North Carolina Newspapers

." THE HEADLIGHT. ' " - - - ? . A. HOSCOWER, Editor, " HERE SIIALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, VNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBBIBED BY GAIN." VT. P. DAVIS, PnMbher. VOL. II. NO. 0. GOLDSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OGT. 31, 1888. Subscription, 01.25 Per Year. LOSS AND OA.IN. I forrowed that the golden day was dead. Its light no more the country side adorning; But whilst I grieved, behold! the East grew red With morning:. I sigbxl that merry spring was forced to go, And doff the wreaths that did so well be come her; But. whilst I murmured at her absence, lo! 'Twas summer. I moisrned because the da(Todil3 were killed By burning skies that scorched. tmy early jxwies; But whilst for these I pined my hands were! Witll ro3C J Hair brokenhearted I bewailed the end , IH triondships than which none had oace I seemed nearer; But whilst I wept I found a newer friend, j And dearer. Ar.d thus I learned old pleasures are estranged Only that something Letter may be given; Uatil at last we firfd this earth exchanged Fcr heaven. Good Worls. THE BURIED TREASURE. I'efore the occupation of India by the , British it was the richest country in gold, precious stones, rare jewel?, fine cloth and cutlery of any on'earth. While the poor w ere miserably poor, the , i . ... , . nca were immensely ncti. inis was so even up to the breaking out of the great mutiny. When the British troops were fairly in line to strike at the rebellion, the watchword was: "Revenge and loot!" It was understood all through the service that whatever a soldier could lay hands on should become his plunder. Thoy didn't fight any the worse for that, but they struck a double blow at the Indians. They crippled them linancially as well as in a military sense, and the people have never recovered, and never can. The amount of loot taken out of Iudi.i during the rebellion and directly afterward has been estimated at $t3')!).ii)0,000. As much more was contributed to the rebel cause by those who could give. Twice or three times as much was lost by fire and sword. England reasoned that an impoverished people could not rebel, and loot wa3 a part of her war policy. Ten years after 'the mutiny I was talking with a Mahara jah i-i the Pen:ab about the financial change in the condition of the people, tad ha said : "Ar the' outbreak of the war our peo ple h-.ried or hid away at least a hundred million dollar. I do not believe that the tr-nth part of this great sum h.ti yet been recovered. Those who secreted it wci" -lead before the close of the war, and this vast treasure is lost to u-." I vA not tell him that 1 had put in a yeiir ii India, and spent upward of $00 ) "coking for some of that treasure. hum was the fact, however. A couple ' of Englishmen and myself, forming an acquaintance in Bombay nnd having a spirit of adventure, pooled our cash and foil. wed up several pointers looking to buried treasure. We had thus far failed to !ii;ike any discoveries, and our part nership had been dissolved and the men had returned to Bombay. I wa; in the Pen;;ib on business connected with an Anio: ican house, and had given up the treasure business in dhgust. The words of the Maharajah recalled all m.7 enthu siasm, however, and within an hour after I left him I was determined to have one more pull for fortune, and to jet it a'oa This determination was hastened and solidified by another incident. I was talking with a captain of a native infantry regiment regarding some ruins I had encountered, and he said: '"You may have left a dozen fortunes behind you. At the outbreak of the war the.M people concealed a great deal of th 'ir weidth in cave and tpmnles. and a big share of it is there yet. When you stumble on a pile of ruins again give the place a good looking over for loot." 4 'But the natives have done that a hundred times over, I should say.' "You :ire wrong. Where they knew of treasure they may have unearthed it, but they fight shy of rambling about haphazard. Thoy believe all ruins to be haunted, and even if they arc not, you will be ctrtain to find hyenas and serpents about." "Have you ever heard of any treasure b' inj recovered?" I asked. ' Half a dozen instances, sir. Ths foimor Captain of this companv went homo with ."30, COD after doing two hour's work in the ruins of a temple rear Phailpul' The next day I 3tarted fcr Delhi, and there a bit of good fortune waited me. I fell n with a German naturalist who wa3 makirjg a collection for a national museum, and when he learned that I had had considerable experience ia that line he engaged me as assistant. He had two young men with him, thus making a party of four, and when we struck to the south west of Delhi, intending to take in tn'' pi tins and ""ursg'es batvu'eri thai ck ana Joarnpur, wenaa six native servants to carry the baggage. Our progress was slow and easy, as it was his intention to make a very full collection. The coun try over which we passed had no lints of railway then, and was unknown to white men except as they had hunted through it. There were tigers and other wild game in plenty, and it seemed to be the nursery of all India for serpents. There were days when we could not march ex cept a3 the ground was beaten by the natives in our front. There was a thin population, with the villages far apart &ut as an offset the natives were glad to render any aid, especially as soon as they eamed that we nofc ,. , , , . . rullnS race- Thc hate the7 flt the English was something terrible. This district had bceu almost depopulated and luite impoverished by the war. 1 e"y rulers had beea deposed, taxes levied with heavy hand, and the natives worked themselves up to the highest pitch of indignation as they talked j about it. I My one object was buried treasure. j While doing my duty by the Professor, I I had opportunity for extensive rambles ol the line of march, and I never failed to make inquiries of natives. This, as I afterward learned, was the worst policy could have adopted. Every ruin was sacred to them, and every white man was a dealer. One mijjht as well have asked them to forgive caste as to have expected them to locate the ruin3 of a religious temple for a white man. We had been out about twenty days, and at this time were in a permanent camp in a grove of mango trees on the bank of a creek, when a ryot, or common laborer, passed through our camp on his way to his village, about five miles away. The ruins were in a heavy jungle, but he told me how to strike a path which led near them. But for his excitement he would not have betrayed the location. In about three hours he returned to tell me that he had been mistaken in the location, which was to the south insjead of the west, and if he had said ruins he meant rocks. I was not deceived with his sec ond statement. lie wanted to keep me away from the ruins, and of course I was determined to visit them. If I went, I must go alone. Neither the Professor nor his young men had ever fired at anything more ferocious than an jackal, and they had no idea of risking themselves with a tiger. I had killed two of these, during my jaunts about the country, aud was quite certain of my nerve in case of another meeting. The native hid described this tiger as an o'd man-eater, who had carried off many villagers, and, as I must visit the ruins by day, he would certainly be at home. Bright and early next morning I was ready to start. My excuse to the Professor was that I inteaded to look for a certain bird which he had been very anxious to secure, and he never noticed that I took my heavy ritle instead of a shot gun. I also had a revolver and knife, and it was not more than an hour after sunrise when I set out. I followed the creek down to where it branched, and there I struck the path whuh the native had described. As near as I could determine it had been made by wild animals coming and going between the jungle and the creek, and at the first soft spot I found the im prints of the tiger's paws. They were fresh, too, and there was no doubt of his being at home. As I proceeded, the pat a. wound about in th.3 most e ccentric manner, while the jungle grew thicker. One could not see five feet in any direc tion, and the air was shut off. The firrt hint that I had reached the ruins came in the shape of a block of dre-sed stone lying right across my path. As I stepped upon it a great cobra wriggled slowly away from my feet, and I haw half a dozen columns and lengths of wall arising among the bushes. Fifteen years before here had been a clearing of perhaps a hundred acres, with a village of several thousand people, and a temple coveringhalf an acre of ground. A man-eating tiger now held sole pos session, while the clearing had grown up to jungle, and fire or explosion had laid the great temple in ruin3. Ten feet ahead of me was a secor.d block. I passed to that, and then the patn turned to the right and ran over a fallen wall. As I reached this latter place and looked around, the tiger was stretched out un the earth before me in a little open space. His legs were drawn up and he was gasping, and though I was greatly startled for a moment, I soon realized that he was dying. Indeed, he did not live above two minute after I set eyes on him. As I afterward learned, the natives had poisoned the body of a man he had k lied and only half devoured, and in finishing his iepa.st he had met h:s fate. He had doubtless just returned from satisfying his thir3t at the creek. It was well for me that I did not come a few minutes earlier. I examined the body cioif.-iy. aud found the tiger to be old and mangy, with many of his teeth decayed. These were sure evidences that he was a "solitary," and had no mate. I need, therefore, have no fear that any other animal more savage than a hyena was concealed in the near vicinity. The temple seemed to have been blown up with gunpowder. The walls were torn and rent and knocked down in every di rection, and column and block and carved work lay heaped together in strange confus'on. I was bewildered to see the vegetation growing up through the ruins so profusely, and it stood me in hand to move carefully in such a snake-infested spot. I picked my way carefully to the center of the ruins, and here I got a pretty fair idea of what the building had been. Here were the re mains of a shrine or altar, which had once been the cleanest of marble. It wa3 now stained and moss-grown and cov ered with creepers. To look for buried treasure in such a jumble was like look ing for a needle in a haystack; but I had come for that purpose, and felt that I must make a beginning. Flinging sev eral stones into the bushes to frighten any lurking serpents away,, I put down my gun and began at the creepers. In a little while I uncovered what I said was an altar or shrine. It may not have been. From the stone floor there was a solid walkabout six feet high, enclosing a space about six feet square. The stone which rested on these four walls was a foot thick, and carved around the edges. I could not tell whether the walls en closed a space or the whole cube was solid as a support for a pillar, but after a close inspection I discovered a spot where the end of a lever might be in serted. I had brought a hatchet to help me throush the jungle. With this I cut and trimmed a small tree, and after much effort I loosened the capstone until I could see that the walls enclosed a space. On the surface of this capstone I clealy made out where the foot of a pillar, which had probably helped to support the roof, had rested. It lay near by, but was broken by its fall. It was not more than eight o'clock in the morning when I reached the ruins, but it was two o'clock in the afternoon before 1 had the heavy stone slewed around far enough to upset its equi librium and force it to fall off. I was in a tremble of excitement from the first, and as I slewed the stone further aud further around I felt more and more sanguine of a large cavity beneath. 1 would not look in, however, until the stone was clear off. When I did bend over the wall and look down it was to find a wooden chest occupying nearly all the space. I sounded it with a pole, and it crave back such a solid echo that I saw I must pull the wall down to get at it. This took me an hour or more, as the plaster waj as hard as the stone. but at length I was at the chest. It was closed but not locked, and as . threw up the lid my eye3 beheld such . i sight as will seldom come to man. That J chest held a good solid ton of loot. I how many tens of thousands of dollars worth I cannot say. There were all the I rold coins of India. There were brace I lets and rings, and earrings and charms and bars of gold. There wen diamonds and pearls and rubies anc I otuer precious stones. tome were in leather bags, some in parcels, some tied together, aud on the lid of the trunk was a list of articles with the names of owners. I hung over thf chest for perhaps half an hour, hardly daring to breath for fear it would fly away. I was rich, rich be yond the wildest dream a poor man ever had. This was loot. It was all mine if I could keep the find from the Govern ment ollcials. I could not remove it without help. I was a stout man, but I could not have lifted one end of the chest clear of the ground. I took a paper containing four diamonds, a pack age of gold coin which counted up about $1230, and a couple of bars of the metal, and started back to camp on a run. I had teen so taken up with my work that I had given no attention to any thing else. 1 now discovered that the heavens were rapidly darkening, and I had only just reached camp when a ter rible storm set in, and never let up for a moment until after midnight. The story of my discovery, told only to ths wh.te men of tne party, created intense excitement, but the storm and the dark ness prevented any move. As soon as daylight came, however, we were off, but a terrible disappointment was in store for us. The chest .was there as I had left it, but everything in the shape of contents had been removed. Without a doubt, some native had been spying on me the day before as I worked, and he had given the alarm and brought S a party to the spot during the night. I got $2.,000 out of it as it was, but it only served to annoy me. At five o'clock in the afternoon I had the wealth of two or three kings in my hands. At suanso next morning all had vanished all but the triflle I had carried away to prove the fact of my discovery. It was my first and last find in India, and I never think of it without being inconsistent enough to hope that every dollar of the spoil caused the death of a native. First American Newspaper. The ftag.t attempt to publish a news paper in North America was made in Boston in 1680 and only one number of the paper was issued, a copy of which is in the State Paper Office in London. We find the following account of it in a new book written by Samuel Merrill of the Boston Daily Globe entitled, "News paper Libel, a Ilaad Book for the Press," published by Ticknor fc Co., Boston: A AA. Ul Ob 11 n C?Jtl7 1 JUU11)UVU Alt . . V. . was called PuHick Occurrences, and it bore the date September 25, 1690. Its editor was Benjamin Harris, whose of fice was at the London Coffee House, Boston. Fifty-one years earlier the pioneer printing-press was brought into the Colony from England, but the govern ment so restricted the practice of print ing that it is only strange that even at the expiration of a half-century any col onist should dare to .employ the crude machinery of one of the early presses in the field of journalism. In 16C2 the General Court of Massachusetts Bay had appointed two persons 4 'licensers of the press and that their office was no sine cure is shown by the fact that in 1668 having allowed Thomas a Kempis's "De Imitatione Cristi" to be printed, they were cautioned to make a more careful revision, and, meantime, the press was ordered stopped. Even the laws for a long time were not allowed to be printed, and the burning of offending books by the common hangman was a frequent occurrence. This first American newspaper was a little sheet of three piinted pages, each page containing two columns. Mr. Harris, the sole publisher, editor and reporter, thus announced his intentions in hU prospectus: .t is designed that the Country shall be furnished once a moneth (or if any Glut of Occurrences happen oftener) with an Ac count of such considerable things as have arrived unto our notice. In order hereunto, the Publisher will take i:it pains he can to obtain a Faithful Itelation of all such things; and will par ticularly make himself beholden to such Persons in Boston whom he knows to have been for their oun use the diligent Observers of such matt 'rs. In spite of the editor's declared inten tions, Pvhlick Occurrence did not con tinue to appear "once a moneth." Its publication was declared contrary to law by the I egislature, and the attention of the licensers of the press was called tc it. The issue for September 2oth wa marked "Numb. 1," but "Numb. 2 never appeared, and thus was the infant newsaper strangled in its cradle. It was nearly fourteen years before the next newspaper was started in America." Tne first newspaper of recognized standing was published in Boston th 21st of April, 1704, by John Campbell, a Scotchman, who was a bookseller and postmaster of the town. It was entitled the Boston Neics letter. Seeking a Molel Cavalry Horse. Although the Arab horse is celebrated for his feats of endurance and courage, the impression prevails in army circles in this country that the Arab blood so com mon in American horses must be modi fied by a reinfusion of the strain of steeds. It is becoming difficult in this country, where horses are so plentiful, to mount our 10,030 cavalry, a? the de sideratum of an animal which unites great speed with weight, carrying power and endurance, is hard to pick out from the animals brought before the purchasing army. The formation of a government stud, modeled on those of France. Ger many and Austria, has beea suggested by cavalry ofiicers, who find plenty of heavy horses, and plenty of speedy horses, but few that are both heavy and speedy. The same trouble i3 experienced in England, where it is said that the horses offered to the purchasing officers are altogether too "fine" for the service. Austria seems to have some nearness; to solving the problem of producing the model cavalry horse in Hungary. Proud as Turkey is of its posse ssion of the Arab stock, it buys largely in Austria when it can raise the money to procure cavalry remounts. - Bodon Transit itU An Aboriginal Superstition. One of the peculiarities of the Indians was that animals had spirits, and they addressed the in as if they were human. It is related that an Indian once shot a large bear, which fell and lay groaning. The Indian reproached it, saying: "You are a coward, and no warrior. Your tribe and mine are at war, and yours be gan it. If you had wounded me, I would not have uttered a sound; job cry and disgrace your ribe. LADIES C0LUUM. Parisian Shades. ITere are some ot the shades adopted by a syndicate of Paris manufacturers for the goods they will make for the winter trade: Emeraude a deep, rich emerald green. Scarabee A dark yellow green. Cuoroncou A shade lighter than scarabee. Peupliere A shade lighter stilL Nil A light watery green. Coquelicot A rich blood red. Boulanger A brighter shade of red. Bouton d'Or A golden yellow. Mais Straw color. Volcan A reddish teiTa-cotta. Alezan A dark reddish brown. Pactole A light golden brown. Oxide A dark slate. Lioncean A dark fawn. Heron A grayish drab. Luciole A gendarme blue Glove. Evening gloves for winter's wear are entirely unlike those worn with morning suits in their intention. The latter are meant to imitate those worn by men, are heavily wrought on the back, often with silk differing in color from itself, and have buttons matching the embroidery. The latter hare very fine lines of work on the back, and are embroidered on the long wrists, and are intensely fem inine and delicate in appearance. Their color is tan, or some of its varieties, al mond, or a golden brown, which barely escape 6;af yellow, but the morning gloves are sometimes a genuine red, rang ing from the hue of copper fresh from the mine to Japanese red; sometimes of tbe blended red and yellow of the blood orange, and sometimes green, from the dark color called Foyal oak to the pale shade of the moss which grows on beach and birch trees. Boston Beacon. Esponsed a Prince. "At the studio of a young portrait painter," says a London correspondent of the Chicago Herald, "I saw a picture which was very curious in its subject. It contained two upright figures one that of a swarthy Indian rajah covered with jewels and wearing the star of In dia upon his breast, the other a tall and love! English girl of about e'ghinen.-iu a pink dress, her hair gathered behind her by a ribbon and falling loose again.. The rajah is smiling the smile of proud possessorship and the young girl is look ing with a somewhat bewildered air at her future lord. They are two real people. She is the daughter of an Eng lish hemist, and her parents have con sented to her marriage with the rajah, who, after the ceremony, will lake her out to his dominions. One instance of such marriage between Christian maid and pagan man is very well known and hs turned out a decided success. A Miss King, the daughter of a Governor of an English jail, married about thirteen years ago "the ahereef of Oran,'' who is the spiritual head of the empire of Morocco. The shereef, who is a descendent of the prophet, on marrying Miss King, renounced all his other wives, whom he lodged in an asylum at Tang'er, which it is a part of his duty to keep up for the refugees from the secular power, and he moreover gave to his son by his Christian wife the sacred stick, the possession of which at the time of the shereefs death determines the succession among his children to his sacred office and great possessions." Fashion Notes. Fashionable dinner toilets are made of moire silk. Many new weaves are seen among fall dress fabric. Evening dresses are made of black lace and figured tulle. There is a marked preference for sold trimmings, which are much used on morning caps and neglige jackets. The redingofe style of dress is by far the most fashionable for all dressy oc casions. Diietoire redingotcs hold the preference. Prominent among the new trimmings are finrer-length fringes of half-inch black moire ribbon run through a slen der ladder of cut jet. Cream-white Flemish lace is much used for yokes, blouse-vests, cuffs, and antique collars upon dressy costumes of moire or faille Francaise. .The ivory white of several seasons since now appears again iu all fabrics. Cream is still favored, however, in silk", wool and crepaline textures. A rather pretty inner toilet U made of dove colored faille, with a panel of gray passementerie and bead fringe on one side and the corsage filled in with a stomacher of fine plaited tulle. There is great variety in sashes both as to color and stuff, but the favorites are the wide half-belt3 which comedown from under the srm, ths soft, lcoselr knotted Turkish sash, and the fine di aphanous sash of the tint and texture of the rainbow. Dresses of black and white foulard are in favor with young ladies. When set off with white or cream embroidered' muslin they have a fresh and youthful appearance, and the whole outfit neces sary to the making of one is compara tively inexpensive. run. It's all up With the balloonist. A candid man The confectioner. A lay figure A plaster cast of a hen. A ghost of a show A spiritualistic seance. Eanks of deposit The margins of the Nile. To remove paint Sit down oa it ba fore it is dry. Thieves are bound to their professloa by hooks of steal. When a metre is out of order it iJ probably troubled with the gas-trick fever PstUlurg Chronicle. Pulling weeds is not so unpleasant work, particularly when they grow oa a pretty little widow's bonnet. Boss (to new dry goo-ds clerk): "Your name sir! I forget." Clerk: "Mr Wurms." Boss: "Ah, go in the tape department." Detroit Free Press. In penal times the Roman Catholics in Ireland used to have mas celebrated on the hillsides and in the lonely cot. Tho latter place was their mass-cot. 8ift ings. Thc dude whose tailor pledged him self to make him a pair of pants for Sunday last and failed, now refers to the trousers as breechei of promise. Sijtingt. Small boy (reading the paper) "What is a weather report, pa?" Pa "There are several kind, sonny. The thunder might come under the head of weather report." Young Wife "Before we were mar ried, George, you never smoked in my . presence." Young husband "I know it, my dear, and you never wore curlpapers in mine." "Bridget," said the mistress to thc. new hired girl, "you can go now and put the mackerel ii snau." "Sure, ma'am, air ye reduced to that," asked Bridget, sympathetically. Foreman of a Missouri Paper "What shall I do if that red-haired Joe Smith comes into the office howling for your gore again?" Editor (quietly )-"Doublo lead him." Burlinglo i Fne Presi. Subscriber (to editor) "What's the matter with the gentleman at the desk near the window? He (ertainly has a fit." Editor "He's all right: he is writing some campaign poetry." Eyoclt. "Is it not singular," f-aid he as ho gazed at the mighty cataract of Niagara 44that the seemingly insignificant quan tity of moisture that arie3 from that vast volume of water should be mist?" Sifting s. Between the man who wan's his name in his paper, thc man who does not want it in, and the man whose name should bo published for the good of the commu nity, the publisher is sometimes in a quandary. Clarion Penn.) ficpub'ican. "Is the editor-in-chief in?" asked a stranger, as he sauntered into the city reporter's room at eight o'clock in the morning. "No, sir," replied tho janitor, kindly, "he docs not come down so early. Is there anything I can do for your" 4 'Perhaps so. Are you connected with the poetical department o the pa per?" "I am, sir." "Oh, what do you do?" "I empty the waste baskets, sir.' MUiraulee Sentinel. A Chinese Parable. Joaquin Miller has been translating for the New York Independent some quaint stories from an old Chinese history in hia possession. Here is one of them: "In the Chinese dynasty lived a boy named Wu Micg, who at eight years of age furnished a woadcrful example of filial piety. "His parents wcr:; poor; indeed, such was their poverty that they were unablo to provide themselves with mosquito netting, and so found themselves ex posed to thc cruel assaults of thoso ferocious little animals. Thc filial heart of the on would not allow him to look with complacency upon the restless, sleepless condition oThis revered parents, and feo every tumtner's night he retired early, long ix-forehis fathei and mother, and allowed tho ir.o(iuiUei to take a full mt' tl of Ids teider ilesh and , pure blood. Although they were cry many, he would not drivs them away lest, their burger Leing urmtid. they go from him to disturb the rent of those he loved better tbau Le h.vcd Llcv-'df. "Truiy hs Ct-lk-d all others in filial piety .ind llic L: cherished for hia rarei.ti.'- ( i