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VOL. XVIII.
GOLDSBORO, N. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1881
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Of rh)r aocUmatlon. Come,
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Not higher than the buzzard swings
About upon the atmosphere,
"With drowsy eyes and open wing !
There; steady, now. and feast your eyes,
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It Is the earth that sinks from us
Bat when X first beheld It thas.
And left the breezes downward flow,
And heard all noises fall and die
UsUl bnt silence and the sky , ,
Above, around me, and below.
Why, like you now, I swooned almost.
With mlBKled awe ana fear and rlee
Aa giddy as an hour-old ghost
That stares into eternity.
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OYER THE SNOW.
Hark the herald ! angels sing,
Glory to the new-born King I
rang ont from the choir, and the organist,
a slender, pale-faced girl, with grave,
beautiful brown eyes, joined in the an
thems, all her soul in the triumphal
words :
Joyful all your voices rise,
Sing the anthems of the skies;
With the celestial hosts proclaim
. Christ is born in Bethlehem.
It was the last of the rehearsal. The
choristers threw down their books, only
too glad to get away. The organist alone
remained, to play over once more a new
voluntary.
'Good-night, Miss Englehart.' Good
night, Miss Katherine!' 'Goodnight,
Katie, and a merry Christmas eve were
the cries, as, one by one, men and maids
left the choir, and went down the stairs
and out into the bright, white Christmas
night.
Miss Englehart's smiling lips and
gentle brown eyes answered them all. A
moment and she was alone, only the white,
piercing moonlight streaming through the
painted oriel over the altar, and the one
dim light below. A flare of gas lit the
organ loft, but this the lowered, and with
rapt face and dreamy eyes she played over
again the jubilant new voluntary. She
might have gone on for hours she was
quite capable of it but a piteous yawn
from the boy at the bellows recalled her
from heaven to earth.
'Ohl' she said, stopping suddenly, with
a halt laugh,- I had forgotten you, Jim
my. Well, I won't play any naore; and
here, take this for your Christmas box.'
Jimmy jumped up and seized the prof
fered greenback with glistening eyes.
tThanky, Miss Kate merry Christmap,
please ma'am,' cried the boy, seizing his
cap. 'Ah! she's a brick,' said Jimmy to
himself, as he clattered down the steep
stairway. 'Nobody among all the singers
ever thinks ot the boy what blow the bel
lowses 'cept-her. Don't I just hope she
'scorts here sometime, awl. leave tbef
ohnir fnr nnrf " ! I
choir for good
Still a few moments longer lingered
Miss Englehart on herj knees; then she,
too, hurried down the: stairway and out
into the shining coldness of the starry De
cember night. Highland white and cold lay
the Chiistmas snow. No 'green yule' this
to make fat the kirkyard. Cloudless and
blue epread the sky, filled with sparkling
Christmas stars. Could that other night,
so long ago, when the shepherd watched
his flock in the great Galilee hills, 'and
the glory of the Lord shone around them,'
have been one wit fairer than this ?
Katie.'
With a great start the girl came back
over eighteen centuries, from Bethlehem
to the town of South port. A tall man had
started up in her path, and spoke her
name.
'You, papa 1' the girl said, in doubt and
surprise, the color that had arisen to her
face fading out.
'I Katie.' He drew her hand under
his arm with a laugh. 'Did you think it
was Harry Hatton. Well it is almost as
good, for I have come to talk to you ot
him.'
Miss Englehart looked up a sudden
trouble in her brown, tender eyes.
'I thought you had done talking of him,
papa,' she said, a tremble in her voice. 'I
thought yesterday had finished the sub
ject forever.'
'Let me see. What was it T did say,
yesterday?' says Mr. Englehart, blandly.
'Ah! I remember! that my stiff-necked,
doting old client, John Hatton, had made
up his senile mind to forgive his runaway
daughter and disinherit Harry. Under
these circumstances, I very naturally told
you you were to meet llarry no more.
You're a good girl, Katie a very good
girl 1 Mr. Englehart pats paternally the
little hand on his arm and at any sacri
fice to yourself you would have obeyed
me, 1 am sure. My dear, it attords me
great pleasure to inform you the sacrifice
will not be required. '
Papal the girl cries, her whole lace
lighting upj 'you will let me marry Harry,
Pr as b is. Oh, papa 1 I am not afraid
oi poverty uui aiiaiu ui wuia, ueimei io
Harry, and
'Oh, pooh ! my dear, pooh ! nothing
of the kind. My opinion on that point
has never changed, and never will. No,
no: it is something infinitely better than
that. Old Hatton died suddenly last night
before making the proposed new will, and
all is Harry s.
Katherine Englehart uttered a faint,
startled exclamation.
'And the old will, leaving all to Harry,
stands, and his only daughter is disin
hented and left out !
'Left without a stiver, my dear, and
serves her right, say L She ran away with
a worthless scamp, against her father's
will, and, like all fools; has paid the penal
ty of her follyr She supports herself and
her five children by sewing, so 1 have been
told, and you know what sort of support
that means. Serves her right, I say again.
John Hatton has done what it was his
duty to do what 1 would have done in
his place cast her off and left her to
starve with the pauper she chose.'
In the moonlight the face of Miss Eng
lehart grows white as the snow itself, but
she walks on and does not say a word.
'However. cries her father; cheerfully.
'that is not what I want to say. Rose
Hatton's case need never be yours. All
b Harry's, and except his poverty, I never
had any obiection to Harry as a son-in
law. So when he comes to wish you mer
ry Christmas, my dear Katie, I give you
leave to name the day.' '
A strange light comes into the brown
eyes; a strangely, resolute expression sets
the pretty, sott cut mourn.
1 he eomine to-night, papa?'
'You will find him, I have not the
aliffhtAHt doubt, at the house. It would be
hypocrisy for him to profess any grief for
that old skinflint ttncle, and Harry is no
liimfwrit ,
Vnu have "seen : him since his uncle's
death ?'
'Certainly, Katie, and was the first to
rongratulate him. 'I trust you withdraw
your objections to nay suit now, sir?' he
says to me, in his haughtv way; I am
John Hattpn's heir palter alWv A trifle
hot-hedea IsJTarrW bntfa, go fellow !
I have no"doubt," KatieThe will make
you an excellent husband.'
flo means to keep this fortune, then ?'
his daughter w, and rays it In &6 odd a
voice hat her father looks at her, puzzled.
'Keep it ? What do yo mean 7 What
should he dVbal keep ik?i,By George 1 1
should think h did mean to do it a cool
hundred thousand, if a dollar ! May I ask
What you mean by the question Zt " , j
'Not now, papa, please; I will see Har
ry first,' she answers, in the same strange
voice a very quiet voice, though it
startleu her father. !"
'Look here, my girl,' he says, sternly,
I know vou of old know your high-
drawn Quixotic) notions about things tj
general, and points othondr and con
science tn particular. 1 warn you, don t
let us have any of them here, if you want
to be Harry Hatton's wife. The lad has
come fairly by his fortune let him keep
it in peace.'
They are at the house with the last
words words harshly and menacingly
spoken. They go together into the parlor,
and there, as Mr. Englehart has predict
ed, they find young Hatton alone. A tall
and proper fellow, this Harry Hatton,
with a handsome face, and eager, happy
eyes.
'At last,' he cries, coming forward,
both hands outstretched, just as patience,
was ceasing to be a virtue. 'Thank you
for bringing her, Mr. Englehart. Come to
the register, Katie, and warm those cold
little paws, lias our stately papa been
telling you the good news ?'
lie draws her forward, eves, smile, all
alight with love and joy. Last night he
was in despair last night this cozy par
lor had been forbidden ground. Sorrow
and weeping had endured for the night,
but joy had came with the morning. This
time yesterday he had been a beggar, and
Katie had been refused him to-night he
was a rich man, and Katie might be his
for the asking. Papa PiOglehart, after a
genial, father-in law sort of a nod, had
slipped away'and left them together.
'Why don't you ppeak, little girl?' cries
jubilant Harry, 'or has the power of
speech been frozen with you ? Wish me
merry Christmas, Katie, and congratulate
me on my capital fortune.'
She looks up at him with eyes full of
wistful love.
'I wish you a merry Christmas with all
my heart, Harry; but congratulate you on
what ?'
'Why, hasn't the diar old dad been
telling you? Then wonders will never
cease. Oh, pshaw ! Of course he has told
you my uncle is dend ?'
'Poor old Mr. Hatton yes, I know he
is dead. '
'And all i mine, Katie, all. And next
April the old house shall have a newinis
tress, and Harry Hatton shall have a wife.
WThy don't you speak? Why don't you
smile ? What is the matter with you to
night ?'
'Harry, you mean to keep this ioheri-
.r' t LJJLXL i t-i.-
. By Joye, what s udftstion I What
should I do with it bat keep it?'
Kefiign it to Rose Hatton Mrs.-An
drews now to whom it rightfully be
longs.' A most likely idea, and nuite worthy
of Katie EDglehart. I have had poverty
and hard work for seven-and twenty
years, and now when the golden shower
falls in my arms I am to mien it to Rose
Andrews and her drunken brute of a hus
band ! No, no, Katie; in the nineteenth
century men keep all thej' get, aud they
ask for more.
'So I perceive,' she says, quietly,
though she is trembling as she stands.
She draws a ring off her finger and lays it
on the table before him. 'Our engage
ment ends to night, then, Mr. Hatton.
Here is your ring.'
He stands gazing at her, utterly be
wildered ?
'Katie,' he exclaims, 'you don't mean
this?'
'I mean it, Harry. 'If papa had let me,
I would have been your wife in your pov
erty oh, so gladly and worked for you
and with you with all my heart; but now
'now that you take the portion of that wo
man worse than widowed of those chil
dren, worse than fatherless 1 would die
first.'
The gentle eyes flashed, into the pale
cheeks an indignant glow leaped, and the
soft, tender voice rang out as he had
never heard it before.
'But this is all nonsense, Katie,' he
cried impatiently; 'sheer nonsense ! ask
your father a smile crossed Katie s lips
'ask anybody if this money is not fairly
mine- Rose Hatton, a headstrong, ob
stinate schoolgirl, elopes with a scoundrel
who only seeks her father's money, and
she is disinherited, as she deserved. I am
his sister's son, and to me what she re
signed fallen.'
'Her father forgave her before ho died,
and would have made another will if an
other day had been given him.'
'Look here, Katie,' says Hatton, still
impatiently; 'I will seek out my cousin
Rosie, and if she leaves her beast of a
husband, I'll provide for her and the little
ones. Will that satisfy you ?'
'1 know Rose Hatton,' Katie answer.
'She was proud and obstinate, and she
would die of starvation sooner than accept
as charity what is hers by right.'
He comes close and stands before her,
his eyes flashing angrily.
'I must either choose between resign
ing you or my uncle's fortune ?'
'You must.'
'If I resign it, I am a pauper as before,
and your lather will order me from his
doors. You will not disobey your father, so
in either case 1 am to lose you.
'1 love vou tlarrv. she says, with a
gasp. 'I would wait '
"Thank you, Katie,' he says, with a
laugh; 'that is poor consolation. You are
a woman, and waiting may be easy to you.
I am a man and don't choose to wait.
Since I must lose you in any case, I'll
not lose my money as well. Good-night,
Miss Englehart; 1 wish you a very merry
Christmas,
Harry !' she cries. But he is gone
cone in a fine fury, banging the street
door after him and it is her father white
with passion, who stands before her.
Twice the Christmas tide has come and
gone twice the joyful anthem of 'Peace
on Earth, to Men Uood Will, has sound
ed down the stately aisles of St. Phillip' ,
and again the time is here. Once more it's
Christmas eve; once more altar and pulpit
are wreathed with evergreens; once more
the voices of the choristers rise to the
vaulted roof; once more the slender, pale-
faced browneyed organist sits at her post
her white fingers evoking wondrous music
from those pearl keys. But the face has a
eraver beauty, the darkteyes a sadder ligb
than of old, and for the bilk and sables o
other days her dress is deepest mourning
plain of make and poor of texture-
The last piece is sung something grand
and old. and triumphant: and tiood
nijht. Miss Englehart, one and all ery,
as tney nuner away ana aown me stair.
She smiles her farewell.' but lingers after
f ihey have gone as is her custom; and as
kher hands float over the keys, and her
'eyes rest oh the music, she is thinking of
another Christmas eve, three years ago,
and Of her father and lover who stood by
her side that night.'
She has lost them both the lover
j then, never to hear of or see since; the
father one year ago. A great financial
crisis had come and involved shrewd law
yer Englehart, and swamped him. He
had broken down under the blow, and in
Jess than three months after he was dead
and buried. He had never forgiven Katie
her refusal of Harry Hatton: he did not
forgive her even on his death-bed.
IfVQu hadnot been a fool with your
scruples and whims,' he had said to her
bitterly, "jqol ned not have been a beg
ger to-Jay. Harry Ilutton is ! married
long ago, no doubt, to some wiser woman,
and when I'm gone you may earn your
living as best you can.'
They had buried him, and Kathrine
had earned her living bravely and well.
For years she had played the organ of St.
Phillip's as a labor of love. It became a
labor of necessity. Her salary as organ
ist and half a dozen piano pupils gave her
all she needed, and life went on, some
how, and Christmas had come again.
She had dreaded Christmas- the old
pain and struggle st emed to come back
afresh. She did not regret what she had
done. Better loneliness and poverty than
ill gotten gain better lose her lover for
ever than becorre the wife of a man capa
ble of wronging the living and the dead.
She had lost him, but she had not ceased
to love him. While she deplored his
sin, hor pure prayers followed him in his
reckless wanderings over the world.
Mie 1 -: r the organ at last, and slowly
quitted the church. Unlike that other
Christmas, no moon nor stars shone
White, soft, ceaselessly, the snow fell.
She put up her umbrella and hurried on
home, the home of a boarding house
took her belated and solitary supper, and
ran up to her own little sitting room. A
fire burned in a grate, and her piano
sole relic of former splendor stood open
with some new music upon it.' Before
sitting down to her long practice, she
went to the window and looked out. All
the world was white and still and ghostly,
and faster and faster I he snow was falling.
A8 she stood the tall, dark figure of a
man opened the gate and came plowing
through the snow to the front door.
'One of the boarders,' she thought, 'be
lated as I wa?. How cross Mrs. White
will be.'
She left the window and went to the
piano. Before she commenced her prac
tice, and half unconsciously, she began
softly to sing the old anthem :
Haik the herald! angels sing
Glory to the new born king
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God aud sinners reconciled.
Then she stopped, conscious that the
door had opened, and that the intruder
did not advance.
'Conie in,' she said, 'and shut the door,
please; there is a drau
She stopped with a low cry, but he
took her word, shut the door, and came
TWrward.
'I have come back, Katie,' he said.
Will you forgive me and shake hands ?'
He took both hers without waiting for
leave, aud held them fast.
'1 only reached A&ierica yesterday,' he
went on. 'All these years I have been in
Europe, trying to forget you and to be
happy, and I have neither forgotton you
nor been happy. Vou were right, and I
was wrong. I have come back to tell you
so, and to ask you if you have forgotten
me.' :
'Forgotten you?' she repeats, almost
with a sob. Oh, my Harry, my Harry!'
'I am no longer richV he says. 'Rosie
and the little ones are at the homestead,
and the drunken husband has drank him
self to death. I tried to palter with my
duty, Katie, before I went away sought
out Rose and proffered her a portion of
her father's fortune. ' She was proud as
you told me she would be, and refused it
with scorn. 'I am poor,' she said, 'al
most starving, but I will not take as a
favor from you, Harry Hatton, that
which is my right; keep all or give all.'
I kept all, Katie, and, if I could have
forgotten you, might have kept all to the
end; but I love you so well, Katie, that I
ask nothing but you for the rest of my
life. We will be poor, but we will be to
gether. Say you forgive me, Katie; you
have not said it yet.'
She said it then, holding him close, her
happy tears moistening his already damp
coat collar. . !
'You and I are to spend Christmas with
Rose, he says, presently, that first trans
port over. 'She's a jolly little soul as
ever lived, in spite of all her troubles and
right glad to have done with matrimony
forever. Who knows but that, after
eight years of it, you may echo her senti
ment!
'I think I will risk it, though,' said
Miss Englehart, looking at him, hand'
some, ana Dig, ana Drown, witn aaormng
eyes, un, uarry i to inmg x aia not
m rv a .11 w
know you, striding through the snow up
to the gate. I was just thinking, with
ever so little of a pang, that no gift would
be mine this year, while all the time the
best and dearest of Christmas boxes was
coming to me over the snow. !
'Christmas has brought you your lover,
and New Years shall bring your husband,'
said Harry.
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LETTER FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Aberdeen, Miss., Nov. 10.
Editor Mesenaer : Enclosed I send
you $3 postoffloe order, please apply it to
my creait ana continue your very valua
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formation. To me it is always a welcome
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those happy days when childhood was
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when all was clear, bright and full ot
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religious training and instruction that has
directed and controlled my actions through
life and enabled me to resist the many
temptations that have been thrown in my
Eathway. It was there I spent my school
oy days, happy hours, among those I
dearly loved, most of them gone to an
other (I trust a better) world."
In looking over your very valuable pa
per, I discover a few cames who were my
school mates and associates, whose friend
ships I so highly value and esteem Wil
liam Whitfield, Col. George Moses, Col.
George Collier, and others, whose names
are dear to me. I trust they have im
proved their fortunes sufficiently and
gathered around them evety comfort and
enjoyment that adds so much to our en
joyment in this life.
1 am truly glad to see the old North
State has made such rapid and wonderful
f rogress during the last 30 or 40 years,
ler internal improvements, her mineral
wealth, her increased manufactures, her
farming interests, have grown and im-
f)roved beyond the perception and calcu
ation of her most wise and prophetic
statesmen. Those who have left the
State and remained away several years,
upon their return can see much more
plainly the wonderful improvements and
changes that has taken place, much bet
ter than those who have lived there con
tinuously from childhood to old age.
When a boy, my father, Edmund Whit
field, owned the Whitehall farm, where
the Seven Springs are located, the water
of these springs were then only known on
account of the difference in the taste of
the water and not from any chemical or
medicinal virtue which they contained;
hence, they were never resorted to for
any sanitary properties, and were consid
ercd of very little if any value. It is true
at that time very few springs were favor
ably known for their therapetical effects
upon the human system, still 1 fully be-
leivo it these springs were extensively and
conveniently improved and carefully ana
lysed and their curative powers properly
and fully placed before the world, they
would be celebrated for their medicinal
qualities and become a place of great re
sort both for the invalid and the pleasure
seeker- ror these seven mineral foun
tains ot healing, possessed or so many
different articles in nature s materia mod
ica, each possessing adaptations somewhat
peculiar to itself tor the different diseases
or condition ot the human system, must
become extensively known and largely
patronized.
These springs at that time were sur
rounded by a very wealthy population
(none more so in the State) up and down
the Neuse river for 40 or 50 miles, their
rich lands immediately on the river were
owned by the Bryans, the Washingtons,
Collin Cobb, Croom's, Whitfield's Woo-
ten's Davis's, Kornetry's, Broadhurst'H,
and many others equally wealthy, culti
vated and refined, most all of them have
moved to the far south, and went as they
believed to improve their fortunes.
ttTI . t a .m
Whitehall naa been in the possession
of the Whitfield family lrom the time it
was first settled by the whites until my
father sold it and moved to the State of
Mississippi to improve his fortune, as it
was then said, "to get rich." Although
he moved to one of the most beautiful,
fertile and productive portions of that
State, purchased and settled on a farm at
that time which would produce a bale o
lint cotton to the acre weighing 500
pounds, and 40 to CO bushels of corn to
the acre without fertilizing, and required
but little cultivation; still, I believe he
made a mistake. JIad he remained in
North Carolina, arM enriched his lands by
using the many fertilizing elements that
lie imbedded beneath the surface, his
children this day would have been equally
cantented, prosperous and happy, and
they would have avoided the many trying
and difficult hardships incident in settling
a new country. And in becoming a vic
tim to some fatal disease before their sys
tems becomes fully acclimated as many
do, who have passed the meridian of life.
How lew consider this importaut change
until it is too late.
It is true, the soil io Mississippi was
then much more productive than in North
Carolina, and labor much better remuner
ated; still, by a continuous succession of
the same crop year after year, the lands
become impoverished and greatly reduced
in strength and fertility; its primitive or
virgin strength taken away, no fertilizer
can restore its original productive power.
If the waste and refuse substance that
was continually thrown away had been
converted into manure and applied to en
riching our lands, they would possess still
its original strength, whilst our soil, nat
urally rich and very productive, are being
worn out by watefulness of cultivators;
yours are being constantly enriched by
the use 01 fertilizers, now in many mstan
oes yielding a bale of cotton to the acre
a much larger yield than is produced on
our lands in this section.
Naturally, the most beautiful and pro
ductive country 1 ever saw; what a great
and wonderful change has taken place in
the last 35 or 40 yeara l ue farmers then
in North Carolina planted and cultivated
their best lanas in cotton, wnicn vieiaea
. . . .1 ".V 1 '.ii.i
about 600 to 700 Dourids of seed cotton to
the acre, which was considered a heavy
vield. This sudden and rapid increase in
m a n a
the productive power ot your lands snows
clearly how susceptible they are of being
improved by manuring them. I suppose
your sandy sous generally consists ot par
tides of broken down granite and felspar,
which is rich in soda and potash, and do
ficient in lime and phosphoric acid. If
so: the lime can be readily obtained from
vonr rich marl beds which lie beneath
vour soil scattered all through your sec-
tion; 1 suppose your marl is composed 01
calcinous earth mixed with carbonate of
lime and clay in various proportions and
differing m degrees of compactness, while
in the northern and western portions of
your State the poor red soils are depend
ent on phosphates, ammonia, sulphuric
products, without which profitable crops
cannot be produced
These mining elements can be found in
the pyrites mines in your State and in
Georgia, and immense marl beds in South
Carolina, near Charleston, wheie phos-
phate of lime is obtained from the bones
01 iauu aau marine animaix, wnica can
readily transformed and changed into rich
fertilizers, that whnn annhpH t vonr worn
... ...
ont lanas win give vour state as well
-1, . r V.
I the South a bright future in commercial
and agricultural prosperity.
God bless North Carolina 1 may she
still prosper and grow in wealth and
knowledge, with such a liberal system of
education she has inaugurated to educate
her sons and daughters, and her cultiva
ted, generous and independent press to
defend and extol her many advantages
and excellences which she possesses, she
can but have a bright and glorious future.,
I could write much more, but I fear that
I have already exhausted your patience,
if so. please pardon this heayy tax upon
you by one of her native sons, who loves
and cherishes the name of North Carolina
with that sincere devotion and attach
ment that a mother, does a dutiful child.
N. H. W.
THE EARTH DRYING TJP.
A Startling Statement About the Scir-
. jM city of Water.
New York Times.
There is abundant evidence that the
amount of water on the surface 01 the
earth has been steadily diminishing for
many thousands of years. No one doubts
that there was a time when the Caspian
Sea communicated with the Black Sea;
and when the Mediteranean covered the
greater part of the Desert of Saraha. In
fact, geologists tell us that at one period
the whole of the earth was covered by
water, and the fact that continents of dry
and now exist is proof that there is less
water on our globe now than there was in
its infancy. This diminution of our sup
ply of water is going on at the present
day at a rate so rppid as to be clearly ap
preciable. The rivers and smaller streams
of our Atlantic States are visibly smaller
than they were twenty-five years ago.
Country brooks in which men now living
were accustomed to fish and bathe in their
boyhood have in many cases totally dis
appeared, not through any act ot man,
but solely in consequence of the failure ot
the springs and rains which once fed
them. The level of the great lakes is
falling year by year. There are many
piers on the shores of lake side cities
which vessels once approached with ease,
but which now hardly reach to the edge
of the water. Harbors are everywhere
growing shallower. This is not due to
the gradual deposit of earth brought down
by rivers', or of refuse from city sewers.
The harbor of Toronto ha9 grown shallow
in spite of the fact that it has been dred
ged out so that the bottom rock has been
reached, and all the dredging that can be
done to the harbor of New York will not
permanently deepen it. Tho growing shal
lowness ot the Hudson is more evident
above Albany than it is in the tide-water
region, and, like the outlet of Lke
Champlain, which was once navigable by
Indian canoes at all seasons, the upper
Hudson is now almost bare of water in
many places during the summer. In all
other parts of the world there is the same
steady decrease of water in rivers and
lakes, and the rainfall in Europe, where
scientific observations are made, is mani
festly less than it was at a period within
roan's memory. What is becoming of
our water? Obviously it is not disap
pearing through evaporation, for in that
case rains would give back whatever water
the atmosphere might absorb. We must
accept the theory that, like the water of
the moon, our water is sinking into the
earth's interior.
THE ENGLISH THE LANGUAGE OF
THE FUTURE.
A writer in a recent number of the
Atlantic Monthly predicts that by the
end of the twentieth century the Eoglioh
will be spoken by eight hundred million
people, occupying, besides England pro
per and its contiguous dependencies,
India, South Africa, Australia, North
America, islands in every sea and naval
stations on every cape. By that time, it
is thought, so large a proportion of the
business of the world will be done by
masters ot the countries named that, as a
mere matter of social and compercial con
venience, the whole world will devote it
self to learning English. The languages
spoken by other civilized races, according
to this anticipation, will sink to the
character of local dialects, which will
gradually lose their distinctive differences
and finally disappear altogether. Many
barbarous races also would be drawn into
the prevailing current, so that as is now
the case all over Europe then all over
the globe the Englishman will be ad
dressed in his own speech. Leaving out
of view the comparatively simple unin
flectcd character of English words and
the direct constructions of its syntax,
which greatly facilitate the acquisition of
the EDghsh language by foreigners, it is
enough to show what advantages tending
to this end English-speaking people al
ready possess over others in having al
ready engrossed the most fertile unoccu
pied or weak quarters of the world, and
left to the French, Germans and others
only those lands least desirable for
colonization. To enumerate England's
possessions would be a tedious undertak
ing, scattered as they are at points of ad
vantage throughout the world. It is
enough to say that in Asia she controls
an area of 1,640,000 square miles, witn a
nonulution of about -:30,uxi,ow souis; in
Africa 200,000 square miles, population
1,700,000; in America 3,700,000 square
miles. Dorulation 6,000,000; in Europe
121,000 square miles, population 30,000,-
00 a total area ot 8,811,000 square
miles, with a Donulation ot about 280,
000,000. English commerce, ideas, books
and fcnncne nroht bv this breadth ot em
pire. Our appreciation of the future ot
tne Angio-oaxon race ana rjogusu wuguw
is heightened, however, when we add to
the English-speaking area the 3,024,494
noil are miles
of the United fctates, witn
their population of 50,152,866 souls.
No doubt the period is yet very remote,
. 1 . 1: t.
and mav never be reacnea. wnen xogiibii
will become the universal language of
I iQaaAittL The probability is that many
isolated races will never he converted to
I. v& a
if use. liut when an aggressive, ener
getic, commercial people, possessing so
vast an area into which to develop, is at
the same time the wealthiest on we globe
1 and the most enterprising and practical,
it is difficult to set limits to its future.
I The Romans were able to impress their
laws and language upon the whole of
I Eurone. and the Anglo-Saxon is the Ro-
man of the modern world. In competi
1 tion with the races ot the continent tne
English and American possess the ad-
vantage of beginning with .11,835,494
square miles of the earth s surface and
the oualities which first gave them this
- wide domain,
f IKaneiort, (Ind.) Dully Journal.
I sell more of St, Jacobs Oil remarked
Mr " D. E. Prvor. 112 E. Broadway, to
our renorter. t han of any other article of
its kind, and I consider it the best lini
ment in use It has to my own knowl
1 edge cured severe cases of rheumatism in
oe this community.
I . a a M-mm .
I For atrliah ClOtninsT. fiTO 10
as T 11. vt -n- ot j-b.u.
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STATE NEWS. ; ;
Gleaning! from the State, Preu.
Laurinburg Entrrpnxe: Mr. T. B.
Brady, who wa shot two weeks' ago by
Mr. D. W McLaurin, died on Wednes
day evening last l'roui thouadaxecfiived. ,
The cotton gin of Dr. Geo, Gee, about
five miles from Weldon, N. C., accident
ally caught fire on Monday and was to
tally destroyed, together with quantity
of cotton. The loss is estimated at $5,000;
no insurance. . .
Winston leader : The members of the
Methodist church, of thu place, are tak
ing steps to the erection of a new church
building. It will occupy tho wte of (he
old one, and is to cost $10,000, $7,500 of
which has been subscribed. , ' . ' c
Wilmington JirviftajWo are glad to
learn that Judge Brooks; who, it will be
remembered, was too ill to hold the Fed
eral Court in this city at tho recent term,
has recovered, and will be able to preside
with Judge Bond at Raleigh, this week,
at the session of the Circuit Court.
Wilmington Star : Mr. John Rook?, who '
had his arm mutilated by a cotton gin at
South Washington, Pender county, a few
weeks ago, and afterwards suffered ampu
tation, died from his injuries. r There
were two fine looking watermelons in
market yesterday morning, just from the
vine, and grown near this city.
Greensboro Trihune: The Raleigh
New$-Observer says Senator Mahone
threatens to ask for an investigation by
the Senate into the "course of Southern
States that have scaled their debts. lie
hopes to mako n .pass -at Senator Vance,
who spoke in Virginia against him, by
showing that North Carolina has read
justed. Wilmington Un iiw : The residence of
Mr. James Moore, at Pittsboro, was de
stroyed bv fire last Friday night It
caught from a spark. Nearly all of Mr.
Moore's furniture was saved Mr. Wil
liam A. Patterson, senior member of the
firm of Patterson & Hicks, is dead, Hfe
had been a sufferer for a long time from
consumption, the disease which term
inated his life.
Asheville Cith n : Western North Caro
lina is the best Fpot on earth. It not only
produces products not produccable else
where, also everything of importance that
can grow profitably from Georgia to
Canada, This week we were pleased to
receive a visit from Mrs. J. M. Palton,
of Haywood, who brought us a stalk of as
beautiful middling cotton as was ever
raised in Mississippi, raised in her garden.
It was thoroughly matured, and she say
she has gotten threo pickings from her
patch, and will get another. ,
Greenville F.rpress: In Beaufort and
Hyde counties the crops of rice, cotton
and corn are him ply luatruificcnt this year.
The farmers have about housed cotton
and corn, and arc now very busy thresh
ing ana cleaning out tlio largo crops ot
rice for market.- John Langley, col
ored, was arrested Saturday near Pactolus,
charged with the horrid crime of attempt
at rape upon a white girl. The girl was
going to school when-the monitor waylaid,
her, and her screams and cries and strug
gles alone prevented a further outrage.
Talk was openly male of lynching the
scoundrel, but wiser counsel prevailed,
and he was taken to jail Sunday.
Greensboro Evnmnj Tribune: Mr.
Frank Gorrcll, who resided on West .
Market street, went into the basement of
the house for tho purpose of getting a
large stick of wood to build a fire, that he
said would last all night. His wife, heard
him coming up stairs with tho wood, and
when he had gotten some three or four
steps, she heard the wood fall, and on
running to the head of the -stairway, she
discovered that her husband had also I
fallen. As he had recently had several
hits, t-he supposed he had fallen in a fit,
and immediately ran for Dr. B. A.
Cheek, who lived next door. The doctor
was at homc and was with Mr. Corrcll in
two minutes after he fell, but his life was
already extinct. Ho had not moved a
limb after the fall.
Asheville Nrwt: Dixon, who was tried
in the Federal Court one year ago for rob
bing the mail, in Mitchell county and con
victed, and judgment suspended, was at
the present term of the court sent to the
penitentiary at Albany for one year.
Mr. William Reeves and wife, of Ten
nessee, who had been vuiting their
brother, Dr. Rufus Reeves, of this place,
met with a severe accident on their trip
home last Thursday. While going down
the Tennessee side of Walnut Mountain
the horses became unmanageable and ran
violently down the mountain, throwing
Mr. R. out of the hack and seriously and
dangerously injuring him. Mrs. Reeves
jumped and was somewhat bruised, but
not dangerously. The hack was broken
entirely to pieces.
Wilson Ahtiice: The case of Tom
Beaman, who stolo about $1,500 from
Col. Beaman in urecn county on the day
the Colonel attended the circus in Wilson,
came up for trial, in Inferior court, and
attracted much interest. The evidence
induced by the State was overwhelmingly
convincing, and this was most powerfully'
augmented by the defendant himself who,
in weaving that tangled web, man bo often
weaves when struggling to mislead and
deceive, got the threads that his own ton
gue spun so inextricably confused ' and
mixed that every effort made to straighten
them out only served to tighten and har
den the knot of his guilt and conviction.
Every struggle therefore made for release ,'
bound him closer and closer to the thorny
bed he himself spread; and so the Jury
had no difficulty in finding him guilty,
The Judgment being prayed, he was
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years,
the full extent or tne law.
Lumberton RoLetoman: In Wisharts
township, about threo weeks ago. a little
child of Agrippa Phillips was badly
scalded by turning over a pot of hot cof
fee, from the effects, of which it died last
Sunday .evening. In Blue Springs
township on the 17th a little son of Mil
ton Baxter was badly burned and died on
last Saturday. Though tho burn, was not
serious it is not known what waa the im
mediate cause of his death. The gin
ana iour or nve uaies 01 cotton belonging
to John Mcrhaul. ot islue Springs town
ship, was burned on the 17th.. The fire
was accidental and it is supposed was
caused by a spark from the engine.' No
insurance On Sunday, the 20th. a
little- daughter of Ann Eliza Tyner. of
Burnt hwamp township, about seven
years old, while cooking supper had her
dress to catch tiro and was burned 10
badly that she died 00 Monday morning.
V 0 regret to learn that on last Wed
nesday the cotton giu of Mr. Lewis Pit
man, of Black Swamp township,' with
eight bales of cotton was consumed by
fire. The fire is supposed to hare origi
nated from a match parsing through the
gin and igniting. No insurance One
night last week the dwelling housj and
kitchen of James Pre vat t, living in Black
Swamrt township, was destroyed by fire,
which is tnpposed to have origninatcd m
the kitchen chimney. " , "