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. . i . I : : ' ; ' LJ ' ' : : . ; " ' : ) ' I ' i! ' . ' . " 1 I ' ' i ! V " . ' ' 1 . 4 n ESTABLISHED IN 6if iSrrr nsburn latriot wi:i:kia i:iitioi Ttar Ob rr fl-V5 ait nala T3 rMkli Sr .Vi rt. Always ia airaatfa. f j - a Ciytf oyl at lWfiptntMrf W .anklML ! aartfa Kiiur-OM Imrh m Itirtioi 1 : cfc wUnmt UMTtu 5u rvttts. A4- , rrtrrr cnatract K Kjmtl rmU im acJac to joun b. nussrr. j Editor and Proprietor. Greensboro. 5. C, AUGCST 1. UBX The effect of the recent tlis- .intern In the leather trade has not ,vrt been ascertained. Each day, tH-mN additional failure. The cry i 'Tnm the rascals ,ut r infuriates the Republicans to an astonishing legree. They all iim ttnket as a . personal nt i.irk. ' - A arty f capitalists have ifHibi il,0 acres of valnable l.n.N in Swayne county., and will .it i.iMV n-ii up the vat mineral Tu-.tHM" fit the tract. Ks-I'rvftident Wright of the Northern T'aciiie railroad has given jiKi.UKJ for the ettablUhmpnt of a . at Taroni i. W T. When th. srt it to running won't the U lie !1ik:LiiI by the deviltry iIh sfudents ! "Do you pretend to be able .(uke the contract for running hole legislature V they asked tit UiMiuU man, with reference to iUf I.! legislative body of that Mate, "l do," he said, "it a mighty Mmall man who couldn't. The aged veteran, the war horse of General Stonewall Jack -oii, the same he was riding the day he reveived'his death wound, j i in his way from No j to the Virginia Milita North Carolina - . irgtuia 31 unary msiuuie, -vhich U to take chargv of him at lh request of Mrs. Jackson. President Arthur opened the luisvill- rxjHisition in the prea once of "0,000 people, and then went to the (iklt house and slept mi a $2,000 bedttead in a room urbose furniture cost $1,000. .But the next morning he found that the flies would bite as bad in Lou isville as anywhere. We ai' met on a common level in some re spects. I An analysis of the national debt prrpared ou July 2nd, 1832, showed it to amount to $1,831,171, 727, on which the annual interest charge is $3l.436,7o9. As the esti mated population of the country on the same date was somewhat more th.iu ."1,000,000, the debt per capita is 2$.41, and the interest charge ouly 93 -cents. There is no other natiou outside of the despot ism of the East that can show such .1 rrlativfly light burden of debt. If every man, woman and child were to set aside each day the sum of nine cents, at the end of one veura fund j sufficient to discharge whole debt would bo collected. The following, are the totals for the jwpulation of the great titiesof Europe : London, 3,832, 110 inhabitants, Paris, 2,225,910; iJcrlio. 1,222,500; Vienna, 1,103, 110; St. Prtersbnrg. 67GV570; Mos cow, CI 1.970; Constantinople, COO. uw; Glasgow, 553,940; Liverpool, Vi2,430; Naples, 403,110; Hamburg, 110,120; Birmingham, 400.7CO; Ly on. 372.S0U; 3Iadrid. 367SO; Bnda lVsth, 4CO,5S0; Marseilles, 35720; Manchester, 311,510; Warsaw, 339, :;i; Milan,' 421,840; Amsterdam, :i 17,0 10; Dublin. 314,Co0; Leeds, J0.l:U); Borne, :K),470; Sheffield, 21,410; Breslau, 282,910; Turin, 2".2,Sl. j Tar aud feathers have come i.ito fashion again. r?!is curious and interesting method of personal -and primitire decorntion was large ly in vogue with our Western an cestors, but threatenel to die out with the innovation of the pistol and the roiie. It was revived the other day at Castleton, a Uudson river towu about fourteen miles from Troy. An objectionable Oer man nametj Vos, who had commit ted snjie breach of propriety, was taken by the citizens, given a coat of quicklime, then u coat of tar and finally'a toiMiresiing of feath ers and marched out of town. This, it will lie observed, is a great im provement ou the old-fashioned methods. Quicklime shows the advance in methods. It is a .pow erful caustic and consumes humn fleili. The advantage U at once apparent. ) If the officers of the law or th victim's frieuds ever overtake him and succeed in get I ting the feathers off, they will find nothing but a skeleton. 1 - j t.Ar VOKIH. Wo Aarr iejce. Keogk. And the offices too. IHerfr. j Show your authority. MotU j Where ni 1 1 track. i Wait ft it the clouds roll by. ' ErrritL i . j 1825. Tiiii Arthur noon, lDongu 1ouduo a little'early, the t me hu nevcrtheleaa ln .m..-.i r . 1 V T . ""45 a wholesale Iwom In the interest of President Arthur, and for roak ing the Hue of march from Wash- ington to the Yellowstone valley in one sense a Presidential track. A newspaper in Chicago, lately honored by a visit from he nation al execntive and his party, has sounded public opinion from Maine to California, and the result, so far as quoted, is an almost unanimous endorsement of the adniinistratiou .i . f , A . v.- .uai is just now miu5 wuicHak protracted vacation. Henry Ward Beecher. Mrs. riarriet Beecher a. i i..i ? t.? t wc --7; gee, uncr, 100 onKu. man, Ben Bnttenrorth the obscene, Omn B. TLanm. II. IMorf v.Mark "7 " ' , Carolina, and many others seem to thiuk that the President has hap pilv disappointed the cxnecUtious of the public in general and of themselves In particular, and has made nearly as good a chief mag- istrate'as they would have done In .f tr.k . . ... . almost slops over, ith hts laugu ing blue eyes intently fixed on his commission as marshal- of the West District of North Carol! na ue wrue, wun reiresmng com placency, that the beneficial ef fects of President Arthnr ad- minitrtion is felt and cnioved in this Sute." e wonder how Srott Mrfc ca Gorn;1I of Grecnsboro; enjoys its beneficial effects f ami managed by Miss Mary Wil-MI1I1P1I- M,D.(.. born, of Durham; one jewelry - - - I 4 .w ... -n banks both doing well, one foun- read and hear, upon the strength ttry, three machine shops, six of testimonv that we wonld accept blacksmith shops, two 'carriage without question with reference to factories and six bar rooms; also . two good private schools and one ordinary occurences, we must ad- of the si graded schools in the mit tbat the age of miracles is by State, and 4,000 inhabitants. no means past. Just at the present In 1871 there were only two small time we are learning considerable churches; now there- are eight. , . . n-M There are now eight tobacco facto about them. A man in Hudson, cm.lojinR ;ver 10oo hands, N. recently told a Sun reporter yv. T. Blackwell alone giving em how he was cured of a four years ployment to about 400. A compa- bliudness through prayer, after 17 ."af. recently . ... . r... and will commence the maunfacture doctors, including eminent oculists, of fcrtni2erg iu a fotc da3 8. Dur had given bis case np as hopeless. uam has a fln0 trade from the ooun- Ile had believed that he wonld re- ties of Person, Orauge. Granville, cover, but was shocked to bear his Alamance, Chatnam, Wake, pis- ' . . , . Well, and tobacco is brought here wife say to some friends that she from' near,v evvry tobacco RTowiug did not expect him to get well, and county in the State. The weed falling upon his knees, ho prayed raised away down in Sampson as he had never prayed before. hronht,t, is market. c i i-ir vMrr rn .at-. W. T. Blackwell is the largest Suddenly he beard a voice say. payer h ng awuaally f-Get some clay." The clay was over a3t000. When a young man brought at his request, but his wife starting the career which has giv- objected to his making any use of en fame and lota aud chords of . i u i -'filthy lucre Blackwell went to It, and it was kept under the stove Qnethoro esUblish the tobae. for five days, he not knowing how business. The fancy prices for best to a'pply it. Ue prayel earn- laud drove him to the then obscure estly for guidance, and on the fifth railroad station of Durham, and . w. instead of the Greensboro Bull day the voice commanded him 8tnokinff Tobaccon it u lho iDur. again to "get the clay." He took !iam Bull Smoking Tobacco." The the pieces from under- the stove eternal fitness of things would and found that they had been baked seem to favor the latter Around h-d, and .ppJW .. LU r&'T&rir eyelids they clung like leeches. j0U,ffn,an of energy, brains and The removal of the clay was follow character, has sprung up the vast ed by a complete restoration of his and growiug tobacco trade of Dur sight- We have no comment to kam. mtta . A.. Durham is now a county site, make upon this story except that ROOI a coarttoage and jail and it is wonderful, if true. But mira other public buildings will add to cles are apparently being per- 'testability of the town's growth formed in many places, and in many ujon many people. The blind see, the deaf hear, the sick are restored to health, the lame recover strength and complete com m. . I mand of muscle and limb and re- joice in their sudden releasa- from various infirmiUes. ' ; worker of miracles, Dr. CuUis, has been holding a faitb convention in Maine, at which many wonderful stories are told, one being that a . ... , fi, woman who had been afflicted with toUl deafness for 20 years was cured. She "first felt an itching sensation, then a crackling sound i .n,Mt.ivthYniM in her ears, and suddenly the voice of the speaker burst upon her us I though suouieti lurouga airuunu. i A woman with n recenuy rciMiric-ui-wic. ing at the shrine oflSt. Anne de Beoupre in Montreal, and among the " thousands of her fellow pil- grims many other as miraculous ear-swercer,ccordieobe testimony of priests and people. have very decided uouots I pat to sucb a questionable use. It ... . seems use ixiain things. vrnr.x a "democrat wah prji- DKNT. The following is an extract from a letter written by James K. Polk, J February 17th, 1845, when he was fn.w J.mea President-elect, offering James Buchanau the iosition of Secretary orSUte: I disapprove the practice which has sometimes prevailed of Cabinet officers absenting themselves for long periods of time from the seat of government, and leaving the management or their departments to the chief clerks, or less respon sible persons than themselves. I exiect myself to remain constantly at Washington, unless it may be that no public duty demands my presence, when I may be occasion- about the genuineness of all this, diana, Bloomington & estern and We doubt whether the interests of the Burlington, Cedar lipids & , ... lw4;nrt. rfVlbcrt Iee railroads I was furnish- religion gain anything by being , . . eonj.imentaries to St. 1 short time. It U by conforming 10 this role that the rresiuent auu his cabinet can have any assurance that absenteeism will be prevent cl. and that the subordinate execu 1 tire oElcera connected with them respectively will faithfully perform their doty. j Now that President Arthur and all of his Cabixret and a great many of their subordinates are absent from Washington, the reproduction of the above conies in very pat. A Few Dott Darh&i I CorrrrpfKinr PtOxiot. iDuBHAir. Aucust 7. A live ntarA nnd n r-rtiwinrr tnwn. thin. i r b ' emphatically. The growth of eve rtthing here is almost prodigious. From a small station, locatetl for I tue convenience of Chapel II HI, f Durham has grown to le a thriving; bustling town with banks aud newspapers and other advanced agencies of motlern civilization. I II. A. Beams sold the first leaf tobacco ever sold at auction in Dur , a th 18th da of my 1871 He sold during that year about 00,000 pounds. His trade contin grease from year to year I ill V. ..1,1 m. l.n 4Vkii mi linn uutU ier annum. There ore now three large warehouses in the towu that will sell during the present year over twelve million lwunds. . In 181 all the factories did not mfinnfactnro more thall half a mil I un pounds of tobacco.. In the I same year Durham bad only about 1M Inhabitants, wfOl thrve small stores, two bar rooms, one black .rafth Vhnn and on small school. Presto I change. Now there are twenty-two stores, four dry goods "res, one naraware, two miiunerj . I . 1. A 1 1. x lie - I mi a t ui Ari mr AM T IP I aim prosper. . I "- 11 " - " 1 " . Trip AertM the CoMtlacat. C6rrtMedcc Daily Patriot. ITinr.ET. Ind- Aucr. 1st. In a receut trip to Dakota amnion tan a I saw much thitt would be interest inc to manv of my old frieuds iu North Carolina, and possibly more the same desire and aspiration to Um fap awav AoeneA tu.lt abound in our broad land, that I had flfty years ago. In 1834 ray , brother Alfred and I borrowed and read by turns the of LewU & c(ulU CXicdi. tion tHs the continent in 1804-'5- ami were charmed with the ac couuts of danger, adventure, and wonderful jourueyiugs of those pi Airain in 1837. I purchased with apples gathered on Muares, "Aswna, uy usuiuk Or.i far comjuy there. l The rcal ing of these books ere atetl a desire to see the couutry over and through which those ex tbisyear. i Throngh the kindness of the In- paUlt aud from there by the gen- tlemanlv and kind officers of the Northern Pacific Railroad to the far end of their track this side the Rocky M mm tain divide, 1,110 miles west of St. Panl. Thns eanipped. I started from lndiansiolis on an ctrly morning train ami was soon out into me beautiful farming region through wllich tln5 L B &HW. ims8eSt being a lTt of the nnsurpasswl blue grass region of this State. At Danville. Illinois, we pass oat of the timbered region of the Northwest and enter the vast prai rie region that stretches away northward and westward thousands of miles to the foot of the Rocky Mountalus and to the snow fields of the North. The prairie region of Illinois is a marvel of beauty and delight, com pared with forty years ago. Rid ing with an old pioneer prairie far any absent, but then only for a GREENSBORO, Ni C, THURSDAY, AUGUST mer in the fall of 1843 over a part ot the then "grand prairie,77 which seemed like a limitless expanse of green grass and brilliant sunlight, to tho question of "what will be the future of this region T9 .replied, This will always be a vast unset tled plain, on which thousands of cattle will be herded like the cen tral portion of Asia," and to me it seemed entirely reasonable that it would be so That regular civiliz ed society could ever live on this vast treeless plain was beyond my comprehension. But now what a wonderful change has come; tho vast plain is gone, the ocean of grass has disappeared, and in the place are broad fields, beautiful groves of stately trees, splendid mansions in which are found the highest type of civiliza tion and refinement, with throng ing, busy cities, towns aud villages ou every side. Crossing the State via. Bloom ington. Peoria and Galesburg. amid one continued succession of Edens of agricultural loveliness, we ar rive at Burlington, on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River. This is a city of some note and exten sive business connections, especi ally with the railroad systems of the Northwest. Many early histor ic events are associated with its location and growth; among them tho final end of the celebrated In dian chief Black Hawk, who was one of the noted warriors of the Cast generation. lie died and was nried here, but his body was sto len and taken down the river to secure the skeleton for eastern ex hibition. The Indians learned the fact and rose in arms, and were so enraged that nothing but the re storation of the skeleton would ap lease taem. It was sent to a phy sician in Burlington, in whom the tribe had confidence, to be kept until it was settled where the tribe would next locate, being ready to move off of the land known as the Black Hawk purchase. Before this was done the house of the physician with a part ot the town was burned and the sacred bones were consumed iu the tire. The original grave is still kept as made at his death. From Burlington we go west of north across the State of Iowa, which is in all respects similar to Illinois, with the same wide expanse of open prairie, with many rivers aud streams skirted with beautiful and valuable belts of native timber; the succession of beantiful fields of a . m grain, Drignt, tasty iarm nouses, large herds of cattle and sheep, immense cribs ot corn, thousands of wheat straw and hay ricks, what would be ca led a long stack n North Carolina), and what would seem astonishing to citizens of Old Guilford, immense pi'.es of com cobs, where thousands of bushels have been shelled aud sacked for shipment shelled by steam like threshing wheat, with an ocean of grass stretching away on every side where farms have not been made. We enter Minnesota a few miles north of Albert Lee Junction, and for several hours7 ride pass over the same outline of country as iu Iowa, until we reach the southern edge of the water shed of the Min nesota river, here we enter the timber lands of the State, not all timber as in regular timbered conn tries, but successions of prairie and dense groves of timber beauti fully intermingled. This rart of the State is very similar iu surface arrangement to Guilford county, as to streams of water, proportion of timber and orxm land, the number of hills aud valleys, etc., but rastly different in the looks and character of the soil. Though the northern limit of corn growing cannot be defined by a line, the Minnesota river will do or a boundary in that direction; good corn crops are grown on its alluvial bottoms, beyond it ceases to be a staple grain. In its stead we see vast fields of wheat and oats aud other small grain, with whole fields of Irish potatoes, in stead of small patches as in the corn region. The growth of timber is very rapid ou this deep, rich land, aud anonliuary Carolinian would be astonished to see the thousands ot cords of wood piled along the rail roads, ready for shipmeut to the reeless plains further north and west; loaded on the cars it is worth $2.25 ier cord, when shipped 300 miles it sella for $7.00. I had passed through the char coal burning regions of Maryland, Pennsylvania aud New lork, had seen tne woou yaras oi western railroads before coal was used, Jiad seen the immense wood yards at steamboat landings on the lower Mississippi, but never saw as much cord wood in one season as ou my ride through the valley of the Min nesota river. This enormous cord wood supply is nothing in com par ison to the millions of feet of sawed lumber wc see further North, of which we will speak at another sit ting. A. Coffin. A D re ana and Ita Falfillateat. White-ill Enterpri-.l The remains of Mrs. F. R. Sea ger, of No. 140 Bridge street, who was killed by a traiii of cars on Friday were taken to the home of her parents in Bedford, for inter ment. A rather peculiar circum stance In connection with the la dy's death was the fact that -the night previous to the occurreuce she had a dream in ' which she im agined'she saw herself decapitated by a train of cars. She spoke of her dreani to her bnsbaud on the morniug of her death, but as nei ther of them was superstitious they paid but little attention to the matter. The dream was prac tically verified a few hours later when the lady, although uot act ually decapitated was terribly mangled by tho cars. I A.lher Victim r Kerosene. ' I V! tD-Tm(VJ BaciaUr.) Miss Orphy Bahcock, daughter ot Mr. Bradley Babcock residing near Concord, in Campbell county, was fatally burned - last Saturday while attempting to start a fire in the stove by pouring oil from a can upon some burning embers. ' The blaze ran into the can, exploding it aud setting fire to the young lady's clothing, aud burning her so badly that she died in great agony the next evening. ! Wheu will wo men learn tbat it is unsafe to start a fire with coal oil I - i: J !' j Rained Crept. ! ' j LrftcMmrs Virginian. , : A railroad roau who came down on the N. & W. ICR. yesterday says the drouth Is damaging the crops along the line of the railroad from this city to Mt. Airy, to an alarming extent, the vegetation be ing I literally 'parched by the hot sun; and that a few mPes this side of Roanoke he saw a large clover field on fire.' A compositor of this office who went on a trip down the South Side division of the road Sunday, reports that the crops in that section are ruined by the dry weather.. I "Hip. Hip, Hurrah . Very few people who. cry "hip, hip,hurrah !" with such gusto know anything about the origin of the words. During the limes of the Crusaders the chivalry of Europe was roused to arms by the inflam matory apueals of Peter; the Her mit, who always1 displayed a ban ner emblazoned with the following letters. H. E. P the I initials of tho Latin words Hierosolymd est perdita, or Jerusalem is destroyed. Tho people who were not acquaint ed with Latin pronounced the let ters as a word hep, and when ever they chauced to meet a poor Jew the raised the cry, "Hep, hep, hurrah H and the chances were greatly in favor of the Jew's reel ing the Kint of their swords. ,f ii . ; ; ' , , A Hardworking Old Lady. j There is an old lady living in the Tower part of Prince William coun tvvVa., about a mile and a .half south of Independent Hill eighty five years of age, who lives ou her farm of one hundred acres by her self. She har had no one to work for; the last twenty year, hoes her own cornfield, plants, : cuts and cares for her own coin and fodder, mows her own hay with a large case kuife, climbs the tallest cherry tree on her place, gathers aud dries auhually about a hundred ponuds of 'cherries besides other fruit, cuts her otrn firewood and carries her com to the mill on her back and briugs her meal j home. All this she has done for: years. She has never been confined to her bed by sickness and is to-day as spry as any young maiden. i i : ' Important Railroad Contract. Our North Carolina railroad 3n .terprises are still booming. The Atlauta Constitution says that the South Carolina Pacific Railway company has contracted with the CaK5 Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail road company to meet the latter read if the latter company at the State liue within the next twelve months. The preliminaries have all been arranged, and if; the right of tway can bo secured, the road will be built iu the next year. It will run from Beuuettsville, S. C, to some point ou the North Carol i na line, and thence to Fayetteville. Westward the road will le extend ed to Camden, connjcting there with the South Carolina Railway, and nt Society Hill with j the Che raw and Salisbury railroad, thus furnishing two outlets to Charles toniJ Ultimately the C. F. & Y. V. R. R. company will extend its lines to Abingdon, Va., where thrphgb connections with Cincin nattl will be reached. Inconceivable Torture. From a TarU LettortL The Annamese. have brought the science-of impalement to a much fiuer point that might bo inferred from the process heretofore describ ed. 1 1 A French officer, who witness ed an execution in Toukiu before the recent troubles, gives a verj' curious accouut of the apparatus oi impalement A lofty stake, with shsrp point, is fixed into -the ground as firmly as a telegraph lole, and with the upper part a chair of iron, having an orifice in the centre of the seat, is connected. The point of the stake fits the ori tice in the chair, and latter is low ered, or raised by machinery set in motion by -a crank so that several feei'ot the pole can be forced thro the body of any one seated in the chair.' There is a lofty platform, rising to the same height as the pole and reached by a ladder. The executioner compels his victim to mount and take his seat in the chair,1 whereon : he is immovably chaiued. Then the crank is turned forty or fifty timesthe stake being buried further and further in the criminal's body at each turn. All this appears unutterably hor- riblb to Europeans; out tne uneu tals are not constituted as we are, They fear ordiiiary forms of death very I little; and decapitation or hanging has as little terrors for them as the workhouse for the com mon Anglo Saxon criminal. More over, their nervous system espe cially, that of the Chinese and kin dred races is not altogether simi lar to the uervous system of Aryan races. The French officer who wit nessed the method of execution above described avers that the criminal continued to eat a banana until the operation was half com pleted; any many travellera concur in bearing evidence that the Chi nese exhibit under torture a degree of fortitude equal, if not superior, to the well known stoicism of the American Indian. But it is rather strange to learn that the part or the iron machinery used in the im paling process referred to bear the trade mark of a French iron-master. 16, 1883. A Shocking Tragedy. j j Baltimore Son Aa.S. . i Lawrence Lewis Conrad, a great-great-nephew of George . Washing ton and a gentleman widely known in legal and social circles jn Balti more, was shot and iustantly killed yesterday morning, by his wife, at one o'clock, while peacefully sleep ing In bed at her Bide. The; affair occurred at the Worthington fami ly mansion, 16 miles from Baltimore. Mrs. Conrad was a confirmed inva lid. No one was in the room when the shot was fired except her hus band and herself, and although there were four - members of the household on the same floor the pistol shot was not heard, and jthe first alarm was given by Mrs. Con . rad, who rushed to her mother's room and cried out that sho had "hurt Mr. Conrad." The members of the household found bird breath ing his last, with his face on a blood-stained pillow and a32cai bre bullet through his head an inch and a-half above the left ear. ; ( , Mr. Conrad was as well-known in Philadelphia, Baltimore and jthe South as a man could well be,' and his wife, who was a Miss Minnie Worthington, comes of a family that dates its life in Maryland back to 1750. It is not known, and1 per haps never will be, )-exactly iho r the shocking affair occurred. Mrs. Conrad does not appear, to. know herself.. Her explanation is! that she was trying to commit suicide, A more-loving couple could scarce ly, be found. - They had : been mar ned for fourteen years, ; and were most assiduous in their attentions to each other. Mr. Conrad had a lucrative civil practice at the, Bal timore bar. but had given it up six months ago. so - as to be, able to take care of his invalid wife. I On Monday night the entire fam ily was at home in the country res ident e. Tolly Worthington brought the mail over from - Ulyndon and distributed it among the members t)f the family. Mrs. Conrad was lying on a sofa in the sitting-room, and Mr. Conrad was in the dining room adjoining reading his letters by the light of the lamp. She call ed to him several times and walked into where he was, with the request that he wonld come out and sit with her. He said lie would as soon as he had finished reading over his mail ner brother Toiley and her nephew Leouetto Cipriani,! who was also in the' house, asked her if she was . worse. Her . reply; was that the paiu traveled about and was agonizing. , "No two men iu world," said she, "could suffer what I have aud will suffer without com mitting suicide." Her husband came to her, and the usual dose of oxygen was administered throngh a tube. She appeared comparative ly cheerful after the gas had been administered, and said she thought she would go to bed. It was shortly after half past one o'clock when Mrs. orthmgton was awakened by a shriek at hei door and her daughter cried put to her to come auickly as she bad hurt Mr. Conrad. "My God, I am afraid I have hurt him badlv,"sbe said. Mrs. Worthineton called to her son Toiley and went to Mr. Conrad's chamber at once. J They found him lying on his right side with his right hand under the pil low and his left lvinfr against his side. The ; position was natural, and it was only too plain that he bad passed from sleep ml with hardly a tremor. His face was turned ! slierbtlv iupward as if he was about to turn toward the side of the bed on which his wife lav. Blood streamed from A small hole above his left ear aud redden ed tho pillow and sheets. . As Tol ley Worthington felt his pulse the wife asked.m an agonized wnispen "Is he much hurt T My Uod, on tell me, is he V 'He is not dead," was the reply. A second after this the nnlse ceased to flutter -ir. Cipriani picked up from the foot of the bed a Kemingten .JZ-caiipre pis tol. One shot out of five which it n:in-iMl had been discharired. It was recognized as a weapon iwhich Mrs. Courad had carried to a sum raer resort with her a year ago as a protection against tramps, she said nt the time. I Th scene inthe bed room at this time was heartrending. The; aged mother sank down alinostj dead from the shock. , aud Mrs. Conrad, tried to throw i herself upon the body of her dead husband. "1 killed him accidentally,? said she ; "I wanted to kill myself." Her brother picked her up jtender ly and carried her into his own room, where her ten-year-old son, Charley, was sleeping, and (mtting her iu bed made her stay! , there. The child, aroused by thej j noise, tried to come into the room where his father lay dead, but wjis kept back. 1 1 Dr. Richardson made a post mor tem examination and found that the ballet had lodged iif theibrain, and that death bad been instanta neous. It was evident that the pistol wss verj close to' Mr. Con rad's head when the shot was fired. The tragedy was all thej more shocking from being unexpected. The relations between the husband and wife have always be$n most devoted Ho would always put himself but to do her the most tri vial favor, aud she appeared to be most unhappy when be was not by. She was 41 years old, and her sick- ness nas ueiore no . svmutoms. : and at one has before this assure ea efiA wa in a hosuital. bbe is H1V 1 - . 1 1 I now a member of aud a pewholder in Dr. Kirkua's cbnreh. Her fath er's sister was the mother! or Ed ward Hanson, who recently killed Mr. Charles R. White in a fit of in sanity, and her father's first cousin was Mr. John Toiley Johns; who committed suicide abont two years a&- - l; ' ' j ; ! - Well. Dame Nature has fixed 'things pretty nearly right after all. - ? V !1 ,i i n,i ffni humor Just as irresistibly con tagi- ons as cholera. NEW; What Will It Matter tj , What win it matter In a littla whila - Tkilhr.ili . .. i - E - We met aad cave a word, a touch, a imile. Upon Um way t i i Wha4 will it matter whether heart were brave. ' And lirea were true : 1 That rim far ma the -ympathy l crave, - Aal gavayouT . " . il - These trifle! Caa it be they .make r star : A human life? ; ; Are enuia aa lijrhtly swayed as roahea araj By lora or strife? , ,4.1 : Yea, yeal a look the fainting heart may break. Or make it whole, . i I And Just one word, ifiaid for lore'liweet sake. : May save a soul i . . i J i ' Baford aad Aaare wa Pescrrea Praise. I Aiherille Citizen. , As a leader in the consolidations in which the Richmond and Dan ville railroad' became connected, justice should be done to the master mind , by which a feeble company became the master power in a pow erful combination. To the sagaci ty, courage and patience of Alger gqn Sidney Baford is due the sac-' cess af a policy which bropght tup the stock of the R. & D. company! from three cents on the dollar iu 1874 to $2.85 in 1882, wh'ch put it in the power of that i company to create and control a combination embracing 2,500 miles of road, grown from . the insignificant be ginning of 149 miles; which and which is of special interest to us enabled it to come to the relief of the State of North Carolina, , aud carry to completion one ' portion of a work, the subject of long and vexatious futile legislation, aud to advance another portion to a hope ful state of forwardness. Tn do all this demanded sagacity to devise, courage to execute, patience to perfect; patience, moreover, to abide the calumnies, the suspicions and the opposition of those always reidy to ascribe to success sinister orjeorrupt motives, ij . f jj nd as a coadjutor In so much its relates to us, there was found Alex ander B. Andrews, j whose zeal, whose energy, whoso intelligence has only been equaled by an ardent spirit of enterprise, animated by a burning State" pride which fixed asthe prize of its ambition the completion of the great work which had moved without halting step, from its first inception half a cen tury ago, until it fell helpless at the foot of the mountains beyond which it had no strength to ad vance. . ii;. : I . I- The great work, built up to such mighty proportions as to have be- come the subject or competition among the greatest money! powers of ; to-day, must forever stand a monument to these two men, native North Carolinians, true to the in 8tincts of their nativity, and link ing their fame and their fate with the destinies ' of the j work upon which their good name was staked and to which it was pledged. The name of the Richmond & Danville may pass away. It may cease to furnish the sweet morsel pf abuse and defamation; but the names of these two men associated with it in its years of weakness;!; and instru mental in buildiug it up into power, will live to be respected and ad mired, j jiii ' " I . , t Bible Manuscript Found S,0OO Years Old j From the New York Sun Cable Letter. A Mr. Shapira, of Jerusalem a bookseller and dealer in antiquities, baa just deposited in i the British Mnseum fifteen slips of black sheep skin leather, on which 'are written, in characters similar! to those on the; celebrated Moabite stone, ior tious of the book J of JDeuterononiy differing materially from the re ceived version. The j date of the slips is the ninth ceiitnry before Christ, or sixteen centuries older thab any authentic manuscript Of 3 . a .a - -va V rw -m a. any part oi the uid 'lesiamenc. MrJ Shapira bought fcfiern from an Arab, aud he asks for; them $5,000, 000 from the British Museum. If genuine the interest! and 1 impor tance of the discovery cab not be overrated; and so farj as variations in . the sacred text arc coucerued, there is promise of one of the great est Controversies that scholars have ever entered upon. The decalougue furnishes a good example for com parison with the1 received version. I quote from the Shapira record : "I am God, thy God, which lib- erated thee from the laud of Egypt, from tho house of bondage, xe shall have no other Gotls. re shall not make to yourselves any graven image, nor I any likeness that is in Heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is lit the I waters under the earth. Ye shall not bow down to them nor serve them. ill . "I am God, your God. sanctity. In six days' I have made the Heav en and the earth! and all that there is therein, and rested j on the sev enth day. Therefore, rest thou also, thou and thy cattle, and all that thou hast. f. 1 ill . ? "I am Gcd, thy God. Honor thy father and thy mother. "I am God, j thyj ;! Uod. Thott shalt not kill the person of thy brother. 1 ' "f 1 ui n.n Clrul tfiv- rirul Thnn ahnlf. ..f rtmmif aliilfrv Mith the wife a. uuui "v-r- ?r : i of thy neighbor.!- l . f ! uut . ... j l m "I am God. thy I im I 'i noil f shalt not steal the property of thy brother. I ii "I am God. thy God. Thou not'swearby my naio falslv T visit the lcliauitv of The itatuers nnon the children Unto the third and fourth generation of those who take mv name in vain. "I am God. thy God. Tbou shal not bear false witness aginst tbjf brother.- . f i . i "I am God, thy God. Thou s uait not$ovei nis wne, urji iuih his man ser vant, or his maid settant, or any thin? that he has. I I am God, thy God. Thou shalt . h, writ hor" In tllVi llOiirtl T am God.thv ipd. inese ten words God spake.'' j T)r. ftinsburff. the e mPtic scholar, tojwhbm Dr.! Gladi stone has just given o0 towartls the production of his work on the Masorab, has deciphered the above; nni ia hnsv completing a transla ;n fln1 iletermininir on behalf or the Museum the genu mess of the fragments. SERIES, NO. 869. ' j '. -Pletj Hill" -Note, j ' . j ' 1$ -Lit is always a pleasure to give pleasure. Jnst guess a lady's ag$ , ten years less than you know It t -be aud yon have made a friend for life. 1 .- - -I' !i . i --It is a carious and; interesting fact that though a man may be deaf 'that hie J can't hear a sound from a whole brass band he can never be so deaf that he can't hear the delightful ringing of the dinner belllr "IT . ... f - it f I Some of the peculiarities of th? tiimW are uufversally recognized even by the most ordinary mortal. Said a plucky little J fellow to Ji huge blusterer ; UI don't care ff you are as big as a church debt; you can't scare me.71 -4 A great! deal of religion runs in this way ! VBob, don't you want to get some lot thoso apples ovrr the fencer? Xo, I dou't" ''Why not r "Wefty first because! it's wroigto 8feal apples, aud seconVl because there's a big dog in! tre yard." j ' i . ' Tf ; f There is a great deal Of disease in the world which is terribly ex aggerated by the; hysterical congi- ion of the Victim. , If people could bo persuaded to think themselves"" well instead of ill the sanitary con dition of tho community would be ; vasily improved. Nothing is easier ; thaiji to imagine that you cau't wa.ik or move or rise from your bed ; but', if you should put a buudred 'of ' these self-made invalids-into a tgn acre! lot and introduce for the sake of the gentlemen a mad buU and for the sake of the ladies a mouse, . nine out of ten of tho incurabfes i would suddenly drop crutches arid 'i canes aud make as good time lor j the J fence as - a belated express train. Ladies who had hot spoken a loud word for years would fid - their voi6es and us them, and gen- ' tlemen who had hardly been able, j to stand fould leap tho fence with t the alacrity of goats. We can do a great many things when we.mst. which seem utterly but of the que's-L tiou! until wo see the mouse or heir ; the buy, but then they 'aredoiicy very easily indeed. - - j 1 j ! ... , i ;r( Presidential Prognostication; ; x Saratoga is now the centre3f political j interest with the vXhw Ynrtr nniiiinlana ami hraeulintfil prognostications is thestaple c .creation. I Gov. Cleveland, ! Mri Jno.i Kelly and Mayor Ed isoil formed n portion of a Democratic, group at the Grand Union Sunday,1, aud fall expressed themselves In favor of Deraocra tic harmony. Mr, James O'Brien, another leading local politician, i who participated in the conversation, afterwards re-1 marked that Gov. Cleveland would j be aleading candidate for tho Den-; ocraiic Presidential nomination. A ' number qf prominent Republican , traliticians are also comparing notes ! at Saratoga, including lion. Emo- i ry At Storrs, of Chicago, and Uoo! Chaunce 31. Depew, of New York. The current of opiuioh seems to bo decidedly in favor of. the nombf nation of Gen. Arthur for Prest;;. dent though Mr. Depew predict; ( that Hon James G. Blaine will btj' the next Presidentfor the reason ! that j"Mr Blaine has been chasing the iTesidency for some 'time; while now the Presidency is chaw i ing hum." Peanut Flour. doubt, ere. long, "peanut flourl! will be an imiortant produci of the South. Virginia is set dow this lyear fori 2,100,000 bushels; Tennessee for (250,000, andTNortti Caro in a at 133,000, bushels j. thes being! the chief States engaged irX theirjjcultivatibn, iind thoso i. whic i it was first introduced frpiff Afrida. In Virginia they are call; eil "peanuts. in North Carolina "grouud-jwas,' bers.H and in in Tennessee rgoo,; Georgia,' Alabama and Mississippi pinders." Viry triuians are oefnnniiicr to turn tutf Peanut into Hour, and say it makes a pelculiarly palatable f 'biscuit.'t In Gieorgia there is a custom now:, growling old, of grinding or ixiundi-; ing the shelled peanuts; and turn?; ing. them nto pastry, yrhicb ha I resemblance, jbotu in lootsrf aste, to that made! of cocoar init tue peanut pastry is more nd richer, and healthier anq; r every way. it, as some pew , lieve, Africa sent a "curse ti rica in slavery, shol certainly conferred iipon hera blessing in the peanut, r . . . ' I ;! ' ; r AM-ful Heenea In Ischla. . ':. Tile state of affairs at Ischia i worse now than ever. I At first l it was decided to cover the wboh! scene of the earthquake with jchlo- . ride J of lime to protect the livijig iii their necessary work among tlu ruins, so; great and deadly has be? th comb the steuch arising) lrom bod es of I the -fa ii a more than 8,000 bj. have perished. : But liicrsf known to when it was found that scores m living personji were entombed irj the ruiug.lthe plan of .wholesale uisiniecuon nati ro ue apanuonet .. . A, , i; , i i . MWjn k a i- . :... iiuui luo luiiin, ixuo numw vunii rolldwed lrom the crevico witn can be no doubt thai mauy prsoiis remain alive in the I ': a .a!'. : still rutuis.L it is prooaDie thata: !l f remainiiisf alive to-morrow w i r av to hi? abandoned to their late, ,0 every 'part of the scene has easel to l eiulurable. Scarcely a res;tj. er islett able to resist the terrible vomitings coin pelled l3 mi aa "I t a the ind' scriuaoie sieucnes now jirevaieuu. The entire isliind has leen. almost! jrevalenfi constantly shiken by $ series -6f. ; intermittent Shwks'evculsinco tho great disaster of last; Sunday1 Strange' to say, the otjors which' willl now fender further rescues iuv ' possible, aud rive the force -of bii maiiitanans from this once beaut K ful slaud4 will probably )et in tli hords of Italian brigands' who now' hovjer about! in isufflcieutii niim. ber to! pass any probable guard, - waiting their; chances 16 msn on the scene for any plunder.. some and nut,p oily a bctr pie be Amc shalt fitting crk overpowerefUhis resei fa ers. an ot wuom lainicu. J inero ' 4 . i ' "! t . I . i ; -i t i El ! V U
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Aug. 16, 1883, edition 1
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