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The herald. OimiiL P.iPF.S OF JOHXSTOX COC5TY. iv'uirTiox rates: One Vc:r. C-;-'f in AJrancr ?1.50. Six Month?, " 75. Advertising Rates made known on application While we are always glad to ieceive bright, newsy letters from different sections of the count. y, we request contributors to write lejriMy and on one side of paper only. The name of writer must accompany all articles. Address correspondence to -THE HERALD," Smithfield, Jf. C. WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING. Newsy Items Which Are Gleaned From Various Sources And Pre pared For Our Readers. Koscoe Conklin is said to make ? 100,000 per annum at the bar. Last month beat all previous ones for fatal railroad accidents. Key West has had over 200 cases of yellow fever ; over 160 have died. Jacob Sharp is still weak and ill, but there is no danger of his immediate death. Jay Gould will erect sixteen large railroad shops at Atchison, Kansas; cost, 300,000. A deputy sheriff in Georgia hired the criminal he was trying to recapture as his guide. Twenty-one thousand dollars has laid unclaimed in a Hartford saving bank for twenty years. Immense beds of coal, with veins ranging from eight to four feet, are found in Northern Ala bama. It is said that the American people drink enough soda water in o:ie season to float the navies of the world. Recent figures show that the industrial growth of the first half of 1887 was far greater than ever before. Floods have destroyed the rice crop in South Carolina and there will be no work for the negro hands before Jaunary. A well-known swindler gave himself up to the Philadelphia police, asking to be sent to jail for his many crimes. He was accomodated. Mine. Astie de Valsayre, who wanted to fight a duel on the field of Waterloo, is now peti tioning the French government to let women wear men's clothes. A fatal Railroad accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad happened on the 24 inst., near Wheeling W. Va., Several persons were killed and a number wound ed. Nothern capitalists are rapily acquiring all the pine land in southern Alabama, that are still owned by the government and that can be had for 1.2o per acre. Mrs. Sarah Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson and mistress of the White House during Presi dent Jackson's second term died at "The Hermitage" on the 23d, aged 81 years. A meeting of socialists at CoOper Union, New York, pro tested against the action of the united labor party. It was marked by considerable disorder, but no violence. General Beauregard has been invited to be present at the lay ing of the corner stone of the Lee Monument, in Richmond, Va., which takes place next month. He has accepted. The bale of new cotton from South Carolina, received by Messrs, Price, Read & Co., on the 22 nd inst., was disposed of on yesterday at the rate of twelve cents a pound. Tennessee will vote on a pro hibition amendment to the Con stitution in September. The politicians are said to be fighting shy of the measure, but the peo ple are much excited on the sub ject. Two hundred persons have died in McDowell Co., West, Vir ginia, recently from a terrible epi demic that occurs after every pro longed drouth. The people have suspended business and are de voting their time to caring for the sick and dead. The dairy product of the Uni ted States in 1888 was $260,000, 000 ; wheat $450,000,000 ; cotton 400,000,000 ; poultry $600,000, 000, nearly three times as much as the dairy products and one third more than cotton, and yet some people despise the poultry business beceuse it is small. The fisheries department has received information of the seiz ure of more Canadian sealing vessels in the North Pacific ocean by a United States cruiser. It is learned that the commanders of the United States cruisers in the Alaska service have been or dered to seize all sealing vessels found in Behring Sea. jl JHL Hd Establishal 1882. VOLUME 6. Experimental Yellow Fever. Dr. Carlos Finlay, of Havana, has published the results of sev eral experiments he has made on the inoculability of yellow fever. He performed the operation, or rather got it performed for him, by mosquitoes, which he caused first caused to sting a patient suffering from yellow fever and shortly afterwards a healthy per son who was to be the subject of the experiment. He found that the disease was only inoculable from the third to the sixth day. When two musquitoes were em ployed, so that a double dose was given, the symptoms of the ex perimental disease was more than when only a single mus quito was used. Of eleven cases of inoculation, six were effica cious, one doubtful, and four negative. The period of incuba tion varied from five to fourteen days ; the symptoms consisted of headache, pyrexia, injection, with sometimes an icteric tint of the conjunctiva, and in some cases albuminuria. The fever lasted as in the ordinary form, from five to twenty-five days. The author believes that this method of producing artificial yellow fe ver will ultimately be found very valuable as a prophylactic against the natural and danger ous form of the disease. IiOvely Women. (Peck's Sun.) Women, bless their dear hearts, if it was not for them men would soon degenerate and become sav ages, as of old ; but gentle, con fiding, lovable woman, with her soft, winning ways, appeals to all that is fine and noble in man's nature, and keeps him up to that level that he has succeeded in reaching. Even in battle, when he thinks as little of spilling the blood of Lis fellow-man as he would of killing a dog, when his animal potions are wrought up to such a degree that he resem bles more the untutored savage than an intelligent being, the sight of a woman, or the sound of her voice, will act upon him like magic. He no longer has that thirst for blood, his hard face relaxes and becomes again soft and tender, and his mind turns to thoughts of better things. Now, if woman should suddenly be removed from our earth, and man, the alleged noblest work of God, should be left to paddle his own canoe, how long would it be ere he would go about armed to the teeth with an I-can-lick-my-weight-in-wildcats expression on his face. Murder and rapine would soon be in full sway, and he could hold his head up only so long as he could wield his sword or pull a trigger. Man is safe as long as he has the love of woman, or the chance to win it. Xee's Advice to Tonng Wives. (Advance Sheets of Mr3. Hancock's Book.) "How well I remember Gener al Robert E. Lee, then a major, who was stationed there at that time. He was the beau ideal of a soldier and a gentleman. When bidding us good-bye and God speed upon ths eve of our de parture he said to me : 'I under stand that you contemplate de serting your post, which is by your husband's side, and that you are not going to California with him. If you will pardon me, I should like to give you a little advice. You must not think of doing this. As one consider ably older than Hancock, and having had greater experience, I consider it dangerous to the fu ture happiness of young married people upon small provocation to live apart, either for a short -a am rn "1 1 or loner time, lne result is in variably that they cease to be essential to each other. Now, promise me that you will not permit him to sail without you. This sequal shows how faith fully I sought to follow that no ble admonition, and how after, in my varied experience, I had occasion to transmit to others his dismtered, truthful convic tions. With many regrets we bade adieu to a host of friends, most of whom I never saw again. Not, so with mv husband, how ever. He met them face to face on the battlefield in less than three years." Mr. Gould's daughter is being pestered by a crank and he him self is being sued for 210. Smit 1., SMITHFIELD, N. C, SEPTEMBER A ROMANTIC WAR INCIDENT. How Colonel TJ. K. Smith Fathered - The Daughter of One of His Victims in Battle. The following touching inci dent of the late war i3 from the pen of the correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial under date of August 20th : The death of Colonel U. R. Smith, which took place in New "York a few days ago, has brought to light a very remarka ble incident. Miss Rhett My ron, the princilpal figure in the drama, is a personal friend of your correspondent, and from her the following facts were ob tained, with permission for their publication: Hayne Myron,the fa ther of the young lady, was a plan ter in South Carolina." His home was a typical SouthCarolina home spacious and hospitable, sur rounded by broad acres and faithful slaves. His family con sisted of his wife and only child Rhett who was the idol of the father and the pet of the planta tion. At ' the breaking out of the war Hayne Myron joined a volunteer South Carolina regi ment. Before leaving home lie had painted a miniature picture of his little girl, which he incas ed in a locket, saying: "My darl ing, this will be papa's shield when he is in danger and his -sunshine when he rests," and he smothered the face and sunny head with kisses and hurried away with eyes filled with tears and an aching heart. Six months later Hayne Myron was kill ed in a skirmish in Virginia while in close combat by a Fed eral officer. Only a few words were sent to the old home to tell the sad story, During General Sherman's in vasion in South Corolina the My ron home-stead was destroyed, but the widow and daughter con tinued to live on the plantation inr-an out-house, and were sup-' ported by the rents from the lands. Two years ago Mrs. My ron died, and Miss Myron,through the influence of friends, obtained a position as governess in tne family of Col. U. R. Smith, in New York. She staled to me that her first meeting with Col. Smith was very peculiar; that when his wife introduced her, saying, "This is our new govern ess from South Carolina, Miss Rhett Myron," his face turned deadly pale, and as he mechanic ally extended his hand to her he made an effort to speak, but his lips seemed sealed. Later his manner became more cordial and unrestrained, and he treated her more as an honored guest than a salaried teacher. He insisted on paying her four times the amount she charged and made her duties very light. One evening she was sitting in the family circle telling of her past life down in South Carolina of the large old house, with its twenty columns, and of the dus ky slaves , who called her their "little queen" as they carried her on their shoulders tnrougn tne cotton fields. She never had men tioned her father's name before, but she spoke of him, how hand some and sad he looked on" that last day how he took her pic ture, and all he said to her at parting. She states that at the mention of her father Colonel Smith seemed agitated and sud denly left the room. It was all so stranere then, she said, but now it seems so plain. Six weeks ago Colonel Smith was taken very ill, and when he realized that death was inevitable he requested to see Miss Myron She says that as she neared the bed of the dying man she saw that he held convulsively some thing in one hand as he extended the other to her, exclaiming: "Come quick, Rhett Myron, and ! forgive me ! Oh, can you forgive me ? It was I who killed your father. These hands are red with his blood. God has pardoned me, but I cannot die till you for give me. Take this. It was on your parent's dying heart. It is your face, and on it is your name and his. Say it is not too late you will not let me die with your orphan moans echoing over my grave ?" The poor girl caught his hands in hers and only could say, "Oh! sir, you were both soldiers; I freely forgive you," and she fell unconscious upon the floor. When she recovered all was over. The slayer of her father and the kind "CAEOLINA, CAEOLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSEIGS ATTEND HEB." est friend of her life was dead. The reading of Colonel Smith's will revealed the fact that he be queathed to Miss Myron the gen erous sum of 15,000; also, the request that she would make her home as long as she desired with his wife and children as a mem ber of the household. I have seen the little picture which was the key that unlock ed the mystery of Rhett Myron's life. It is a sweet child face, in a cloud of azure and gold. Across the locket are traced the names of the father and child, while, on the. faded plush case are drops of blood. This is certainly the most re markable incident that it has ever been the privilege of your correspondent to record. Electricity For The Sportsman. (Glasgow Herald.) Float fishing, although unde niably the very laziest kind of sport under the sun, is still fol lowed, and such being the case, there can be but little doubt that its devotees will welcome any de velopment which will still fur ther dimish the necessity for any exertion in the pursuit of their ignoble art. Anarrangeinenthas been devised whereby a pull up on the lines closes the circuit of a tiny battery carried in the base of the rod, and this is made either to sound an alarm or to gently tickle the hand of the fisherman as he grasps the butt. The sport has thus been brought to a state of the highest perfection, for nothing now hinders him from going comfortably to sleep. Another Fatal Collision. (Norfolk Virginian.) Wheeling, AV. Va., Aug. 24. Reports of a fatal collision, which occurred at 8 o'clock this morn ing at Easton's siding, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, twenty-five miles east of this city, between a west bound emi grant train and an east bound freight train, says : The emigrant train was descending a heavy grade and rushed into the freight train with a fearful crash, badly wrecking both engines and in stantly killing Engineer A. L. Smith and Fireman Arbuthnot, of the emigrant train, and severe ly injuring Fngineman Patrick Fitzgerald, of the freight train, all of this city. It is rumored that fifteen of the emigrants were killed and many injured. ;V wrecking train and physicians left this city for the scene. The Old Home. (The Wi'.son Mirror ) We can never forget the old home that sweet, dear old place hallowed by a father's watchful care and a mother's sweet and endearing ministry. Standing way off in the back ground of the past, and ivyed all over with precious incidents of boyhood's sunny days it is the Mecca to which our thoughts make their fondest pilgrimage, and there is no dearer spot on earth to us. 'Tis true our jpresent sur roundings may be all that we could wish, and life may be flow ing along on the brightest cur rent of enjoyment, and passing in its silvery course the sweetest flowers of peace and happines. But despite all this, the heart still warms a feeling for the dear old place, and as soon as the ten der twilight of dreaming begins to deepen, and the stars of revel ry are awakenened, 'tis then we float away on the precious flood tide of hallowed memories, and see through the midst of teal's the scenes of child-hood days. Yea. Ave may bask in the sun- light of radiant happiness, ana 7 drink in the melody of the pur est notes of earthly pleasure, but like the sad sea shell which for ever keeps up in its inmost mur mur of its billowy home we will ever hear in our own true hearts the sad, sad sobbing of their ceaseless longing, and we too like the hare when hounds and horns pursue, pant to the place from whence it first flew ; we still will hope, life's long vexations pass ed, there to return and die at home at last. The State Board of Health of Iowa is authority for the state ment that 10,000 people in that State are addicted to the opium habit. 3, 1887. THE LAUREL HILL STRIKERS. The Strikers Remain Orderly and Quiet, but They are Constantly on a Keen Watch. The Laurel Hill Chemical Works at Newton, L. I., are still in a state of seige, and the ut most vigilance was exercised on both sides yesterdry, though out of respect for Sunday there was no noisy or violent demon strations. The scene at the great works is a remarkable and pictureque one. .booking at it iroin tne hill on the east the beholder can easily imagine himself gazing upon a besieged city surrounded by an attacking army. The works, which consist of three great buildings, covering a large area, are situated on the new ground bordering on Newton Creek. Around the north, east and west sides, and between the buildings, run broad alleyways which are contiually patrolled by Pinkerton detectives in uni from, looking in the distance like sentries walking their rounds On closer inspection these men seem to be strolling idly about, carelessly swinging long locust clubs, but they are in fact, heav ily armed, and it requires small provocation to secure a display of the glittering steel barrels of their heavy revolvers. . North of the works the ground rises rapidly and excavations have been made until the side of the hill presents the appear ance of aseries of earthworks such as as are frequently thrown up outside of fortifications, but in a reversed position. This hill is held by a strong body of stri kers, who make their headquar ters near the little church and silently watch every movement mi in and about the works. Off to the fence is the high board fence that surrounds the east side of Calvary Cemetery and which sweeps aronna in a semicircle like a great stockade to the Pen ny bridge. Outside the fence strikers pass and repass continu ally between the post on the hill and their main army, which is stationed at the bridge. On the south side of the building are wharves, where several lighters belonging to the firm are now ly ing idle The strikers maintain a close watch on all the approachers and no one is supposed to get into or leave the works without their knowledge. They are orderly and well behaved and say that their only object is to intercept men who may be going to work with out knowintr of the existence of - r the strike. There has been one instance where a man succeeded in pass ing the guards without their knowledge. Alfred iiamor, an old hand, got into the works un- j der cover of the darkness on Fri- day night and resumed work. Dan Neary, who returned to work on Saturday morning under the protection of the captain of Pinkerton's men, has preferred to remain at the works rather than return to his home. Three deputy sheriffs guard his wife and children at their house against further attacks from the infurated women who demolish ed the fence on Saturday. The strikers say that they have also arvnointed a committee to prevent any farther violence. They assert that there has not nftftn an instance where one of their number has committed any overt act, and they do not want their friends to. . Thftftmnloveesof CavlaryCem- etery were highly indignant at cfoomoTiT nnh ishftfl m a TKTfvnr YYrkrarer yesterday morn- i-nir flint. fhfv h n.ci ioined the strikers and were going to assist in bnrniner the works. They sa.v that there was not the slight- est foundation for such a state- inent. - Mr. Nichols, senior member of the works. bllU JL1-K. 11. If -mm.is-m. w w . " ' visited them yesterday morning, in company with his wife, and inquired carefully into all the particulars of the strike. Superintendent Herresh off says that he expects to have ail the men they need within a tew days. He states further that there are a good many first-class hands among the strikers who have taken no active part in the outside demonstrations wno would bp taken back if they de sired to go to work, but there are others who will not be taken back -i Subscription $1.50. NUMBER 13. under any circumstances. He cited James Keough. He said that at one time Keough was sick and Mr. Nichols made him a present of 25, and yet he had gone out with the s trick er s, though he had professed no sym pathy with labor unions. Keough was found among the guard at the Penny bridge. He said that it was true that Mr. Nichols gaye him 25, and that at one time he told Mr. Herres- hoff that lie did not belong to any union that some three months later he went to superin tendent like a man and told him he joined the Knights of Labor. He said that he had no personal grievance now, neither had most of the men, but they thought it their duty to stand by the men who were in the copper depart ment under Daniel Broderick where the whole trouble arose. Arrangements were made yes terday for a conference with Mr. Nichols, and it is expected that a satisfactory settlement of the difficulty will be reached to'-day. Poinpy's Clever Answer. Away in the West a negro named Pompy hirsd himself as a laoorer to a iarmer wno was very fond of laying out the work so that there was always some thing passing when Sunday ar rived. When hay-time came he would sometimes cut down a lot of grass on Saturday which would require turning over in the morning. One Sunday morning at break- fast he called his new servant : "Now Pompey, get up." "Don't want to get up; Sunday morning, massa. "But you must get up and get your breakfast." "Don't want no breaktast; bun- day morning massa ; rather lay abed than eat breakfast, massa." "But get up and help shake out the hay." "Don't work on Sunday's lnas- w- -. . -. ,11. ii 1 CI sa; 1 QiQii i nire out 10 wuritouu- days." "Oh, but this is a work of ne cessity." "Don't see dat, massa, at all; don't see dat; it's no work of ne cessity." "Well, but would you not pull 1 II 5 1. your ox out or tne pit, on uie Sabbath day ?" "O, es, massa, O, yes; but not if I shoved him in on Saturday night." A Singing Cat. (Inyo. C.il. Register.) Most everyone at some time or other has observed the peculiar niirr nf a' cat. R. W. Scott, of Bishop's Creek is the proud pos- sessor ox a cat iuai is an a-rnst i ii i. in this resoect. as it more than xmrrs it sings. This may ap- pear too strange for belief, but in the fact that several of our most prominent citizens, ana an gentlemen of undoubted veracity, vouch for the trutn ot tne story, it must be believed. Mr. bcott has in his establishment a very fine music box, and the cat has been noticed listening to its strains for hours at a time. One evening: recently the feline pri ma donna poured forth in a rich and clear contralto the melody of the "Grand Duchess." To say that her owner was astonished would be putting in mildly. He immoiint.ltr railed in several of o-hhnrs to listen to the wonder, but it was love's labor lost, for the music had stoped A few evenings later she again Donred forth her liquid notes, thi3 time rendering in fine style "Tisr.en t.n the JMOCKim? JDiru. Several erentlemen fortunately wftre rvrftsen t! and listened with with surprise and delight to per- bans the arreatest wonder oi tne ae. Many times during the past week the song cat has tuned herself to the sweetest meioay and each time to the delight o inbWfifl hearers. Her ow-ner VfM. w i3 justly proud of her, and, of course, values her highly. F is endeavoring to train her sing whatever he desires, an successful will provably visi' principle places ot the coas Nine cases of choir four deaths occurred on the 23d. " During the past several children h diptheria at Faye "fa OB PR INT I HG. PROMPT ATTENTION PAID TO ORDERS. We have one of the most complete priuting establishments in this section, and arc prer pared to execute all kinds o? Book and Job lMnting in the neatest style and as cheap as good work can be done. We pad all station ery in tablet form which makes it more con venient for office use. Place your orders with The Herald and we will guarantee to give satisfaction. Address correspondence to HERALD PRINTING BOISE, Smithfield, N. I'. NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. Choice Items Taken From Our Ex changes And Boiled Down For The Herald Readers. The first bale of new cotton carried to the Raleigh market sold for 11 cents. It was carried in Wednesday of last week. Dr. Jas. McNeill showed us yes terday some of t?ie finest leaf to bacco, which'was grown on Rock fish, that we ever saw. Fayette ville News. Dr. W. R. Capehart ss building a fine brick hotel at Avoca. The doctor intends this is a nuclus around which the summer and winter is to be built. Windsor Ledger. Mr. J. R. Milliken shows us a new pest that is damaging his corn. The stalk is covered with thousands of little white worms that very much resemble in size, shape and action the "skipper" that sometimes gets into our ba con. Pittsboro Home. Goldsboro Argus : Mr. W. R. Hollo well had a very narrow es cape from seriou if not fatal in- uries oii Monday. He was at tacked and knocked down by his arge Jersey bull, but fortunately the animal desisted and Mr. Hol- owell escaped with only a slight injury. A second party of engineers engaged in surveying the route of the C. V. & U. R. R. between his place and the Tenesee line, reached Franklin last week. The party that came in about two weeks since, are now surveying ine between Franklin and Tallu ah Falls. Franklin Press. In the cotton mills we find 120 ooras keeping up their eternal din, turning out all kinds of plaids and quantities of white goods. Thay have just got ott 80 bales of the 100 that thay had all order for to ship to China. Thay are now behind 200,000 yards on plaid, and cannot near fill the orders for home demand on white goods. Winston Dai ly. The funeral directors held a preliminary meeting at Goldsbo ro Tuesday of last week, the ob ject being to effect a permanent State organization 1 he following were present :" Messrs. J. W. Woolvin & Son, Wilmington, John W. Brown, L. C. Bagwell, Raleigh, G. S. Webb, Kmston, Wooten & Stevens, Wilson, C. W. Joyney, LaGrange, D. P. Has- kett & Son, Moore & KoDinson, Goldsboro. Mr. J. W. Woolvin was chosen temporary president and J. Robinson, temporary sec retary. Messrs. Brown, Ilaskitt and chosen a committee to en- tend an invitation to all funeral directors in the State to meet in Raleigh, on Wednesday, October 9th, for the purpose of perfec ting an organization. Messrs. J. F. Woolvin, John W. Brown and J. J. Robinson were appointed a committee on continuation and by laws. The people in the county of Harnett are somewhat excited over the production of what may be called a species of hy brid cotton plant. G. J. Sparag, a prominent lawyer of the coun ty, who also engages in farming, three years ago planted cotton near hi3 garden and alongside of it planted two or three rows of common okra. The next season he furnished a colored neighbor with cotton seed to plant his lit tle farm, about three miles off, on the Cape Fear river. The next season the colored man ob served two very peculiar plants growing in his patch, and pulling up one of them, he concluded to let the other grow, to see what would come of it. It had a leaf ver? "ch like the okra leaf an' tc ' ill like that of cot- produced reg , ' -.t maturi 4 the