North Carolina Newspapers

1 . yvAiAM The Carolina Watchman. ' ' ' , . VOL XVIII.-TKIRD SEEIES. SALISBURY H. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1887. HO 45 BY J. J. BRUXER. Tar HaotSiiirrels. A farmer named Corner, of Roane ' tv. u va , nas iwrenwa a -new i ...... h nnnirrIal which lms ni-riir-! ml' T 1 - 1 1 (ij il JjrC.lt SllCUmn. iAf- 1 . Mif-l- UIM 11 gd which borders the woods, and which tlie squirrels have almost devac tateil iluring the past season. Having hit upon a plan, he first watched the animals, and found that when they bad made a raid and retired they retreated to the woods almost invariably along one particular line of fence. Having learned this fact, Corner covered the top rails of that line of fence with tar, putting on a heavy coat. This he did in the evening, and in the morning when he went to the field he saw a long luie of squirrels running along the ' . .1 - ' II. lt.,U .1 1 ..I.... AAMM. tan v i j - i fence towards the woods. They suc ceeded in clearing the fence, but when they struck the woods the leases and sticks stuck to their feet so badly that they do u Id not climb the t.ees nor run very far even on the leaves. The first capture amounted to twenty-seven Kpiirrels, and within a week Corner had killed and captured over one hundiel squirrels by his unique device. When Webster was asked how he had acquired his clear, simple style of speaking, he said. "I have been leaving off words all my life." PURELY VEGETABLE. Jt acts with extraordinary efficacy on lha T4VER, DNEY3f 1 and Bowels. AN EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Bowel Complaints, 1 j-iMa, Sick Headache, Constipation, iUUouttiiess, j Kidney Affections, Jaundice, Mental Depression, lir. Ho Household Should be Without It, snI. By being kept ready for immediate use Will save many an hour of Flittering a:ij many a dollar In time and doctors' bills. THERE IS BUT ONE t SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR S;e that you get the genuine with red " Z" en - nj of Wrapper. Prepared only by J.H.ZEILIN & CO., Sole Propriety., Huiadaiphia, Pa. I KICK, U.OO. IEDMONT WAGON MIDI AT HICKORY, N. C. CAN'T BE BEAT! They stand where they ought to, right square AT THE FRONT ! It Was a Hard Fight But They Have Won It ! Just read what people sav aoout tnem ana jir you want a wagon come quickly and 'buy ;me, either for ea$h or on time. Saj.isbuky. N. C. Sept. 1st, 186. Two years ago I bouiht ftverytighlj hvo horso Piedmont wagon f t lie Agent, .Ino. A. Borden; have tfsel it ncjir'y nil the time iucL have tried it sevurely in hauling saw litgjind other heavy loa'U, and hare not liiid to pay one cent for repairs. I look upon the Piedmont wagon rts the bestThim hie Skein wagon innde in the United States. Tlie timber used in them is most cxcultent ad thoroughly. well seasoned. Trax:n P. Tiiom.yson. , . ' SAlilSBURY. N. G. Aug. 27th, 1880 V'tout two ye.irs njo I bought of" Jno. A Biyden, a one liorac Piedmont wagon which done much service and no pair of it unbroken or given away and consequent lyit has cost mailing for repairs. John D. Hsjcly. ' Samsbuuv. X. . Sept. 3 I, 18Srt. Eighteen months afo I b.Kiuht of .lohn A. Boyden, a 2 inch Thimble Skein Pied- iwont wagon and have used it pretty HMtrb wi-the tunc and it has proved to be a nrt we wagon. NothuVg about it has given y ami tlc'relore; it Jia required no rc- T. A. Waltox. , Salisbprt, N. 4 Sept. 81 M. 1886. , Vs months ago t bought of the Arcnt, in Sdtsbury. a 2 in Thimble Skein Piedmont j?on their lightest oyic-hoitsc wagon I 'e ki'itt. it in almost constant n inn the tone h ue h anted on it at leai ?y loads of wood and that without an ;:irtika-c m repairs. L. R. 1 W vj-To:;, A CAROLINA MYSTERY. .Colonists of Roanoke Island Lost in ' 1W ? j their msokdakth BEEVED to be ' " THE CROAT AN INDIANS OF THE FACTS INA VERY ROMANTIC HIS- Tory condition of the croat a N8 I of the present day. F, A. Old, of Raleigh, in Auburn, New York, Advertiser. " PART 2. Very careful iriquirieswere marie to ascertain the past history of the tribe. The Croatans came to Kobeson countv (then Bladen) between 1715 and 1732. An investigation of land grants in their possession were made. The oldest grant that could be discovered is datedJJ in 1732. and by it King George II granted a large tract to two, chief men of the tribe, named Henry Berry and James Lowrv or Lowrio, who came from "Virginia," as tradition has it, for the Croatans yet speak of eastern North Carolina as "Virginia." There is said to be a grant by George III to John White, but it cannot be found. The name of John White is very sug gestive. Over twenty names f White's lost colonists are today among them. Many inquiries were made as to tri bal conditions. The tradition is cogn ition that the tribe formerly inhabited the country around Pamlico Sound, including portions of what are now Cateret and Hyde counties and all of Tyrrell and Dare. Among the Lowrv family there is a tradition that their "feythers" (fathers) lived on the shores of Lake Matamuskeet. in H yde county, before they came to Robeson county. The best informed men sav that Croa tan was the name of a place, and that the name was later given to the tribe by the English. An intelligent Croa tau clergyman says that the true tribal name is Hatteras (or Hattorask, as the Croatans call it.) Now here is an other link. The Hattorask Indians are the ones who were on Roanoke Island when White's colony landed. No Indians lived habitually on the is land; they only went there from the main land to fish or hunt, or perhaps for greater coolness in summer. Another tradition, well preserved, gives another link to the ehain of evi dence. It is that Lake Mattamuskeet. before alluded to, was a "burnt lake" or "l ike burnt out of the ground. ' And so it was wonderful as it may seem The soil of Hyde is ull petit, and in dry sea wn, ft Occasionally catches onJire. In such a case the very land itself is consumed' and pits or depressions are foraiedj which presently fill with water. I he best evidence is that in a vast fare perhaps centuries ago, Lake Mattamus keet was thus formed. It is thirty miles long, and at no place over eight feet deep, and not a fish of any kind has ever beeu seen in its waters. But yet strange facts were discovered rhe langu ge of the Croatans is pecu liar in tone. Thev use but two sounds of the letter a a broad sound of a as in father and the sound of a as in date. Dare is pronounced Darr. The name of Virginia Dare is familiar to their chroniclers. The Darr family name has disappeared in Robeson county, but is found among a branch of tue tribe iu Lincoln county. One of the Darrs served us a soldier in United States army in the war of 1812. Their language is peculiar m that it is strict ly Anglo-Saxon. It contains many words in common use which have been obsolete for a lour period in most of Enelanid. For instance, 'housen" i the plural of house; ''crone'1 is to push down; for "ask" they say "uks" (Old English); for u father " they say "feythejr." Knowledge is spoken of as "wit." Of family names, over twenty of these hold names of those held by the long lost colonists. James (pronounc ed in the old English way, Jeams.) Lowry is a very common name among them. The name of Locklear is also found, and Cnzzie Locklear is one of the oldest living members. The name Dial was formerly Doyle. The name Goins was once O Gwinn. Priscilla and Rhoda are the mo.-t common names of women, and Henry that oi men. One of the oldest men is Aaron Revels, who is more than 100 years of age. He is an uncle of Senator Revels of Mississippi. The prevalence of the name Lowry has been referred to. According to tra dition a man named Sames Lowry came from "Chespeake" and married in the tribe, and became the progenitor of a large and influential family. That family, at the time the tribe broke up, nioveTawar from the Roanoke section. went to western North Carolina, per haps to Buncombe. Lowry s descend ants, they say were "leaders among men." Governor James Lowry Swain, who after serving, as chief magistrate of orth Carolina wis for over a quar ter of a century president of the State University, was a descendant, as wjis Lieutenant Governor James Lowry Robinson, of this Stale? They have always, their traditions say, been warm friends of the whi e people. It is said that long ago they fought under Bonnel (Barnwell) in the wars against the Indian 'tribes. Va y of them were in the continental . . ... , irmy of the revolution, anu a company was seat to fight the BrllLh in war of n .!l!?"kableM,tho8 u ime s uimmwo in many cases. Some of the Croatans were slave own- mpn t f or kr'iv Jlnj eureruun- men t Tor travelers. i-v. n ll J L. I A t . Their cleanliness is characteristic. Physicians who practice among them spek of this and say they never hesi- !ate ll5);5f s5eePinK -r "ng m the Bouse or a uroatan. They are a hos pitable people also, and very ob iging. f hey are proud of their race and have f ir stronger race prejudices than either whites or negroes. They are the beat tiA k u of friends, but the worst of enemies. Indian characteristics are marked. Their fondness for cloth of a red color sues uic ummtru. i is remarkable, and in this most of their women are dressed. They march in "Indian Ale" in their travels. They are reticent unless fone gains their confidences They are of all clo from pure white to black. Munv of them cin-witr. difficulty bedistinish-Mniy i t J ed from white people. I heir women are in many cases I A ? J I ij. . I r lumptuous in some cases as those of the far-famed Hawaiian maidens. One fl i 1 i 1 T 1 T' 111 ll'II 1 HI! - I-v a-aBAnn .... ... or ineir most Deautirm women was Rhod'a Lowrv, who was sometimes 1 . 1 1 i A 1 spoken of as "Queen Rhoda." Their movements are grace itself, and the dress is worn in a most beautiful wav. though simple in texture and design. ine vroaians were recognized as white people, and attended the same schools with pupils. But in 1833 an other curious thing in their eventful history occurred. Thev were deprived of the rifht to vote, and classed "free persons of color" under an amendment to the State Constitution, adopted that year, which prohibited that class from voting or attending school. I he Croa tans allege that they were deprived ol voting to effect a change in the politics of their country. They were not al lowed to attend school from 1835 to 1808. Since the latter date some of the poorer class attended the public colored schools. But that is at an end. They are now a race apart, fully rec ognized and cared for educationally. Some seventeen years ago a member of the tribe, Henry Berry Lowry, di graceu it oy becoming tne cniet or a b and of outlaws, which for months terrorized that section and caused a national sensation. Fimdlv they were killed and the blot was wiped out. . - S-ich is the history of the Croatrns from 1587 to 1887. . They were dwel lers in Tyrrell. Dare, etc., who happen ed to be on iv.raiioke island. lhey induced White's colonists to go to the mainland with them. Thev inter-mar ried and out of regard for the white i i.i race, tne latter s family names were chosen. After years of life in East ern Carolina the tribe, after the man ner of others, moved to other places and chose Robeson as its main abiding place A Startling Frediction. two hundred years ago in Iduna there was just such a craze about natural gas as we have in this countrv Uo-day, says the Cincinnati Commercial. Gas wells were sunk with as much vim and viiior as the Celestials were capa- ble of. but. owing to a iras exDlosiou that killed several millions of people and tore up and destroyed a large (lis- trict of countrv, leaving a large inland sea known on the maps as Lake Foo unansr. tne nanus oi any more snis wens was then and there prohibited by law It seems, according to the Chinese his tory, that many targe and heavy pres- sure gas wells were struck, and in some districts wells were sunk quite near to f l It VVIItl ' 1 ." 11-11 VVI ftftJ W as struck, as is done in this country. It is stated that one well with its un usual pressure, by induction or back fraught, pulled down into the earth the burning gaspt a smaller well, result- ug in a dreadful explosion of a large district, destroying the inhabitants tlllMWlf Lake Foo Chang rests on this dicfriff TIip si.iTnp e:itfistronhe is ini- niinent in this countrv unless the laws restrict further develooments in bor- iiig so many wells. Should a similar explosion oeenr there will be such an nilienvel as will dwarf the most terri- U earthquakes ever known. The enmitrv Alontr the oils belt from Tole- do through Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky iv ha I-. on fn th dnth of to f.otiu leer, and napped over like a ...... i.i i it x r i ' i ' pancake, leaving a chasm through which the waters of Lake Erie will come howling down, filling the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, and blotting them out forever Hastily-Written Productions. Ben Perley Poore wrote his life lira nt in two months tz.ouu words a Ldav. ) Victor Hugo wrote a novel in three week on a wager. 1r. Johnson . ' . " .... wrote "Rasselas" in the nights of the week in order to pay for his mother's funeral expenses. Longfellow wrote his poem "f he Wreck of the Hesperus" between supper and bedtime. "Sheri dan's Ride'' was dashed off by Bucha nan Read' one morning in less time than it took Sheridan to do it. Sir Walter Scott wrote his $42,000 novel "Woodsti ck" in three months. Bos ton Post. Wlin r man dies ui the Soc'etv Is la ids thev p ini bis body; in thiscoun- try thev paint his ehr.meter. 1 The Editor Wat Dying. A PUOSE-rOEM THAT W AS SOT WBITTEX BY MBS. U KHANS. The owner of a paper lay dying in his lair, and the dew of death had gathered on his brow so calm and fair; but a printer knelt beside him, as his life blood ebbed away, and asked the dying writer if he had a word to sav. Th e donmpd man murmured nnft.1v a he grabbed the printer's hat: 4 Well, -at j last the struggle's over, and never and a VTV ? f T- 11 token to that city man of mine, that . . . -lu-i.- l u 'j I 1 i.i all his worn out chestnuts he had bet- L i T ?T2 There's his joke about the weath?r which he's used these many years, and the gag about re,lAW Th 32 w y MSFMLS '! T .7 nnVnLe peoV g mm naner s credit, nnd to throw no shirs on mine, 1 would ask him as a favor, just to put such gags in brine. And the lie fnd of felling of the streetcars dhf tracks, and the ancient joke about the man who steps upon some tacks; and the one about some dandv who will never pav for clothes, and the one on women cleaning house its weary heaven knows! O, I know I II dumber happy in my crave beneath the vine, if the man who does the city work will put these jokes in brine. Tell the man who tends to business, not to weep when I am dead, but to buy himself a club and hit the first man on the head who comes in with strings of items, and requests them printed free, when the regular rates ar cheaper than they really ought to be. rell the foreman when he makes up, not tb turn a rule for me, but sim ply print an item, saying that my soul is free; for I want no eulogistic taffy 'Vu I I J a 7VT i I ?f that k,,d mL 1 s hoary chestnuts should be pickled well in brine. Have that irav and fresh reporter I engaged the other day, put a stop to saving 'Selah,' also 'We have come to stay ; and if he should sav. 'Ye local,' vou must trample in his gore, for you know I'd ne'er allow it in the happy days of yore. And the man who comes to tell you how to run the paper well, should be greeted as he enters. with a pewter chestnut bell; and you'll print the paper promptly, be the weath- er tun oi storms, and the foreman must be careful when he's making up the forms, that the beauty of the paper may through all ages shine, and not be like its neighbors only fit to nut in brine. Ihe dving writer faltered, as m these simple words he spoke, and the printer knew directly that he was about to croak, so he propt hiin up as gently as a mother would her child. but the writer's soul had wondered to the land of the undetiled. And the printer sobbed a little, as he gave one ast caress, and he muttered: "1 must leave him, for its time to go to press: very few could beat his writings, for his writings were divine, and we never had to place them in a bucketful of brine." Atchison Globe. Ives' Career. N. Y. Sun. The notion has prevailed to some ex- ten that matters would be fixed up so that Ives conld resume business. That is impossible. It is the duty of the as signee to covert the securities and prop- erty of Ives into money and distribute it among his creditors and to wind up his affairs. If it were a receivership it would be different. Ives" greatness has been a dream to him. fie began with a dollar n He began with a dollar a few years ago and amassed milious on paper He did not realize the great interests and great wealth that had been in his -control. H s vanity was immensely tickled by the importance he fancied his hand to cling to. He pulls stroke was attached fo him, and that was a oar to any boat he enters on the river frrrl d.-a! m r tn him t.liRO the mil or- tance it self. Ives beginning in the world was His father was a rev- humble enough euue agent with a small mortgaged farm at Litchfield, Conn He had only a common school education, but he was smart in more ways than one, and tin principled enough to take advantage of good opportunities when they ottered He could always tell a plausable story which enabled him to get along when otherwise have b en hard for him. A great deal of surprise has been express- in that monev-ienciers anu oiners oe lieved what Ives told them. Thev had no reason to believe anything else, as his stories were apparently straightfor ward. His little Mutual Union corner two years ago last May gave him his first start. He had only a few hundred dol lars at the time, wfiich he had saved up nr by working as a clerk and buying and U1 ',1. . i -i. j' -1.1 selling outside sec urines ior omens on commission. His Hamilton and Dayton deal was carried through on cheek. He made big desperate moves on chance and was successful until he tried to get hold of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., when he failed. Ives' career has been brief, but very remarkable. He tried to make it a du plicate of Jay Gould's and eame very near succeeding. The stories that have ! been printed about his being a married man and paying $o,UUU lor a yacht on which to spend the honeymoou are un- trn. We. commonly shiver mo ?throi gh y njrv t!i-n malice. The Bane of Engineers. "Moonlight nights they are the bane of engineers, ' remarked a head official of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road to a Cincinnati Commercial Gu zett reporter. He is a gentleman who knows every branch of railroading. I would have thought that the tra'n men would be glad to have moon light nights," interjoscd the writer. "No, sir; all ennn.ers dread moon- nights; they try the nerves of the engineers to the utmost. Engineers like to run on dark nights. On a moonlight night the trouble with them is no trouble at all shadows. An en gineer, looking out from his engine. sees before him all manner of shadows He is sure that tha shadow across the track is a man, or a rock, or some kind of a obstruction. He doesn't know, and he is kept in a state of nervous ex citement all rhe time. Going around curves, along hillsides, many curious shadows are outlined oh the track, and very often an engineer is soworked up over a night's ride that he is scarcely able to jierfornvhis duties. Some years ago, when I was going over the main stem of the Baltimore and Ohio one night, there was a freight wreck ahead of us. They were running freight in convoys then, or as we call them, in sections. Our train was stopped and 1 went forward to see what was the dam age. Lying in a cut was about the worst wreck I have ever seen. It was a moonlight night and when I got forward I saw the engineer. He was shaking all over with excitement. He was one of the oldest and best engineers on the road nnd I w;is sur prised to see him so nervous, as he es caped unhurt. "What is the trouble Tom?" I asked him. I could see nothing wrong. " 'It wjis a rock,' replied Tom. 'I was coming around the curve when I saw it. It was a big one big enough to smash a whole train. I reversed the engine to avoid the smash up, and the cars coming down the grade just piled up in the shape you see them.' "I looked around but could see no rock any where The wreck was clear ed away that night and there wasn't a sign of an obstruction near the loco motive. We all were curious to find out what had caused the trouble. The next night a railroad man went to the cut, and there in the moonlight he saw a perfect image of a big rock lying across the track. He looked up on the hillside and there was a big rock throw ing its shadow down on the track that cost the company thousands of dollars No sir; if an engineer wants things to suit him, he don't want moonlight by which to run his train." A Manly Mar. M. K. D., in New York Ledger. Whatever else a man may be I can not admire him if he is not purely and perfectly manly and bv that I do not mean big antL brawny and readv with nsts. l nave heard that there are prize lighters who have been so unmanly as to strike a woman A manly man is never half so ready to knock someone down as he is to help some one up. Early in life he is up and it work of some sort, according to the position in which he finds himself placed bv Providence. He does not want to be dragged and pushed into his groove; he finds it. He is not the sort of person to wait for old aunts and uncles to leave him something, nordoes he think much of his ancestors. Like Napoleon, "he is an ancestor of him self." And one trait is jieculiar to him : If you need him, there he is. That is one attribute of manliness; he never fails you in time of need. He goes before you through the mud and givts you his steady footprints to tread in. fie ciimos tne steep patn ana gives you i 1 I 1 1 I J ll I , Of life I have seen geniuses who were n t m mly who fretted, fumed and fid geted and talked bitterly of the world and their wrongs, and were too selfish to care for any oue else. I have seen men six feet tail who make their wives miserable, after vowing to love and pro tect them, and who really liked to box their children's ears and send them to bed without their snpp r. I have seen your handsome men, with what is called a fine appearance, who were gossips of the meanest sort who would kiss and tell, and who had no friendship in ' picnics, and even at dances, and has to their souls. And I have see men with- j listen, if not to their uncouth language, out special talent not large, not hand- at le;ist to their irritating drawl and some who were so manly that it was! their wild Western comments upon good to look at them. c isrent events. The presence of these Such men are good sous and go d ! men would not be tolerated in the brothers, g :xl husbands and good f i- ; s dons of New York or Boston, yet in thers, assuredly good friends; for, if a England these adventurers sfrer wel man is manly, all other things follow. 1 corned with open arms, flattered as True manliness is one of the effects of though thev were Bnvard orCrichtons, a fine, well b danced mind. A manly man always lias good common sense. He thinks correctly, is not easy to hum bug, keeps his temper, is truthful unJ honest, and never having done any thing to be ashamed of he cringes before no m in. Vet he never assumes anything. There are so many tautts whi h are impossible to the manly man you have almost come to the end of praise. P T. Barnnm h is offered $20,000 tQr tj,e cat tre and deliverr to him, or his agent, of the famous sea-serpent of Lake Uharapiam, aeaa or aiive, provu.- ed that the serpen ii more than fifty ect long. Farm and Garden Botes. Keep machinery and wagons well oiled. The squash is a rank feeder and needs rich soil. Keep down the suckers that start from tree roots. Remember to be careful in the use of Paris green. Copperas solution for grape rot has many advocates. The progressive farmer always keeps ahead of the weeds. The first lesson in stock raising is to learn to love and pet the cattle. An Illinois farmer finds salt an effective protection against the chinch bug. Clay soil gives the most solid and best flavored celery, according to some growers. The man who warms himself up every morning grooming his horses will be well remunerated for his trou ble. Begin bee keeping with one or two colonies and study the subject as "you enlarge and extend the business. When the leaves of the squash vines begin to wilt in the bright July days ook out for the squash-borers. An occasional sprinkling with cop peras solution will help to keep the cow stable free from offensive odors. "The best manure for small fruits, and in fact for everything else, is well-rotted barnyard manure," says M. Milton. Strict cleanliness in the care of stables, pigpens, poultry-honses, etc., is never more imperative than at this season. Manuring grass fields near a dairy sometimes leads to tainting the butter, otherwise sweet and unobjectionable, so as to destroy its use. Better prices are paid for colts and un developed horses now than have ever been known before. A man can do worse with his farm than to raise good colts on it. According To Commissioner Colman, the germs of apple and pear, blight are of extreme -tenuity and are borne from place to place and from tree to tree by the atmosphere. One ounce of copperas dissolved in a pint of water, and applied by a spnnk ler to affected cabbages, killed all tlie cabbage worms. Carbonate of lime drove them away, but did not kill auy of them. Turkeys are great foragers, and will gather their entire food from the fields during the! summer, at the same time destroying myriads of bugs, grasshop pers, worms, etc., that prey upon the crops. The Xatiom.il Lire Stwk Journal says if the colt is haltered and handled a half hour every day till two months old, and haltered and led regu larly at least o .ce a week, bef r being weaned, it will be better for it every wav. A cunning statist estimates that three weeds of moderate size and growth will occupy as much ground, draw as much nutriment from it, take in as much of the life-giving sun light and of the food bearing atmosphere as a good stalk of corn. Mr. T. E. Piatt, of Connecticut, says in New England Homestead : "If a growing potato comes in contact with a particle of potash the skin will be corroded. This will give the tuber a rough skin, which some people call the scab, but it is not, yet it may damage the tubers as much as the true sea'), which is caused by a fungus." BUFFALO BILL S COWBOYS. They are said to be Becoming Bores to Some People in England. Buffalo Bill's cowboys are becoming a bore, as one is liable to meet them in the most unexpected places. A few women in good society seem to have lost their heads over these untutored sous of the prairie, and man' of the men have taken them up as visitors to clubs. Ihe result is that one meets cowboys at garden parties, at Sunday permitted to fiift Avith the prettiest j md m. irried women, and readily excuvd it ercouuce uiev nave 10 oe 1 - . I . .. 1L I. A 1 s 'lit home in trst ate of semi-i n toxica-? ! tioii. Some women, who ought to know better, have even begun to call upon thm iu their tents and to sip af ternoon tea wit t th se rough fellows. LondjH Bat. j Professor Dwight, of Columbia, says of Henry George s theory : "Without private property in land no man tan h ive an assured birthplace or burin 1- place. No tree can be planted that he can can uis own, nor can any uweiiing be erected that will g shelter. mm assured Industrial Items. The Raleigh Street Railroad Co., will extend their road. It is stated that Durham-paid $1, 400,000 in freights during the past year. It is reported that Ohio parties con template building a street railroad at Asheville., Charlotte in December will vote on j the issue of $50,000 in bonds, for city improvements. Rapid work is being done on the Wilmington, Chad bourn k Conwav boro railroad. . . . A manganese and nickel mine in Clay county, js beiug developed"' by J. D. Calpon, of Murphy. It is expected that 60,000 bales of cotton will be compressed at Raleigh duridg the coming season. E. W. Bowditch, of Boston, Mass., is making surveys for water works and a sewerage system at Greensboro. The Genesee gold mine, in Mont goinery county, has yielded $65,000 in three months. In twenty-six days dar ing July $22,587 was the yield. The Agricultural and Mechanical College at Raleigh will erect a- build ing at a cost of $50,000. Charles L. Carson, of Baltimore, Md., is preparing plans. George Richards, Dover, X. J.: R, P. Hoke and J. C. Winder, of Ral eigh, and others have incorporated the Lincoln Lithia Water Co., capital stock $10,000. The dismal Swamp canal is at last to be improved. A responsible party takes the contract, on conditions that certain lands along the canal be given him. 1 hese terms are agreed to. Mr. S. G. Worth is making arrange ments to establish a rock fish hatchery for the government, in the Roanoke river near Weldon. It will be on a large scale. The location is chosen. It is learned that a prominent and public-spirited North Carolinian has voluntarily offered to build a large and handsome hall at Morehead City for the use of the Teachers' Assembly. Secret tary Harrell is now at Morehead. The United States Asphalt Conduit Co., has been incorporated at Greens boio by D. Schenck, Weldon E. Schenck, A. S. Barber, Alfred uliy, F. V. Green, W. A. Caltendar and Charles Matthews. The authorized capital stock is $20,000. The Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad Co. (office, Portsmouth, Va.,) will build a branch railroad from Hender son to Durham if a subscription of $100,000 is yoted. The Richmond k Danville Railroad Co. will build from Oxford to Durham if $50,000 is sub scribed. J. V. Pomery, of Charlotte, and P. R. Harden and J. H. Harden, of Graham, have purchased the Big Falls property, and will build a cotton fac tory at once. 1 hey will put in 2,000 spindles at first and increase to 6,000 spindles later. Will build ten tenement houses this fall. . Arctic Industries. It may not be generally known that important mining operations are carried on within the Arctic Circle. Cryolite is brough from Greenland to Philael phia by the ship load to be used in the making of candies. At Alten, hear the North Cape in Fin mark, extensive cop per mines have been worked for a long time. When it is remembered that most of the work harto be done under ground, and that is what the workmen suffer most from, it becomes apparent at once that mines may be almost aa as profitable in those high latitudes as they would be on our coast. The main thing is to have communication open once a year for bringing supplies and carrying away ores. Aii engineer who visited the mines at Alten a few years ago, to study tha condition in which they were worked, found that the climate interposed no obstacle. The mines, when fairly deep, are warmer in the winter than iu sum mer. In such work as has to be done above ground, tliere is scarcely any interrupt tion. XJuring tne three dark mouths, when the sun does shine, there is no lack at light to the eye accustomed to the conditions. The sky is clear and starry, and the aurora is playing most of the time, whatever light there is, the reflectiou from the snow increases and intensifies. More than a hundred and fifty years ago mining was carried on extensively about the shores of the White Sea by Saxon workmen. Silver, copper, and were produced in quantities. Now that the whale fishery has de clined, mining enterpriser seems most likely of anything to promote explora tion and settlement within the Arctic i Circle. Youth's Companion. What a Dunce? I suffered with fever, hot bead and fool w-eatn, With stomach disordered was sick unto death. I bore it a week surely I was a dunce Then I took a few " Pullets" they cured me at ouce. What a dunce, indeed, to neglect sucl) a reiredy and suffer a week, when quick re'icf could have been found in Or, Fierce' J Pleasant Purgative FeHtJs. m 1 I -J ' 9 -I m '-. .