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GOLDSBOltO,' N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1894.
VOL. VII. NO. 40.
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Old Times.
Old
times in tin1
oiintrv-
-theni's the
times fer me!
Never not hin like eu an" never more
! will he:
I Wasn't anv railroad train:
:l-1" ill"
j loud an' free
; Tin -in was all the brightest tinies best
i o" times to me!
: Old limes in the country, when- the
sw eetest inlets growe.l:
! Mot of all the best tinies that my heart
lias ever ktiowcd:
! Feller love.l a gal, lie kissed the best an
! sweetest one,
An' old folks did their knittin" hy the
i doorway, in the sun.
! Old times in the country I kin see 'em
still,
Hear the cool, sweet eallin" of the copse
hid whippoorwill :
Hear the midnight singin" of the thrill
in' moekitr birds.
An, hest of all, the music of my sweet
heart's sweetest words!
Old times in the count ry smoke a-eurl-in
blue
From the old (day chimneys with the
back-logs liiirniii" blue!
Old tinies in the country wherever I
may be,
Them's tlie very best o' tinies to all my
folks an me!
Fi:.nk L. Stanton.
Some North Carolina Curiosities.
Joshua Hudson, of Stanly count',
deserves to take front rank anion"1
the citizens of the State. He is !)!
years old, has been married three
tinu-s, has '2.1 children and 400 grand
children and great -;rand children.
Notwithstanding his great age JJr.
Hudson is hale and hearty and is
active and cheerful.
Davie county claims to have the
oldest trander in the State. Il was
iiutcncd in me spring oi me year oi
(Jen. Leo's surrender, and he is still
living. He had a partner, which was
hatched at the same time, and which
lived Ul) to luSt Spring.
And now
Cleveland county comes to tho front
with one 72 years old. Next!
According to the Winston Sentinel,
.Mrs. Wm. Shields, near Tobaccoville,
has a hen that recently liegan to lay
blue eggs. Heretofore her eggs have
been of the usual color. The old hen
laid nine blue ones and is now engag
ed in the tedious task of changing
her prodigy into "chicles." Tho Sen
tinel man has been favored with one
of these eggs.
Enoch Creed, of White Plains, Sur
ry count', will be eighty-six years
old on the 2th of this month, and he
has in his possession a grain cradle
which has been in actual use for fifty
two years, and in all that time it has
never once been repaired, not even
to one of its lingers. Cradles made
in the days when that one was young
must have boon more substantial
than modern ones.
The Sentinel, of Winston, is re
sponsible for the following: '"Stokes !
has generally been behind her neigh
bors in many things, but is now com
ing to the front, and is not waiting
for foreign immigration. Mr. A. P.
Duncan, of Leaver Island township,
was married about October l."th,
1SH2. His wife gave birth to twins
July 7th, ls::i, and again gave birth
to twins (two whopping boys) July
(1th, 1394, which is four within twelve
months."
There is a family of nine children
in Durham county, whose names
sound like tho ''Arabian Nights" in
our time. In fact all of them were
named after characters in that won
der book. One of the boys was in
Durham the other day and ho named
them over. There is Ben am, Coran,
Per vis, Cassam, Easchad, A mod,
Adaline. Lassum, and two sisters are
named Fetna and Mafic. The Dur
ham Sun pertinently asks the ques
tion: Where is the county that can
furnish a family with so many names
from one literary production?
Tuesday afternoon a very cultured
ami refined lad v was walking up East
Trade street, when she was hailed by
a voice from within a store, says the
Charlotte Observer. She stopped.
and a man, a candidate, drew near
her and said softly: "I wanted to ask
you to try to influence your husband
to work to secure my nomination."
The lady informed the candidate that
she had no intluence over her hus
band, but she thought if polities was
as low as the incident that had just
transpired would indicate it was, a
law of universal suffrage had better
be passed.
Meredy Billings, of Walnut Grove
township, was in town Saturday, an
nounces the Wilkesboro Chronicle.
Ho was brought here by a revenue
officer, charged with blockading
"mountain dew." Meredy Billings
has lived in Wilkes over 40 years,
within l." or 20 miles of Wilkesboro,
but Saturday was the first time he
ever put his foot inside the county
seat of the great "State of Wilkes."
Not only this, but it was the first
time he had been in a town of any
kind, except he did pass through the
city of Sparta one rainy night when
it was impossible to see his hand be-
fore him. He said we had a mighty
heap of people and houses scattered
around mighty close together.
W. H. Nelson, who is in the drug lus- Ihe wind was blowing quite a
in. ss at Kingville Mo., has so iiiiu-h : 1)m7 an(1 j t plumb and
coiitnleiioe in Chamberlain s Colic, C hoi- . ' . "2
era and Diarrhu-a Remedy that he war-j sighted again. Then I sighted the
rants cverv bottle and otters to refund ; top in line with another tree, and
the money to any customer who is not t ,j n g ,
satisln-d after using it. Air. Nel.-on "
takes no risk in doing this because the j By and by I saw it was moving a lit
remedy is a certain cure for the dis.-as- t'e up tie jn amj aH n.rht. 'Tt's
es for which it is intended and he knows I . ,, . , TT . c, ,. T
it. It is for sal,.- by J. II. Hill & Son, M rirht. Uncle Sam, said I.
druggists. " i ''Bet her go give another lick or
STILL MS(TSSIN; STRIKES.
Arp Says Let Everybody (Jtiit Work for
a While at Least.
We are crowded now. What with
all the ramifications of the big strike,
the wide-spread war between capital
and labor, the miserable contention
over the tariff bill and the red-hot
strife of candidates for office, our
weak minds are kept on a continual
strain. Lverv trade or occupation
has got a union now, even to the
barbers and the newsboys,, and if
these unions don't strike or boycott
something occasionally the boys get
lukewarm and quit paying their dues
and that cuts off the salaries of the
officers, and so they must get up
a carousement to fire up the boys
again.
It is like the great monarchies of
Europe. When their people get rest
less and discontented and threaten
the government the monarch gets up
a little war with some other nation
and that unites the people and kills
off tin; surplus. Suppose we all
strike for a little while and swear off
from any kind of work unless we can
get more for it. Let the newspapers
strike against'the newsboys and quit
publishing papers. Let the railroads
stop running.' Let the merchants
quit buying and selling. Let all the
manufactories close up for awhile.
Let us all wear our old clothes and
live otf our gardens.
Capital is just as good as labor
and brains are better than both.
It takes all three to keep the world
going and if they cannot get along
in peace let us dissolve the partner
ship awhile and everybody and ev
erything get on a strike. But that
wouldn't ilo. Just think of the poor;
not the farmers nor the laborers on
tlie-railroads and in the workshops,
but the poor women and children
who toil in the cotton mills or at the
noodle in some miserable garret
the sowing women in the great cities
who make our garments for a mere
trifle and who still sing '"The Song
of the Shirt." Who is striking for
them? Nobody
It is not the very oor who are
raising all this racket. It is the
able-bodied men who have employ
ment at living' wages. I heard a
farmer say yesterday that they could
get along if labor was not so high
and no doubt his laborers are growl
ing because wages are not higher,
and so it goes. The farmer grumbles
because wheat is down to (!() cents a
bushel and the laborer would reduce
it to "0 cents if he could. And yet
all classes who are not rich enough
to live without work sympathize with
the strike, and in its last analysis
the prime cause is envy and selfish
ness. How rich w ill a man be allow
ed to get and still have the good will
of his poorer neighbors? How poor
must a man get before he will have
the help and pity of the rich? But
every day the press ventilates the
w hole business and everybody knows
all about it.
It was a relief when Mrs. Arp told
mo this morning she wanted that big
red oak that stood near the corner of
the garden cut down. I've been hint
ing about that a long time, but she
is opposed to cutting down shade
trees, and so I never argued the case
at all. I never do. Some years ago
I proposed to thin out the trees in
the front yard but she objected.
While she was oil' to Home on a visit
I got the boys and we cut down
three of them level with the ground
and didn't leave a sign of a stump,
and we hauled away every chip and
scrap and covered the places with
grass and she never found it out for
two months, and wouldn't have then,
but one of the mischievous girls re-
j marked one day that we didn't use
to see the hills as plain as wedonow,
and my wife caught on to the busi-
ness right away. She always does.
But she suggested this morning that
that oak would have to come down
and it would give us more garden.
As woman sometimes changes her
mind, I went at it likekillingsnakes.
The trunk of the tree was perpendic
ular. I know it was for I planted it.
I tied a pair of big scissors to a
string and stood oil and sighted and
was sure it would fall up the hill
where I wanted it. If it went down
the hill it would fall scross my' own
fence and across the narrow lane and
onto the widow's fence and smash
up the fruit trees in her lot. So to
be sure I climbed the ladder and saw
ed off some big limbs on that side,
and I knew that the limbs on the
other side would pull it that way. I
sharpened the ax and then I and
Uncle Sam went to work. When it
was most down the good widow, who
is our nearest neighbor and lives
j ale i her cottage, came along and
looked anxiously at what we were
Uing. I assured her, the tree was
bound to fall up the hill on my side,
! ami so she went on to spend the day
j at a friend's, and we chopped on a
j little more.
two on the lower corner' Just then
the wind got up almost a gale, and
before we could say Jack Robinson,
it sent that tree crashing down onto
fences and orchards and into my corn
patch and just tore things all to
pieces generally. "Dar now," said
Uncle Sam, and "there now," was
echixnl from the back door where my
wife and the girls were watching.
''It was the wind," said I. "I reckon
it was gravit'," said my wife. They
guyed me almost as bad as the small
boys guy a baseball team from a
neighboring town, and I had to walk
into the garden to let my collar
down.
I didn't care anything about my
fence nor the corn patch, but there
was the tree top in the poor widow's
orchard. My wife and the girls came
out to comfort me, but I wouldn't be
comforted. How lono would tlu-
widow be gone, I ruminated, and
how long would it take to clean up
things and repair the damage as far
as possible? But we never stopped
a minute. There were three of us
now, all good hands, including m)'
self. I never worked as hard in my
life. I dragged off brush as fast as
they could trim up the brushy top. I
got the step ladder and sawed off the
broken limbs of the apple trees and
unloosed those that were fastened
down. We cut up every part of the
tree that was on the widow's side
and cleaned up the fragments and
then put a new post in the ground
and brought planks and bu'lt up the
fence again and replaced the barbed
wire.
Every little while I looked down
the lane to see if the widow was com
ing, but she -didn't come. Then we
cut up that part that was in the lane
and we earned or rolled every piece
to my woodpile, and by 5 o'clock you
could hardly tell that a tree had fall
en there at all. I was hot and tired
and my garments stuck to my or
spiring flesh. I looked again for the
w idow, and sure enough she was
siLrht. Putting on a smile, I said:
"Well, the wind did take the tree
down in vour lot." She looked at tho
fence and the orchard, and said:
"Well, I don't see where it fell. The
fence looks just like it did, only bet
ter." "It broke a large limb from
that beautiful apple tree," said I.
"Well, that doesn't matter, she said.
"It hardly ever boars any fruit, and
when it docs tho apples are not much
account." "There was a young peach
tree there," said I, "but it isn't there
now." "Just a volunteer," she
said, "and they wore too thick, any
how." If I had known she would be so
pleasant about it I wouldn't have
worked so hard, but "all's well that :
i ends well." Hereafter when I go to,
fell a big tree I shall make more a'-,
lowance for the wind or wait till there
is none. Now I am going to make a
new strawberry bod and plant out
runners when they have taken a lit-
tie more root, but that tree business
will never be forgotten. It w ill be a
photograph on my memory. It ac
tually crowded out the strike and
politics, and after it was all over it
left me calm and serene.
Bn.i. Arp.
A Successful Lady Farmer.
-Ml. Airy News.
On our return from Dobson Mon
day we passed the beautiful farm of i storm greatly damaged his crops,
Mrs. Stacy Jones. This farm is one Ceo. C. Hewitt, a farmer living near
of the neatest, best kept and by care- j Paulsboro, N. J., committed suicide,
ful cultivation and management has j Saturday, by hanging himself,
been made one of the most produc-1 While returning from her usual af
tive in the county. A few years ago j ternoon spin on her bicycle, Thurs-
Mr. Jones died leaving four small
children. The farm was mortgaged j Philadelphia, collided with a furnit
for $1,S00. Mrs. Jones undertook j Ure van and was instantly killed,
the management of the? farm and has j Tie h-at of thp sun spt on fiV a
neon very successiui. &ne nas paiu
on the mortgage, uuiit a new and
comfortable two-story residence and
besides has saved considerable mon
ey. In the meantime her farm has
greatly increased in value. This is
a record that almost any man might
be proud of. Indeed, in the last
few years there have been few men
who have done near so well as Mrs.
Jones.
The Dr. Imparts Valuable Information.
Wiluiinpton Messenger.
We cannot recall a summer in
which so man' fatal lightning strokes
have been reported in North Caroli
na. Lessons might be learned. For
fifty years we have known that it is
not safe to sit with open doors and
windows, near chimneys, or to take
refuge under trees, or to stand or be
near horses and mules in a thunder
storm. We have known a great many
people to be killed by failing to ob
serve ordinary safe precautions.
We have known of people being
killed sitting at open windows, or
in the door or passageway; also when
riding or drivivg horses and mules,
and often by going under trees in a
rain.
Speaks tlie Truth
Mrs.llodsdon. of Haver,liill. N. II..
says: "1 know wliereot 1 speak when I
say Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Keineilyi.su
positive cure for salt rheuin. eczema,
noils and sores. It cured me of an ul
cerated sore leg.1"
A Ciootl Liver.
Keei) vour liver active and you'll not
suffer with biliousness there's the se
cret. When bilious try a 2-Vcent pack
age of Simmons Liver Regulator pow
der, lake it on the tongue or niakt
tea. You'll take no more pills.
A NATION'S MINI'S.
The News From Everywhere (Jathercd
and Condensed.
Hamilton, Ohio., had a $100,000
fire Saturday, caused by a cigarette.
. Free quarantine will be in force at
Charleston, S. C, leginning Aug
ust 1st.
Tumbling off a wharf at Elkton,
Md., Miss Mabel Mar rett was drown
ed on Thursday.
A premature blast in a coal mine
at Hazleton, Pa., Saturday, hurled
to death two miners.
Prendergast, the . murderer of May
or Carter Harrison, was hanged at
Chicago, Friday noon.
Two young men, while bathing in
the Delaware river, Sunday, at Ches
ter, Pa., were drowned.
Cape May, N., J., had its first ex
ecution Friday, when Richard Pearce
was hanged for wife murder.
An express train nearing Mahanoy
Junction, Pa., Friday, dashed to
death Miss Emma Knittle, aged 17.
Her dress being ignited by a gaso
line stove at Shenandoah. Pa., Thurs
day, Miss Mary Stralx-1 was fatally
burned.
Striking miners ditched a "Big
Four" express train at Fontanel,
lad., Friday, killing the engineer
and fireman.
Extensive forest fires started by
locomotive sparks, are devastating
hundreds of acres near Farmington,
N. J., and Tyrone, Pa.
A quarrel between Elijah Arnold
and his wife at Manchester, Tenn.,
Saturday night, resulted in the lat
tcr's death by shooting.
Fire destroyed the fertilizing works
at liahway, N. J., Monday, causing
a loss of $."00,000, and throwing 2."i)
hands out of employment.
After driving his wife away by
cruelty, John Drake, of Anderson,
Ind., on Thursday, went and shot
her, afterward killing himself.
Before the eyes of their father, J.
J. Budd, at Burlington, la., Herbert
and Arthur Budd were drowned in
the river Saturday, while bathing.
During a dispute, Winifred E.
Smith cut the throat of Weston E.
Thomas, at Brighton Beach, Ind.,
Tuesday. Both had been drinkin
B' the bursting of a waterspout
at Lead Hill, Ark., Sunday, great
damage was done to property and
crops, and five persons were drown
ed. Bobbers overpowered the express
wagon driver of the Great Northern
Express Company, at Wickes. Mont.,
Monday night, getting away with
$11,000.
Owiii" to lack of transimrtation
uiUl fuel, caused by the strike, thir-
teen manufactories in Chicago closed
i
! down Fridav, throwing (5,000 men
: out of work.
j,, a b.mle uotw(vn strikers and
, FtH..rai trooDS at Sacramento. Cal
Friday, two strikers were killed and
six wounded. Martial law has been
declared there.
While making a balloon ascension
at Creston, O., Monday, Leroy Big
gins, a traveling aeronaut, was at
i tacked suddenly with heart disease
! and came down a corpse.
Despondent because a recent hail-
day, Miss Nellie Byrne, aged ID, of
j n;tro-glycerine mill at York, Pa.,
; Saturday, and the explosion which
j f0noWed. wrecked the entire plant
and several other buildings in the
vicinity.
While suffering from insanity and
under the hallucination that the
strikers were alxmt to massacre ev
erybody in the country, Charles
l'emberton, of Asbury Park, N. J.,
blew his brains out, Saturday.
As the result of a husband's insane
jealousy, three men were killed near
Lovelock, Nev., Saturday night.
Robert Logan shot Dan Lovelock and
Fred Sullivan, and was in turn kill
ed by his wife to save her own life.
A train bearing 000 Federal sol
diers was wrecked by strikers near
Sacramento, Cal., Wednesday, killing
three soldiers and the engineer. The
wreck was caused by the sawing of
the bridge timber, leaving the tracks
intact.
A circus tent at Huron, S. D., was
blown to pieces by a storm, Monday
night, creating a panic among the
large audience. In the crush to get
out ten were killed and a large num
ber injured. The reptile cage w;is
burst open and the snakes going
among the crowd served to increase
the stampede.
"While the coffin containing the re
mains of Miss Eleanor Markman,
aged 22, was lowered in the grave at
Sprakers, N. Y., Tuesday, a faint
tapping was heard inside and upon
being opened the girl was found to
be alive and conscious. She was in
a trance when pronounced dead by
the physician.
Last Week in Trade ( inks.
Special Corrvspoiiilcncc.
New York, July 10, 1894.
Any recovery in general business
during the past week has been pre
vented by the distrust and hesitancy
necessarily inseparable from the dis-turlw-d
conditions caused by the great
lalior strikes in the West. The phy
sical obstructions to trade have leen
less serious, as with the suppression
of mob violence the railroad compa
nies have made considerable progress
in the restoration of normal facilities
for transportation. The actual in
terruption of the freight movement,
and the temporary check to ship
ments caused by the withholding of
orders in fear of delays or losses,
have combined to reduce the volume
of new business not only in the local
ities affected by the strikes, but
throughout the country. The trou
ble is now practically over, although
the effects of the losses entailed by
the destruction of property and by
the stoppage of the earnings of the
railroad companies and their em
ployes are certain to be felt for some
time to come. Other features of
the business situation show little
change.
Crop conditions, as a rule, are en
couraging, particularly for cotton
and winter wheat. The Stock Ex
change markets have been much bet
ter supported than might haVe been
expected in view of the strikes and
the comparative apathy of specula
tion. Very little gold has been ex
ported, and the outflow is not ex
pected to be renewed now that the
labor difficulties have been practical
ly settled. Merchandise exports have
continued moderate, and from New
York alone for two weeks of July
have been $2,2."2,82S less than they
wen- during the corresponding period
last year; while imports, -.lending
final legislation on the tariff, contin
ue to show a comparative decrease of
about 40 per cent. Business failures
in the United States and Canada dur
ing the last week numbered 2S0, as
against W for the corresponding
week last year.
Cotton prices have declined 1-10 of
a cent, as a result of ample stocks, a
lower market in Liverpool and a con
tinued favorable outlook for the grow
ing crop. There has leen a fair de
mand from home spinners, but only
a moderate business for export. The
following are the total net receipts
of cotton at all American ports since
September 1st, lS'.KJ: Galveston, 1,
003,2:51 bales. New Orleans 1,300.223,
Mobile 213,710, Savannah 901, S33,
Charleston 405.1S7, Wilmington 189,-
007, Norfolk 489.537, Baltimore 03,-
229, New York 118.302, Boston 100
301, Newport News 49,300. Philadel
phia 07,074. West Point 239,118,
Brunswick 71,320, Velasco 8,292,
Pensacola 87,850. Total 5,919,070
bales. Deduct 00.903 bales from the
net receipts since September 1st,
making corrected total since that
date 5.852,113 bales. The visible sup
ply of cotton for the world is 2,009,
017 bales, of which 2,115,417 bales
are American, against 2,759.493
bales and 2,274. 253 bales respective
ly last year. Receipts of cotton last
week at all interior towns, 4,318
bales; receipts from the plantations,
3,101 bales; crop in sight,-7,043,014
bales.
Wheat prices were strengthened
early in the week by stronger Euro
pean advices, an improved foreign
inquiry, and reiorts of a decrease of
nearly 4.000.000 bushels in the
world's stock; but most of the im
provement has since been lost as a
result of freer speculative selling on
favorable harvest news and pros
pects of increasing shipments from
the interior. Compared with figures
current a week ago the markets are
I to of a cent higher. The total
crop of wheat a year ago was under
estimated by something like 75,000,
000 bushels; and while it is conced
ed that the yield of spring wheat
this season will be short of that of
last year, conservative unofficial es
timates still point to an aggregate
production of winter and spring
wheat of 450.000,000, or possibly
475.000,000 bushels. Notwithstand
ing current low prices, there is an
evident willingness to sell on the
part of fanners; and now that the
railroad strike is over, and the win
ter wheat harvest is nearly finished,
a free movement of the new crop
may be anticipated.
An insufficient rainfall in the West
has caused some anxiety about the
corn crop, which had previously been
in excellent condition. This feeling,
coupled with the effect of a very
small interior movement, has caused
an advance of 2 to 2 cents jkt bush
el in the prices of corn. Values of
hog products show little change.
N'o Wonilt-rl
"His teeth be still did Kriml
And grimly xn-'l." Sucer.
For he suffered all the agonizing tor-tun-s
of dvspensia. In the morning hi
eves were dim and bloodshot, a horrible
nausea was exiK-riencciI, food was to
him revolting ami yet a gnawing crav
ing for food jM-rvaded his whole sys
tem. His heart palpitated violently af
ter the least exertion. Hoik had nearly
left liim when he read of the marvelous
cures effected by Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. He hurried to the
drug store, bought a bottle and the ef
fects were so satisfactory that he now
gnashes his teeth when he thinks of the
agonies he might have prevented, had
he used ' t i. M. D."
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Summary of Current Events fr the
Fast Seven Days.
Burke county jail is at present
without a prisoner.
Good crop reports come from ev
ery section of the State.
Orange Page, the negro murderer,
will le hanged at Raleigh, on the 3rd
of August.
James Cook, the '"boy preacher,"
is proclaimed a humbug by some of
the State papers.
From every county in the State
comes the pleasing intelligence that
the Populists are on the wane.
Two prisoners one .w hite and one
colored made their escape from the
Kenansville jail, Friday morning.
Statesville has a colored physician.
Dr. Bryant, of Tarboro, has located
there for the practice of medicine.
The thirteenth annual convention
of the State Sunday School Assoc ia
tion will be held at Durham. August
21-23.
Bob Madkins, the negro who as
saulted Miss Mary Phillips, near
Burlington on May 20th, is to le
hanged August 10th.
Governor Carr offers $100 reward
for Joe Gibson, a 15-vear-old white
bo', who recently murdered a negro
in Richmond county.
While bathing with companions in
Smith's creek near Wilmington, Sat
urday afternoon, William Weston,
colored, aged 20, was drowned.
A mass meeting of the Populists
of Caswell county, held last" Friday,
appointed a committee to confer with
the Democrats of tlie county with a
view to fusion.
Craven Thompson, aged 14. was
killed near Maxton, Monday, by the
accidental discharge of his gun upon
which he was leaning while convers
ing with his father.
According to the Marion Record, a
man named Boone committed a crim
inal assault upon a young girl named
Calloway in McDowell county, Sat
urday, and skipped.
Robert Jackson, colored, stole a
watch at Raleigh Thursday and was
jailed. His wife hearing of it took
poison and the physicians had a hard
time to save her life.
The date of the State Fair is made
one week later that is, from Octo
ber 23rd to 20th inclusive in order
that exhibits may be brought from
the Virginia State Fair.
A Durham photographer has on
display two pictures of a child. taken
after death, with announcement that
the father would not paj for them
after ordering and approving them.
Wei born Luther, of Randolph
county, was killed Saturday by his
horse running away with him and
throwing him out of his cart while on
his way to some religious exercises.
At Lenoir, Tuesday, Mike Staple
ton, aged 30, disappointed in a love
affair, committed suicide by drinking
17 bottles of Jamaica ginger. He
claimed Elmira, N. Y., as his heme.
John Helms, of Union county, who
had been working with machinery
for 20 years and was never hurt be
fore, got two fingers caught in a
thresher, Monday, and off they went.
The friends of Capt. Swift Gallo
way, of Snow Hill, will present his
name for solicitor of the Sixth Judi
cial district at the convention to be
held at Morehead City next Wednes
day. The Durham Globe states authori
tatively that Prof. Collins Denny has
refused the Presidency of Trinity
College, which was tendered him by
the Board of Trustees a few days
since.
An important electric railroad
project is soon to be carried out in
Western North Carolina. It pro
vides for the building of a 17-mile
road from Rutherfordton to Chimney
Rock.
While in the act of beating his way
Sunday night on a train lietween
Greensboro and Salisbury, Sam Har
ris, colored, of Charlotte, fell be
neath the cars and was crushed to
death.
The two Coley brothers, Thomas
and Calvin, white, were privately
hanged at Louisburg, Friday, for the
murder of a Jewish peddler named
Samuel Tucker on the night of June
30, 1S92.
The Charlotte News learns that
Newton McEachrcn and Moore Tay
lor, who recently removed from Ca
barrus county into the Lost Moun
tain neighborhood of Georgia, have J
become violently insane almost sud
denly. At a negro festival held at a school
house in Caswell county, Wednesday
night, a drunken row occurred be
tween all participants, resulting in
the killing of John Morrow, and the
wounding of several others 1-oth
males and females.
A white man named Lawson, of
Walnut Cove, was captured Thurs
day at Greensboro, charged with at
tempting to wreck a train on the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail
road, by placing crossties on the
track at different places along the
road. He also let the water out of
the tank at Summerfield.
A Tlirillin Experience.
Charlotte News.
Mr. Will Flowe, of Cabarrus couu-
ty, tells a thr'uTmg experience he had
one morning last week. He was out
coon hunting before daylight and his
dogs were pushing one of the ani
mals very close. Mr. Flowe was fol
lowing them as closely as he could.
Finally he came to a fence and had
to cross. He climbed down the side
of the fence, not being able to see
the ground on the other side, and
kept on climbing down. He knew
he had gone further than the fence
was high, and he stopped and struck
a match to see where he was at.
When he made a light he found
that he was deep down in a gold pit
which was 'timbered' up by the
poles being built iK-n-fashion in it.
Had Mr. Flowe gone four feet fur
ther he would have reached the lot
tom of the timbers and then fallen
20 feet to a rock bottom below. The
fence was a new one and had been
built since the gold pit was dug, and
had been placed at the side of the
pit, so one side of the fence went
straight down with one wall.
The I'siial Sunday Accident.
II. ky Mount A re.-imut.
Iast Sunday morning Misses Mat
tie Will ford and Lillie Muse had a
very narrow escape from being killed
by the passenger train going South.
They were returning from preaching
at the Falls, and started to drive
across the railroad at the crossing
belt w Jeffrey's warehouse. When on
the railroad track they discovered
the train approaching, and but a
short distance from them. They
both sprang from the buggy to the
ground, thus saving their lives. The
train smashed the buggy into atoms,
and, strange, to say, the horse was
torn from the buggy and escaped
unhurt.
A disgruntled subscriler writes: "Mr.
Editor I like vour pajx-r generally
likewise yourself you deserve much of
my respect. Nevertheless, cross from
vour dazzling list of subsonU-rs my
humble name or stop printing those
blinders of Dr. Pierce. 1 know him by
heart his medicines are O.K., I had
the sickest liver that ever was sick and
lived, and his -Pellets' straightened out
its crooks.
My wife, sister, children, cousins,
aunts and uncles, have all lieen strength
ened by 'the mystery of their magic.' I
am truly grateful: but w hen I sit down
to road one of -Napoleon Honaparte's
Jokes' or An Irishman Crossing the
Alps.' must I always have to blunder in
to the old story of how -Pierce's Plexs
ant Pellets' are purely vegetable and
anti-bilious, pleasant to the taste cure
s'n-k headache, relieve torpid liver and
are guaranteed to give satisfaction or
money returned?"
Sometimts genius may U- lwunil or
bartered for a time, but she will out.
Tin- Children. Frit-mi.
Rev. J. I. Oxford, of Atlanta, says:
"My baby was sick from its birth, and
we expected it would die. At the age
of nine months we liegan to give it Ier
metuer. The effects were magical. It
began to improve at once and is now fat
and ffrowing every day.
J. J. Scruggs, of Sidon, Mass.. says:
"Our little girl, nine months old, was
in a very low state from summer com
plaint, and Geriuctucr made her fat as
a pig. Into thousands or Homes il lias
Tied blessings of the same knwl. It
is the great king of ail remedies for the
little ones, and just as good for their
parents, fl? for "..
Loosen vour grip on others some
times but never ii-khi yourself.
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pay required. It is guaranteed to give
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rice 25 cents jkt Imix. For Sale bvJ. II.
Hill & Son.
ItSlionl.l lr in Kvrrjr limine.
J. 15. Wilson, 371 Clay St., Sharps
burg. Pa., says he will not be without
Dr. King's New Discovery for consuiii
tion, coughs and colds, that it cure. I his
wife who was threatened with pneu
monia after an attack of "Ia ('ri-ijc,"
w hen various other remedies and sever
al physicians had done no good. Rolert
ItarlH-r, of Cooksjiort, Pa,, claims Dr
King s New Discovery has done him
inoie good than anvthing he ever iismI
for lungtrouble. Nothing like it. Try it.
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This remedy is In-coming so well
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special mention. All who have used
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is claimed. Electric Ritters w ill cure
all diseases of the liver and kidneys,
will remove pimples lniils, salt rheum
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