NO 4.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1891.
JNSFIRSTTAKE
ON HARNESS A FT Ell THE
OV WAR HAD COME TO AN
f time Colonel Watterson was
tho New York Star, lie told a
put his experience in Cincinnati.'
.rived in Cincinnati one blustering
night," he paid. ''I was a ragged,
M ranger, just out of the Cooled
y. I had just enough money
a night's lodging. How well
.. wandering about the streets
pondering what the next day
'ig me. I believed I had abili
rnalist, and I was satisfied that
i opportunity I could prove it.
E.he act several times of entering
tit morning newspaper offices
og for work, but I was so
ted thai I did not have tho
'tot do so. I took a good sleep
!, and did not get up uutil late
lay.
so was a desperate one, and I
must secure employment. I
more detei mined in my life.
,JK1f I would face without u quiver
sternest editor iu the laud. In this
ifle of mind I started out to make a
rot tlie aincrent omces.
"At the first office the editor, in a
laotway, told me that his staff was
crowded, and then resumed his work. I
visited all the newspapers with the same
rwult, except the Times. That paper
lad a large job printing office attached to
it' which did a great deal of theatrical
ng. I "also noticed that the paper
ihad a titrable writtcu dramatic column.
I called on Colonel Starbuck, the editor
and proprietor, and asked if there were
I any vacancies on his staff.
I '"There are never any vacancies on a
goo4 paper, but there is always room for
good mau,' said the colonel. I shall
never forget that reply, and it is one that
I have always made to applicants on the
Courier Journal. I told Colonel Star
buck that I could improve upon his dra
matic column, and proposed to write it
.nothing if he would give me 25 per
cent, commisfiou on all the printing and
advertisements I secured from the thea
tres. Ho declined the proposition. As
I was about to leave, he said ho would
give me $12 a week to perform that ser-
' vice. What a change came over mo. I
immediately found myself rich. I told
him I would accept it. He told me that
I must dot feel offended if at the end of
the week he found I did not suit. I
knew I would Buit, for I know the full
extent of my abilities, and told him that
if I was Dot competent , I should cousider
Vit an offense if be did not discharge me.
f "This was the first of the week, and I
- .t.rted in that dav. I never undertook
a task with more enthusiasm. I tttend
d the theatres every night. Before tho
end of the week Colonel Starbuck ex
I pressed bis approval. On Staturday af-
I ternoon I went to the theatres to collect
. the money for printing for advertising
due the Timea. At the National Thea
tre after collectinsr the money, I was
handed an envelope addressed to mo
j
Supposing it contained an item of news
or a ticket, I put it in my pocket unopen
eJ.! At Pike'a another envelope bearing
myiname waa presented to me, and tho
Bam imug oceuiruu at n uvu n aui-uwu
Wl , T returned to the office I opened
Ithe 'pes and lound that thoso pro
ben -jo at the National and at Pike's
. ooiPaiucd 810. The one received
Vood's contained 83. I told Colonel
buck the circumstances and tendered
the uinney. Ho said that it did not
ig to him, and ho would not accept
I returned the donations to tho tho-
jal managers. They said tho money
tbecn givwi in cimsidcration ot trie
able notices I had given their per-
ances.
Jolqnel Sturbuck a short time after-
1 nJdo mo mauaging editor."
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A, A good appetite. ou can
hsv enough by taking Hood's
illla. It tones the digestion and
k headache.
DON'T BE AFRAID.
UEORUE W. CHILDS EXAMPLE FOR AND
ADVICE TO Y()1:N0 M EN.
It is well, in my opinion, to accustom
one's self early to work and not to be
afraid of any kind of work that is honest
and useful. I began to support myself
when I was 1 2 years old and I have nev
er been dependent on others since then.
I had had some schooling but not much;
I never went to collegc.not because I did
not think a College cireer might not ba a
good thin for those who could afford it
and who could make good use of it, but
because I did uot feci that it was so im
portant for me as to be earning my own
living. When I left home to come to
Philadelphia one of my relatives said
that I would soon have enough of that,
and would be coming back again. Hut I
made up my mind that I would never go
back I would succeed. I had health,
the power of applying myself, and, I
suppose, a fair amount of brains.
I came to Philadelphia with 83 in my
pocket. 1 found board and lodgings for
82.50, and then I got a place us office
boy fur That gave me a surplus of
50 cents a week. I did not merely do
the work that I was absolutely required
to do, but I did all I could, and put my
heart into it. I wanted my employer to
feel that I was more useful to him than
he expected me to be. I was not afraid
to clean and sweep and perform what
might be com-ddeied by tome young gen
tleuT'ti nowadavs as menial work, and
therefore beneath tliem. I did not think
it beneath me then, and I should not
now. If it were necessary I would sweep
out my office to day, and 1 olteu cany
bundles. But the other day a youth
came to me to ak if I could find some
employment for him. His father had
died, and his mother could not suppoit
him, and he wished to support himself.
I looked at him and saw that he had on
very nice clothes, and kid gloves. I ask
ed him if ho would like to wheel a wheel
barrow. He seemed surprised, and an
swered that he didn't think he would
like that. Then I asked him if he would
object to carrying bundles. Well, he
was not anxious to carry bundles, either.
He was like many young men, who talk
about wanting work, but, when it comes
to tho point, they want to do only kid
glove sort of work. I must say I don't
have much sympathy with that sort of
feeling. Men aro all brothers, and what
is worthy of one is not unworthy of any
one. The Bible says that it is what
cometh out of the mouth that defilcth u
man. It is not work, but character, that
can be discreditable. George W. Childs'
letter in the New Hork World.
A SINGULAR "PHOTOGRAPH."
At Mount Eagle, about eight miles
from Charlottesville, Va., there w a large
residence, on the windows of which from
the outside can be seen the photograph
of a man's head and shoulders, the head
and shoulders of a woman and child, and
in another pane of glass the distinct out
lines of a cat. The theory is that tho
parties were looking through the wiudows
at the river during a storm, and a flash
of lightnitig photographed them indelibly
on the glass, but it is not known who
they were. The pictures cannot be seen
from the inside, but that they can b
plniiily seen from thi outnido is vouched
tor by prominent citizens of Charlottes
ville.
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'THEPASSINCSOUL."
WHAT A FRENCH SCIENTIST WITH AN
IMAGINATION THINKS HE SEES.
A scientist has invented an optical in
strument whereby spirits or ghosts or as
tral bodies can be plainly seen. This
experiment, according to the savant writ
ing in a French publication, was very
difficult. Recollecting that it had been
asserted that it was possible to sec the
astral body (le corpse iluidhiuo) leave
the body at the moment of death, he
says he was not willing to remain longer
in ignorance; he therefore arranged the
apparatus, and when he had succeeded
in getting tho most perfect adjustment
as to light and magnifying power he was
called to the bedside of a dying person
He had been expecting the summons
and he remained beside the dying man
until the approach of death became man
ifest.
"A sudden trembling, shaking the
whole body, annouueed that the supreme
moment had come. With one of my
friends who was assisting me, we placed
our heads under the dark covering of the
apparatus and kept our eyes steadfastly
fixed on the object glass. The particles
of dust in the air were magnified many
thousands of times, and for a moment
their violent movement produced a cloud
in front of tho L'lass. Then a delicate
-- - o
columu of violet vapor, condensed into
flocculent mass, was clearly above and
around the body. Particles appeared to
pursue one another as if obedient to some
Ind of central attraction. The cloud
condensed more and more, and took the
vaporous form of a man. then rapidly be
came purified until it was as colorless as
the most perfect crystal.
"At this time there was around us
feeling of terrible stilluess a calm that
was almost agonizing. An indisciibablo
sensation held us to tne instrument
while our hearts seemed to ceaie palpita
ting. We kept our eyes fixed on the
glass. Particle after particle grouped
themselves together so as to produce the
exact form of the man we kuew so well.
The form floated at about a foot above
the body, to which it was distinctly united
by a delicate chord. The face was un
doubtedly the face of the man, but how
much finer and calmer. The eyes were
closed, and the astral shape seemed to be
asleep. By a double impulse, we, both of
us, experienced the desire that the loroi
should awake. At that very moment
the bond which joined it to the body
broke. A slight trembling passed over
this beautiful, perfectly modeled form;
violet flame shone where the heart should
be. It stood up and gave a sorrowing
look at the abandoned body, extended the
right hand with a gesture of adieu, then
vanished, condensing into a small sphere
which disappeared in the dawn of the
everlating to-morrow.
HON AFTER FORTY YEARS.
Advices from New Orleans announce
the settlement at last of the suit of Mrs.
Myra Clark Guiues against that city, and
the successful heir of the will probate
struggle now going on in Brooklyn will
be some 8800,000 the richer thereby.
The suit which begun some forty years
atro. was for property valued at about
835,000,000, Of this Mrs. (jaiucssuo
cceded in gettiug some 80,000,000 aud
then begun a suit against the city for the
rental of the property which is the suit
decided by a final dwrwi of the United
States Court in New Orleans giving the
heirs 8800,000. It will be held in trust
uutil the question of the rightful heirs U
settled.
THE FIRST SYMPTOM UV DEATH
Tired feeling, dull headache, pains iu
various parts of the body, siuking at tin
pit of the stomach, loss of appetite, fev
erishness. Dimples or sores, are all post
live evidence of tmisoued blood. No
matter how it became poisoned it must
be purified toavuid death. I'r. Acker
English Blood Elixir has uever failed to
remoc scrofulous or syphilitic pois.m
Sold under positive guarantee at H . 31.
Coheu's drugstore, Wi.-ld.rn, N. C.
"The fl over that bloom in the spriuf,
tra la," arc rapidly wheeling into line.
THE NAMELESS BEAST.
MONSTER AROUSES FEAR IN A WEST
ERN NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNI
TY. Such commotion has never been known
in these parts as is now rupturing the
unty from centre to circumference. The
men never think of leaving the house
after dusk unless they are armed to tho
teeth and in company. The women and
children aro in agonies of terror all the
time. The condition of things is truly
harrowing; and if it coutinues much
lonirer it is distressing to think what the
results will be.
The creature that has occasioned all a
this terror is so unlike anything that has
evtr been seen or heard tell of that it is
difficult to find a name fur it. Hence for
want of somethiug better the title of
"Tho uiiii'li.M Uniist" lins bv common
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consent beeu attached to it.
It has a den somewhere about the foot
of Shepherd's Mountain, from which it
is sunnosed to make its tours into the
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night. And notwithstanding the won-
derful speed with which it travels, it
sometimes travels to such a distance in
the ni.rht that it does not rret back to its
cave uutil ten o'clock in the day. At
least fifty persons have seen the monster,
aud the descriptions they give of it are
enough to make one's flesh creep off the
bones.
Putting these wild descriptions to-
gether aud making many allowances for
excitement and exaggerations the appear-
ance of the thing must be something like
this; Its general outline is that of a
man iu L'rav clothiii'' It is about 7
feet in height with exceedingly broad
siiouiucrs uuu nips, uui lauiei siuuu waisu
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Its arms are very powerful in appearance,
large hands with long slender fingers,
and carries a heavy stick, about twelve
feet lonj;, in its left hand. The whole
is covered with long gray hair. The
head is about the size of a cow's, which
it resembles very much, with the excep
lion of the mouth, which is verv much
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in1' teeth. Two lanre tusks nrotrudiuc
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irum u.e uH.ei jaw ,a, .u
It seems to have no fear of men, but
annears to de iL'ht in the terror which It
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It has been shot at about twenty
causes.
times, but has never yet received a
wouud that has amounted to anything.
Numbers of hogs, sheep, aud two three-
year-old cows have been missed in the
county around Shepherd's Mountain,
whieh this beast is now supposed to have
earned off and devoured.
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I hat such a beast should be ravaging
the county is enough to strike terror to
the hearts ot the weak, and make the
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strong cautious. Uut his depredations
are not confined to property alone.
Last Sunday evening he captured and
carried off Miss Julia Cross, the daugh-
ter of a well known citizen ot tins county,
Mr. J. A. Cross. The young lady is
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about nineteen years ot age, very hand-
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some, aud spent last year at Guilford
College. How the capture was affected
is not definitely known, as no one was
with her at the time. She had gone to
the cow pen to milk. The cow pen is
about 150 yards from the house and bor
ders on a very dense thicket ol pines.
The beast is supposed to have run up
through this thicket, entered the cow pen
and taken her. Scream after scream rent
the air, the terrified cattle broke through
the lence and new in all uircctiuua. ..if.
Cross rushed to the door just in time to
see the rapacious umuster entering the
pines with his daughter screaming and
Mruggliug for life. Within less than
five minutes, according to the statement
of Mr. Cross, she was either out of hear
ing or had ceased to scream. A band of
filieeu armed men was at once gathered
aud set out iu pursuit of the beast. The
party arrived at bis cave a little brfme
,l,,rk we are u it informed as to tbe exact
luLMiii'ii of the cave and beg in to fire
their guns. Sevi-ral Inre tires were
built, and vari his mcilinds resorted to if
i..iv.i;.le t-i en'i the br:,t to intike hi
uppearaueo.
I'lie glare, of ihe flames was
such that once or twice, some of the I
men saw this horrible thing sitting on
the ground several yards within the cave,
very quietly holding the young lady in
his arms. At length he made his ap
pearance at the mouth of the cave, and
was immediately fired upon. I he re- j
ports of the guns had not ceased before
repeated screams came from the young
lady. She and uot her captor had been
wounded how seriously, of course, is
not known
The beast at once fled within the cave,
but soon appeared again with the scream
ing woman in his arms. He ran back
and forth for some minutes in this man-
ner. annarcutlv iu treat distress. After
short time the screams died away and
the most terrific sound imaginable issued
from tho cave; the very mouttain seemed
to tremble. This is the last that has
been seen or heard. Some have proposed
In onlrr the novo and nt.temnt to rescue
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the young lady, but so far the more sober-
minded have succeeded in preventing any
such rashness. The beast has been
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known several times to hurl lame rocks
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incredible force. An entrance to the
cave would mean almost certain death.
The parents of the young lady aro in
rrat distress. The Archive extends its
sinccrest sympathy to them in their pc-
culiar affliction
Sirange to say this unusual state of
things has not yet reached many of the
State papers. This fact alone will lead
mauy to discredit this article, while the
subject matter is of such an unusual Da
ture and sounds so much like the super
stitions of the ignorant, that it is uot ex
peeted that all should believe it. But
for the truth of the statements herein
made, the reader is referred to any mem
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ty College, Ilandleman, or Ashcboro.
Trinity College Archive,
Catarrh originates in scrofulous taint,
P. P. P. purifies the blood, and thus per
manently cure Catarrh.
Terrible blood poisoo, body covered
with sores, and two bottles of P. P. P.
(Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium)
cured the disease, makina the patient
... w
ively as a ten year old.
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Khcumatisrn was so bad tnat James
r . f Savann,,1, coud miw walk
frnm paia in his shoulder aod joints of
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Irvin is well and happy.
Abbott's East India Corn Paint re
move ijuickly all corns, buuions and warts
without pain.
31ilton, 1 la.
This is to certify that I have been af-
flictcd with Scrofula, or Blood Poison,
fVr a "r? .?f . Tbe
I cuds 01 luouiie onu mis cny sain uoiu-
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quantity of , but found no re-
hrt in anything that I took. 31 y limbs
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(irjckly Ash, Poke Boot and Potassium)
Bnd alter using four bottles (small sue;
the sores have entirely disappeared, and
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my genera neaun was uever ueuer man
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at the present time, and people that know
... . W0Dd.irflli cure.
Respectfully,
'Eliza Todd.
For sale at W. M. Coheu's drugstore,
Weldon, N. C.
SHE I AN OLD GOOSE.
Mr. Hall White, of Flows, has a goose
that is just i!9 years. She was a goslin
the same year that Mr. White's mother
was married, which is now nearly forty
jr8 ago. The old goose iN picked reg
ularly every spring and always furnishes
her ipiola of feathers. Several years
ago she was washed away iu a big freshet
and was gone for months, and then re
turned. Hie is as spry cs a last years'
goslin. Concord 'limes.
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When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
I will oiler at public auction atthecourt
house rliHir at Halifax on Monday, the 4th
day of May, Hill, the following tracts of
lands iu Bnnkleyville township, w sausry
taxes due for the year 1890, to-wit:
M & E Aycoek's estate, lu acres; taxes
$'110, costs TO cents.
-I T Alsop, 48 acres; taxes wo cents, cos
70 cents.
Mrs. Lindsay Crawley, 87 acres; taxes
1.74, costs 70 cents.
W Finch, Ho acres; taxes (i.tlo, costs 70
cents.
Mrs E A Harrison, nu mlicrot acres not
shown; taxes 1.16, costs 70 cents.
EC Hale, 110 acres; taxes o.o, costs iv
cents,
w 11 Jones', a aeico m iviiign
.. . t - ' u
J C King, 33 acres; taxes 3.01, costs 70
ceu .jc1!lI.json 30 acres- taxes 2.60,
costs 70 cents.
Jesre Uiehardson, 1H9 acres; taxes' 2.00,
nnutti 7 1 rpnt.
j p Taylor, IS03 acres; taxes G.0G, cost
70 'vv whitehead 1"0 acres- taxes 3 00,
P,wts 70 cents. '
O W T Wells, number of acres not known
1 .fid. costs 70 cents.
Mis. M. w. liny 84 acres; taxes ii.ub,
costs 70 cents.
J L Price, 200 acres; taxes 4.00, costs 70
cents.
J H Arrington, 90 acres; taxes J.llJ, costs
70 cents.
B F Pittman 147 acres; taxes 2.U4, costs
70 cents.
B. I. AUSOBKOOK., snenir,
per K. A. Hardy, D. S.
I will offer at public auction on Monday
the 4th day of May, 1891, at the court
bouse door 111 Halifax t he lollowiug traets
of land iu Faneetts township for taxes due
for the year 18!I0, to wit:
Thomas Adkins, 92A acres; taxes 4.29
(.it7o cents.
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1 1 Dickens. 2 acres at Faucetts old
place; taxes 2 20 costs 70 cents.
I F Dickens 40 acres; taxes 67 cents.
costs 70 cents.
Mrs Mary Smith 40 acres home tract; tax
67 cents, costs 70 cents.
Miss Puttie Smith, 40 acres; tax :,
costs 70 cents.
J V. Branch, Marsh store tract; tax 5.34,
costs 70 cents.
P B Key, 50 acres; tax 2.00, costs 70
LpntH.
B. R. Powell, 79 acres E. Towell tract;
r. -n -II nnn(.
tax 3.ofi, costs ,0 u
B. I. ALSBKOOk, sheriff,
per Knox E. Kilpatrick, D. S.
t at nllhlic auction at Hulifax
on Monday the 4th day of May 1891, the
1 i Ti : ..,. n.i1 in llti iiuv m vn-
:r .!.. c,. 1 ana
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PAMOlNT0K taxes nrK and costs
William H. Hemlin. S;i 06.
Isaac Johnson, J acre near Halifax 1.40.
Manerva Jones 35 acres Slashes 1.40.
MittieC Joyncr for 1889-90 J acre near
Halifax 3.33.
Mary Knight, 150 acres land 3-70.
John M Knight 150 acres laud 3.70.
A- W. Lewis, 44 1-2 acres near Hay
wood's 1.94.
Mrs. Nancy Lewis 298 acres land near
Haywood 3.68.
H Linahan 114 acres near Halifax 11.39.
Prince Lynch 4 acres near Halifax 1.9.4.
Ceo Marshall 1-2 acre land 3.38.
Mrs Mary Moore 1-8 acre land 4.01.
Jim Morris 1 2 acre land near Halifax
3.08.
J L Ousby agent, one acre near Halifax
1.7(1.
K H Pittman 450 acres Home aud Poco
sin 16.03.
Mrs J R Knger 71 acres Slashes 2.60.
Geo E. lingers Sunthern Hotel 30.03.
Mrs A EShaw, 263 acres White house
9.36.
Sam Turner 26 acres near Halifax 1.56.
A L Wood 32 acres Pocosin 4 C6.
J II Brown 460 acres Bradley tract 31.30
Cherrv Cheek 72 acres Home 3. 90.
Mrs St F Gary 'Polly Smith land' 200
acres 3. 90.
Matilda Kin72j acres, home 2.90.
Cary Ixwe 15 acres land, Lowe lam' '
Henry Epps 44 acies, home 4.03.
John Fenuer 2 acres land near
1.37.
James Griffin 5 aeres of lar
2.84.
V B Gary one acre nea
T C Gregory 163 acr
Sallie L Galling
3.70.
F W Gregory '
Eliza Hale 25
Lnev llawkin:
James 11 An
13.98. Alex Bn
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