WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1893.
AMETKOKSTOUM3 A
RED HOT JVM I, IT KS SITU HOC N n Til R E A 111,
1. MASON OFF HATTKIIAS.
A meteor sizzinjj 'foui the heavens
came within a few feet of striking tlio
coasting schooner Karl P. Mason, off
Capo Hatteras on the passage from die
Satilla Kiver, Ga.. for Philadelphia. The
crew say that it was one of the most inn
nifieent spectacles they had ever witness
ed. The meteor burst in many pieces
and scattered its seething fragments all
around, soma of which, as they dashed
into the sea, made reports that sounded
like a cannonade. Particles of the mete
or as they flew through the air with the
appearance of red hots chunks of iron
struck the water with hissing sounds and
disappeared only to send up great masses
;i steam where they had gone dowa.
The condition of the atmosphere dur
ing the fall of the meteor was most pecu
liar. There were gaseous odors all around
and even the turface of the ocean glowed
as if it were ablaze The heavens, too
appeared to be on fire. From the zenith
to the surface of the water there were
Jong trails of sparks along the clearly
outlined path of the meteor.
It became necessary for the vessel to
JIlay to under storm trysails until the at
mospherc had assumed its normal condi
tion. The vessel's compass was visibly
.affected and the needle fluctuated without
jegardrfo the cardinal poiuts.
The official log of the Mason, as writ
ten and reported by Captain Brown
rshows, that the meteoric shower had been
preceded by a tcrrifio gala in latitude
.JAM, longitude 9G 45. The mainsail
was blown to tatters and the foresail was
taken in to save it. When the wind
which blew at the rate of CO miles an
rhour, had subsided, the meteor burst
athwart the heavens as above described,
with a tremendous report, and lighted up
the firmament with a supernatural glow.
During the sailors' awo-stricken ohserv
Doef this phenomenon a heavy sea
boarded the vessel, stove in her boat and
.damaged the decks.
LIST OFGOVIiRNOKS
OK NORTH CAItOMNA FROM 1710 TO
1SII.1
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record
Throughout the South there is a
marked revival in industrial matters and
many new enterprises are being estab
lished. A number that were projected
duringtheboom days.and which collapsed
when the panic came, are being pushed
to completion now, or are being reorgan
ized preparatory to activo work again. It
will be some time yet, though, before some
of the crippled concerns can be put on
their feet, but the outlook grows steadily
brighter.
Local financial interests have been
etrengthed, cUbtshave been paid, and the
South generally has been putting its
business affaire in order during the past
two years. The confidence of outside
eapitalists in the South as a place for
large investments has been greatly
increased by the manner in which that
section has stood the financial strain, and
northern money willjn the future go into
southern manufacturing enterprises very
freely.
THE SOUTH THE COUNTRY.
At a hearing before the labor com
mittee of the Massachusetts Legislature,
representatives of the cotton mills at
Chicopee, Fall River, Lowell and Taunton
remonstrated against the reduction of
hours, of labor in manufacturing compa
tiU 54 per week, claiming that they
est stand the competition of mills in
oi tates and England.
treasurer of the Massachusetts
Lowell, and tho Whittenton
i iTaunton; said he was absolutely
ftiiu from the State and that he is
Jjth to build a mill in order to
export trade. His goods, he
.1e made cheaper in the South
ientical machinery. The South
J on the North, though he did
i 4 the South would destroy the
.business. Doston Dispatch.
Mr. J. II. MuKlwoe, of Statesvillc, was
recently in the towu of Edeuton, Chowan
county, aud while there he copied from
the records the following list of tho Gov
ernors of North Carolina :
1719. Charles Eden.
Sir Ricb. Everard, Bart.
Gabriel John.-on.
Matthew Rowan.
Arthur Dubbs.
1720.
1734
175:5.
1754.
17G(I.
1773.
1777.
1780.
1782.
1784.
1785.
1783.
1790.
1793.
1796.
1798.
1799.
1802.
1805.
1807.
1808.
1810.
1811.
1813.
1817.
1820.
1821.
1824.
1827.
1828.
1830.
1832.
1835.
1837.
1844.
1845.
1849.
1850.
1855.
1859.
1801.
18C1.
1862.
1865.
1860.
1868.
1871.
1874.
1875.
1880.
1884.
1888.
1890.
1893.
William Tryon.
Josiah Miirtio.
Richard Caswell.
Abner Nash.
Thomas Burke.
Alexander Martin.
Richard Casweil.
Samuel Johnson.
Alexander Martin.
Richard D. Spaight.
Samuel Ashe.
William R. Davie.
Benjamin Williams.
James Turner.
Nathaniel Alexander.
Benjamin Williams.
David Stone.
Benjamin Smith.
William Hawkins.
William Miller.
John Branch.
Jessie Franklin.
Gabriel Holmes.
Hutchins G. Burton.
James Iredell.
John Owens.
Montford Stokes.
David L. Swain.
Edward D. Spaight.
Edward B. Dudley.
John M. Morehead.
Wm. A. Graham.
Chas. Manly.
David S. Reid.
Thomas Bragg.
John W. Ellis.
Warren Winslow.
Henry T. Clark.
Zebulon B. Vance.
William W. Holden.
Jonathan Worth.
William W. Holden.
Tod R. Caldwell.
Curtis H. Brogdcn.
Zebulon B. Vance.
T. J. Jarvis.
Alfred M. Scales.
Daniel G. Fowle.
Thomas M. Holt.
Elias Carr.
Statesville Landmark.
AROSE TO THE OCCASION.
A pretty young schoolma'am in Kin-
math county, Ore., puzxled the powers of
pronounciation of her class recently with
the word "husband" chalked on the
blackboard.
To help them out she asked : "What
should I have if I should get married ?"
"Babies, ma'am." shouted the class in
union. New York Sun
A MATTER OF GRAMMAR
"Can I kiss you?" he asked the
Boston girl after his proposal had been
accepted.
"1 do not know whether you can or
not," she replied critically."
He hesitated a moment.
"May I kiss you?" he murmured.
"That's different," she responded, and
he gathered then in.
A GOOD OPENING.
MISS LIM.IE SANDOW'8 FATHER OFFERS
$5,000 FOB A HUSBAND FOR HER,
Miss Lillie Sandow, of Henderson
county, Tenn., is only 16 summers and
weighs 130 pounds. She has a trim,
well proportioned body, a lovely face,
crowned with a wealth of golden hair, and
No. 19 foot. The shoes are manufac
tured by a Boston firm and ordered
through a local business house. The
girl's father is wealthy and offers to any
aspirant who will marry his daughter a
freewill offering of $5,000.
THE TELAUTOGRAPH.
IT DOES NEARLY EVERYTHING BUT
EAT.
Springfield RrpuhUciin.
This inveution of Prof. Elisha Gray, of
Chicaso, which has recently been perfect
ed and tested to the satisfaction of the
inventor and all disinterested parties who
witnessed its operations, is to be put on
the market next fall by a company formed
for the purpose. As the name implies.
the instrument is designed to transmit in
facsimile by wire to any distance any pen
marks niado on paper. Prof. Grav has
been seven years employed in working
out this problem.
What is likely to bo the commercial
value of the inveution? The projectors
see a great future for it. In the first place,
it is claimed that the invention will sup
plant the whole machinery of the present
telegraph, aside from the poles and wirefi
A cheap boy in an office who can write
will do the work of an expert telegrapher
with this machine. More often the opera'
tor will not need to write at all, but mere
ly feed to the instrument tho copy of the
person sending a dispatch, persons at a
distance can be identified where ac
quainted with the autographs of one
another. Arbitary signs or trade marks
can be dispatched in orders for goods, etc,
The person at either end of the wire can
file away for future reference an extract
copy of his own dispatch as well as of
that of the one received. The receiver
works without any attention.
TALKING SENSE.
Hon. H. W. J. Ham, the long, lanky
mountaineer editor of Georgia, who
proved to be such a surprise and cyclone
of anecdote and argument when he took
the stump in behalf of the Democracy
last fall, and spoke at Charlotte, Tamma
ny Hall, New York, and elsewhere, . has
recently been to Atlanta, and was inter
viewed by a reporter of the Constitution.
Among other things, to the question as
to what he thought of the outlook of the
new administration, Mr. Ham replied as
follows :
"Too early to tell yet, my boy. Start
ing off fairly well, but there is serious
work ahead of the Democracy in tho next
four years."
"Will they be equal to the emergen
cy?"
"Yes; I hope and believe so, but there
are things of more importance than whioh
one of the several Democrats shall hold
the offices. We have all the branches of
the government, the responsibility is upon
us. The people have commissioned the
Democratic party to make a change, and
as Sim Brazeal said when his wife fell in
the well, 'something's got to be done and
that darn quick.' "
"You think the Democracy is safe for
a long lease of power?"
"That depends. That's what I am
talking about. Wc bad widespread dis
content last year. We held our people
in line in the South by pointiug out to
them that the only hope of success was
in standing by tho Democracy, answered
their objections to the past by pointing
out that wc had never been for vears
wholly in power. That answer will not
do four years from now. We will be
judged by works and not promises. The
people want tho tariff reduced, the money
question settled, silver restored to its
rightful place; the pension robbery stop
ped, and the government put on an eco
nomical basis, and nothing less will satis
fy them.
"If the Democrats will get together,
compromise differences of opinion, make
mutual concessions, and go in for genuine
and far reaching reform in the interest
of the common people, all will be well,
and our seat in the saddle is firm. If
they do not well, I do not want to be
around and have to undertake the expla
nation of the things I told the b ys in the
ast campaign that's all.
That euro of 0w W. Turner, of Gal-
way, N. Y.. of scrofula, by iiood's Sarsv
parilla, was one of the most remarkable
on record.
LIGHT HOUSE.
PREPARATIONS TO AMAIN LET THE CON
TlftrT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
DIAMOND SHOAI.S.
The construction at Norfolk of the im
mtnsc caissson for the proposed light
house on Diamond Shoals, off Ilatterrs,
it remembered, and also the loss of the
same by storm on that dangerious coast
before the work of utilizing the caisson
for the foundation of the lighthouse c;uid
be completed. The following from the
Washington correspondence of the Rich-
Dispatch, in connection with the matter
of a light at that point, is of interest here:
"The officials of the Ligthouse Board
are making preparations to again let the
contract for the construction of tho pro
posed lighthouse at Diamond Shoals, off
Cape Hatteras, N. C."
After telling of the failure of the pre
vious attempt to construct a lighthouse on
tho shoals, the article referred to says;
"Then numerous new plans were submit
ted. One was to erect large electric lights
on piles and connect the same with the
banks by means of cables; and a powerful
dynamo could then supply tho light. It
was not regarded feasible and was aban
doned because the shifting of the sand
beds would wash away the piles. The
board have tried this plan from Sandy
Hook to Gednev Point, and it. dons nnt.
give satisfaction. Yesterday the Light
house Board received from the Signal
Service a complete record of the weather
for the past twenty years, and charts are
being made to ascertain, if possible, the
saftest period of the year for transport
ing tne caissons to Diamond fchoals, when
new ones shall have been built.
This is regarded as the most difficult
undertaking of the kind that has ever
been attempted, and the board are deter
mined to exhaust every means in getting
a foundation for the proposed Diamond
Shoals lighthouse. It is sadly needed. Tho
money available will be ample to com
mence the structure, but when completed
it will cost probably at least $1,000,000,
but it will be the greatest achievement
in its line and prove of incalculabe benefit
to navigation." Norfolk Landmark
The coast of Hatteras is one of exceed
ing danger, consequently the erection of
this lighthouse is a very important mat
ter. Great difficulties lie in the way, but
there should be no delay in the matter
that can be avoided.
NO VETO.
IF THE SILVER BILL IS CONSTITUTIONAL
MR. CLEVELAND WILL LET IT BECOME
A LAW.
A Southern Senator has had a talk
with the President on the silver question.
This Senator is a strong advocato of sil
ver, and ho is independent enough to
speak plainly at the White House.
"We are now in the majority in both
ends of the capitol," he said to the Pres
ident. "Suppose that majority of the
representatives of the people of thiscoun
pass a silver bill, will you veto it?"
"I shall veto no bill," replied the Pres
ident, "unless there are constitutional
reasons for doing so."
"There can bo no constitutional grounds
for vetoing a silver bill," the Senator
argued.
"A bill against which there are no consti
tutional grounds, replied the President,
"will become a law. I may not sign it,
but it will become a law, either with or
without my signature. I shall not veto
it."
"Tho fifty-third Congress," said the
Senator, "will never repeal the Sherman
law, unless at the same time it enacts a
substitute. It will never consent to the
demonetization of silver. It will accept
nothing worse for the silver than the
Bland bill.
After that the President and the Sena
tor talked along the lines of compromise.
A good prophet 100 per cent.
Tin T" i nothiu" against which rim
Bible warns us that is not a way of
death.
STATE ITEMS.
THE NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE
IN A CONCISE FORM.
Mt. Airy will soon have a hosiery mill
in operation.
Mr. Paul F. Faison, of Raleigh, is to
be an Indian Inspector.
Prof. Alexander, of the University,
has been appointed Minister to Greece.
The North Carolina State Fireman's
Association will hold its annual conven
tion in Wilmiugton sometime in June
The Morgauton Manufacturing and
Trading Company have added a large
dry kiln to their extensive wood working
plant.
The citizens of Lov'elady township have
organized a committee whose province it
will be to rid the township of sheep-killing
dogs.
Miss Addio Andrews, of Greensboro,
a vocalist of rare gifts, has accepted a po
sition in the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal
church, in Norfolk, Va.
Marion Lamby, of Gaston county, blew
off his head last week with two beav
charges of shot from a double-barrel gun.
His body was found in a field.
The Railway Commission has prepared
a general order regulating with great care
the handling of baggage by railways, in
accordance with authority given it by the
legislature.
J he &rwin Cotton Mills is one of
Durham's new enterprises which has just
been completed, and is destined to be a
great factor in the manufacturing indus
tries of the South.
Shelby has voted for high license by
a vote of 147 to 134. Tho town has
been dry for eighteen years previous. The
new law puts license at one thousand dol
lars per annum.
John Godfrey, the married man who
eloped with the daughter of Mr. J. F.
Houpe, of Iredell county, was arrested
last week at Independence, Va. Tho girl
was brought back home and Godfrey is
in jail.
The lamest set of officials upon reeord
is to be found in Anson county, North
Carolina. The coroner has but ono arm,
treasurer is crippled, the register of deeds
has only one leg, two commissioners are
are in the same plight, and the keeper of
the county home is minus an arm.
Trinity College is in receipt of a life-
size crayon portrait of Edwin W. Fuller,
author if "The Sea Gift," and "The An
gel in the Clouds," a gift from the Bright
Jewels, of Louisburg. The work was
done by a young lady of Frankliu, bis
native county.
"Brace Up." Is a tantalizing admo
nition to those who at this season feel all
tired out, weak, without appetite and dis
couraged. But the way in which Hood's
Sarsaparilla builds up the tired frame and
gives a good appetite, is really wonderful
So we say, "Take Iiood's and it will brace
you up."
l'or a general family cathartic we con
fidently recommend Hood's Pills.
Miss Laker "Isn't it too bad there are
so many failures in life?" Wiswcll
'Can't say that it is, I've been assignee
in three, and they paid me so well I
wouldn't mind tackling some mnrn."
ROOT ANDBRANCH,
the poison in your blood, however it may
have come, or whatever shape it may be
taking, is cleared away by Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. It's a remedy
that rniip every organ into healthful ac
lju, JjuiiuosuuJ enriches the blood, and
through it cleanses and invigorates
thewhule system. Salt rheum, Tetter
Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles,
Eularged Glands, and the worst Scrofu
lous Sores and Swellings, are perfectly
and permanently cured by it.
U.i iu die ordinary spring medicines
or sarsaparillas, the "Discovery" works
equally w. II at all seasons. All the year
round, and in all case, it is guaranteed, as
no other blood medicine is. If it ever
fails to benefit or cure, you have your
money back. You pay for only the good
you get.
Isn'i it safer to sm ibat no other bluod
purifier can be "just as good?"
If it were, wouldn't it be sold so?
N E W ADVERTIS K M ENTS.
J Tobacco Cure!
WHAT IT IS DOING,
I received Tablet about six days abound
commenced using uncording to directions,
aud can say now that 1 am cured of the
habit of chewing and smoking, contracted
about thirty-seven years ago. What are
your terms to agents? I want two counties.
Cleveland, Miss. E. C. Hopkins.
I have used the Kose Tobacco Cure with
happy results,
Please give me all the particulars in re
gard to agency, lor one or more counties.
Yours respectfully,
Valdosta, Ga. . W. 1). Braswell.
I sent to you a month ago for a Tablet
of ttose Tobaccp Cure. It broke me of the
habit after using tobacco for fifty-seven or
fifty-eight years. Yours,
Travelers Rest, Ala. J. C. Powell.
I purchased a Tablet of Rose Cure some
two weeks since and it lias cured me.
Please let me know if you will let an
agent have as much territory as a State.
Tibbee station, Miss. J. H. Ryland.
Rev. Mr. Onlland, of this city, has use8
your Rose Tobacco Cure and he says it has
cured him of the habit of tobacco using. I
have been chewing and smoking for 45
years and yetam determined to quit. Please
find enclosed $1.00. Send me a Tablet.
Jacksonville, Fla. Yours,
W. E Hatter.
Sometime ago I ordered from you a box.
oftheSnuffCuro for myself. It gave per
fect satisfaction and completely cured me
of the Snuff habit in a lew duvs. I would
like to secure the agency for this section.
Summit, Ala. Mrs. Carry Haden.
AN OLD CASE. All that want to quit
the use of tobacco, use the Rose Tobacco
Cure. I am a free man after using it 55
years. Give terms to agents. Yours,
Valley Head, Ala. R. S. Price.
I write this to say to you that the Rose
Tobacco Cure is a wonderful stuff. I have
used tobacco in all shapes for 45 years, and
after using one Tablet all desire is gone. I
used two Tablets to besurcofa cure, but
one did the work. Dr. R. M. Tucker.
PRICE PER TABLET, TOBACCO (''RE. S1.0O
" BOX, SNUFF CURE, 1.00
ORDER OF
BRAZEAL & CO.,
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.,
General Agents for the UNITED STATES.
scp 8 ly
Paying I
BOTANIC
BLOOD BALM
THE GREAT REMEDY
FOR ALL BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES -
Hah liomi llinrcnt ly tfr-twi by em
inent jiJiysji lans aiirj the Tfupl
for 49 yenrn, nml inrer fails to
curt- quickly unl triiuuieiitly
SCROFULA, ULCCRS. ECZEMA,
RHEUMATISM, PIMPLES, ERUPTIONS,
1 and nil mnniwr of ATI NO. SPREADING- and
itUNNINd r.Hl'S. Invariably cured tht most
1 lo.-ith.tniw MihxI (iiwi.wn if itiri'etioiiB are fol
. jimod. 1'rirf Si pur buttle, 6 botlka fur K. For
t'iUe by druKf-'-sts.
SEHT FREE vnm i:iti, iTKKS.
BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga.
july 28 ly.
OJICE.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
HALIFAX COUNTY.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Isaac Foote, plaintiff
against
Annie Foote, Defendant.
This is an action for divorce a viucuto
matrimonieupon the grounds of ndulterv
ou the part of the defendant and it ap-
IK-unug nun uic ueicmum is a non-resident
and cannot after due diligence be
found in this State. This is therefore to
command the said defendant to appear at
the next term of the Superior court of said
county to be held at the court house in the
town of Halifax, North Carolina, on the
lllth Monday alter tho 1st Monday i
March 1R9H, and answer or demur to tho
complaint or the relief asked for will be
granted and a decree against said deiend
aut made.
Given under ray hand and official seal at
my office on this tho 21st day of March
1893.
TO 11 N T. GREGORY,
Clerk Superior Conrt Hnlitux comity.
Tom W. Hawkins, attorney,
mar 23 tiw.