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T 'a A. KOSCOWKK, Editor, "IIEItfJ SHALL THE PIIESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIDED BY GAIN." TV. T. DAYIS, Publisher. HEADLIGHT. 25. yOT THE Sir AH TEST FOLKS. You may notch it on de pailin's, You miiy murk it on do wall, Uat ie higher up a toad frog jumps", l.'e lisr.U r will he fall. And do crow dat fly the swiftea' Am l ko'M.cs' in de rorn. And tie fly dat am dc mcancs tJet up earliest in de morn. l'e brook dat am de fchallo'es Clutters most upon de way, And do fulKs dat am de sillies' Ar de ones have moa' Icr say. And de roister dat am youugea' Am de one dat row do tnos' And denian what am do coward Always make de biggcM' boats'. And he am not de pirates' man Yho totes de hinges' muscle; Nor am tdie de fines' pal Yt'ho war do biges' bustle. ou eumiol jcl-,'0 de kin' ob maa 1W de in-inner ib hirf walkin', An dey are not de sinartes' folks Who do de luiiues' (allot-'. Uxclis Zeee. SAVED BY A WIRE. PY CXARi O. DOIXIVEK. 'LIS morning I saw the !iu list; ; there wer broad tdripe3 of vol vol and carmine across the eastern sky which fad ed intoa golden haze that reached to t lie T.eiM'ii; hut while all about me exclaimed upon its beauty, 1 was silenf, for I fell :i fliiiil ef anguish, sent by that myr-te-ii"us chain which links our present t: our past. 1 have forgotten a thousand happy 1 sours, lie.t the suns and storms of more than twenty years have failed to dim those sinsatioiis of despair with which 1 once saw the sky painted in brilliant colois by the rising sun. 1 was about seventeen at the time, a vonmntie, visionary boy, with only ono v l v marked taste, and that was a decid ed dislike for hard work. In fact, when I remember myself, f am unable to judgu aiiv lad harshly, however preposti roug in his ideas, or foolish in his conduct. W hen my father died he left me, a, penniless, friendless orphan, to the earn of his brother, my une'e Jahez, whoso groat ranch in California had been fot sue time (,ije of my 'brags'' among my school-follows. I had had a lonely, cheerless child hood, so monotonous that I greeted with lively delight th.. prospect of a journey by sea no "O-. orlands"' in thos days with its promise of tropical cencry and fruit, perhaps of romanci and adventure. With still more rapturu I looked forward to meeting my cousi'i Tyler, who was about, my own age, and with whom I was quite ready to sweat, eternal friendship; indeed, unable to rei strain my ardor, I sent him a long lotj ter, which I considered extremely tie, gant, having composed it with the great est care; it was signed: "Your-brother-in-arms," after knightly fashions; it wai hardly appropriate, for at the time I did not know a riile from a shot-gun; a pis tol I had never seen until I purchased one in New York as a preparation for my journey, and then I never dared to lead it fur fear it would go oil" in my pocket. All my golden dreams of adventurous journey and knightly brotherhoood were destined to fade to very dull tints., 1 was desperately seasick and mortally afraid of the great rats with which the e.-,-,( 1 swarmed and which disputed with mo the possession of mycabiu; nopiraio appeared, no storm blew; I cared not In ing for pineapples, and I was glad enou;h to stand on lirm earth again. As for my cousin Tyler, he did not come up to my expectations by a long "vssy. He was a short, muscular fellow,' uneducated, his fact? burned by the sun t the color of a brick; and his manners were extremely uncouth, not to say re pulsive. His only idea of civility was a broad grin, but when he meant incivility he hud a wide variety of accomplish ments. I well romentb.-r the shock of our firsi meeting; though somewhat repelled by his grinnig face, I was determined to like him, and advanced with my hand stretched out. savingeordially: "Cousin Tyler, J believe';' Without noticing my pi-olTorcd grasp, ho said in a voice about as melliti nous a.1 that of a luz, -saw: "Ycr biggern I thawt yer was." 'Why.'" ! asked, dropping my hand, cunsidend ly abashed. "'('us yer said n yer letter yer was iij arms," ho replied, with a loud gulfaw) that brought the blood to my face with a rush. His laugh was echoed by another al most as haish, but in a somewhat highei key, and glancing up I saw before me a counterpart of Tyler, only smaller and younger, wlc was at once introduced to me as "Cousin Tibby, I believe." 1 I'M sunburned face was crowned witlj an abundance of red hair which w.i.j partly hidden under a man's hat a huge sombrero; she wore a canvas hunt: ing coat, which was anything but spot less, and in ler hand she carried a shot- V . fd ----- j VV I -? . rt "Hullo !" she said. "You've got along have her I'm a-going down to the marsh after rail. Want to see mo mount '." And without waiting for au answer she ran into the bant, reappearing in a moment mounted astride on the buck of a In indie cow. With her free hand she. grasped one horn, with her heels she dug havd into the animal's jides, yelling hoarsely", "flei nn. Joi-b ! Cot along HUow Vc-tc-ii your p.tyg ; ' VOL. I. ISO. At fft-Vr-flky etrange steed gallopol awkwardly out orji the yard, the great hat flapping and the! shot-gun swinging, that my breath was fairly taken away with astonishment, j and I did not reali.e until some timet' after that Tibby, in a moment of inspi-ij ration, had nicknamed me Boston. Toi this day the name clings to me in theij lamily, as nicknames are apt to cling;! when they hit t ho mark; no doubt my' prim manners and formal speech, my soft hands and city-made clothes, made "Boston"' sem peculiarly appropriate. I watched Tibby out of sight, and then looked at Tyler in blank amaze-' incut, as much at a loss what to say or' do as if I had been suddenly landed inl the midst of savages ; at this juncture II was thankful to hear my uncle s voice-f calling to me from, the door of thei kitchen to come and have something to cat. Auut Jane greeted mo with some show of kindness,, which seemed like) tenderness after lyler s reception, audi iiu.fantly won my lonely and homesickjj heart. This affection was afterward modified,. though not destroyed, by the discovery? which I made, that, being a Missonri woman, my aunt "dippea that is,j rubbed snuff on her teeth with a tooth--brush; her expression at such timeKi was so idiotic that I always lied from thei room, fearing that' disgust would destroy the only link that bound me to my new home. With such surroundings it may be be- neve'i mat i was anytmng out nappy; x who considered myself so superior, beoarne a mark for the uncouth wit of the family, the butt of rude jokes, the laughing-stock of the Mexican sheep herders. My little store of high-school learn ing, my bkill in algebra or geometry, gained me no credit on Corralitos Uancho. I could not shoot duck on the wing, dip sheep, or lasso a steer. My smattering of Latin and (Sreek went for nothing; unable to speak Spanish, I was voted an ignoramus, for all on the ranch were as familiar with that tongue as with English a necessity, where two thirds of the "hands" spoke nothing else. j In spite of all rebuffs, however, I con-1 tinned to assume a great many airs of superiority. I shirked work, wore my good clothes, used needlessly elegant language, and behaved genoralhy like a prig. I 1 sated my cousin Tyler, while he, with all hisboorishness, looked rather kindly upon me; he hail good huart vc are excellent friends now and took no end of pains to teach me the use of tire-arms, in which he excelled. I profited by his lessons but felt no gratitude; if ho had saved my life, it would have been with that insuperable manner that made me detest him. Imt mv feeling toward him was mild com pared to what I felt to.vard Tibby. I was afraid of her; her sharp eyes, and sharp, vixenish tongue, her marvelous talent for ill-natured ridicule, kept mo in a state of constant anxiety; moreover, she could do everything I could not do, ind I was constantly being taunted with her superiority. My position became dai'y more and more unendurable; what red trials I lacked, my imagination supplied; I be 2;au to believe that they were all in league to drive me to suicide. When my father died he left his af fairs in the utmost confusion. Uncle Jabez had pilea of papers sent out to !iim, and labored faithfully to reseiio from the estate a. little remnant of for tune for me to begin iife on, intending 16 give niO a home v.ith him until I was twenty-one. I had seen just enough of these palters bo believe that I ought to have about a iiundred thousand dollars; that my .inele was nextof kin formed a sufficient reason to my romantic, fancy for his de siring to get me out of the way. Poor Uncle JuWiS ! in the silent land, tvhither he ha i gone, these words cau aot wound him; that boyish delusion jannot pain him. This idea look such possession of me ;hat every trifling event was distorted to tssurpoit. My appetite failed, my sleep was disturbed, and I became so ;hiu ami pale that Aunt Jane was Seri Dusly distressed. Finally I made up my mind to run i way. Corralitos Eaucho was thirty miles rom the nearest neighbor's, and sixty Toni iSoledad; but the distance did not leter me. I iiad often seen men at the ranch who had spent weeks in the open lir with no other baggage than a shot jrun and a roll of blankets. The air is j o dry in that part of the country that helter at night is oiute unnecessary, id game of all-kiuas was then very plentiful. The climax of my woo was reached rvhen Uncle Jabea "compelled me to spend the whole day with the Mexican lenders dipping sheep. I hated hard tvork, the smell of tobacco in the wash undo me sick, and Die sheep gave me a jreat deal of trouble, while my awk wardness amused the herders. I ate ny supper and went to bed in a great rage. ;Tho next day I cleaned my gun a gift from Uncle Jalez loaded all my snvtfulges, and stowed away as much, niuntttt.it km iu. iriY clothing as I thought GOLDSBORO, N. C.,TITURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1888. Tiding myself with matches and othei small articles. My blankets -were my own. I had pur chased them in New York at my uncle'i suggestion, and had pleased my Iadcj by selecting a bright scarlet, bound oi the ends with a broad blue ribbon. As soon as the family had retired rolled them up and bound them with 8 stout strap; for I intended to walk all the first night in order to get a good start, for 1 did not doubt but that would lie pursued. I slipped steathily from the window, unnoticed even by the dog, and walked briskly until I struck the San Luis road, wheti I fell into a steady, comfortable pace suitable for an all-night tramp. It was quite dark when I started, but , o1w..it f.-.. ,.yl -.,.!.- m, 'PI ' ibi-M-siiif i.t-n f luc iiiwu iun-. mcy retired early on the ranch, and its soft light cheered my drooping spirits, mak ing me feel less like an escaped convict. I rested once or twic by the roadside, and wished more than anything else that I had something to eat or. drink; not because I was hungry, but merely to break the monotony of the march. The dusty road it was the middle ol September cut through a wide, tree less plain, bounded on one side by a dim line of mountains, and broken only by an occasional patch of low-growing shrubs, or by telegraph poles which lifted themselves at regular intervals, like gaunt reminders of a distant civil ization. I remember glancing up at them pine- IS Kly, and observing that they had no cross bars at the top. For many hours I plodded on patiently, making mental calculations as to the number of miles I should have traversed by daylight. j thought myself happy to have escaped with my life, and had few regrets for the fortune which I fancied I was leaving. As the distance between myself and Corralitos gradually increased, an inex pressible feeling of loneliness and isola tion crept over me, aided by the desolate silence of the open plain; not a living creature did I see, and the only pounds that I heard were the rustling of leaves in the undergrowth, as some shy wih thing crept back to its hiding-place at sight of me. I knew that wildcats made their homes under the stunted mazanitas, and a panther was within the 1 -omuls of pos sibility; for the herders not infreipiently reported the sheep raided by them, and Tyler even killed one while I was at tha ranch. I cannot say that I felt any fear, bnl my hearing was on the alert, and I cari l ied my gun ready cocked on my shoub dor. I was brave enough in those days i far more an than I am now. I am itii clined to think that most of the reckless courage of youth comes from ignorance. We do not know the value of life, there fore we risk it; we rush into danger be cause we can see neither its length nop its breadth. When excitement is less alluring, anil we learn to count the cost, Ave shudder in anticipation of the crippled life or the useless death, as the leggar who has. found a diamond trembles lest he meet his comrade, the robber. lint, though I experienced no physi cal fear, my thoughts were tinged with melancholy. I felt that I was alone in the world, having cut the last tie of kin dred left me. I had the confidence of youth as to the future; but I saw it only as a pilgrim sees fair gardens, when he Fin el Is the flowers and hoars the foun tains splash on the wrong side of a blank, hopeless wall. I began to forbode that some hard ex periences were ltefore me. I was also forced to fortify myself against sundry qualms as to the past, and the manner of my Hight, by the most violent inward execrations of overyljody at Corralitos, except my aunt. Gradually the monotonous dog trot into which I had fallen, the absolute stillness, and my abstracted thoughts, lulled me into a sort of doze; if sleep is jiossible under such circumstances I should say that I slept. From this stato I was slowly awakened by a strange, booming sound, at which I paused and listened with puzzled unconcern, more wondering that afraid. It was then about three in the morn ing; the moon shone brightly, and noth ing higher than bunch-grass grew by tho road for two or three miles; yet I stood still quite two minutes, blinking my nearsighted eyes, before I discoveml something dark extending beyond the r-Kid on both si.ilcsj axi'-l moving rapidly tOWWdi UiG, .jUr,QJt -H3i Nfii with a snddou throb of terror, I grasped the truth it was a drove of Spanish cat tle. From an unreasoning impulse of de fending myself, I did the most insane act possible. I swung my gun to my shoulder and discharged lxth ljurrels; with horrible distinctness the shots pealed out on tho still night air, and the tierce drove, which a moment before had ibeen intent on water or pasturage, now rushed forward with a roar of rage that almost paralyzed me. It was a terrible situation, a moment ;of despair, a glance into the face of a .frightful death. There seemed to be no 'refuge; neither tree that I could climb, ,nor bush where I could hide, only the telegraph pole, beside which .1 stood, reared itself alxjve me. I threw down my gun and began to climb; a few knot ty protulierances at the base favored me, and though I had little skill in exercise of this sort, some strange tower seemed to give me intelligence a.m aauress lar beyond my nature. , Great drops of sweat btood all over inc. I felt a ring ing in ray ears, as though a thousand igongs were lxmting; time no longer ex isted for me; every thought, breath, sen sation was crushed into an agony of ef fort, until at last I reached tho top o! my frail refuge and clutched the wiro in my hand. ; I tried to steady my nerves amid tha horrible uproar, and at length forced myself to look down. Through a cloud of dust I saw a sea of wide, branching horns, heads tossing, tails lashing, hug$ bulks bending and rearing. I had hoped that when they saw that I was out of their reach they would move on, instead of which their anger seemed each moment to increase, and they fairly foamed with rage. I could see them look up at me with glaring eyes as they pawed the earth, bellowing with battled fury. The telegraph pole was stout and well Bet, but it shook so with their blows and jostling that I feared each moment that it would fall. Fifteen or twenty minutes had passed ltefore it occurred to mo that my red blanket, plainly visible in the moon light, was the exciting cause of their an imosity. It was no easy matter to un fasten it with one hand, but at length I succeeded, and allowed it to drop to the ground. Iwculdhavo throw n it some distance among the herd, but in my in secure position mat was lmjtossible. They plunged at it and tossed it with horrible ferocity, and in a few moments it was bitten, torn and trampled into in distinguishable fragments. And still they did not move on. They became somewhat quieter after a time; many of them wandered from the road and made short bites at the brown grass; but the majority stood wedged about the Hle, looking up at me with relentless hatred, as patient as if they knew the limit of human putter ing, and were content to wait, being sure of their victim. I lived years oi torture in each hour that crept by; the thin wire cut into my hands until they were torn and bleeding from the wrist to tho lingers; to relieve them I occasionally rested my elltows on the top of the pole (there was no cross piece), helping the strain on my arms by pressing my knees against the wood, until every muscle in my Ixxly was wrench m! to the utmost; the pains in my back, especially, were almost insupport able. - At first, I was conscious only of terror find of suffering, but as time dragged slowly on my mind ltegan to wander. Scraps of conversation heard iu the past and long since? forgotf.cn' recurred to me; they were w holly trilling and disconnect ed, but they came back with every tone as clear and distinct as if they had just been uttered, sometimes followed by light laughter, which I recognized aa that of childish playmates. One peculiar hallucination took pos session of me. When very small I had Been a Ixiy punished at school until his hands bled freely; he had cut himself with his sharp knife, and the blows of the rattan reopened tho wounds; it im pressed mo very much at the time, though I had not thought of it for years. Now, however, I could not skake off the impression that I was that boy, and that with my bloody hands I was clinging to the rattan, which constantly cut deeper and deeper. Occasionally I would start and realize my situation, looking down with despair on tho long, I -ranching horns below, and endeavoring to relieve my rigid muscles by such slight change of position as was possible; then all would grow dim, and again I was the truant, with bleeding hands, grasping the rod of punishment. I could hear plainly, as I heard that day, the hum of the school room, the third division droning their geography, Millie Gaines's lisp when sho missed on Yuca tan, and then the. sudden hush as the blows fell on his hands .' hands. At last, in one of my starts of con sciousness, I saw a broad streak of pur ple in the east, while the moon overhead Avas almost faded out in a thin, pink haze that had spread over the sky. I watched the light grow and the colors chango for some minutes, too numlted and hop -less to think; shudderingly, I glanced downward. I gfsp 'd, looked at the glowing sky again, a id foioed my senses to awaken; agaiu I looked down, half doubting the herd was goue During those two hours of unspeak able agony not a sound had passed my lips; now I uttered a loud cry, ami slipped to the ground. ; I remember no more? When, days after, I next had a feeble perception of what was going on about me, the first thing I saw was my aunt Jane's pale and careworn face. The Power of Laiigniige. ; "And so Tom has got home from college, Mr. rigbee? I understind ho is quite a liugnistf ' "'He's the boss linguist,"' remarked old Bigboo, but not proudly; "ho lingers down town till two o'chx-k in the morn ing, and he lingers iu bed till noon, and he lingers at the tablej long after everyone else has gone away foundered, and There's going to be a reform iu this linguist busim-ss or you'll hear of a case of felo-de se in this family by wear-' ing of a young man out with a hickory gad," and the old man looked resolute, then melted into t hough tfuluess, and said that was the first Greek he had used iu thirty years, tinco ho clerked in a drug Sitaro and studied, tho uld rastoti vn th-3 8b3 Ti ' TELEGRAPHIC TICKS- THE SOUTHERN STATES. News Collected by Wire nd.1Ial! From All 1'arinar Dixie. Orders have been given to largely in crease the working force on the new rail way from Shelby via Morganton to Cran berry, X. C. The Suffolk and Carolina Railroad is completed to Chowan river. It is an important connecting jtoint between Vir ginia and North Carolina. s .IJev. A. I. Hunter, late of the Diocese of Colorado, has accepted a professorship in St. Augustine Normal School, at Kaleigh, N. C. The residence of Atlas Jowers. in An son county, N. C, was burned a few nights ago with all its contents. At Raleigh, N. C, a cut ton mill com pany, with a capital of $40,000, has been organized and the necessary amount subscribed. At Charlotte, N. C, three tenement houses owned by James M. Davis, were burned. The houses were outside of the district which lias water supply. The loss is tittcen hundred dollars. Adeline Allen, a negro woman tried at Winston. N. C, for murdering her in fant by drowning it in a mill-pond, has been convicted of murder, with recom mendation for mere'. At Manning S. C, Stcphney Murray, a no-jro, while trvntir to steal a ride . on the down train of the Central Rail road accideutly fell. His skull was bad ly fractured by striking a cross tie. At Palatka, Fla., -arrangements have been made for a boat race j a which Tee nier, Hamui and McKay will row on St. John's River at Palatka for a purse of one thousand dollars. News has been received of the burning of two colored school houses in Chatham county N. C. All evidence ioints to the fact that Itoth tin's were incendiary, and t the authorities offer a reward for the in cendiaries. . James Wilson was found dead in hi house near Excelsior, N. C. A neighltor went to Wilson's house and found him laying dca 1 on the floor. It is thought death resulted from natural causes, but a jury of inquest has leen summoned to investigate the matter. The roaring noise in the wells in the vicinity of Glcnwood, Johnston county N. C, continues. The same phenome non is now reported in Duplin county. At nearly regular intervals, one well there on the premises of C. Ryrd, is thus affect ed. The sound is that of loiling and trembling, and is audible at a distance of nearly a hundred yards from the mouth of the well. At Salisbury, N. C, Johnson & Ram say's tobacco factory was burned, with all its machinery and stock of tobacco. The latter was insured. There was no insurance on the buildings, the tobacco being procrty of J. L. Herrick. At one time the town was in danger of dc st ruction. A company, consisting of John 15. Mar shall. Professor C. II. Judson and George Westmoreland have lxtught the Green ville S. C. ice mills. The sale f the mill was made to satisfy a mortgage held by Mrs. Susan Hall, of Charleston, S. C. The pro-terty sold for (5,000, which is only 000 above the amount of the mort- The report of Dr. T. J. Roberts, siqter intendent of the eastern North Carolina insane asylum for colored patients, at Goldsltoro, says there are on tile sixty live applicants. There are 1T5 patients. A reward has been offered for the dis covery of the men who, on the 1st inst., at Oyster Shell Landing, Hyde county, N. C., murdered Reddiu Supton, white, in the store of J. M. Supton, his brother, and then burned the ltody in the build ing. There is no dew as yet to the men who committed this terrible crime. At Elizabeth City, N. C, unknown persons entered (he dental ollice of J. II. White and robbed him of all his dental instruments and appaiatus, and tried to set lire to (he building by turning over the stove, after putting kerosene and paper on the floor. But strange to say it was only partially burned. Parties who bought what is known as JJig swamp, in Robeson county N. C, containing sixty thousand acres, are run ning a canal through it. The canal is 550 fi-et wide nnd will he used for drainage and transporting. The'swamp was pur- chased from the state. It is expected that the extensive drainage system indu rated w ill reclaim large tracts of it. Ransom Jones and his w ife, of Lancas ter county, S. C. went to a mill, a few miles away, leaving at home their four children, the oldest aged nine years and the youngest eighteen months. Shortly after their departure the older children locked the youngest in the house and built a tire near one corner of the build in tr, which soon became ignited. When the Joneses returned they found their house and baby iu ashes. A coroner's jury exonorated the children. Grand Lodire of Knerhts of Pvthias is in sesr-ion at Greensboro, N. C. All I lodges were represented. The new const i- tut ion and by-laws were considered and f adopted. The following olHcers have ltcen elected for ttie ensuing Term: i-rami chancellor, Thomas D. M'-arls; grand vice-chancellor, C. W. Lamliert: prelate, C. D. L. Bonltour; master of exchequer, R. T. Soanlin ; keeper of the "records and seal. John D. Dudley; master-at-arms, 1). M. Ravel; inner L'liard, B. J. Marsh, outer guard, E. G. Porter. A meeting of tho stockholders of the South Atlantic and Northeastern railway at Southxrt N. C . has renewed the con fidence of tho people of that section at the ultimate building ef the road. Otli eers say all that remains to make it a success is for the jtcoplo along the line to aid it by proper subscriptions. It is claimed that this road will ojton the coal fields of North Cirolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, and as a consequence it is a leading part ;f the scheme that Sftutlt port 1 bfn-om a r ting stidioR. ,; ' A BLAZE IN h. H0A1UHMJ IlOlSt:. Men and tVamen ia Their Night f'loifcr Leap lnl the Icjr -treel fBrxkbn Tirt .Ilea and T a Wainea BarM. Fire broke out early Sunday morning in the three story and basement frame hoarding house Nos. 105 and 107 Cl.nk street, Rrooklyn, N. Y. The boarders, most of w noni had not time to dress, en deavored to escape with their goods as best they might into the icy streets. Sev eral were severely injured by jumping from windows, and were earned by am bulances to hospitals. The place is know n as the old Harper Mansion, ;nd was kept as a ltoarding house bv Mrs. McConib. The flames were discovered about 2 a. m. in the basement, and burned away the stairs, causing great confusion and panic. Several women leaped from the windows in their night dresses. One gallant policeman, who was in the dis trict telegraph ollice ia Montague street, got on the scene early and rescued three women from the flames. Two men and two women were burnt, one man having his skull broken and another his leg. The two women injured jumped from a third story window and struck feet f.r.?t on the pavement, breaking their an Lie bones. The two men w ere taken to I he Clinton House in Fulton street, and from there to a hospital. The name of one was Mr. Gordon. He was injured by jump ing from a third story window front and striking on the balcony. He was d m gerousiy wounded. The damage is esti mated .-It $50,000. Cane of Cotton Fires. A New York letter says: The national board of lire and marine underwriters have investigated the rtcent cotton fires, and have decided that the fault mu: t be laid to the planters. The underwaters contend that the sewing of bales i.; so faulty that large spaces are left which expose the cotton to danger from fires. The 'underwriters invited a committee from the Cotton Exchange to meet them yesterday evening. They notified the cotton men of the results of their inves tigation, and stated that they would shortly issue rules ami regulations v hirh must be adhered to in baling cotton if planters and shipers wanted insurance. J e cotton men agree.i luiiy witn me 1 nnderw liters, and at the next mcc'.ing of the Ex hanire thev will recommend that cotton not baled according to the forth coming rules shall not be dealt in umjii the exchange. A Noted Outlaw Killed. The notorious leader of the train rob bers. Captain Dick, alias "Rrack Csr nett,"' was shot and instantly killed, on Monday last, while resisting arm-t, by Sheriff Alice, of Trio county, Texas, near Pearsall, a station on the Interna tional and Great Northern Railroad. Carnett was a noted outlaw, and a few years .ago organized a band of horse thieves for t tic purpose of robbing ex press ami mail trains in Texas. For the last two years numerous train robberies, where large amounts of money, and in one instance :,000 worth of diamond jewelry was stolen, have ln-cn traced to Carnett's gang, and although the secret service of the railroads and the civil offi cers of . Texas h::ve often ltcen close on their trail, they have heretofore evaded capture. The authorities say the killing of the leader will result in the capture or killing of the whole gang. North, East and lVest. Near New Orleans seven out of eight colored persons crossing the Mississippi in a skill were drowned. Iu Chicago Ralph Lee was corn ii ted of the attempted assassination of his step-father, the banker Rawson, and r-cn-tenccd to eighteen months in the county jail. At St. Alban's, Vermont, lire broke oi t al-out niidniirht in the St. Alban's h spital. The hospital was completely gutted, and two out of eight patients were suffocated. There was no male help present, and no sK-cial provisions had been made against fire The United States Senate has ton firmed the nomination of Alex McCue to be Assistant Treasurer at New York. D. l. Locke, hotter know n as t etro - lenni v. Nasbv, editor of the Toledo Nasbv, editor Blade, is dead. A TKEASlKrU KILLED And I he Count t Kauri Slalea rarvoing I he 3larderrr. . At three o'clock Sunday morning a messenger arrived at Marshall, Texas,' direct from Carthage, thirty miles .lis-J taut, brinirin-x the news of the murder of Mr. Hill, county treasurer of Panoli county, by some uuknown parties, al-out dusk on Saturday last. Mr. Hill wa.s struck three times on the head with an ax, crushing his skull, and his throat was cut from ear to ear. .The safe con taining the county money was robbed of l0,0i0 or 12,000. The messenger came to Marshall for the purj-oso ol se- curing aid from Sheriff Perry with blood hounds to trace up, if ossibIe, the mur derer. Great excitement exists at Carth age, and the whole community is search ing for the murderer. A Strange Piienenionou. A special from Raleigh, N. C, to the New York Herald says: "The 'wills in the vicinity of Wood, Johnson county, are reported to be violently disturl-cd, and to be tioiling and bubling with loud noises. At a distance of thirty yards from the month of some of the wells this noise is plainly perceptible. Tho phe nomenon was observed ten days ago. The soil is sandy in that section. Nothing like it was ever In-fore known there." The Karlli Cracked. A remarkable phenomenon manifested itself near Akron, Ohio, the other morning. People in the vicinity of thej seat of trouble were thrown out of iteo, and windows and ceilings crumbled, while the earth rocked, the convulsions being preceded by terrific reports of an explosion. A great fissure in the earlh is the only sign of the strange occurrence. People fled from their houses and the grei. tt?t CMitfTRtct, prevailed, Subscription, 81.00 Per Year. WASHINGTON THE MAI.1TIA TrOKl ft OK TUB NATION. The Secretary of War has transmitted to Congress a tabulated statement of the militii force of the United Slates, which shows that at last return there were !!gcinT.l officers, 1,1 05 ilicers of tbo gen eral stair 1,(5:'.S officers of the regimen tal field, and stall ami 5,"S5 com pany otlieers, making a tot.d f -oV-MO commissioned otlieers. Tin re were lvWl non-commissioned offi cers; 2,I00 musicians "i"'! 7I.:J.i privates making in all l2,(5i7 enlisted men and a gran I total, of tli ers and nun. for th militia force oa 100. s:7 men. Tim nui-t-I-eref men liable for militr-ry d.ifv (unorganized) is set :iown at T,:''J0,7( :. but in some cases (he figures arc based ujMin stim:itcs made iu the War Depart mont. rKKi Iltr.STC l.KVIXNI-c.olN- to Fl.OlUOA. 1 'resilient t'lov. land t xpet ts to leave Washington next Tuesday for a short visit lo Florida. He will be accom panied by Mrs. Cleveland, the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Whitney, and Colonel and Mrs. Eamont. The party will go by-:spo i d train, and no stop.-; will be made unless it be an hour at Sa vannah for a drive through that city. One day will be spent at Jacksonville and one day at St. Augustine. The paity will 1 1 turn to Washington the lollo-it;g Sat ui day. ISRKAnSTl'FF KXrOUTi. Breadstuff exports from the United States during Jaudarv past a-r-jreyated iu value $,122.277. against J4,52.0'J ia January, 1?S7. Exports of the principal articlts of provisions during January past were valued at (,H2(,t.so, j-ui-jsi s,lol,442 in January, 17. Atlanta's rnu.ic urn .vrsf In a letter to Congress tho rd-oreey general says that the aeeoiumodatioi-s -.t Atlanta for Court officers and rr-:-inent business aie insuili .-ici?, ki1, .ie therefore urges arh action in appropria ting money forth; cxtcn'am of tin Gov eminent building at that place. leakim; Tin: com; 1 1 -it, All telegraph offices have ln-cn rcinov cd from the oi ider of (he House of Rep resentatives, adjoining tho main entrance where (hey have clustered thickly fur a long time, and where the throng tha' they gathered impeded the oassagc. ( ll.M)l Ton's I.ICKNSI. The House committee on lalmr after hearing further arguments on the L311 to licence railway conductors, authorized Mr. Burnett, of Massachusetts, to rcp" it to the House adversely. rO-iToKFH K 1NSPK. Tt' APTOINVKP Hon. J. L. Webb, of Shelby, N. G., has In-en apjoiutcd a j:stolfice i specter. THE KLATU RrLL I-ASSKD THE SEXATIT The Blair educational bill pissed the Senate by a vote of ;)'.) for to 20 a gains Not a rarnlise Tor Iloetors. The Chinese penal rule provides tnn when an unskillful physician, in ;-dminir terinjr medicines or using the acupunc ture needle, proceeds contrary to th Established forms, and thereby causes tiif death of the patient, the magistrate fcha" call in o her physicians to examine tit medicine or the wound. If it .appeiuy that the injury done was unintentional .Lc practitioner shall then le treated ac cording to the statute for accidental homicides', and shall rot any longer ie i.l!owe I to practice medicine. But if he have designedly departed from the estab lished forms, and have practiced deceit in his attempts to cure the malady in or der t;jgain property, then, -veording to itsanount, he shall be treated as a thief; j and if death ensue from his malprac t ee, t!vn for having thu-i u-ed nie licino , v. i h Intent to kill, lie shall bo beheaded, t'i'i.,,... ...... r...j l, .,..ti. ;.. JIIV.V 1'UI(.9 IV 1 UVIIIJU 111 lllO N.YIc-t ia I" code answciing to the laws ef l li u barian" nations com crning civil ! damages recoverable by parties made to i'i '.e g t Nctc. The B;orr?p! The origin of the brigpipe, like (hat of the instruments of the f ute fa:niiy,may be traced back to the bamboo rood. After Hut s clarinet and similar instruments , ,.v e,.n for some time in use, certain disadvantages were percei vc l,the princi- pal am ng thcin being the fact that in h'owing the r'utc the sole reliance must be had upon the lungs of the p rformer, and as the supply of air in these was l inited, the music must be intermittent. " In other words, no stock of wind could be a -cumulated, ami (he notes of a llute must therefore be idiort and jerky To ronto I,- this evil was the la-k to which I In-1 ailv inventors turned (heirattention. and when the wiu!-!ag came it wav naii ral y considered a grand invention. The I a-.rpipe i th'-ii fore a fute with a l a ; a taehed, ia which a store of air may a ( ii'iiulateil.the nutriment n -t being immediately de-tendent uprtn the lungs of (he crfonner for the effect produced. In ,c common form of (he bagpipe the air i j Urcn info the tight re eptable from taelutms of the i crfornicr and then from '.hi - re ervoir irito the fute by means of the c'bow of tbe player, the bag being held between the arm and the side and (he eP o.v i-el to drive out the air. In oi;o f nu3 of the ir.-trument a bellows is ii. el lo supply thr air a? well a to fori &r!ht, but the commonest kind ia that in which the lung .supply the air and the elbow drivc3 it out of the baj into the flute. fjlaU-Democrat. North C'arli.'ia Tax Co! lections. The State Auditor has completed tin foolii;.' of the rcj-ort on taxes collected luring (he past year for conuty purpose; and for education as follows: Tax oi licensed retail liquor dealers, 2,757; tax on white tolIs, 175, S55; taxes on colored Ktlls, M0,0:W; on real and per sonal property at 12 1-2 cents on 100 vain-, 257, ISO. Totil school taxes, ;05.o00: total taxes for all county pur poses, 020,000. HeDidnMUffindlt. landlord fto newly arrived guests) "I c m gire you a room, but it only con l tir.s a sinirle bed." lIi:sUnd "O, that a all right. Wo a e u-ed to roughing it. My wife can m'c; on the floor. I don't uiiocj it in V
The Goldsboro Headlight (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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Feb. 23, 1888, edition 1
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