North Carolina Newspapers

VOL XXII, THIRD SEEIES. SALISBURY. N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 25, 1890. HO. 9. ' - "BWPWM""a"wftftftBftMBftMftfcB"ftt COME BUY! 'fi.W. 'WRIGHT,'. fl Leading Furniture 'Dealer and Undertaker iftl SALK&URY. know offering the Largest and Best Assorted block ol Inrni - turo ever brought to this place. o 7 PAH LOR TITS ! Mo!. nir Crusli Plush at fCQ.CO. Former priceb$73.00. Silk Plusli at foO.OO. Former price, $00.00. Wool Phish at $:J."5.00. Former price, $45,00. - . PL' NOS A7sD OKGANS. "Wilcox and White- Orgai.s and Dccher Bios., Cfcicktrin. it Sens ai:d W lit clock Pianos. HEO LOOM SUITS! Antique Oak, Antique Ashe, Cherry and Walnut at pruts that-del'y competition. WW A LAKGE STOlK Of Cl.aii-s, E'aUs-, liliiUmMt c-1 all Kii.cls Spring ITyds, Work Tables for Ladies, Pictures and Piture Flames o vie' and quality alv,;i s intiock, or wiH be made to oi del on "Short notice at reason able prices. ILWIY CAIJUIAljES' A lurgc stock of Da!y Carriages vith wire vhc s a! 7. 00. Silk I'iUbli heal and atjn Par-sol Car riages with w ire wheels at (i.l 10.50. Formerly sold lor V:2 50. UNDElRrrAKIKG DEPAL'i RiEXT ! Special attention given to m.d lUikirg in all its brandies, at all hours day ami niylit. Pa i ties wishing my services at niht will all at my residence on Bunk street, in " Brook Ivn." December. On Christmas day, when fires were lit, And all our breakfasts done, We-spread our toys out on the floor And played there In the sun. The nursery smelted of Christmas tree, And under where Jt stood The shepherds watched their flock' of sheep, AH made of painted wood. r Outside the house the air was oold And quiet all about, (Till far across the snowy roofs The Chrism as bells rang out. But soon the slay bells jingled by Upon the street below, And people on the way to church Went crunching through the snow. We did not quarrel once all day; Mamma and grandma said They liked to be in inhere we were, So pleasantly we played. I do not see how any child Is cross on Christmas day, When all the lovely toys are new Aud every one can play. Katheriue Pyle in St. Nicholas. Thanking my friends and the public generally for past patronage and .ijking a continuant the same, I am, Yours anxious to oleasc, G . W. WH GET, reading Furniture Dealer. AT IiuTTZ i OUBLE S TORES! - IW1LL BE FOUND mjAHDSOMEST ASSORTMENT OF IE W FALL AND WINTER GOODS IN SALISBURY, PRESS GOODS f EATABLES. "11 the Shades and Fa-1 es of .the Coming Sea- 8a. TOPER CLOTilING. This is now nnfMi for in- cwon; it is handsome wit nriee$to suit the rates. :-,' The best Flour made in America; Hie lest Cured Meals to be had, Canned Fruits,. Meats and Vege tables of all kinds at old prices, and the Choicest Teas, ('coffees and Cocoas from many climes. WINTER SHOES. The Largest and Best J assortment in town, from the finest Kid and Calf hand-ewed made, down I to the cheapest made, of All Leather, at the very ' Lowest of all Rock Bot- I torn Prices. E offer SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS to the us before you buy as we mean to sell you gooas CPIEAP or barter. Nonr to serve, KLUTTS & RENDLEMAN. Regulators of low prices w ' 4-Eton Company PROMPT RELIABLE LIBERAL .Cities. Town, im in-tlc South. 0ta.l assets J. liHODES BRQWNJ Ppesidext. WM. C. COABTV SECKCT,UtY. The Guard's Story. HOW AN ENGIXKER 8AVKD LIFE AND WEALTH AND HOW Hp WAS REWARDED. Coming down oa the elevated road late al night a short time ago I fell into conversation with the guard, says a New York Star reporter. He was a pleasant fellow. Ihe night men are apt to be. They have less traffic and and the natural social instincts of men display themselves in spite of corpora tions and iron-bound rules. As we swung into South Ferry station he .-liouted out: "There goes the 'money train.'" 1 looked and saw n single car attached to an engine up the track. 1 bad only a giimseof it, but that was sufficient to arrouse my cur iosity. My companion was full of the subject, and I gathered some interesting details of an important featme of rail road routine. ''Singular you never saw that be fore,7' said the guard. 'The car is oval in shape, holds three or four men, gathers up the tickets and 'boodle," and is naturally looked after pretty sharp by the company. The men in the car ail carry 'guns1 and are generally 'loaded for bear,' so they're not trou bled much. The car starts out about one or two o'clock in the morning and goes up and and down the Second avenue road, stopping at every station and collecting the tickets in the boxes and the irom the office. Next a trip is taken on the third avenue road and theji on the others in regular order, the car 'laying up' for the day about five a. in. near ruty-eight street, on the Ninth avenue line. I've heard it said that sometimes she carries about $20. 000. lu fact, that's only a light esti mate. '"Nobody monkeys with that train or with the men in it," continued my informant, smilHug grimly to himself. "It wouldn't be healthy. 1 do remem ber a time, though, when there came near being a circus. There had been some trouble with laboring men something of that kind and they laid off td Wreck-the train. You can't do it easy. The llang on the wheel always catches when you run up on the guard bean on each side of the track, aud you can't run into the street. The gang knew this, and they tried something new. They put an inclined block on each track so the train might run up and over. That might go. It was a dirty trick. I suppose they expected to lay below and rob the car when she smashed in the streot. Killing the engineer, or course didut count. All the same they got left. There was a quick young fellow on the road that time, lie saw the blocks in the flash of the engine light and stopped the train in her own length. He saved everything and kept his wife from be ing a widow in the bargain, I guess. I think I read a poem about it in one of the illustrated papers Harper's weekly, it seems to me. The company was very grateful to that young eu gineer. 'T'm glad of it," said I, heartily. "He certainly did them a service. What did thev do for him? Let's see. He saved at least $20,000 for the road. , 1 suppose they gave him 551,000." "Not much," said' the guard folding his arms and winking at me confiden tially. When corporation do that we'll be near the milieniun, and won't have so much need of the ministers preaehiu' the New testuient at the direc tors on Sundays. The way things go they don't have no call to let up on theuj sharps. 1 never heard that Sheridan got a cent for what he done. I suppose directors think a man's bound to save his own way, and as for playin' for their own they're keepiu' all they get, make no mistake. I understand they gave the engineer an earlier 'run,' and" he was glad enough to get it. The strain on him in those hours wasn't so great, and it was less rough on his kid-neys. - - - $750,000.00. J. ALLEN BROW fcMe silent Agent, - Sails1 jury, N. C, State News. WHAT IS GOING ON ALL OVER NORTH CAROLINA. Durham is talking about building a $250,000 hotel. Editor Scott, of the Lenoir Topic. has been elected captain of a base ball nine, Dr. Thos. Gr. Taylor is erecting a commodious tobacco factory in Leaks ville. Taylorsviile will organize a Land and Improvement Company by Jan uary 1st says the Index. Peg Leg Williams, who has orders for 7,000 North Carolina negroes to be taken South, cannot get 70. Alleys distillery, in Caiwba county, ty. was destroyed by fire a few days ago. TheTeport that Mayor Pritchard, of Windsor, had been tied and whip by unknown men, is said to be with out foundation. The C. C. Randleman cotton mills, at Randleman, have made an assign ment. The liabilities are said to be over $20,000. A fire at Burlington a few days ago destroyed 50 bales ef cotton. The Monroe Register states that a good deal of building will be done in that town this winter. Bueafort has two oyster canning plants. One was established by Ral eigh capitalists and will employ 300 men. Rev. Thos. H. Newberry will at an early day commence in Fayetteville the publication of theNorth Carolina Baptist. Rev. E. Weisner, of Davidson coun ty, raised 400 bushels of sweet potatoes aud six bushels of tomatoes on one acre of laud. Frank Dixon, a brother of the well known Rev. Thomas Dixon of New York, is to come from Oakland, Califor nia, to be pastor of the Baptist church at New Berne. A negro by the name of William Hunks was found dead near Pittsboro last week. He had frozen to death. A burn on the farm of Mrs. William Grimes, of Raleigh, situated in Greene county was burned last week. Mr. A. A. Conlv. of Linville town ship, his reopened the old Con ley gold mine, anu is meeting with every in dication of striking it rich before long. Morgan ton Herald. Alice H auser, an industrious colored woman who resides about a mile west of Winston, killed a 11 month's old porker a few days ago that pulled the beam at 305 pounds. At Forest City, Rutherford county, Tueseday,holoway Walls shot and kill ed his wife, shot his brother-in-law Wayne Haynes through the bowels and shot himself tliough the brain. Greensboro Workman: Mary Lew is, an old, half witted colored woman, who4fm beyond the R. & D. railroad in eastern part of this citv. was found dead in her bed this morning about 5 o'clock Mr. Jacob Dove has killed, as the Durham Globe expresses it, his "pork"' hogs 4 in number. Their Weights are respectively: 310, 302, 300 and 374, or a total of 1304 lbs. These hogs were a little over twelve months old. Con cord Standard. Launnburj Exchange: Pembroke is the name of the new station just es tablished on the Carolina Central Rail road where the Wilson Short-Cut road crosses it, near Pates Robeson county. Work the new road from there to Fayetteville is progressing. Raleigh Chronicle: The largest owl ever seen iu these parts was killed a day or two since on Mr. Van Moore's place about a mile from the city. The bird by actual measument is four feet and seven inches from tip to tip. It has been sent out to Mr. Herbert Brimly, the taxidermist, to be mounted. The Standard Music Company, of Winston, offers a premium of a '$100 Bridgeport organ to any person in the State of North Carolina who will raise the largest amount of money and do nate it to the Oxford Orphan Asylum oy and including the first day of Jan uary. This is an item that will be worth space in all our State papers- Dr. R. K. Gregory, of Greensboro, the patentee of an antisetic for the treatment of wounds, has effected an arrangement with both the Richmond and Danville and Cape Fear and Yad- j kin Valley railroads by which his new contrivance is susphed to these roads for u&e in case of accident. A Strong Endorsement. When the Farmers' Alliance first proposed the sub-treasury plan the pol iticians and financiers all over the .country, with but few exceptions, de nounced it as wild and visionary. In fact it seemed to be matter of resent ment that the farmers' movement should nudortake to settle the financial problem, and the sub-treasury plan was Geajral New. Lock. Haven, Pa., Dec. 18. The snow storm, alter raging thirty hours, ceased this morning. There are two feet of snow on the ground. Nashville, Dec. 18. McGehers & Co., of Rome, Ga., wholesale grocers and cotton factors, have been forced to assign. Liabilities $155,000; assets about the same. Elmira, N. Y., Dec. 18tn. Up to this morning eighteen inches of snow nad fallen here. Street car traffic on all lines was abandoned last night. AH trains are badly delayed. Wiiksbare, Pa., Dec Sleet, rain, and snow have been falling here for the prist twenty-four hours, aud at noon it was snowing hard. It is the heaviest storm seei in the Wyoming Valley for some years. Wellaud, Ont., Dec. 18. Arthur! Day, the Rochester, N. Y., wife mur derer, was hanged at 8:10 o'clock this morning. He walked firmly to 4;he gallows. Ten minutes after the trap was sprang he was dead. His neck was not broken, and died of strang ulation. Chicago, Dec. 19. Joseph N. Asir cashier of the Allerton Packing Com pany, one of the most extensive at the stockyards, was held up this morning in his office in the packing house by two unknown men of granger-like appear ance, and robbed of 5$3,200 in cash. Belief onte, Pa., Dec. 18. The Bellefonte and Snow Shoe branch of the Pennsylvaia railroad, the Tyrone and Clearfield branch, and the Lewis berg and Tyrone branch are all snowed up, no trains. The snow is two- feet deep on the level here this morning. Washington, W. Va., Dc. 18th. during the past twenty-four hours the most ttri tic snow storm for the )past five years has raged. The damage Vloue is enormous. The city is completely isolated. Great apprehinsions of a flood are entertained when a thaw sets in. corn the only crop remaining on the ground was free from weeds an I mighty m height and size of stalk and development of earing. There an neither ricks of straw nor stacks of gram nor hay, all these being under cover in the structures that shelter the stock. The leading crops are Indian corn, oats, wheat and red clover, aud or siock, norses and hogs, and for tk the bees his the the Ploug hiasr by Steam. A man in Jackson' county, Oregon, has been ploughing this tall with a steam engine and has found that it works quite successfully. He pulls eight plows with his engine and turns over the soil at the rate of sixteen acres iK r day, the cot of ruuning the outfit 4 not over cj per uay. Marcus Dawson and Tom Lane were hunting rabbits ueare Greenville recently. Suddenly Dawson called out, "there goes a rabbit," and in whirling to shoot it the whole load of his gun struck Lane, who was a few yurdsaway. Sunday Dawson offered to surrender to the sheriff,but the killing being purely accidental, the officer woull not hold him. Winst). i Daily. Apairy. GETTING THE BEES TO EMPTY OLD BROOD COMBS. Dr. Miller says he has reduced the time to two or three days. Well, says Chalon Fowls in Gleanings, I get the job done in twenty-four hours, if weather is warm enough so the will fly freely; but if it is colored I 1 I 1 M ft 1 I plan is no doubt trie best wnere hives have a loose bottom. It doctor tries to have old back brood combs emptied his way when the weather is warm, 1 imagine he will have a "hot time" taking the combs away, for the bees will hang to the old combs a great deal worse than they will to the unfinished sections; and of all disagreable work shaking huusrrv bees off dry combs is the worst. As before meutioned, his plan will not do for those who have hives with permanent bottom, like mine, and I will therefore give my plan, which is simple a slight improvement on Dr. Miller's plan of having unfinished sec tions cleaned out. 1 take my old combs I want emptied, and, after uncapping the sealed honey I put them in empty hives with tight bottoms, aud set them down cl jse to the entrance of the colonies I wish to feel, just at dusk. I put in a less number than would fill the hive, so they are spaced further apart; and if I want to feed more combs I put on an upper story. If it is a cool night I put the hive as close as 1 can to the entrance; if warm, three or four inches oil, alter getting the bees started on it, the object being to avoid getting the young bees out of their hive. Nearly all of the honey will be cleaned out in the night, and early next morning I carry the hives of combs two or three rods to one side from the entrance small (one-half or three-fourths inch will do); but if the comb are new and tender, or contain any candied honey, they should be closed to the one-bee capacity. Now, the bees that are already on the combs have the advantage through the day, and will get about all the honey thyre is left; aud if they are managed "j i- so as to nave no young uets uu cue combs they will go home at uight, leaving the combs free from bees, when they can be taken care of- By this plan I can get a hundred or more combs cleaned out every jday until the job is all done with, and light colonies au plied with their winter stores, and all without lighting a smoker or opening a hive. 1 do not work with the bees during this comb-cleaning tith; that is, not in the apairy, where the work is done, and so I have no trouble with robbers. Farm Field a-'d Stockman. An exchange is authority for the statement that in Detroit Mich., there has been an exhaustive examination going on for some time as to the purity of milk supplied to that city, and Dr. Coven t v. who has coucucte J the exam ination, reports that seventy-five per cent ot the milk received wae found to be adultrated,aud says that if the ped lers continue to sell inferior milk, prosecution will be made at ouce. mod ions oreexiinT met with denunciation instesid of urgu-' letter's accommodation there are mens. We-desire, however, to call atten tion to an endorsement of it from a quarter which should iit least command the respectful attention of those who were not disposed to listen to the far mers. Mr. Edward Atkinson, in a re cent publication, recognizing the need for more circulating medium when the crops are to be moved, nroposes the is sue of "convertible bank notes cr other instruments of credit," to be used as "a symbol of the product or capital which is in process of move ment, to be redeemed when the pro duct enters into consumption." That this plan signifies the issue of a circu lating medium based on the great sta ple crop which has to be redeemed and retired as uced is patent on its face. It is the very essence of the sub-treasury plan,but we think it is not hedged about with the same precautions. That Mr, Atkinson favors such an issue of "convertible bank notes" indi cates that a man of his experience with the financial world and with views and feelings in sympathy with the capitalists ot the country recog nized the fact that money based on the great staples would be received on a parity with gold. Otherwise Mr. At kinson would not favor such a curren cy. Now the admission of this fact answers the entire objection to the charac er of the currency which the sub-treasury plan wo;ld put in circu lation, Under the sub-treasury plan as consumption took up- the product on which the currency is to be based this currency would be returned to the treasury and retired, or ns Mr. Atkin son states it, "redeemed." In addition to the plan of Mr. At kinson the farmers propose to insure the solvency of this proposed currency byr having the government, under its constitutional power to provide a cur rency, issue it directly instead of through the plan of bank issue. They put into the hands of the govern ment to secure it a security . hich be ing consumable merchandise, is the best in the world, and in additional thereto the personal credit of each ob tainer of this currency stands behind it, for his withdrawing his crop and re deeming the ruoney issued thereon. Thus giving behind the money issued the government's promise, the pledge of ample personal property and the personal security of the obtainer of the mo' ey and also assuming a uniformity in the currency issue which could not be obtained in any other way. But the great point which we wish to emphasize is that Mr. Atkinson's pro posal is a recognition from a capitalis tic source of the feasibility, stability and desirability of a currency based on the principles of the sub-treasury plan. ta an an low the pro ui a-the seen any- or outsidd "Heatnes3 in Farming." Cultivator and Counlry Gentleman. The title of the editorial I quote at the head of these paragraphs reminds me of an interesting experience of my own a short time since. You know how often and how much I have re ported the fertility of the soil of Cham paign county, of the heavy yields of crops, and the almost uniformly favor able character of the growing seasons, for the thirty-three yeara of my resi dence here. To be sure I have said little of the character of the farming, good or bad, but the reasonable infer ence would be that where crops were so nearly nuitormly good, the character of the farming must be prettv good too, and I thought so, though i do not remember to have said so. Having some business with an ac quaintance relating to the proposed purchase of a tract of land in an ad joining county, he, in putting a price un the Dronertv.said that it was far superior in fertility to Champaign couu ty land, and in the near neighborhood of some of the best farmers and farming iu the State, having "the Ohio settle ment" on the north and the "Ornish" farmers on the west. Urging me to go aud see for myself, I consented and went by rail thirty miles south to Ar eola, iu Douglas county, and then by team west nine miles to the Ornish settlement near the new railroad town of Arthur. On the way out I noticed better graded roads, stronger bridges with heavier stone abutments than in Champaign county, and an increasing appearance of neat:tes in the farming as a whole, and improved thrift in husbandry generally. Five or six miles out, and ooii alter crossing the Okaw or Kaskaskia river we were among the white houses and red barns of the Ornish. The lands are low, nearly dead-level prairie for miles and miles, but there is a well graded road on every section line and ditches for complete drainage, but no roods on half sections. The farms rarely ex ceed 100 acres each, and the improve ments of houses, bur us aud graiuuries are near scctiosi corners, for the ad vantage of sociability and neighbor- llooJ. I he leuceo .no Uiot!y oag com. structures built for swine on1 f ;... i .. else. As an example of thorough ne of culture and freedom from weeds of the land, the young wheat in the drill rows having acquired a height of six inches, there was v.otA weed in sicr,t suggesting to n,e.that theOmih fann tng was the only farming had se?M in Illinois where the. land was dean and deep enough, and the soil rich euuugn to make success wjth alfalfa easy and certain undertaking. driven by a heavy rain to th shelter ul one oi me umish barns, I had uuurs opportunity to oliserve In neai tne premises were and Tiotv com plete the arrangement for the comfort ana security ot live stock and noltrr r n ... 1 , 1 " "npiriwems anu lartn ducts of all kinds. There was no nnre or heaps of rubbish, and uaru-yarus were as cieau as any culti vated field, and in the vegetable and flower gardens close to the dwelling common homely flowers ami veeTa bles of every kind in season, showed vigorous growth and had a monopoly on the ground. But I might go into detail for a column or two and not tell the whole story; therefore, I conclude by declaring that for a rich, deep soil, greatly improved by cultivation, for large crops, for thoroughness and neatness in farming, for profitable breeds of hogs, for great crops of red clover, and for- large and handsome cat m nouses, 1 nave never thing to equal them iuside f Til 1 or Illinois. Tho Ornish are an offshoot of fho Mennomtes, who retain the nustero simplicity of that sect. Their rule's forbid colors and stripes in -clothins buttons are prohibited, and hooks ami eyes substituted, the hair and beard are worn long but not inconveniently so, the children ajid women wear cap continously. and no hoodL bonnet or hat is permitted indoors or out, Per haps the most striking peculiarity of all is that no blinds are suffered on tin; windows of houses, and no curlaiu to keep out the searching of curious eves, the light or heat features that givJ these dwellings a wideawake air that must be seen to be understood. The Ornish are honest, industrious and fru gal beyond all praise. Necessarily clannish they are at the same time good neighbors and patriotic citizens, voting only on rare "occasions and accepting no 'office above that of path-master. '1 heir examulo a wonderful ettect, not only iarming or tne surroundinj but on the towns nearly some or them n the western part of Douglass county showing a more ad vanced civilization and a higher graf j of improvement than almost any "oth er place in the State. - I was not sensible of these unusunl -things till I came to return to Chu-a-paigu county in the after part of the rl..r Tl. r . l... I -.1 men: i Has sirucK vtnn n.e slovenliness of the fanning, the small uess of the crops, and the geners.l shabbiness of everything oiit-of-dodr; , not excluding the fanns and! improve ments tuat lie within sight of the tuf rets and tow. rs of a great institution ot learning, endowed by the nation and established by the legislature, with "the principle object in view to teach such brandies of learning aLare relat ed to agriculture and the mechanic arts," that for 22 years has failed iu doing what a handful of peasnut far mers have done in the same time, by, getting at the secrets of successful and profitable agriculture. B. F. has had o.i the country, s much. Dairy Notes. It is not luck that counts, but de liberate calculating judgement; Many mora cows are worn lout by underfeeding and poor care than by overwork. There is a wealth of feeding material Children Cry forjritchsastqrfeL mm iu an acre or ioa.jer grown laud with reasonable care. on -oi Milk should bestrained immediately after being drawn, and if in ten (led fwr butter making not be distributed until creamed. Cows should have an suitable food and pure water dp nee of d salt, aye kept where they can hanu ready a.cesj to it every day. The function of milk giving lis ma ternity, and the mother thejvoid 1 over needs shetler, , warmth, couifoit and kind treatment. Abundant food, a good stable, protection irom chilly wuids and ing storms wi.i proven of milk and often in 3 Lid. - t snow ul). and beat- snr;ikd The all-the-year-round cow U tha paying cow. The real dairy cuwj aH a m ft ft iW ' uud ui tnu direction, anil a colv that goe- dry longtr thaut.vo mouths u rh- orange hedges, iu every c.e plashed j to be -jot rid of uulesj she Li a! heavy and uru-eJ; th- fi.lis are clean, the' milStr lor tae len.momus. i - f . i- L J . C