VOL. XXII. WELDON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1892. NO. 60 FEMALE CONVICTS. HUSBANDS ARB OIVKN THRU FROM AltONO NCW OALBOONIA OONVIOTS. . Botion Cnxtritr, French female pri’onen and cnnviotg are treated with more kiodocsa oit the whole than pernons of their olasa in £ng> land. Their matroos and wardreHdea aro Augaatioo uudb, whone rule, though firm, ii gentler, more ueroiful and more stead fastly equitable than that of laywomcn could be. The female oonvicta are al lowed the Mme privilege as the men in the matter of earning money nnd buying things at the canteen; those of them who are young also enjoy a privilegs not granted to female convinta in other coun tries—that of having husbands provided for them by the State—only these hus bands must be convieis. Every gix months a notice is circulatcd in the female penitentiaries calling upon all women who feel minded to go out to New Calkidonia and be married to make an application to that effect through the Governor. Elderly women aro always very prompt in making such applications, but they aro not entertained. Tho mat rimonial candidates must bo young and exempt from physical iofirmities. Qirls under long sentences readily catch at this method of escaping from the intolerable tedium of prison life, and the pretty ones aro certain to be put on the Governor’s list, no matter how frightful may be the crime fur which they have been sen tenced. Tbe only moral qualiGcation rcquic’te is to have passed at leadt two years in the penitentiary. The selected candidates have to sign engagements promising to narry convicts and to settle in New Cale donia for the remainder of their lives. On these conditions the Government transports them, gives them a decent out fit and a ticket of leave when they land at Noumefi. Their marriages are ar ranged fur them by the Governor of the colony, who hag a selection of well-be haved convicts for them to choose from; and each girl may consult her own fancy within certain limits, for tho proportion of marriageable men to women is about three to one. Of course, if the girl positively declares that none of the aspirant bridegrooms ittbmitted to her inspection has met with her approval, the Governor ran only shrug his shoulders in the usual Frcnch way. It has happened more than once that pretty girls have been wooed by warders, free settlera or time expired soldiers, in stead ofby convicts. In such cases the Governor can assent to a mariiage only on condition that the female convici’s free lover shall place himself in the posi tion of a ticket of leave man and under take never to leave the colony. Love works wonders, and there is no instance on reoord of a man having refused to com ply with these conditions when once he bad fallen in love. A MOTHBK AT TU YBARS. Murganton Herald, D. E. S. Warliok reports a case of child birth in the South Mountain section of Ibis county, which is the most remark- tble on reoord, if wo eicept the scriptural •tory of Sarah. Mrs. Wm E. Smith, of Upper Pork township, on Thursday, February 25th, gave birtb to a child, a oireumstance Thich would have created very little comment in the South Moun tains had it not been that the day on which the ohild was born happened to : be Mrs.. Smith's seventieth birthday. >Tbe ohild was alive and*well formed, and the physk'ians all say this beats the re- r’cord. Dr Warliok will get up all the facts connected with the remarkable case ud will furnish them to tbs Medical Journal. The statement made by Dr. Wariick is authentic. Wa have a speedy and positive eur« for catarrh, diphtheria, canker mouth ud hewiaohe, in SHILOH’S GA- JARRH remedy, a nasd injector nee whh M«h buttle. Use it if yyu i«siie b«altb apd »weet breath. Price SiMb| W. M. Cobta. QUITMAN. HOW q^JrT.^IA^^ OOT ITS NAME—A SUN DAY SCHOOL BOY TOLD TUB STORY, Savannah A'eiet. Several commercial tourists and other guests were seated on the wide, canny southern verandah of the Leon Hotel yesterday. They were smoking and spinning yarns, ns iii usual in suoh gath erings. A broad-shoulilered, white-haired gentleman, with n jolly face, bit off the end of a fresh cigar, and tipped back in his chair. “Boys,” he said, “I can tell you a little story, and it is a true one. Several years ago, in a sparselcy-settled pdftion of the great State of Georgia, there was a little settlement of thrifty farmers. One bright spring afternoon, near the edge uf the primeval forest hard by, upon an im mense pine log, was seated a buxom country lassie, with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes. She was busily engaged arranging a bouquet of wild flowers. “Now, it so happened that a young artist from Boston was down in the neck of the wood» making sketches. When he saw the pretty country maiden seated upon the log ho felt that if ho eould get that picture upon canvas his name as an artist would become famous. A twig snapped beneath his foot. She turned, saw him, and sprang to her feet as if to run. He advanced rapidly towards her, hat in hand, and introduced himself. They sat down tonether side by side on the log. Soon his arm stole around her waist. ‘Quit, man!' she nuid; but, as she did not draw away, he pressed her closer to his manly bosom, and began showering kisses upon her tuby lips, she meanwhile repeating the cry, ‘Quit, man!’ between tbe smacks. One of the boys from the settlement journeyed that way on his return from hunting, and saw and heard. He quietly retired. That was on Saturday. Next day at Sunday school tho boy told the story. From that day every one spoke of the settlement as ‘Quitman’ settlement, and to-day it is a thriving town, still bearing the name of Quitman. You can find it on any of tho maps of Georgia." SALT FORSORETHROAT. TESTIMONY OF ONE WHO HAS TRIED IT. The Household. In these days when diseases of tbe throat are so universal prevalent, and in so many cases fatal, we feel it our duty to say a word in behalf of a most effectu al, if not positive cure for sore throat. For many years past, indeed we may say for the whole of a life or more than forty years, wo have been subject to a dry, hacking cough, which is not only distress ing to ourselves but to our friends and those with whom wo are brought into business contact. Last fall we were in duced to try what virtue there was in common salt. We commenced using it three times a day, morning, noon and night. We disiiolved a large tablespoonful of pure table salt in half a small tumbleful of water. With . this we gargled the throat most thoroughly just before meal time. The result has been that during the entire winter we were not only free from coughs and colds, but tbe dry, hacking cough, bad entirely disappeared. Weattiibute these satisfactory results solely to the use of salt gargle, and most cordially recommend a trial of it to those who are subject to diseases of the throat. Many persons who baVe never tried the salt gargle have the impression that it is unpleasant, but after a few days’ use no one who loves a nice, clean mouth and first rate sharpener of the appetite will aLandon it. Oytpepila au Liver CovpUlnt. Is it not worth the small prioe of 75c, to free yourself of avery symptom of these distressing complaints, if you think w call at our store and get a bottle of Shi ll’s Vitaliier,'every bottle hfs a printed guaruotee on it, ui>e according and if d 'es yon no good it will cost you uuthing, l^ld by W, M, Cohen. FOR MEDICAL EXPERTS. A CHILD BORN WITH A NATURAL IlKAD BUT A BODY HAVING THE APPEAR ANCE OF A DOO. Durham Sun. A child was born in Durham thi.s morning the mother being a culurod wo man, and it is exciting tho curiosity of some of our physicians. A Sun roportor saw it this morniDg and it beats anything in the way nf a freak of nature he ever beheld. The head was a pcrfect formation uf u human being, with the exception thnt it had rudimentary earn, no chin frum tho mouth and the jaws extending backward as in the formation uf a dog. It was pro nounced to bo eight months old and was born dead. There was a thick head of long black hair extending down the neck to tho body. Under the microsoopc tho body showed that it was covered with a hairy fuzz and at the end spinal column there was a well defined tail one fourth of an inch long. The body was peculiarly shaped, not exactly resembling a human being. There were no arms, but something in the shape of hands or paws, growing from the skin, with no bones. The body, adjoining the legs, was very peculiarly shaped. There were no ankles. The feet projected from the knee joint. The formatiau and appearance of the body was a very peculiar one and the physicians who saw it expressed various opinions, yet all agreed they never saw anything like it before. The body was photo^'raphed and then placed in alcohol for preserviiiiun. UIIOST Oit CRANKI HOW HE MANAOED TO OET A DRINK WHEN THIRSTY. The following amusing incident came under my notice while staying in a neigh boring county, Bays a wiiter in the Irish Times. A thirsty youth, whose name 1 will not disclose, took advantage of tbe following expedient to obtain the means of procuiing liquor when all other means had failed. Ho became possessed of some luminous paint, with whieh he covered over his face and hands, and sallied forth in tbe dead of the night to the house of a neighbor, whose son (also a thirsty youth) had died recently. Arrived at the house, he p!aced bia face and bands clos^ to tbe window, and speaking in sepulchral tones, soon woke the inmates of the house, who, on look ing towards the window, became terror stricken at the sight of such an unearth ly apparition. The supposed ghost, as suming the voice of the deceased boy, ex claimed: “I am the ghost of your dead son* and can never enter tbe kingdom of heaven without obtaining $10, which 1 owed to a person before my death. My ghost shall haunt and disturb you for fifty years from this night if suoh amount is not placed at midnight on to^mnrrnw night under the stone you will see in the tort back of this house.” Needless to say the required sum was soon fortbcoming and as speedily disap peared. It enabled the tritky ghost to continue his debauchery for a further period, while his foolish neigbor was very thankful at having so easily got rid of such an unwelcome visitor. COULDN’T BB KBIT OUT. Shortly after Gen. Jackson's death a traveler oi horseback passed the Hermi tage, and seeing an old negro, one of Gen. Jackson’s slaves, at work there, re marked : “Well, undo, the old General has left us.” “Yes, boss, he done gime,” was the re- ply. “Do you think he has gone to heaven, uncle?” asked the traveler. “Dun no ’boat dat, bos.«,” was the re ply; “but ef he say he gwine dar all bell can’t keep him out.” BROWN'S IRON BITTERS Cure® Dyspepsia, In digestion ft P^ability. THE MAN WHO LAUGHS. HE SCATTERS SUNSHINE EVERYWHERE AND MAKES MEN BETTER. St, Louis Republican. The man whose ha! hal reaches from one side of the street to tho other may bathe fellow who scolded his wife and spanked the baby before ho got breakfast, but his laughter is only the crackle of thorns under the pot. Tbe man who spreads his laughter through his life—before a late breakfast, when he misses the train, when his wife goes visiting and he has to eut a cold supper; the man who can laugh when he finds u buttou off his shirt, when the furnace fire g6cs out in the night and both of the twins come down with the measles at the same time —he’s the fellow that’s needed. He never tells his neighbor to have faith. Some how he puts faith into him. (le delivers no homilies; tho sight of his beaming face, the sound of his happy voice, and the sight of blessed daily life carry convictions that words* have no power to give, Tho blues flee before him as the fog before tho west wind; he comes into his own homo like a flood of sunshine over a meadow of blooming buttcrcups, and his wife and children blossom in his presence like June roses. His home is redolent with sympathy and 1 )ve. The neigborhood is better for his life and sombody will learn of him that laughter is better than tears. Tho world needs this man. Why are there so few of them? Can ho be created? C»n he be evolved? Why is he not in every house, turning rain iotu shine and winter into summer all round the year until life is a perpetual season of joy. A SHIP WITH t'lNS. AN ARRANGEMENT TO PREVENT THE ROLLINQ AND FITCHINQ OF VES SELS. A novel method of overcoming tbe rolling and pitchings of ocean steamships is described in a recent issue of the Sci entific American. From a cross section of a vessel (here are provided fins project ed on each side both forward and aft, in a horizontal direction below the water level. The fins are governed by steam motor, which has connected with it an equilibrium valve so that as the vessel moves through the water the fins are au tomatically feathered, tbe blades of those on the descending side of the ship point ing in a slanting direction upward, while those on the ascending side point down ward. Tbe effect of tbe blades on the water, is, it is said, to overcome a larger part of the rolling and pitching of the vessel. WHV RITiL NVB DID NOT ATTEND THIS MBBTING RBGU1.AHI.Y. From BUI Nye's Last Letter. Farmers’ Alliances are not always suc cessful in subverting established political methods, because it is difficult for us to meet often enough to ^discuss and consid er questions of moment to us. I am a member of the Ashfield (Mass.) Fai- mers’ Club. So is Mr. Curtis, And yet I have not been able to attend for over a year. My farm is situated in Buncomhe county, N. C, It is an obliqne farm, with a I'uuJur un the luwer eUge to koep the potatoes from falling into George Vanderbilt's farm, which is below mine on the French Broad river. After a hard day's work on this upright farm I am too wurnout to attend a meeting of the Alliance or even of our own dub. Oh, What a Cough. Will y>u heed the warning. The signal perhaps of tbe sure approach of that uiure terrible disease CousumpLiju. Ask yourselves if you can, afford for the sake of saving 50c., to run the risk and do not nothing fur it. We kuuw from experience that Shiloh’s Cure will cure your cough. It never fails. Thiti exolains Why more than a Million Bot tles were sold the past year. It relievep croup and whooping cous;h at once M'othprs, do not be without it. Fur lsm« side or chest use Shiloh's Porous i'iastur. Sold by W, M, Uubuu, Druggist. A NEW KIND OF LEATHER. IT WILL BE SOMETtUNU LIKE TANNED TRIPE. James W. Deckert, a Newarkcr, has discovered a new kind of fancy leather. It is obtained by tanning the stomachs of animals, the same material from which tripe is prepared. Tripe is not tripe un til it is prepared for food. What it should be called when considered as material for leather is still an open ques ion. It makes handsome leather for yiockctbnoks, bag.'j ttcd fancy articles, and can ho dyed in any color. Only the inner membrane is used. The heavy integument is split off, leaving a moderately thin and coarse- fibred leather as soft as chamois. There is a groat variety of grain and pattern in the same piece of the leather, and much of it too plain to :\dmit of us ing it in large articles with ihe best effect but excellent results can be obtained by matching opposite spots of the skin, if skin it can be called. The part known as the “honey-comb” makes a particularly rich appearance when dyed and polished. It is much more effective th»n alligator or lizard skin, and much softer and more easily worked into irregular fiirms. An- er part has the appearance of being cov ered with jet beads when dyed black and polished. Any part of the material will keep people guessing what it is mad i from, and that is a part uf tbe pleasure >f owning any novelty. The inventor or discovei* er of this new leather says that he can get from twelve to fifteen feet from an ani mal. TREATING ERYSIPELAS. A GERMAN DOCTOR CURES IT WIT^ SPIRITS OF TURPENTINE. JV. r. Herald. In the opinion of Mr, Winkler, Bremen, the best means of treating ery sipelas is to paint the skin with spirits of turpentine. He has been convinced by the twenty-two cases in which he has used it that this treatment gives imme diate relief and rapid recovery. The diseased surface must be rubbed with a brush or a lump of cotton soaked in rectified spirits of turpentine. This process should be repeated four or five times a day, and the rubbing should al ways be made in tbe same direction, that is to say, from the healthy to the diseased surface to avoid spreading the contagious germs. The first few applications produce an itching and burning sensation, which gradually diminishes, and in a short time the patients cease to feel the disagreeable t insion that is so characteristic of erysip elas. VIRTUE IN SKIMMED MII.K* Lovis Herbert, of Camden, N. J,, has lived for upward of four years on a diet of skimmed milk only. Five years ago he was taken with a diseaso uf the kid neys, and the doctors gave him but a week to live, but as a last resort recommended skimmed milk. He at once abjured all other meat and drink. He began to amend immediately and soon grew strong and Etuut. He died recently, but not from his old complaint. CONSUMPTION CUltED. An old physician, retired from piac- tioe, having had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the *formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the apuiidy and permanent cure of Consum)- tion. Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lung Affections, also a pf>»itive and raaical cure fur Nervous De bility and all Nervous Coniplaintn, after having tested its woaderful curative pow- in thousand uf cases, has fuit it bis duty to make it known to hix suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send free uf charge, to all who desire it, this recipe, io German, French cr Knglisb, with full directions for preparing and upidg. Sent by mail by aadreiwiiig. with stamp. n:>'iiing this paper.—W. A. Nuyu», 8:20 J:*uwer8’ Block, fiuehester, N. y. apr 301 jr. ADVERTISEMENTS, Is callcd the “Father of Diseases.” It is caused by a Torpid Livbr, andisgonerally occompaniod with LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, BAD BREATH, Eto. To treat constipation successfully It is a mild laxative aud a tonic to tho digestive organs. By tak. ing Simmons Liver Regulator you promote digestion, bring on a reg ular habit of body and prevent Biliousness and Indigestion. '*My wife was sorely distrersed with Constipa* tion and coughing, followed with Bleeding Pifai. After four months use of Simmons l.iver Regulator she in almait entirely relieved, gaining stronpth. and flesh.”->W. U. Lbbpbk, Deluware, Ohir., Take only the Oenuhti-,. Which has on the Wrapper the r«d '1 mJc- mark and Signature ci Everybody invited to pay na a lUM tk once. Our stock of DItESS qOODS in Bedford Cords, Broadclothes, CashmciM Plaids and all tbe Novelties of tho smuob ara ready for inspection. MATCH. We have tbe beet stock of OLOTHINQ FOE MEN, BOY’S AND CHILDREN In town. 'COD FITS and STYLISH' MAKKd. Big Assortments of SHOES. in all grades. Latest HA CENT’S FURNISHINGS, ni goeds and any tiling yon will sdl gooda aa chM]^ «n4 ff. you as good valaet aa aayona in towa. ^ . fieapwitAiIW, . HART I. ALC
