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JTHE HEADLIGHT. i i A. ROSCOWER, Editor, HERE SHALL THE PRESS TUE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN AWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRLBED BT GAIN. " IT. P. DAYIS, Publisher. VOL. I. NO. 49, GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1888. Subscription, 01.00 Per Year. LONG MUNCH. (Hiding the Dome of the Melbourne Exposition Building. METHODS OF GOLD MINING, muk hi:s or IjIfjr At the ;i;i:. t i 3iMi;n iiEsoitt. 1!m t:i";juicl tirl Gaztrtg SfeA-l-'J'lio OJtl Iiedu At the IJotrl VIjarse Demand lor Donkeys. EtCs Wii ii'g front I ong Branch to the (hi .!'-: , ? ' , a correspondent gives t!:r-;i' b:fey sketches of life at the noted iu:n!!":i revolt on the Atlantic. ;t MtMttl to the (correspondent 8s th nuh a camera with -which to pho tr ipii some of the sights of the beach niijit beat a pencil in the making of ak'clKS for this letter, and so the ex periment was tried, but with Only a kind rf success in the first instance. Submit tii'ir (he Ietu to the inducements of Lr iMiy, one of the earliest of the belles at this rrat i-ea-ide resort was focused Tv-itliont her knowing it. The accom- . .1 t a . puiiyiSft? urawu g snows now 6ne was t;ni;!it in an agreeably gra-efUl pose as b!i.' :-:it gifing seaward, with one hand h. ! lii! to her wind-blown hat. She was BTvirt' of t;;e general fact$ of course,.that th- v.m a handsome young woman, but th? li.i 1 no idea at that instant that a fi i-!: vf liuht let into a detective camera m -iking a portrait of her. No cora j laint c.im he made of the result. Then wLy io l qu.uiiy tne assertion that this THE LANGUID GIRL. first attempt in Long Branch photo giiiphy w is a success?" Only because of the dialogue that ensued: "Ah, how d'ye do,"' said an obtrusive ly jovial and forcedly vivacious voice, coining from a man whom I recollected as a theatrical astent. "You're photo graphing her, eh?'' "Yes," I admitted, "I was trying whether I could get a picture worth en graving." "All right all light but if your ehotgun of a camera missed the target just let me know, and 1 will show you twenty-seven ditfereut photographs of her. Who is she? v hy she is "and then he went on to name her as an actress whom he was promoting for a tour next season, and as to whom he went into a quarter of an hour of extravagant lauda tion. All of which seem3 to prove that the professional actress can outdo her fair fisters in private life in focusing the eye of admiration, even when she is off the stage, and pretending to be careless of her poses Th .'re is one kind of person at Long Branch who doesn't alter with season after season's c hanges of fashion. He is the old beau of the turf, and 1 managed to fi x my lens on a good specimen as he stool talking wi.h a belle of the veranda. Considered a? a fashion plate, the girl was edited and amended right up to date, and the c ontrast between her and the inanyseaoned fellow was there fore greai. His bald head, with its rem nant "of hair brushed straight forward from the back, parting nearly to the cor ners of his eyebrow?, was uncovered by his polite removal of his black-banded h gh white hat. He carried a cane, and his patent leather idioes were topped by white canvas overuaiters. But his chief characteristic, and one which he had maintained annually, according to my THE OLD TIE AC recollection, for not less than fifteen years, was a frock coat of so light a drab ihat it was almost white. This garment wa; l uttoned c'oselyfrom his wish-bone to below the level of his hips, and it set oil his tall, straight i gure admirably. He was au earlv arrival from the coterie of sportsmen who keep the Monmouth rk horse ra cs goin-j from the Fourth of July to the end of the season, and ' who augment their gambling on the turf bv spending most of their evenings in the gorgeous club houses of the Branch. The two palaces of chance, hitherto bsmous f0l- their splendors at this resort, Lave now a rival in a third and equally pretent ious cone em. and so Long Branch becomes more than ever before the Monte Cailo of America. The ancient beau had just had his first go at faro in one of the-e resplendent dens, aud his luckhad Ik en pretty good. 'Tie told ine that he had won $"00," aid the belle live minutes afterward, and I was awfully g!ad that it hadn't been a thousand." "And why," was asked. tOvE Making "Oh, because he smiled over five hurt tired, and a thousand would surely have made tim laugh outright. Now, his smile had only seven teeth in it, and what a sight his motith must be when laugh ing?" . Dudes of sixty relay as well take it for granted that girls' word3 and thoughts are at a wide variance when blandly deferentially conversing with them. It is a fair estimate thit of all the marriages in wealthy circles 75 per cent, are the result of summer courtship. A saunter through the parlors, veranda and grounds of any Long Bran h hotel will yield evidence enough to support these figures. If the ciphering be restricted to this particular resort, it may be added that not less than 25 per cent, of the y 1 vx ON THE BOAT. matches are made on the bluff overlook ing the sea, and that at least 10 per cent, of the mutual understandings are effected under umbrellas, There must be something of the ost'.ich in the fash ionable lover, for he seems to imagine that an umbrella held pretty well down in front over the faces of a cooing pair will hide them from observation, but he forgets that th eyes of curious specta tors may make an attack from the rear, and so the camera was able to make tho negative from which this sketch of po i tive courtship ii ' drawn. And this ccuple may be safely accepted, by the way, s exhibits of neat things in sum mer youog folks. The checked coat of the beau, aloLg with hi3 soft black hat and its wide white band, are in the ex treme of styles. To the strap across his shoulder hangs a case in which to carry a powerful field glas, with wbich to scan the ocean for distant craft. The eailor hat of the belle and her white flannel gown are also in obedience to the latest commands of fashion. But all who come to Long Branch do not belong to the ranks of swelldom. An iron pier is one of the unfortunate con structions so far as keeping up the tone of the place is concerned, and excursion boats bring down multitudes of casual and miscellaneous visitors. These in vaders are kept out of the first-class ANOTHER PORT OF DONKEY. hotels, unless they are willing to pay for such shelter by registering for dinner. Otherwise, the raoie economical take their luncheon baskets to certain booths on the bluff, where they are allowed to eat under shade, provided they quench their thirst to a reasonable extent with beer bought on the premise;. The Shrewsbury River runs along back of Long Branch cn its way to the ocean, and its shore invites excursionists, who come from New York in small steam boats, and ; who can there find a great variety of diversion. I judge that there is a fine opening at Long Branch for donkeys. It may be that the over-supply of two-legged' ones has created the impression that tho;e on four feet could get no fair show. But this season one lone, long-eared quadru ped has been put on the sand of the beach, aud he is made to give five-minute rides at ten cents apiece. His owner and operator multiplies his income by letting three childien occupy the beasts back at once, and so he is ofteu seen laden with a considerable section of a picnic. This donkey i3 what may be called a monopoly at present. The Soldier's Excuse. A soldier who had just enlisted, was placed on guard over a, cannon. It was not long before he abandoned his post ami went to a tavern not far off, where he indulged in the flowing bowl. "Fellow, why did you abandon your post:" exclaimed the captain who hap pened to put in an appearance. "Captain," was the reply of the in cip'ent son of Mars, "I've tried to lift that cannon, and I am satisfied that no one man can arry it away, and if more than one of the enemy comes after it, I can't stand them off." An editorial In the Missionary Herald for June on "The Liquor Traffic with Africa," contains a table showinz the exports of in toxicants from Boston to Africa for five years iy83-7amounted to 3,500,000 , gallons, valued at l,li,ai4. "Captain Threebaser put Grinning BiY.j into the box to pitch." The Centennial Exposition at Mel bourne, Australia, this summer, will probably be the most important yet held in the Southern Hemisphere. The maid buildings and its annexes cover twenty acres, and have cost over 2 "0, 000 pounds sterling. The principal structure is of brick and stucco. Them st difficult un dertaking the contractors for the exter nal painting had to encounter was the gilding of the gold ball wlii h surmounts the top of the dome, and out of which the flagpole springs. This was a work of much risk to the painteis, who were swung at an elevation of some l!00 feet above the ground level. Frank Ixilie's. A Famous Lady of 1 lie White Honse. 0M DOLLY MADISON". From a painting in possession of a gentle man in Brooklyn. Baseball "As It is Spoken "Petie Swipe stole second base." Titer Bid Not Live. An Tnglish resident in Russia relates the following unhappy iss it of an enter prise in which one of his friends engaged upon fa'ling heir to a fortune : "My friend was a great gourmand and had a passion for she'l !sh, and this wh3 how he spent his legacy. 1 went to town one day and soon found out that the prince was in his usual impecunious con dition." " "Where has your legacy gone to?"' I asked. " "'Why," he said, "you know that I am very fond of lobsters, and, having a river on my estate, I thought I would try and acclimatize that delicacy there; but, unfortuuately, I have spent all the legacy without succeeding. I quite for got that the water wa not salt!"" Youth's Uomumio.i. The Development of Culture. In the book store of the future. Customer "Have you any book on culture?'' Clerk "Yc, sir; we have the 'Bjs tonian's Own Mauual of Self-Defense and 'Baseball as Played i New York ' ' Customer "But haven't you any works on intellectual, development, mental discipline, self help in philoso phical research, or something of that uature':" Clerk (doubtfully) t4I don't know, sir, but I-will see. Boy, bring me that old box of antiques from; he lumber room." Chicago 'I'rilune. Objectionable Features. Brown "How do you like yo'.tr new house?" Smith -'Well, there are some ob jectionable features about it." Brown- "What are they?" Smith "The landlord's." Life. AN OLD PROSPECTOR'S INTEREST ING EXPERIENCED Washing the Auriferous Particles From the Sands Gold-Bearing Quartz Captured by Rats. A New York Commercial Adtcrtim representative gleaned the following facts concerning gold digging from an old Australian miner: "How do we get the gold .'"he repeated In response to a question. "Wash it or crush it. It is found in different shapes in different places. Out west, where I Worked first, it was allahuvial washing from the river sand with cradles. The cradle I had once wa3 a piece of plush fastened on an inclined plane with the grain of the plush lying upward sothsm any finestuT, such as the grains of gold in the sand, would stick into the plush when washed over it. All you had to do was to get a decent head of water to turn into your cradle, feed in your sand by the shovel ful and rock your cradle. The gold dust being heavier than the sand would stick to the plush and the dirtVould wash away. Then you picked up your piece of pludi carefully and washed it off in a bowl of clear water, when the gold would collect at the bottom, i-'ome fel lows used a piece of fur instead of plush. Others only had- a pan. They would take a pan half full of sand and puddle it awhile, aud the gold coingto tnebot tovai the top would be thrown away. That's the way prospecting along the river sands was generally done. If you could get a good 'color' it would be worth rigging a cradle. "Two or three men generally go out together with picks and shovels. Their expenses are probably half paid at least by other miners who are earning steady pay. The prospectors come to a likely looking spot, and probably decide by a toss-up whether or not to try it. Then they di a pit in the ground till they sink through the same kind of stuff that is on the surface. Then they may come to a streak of the clay containing gold. It is something like pipe clay, very Boft when first dug, but hardens in the sun, and was once the bottom of some stream. If it contiins good gold, all that is nec essary is to drive a tunnel on the level and take it out. Sometimes it is 'pock ety.' that is at a bend of the stream the gold seems to have settled in a lump by an eddy. The gold is extracted from the clay by puddling machines and crushers. fcoraetimes the pay streak will stop short offr as thoush the stream had jumped a precip'ce. Other times it will follow along for miles as crooked as a creek. When one of these holes is first opened, the miners are often taken sick with something like malaria, from the smell of the old stuff that has been cov ered up so lon;. "New Zealand has put out a lot of gold. It is found there in river sands, in the mountains and in beach washings, all of which, of course, as all alluvial workings, have originally come from quartz reefs washed out some time or another. There was one strip of black sand on the west coast beach which was Very rich when first discovered. I was one of a party which tramped across the country to it through the bush, with our provisions and tools on our backs from Christ Church to Ilokitika, about loO miles. AVhen wc got there thing3 were booming, and during a few months un heard of fortunes were washed out. But in a short time the place became overrun with rats. There was no way of keeping clear of them, until one day a little schooner arrived from Wellington with a cargo of cats sent by a man who first heard of the plague. The pussies sold rapidly for $" apiece aud killed off the rodents, but the strip of beach got thor oughly worked out, and then the miners took to the mountains." "Quartz mining is the same all the world over. Prospectors go out armed with sledge-hammers. They see a vein of quartz in a bowlder, smash it up and perhaps find several small nuggets. They pick out these pieces of gold care fully and carry them until they get enough to send to a crusher. Often a propector will make ;$ or $4 a day smashing bowlders. These bowlders al ways lie near to some regular lead of quartz, and quart', leads always run east and west. Consequently, when there is a profusion of gold-bearing bowlders, the general plan adopted is to run a trench north and south through the surface-dirt to the bed rock, which at some point must cut across the lead. White quartz i3 not by any means the most valuable ; it is generally the poorest. Most gold is frequently found in dirty looking veins, mixed with iron rust. Sometimes the quartz is so rotten with gold that it ran be broken up by hand. It has to be blasted out of the rock and put through a crusher to separate it from the dirt. The crushers arc ma chines with very powerful stamps, run by steam or water power, which pound the ore to powder. A stream of water then washes it over plates covered with quicksilver, to which the gold dust adheres and the dirt is washed away. Whei the plates get colored with the gold adhering to them and constituting amalgam with the mer cury, they are scraped off and the amal gam melted down. -The mercury eva porates, the gold w hile boiling in a cru cible is purified with borax, and then run into bars the same way that it is seen in the assay o Tee. It is not necessary always to see gold in the quartz to make euro "it is there. Often dirt that does not contain more than three pennyweights of gold to the ton will pay to put through the crusher. "Sometimes a stream will cut through a quartz lead or reef and save the trouble of irenching to find it. Quartz reefs are of no uniform width or depth or extent.j They are from half rtn in: h to a couple of feet wide, generally two or three inches, and their depth has never been dis covered. After a heavy rain at a quartz diggings, 'sites' of gold, little nuggets in scraps of refuse ore, will otteu be picked up in the road. "There is one sat sfactioa about gold mining, and part:cilarly about alluvial washings," conclude I the horse car con ductor, "and that is that you always get your money as soon as you make it withJ out having to collect . it. The harder you work the' more you make, and there is a very pleasurable uncertainty about it, for you don't know when you may find a nugget." The American system' of ambulance tervice has' been introduced in Paris. THE TWIN STATES. NORTH CAROLINA. The German brig Anncau, "with ter pentine from Savannah, Ga., for Glas gow, is reported ashore on Hatteras Shoals, N. C. The crew have been saved. The Newton Normal School closed Friday. There having been about 225 teachers in attendance. A Jew has beeu put into the peniten tiary of the State at last. His name is L. Ortor, and he is from Catawba. He was put in the "pen" on Wednesday. Mr. Thomas Lowry, who lived five miles from Shelby lost his dwelling house and its contents by fire Monday. His loss is estimated at 2,500, upon which he had no insurance. SOUTn CAROLINA. Beprcsentativc Foran, Democrat, says that he calculates the next house will be Republican by about ten to fifteen ma jority. A row occurred at Yorkville, last Saturday night, between two darkies and a crowd of 3 Cs railroad laborers. A colored man named Reckham was killed in the tight. Miss Fannie Wvatt, an inmate of Bish op Duncan's family, at Spartanburg, died Friday. She was a native of Vir ginia and was about 77 years old. 'amp Andcrcon, at Greenville, was finally abandoned Tuesday by the Sumter Guard, of Charleston, who had lingered in their tents, when they left for Tryon, N. C, till all others had gone. All the candidates for Greenville county offices started out Tuesday morning on a tour over the country, to attend to the series of meetings appointed by the ex ecutive committee. There are forty three ctndidates in the county. Hitmau Butchery. A horrible tragedy was unearthed shortly before Monday midnight by officers of the Desplains street Station, Chicago. On the second floor of No. 150 South Sangamon street, lay the bodies of Henry Hush, a retired saloon keeper, and his wife. Both were past middle age, and were looked upon by their neighbors as a particularly happy couple. They were last seen Saturday evening sitting on the front stoop, and to all appearances as pleasmtly disposed towards each other as could be imagined. Hush had fairly slaughtered his wife with a butcher knife and afterwards hanged himself. Appearance of Cotton Worms. Columbus, Ga., Special. Colonel B. T. Hatcher returned from his Russell county plantation Sunday night and re ports that worms have already appeared in his cotton. Col. Hatcher has 1,700 acres in cotton, and, unless ruined by worm's, will gather 1,000 bales. He will use paris green to poison the worms. The cotton crop is reported to be re markably fine in Russell county, and unless disaster occurs, the yield will be the largest in years. A Shrewd Trick. P. K. Deidcrick, a manufacturer of Londonville, N. Y., drove into the city of Albany Monday morning. After transacting some business at the Mechan ics' and Farmers' bank, he came out and laid a package containing $20,000 worth of bonds in his carriage. A stranger engaged him in conversation about his horse?, while a confederate abstracted the bonds from the carriage seat. They both escaped, but one thief was after wards arrested at Troy, N. Y. Ante-Bellnm Times. The following is clipped from a paper published at Atlanta, Ga., in 1858: CHOICE STOCK OF KEGROFS. A large lot of negroes on hand, con sisting of single men and women, plough boys and girls. Also several extra fine families. My old customers will find my stock, as heretofore in Atlanta, v selected and constantly replenished. Robert A. Crawford, Slave Trader, Cherry Street. Aqueduct Bridge Blown Up. An accident of a very peculiar nature occurred on the Virginia Midland, Mon day. Some excavations were licing made near the aqueduct bridge between Alexandria and Washington City, and it seems that the workmen overdid the thing. They put in a blast that not only made the desired excavatior, but tore down the bridge and covered the track with a mass of earth and rock. The ac cident blockaded the track completely and stopped the running of all trains for nine hours. The damage to the track was terrible. Destroyed Tombstones. A most atrocious and mysterious act I l 1 auu lauuaucui n no t rated on Walnut Hill, i ear Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday night. Unknown parties entered the Calvary Catholic cemetery and the United Jewish cemetery, on the Montgomery Pike, just outside the city limits, and destroyed nineteen tomb stones in the former cemetery, and five in Ihe latter place of the dead. The L'xrcntite Committees. The Republican Natienal Executive Committee are in session at their head quarters. 91 Fifth Avenue, New York city. The Democratic State Committee headquarters are at the Hoffman House, and busicess was commenced in earnest on Monday. Chairman Bryce was in consultation until after midnight at the National. Democratic headquarters with delegations from the different States. Somerset county. Penn., has a femal nercules who can shoulder three bushel of wheat and walk away with it. Sh has never seen a railroad. :o:- I hereby notify the public that I have picked out EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS worth of Spring and Summor oodo, which I have put on reperate tables. I shall sell them at ANY PRICE, no matt-r what you offer me, the go ids are yours. I don't believe in carrying over goods from one season to another, and put camphor in them I would rather sell them at ten cents on the dollar. MY MOTTO IS: "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS' to keep the wheels lolling. Eelow I will give you a few prices which will tell the tale. 150 Rolls of Straw Hatting from 15 to 25 cents per yard, worth 50 cents. ft ft Onfl wortb of SILKS and SATINS, in all shades, I shall dispcaa tpUVVV at 35 cts a yard; the real value is f 1 .40 everywhere. Cffl Pieces Plain and Fringed SATTEENS at 14 cents pei yarJ Wlf regular price 25 cents. W Fine SILK PARASOLS to be sold at any price. .gjgJEj CA Pieces of SCRIM for window curtains. 13 4 yards wide, at 10 WU cents a yard, worth 28 cents, in eight differnt shades and patterns. Clothing, Clothing, 150 MENS' DUSTERS at 45 cents a piece. 1,500 MENS', YOUTH'S and BOY'S ALL WOOL SUITS, in Sack and Frocks, the regular price $12.50, they are now moving at $4.75. 2,500 Pa r of Durable WORKING PANTS at 75 cent? a pair. Furniture! Furniture!! Furniture!! I HEREBY notify the public that I am selling out my entire stock of FURNITURE AT ANY PRICE, and will not keep it any more. My otl er departments require my entire time and attention and com pells me to make this move. I am determined that the Furniture MUST GO. )o( FOR CASH OR ON TIME. ALL the goods I have mentioned herein will be 6old, snd MUST BE SOLl' for cash or on time. WHEN you leave home with the intention to visit my store don't be misled by drumers ; come where you intended to go . ALL these goods were bought for SPOT CASH, and I can give them away if I chose to do so, and considering the above prices it begins to look very much like it. Remember the sign in front of my store. Joseph "The Champion H. WEOL &'BRS., Wholesale and Retail Merchante, GOLDSBORO, IT. C. IN ECONOMY THERE IS WEALTH! IN THE JUDICIOUS EXPENDITURE OE MONEY THERE IS ECONOMY! In buying j cur goods of us you will find that you are expending your money JUDICIOUSLY. HAVE YOU Our Clothing'and Gents' Furnishing Department. If not, depend upon it you're behind the times in knowledge of the prevailing ttyles. WE MAKE A Of our Merchant Tailoring Department, Northern Tailore. e OUR DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT is pronounced the most extensive in the citv. They are NICE; thty are NEW; they are NEAT. REMEMBER THE ONE PRICE SYSTEM When jo'i enter our Shoe Department. We are selling only Shoes of well-known manufacturer, and guarantee satisfaction as to PRICE and QUALITY. WE WILL DUPLICATE BILLS From any Market in our Wholesale Department. Call and be conduced. "Children's Carriages in the most unique stjles. CARPETS, MATTINGS, OILCLOTHS, ETC. A large assortment of pew and exclusive patterns, at Lowest Prices". IT WILL COST NOTHING To look through our Stock and convince yourself that we carry the most com plete line. H. 7EIL1.& BBOO. Edwards, of Low Prices. VISITED SPECIALTY and have your garments made by famous guarantee to please all. i i ;'l : 1 ! .1 1 n till it 5.1 3 r'tJ I : Ml i 1 0 A i.i ft 11
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