ine Carolina w atcnman.
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VOL XVin.-TaiRD SERIES
SAUSBURY N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1887.
NO 7
the
rorship of her subject m London, at
wr Union HaU,in New York, was
it
Cooper
on the walls the following
record of misrule in ireiana :
Died of famine............ 1,500,000
KV.V - 3.668,000
Willi-" , T lJ .
tWitnati'tt
4,200,000
Emigrants who died of ship
fever... ;
Imprisoned under coercion
acts over,. . . . . ....
Killed in suppressing public
meetings...
Coercion acts
Executed for resisting ty
ranny v
pied in English dungeons. . .
57.000'
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53
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The following preparation applied to
the surface will prevent any rusting on
plows or any other metal surfares : Melt
one ounce of resin in apill of linseed oil,
snd when hot mix with two quarts of
kerosene oil. Tfiis can be kept on hand
and applied in a moment with a brush or
rag to the metal surface of any tool that
is not going to be used for a few days,
..ntni" anv rust, nnu saving mucn
vexation when the time comes
again.
to
a
use it
Those are. general 1 v good at flattering
who are good for nothing else.
Unfailing Specific for Lifer Disease.
QVMDTHM& i Bitter or had taste la
01 ITir 1 UlflO i month; tongue coated
white or covered with a brown fur; pain in
the back, sides, or joints often mistaken
for Rheumatism : our stomach ; loss of
nppeffte; sometimes nausea and water
brash, or indigestion flatulency and acid
eructations: bowels alternately coativo
and lax ; headache ; loss of memory, with
a painful sensation of having failed to do
something which ought t have been done ;
debility; low spirits: a thick, yellow ap
pearance of the skin and eyes; a dry
couch: fever; restlessness; the urine Jn
canty and high colored, and, if allowed to
stand, deposits a sediment.
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(PURELY VEGETABLE)
-I ifoncrally used in the South to arouse
Ufe Torpid Liver to a healthy action.
It sett with extraordinary efficacy on the
tiver, Sidneys,
AND Bowels.
AN E"rECTUAL SPECIFI0 FOR
Malaria, Bowel Complaints,
lrypepla SicU Hraitae.he,
Canstipatlnn, Uiiloosness,
Kidney Affections, Jaundice,
Mental Depression, Culic.
Endorsed by the use of Million. of Bottles, as
THE BEST FAMILY IfEDICfKE
for Children, for Adults, an ', for the .vcd.
ONLY GENUINE
has cur Z Stamp in red on front of Wrapper.
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sols raoriasToas. Price, 81. OO.
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IEDMONT
WAGON
AT
mad:
HICKORY, N. C.
CAN'T BE BEAT!
They stand where they ought
to, right square
AT THE FiLNT!
It Was a Hard Fight But They
Have Won It!
Just' read what people say
about them and if you want a
wagon come quickly and buy
one, either for cash or on tirne.
Salisbury. K. C.
Sipt. 1st. 1886.
Two years ago I bou :lit a vers ti-hi two
hor.c PiL-'lmont waron i the Agent, Jno.
A. Boyilen; nave use! it n r'v aii tin? timo
inc.-. tiHve tried it severely in liauhn saw
"Ksiitul other heavy loads, aai have not
Ial to pay one cent I'oi rrpairs. I bok
up'n the Piedmont uan as the lust Thim
ble Skein won mide i;i th- Unite. I Slates.
Tha timber us -d in th in - most excellent
nU thoroughly well s ajnned.
TCKSKIl P. l'UOMASON
Sahsbokv. N. C.
Ail-'. 27th, 1886
About two years :j I ioiht of Jno A.
Boj.len. none horse Piedmont -wauno which
fe done much service and nij)ait of it
hasljioken or ven away and conseqyent
T? it a cost nothing dr repairs.
- John D. IIeslt.
Salisbury, N. C.
Sept. 3 1, 1 886.
Eijjhteen months ajjo I bought ot John
A- BJyden, a 2 inch Thimble Skein Pied
oai wagon and bive usel it pretty much
H tbfc time and it has proved to lc n lir-t-rtf
wa-on. Nothing about it has given
t and therefore iflias required no re
pairs. T. A. Walton.
SAMsBnnv, N. e.
Sept. bth. 1886.
t IS months a'm I bonahtof thr- Agent, in
Salisliorr. a 2 in Thimble Skein Piedmont
tJUgoa their 'lightest onedtoro wngor. I
vc kept it in almost ronatant use and
W'-ng tliM time h-ive ha I'eirl on it at least
loud- of wood ard that without r.ny
'J.ca'-.H or renVii-s.. ' L. It. Waltw.
While the Queen was receiving
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The Turkle and the Crane
A PLANTATION SERMON BY BET.
MOSELY.
EPIIRI AM
About twenty -five years since the sub-
; stance of the following fable was related
i to the writer by a venerable family ser
! vaut on a Louisiana plantation. A young
lad, returning from a successful terrapin
hunting expedition, exultingly showed
bis prize, a homely and vicious snapping
turtle, to the old plantation "oracle," who
I r .1 !.L ij L : . . .1
iviiuwim regHieu ms nmTt'MtMi uutuiur
with a characteristic story, and planted
at once in his breast a feeling of respect
for the peculiar talents of the "turkle."
I.
Afar down Souf dar's a lonely lake
Dat's bordered roun' by a tangled brake,
Whar cypress trunks wid deir trailin'
moss
Stand towerin' over.de live-oak's gloss,
And lotus raf s all aroun' its rim,
Low floatin', swing in de shadows dim;
And dar de waters so silent lte,
Dey seem like part of a midnight sky.
II.
De moon sbines dar like a silver plate;
Each star above sees a sleepinLmate
Down dar, whar even de stars might ret
An' Time stop still on deir unstirred
breast; t
An' sn n rise, sunset may dye dem red,
But noonday suns shinin' overhead
Can't light dem waters wid brazen glare
Thro' pale mists hanziu like curtains
dere.
III.
No man, since Noah land' from de ark,
Upon dat shore ever leT bis mark;
No man, since Adam in Eden stood.
Has ever slept in dat solitude;
De varmints only, dat nightly roam,
Or birds of air may have foun' dat home;
And dar, 'fore brif-days of Abel and Cain,
A turkle lived wid a tall white crane.
IV.
Dey dwelt in peace, and dey fished and
played,
De turkle dived whar de crane couldn't
wade,
An' driv' de fish to the aidge of de lake,
VY har mister crane kep' his eyes awake
And ''gigged" dem thro' wid his piuted
bill
Twell he and turkle had cotched deir fill.
Dis partnership might have stood till
now,
Dut didnt and dis is de reason how :
Dey got too fat an' too lazy bofe,
When one would fish den de udder'd
loaf;
Dey quar'Ied, de crane call de turkle
black,
De turkle answer de crane right back,
And sez, '"You fish in your Sunday close
Whilst I gits muddy up to my nose;"
De crane lie say dat "de turkle's shell
All slushed wid mud 'peared jest as well."
VI.
Dc turkle sez dat "I'm better'n you,
For 1 got four laigsand you got two,
Deu I sleep down beneaf de oak
Au' you roos' high in de rain an' smoke;
De cold days come, an' I makes my
mound,
Whilst yuu must jarney de 'arth half
rouu'
Or your long neck cotch de sorefroat bad,
An' I ue laiiiu'
while you feel:
sad.
VII.
"But my two laigslonger'n teneryourn,"
Tiius sez de eraue, "au' I'm swiftly borne
Wnar you can't climb wid dese wiugs of
mine,
Dat flash like snow in de bright sun
shine." "Kin you cotch fish in dat lofty sky?
You trus' your wings an' you bown' to
die,"
Remark de turkJe, "tho I can't rise
I crawls an' gits whar de victuals lies."
VIII.
And dar dey starved, for de turkle 'fused
To dredge de bottom, bekase accused
Of weariu' close of a color made -To
-uii de work whar his talents laid.
De crane coulduri dive an' he couldn't
swim,
No fish riz up to dat lakelet's brim,
So hongry, wadiii too fur he drowned,
De turKle died on de hard dry ground.
- IX.
Afar down Souf do I see again,
Broad fields of cotton and sweeps of cane,
De plow and hoe in de hands dat toil,
In hands -bued dark as the loamy soil,
And breasts as brown as de turtle's shell,
All holding hearts dat work brave and
well,
And brawn dat bears bofe de cold and sun
From new year's day till de year is done.
X.
My sarmon's done: let all wise folks lam
About whom lessons Jike dis consarn :
De darky's made for to dig and hoe,
Or gather craps dat de grouu' mus grow,
White folks to boss an' to trade an' sell,
So bofe can flourish iu life's brief spell;
Together bearin' each one his share,
Dey'll prosper sho'ly if bofe tote square.
XI.
A hard head mule in a hot July
Would make a million o' white men die,
And gittin' credick from money banks
Would turn we cullered folks aoou u.
cranks,
Go on old turkle and dredge de lake,
And mister crane keep your eyes awake;
But one needn't brag on his clean white
close,
Nor r'udder mind bout his muddy nose.
B. A. Wilkinson.
Sleeping- in Water.
SKILLFUL WORK BY THE DIVE23
UNDER THE GLOOMY TIDE.
FAR
"Did I ever see a dead man sitting in
a chair in a stateroom and bending
over a book as though he had been
reading when he was drowned ? Nev
er, ior has any other diver."
"Then the tales one hears about such
matters are a little off?"
"They're simply lies. There's more
lying about diving than any other oc
cupation." "Give me a straight storv."
"Well to begin with, I'll dispose of
that yarn about corpses being round
s.tting in chuirs in the staterooms of
sunken steamer. I've been in sunken
steamers that were full of corpses.
There was, for insance, the Hamburg
steamer Cimbria, which went down
In the North Sea some five years ago
with 500 emigrants. I and two other
divers from here, who were sent for to
help' in getting out the cargo, literally
worked among hundreds of corpses.
The ceilinzs were lined with them.
"Th AAilinoR?'
The ceilinesr
" Yes sir.
A diver working a vessel
P.V p ,1 1 ,i
or corpses teel for them alonrr the
fceilings if the wreck is older than
a couple of days. If he goes into her
only a day or two after she went down
he feels along both the floors and ceil
ings. That's, where t he corpses are; not
in chairs.
"Why did they send away over here
ior divers to so down into the Cim
bria?" , .
"Because New York divers are on
top of the bean. The reason is that
tnost of their work is doneTin the dark;
for it pitch dark under the waters
around New York. I sunnose it's on
accout of the sewerage. A diver from
other waters can't work in those around
New York. But a New York diver
can work in the clear waters elsewhere
twice as f.ist as the local divers because
his sense of touch sense of touch under
water -is so finely developed. We
New York divers can tell various met
els, if they are under water, apart by
sense of touch; but if they are not
under water we cannot teel any differ
ence between them. Here for instance
are a piece of copper and a peice of
brass. Put litem on the table and
blindfold me ftdd I can't tell which is
which. Chuck 'em in the basin and
pour water over them, and I can tell
the moment I touch the pieces which
is the copper and which is the brass.
You see we New York divers have to
ply all kinds of trades in the dark."
"Then you have to be pretty handy ?"
"Yes, sir. If a green hand came to
me and wanted to learn the professoin
of diviner, the first thins: I'd advise
him wo'ild e to go to sea till he'd
learned the ins and outs of all kinds of
vessels and how to handle and store car
go. Then he'spretty competent to work
wrecks. Next I'd tell him to learn all
kinds of trades. For we don't consider
working wrecks a very fine line of the
profession. The real fine work is when
the diver has to ply some trade, such as
carpentering or pipe-laying, under
water. r or instance, a very fine job
was the laying of the line of pipe
for the Health Department from Port
Morris to North Brother Island. The
diver had to keep the line straight, un
pick tiie pipe, put it together, and, in
tact, do in the dark the work of a skill
ful pipe-layer."
"Do you dive much for treasure?"
"There is not much of that going on
now. The biggest job of that kind
was the Hussar. The work on that
wreck had" to bo d jne many feet under
ttiM led of the river."
"Bight where she, went dqwn?"
"Right where she went down over a
hundred years ago. A wreck remains
on the same spot where first she reach
es bottom. As years roll on she works
down into the be.l of the river. And
so, where the Hussar sank so long ago,
lies her hulk. The diver got out the
stem post but didn't find any treasure.
I don't believe that any treasure will
be found on the site of the wreck. I
have heard that official documents iu
England show thsit after the Hussar
struck the treasure was loaded into her
barge which ttpset from the shifting of
ome boxs ofjthe coin opposite a red
house on Randall's Island. Some peop e
have a crazy notion that Captain Kid's
vessel, with a vast deal of treasure, went
down off Peekskill, and not kng ago a
syndicate employed a diver for two
summers. He didn't find a trace of
wreck. Some? divers who haven't been
long enough in the profession to be
o.isia. tly employed, and have a go u
eal of time on their hands, work ok,
wrecks. For instance, the Commodore,
off Stonington; the Isaac Newton off
Fort. Lee, and the Thomas Morgan, off
Yonkers; but there isn't a fair day's
wages in such jobs. Sometimes, how
ever, we hear of old wrecks that haven't
been worked yet, and they are worth
ooking after. Two years ago one of
us who were building the foundation
for the pier of a bridge at Say brook
heard that a schooner loaded with cop
per and coal had gone down there some
thirty-five years ago. li !!.'
the wreck and got out the cargo,
which w;is still in prime condition.
But there are as many lies about old
wrecks as there are about the corpses.
Whenever a saijor is thirsty, but hasn't
any money he concocts a lie about a
wreck and comes to us with it. He
almost aiwaysfgoes away as thirsty a?
he came."
"What does a diver's outfit consist
of."
"A boat a pump, ho -e line and dress.
The dress consists of a layer of duck
and rubber. The shoes weigh twentv
unds each. On his chest and back
e carries forty-pound weights. The
helmet, when it has been placed over
the diver's head is screwed into a cop
per collar that is attached to his dress.
A weighted line is sunk to the spot
he is to reach, and down that line he
goes with the life line around his waist
and the hose, through which the air
is pumped, attached to his helmet.
Those who handle the .ire and the
hose must regulate t lese a. he moves
a -a nt below."
What is a divers working day and hii
wrgesf"
"Four hours and $0. Jf he furnish
es his-own aparatns his wages are high
er to $50 a day. For getting n
hawser ont of th? steamer's screw I'd
charge $50 if I furnish my own appa
ratus." "I suppose part of the charge is for
the risks you run?"
"Yes a diver is exposed to a grent
mfllir firm crura fino nt fViom mnll Iva
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surprised to learn, is falling nsWn
! On n hot day the contrast betwen the
t. . i .....
beat above and the dihciotis
coolness
below is apt to make a diver sleepy.
1 once slept an hour and a half at the
bottom of a wreck near Kingston,
where I was laying pipe. Suppose
that had happened in the channel near
Governor's island where the tide runs
so swift that a diver can work only one
hour of slack water. If I'd slept over
that one hour the deadly rush of tide
would have snapped the life line and
hose. Then in working wrecks there
-it the danger of gettmi iammed in
freight or of getting the iiose or line
! t tnu;l d. When the hose snaps the
frightful pressure kills the diver. lie
is sicken ly distorted by it."
"Are there anv expert divers in New
York?"
"Look!" He held out a shield-shaped
badge on which was engraved, "New
York Divers' License, F. C. No. 1."
"What does F. C. stand for?"
"First class. There are only about
a doz n of those badges ont, I'm No.
1 Robert S. Russell, or Funeral Bob.
as they call me. Among others are
William Carl or Buffalo Bill; Jim
Hicks, Jack bundv, Jack Chittenden,
Ed McDonald, Frank Paul, Bill Smith
and Dan Joslin."
Funeral Bob once walked
against
time and made eight miles in
eight
hours and thirty seven minutes.
Gustav Koble in Pittsburg Dispatch.
Why Mark Twain Left the Army.
At a recent banquet of Union Vete
rans in Baltimore, the American hu
morist, Mark Twain, related his experi
ence as follows:
When your secretary invited me to
this reunion of the Union Veterans of
Maryland ha requested me to come
prepared to clear up a matter which he
said had long been a subject of dispute
and bad blood in war circles in this
country to-wit, the true dimensions of
my military services in the Civil War,
and the effect they had upon the gen
eral result. I recognized the impor
tance of this thing to history, and I
have come prepared. Here are the de
tails. - I was in the Civil War just two
weeks. In that brief time I rose from
private to second Lieutenant. The
monumental feature of my campaign
was the one battle which my command
fought it was in the summer of '61.
It I do say it, it was the Moodiest bat
tle ever fought in human history ; there
is nothing approaching it for destruc
tion of human life in the field, if you
take into consideration the forces en
gaged and the proportion of death to
survival. And yet you do not; even
know the name of that battle. Neither
do I. It had a name but I have for
gotten it. It is no use to keep private
information which you can't show off.
In our battle there was just fifteen men
engaged on our side all brigadier-generals
but me, and I was second lieuten
ant. On the other side there was one
man. He was a stranger. We killed
him. It was night and we thought he
was an army of observation ; he looked
like an army of observation in fact,
he looked bigger than an army of ob
servation would in the day time; and
some of us believed he was trying to
surround us, and some he was going to
turn our position, and we shot him.
Poor fellow he probably wasn't an
army of observation, after all, but that
vasn't our fpult; as I say, he had all
the looks of it in that dim light. It
was a sorrowful circumstance, but he
took the chances of war, and he drew
the wrong card; he overestimated his
fighting strength, and he suffered the
likely result; but he fell as the brave
should fall with his face to the front
and feet to the field so we buried him
with the honors of war, and took his
things.
So began and ended the only battle
in the history of the world where the
opposing force w;is utterly extermina
ted, swept from the face of the earth
to the last man. And yet, you don't
know the name of that battle; you"
don't even know the name of that man.
Now, then, for the argument. Sup
pose I had continued the war, and gone
on as I began, and exterminated the
opposing force every time every two
weeks where would your war have
been? Why, you see yourself, the
conflict would have been too one-sided.
There was but one honorable course for
me to pursue, and I pursued it. I
withdrew to private life, and gave the
Unk:- cause a chance.
There, now, you have the whole
thing in a nutshell; it was not my
presence iu the Civil War that deter
mined that tremendous contest it was
my retirement from it that brought the
crash. I left the Confederate side too
weak.
It is an accepted superstition with
the girls of Geneseo, 111., that if a girl
who walks nine miles on the railroad
track without falling off, the next man
she sneaks to will be her future hus
band. Real smart girls take the fellow
along and halloo to nim as soon as the
ordeal is past.
Agricultural Fact.
If young horses suffer from cramps, .
give laxative food, such as bran mashes,
In France vicious horses are subdued
by eiectricitv while beint? shod.
"''ruw.
t- , ,
m ist profitable for the farmer.
The best breed is good care, good
water, good feed, aud good barn.
Resolve that you will henceforth grow
small fruits for family use.
As a rule, the best quality and the after giving forth four or five reports
be3t yield go hand in hand. j like that of a small revolver. A little
Impure air in the hennery causes fi.,ie bal1 s.howed itself bont the tele
many of the finest fowls to sicken and Ph?n.e m "?e office of the dally Spraif.
die. ; ad jumped upon a steel composing
x- c - , . 8tickinthe hands of a -compositor,
New vegetables, fruits, and grains hurling it high over the type case at
are generally overrated by their intro- which he was at work. Another bolt
ducers- ! ran into the Western Union Telegraph j
Let the bovs and girls have plots of Company on Cookman avenue, and
their own to cultivate.
- T
It is better to cultivate a few acres
XI 1.1 ll X- - t
tnuruugmy vnan 10 skiui over many.
toarse-wooled sheep are more liable
to be infested with ticks than merinoes.
Never "forget to remember" to salt I
and water vonr stock regolarly.
The best floor for a poultry house is
the dry earth, kept dry and clean.
In France over 200,000 people are
engaged in raising beets for sugar.
The red onion is said to hold its flavor
longer than any other variety.
To raise turkeys feed as for chickens
and keep from tne wet when young.
Queen bees should always be raised
from the very best stock in the apiary.
Unleached wood ashes added to the
radish bed will keepit free from worms.
There are good and rich milkers in
all breeds of cows.
Glycerine and sulphur, mixed, are
good for gapes in young chickens.
Better uproot old, played-out fruit
gardens. The lands is wasted.
Raise some variety of popcorn with
very small kernels for the young
chicks.
Don't grow fruit or vegetables too
thick; thinning ont improves size and
quality.
To destroy briars, elders, etc., cut
them down now, and as often as they
reappear.
Clover pastures increases the milk
yield of cows, and makes vellow but
ter.
Begin bee-keeping with one or two
colonies, and study the subject as you
enlarge and extend the business.
Better late than never. Clean out
the cellar and clear up the yard, if
these matters are not already attended
to.
Sluggish horses are generally made
so by the way they are handled. A
lazy man is pretty sure to have lazy
horses.
liffli si i m i
i ne gam on a noc-K or sheep raav
be called a weather profit," says one
"Good for ewe," was tne lamb-like re-
spone.
A new, cheap, and effective insect
killer is composed of one part muriate
of potash in one thousand parts of
water.
mt 1 1 " 1 a
me man wno warms nimseii up
every morning grooming his horses
will be well remunerated for his trou
ble.
You cannot grow plants with "wet
feet." Farmers had therefore better
have
tiles in the ground than on their
heads.
m a a
ihere is no one tmng mat is so
much required nowadays on the aver
age farm, as to thoroughly systematize
labor.
You will be likely to save trouble by
speaking kindly to your horses every
time you approach them in the stable
or elsewhere.
The more an acre will produce the
larger the profit, and the better you
cultivate that acre the more it will pro
duce.
Dandelions for ''greens" are raised
by the arce around Boston, holding
the first rank on the list of spring
..........
Most farmers can keep a few hives
of bees to advantage. Honey, like
fruit, should be often found on the
farmer's table.
A Kansas "Boom."
A traveler in Kansas while crossing
a prairie the other day came upon a
party of men who aeemed to be
preparing, the land for agricultural pur-
Doses.
"My friend." said the traveler, ad
dressing one of the men, "you are lay
ing off your orn rows quite a distance
apart."
"Corn rows?" the man gasped.
"Ye, those rows over there."
"My stars, stranger !" exclaimed the
Kansas man. "is it possible you ain't
hearn of it?"
"Heard of what?"
"Of the boom. Man alive, them
ain't corn rows over thar; they air
streets, an' this here is a city. You air
now on the comer of Commercial and
Emporium streets, au' not in the check
of a corn row, at you mout suppose."
Xeiv Yoi h Tribune.
Lightning Freaks.
During a severe thunder storm at As-
bury Park, N. J., a few nights ago. the
hghtning danced all about town on the
telegraph and telephone wires. Little
in' ir l , T, :
balls of fire, which changed with crefit
shapes.
i i i ii i -
t" iTi:: TV ; -t
ShoneiHtheCoiLL Hon a few
minutes before mtfmcrht Tt.nntf.wl
and spit like a cat. finallv disatmcrmntr
11 111 Mi
pairiy roeiieu some oi the heavy brass
work of the switch board. The light
ning sfruck a cottage on Bangs avenue,
in West Park, occupied by
Benjam
Ludlow and his family
lhe bolt
struck the chimney and
1 i J-J -C
oounucu ou
T" tn.c to0'' thc we"n.CT
.SfclgS WS?
ii .,
oiui.iui, uus.1 it irvaius i i:c timing-
wrecking
room. The dining-room chairs and
table were overturned and the w indow
curtains were torn into ribbons. Two
pretty canary birds, whose cages hung
from the window casings, were un
harmed, and sang merrily" this morn-
uiu. mini tiunua ui ucuuic viMiru u c
house. Mr. Ludlow and his wife
two little daughters occupied the bed-
ok,,. ik a;; . tu.. !
i , , . ., , ,i
i vuin uj'ju, vise Minnie iuwwi. i in i :
wereawakened by a clap of thunder, I 1 "LrJ' w " Sf fftiT? i t
but did not know-that the house had "Pk" .that arnett off b.lanco of
been struck until Mrs Ludlow smelled IJuT1
fire and her husband went down stairs ! m.ar" "n' " to f
At a .ii ,i j i i high avenue. On the 9th of hist Jan
and found great holes in the side of his ,? u-iji- A. . I
nnrv n rt n ohi rt ivinn 111 f bi nnmh.
house. Parts of the weather boards
, v 11 i
were seperated into slivers, which lust
held together so that the boards nv ,
sembled thick straw floor matting.
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At Patterson, N. J., an inky cloud
had passed over the city quietly and
was some distance to the east, when,
from an almost cloudless portion of the
sky there came a flash that made peo-
pie s nearts stop, inenasn was in a
zig-zag course till it neared the ground
in the vicinity of Main street bridge,
where it broke into two forks, and
struck on both sides of the river. It
struck McLeans mosquito netting fac
tory on the northern side of thc river,
where it temporarily stunned two fe
male operatives and rendered a score hys
terical with fright. The building was
set on fire, but the flames were extin
guished before any damage had been
done. On the southern side of the riv
er it struck a brick building occupied
by a number of stores and shops. The
electricity came down the chimney in
the kitchen of Louis Brown, a barber,
and Mrs. Brown was knocked senseless.
She revived, but for two or three hours
it was necessary to administer stimu
lants to quiet her shattered nerves. At
least fifty persons in the immediate vi
cinity of the stroke were stunned. Three
men, sitting on boxes in front of a gro
cery store on the corner of Main and
River streets went over backward to
gether. In one of the livery stables on
the other side of the street all the hors
es went down on their knees.
In an adjoining black-smith shop the
fire ilew over iron in the most fantastic
manner. Nearly everybody living
within five hundred yards of the place
where the bolt descended felt as if they
were full of pins and needles, and each
one is willing to swear that the light
ning struck immediately in front of
him. For a little while there was a
good deal of excitement and alarm.
Simultaneous with the lightning there
was one deafening crack of thunder.
In the central telephone office even
one of the six hundred shut-offs were
dropped, showing that currents had
filled all the wires entering the office.
All the telephone operators wore af
fected, some of them almost knockel
"ff their stools.
MARK.
ECZEMA ERADICATED.
GrtlemJ K U de ron t- aay that 1 1 fabric I am aalrrtr veil of eczema after havtj
taken Swlfl'a Specific. I Ure Un troubled with it very little hi my face since mat apriair.
At the bacianlnf of coM weattMT law tall i: made a alight appearance, bat wejtf avn.r and
ras neverretorned. 8. 8. S. no donbt broke it up; at least It pot my tystcnx.in jrood conditio -i
end I cot well It also benefited my wife greatly in caac of aick headache, and made u perfect
care f a breaking out on my liale thrc ten old daughter laat rummer.
WatkiMriUcTba,, Feb. 13. 1836. Kirr. JAMKa V. II. UOKELJ.
Treatise oc Blooa and Skfcj DUeaae mailed free
Tb Swift Jnorw On , Ptsvar S, Atlanta, Oa.
Aug. 28, 1SSG ly
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I feet and fall Manly Stmucth and Viaoroua Eoalth.
ralrxn imra r.i tfltho fail enjoyment of
. Totttoaawboanffar fromtharaanr curcweaipnaap
r-cafct about bylndiacTOtion. Exiorarw,OTer-iiniin
t h a many cbrcwe d
rmr name with etavwmrfit of roar troahla. end sec-ire
TBlAliPACK AOl FBKB.W a ) Unst'd rampb! An.
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ROPTURSO FCRSOffS con hara Ff.'EB
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Several Persons Foisoned in Philadel
phia Rascally Confectioner?.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says:
At meeting of the Board of Health a
communication was received from
communication was received from
n i t L .
College, and Heury Leffman. port pay-
sioan, in which thev sav: "W w
SfiS!f"JlS!Wl
material
for confectionary, pastry and other ar
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ticles of food. Among other instances
we may mention that a sample of nu
dles, purchsised in the northeastern aec
tion of the city, was found to be quite
seriously contaminated with lead. We
suggest, therefore that the matter be
acted on officially by the board." The
matter was referred to the Sanitary
Committee.
This commnnication of Dra. Stewart
ar.d Leffman was the outcome of their
investigation into the mysterious aick
ness and deaths in two families, living
in the northeastern uart of Lhi ritr
iu lm:.: i Lu.f l
. A t i n
mum .ii.miu livui nit- rniil IS inn
M. Palmer, a baker, doing business it
Otter and pbia streets" From Mar,
icbi i T.. i ron i t k .
iwt, iu uuiiiiiii v, iooo, nc iosc six
members of his family, including his
wife and five children. Since then one
more child has died, makinz seven
deaths in all. In all the eases the svmn-
terns were identical, and it was rumored
at one time that the deaths were due to
aii uue win
ii, - j , j 1 i
J.ha
L3 "JT 1 ' ?? T ?Til '
however, when, m January last. Palmer
i -r L i , ,v
V 7 M"T
'iuii utKi i ratmers new no me was ai-
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"H w 'l " w.Wreu " .w. "
nnmir ha -.lnl.H riiAil
oning. 1 he child died, and between
then and March three more deaths fol-
owed in the same family. An investi
gation was made as to the source of
supply for the table. Palmer's bakery
was thoroughly searched, and a pitcher
of chrome yellow, or chromafe of lead,
was found in the cellar. The stuff wa
used to give a yellow color to pas-
try, and in some of the buns analyzed
two grains of lead were found. It now
transpires that both families in which
the deaths occurred used the bun; ,
cakes, etc., in which chrome yellow wa
iife.i, and were unconscious of the
source of their illness.
Eight Honrs a ray.
In his recent very sensible address to
workingmen in Boston, Edward Atkin
son said, respecting the proposed eight
hour system: "If you cut down the
work in factories, in workshops, and
in building trades to eight hours, you
cut down the product. Then there will
be fewer goods, fewer stores, fewer tools
fewer houses and that ineanS a higher
price and higher rent." This is the
doctrine which has been steadfastly
preached in our columns for years past.
The proposition to try to make men
richer by reducing the hours of labor,
and so reducing the amount of wealth
created, is as stupid as would be a scheme
for enlargening a water power by cutr
ting down the mill dam. .Textile
Becurd.
No, the Old North State has made
its history, and it is a history we should
be proud to cherish. Its sons do not
sleep in forgotten graves, nor was their
woi k the w ork of pigmies. Let th
"New South" do as well. It can and
it ought, but it has not yet done it.
There is work still before us. For
boast as we may, the "New South" w
still in many respects behind the Old.
We have the example and can shun the
faults. The difficulties that confronted
the oue are removed from the other.
The advantage is ours and the future
i n v iti n g. A sheboi o Cou rict.
WSmm j.et' knw. ittMalMM i.i ! ajB
tr.thcnt op1t. Th.euun I
waseuannnatinc ewtoouM of life aiegiiwri back, toe aatkU
becoess ductal and rapidly icaiia both aueafth jaatSiaB
TBEATliafT.-j ttestfa, g . two WeiXL Ttej, U
HARRIS REMEDY CO., Mrc Curvam,
Trial c? cur App'lancj.
lot ii.; ..&g
TaJr fortiirw trubiM,nad ail Ouaeka.
McuttEI; tnoacxad. duct oU ySuHn
Ly with auaauos to Manna), cr can Sn
rorlncranjeaceiaanyiy Fvuudct
rem aeienU&e medical princiofr. by duw.1
application tn th Mt ol discaar fci aptcaf.
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