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VOL. II. ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1892. NO. 4.
OUT OF DAUaEEi
• The success of the French postal sav«
ings banks, which were established ten
years ago, is shown by the report for
1890. At the close of that year the
total deposits were over 1^30,DUO,000,the
number of depositors numbering over
2,000,000.
The latest Anglo craze is ths gams
called “Oof,” invented by Miss Gertruda
Willoughby, whose mother is of noble
birth. The new invention is for two
players, and, like chess, consists of a
board and pieces. The game starts in
the center of the board, and the player
wh& gets hia men in the square marked
“Oor’ i3 the winner. The name of the
game is now the slang terra in English
fashionable circles for money.
There are great evidences of progress
in the make-up of dairy schools at the
present time, the American Dairyman is
gratified to note. Minnesota is coming
forward with a beauty, while many other
States can boast of excellent work done
in this line. This branch of the dairy,
the school, we consider the most prom
ising of any. If the young people caa
be made to take a live interest in these
schools, there* is no telling how high
they will push the science in the future.
The children of to-day are the mSB of
to-morrow, and it we can put the
knowledge we now possess in the heads
of our children, then their children will
be prepared to carry forward the science
to its utmost limit.
■ Says the New York News “That the
harsh hand, though sometima cruel,
proves most effective ia deiUu' with
grave crimes, is shown by the police
records for 1891 of New Orleans, just
published. The Italians of that city
have always been re;2;arded with preju
dice, on the ground that they were dis
turbers of the peace and violators of the
law. Since the lynching in the parish
prison last year, however, the decrease
of crime in the Italian colony has been
remarkable, only twenty-eight persons of
that nationality, out of a. population of
10,000, having besn arrested. During
1890 and pi-ior to the lynching the
number of Italians arrested was 484.
This striking difference indicates the
•/holesome fear of punishment that exists
in a community oacc famous for its tur
bulence. In the early days of San Fran
cisco one witnessed similar results.”
Occasionally, something turns up to
prove, remarks the Boston Transcript,
that some of our homelier methods in
therapeutics, “old women's remedies,”
p.s the doctor's sneeriugly C3,ll thoji, are
found to be reasonably scieutilio after
all. Lately, for instance, an exoert, who
has been experimenting in M. P.isteiir’s
laboratory, has discovered that no living
disease germ can resist for more than a
few hours the antiseptic power of essence
of cinnamon, which seems to bs no less
effective in destrojing microbes than is
corrosive sublimate. Its scent will kill
them. A decoction of cinnamon is rec-
omended for influeaza oases, typhoid
fever and cholera. Perhaps some of in
can remember-when elderly ladies used
to carry in their wonderful pockets, tha
capacity of v/hich was enormous, bits of
cinnamon or other pungent and fragrant
spice, the odor of whic'.i would betray
their coming many feet away. Whether
it was carried as a preventive or merelv
for the satisfaction of having something
to nibble was not revealed to us youngs-
sters of those days. Peppermint candy
was always a recognized stimiilant
against attacks of somnolence at sermon
time at church.
■ A sugar-reSning company in Chicago
is making oil out of corn. It is said to
be a soft yellow liquid that resembles
linseed oil in appearance. The process
of separating the oil from the corn was
discovered by Dr. Arno Behr. It had
been known'for a long time t’liat maize
contained an oily property, but it re
mained for some one turn the idea to
account. “There is no danger,” says
Dr. Behr, “of corn oil ever taking cha
■place of linseed oil. In the first place
it will always be too scarce. The
amount of oil contained in corn is only
about four per cent, of its total weight,
and we find that we lose almost^ half of
it in the process of extraction, so that
we get a very small -amount of oil after
all. The assertion has been made that
corn oil can be put to little use—that it
cannot be employed in making either
goap or paints. The great value of lin-
Beed oil for paints is that it dries readily
and it has been asserted that corn oil
will not dry. Now this a mistake, and
as a matter of fact corn oil oa i bo used
in making paint afsb in
soaps. Itj||||lS^%^^ndid soft soap.
That there are valuable uses to which
it can be'put is shown by the fact that
there is a demand for it in foreign mar
kets.” As only one company has the
secret of the process and employs it,
after the corn has been converted iato
starch or glucose so that nothing shall
sted, there is no danger, declares
rk Post, of a glut of corn oil
HAEBINGEES OF SPRING,
News Notes as Fresh as the Crisp
Air.
The Most Interesting' Events Hap
pening in Three State*
Chronicled Here,
VIRGINIA,
^ A Boston expert will train the Univer
sity baseball team.
Jefferson Phillips will be hanged at
Alexandria on March 25.
The Texas will be launched early in
May from the Norfold navy yard.
An anti-wharfage association has been
formed has been formed at Norfolk.
Chauncey M. Depew delivered an ad
dress at the Hampton Institute last week.
Senator Hill has been invited to speak
at the University on Jefferson’s birthday,
April 18th.
Vice-President Morton has engaged
rooms and is at the Princess Ann Hotel,
Norfolk.
Plans for Clarke county’s new jail at
BerryviUe have beenp epaied. The cost
is to be $9,000.
A Methodist laymen’s union has been
organized in Danville for the purpose of
vigorous church work.
Rev. Baylus Cade, of Louisburg, N.
0., has been called to the Venable Street
Baptist church of Richmond and will ac
cept.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Co.
has executed a general mortgage at Rich
mond to secure the issue of 5.70,000,000
4^ per cent gold bonds, lately reported
as authorized. The Central Trust Co.,
of New York city, and Henry T. Wick
ham, of Hanover county are the trustees.
NoifTH CAROLINA.
The newly completed Charlotte Ging
ham Mills are turning out cloth rapidly.
Many negro families are leaving the vi
cinity of Weldon for Chicago.
The new Zinzendorf hotel at Winston
is a beauty. The plum'- ing alone cost
$35,000.
During the heavy wind storm last
iveek a Baptist church at Garner, near
Ra'eigh, was blow’n down and demolish
ed.
Mayor Blanton and C'ol. J. G Martin
have put up the $500 necessary to secure
the encampment of the Thud and Fourth
regiments at Asheville.
An election has been ordered in Bertie
county upon the question of voting the
N. W. aud C. R. R. Company a sub
scription.
The Supreme Court, after deciding
that the branch roads are not ex
empt, intimates that the main line of the
Wilmington aud Weldon railroad is sub
ject to taxation.
Eighteen acres of land adjoining the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
grounds, and in front of the State fair
grounds, at Raleigh, has been purchased
for the school.
Mrs. A. W, Haywood, daughter of
Gov. Holt, v.ill perform the ceremony of
christening the new U. S. cruiser, “Ral
eigh,” to be launched at the Norfolk
navy yard on the 31st. The Governor
and staff will bo present.
Judson College, at Hendersonville,
was sold under mortgage Monday, and
was bought by Jesse R Starnes, of Ashe
ville, for $8,106, $1 more than the amount
of the mortgage.
James D. Bridges, the Shelby forger,
has written a letter without any signature
to a Shelby citizens. lie requests people
of Shelby to hush talking about him, and
says that he would pay all his debts in
three years. The letter was mailed from
Walhalla, S. C.
The Lady managers for the World's
Fair in North Carolina have assumed the
task of raising a fund for a North Caro
lina building, aud are laboring indus
triously for that end. It is proposed to
have a building of Colonial de.sign.
The ijarrinaer brothers are in Char
lotte. Charles siiot and killed Talbeit
at Florence, S. C., iu an altercation in
which the latter accused him of mining
l)is daughter. 'Hie trial will take place
at Florence in Slay.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Kershaw is to have an iron foundry by
Rock Hill parties.
The Hotel Royal, at Florence,, burned
Thursday night, the loss being $5,0^0.
A shoe factory plant at Toccoa, Ga.
has been purchased by Abbeville parties
and will be moved to Abbeville.
The depot at Ft, Mill was broken into
Thursday morning, the safe rolled out
and blown to pieces. The burglars es
caped with the contents.
A commission for a charter hao been
issued to the Mason Banking Company,
of Oconee county. The capital stock of
the company is to be $50,000.
A commission was issued to the Mutu
al Home Building and Loan Association,
of Rock Hill. The capital stock of the
company is to be $50,000.
The Board of Trade of Columbia has
undertaken to see that an exhibit worthy
of that State is made at the Chica,?o ex
position.
The trustees of the South Carolina In
dustrial and Winthrop Normal College
have located the school at Anderson,
which offered $75,000 aud a site.
Rev. Dr. W. M. Giier, president of
Erskine Col’ege, has accepted the invita
tion to deliver the annual address at the
conimencement exercises of the South
CaroTiiia College -tor Women.
Mrs. Clark Waring, the president of
the Woman’s World’s Fair Central Club,
of Columbia, has issued a circular to the
women of the State, giving a great num
ber of practical hints as to the manner of
organizing World’s Fair clubs and the
manner of work.
A commission for a charter has been
issued for the Carolina Midland and Al
liance Ware House and Banking Com
pany, of Siegling, Barnwell county. The
new company proposes to do a general
ware house and banking business. The
capital stock is fo be f20,000,
Conjarressman Springer’s Physicians
Declare Him OonTalescent.
WILLIAM M. SPRINSEE.
Congressman Springer, Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee of the House
of Representatives, has been near death’s
door, but is now considered practically out
of danger. A final consultation of the three
attending physicians was held a few days
since, and at its conclusion Dr. John A.
Vincent, his Illinois physician, who left
Washington for home the same night, made
the following statement;
“L^st Sunday and Sunday night the con
dition of Mr. Springer was critical iu the^
extreme, so much so that we considered him
worse tban at any time during his illness.
Since then the improvement has been steady,
till now nis condition is such that we can see
no reason why he should not go right along
to complete eonvalesesnee. Up to this hour
he has heid everything gained. Fulse aud
temp?rature are normal. That distressing
cough has left him. The erysipelas has al
most entirely disappeared fro.na his fac.^. His
appetite is fairly good. The delirium and
coma have been entirely overcome.
“But his prostration is so complete that he
can scarcely speak a’oove a whisper. The
bnildiag-up proc2s? must necessarily be slow,
but with the excellent nursins; and skill.ul
treatment of Drs. i'urtisatidVerdi, recovery
now seems assured.”
DR. BAKER ACUUITTED.
He Was Tried Twice for the Alleg*
ed Murder of His Wife
Abijsgdon, Va.—Dr. John A. P. Ba
ker, who was charged with poisoning his
wife, and convicted h\st August of mur
der in the first degree, was acquitted after
a second trial. The large audieuce in
the court room received the verdict with
loud cheers.
Dr. Baker and Mrs. W. R, Gilmer
were arrested last May for the murder of
Mrs. Baker and an attempt to murder
Mrs. Gilmer’s husband. The two fami
lies lived on adjoining fitrms and were
very friendly. Kumors of improper inti
macy between the doctor and Mrs, Gil
mer were followed by their confessions
and withdrawal from the church to which
they belouged. Mr. Gilmer forgave his
wife, for their their childrens’ sake, and
cousented to live with her.
Af er her arrest Mrs. Gilmer confessed
that Dr. Baker poisoned his wife by giv
ing her small coses of strychnine and
phosphoric acid, oa the pretense of build
ing up her nervous system, and that she
agreed to get rid of her husband by ad
ministering poisons which the doctor was
to prescribe us medicine. She said, how
ever, that she weakened and failed to
carry out her share of the compact This
story she repeated before the Grand
Jury and on the witness stand at th« first
trial.
Dr. Baker's defence was that the ar-
seuic found in Mrs. Bakers body was in
troduced b^f the embalming proceis after
her death. He denied all of Mrs. Gil
mer's statements, aud after conviction
obtained a new trial, which has just end
ed. It was claimed that letters introduc
ed against him were forged, and that the
animus of the prosecution was shown by
a suit for damages of $10,000 brought
against Dr. Baker by Gilmer.
Mrs. Gilmer was tried three times as
accessory to the murder of Mrs. Baker
and was acquitted last December.
GOUGED A BABY’S EYES OUT.
A Negro Boy, Five Years, Murders
a Sleeping Child.
CoLU.MBiA, S. C.—Addie Beacham left
her her seven-months’-old baby sleeping
in her house and in her abaeuce a flve-
year-old negro boy named Budd Harris
entered the house and jabbed a sh»rp
piece of iron into the skull of the child,
then gouged its eyes out and stabbed
holes *11 over its face.
The boy murderer was found sitting at
the front gate, a picture of innocence,
digging holes in the ground with the
Weapon. He frankly confessed the deed.
The Coroner's jury refused to hold the
boy responsible on account of his age.
A Model Machine,
DuRHAwt, N. C.^J. D. Goodwin, the
inventor, has a complete machine for
granulating tobacco for smoking pur
poses, and cleaning it from stems and
trash of all kinds.
One of these machines has been placed
in the mammoth factory of W. Duke,
Sons & Co., Durham Branch of the Amer
ican Tobacco Company, and it works
like a charm.
It possesses merit of a high order.
One man feeds in the tobaaco leaves and
sweepings, and the machine does the
res*—cleaning it from sticks, nails and
all kinds of trash, throwing them out to
one side, putting the stems in another
place, and sending the pure granulated-
tobacco down a pipe to any place you
desire; It is the most perfect piece of
machinery we have seen working in a
long time, and is destined to work a rev
olution among smoking tobacco manu
facturers.
Trom Arkansas to Liberia.
New York. — Tire bark Liberia sailed
Thursday for Liberia with 50 of the co'.-
ored emigrants from Arkansas, who are
sent by the 4,merican colonization socie
ty. They sSMied happy and confident
that they were sb^'Ut to ent«r a land of
plenty.
HILL IN MISSISSIPPL
The Senator Makes a Rousing Speech
At Jackson.
He Defines and Eulogizes Pure
States’ Bights Before the
Mississippi Legislature,
Jackson, Miss.—Senator Hill spoke
in the hall of the House of Representa
tives. Early in the afternoon the gallery
had been filled with colored people, but
they were cleared out by the police aud
room was made for the white men and
for the ladies of Jackson. Some of the
wives of the members were admitted to
the floor of the House. The House was
called to order b^'Speaker tSt’ ce’at 1 ;40
p. m., while at tffj other end of the cap-
itol Lieutenant-Governor Evans called
the Senate to order. Five minutes later
the members of the Senate appeared at
the door of the House and were formally
received, the Lieutenant-Governor main
taining the platform beside the Sjieaker.
A few minutes before 2 o’clock Governor
Stone appeared, escorting Senator Hill.
The whole assembly arose to meet them
and the galleries and floor applauded
loudly. The Governor escorted Senator
Hill to the rostrum where he took a seat
beside the Speaker.
AVhen the assemblies had quitted Gov.
Stone arose and introduced Senator Hill
in a speech, replete with warm praise for
his services to the Democratic party while
Governor of New York.
After the applanse had subsided Sena
tor Hill spoke as follows;
“I am deeply sensib’e. gentlemen of
the Legislature of Mississippi, liow rare
your bes'.owal has been of the disting
uished honor which, with open pride,
I come here to receive at your hands and
to acknowledge with gratitude. What
statesmen of our great republic, the most
venerable, the most renowned among the
living or the dead, in the flowering of
his fame would not have travelled long
for the gathering of such a leaf to bind
with all its laurels, . In this new world,
where the people rule, shall we not
brighten every tic that links our Demo
cratic denominations, principalities and
powers in the banded sovereignty of an
imperishable union. I will trust your
white-haired veterans, familiar with pub
lic cares; I will trust tiie young man, who
for the first time treads these halls aud is
burning to hurl his part io the service of
the State, to know what thankfulness I
shall ever feel, gentlemen of the State of
Mississippi, to have been for an hour the
focus of that reciprocal tood will which
I owe to the favor and return to you on
behalf of the State of New York.
There is good leason at all times for in
terchange oj thought betweea the peo
ple of 44 States ■banded together for life
to insure one anothers liberty in the pur
suit of happiness. But there is excellent
reason at the present time for such inter
change between men whose political phi
losophy and practical politics alike are
summed up iu preserving for our own
benefit, for times to come, the great Dem
ocratic faith and tradition. It was never
in such peril. Scarce ever until Novem
ber two years ago and November next
did popular elections put in issue sucii
extreme danger, or so large deliverance.
The ground upon which Democrats of
the State of New York have their stand
is the whole Democratic faith and tradi
tion—not some corner of it merely, not
some splinter of it merely, but the whole.
This is the ground upon which I would
see the Democrats of the State of Missis
sippi, with all Democrata north, south,
east and west, both of the regular organ
izations and the Farmers’ Alliance unite
aud take their stand in the approaching
contest. Other duties for another day.
For like the victory of Jefferson, th’s
union, this victory will close a chapter of
history; will doom to final disintegration
a degrading party and will
fix the direction of your
political progress for Eome decades in
the century to come. Now, as in prin
ciple, I depend for triumphs upon par
ties and the organization of parties.
They create parties. It is the Demo
cratic principle which created the Dem-
cratic party. In its union lifs a grea'er
strength than all its enemies combined,
can ever finally subvcit. It survives ev
ery disaster.
It is the great and most efficient or
gan of the people’s power. The Dem
qcratic party is stronger than any man 0‘
set of men. No man is ever dispensible
to its success, for its s'rength i. with the
people. It is more powerful than any
class, however numerous. Therefore it
is large , tolerant, liberal, progressive.
It inv;tes to its membership, to its con-,
trol, all men who will uphold the
Democratic faith aud apply them to the
people’s needs.
Continuing, vir. Hill urged a close ad
herence and .strict construction of the
constitution of the United States, which
he said “was the standing nuuvel in
the history of civilized men.” The pow
ers w'hich grants it are few an 1 specified,
and it concentrates and centralizes these
few. After th? century of the storm and
stress it remains almost wliolly unruplur-
edandha? emer<ged uniimpaired from
the torsion of our war. It is not any
legalized excursion by Congress outside
the constitution wliicii explains why we
still live and move and have our being
beneath its aegis. It is in spite of trans
gression, not by help of them that we
still live. We have not profited by them
we have survived them. It is the old
abridgment and the limitations of the
functions of government to its own
proper business despite trau.sgrossions; it
is the distribution ,'ind devotion of its
powers, despite usurpations, it is the
prohibition of State powers; it is the
declaration of State rights; it is the res-
irvation and surrender of the residue to
the states respectively of the people,
which we have truly lived and still bear
our life; it is individual freedom, not a
government rule, which explains our
swift expansion from a fringe of thirteen
feeble colonies to a continent of mighty
states. It is individual freedom, not
Republican force bills, not congressional
leading strings, that will enable you,.»the
strong and high’y civilized race to
guide forward your less gifted fellow-
citizen from the plane of equality before
the law the higher level of thrift, econo
my, good hiis^Qdry, social order, self •
imposed anft'Household virtue and thus
transform the present difficulties and un
shared burdens of the South in the solid
foundation of still more prosperous and
more powerful States. It must be ad
mitted that for a few brief years our con
stitution did not perfectly avail to insure
domestic tranquility. That was in the
last generation, and broken hearts must
be healed by time or death, and one or
two more generations must pass away.
In doubling and redoubling your in
credible achrcvement or the past 20
years your magnificent progress in the
productions of the field, farm, forest and
mines, before it becomes palpable that
war, with its devastations, its passions,
its griefs may not, perhaps, have all been
too high a price ro pay itjr transmitting
an insoluble political problem. AVc
must live up to that constitution. New
York should stand by Mississippi and
Missi.s^ipji. by in i‘s support.
Every trouble, every disturbance that
exists, every disaster that impends, and
every danger that is feared, throughout
our whole laud, not merely in some part
of it, is the direct and obvious conse
quence of Republiraa legislation in disre
gard of the spirit of the letter of our
constitution. Not for ono hour during
the last thirty years'has the Democratic
party possessed, nor does it now possess,
the power to repeal or amend those laws,
the fount and origin of every present
disturbance to the general peace and
prosperity.
A little while the Democratic party had
the Senate; a little while the executive; foi
longer periods ihe House of Representa
tives but not for a mpment during 30 years
has it had all three, so that all the evil
producing laws have been absolutely
beyond our reach and went on operate-
ing and are operating now just as if the
overwhelming Democratic majority in
the House of Representatives were a Re-
puclican majority.
Senator Hill spoke at considerable
length and made a fine. impression on
the large crowd that heard him. Ht
was frequently interrupted by enthusisas-
tic applause.
SHE PED^THE^CmOKENS POISON,
A South Carolina 'Woman’s Peculiar
a,nd Fatal Method of Thief-Catching.
Coi.uMBiA, S. C.—Colored people
living in the outskirts of the city have
been greatly excited of late over the sud
den inexplicable death of several of their
neighbors. It is now alleged that an old
colored woman living in that quarter,
who had been losing many chickens final
ly bought some poison and fed it to a
few old hens, which would fatten them,
but prove certain death to any one who
ate them. One negro in ih3 neighbor
hood soon sickened and'died. Shortly
two or three others followed. Chicken
stealing in that neighborhood has ceased.
THE BRIdFoF DEATH.
Jilted at the Altar, Jennie Lambert
gwrallowed Poison.
Huntingtou, W, Va. —Jennie Lam
bert, a highly respected and beautiful
young woman, died at her home in Mill
Creek from the effects of poison taken
purposely.
She was to have mauied Charles Cope-
ley last Sunday, The guests arrived, but
the bridegroom sent a note saying that
he loved another and had fled to escape
marriage.
Miss Lambert fa'nted and re.v.ained in
a delirious condition until Friday night.
Then she found some poison and swal
lowed it.
The New Orleans Lynching Revived.
New Orleai;b, La. —A suit for dam
ages was filed in the United States Cir
cuit Court by the families of the Italians,
the lynching of whom a year ago by in
furiated citizens furnished a theme for
world-wide di cussion on account of in
ternational complication and threatened
war by the Italian Government. The pe
tition is very lengthy, relating the details
of the killing of the eleven men, and ask
ing $30,000 for each of the victims. No
tice of the suit was served on the Mayor
of the city immediately after the suit was
tiled.
A Novel Idea.
Here is a suggestion for the representa
tion of the gold mining interest-i of North
Carolina at the World’s Fair, offered by
a Salisbury gentleman; “Have four rug
ged mules (stuffed or otherwise) with the
old timedarkeydriver mounted, all hitched
to one of the old Nisicn (prairie schooner)
w'agoas. This w'agon is to be loaded
with gilt gold bags, each representing in
bulk the amount produced at the respec
tive mines in the State, each mine con
tributing the cost in proportion as allot
ted by our coiimis.?iouer of agriculture,
Hon. John RobHnsoo.”
What 'Virginia Owes 'Uncle Sam.
Washington, D. C.—A statement has
been prepared at the Treasury Depart
ment showing that the State of 'Virginia
is indebted to the United Slates on the
books of the Treasury to the extent of
$1,630,920 for the following bonds;
Virginia State stocks, $581,800; interests,
$10,181.50; Chesapeake and Ohio canal
bonds, guaranteed by the State of Vir
ginia, $13,000; interest, $17,920.
To Enlarge Norfolk Navy Yard.
Washinqton, D. C.—Ex-Representa
tive Goode, of Virginia, appeared before
the House Committee ou naval affairs in
support of the bill appropriating $200,-
000 for the purchase of additional Inid
opposite the Norfolk navy yard. Mr.
Goode cited the reports of various com
missions who have examined and recom
mended the purchase of this land and
urged upon the committee the advisabil-
1 y of doing so.
Republican Candidate for Governor
of Tennessee.
Ksoxvili.e, Tenn. —Arthur Jenkins,
president of the Tennessee Coal Com
pany, who had quite a hand in the
hand in the troubles iu the Coal Creek
and Briceville Mines, is a Candida’e for
Governor of Tennessse, ou the Republi
can ticket. He now has the miners, and
also Farmers’ Alliance with him, IJe is
only 26 years of age and a fighter,
Circumstaufial Evidcncn.
Ia reading the charge ot Recorder
Smyth to the jury in the Harris case in
your paper, says a correspondent of the
New York World, I was much struck by
that quotation from Greenleaf oa Evi
dence iu which circumstantial evidence
is described as follows: “If you see
human footprints in the snow, that is
evidence that a human being has passed
that way." I wish to quote an incident
that came under ray personal observation
in Norway the last summer, which per
haps will show how dangerous circum
stantial evidence according to Greenleaf
can be.
Three Laplanders were accused, con
victed aad sentenced for robbery, and
the main evidence at the trial was foot-
prims in the snow leading to the huts of
the three convicted Lapla.uders. After
c.ouvictioaX .urn.^lfSt by the confes
sion of one that the other footprints
which had caused the conviction of the
two additional Laplanders were made by
a reindeer, the Laplander having taken
two pairs of moccasins aud put them on
the feet of the reindeer, with the heels
towards the head, he changing his own
in the same way, so what really appeared
on circumstantial evidence as three men
walking in one direction turue3 out to
be one man leading a reindeer that he
had stolen in an opposite direction.
Perhaps Greenleaf had better take a more
infallible illustration for circumstantia'
evidence.
Peopling Poplats With Parrots.
Dr. Russ several years ago, during a
popular lecture, advised the farmers of
Germany to people their poplar trees
with parrots. At the time he was ridi
culed by everybody, but recent events
have showa that his advice was not ill-
considered. For where thu thing has been
tried adequately since it has been found
that parrots are the most valuable assist
ants of the farmer in exterminating noxi
ous insects, provided they were supplied
with good quarters. Lord Buxton, for
instance, has bred on his estate iu Eng-‘
land a nuuber of parrots, of all sorts of
varieties, including Australian and Caro
lina ones, with the best possible results.
They all did remarkably w’ell and raised
families, excepiing the North American
ones—the so-called paroquets—although
to all outward appearances the latter had
been the strongest and had certainly bee n
used to more rigorous weather in their
old home in the Carolinas than the Bra
zilian and East Indian parrots.had been.
On the other haud Baron H. vou Ber-
lepsch has kept for years a whole bevy
of Carolina parrots on his estate of See-
bach, near Hanover, the birds roosting
with the pigeons in the same cote and
making their regular daily excursions on
the wing right along, even on days when
snow was lying deeply.—Chicago
Herald.
‘■3eneca Oil.”
Fifty years ago the public were of
fered as a valuable medicinal substance
what was called Seneca oil. This, as ia
common with many less useful remdies,
was alleged to bs an Indian cure for
mauy disorders. Later it was recognized
as the common petroleum that soon
flowed in vast quantities from the wells
and is now a household word. And
under its refined condition, as kerosene,
this oil, as a useful remedy for certain
uses, should not be made light of, how
ever it may be as a combustible for use
in the houshold lamps. To the ponltry-
man it is invaluable as a preventive
against all kinds of injurious vermin,
including the destructive gapeworm,
which succumbs at once to a few drops
poured in the young bird’s throat. It
frees the horses from lice and the sheep
and lambs from ticks, and iu the garden,
as an emulsion made with soapy water,
it destroys every mfnute insect that it
touches. In the’ laundry it serves to
loosen the dirt aud stains from the cloth
ing; it is the best thing to clean the
gummed connections of . machinery and
to loosen rusted bolts. And in house
hold medicine it is useful as a liniment
for bruises and burns, and as a counter-
irritant in cases »f common inflammation
•f internal organs.
Prosperous Biisket Makers.
No chemist has ever produced
brighter colors than are secured by our
Maine Indian basket makers. For the
greater part of the material ash logs are
taken, though maple is cut for rims and
handles. In the salt marshes sweet
grass is found, which, when dry, gives
out a fragrant odor. Alder is steep'ed
for pale red; white birch bark for bright
red; cedar boug'ns for green; sumac for
yellow; black comes from white mapla
bark. A light solution ot maple, how
ever, shows purple instead of black.
Lazy Indians buy logwood for black,red
wood for red and fujtic for yello v. A
family of four basket makers in Oldtown
cleared $1000 last year in addition to
the household expenses. In the same
house where the baskets were made is a
four-hundred-dollar piano, a Brussels
carpet, lace curtains, plush furniture, a
picture of a priest aud one of the Virgin
Mary, a Catholic epitome, a set of
Cooper's novels, a stuffed owl, and a
peacock, also stuffed. Tivo canary birds
sang in a cage hanging in the room, and
on a mat a tired foxhound snored.—
Lewiston (.Me.) Journal.
Impiovemeut in Tobacco Caser,
PRETTY POLITICS.
The Political Field Growing Very
Interesting.
Straws From a Ds=an States B>sar.
ing News of Impor
tance,
Ex-President Cleveland will be fifty-
five years of age on the 18th of April.
J. A, Robbins will be H. P. Cheat
ham’s antagonist for the Republican nom
ination in the second North Carolini con
gressional district, Cheatham is the
only colored Congressman in the Union.
He’s In It.
AVashinqton, D. C.—Col. L. L. Polk
says Tie will be third party nominee fot
Vice-Pftsident.
■Will Accept the Appointment.
Washington, D. C.—Ex-Congressman
Judson C, Clements, of Georgia, who
has just been appointed interstate com
merce commisssioner, says he will accept.
To North Carolina.
Washington, D. C.—The committe*
from Charlotte, N. 0., consisting of May
or Brevard and five leading business men,
headed by the entire North Carolina Con
gressional delegation met Senator Hill
Fiiciay, He accepted the invitation and
will certainly deliver an address in Char
lotte on Mecklenburg Independence Day,
May 20th,
Senator Hill in the South.
Jackson, Miss,, March 15.—Senator
Oavid fi. Hill addressed the Mississippi
Legislature to-day by special invitatiou.
Re has had invitations to visit many
other Southern towns, but has not the
time to respond. He said; “On my
return I shall stop off a short time on the
16th at Birmingham, Ala., which is on
the route, I shall thengo to Savannah,Ga.,
to be present 'at the banquet
there on the nth, but will be
compelled to decline all the other invi
tations I have received. I regret thin
very much, but it would have taken too
much time to accept them all, and I did
uot like to discriminate.”
John Griffin Carliale.
Senator Carlisle, by men of both par
ties esteemed as a sagacious and well
' quipped statesman, is a native of the
state of Kentucky. He was born in
1883, received a fair education, taught
ichool, read law and was admitted to the
bar. Su'Dsequently he entered public
life as a member of the state House of
Representatives. He was elected to the
State Senate February 1866, and in 1869.
In 1871 he was elected lieutenant g03ias^
or of Kentucky,_and scv-v-ed-Tm'til 1875.
Jle-was'a member of the Hou»e of Repre
sentatives at Washington, continuously
from the beginning of the Forty-filth
Congress until his election to the United
States Senate in 1890. Senator Carlisle
was Speaker of the Forty-eighth and two
succeeding Congresses.
Fusion in Kansas,
Tophka, Kas.—At their reebat meet
ing the Central committees of the Dema
cratic and People’s parties considered »
plan for the basis of their proposed com
bination this fall. This plan, which i.'
still under consideration, is said to be as
follows:
The Democrats will support the Peo
ple’s electoral ticket and will give theiYi
the entire state ticket with the exception
of the associate justice. The Democrats
wiii indorse the People’s congressional
nominees in the five districts now repre
sented by Alliance congressmen, and the
People’s party will indorse Democratio
nominees in She First and Second dis
tricts now represented by Republicans
and give the Democrats the congressman-
at-large.
Indiana Republicans.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Tomlinson Ha;i
presented an animated scene at 11:30
o’clock in the morning when Chairman
Goudy called the Republican State con
vention to order; then Rev. Dr. Lucas
prayed that pstriotism and love of coun
try should be kept above partisanship.
A picture of President Harrison, conceal-
edbyan American flag, was then exposed to
view and the cheering was vociferous.
The committee ou peromuent organiza
tion, through W. ■ W. Wilsen, of War
wick county, reported that AVarren G.
Sayre, of '\Vabash, had been chosen by
the committee for permanent chairman,
and Robert Brown, of Franklin, perma
nent secretary. The rules of the Fifty-
first Congress, as ‘’interpreted and ap
plied by Thomas B, Reed,” were adopt
ed to govern the convention amid ap
plause.
Mr. Sayre said many pleasant things
about the President and was frequently
applauded.
Delegates to the National Convention
were inotructed for Harrison.
Making Valoncisnncs Lace.
In former times, the Valenciennes
■ laee workers iu uudergrouud cellars
'■ toiled away from 4 a. m. to 8 r. .m., and
j were fortimate indeed i! they made a
! pittance of tenpence. The manufacturer
' owned the pattern, but if the worker
! was not satisfied with her pay she could
Taylorsvillk, N. C.—John P. Mill-
ncr, of Brownsville, Va., who is to en
gage with parties of this' place in the
manufacture of tobacco at an early date,
has invented and patented an improve
ment on a! obacco caser. On his visit to this
jilaC3 a month ago he spent the day at
Statesville. Ou his return home and visit
ed a factory and saw one of Frost's pat
ent tobacco casers and the idea struck
him that he could make an improvement.
This caser is said to be very superior to
anything yet invented. Mr, Miliner
writes that he has been ofiered $10,000
for one-third interest in the patent, but
refused. He is now in Richmond, Va.,
arranging'with Messrs. Talbott & Sons to
manufacture them,
•
In China slips of mulberry bar'.;
M uiuaej'in the interioc towns.
pay for the use of the pattern aud retaia
her work. Many ot the workers were
young girls, but if they kept at t’ne work
long enough they usually became blind
before thirty. Only twenty-four inchei
a year were made by some of the lace
workers, and in order to finish a pair of
men’s ruffles it required ten months’
work, working fifteea hours a day.
I Some of the best specimens in New
York ot Valenciennes lace was ma'io ia
the latter part of the Eighteenth ceatury,
with the flower resembling cambric in
its texture, and its faithful designs of
tulips, carnations and anemones.'
I The more modern Valenciennes lace is
made now mostly in BailleuI m France.
It is the whitest of this kind of lace in
the market, and is exported largely tc
India and America. —Brooklyn Citizen,