VOLUME XV.
Raporter aid Post.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
DANBURY. N. C.
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■1 Month* W
RAT US OF ADVKRTIHIKU:
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For each additional luxortion .so
Contractu for longer time or more xpuce can be
made in proportion to the above rate*.
Transient advertieen* will \>e expected to remit
according to Ute*e rate* at the time they eeiul
their favor*.
Local Netloos will be ehargod 50 per cent. hlghor
than above rate*.
Buainea* Cards will be inserted at Ten Dollars
per annum.
PROFESSIOXAL CARDS.
A. J. BOYD, J. \V. ItEID,
r. B. JOHNSTON, JVX.lt'B JOHNSTON
BO YD, 11 EII) V JOHXSiX \ \
Attorneys - at - I jlim",
WENTWORTII, N. 0.
Messrs. Reid and Johhson will regu
larly attend tho Superior Courts ol
Stokes county.
R.L. HA YMORE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mt. Airv- N. C
gpocial attention given to this collection o
claims. I—l2m
W. F. CARTER,
&TTQBX'Mr-gT-l.X ff %
MT. AIKY, SURKY CO., \ . L
Praciioes whereve. bif«'rA"ic»ia an* wanted
T. DAY, AI BERT JONEtf.
£>ay & Joaes,
muiutfa itnrers ot
• AWDLERY.H AP.NKSS, COLLARS,TRT'NR
Ve. S3> W. Baltimore atreet, Ualtiniore, Jfd.
W. A. Tucker, M. C.Smith, U.S. Sprag^tu
Tucker. Smith At Co»>
Manufacturhr* A wholesale Dealers In
JS9OTS, SHOES, HATS A Sit CA Pti
Me. U0 Baltimore Street. Baltimore. .Vd.
M. J. 4b H. E. VEST,
WITII
Henry Soiihsborn Co.,
WHOLES.ILK CLOTIIIKRS.
gg AMOyer St., (lietwieiitl"rnlHii .C l.umKml St» 1
BALTIMORE Ml).
B. SONW.BORN, B. BLIMMNB
MUfhf* Putney, L. li JMu.r
W. 11. MII.ES,
WITH
MTEPHEA 1' VI.A'E )' J- CO
H T l la/e.vi/c t/- iitfr* jn
Meets, Shoes, and Trunks,
1219 Main Street,
jept. 8-Sl-6m. Fi-
JUOIIAKI> WOOD hAM I. I*. (JOi»DW!\.
HKNKY HKNDKItSON. Hl«'U'l> w. IJ.v:*• .
WOOD, BACON &CO
ImporterN anl Jobbers of
DRY GOODS, .A 'OTIONS,
WHITE GOODS, ETC.
No*. SffiKltl Muiki't St.,
PHILADELPHIA, I'A.
Parties having
CUT MICA
for sale will Cud it to their interesi to
♦ '"respond with
A. O. St'HOONMAKKR,
158 William St., Now York.
R. S. OGLESBY,
C. W.* SCOTT.
WHOLESALE
KOTIONS AND WHITE GOODS,
612 Main Street
LYNCHBURG VA.
0. E LEKTWI K.
villi
WISGO, EI,LETT & CMMP,
RICHMOND, VA.,
WholfMle Dealers is
BOOTS, SHOES, TBUNKB, &C.
Prompt mention paid to orders, anil san
ction cnurnnterd.
0B- Virginia Slate Peiton Goodi a tyeeia! y
March, 6. .m
aOBBRT W. POWrRS. KDO4U D. TiVI.O .
R W. POWKKS A CO.,
WIIOLESALK DRUGGISTS,
Dealers iu
PAINTS, OILS, DYKS, VARNISHKS,
French and Amcrtoan
WINDOW OLAIiB, PUTTV, SiC
SMOKING AND CHhW INK
OtOARS, TOBACCO A BPBCIAI.TI
1805 Main St., Biohmond,
AuguatGm ]6—
H ILSON,"BIKNB & GO.,
WWOLSSALK QROOPRH AND COSIMI
SION MERCHANTS.
ia 8 Howard street, carrier of I.oiuliard;
BALTIMORE.
We keep constantly on hand a lar(re am
well assorted stock of Groceries—stii'shle M
Boulbern and V\ estern trade. We solicit con
signments of Country Produce—such KS t.'oi
ton; Feathers; Ginseng; Ueeewa* Wool;l>rl«,;
Fruit; furs; Skins, etc. Out lacllit.es for do
ag business are sufch as to warraut quik salel
returns. All orders will hare o„i
Wl otteaUos H
GO TO.
f. I Hempson
T r '
TIBE IJLOCK,
"WinstOn, IN. J.
FOR GOOD
Tobacco Flues, Sheet Iron and Home
made Tinware at
Prices
Also Hoofing ami Guttering at short
notice, at BOTTOM PRICES.
Sept 10-ly
J. W.SHI I 1 LEY,
Collier Ulnin ami ftrd Street
WISST«\,».C.
Under Jacobs Clothing Store.
MANUFACTUItKB OF
Harness, liridles, Collars and Saddles,
Also dealer in Whips, Haines,
Prushes, Lap ltohes, in fast
everything in the Har
ness and saddlery line.
Hi:.\n;.sr HOI SI: IN \-KSTKKN NOKIU
C Allot. lN V.
Will «dl my own ninnufaetured goods as
cheap as v« ean buy the \\ astern
an l Northern city made goods.
PATRO JIZE HOME INDUSTRY.
lias a stock of the old army MoClellau
Saddles on I and.
Como and see IUO Sept 20 l-y.
Sir own Rogers s' Co
AVholcealc juid Retail
HARDWARE.
Larges*. lino of STOKVS in Winston.
ni'al Implements.
MAC 111 N KltY of all kinds
HA R. \ >;.V.S . 7.\ D S.IDDI. ES &e.
P~II\TS, OILS, VARNISHES, S,c'
Special alien!i>m invited to their WAites
Clipper J'luws.
*l»ents Duponf's old and well known
Rifle Powder.
Sept 2'i-! y
Doom, Sash, /Hinds.
Having rebuilt our Planing Mill,
Door, and Blind Factory, snd fit
ted i; up with all new unehipiry of the
latest and most approved patterns, wo
are now prepared tn do all kinds of
j work in eur line in the very best style.
We manufacture
DOORS, SASH, BLINDS,
Door Fr imes, W indow Frames. Brack
ets, Moulding, Hand-rail, Balusters,
.Newels, Mantels, P> reli Columns, and
art prepared to do all kinds of Scroll
Sawing, Turn in,r, &e We carry in
stock 0. ealliei boarding, Flooring, Ceil
ing, W uiiKOoting and all kinds of Dress
ed Lumber: also Framing Lumber,
Shingles, Lath*, Lime, Cemont, Plaster,
Plastering Hair and all kinds of Build
ers' supplies. Call ami see us or write
for our prices before buying elsewhere.
MILLER DROS-, WINSTON, N. C.
GEO. STEWART.
Tin and Sheet Iron Manu
facturer. #
Opposite Farmers' Wiwliouw.
i N. i\,
ROOFING, GUTTERING AND SPOUT
ING
done at short notice, .
K- •) •> cons aiitly on liand a fine lot of
tv.'kln" and Heating Stove*
Kill I In, United 61 V" ""1 coon-
H tries, Oi® pnl»!Hh«T® of th® Sc cotiflo
American rontinn® loact •* •ohcitor®
I for patrntu, o»*««t*,trftd®-nßrka.oopy
mmvK-il rightt. etc., for t!,-» Unil®d Bl*t®®, aud
lo «.htmn j.a'ent* ia f'ann.U, KuKUnd. Krano®.
ttormanr, and a'-l oth«r cmntrtw* rb®ir®*p®ri
•in-tf in unequaled and their facihtie® ar® unaur
paiwcd
Drawing and "twclflcn'ion® pr* pared «nd filed
In the I'ltonl Office on abort notice. Terma wary
rw.nMTi.tUlc. No ch&riie for elimination of tnodele
or drawiojra Advice by mail fro®
Pat«int,..l.ta> Ithroiuh Mann.iro.ar®notl®®d
Inthe MIKVI I VIC A WKHICAW. which baa
tu® lariat circulation and ia the rooat Inftuent al
newriM.!. .r of i'a kind pnbliahed In lb® world.
The ad- trtauoe of each a notic® ®r®ry pat®nU«
unufr '' i»i.tie.
Tl».a Inra® aplendidly Hluatrated newapap®c
U publinb .1 iVl' KH I. V »t «i"' •>>• l to
admttcd to be the l»eet p*p«rdovoUd t » auiooc®.
mtH'hni'ioa, inTHnUona. «*T>pinc®rlug worka, and
other departut«*n- of indiutria] pro*rcpub
liaoed in .ny count nr. It containe the name * of
all patof: *«•«■# and title of e*ery invention patented
each \\e-l-. Try i* f nr rnontha for oue dollar.
Bold by all ne .v dt>4'®r». .. .
If jou hav® tn iuventlon lo pa'ont write to
Munn A Co., of Scivotitlc Auietiofß,
*>l Uron l»*ay, ISew York
Uaudbovk aOuut patoat® mailed fee®-
"NOTlilXi WUCCEERS I.livE: SrcCESS."
DANBURY, N. C„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1881
§|&E
THE LIUUT 'I MAT IN FELT.
JOHN (1. WUITTIEH.
A tender clillil of summers three,
Seeking lier little lwil at nlglit,
I'nuseil tin the ilurkstair tiinitily,
"Oil mother! Take my liaml,", sai'l she,
"Ami then the ilark will all bo light."
We older children grope our way
fh urt.rtlt feenintl t» flarTfT*Ji>re;
And only when our hinds we lay.
Dear Lord, in tlilne, 1 lie night i» day,
And there is darkness nevermore. *
4
Reach downward In the sunless days
Wherein) our guides are Mind us we,
And faith is small and In>;«■ delays,
Take Thou the hands "f prayer we raise, !
And let us feel ihe Ilijlit of Thee !
WHITE HOUSE DINNERS.
THE VARIOtS PRESIDENTS AS I'IUMC
ENTEIITAINEttS.
Tho table of the President has much j
to do with the success of his administra
tion, writes Frank O. ai pen tor, in Lip
pincoll. A dinner in 1790 consummated
the bargiiu which rerulted in bringing
the Capital to Washington ten years la
ter, and from that time to this the din
ners ot the \v Into House have been a
powerful factor in the confirmation of
nominations and in tho adoption of lilies
of Presidential policy. In Jefferson's
time Mr. Merry, the minister from Eng
land, made the complaint that the Pres
ident had taken Mrs. Madison, rather [
than IIIS wife, ou his arm to the dinner
table tiic subject of serious correspond
ence with his government; and in the
dajs of Jackson the whole of the aountiy
was thrown into a turmoil of social dis
cussion because tho President persisted I
in making Peggy Eaton, the daughter ,
of a tavern-keeper, who was now the •
wife of the Seeretury of War, his most 1
honored guest. General Washington
euiertained very freely before lie be.
came President, and the milk of one
hundred cows iras not enough to supply ;
the butter used at his Mount Vcrnou
home, lie was more economical in the j
management of his Presidential table,
and George Washington l'arke t'uslis
relates how severely ho lectured his i
Stewart on the evils of extravagance in
locking over his expense accounts, which |
he made hiiu present to him weekly. 1
Both John Adams and Thomas Jeffer
son were light eakrs and both rose at
dawn or before. President Jefferson's!
breakfast was made up of tea and coffee, \
warm broad, and sometimes a lit'le cold
meat. At dinner he ate meat' and a
large auiouut of vegetal-lea. The pri
vate table of John Adams was plain,
cis invariable luncheon beiug oal-e.ike .
and lemonade. His state dinners are
said to have been vumptuoun and num
erous, and it was ho who gave the first
state diuncr ever eaten in the White
House. President Madison's adminis
tration was the reign of tho peerless ;
Dolly Madison, who was more of a fig
ure at state dinners than the President
himself. Mrs. .Madison sat at the beai
of the table, one of the President's see- j
rotaries at the foot, and tho President
himself in the middle. At Jackson's,
farewell reception a monster cheese, as
big as a hogshead in circumference and
Dearly a yard thick, was cut with saw
blades made into knives and served out
to tho guests. Kaoh guest received j
three pounds of cheese. The event was
the talk of the nation, and when Van
Hureu became President bis New Vork
friends, cuijlative of Jaekson, sent him
a big cheese. It was cut up in the K*gt ,
Room. President Harrison did his own
marketing, and he was out for this pur
pose when be became wet and caught
the cold which terminated in his death
lie rose early and went to market be
fore breakfast, walking in the cold spring
air without an overcoat. He was a
light eater, and was not a glutton us
has been charged. President Taylor's
death was also eonuected with Ills eating.
He died of cholera morbus on the 9th
of July, 1850. On the 4th of July he
attended the laying of tho oorner-stono
of tho Washington Monument. The
. day was warm, and when he returned
to tho White llouso in a profuse pres
piration he ate heartily of cherries, wash
ing them dowu with iced mill'. An
hour later ho was seized with cramps,
and five days later he died. All of the
Presidents, with the exception of Hayes
and Garfi Id have been accustomed to
serving wino with their moals Presi
dent Arthur had niai.y Que wii.es, and
it has been estimated that the cost o'
his wine at a State dinner was equal lo
one-third tho cost of a whole dinner.
At General Grant's great dinners there
were six wine-glasses placed nt each
| late, and in tho middle of tlie feast a
frozen punch was sorved. The earlier ■
I'lesident hud to pay all tho expenses '
of tho W hilt Hi use, and few if tlieui
left the 'A bite House as well off as when
they entered it. l'resideut Tjler had
to pay for the lighting of 'veil the j
street-lamps outside the Wbitj House j
grdnnds, aiul the fires and * IO lights
were charged to htm. H uy", sold
srinS Virginia'lands he would have been
unable to leave Washington. Andrew
Jaekson spent his whole salary snd '
SO,OOO of a cotton crop to maintain his
hospitality. James Uuehunan spent j
more than his salary iu entertaining. ;
President Grant spent the whole of his
salary io the White House. 110 outer
tained lavishly, and from twelve to thir
ty courses were served at his State diu- j
ners. Potatoes and cream was a favor- !
ite dish of President Garfield, and he '
ate tins when he could eat nothing else.
His dinner, which was much the same !
as his breakfast, ho ate at i] o'clock, j
At 7 p. ai. ho took tea, and this meal !
was also a very light one. President [
Arthur ate but two uieals a day a
light breakfast between nine aud ten in j
the morning and a very light dinner in
the evening. I lis breakfast was a eup !
of coffee aud a cracker, with perhaps a j
piece of .-.lit fish. His dinners began
between eight aud nine in tho evening i
aud tho guests often sat at them until \
midnight President Arthur seldom
ato without having some invited guests '
at his table. A very pretty feature of
President Cleveland's state dinners ap- 1
poured in the form of a souvenir laid a*,
the side of each guest's plate. Tills
was a rich white sal in ribbon about i
three inches wide und half a yard long, j
On one end of ibis ribbon there was a
beautiful steel engraving of the \\ hito
Hou-o, and on the opposite end, painted
in water-colors, were tho name of the
guest and the date of the dinner. Pres
ident Cleveland!* dinners usually last
two hours, and they comprise a great I
number of courses, Tho President's
daily dinner consists of five or six [
courses ; fir.>t there is a soup, then lish, 1
tlieo a roast, followed by game, dessert, i
Iruit, and, after dinner, coffee. Ho does
not sit long «t table, and immediately i
on leaving it he goes up into tho corri- j
dors of tho scsond story of the White ,
11 "use and smokes a cigar, after which
he goes back to his work.
A rABLI.SPOONFUL OK IIIS i
BRAINS RIiMOVED YET I
HE STILL LIVES.
EVANSVII.I.K, Ind., Jan. 10.--A few
nights ago John Christian, of Green- :
\illo, Kjr., was struck by n train and
nearly killed. Ilis skull was crushed
und a piece of the bone penetrated the |
brain. He was removed to his home
where physicians extracted pieces of
the skull covering a surface of one and
one-half by three inches aud a table j
spoonful of Ihe brains. No hope of his
recovery was given, but to the surprise I
of everybody lie is growing stronger,
eats, talks and sleeps well. Paralysis
of tho right side which f Mowed the
blow is leaving bin. Should he ICCOV- i
er the case will be a miraculous one. j
The terrible exposure ho endured being ,
alone, was sufficient to kill almost any
one.
A THOUGHTFUL CHILI).
A four-year-old child recently mani
fested a precocius degree of prosecce of
mind. Going to a closet, with a candle
in one hand, to look for a book, some
paper trimmings to the shelves caught
6re. The little woman made no outcry,
but taking off a woolen shawl she wore,
with it she fought and smothered the
Hauics, and her parents know nothing
of the matter until informed by a ladv
relative to whom she had communicated
it iu confidence, with the grave assur
anco that she had not thought about
herself, *only about inauinia aud pnpa,"
whom she was afraid would be burnt
up uuh'ss slio put the fire out.—Ex
change.
A dispaaeh from VV'lmington, Dela
ware, makes, tho following nnnounco
i mcut '
''The Pennsylvania Railroad has
made arrangements for a steamship line
between Elizabeth City and New Bern,
j N C., thus completing its Southern
through rail and water line."
It is estimated that the Statu receives
SII,'"OU tioui Ihe 'ax on fort ilium.
LATEST PARTICULARS. j
BI.NOIIAM-TUBLINOTON TRAOEDr. ;
The terrible murder of Miss Lizzie
in Wake County, on Friday
Pec. 17th, which created such a sensa
tion at the time, is still being discussed
by tue newspapers. The facts are as
IJ1i» s : Walter L. lliugham, a deaf i
mute, seeun d a marriage license and
procuring a horse and buggy in Raleigh
callfld at the deaf mu'e institute in that
eity for Ins intended wife, Miss Lizzie
Turlington, (natron of the institute and
also a deaf mute, with the ostensible
purpose of carrying her to some point
where the marriage ceremony oould be
performed.
He drove as far as Gary, near which
place he foully murdered the confiding
girl and then fled the State, and up tn
this t'.ur he has not been heard from,
although i was reported he v. as seen in
New York and St. Louis, and it was
supposed that he was on his way to
Couueil Blull's, lowa, for the purpose of
killing a supposed rival iu the person
of Mr. Edward MeK Goodwin, a former
professor in the institute at Raleigh.
The latest intelligence '.f the sad affair
we gather from the Raleigh Correspon
dence of the Richmond Dispatch,
A gi-ntleman of this city, who was
yesterday at the place whore Bingham
murdered Miss Turlingtou, mudo a
strange discovery. It was of hair, evi
dently from hor head, oc the bark of a
piue tree only a tew feet from the spot
where her blood was found upon the
ground. The hair was found caught
in the bark of the tree in considerable
quantity at a point some four aud a half
or five feet from tho ground. This dis
covery has given rise to a belief that
Bingham choked the poor girl before he
shot her, und that in choking he pressed
her head and nock against the tree.
To-day Mr. W. J. Young, superin
j tendent of the institution of the Heat
i and Dumb and the Blind received a let—
j ter trom Mr. F.dward MeK Goodwin, of
! Council Bluffs. Tho letter says : "It
is unfortunate for mo that my name
should have over been mentioned iu the
slightest, connection with this terribl ;
tiagedy. Bingham never had anyprov
ooafi- ii whatever nar any grounds fir
jealously of me, as you well know
perhaps better than any other man in
North Carolina now —as I \v,n with
you and Miss Turlingtou to the Desf
Mute Instructors' Convention at iierko
ly, California, last summer. I have had
no news of Biuthain since the report of
his being at St Louis two days after he
was at New York. Ifheovcr gets here
1 will not vouch for his goingr.way alive
I shall not suffer at his hands if 1 can
help il, and 1 think I can.
11 wa- stated on infi rmation deemed
reliable that Mr. K. Turlington, the
father of the murdered girl, a prominent
Mason of Washington, was dead It
was an error. He is alive, though in
very feeble health. To-day Mr. W. J.
Young received the following letter
front hi in : ''Your kindness will never
be forgotten by the family, and as my
health will not allow tue to coma lo llal
eigh and see you iu regard to Lizzie's
business, I will have to send my eldest
son Willie, iu about two weeks. You
will please keep her room locked until
then. Tho shock to my wife is serious,
but I hope not fatal. The body was
examined here the day it was buried.
A bullst was taken from the head ; it
weighed llti grains, or a little over a
({uartei of an ounce. The skull behind
! her ear was broken as if Bingham had
struck her a powerful blow ; one nf her
wrists was bruised. My son Willie
; learned theso facts from Dr. Love, who
made the examination."
Now, this ia interesting. It lias al
ways been couteuted that Bingham had
| fired two shots, as two chambers of his
J 3'2 calibre revolver wero empty when he
' reached Durham. One bullet went in
, her head just in rear of and slightly
! above her left ear; tho powder had
| scorched tho hair and fla«h tho hole
■adc by the bulle*. was in shape just
; like & figure 8, and your correspondent,
when looking at it, imagined that two
bullets had entered at almost the same
I ylace ; one bullet had made its exit at
! the back of the head on tho ri lit side.
It looks now as if two bullets were lired
—ono passing through the skull, tl e
; other lodging therein.—Washington
• Progress.
The doctors to try somo queer exper-
intents sumo times. Molton iron burnt
a man's foet iu Franec, and tbo French
| Rurgoon giaftcd to the burns the skin of
frogs. It made the foundry-man jump,
I doubt lew. -G'barlo to Chronicle.
DHATII OF GEN. LOKIAO.
Maj. Gen. W. W. Loriutr, died In
New York on Thursday evening last, at
the St. Dennis I Intel, of pneumonia, aged •
/0 years. Tho New York Slur in an- j
nouncing his death siys •
"The event was unexpected. At the j
Ltiia of his doath the only persons with |
him wero bis neice, Mrs. Knight and !
her husband, his nephew Mr. Chillies
Loiiug, and Major George W Knight
and wife. General Luring was in ex.
oellcut health on Wodnesday morning,
laughii'2 and dialling as wis hi* cus
tom, but toward noon lie was stricken
down, and he grew worse rapidly until
the end. He was ill only eighteen
hours.
The career of General Loring has
been an eventful one. 110 was born in
Wilmington N. C., in 1817 but while
yet an infant his parents went to re»iilo
iu Fi ividj Whilvi at seho I h-' ran '
away from his studies aud niiistid i'.
the United Stales army, but was speed- !
ily brought b ..'k by his faiiu'r and forced j
to eitm.'iv": his education at Gt'TgO-I
town C die.-), District of iclu.ubb. |
In IS■]•">, when in the Texas ffar of j
independence brok i out, he ouen more :
enlisted and served there with changing !
fortunes, until the Mexican war into j
which he rushed with the impetuosity j
for which he was characterized and in i
which lie remained until 'ho battle of j
Chepultepee, where he lost his left .arm
and retired with the title of major in
the United States army.
Ou the bieaking out of the civil war
Major Loring went to tho front and be- |
came Colon 1 of the first regiment ol j
mounted rifles to unfurl the banner of '
the U::ion, but his sympathy being with 1
the Confederacy ho resigned his commis
sion in the United States Army and
sought serv.ee, and was at once appoin- I
ted Major General in tho Confederate
Army, and fought gallantly aud with
groat distinction during the long period
of the civil war
18,''>8 lie crossed to Egypt, where he
was eagerly received and invested with
the rank of Pasha, and iu spite of his
crippled condition and advanced years
lie served with gteat distinction.
' II" returned to his country in 1878
and lias since lived principally between
New York and Florida, the laiterSta'c
holding an efi'eetiouate place in his j
> memory up to the close of his life. Sinee |
his return be lias followed literary pur- |
| suits chiefly and published a book enti- j
tied the"Coufederate Soldier in Egypt,"
which is a history of his own life there, |
and he was l>u - ily engaged preparing j
i another one which he intetiled calling I
i "Fifty Years a Soldier."
I
Is not the Augusta Chronicle iu error
: in saying Julius l';usar was not above
; a feet 5 inches high and Napoleon equal
Ily low sufi'etcd from epilepsy ? John
I Wesley was a very small man. — Wil- j
i umigtou Star.
in person, Cuius Julius Caesar was
| described as tall and spare. Wc have '
j not the ancient authorities at our hand j
| from whom to ascertain just what was I
1 his height, sueb as Suetonius and others
I nor Napoleou's exhaustive Life of
j Casar.
We were told in London tn 1873 that
the proprietor of the Loudon Times al
■ ways settled the receipts of a column of
! advartismonls upo;i each daughter for
life as a wedding present. IVe do not
! know how much Ihe income from this
source would ainouut to, but it would
he something handsome. Wc estimate
that the receipts from a column ofudver
tisnients in the Philadelphia Ledger for
a year amount to over sixteen thousand
dollars.
Fsyetteville Observer- Gazette: Some
planters in this sect ion have made good
tobacco, which brought satisfuotoiy pri
ces at the Fuyetteville Warehouse, as
follows : It. F. Devanc, §1 7 r > to s3l,
average $lB 25; J. l'revatt, of Robe
son courty, $5.50 to §21.50, average
$13.08; John Kirkpatrick, $9.25 to
S4O, average $21,4). Single lots have
sold at from sls to s3l per hundred.
Ralph Waldo Emerson became so
oblivious of names bofore bis doath that
on letuming from Longfellow's funeral
ho said, "That gentleman we buried
to-day was a sweet and gentle soul, but
1 cannot recall Lis name."
Gen. William Luring was born in
Wilmington l'iih December, 1817, and i
not in Washington, N. C., as tho Was'.i
--! ton Projrest had it in its i;'sue for 11th
January.
North Carolina built It>B miles of
[ railway in IS3O.
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IJKIUFS A 1)1'! I' I'. *
The GarfieM monument at Cleveland
Ob o, is nearly con.j T.rti-d. The triiF-
Icei of Ihe fund have mors money th;n
j they know what to do with.
A firi-gr", s cr 01- been discovered in
Dakota, where the flames shot up a
i hundred feet iwto the air. It is said to
' be caused by burm. g coal bed*.
One of 'lie grand jurors of the fed
eral court in Charlotte suddenly lost
bis mind i n December, 30th.. and was
dismissed and ttut - his home by Judge
Dick:
II is stated that 7, iOO miles of rail
r. id liave boen built in tho United
States during the present year, or mote
than twice as many as weie built m
j 1885.
| Somebody advertises for a 'young girl
In mind a baby,' just as if everybody
docs li t have to mind tho baby when
ever that yeuivj autocrat's orders are
issued.— A'j.
j
The Ah.l/itna Conforenoo of the M.
i"j. Church Suii;b in session at Mont
gomery, ha- declared unanimously in
\ l'avor oi submitting to the people a con
stitutional amendment prohibiting tbo
sale or manufacture of liipivr iu the
! State.
It is estimated that there are 3,000,-
000 colonies of bees iu the United
States, and l bat the annual yield of
honey is 120,000,000 pounds. It is
also reckoned that twenty-live pounds
of honey arc requited to winter a staud
I of bees.
The Charleston (S. C.) Relief Com
mittee having n: charge the distribution
of the funds received for the earthquake
sufferers reporis that the total subscrip
tions amount to SBOO,OOO, leaving a
i loss of the ciiv of 5,500,000, including
the losses by the cyclone of Augusta
ISBS.
tlov. Scales has offered a reward of
SIOO for the arrest of Walter L. Hiog
liam the deaf mute murderer of Misa
Lizzie Turlington, on Friday, Doi 17:
near Cnry, iu Wake county. ham
] is 'i feet in height, of dark complex on,
i has a deformed or broken nose, is -well
i '
j educated and intelligent,
j The winter rash to Florida has a'-
roady commenced iu earnest, and the
' indications are that the season will bo
; the must sucee- ful ever known. One
train that recently arrived carried over
!25 i fir-'t elass passengers. Millions of
dollars Jiavo been expended in hotels in
Florida, and it has more fine hotels,
according to population, thin auy State
ia the Union perhaps.
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From ;Ii" Wilmington Star.
1 hey have ''.itrnck ile ' in Texas.
Fact.
Mrs. Cleveland has two pets—a nice
monkey and a pretty poodle.
'lhcrico crop of South Carolina is
52,000 barrels short.
The f iouisiana orange crop is almost
a total failure—ouly about one-tenth.
Both Confederates and Federals were
, among the pall-bcarcrs of Gen. Loring.
William M. Stewart is the name of
the new Senator that is Jo be from Ne
vada. We sappoto he has "a pile."'
Secretary Lauiar married the woman
be lost thirty years ago. It looks liko
it might be a case of love, or prolonged
attachment.
l)r. (irissom estimates that there are
3,000 lunatics in the State. The pro
portion is greater than for the whole
, country.
Tho South likos Abraham Linen] n,
snd reveres his memory as the best and
most genial of Republicans. And was
| not Lincoln a native of tho South, if not
to "its manner boru V'
Tho Northern papers arc discussing.
"Should a woman be hanged ?" Senti
mentallsui is on top. If a bad woman
murders let her swiug. Woman have
been hanged in North Carolina und it
served them right.
Wilmington iricd street cars for sov
| oral years. It did not pay. Charlotte
und Raleigh aio just making the exper
iment and we hope it will be remunera
tive, If so it may come to pass that
Wilmington will make auothei trial.
Oirls and boys ought to bo sent to
j schools of technology. Tho President
j of tho Philadelphia Hoard of Education
| favors teaching girls how to sew. Of
oourse, and how to cook. What right
has a woman to marry who is not aa
j export cook andsoamistreM 1