North Carolina Newspapers

7 WILSON ADYHTCE. Published Evert Friday At Wiuson, Nobth Carolina, -by JOSEPH'S H.MELS, - EJiWr ami Pwpricfor Rates' of Advertising. WILSON ADVANCE. n "vi i u it r s-i "V i . - .. i I K I TV K ! ' r A k TT T fl Tl 1 ihi m v w m m m ii dv A n;q :ih; ; Scbsoription Rates in Advance one Yi-r. - - J six Months ... 1 w t-m-Mowr can be sent by Money Order or fgiWrtxl Letter at our risk. 0rnc r.Tarbor Street, in the Old Post Offl HulWinif. - -' NEWS OF A' WEEK :o:- G TH KWKI FROM ALL PARTS . (l THE WORLD. FESCIU I SOS- OLKANIXU8 The most slippery letters iu the alphaliet I in. Mr. S. II. Loftin is going to open abauk in Kiiinton. The liest thing in print a pret ty girl in a calico dress. Durham has sold a third more to. hacco this year than any previous one. The Goldsboro 'Bulletin" tells of a sheep iu Wayne county with four horn's. t9riL-io art liitt i UKUITeCtlOIl Of labor," says General Francis A. Walker. ' j. The Georgia legislature is dis cussing a bill to prohibit Sunday excursions. The Louisville Exposition will continue one hundred days from August first. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Whisky is a curse and that's probably the reason why so many cursed fools drink it. Never -propose to a girl in writ ing. It is "present company" that is always ''accepted." Anew Philadelphia engine has just made a fast trial trip, averag lng sixty -five miles an hour. A Dakota editor sneaks of John Bright as being "the inventor of a very successful disease of the kid neys." Raleigh is to have, her streets lettered and houses numbered,--preparatory to establishing a free mail delivery. Judge, Bennett" when on the IksiicIi refused to accept railroad passes and he is the only one we have heard doing so. Rutherford ton has an ugly social scaudal. A Shelby paper says the Injured husband has brought suit against a young doctor. The steamer California, from Vera Cruz- is quarantined at Bal timore, having had four deaths from yellow fever on the passage. 1IT .4 ... tt.,.4. A WC-SlClll 111 ll UL'KCl lU.ll the man who stops his paper to economize ought to cut, his nose off to keep frtiu buying handkerchiefs. The nearest to heaven ot any Suuday School in America is the one recently organized at , Hancock, Col. It is 1 1,000 feet above the sea. Gov. Grover Cleveland wishes to lie elected TJ. S. Senator. He says that is the goaj of his ambition. He is not looking to the " Presi del icy. The editor of the Tarboro "South erner" favors the annexation of Canada and predicts that the an uexation will take place within for ty years. '-' : O.H.Foster. Esq., of Raleigh, lias uiade himself famous by rescu ing a lieautifnl (ieorgia lady Irom the -ruel waves of the Atlantic at Morehead. Mr. Liu her Bridgers, son of Hon. R.R. Uridgers," President of the W v : u. lv.. died of consumption at Asheville last week, lie was about 2-'l years of age. A curious spring in St. Tammany parixu, i,a., runs clear cold water all day long, but .'at sunset goes onL denly dry, discharging no water until the sun rises. ' . - - The N.O. Amatuer Press Associ ation will hold tlie ir Convention at Burgaw on August loth. Ilex. J. X. Stalling "has been invited -'to address the Asstx-iat ion. An Ohio farmer who had barbed wire fences says that he gets one ' fourth more work out of his: hired men than lie used to- when he fur- nished a top rail to sit on. N. P. Willis, the great isiet, well aud truly said, "a flirt is like a dip ler attached to a hydrant ; every one is at liberty' to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away. " Rev. D. A. 'Lung, A. M., Presi dent of Graham . Normal College, Graham, N. C, has Wen unani mously elected President f Anti wh College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. A Wisconsin firm believer in a hell o actual Hie for sinners has lit 1 up his cellar with painted flames, woode,, demons' aud other- horrors Here he takes his children ler whin Ping. 1 "Anxious Enquirer"' asks us how be may "learn to write well.'' Write it w-e-M, my )K ..There ' be ' those who write it witu one 1; but the best authors double the final conso .. nant., ' :: p .Mr.Edward Ricbardsonlof Mis. :mPP, the world's greatent cotton Planter,, has seventeen thousand m me-stapie under cultivation v,.season. Mr. Richardson is a oria Carolinian. VOLUME 13.-- The rates of fare for ronnd trip tickets to the Louisville Exposition are as follows, via. the French Broad route : Goldsboro, $24.30, Raleigh, 22.95, Greensboro, $20.25; Charlotte, $18.90. Some Western crank, bearing the suggestive name of Logan!, adver tises in a Chicago paper that he will pay one thousand dollars to any mob who will lynch a white man for murdering a uegro. Old Abram's wisest remark: "Ef do descendants ob de rooster what crowed at Peter was to make a nois ebery time a lie is told, dar would be such a nois in de world dat .3-011 couldn't heah de hens cackle." TheKinston "Press" stales that woods from near the mouth of Con tentuea Creek have been shipped from Newbern to Boston to be ex hibited in North Carolina's mag nificent display at the exhibition in that city this fall. M. A. Dauphin, of the Louisiana Lotterv Company, has entered suit iu the District Court of Washing ton City, agaiust Walter Q. Gresh. am, IW Master General, for $100, OOO damages for refusing him the privilege of the mails. Mr. James Meares, a young son of Judge Meares, of Wilmington, committed suicide at Waynesville last week by cutting his throat. The young man had been dis charged from the asylum, where he had been for treatment for some mental disorder. Short but suggestive- The opera tor at Culpepper, Va., who struck, received an offer from the manager of the Washington, i. C, office to reiairt there for work at $90 a month- His answer was a dispatcli which read: "Judas Iscariot has been dead 1800 years." Milwaukee reorts a rare in stance of fraternal attention, a voting mam' there got his brother under the influeuce of drugs and then eloped with his wife. Such tender solicitude in bearing anoth er's burdens is seldom evinced 111 this selfish world. Mr. Ed. Wortheu, a young me chanic of considerable genius, says the Charlotte "Observer," has pat ented what is said to be a most ex celleut cotton press. He calls it the Acme. One was tested at his machine shops yesterday and pack ed a 7f0 pound bale. "He kisfted me on the steps last night," is the way a ioeni just re ceived at this office commences. We shall not publish it. Any fel low who is such a fool as to kiss a girl on the steps instead of on the lips here hold on, hold on what are you doing : According to the Moore "Gazette' an engagement of "hug aud kiss" down there makes a fellow so crazy that he goes home bareheaded through the rain, puts his umbrella iu bed aud stands himself in the rack to drip and diy till morning. We ho"ie it was all love. Col. Jack .Brown, a Georgia Re publican, called on Postmaster General Greshain t,his week, and in the course of conversation the Postmaster General frankly de clared to the astonished Col. Jack that "The Southern Republicans are the damndest set of scoundrels who have come in my .way since my advent into my present jtositioii." Mr. Jas. M. Smith, the farmer, who while ploughing in his fields near Greeuslioro" a few weeks since turned up a diamond which was emliedded in au emerald of great size and leauty, lett for New York with his treasure Saturday. He will have the value of the stmes fixed by experts. He was 'offered several thousand dollars for the stones by a Richmond, Va., jewel er. There is a cotton factory loom in Durham, says the "Plant," Mr. James H. Rnffin, a son or Judge Thomas Ruftin, since his gradua tion at Chapel Hill some years ago, has been in a cotton factory north aud is thoroughly conversant with all the details of the busiuess, is in Durham urging the people to build One gentleman took stock to the amount of $10,000 and the pros pects for the early building of the proiosed factory are good. Raleigh "Visitor :" S. II. Grego ry, the iostal clerk on the boat be tween Franklin, Va., and Eden ton, N t, was robbed of a letter pouch containing fourteen registered packages, between the steamboat lauding and the postoffice at Eden ton, on Monday uight last. The thief came up behind the agent aud wrenched the pouch from his hand and escaped in the bushes. The bachelor editor of the Chica go "Iuter-Ocean is excited. Hear him ; "There are in Boston sixty niue women taxed over $100,000, five over $500,000 and two over $1, 000,000. Now, it" the" statistician had told how many of them were spinsters and widows he would have struck a key-note. There are great many men looking around in search of a visible means of sup port." ESMERALDA. . ,.T,rrTT un a pnt.TKY" FARMER FOUND HIS GLRL. AX AFFECTIXO SCENE. There are few more pathetic stories of the stage than this inci dent of the comedy of "Esmeralda." "Old Bald Mountain', is situated in a western county of North Car. olina, one of the poorest sections of that state. Mr. Eben P. Carroll was the owner of a rocky farm in that section some years ago and lived frugally with his dainty little girl of seventeen years, Emma by name. Emma was in love with a neighboring blacksmith's son. Her father encouraged the lovers, and they were to have leen married on the 17th of August, 1 80. Andy Metcalf, her lover, was an uncouth, handsome fellow of about thirty, with all the honesty and awkward ness of a backwoods Nortn Laro lluian training, while Emma was an artless graceful little thing, who knew no life or romance without Andy. Well will it le remembered, that on the 17th of Aufnst, 1880, there was a" terrific eartliquaken tne vi- . . cinity of "Old Bald ."Mountain," which did much damage-to that lo. eality. The nuptials of Andy and Emma were just being performed when the awful rumbling of the eart h aroused the villagers; there was a rocking for a moment of the little log cabin church, a shattering of the lamps, then a crash; then darkness and chaos. The next morn. ing the village looked sad indeed. Twenty people were found charred aud crushed under the church. The young bride and groom were among the missing; but few bodies were reckonizable so thoioughly bad the awful work been done. Old Eben Carroll was heart broken. His onby child had been taken from him "gone," as he said, "tojine her mother, bless'em both, an' I hope to meet 'em soon." He went about half crazed for weeks, and finally sold his farm for a trifling sum, aud determined to go East to his brother, who was a well to-do store keeper in New York. Iu the great city Ebeu was es corted to the theatres nightly by Seth Carroll who hoped that in the mimic theatrical world his brother would forget his own wretched lifer So one night they together visited the Madison Square Theatre. It was during the run of "Esmeralda," and Ebeu had asked his brother to take him, as the "Herald' saidit was a charming story of North Carolina Dear old North Carolina, at once the scene of his joys and sorrows. When the curtain ascended the big tears swelled up in the old man's eyes at the sight of his own "Bald Mountain." He could hardly be lieve his own eyes. There was the same spinning wheel, the old hick ory bench, the same rag carpet, etc., that used to adorn his littl hut at home. "Why, lookee thar, Seth," he winspereii, irs tne gennywine thing, ain't it Lor don't I wish my little girl was here with us.' His brother made 110 answer, not wishing to draw him out on au un pleasant subject and the play pro ceeded. Ali went well until the word for '"'Esmeralda's" entrance w'as spok en, and Anne Russell's head apear ed at the door, bik'ked by her lov er's, Dave Hardy. Miss Russell's face was hardly in full view liefore an exclamation of pain issued from the auditorium, and the ushers 'si lently and quickly led out a wrink led, awkward, grizzly face old man. It was Eben Carroll, and he was saying, "My poor lit He Emma. How did she get here, I wonder, and who brought her f Oh, broth er, did you see her sweet face, as she stood in the door for a minute with a little yallar pail in her hand! Oh! oh!" "But, Eben, your mind must lie wandering; that is not j our little dead girl, but Miss Anne Russell. Did you not read the programme" "Yes' I know you think she is dead and so did I until to night, when! saw her right thar iu front of my two eyes, right iu shadow of the Old Bald Mountain. But, brother, thar's something wrong in this ! That was not Mr. Russell I seed in that theatre, but my own little girl, my Emmy ! Don't hold me please, but let me see the boss of this year show, or I shall die! Quick! I tell yer, I must know about my little girl!" Argument would not avail, and a few moments later Air. Daniel Forhman, the theatre's manager, politely received the sobbing old man. His mission was explained and Mr. Frohnian informed Eben that Miss Russell had beeu known to mm personally for years, and conlil not possibly be his daugh ter. ' But the old man persisted in say ing "It is my daughter or her sper. LET A" THE ESIDS THOU AIHI'ST AT, BE TOY COUNTRY'S, WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 3. 1883. ret, I tell yon," until Mr. Frohman consented to take! him behind the scenesduringthe entireactindcalled outAnneEussell. Shewas just dress ing for the ball-room scene and answered from within, "in a min ute please." The sound of her voice iairly crazef the old man, who now nearly fainted in anguish "O, 1 tell you it'3 my own dar. ter. I'd know her voice among a thousand 1 Do you bring her up a little or I shall die awaiting!" Five minutes later, "Esmeralda's"' dressing room door opened, and Annie Russell apj eared in her Parisian ball room dress. She passed by Eben to shake hands with Mr. Frohman, and he did not even recognize the girl who attired in the home-spun, back-woods garb of a few moments ago, had so brought up his lamentable by-gone misery. "Miss Rnssell, allow me to pre. sent Mr. Carroll, ; who wishes to sjeak to you," said Mr. Frohmau. 'Happy to meet you, Mr. Car roll," said E8meralda' extended her Bernhardt gloved hand to the old man. But be did not take it. He was confused and blushing, and moved about awk wardly. At last he found speech to say, ''Wall, it's lucky you chaug- ed that dress or you would . never Jiev played another act" to-nigh t for I would a swore you , was myT own little girl w no lias been ..miss ing from" us nigh unto three years You look just like her in that blue and white check 1 rock, and your voice was sweet jest like hers, and I was jest going to pick you up in m' arms when I seed you and tote yon offhum back to North Caroliny witu me. lou'll excuse the mis take, Miss, won't 3 ou, please!" He could sa3- no more, his voice grew husky with emotion. "Miss Ritssell!" yelled the call boy just then, and 'Esmeralda' bounded awaj- like a frightened fawn. 'Well, now, that you're satisfied," said Mr. Frohman,' let me see you back to your seat in the, theatre where I hope you'll enjoy the rest of the play." "Is Miss Russell a coram' out agin in that Who and white check dress and yaller pale any more!" "No no more during the rest of the play. She is supposed to be rich and in Paris now," replied Mr. Frohman. "Wall, then, excuse me,' please. I don't think I care to see any more. She looks too much like my lost little girl, aud I couldn't bear to see my Emmy in those Parysheeu frills and gewgaws. Much obligedf Mr. Frohmau, but I guess I'll go home. Excuse my foolishness, won't you!" "Certainly." ' And the poor old niau from "Old Bald Mountain" went out wiping his eyes with his coat sleeves. A Successful Elopement. Young jieople or old one; for that matter who contemplate elo. ping should see to it lieforebaud that all their plans are as carefully laid as were those of a yonng farmer at La Grange, fi a., who elo. ped with a schoolgirl from the sem inary at that place. It was twen ty miles to Franklin, where they were to lie married; and so to cut off pursuit the yonng man engaged every horse and buggy in the place, with orders not to let any one havethem without a written order from- him. Taking the girl in his own wagon, they started at a swift pace. It was fully half an hour be fore the superintendent was made acqnainted with the facts, and when he did learn t hem his first-move was to hire a horse and buggy; but wherever he went the horses aud buggies were engaged. He finally had to start in pursuit on horse back, but the two were then miles away, going ahead. After tUey had traversed ten miles they got a fresh horse and buggy, which had been prepared, and went on with renew ed speed. In the meantime the superintendent had nearly given out. They arrived at k rankim ana were married, and on returning picked up the superintendent whom Mr and Mrs, Abrams carried back home in one of their buggies. Mr. Feabodi's Example. Enoch Pratt, the wealthiest cit izen of Baltimore, last week execut ed a deed of property of the Pratt Free Library, oii Mulberry street, to the city of Baltimore, aud gave his check for $333,3333, which will lie invested in city bonds for the sup. port of the library. The building is nearly completed, an d the library will be ready for use as "soon as the interior is made ready to receive it. " " - " ; '" ' Dr. Gatchell came near being drowned at All Healing Springs. He jumped into a lake fifteen feet deep. The Charlotte Journal-Observer says : "He had sunt twice and was going under the. third time when Dr. Garrett and the other men hooked him out on dry land. The nsaal restorative opera tions were gone through with and in due course of time the imprudent bather came around all right. SOME REASONS -:o:- AVHY PEOPLE CUT THE GOLD EN CHORD. QUEER SUICIDES. The published account of 1,006 suicides contain queer stories. It will hardly be credited that a man would kill himself because liii mule died, but a report from North Car olina, in October, says that "Ca leb Hobbs committed suicide on account of the death of a mule to which he was attached. The mule died Friday and the owner wept over it until to-day, when hew- marked that be could not live with. out his mule, and mixing a lot of whiskey and laudanum, swallowed it. He was found dead. Another tale from Ohio is barely creditable, as it relates that one Joseph Ku der, "on trial at the small village of Touagony, for kissing the wife of a recently married man, commit ted suicide by taking arsenic"; An Oregon j outh, aged nineteen years loved his cousin and shot himself through'the heart after transcribing on a visiting card the words: "My Faxnie, no man has ever died for yon." A small market gard ener in Illinois hung himself be. cause his corn was rotting in . the ground. Another Illinois man shuf fled off his mortal coil because he had lost his best boy and best cow and didn't want to live any longer- A superstitious merchant in New York cut his throat because a cus tomer sent him a letter asking for the latest quotations in looking glasses. An extravagant wife of a poor Colorado doctor swallowed arsenic because her leuieut father who had supplied her with money for many years, hail resolved to draw the striug of his money bag closer, aud not send her any more money, as he was desirous of her becoming more economical in her ways. A Missouri man was overcome with shame ou le arning that his sou hat stolen a watoh, ami ended his woe by a dose of poison. An Ohio young man drowned himself because his "Clara" had jilted him in the following style: You may say I am jierfection. Say you love to see me smile; You may tell me that you love, i Though you're jesting ' all the while; Y"ou may whisper loving pleadings, Woo me with a gentle sigh, But your vows like chaff will scatter You'll forget me by and by. A New Jersey inventor devised a corn busker, which was a failure because it only worked satisfac tory ou large ears; therefore he sui" cided. A SanFrancisco hunchback left word behind him that blood rushed to his head, .whioh seemed to be shrinking through his shoul ders and his liones were tangled one with another rendering him wild with pain. The force of exam ple is remarkable; a St. Louis shoe maker shot himself because- he liv ed within a block of a shoemaker who severed his jugular vein, aud this deed preyed ujsui his mind A sailor tied a rope around his neck and leaped overboard. His body was toyed into a port before lteing discovered. A Vermont wid ow hiinsr herself with a skein of 3'arn. A Virginian made four at tempts to take his life, and finally committed snicide by shooting him self through the head with a shot gun. The muzzle of the weapon was placed agaiust his right eye and discharged by a string fasten ed to the trigger. A Pennsylvan ia wheelwright used a hatchet, a knife and a rope. With the hatch et he struck himself three times on the back of the head, with , the knife he severed his windpipe, but missed the jugular vein, and with the rope he strangled himself. Au Illicola mechanic hung himself to a ladder in the bell lower of a church and was discovered by a frighten ed sextoii. A Californian spread a blanket 0.1 the floor by the side of his bed, tied a small rope around his neck so as to draw through a loop, aud tying the oth er end around the top of t;he bed Iost, less than two feet above the floor, lay down with his right arm under his head, and strangled to death. Au Iowa farmer cut his wrists with a plane, and afterwards hung himself to a fence five feet high. The distauce was so short that in order to produce death he was obliged to draw his knees up even with his eyes and hold them there with his elbows. An old man of eighty years, living in Western New York, foretold the day of his death, and to fulfill his prediction cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor which he held in oue hand aud which he had tied with a string so it could not move when doing rakerile hisT wUh' giat powder, and was blown to shreds, 0 7" I J Friend. . a 11 tiia ,lav of nr w . , , . . . . . . . . ei 113 David aod Jonathan. THY GOD S, AND TRUTHS'." I had suddenly been called away from home on business, which de tained me a week; aud when I re turned, they told me he was dead. went immediately to his home to look upon the face I loved so well. - . ' "V . , As I approached, t saw the house wore an air of deep g!oom, the shutters were closed, and a pieca of crape hung from the door knob. I entered . his room, and there I saw the friend of my youth my only friend stretched ' upon his couch locked in the cold em brace of death, and ready; "in his narrow cell to be forever laid.'"' I glanced upon that "face, which,, when I last saw it, was glowing with life and beauty; but now the icy seal of death was upon it. Those lips from which' so often flowed words of love, were forever dumb. Those bright blue eyes, which in time past, had looked so lovingly iu to mine, were closed, to open no more. , , And as I though t of these things the memories of the past came rushing upon tne in overwhelming force. I thought wo again stood upon the bill, aud to gether watched the setting sun. I felt his iiaud again upon my should, er, his breath upon ray cheek; and heard again his sweet voice as he told ineliow beautiful an emblem of man's death and resurrection is the rising and setting of the siiti. We wandered again. armJand '!aTm, over green fields, sweet with ' the flowers of May, and listened to the songs of birds as thev snug their matin hymns.1 And as we sat by the little stream that flows t hrough yonder meadow, he taught - me to love Him, who maketh his loved ones "to lie down in green pastures, and lead e-tb them besides the . still waters." ' . Every spot associated with him came to my mind. We again sat beneath the spreading elm, ; and looked out upon the growing corn gleaming in the midday sun. Then in the long winter nights we would pour over the inspired, pages of Virgil. How ready was he -with many a little kindness, to help me over the rough plaees, and to ex plain every doubtful passage! Sometimes the immortal Paradise Lost would be onr delight, ' and we would read and re-read with nndi minished interest, "of man's first disobedience, and the frn.it of that forbidden tree, whose taste brought death into the world, -and-all our woe." - V. ' Shakesiieare, too', claimed a share of our attention; aud we saw iu 'the foremost ma ip all the world,' the danger of yielding - to ? nnholy ambitiou; and mingled our tears as we read the sad fate'of the unhap py Romeo and Juliet. T en he would take down his Bible from its place and read aloud the story of the cross, of repeut nice and salva tion, of t he riyer of life that flows hard bythethroue of God, and thatgracious invitatiou,-''whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely." These and many other remembrances came swelling in the lull flood tide upon 1113 heart; and then I wept to think that so . pure a soul had 'withdrawn forever its light from mortal ken. I looked upon that marble brow the seat of. a noble intellect and wondered if God didn't have enough saiuts in Heaven to have Jspared us this one to ennoble aud . benefit mankind, lint siuce he has liee-n relieved of all the burdens of life, and has gone to enjoy that rest which is prepared for the childreu of God," and now tunes his golden harp to the praise of his Redeemer, why should I grieve for him! I dreamed last night that I saw him standing in the midst ot a bright angelic host, with a crown njion his brow; and he beckoned me to come to Iti nt. Please God, when the joys and sorrows of life are over, I'll rejoin him there; and together we'll walk the golden streets of the. 1 New Jerusalem; pluck the fruits of the tree of life; and dwell lieneath the shadow of our Father's throne. Uses of the Fly. The fly has its uses.' He serves to keep bald-headed sinners aw ake at chnrcti on a warm summer's day, so that their unregenerated hearts may be touched 13- the preached i word. He also encour ages the spirit of invention, induc ing the inventive to tax their brains in contriving fl3--traps. AS it is tlirongh trials alone that a patient spirit reaches its full and complete development, the fly is a useful agent iu the good work; for the man who can patiently endure the iersistent efforts of a fly to alight upon the end of his nose on a warm da3", has very nearly reach ed the perfection of patient beati tude. "Your sou has been knocked off railway and killed exclaimed a man, approaching au Arkansas colonel, "Who knocked him offf" excitedly demanded the colonel. "A railway engine". 'Well, that be- P"8'10 Win matters, for I knew , devilish well he wasn't knocked off I bv any ordinary roan. Hewasone " of the bojs, let me teD jo..." CIRCUS ON FIRE! -:0: SCENES OF TERROR AMONG THE AUDIENCE- MASX rEJTSO.XS IIUJtT- Norfolk, Va., July " 0t h. A thrilling scene took place, jn the city of Portsmouth night before last. Between 4000 and 5000 men women aud children attended the exhibition of N'athau & Co's. circus. After the performance had com menced the wind began to blow quite heavily, causing considerable movement of the canvas. The crowd, however, remained quiet, although they watched attentively a large rent which had been '-'made 111 the canvas by the wind, and wnicn was momentaruv growing larger, the canvas being very old A horse was brought 011 lor the use of one of the bareback erlbriners, ami ins ruler mounted him and at tempted to go on with his part of the ierforniance, but the horse seemed to lie aware of t he impend ing danger and refused to stay in the ring. It was at this juncture that the wind struck the tent with great violence,' .tearing the; canvas from the centre imUv to the side curtain and causing many nf the side eiriiainsto fall. The -crowd then lecame panic-stricken and began to rush for the entrance in a wild endeavor to escape. Soon the cry of "Fire T'. was heard above the screams of women and children and the shouts of men, and t he panic sir cken .crowd ' tec.aiue perfectly delirious with tenor. The oil lamps iu the ring had set fire to the canvas, aud it vva- burning furious- I3-, but a deluge of rain commenced falling, ' aud it extinguished the flames after the tent w;is about half destroyed. Vonieii and chil dren were kuoeked down ami run over, fathers and mothers were separated rom their children, catl ing on all they met to aid them iu finding their lost ones. A few men only proved equal to the occasion, and stood bravely righting the flames and assisting the women and children out from among the debris, eitlrerTiy tearing or cutting the cailvas. To add to the difficul ties of escaping, all who emerged ou the outside ot the tent were suddenly, precipitated into a ditch about five feet deep, fully grown 11 p with briars. " Here the ladies, chil dren and men were piled in inex tricable confusion, and the females were almost denuded of clot h ing. To add to the terror, all the fire bells cominoDced to ring and the steam whistles' to- signal alarms, throwing the city into great ex citement and. turning out the whole population. A great many people were badly hart and had limb's broken, biit no one was killed out right. ' - The Life of Man, I torn, of woman, is of a few days and no teeth. And, indeed, it would lie money in his jMtcket soinetiin.es if he has less of either. As for his days, he wasteth on third of them, and as for his teetli ie has convulsions- when, he cuts them, ami as tlie last ones conies through, lo. 'the dentist is twisting the first one on t, and the last end of man's jaw is worst than the first. being full of porcelain and a 100I plate built to hold blacktwrry si-cdff. Stoue bruises line his patliwav to manhood:' his father boxes'-his ears at homo, the big lioys curt' him on the play ground and the teach er whips him in the school' room Tie buveth Northwestern at 1 10, when he hath sold short at, 00, and his neighlior iinloadeth upii him Iron Mountain at tt 5-S, and it straightway breaketh down to.2 4-2.. He riseth early and sitteth up late that he may fill his barns and storehouses, and lo ! his children's law vers- divide the spoil, among themselves and say, "Ha, ha!" I It J owleth and is sore distressed because 'it raineth, and he lieateth ; uioii his breast and sayfth, "My crop is lost!"-' because it raineth not. The late raiuji blight his wheat aud the frost biteth his peaches. H it be so that the sun shineth among the nineties, he sayeth. "Woe is me, for I perish',." and if tlie northwest wind singeth down iu forty-two lie low, he crieth, "Would I were dead.'" If we wear sack cloth and blue jeaus men say, "He is a tramp," and if he goeth forth shaven and clad in purple and fine linen all the people cry,. "Shoot the -dude!" He carrieth iusurance for twenty five years, nutil - he ha paid twice over for all his goods, then he let teth hia policy lapse one day, and that same uight fire destroyeth his store. He buildeth him a hoaseiuJer sey, and his first born is devoured by mosquitoes; he pitcheth his tent in New York and tramps devour his substance. He movetb to Kansas and a cycloue camtlPThL house house away over int Missouri, whlie a prairie fire and ten million acres of gra.ssbopperanght for his crop. lie set tie th himself in Ken- -NUMBER 25 tucky and is shot the next day by a gentlemnn, a Colonel and states man "lecause,' sah, he resembles a man he did not like, sah." Verily there is no rest for the sole ot his foot, and if he had it to do over again he wonld not lie born at all all, for the day of death is better thau the day of o&e's birth." A Good Fwmer. We wish there were a whole race of Sanderlins ami that they were scattered promiscuously all ovei orth Carolina Jnst hear how Col. Creeey talks about one of them in the .KroMOMM.- "On Friday Rev. G. W. Saiiderlin, on his California farm in Pasquotank county, cut ov er with a reaier nearly thirty acres in timothy from which he housed fifty tons or hay. It made altout one ton and a half of hay to the acre. He will cut over the same land in September. This crop was made without the use-of rertiliters and shows what can he done iu raising tho grasses in our county. We owe Mr. Saudeiiin debt of gratitude for his efforts to intro duce lietter crops and better agri culture among us. lie first raised .. : ... . , . .luniii us auu buowi-u tne ca pabilities of our highlands in the production of that valuable 'crop, He is a progressive and enterpris ing agriculturist and is doing ranch for the benefit of our timid and slow farmers.- Oi his planlatiou in Wayne .county he aims to supply me want 01 tabor by the introduc tion of labor-saving machinery, With two boys,fonr mules aud two cult i vators he does the work of eight men, eight mules and eicht ulows. Such a man is a public bencfactor utid deserves lietter of his country man the whole race ol politicians put together. An Editor's Disappointment. We are told a good one on the sprightly Capt. Tom Evans, of the Milton "Chronicle" and Reidsville 'Times,", says Frank Towell iii the ''Southerner." Some time ago a rich old man in Person county sent for editor Tom'., in great haste. Capf. E. knew that the old fellow had 110 relations, and fondly mused as he went along over the proba bility of a large inheritance. - 'l'iu glad you've come," wild the old man, n a deathly whisper, "Come closer.'V The editor approached. "You know that I have worked hard, and that Lrtave earned every ,eid2JMniy4--got. Some time ago, you lemember, I subscribed for 3 0m- pajier for six months. There is just one more numlier dric me, and as I am dying, and can't wait till your next issue comes out, just give me a nickel and we'll call it square." Aii Honest Man. Mr. John W. Ship. is the son of Professor Shipp, of Vanderbilt University. " The professor is; a North Carolinian. The'son was in Nashville at a hotel. He found iu his room 3 1,000. He halided it over to the proprietor of the hotel The Charlotte "Journal-Olwerver says: ''It seems the room was previously occupied by Mr. Jerome Green, a I'tici banker and stock holder in the StAtlgustiiifi Rail road u ho went aWVMjid forgot his wallet. f A North Carolina Earthquake. ".Mr. ..I. W. A. ''Kerr, of Morris. ville, writes to the Statesville Isind iitark that "On the -10th inst. we had a writable earthquake, at 12 o'clock p. in. I had eaten my din m-r and had lain down 011 the Im1 anil there was a loud lejiort like a hoilct bursting and a considerable shaking of the earth and every tiling 011 it- It was general nil over the 'country west of my hous KverylMMly heard the incise and felt the shake. Tlie Hound priieeeded from under the ground. Clocks wcie stopped and had to m regal, ted. The commotion was certainly in the earth. A Teacher's Institute for Beaufort county is (o be held at Washington commencing '"on Monday, August 13th., ami close 011 August 24th The "Gazette hays : N. .Harding Co. Superintendent, will use every effort to make it a success. The instructors will be as follows: S..D Bagley, A. M., Washington Acad emy, Principal; assisted by Rev, N. C. Hughes, Jr., Principal Trii ty High School; aud Prof. R. T. Bonner, Principal Richland Acad. emy. Prof. J. II. Rayhill will con duct a class in elocution. Matty Grifliu will probably take charge of a model class. ' .--'.."-- -. "Alter all,' says the Atlanta "Constitution,"; "the money made by farmiug is the cleanest, liest money in the world. ' It is made in accordance with God's first law, under honest, genial influences, away from the taint of trade or the fierce heat of Kpecidatiou. It fills the iiockets of the farmer at the expense of no other man. His gain is no man's loss; bnt the more he makes the better for the world at large. Prosperous farmers make proserousjeople. Whatever ben efits our agncultnre benefits the common wealth." ...... (I IM . ... A) S m , IM tt ll Libert DtKxMint will bt- ma-lo for Utror AdrertiMtnenU ml for Contract y iho Vmr Cuh most ccomiarar all A.tvvrthrrarnt food referuooa U clveu. WEBB'S FOLLY. :o:- GOKS DOWN IN THE WHIRL. 4 POOL OF NIAGARA. ma nonv r.o.vr. BiFFALo,X.'Y. July -'4. Capt. Matthew Vebb, the noted Knglish swimmer, wan last seen 111 the Ni agara whirlpool rapids this after noon. -'-It. had bevn au vertised fir several weeks that ire would at tempt to go over the course w Inch the Maid of the Mist' ran in her tup to escaje an attachment niauy years ago. No erall but this one ever survived the jierils of this tei rible channel, and 110 human being save her crew ever passed alive through the rapids. - Capf . Webb aud his business man agc-r, Fred. Kyle, of Boston, leit Buffalo this morning and spent most of the duv at the hotels and about the tails, taking but cursory survey of the rapids. At 1 o'clock The Press representatives ami others immediately interest ed were iufoiined that Captain Webb would enter the river at . o'clock. The number of sjiectators wjis small, there being not more thalT.'iOO scat tered along the banks to witness tho hazardous undertaking- The failure of the railroad companies and hotels to co-ocrate with him tendered t he enterprise a I'ailine financially. THE i'LVNUE INTO THK KMF.K. It was precisely two minutes past 4 when Webb sprang from his boat aliout a third of a mile above the railroad bridge and close to the old Maid of the Mist landing. He way- ent-irelv nude save a baud worn around hia body fori he protection of his stomach, flic daring and accomplished swimmer gave him-. self no artificial assistance what ever. IPs leap from tht Isiaf; was greeted with prolonged -cheering. He struck lioldly into the middle of the river and buoyed himself grace fully upon the surface of the water as the mighty current caii ied him toward the deadly whirlool nearly a mile and a half Itelow. It was a thrilling iectacle and a .brilliant performance. , The struggle in the rapids lasted thiiteen miuutes, ' by which time Capt. Webb had reached the whirl pool. II in object was to ling the Vmerican side of the rIveiHlt hough many eontcuu inai 111s cuances would have leeii better on t he ('a - lixlian side. By" the peculiar for mation of tho channel at this Mfint, with its curves and iidge of rock, the water is lashed upward tlie- dis tance, of forty or .fifty feet resemb ling the ? billows of an angry sea. Then it whirls stjd seethes a? it lashed by a thousand demons. In the frightful voile x thus foimcd a vessel, a stick ot timber, an -animal -. . t . . 01 human ieing is canieo iinner, an' in some cases, will remain for days before escaping into the lake below. As the intrepid navigator cume to the whitliMMil he a -teen throw npone of his aims. Wheth er this was intended as a sign il of distress, fears of danger 01 im-rclv to exhibit his titreiigth to tlioe tin laud can only Im- i-oujeetined Nothing was seen of him al'tet aids. The search was kept nplill daik. when his manager amimiiiceil llr.it there w:t no 1om for hi rce.'-i .' A Good Agrtculttiral .trwd. According to the "Canada l aVm er, tlie agriculturist - of Canada met in convention and adopted for themselves the' following cieed: "We believe in small l inns and thorough cnllival ion; ve Is 1 ee that the soil lives I. eat, as well a the owner, and ought, the- elole, lo be well manured; we lieheve " in going to the I sit torn of things, and therefore plow-deep;'- we belo-ve 111 large cro which leave the h.nd lietter than-they found it, .making the farm and the tanner lU U both "t ohcc; we, M.eve that every farm hould own ir farmer; we lielieve that the fertil izer of any soil is a spirit of iin'm' tiy, enterprise and iiittlligetjce: without these, lime, gipsiim ami guano would be of little uc: we be lievt in good fonce, giod farm house, good orchard, - and' good children enough to gather the fruil; we believe iu H clean kitchen, ami a neat wife in it, a ' clean cup board, and a clean dairj and a clean conscience; we Ix-lieve t'jat t to ask a man's advice i not loop ing but of much leiietif;we Udieve that to keep a phu-e" Tor everything,'-', and' keep evej thing in its place, save many . a te and is pretty. Mire t lead to goo.1 tool and to keeping them In order; te lielieve that kindness to stock, like good nhelter, is saving of fodder; we believe that it is a gooil thing to keep au e3e ou ex perimeDts, and not all, good and bad ; we believe that it is a gtotl rule to sell grain when it is ready ; we believe in producing the lest hotter and cheese, and marketing it when itl reatly. All tin may pArtaire lie cmilnelided as "sound doctrine.7 . .T- " " - : - Om Iaoh. Ono Itwrttoii - OneMonUul:: " Three liraith.. " - Six Months.., . On r