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VOL. XXII.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 1G, 1891.
NO. 15.
WOULD PLAY HIS HAND. '
A PETRIFIED CIRL.
JUDCE CILLIAM DEAD.
PREPARE FOR IT.
PICNIC AT LITTLETON.
DEATH OF A MISER.
jlll.Ollfl KOi;.NI IN STOCKISTS AM)
CRACKS A CAIIAHHCH COi:.NTV MI
SER DIES, AUKD EHIHTY V EARS'
Old uncle Bill Host, (if No. Ill town
ship, Cabarrus county, died t tit; other dny
and his body was buried at Hethel. 11c
was about eighty yearn old, wan a batch,
dor, and was known to be miserly in his
liabiu to a wonderful decree. His only
companions were two dogs, and an old
negro woman who hail been living with
him duriug Ids entire life. Curious to
pay, in his will he left her nothing but
her old age and n worn-out constitution
not a penny or even a shanty to cover
her head. His real estate consisted of
1,800 acres of land. His home place
containing .r00 acres he left jointly to
his two nephews, Allen and Peter Host.
The former is his executor. The bal
ance was left to other nephews in 100
acre lots each. To his nieces he pave
nothing. In his dilapidated home be
had a safe which was thought to hold
thousands of dollars. When this was
opened the only money found was a pun
ched nickel. Further senrch wis institut
ed and in old bureau drawers, old cup
boards, io pitchers, jars in old clothes
pockets, io old stockings and in cracks
in his miserable house was found 810,000
in gold, besides a large quantity of gold
dn-t and bullion. He had on hand only
a few hundred dollars in paper money
and no notes or mortgages of anv con
sequence. In the search a package from
a Charlotte bank was found containing
several hundred dollars that had never
hecu opened at all. This was received
by him in 1880. Last spring be made
tax returns aud gave in as money on
hand 81,0(10.
Perhaps be did not know how much
he had Muck about in different places.
He had corn and bacon on hand four
years old, aud Home hay that has been
stacked twenty five years. He cased his
conscience by leaving of his hard earn
ings $100 to Bethel Church. He made
his will ouly three weeks ago, and there
is much talk about contesting it, for tome
of his kin have been left without anything.
A PLKKTIXC VISION.
A colored man stood watching the
loading of a freight cur with watermelons
at Augusta, Ga., and beseemed so greed
ily interested that I asked:
"Would you like to go along in that
car?
" 'Deed, sah, but I would," he re
plied. "Io case you were locked iu with
those tnelous, how many do you think
you could eat between here and Cincin
nati?" "Locked right in?"
"Yes."
"Nobody to bodder me?"
"No."
"Jist turned right loose to eat all I
wanted?"
"Yes."
"Yum! Yum! 'Taint no use, boss.
Dar's no sieh luck for me. If (ley
locked mo in au' tole me to spread
myself, dat eah wo uldu't git ober
fo' miles fiom town aforo it would
mn off da track an' buot mc all to flin
ders! IIu! Might as well 'spcet to see
six tat possums cum walking into my
cabin an' ax mo to bake 'em fur Sunday
dinnerl N. Y. World.
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according to directions. L'ivincr it a fair
n '
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id all worn out take
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A KlllAI, UOOSTF.ll Will) COULD NOT BE
(I IN TO STAND EVERYTHING.
His hair was soll'erino, his necktie
cerulean, his sack coat purple, and his
trousers a loud, yellow plaid, truncated
at the lower extremity.
There protruded from an inner pocket
the neck of a tickler, containing a decoc
tion labelled "Nash County Apple New
Dip, tor Shark and Mosquito Bites."
lie occupied two seats ou a crowded
train going to the Hammocks, and he was
meditative.
Housing himself as he caught a whif
of the briny breeze, he exclaimed, look
ing out upon the ocean, "Gosh ! But
are they agwiue to try ter cross that
river on this train ?''
Finally, disembarking and standing
on the ocean shore, and gazing over the
waters' with open-mouthed wonder, he
thus accosted a reporter :
"Say, mister, haint they got a mighty
freshet down here ?"
He was assured it wasonly an ordinary
flow.
"Well, whats them gals cr wadin' in
thar for did'n they never see er river
afjre ?"
"They are bathiug," he was informed.
"Cm, h u m, well, thein gals is
frisky as kittens an' looks like they was
gwine to play circus right thar in that
water."
Just at this juncture some young men
joined the fair bathers and they began
to frolic together in the billows. The
rural coon grew excited, pulled off his
coat and vest and began tugging at his
shirt.
'Hold up," cxd'iimed the reporter,
stavin;: the shirtshuekin:, 1 what are
you going to do ?''
"Letn-me lone. I'll be dad daddlody
bust if I kin stau' everything; ef gals has
ter be handled ter keep 'em fum bein'
drownded in ribers, den 1 kin pla' my
ban' wid de bes' uv'eiu."
The situation was explained and the
rustic individual calmed down. Wil
Messeuier.
for ins m;i'.i,i(;s.
"I had a boss killed right at this cross
ing last year," said a Long Island far
tuer to me as we were comiug back from
Coney Island the other day.
"Get damages?"
"Oh, yes. I put in a bill and the
railroad folks paid right up."
"How much of a bill?"
"Even 8200."
'Was the horse really worth Hint?"
"Wall, now, I don't kalkerlate lie
was. He was wuth about 81 50.
thought it all over and I made up my
mind that $150 would kiver his loss."
"Hut you got $50 more."
"Yes. But the rest was fur damage
to my feelin's. 'Taiu't in human natur'
to see a boss who has worked fur you
twenty-three years killed the way he was
without hairowiu' up your feelin's at
least $50 wuth. I orter had 875. But
ho was six years old when I got him and
was sort o' dyin' of old age anyhow, aud
so I let 'cr slide at half a hundred."
Holt You lan after the nobility when
you were in England, did you?
Higgins Yes. All through Europe
I followed my motto, "When in Rome
do as the Romans do." I flirted in France
climbed iu Switzerland, drank in Geruia
ny and posed in Italy.
Holt Why didu't you go to Monte
Carlo? People shoot themselves down
there.
Good Looks.
Good looks are more than skin
deep,dependiug upon a healthy condition
of the vital ortraus. If the Liver be inac
tive, you have a Bilious look, if your
stomach he disordered you have a Dys
peptic look, and it your Kidneys De at
fected vou have a nnelied look, iwec
trie Bitters is the great alterative and
tonic and acts directly on the vital or
gans. Cures Pimples, Blotches, Boils
and gives a good complexion. Sold at
W. M. Cohen's drugstore, 50c., and $1
per bottle.
PRESERVATION OF A YOI'NU WOMAN S
HODY IN INDIANA.
Mary Ann Grier disappeared from
icr father's home, two miles south of
Wauatah, Intl., nearly forty years ago.
A few days ago her body was recovered
in an abandoned bog iron ore pit, with
out one vestige of change from the ap
pearance it had known in life. The last
shred of clothing was long ago destroyed,
but the same chemicals which removed
the garmenU preserved the flesh. Not
only is the contour as perfect as in life,
but even the color has remained un
changed. The bands are brown, and
one of them still beais the staius of the
berries with which she was working on
the afternoou of her disappearance.
The cheeks arc slightly brown, but
suffused with a ruddy flush, which old
settlers here will remember as one of the
girls chief charms. Were it not for the
unsightly cavities that once contained
the eyes, the petrified frame, which has
lain almost half u century in the soil,
would appear as the beautifully sleeping
figure of a healthy, handsome young wo
man. When the body wos found it was at
first believed to be that of some woman
recently murdered, hut one of the discov
ers struck the body with a knife and
proved that it was stoue. The father of
the dead girl was the first to recognize
cr. He had always believed that she
b.ul run away from home with a young
man named Whitcscl, with whom she
was in love, in face of the objections of
cr parents.
Old man Grier, now almost 80 years
old, was brought to the place wheie bis
long-lost daughter lay. He looked upon
the lace ol the girl, whose beauty was
perfectly preserved, except that in place
of her eyes were uusightly holes. Then
laid both hands upon the body and
broke down utterly, crying "My Mary, I
thought you were gone away; I thought
you were bad: ' And it was more than
nn hour before be could be persuaded to
leave her and return to his home.
This whole country is full of a kind
of iron called bog oie. In early days it
was extensively mined by farmers. It is
probable that the girl went to meet her
lover. She must have fallen into one of
the pits from which the ore had been
taken, drawing down upon her as she
fell an avalanche of loose but heavy soil.
There must have been water in the pit
as was almost invariably the case, aud
this with the iron must have produced a
solution that tended to preserve and pet
rify the body. San Francisco Chroni
cle.
A M ATH I MOM I A I. DISAPPOINT.
MUST.
The Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ad
dressed the banqueters as follows :
"This ceremony to-night makes me
thiuk of a story, a real circumstance,
that happened in North Carolina some
years ago. A negro man and woman
went to a Justice of the Peace to get
married. Two or three weeks after the
man came back and said :
'Marso Justice, you must unuiarry
us.'
'I can't unmarry you,' was the reply.
'You must !'
'I can't.'
'But you roust.'
'I can't. You have got to go before
a court and get a divorce.'
'Boss, you got me into all this trou
ble aud you must get me out of it.'
'I can't do it. Yon took that woman
for better or worse.'
'I know that, but she is a d d sight
worse than I took her for.'" Chicwjo
Ilvmhl.
IS LIU'. WOUTII LIVING!
Not if you go through the world a dys
peptic. Dr. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets
are a positive cure tor the worst forms of
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Flatulency and
Constipation. Guaranteed aud
For sale by V. M. loU'ii, Druggist,
Wcldon, N. C.
AFTER I.ONCJ IU, HEALTH HE RESTS
FROM HIS LAIIORS.
Judge Henry A. Gilliam, one of our
most esteemed citizens, passed away at
noou on the l)th. He bad been very
feeble for a loug time, and his mental
faculities had become much impaired.
His disease was softening of the brain.
He lived a long life of usefulness and his
death is greatly deplored. He was
seventy-six years of age.
At the time of his death, Judge Henry
:V. Gilliam was about seventy-six of age.
He was a native of Gates county. In
the war he was a Major in active service
and was taken prisoner at the fall of
Roanoke Island. For almost twenty years
he was the leading lawyer of the north
eastern Carolina bar, and was regarded as
a man of unusual intellectual power.
He practiced law in the first and second
judicial districts until 187'J, residing at
Edenton, when he removed to Raleigh
and formed a eopartnerthip with the late
Major John Gatling. This partnership
continued until he was appointed Judge
of the Superior Court by Gov. Jarvis to
fill out au unexpired term. At the end
of the term ho declined to be a candidate
for the nomination. At the conclusion
of his judicial seivice he removed to Tar
boro, where he practiced law in partner
shib with his son, Don Gilliam, Esq.
Judge Gilliam had the misfortune to
lose his wife about 1875. He leaves
surviving him, two sons, Dounell Gilliam
and Henry A., Jr. Before the war lie
carried the coutity of Washington, which
was strongly Democratic, he being the
Whig nominee, and represented that
coutity in the Legislature. He is the
last to leave us of a large list of leading
aud influential lawyers aud representa
tive men of the north eastern section of
the State among whom were Col. Outlaw,
David M. Carter, W. T. Martin, Patrick
II. Winston, William A. Moore, Gen.
Stubbs aud Fcuner Satterwaite, who
were ornaments of that section. Judge
Barnes is the last survivor of this brilliant
coterie.
IT IS TKUK.
WHERE WOMEN ARE IN DEMAND, KVEN
THE 11(11.1 EST OF THEM.
We are almost daily in receipt of let
ters from the over-crowded Eastern States
asking :
Do you think I can get married if I
come out there?"
These letters are written by old maids,
widows, cross-eyed girls aud grass-wives,
and we wish to state here and now that
this town off rs thorn greater advantages
in this directum than any other ia the
West. Out of a population of over 4.000
we have only thirty-three women, and
seven of them are over eighty years old.
We'll bet a dollar to a cent all day Ion;
that 500 Eastern females can find hus
bands here in twenty-four hours. If it
was known that there was a consignment
on the way one-half our population would
ride fifty miles on mule back to get the
first pick.
Women are not asked to come out here
to be criticised and elbowed around
We don't believe there is a man in this
town who wouldn't jump at the chance
of offering his heart to a red-headed girl
with a cater ict iu both eyes and a wart
on every finder. We have contended all
along that what this town wanU most
is not a boom in real estate to benefit a
few, but ten carloads of women from
H.istou to benefit the many. Their in
fluence would soon bo felt here, and
there would be a moral backing which
we can never secure without their pre
setice. e say to all inquirers : Come
ri'dit along If you are not stopped
aud married before you get here, we
guarantee you will be within 15 minutes
after your arrival. Arizona kicker.
"Mamie kept her word, after all."
"How is that?"
"Why, she has always said she would
not inairy the best man liviug."
"But she was niaraied to-day."
"Y"3, but she did uot marry the best
man.
(1REAT STORMS PREDICTED FOR NEXT
WINTER.
Among the weather prophets of bis
age and country arc several whose fore
casts have been so generally correct that
instead of being ridiculed as gue.ssers or
charlatans, as was once the case, they re
ceive respectful attention. One of these
weather seers, Professor Forster, has re
cently given to the Washington Post bis
prognostications for eleven months, be
ginning with July. The professor dis
avows any mystery or any secret means
of knowing more of what changes are to
be than others possess, hut plainly says
that his prognosications are based on real
physical causes. From his studies of
these he is led to warn his countrymen
to be prepared for an uuusually severe
winter and for great storms. These dis
turbances will be due to the equinox of
Jupiter next January, when he antici
pates as terrible weather as this country
experienced in 1832 33. During that
period occurred the historical hurricane
that visited the lower Mississippi and the
Gulf of Mexico, and numerous other
storms of great severity that extended
over many States. He says the equion-
oxes of Jupiter and Saturn always cause
great disturbances in our solar system,
itnd also that "electricity is the force that
causes all storms, and the sun and all the
planets thow an electric force into space
over their equators, as does tho electric
dynamo, and consequently when uny
plaut passes its equinoctical (he electrical
tension of the sun and of that plant are
disturbed, and simultaneously the electric
force of every plant in the solar system is
unbalanced, which effects the electric
currents of the earth."
Whether this theory is true or not the
accuracy of most of Professor Foster's
weather prophecies for several years
justifies the belief that this latest one wili
be at least measurably fulfilled. This
storm period will begin in October and
November, if his calculations are correct,
and will extend well into next year.
Aceeptiug the fulfillment of this proph
ecy as possible, there are certain things it
would be wise to do. The first is to
secure as mucn or tne cotton and other
late crops before the possible storm sea
son shall begin. Another is to provide
shelter for domestic animals and to lay io
unusually large stores of forage. There
are many parts of the South, especially
in the Piedmont and mountain districts,
where these provisious for the welfare of
stock are never adequately made. South
ern manufacturers might advantageously
accumulate the materials used in their
industries, so as to have a supply on hand
sufficient to outlast any temporary trans
portation blockades that may occur be
cause of the severity of the weather,
while dealers in fuel, provisions and other
essentials of every day life ought to take
like precautions for the benefit of their
customers.
A protracted, severe wiuter invariably
increases the army of fiieudly invaders
of the South. There are many signs
that should the weather of next wiuter
bo merely of averago coldness, yet the
volume of Northern travel to the South
will be the greatest on record. But
should the prediction of Professor Foster
prove true, all the desirable places of
entertainment in the South will be over
crowded. Hotel and boarding-house
keepers should be ready for this possible
emergency.
What It Does.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
1. Purifies the blond.
2. Creates an appetite.
3. Strengthens the nerves.
4. Makes the weak strong.
5. Overeomis that lived feel in
ti. Cures scrofula, salt rheum,
7. Invigorates the kidneys ant
8. Relieves headache, indigestb
pepsia.
Warn Baby was sick, we gate her CasUirla.
When she was a Child, she cried (or Castorii
When he became Miss, she clung to Castorl,
Wben the had Children, alio gave them Castoria.
SHAW 8 SPR1NOS THE SCENE OF MUCH
FIN THURSDAY.
Last Thursday Littleton was full of
people who went there, to enjoy the day
in various ways, the occasion being the
annual excursion of the conductors and
engineers of the Raleigh and Gaston
railroad. The train carried down a tre
mendous crowd, aud others to the num
ber of several hundred were there also
from the surrounding country, Halifax
Enfield and this place, being well repre-
resented.
Everybody went at once to Shaw's
Springs, because that is the Mecca of all
picnic parties which can reach it. These
springs are noted for their health-giving
waters and every summer people from
everywhere go there to get the benefit of
them. They are also shipped in quanti
ties to people who, having tested their
efficaoy, want to continue their use at all
Seasons of tho year at home. The springs
are situated in a valley, through which
winds a musical brook in and out among
the rocks and trees which line the banks
of the stseam and give shade and com
fort to all. The spring gurgles out from
the side of a high hill and the water is
cool and refreshing. It was the most
popular spot of the lovely grounds on the
day of the picnic. People wandered
about in couples or in groups, danced,
sat on the rocks, rocked themselves in
the swings which had been prepared,
or watched the baseball :au)e, according
to their several fancies. An excellent
baud furnished tho music for the dancers
who occupied a platform built across the
stream. All these conveniences- aud
sources of pleasure have been fitted up by
Mr. J. L. Shaw, the proprietor of the
springs, at some expense to himself for
the sole purpose of giving enjoyment to
any who may choose to avail themselves
of the opportunity. Situated about half
a mile from town with a good road lead
i'dg to them the grounds are very popular
with everyoue aud are frequently resorted
to by picnic parties every season. With
his good forethought and generosity Mr.
Shaw has laid off a good baseball ground.
On Thursday a game was played there
by the Warrenton aud Henderson clubs
which was called after the 4th iuniiiir
resulting in a victory for Warrenton
by a score of 7 to 1. Tho gaiuo was
witnessed by a good many and only one
thing came near marring the pleasure of
players and spectators. Mr. Jouie Co
hen, who was playing with the Hender
son club, while at the bat received a se
vere blow ou the back of the head from
the ball wliL-h gi.TJ him great pain, but
from which fortuuately he recovered in
a short time. He saw the ba'l coming
turned around and stooped to let it pass
over his head, but di I not bend low
enough and received the full force of it
ou his head.
After spending a most delightful day
the picnickers returned home carrying
with them delightful recollections of
Shaw's Springs and the charming day
they had had there.
Delay are Dangerous.
There are those who are morbidly anx
ious about their health, watching every
symptom and dosing themselv" - . "
rqvocation. Th
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