to scoundrels. The papers
may denounce lynchings and good
men may deprecate such murders,
but murderers, house burners and
ravishers of women will be hanged
by mobs until the courts have to do
the hanging. The jury system is
mainly responsible for the failure o
hang, and the criminal laws that
give the advantage to the rascals,
BARB.
THE COTTOX PLATFORM AGAIX.
Nome Mere Statement Concpi'iiliiif the
Two Platforms by Another Bayer.
Editor Standard :
First: The railroad company do
not become responsible, for cotton
delivered on the old platform until
it is marked and tendered by the
shipper. Therefore cotton delivered
there is at buyer's risk until so
marked and tendered.
Secondly: The dummy contracts
to deliver cotton from the new to
the old platform for tea cents per
bale and to obtain the bill of lading
for the shipper and deliver it to him
at bis office.
It cannot be disputed that the
cotton on either platform is at buy
er's risk until tendered for shipment.
The only question is, which is the
safer of the two platforms ? Inas
much 8 the dummy contracts to
deliver all cotton tendered them,
thev are responsible when tender is
made, so that the argument as to
insurance being necessary at one
platform aud not at the other, is
futile.
We repeat that the only difference
at present is the ten cents per bale
and two dollars and fifty cents per
thousand ; that the former the
buyer can afford to pay for the sake
of convenience, and the rate of in
surance will be materially reduced
as soon as the new platform is com
pleted and all matters properly ad
justed. In reply to the interrogatories to
Mr. Dusenbury, I will simply say
that his assistant at the depot has
come up town, counted the cotton on
the new platform, loaded it in the
railroad cars and receipted for it
without unloading at the depot.
This he can well afford to do, as it
saves him considerable labor a . the
depot. The dummy" furnishes the
hauls to load up town, the K. & D.
at the depot. The weighing, as
shown ir exhibit of Cannons & Fet
zer, is the same at both places.
Truly,
C. G. Montgomery.
POPLAR TEXT EXTLRTAIX.ttE'VT.
MnKlnir. llecltinjf anil F.hUii(C- Vlnit
Ing I-H! A Beautiful tliiilt
;iven to Rev. Mr. Glllanil.
Editor Standard :
The Poplar Tent Missionary So
ciety gave an entertainment, consist
ing of dinner and a ''Cob-Web "
party. Misses Emma and Sue Har
ris, ot Mebanesville; Miss Pattie
Caldwell, of Greensboro, assisted b
two of Poplar Tent's bachelors, E.
Harris and W. L. Mabris, (who have
learned the ways of the spider), ar
ranged the cob-web.
The morning was very pleasantly
p:issed by social in' e: course until
dinner was announced. Judging by
the work going on at the table, one
would think that all were affected
like Col. Long when he was in the
Legislature with consumption.
After the inner man had been
satisfied all were invited up stairs to
participate in the cob-web party.
Then business commenced in earnest.
Little, big, old and young bought
strings and commenced to trace the
footsteps of the spider. For one
hour there was excitement, fun and
busy hands. It was certainly pleas
ant 10 witness such a scene, espe
cially the bright little faces when
they" found the end of theii string
and received the present.
Song, ''Old North State"; reci
tation, " Tit-for-Tat," by Miss Pat
tie Caldwell ; music ; recitation,
"Tragic Death of Prisoner Taken
by the Russian Army," by Miss
Hattie Carroll: song, "Sailing";
recitation, " Schoolmaster and We
U11 es the Committee," by Miss Sue
Harris; music.
Miss Mattie Caldwell, secretary of
he Ladies' Missionary Society, in a
modest, happy manner on behalf of
the society, presented an elegant silk
quilt to the pastor. Rev. H. (J. Gil
'uid. The respo i?e of the pas to.
w is made in a lew well ohoseii words.
The quilt, who can describe, cer
tainly your reporter cannot; it be
ongs to theciiizy kind. I notice on
it the date of the organization of
Poplar Tent church in 1752, and the
mini :s of all p.istois and dates of
installations u to the present time,
and also the Concord Standard
worked in golden letters on azure
around. Th-quilt, oh, the quilt!
If you want 'o know more a'.out it,
walk out an i see it. She's a daisy.
Song; recitation, " Letting Down
the Bars." by Mis ?attie Caldwell.
I know that I express tlu sentiments
of all that were present, even the
" School Committees," when I thank
the young ladies who are visiting in
the neighborhood, the Misses Harris
and Caldwell, for adding so much to
the pleasure of the day. Kexo.
m t mm
Mashed the Masher.
This morning, in front of v-ttd-man's
drug store on College street,
Al. Daniel, of Henderson, caned G.
E. Johnson, a drummer for a North
ern house.
In Henderson yesterday afternoon
Mr. Johnson saw Mr. Daniel's wife
on the street and threw a kiss at
her. The indignant lady informed
her husland of the insult, and Mr.
Daniel went in search of the masher,
but found that he had taken the
train for Oxford. Mr. Daniel came
over heie this morning, met his man
and proceeded to chastise him with
out waste of time or words. He
got in a number of blcws before
someone interfered and stopped the
fun.
v Mr. Johnson sajd in the Mayor's
court, when the pase was up for trial,
that he was. drunk yesterday and did
not know what he was doing Mayor
Smiti fined Mr. Daniel one cent and
I cost. Oxford Pay.
IT IS Ml l FROM X0RTH CAROLINA
TO TEXAN,
Is What "C'orneraeker Writes He
Talks About VUltln the Bleb.-
dlreen Leave Are Found.
Personal Items.
The muddy belt extends from
North Carolina to Texas.
An old one-eyed horse will now
bring one hundred aollars, payable
15th next October.
Miss Ratio Sossamon has returned
from a three months' visit at Hun
tersville. The grip is relaxing its hold upon
thepeople.
Mr. G. W. Long's school closed
last Friday with an exhibition at
night.
The heaviest rain of the season
fell here late Saturday evening.
Paach trees are blooming too early
again.
The law suit pending between j
Small and Polk has been postponed
twice for the want of counsel.
Dr. R. G. Caldwell thinks he will
not be able to ride any more till
warm weather.
Born, to thewifeof Cull Pressley,
on the 16th instant, a boy.
Mi. John Blackwelder, who is
teaching at Bethel Academy, will
give an entertainment next Tuesday
night as the closing exercises of his
school. . "
The chickens have begun to cackle
once more, and the little boys are
kept busy hunting hen nests.
Mr. Joe Horton found a patch of
briers that had never shed their last
year's leaves-
The Debating Club at Sossamon's
has literally "caved in."
The Missionary Society at this
place, at its last meeting; made up a
small contribution for the relief of
Mr. William Black's family.who have
ben sick the entire winter. There
is not enough of this work going on
in our country. True philanthropy
is wonderfully scarce in some com
munities. On does not have to be
a mi lionaire in order to be a philan
thropist. Small gifts, if tendered in
the proper spirit, are generatly ap
preciated more than iargeones. And
while money will buy everything
that is necessitry for the sustenance
of physical life, there area thousand
ways in which we can help alleviate
the pain of sickness and cheer the
depressed spirits of our afflicted
neighbors. It is to be deplored that
we have people in our highly rated
Christian communities that care no
thing for tha 6ick. We naturally
want our triecda to call and see us
when we get sick, and speak a word
of comfort. We expect it, and it is
right that we bhould have that much
consideration at the hands of our
ptofessed Christian brethren, but
the writer himself has suffered the
painlul experience of knowing .that
they are shockingly remiss in this
matter.
The old time log rolling, in the
siring of the year, has almost
played out.
Less farm work has been done this
month than ever was known. Cer
tainly there has been nothing done
on the farm. Corsckacker.
iH
Mbe Was a liy.
We only caugh a glimpse of one
of earth's fairest and sweetest and
loveliest and prettiest maidens as the
cars dashed through Rocky. Mount
on Monday, but she was enough to
fill earth with brightness and life
with melody. Wilson. Morror.
We saw her, too. She was a rare
and radiant creature, with a beauti
ful and charming ware upon her
nose a wart.that, in the old days
would have been a jim-crow winner.
She had the most bewitching eye,
while her other eye, which she once
did have, hid been, gouged.out in a
family row. On her finely chiseled
and freckled forehead, which was
shaped like a ball of dough, she
wore the imprints of another woman's
finger-nails, where . she had been
fighting. The squint eye had been
blackened in the fray, but this, be
witching angel still showed signs of
being in the ring. She was certainly
the one seen by Colonel Blount as
the cars whirled through Rocky
Mount, and she was indeed a daisy.
Durham Globe
We s tw the same woman, too. She
came along on a delayed train mad
as fury. The charming wart she
sported had grown terrihly large and
fearfully red; she o.id the grip.
From her to thh-s? gums, between
neivy, mushy lips ; snuff-brush a
big stic extended. She wore a
big b ass ring ou her fore, finger .and
carried a lot of Carolina chewing
gum. The places wheie the bulk
was knocked oil" her lace were heal
ing; Jie had porous plaster on
them. The girl, a living., moving
red-headed d.-iisy that she w8, had
a little sh e and was on the shdy
side of life. She is he girl
th tt Al. Fairbrother sawthe girl
Mint the train hurled 'through .Rocky
Mount the girl that Blount pro
nounced "eaith's fairest and sweetest,
aud lovliest and prettiest maiden."
She was seeii in Charlotte.
Lives are Nothing to It.
Five persons roasted to death in
the fire in the railroad wreck in the
Fourth avenue tunnel last Friday.
The fire came from the stove in the
rear cr of a New York, Xew Haven
and Hartford train.
The Xew York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad pays ten per cent,
dividends, and its latest issue of
stock was quoted at 270 on Saturday
morning. Yet it has fought' with
all its might public opinion and the
opinion of railroad commissions, and
is still trying to get excepted from
the law of the State prohibiting the
use of stoves in passenger cars.
Other railroad companies have expe
rimented with or adopted safe sys
tems of train heating. Thi3 partic
ular road has, or had nftt in 1890, a
single passenger car heated by any
other contrivance than the deadly
stove. New York Sun.
Tarboro Southerner: Dr. L. L.
Staton has heard from E. D. Har
grove, who was bitten by a mad dog
last week in this place. He is in
New York, and is beiag treated by
the Pasteur method of inoculation.
WHOLE NO. 164.
LITTLE DROPS OF
Tar, Pitch, Turpentine and Other Tar
Heel Products.
Lenoir lists a 3 pound artichoke.
Ijcreased tobacco planting in Le
noir. Rockipgham has five. weekly news
papers. Adventists having a revival, Wil
mington. A sewerage syndicate threatens
.Wilmington.
Railroad Commissioners' elected
next Thursday.
Seas mountain high off the Cape
Fear bar this week.
Health of Congressman Rowland
completely restored. '
River and marine movement, Wil
mington, quite lively.
Oat sowing and plant-bed burning
late in Rockingham.
Eastern Carolina Truck and Frnit
Association, Ml Olive, March 10th.
Dr. Taylor's large new tobacco
factory at Leaksville about com
pleted. Vegetable vestibule trains crowd
the Atlantic Coast Line.from Florida
to Virginia.
Two hundred thousand additional
sewer and street improvement will
set Wilmington up.
C. II. Jones, a demented mechanic,
and a stranger there, ha3 been taken
up at WHmjiigUn-
Andrew Hooper, colored, in Rock
ingham jail for murdering another
man of color Saturday night.
Library Association, W;lmington,
affords a series of interesting Illumi
nated and illustrated lectures..
tinder the refunding direct land
tax bill passed by Congress, $377,
452 cornea. back to North Carolina.-
Mt. Airy News: Gaston Dunn,
oldest son of Mr. G. W. B. Dunn,
of this place, died Tuesday, 17 th
inst, aged about 18' years. Gaston
was well Sunday, but was taken sud
denly ill Sunday night and continued
to grow worse until death relieved
him of his suffering.
Rutherford Boomer : Died at her
home on Green River, 'January 21st,
1891, after a-severe affliction of over
'Z0 years, Miss Mary A.-Wilkins.
On the 2l8t, a colored woman living
On Green River, near. Dike Post office,
gave birth to a child weighing twenty
pounds. 1 13 father is a preacher.
Asheville Journal : Battery Park
howl has at present over 240 guests,
and they are still coming. Satur
day night Sheriff Reynolds arrested
Gaston -Orr, colored, who had made
an assault and cut his step son,
Frank Latham, with a knife. and
striking another with a butt of a
shotgun.
Asheville Citizen: Trains on the
Murphy branch of the Western
North Carolina railroad began run
ning to-day lo Balsam, 'and the
company hope to have the road open
to V hittier to-morrow or ednes
day. The road was open to Whittier
early last week, when another heavy
rain caused a washout, and the track
had to be repaired a second time.
Oxford Day: A young man John
King, was killed near Midway, this
county, Satuiday by a tree falling
on him. Scott Bishop, a negro
desperedo, wanted for murder at
Black stone,. Va., was captured near
Palmers fopnngs, Va., and taken
through here Saturday night, hand
cuffed,, tied and closely guarded, en
route for the scene of his crime
His .captors get a reward of $250.
Hickory Press and Carolinian :
The Hickory Manufacturing Co.,
one of the most complete shops in
the South ou account of the growing
demand for its work, is going to
greatly increase its 'capacity. The
erection of an ' additional building
100x200 feet and two stories high
has been commenced, large additions
;n machinery will be made. Hick
ory as a wood manufacturing centre
is fast going ahead of other towiio
the State.
Winston Sentinel: Officers. IJu li
ner and Sugg last nijht arrested at
Belo Pond Church,a colored preacher
from'; Virginia, at request of the
Pittsylvania county' authorities
The na-ne called for in the papers- i.
lie v. James A. Sumner, tnd he is
wanted for a cutting" affray. The
party arretted at first gave his nan e
s VViili ms, but he had in his pocket
letters addressed Rev. J.tmes A. Sum
ner, and he corresponded with .'the
description in the papers. He final I
admitted that he was James A. Sum
ner, and consented 'to go along. He
was locked up and awaits the action
of the Virginia authorities, who Were
telegraphed to. The officers-did not
disturb the services, but waited un
til the close, and quietly made the
arrest. The accused preached last
night, and has preached, here before.
The colored people appear to think
a good deal of him.
. Goldsboro . Headligh: , The Mis
sionary Baptist Church of this city
has raised $250 foward the Wake
Forest endowment fund. While
Miss Maggie, aged 13 years, daugh
ter of L.' D. Giddens, was playing
Wednesday afternoon in the rear
of her parents' residence on William
street, with her companions, a heavy
dqor frame accidentally slipped from
tta position and fell on her left ankle
causing it to break. After a ling
ering illness with consumption Miss
Bettie Thompson breathed her last
on.Weanesday evening, at f 'o'clock
at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Jane Thompson, in this city, in the
20th year oi her age. A dog be
longing to Mr. W, B. Taylor became
mad last. Wednesday and created
considerable excitement throughout
the city. He was killed, however,
before doing any harm.
jiyT.iD.
WE DO ALL KINDS OF
JOB "WOEEZ
IN THE
NEA TES 1 JIL A AYE K
AND AT
THE LOWEST JUTES.
Musfreesboro Index : Mr. A 11 ri-li 11 a
Scott, the nimrod of Maney's Neck,
killed three line gobblers at one shoot-.
this week. Their a?re:rate weight
was 44 i pounds.
Rockingham Rocket: A r.
nant type of the grip is prevalent in
the Spring Hill ntigliborhood.
The farmers are busy hauling fer
tilizers, and everywhere we see prep
arations being made for another
crop.
Troy Yidette: Mining oimtiotu
up in the Uwharrie section are be
ginning to grow livelv. Some
rich nuggets of gold weighing'! rom
one to ten dwts. have been recently
found by prospectors at the Bunnell
Mountain mine, on what is known
as the old Martha Hall place.
We learn from our friend. P. C. San:
ders, who now is in charge, that
work is now being done at the Teh
Sanders mine preparatory to exten
sive operations in the ne;ir -fiitura
They are sinking a new shaft from
which drills will be made: and thev
will also erect extensive machinery
soon, and' we expect rich develop
ments at this mine that will sur
pass anything yet heard of in this
section.
. Wilkesboro Chronicle : Mr.
Patrick, on the middle fork of Red-
dies River, on Saturday, the 30th of
January, killed a catamount which
weigneu pounds. Mrs. Carri-
gan. the mother of M r.
gan of this place, died very suddenly
on. me iitn at tier home about two
miles from Tavlorsville. Sh
was attending to' her work when
she fell dead. -Meagre renorta
have reached here of, a homicide
which took place the latter part of
last week- 011 JNorth Fork 111 Ashe
near the Tennessee line. It annoara
fiat a man by some such name as
T . . . 1 - ,
ueiiKs was acting as a detectiveafter
a lawless band who have been operat
ing near the line, principally in
Lennessee, but was suspected and
Kineu
New Berne Journal: At 2.30 Fri
day, Capt.-d;un Warner, the other
in cnarge or tlie patrolmen, seized
"i he bailors Return, a Maryland
vessel that had been dredging in
Jones "Bay, Pamlico county. The
vessel and crew were brought to thia
city. Officer M. J. Fowler, of the
patrolmen, made the arrest. E. (J.
Hill, J. P., tried the men- vesterdav
and bound them over in the sum of
$500 each, to. the next term cf Su-?
perior court in Pamlico county. In
deran ! t ot bail they were placed in
jail. The. captain and owner of the
vessel is J. F. Beacham, of Crispin,
Maryland. He is not among the
captured. :Mr. Wm. Wheetlev. . the
only white- man taken, is the mate.
ine most or tne men iiviong 111 Ual
limore. After the trial one of them
owned up to the dredging and said
they dredged only at night.
The trouble is, very few of our
people I00K. upon the newspaper bus
iness as a serious, earnest business.
In North Carolina a man is not
looked upon as solvent who engages
in the newspaper business; nor re
garded as in it for the purpose of
making money; or likely to make
money out of- it. Very few, com
paratively, appreciate the value of a
newspaper's work, or want to pay
anything for it. The great majority
esteem it the play thing of the pub
lic, and expect its services gratui
tously. They lay it under contri
bution for every conceivable charity;
burden its columns with sll sorts of
Tee announcements; and have done
it the highest compliment when they
borrow of a neighbor aud read it.
Winston Sentinel.
Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 2G. The
election of General Deodoro da Fran
seco as president of the United
States of Brazil took place in the
Federal, congress. He received a
majority of 23 votes.
FOREWARNED JS FOREARMED.
In most diseases, cure depends upon
the promptness with which remedies aro
administered. It the remedy be taken
when symptoms of disease lirst mani
fest themselves and before the normal
strength of the body is greatly impaired,
the complaint may often Vie checked and
cured in the beginning, the sufferer thus
escaping sickness of perhaps 11 fatal
character. This is especially true of com
plaints to which the young are liable.
First symptoms are often neglected,
simply because no effective remedy
happens to be at hand, and it is not
until the disease has gained consider
able, headway that means arc; taken to
arrest its course. Alas, how frequently
these means prove too late!
Every household, therefore and, for
that matter, every individual should
be provided with a few simple remedies"
for; tho common complaints to which
all are exposed. As no complaints aro
more common than those of the throat
Mid lungs, a safe and efficacious ano
iyne should always be within reach.
We have been impelled to make these
cautionary remarks by happening to
notice in a recent paper the case of a
child who would, undoubtedly, havo
died of croup had there not been In the
house part of a bottle of Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral. Tho following incident re
lated by the father of the little one,
should certainly impress every parent
with the necessity of being forearmed
for a similar emergency:
" One of my children had cronp. The
case was attended by our physician,
and was supposed to lie well under con
trol.' One night I was startled by tho
child's hard breathing, and on going to
liia bedside found him strangling. Ho
had nearly ceased to breathe. Realiz
ing that the child's alarming condition
had become possible in spite of the med
icines already administered, I reasoned
that such' remedies would be of no avail.
Having part of a bottle of Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral in the house, I gave the child
thrc' doses, at short intervals, and
anxiously waited results. From the
moment tho Pectoral was given, tho
child's breathing grew easier, and in a
short time he was sleeping quietly and
breathing naturally. Tho child is alive
and well to-day, and I do not hesitate
to sav that Ayer's Cherry Pectoral saved
liis life." 6"