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SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 18!
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Copies of the law for the relief of cer
tain suhiie'rs, etc., with Rules and Regu
jalions adopted hy the State Board of
Pensions, and blaiik forms on which to
toake application, have been received hy
for the use of such soldiers and wKd
JJJ of soldiers who lost their livesduring
the late war between the State
Such soldiers and widows ofWdiers as
a,,e entitled to pensions undeisaid hfw
ar hereby notified that their application
wust be liletl with the Couuty Corntnis
8ione, on or before the first Monday of
Jly in each year.
1'th March, 18iX.
HORATIO N. WOODSON,
-Register yt Deeds.
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OiNEBAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
Clerk Superior Court, J M Horah
Sheisff, C C Krider.
Register of DeedSt H N Woodson
Treasurer) J Snm'l MeCubbiue,
Surveyor, B C Arey.
Coroner, D A Atwell.
Commissioners, T J Sumner chairman,
W L Kluttz, C F Baker, Dr L W Cole
man, Cornelius Kcstler.
Sup't Public Schools, T C Linn.
Sup't of Health, Dr J J Summerell.
Uverseer of Poor, A M Browu.
TOWN.
Mayor, Chas D Crawford.
Clerk, D R Julian.'
Treasurer, I H Foust.
Police, R W Price, chief. J F Pace. C
W Pool, R M Barringer, Benj Gaoblel
commissioners JNorth ward. J A Ren-
dleman, D M Miller; South ward, D R
Julian, J A Barrett; East ward, J B Gor-
uon, 1 A Ueughenour; West ward, R J
Holmes, J W Rumple.
CHURCHES.
Methodist Services every Sunday at
11 a m and 6 p m. Prayer meeting
Itjvery Wednesday at 6j p m. Rev T W
Guthrie, pastor,
Sunday school every Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock. J W Mauney, sup't.
Presbyterian Services every Sunday
at 11 a nrand 8:30 p m. Prayer meeting
every Wednesday at 8:30 p m. Rev J
Rumple, D D, pastor.
Sunday school evey Sunday afternoon
at4 p m. J Rumple,sup't.
Lutheran Services every Sunday at 11
a m and 7 p m. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday at 7 p m. Rev Chas B King,
pastor.
Sunday school every Sunday afternoon
at, 3 p m. R G Kizer, sup't.
Episcopal Services every Sunday at 11
a m and 6:30 pm and -Wednesday at G:30
p m. Rev F J Murdoch, rector.
- Sunday school every Sunday afternoon
at 3 p id. Capt Theo Parker, sup't.
Baptist Services every Sunday morn
ing and night. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday night. Rev
pastor
Sunday scjiool every Sunday at 91 a.m.
Thos L Swink, sup't.
Catholic Services every -second Sun
day at lOi a m and 7 pm. Rev Francis
Meyer, pastor.
Sunday school every Sunday at 10a m.
Y M C A Devotional services at Hall
every Sunday at 10 a m. Business meet
ing first Thursday night in every month.
I H Foust, pres't.
- LODGES.
Ftil ton Lodge NoDO- A F & AM, meets
every first and third Friday night in each
month. E B Neave, W M.
Salisbury Lodge. No 24. K of P, meets
every Tuesday night. A H Boyden, CC.
Salisbury Lodge, No 775, K of H, meets
PVPrv kl nnH '.U Unnfl.r nifrht in Piich I
Qlonth. I DietaTor.
Salisbury Council, No 272, RoyaT Ar-
canum, meets eyery 2d and 4th Monday
night in each month. J A Ramsay,
Regent.
POS T OFFICE. ,
Office hours from 7:30 a m to 5:30 j
Money order hours 9 a m to 5 p m.
Sunday hours 11:30 a m to 12:30 p
m.
m.
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, For All Who Die.
It hath ben said, for all who di
There is a tear.
uvun: puimug, uieeuing uean 10 sign
O'er evcrj bier j
But in that hour of pain and dread
Who will draw near
Around my humble vouch and sbed
A farewell tear?
Who'll watch the first departing ray
Io deep despair,
And soothe the spirit on its way
With holy prayer?
What mourner round my couch will come
In words of woe,
And follow me to my long home,
Solemn and slow ?
When lying on my earthly bed
In icy sleep,
Who there by pure affection led
Will come and weep?
By the pale moon inplant the rose
Upon my bieast.
And bid it cheer my dark repose,
My lonely rest ?
Could I but know when I am sleeping
Low in the ground,
One faithful heart would then be keeping
Watch all round,
As if some gein lay shriued beneath
That cold sod's gloom,
'Twould mitigate the pangs of death
i And light the tomb.
Vet in that hour, if I could feel
From the halls of glee
And beauty's pressure one would steal
In sec roc v
And conic and sit or stand by me
In night's deep noon :
Oh, 1 would ask of memory
No other boon.
But, ah,. a lonelier fate is mine,
A deeper woe,
From all I've loved in voutli'. sweet time
I soon must go.
Draw round me my pale robes of white
In a dark spot.
To sleep through death's lon dreamless niglit.
Lone and forget.
Edgar A. 1'oe.
Cabot Lode's Election Lav.'.
A MODIFIED FORM OF THE AUSTRALIAN
SYSTEM, PROPOSED Fi R CONGRES
SIONAL CONTESTS.
Washington Letter to the New York Herald.
Representative Henry Cabot Lodge,
of Massachusetts, as chairman of the
House committee on the election of
President and Vice President and Rep
resentatives in Congress, has intr.Mliieed
a bill to regulate the election of Repre-
rentatives in Congress. Mr. Lodge
says the bill is very carefully drawn
after consultation with many persons.
It is a voluminous bill of twenty-one
section?. It provides that whenever
five hundred persons, voters and resi
dents in iinv congressional district oi
the United States, not less than two
months prior to the next election of
I d i.i i i.:" .. ii-- ..e
IV' pi CSell tULl ves, UcliLIOiJ lUC JUUge Ol
the district court to place the next con-
gressional election in said district under
the proTisions of this act, it shall be the
duty of said judge to announce at one
tnat tne next congressional election in
said district will be held under the na
visions of this act. The judge shall
then appoint such omcers oi election
and registration, ana make sucli otoer
other provision for the conduct of the
congressional election us are hereafter
provided.
i n re are to ue two registrars ol vo
ters for each voting precinct, one of
lilt I A . .
wlioni snail be a member or tne party
which polled the next highest numbc
oi vo:es. xme regiMiars are to roe
e .. i .. . 'Pt : i i .
p:,UDiapreli miliary list of the voters of
their precinct, winch shall be postc
publicly, and give notice that tltey will
meet at s pec i tied time?- and places to
register voters. Within three davs al
ter the posting of the preliminary lists
the registrars shall begin to hold meet
ings, which shall be public, to register
all duly qualified voters who may come
before them and who are not already
registered, registration snail cea-e
not less than ten days before election
The second list of voters shall then be
published, but no names shall be added
after the close of registration, and no
names shall be stricken off except on
proof of death or removal from con
irressional district. It shall be the
jduty ofthe registrars on election day
I i- 1 , mi r i -i I- .it- lb,. ii. , in. . , ' .1 i , l -I
wi uc picocut. , mic Juln
I furnish One COPY of the amended list
..,. , , ,, . ,
to the inspectors tor use at the ballot box
on which they shall check oti the name
Ill t tl 1 1 AM i 1
of each voter who seeks admittance
within the lail in-order to vote; and no
1 111 1 i i 1 I il Mi
one snail oe aunmteu wituin tne ran io
vote unless his name appears on the I-
registered list, nor until his name has
been called and checked off the list bv
the registrars.
It is further provided that all ballots
cast at an election for Representatives:
in uongress held under the provisions
of this aet after the first day of Novem
ber, 1890, shall be printed and distrib
uted at public expense. Every ballot
thus printed shall contain the names,
the residences and the party or politi
cal designation of all candidates whose
nomination have been duly made aud
not withdrawn, and shall contain no
other names. The names of candi
dates shall be arranged under the desig
nation of the Office in alphabetical or
der. There shall be left at the end of
the list of candidates a blank space in
which the voter may insert the name
of any person not printed on the ballot
for whom he desires to vote. The bal
lots shall be so printed as to give each
voter a clear opportunity to designate
Tiv a cross mark fX. iu a sufficient
margin at the right of the-aame of each
candidate, his choice of candidates.
The ballot shall be of white paper, of
the weight ordinarily iicd in printing
' siiid unt mni'p thu.ii Hindi t nr h-ss thalll
inches Wide, nor more than ten nor
less than eight inches long, and before
distribution the ballots shall be so
folded in marked creases that their
width and length when folded shall be
one-half the width and length herein
specified. On the back and outside,
when folded, sjiall be printed, 41 Official
ballot for Representative in Congress,"
followed by the designation of the polU
ing place for which the ballot is pro
posed, the date of election and a fac
simile of the signature of the clerk of
the district who has caused the ballot
to be printed. All ballots when print
ed shall be folded as hereinbefore pro
vided, and fastened together in such
manner that each ballot may be de
tached and moved separately. A rec
ord of the number of ballots printed
and furnished to each polling place
shall be kept by the clerk of the district
court. There shall beprovided for each
voting place three seta of such ballots,
each of not less than one hundred for
every fifty and fraction of fifty regis
tered male voters therein; and it shall
be the duty of the registrars of voters
in each precinct to certify to the clerk
of the district court, fourteen days pre
vious to such election, the number of
male registered voters in such voting
precinct. Provision is also made for
the printing and distribution of in
structions for the guidance of voters as
to obtaining ballots, manner of mark
ing them, &c.
As to the manner of voting it is pro
vided that the inspectors, (provision for
which is made), and registrars in each
voting precinct sh;ll designate and ap
point, (and if they fail to at least five
days before the election, then the judge
of the district shall designate and ap
point), a polling place therein at a con
venie t place and shall cause to be
provided a sufficient number of voting
shelves or compartment?, at or in which
voters may conveniently mark their
ballots, so thnt in the marking they
may be screened from the observation
of others; and a guard rail shall be so
constructed and placed that only such
persons as are inside of it can approach
within twenty feet of the ballot boxes
and of such shelves or compartments.
The arrangement shall he such that
neitlir the b tl lot boxes nor the voting
shelves or compartments shall be hid
den from view of those outside the raik
The number of such shelves or com
putiTients shall not be less" than one
for every seventy-five voters and not
less than three in any precinct. Any
person desiring to vote shall give his
name, and. it' requested, his residence,
to one of the registrars, who shnll an
nounce the sune in a l u 1 ; nd distinct
voice, and if such name be found upon
the check list by the registrar he shall
immediately report it and the voter
shall be allowed to enter the space en-
closed
nishet
by the rail. He
shall
be fur-
hed with but one ballot and and his
name then checked (iff.
Besides the election ofrictrs no vo
ters in excess of the number of voting
shelves or compartments provided shall
be allowed in said enclosed space at one
time. U.i receipt ol his ballot the voter j ;l cextam sense, lhat is to say, if you
shall forthwith, and without leaving j eat, drink or sleep with a leper for a
the enclosed space, retire alone to one j long-time, anywhere from six mouths
of the voting shelves or compartments j to a year, you may contract the disease
and prepare his ballot by marking in yourself or you may not. The chances
the appropriate margin or place across 0f catching it under these special con
(X) opposite the name of the cahdi- ditions are not one in a hundred. Of
date of his choice for congressman or : the hundreds of physicians, nurses and
by filling in the name of the candidate i atten lants iu this country and Canada
of his choice in the blank space pro- j wUo have treated patients of this class,
vided and marking a cross (X) opposite . not one has fallen a victim. The mal
thereto. Before leaving the voting ady seems a disorder of the blood, w hen
shelf or compartment the voter shall the latter has reached its most impov-
I 1 1 I I! i .I A 1 T t 1 1 tl.. -4 1. I 1 1.
rout nis bailor, wnnoiu displaying "ensiled condition, ft is nereoir
marks thereon, in the some way it was j ad usually destroys the family
folded when received by him, and he j which it runs after three or four gen
shall keep the satin; ,-o folded until he ' eratiotis. If the race does not become
has voted. He shall then vote after j extinct in that period, the disease disap
annotineing his name to the inspector pears, and apparently for good. There
and having it checked on the inspec- , w Uo reason for apprehension in regard
tor's list before leaving the enclosed to its spread. The chances of a person
spice, and
I shall deposit Ins ballot in
the box with .the o!hci;il endorsement
uppermost. He shall mark aud deposit
hiis ballot without undue delay, and
shall quit the enclosed space as soon as
he lias voted. No voter sh.iU be al
lowed to occupy ;i voting shelf or com
nnrtiiiPtit ulreadv occupied bv another,
r . . . ,
nor to remain within., said enc
i
more than sis minutes, nor to occupy
a voting shelf or compartment for
more than hve minutes, in case ail oi
such shelves or compartments are ill
use and other voters are waiting to oc-
,i X' I. ..I I .,'-.. rf
cupv tlicm. o peruii miaii i.va
remove any Irnllot lrom tne poiuug
place before the close of the polls.
Where there is no constitutional ed
ucational qualification, voters who can
not read or see may receive the assist
ance of the iuspecturs in marking their
ballots. A voter who purposely al
lows any one to know how he is about
to vote by showing his marked ballot
or any person who endeavors to induce
a voter to show his marked ballot shall
be subject to a fine of from $50 to $500
aud larger fines and penalties are to be
imposed for destruction of election
ftr filling false
certificates of nominations or for tail
tinn officers in their duties
nKr.lUnoo are nt)t to be entertained
for the purpose of delaying voting. The
rrtairna of eiections are to Im; made in
thA rWk of the district
court who with the judge of the court
is to compute the votes.
14 How
dare
vou swear before me,
SlTi
J How did
I know you wanted to
oonr ftrvf 'j
The Leper of To-day.
"There is too much ignorance re
specting leprosy, and a great deal of
nonsense talked about it," said Dr.
Charles A. Morris, a Wisconsin Board
of Health official, yesterday at the
Glen ham Hotel.
"The popular lielief is that it is con
fined to the Chinese, or comes from the
Flowery Kingdom,1' he continued.
"This is absolutely false. It is as old
as history, and, though dying out, is
still found in many places. It appear
ed in this country rn the sixteenth cen
tury among the French settlers of
what is now Nova Scotia, New Bruns
wick, Maine, and lower Eastern Canada,
and has been there ever since. There
are still two lazarettos in operation in
this vast district. There must have
been a leprous strain iu the old French
blood, or else there must have been a
number of undeveloped lepers from the
lazaretto districts of France among the
emigrants who came over "here to settle
the Bourbon fiefs in the New World.
Bee aiise wherever they have gone,
since their coming here, the disease has
appeared, although in sporadic cases.
Thus it has been found among the
4 Caj tins1 of Southeastern Lousiana,
the 1 Kan ticks' of Maine and Ne
Hampshire, and the French communi
ties in Toronto and West Canada.
The next appearance of the disease, as
far as races are concerned, was among
the Scandinavian immigrants, especial
ly those from the marshy districts of
Denmark and. the sterile northern
provinces of Sweden and Norway. It
will probably astonish most people to
learn that next to tne Sandwich Is
lands, these two Norse Kingdoms have
more leprosy to the square mile than
any other country on the face of the
globe. Out in our part of the West
we have a very large proportion of
Scandinavians to the population, and
of the cases of lepros- found thus far,
every one has belonged to that nation
al V.
The Sandwich Islander, the coast
Negro and the Brazilians are likewise
afflicted. The first-named, the Hawaii,
has the malady in its worst form, the
second in its mildest, and the last oc
cupies a happy or unhappy medium.
The disease in Brazil seems to occur
chiefly where there has been an inter
mingling of the three races white, red
and black. Down there it is divided
into two kinds, white leprosy and black
leprosy. The former is slow and
lethargic, while the latter acts with the
rapidity and certainty of a malignant
cancer. Latest in time and least nu
merous is Chinese leprosy, which is
like the so-called 'white' variety of
the Aamazon. Despite the exagger
ation of demagogues, it has never
amounted to anything in this eountrv,
I as compared with that of other races.
1 he number of cases stands in about
the following ratio: French Canadian,
10; Scandinavian, 4; Negro, 4; un
classified, 2; Sandwich Islands, 1; Chi
li se, 1; Brazilian, 1. As to the dan
ger from the disease, it is practically
l n
nothing'.
Ihe malady
is contagious m
try,
having it are less than being struck by
lightning, and a hundred times less
than haying pneumonia or consump
tion." Ths Eg-yyt Coal Mines in North Caro
lina. The only coal mine that is actually
' i ........ :.. vii. i:. :. 4i...i.
i in operation in iorui varuima i uiiiL
of the Egypt Coal Company, located in
Chatham county on the (Jape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Kail road, near where
that railway crosses Deep river. Ihe
operation so far consist of a shaft
- . i.i n
which nas been made to a depth or
403. feet, and from which two levels
have been run out on th coal, one a
distance of 400 feet and the other
1. 280 feet. Seventy hands are now
employed and the daily output is about
7o tons. New levels are being opened,
however and the output will shortly
re ich 200 tons per day. Iu the levels,
now being driven there is a vast mi-
provemei.t in the quality of the coal,
it being harder containing less sulphur
and being earsier to mine I lie seam The capital stock of
extends from northeast to southwest,, y 1?0K).(XX), in shares
atapitchofabout40 degrees It ot$ml(&. It will require an out
from four to four and a-half feet ; wf in ttJJg readv for
thK- . - . ! operations. The other 500.000 wifi
Ihe Egypt coal in equal y is equal . a ftnd m
to tne iennesee proauci uuu iur uauu
and fuel; for gas making it. is said to
lie better. It is also claimed to be a
fine coking coal; it burns longer before
incineration takes place and contains
no more sulphur than that found in
the coal btong the Cheaspeake & Oliie.
iT;lwJ rTri TrrXF:r Us uM lu and a hi;j proportioa
and the entire country in the vanity . g
oi Xigypt is a ciai .u . ; itUrVAz .lt. ,. t,H of tha board
lL. t. ..... .1 c. f 1,.. .'rx .-
ing hand of Northerlicapitul.
Smokeless Pccrder.
. THE FRENCH TEST SUCCESSFUL.
Ketr York Herald.
The manoeuvres took place on the
elevsited plateau east of Champion v.
contiguous to a sweeping bend of the
Marne just before it flows into the
beine. 1 lie 101 regiment and twenty
ninth rifles and the batteries oi artil-
Icry were entrusted with the defence of
tire little village of Queue en Brie,
The attacking force composed of the
103d reginif nt and-a battery of field
artillery, utilized the farm " and the
woods- of Border, 1,200 inches (a
metre is 30 inches) distant from the
position to be attacked, as tlifir base of
operations. The infantry- were armed
with the Lelel rifle, and were served
with smokeless cartridges, not blank,
but containing pasteboard bullets.
These latter are not so hrmless as one
might suppose, for within a range of
twenty-five metres they produce a
shock sufficient to knock a man over.
The artillery were served with smoke
less powder ammunition. The weather
was super'), a bright, clear day,
remarkably favorable for the object
in view. At half-past eight swarms of
skirmishers of the attacking column
emerged from the woods of Hordes.
The attacking battery thundered away
at the little village and was replied to
with vigor. In a few minutes the 4-
Twenty-ninth rifles, rushing forward
by fits and starts, and taking advantage !
iit every bush, ridge and undulation,
and admirably handled by their com
mander, made a most effective counter
attack on the right flank of the 103d
regiment. This was repelled, and at
half-past nine o'clock all the forces on
the field were blazing away at each
other.
The rapidity of the firing was like
the roll of a multitude of drums, but
neither its rapidity nor its intensity
produced the slightest smoke. The
effect to military men accustomed to
the campaigning of other days seemed j
almost supernatural. Companies 0f
iufautrv concealed in the brush poured '
a deadly hre upon their opponents
without it be ng possible to hud their
whereabouts, thanks to the absence of
the tell-tale puffs of smoke so familiar
in th old days. On the other hand,
the troops not under cover found it im
nossible. ns hitherto, to rniicf.il tbrn-
movements under friendly cloud of wmit revolutionize the paper trade,
smoke from the supporting batteries, j A ew 111)11 for the manufacture of
It was astonishing to see how clearly j P;,Per fro,n moss li:is Uen recently es
the different part-rof the uniforms were j tablislml in Sweden. Paper of differ
distingnished. The disadvantage un- ent thickness and pasteboard made of
der which the, French linesman, with I 11 ,,i,ve already beenshown, the latter
his red trousers, labors in comparison
with the sober blue of the rifleman was i
now marked. Not only General Saus-I
sier, but nearly all the officers present, !
felt convinced from the experiments j
made to-day that the bright red of the
French infantry adds at least ten per,
cent, to its vulnerability. Consequent-j
ly, it is felt that picturesque red trou- .
sers with all their . gloi ions traditions
are now doomed.
Another reason for hastening this
revolution in the French uniform is
the fat t that in. the German army riiU j
schools the targets are composed of j
manikins in the Frei cli infantry au:i- j
forms. German soldiers are trained to i
judge distances for sighting rifles by
the visibility of tin; red irons -rs in cofu
bination with the belt plates ami but-'
tons, which give them the range with ,
the accuracy of k range finder.
It was also the opinion ol the military
men on the field to-day that the smoke
less powder will greatly modify the
present system of tactics in European
armies, lnvisable foes, launching in
visabte thunderbolts at each other, wilf
be a characteristic of the warfare of
the future.
The drcensboror-fioom.
The Greensboro correspondent of
tfle Richmond Tunes writes concerning
the steel plant to be erected there as
follows: 'Thcrtrmtsfers that have
taken place in the real estate here
within a year, and m duly since the
boom began to get in its work, have"
amounted iu the aggregate to 2,000,
000. There is no abatement up to
this time. L in Is that lie two mi.les
outside the corporation now bring So0
and SCO per acre, and in some instances
.?iw un .iLi-i-. in-; firo .i.i.i i.w..
company will realize a
bi divide
lid
just here. Their purchase v, ;
average
sav about S3 5 an acre. 1 lieir tenure
of all the surrounding section will en
able them to control the prices. Their
increased value consequent upon the
I nMM.iTAiiiy.olc rt .1 1. 1 1 1 1 1 1 t ( :-i4lV
j .d atg5u0 1 ucre JTUU kind
; . fifc qu g which the
fco contro an
4 ' ,,f sOtiO tltiO. which will of itself
; if ntnn. - i.
1 two tarnneet
aces one lor ttesl.-
..,. mwl . ; i ; . 1 ' Till" III!.. . i
yi,,- sach industries as the com-
nanv mavitetermiiie upon. Ihe char-
ter of the company was granted in
February 1837, and amended in March,
i j . .
but was not o
of 'ast year. Twen
the sLock taken oy
oi director.
Faper.
SOME OF THE STRANGE USES
TO WHICH
IT IS PUT.
Paper is now made to serve for steel
and iron, says the St. Louis Stationer.
When strong fiber is usedjt can be
marfe to a substance so hard that it
can scarcely be scratched. Railroad
car whaels are made of it more durable
than iroai. A store in Atlanta, Gv
has been entirely -built of paper. The
rafters, weather-boards, roof and floor
ing are made of thick compressed paper
boi.rJs impervious to water. On ac-v
count of this surf ace of the paper be
ing smooth and hard it can not catch
on fire as easily as a wooden building.
It is found warm in cold, and cool in
hot weather. The Breslati fireproof
chimney has demonstrated that cook
d heating stoves, hath tubsarid
pots, when annealed by a process that
I rentiers ic nreproor. become more last
i ing than iron, and will nqt burn out.
tracks in floors and around the skirt
ing board, or other parts of a room,
may bo neatly filled by thoroughly
soaking newspapers in paste made as
thick as putty and forced, into the
cracks with a paste-knife. It will soon
harden and be painted.
Black walnut picture frames are
made of paper, and so colored that no
one can tell them from the original
wood. A paper piano lias been ate v
exhibited in Pans. The entire case U -
i i . . j
i i . . .
rmile uf compressed paper, to which is
brilliant polish. The legs and sides
are ornamented, with arabesques and
floral designs,- The exterior, and as
much of the interior as can be seen
when the instrument is opetTare cov
ered with wreaths and medallious paint
ed in miniature. An Italian monk
has succeeded in constructing- an or
gan where-tlie pipes are made of paper
pulp. It has 1,400 pipes of various
; sizes, i lie American Motion tseed Ull
. Trust is now .running a mill for mak-
paper lrom the hulls remaining
after all the oil has been squeezed out
of cotton seed. It is comtemplat-
it . j
iug the erection of a 100-ton jnill for
the same purpose. These hulls have
heretofore been considered worthless.
It has so far proved so successful that
the trust proposes erecting mills at
difiereut points of the cotton raising
country. ' Of course this will sotne-
even in -sheets three-quarters or an
inch thick. It is as hard as woodnd
can be easily painted and polished. It
has all the good qualities, but none of
t he defects, of wood. The ceiling of
the assembly chamber at Albanv N.Y.,
is made of paper-mache. It is a
model of its, kind, and appears so like
marble as to deceive the mo.it expert
eye. The latest idea is to use apc-r
instead of wood for lead peucil, by
uiii2 a patent nreoaration by which it
i .i m
can no
wood.
cut
as
easily
i
as the swiftest
The Lee Statue.
Harper's Weekly, in an article on the
equestrian statue of Gen; R. E. Lee,
which is t le unveilwd in Richmond,
on the 20l1i of M;.y, says:
k' The horse which- Lee bestrides ia
Mercie's statue has all four feet to the
ground, but is in the act of walking
slowly. A ore foot is planted in ad
vance, ami the hind foot-on the same
side is about to follow, but has not
yet entirely quitteihjthe ground. The
head i bentalittle to one side, aud the
tail just swings clear of the flanks.
The General's dress is simple to sever
ity, a characteristic found among the
commanders ondxdh sides, who com
monly avoided the trappings and pomp
of war. He is girt with a sash and
wears the sword of -& commander of
cavalry. No epaulets appear, but the
coat sleeve bears on the forearm an or
nameut in broad braid. He holds bis
hat iu his right hand hanging br his
side and the reins, in the left. The
t'.'i-t are tinned into thp stirrnm. nnd
. arg no. pert-ectjv rtn -niue, the right
foot oeig slightly m advance, Calut
aU(J determination are shown iu
t n :,r,. ,. ni4 o iw re-
viewing troops, and we -may suppose
that the moment chosen is that in
which he examined the Army ' of
Northern Virginia before pressing ou
.vard to hi- fate at Gettysburg. There
is great repose in this statue, but tf
dullness or heaviness not a trace. The ,
horse is alive, yet has the minimum of
liveliness. The figure is posed easily
and naturally, without that grip'of the
-knees which horsemeji -feulk about, but
do not employ when -moving slowly,
and there is considerable distance be
tween foot and. foot. The riding bootr,
sash, coat and gauntlets are modeled
witlr ease, like habiliments of every-day
wear, and the horses mane and tail,
and the hair ou the head and beard of
the rider are broadlj and rigorously
turned.''
i The Goidsboro Head ligh t, the editor
of which attended the trial", believing
tutwity thitt $5,000 wefe sueufc during
the lite tri.d of F.dV.er Boyle. Tki
mo.iev cauie 1 1 11 ib-i 'ti lrom several
uoriai.1 cues.
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