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W w iri mil Times DEVOTED TO THE ADVASCEUEST OF EEIDS YILLE ASD THE STATE AT LABOE. VOL. XIII. REIDSVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1889. NUMBER 39. TEMPERANCE. "It H Nofhing to Me." It's nothing to me," the mother said. ! have no fear that my boy will tread The downward path of sin and shame, . Ani crush my heart and darken his name." Ttas something to her a hen her only son tjotii the path of right was ariy won 1 rnaJJy cat in the He wing bowl ruined body and ship wrecked soul. .t'(i nothing Jjo ma," the young man" cried; In h s ' )'es wa8 a Hash of scorn and pride 5 I heel not the dreadful things you tell; I can i ule myself, 1 k now full well." 'Twaimething to him when in prison he lay, fbe victim of drink life ebbing away As he thought of the wretched child and wife, And the monrnful wreck of his wasted life. 'It's nothing to me." the voter said, "lli' '.urty's loss is my ereatesfc dread," 1 hen li iT'io h s vote for the limior trade, Thoufct' hearts wcre crushed and drunkards mii:c. It a, is something to him in after life, When hi daughter Lecamo a drunkard's w i:';. Ari l her hungry children cried for bread, Anl trembled to henr their father's tread. Intoxicants aiul Yellow Fever. Tiit-re i conclusive testimony that intoxi cants, ju'liciously prescribed or in'lulued in, haV') a. Hoi largely to th i mortality in con nect .on with tlio yellow fever epidemic in 'Jacksonville. A Jacksonville correspondent, jn tho MrtropoHtf, of that city, imJ:r tlio hea'l of "Too Much Brandy," writes: "Tho ras-jof -Mr. VV. I. Sandy, as rejiorted in your ynstt-n lay's issu), and in the Times t'nion this morning, shows that 'too much brandy' was the cause of death. This appears to l.d acknowledged by the attending physi cian. ; 'If the truth could be learned, it would bo found that more than half of the deaths dar ing this epidemic wore from the same source. I have pa-sed through several yellow fever epidemics, and I know from tweuty years exiH-rieiico that brandy arid othei spirituous iKiuors are not guoa lor jeuovv n:it ('iits; and in nine c is s out of will do nior-j harm than good, often causing de. th, and yet omo physician persist in ad iiiinihtiriii s ti th. "Si.mih are wondering why so small a number of the ct tin- i':i''ll.'. ' I hi hivoii.il no champagne,' brandy aui otlier h ii us that have been lavishly used in other i(ii;irt. 'i s during this epidemic. 'We live to !e:im,' is( an old adage' often . I . ... I., . 1 1 1 A. . 1. ... I .... . jnono, win. i'jw iijiiny in!ii wiiui vuoy uavu sA t learn in this connection is exempli l'vA ,y tlio doctors, who.although they know from c.njx-riencH, Unit brandy will kill a yel jiMi frv, v patient, still run the risk of trying ....I i,. .;. f ..'v......i. i l ir ' ' tin; 1 1 . i-1 1 1 i,ni i ii iii ii in til i4 . i 'i'l.n !rl rtmol i if .In bsnnffillrt riKo I nOmC. iiti-. mi ciiiiuenl physiciun of the Medical limvi;i of that city as saying: "Jn all the cases I have attended of yellow fever 1 have found .those iiersons addicted to strong drink t .if iiiod. stubborn to subdue, and I have lost several from no oilier cause but drinking against my directions while convalescing." ALL OVER THE SOUTH NEWS FEOM EACH STATE. NORTH CAROLINA. The Presbyterian Church will estab lish an Orphanage at Charlotte. Near Maysville. Jones county, C. D. Meadows fell lrom his buggy. lie was fetruck squarely on his head, and fell over dead. His neck was broken. Tiack laying has begun on the Win ston end of the Roanoke & Southern Kailroad. Thirty-seven new cars, with ties and steel rails have already arrived at Greensboro. The boiler in the hoop factory of Col. joun Asniora, at Clinton, exploded Thursday, instantly killing Colonel Ash- .ii two sons ana a negro, and fatally injuring Colonel Ashford himself. In Onslow county, Miss J03ie Watson walked near the fire place. Her dress caught on fire, and she was burned to death before her family could get to her to give any assistance. The two new associate justices of the Supreme Court. A. C. Averv and .Tflmfa E. Shepherd, have been sworn in. This increases the membership of the Court to five for the first time, in twelve years. - A fresh lot of Mormon missionaries have arrived in this State, and will work in the northwest and Piedmont sections. Several Mormons have been at work, but shift from place to place to avoid punishment. Popular feeling against these peoplo is on the increase. lored peoplo are dying from answer is, because they The Death of Clear Thought. "Some of the old oels thought the drink ing cup was a cup of po.dry and elonuenee, but that delusio.i lias d ud under the accumu lating witnesses of a'l times. Each glass of spirituous drink is th'j deith of el-'nr and beautiful ' thought.- Tlu tongue thickens, the words lose their sharp outline, the eye its Hush under even the best of wines. When (Jo 1 made man He declared a partnership Jjetweii teinH'rnnco and inspiration and made a cup of water the emblem of all clear t hought. Jt is a singular incident that while Anacreon and Horace drank wine heavily they made Helicon send forth only streams of pure water for their nine muses to drink. There were many of these fountains: Helicon, J'iudus, Parnassus, which could lend inspiration to the god or I he mortal who should taste their crystal drops. '1 hise fabled springs were located by men who knew that the wine cup was an eclipse or theinte!lect, ustup r not to lie endured by a cod. What a wonderful logic was that whi h planned I Meri -in Springs for all high born beings and which gave Anacreon a tlnKon of ,v inn! What a wisdom still is that by whiVh our scholars send the nine muses to a priri of pure water for securing a nsw attlatus, and t'.i n seek their own inspiration in a barrel vt whisky. What is so good for the muses ought to le good for man. All intoxii ating drinks take away that soul which re.'ares man to the Creator. Wine is the ptr.ilysis of thought. n--Vo. David Su i nj. - , SOUTH CAROLINA. Governor Richardson has refused to sign the bill passed by the leffislaturo iv fever accepting the Clemson , bequest and ap ten they propriating three Ihouaand dollars for the beginning of an agricultural college. This de eats the measure for the piesent and until further action by the legisla ture. Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsyl vania, who is .wintering in Beaufort county iu this fctate, with Senator Butler and Congressman Elliott, 1ms become so pleased with the climate and hunting and fishing, that he is now negotiating tor the purchase of a sea. island plantation, wuere . ne proposes to csta hsh h winter benator Cameron is esneciall v de lighted with the bass and drum fishing. He thinks it is not unlikely that a num ber of Pehnsylvainans will follow his ex umple, aud purchase wi liter homes on the sea coast of South Carolina. James Sistrunk, and John and Sam Green, three desperate negroes, attempt ed on Tuesday night to rob and murder the family of J E Birt, a planter in Barn well county. After robbicg the smoke house and store room, Sistrunk entered the bed room of Miss Lenora Birt, aged 17, and attempted to -assault her. Her screams alarmed her father, who went to her aid, and was knocked down several times by Sistrunk, Mr Birt and his daughter clung to the negro-, however, and the three fell down the stairs to gether. Here two large fox hounds came to the Birt's assistance, and tore the flesh from Sistrunk's legs. lie tried to escape but was too badly injured to do so. lie was taken to jail, where he confessed that he and his companions plotted to murder the entire Birt family, and then fire the house. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. Notes of Sew Factories and Mills Started in Onr Southland Her ExportatioBS. A soap factory is talked of in Rock Hill, 8. C. ' A phosphate mine has. been ooened in Mount Holly, S. C. Creoaotiug works are reported to be established in Salem, S. C. B. P. Morriss has established a sassa fras oil mill in Amherst, Va. E. H. Cody, of Cincinnati, 0., will start paint works in Emerson, Ga. The capacity will be 20 tons daily. The Arkansas Develomnent Commnv. of St. Louis, Mo., will develop manga nese ore lands in Folk county, Ark. E. II. Coates, manager -of the Macon (Ga.) Oil and Fertilizer Co.'s works, contemplates enlarging them at a cost of $125,000. The German bark Joachim Christian, from Stettin, at Charleston, S. C, re ports sprung aleak and had hundred ton of kainit pumped out at sea. J. W. Lehman and others have organ ized tho Southern Orug Compony, of New Orleans, capital stock $25,000, to manufacture and sell drugs, etc. Mr. Lehman is manager. The British steamer Sunbeam, frcm Coosaw, S. C, for the United Kingdom, with a full cargo of phosphate rock, put into Halifax short of coal and in want of repairs, She had encountered very heavy weather, during which she lost boats and sails and received considera ble damage about deck. The British brig James Mason, at Wil mington, N. C, for Fleetwood, was dis covered to be on fire. The fire was soon gotten under control, when it was de cided to tow the brig to the railioad shoals, where she was pumped full of vtater and sunk. The brig had com pleted taking in her cargo of rosin (2, 787 bbls). A survey directed that the vessel be pumped out and floated and the -cargo discharged for further examination. OUR LEGISLATORS. THE IRISH. The Vlcilms of the Snioon. Speaking of the Sunday saloon, Andrew Inunn. agent cf tho Citizens' league, Chi cngo, said a few days ago: "It is the wife and mother who has to suffer from the Sunday saloon. It is the undeserv ing nmt he pless who are made its victims. I remember one cas. of that kind. It was over in the liesplaines street police court. A good looking young man was m the dock charged with drunken ne.-s and disorderly conduct. His wife appeared against him, a young wo man with a baby in her arms. 'Abetter husband and a kinder fath?r aud a more in dustrious and capable workman never lived than my husband when the liquor is out of hlin All through tho week we live happily, a.ii-1 lu' is sober because he is busy. But wrhen Sunday comes he has time and money, and when lie gets drunk he abuses mo and the children ttJl he is that stupid be falls asleep. 1 dread to have Sunday come.' Her name is Mary Rogers. Think of it! In a land called UiriMian the .laws "for tho protection of the jH-opln are ignored, and the Christian Sab hath that most poople look to as a day of rest ml comfort, a day of rejoicing, is made a dreadful thing and a terror to the helpless. And there are ten thousand such women as Mary Kogers in Chicago." The Doctor's fjosson. A patient sjid once to a physician: "Doc tor, I muit have some kind of stimulant. 1 am cold, and alcohol warms me." "IVe pisely," answered the doctor. "See here. in s stii is cold'' (taking up a stick of wood from the wood box and tosdng it into the Jr ). ".ow it is warm. IJut is the stick beiietltedf" The sick man watched the woodf first send, out little pulls of smoke and then buistinto a flame, and then replied: "Of course not It is burning itself." "And so &re you when you warm yourself with alco hol. You are literally burning up the deli-; rt- tissues of 3'our stomach and brain. He ho takes alcohol to warm himself, is like the man who sets his houso on fire and warms 0 tinf rs by it as it bu. ns." Some think tbpre is nourishment In alcohol, but there is just ns much nourishment in it as there is in th lash of the whip with which a horse is UrKed to his highest sp.M-d. Then are o.her r. as' ns we could give why Jou should never drink alcoholic liouors, but tlie wry strongest is, liccauso it hurts the plv. We want sound min.ls and sound Jjd" s, and so we say: "No strong drink for The Danger of Cider. h is a great temptation for farmers' boys " J h:ive o:.U.r to uh.vii tlu-y can have con- 1 una! in-1 vS i th, vl!ai Many a drunkard "V'ci h s slavery to Mrong, drink by going . wthe rdor barrel in t;.e cellar of the old ann-houSe, A cider-di u-ikard is said to bo eros est kiia of a drunkard. Perhaps Jwij farm rs nnt ta'co a glass of Cider now ( " 1 tl and stop there; but J o:i may have J.'!111" your empl.ty, c-r Ikvs growing up, win take more than they ought to. Tne t ' "g nnt put no barriers in the way of w .'' If you put c.der in your cellars liav' 'l for V!,,,K:,r an I vou will always a pure article on Land to put up your VIRGINIA. Dr J L M Curry, it is said, will proba bly be the next democratic candidate for governor of Virginia. A C Lewis, United States commis sioner, has brought suit against the Dan ville Register for five thousand dollars damages for criticising seme of his offi cial acts. I The body of George Wrej formerly porter of the Hotel Warwick, at New- 1 ort Newi, was found in the water ne.ir there Thursday. lie had been missing since Tuesday. It is supposed he com mitted suicide. The publication of the Richmond Daily Whig bas betm discontinued, its good will, including subscription list and un expired advertisements,'' having been transferred to the Daily Times, of that city. The Whig was one of the oldest papers iu the State. FLORIDA. , Governor Fleming was inaugurated at Tallahassee January 8th. Ex-Gov Perry will return to private, life. . A Tampa, Fia. citizen makes the charge that the funds sent for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers are being misap propriatid. It is alleged that a part of the $500,000 raised is being devoted to the improvement of Jacksonville streets. Governor Ferry has appointed Colonel W D Chipley, of Pensacola, Hon A B Mason, of Jacksonville, and Captain James E Ingraham, of Sanford, commis sioners from the state of. Florida at the Paris exposition from May to October 1&90. TENNESSEE. The association of American Agricul tural colleges and experimental stations is holding its annual convention in Knoxville, at the University of Ten nessee. The Stonefort Taper Company have filed a bill in the Chancery court asking lor the appointment of a receiver for the Daily American Newspaper Com pany, and have the same wound up as insolvent, and to collect. a judgment re cently obtained for about $18,000. (EOKUI A. The cotton seed oil mill at Elberton is making about 5,000 gallons of oil per day. J. J. Woll, a prominent young farmer of Ttrrell county, was murdered by a man named Johnson, with whom he quarreled at a rural dance. Some children,,, while popping fire crackers, at Plattsburg, set tire to nine teen bales of cotton owned by Mr. L. Potter. Loss, $500. ! r j - use for jour pork aud jAt Aukland, New Zoalanl, the Board of "ucation recently passed a resolution re Ui. 'ug a hour'8 temperance lesson to be ifat each week in all the public schools of jjjftflcfc Tbli law comi into force next The Skater. Now the skater premature, Whom th3 frost-bound ponda allure, Dons the stee! aga n. See how swift he glide and shckl What! a crash f A pank there, qtvck' Baved-but stiff as any stick Trot him up the Una. Burlington Fre PrU DOINGS IN CONG BE S. Senate and House Convene After the Holiday Recess. Wedxesdat. House There were only seventy-five members in attendance when Speaker. Carlisle called the House to order at noon. On ruction of Mr. White, of New York, a bill was passed providing that the om mission bv the sender to place tne lawful postage on a letter bearing a special delivery stamp, shall not hinder or delay the transmission and delivery thereot, but the lawful postage shall be collected on delivery. The House devtited most of tb.2 day to the consideration of the river and harbor bill. The bill being taken up, Mr. Crisp's amendment increasing the appropriation for Savannah harbri from .$20,000 to 1200,000 was rejected. At 4 :20 the House ad journed. Senate. Nearly all the Senators were present at the session to day and the tariff bill was continued, the debate bi ing on Vest's amendment to reduce the duty on cotton thread, yarn warps, etc., f : om 10 cents per pound to 35 per cent, ad valorem. The bill went over w ith out a vote. A message from the President in re gard to the treaty with China was re ceived and laid ou the table. Ad journed . They are Greatly Stirred UpOrer the Evictions in Donegal. The resumption of the evictions in the Gweedore district in County Donegal, Ireland, with increased brutality on the I part of the bailiffs and police has, to i gether with outrageous sentences im posed upon Messrs Harrington and Fin nrgan, aroused the people of the Catholic portion of Ireland to intense indignation which promises in some localities to lead to bloodshed. Never in the history of evictions for the non-payment of rent, has the resist ance of the Irish tenants to the enforce ment of the writs issued against them under the law, been so determined as now, and nerer have the vindictiveness of the landlords and the seal of the bailiffs, and police been so conspicuous- ly manifest. That the government has resolved upon a wider and more rigid application of the Coercion act than heretofore, it Is everywhere apparent; and the amount f suffering in Ireland during the next few months must be largely increased. With a determination born of the desperation which this obvious fact and the conse quent hopeless outlook, the peasantry are resorting to every possible means to thwart the plans of their enemies, which the scenes enacted in County Donegal, abundantlv attest: and the ficht will be . I - CM and bitter one. a lonsr IS .CRIME CONTAGIOUS! Two More Horrible Murders iu Great liritafn . English newspapers at present teem with accounts ef fiendish murders. At South Perchton, in Somersetshire, a girl ten years of age, named Davy, was out raged and then murdered. Her mother found the girl's dead body in a ditch with the head almost severed. frm the trunk, and the body shockingly mu tilated, after the style of "Jack thf Rip per's" method. The deed is supposed to have been committed by a tramp. No one has yet been arrested for thi crime. At Glasgow, Scotland, John Steven son, a young fellow about 19 years of age, enticed a prostitute named Mc Kenzie, into a dark court and stabbed her in the neck and abdomen. Tiuere was apparently no motive whatever for the deed but au insane freak. Steven son was arrested and a bloody knife was found in his pocket. The only motive one can suggest for the commission of such atrocities, is that the persons re sponsible for them have been inflamed by reading about the Whitechapel fiend, and attempt to imitate him. The prefci ling officer of -the hud Thursday. House Mr Spiingir, of Illinois, to-day introduced in the House a joint resolution proposing an amend ment to the. Constitution. It provides for the election of the President and Vice-President by a direct vote of the people, pn-1 for the term of six years. It makes the President ineligible for a flYcond teim,V and extends the term of members of Congress to three yeais, the teim to expire December 31. it abo pro vides that each session of Congress Jhill begin on the first Wednesda' in each year. Senate aenaie stateu mat ne nua examine uie President's message of yesterday in refer ence to the convention with China, and' found tl at it related and Wiis supple mental to matters, which had already been made. public. The message wa3 thereupon read, laid on the table, any ordered printed. The Senate at 12:20 resumed consider ation ot tiie. lariu bill, the penning ques tion being ou Vest's amendment to the paragraph 313, to change the duty on cotton thread, yarn, warps, Ac.,-valued at not exceeding 20 cents per pound, from 10 cents per pound to 3.1 per cent, ad valorem Vance proceeded to give statistics of the production and consumption of cot ton, showing the enormous increase within the last twenty yeais. He said that since 18G6 the increase and con sumption of cotton in the Northern mills had been nearly 300 per cent, and in Southern mills over GOO per cent. This latter result, he said, was not only aston ishing, but was to him particularly urcti- Nalnre's Clocks. The naturalist, Thorneao, said that it he were placed in the fields after a Rip Van Winkle sleep of unknown length, lie could tell the exact day of the year by the flowers around him.' Other close obserers of nature have claimed the same. Pefore mechanical clocks were common it was an ordinary habit to read the time of day in the flowers. Every blossom has its precise hour for unfold ing its petals and for shutting them. Although the light and temperature e.rect these movements, therei always a siroug etlort made by .he plant to keep its allotted time. Day flowers that are imprisoned in darkness still follow their usual out door habits. Moat flowtrrs open at sunrise acd close at sunset, but there is no hour of the twenty-four when some blossoms do not awaken, and there is none when some do not begin to sleep. This motion is generally gradual, but morning flowers open rapidly, and after noon flowers close very rapidly. Lin naus, the tather of modern botany, con structed a flower clock which would tell the hours. The following list of open ing times is taken from his arrangement, aud has been corroborated by other authorities: 2 a. m. Purple Convolvulus. G a. m. Flor de Nott. 4 a. in. Croat's-Beard. 5 a. m. Yellow Poppy. 6 a. m. Spotted Cat s-Ear. 0.30 a. in. Sow Thistle. 1 a. m. ater Lilies. 7.30 a. m. Venus' Looking Glass. 8 a. m. Scarlet Pimpernel. &30 a. m. Nolana. 5 a. m. Mariagrold. '.30 a. m. Red Sandwort COTTON HIGHER. A Good Feeling in New York The Bears Off. Hubbard, Price & Co., of New York City, say: "Cables from Liverpool re porting an advance there of about two points, induced better feeling here and encouraged a buying movement, under tne lnttueiice of which several points were gained during the first hour. Those who supplied the demand t'-hus created, seem to have been partiee vho bought on the recent break, and w.?re glad of an opportunity to take their profits. Some disappointment was feft I uj iic ucruis, uuwevtr, laici in iuu uaj when light receipts at the interior towns were reported, and their efforts to de press the market by further sales while they offered some resistance, were not i sufficient to prevent the market from j closing at about the best figures of the ' day." i A Mississippi Vendetta. Near Fentress, Mississippi, Fi-ank and James Coleman had a difficulty with Charles and William Daly about tho possession of a farm, and the quarrel ended in a regular pitch battle between the parties, with double barrelled shot guns, in which Frank Coleman and Charles Daly wete instantly killed. After the guns were emptied the survi vors engagetl eachf other in a hand-to-hand conflict, iu which James Coleman, was wounded en the head and "William . Daly badly wounded in the thigh. Two sisters of Daly's, who had app eared on the scene, were also slightly wounded Officers took charge of the wounded. All of the parties were promio ent citi zens oi Cnoctaw county. fying. He declared that the Senate sub stitute was a step backward in thedircc tion of the dark ages, and that in the case of duties on cotton the schedule w ould amount to at least a half million dollars. i At the close of Vance's speech a vote was taken on Vest's amendment and it was rejected yeas 20; nays 24. Vance moved to amend paragraph 318 ("cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, col ored stained, painted or printed'") by substituting 40 per cent, ad valorem in stead of 3 1-2 and 4 1-2 cents per spiare yard, and he argued iu favor ot his amendment, but it was rejected 13 to 22. Vauce moved to amend same para- praph by reducing the rate on such cot ton c oth when valued at over la cenis per square yard from 45 to 40 per cent, ad valorem: rejected, 17 to 25. No further r mendment was offered to paragraph 318. Vance moved to amend paragraph :$19 by striking out rates 3 1-2, 5 1-2 and 0 3 4 cents per square jard on cotton cloth not bleached according to classifi cation, and inserting 40 per cent ad valorom'; rejected by same vote. Pugh proceeded to address the Senate in a set speech on the subject of tarifl. When be had concluded. Vance moved to amend paragraph 320, relating to stockings, by reducing the rate from 35 to 30 per cent, ad valorem, and asked for the yeas and nays. Aldrich appealed to Vance not to de mand the yeas and nays, as there was probably no quorum present, and as he wished to get through the cotton sched ule to day; but Vance would not con sent, as he did not want the cotton schedule finished to-day. The Senate then, having disposed of 3 1-2 pages of the bill to-day, journed at 5 p. m. 10 11 12 o 4 5 6 7 a. m. Fig-Marigold. a. m. Lady Eleven-O'clock. m. Blue Paion-Flower. p. m. Pink Pimpernel, p. m. Lady of the Night p. m. Nieut-b!oominr Oatchflr, p. ra. Marvel of Peru (Four O'clock.) p. m, White Evening Lychnis (Nijltat-blooming (Jereus). Harper' Voting People. Jay Gould's Orchids. Gould's fad, as you may know, U orchids, of which he has superb spec imens, worth fabulous sums, it is said his greenhouses at lrvington cost more than his residence there. The house itself is of marble, and is of the Gothic order of architecture. With the excep tion of a pictuie g dtery all the rooms are comparatively small. It is a comfortable house, but not fine in the sense which is usually applied to the country seats of millionaires. Cyrus Field, Mayor Hewitt, Secretary Whitney, Chailes A. Dana, and a dozen other rich New York citizens, have costlier residences than Jay Gould. tince the time when Mr. Gould's greenhouses were partly destroyed by lire thev have been entirely reconstruct ed, at a" e ost of nearly $200,000. They mav almost be termed palaces of glass, so elabcrately are they fini-hed. The iron pipes alone cost f 15,000, while the stained glass decorations cost twice as much more. The head gardener, who has nine assistants, has been in Jay Gould's employment for nineteen years. He resides in an $3000 house. The greenhouses occupy about nine acres of ground. The gardeners ae kept busy in cut ting flowers, which are sent all over the country as presents to the millionnaire's wealthy friends, 'mere is mucn care observed in their transportation, as though they were of much more value, INDUSTRIAL SOUTH. A NEW TKXXLLE INDUSTRY. The Substitute for Jute Bagging1 The Manufacture Described. At a small town in North Carolina, known as Cronley, and about seventeen miles from Wilmington, is located the fiice fiber industry the only establish ishment of the kind in the world. Whose busy brain and quick vision first discerned textile possibilities in pine fo liage is quite unknown, but here we e what Las been only waste matter con verted into various articles, not only of comfort but of commercial importance. Pious Australis is the variety, known otherwise as pitch, long-leaved and field fiine. While the leaves average in engtb fourteen inches, those measurinc twenty-seven inches have been brought in. The straw, as it i always called here, is gathered mostly by women and children from trees, 'thrown' for cord wood, timber, or for the leaves alone. Mule power is prominent in transport ing the straw to the faetory, horses are never seen, oxen rarely. Fifteen cents per luo pounds is paid lor the straw, which is stored in a huge shed. As we enter the tint of three large buildings, we see a huge tank being filled with the straw; to this is added caustic foda, in quantity rccrulated by the quality of fiber desired less belnjj required for the coarse than if or the finer grades. For twelve hours the mass is cooked by steatnfrom pipes passing through the tank of boiler. Then it is passed through the rubber, a machine which cleanse a it entirely from all soda, pulp, etc, leaving clean fiber only. Fol lowing this is the work of the wrinirer. breaker nd carder; and if the fiber is to be manufactured on the premises, it is run through the rover: whatever its destination, it is passed through the dryer. The product now awaits orders from tne spinning room or, if for ship ment, from the baling press. Machinery is used for all handling of material. from the wagon which brines it from the woods to the car takicg it from the factory doOr. Comuurtially, the fiber is-"pine wool," of winch five grades are pro duced. The three coarser are in demand for mattresses and general upholsterinir, being elastic, durable and exempt from insect ravages. The finest grade u very rift and is marked "surgeons' packing. This is meeting with marked favor from the medical profession, as being spe cially adapted to its designated purpose. From the grade S is spun yarns of dif ferent sizes, none fine, however. From this is woven a variety of mattings or carpets, not elegant, to be sure, but hon est, comfortable looking floor coverings, inviting hard service, and with a sug gestion of the wide outdoorj rn the bal samic odor which all the rough expe rience of manufacturing has not driven out. In the incipienoy of this peculiar in- dustry the production of floor covering was the objective point of tho origi nators of it, but being also engaged in the manufacture of fertilizers, they also tct about evolving from tho pino wool a fabric which would resist the chemical action so destructive to every material heretofore used as packing for phos phates, etc. The mills have lately been manufact uring pine fibre into bagging i s a subBti tute for jute baenjing, heretofore the only coveriog used for cotton. The jute bagging trufct led them to experiment, and with excellent results, for the piae and is be- Pkdmonl flir-Uno Ilcnto. Richmond A Dnvllla Railroad. Ccfenffii SctalnteEmct Oct. 21 1853. Trains Ron by 75 IJeridian Tim. DAILY. SOUTHBOUND. HO, . Na 81 Lt New York, Lv rrOAdelphia, Lt Bi Itimore, Lv Washington. Lv CharlottsTfll, Lt Lynchburg, Ar Danville 13 13am 7-JUam 11 '.Mam 3)pm a 43 rim 8 ) p i MPn 57 pm 9 41 p u 1100pm 3 00am 5 10 ant 7 45 am Lt Richmond, Lt BnrkertUe, . Lt Kersvilla. Lt DanvilK Ar Greensboro, s 10 ra a V4 p m 5 M m m 10 33 pm 290am 4 Si em 511 em e os a m 9 4 a a ra LvGoldsh:ro, JT KAJetfh, Lv Durham Ar Ufwrftcboro 2 40pm 4 JV5p m . ii -2 p ra 43 10 pm 143 am 3 12 am 740am LvHalenv- 4413pm 630am LvGrMttoboro, Ar Salisbury, 10 45 p m ArBtaUwrilfe, AT AsneTuie, Ar Hot Spring, 1 SI it m 7 41am 9 tm 60 a m 11 hist U 12 p m 4 44 pm 610pm LrflTbaxy Ar Charlottes LT ppu-Unburjr Lt GrcvaTtUe. ' Ar Atlanta, 1 W a m 4 4ofn & V) a m 1 1 oo a m 1131am 13 40 pm SCTpm 4 43pm 0 40pm LvCh&rlotte Ar Cniombia Ar Augusta 2 10 a in Attain lOSUpm 1 00 p m 5 23 pes V ISam DAILY NORTHBOUND. Nail. No. 53. Lt Aojrata " Co:umUa Ar Charlotte Lt AtUnta, AT tlmmvill,. " Brarlanbursr, " Charlotte, " Salwbary,- 5 .5 p to 30a m 1015 p ra 12 35 pm 4 00pm 5 15 um 7 10 a ra 151pm 3 52 p m 8 SO p m 7 05 pm 0O0 p m J ort a m 2 Ham 4 S)a m ti'Slatu Lt HotSnrtnis A.shviile " Ktafcuvllle ArSaliKbury: 05 p m w tl p m n u a m 4 :::pm 13 10 pm 1 32pm ooipm J 43pm LTSalinbury Ar Greensboro. 6 7 p m 00 a in 7 12am 40 p m Salem, It 40am tli3(am Lt OrwntJmro, Ar Lnirluim. Golduburo, 10 . V) p m 4 3) a m i 0 .V) a ra ijavpm 155pm 0 55 am 4 10 p in til 45 a m Lt Greensboro Ar DanviiU Keysrflle, Burke vine. " Wchmoi d. 8(3pm U47am 12 41 pm 1 20 p m 3:) pin 9 50 a m 10 VW p ra 144am 3 art am 5 15 am Lynchburg. " Charlottesville, at uu ait v " Philadelphia. " New York, 12 40 p m 2 55 p m 7 35 p m 8 50 p m 3 (X) a m 0 20 am 1255 am 300am 7(Wam 8 30am 10 47 p m I ao p m 'Daily. 4 Dally, excrftt HurwUy 8LKKPLKQ CAR 8EKVICK. On Trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buffet stern er between Atlanta and New York. On Trains 52 nd M, Iullman IltirTet alaep er tetween vvaimngton and Montgomery. Washington and Atiguta. I'ullman tWper between Richmond and Gr-mboro, tuJl- man deeper between Oroemltoroand tlalmgh. rrulman I'arlor ter between naiutoury ana Knoxville. - Through ticket on sale at principal at- tienatoall point. For rate and Inform bacririnf? stands all the tests lieved to be even superior to that made tion aprly to any agent the company, or ,o. .ji ftp tn mirvrfwlc it I to - I TAYLOlt, Uen.1 Vmm. Agent, of production. WaHltU'gton. D. C J. 8. Potts, Dir. Pa. Agint, lti' hirwmd, Va. W. A Tcua. Div. Past. Ag't. ltalntgh,N. C. ad- W ashing ton Gossip. Hon. James G. Blaine arriv ed here n the limited express Thursday afternoon accompanied bv Representa' ave William Walter Phelps The national window g'Jasg msnufac turers' association will me it rt Washing ton, D. C, Tuesday. On Wednesday the green bottle manufactory -rs meet, and on Thursday the flint glass mmufactur trs. The Senate tariff bill will come up, and the revision desired wi u be present eel to the tarifl committee TiUDAY -House. Mr Dunn, of Ar kansas, called up the Nicarauaa canal bill. An amendment offered by Mr Ba kei (rti ) reserving to the Unite! States the right,! at any time, to purchase the canal, was rejxted. The bill then passed; yeas, 157; nays, 31. The House, at 4 o'clock, adjourned. The Senate resumed consideration of the tariff bill and the stocking para graph was passed over. Mr "Nances runehdment to reduce the iate on Ham Vurg edging to 40 per cent, ad valorem vu rejected. The bill wsj then !a:d aside. On motion of Mr AWricb, the Senate niJes were s: amended as t include, among the persons entitled to the priv ileges of the fldor, the President and Vice lresiJent-eiecx. ; After a brief Executive session, the Senate adjourned. Carloads. As a general rule, the following con stitutes an ordinary carload: 20.00G pounds or 70 barrels of salt 70 of lime, i0of flour, 60 of whial .y, 200 amcka ol flour, 6 cords of hard i rood, 7 cords oi soft wood. IS to 20 fcea d of cattle,50to CO hed of hogs, 80 to J 310 bushels of wheat, of oats, 400 of barley JUO of Irish potatoes, toes, 1000 bwielsol I arc now built to ca loads. i 00 head of sheep. SCO ot corn, 6?0 , 360 of apples, 306 of sweet pota ,ran. Stronger cars tj much heavier The total number of European troops in English India in lG was 01.015, and the average death rate per loco was 15.1". In the pronnce of Denzsl there were j 000 men, and the dea da rate was 15.'. In'Uie proTinccof Madras ll,tx and the death rate 16.2. Province of liom bar, 11.0D9; death rate 12.7. The nam bcr cf native troops was lOo.COO, and the death rate was iy.4C per 1000. o man should so act as to take ad- J vantage of wfitjOj A Student of the Crow. 4 T am eighty-seven years old, and have made the habits of the crow, both in a wild and tame state, a study much longer than most men live, and I have yet to learn wherein he is benefit enough to pay for one good hill of corn or potatoes, i uim tAbei nroficient in his history. in eramininsr which I have always found him peeking Into every bush and bunch i of thick grass, hunting for little bird's j nests, and when he finds one ne is sure to devour the contents, whether it be eggs or young birds. In thit way they do a thousand times more damage thaa they do in pulling up corn. No worms or insects are ever found in their crop when the little birds are layinr their eggs or rearing their young. In this way they have entirely destroyed the laik, which stood, seventy-five years ago, at the head of oar list of useful bird, both for song and the destruction of vermin. Siany other kinds of useful bird thxt used to be plenty are rarely f ten now, and the whole stock of useful little birds Is becoming scarce compared to what it used to be tthe s wallow and mrtia excepted). The crow is always watching them, and if one ii sick or lame &bout flvinz he la toon groDiea up. i have known a great a soy attempt to tame young crows, but their habits have alwavs been ao mischievous that I scarcely ever knew one to be kpt oter a year. ilauu Farmer. Contentment does not demand condi tlons, It makes them. Eels that Scale Precipices. One of the most novel sights in the TM-inor nf the rear, at the rocks of the Willamette Tails, is the swarms ofeyrat- ino- eel a. Thev are friskiness itself, and show a low order of intelligence. If you put your hand in the water over the eels, or spit on it, instantly they are cone. Put poke a stick down among th nakv thinr3 and they do not notice it. The sense of smell seema to be their main cruard airaiost danger. Like sal mon, they do their level best to dsrt up the rocks in order to ascend the river, nrl with traad aucceta. tava a fiaher- - " D man 'T W seen as man? as a hundred bushels of eels hanging on the rocks at nna-tim hv the ouckers of their mouths. They would wiggle and flutter their tails, and by the momentum thus oo tsined, lettine go with their suckers, jump up about six inches higher. I caught about forty barrels last eaon that 1 ialted and sold to the Columbia fishermen for bait. I picked them off the rocks with a fib hook tied to a pole. I started at the bottom row of hangiog ecla, and would silently pick off barrel after barrel. The upper rows hadn't sense enough to perceive the enemy. I hare caught eels 'in the headwaters of the Santiam, in the Cascade Mountains. Suppose they had swum up from the Willamette. V Oregvn CUy Gwrur. Cape Fear & Yafiloa Valfcj EH"::I coxocxseo scBtnuLX na e, - Taking effect 3.45 a. m.. Monday. De. 3VS3 TRA15S MOVIHO WORTH. Ho. 1 Paenger & Mail. Leare BennKUrlll 5 Arrive its x ton 6 m Leave Max too 6 tO Arrive FayetteTilto H'Si Leave Payetterill 8 Ui Arrive Hanford ItfVJ Leave K-nford 1 1 10 Anirc (renboro Leara C'ivmsboro Arrive 11 L Airy am. tt am. 2 t p m 2 51 pm fl.Vip.ro No. 1 breakfast at PayrtUvIlU, diamr at Orwrnstfiro. FrelgLt ft Aeoumodat'a COO pm 8 20 M VW 1 " osaj 1 2dpm 2 JJ0 7 25 10 20 am 5 15p.m Taania movijlo aocrra. Ha 3 Fawttger & Freight Ht Half AecornodaVa LTMtAiry Ar Orcna4juro Lt Ornboro Arrire -M'or'l Leave Hanford . Arrive Fy eitev.lls IxTe FiyeUvIll Arriva ZlaxtM LMvellaxton Arrive Cennrtavllle a. ra. 3 41 1 7 4V lo i o a. m. 1 rx p. m. l.V ' 4 00 M 4 15 " OW " 6 25 " 7 4 " 7JWi 2 10 p.m 7 80 ajn. 1 fiOp-m. 230 w &U S 40 a.m 10 33 u 1 OU p.m. , 5a 2 brakfaitt at Green boro. dinner at Hanford. Deposits or Soda. Along the Teruvian coast, itretchleg for huedreds of miles, are me lameus bed xf niUate of soda, which puriltd is saltpetre. These deposits, more profitable than silver or gua no, were dis covered accidentally by a vagrant med George Smith, but were not operated to any extent until recent years. Now, nitrate, having been found a valuable component of a hundred chemical forms, is ia demand the world orer, and millions of dollars worth is snippea from the ports along the coast anauaiiy. Before its Talue was fully knowa, a number of far-sighted men located claims after the fashion in vogue ia mining camps erery where, and then the Government steppea m ana loroaue aj orther preemption. Bot the orlf iaal loc itions cover enough of the deposit to supply the market a century or two, and to keep up the prices they formed a pool, a monopoly combiaed, under which they charge from 2 tofJper huadrcdweigbt for what eot them about fifteen cent. There U apparently no limit to the stuff, the bed stretehia; op and dowa the coast f or S00 91 iW ailCVfrr& 1 racroar AJTD MAPWOS BRA5CHX.- raXICiHT a SO ACCOM MOOATK ST. Trains Moving XAh. I ar Mllboro Arrive Gmndxrt Laars Greenaboro Arrive Madiata i a. m. 9 3) 10 10 " 12 25 p. m. Train U tritxft HJOtk. LaaTeMaJfaKn Anir UnroMjuru Lear Grm ndxsro Arrive Mhlboro 1 43 p. 4 15 4 5 ro. i p. ra. .ii mr n f Mall Trflini run it&ll r cent Bon-lay. Pmjjt and AiTomnvxlation Train rune from fnnctvil to PaydteTOU Tndsv, Thursdays and Kataruays; from FayetuviiJo to UreesMborO on Mondays. VV!n,dsrs and Fridays; from Greensboro to lit. Atrf tk Mondays, IVc loesdays an 1 Fridays; from Ms Airy to GfmktX)ro en Tutminj. Tbaradars, and Batardays; trom Graetuburo to fatatte TflJ on ToeJara, Thursdays and Hatnrdaya, aad trom Fayettenlle to inneUvtUa on Moniays, Wrdnwdays and ndsra. J f. E. KYLE, , Goral PassMser Ajrsnt, Gsersi EaperintiTvliat
The Reidsville Times (Reidsville, N.C.)
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Jan. 11, 1889, edition 1
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