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lOL. XX. WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1890. NO. 43. A BLOODTHIRSTY GIRL. BLACK A GOOD COLOR. A PLOT FOR A NOVEL. CAMPBELL HAS CO ME. THE GRIPPE. AN UNKNOWN LAND. IllB HOIUU1II-E Al'I'ETITE IERIOIICAh- IT I)EVEI.0I'E3 IN A USUALLY HEN ILE, AMIABLE YOUNU I.ADY. A malady of a most remarkable and i-trcsinr nature, writes a correspondent the Philadelphia Time from Atlanta, 'aw, has recently attacked the young jngbtcr of Winthrop Davis, who owns jeofthe largest saw mills in this viein- .,v, The young lady is in her normal iealth of an amiable, rather shrinking imposition and possessed of no small iaim to beauty, besides being intelligent ad well advanced in her studies. About tree months ago she fell into a low, melan ioly state, and displayed a singular mrsion to all society, refusing entirely oconverse at times and exhibiting a sul ti, angry disposition when questioned j remonstrated with. All food was rejected for several days, jtil a piece of freshly-killed beef was ecidentally brought into her presence, then she threw herself upon it with all ie savage greediness of a famished ani ial, and began to tear and rend it with er teeth, sucking the blood with a relish, ince then, at periods varying from three i seven days, she is seized with the same lirst for blood, and when brought in lit of it will drink it with avidity, in itc of all efforts made to restrain her. job efforts arc attended with much dan :r, for during these attacks she fails to cognize even the members of her fami ,and will snap and bile at any one at mpting to uiole&t her. Her entire appearance undergoes a mage, hT usually geutle expression he lming inhumanly fcrociouB, licr eyes ood.-hot and glaring, while her jaws lap furiously and she keeps up a hide is snarling and growling. Her face bc imcs suffused with blood and her hair ristles on her head like that of an au ry animal. Once satiated with blood ie falls into a deep sleep, as if from in nication, and on awakening seems to are no remembrance whatever of her tgular attack, and is once more her uiet, lady-like self, ouly complaining of svere headache, which frequently lasts Dtil her next seizure. Physicians who have seen her are at a is8 to account for the cause of her mala y, and have, up to the present, failed en- rely to relieve her. By the advice of iveral, attempts have been made to keep er from the sight of blood, but the re ult issodistrossing that it is now thought est to allow her to "raiify her uuniitu- al thirst. Unable to do so otherwise, he attacked her own flesh, tearing it rithout any apparent pain and 'sucking he bluod. On another occasiou, when seemingly lerself, her attentkn was attracted to ounger brother, who, having cut his wnd, eutered the house for the purpose if having the bleeding gash bound up he instautly leaped across the room, and "tleut warning seized the boy's hurt land in lar mouth and bit him to the Hn-:. It was only with the greatest j lifuciilly that she could be made to re ease him, and, when Gua.ly forced to let ?o, gave vent to her rage iu hoarse cries ft rather screams, like a wild beast cheat i ol'iti pro j. Mr. Davis and his wile are persons of duration aud refinement, and profess lueuiselves entirely unable to account fur their daughters afliieiion, as on both sides lor generations there has ucver n auy intemperance or mental disease. The IVmld Moves! Don't disgust eveiybody with the of ensive od .r lVi.nu your catarrh just be ause some old fogy duet , who has not discovered and will not believe the ff"rhl moves, tells jou it cannot be cured, fhu manufacturers of Dr. Sage's Ca tarrh Remedy have fur many years of fercJ, i j.0od faith, 500 rewaid for a case iif nasal catarrh, no matter how bad, rif how long standing, which they can "Jtcuro. They are thoroughly r"spm- W'it unancially, a .any one cau lea-u P'"pT i iKuirv thr.Mi'-'h drmr.'i-ts (who h"H the tnoli. if a. i.j jo di'i,) nd Micv "m...i. i.,i.i.....M ' BENK111LK AND WITTY REMARKS OF REV. IR. J. C. PRICE, OK SALISBURY, N. C. Dr. J. C. Price, president of the col ored college at Salisbury, N. C, and one of tho foremost orators of his race, has just delivered at Chester, S. C, a speech that is attracting great attention. He puts himself squarely against the in creasing current iu favor of emigration. In his speech he says : "I have no faith in the doctrine of assimilation. The ancestral pride of the negro forbid that this amalgamation take plaee save on the high ground of matri mony, and there is only one intermar riage out of every 200,000. Some blacks want this. They say that their color is against them. If that could only be changed all would be well. I believe that color has nothing to do with the question. Black is a favorite color. A black horse wc all admire. A black silk dres is a gem. A black broadcloth is a daisy. Black only loses its prestige, its dignity, when applied to a human." "It is not because of his color, but be cause of his condition, that the black man is in disfavor. Whenever a black face appears it suggests a poverty strick en, an ignorant race. Change your con ditions; exchange immorality for morality ignorance for intelligence, poverty for prosperity, and the prejudice against our niee will disappear like the morning dew drop before tho rising sun. "Others would have us disappear by emigration. 1 our distinguished senator has just introduced into eongress a meas ure intended to help us away. As for me, I don't want to go (No, no! from the audience.) This sunny southland where lie the bleaching bones of my fathers, is due to me, and I, too, feel to the manor born. This soil is consecrated by the labor, the tears and the prayers of my ancestors. Talk of Ethiopia, talk of Africa, but I believe that God intends the negro race to work out hero in the South the highest status he has cvtr at tained. If anybody wants to go to Mex ico or Kansas, or anywhere else, let him pack his trunk and go of his own free will. Let Congress appropriate if it wants. I will respectfully ask it to take back my part. "It may be that God means for us to go some day. but that is not the way and this is not the time. Bememl er, friends that long ago two little barks came to America One landed at Plymouth her load of freemen, the other came to James town with bondmen. 1 lie separate civilizations sprang iuto being from these two ships; but we are always from home. The red man alone is at home here, ;.nd he won't be much longer if they keep on pushing him westward into the Parifc. When Congres legis'at w the Mac'; man back to Africa it would he just as wise to legislate the white man back to Eu rope. When one goe the others ought to s:o too. I am here to stay. I have nn unbounded confidence of the future of the Southland. Her broad rivers, her rich fields and well stored mines will one day produce ihe richest harvest of prosperity the world ever Faw, and I want to help to reap it and enjoy it.t "What though a man be killed now and then? He who would try to crush us deserves the pity not the crushed! Thou"h a hundred meu fall around me I will stand firm on the r,.ek of my faith with an unshaken hope. "The negro is an imitative creature, and this is a sign of much hope. The Indian alwajs does th opposite from what he sees the while man do. It is just the reverse with the negro. A white man gets a hdiiH! painted white, with green blinds; the negro does the same. The white man rides in a buggy, the ne gro buys him a horse. The white mau buys a house; the negro does the same. It may be built in the got bio order, with rafters in view, but it's a house., This promises well. Home imit: ted Greece; l.',.l;m! imitated Borne; America imita- rir,,i .,l It's a he'n vcrvti , ami the n'".rr i !!. .. rivht . u iu tlu white man's eiep. A YOUNG SCOTCH NOBLEWOMAN FOUND AVOKKINO AS A SERVANT. A Scotch noblewoman, Kathleen Bride Austin, the wife of Sir Francis Austin, a baron of Aberdeen, Scotland, said to bo a barrister of standing iu Northern Scotland, has been found in Indianapolis working as a servant. A little more than two years ago this girl, with a baby three months old in her arms, in order to escape, she says, the cruelties of her husband, bought a pas sage at Aberdeen, Scotland, for Indian apolis. By a ruse she slipped away from her husband, and without a protector and only a small sum of money she took pas sage for America. Arriving in Indian apolis friendless, and almost moneyless she sought aud obtained a situation as a servant girl. The child died in Olney, III., where she sent it to be taken care of. In the meantime Sir Francis, learning that his young wife had bought a passage to Indianapolis, came in search of her. He had advertised for her, and these ad vertisements Lady Austin had seen. When her baby died she was so over come with grief that she notified her husband of her whereabouts and the death of her child. Sir Francis had the dead babe embalmed and took it to New York, from where he shipped it to Aber deen for burial. He roturncd from New York and has since been importuuing his wife to return to their mansion at Aberdeen. She refuses to go back with him and states that they lived happily in Scotland until another woman attrac ted the attention of her husband, which soon made trouble, and to get rid of her the baron had her put in an insane asy lum, from which she escaped. WHAT MAKES THIS WEATHER. "Don't use my name and I will give you my theory of the present unusual weather," said a mariner of fifty-five years' experience, who was preparing to leave the city last evening on a sea voy age. "I am not ashamed of the theory, understand, but I dislike to have it up pear that I am going about seeking news paper notoriety." The desired promise was made and the old sea dog explained as follows "We have really undergone a change of seasons, to a certain extent, and all this is caused by the change in the Gulf stream. The Gulf stream is now run nini 100 miles nearer the eastern shore than it was one year ago. My idea is. this change is caused by some unusual upheaval in the bottom of the ocean but be it that as it may, we have such a con dition of affairs as I describe. This un usual change has affect d our weather aud to it is due tho frequent and disas trous rains of last summer, ami it is this which caused such unseasonable weiitlu r as we are now having. The scientists may lauh at this theory, but if you will :isk any old saiior he will tell you that what 1 state is true, and it would not be a bad idea for the Weather nurean to take this into consideration in making its predictions. At any rate I think they will aiiree with me that there is something badly out of joint." Wash ington Post. tiU i uud Time! "Danced all night till the broad day light And weut home with tho girls in the morning."' Bntthe morniiii: being chilly, he took a heavy cold, and a had cough result-"!, onnsnmntion set in. his case (lospilo the efforts of physician, grow worse unt 1 friends began to lose hope; one, lu.iwevi i. knew from trial tho vhIuc of Dr. Pii-ro 8 Goldcn Medical Discovery, and iniluu-.. him to take it. "A mighty change eauio o'er the spirit of Lis dreams." Its con - tinued use restored him to health and fortune He lives to day to bless l'r. Pieice for his medicine, and soon will wed a charming girl, one of those he "took home in the morning." If Colds, Cousiiinrtion, Catarrh, Bronchitis, or other throat or lung troubles attack you, don't delay getting ihe "Discovery." A n nv V. seal.-k.as. .11 u ..; .v AN ELABORATE DISPLAY ATTENDING HIS INAUGURATION IN HIS INAUGU TION HE RECOMMENDS THE AUSTRA LIAN BALLOT. Columbus, O, January 13. On no similar occasion has Columbus seen such crowds as have been arriving by every train since last night to witnesp the inau guration of Governor Campbell. At noon there were fully '$0,000 strangers in the city. The day was ushered in by a perfect gale and lapidly falling thermom eter, but it could not throw a damper upon the exuberant spirits of the demo crats. Bands by the score paraded the streets all the morning escorting arriving delegations to their quarters, while "The Campbells are Coming" alternated with "Down Weut McGinty," the latter apply ing by common consent to Governor Foraker. About seventy-five political organizations are represented by delega tions of various numbers, and twenty companies of militia took part in the parade. The inauguration ceremonies proper took place on the cast terrace of the state house where, sheltered from the wind by the high capitol, the supreme court, leg islature and state officials witnessed the administration of the oath of office by Chief Justice F. J. Dick man and listened to the inaugural address. Governor Foraker came from a sick bed, where a severe attack of the grippe threw him, to see his successor inaugurated. Imme diately after the address the gubernatorial party repaired to the reviewing stand on Broad street where the parade that formed in the meantime was witnessed It surpassed in size and magnificence any parade ever seen here beforo on a similar occasion. Among the political clubs present were tho famous Duckworth, of Cincinnati; Iroquois, Chicago, and Ban da 11, of Pittsburg Of the military com panics the most conspicuous were the Cleveland Grays and Toledo Cadets. Governor Campbell's inaugural address contained about 6,000 words. He re commends (he immediate repeal of the laws enacted during the administration of his predecessor putting the government of a number of municipalities in the hands of the governor. This he de nounces as contrary to the spirit of our institution!! and opposed to home rule. He recommends the appointment of a schi ol bok commission, to the end that cheaper books may be f urnished to the school children of the state. The office of commissioner of railroads, he snys, is more ornamental than usclul," aud he recommends that it be aboIUln d and a railroad eoujuji.ss.ion with full powers be created to do the work ibis official has bem supposed to do He warmly com mends the Australian ballot system, giv ing u biief history of iis operations where tried and pronouncing it the most thor ough t: lid practical rcloim of the ballot system that has ever been proposed. The l0U.p!tti..(i of the iineiim diatc prison i-xpn-rtrpcut, ut tie fcoklicis' and Sail- , 0,s' fjridians' home, at the Idiot asylum and other institutions are al.o recommended. of local interest The Pulpit ad the Stage. Rev. F. M. Shrout, Pastor Unittd Brethren Church, Blue Mouud, Kan., says: "I feel it my duty to tell what wonders Dr King's New Di-eoviry has don lor inc. My lu-s wire badly dis eased, and my paiishers thought I could live I v a lew wees I took five hol lies of Pr. King'" New Di.-eoveiy and i in S' ii -ul ana wcd,guimu0 L'-i pounds iu W hi' t ' Anhiir Love, Manager of Love's Fun- fiy Folks Combination, writes: 'Alter Miovough trial and convim iog eudeoee, tun confident Dr Kinu's New Ui.-cov- , riv t' i 1 on eruption. In ats 'em all, and cUros wlu.ii evirytliiiiv else fails. I lie 1 . ivatent kindness I can do my th nisatid f mis is to urge the n to try it.' Free i t i,u i ottles at . M. Coliei. drug- stoic. Rejiuler sizes ")0e. and ?1.0I). A new broom sweeps clean, but it takes an old oue to get down iuto the corners and creased. Catarrh originates in scrnfVoits (;.,.. H d's Sa'sip ii"i purili.-i the bu.i,aui .ii us permanently cures catarrh. IT WENT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Just a hundred years ago the United States had a severe attack of "La Grippe" very much as now. Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and so eminent in the practice of medicine ai to be styled the Sydenham of America, was inspired to write a particular account of the epidem ic as it came under his observation in Philadelphia. As bis works are now an tequated and rarely disturbed in the dust of our libraries, some of his remarks may have the freshness of novelty. Dr. Rush says the weather was cold and without rain from the end of August until October, 1789, when many mem bers of the first Congress, that had met in New York, complained on arriving in Philadelphia of colds, which they attrib uted to travelling by night in public stages. But the malady spread so wide ly and rapidly that it was soon recogniz ed as the influenza. The symptoms were hoarseness, sore throat, chills, fever, a sense of weariness, headaches, universal sneezing, (often not less than fifty times a day,) pains in the breast, sides and limbs, and a distressing cough. The fever sel dom lasts more than three or four days, but the cough and other troublesome symptoms sometimes persisted two or three weeks. The disease affected both sexes alike, but old people and children most frequently escaped it. The epidemic was most fatal on the seashore of the United States. Thous ands of people suffered in Philadelphia without being confined to their houses, and Dr. Rush relates that a "perpetual coughing was heard in every street of the city. Buying and selling was ren dered tedious by the coughing of the farmer and the citizen who met in market places. It even rendered divine service scarcely intelligible in the churches." With few exceptions the malady proved fatal only to old people and to persons weakened by pulmonary complaints, but it carried off several hard drinkers. Six weeks the epidemic lasted, and from New York and Philadelphia it spread in all directions and pervaded ev ery State i f the Union in the course of a few months. It made its way from the United States to the West Indies, and later the Spanish settlements in South America. The wiuter of 1789-90 re sembled the present one in being unusu ally mild, and cold weather did not come until February and March. The monih of April, 1790, was variable and rainy, and the showers that fell on the night of the 17th were long remembered by the citizens of Philadelphia in connection with the time of Benjamin Franklin's death. In the last week of April the influenza broke out again in Philadelphia, coming from New England and ravaging the in termediate States cm its way. Sneezing vviis less common than in the preceding fall, but pain in ihe eyebal'- seemed to le the universal symptom. The epidemic declined in June, 1790, but convahs- once from it was blow, "and a general anguor appeared to puvade the citizens lor several weeks afler it left the city." In the winter of 1790-91 there was a ihiid epidemic of the in'luen.a, but this time it was fortunately not so general. Dr. Rush remarks that "the influenza ia-sos with the utmost rapidity through a eouutry ami attects the greatest ntimDer of people, in a given time, of any disease in the world." A Distressing Cte and Happy MesiilU "For over a year I have hail a break ing out on my leg, which troubled me so bad I could not walk, leg badly swelled of a purple color, wiih eruptions so bad thai Blood would ooze out if 1 here my weight on it. I was recommended to try Clarke's Kx tract of Flax (Papillon) kin (Hie, winch 1 have doti.;. ?ly le i- i.ow well and I inn ! ' two tmus on u without any ir i bio." Signed, A. D .ia wmd. Clarke's Flax ! cap makes O r - kin n ft ;il)d prevents Ch" plug. -M: lie.- e Sonp :;r i!ii: 1 ui eio . y W. M. Oo- .iuj, aill';j..-t. A PORTION OF THIS COUNTRY NEVER TRODDEN BY WHITE MEN. Washington has her great unknown land, like the interior of Africa, says the Seattle 7 Vow. The country shut in by the Olympic mountains, which includes an urea of about 2,500 miles square, has never, to the positive knowledge of old residents of the Territory, been trodden by tho foot of man, white or Indian. These mountains rise from the level coun try, within ten or fifteen miles from the San Juan de Fuca in the north, the Pacific ocean in the west, Hood's canal , in the east and the basin of tho Quinalt lake in the south, and, rising to the height of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, shut in a vast unexplored area. The Indians have never penetrated it, for their traditions say it is inabited by a very fierce tribe which none of tho coast tribes dare molest. Though it is improb able that Euch a tribe could have existed in this mountain country without their presence becoming known to the white men, no man has ever ascertained that it did not exist. White men, too, have only vague accounts of any white man hawing ever passed through the country, for investigation of all the claims of trav elers has invariably proved that they have only traversed its outer edge. The most generally accepted theory in regard to this country is that it consisted of great valleys, stretching from the in ward slopes of the mountains to a great central basin. This theory is supported by the fact that, although the country around has abundant rain and clouds constantly hang over the mountain tops, all the streams flowing toward the four points of the compass are insignificant and rise only on the outward slopes of the range, none appearing to drain the great lakes shut in by the mountains. This fact appears to support the theory that streams flowing from the inner slopes of the mountains feed a great interior lake. But what drains this lake? It must have an outlet somewhere, and, as all the streams pouring fram the moun tains rise on their outward slopes, it must have a subterranean outlet to the ocean, the straits or the sound. There are great discoveries in store for some of Washing ton's explorers. SLAVES IN FLQFilDA. The remnant of the Seminole tribe of Indiaus live on the borders of a beauti ful lako near one of the most dismal swamps in Fioiida. With these Iudiaus are four negro slaves. They are, as may be supposed, very ignorant, not being able to speak a word of English, aud are bru tally treated by their masters. President Arthur once in crested himself upon hear- in;; that, there wei e si ives among the Semi- uoles, in trying to secure their fieedom, but the only reply Cheif Tallahassee leiiMied to make ws that he "was not a citizen of the United SStates.and ihe Presi dent could iro to ." MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT. Married, by Justice S. If. Allen, at Massenburg's hotel, Monday night, Mr. Charles C. Day, of Philadelphia, and Miss Belle Newton, of Red Bank, Miss. The linriies had nevir seen each other before the expectant gruom came on here, it is said. Some time- ago the idy advertised for a husband, which led to a correspondence with Mr. Day. An engagement followed, and .by a- greotiioiit the coil le met hi re, ihe young lady having a married hister livii.g in Vance coii"'. and were mar ried Henderson G .'"' New Bi les. Tl.tm-w supreme court rules have been printed ami wi I go into effect at the opening ol 'the spring term next month. Among others there is a rule that it' any attorney fil s a brief, that is, sends it to the clerk, it shall serve the same purpose as if the attorney were prehctit. Kai h side is allowed an hour and a bill!' IVr eriiiiieiiis. This gives e.u Ii ease llilc'J horr if the attorneys speak. 'Ihe coni f -its three hours daily, and under stub ireutestitncos ci.vtld hear "iiiy ( lie cat-c ..aily I'mU-rihe new r.-.o I'nii .... he far ...... igumtut hcl'oio ihe i curt. ft it
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