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'CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S OLE8SINC ATTEND HER! Subscription JUI.'OO Per Year. t I VOLUME 10 SMITHFIELD, N. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 20. 1891. NUMBER 7. A. M. Woodnll, Editor. DIUKCTOHY. on nty orri i:ks .sluTift .1 . IT.Intct on. .m. in I'oiirt UolINO Sii,.rrlir('inirl rl.-rW W ti In Court IIUUKC. lii-irlMlir of l'.lt I. I". Stl-l'll!" .f- ntiir. ini- in I'oiirt lluim.'. Tri-moii-vr i:. Ht. '! In "torv i i:. .i. Unit v . t'.roi r !' It. llo.nl. Snrv- or T. It. t-'ntRUiiiii. Siit-rint.'tU'iit f llfiiltlt -!!. I.. I.. !"." x.t. ottl.f mii MnrVot sim " lloo.t Hi-ok. ... Ilounl fount v t'oiniitiKxIoii.-rw -l I. Ilon.-viiitt . f lintrnuni. Jo. .1. "iitf . Hui .'!.. A. I. Jolm-on mil I S. 11. II.mi'I. fount r Hoiir.l ot Kiluont lin H. W oitnn. K ii'riil.l inn! II. M. .lolmxon. fwiintv Sup.Tliit.-ii.t.-iit of I'tiMi.- Inftrii. lion, fi-ol. Irn T. Ttirlliurt on TOWN Ol l'l' Kits, il.i.ior Kil. .V AI..-I1. t ..limiinwloiK'ii. Ji-lui ! l. T. Youi.ihloo.l. Flint Wnnl: W M. Iv- urn I. rulL-r. 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NEWS ITEMS, Tlic Iloston Typographical l'n it)ii has atlontcd a resolution lavorinj a nine hour lav alter Octo!cr 1st. o Hon. J. J. C. Alihott has been named as the man to succeed 1 Vernier McDonald in the govern ment of Canada. o John Vancott, SO years ot age. and the most excentnc man on Long Island, committed sucide ly hanging himself Friday night. A train on the X. C. Kail road ran into a cow Saturday near Asheville and derailed live cars killing one negro and hadly injuring two others. o The Argentine Republic re cognizes the Chilian Insurgents ami will probably aid them in securing the control ot the gov ernment. o It seems that the Prince of Wales has Ijcen playing a very poor hand at his favorite game oi baccarat as report savs that his young friend Wilson loaned him $1,000,000 to pay hisgamb ling debts and still a large amount of them remain unpaid. Thornton J. Haines shot and in stantly killed Kdward A. Ilanne an at Fortress Monroe. Va. They were intimate triends and had gone there together from Washington where they lived. No reason was given for the kill ing except that it was done in self defence. Haines is in jail. Hoth were voung men about 24- vears of aire and of jrood fami- lies. o At Pittsburg, Pa., the Roman Church had the celebration of St. Anthony's day by feasting and praver. the services con ducted bv Father Mollingcr, who seems to have jrreat curative powers as the lame was made to walk, the blind to see, and a good main other miracles were done by his placing his hands on them, lhe crowd to see him was estimated at 10,000 many of whom were affiicted with all manner of disease waiting around to get a look at him and have the wonderful man ask his bless ing on them. o Subscribe for Tin: Hkkald. Wolls Ono Mile Deop. Wheeling, W. Va., May 28. he Government has taken an interest in an experimental well which is 1 icing drilled on Hoggs Run, near this city. The well is now over 4,000 feet deep, and it is the intention, if possible, to drill it to the depth of an even mile v",2S0 feet. The United States Geological Survey will contribute $r,000 to the fund. It is the purpose of the Government to take the earth's temicrature at these low levels and obtain other scientific data. Satisfac tory tests of this character have never heretofore lxen made in this country, owing to the water or oil that has licen encountered in the few other deep Wells that have bven drilled. If the Wheeling well is driven to thedepth of a mile it will be the deepest well in the world. At present the deepest well in this country is one drilled for gas in Pittsburg some years ago by George Westinghouse, Jr. It was sunk to the depth of 4-GSO feet, when work had to be aban doned on account of the drilling cable breaking of its own weight. The weight of the cable now in use in the wheeling well is 7,000 pounds. Powerful machinery mustofcoursc.be employed in drilling these deep wells, ami the work is slow ami expensive. In the event of any tool being lost in the hole, the job cf fishing it out becomes a scientific achieve ment. Tools arc made expressly for fishing purposes, and they are manv and ingenious. In the oil-iields there are men who make a business of fishing lost tools out of wells. Jonathan Watson, of Titusville, Pa., drilled in 18(77 one of the deepest wells ever drilled in the oil country. lie sunk it to the depth of ,5oo feet, at a cost ol $27.000. Mr. Watson is a rich man and a Spiritualist, and the well was drilled under the guid ance of the spirits. It was drill ed for oil, but was not a success ful venture. The well is located on the tlats below Titusville, not far from the Dark well, the pion eer oil well of America. Oil in the Dark well was found at the at the depth of but OS feet. In August, 1SS9, Mr. Watson com pleted a well in this locality which was also a "spirit well," having been drilled at that par ticular spot by the advice of the spirits ot two late friends whom he had known in life. The well produced 1"0 barrels a day at the start, but it was soon ex hausted, and probably did not pay tor the drilling. Ihere are wells in Green '.oun- ty, Pa., producing oil from a depth ot about one-half mile. These are the deepest oil-produc- in the coimtrv. The cost of drilling a well of this depth approximates $18,000. 1 he Boston School of Tech nology was some time ago asked to give an opinion regarding the possible depth the drill would have to penetrate before it could get through the sandstone in a deep well being drilled at Rock villc. Conn. The well was being drilled for water bv a silk man ufacturing firm. It had at that time reached a depth of 3,4-4-0 feet. All this distance had been drilled through sandstone, with the exception of 200 feet. The Boston scientists did not venture an opinion. Prof Emerson, of Amherst College, declared the drill was the only scientist that could tell anything about it. Nothing but a practical test would determine anything cer tain as to where the sandstone would end. St. Louis has a well which is 3,14-7 feet deep. For a time it belched forth 75 gallons of water a minute. The deepest well in the world at present is one at Potsdam, Germany, which was drilled to a depth of 5,270 feet, or 10 feet short of a mile. Eu rope has some remarkable holes in tue ground. lnere is one twenty miles from Berlin which is 1G feet in diameter to the depth of 2S0 feet, and from that to the depth of 4,194 feet it is 13 inches in diameter. The Paris Sugar Refinery drilled a well 2, 900 feet deep which is 19 inches in diameter. At Butte aux Cail les is a well which is 6Mr feet in diameter and 2,900 feet deep. Another deep hole in the ground 5Vi feet in diameter was drilled at La Capelle, France. The drill ing tools ttsed on this wrell weigh- In the early days of the oil in dustry in Pennsylvania it was thought that untold wealth might be obtained if a shaft was dug down totheoil-be.'iringrock. Four such shafts were started, one at Tarentum, Pa., on the Allegheny River, above Pitts burg; two at Tidioute, Pa., also on the Allegheny, and one at Petroleum Centre, on Oil Crc?k. The shafts were about 10x12 feet and were all abandoned at nearly the same depth 280 feet. One of the Tidioute shafts was wrecked by an explosion and work was never resumed o;: it afterwards. The foreman, stand ing on a plank across the top of the hole, dropped down alighted taper previous to sending the men down to work. A terrific explosion of the gas in the shaft lifted him up into the air and he fell back into the hole and was killed. His mangled body was fished out of the bottom of the shaft and, as natural gas ex plosions had, up to that time, been very rare in the oil country, the tragedy created much excite ment. Public opinion was so strong against taking any furth er risks that the contractor was forced to give up the work. A complete geological record of the Wheeling well is being kept, and a copy will be sent to the World's Fair. Copies will also be sent to the United States Geological Survey, at Washing ton, the State capital at Charles ton, the University at Morgan town, and one will be retained by the Wheeling Chamber of Commerce. N. Y. World. Judging the Age of Hogs. According to the Mark Lane Express the ge of pigs and hogs may be judged pretty ac curately by understanding their mode of dentition, which it de scribes as follows: A pig is born with four front teeth ; one month afterwards it gets four more, one in each side of the first pair in each jaw. At 3 months it has four more, which is all the front temporary teeth it has. At G months the four outside teeth drop out, and are replaced by permanent incisors, and the others are replaced dur ing the next year. At 3 years the boar's tusks appear ; at 4 they begin to lift the lips ; at 5 they are seen outside the lips ; at G they project from the mouth, and after that they grov longer. After two years the sow's front teeth have a black ring around the base of them, and as the age increases the color of the teeth deepens and they become worn. As pigs, however, are rarely kept over two years, this test gauge is not often required. Of recent years, since pigs have been bred so as to mature more rapidly, the teeth may indicate, as with sheep and cattle, more age than the animals teally have. A well bred pig may have all its per manent front teeth at eighteen ironths, and this more rapid dentition has sometimes led to disputes as the pig's age. Ex. The New York "Herald" Sextuple Printing Press. The New York Herald has re cently installed a sextuple print ing press, built by the well-known firm of R. Hoc & Co., of this city. The press is really an aggrega tion of three duplexjpresses. The paper, which comes of double the width of a newspaper, is fed from three rolls. Each roll, where an eight page paper is in question, supplies paper for two paralled set ies ot imprints. The feed device is whtt constitutes one of the most important feat ures of the machine. Asmallroll ler with endless belt is caused to press against the periphery of the roll of paper. As the roller and belt rotate at uniform' speed in a direction to deliver ,paper from the great roll, a uniform speed of dtliverv or feed is se cured, whatever the diameter of the roll of paper. The papers are 4 M printed, cut apart, pasted n re- quired, folded, counted, and de livered bv the express. The speed is very high ; as many as 90,000 four-page papers can be produced by it per hour. This is twenty- five copies per second. 1 he press consumes 25 miles of double width paper per hour. It weighs about fifty-eight tons. Scientific American. The Ariz una Kicker. We did it. Bill Bui banks, the mulewhackcr on the other side of the creek, is trying to make a great mystery of the fact that he got a dose of bird-shot in this town the other evening. He says that some one certainly attempted to assassinate him as he was riding along Cheyenne street at midnight, and he thinks of offering a reward of $200 lor the arrest of the wretch. William is simply playing the public, but he can't play us. We had just stretched out on our cot Thurniar night, and the hour was ?J r.t twelve, when Bill Came i'i his old drom- edarv. V vd him cussing t . lorn ways while h offi When !.: reached the office he dismor n'ed club, and was in a wineow v and hunted up a ibout to smash ;:er. we peppered him with n hnudfu! of fine shot kept on hand foi audi emergen cies. We hardly believe any of them would get through the buckskin and dirt, but it seems they did, and he had to have the doctor pick them out. The best thing Bill can do is to keep sht. He attempted a smart trick and got left, and there isn't a man this side of Tombstone who would have cared if all the shot had gone cleuu through him and his dromedary, too. Call him off. -H the so-called Major Skinner, who has loafed around this town for the last six months, has anv friends who have his welfare at heart, they will call him off" the perch. It seems the Major has leen laying his pipes for office, and that our article of two weeks ago, ask ing him where him wheie he stole his last cow, has somewhat clouded his prospects. He now threatens to shoot us on sight, am! was seen at the Post-Office yesterday with a big revolver belonging to Luke lliggfns. We regret these little annoy ances, but if they must be met we are not the man to shrink from the task. To-morrow after noon, after our first form goes to press and we work off" 200 auction bills, we shall strap on our eun and take a walk. If Major Skinner has departed for Tuscon, he may live to be a hun dred vears old ; if he hasn't, he will make No. 10 in our private gravtyard. This is official, and comes right from headquarters. No boom. We understand that several real-estate firms in this town have combined to get up a boom and make things jump, in tact, they ottereu us a half-pare ad lor this week, but we didn't take it. As an indi viUuai we might cheat a man from Omaha at poker, but as an editor we can't be hired to help swindle our subscribers. In order to offset the machinations of this svndicate we wish to say : We have got the fag-end of one railroad here and neither want nor will ever be able to get any thincr more. Society is not cultivated. Such a thing as a toothbrush or a volume ot ooems found on a a man here would hang him. 1 he land around the town is so poor that it takes nine feet of it over a dead mule to hold the carcass down. It is not a trade-center. We have the Dicker Indian on three sides of us, and.a large family of covotes on the fourth. mm a lhe climate wobbles all over creation, making the demand for buffalo-skin overcoats and linen dusters about equal and mighty steady. It is not a sanitarium for in valids. If rhe climate didn't kill 'em, our doctors would. This is about all, but enough to put our subscribers on their guard and to clear our conscience it our advice in not taken. Now. gentlemen of the combination, go ahead with your boomlet ! Bucklen's" Aruica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chiblains Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively curse Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to cive perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cent per box. For sale bv Hood Bros Smithfield, and, L. Richardson, Selma, N. C, and Hood & Ben son, Benson, N. C. A Good Dog, but He Loved Beer Too Well. For the past ten years an old dog answering to the name ol Tom has been seen on our streets dailv. He was a cross between a pointer and a bull dog and in looks somewhat ;esembled a v oung porker. This uog was the property of Patrick McGough of Oak street, and was found at their door Tuesday morningdead from some unknown cause. In the past eight years this ani mal has saved the lives ot three children from drowning iu the Housatonic rivet and in two . mm k cases went in alter the children from his own accord. About four vears ago little Harrv Eg- gleston, son of the Rev. Mr. Eg gleston, a former pastor of the Methodist church, but now at Waterbury, fell out of a boat at the Brinley House at Indian Well while in company with his sis ters, and Tom beingclose at hand when the boy fell in went to the rescue and brought thelittle lad safclv to shore. The dog was fond ol beer andi,L- ' i .,." . . . . ... I this is a cruel wav to extermi was verv seldom soter of late. Derbv Transcript. Roulette Chances. "Talk about the chance a man has against roulette," said an old-time sport the other night "I once had chargt of a wheel in the swellest game ever run in this town. A man, who is prob- ablv the best known and one of the verv wealthiest in the city dropped in occasionally. One night he walked into the place and said : "I will let $500 on the double O." The ball went whirling around, while he fished among a lot of bills to get out the monev. He had'nt counted out the $500 when the ball stopped. He had won, but I, as quick as lightning, flipped the ball into another number. Just then he succeeded in count ing out his money, and as he looked up he saw he had lost. He never knew anything differ ent. If I had not thrown that ball out of the double O we would have had to pay him $18, 000, as it paid 3G to 1." Cin cinnati Enquirer. Jockey Superstition. For some reason or other the average colored jockey is so brimful of superstition that he can hardly get down to weight. Jack Crittenden, the well-known colored jockey, now living at Gloucester, would rather lose every race for a year than see a snake or bullfrog. The stable bovs discovered this the other day and one of them placed a dead snake in Jack's bunk. The poor little fellow, when he touch ed the clammy reptile, grew ashy in his terror, flew out of his table into the nieht, and no in ducement strong enough has been found for his return. He firmly believes that the dead snake was an evil omen, fnd that he is hoodooed. Yesterday somebody slyly placed a dead frog in Jack's pocket. The jokey firmly believes that the frog jumped into his.pocket and died. To prevent a recurrence of this kind he cut every one n( l,;f pockets out yesterday afternoon and sewed up the openings. Philadelphia Record. An Easy Solution. , w , . . i Thebodv of E. M. Haskell, The Northwestern Mechanic isj who has beenaead for over twen responsible for the following: A j ty s was recentiv rcm0ved man who wanted to learn what. f'om h;s grave at Northfield, profession he would have his son j Minn., it being proposed to put enter, put him in a room with a -,. l LMl ui Die, an appie, ana a oouar oiu. If he found him, when he return ed, reading, the reading the Bi ble, he would make a clergyman out of him ; if eating the apple, a farmer ; and if interested va the dollar bill, a banker. When he did return, he found the boy sit-l ting on the Bible, with the dol lar bill in his pocket, and the ap ple almost devoured. He made a politician of him. A Little Bird Told me so Tiiis common proper expres sion is not a little quotation, but is borrowed from the 20th verse of the 10th chapter of Ecclesias tes: "Curse not the king, no not in thy taought; and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber; for a bird of the air shall carry thy voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter." Free Press. Dogs and Dologna Sausage Humorists long ago discover ed a close relationship between dogs and bologna sausage. There is a grim humor in the fol lowing from the Michagin Farm er which will be appreciated by those who would like to see the canines in their neighborhood reduced in number. For "dogs of low degree" this method is t. be recommended whether they kill sheep or not. The Farmer says : "But one or two drachms of strichnia; take a piece of Bolog na sausage, and cut into pieces about one inch square; slit to the center with a penknife, then drop as much strichnia as will lie on the point of the knife blade into the slit. Squeeze together, and roll in a piecejof oiled paper. You can cairy it a week with out taint, but if you watch for dogs you will not carry it half that time. Try this, and you will find that it works well ; and if you keep a cur begin at home Some persons may f 1, o t- nate dogs, but if the farmer sits back and advocates legislation, he will be certain never to get it. Meanwhile thousands of valua ble sheep are falling prey to the worthless enrs. Cure for Ill-Temper. An interesting fact has just cropped out concerning a promi nent dry-goods merchant who is near the West street, which is well worth recording, and the example is no less worthy of em ulation. Anu that when he gets provoked or a little in dignant he says little, but goes on Dy nimseir until he cets over it but when he gets pretty mad (thoroughly mad) he goes home, says nothing, but goes straight A t 1 til to dcu, ana ne uoes not get up again until he tecls he is again his amiable self. Lx. A Really New Story. The biggest story of the season comes from Lincoln ton. Mr. W. T. Murray, who is a merchant of that place, says that while he was a soldier in v lrginia he came across a farmer who had just housed a crop of pop-corn, and pretty soon after the hands had left the crib it caught fire and every grain of the corn popped, and verv soon the whole planta tion was covered with the white corn. A mule about twenty eignt years old, which was in a barn near by, saw the ground covered with white corn, and thought the thermometer registered 90 degrees in the shade the mule froze to death, think ing that it was a terribleheavy snow. Atlanta Constitution. Minted Cold That Is Lost. How much gold has been lost to circulation ? The Treasury Department declines to do any official guessing. That the amount now out is considerably less that $244,050,605 is admit ted. The "loss" is variously estimated. It is put at $25, 000,000, by some, and at $100,000,000 by others. There is no way of verifying or con- tradictin2 these estimates. Ex. Growth of Hair After Death. th body in another lot. When his body was exposed it was found that he had a beard over twenty three inches long. His wife said before he died he had been shav en, and all his hair must have grown after burial. Scientific American. A Mammoth Turtle. A sea turtle of mammoth pro portions, that its captors saw wil". weigh five hundred pounds was caught last night 'on Wrightsville bach by Mr. W. II. Sharp, Miss Maggie Sharp and Miss Etta Kelly, of Wil mington, and Mr. R. C. Morton, of Onslow county. The captors brought their prize to the city. Wilmington Star. Mr. D. S. Wait, Grand Treas urer of the Grand Lodge of Masons ot North Carolina, died at his home in Raleigh last Fri day night. STATENKWS. Raleigh now has a steam Mi-r- ry-ljO-Kouiid which will Ik? the delight of the small boy during the coming Exposition. Work on the Electric Street begun Railway in Raleigh has again and it bids lair to be com pleted at an early date. The town of Wadeshoro alter trying local option for two years voted whiskey back last Monday by a vote of 118 lor licen? 97 against license. Charlotte, N. C, is to have an other cotton-factory. Subscrip tions amounting to more than $100,000 have already been raised for the new enterprise. The committee appointed to select a site for the Girls Indus trial and Training School gave Greensboro the schrol as it gave the best inducements $30,000 and a $12,000 site. Mr. William J. Battle, son of Dr. Kemp P. Battle, of Chapel Hill, has won theMorgan fellow ship at Harvard University. There are forty compete rs. The fellowship is worth $500 a var. Mr. Battle two vears ago won a scholarship at Harvard. The census for 1890 gives the amouut of Tobacco produced i North Carolina in 1889 at 3rt, 375,278 pounds and was made on 97,077 acres and sold for $5,- 175,823 nearlv an average of 15 cents per pound. The number of Tobacco farmers were 27,250 an average of $190 to each farmer. Monroe Enquirer : Miss Eliza Hill, daughter of Mr. JerrettHill, of Monroe township, was bitten on the foot by a spreading adder a few days ago. She suffered greatly for awhile but copious draughts of the remedy uscd'from time immemorial in such cases, brought her through all right. Argonaut : The new passenger depot is nearly completed and is a very handsome structure. It is finished inside with native woods. Car loads of lumber and brick unloading all over town. New building going up in every direction, and the old wooden shanties, that disgrace Rocky Mount, being torn down to make room tor brick blocks, and still the good work has only commenced. Mount Holly News : The re ports of crops are generally very gloomy although some of our farmers have good prospects. We are informed that Mr. John Nixon, Sr., of the Triangle sec tion, a gentleman of undoubted veracity, says that he has fifteen acres in wheat that will make this year three hundred bushels of wheat, lis says the wheat is not good ; that it is too thick. Gastonia Gazette: A new cot ton factory for Gastonia is men tioned. The plans will mature 1 f T 'II Detorc many weeks. ine mills will have 3,000 spindles and will be built by a joint stock company to be organized for the purpose. If you don't want this new fac tory, don't talk it. Talking cot ton mills in Gastonia is just cer tain to make them go right along up. Wadesbsro Messenger-fntclli-gencer: Steve Bennett, a young colored man raised by Air. G. W. Huntley, is suffering ico n a pecu liar phase of insanity. Sometime ago, while waiting on Mr. Hunt ley's table he suddenly dropped everything and left the house, and has been as crazy as a loon ever since. Up to the very minute of this attack he had been ap parantly in his right mind. It is said that he has tried to drown himself and failing in that at tempted to commit suicide bv cutting his throat. He was placed in jail last Saturday night for safekeeping. Alamance Gleaner: From all we can hear and see in this sec tion the wheat crop will le a good one. Harvest has com menced with many. A boy named Ed. Collins, aged about 17 or 18 years, from Faucet t's township, accused of committing a brutal assault on a little 8year old girl Sunday night, was brought here Monday and com mitted to jail to await the ac tion of next Superior Court. He came here afoot, tied with a rojn which was attached to a buggy in which two young men rode. The boy may deserve the rojxr around his neck, but it become those in authority arid others ti act huma.irlv. 4ed over four tons.