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ESTA15IJSIIKT) 1887.
GOLDSBOHO, N. C, THURSDAY, MA11CH 15, 1894.
VOL. VII. NO. 28.
The Old Friend
An-1 t!w 1-4 fr:.-?..l, that rover
f tils von, is S;mm-.ns Liver l.V-gu-la:.-,r,
(ilxo Ilt-l Z: that's wUt
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,-l,U sh-riM li.-t l-o :.-'-,. '
that anything else will !.
It is the. King, of Liver Aledi-(:::.-.-;
i i llK-r than pi'!?, and
tab-,; the J.!:;'--.; of Quiihhe ; !id
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Liver, Kidn-vs ami Jl.v.els and
give.-; ie-w iii'.j to the vhol.. .-;.'.-t'-m.
This is the i;a: licino v -u
want. S-..M l.y ail "I 'rug-gists' in
LapiM, or in 1'owd'T to i taken
dry or made into a t'a.
3fat.y packac:: "i
Halt tli' '. Stum;) in reel on v;n;!!er,
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Liquors ;uul Wines !
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Jas. L. Dickinson,
At John Gam's ( Hd Stand.
L. G uldoll,
Contractor ik And Builder,
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t.y; Specially on Cottages. Plans all(l
e-timates turni-hed ., application.
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HIK J.i ! i: r K i'l : . TVs Tf-TnMy :
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rht as
Yon Can.
fore Voll,
"I'll- world stretches nut
A Held !'! Vina- J 1 1 1 1 :ilnl I
And tlM," eh.lids liiaVoflell !oat
i :t in :
And often !enipo-ts iiikI rain.
I'm- fcarie--s of -tonus which o'ci-iakeyeiu-
I'u.-h forswtrd thre.ngh all like a man
Coed foriunc wiil never forsake you,
If yini (!' as near right :i you can.
Hememher, the will to lo rightly.
If used, will th.' evil eonfouii.l:
I.isedailv iiv eoll-eieiM-e, that Iiightly
Your sleep lnav lie peac.-iui aii'l soinnl.
iii lli.- -triet path of iluty iie'e-r waver,
Let honesty shape every plan.
And life w ill' of I'aiadi-e savor.
If you do ne-ar riifht a- you can.
Thoiiuh I'.m-." dai k. -t -caudal may speed.
And -Wise v. iih the shlesvdest of taet
To injure your fame, never heed,
Hut ju-tlv and hone-.-lly act:
And ask of' the Wider of Heaven
To .-as o vonr fair name a- a man
And all that you a-k w ill lie given.
If von do as near right as you can.
(he ropuiar Widmv.
is no irainsavinir tin'-fact
There
that the
w'ulosv is tla1 niot popular
svoiua.i'
str. mi
comne
who t'.its across tin mad- j
f social lif". Hut the lavs' of j
satiou sets a pir'u-e on all the j
favors of fate, and the widow, how- j
ever o'ioomy of shining her environ- j
men t. is no exception to the rule.
-ays the Halliinoiv Sun. Are you a j
loved and lovinir wife, with the strong ;
rio-ht arm of the host of men to shield j
and protect yon from the world and)
its calumny? Then know that the!
removal of that am; means your own j
! transformation in the eyes of the!
' world to a person answering to an !
entirely different description. The1
! world stejis up higher in order to;
: obtain a lietter -int of view and it I
ferrets out motive for action where i
no motive exists ana it rcarus you
with su.-picio;i where there is no
cause. The world has an evil eye
and the lens through which it ob-;
serves distorts' the objects passing:
before it. The world lias a vivid im- j
agination also and a redisposition
to mistake Hm imagination for its j
memory. It is one of the traits for j
which popularity compensates or
vice versa that the world keeps an '.
eye on widows and their every ac
tion is fraught with interest. In the
environment of widowhood woman
must needs pay the price. i
Pickens immortalized Mr. "Wdler :
by putting in his mouth the words
Samivel, beware of the vidders."i
The expression has been handed j
down and will continue to be. like j
any other wise old saw that creates j
capital as it ;oes, even where there j
is small foundation to build on. j
(leorere "Washington and Napoleon!
lionaparte both married widows.
each of whom had two children, a j
boy and a rirl. and it is also a coin-,
cidence in history that neither of;
them bore children to their illustri-;
dus lords. ;
The superior quality of the halo
that hovers about the head of a pop- j
ular widow is imply enough ex- j
plained. She comes upon the matri-1
monial carpet fully eipiijiped with a ;
knowlcd.o'e of the opposite sex. She1
understands a man better than he
does himself. Sn
plane of conirad
meets him on the
ship, and lie feels
that same interest and repose in her
society that he does in the society of
his mother and sister the same re
pose, minus the monotony. She
humors him and she sympathizes
with him. and .-la flatters him, and
looking at himself through her eyes
he beholds his foibles in the light of
irtnos 1 . -eoks her viresoiioo iiud
. . ' , A, . i m '
propinquity does the rest, and all m ;
4, 4 " ' , . ,
the most natural manner m the-
, , i
world. !
She suggests to him in a thousan.
ways how necessary he is to her ex
istence, and she invites a hundred
little schemes of attention an ordi
nary woman never thinks about, and
surprised to know how clever
No other woman ever sug-
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! ge.-ts to hmi that he is clever, and
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when she is cov shades of las anees-
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tors protect lam trom her w hen she1
' .
I 1S coy. A tnous.tnd exhibitions of'
I? t v
tcinmme cooueirv materialize
widow that never found vent when
the same woman was in the bloom of
girlhood.
A Woman's Peculiar Dream.
Talking of dreams, a Winston
young married woman had a peculiar
dream the other evening. She dream
ed that she with her baby was pre
parin' to ,ret into a train. The first
step wa.-
Lher hirh. and she re-
quested a gentleman to hold her ba
by while she got in. He coiwnted.
but before he could return the infant
to the arms of its mother, the train
started and left without the child.
The grief of the young woman was
intense, and so troubled was her
mind that she invoke. Her relief at
finding' it all a dream was so great
that she decided to buy a book on
dreams and learn what it all signi
fied. On turning to the index she
found that such a dream as she expe
rienced foretold that the dreamer
would receive twice as much as he
had lost. "What should I get," she
said io a friend innocently, "that
would bo twice as much to me as my
baby?" --Twins," said her friend la-
unically, and
him since.
she has not spok
The Marion Record tells of are
cent marriage in McDowell county.
in which the bride not only furnished
the license, but bought and paid for
the wedding clothes of the groom.
D as .Near
AUP WITH HIS FAMILY.
I!; itnIii!ros in a Coididential Chat as to
How Tliey (ot to i'lorida.
It lias bec-n said before that a town
is just what its people choose to make
it.- Eight years passed since I was
in San ford, and her own citizens do
not realize the change that these few
years have made. It was then all
wood and sand and the houses scat
tered and the suburbs uncleanlyybut
now the streets are as firm as as
phalt; the sidewalks paved and shad
ed with livooaks; brick have come
down from a thousand to 51. and
beautiful blocks have been built
with them. The vacant lots have
been improved and are occupied with
pleasant, inviting homes. Every
thing looks clean and healthy and the
numerous railroad shops give life
and activity to the place. San ford
is still the gateway to eastern Flori
da, and her growth, though slow, is
sure. The climate is all that can be
desired, and balmy breezes blow soft
over the lakes and pines and orange
groves.
My wife and daughter arrived here
on Friday, from our home in Car
tersville. They took the sleeper at
night s here snow and sleet covered
the ground, and in just twenty hours
were here basking in the sunshine,
astonished and bewildered at the
great transition. I thought my wife
would come. She said she wouldent
and wanted me to come home; but T
wasn l readv. and so I carelessly
mentioned in my letters the numer
ous bouquets of flowers that were I
sent me ever and anon as I traveled j
around, and how I gave them away
to the pretty girls on the trains, and
sure enough she packed her trunk
and telegraphed nic to meet her at
Sanford. She locked up the house,
loaned out the cow. let Mr. Harwell
have old Molly for her vittles and
clothes, gave the dog to Aunt Ann,
our good old cook; then cried a little
over the grandchildren and departed
those coasts. It was a mighty big
thing for Iter to do. but our youngest j
daughter came with her, and there '
are two more at Clear Water, be- j
sides the little black-eyed pet, and j
what wouldn't a mother do to see her J
children, to say nothing of me. I
have not yet been able to find out j
whether I am of any consequence or j
not. but she is here and is happy.
Eight years ago she spent a long,
sad winter here nursing a sick boy in
a little room up-stairs in a red house,
and she saved him. as it were, by
grace, with nothing but skin on his
bones, and now he is here in charge
of the railroad hospital, trying to
save somebody else. He is a doctor
now. and our family friend. Dr. Cald-
well, who i
sytem. call.
surgeon for the Plant j
d him here and keeps !
him I.,
dressi
y cutting and slashing and
' and bandaging mangled
limbs and prescribing' for the sick
men in the shops. Th. patients in
the hospital average MOil a month for
they are brought here from all along
the line of this great system and
treated and maintained free of
charge. This is an original idea of J
Mr. Plant and I am told there is but ;
one other free railroad hospital in j
the United States. Some English i
visitors said the other day that they i
never heard of such philanthropy in i
the old country and they were amaz- j
ed at the extent and cleanliness and
, . ., , ,
care that was visible ac re,
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In this hospital the black are as
, l.
-i ' good as the white, the poor as good
as those who are not poor. The dis
pensary, the laboratory, the reading
room, the bathhouses, the kitchen
and laundry are all complete. The
annual cost of this establishment.
with its paid physicians and attend-!
iiiiin must in- "rat, uuti it uiniosi
., " i
reconciles a traveler to 4 cents a
.,.,. ... , '
mile lor las fare. This hospital svs-;
. ,A
tern is. of course, good policy as well
" 1 - .
as philanthropy, for tue men in the i
tints, must be great, and it almost ;
as philanthropy, for the men in the
shops and on the trains and the lab-i
oivrs along the line appreciate their
security when wounded or sick, and
they stick to their places.
Yesterday was Sunday, and I met
Georgians in the reading room. Some
of them were from old Gwinnett and
were the sons of my schoolmates.
How their faces brightened when
'u'-v ni('t nK an( ln0 w,ult their
miners said me latners now dead
and the children scattered. Have I
outlived them all? Is everylodj'
dead of the past generation? I met a
lady last week whose mother was at
my mother's wedding and helped to
prepare the wedding feast.
T walked around with our boy to
show him the little red house where
he was sick so long, but he couldn't
recall anything, for he was brought
; there when delirious, and we took
him away before memory was re
stored. We carried him on a cot to
; the boat and as we stopped by the
way to tell some friends good-by he
pulled the sheet over las face and
; whispered: ''Please go on and take
mo home,
to sot
I don't want the people
His mother said: "Ralph,
won't you thank Dr. Caldwell for all
his kindness?" ''No. mamma, no: I
saw papa pay him for it." Oh. the
sickroom, the death chamber. How
much of life is lived in it; how much
of anxious fear
how much of grief
j and heartbreaking is felt in every
I family felt but remains unwritten
and untold. I think of that sick
room now with its long night watch
es, its hoMs and fears, and how the
emaciated boy living did languish
and languishing did live for those
long, weary months, and, how the
vampire left him at last when it had
sucked all his flesh away and left him
a skeleton. AYhat is politics; what
is fame; what is wealth; what" is
pleasure when compared with good
health and the treasures of a house
hold? "We are going down to Clear "Wat
er next Saturda' to gather the fam
ily together. I am plotting against
my wife, for we will get her in a sail
boat and visit the island where she
can gather shells from the beautiful
beach, and see the girls float and
struggle in the surf. They had hard
work to gvt our friend, Mrs. Aiken,
in a sailboat, for she, too, is getting
along in years, and is cautious, but
she is proud of it now.
Old people feel timid because
they feel helpless, but they are
more fit for heaven and should have
more faith iu time of danger. Car
tersville will be well represented at
Clear "Water, for with the Aikens
and our family there will be fifteen
of us, besides eight more of our kin
dred from Louisville, and ten of the
party are children. My daughter's
house will soon be finished and then
we will have more room and more
comfort. She will spend the sum
mer there and next winter she will
have two boarders that I know of.
for as long as the monev holds out we
will spend our winters in Florida. It
will save colds and coal and blankets
and winter clothes and carpets and
be cheaper than living at home. I
never enjoyed climate as much as I
have within the last two months.
Since I wrote you, I have visited
the famous Samson lemon grove of
C.O.OWO trees, and from which thirty
two carloads were shipped this sea
son. The scene is lovely and pic
turesque beyond description. The
broad avenues between the rows have
here and there a stately palm that
dignities the picture, and the glossy
waters of Tampa bay are seen adown
each row as a fitting end to the vista,
A large ornamented packinghouse
and dock adorn the landing place and
a little railway stretches from one
end to the other of the grove. Of
course the fruit is the lemon of com-
merce, but T saw two lemons that
grew near by that averaged five
pounds each, and one measured
twenty-four inches in circumference.
I had no idea that it was a real lem
on, but it was, and made good lemon
ade. One of these is enough for a j
larre picnic. Every
picnic, r.very clay or twojt.uk ;n jlis (vnar. James Brice. of
brings new surprises to a traveler in i
Florida.
Bii.i. Am. i
A Little 15m:ii Experience.
Dunvillc Star.
A gentleman who is boarding at
the Burton, and who spent some
time in Glasgow, Ya., during the
boom, told us to-day of a little of his
experience, during boom times. He
said he went to Glasgow in the early
days of the boom with only fifteen
dollars in his pocket; soon got a 1
option on some property and sold it,
making one thousand dollars. After
that he went in the real estate busi-
ness and cleared right alon;
one
thousand dollars per day.
He would
ed dollars
for three
buy a lot for four hund
and sell it right along for three!
thousand dollars. The excitement .
got so great that he loaded himself
down with real estate. I
Soon the bubble burst and value !
began to shrink, and in an effort to
hedge losses, he got deeper in. The !
first thing lie knew he was involved i
and then came a crash with him, and j
when the end came he had to borrow I
m-n it- i-ii liiuie lie uuci
. ,,,
money to get out of Glas
.,
only without a dollar 1
worse off than nothing, as
to surrender all of las prop
isgow. Not !
but ronllv!
he oifered
to surrender all of his property if his
creditors would release him. Thi
they would not do. At one time he
could have cleared out all of his prop
erty in Glasgow and left the city
with seventy-five thousand dollars
clear profit but he wanted more.
Pie told us when he left the city that
he had to borrow money to get out
of the town. Now if this was not a
j boom experience, what is it?
Dallies At A Discount.
Statesville Landmark.
There seems to be a great surplus
of babies iu the country. Sunday
morning about 1 o'clock a strange
woman knocked at the door ef Mr. J.
D. Hamrick, of Asheville, and when
he appeared at the door she asked
him if he didn't want a present, at
the same time handing him a bundle
which she told him jvas a baby.
Strange to say, Mr. Hamrick took
the present and allowed the woman 1
to depart without asking her any
questions. Tuesday morning about
2 o'clock a little waif was found on
the steps of Mr. P. S. Powell, of
Charlotte. A note, evidently writ
ten by an educated person and signed
"Its Mother," begging Mr. and Mrs.
Powell to care for it, accompanied
the baby. A neighbor lady who has
no children begged for the baby and
it was given to her. In compliance
with the request made by '"Its
Mother," the child has been named
Pauline Constance No. 4.
A NATION'S DOINGS.
The ws From Everywhere (Jathered
and Contlensctl.
The bank of Harrison, Neb., closed
its doors Monda.
A locomotive explosion at Hayes
Creek, Pa., Saturday, killed the fire
man and two brakemen.
Illness and melancholia led William
P. King, a LJaltimore young man, to
shoot himself fatally, Monday.
The resignation of Rev. T. Do Witt
Talmage as pastor of the Brooklyn
tabernacle has been withdrawn.
Dan Coughlin, on his second trial
for the murder of Dr. Cronin, was
acquitted Thursday in Chicago.
Safe crackers with dynamite rob
bed the Pleasanton (Kan.) Dank,
Thursday night, of $1,"00 in cash.
Caught under a speeding trolley
car. Thursday, Mrs. Sol. Wertheim,
of Denver, Col., was cut to pieces.
By the explosion of a sawmill boil
er at McDonald, Pa., Saturday, J. E.
Neely was blown 40 feet and killed.
In jumping from a moving train
near Allentown, Pa., Saturday, Har
vey Keyser, a school boy, was killed.
Remorse for his dual life, led for
many years, drove Samuel II. Cheek,
an Atlanta contractor, to suicide
Friday.
By the fall of a partly erected
building at Stoneham, Mass., Friday,
Nathan Loud, aged 72, was crushed
to death.
Blazing gas and the fall of an im
mense rod: killed four miners in the
Richmond shaft at Scranton, Pa.,
Saturday.
By the caving-in of the roof of a
talc mine at Freemansburg, N. Y.,
Saturday. William Apple was crush
ed to death.
(letting into his father's prescrip
tion case, Dr. J. W. Rucker's two-year-old
son ate morphine pills, Sun
day, and died.
Because her former lover was court
ing another girl. Carrie Lahr, aged 18.
of Brooklyn, swallowed carbolic acid
Friday and died.
Near Jefferson ville, Ind., Tuesday,
William Bowman, a prominent farm
er, was killed by a load of stone over
turning upon him.
Masked men took Sylvester Rhodes,
a negro murderer, from the jail at
Collins. Ga., Thursday night and shot
him full of bullets.
In a row over dominoe at "Whiting,
Tex.. Friday night. Frank Barteck
stabbed William IsIielT, and was
himself fatally shot.
By striking a match to find a gas
Columbus. O.. on Friday, was killed
,y t)e -as explosion.
j A tenement trap on Eighth ave
i nue, New York, was burned to the
ground Friday night. Two inmates
perished in the flames.
Masked robbers held up a stage
coach neir Elkhorn, Cal., Thursday
night, and rifled the money chest of
several thousand dollars.
Two iiouses were demolished in a
storm at Butler, Mo., Sunday, and
Jasper Smith, wife and two daugh
ters, were serioush- hurt.
In the doorway of his own house.
j Stephen Geer, a dairyman, of Jefier-
sonviile, Ind., was shot dead bv
an
unknown assassin, Monday night.
Two men were instantly killed, two
fatllnv burned and live others dan-
gerously hurt in an explosion in a
coal mine near Leeds, Mo., Monday.
In defense of his sister, Frank Su
da. aged 12, of Grader's Camp, Mo.,
on Saturday, fatally shot J. A. Mor
ton, who made improper proposals.
During a quarrel near Eugene,
Ore., Tuesday. Albert Moss fatally
shot David Coleman and his two
1 daughters, then blew out las brains.
! Eager to die together, J. J. Leek,
a young dentist, of San Francisco,
and Miss Alice Aldersley, took gas
Saturday, and" accomplished their
design.
NearCelina. Tenn, Thursday night,
Geo. A. Smith, while intoxicated,
killed his wife and youngest child
and attempted to murder his sister-in-law.
Unknown assassins, waylaid Jos
eph M. Archer, a rich stex-k dealer
of North Baltimore, O., Saturday
night, murdered him and robbed the
body of $3,000.
For attempted assault upon a
young girl James Erickson, aged TO,
was tarred and feathered by indig
nant residents at Edgerton, Ind.,
Tuestlay night.
While attempting to cross Jackson
river near Covington, Ya., in a bug
gy, Saturday, the vehicle was upset
in the deepest portion and its occu
pants, Mrs. Dr. II. W. Anderson and
infant were drowned.
Rev. W. M. Thompson, an escaped
convict, was arrested in his pulpit
of the Methodist church at East Bir
mingham, Sunday, to serve out a
life sentence for killing a brother
minister five years' ago.
A vestibuled train on the Norfolk
and Western railroad was wrecked
by a landslide near Roanoke, Ya.,
Thursday, killing the engineer and
severely injuring the fireman, who
was thrown into the James river.
National Capital Matters.
Fnim our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, March 10, ISO I.
President Cleveland has, according
to information from a trustworthy
source, positively refused to act as
mediator between the Democrats of
the Finance Committee and the Dem
ocratic Senators who have been fight
ing for radical changes in the tariff
bill, in order to protect certain in
dustries in their States. When asked
to do so he is said to have indulged
in some very vigorous language con
cerning criticisms which Democratic
Senators have made upon the floor
of the Senate and elsewhere about
his alleged interference with the leg
islative branch of the government,
and to have expressed surprise that
he should have been asked to have
anything to do with the matter. This
is in accord with my understanding
of one of the reasons for the Presi
dent's hunting trip. He wished to
be away from Washington while the
Democratic Senators were agreeing
upon the tariff bill, and was both
surprised and disappointed when he
returned to find that an agreement
had not been reached, feelings prob
ably shared by ninety-five per cent,
of the Democratic part
It seems difficult .to convince the
Republican Senators that they do
not possess all of the parliamentary
knowledge and skill in that body,
but they were very cleverly outwit
ted by the Democrats this week in a
scheme of their own putting up. A
Republican caucus decided to spring
the immediate consideration of the
Bland bill for the coinage of the
seigniorage, which passed the House
last week, on the Senate, counting
upon the votes of the Populists, and
upon forcing the silver Democrats to
choose between tariff and silver,
their idea being to keep the Bland
bill before the Senate for an indefi
nite period, in order to prevent con
sideration of the tariff bill. The
Democrats learned of this programme
and gave the Republicans a surprise
thev have not vet recovered from.
by taking the initiative in getting j pretenses, A. Traeey Hicks, a young
the Bland bill before the Senate, teacher of Cleveland county, now
Senator Voorhees stating that as it lingers in Shelby jail,
would probably be about ten days T'ie counties are falling in line on
before the tariff bill (now before the j the question of working convicts on
full Financ e committee) would tx j tiie public roads. Iredell county be
ready for the consideration of the nii ti,e SVstem this week.
Senate, and that time was ample for . ... " r , , r
the disposition of the Bland bill.
Senator Sherman made an ineffectual
effort to have the Bland bill sent to
the committee.
S nators Yest and McPherson
made personal explanations in the
Senate this week concerning charges
made against them, in a New York
papier, of having speculated in the
stock of the sugar trust on their
knowledge of what the sugar clause
of the tariff bill was to be. Senator
Yest said: "I may as well say now,
once for all, that such publication as
this is a vile slander, and the man
who repeats it is a willful and ma -
hcious liar. Senator McPherson
said that he did sometimes buy
stocks, icr anesuneni, noi specuia-
tion, and that when he was in thejIloaufort t.ountv jai? Saturday.
South some weeks ago his brokers, rhar;fwJ wUh killing anotiMr negro,
acung unuer a siancang oruer io ouy
certain stocKs wnen iney coma oe
nact at certain prices, oougnt luuu
shares of sugar stock for him. As
soon as he returned and learned of
the purchase he instructed his bro
kers to sell the stock and to buy no
more, as he did not wish to hold it
while sugar was being discussed by
the Finance committee.
Postmaster General Bissell doesn't
accept any halfway business from
contractors under his department.
The President of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company' was made aware
of this fact, this week, through an
official notification that the contract
between the Government and- his
company for the transportation of i
mails between New York and the :
Isthmus of Panama, and between j
San Francisco and the Japanese and j
Chinese ports, made under the sub
sidy act of the notorious billion-dollars
Congress, would lx canceled,
because of the failure of the company
to comply with the terms of the con
tract. -Maus win continue to oe
sent by the steamers of this line, but
only the usual prices will be paid for
carrying them, instead oi an extra
subsidy of $1 a mile for all the (lis-
a . i im. i : ..r
xancecoeieo. i . caueeuugoi em.-,
conuace .eases ,.oy io
Red D. linebetween New ork and
the north Wst of South America,
aim uie a. a erne, uetsseeu .ess
ork, Cuba and Mexico-Operating
under the subsidy law, as the Ameri
can line between New York and
Southampton will not begin to re
ceive its subsidy until next Octo
ber. The House Democ ratic caucus held
this week to consider the advisability
of making some change in the rules.
looking towards an easier wav cf
getting and keeping a quorum, ae-
complished nothing because it was
not itself attended by a quorum.
There is one way in which the Dem
ocrats of the House could largely in
crease their popularity, help the
party, and alwaj's have a quorum
by simply attending the sessions of
the House; but this st-ems to have
been entirely overloked by some of
them.
ALE OYER THE STATE.
A Summary f Current Events far the
Past Seven Days.
Statesville's shoe factory is an as
sured fact.
Rocky Mount is sewn to have an
ice factory.
There is an epidemic of barn-burning
in Chatham county.
Another rich gold find was made
in Union county last week.
A training school for nurses is to
Im established at Fayetteville.
Ira H. Lee was killed in Robeson
county, Thursday, by a falling tree.
Winston's Aldermen have reduced
the Mayor's salary from $1,(100 to
$500.
Greensboro has a new tobacco
warehouse and also the mad -dog
scare.
Lawson Knott, of Granville coun
ty, was gored Monday, by his neigh
bor's vicious bull.
Insanit' among the negroes in
some portions of the State seems to
be almost epidemic.
The State convention of the Young
Men's Christian Association will
meet in Wilmington April 5th.
Three colored dudinesof Charlotte,
got on a lark Friday night and upset
signs, gates and whole panels of
fences.
Charlotte merc hants are talking of
erecting a farmers' lodging house
for the benefit of their country trade.
A good move.
Two colored butchers were jailed
at Asheville, Thursday, charged with
stealing a 1,400 pound steer from the
R. & D. cattle pen.
While operating a feed cutter,
Monda", William Moser, of Randolph
county, had his hand pulled in the
machine and cut off.
Ella Norwood, a young colored
woman, is in Durham jail charged
with killing her infant, by sticking a
hair-pin in its throat.
For obtaining money under false
rill, a young farmer of Cleveland
I county, Monday, his head striking a
pile of rocks with fatal result.
The First National Bank oLWades
boro and the Bank of Anson, a State
institution, have consolidated as the
National Bank of Wadesboro.
The Forest City Ledger says that
Mr. and Mrs. James Sparks, of Ruth
erford, have been married 14 years
and have 12 children, none of them
twins.
The State buildings of Missouri
and Nebraska will be moved from
; the World's Fair grounds to Malmo,
a suburb of Wilmington, for hotel
j purposes.
Winium Flvnn was lotljretl in tlie
wliilo t.foolinr" with a supposed un
1 ioaied pistol
S. S. Teague, a lumber dealer of
Washington, D. C, reached Winston
Tuesday on a bicycle, having made
the entire distance between the two
points on his wheel.
The new Catholic church at Bd-
t
mont, near Charlotte, which cost
about $70,000, will be dedicated
April 11. Cardinal Gibbons is ex
pected to le present.
The cotton gin, grist and sawmills
of Wesley Burnett, with all their
contents, were destroyed by an in
! cendiary lire
! Monday night
rranklm county,
No insurance.
A dispute about the ownership of
a horse collar between John and
James Russell, brothers, at Fort
Barnwell, Craven county, Thursday,
resulted in the killing of the latter
by a shot-gun wound from his broth
er.
A dwelling house containing 1,100
dynamite caps, caught fire in Union
countv, Monday night, but the dvna-
j mite was safev carried out bv C. M.
j Boyte, a miner, who with his family
occupied the house. It was a narrow
ec.apo from a horrible death
Th? of s j, SanderS) in Xash
. ;ts contentvas de
an incenJi fire Satur.
. - n. , lhe famih, WM
f hlj t, fla the -dwelling
, hmjsp was enteml and a tin box wa
stolen containing about $550 in cash.
Isaac Curtis was shot and killed
by William Bulloc k, near Henderson,
Sunday night. While Bullock and
his girl were on their way to church,
Curtis jumped out of the woods to
scare them, for which he received a
j bullet in his abdomen.
Both men
w"ro the best of friends,
j While out gunning with a friend,
Wednesday, Rev. R. T. Yann, pastor
of the Scotland Neck Baptist church,
was accidentally shot by the former
and painfully injured. Mr. Yann
himself, is a first-class shot, although
he has no hands. He pulls the trig
ger by means of a wire and strip of
leather, which he clutches in his
teeth.
Odd in Name and H adits.
The Mt. Airy News comes forward
with an odd duck. His name is Me
shech Jessup. Meshech lidieves it
is unwholesome to sleep in a bed,
something he has not done sine? the
war. At the beginning of the war,
he says, he was threatened with
something like dyspepsia. The out
door life of the army agreed with
him so much that he came out of the
army with a constitution sound in
every particular. Since then he has
always slept on the floor with noth
ing under him but a sheep skin, and
without any covering whatever. In
cold weather he keeps a fire burning
all night and sleeps close to it, so he
does not sutler any from cold. He
neither smokes or chews, nor does
he drink any coffee, whiskey, tea. or
anything but water. He will not
eat hog meat of any kind; says it is
too strong and consequently not
wholesome. He will not eat sugar
nor anything that has sugar in it.
such as cakes, pies, etc. lie is now
about ;.- years old and says a sound
er, healthier., man cannot be found
anywhere.
A One-Steer Farmer.
Lt.uiburg Times.
The Times has made referenc e re
cently to a numier ol good crops
madf by Franklin count y fanners,
but iu none of them do we recall a
better turn-out than the one-steer
farm of George Webb, a hard work -
j and industrious colored man of
Cedar Rxk township. Last year he
plowed one steer and made enough
produce to pay a noteof$t5 balance
on 18'rJ account; a store account
made in 18t3 of $100; 1,000 pounds
lint cotton as rent; $."'0cash for win
ter clothing, shoos, etc., and still
had one day this week $25 cash in
his pocket. His principal crop was
tobacco, making' just enough cotton
to pay rent. He has corn enough
for the year, and is not grumbling
at the government because he doesn't
own Cedar Rock township.
The Ineendlary Exonerated.
North Wilkesboro News.
There came very near being a se
rious conflagration at Mr. J. L. Mar
low's Monday night. The servant
had taken up the ashes during the
evening and put them in a tub,
which was surrounded by several
boxes, some of which were leaning
against the house. About 1 o'clock
aohred man came down the street
and gave the alarm. The tub was
in a full blaze and ere long the house
would have been on fire. This should
be a lesson and teach people to be
very careful as to where they put
their ashes, especially eluring this
month. It was a narrow escape and
Mr. Marlow feels very grateful to
his informant for the service ren
dered. A Lyncher's Predicament.
Aleck Rose, one of the lyncher's
who was captured in Alleghany coun
ty the other day, now languishes in
jail at Winston, where he was taken
for safe keeping, as it was feared
that he would either be lynched by
Slaughter's friends or by his com
rade's. No one is allowed to speak
to him in reference to the affair. The
other day a party in sympathy with
the lynchers went down to Winston
to advise him, but was refused an ad
mittance, whereupon he shouted to
Rose to give nothing away. Rose
proposes to make a "clean breast''
of the affair when placed upon the
witness stand.
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