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TH E HERALD. srBscRirriox katk.: One Year, mA ixAJranct, SI.-'O Six Month, ts T-'t. Advertising Hates r.ni'ie knovn on ar-plk-atiim While we are always glad to icceive bright, mewsv letters from diTercnt sections of the ountiy, we request contributors to write legibly and on one side of paper only. The anic of writer mast accompany ail articles. Address correspondence to THE HERALD," Smithfield, X. C. NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. WHAT OCCURS WORTH MENTIONING. Choice Items Taken From Our Ex changes And Boiled Down For The Herald Readers. The Governor lias appointed magistrates for Harnett County. A movement is on foot to es tablish a fire company in Wilson. The Temperance Refoim Club keeps up its organization at Kinston. "Hie streets of Raleigh are to be sprinkled in the future during a dry season. The crops in Greene county are thought to be injured twenty five per cent. During the last twelve months twelve cotton factories have been established in the State. The grading of the railroad from Shelby to Morganton will be commenced November 1st. Fourteen million pounds of leaf tobacco have been sold at Durham since October 1st, 1886. South River Baptist Associa tion convened at Canaan Church, near Xewton Grove, last Wed nesday. Mai Roberson, a well-known distiller of "moonshine" whiskey has been captured and is now in jail in Goldsboro. Rutherfordton county is cred ited with having a young man twenty-three years old who is the father of six children. Mr. W. II. Pope, who lives between Dunn and Godwin's Sta tion, on the Short Cut, had his barn destroyed by fire last week. Montgomery county has given a contract for building a new court house at Troy. It is to be of brick, 0x40 feet, two stories high. A negro named Dock Whitley has been sent to jail in Wayne County for committing an out rage upon an eight year old col ored child. Three prisoners made their es cape from Pamlico jail recently. They knocked the jailor down as he went in to give the m their supper. At New River, X. C, the Knights of Labor have induced the cot ton mills to reduce the hours of labor from twelve to eleven, and pay wages in money instead of scrip. The people of Sampson Coun ty are highly pleased with Judge Phillips' bearing on the bench. He held their recent term of court, which is his second official visit that county. The Morganton Star says that Nelson Dickson, of Silver Creek township, Burke county, having on a good charge of new brandy, was handling his pistol careless ly, last Monday week, when it went off, the ball entering his heart and killing him instantly. W. R. Swinson, a white man of the State, who was convicted at the October (1883) term of court for Spartanburg county, S. C, of forgey and sentenced by Judge Hudson to five years in the penitentiary, has been par doned by the Governor of South Carolina. W. A. Jones, Esq., Commis sioner of Labor Statistics, is now preparing for publication a com prehensive history of labor in North Carolina. The ffews and Observer says it will treat of the commencement, growth, influ ence and results of the Patrons of Husbandry, Knights of Labor, Farmers' Alliance and other so cial and labor oragizations in North Carolina only. Mr. Jones has the requisite ability and pa tience for such work and will produce a book of great value. Goldsboro Argus : Greene court adjourned yesturday morn ing and Judge Shipp left for his home in Charlotte. By far the most important case tried was that of the creditors of W. I. Wooten, against him and the as signee and preferred creditors, for the purpose of declaring void the assaignment made in favor of his wife and Simeon Wooten ; also a 310,000 mortage made to Simeon Wooten. The jury failed to agree, they standing ten in favor of fitting aside the mort KKe and assignment and two in favor f sustaining them. . i The Smi Established! VOLUME 6. The Vexed Question. (FayeUeviilt Ob-terrcr.) There is no question that gives more trouble or is more impor tant than the question of the tariff. Both parties, although their platforms are plain and un mistakable in promising, are di vided, the difference the Repub licans, let their individual views be what they may, submit quietly to party dictation, while the Democrats construe the platform to suit their individual interests, or the interest of the locality which they represent. Thus, Mr. Randall, although in all other matters acting with the Democratic party, has voted and spoken in favor of a protective tariff because it suits the State of Pennsylvania, and has preven ted the Democrats from deem ing the pledge made to the peo ple. Conferences have lately been held, and it is given out that a compromise lias been affec ted between Mr. Randall and Mr. Carlisle, the leaders of the two wings, each making concessions. The great question is whether to reduce the revenue on the neces saries of life, or to abolish the Internal Revenue. The Obser ver is no lover of the Internal Revenue, but it prerfers cheap clothing to cheap whiskey, and desires to see the high tariff on the necessariesof life first reduced. We. wish consumers to be bene fited, and not that the monop lies should profit at the cost of the consumers. The Internal Revenue is a war measure, and so are the duties on necessaries, so in this particular they stand upon the same footing, and to repeal the Internal Revenue first would surely render it necessary to continue, if not increase, this burden which now falls heavily on the fanner. Whiskey and to bacco are by no means necessary. It is not incumbent upon any one to chew or drink, and al though the system is, we admit, a bad one nevertheless it is bet ter for the people, and we be lieve also to the manufacturer, that it remain. He who dances must pay the fiddler ; so he who drinks must in the end pay the tax. It is a voluntary one, and no one is compeled to pay it unless he indulges in this ex pensive luxury of his own free will. We shall be glad to see the Internal Revenue collected by the States for their OAvn in dividual use, but as our own nat ional expenses are increasing in paying pensions, Szc.y we do not care to see heavier burdens placed upon the bone and sinue of the land, that people may drink and chew at less expense. The Bondholders. Ktb'ical Recordi.:) Judge Bond, on Friday last, during the term of the United States Court in Richmond, Va., sentenced Attorney-General Ayers, of Virginia, Common wealth's Attorney John Scott, of Fauquier county; Mr. McCabe, Commonwealth's Attorney for Loudon county, to prosecuting persons in that State for paying taxes in coupons, in obedience to the law passed by the State Legislature. These high officers of Virginia are now in. jail. Judge Bond is on the side of the English bond-holders and refuses t o recognize the laws of Virginia. The Virginian who would vote for the read juster-Mahone-repub-lican combination in the com ing election under present cir cumstances is unworthy of citi zenship. There is nothing now left to Virginia but the absolute repudiation of her entire debt. A Hot Pancake. A remarkable incident occur red at the St. Louis fair grounds during the President's visit that had a sequel the next morning in the police court. While the President's carriage was driving by one of the booths Mrs. Cleve land was startled and surprised by the sudden appearance of a hot pancake in her lap. She had been used to receiving bo quets in that manner, but a hot pancake was something she was unprepared for. The police poun ced on the cake maker, and found her to be Annie Saxe, a come ly young cook, in the booth. In the police court she explained that something impelled her to hit Mrs. Cleveland with a pan cake. A continuance was gran ted for a week. rm "CAROLINA, OUR COUNTRY'S CHIEF PERIL. GAMBLING THE NATION'S GREAT EVIL. A Sensible Man's Views About The Manipulation of Stocks And Other Things. "Are we a nation of gamblers ?" This question was asked by a retired merchant of high char acter and sterliug integrity. His companion, the head of a great banking house, sadly replied : "I fear I must answer yes." They were conversing about the fluc tuations of Wall Street, and about the corners that have been man ipulated frequently of late years. "Oh," said the first speaker, "the papers talk about our dan ger in case of foreign war, be cruse we have no naval defences, and of the ease with which the great ships of even some of the South American States could compel our seaport cities to pay tribute to them ; but perilous as it is to remain in this defenseless condition, it does not trouble me half as much as it does to see the demorilization o f the public mind brought about by the great gamblers of the country." There is good reasons for such gloomy forebodings as these. Gambling of every degree and kind is an evil, if not a crime. Every State has laws more or less repressive that represent the en lightened public sense on this subject, but all these refer to pet ty things, while in Wall Street and all the other commercial cen ters the evil increases, and has reached a magnitude exceeding anything this country has here tofore known. Railroad corpo rations, transportation and tele graph companies, and even the food of the people, are at the mercy of the men who play for stakes as great almost as the wealth of the country. The hon est investor no longer dares to buy stocks and bonds to hold for legitimate income. It is impos sible to foresee how long it will be before the soundest and most valuable properties will be wrecked, not by misfortune or by "visitation of God," but by the selfish operators with more millions than consciences, who care only for their own aggrendi zement, and are utterly reckless of the sufferings of their victims. It is bad enough tat the small investments in stocks and bonds upon which the widow and the fatherless are depended for sup port should be made worthless, as they have been time and again by the manipulators of Wall street, but it is far worse that it should be in the power of one man, or any combination of men, to force the prices of food and fu el to a point that carries suffer ing to the laboring millions of this country. These thing have and will be done until the pub lic conscience is aroused, and State and national law-makers are compelled to make all such evil acts, and crimes punishable by law. It has been said that this is impossible, but that is a mistake. The same principle that underlies the laws against lotteries, policy shops, and gam bling houses, applies with equal force to these weightier evils, When men conspire together to advance the price of wheat or pork, or of any other thing that enters into general consumption, by creating an artificial scarify, they do an evil thing that is ea sily to be proven, and that ought to be punished. Thus far the South has escaped to a great extent the gambling maina that prevails in the North and Northwest. Her banks, cot ton and produce exchanges have been notably conservative in their business ideas and meth ods. Her people, like those of other sections of the Union, have suffered from the effects of gam bling opperations elsewhere, and as industrial development goes forward and wealth accumulates, they will feel it still more. The Manufacture' s Record calls upon its readers to consider this grave subject, and to use their influence to arouse a public opin ion against it. If this evil con tinues to increase in the same ratio it has for the last decade, it will demoralize all legitimate business, retard the Southern progress, and work untold mis chief in all parts of our land. It is the chief peril of the coun try. Let us all join hands to suppress it. liecord. 7 CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS SMITHFIELD, N.. C, OCTOBER Sound Advice. (Sotland Neck Democrat.) Now is the time to fill your stables full of pine straw or lit ter. If you do not do this now, you will not do it at all. Now is . the time, the accepted time, to prepare your stables and shel ters to protect your mules, oxen, and cattle from the winter winds, snows and sleets. If you do not do it now you will not do it at all. And if you fail to protect your stock from the winter winds you ought to be indicted for cru elty to animals, and if the laws will not punish you for such a crime we feel sure the King of Kings will. Self-interest ought to lead you to build warm sheds to protect your cattle. .It will not take half the feed to winter stock in warm sheds or stables that it will out of doors. Besides how can we be so cruel, wicked and inhuman as to leave our stock out all winter in the weath er ? A -cow that stands out all winter will take all next sum mer to get her flesh back, if per chance she should live through the winter. It does not cost much to build these sheds. You can build them all around your barns, stables, gin houses or any other out-house. Build always on the south side if possible. If you can do no better put up a plank fence nailed on perpendic alarly, eight feet high, and break the points with narrow strips, and have the fence in the shape of a half moon. Let the fence face the south. A cow will give three times as much milk in the winter kept in a warm stable as she will exposed to the cold winds. The same is true as to mules, horses and other cattle so far as feed is concerned and keep ing fat. Half feed and warm stables is much better than whole feed and no stables. We know from experience, and life is too short and you are too old to try experiments. Better take our word and follow our advice in this matter. IIow to Get Rich. (Aeville Citizen.) The price of a fortune has several ingredients. One must first give up every other except the one idea of money getting and must make it his pleasure and his passion. He cannot in dulge much in culture, reading, philanthrophy, religion, or any of the higher pleasures of life. He must not forget that the only thing in existence is for him to consume less than he receives ; as gains increase, care to save them must also increase. To be sure a man expects when he is rich to then devote some atten tion to himself, but give a man the single purpose of accumula ting, let all his faculties be de voted to that end, as they must be in laying up a fortune, until he is 50, and he is wholly inca pable of understanding or appre ciating the better things of life. Hence, as a rule, the rich have the fewest real pleasures in life. Minister Manning's Demise. (N. r. Star.) The remains of Thomas C. Manning, United States Minis ter to Mexico, remain at the Ff f th Avenue Hotel in charge of Mr. Percy Roberts, pending the arri val of Mrs. Manning. A tele gram was received the 12th sta ting she had been delayed at Cincinnatti by the train from New Orleans failing to make its eastern connections. She is ex pected to arrive in the city to day, Oct. 12th, and it supposed she will desire that her husband's remains be taken to Alexander, La., for interment. A peculiar sadness is added to the close of Mr. Manning's long and useful career by the fact that neither relative or intimate friend was at his side when he breathed his last, and "that he seemmed to shrink from the he held dear, his last words be thought of giving pain to those lie held dear, his last words be ins : Don't let my friends see me." The remains still lie in. room 32 as they were prepared by the undertaker on Tuesday. During the day a large number of peo ple have called at the hotel to take a last look at the dead Min ister. Pay your subscription at once to The Herald. D ERA1 ATTEND EES.' 22, 1887. FOOLED BY THE MONEY KING. SCORES OP NEGROES DUPED BY CANADAY. They Find, But Too Late That He Was Just What "The Time3 Said A Fraud. Last Friday and Saturday re minded the writer of the Tiwes just after the war when all sorts of schemes were gotten up by various sharpers and rascals to dupe the ignorant negroes. It had been reported that Thomas Canady, the negro lawyer of Ox ford, to whom the Times paid its respects two weeks ago, would be here on Friday for the pur pose of loaning to all of those from whom he had received ap plications the amount of money they desired. And we had no idea that he had succeeded in duping so many until we saw them rolling in from every di rection, early in the morning. They came from nearly every section of the county, and from Wake. Some had paid the ras cal $5, others 10, and others $15, and every one, although they had been warned against the scheme, was runniug over with faith in Canady. "Ah he will certainly be here" said they. "You white folks needn't try to fool us. You just don't want we darkies to buy land ; but we are going to have it just the same," &c, &c. But when the 11.30 train arrived and failed to bring the money King ? some of the "Capitalists"became a little rest ive, and it could be plainly seen that the faith of a goodly num-. ber was beginning to waiver. Things were getting a little ex citing, but a colored passenger brought the news that the Land Buyer would soon arrive by pri vate convevance, and this some what appeased the army that had been duped as successfully by this Fraud, as they were by the Republican party soon after the war when they were promised "forty acres and a mule" to stand by the party. Anxiously and im patiently they waited, when Mat thew Hawkins, (who seemed to be as badly duped as any of the rest) received a telegram stating that it was impossible lor uan adv to come on Friday, but he would certainly be here Saturday at noon. "Oh," they said, "we knew that something was bound to be the matter. Canady is all right, and will be here to-morrow. So ihey came back Satur day, but to their amazement, the "Land Shark" as some of them called him, failed again to put in an appearance. The telegram turned out to be bogus, so it is said, but a telegram was receiv ed on Saturday from a man in Oxford stating that Canady left there on Thursday, and reported that he was going to Louisburg. This was too much for the duped darkies. Some of them just want ed to see the scoundrel one more time, while a few tried to laugh it over, but the great majority wore very long faces, and swore vengeance against Canady and all of his assistants. (It is re ported that he had several in this county.) Matthew Hawk ins informs us that he went to Oxford Saturday night to look for Canady, but the only infor mation he could get was that Canady left there in a buggy Thursday, and came in this di rection. So the whole thing turn ed out just as the Times predict ed two weeks ago. The colored people (those that were duped) refused to take advice from any body and .went headlong into the trap, and have no one to blame but themselves. Probably the colored people will learn after a while that some of their own race and the self-appointed "friends of the colored people," are worse enemies to them than (they think) the white people are. Proof of Devotion. Bazar.) "And do you really love me George ?" she asked. "Love you !' repeated George fervently. "Why, while I was bidding you good-bye on the porch last night, love, the dog bit a large chunk out of my leg, and I never noticed it till I got home. Love you!" English statesmen live longer than American statesmen, but they don't have so much fun. Aj Subscription $1.50. NUMBER 19. Negroes to go to California. (C.'iarlotte Chronicle ) Rev. Mr. Petty, a colored di vine, delivered a lecture to a large crowd of colored people at Zion Methodist church, in thi3 city, last night. He appeared as a California pilot, and made el oquent arguments going to show why all the colored people here abouts should pack up and go at once to that haven. "Califor nia," said the speaker, "is God's country," and to -sustain this as sertion, he states that colored hotel waiters out there receive $21 per week, and shingle makers $60 per week. The speaker gave this out as a solid fact, and "be ing as it is so," we expect to see a big exodus of our colored pop ulation for the golden shore. Rev. Petty was exceedingly sar castic in his remarks, and gave South Carolina a heavy lick. He said that God never made South Carolina, and did not know any thing about that State. "All the negroes east of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad," he declar ed, "are in a starving condition. They don't know what a biscuit is." To support this statement the Reverend divine explained that some days agojie was trav elling along the road, when he met a little negro. He asked the rising young ward of the na tion if he wanted a biscuit, and the boy actually did not know what "biscuit" meant. Several white people were present, and they report that Rev. Petty's talk was anything but pleasant for the two . races. However, they say that they hope all that believe him. will follow his ad vice and emigrate to God's coun tryCalifornia." Be Not Alarmed. (Fayeltville Netcs.) The North seems to be afraid that the blood curdling yell of the Southern soldier when rush ing to the charge, will once again be heard resounding through out land. Hon. Jeffer son Davis is to visit a city of his former power and of his ever lasting glory. He is to be again, for a few moments, united with friends and comrades of other years. The hearty handshake and the glistening tear of affec tion will take the place of for mer stirring battle cries. Oh ! ye frightened North ! be not alarmed ! The shade of a noble man comes in peace. Or if ye are very timorons why place a double guard around the U. S. Capitol and have the telegraphic lines all primed so that a raid from the Macon Fair on the Cap itol of our nation may be frus trated. The occasion will be fraught with much danger to the blessed Union of our coun try. O ! tempora. But for fear that alarm may cause indiges tion to afflict some of our North ern brothers of the press we will hasten to them, that Mr. Davis old war-horse is at present una ble to stand the fatigue of a campaign and consequently the North is safe for at least twelve months more. Why do we always so presist ently hate a man we have cal umniated. Why do pigmies look up to giants and then get well out of reach to shoot poison ar rows of malice. But such is life at least at the North among a certain crew. A Murderous Indian. Deputy United States Marshall Phillips, with three assistants as posse and guards, a few days ago arrested Henry M. Kizoit, a full blooded Chickasaw, eighteen years of age, near Eafaula, Indi an Territory. Not being able to make the town during the eve ning the party camped on the prairie, with the exception of Phillips, who rode on ahead. After waiting until noon next day for the arrival of the guards with the prisoner Phillips rode back and found the entire posse killed, their heads having been cut off while they slept. The logs and branches from the camp fire were pilled on top of them, and the greater part of their bodies were consumed. A pool of blood indicated that they had all been killed by an axe while sleeping, as the three heads, severed from their bodies, were lying as the rested. The prison er who did the deed, escaped. JOB PR1NTIHG. We Lave one of the most complete printing establishments in this section, and are pre pared to execute all ".inds o' Book and Job Printing in Mio neatest style and as cheap aa good work can be done. We pad all station ery in tablet form which makes it more con venient for office use. Place 3 our orders with The ITerald and we will guarantee to give satisfaction. Address correspondence to IIEBALD PRINTING HOME. SraithflHi. Jf. f. WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING. EVENTS WHICH HAPPEN . WEEKLY. Newsy Items Which Are Gleaned iTom v arious sources And Pre pared For Our Headers. The Knights of Labor lost 150.- 000 members the past year. The first snow storm of the season fell at Utica, N. Y., on the 11th instant. Indiana has a new caDitol that cost $2,000,000 ; and the furniture is to cost 100,000. Jefferson Davis will be asked to take the stump for the Anti Prohibitionists of Georgia. Seven lives were lost and manv injured by the burning of the insane asylum at Cleveland, Ohio. A mill at Dover, N. H.. last year used up 12,000 bales of cot ton, making 33,000,000 yards of cloth. England's liquor bill, if con verted' into sovereigns and laid in a line, would reach nearly 2,000 miles. The epidemic of scarlet fever in London is still spreading. Ihere were, in one week. 1.600 cases in the hospitals. The crookedness of the Con necticut bank cashier grows as the investigation proceeds; the loes so far aggregates $159,000. Further particulars of the ter rible railway accident in Iudiaua show that sixteen persons were burned to death and eighteen wounded. A monument to the soldiers and sailors who enlisted in the Union caue from Bethlehem, Pa., was unveiled there on the 11th instant. A fire occurred at Norfolk, Va.t on the night of the 12th inst.,in a tinware manufactory and the Enterprise Iron Works, causing a loss of 8,000. A riot, led by a Russian priest, occurred at Ruthovitza on the 9th instant. Troops were called out to disperse the rioters and many of them were injured. A regular freight train on the Erie railroad, bound eastward, was wrecked near Allendale early on the morning of the 12th. A A dozen cars were demolished. Germany has paid 12,500 as indemnity to the family of the French gamekeeper recently kill ed on the frontier of the two countries by a German soldier. The backers of the Sco tch yacht Thistle lost $575,000 on the race between the Volunteer and that boat recently. It is said that another yacht will be built to compete for the cup next year. About three thousand miners are out on a strike in Indiana, and a coal famine is apprehend ed ; the men claim to be poorly paid, and will stay out until their demands are complied with. The Northern Lo,nd and Cattle Company,incorporated in East St. Louis, St. Claire county, Ills., made an assignment on the 11th instant. The nominal assets are $250,000, and the liabilities are $350,000. One of the most disasterous storms ever known on the south ern coast of Mexico, occurred on the 7th and 8th instants. The city of Quelite, a town of more than 8,000 people was totally de stroyed and many lives lost. The last report of the Depart ment of Agriculture shows the average condition of crops to be as follows: "Corn, 72.8; oats, 95.; barley, 80; buckwheat, 77 ; potatoes, 61.5 ; cotton, 76.5; to bacco, 75.5. The yield of corn will be about 450,000,000 bush els; oats, 600,000,000; barley, 24,000,000." We see in an exchange that a little son of Leander Hill, living near Covington, Tenn., went to his father's gin one day recently and seeing the press half full-of the fleecy staple, lay down and went to sleep. Later the negroes filled the pres to complete the bale. The terriffic pressure of the block was brought down, and when the bale was rolled up from the press, bound with iron ties, the life blood of the boy oozed slowly through it. The bale was at once opened. To the borrow and unspeakable grief of Mr. Hill, the body of his little son was found crushed to a jelly.