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The first fair will e held .at
Gree-nslioro August th. "'
There is but oue negro voter in
Newton county, Arkansas.
Judge Graves will hbltl a special
term eif .Vance court July 24th.
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Forty convicts were sent to
Western X. C. K. It. last week.
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iSalem Female Academy is
the
tlie
oldest femalejseheiol in the State,
There is-talk .of running Thur
nian lor Congressman ' at large in
UhiO. :'' !
'I am now running
fes 1oth Kepublican,'
two part
Kays Dr.
Motf. - ' :
A lawsuit j is going on in New
York over a 4.10,000 game of draw
loker. j' .
The Free Pre notes that an
alligator was killed at Kins ton hist
Friday. ; :
it makes our mouth water to read
that watermelons are, plentiful in
Georgia. '
One-fourth of an acre near New
beroe yielded :$l.'i2 worth of Irish
potatoes. !''' j '
W. T Bowmai, Esq., Presiel'ent
of the Wachovia National Bank of
Winston is dead. '
; A" negro child'was lrn in Lau
renburg a few days ago having a
l ull set of whiskers and moustache.
An alligator was recently cap
tured while oil a promenade down
the principal street of Jacksonville,
Fla. . . I ; ' .
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A. negressjut Montezuma, Ga.,
recently gave birtli to triplets
whose coinbiiied weight was
pounds. -'-
in
The annual summer exodusting
; to Jhe mountains anil the seae-oast
is 'commencing. Wish we. could
exodust. ' i . ' '
Mr. J. ('. troy has bought the
Ijiurenhiirg Enterprise, and : will
run it in the interests of Dr. Mott's
side show. . i '
A KentuifTaii of seventy-four
years refuses, to pay liis axes be
cause he does not jexpect to live
another yeaii. ; :'";"
Congressmen bgin to show a
desire to adjourn, '.specially those
'who wish to be at home, attenuing
to the matter of re-election.
There liave leen since December
1st (VI jKistofiices established in
North :': Carolina,' 17 discontiiiued,
and 15 their names chaii e.d.
Ac'-ording to the Atlanta, Con
KtifutioH there are ."i,0()0 women n
that city who earn -their living in
part or wholly by their pwn lalwr.
The new Missionary Baptist
church at Scot lancj Neck will be
dedicated Sunday, July 2nd. Dr.
Munday, of Wurrentoii,. will jtiach
1 lie sermon. . . . I .
, Miss Etta Triy and Mrs. Fannie
l. Watson, of Faetteville, have
jessed the examination which ad
mits them to the Freshman class at
Chapel Hill.
A " patriotic woman. An ex
change records that a laWrgh
iiian-s wile has given birthto a
child on every Fourth of July for
the last live years, i
The greiit strike pf the. workers
iti iron legan in j Pittsburg last
Thursday morning, when 36,000
employes refused t go to work. It
is exiHH ted this uumln'r will soon
le doubled. . t
The Tarloro Southerner says the
many friends of lie v. 'Thos. It
Owens will le pained to learn that
he has had a stroke of paralvsis,
resulting in the loss of the use of
his left arm. ''
i he temale members of a colo
red church in Greenville, S. C, are
enoeavonng to raise a fund to se
cure the release from jail of an er-
tnig sister, who stole -clothes to lie
baptized in. ; i
An exchange gets off the lest of
of the s'asort when he says:
l.jcharge thee thng away ambition,
Jt.v that sin fell ther angels. -Mark
the man whose head is tin ned
: by a little oflice."
The Republican Coiigressiottal
Committee expectso raise a cain
paign fund of 500,000 by the als--sessment
of : officeholders for the
iir'Mse of carrying the doubtful
districts next: November,
f .Iiutge Toiirgee savs, "the live
man. will always be found in f he
'front rank".'j Of course, the dead
always aiiears fnrther back in
the iiH'ession, hiit he rides in the
i"st piomiin-nt vehicle.
-Nuce's Investigating commit
tee ias unearthed the .fact that Jim
Harris the colored iolitician re
ceived from, the government 12
I i uiontu dunug the campaign of
iu and did no work at all except
vkctioneeriuff.
Hie Farmer find Mechanic verv
tnly says: "We don't blame Mr,
i'ioy lor accepting the nomina
tion, but his manifesto sounds like
the . old story of the 'Bnms,' viz:
1st,; lie it resolved, that in the
1'iiiion of this! meeting charity is
heaven lwrn? and tlie highest of the
Christian virtues. "2d. liesolvwl,
that m rdertj show our charitable
instincts, we: will devote the entire
proceeds for the imhii's lienefit.
Jd, IJesolved that ire are the poor!"
cord was dedicated last Sunday,
IJev. Dr. Craven preaching the
dedicatory sermon. It was" fitting
and proper thus to dedicate what
will be -a potent factory in the pro
gress of the town to the giver of all
good. .i
Dr. Tahnage does not believe in
betting, but in arecentsermon said,
There is no more harm . in offer
ing a prize to the swiftest -racer
than there is harm at an agricultu
ral fair in offering a prize to the
farmer who has the-best wheat.
James Cain, of Walker county,
Ga.j aged eighty-seven, who raised
twelve children to maturity, and
has 103 grand children and forty
six great grand children, is still as
lively as a cricket and fond of
talking polities We'll wager he ts
a Democrat. ' j
Lee Toy Foon, renowned for his
fabulous wealth, was burned in San
Francisco the other'day in the midst
of a din that revealed a Fourth of
July celebration. He was presi
dent of one of the Six Companies.
He owned an immense plantation
in China, stocked with 2,000 slaves,
three wives and seven children.
Feen was the. ry-hest heathen in
America.
This is .not a gfwxl year for young
democrats to join the republican
party. Geo. 11. Everett, a former
democrat, joined it and is now col
lector of Internal lie venue at Win
ston. His tenure of office, how
ever, is not secure and he. is in great
danger of decapitation. The Re
publican County Convention of
Forsyth asked that he tie removed
and among other reasons they said
that they believed he; joined the
party for office and that he was
still a democrat in principle.
The Chicago Timet says: There
has actually 1m?cu found in (V in
gress a small number of represen
tatives, not above eight, who have
not presented a single bj!l oft he
,..! winch has thus far been of
fered in the House. They are Chase
of Khode Island, Dugro and Hen.
Wood of New Yprk, Cutes of Iowa,
Stone of Massachusetts. Williams
of Alabama. Frost of Mississiimi
and Shackleford of North Carolina.
These gentlemen, should be cele
brated as the eight considerate
Statesmen. '
W. II. Day, Esq , of Halifax, an
nounces that he will not again vote
the democratic, ticket, but will vote
for W. II. Kitchen or It. Ti. Peebles
Capt. Day represented Halifax
in the legislature ! last session. .lie
will soon grow tired of his new pa-''
litical headquarters and want to
come back. The I Wilminirton Post
is already giving him soft soap
which application will not be
pleasant to a man who has been a
democrat. Cant. Dav has made a
mistake as lie will discover riirl'it
early. v-
Some men, says the Savannah
Xeirs, are born! stupid;' '.others
achieve stupidity and mayhap
others have stupidity thrust upon
them. It is quite: evident that Col.
Folk belongs to one of these classes
as his position will show. He was
a meinlwr of fne Legislature and
drafted the present bill on thecounty
government question, and he now
says he has nothing to take back
and still believes -that the present
system is the correct one. He also
asserts that the prohibition is dead
and is not an issue. Holding these
democratic views we cannot , see
how he can lie stupid enough to say
he ltelougs to a party which repu
diates both of them. ' .
A well informed statist ietrni as
serts that every seventh dollar of
the annual income in wealth in this
country, is burned up chiellv
through gross criminal negligence.
'The. great- Chicago fire in LS71
destroyed' Over one hundred and
sixty millions of dollars worth of
i -
property, and the average fire loss
in the United States andCanadv is
put down lor the last five
years at 40.",2G7,70O and the aver
age tire loss in the United States
alone at. .S0,000,000 per year.
Liquor stores, grocery stoi cs and
hotel, appear most apt to bTirn,
there occurring twice as many tires
in these classes of aiildings as in
saw mills and 'drug stores, which
come next in the list.
The Corth Carolina political
punch is ". made las follows: Anti-
proliibition, that's the wiiiskov,
i ... 1 ll .11 11
strong; proiiininon, inai s ine
water, :t et tune iiw hi
weaken the punch; the oiler of the
llepublican party is the sugar and
a few dissatisfied: and sour lXcino
cratsmake the lemons. Shake and
swauow; it is aireauy nuxeti. ine.i
noe oi oiuce win gi e n. ine navor
ctnil ('I'luuiiiiriii iir.vi Jdii
will be to the relief el" the etver -
bureleued stemiach. lHw inytou
Review. , j
The way the Republicans
.......
eqqioseel ceialitiou are eating crow
is one of the wonders of the age.
Keough, Ball and others who with
a blast of trumpets gave out if the
party favored coalition and anti
prohibition that it need not count
on theni for support are now eating
crow with evident disgust, altho'
they are ready to swear it is the
inost 'delicious of dishes. Demo
crats might learn a valuable lesson
from this.
uton's daily drill in Ari-
thmetic
at the Normal School is
one of its thief and
ing features.
most interest-
If the
varm weather we have
ng continues the crops will
leen havi
not be so
,hort as has been predict
ed. A gentleman ' frrifcli Saratoga
township aid to us a few days ago
that the cotton crop was looking
well, and that the indications were
that the crop would be as large as
usual. S( ' mote it be.
Through an oversight last week
we omitted to notice the very able
and instructive series of sermons
preached by Rev. W. S. Bynnm,
Evangelism of this diocese, in the
Episcopal Church at this place. i A
number of our most intelligent citi
zens were very much impressed and
pleased with the discourses and
with Mr. Itynnm's earnest and im
pressive s yle of pulpit oratory. We
trust that this Vill not lie his last
visit to ou town where his efforts
were so hi ;hly appreciated.
Mr. Jese M. Taylor, with his
family, ha:i moved to Black Creek.
With his brothers li. J. and 11 II.
Taylor, he is engaged in the largest
and most extensive milling opera
tions in tin State. The firm, It. J.
Taylor & lo., are building a rail
road (not t tram affair) but a bona
fltle railroa I to extend twelve miles
through a heavily timbered coun
try, and hey propose to make
enough 'lumber to supply the whole
State. Their extensive operations
are already proving beneficial to
Hlack Creelk which lias lately re
ceived an impetus in the way of new
houses being built and other im
provements
being made. We wish
the enterpr
sing firm mnch success.
Democratic Township' Con
vention. jThe Democrats of Wil
son township mot at the Court
House last Saturday evening for the
purpose of ippointing delegates to
the County Convention which meets
July 1st, and to elect a township
Executive Committee. The meet
ing was called to order by Mr. J. W
Lancaster who explained the object
oif the 'meeting, and called on Mr.
A . 15. Dea nsi to preside.
On motioi
T. J. Iladley
a Committee of three
G. D. Green- aiid J.E.
appointed to suggest
Clarke, were
the names o
seven delegates to the
comity- com
hntion, and to reeoin-
mend a towi
ship executive coininit-
tec
The committee
reported for
delegates,
Woodard,
- a
W. -Barnes, F. A.
F. Murray, W. P.
1
Wooten, A..J. Simms, A. B. Deans
and M. liouijtree, and for the exe-
tteeJ. W. Lancaster,
F. W. P.arnek W. P. Wooten, C. A.
Young-and V. B. Deans. The re
port of the committee was adopted
after which the meeting adjourned.
The Resources of the State.
Prof. Phillips of the State Normal
School at this place, in a lecture
upon the Geography of North Caro
lina, one day last week, gave his
hearers some
information which,
though gener
bi kept alwa,
illy unknown, should
s before our eyes.
Speaking-1
four water-power he
made the sta
bined. rivers
eiiienf that the coin
of the State furnish
more power tl
in all tlie steam en
gines in the fruited States or Eng-.
land, the Yiidkin river alone hav
ing capacity' or running 10,000,000
spindle.
()1 minerals he told us that we
have marl in twenty comities. The
best of all fertilizers thus lying un
used beneath tlie feet of fanners
who buy ton after ton of guano.
Iron is scatteii-d i) thirty counties
from' the Itoailoke to the Cape Fear,
some of it being of the very best
quality.- Goh
is found in twenty
There are two de
'nine counties.
posits" of bitu
al nous coal one m
ItoCkinghani, one in Chatham coun-
tyJ Peat is 1
uuid in the Eastern
counties and v
ill furnish fuel when
gone as they soon
the forests ;ft-
will Ik at th
: present rate ofde-
destruction,
'have -bpier, t
Nash.'-:.."'
n twelve counties we
ic nest mine neingiu
The best Mil
a mine in tlie woijld
n part of the State
is in the west
there are fl
orals." w more valuable min-
Graphite is Bound ami even Plati
num .within our borders, while pre
cious stones ohnearly.overy desvrip-
tioii lie
hidd
n in our mountain
caves. '
We have
eV
cry variety of soil.
j Tho Vtlgetable kingdom being repre
i . . , .
! s'ntl,l,K V'' l
'OI,h Garolm
ilmost everv species.
is the only State
blank sent out by
! that tills even
n10 Agricnltnr;
l department.
Tliv
no of our resources.
I ' . .... ..i. , il l.
assertion that no
equal showing,
naturally presents
j I
! State makes ai
The question!
itself : "W hy
ts not this wealth de-
! vtloned f? Ad
North Carolinians
we emght to obviate the
nee'i
u4 n
cessitv
lor im? "?. (T1V- ,Ij0t
not re-
fuse the gifts tl
ie gods provide.
Like
a Charm.
t'OLVMBl fi, S. C,
Feb. 15, 1881.
II. II. Warder & Co. : Sirs I
j have llstMl your Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure in mv nractiee as a nhv-
- : ;;., m.l in ivvc e-ic. T n.l 'it
j wrk .a dial in.
i llAy. Ii. P. Tokteb.
Prof. P,l
I
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Now that the blackberry crop is j
maturing and grass is beginning to
outgrow the cotton in tlie neuis,ine ;
season for colored excursions is j
fairly inaugurated. Before the sum- j
iner is over, every town in the
State will be struck by one of these
excursions, that will sweep through
its streets like a mighty: wave. The
average excursionist is accompanied
by two or three very ; fat women
and several barefooted children
with straw hats and-an aching
for stick candy and a drink of
water. The personal accoutrements
of the excursionist is himself inva
riably made up of a palm leaf fan,
a cane, an umbrella aud a collapsed
valise in which he generally carries
an extra paper collar and a goodly
store of ginger cakes. His manly
form is hidden from the critical
eye ; of the strangef in the volup
tuous folds of a linen duster. The
rig out is never considered coin-
l.lete without the addition of the j
daintily poised beav.er and the ex-
cursionist who alights -from the
train into a strange place with a
hat anything less than eight inches
tall on his tufter brow, looks shaine
faced and takes the sunny side of
the pavement going np town.
These excursions are gotten up
with the special design of affording
the com and cotton fields a brief res
pite from the laborers' hoe, ami to
permit the lalorer to en joy a. short !
visit with his family to his relatives
ill neighboring towns. .;
When an excursion train empties
its loatl into a town, there is always
a run on the soda water fountains,
and before the day is half srone. the i
town's supply of Long Tom cigars
is completely exhausted. The maiir
ridea of the excursionist is to drink
as mnch soda water as his purse will
command and to stroll around ami
look at the town. . The crowd is
usually as bright as a morning glory
when they first reach the place, but j
long before the hour for the train
to leave they are lying about the
shady places around the dopot
the men wilted,the women fbistrated
and pegged out and wearily Ikmuic
ing their fretful youngsters up and
down,trying to soothe their irritated
spirits with the monotonous "hnsh-
a-bye, baby, we'se gwiiie
terrectlv."
hum I
It apjiears ages to them before
the lazy engineer gets ready to
start,but at lastthecars are brought j
up,, they tumble into seats and-;
thank goodness that at last they !
are starting oack lor home and the i
grassy fields,.
On the whole, these excursions!
are beneficial to the colored people, j
One day spent away from home is
about as much as they want,and
when they return, they set to work
with the greatest good will and are
content to continue at it until the
crops are laid by. One day-Vtramp
around the streets of a strange place
instills a love for home into them,
which seldom wears off before the
next summer conies, and makes the
best sort of grass killers out of them.
A demented mother, the wile of a I 1AISE y)UIJ QwN Applies.
German baker in Chicasro.. last In-! ... . . , a ,
. . - - .
day evening dressed lier four dir.
dren, aged respectively 12, 7, and
two and a half years, and an infant
in white clothes with bright ribbons,'
and then gave them all strychine.
When they w ere dead she laid them
out, placed flowers in their hands
and made the surroundings as lieau
tiful as possible. She then dressed
herself and took a dose of the poi
son. At 5 o'clock in the morning on
her husband's return from the
bakery she met him at the door with
the remark : "Come and see 'chil
dren, they are .all dead and gone to
heaven. See how pretty they are
with nice, flowers for the angels."
About two hours afterward she
died from the jioison she had taken.
' A Missouri woman was astounded
- - .
trlion n i.tnn tmt lir siiil.linilv in
his arms and junipeil into aond of
water with her, and grateful when
i she leariie'd that her dress had been
iu a blaze, which the leap . extin
! guished.
The wife of John Ilarriman, of
Moretown, Vermont, presented him
with four babies the other day, and
John is going to move at once from
Moretown to a place with less e-n '
mutative name.
Ve published last week an adver
tisement lmriwrting to le from the
i. r tj i I he will elo well f aire out to some
a young Democrat to run for lici- . "t.Vl ",.JTi.-. ' I- ... ,. an
IU1 Ol lllitli Vlinilllll iUII IHC iUWK"
t icket. The startling rumor comes
.m A - t W I I OTI1 IT . 1111 T llJk 1 I U1W
Kinstou that either F. B. Ix)ftin er
1). E. Terry might. la? induced to ae
cept the nomination.
i Farming in Dakota. "Yes,
sir,"' resumed the Dakota man
as the crowd of agricultnr-
istr. drew back from the bar and
settled themseives around a little
table, "yes sir,, we do things on
I rather a sizable .scale. I've seen a
man on oue of our big farms start
out in the -spring and plow 'a
straight furrow tintil fall Then he
turned round arid, harvested back."
!' "Carry his grub "with him!''
asked a Brooklyn farmer, who
i raises cabbages ton the outskirts.
"No, sir. They followed him un
with a steam hotel aud have re-
lays of men to 'change plows for
for him. We have, some big farms
up there gentlepien. A friend of
mine owned onern which he had to
giye a mortgage! and I pledge von
my word, the mortgage Avas due at
one and before they could get "it re
corded at the thei- You see it
was laid oft" in counties."
There was a ni'urmnr of astonish
ment, and the Dakota man contin
ued: !
"I got a letterJfroin a man who
lives in my orJhard, jtisfc before I
left home, ami .t had beeii th ree
weeks getting tolthe dwelling house
though it traveled day and night. "
Distances aip pretty wide up
there, ain't they" inquired a New
Utrecht agriculturist. ' : :
"Iieasonably, rfeasonably," replied
the Dakota manj "And the worst
of it is, it breajes up families so.
Two years agol ikw a whole fa mil y
lrostrated with grief. Women yel
klng. One o my men had his
Camp truck packed on sev'eif four-
ling, children Howling And
mule teams and ie was around bid
ding everybody gjood by."
"Where was ha going?" asked a
Gravesend man. '
"He was going half way across
the farm to feed the" pigs," replied
the Dakota inan
"Did he ever j get biick to his
lamilyr ' :
?'It isn't time fot him yet," re
turned the Dakofa gentleman. "Up
there we send I young married
couples to milk the ctiws, and their
children bring lujjne the-' milk,"
"I .underlain! you "have,'; fine
mines up that 'ay',' .ventured a
Jamaica turnip planter.
"Yes, but we ojdy use the quartz
for fencing," said; the Dakota, .man,
testing the bladeiof his knife with
his thumb, prepafory to whetting it
on his boot. "Itfwoh't pay td crush
it, because we lean make- more
money on wheat. I put in eighty
nine liundred townships of wheat
last spring."
"How many Sicres would "that
be?"
"We don't count by acres. We
count by townships and counties
Mv vield was .(i8,000,000 on wheat
alone, and I'm tanking of breaking
up from eighty to a hundred more
counties next sjiiug."
"How do you I get the help for
such extensive operations?" asked
the New Utrecht? man.
"Oh, JalKir is Vheap," replied tlie
Dakota man. "pTou can get all you
want for from $11 to 47 a day. In
fact, 1 never paif over ;S."
"Is land cheaifi"
"No, land is'lilgh. Not that it
! costs anything, j for it don't; but
I under the laws of the Territory yiHi
i have got to takejso' much or none.
; I was, in luck. 1 1 had a friend in
Yankton who got a bill through the
i legislature allowing me to take
J 420,000 square miles, which is the
! smallest farm there, though : it
! is " - f : '
"Look here," sjaid the barkeeier.
as the eastern hlisbandiuen strolled
out in a bunch to consider the last
statement, "Is all this thing you've
been telling t rue?"
"Certainly," responded the west
ern man, "at least it is a modifica
tion of what I saw in a Dakota pa-i
per that was wrapped around a
pair of shoes lasl night. 1 didn't
dare put it as stiong as the paper
did, for no one; would believe it.
You can slate tfliat last round of
drinks and I'll pay in the morning.
Hive right herejbn -Mvrfle avenue."
I-list: -sii niiieiv-uine larmers i
I (f' ,-,.,- l.nili-e.l this nn.-stion
Is it not to t lie interest of the
fanner to raise! his own supplies
and make the f'Jrm. self-sustaining?
and the answei' will be invariably
yes, and still ill the face of such
knowledge eight-tenths of the
farmers are planting large' cotton
crops and small provision crops,
and buy provisions to support their
farms, ami this Is done, admitting
it to be a wrong and ruinous sys
tem; in a word,? it is persisting in
error Knowingly
Second; Jet ime say to . all my
bi-other tanners mat ianning under
such a system insures the same
ruin as it wouldjbeto a man whose
capital was in nioney,and his family
exenses exceil the interest in
come, and yearly-' he had to draw
on the principal to sitpiort his ex-
, Linii.ami.-i
... . '.- If. 1 .11.41.-
Wliich would lie fOll-
I Kuming the capital in aeldition te
. interest. 1 he! ludicious larmer
should managef his farming inter-e-sis
as a good financier would his
mimey. '--...'.. :
Third: The plain truth is to make
farming profitable, farmers must
return to first principles., which is
undivieled attention to their busi
ness; live withiis themselves, pay as
they go, and build up their lands by
rotating crops, flowing uutler veg
etable matter, aptlhave stock yards
and save all manures.
Fourth: It is
lecessjiry for every
the rudiments of
farmer to know
agricultural se-idnce, it is necessaiy
forhini tohavej a business caiac-
itv, some foret
longht and sounel
(lwnient. If 1111
has none of these
I1IM1 uim Ilil.., tl lir ciii v
an
II. - .
agricultural paer he will, elo well
to sell his tarni, and go at some
toinr else lietti'r suited to his ca-
i pacity. C. R , t' X. C. Far
mer.
The Iowa Tornado.
The Des Moines Iowa) Hey niter
makes this piteous aud earnest aj
leal iu behalf of the stricken people
in that State :
"Alter two days and nights spent
in traversing the track of the tor
nado that swept over this State with
such fearful havoc last Satnrday
night, 1 and having reports from
scores of reimrters of the Register
and Associated Press sent to all
parts of it, I i find the condition of
the stricken people so 'piteous and
needful of instant and generous help'
that I send this appeal to the peo
ple of the United States in their
behalf. The tornado made a de
structive sweep through the thickly
settled portion of Iowa,' some l.'iO
miles in length' and on an average
half a mile wide, extending from
points south of Ames, iii the centre
of the State, in the shape of a cres
cent, to South English, in Keokuk
count . From the ' southeastern
part ol the State Ave have the names
now of 09 dead and oOO wounded,
half of the latter grievously hurt,
and probably ii fifth of them fatally.
Over three hundred families have
had their homes, totally : destroyed,
and there are now at least fifteen
hundred persons homeless and iu
want. The loss in property will ex
ceed 2,000,000, and may reach
$3,000,000. In the town of Grinnell
7. y (
alone over 400,000 in property was
destroyed, on none of which was
there a cent of insurance, ax in the
case of fires. It will take at least
.00,000 to put the people there lie
yond need and distress. It will
take f 100,000 at once to put the
wounded people in condition to be
cared for. It will take 1,000,000 at
the lowest to keep the suff erers from
want and and to help them to put
tlie humblest roofs over their .heads.
People of Des Moines, are re
sponding generously. Citizens of
this city have subscribed 8,000 this
morning, and will make it 20,000
before night in money, and are also
sending provisions and clothing. It
will take the help of every humane
city and town in the West, and of
every Iileral city ami town in the
East, to put comfort and safety be
tween these stricken people and
further suffering and fatality. All
that the people of Iowa can do will
be done to alleviate the condition,
repair in part the losses of the suf
fers, but it will take 1,000,000 to do
it even half way, and the jieople
of the State who have always borne
their share and done their part in
all local calamities may freely ask
people of other-communities to help
them in this hour of great calamity
to many of the worthiest of its peo
ple,and to this end I ask my fellows
of the press throughout the United
States to place the facts liefore their
readers and give their timely help
to its sufficient purpose of raising
and providing aid at the earliest
moment possibkv Kvery condition
of woe exists that most tenderly ap
peals to the pity of the human
heart. Wounds inflicted .by debris
that tilled the air like chaos by elec
tric falls of fire, that seemed to tra
verse every inch of space and that
exploded with fearfully fatal effects
will many of them defy all skill and
nursing, even ' with the tenderest
care. The fury of the storm, which
was clearly of electric origin, and
wliichjndeed may be described as
having, been electricity itself, may
b -, understood from the statement
that at various places it took up -in
its great spirals or funnels houses a
thousand feet into the air, and took
nn and carried larire droves of cat
tle through the air tor thousands of!
fi.pt and dashed them deail in !
, ii i,m,o..,i, ,. ,..,Hi,v
neaps, aimij iuiinn nn,
horses, hogs, and other animals, now
lie in the track of the tornado, ami
are already rotting and adding to
the horror the foul odors of put re
faction. The horrors of ; the storm
are unspeakable" The cruelties it
inflicted and the pitiless woe of its
coming iu the night when the dead,
were not known and the wounded ;
e-ould not be found, the sad state in1
which it, has left hundreds e.f fami-i
lies liefore prosperous, may not lj
described in words ; but once known
; to Kei,erous hearts,
it must e-tm-
m. inat.xnt 8. innntiiv of the
111 fl 111 "V' lllDHlttJ lyim'wiiy "
liberal, and bring immediate help.
Kemittanc.es may lie made to I Ion.
,1. B. Grinnell, at GrinneJl, or to the
Mayor of Grinnell. I write from the
knowledge of two whole days and
nights spent at the scene; of desola
tion and among the dead and wound
ed, and tell facts and the multitude
of lunrors simply as they are, f'eeh
. . .1 i
ing that they will theriise-lves U'st.
appeal to the country, and most :ef-
r.tii illv aiI tliA siiflV'i-ers.'
1 in. i, ..... ...w
. Rubbing It Out. j
' .. 1
The editor of the Co urier, Mr. W.
F. Ceek, was seized a few mornings
ago by a terrible ain in the le-ft
shoulder and neck. Haying lieen
favorably impressed for some time;
with the virtue of an artie-le recoin
inended for all sudden pains, ; ail
csiu'ciallv rheumatism, we rnblH-il
the oflending part, and in less time
than we write it. relief came. Tliiit
. . ,z -
article is St. Jacobs Oil.j - Canajoli
rie New York Courier.
IN tIGHTER VEIN.
J
"Yott FcsT Massa." A min
ister officiating at a wedding
1 tetter Ut .lay any plans for
sjiorfc on ihis own account. The
langh ma. come" in the wrong place
for him, as it did at a negro wed
ding in Vi;rginia,where two biawny,
ruby lipMd negroes called upon a
young ami -popular minister to lie
married. J . ' '
Tlie minister was fond of fun, and
invited some of his intimate friends,
telling tlnhn he would have an ex
tra performance in the eeremouy.
The parlor was well lighted, and
the guests with mirthful faces, were
seated, when the couple was shown
in. - f!. . ' ,. 4 . . -
The ceremony proceeded, 'amid a
little tittering of the guests ami no
little agitation on the part of the
lovers. ;Vs it ended and the minis
ter pronounced them man and wife,
he added, with a smile,
"Saninel, salute your bride."
The new made husband looked
all round the room, and seeing by
the mirth of the crowd that all was
not righl, he excitedly said, !
"You lust, nlassah!"iind, prompt
ed by a' look of the fond husband,
the -bride -'raised her ruby lips for
the expected kiss.
The tables had turned. The sur
prised minister stepped back, and
liesitatingly said, "I Will soon have
a .-bride lof 'my own to kiss." Chi
cuyo Xeirx.
. j - - .-;."''.'
JCNE-T-TlIK 0th DAUhHTKB OF
lS.S2.-This isai.ii4:d hot' happy repu"
tation-j.f Junevapples and .lune
bugs. The lioys liave lieeh anx
iously jc Hiking for her. May was
not miieh lieloved. Only one lieau
reignecj supreme with her the
rain bow.! There was a want of col
orific jerulean tints altout her
brow,
back.
iSlie had too much of a draw
-.i
'JTiere was considerable dis
satisfaction at her , conduct. But
.In lie, beuiitit'ul maiden, clothed ih
sunshine, scattered flowers on the
earth, while she dances-, to- the
music Ol the birds and 'brooks,' has
arrived.', She is finishing the work
that May left, undone, and is deck
ing the field in magic tapestry, and
arrayitig the valleys and hills in
rich attire: the chorister of every
grove warble carols in her praise
and all that sort of thing, you
know.i Well, we are glad June has
come. This is the "-luckiest month in
the year in which to marry that is
lucky for'the fellow if he gets his
girl. iY'7. jiobinsoH, Oraiue Ob
iter reri .
BinrLorti Tiik 0(iY. Speak
ing of,. ' Calviiiist brings up
a stijry .told me by AJr, Handy', of
Pliiladelphia, yesterday, about a
iiieetiBg between Senator Yance,'of
'North! Carolina, and Gov. Iloyt,
Pennsylvania, at Yorktown, 'one of
whonij had beeii in the Rebel anuy
and the oilier in t he Union , army.
Tlieii-
was a saloon convenient, into
which?they went, ami having had a
d ri nk 'oi' two, Vanee said to Iloyt:
. "What church do you bclong tof"
I'l-f-sbyti-iiaii." ' "
"I (ton't lw-lieve it," -said A'anee.
"So ihd mv," said Ibyt.
"What is Hie chief end of man?"
said Malice. - .
" "Tglorify G.Hl,"s;ihl Iloyt.
"Hight."
TheJn said Iloyt to 'ance: "How
niiinyf 'questions are there in the
catechism?" - ,
"Oe. hundred and thirty-eight."
"Kiglit." . - -
"What is sin?" said Vance.
Iloyt rattled oiit th- entire' defi
nitioi) f the Westminster divine.
aiid-Ys'l'.-ried:
Hight again. Now, let us take a
! trhii.r Unfit
IVfes.-air to chissica'l. student
"If Atlas supported the world, who
sup rted Atlas?" Student ''The'
(iU-sioii.' sir., lias often been asked,
but lieveivso far as I am a ware., sat
isfiicjtuilv answered. I have always
i t
lM'Ciu'of the opinion that Atlas must
i,;1V(J lri:u.,i,.,i a ,1,-1, 'Vifi. ami got
4 &iinrilt fVom her father'." .
; t
Ofd Scotch geiitleinan sitting in
Toronto 'ar-a young lady .-enters.
aiidimakes a rush for the topmost
seat.- 1 lie. car starts, ratlier sua
deiijy, the young lady lands on the
old j .-gentleman's - knee, blushing,
am exclaiming, "Oh! leg your pa r-
j doiy .' Old t.eu. 'Dinna) mention
! itrliissiit. I'd niyther .ia ye sittin'
011 toy Ituee than standing-on e-cre-
- : 'V
Seotch Humor. '
A Michigan loan dreamed re
cefitly 1 that his aunt .was deaeL
Tlfedreani liroye-d true. lie trie'tl
I th0 same dream 011 his
latv, but it didn't work..
i 1
mother-iii-
'
LV lucky' fellow
named Lamlert
i has wedded Miss Kothsirliild, with:
i u . i- :n;,.. ... 1 ir
a (dowry ol a 1111II1011 jmhiikIs. Hei
I wl-pt wheji be heard how rich she j
was, but finally resolved .'manfully i
tlUt the money should lie no bar
t.j their uioii. : ,
A Denver paper protease- to j
think it marvelous that a maiiii,.(,i : .1
whose brains were knocked out is
still living. - If he were out this
j way he weiuhl not einly le living,
: but he. woiihl le holding some im-
- 1 junta nt oflice. Louiirille Courier
r Journal.
A Tale of a Shirt.
ThetLegexdof Timkthk Gekat
Iowa Statesmen Vobe Oxe.
A gixxl, but not very clean shirt
story is told of General Sherman's
exjerience with- Henry Clay Dean.
The two had been friends for years,
and wlien Sherman became general,
and Dean hapiened to be in Wash
ington, the Litter, naturally enough,
felt a, desire to renew the old ac
quaintance. So he called at Sher
man's house, and the General re
ceived him with ojien amis. They
talked over old times, and nothing
would do but Dean, must stay to
dinner. "But, General," remon
strated Mrs. Sv "I can't havejsneh
a, dirty looking man at my fjable;
can't voir spruce him up a littlef"
The General said he'd fix that! and
so at an opiKirtu he moment hej hus
tled Mr. Dean upstairs, ransacked
a baui'o ami produced a clean
shirt for him to put on. Mrs Sher
man was molified, and the dinner
wax really a charming affair; for
there is no more delightful and en
tertaining and instructive 'conver
sationalist thaif Henry. Clay Dean.
One year after this event General
Sherman was at the Liudell hotel,
St. Lonis, with his family. A card
was brought up liearinj; Henry
Clay Dean's name'. "He is such a
charming talker, we must have ,hini
to dinner. Only you must see t hat
he, looks presentable.7' These were
madam's words to t ho warrior.
So Sherman .welcomed Dean, aud
just Ind'ore going to dinner flipped
nun into a side room ami gave him
a clean shirt to wear. Deauj doffed
his coat and vest, and, after! a brief
struggle, divested himself of the
shirt he had on a soiled, griminy,
black t hing, that looked as if it had
seen long and hard service, i Then
they all went down to dinner, and
Mr. Dean was more charming than
oyer, and Mrs. Sherman was1 iu ee
stacies. The next day, as;Mrs. Sher
man was getting her husbands duds
ami clothes together, preparatory
to packing .them for the jou ward
march, she gave a sort of "ja wild,
haunted scream. "What i it, my
dear!" called the General from the
next rmnn. "Just look heje for a
ininute," replied Mrs. Sherman, be
tween faint gasps. a The General
went in. There stood Mrs. Sher
man, holding in her hand -the le
giiinnicd shirt Henry Clay Dean
had left.- With her right hand she
pointed to certain initials) on the
lower end of the liosoin. The ini
tials read "W. T. S." It was' the
same identical shirt General Sher
man had loaned Henry Clay Dean
in Wasnington twelve months lie-
fore. .
Vance's Committee Getting in
ts Work.
The committee ivestigating this
district has already unearthed
enough to .cause a stench. We
publishe'd last week "the proeif
that .Mm Ilarriss a corrupt and im
prudent negro,was Imiiiic on the
pay rolls of the revenue lotlice of
thisolaci- for nine mouth-ti iu 1HSO. I
'at lh a .month.; During jhis time
he was going around making o-
liticar speeche-s, telling white . her chamlx r, iU-compiiiiietl ly !r.
how 'to vote, though 'it i' claimed f l'"'ott, who wa desirous i f w ifnesHM--.
by tlie ' revenue crowd tlut his , ' ' it'rview. The wife or Jdl.
biiisness was that of a .spy on the Allen was a pious weiman, ami bad
white men of t his district. . If so,1 instructed her daughter in the prin
how many elistillerleadid litcaiturJj.l,,'H of '1r'H''''t''
ami why was it nee essary j to send 1 As 80011 stM ,M'r tMh?r ll'''d at
to Raleigh for a negro to" shadow j ber bedside ahe said to him, "I am
the white people f tlie west, any-. s,,MM,t f"?1"' ? ball I. U lieve in I he
how f V ! principle 'you have; taught me, r
Following is a telegram from ! s,,all I U-lieve in what my mother
Washiiigtoii, ilate.l June J5th:- j
"Thet-mimittee invest idif iu' t he I
crooketlness in the sixth North j'l, bin whole frame shiMik ; and.af "
Carolina collection district met to-1 !,'r w'yif' niomentt, lie re-,
day and had on the witmvs stand I pld, "lUlieve what your mother
A. I. Gillespie, now Ciiited States 'aught you." "
ganger, and formerly deputy e ol ! A leath la'd iu fearful tester,
lector in sai.l district. Ire refused I -VI o who, while iu health ami
to answer,' on the gromrd f hat if jtreiigf h, loudly boast en" their skep
he did so he wiaild erimiipite him j tu' i principles ami ridicule religion
self. The committee ill meet i fiierally the first, on appioiuh
again Satunbiy, when it i claimed, of death, or even Mickne-s lo hlld
most 'damaging testimony will t ; ,1,,r wi1' ,n'i,r ! Kv'" t,r HobU-H,.
e-licited." !. - ; the e-eh-biate-d infidel, it is ree-ordeel
Nextisa soiicialofthe .if th. from ! ,,,:,t ,nM "ot bear Im left
Washington, to the Kichftiond "-
j patch, referring, to the testimony
taken em Saturday last.- ; me nigiir. . ne never ctmid end 11 re
"Governor Vance's special e-om- i'lHiy'diHcourse nlxHit eleath 1 ' lull
inirtce further examined into f he ; delity has 110 coiiKoLrtiiMi for its un
ci eKikcdness in f he sixth Koith Car- bappy followers iu the testing hour.,
olinaceillection iliHtriet, and elicited'! f' lH Sintihvf Jlaja:ipf.
a gKl deal of testimony going to
show that there was good reason for, lif.. ;T,. h4Min.1M ()f ,u
theinvesligation. F.ir exainp!e,W. j ;ire not in Uh. WMIIltrv jn vhU
w tr. .i .. . 1 . 1:1.. 1... , . . .
II. Kextler tfstilietl that while he
was only employeel a month and
received veiuchers were filed
11..., ... f t.. i.. 1...
! 1
J had reeeive-d H 1,125. The vouchers
! were duly sworn to by tlie e-ollction
oflici-.ils. C:iit:iin lf;imsj-v t-stitii-il
- , ' -
that he only received 1(W a month
from March 1st, 1872,: to June :id,
lS73,Iit vouchers were, file-tl which
claimed that he had been paid i50
a mouth during the ri.sl narneel.
There waa more testimeuiy ofthis
i character.',
Senater Vance and Hepresena-
five Arnifield senel worel that if
ueithiiig ineire is unearthexl than has
- the investigatiein is a great
i sue-cess. Statesville lAtmlmarL.
THE QUIET HOUR.
Select ions for Sunday Reading
The Hem of His Garment
She only touched the hem of Hi
garment ' - v
As to Hisiside she sNJe, ' " ..
Amid the crowd that1 gathered
immnd Him
And wtraightway he was whole
She came in fear ud tivmbling he-;
; fore Him, '
She knew her Lord hml comei: .
She felt that from Him virtue had
healed her
The mighty deed was done. ' ;
le tufnetl with "Daughter, W of
giMMl comfort ! -A
Thv In it h hath mmletrwe whole!"
Ami mihw that passethall under
standiug, "
y With gladness, tilknl hei4 wmiI,
(. F. Ktt,
VlCTOW HVOO O.N iMMOKTALITY.
I feel in myself the future life.- I
anl like a foivst which has lieen
more than once cut dwn. The.
new shots are stmnger and liveli
er than ever. 1 am rising, I know
towanl the sky. The mnishine is
ou my head. The earth gives me.
genenms sap, but heaven lights ute
with the reflection of unknown
worlds. Yoii say the Void is noth-
Cng.but the resultant of bodily jnw- .
ers. Why then, is my soul the more
luminous wheif my liodily jKiwers
iiegin to fail. . Winter is on , my
he;Kl aind eternal spring is iu my
heart. Thus I breathe, at (his hour,
the fnigrance oTthe lihws, the vio
lets and the hises, as at twenty
years. The nearer I apprtmch .the
end the plainer I hear ariouiid' ine
the immortal symphonies of the i
worlds which invite me. It is mar- ;
velous yet simple. It is a fairytale,
and it is a history. For half a cen
tury I have been writingmy thoughts
in prose, verss history, philosophy, -drain
a, i-onianee, tradition, satire, .
mIo, song I have tried all. But I
fei-I that I have not said one fhou
saiidth jiartof wjiatis in me. When 1
I go down to the grave l oan say, .
like so many others, "I haveWii- v
ished my day's work," but I can ;
uot aay "1 have finished my life."
My day's work will Iiegin again the
next morning. , The tomb is not a ,
blind alley ; it is a thoroughfare. It -closes
in the twilight to open with .
the dawn I iuiprove- every hour
lKi-ause I love this world as my
fatherland, btM-ause the. truth com
jm'Is ine, as it compelled Voltaire,
to human divinity. My work is
only a ln-ginning. My monument
is hardly alxive its foundation. I -wojild
h ghul to see it mount ing
and iiiomiting forever. '. The thirst
for the infinite proves infinity. ';.- .' .''"
The . HVixu DAi oiiTKn. Dr. ',
Elliott, who .was well acquainted
with the celebrated Col. Kt hail A I .
It-n, visited him at a time when his
daughter wassick and near to death.
He was iutnMluced o the library, r
when the.Coloiiel read to him some
of hh writings, with much wlfcom-placeii-y,
and listed, "Is not that
well done f While they werethiM
employed, a messenger entered and .
iii('ii'iii-d Col. Alleii that hi duugh-
u'r was dying, anil desire..! to iM-ak
him. He'immedhtcly went to
"".'"' wr ' '
tremely agitatetl ; his
lecamc ex-
eiini tiuivei-T
-J,,
; ter
alom-, mid use-d to awake in great
terror if his candle went oiit duriHg
j The lieliever's
is a Miperbnmait
sojourns, Imt in the higher lauds, be
yond. His lives in Genl, and thus
oxiierieiie-c jH-rreunial joy even
when earthly springs are dry, or are
turned te bitterness. ..
A elevoiit tIifMiglit,a pious denire,
a hely purjHiKe, is U tter than a,
great estate or an earthly kiugelom.
In eternity it will amuunt to uiere
to have given a cup of e-oll water,
with right motives, o an ; bumble
Kervant ef-lod, Hiaii to have U-cii
tlatteml by a wheIe generation
Dr. Camming.
:"IlHlieveSt. Jarsolw Oil to lie the.
very best remeely kuowu to man
kind." says Mr. Koherts, btisineMH
manager of this pafer. Milwaukee
(Wis.) Sentinel.