North Carolina Newspapers

THE HERALD. srnsci'.irnoN i;..tfs: 0e Vcar, Cuf-'i in Aih'.ti-c; $l.o0. fix Months, "- Adrertising Hates made known on application Whil we are always glad to leceive bright, wfj letters from (liferent sections of the unttTi request contributors to write ljibl and on one side of paper only. The line of writer must accompany all articles. Address correspondence to "THE HERALD," Smithfield, N. C. UOHTH CAROLINA NOTES. "V7H AT OCCTJBS WORTH MENTIONING. Choice Items Taken From Our Ex changes And Boiled Down For The Herald Readers. Haywood county has voted 8100,000 to the Carolina Knox rille and Western railroad.' The Missionary Baptist Church es at New Bsrne, Goldsboro and Wilson are without pastors. Last week the Goldsboro Fair was well patronized, notwith standing the inclement weather. The secretary of the treasury has appointed David S. Davis to he storekeeper and ganger at Kinston, X. C. Van Johnson, a negro charged with rape, was tried last week- and convicted. He was sentenced to he hung November 15th. The Toka Vineyard near Fay etteville is the largest in the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. It has 12o acres of bearing vines. The loss of the Richmond and Danville railroad in the collision of last Thursday is estimaed at not less than 50,000. The past sentrer engine cost 7,000, and was new. Wilson Advance : Newspa pers are published in 70 of 96 counties in North Carolina. There are 18 dailies, 1 semi weekly, 141 weeklies, 1 semi monthly and 5 monthlies. Papers have been filed in the office of the clerk of the Supe rior Court of Wake county ma king an assignment of the prop erty and effects of the Colored Industrial association. Webster's IVeeWy : The deep est gold mine in North Carolina is Gold Hill, in Rowan county, which is down 770 feet. Open about 1824, it was for years the great mine of this part of the world, and has a record of over $3,000,000. The D ii nn Signboard lias discovered a hybrid cotton grow ing in Harnett county, that avrages 50 bolls of cotton to the stalk where the common cotton has only 7 or 8. This new cot ton has leaves similar to okra. 380 per bushel have been offered for the seed. Roanoke JVe ws : The New York syndicate that purchased the large tract of land in Dare and Tyrrell counties, are preparing to erect mills and manufacture lumber on extensive scale. Eliza beth City, we understand is to be their central shipping point. "Elizabeth City Falcon : The suggestion of Mr. N. B. Brough ton, of Raleigh, for the position of State Auditor, is a goud one. He posess the confidence of all who know hi in. His receorh is clean. He would give strength to the ticket by his great popu larity. He is eminently quali fied for the position. The Raleigh Visitor of the 27th of October says : "Owen Manning, the white man who has been missing from the con victs at the penitentiary,was shot this morning at 3:30 o'clock while attempting to scale the stockade with a ladder. He was on the- outside and was recap tured. He died about 1 o'clock today." The correspondent of a Vir ginia exchange says : "A faiMily of female giants is reported in the northern part of Durham county. One girl is six feet five inches high.' If this statement had come from any body except Col. Olds, we should have chided the author and said ilhto him : "Go spin thy narra tive to the mariners." The Hilisboro Recorder says: James II. Thompson, of Orange county, is now ninety-one years Old. He is hale and hearty and still very active. This year he worked six acres in corn, has cut and statked it and is now nearly done sewing wheat on the same ground. This he did with his own hands without the assistance of any person whatever. Mr. Thompson takes great deligh- in reading the Recorder which he does without the aid of glass es. .11 II 11 H A Established 1882. Y VOLUME 6. Silly Females. Gold Leaf.) It should be reserved for the men folks to make themselves ridiculous by their silly acts, but this is not the view a number of blue blooded, high bred ladies of St. Paul, Minnesota, took the other day. It had been deter mined to organize a committee of one hundred and fifty ladies to receive President Cleveland's party. The wife of ex-Governor now Senator Davis was naturally the first selected to serve on the committee, and the other one hundred and forty nine declined to serve because Mrs. Davis was a seamstress when the Senator married her. We may be wrong but it seems to us that they should rather have honored the woman whose worth enabled her to rise from the position of seam stress and fitted her for the wife of a Governor and United States Senator. No disgrace to earn one's daily bread, and certainly no odium should attach to any honoroble employment, on the part of women any more than men. The one hundred and forty-nine who refused to serve on the St. Paul committee displayed a wo ful lack of good taste, if not a want of common sense, and their conduct upon sober second thought ought to cause them to hang their heads in shame. By the way, an examination into the pedigrees of some of those same ladies who tossed their haughty heads and turned up their delicate noses at the idea of serving on a committee with a former seam stress, even though she now be the petted wife of a man high in official position intelligent, culti vated and the equal perhaps of either one of them in nobility of character and true womanly virtues, might lead to some inter esting disclosures. Free Whiskey and High Tariff Augusta Go.) Gazette, Pen.) The liquor tax is purely a Fed eral tax. The abolition of the tax would leave whiskey free. Then, it follows as a matter of course that, in favoring the abo lition of the tax, it favors free whiskey. Of course the organ treats its readers to the powerful argument that the liquor tax is "a war tax." But that is all sham and fplderol. It is not opposed to the tax because it is "a war tax," else it would be opposed also to the high tariff taxes on the necessaries of life which are not simply "war taxes," but "war taxes" of piratical cast. Why is it that the organ never cries out asrainst the "war tax" on salt? Why do the people never see any protest in it against the "war tax" on clothing? Why has it never a word of opposition to the "war tax" on any of the ne cessities oi me : it is not op posed to "war taxes," for it fa vors keeping them on the four thousand and odd articles em braced in the tariff schedules It simply opposes war taxes and peace taxes on whiskey, in order that the infamous high tariff "war taxes" may be retained on thousands of articles of necessi ty to the people. And the Ga zette calls that the very essence of Republicanism. Mr. Thiirman's Farewell. In closing his speech at Lenton, Ohio, Saturday last, ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman said: "My friends, this is probably the last political speech I ever shall make. I don't know. Iain a pretty tough old fellow, and it may be that I will be wandering about here like a ghost on the bank of Styx ten years from now talking democracy to you. I swear you will never hear me talking any thing else. But I am inclined to think that this is the last polit ical speech I ever shall make. And if it is, in my parting words to you I beseech you to stand by the great principles that Thomas Jelferson laid down for the Amer ican people, that Andrew Jackson enforced, and that have made this country one of the greatest and freest and most lovable countries upon which the sun of God shines to-day. Be thankful that you have such a government, and never forget that, when you come to sift it down, to analyze it, too boil it, you will find that every principle that has contributed to your happiness is a principle o the democratic party." Smithf What Breaks Down Young Men. Scientific American,) It is a commonly received no tion that hard study is the un healthy element of college life. But from tables of the mortality of Harvard University, collected by Professor Pierce from the last triennial catalogue, it is clearly demonstrated that the excess of deaths for the first ten years af ter graduation is found in that portion of the class of inferior scholarship. Every one who has seen the curriclum knows, that iEschylus and political economy use up a dozen and their two lit- le fingers injure one, late hours and rumpunches are heavier than he loins of Eucid. Dissipation -1 1 -9 . is a sure aes trover, ana every young man who follows it is as he early flower exposed to an untimely frost. Those who have been inveigled into the path of vice are legion. A few hours sleep each night, high living, and plenty of "smashes" make war upon every f unction of the body. The brains, the heart, he lungs, the liver, the spine, the bones, the flesh, every part and faculty are overtaxed and weakened by the terrific energy of passion loosened from re straint, until like a dilapidated mansion, "the earthly house of this tabernacle" falls into ruin ous decay. Fast young men, right about At 3 in the Morning. 5m Francisco Chronicle.) He was leaning against the lamp-post,and the waschf ul guar dian of the night came up very respectfully. "Fine night, Mr. Jones." "Bootiful." "You are out rather late, ain't you v" - "No, no about my usual time." "Are you waiting for some body ?" (No, no going home. A lit tle tired, that's all : a little tired." "I'll walk down with you and see you to your door." "Thank you, thank you, but there's no need. The other side of the block will be 'round this in a moment, and I'll just pop in when my door comes along. Thank you. Good night. Penny Items. The peanut crop in this section is finer than has ever been known Mr. Caleb Penny has procured him a music teacher, Miss D. L Powell, of Hickory. Miss Pattie Penny made a fly ing trip to some of the upper counties not long since. Mr. R. S. Penny, of Penny, at tended the Association at Prince ton, states that he had a delight ful trip. Mr. Henderson Cole, of Benson, spent a short while with friends at Penny on his way from the State Fair. Miss Alice Sanders, one of Spi- lona's most charming young la dies, is visiting this section ; the guest of Miss Aurora Banks. Misses Sudie and Laura Penny tender many thanks for the high ly appreciated box of grapes which came to hand a few days ago. Fall has again made its appear- ance. ine trees are sneaaing their beautiful foliage. I can't help but thinking I two will soon pass away. But the war of passion, and the cry of wrath all will go on, but I'll have no part Sorry to chronicle the death of little Myrtie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Page, of Clay ton, aged eleven months. Its remains was interred in the fam ily grave yard of Mr. Joseph Penny. Quite a crowd was pres ent. I know the dear little dar ling will be greatly missed. The people of this community open their whole hearts in sympathy with the bereaved parents. May the Lord prepare their hearts to strive harder to know thee, and meet Myrtie in the realms above. Then peacefully sleep darling Myrtie In the cold and silent grave, When you awake may it be in Heaven Neath the cold and limpid waves. Chad. IELD MERALI) "CAEOLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND E'ER." SMITHFIELD, N. C, NOVEMBER Glenwood Notes. Several new pupils in school this week, and a larger number will come in next week. There is some talk of our school's visiting the Fayetteville Fair in a body, but it is not yet definitely determined whether we shall go or not. Rev. F. R. Underwood and family, from Va., will soon re turn to Glenwood to live. The community will be largely ben efitted by this addition to its members of so amiable and in telligent and courtly a family as Mr. Underwood's. We would extend to all a hearty welcome to all. Miss Kate McDonald offers a Gold Medal ror the most credita ble paogress made in Music and French by her classes. This Med al will be open for competition to all those in Miss McDonald's classes, irrespective of age or ad vancement, and it is hoped that all will try earnestly to win the prize. Thanksgiving exercises will be held by our school at the Acade my, in November. A Program will be published next week. It is expected that some promi- baief offhand talk from the floor, nent speaker will be present to seemed to give the most satis deliver an address suitable for factory solution. His first nosi- the occasion. Dinner will be served by those in attendance, and an enjoyable time may be expected. The students of our school (session of 1886-7) can secure their Diplomas by returning to school, and passing the hnal ex- amination in Dec. Y e hope all will do this, as these Diplomas will be valuable evidences of the student's connection with one of the most widely known and pro- gressive schools in N. C. A pleasing feature of our school closing, in December will be a "Social Party," given by the Teacher and pupils of Glenwood High School. All the members of the school will be invited, and every thing possible will be done to make the evening one long to be remembered. Refresh- ments of all kinds will served. The Baptist Association which met at Canaar Church, near New- ton Grove, last week had a large attendance, the weather consid- ered ; and our careful house-keep- ers of Glenwood added another laurel to their already splendid reputation for preparing for the comfort and enjoyment of visi tors by their abundant and de licious cookery. We wonder if There is a land of pure delight Where babblers cease to bark and bite where selfsacrificing effort is ap- preciated ; where wrong motives are not imputed to every action; where gossip, foul tongued and venomous, sits silent ; where fair reputation will not be band- ied back and forth like Trifles n.rht as air :" where candor rules supreme, and where business is attended to by quantity, De voided at me sui-vttot-ttYAv that. hn iLnvthinc to bles. If two horses and ten cow3 An no, fiiora eWnino- t.hfi wliilft. for lack rf occupation. E. At the close of the present tm -,f riir,wi TTicrh school A mT.iaffl ATsminatinns of all aKwfa af.iiriii rinrinir tliA vftflT J. ivv J -n v,tt TMiniTAn. anil to those who have finished the course of study "with honor," the Acada- miclJiplomawiii oeissuea. j nose i.otto faton nnhr -nttTt nf t.hfi course may obtain "Certificates of Distinction" after passing their examinations. A handsome prize, worm $iu.uu, win uo awarded to the pupil or student that passes the most creditable thft n.hsolntft mer- Vau,.uii.u;U.v it of the examination to be the toot fn. oTirnWi Thnso that in the Normal class will receive "Certificates of Distinction" in this department. Let Farmers Demand It. (Progressive Farmer. ) United States Commissioner Colman is "catching it" at the - i x- I nanas oi a numuer ux tLnuuitui- i m,wa throughout the conn- a ti, rtnnn.fmQnf a oti. woV.irrf, no nnnt a mi,ot no-rivmt.nrnl in- l r.,. nn. til it shall be made a Department tii tTmf .i i i,., o i'n tri cabinet. Let the farmers all over the land demand that our Na- tional Commissioner of Agricul- t.niA oi,aii Tfi ftWatftd to the ditr- nitv of a Cabinet Offlcer. 5, 1887. Shame Upon Us. Progressive Farmer ) We can grow successfully with in the borders of our highly favored State, corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, rice cot ton hemp, flax, jute, silk, tobacco, peanuts, sorghum, cane, broom cane, millet, lucerne, clover, orchard, timothy and herds grass, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, hops, peas, melons, strawberies, apples, peaches, plums, cherries, etc., etc., and yet we find people confining their labor and care to the production of single crops to the exclusion of all. And these crops frequetly cost more to produce them than the price for which they are sold. And the worst feature of this suicidal and ruinous policy is, that the producer has no more control over the price than a child. How helpless! How poor! How dependent and seovile we must be so long as this mad course i3 pursued! Southern Planters9 True Policy. A distinguished planter from Mississippi, General Miles, in a tion was that the planter should so conduct his operations to be able to withhold his cotton from the market when the price was below the cost of production, which would consequently, if generally done, be sure to enhance prices. To do this the planter should make himself independ ent Qf advances by factors or in debtedness to merchants. He should not plant cotton and buy nothing that he could raise at home. The South pays the North- west fifty millions of dollars per year for meat, nearly all of which could be raised at home; it pays the Western States twenty-five millions per year for mules wnich coulcLnainly be raised at home General Miles owned four hun- flred slaves berore the war. At the close of the war he was bur- dened with a debt of $210,000, bearing 10 per cent, interest With twenty crops he had paid Qff this debt and was now inde pendent in his circumstances. lie practiced what he preached, an(j he believed others could do the same. The General's speech made a profound impression Save The Liquid Manure. According to the experiments of the best German chemists, the liquid manure from the horse amounts to one and a half tons per year, which contains nitro- gen and potasn worm $Lz.4d. The cow furnishes four tones, containing 14.00 worth of the same element. These figures show the importance oi saving all the liquid manure possible, even if only one-half the whole are kept, the liquid manure they would make, provided it could I . - 13 -I 4- I an De save&, wouiu ue wunn 81 95.50, or enough to buy about four tons of good phosphate, it but one half of it is voided in 1.1 , 3 iV. flof me Darn, aim me is wasted for the lack of absorb- ents, or washed away Dy raiiib, m."' x Dnate to replace m If it will pay to build a silo for herd of ten cows, will it not pay to build a cistern 10 noiu nt t.li animals c If dry earth or peat be used as a osor Dents it wuum xu. least its own weight in the ao- I . J. "I 4 sorbent. would it not, o to Dump out and spread lorty tons of liquid, than to draw in iony tuua ui -.x out eighty tons thus saturated with moisture ? These are prac tical questions for the considera tion of the farmers, and wormy of their study. If such a cistern were built would it not pay to au w cmla and nil waste water irom . i1a the house to run into it, mus saving whatever value may be in them, ana at the same time disposing oi a material which is too oiten a nui sance about the house, and whicn in a few years, may so satuaie the srround near where the siiik nines discharge as to dram Dacx into the well and pollute the water supply of the house . Such a dilution of the liquid irom u e stables would oniy ueitei for application to the soil Subscription $1.50, NUMBER 21 Thanksgiving. Washington, Oct. 25. The following proclamation was is sued late this afternoon : A PROCLAMATION. By the President of the United States. ' The goodness and mercy of God which have followed the Ameri can people during all the days of the past year claim their grate ful recognition and humble ac knowledgement. By His omnip tent Power He has protected us from war and pestilence and from evey national calamity ; by His gracious favor the earth has yielded a generous return to the labor of the husbandman, and every path of honost toil has led to comfort and contentment ; by His loving kindness the hearts of our people have been replen ished with fraternal sentiment and patriotic endeavor, and by His unerring guidance we have been directed in the way of national prosperity. To this end that we may, with one accord testify our gratitude for all these blessings, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the Uni ted States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by all people of the land. On that day let all work and employment be suspended; and let our people assemble in theL accustomed places of worship and with pray er and songs of praise give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all that He has done for us, while we humbly implore forgivness of our sins and continuance of His mercy. Let families and kindred be united on that day, and their hearts, filled with kind ly cheer and affectionate remin science, be turned in thankful ness to the source of all their pleasures and the Giver of all that makes the day glad and joy ous. And in the midst of our worship and our happiness, let us remember the poor, needy and unfortunate ; and by our gifts of charity and ready benevolence let us increase the number of those who, with grateful hearts, shall join in our thanksgiving. In witness thereof, I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be here un to affixed. Done at the city of Washing ton, this, the 25ih day of Octo ber, in the year of our Lord, 1887, and of Independence of United States 112th. By the President : Grover Cleveland. Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State. Jeftersosi Davis. Thirty thousand veterans from all parts of the South assembled at Macon on the 26 th inst, and were reviewed by Mr. Davis. It was arranged that Mr. Davis should not speak, owing to his feeble condition, but at sight of a tattered Confederate flag in the procession he arose and said that he was like that 'flag, in that he was torn and riven by storms and trials. He loved it as a me morial of what had been done by fathers and sons. He was glad to see them again. Short speeches were made by Gov. Gordon and Senator Col quitt. There were fifty thousand vis itors at the State fair, where Mr. Davis again reviewed the veter ans in the afternoon. At night the city was brilliant ly decorated and illuminated, and full of strangers. A Horrible Affair. Tiffin, O., Oct. 27. At a funeral near Sycamore to-day, the team attached to the hearse ran away and the vehicie was reduced almost to kindling wood. The coffin was dashed to the ground, the lid torn off, and the corose rolled into a ditch by the ft sir!. Other teams took fright and a general panic ensued Women fainted, men juinpea from carriages, wagons were overturned, horses became entan gled in the general wreck, and several persons were more or less aniiirvnalir lninfpfl. 1-LftV. Air. 1IOW CCllUUiJ J "- - i who was to have conducted the funeral services, was perhaps fatally injured. JOB PRINTIHG. We have one of the most complete printing establishments in this section, and are pre pared to execute all kinds o'. Book and Job Piintiag in tlfc neatest style and as cheap aa good work can be Joiic. We pad all station ery in tablet form which makes it more con venient for office u.se. Place your orders with The IIkh.alo and we will guarantee to give satisfaction. Address correspondence to HEKALD PRP.TIXK HOISK, SmlthScU, X. i'. WHAT THE WORLD IS 'DOING. EVENTS WHICH HAPPEM WEEKLY. Newsy Items Which. Are Gleaned Prom Various Souree3 And Pre pared For Our Readers. Before the middle of the seven teenth century tea was not used in England, and was entirely un known to the Greeks and Ro mans. Americans spend $30,000,000 in Europe every summer. Dur ing the past mouth they paid a million and a half for French, pictures. A large number cf soldiers from different sections of the South attended the dedication of the Lee monument at Rich mond, Va., last week. The Democrats of New York seem to be confident of victory in the State election next week. There is no telling how New York will go. Banker Rawson, of Chicago is not out of danger, and his step son, Lee, who attemped to kill him, has been remanded to await results.. Troops are being, concentrated at Fort Custer to suppress the disorderly Crow Indians. Gen. Dudley will probably take the field in person. George Clay well, of Mount Carmel, Pa., a baggage master on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, fell between moving cars at Penn Haven and was crushsd to death. Marie Antoinette's famous necklace of pearls, which went round her neck in sixteen strings, is now for sale at the shop of one of the principal jewelers in Berlin. It is now defintnitely stated that Secretary Lamar will go up on the supreme bench, and Post master General Vilas will be transferred to the Interior De partment. A woman named Cousins has been appointed United States Marshal for St- Louis, Mo. She is the first woman in the United States ever appointed to a niar shalship. The English chemists are hav ing a heated controversy over the methods of milk analysis. They also disagree in regard to what constitutes a standard quantity of milk. Henry Jackson, a paying teller of the New York Sub-Treasury, skipped to Canada with $10,000 of Uucle Sam's money. Not be ing under bonds, Mr. Canda will have to bear the los. Sweden has passed laws against the use of pisonous coloring mat ters in goods for household use, such as woven fabrics, yarn, shades, sealing wax and wafers, wall paper, artificial flowers, blinds, etc. The municipal election in Bal timore Tuesday of last week re sulted in a complete victory for the Democrats. The Democrat ic majority was greater than it has been for years. This insures a Democratic victory in the State two weeks hence;Mary land's elec tion vote is for Cleveland in 1888. The carriage which wsis made by the United States government especially for the use of Lafay ette during his visit to this coun try in 1821 is owned in Chicago. It is a quaint old ark, hung on big springs and wide straps, and and from his lofty seat the old Frenchman used to descend to the ground by steps with many foldings. .The old clock, the sole piece of furniture in the public rooms of the White House in Lincoln's time, has been restored to its place on Colonel Lamont's mantel-piece. This clock, which formerly stood where it does now, was removed to President Ar thur's bedroom five years ago on account of his taking a particu lar fancy to it. The house in which Mrs. Stowe wrote " Uncle Tom's Cabin," at Andover, Mas.-., was burned July 20 th. It was built fifty years ago by the trustees of Phillips academy ; used for twenty years as a workshop for poor students; - 1 A " . f tlif t lif"klr"i -'i.i seminary; and since has bean used as a boading-house tor the ological students.