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ADVERTISING BATES. Advertisements irHl he inserted for One Dollar FavetteviHe St., Second Floor Fisher Building, per square (one inch) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. RATES OF BUJtaCiUPTIOS: . i rti-- Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of the One copy one year, mailed post-paid 1 . ; li .$3 00 I i RALEIGH REGISTER, One copy six months, mailed poet-paid.'. ;v. t'OO J, jfo name emarea wit-uous payment, and TY-w-f r no paper sent fter expiration o time paid for. V J X RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1885. NO. 50. Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayettevffle Street, next to Market House. i n.--"-; w " ii i rs"vx m lu 'ii nrv n iy . rv in . 1 n i'i HE HASeoaUR BACK.M : . Spectator. , ; . Without, the wintry aky-is overcast : The floods descendflere hail-and ram; rushing Whilst ever and anom the raving blast Clutches the casement pane. ' , : i , j Within, our darling beats an angrier air -H ; With piteous outstretched arms and tossing head ; . ,y Whilst we, bowed low beside his, laboring bed, Pour all our hearts m prayer. ,, -j,... Is this the end t The tired little hands T Fall by his side, the wild eyes close at last, Breathless he sinks ; almost we hear his sands Of being ebbing past. , : " When, oh' miraculous he wakes once more, Love glowing in his gaze, the while there slips, "Mother, dear mother!" from his trembling Hps- , ; . " Dear mother 1 " o'er and o'er. He has come back, our little, fairy child, Back from his wanderings in" the dreadful dark, Back o'er the furious surge of freney wild, The lost dove of onr Ark Back, feebly back O'er the dire flood's decrease, His white wings flatter, only our God know's how, ' ; ' '' " ' . ' Bearing aloft the blessed olive bough Of His compassionate peace. OIK PISH COMMISSION. The Good Dene and the Good Outlook. Commissioner Worth's Report, 1885. J Upon inspecting the extensive refriger ating establishments a New York, and the handling of the fresh fish there, and the large oyster business of Boston, I came to the inevitable conclusion that . a true representation of the North Carolina fish ery interest (after the modern exposition plan), representing the fishes, the nets and implements of capture, the prepared pro ducts and photo scenes of the method, of capture and preparation, would be ex tremely valuable; to our own fishermen, and especially when remarked upon by those' in more cf&wded communities who have been forced jto the smaller economies. After making, in October last, a superb exhibit at the Sjtate Exposition held in Raleigh, of the food fishes, nets, prepared products, photos' of the fishings, .&c., I went with your Estate Exhibit to New Or leans and put in place the Fishery Collec tioh, which occupies one-fifth of the space allowed, and have surpassed all the State exhibits of thai character in the World's Exposition. Massachusetts. Min nesota, Louisiana and South Carolina, and others, have made a feature of the fishery interest, but none equal the display made dv iortn uarouna. It is unfortunately true that a very small proportion of our people know anything very aennite oi our nsnery industry,- and yet our nsneries yield a million dollars a year. This is an important fact, and con cerns every man in the Commonwealth, not only the fisherman and -dealer, '-but the consumer, too, for no food is more highly reusnea, no argument could more em phatically prove the importance of fish diet to the consumer than ;the statement that more than 2.000 private fish ponds have been built in North -Carolina within five years ponds being built in ninety-one counties; including not oniv the midland but also! nearly every Blue Ridge county ! Th(Tmost important species which make the great aggregate are the shad, herring (Qf,aiewive8), blue-fish, mallets, menhaden or fat-backs, grey and spotted trout, spots anu oysters. ine nrst named species aoove, ths bhad, is extremely valuable 1 aking the census, we find that no other State realizes more than eight cents a pound for shad. Although this species occurs in the tributaries of the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds in company with iraniense schools, of herring,, which form a large money resource, it forms the tmp&r taut item, the net nroHt. of m&nv lurcw hr ' . .r s i j o ring fisheries, and its ready sale to consu mers in Northern cities, New York, Bos ton. Philadelphia and Baltimore, is drain ing heavily the natural supply, 1 he shad fishery , is important on the Cape Fear, Tar, Pamlico, Neilse, Trent, Koanokc and Chowan rivers, and in the Albemarle and Pamlico sounds, and many gill net, pound and seine fishermen, with their families, are dependent upon it for a living three and a half to four months in the year. Those who catch the shad chiefly by itself are wholly dependent upon it during these months, while very many others pay the expense of seines and pounds with the catch of herring, rock fish (or striped bass), white perch and other fish, and find the only profit in the season's work in. the shad captured. North Carolina shad will never bring less stating that Spanish mark-frol rrifV-fiab or striped bass,' wVitc perch and eels' found, no Northern market eight years ago, u8uc wmcn most oi us de spise here, bring ten cents a pound, and the Spanish mackerel twenty to sixty cents . between them. Modem fish-culture imolies more, than the ancient term: it means not. nniv thr growing of fish in nonds. hut careful 4 stocking of the rivers with such iinhWtiraff anil vm' L m. . l . i -wu am, iiupunauL species tuai me broad-waters in our bays and rivers may forever continue to be a source of Income to the people on the shores, and of health ful diet and better stomachs and tempera ments to the greafmass of people inland. ' Modern fish-culture means the eareful collection of the eesrs of the verv best fishes, their guarded hatching, under nat ural conditions in nurseries, by the mil lions and hundreds of millions, wherebv that particular species must of necessity amplify and predominate. JNow, assuming that the shad is the profit of the river or fresh water fisheries of the State, you have undertaken to main tain and increase the catch, and wisely, I think, for it is the "milk of the cocoanut" of the North Caroli na river fislipripa While there has been no apparent in crease in the catch of the individual, and while many believe that there has leen no mprovement at all. it is vet true that. with three of the most unfavorable fishing seasons known in our annals, the shad fishing has held nn, and the herrine catch has declined. Now. considering that va rious railroad and steamboat facilities have been introduced for the rapid transit ana sale oi this moneyed product, and that untold new fisheries have been inau gurated to divide the catch, and that many thousands more of the home con sumers exist to assimilate the catch, whether it be normal or increased, I. do not see that any fairly informed can criticise you as to results. 1 have before me thirty-three young shad ! m alcohol, of last Spring's hatching, ; which have attained a fine size during the summer, measuring from eight to nroer inches. They are from a lot of eggs shipped Dy express irom h,denton last Spring. The eggs were artificially impregnated and then sent by railroad to Raleigh. These nsn were hatched from a few sound eggs which had been thrown out into one of the carp ponds with the dead eggs that are daily removed from the hatching jars, and were altogether unexpected when I drew the pond to get the carp out in November. There is an amount of skepticism in this country with regard to the artificial propa gation oi nsh that has turned to prejudice in many cases, and- I can find people in the State to day who could not be made to admit that these fish are shad hatched in Raleigh, from artificially impregnated eggs taken from the live parent two hun dred miles away. But this is from igno rance and want of enlightenment. Hvoo- thetical as the aims of fish culture may ap pear to somej its foundation rests upon the established laws of nature, and while fail ures have occurred which brought a result inside the mark, it is yet true that its methods are receiving the attention of all enlightened governments in the world and all intelligent people, and in our own State with its thin population, several thousand people have a direct interest in ponds. for growing fish ; and, as I said before, in the Potomac and Sacramento rivers, where, fry have been liberally supplied, the already immense fisheries of those'rivers have been doubled, and that by artificial propagation. HARD TIMES. How They Come About Sometime. person bring less monev than they do now; upon the other hand, they will constantly increase in value with tin growth of -the country. The catch in this State will always bring the same pro portional high price of to-day, and at the same time, if eliminated from our river fisheries, the net profit is gone and those fisheries will stop. " Now, the 'shad has been gradually and rapidly decreasing in all the Atlantic streams for twenty years, for the reasons that it Is a delicate and valuable fish and much desired by nearly every one, and from the incoming mud in the rivers, produced by cultivation of in creased farming areas, which destroys the spawn. The high commercial value of this fish and its large annual money value, together v-ith the fact that the river fisheries are vependent upon it, wheref rom thousands of people derive their fish supply, has led to the particular and special effort on niy part to maintain, and increase if possible, the numbers. If we take, for example, the oyster, we find that many million dollars are made annually in France, England, and in the United States, ia Rhode Island and Con necticut, by the application of man's in telligence and energy in applying the principles which have been determined relative to the prosperity of that animal. i hreesfourths'J of the plants and animals which contribute to the comfort, well-be i ing and progress of man in the United Mates to day are actually imported, and scarcely one of these or the aboriginals would contribute in greater proportion than to savages, were they not carefully Luiuvated with reference to the beat prac tical result. But former abundance of the shad is declining. Every one is entitled to fish, and with the unprecedented in crease m population and wealth of the country, and the improvements in science transporting fresh flsh, meats, Sc. to great centres of population North and VV est, and with thft nWmhna nA rnilwuv systems recently introduced, the Coast of q orth Carolina, like that of the whole Atlantic, has been taxed to buddIt the "de mands. Yet, our people, it must bev a4-' yiteu, are backward in, realizing their importance as factors, and it maybe cited m e vidence, that we do not properly ap preciate our importance in this way by CAEP CULTURE. At the date of my last report (1883) I had just finished a series of eight ponds near Raleigh for breeding the German Carp. The building of these ponds was imperative, for although none of the carp were introduced into North Carolina be fore the year 1879, they became popular so fast that even with enlarged breeding ponds at Washington, Prof. Baird could not meet the demand. With a good pro duction of carp at the State ponds in 1883, and a fair crop last year (1884), and with a liberal supply from Washington, the state of affairs has not been remedied. There are more applications on file than can pos sibly be filled, even reducing the allotments to each person from twenty to fifteen, and they continue coming in by each mail. Persons are building ponds nowvanxious ly hoping to be supplied this- fnnter, when it will be quite impossible for me to supply them. The eagerness with, which they are sought is simply amazing., It is quite impossible to tell just ;how many ponds have been built especially : for them within the past two years or sjnce their first introduction in 1879, for the reason that in many cases different persons have applied for fish for the same pond, but I do not believe they are fewer than 2,000. These fish are furnished both by the Gov ernment and by me, as your agent, free to all persons having suitable ponds, upon a written application; and without an enort on our own part to encourage s persons to take them other than supply the fish when applied for, we have placed them in more than ninety counties of the ninety-six. Marvelous accounts of their enormous growth come in from every source, with encouraging reports concerning the pro gress being made m raising them. Equally important are the frequent re ports concerning the capture of splendid specimens in the creeks and rivers. Indi cations point to the conclusion that all the streams of the State will soon be supplied with them. How a Georgia Village Entertain. Brunswick, Ga., Breeze. J The green leaves, the Tieautiful, sweet scented flowers, the brilliant lights, the handsomely decorated tables groaning be neath, their loads of ambrosial delicacies, the smiling, blushing, and elegantly attired beauties who flitted from place to place mingling their sweetness with that of the flowers, reflecting their charms in the hand some mirrors that adorned the walls, and blending their joyous laughter, vtfhich was heard like a distant refrain above the mel ody of instrumental music, as it rippled spontaneously and in joyous cadence from their rosy lips, was enough to steal one's senses, and a speculative mind could read ily imagine that Aladdin's magic lamp had cast its mystic power over the scene and transported him to the palace presided over by the Genii of Moslem lore. Do Their Work, Well. Raleigh Christian Advocate. A brother writer us that he has heard that .the present Legislature aits two hours each day in regular session, and spends the remainder of the time in bar-rooms; and wants to .know if the papers in Ral eigh ought not to publish and expose such things. In reply to which we would state that it is as well behaved a body as we ever saw Many of them are very earnest, pious men; and nearly, all of ; them moral and upright. . They are at work, and so far have done their work welL" Peter Mitchel Wilson. On the steep bank of a river that has more names than one, and not a hundred leagues from the State capital, there is what is known in our vernacular as a "country store." In high water the red ripples play around its underpinning and in times of drought the coating of mud left there by the spring floods cracks into queer shaped squares and jagged circles. This store is kept by a silent man ;' a shaven upper lip, a chin beard and a florid complexion mark him as a specimen of TSTe natives. His burly form warns off provocation ; cold grey eyespeak shrewdness, and a contempt for vests, collars and cravats ist intimated by their marked absence. He retails what is called "general merchandise," a name quite broad enough to include moist as well as dry goods. He sells for cash only or on approved security, and his goods never leave his store without a sufficient gage. What a stranger who was passing through the country and stopped to rest himself and his tired horse saw and heard, is what we wish to tell. He was seated in the porch in front of the store talking to this merchant prince of the neighborhood. Their chairs were tilt ed back and rested against the railing of the porch. They had exhausted politics and agreed that the weather was hot and favorable to crops of all sorts. Just as the merchant bit off a fresh chaw of tobacco and put the twist back into his breeches pocket, two men emerged from the woods and walked to the store door. Neither had on a coat. Both were barefoot. One carried a rifle on his shoulder, the oth er toted a small cat squirrel that they had killed. They jerked their heads in a fa miliar manner, rather than bowed, to the store-keeper. "Good morning, gentlemen," said he. '"Morning," said they, together. They stared, not rudely, at the stranger, and sat down on the bench that was at the end of the porch opposite him. "Alyour folks well, Squire?" asked the man with the squirrel of the merchant. (Of course he was a Squire; beiug a Squire expedites the collection of debts and gives an awful solemnity and power to .con tracts.) "It's mighty nigh the hottest day we have had this year," said the man whoi had laid his rifle across his knees. "Well, reether," said the merchant in an absent tone. "Trade good, Squire?" squeaked out the cat squirreman. "Ain't been no customers here to-day," he growled. A silence as solemn as that which falls upon a crowd of hilarious young bucks when a solemn looking tract agent comes upon them with a subscription paper, reigned for a few minutes. The quartette sat and chewed and spat. Nothing was heard but the lapping of the waters against the willow bank and the croaking of a rain crow hid in the tree that stood in the edge of the woods. After a few minutes, low voices were heard in the rear of the store, and present ly two men rounded the corner and stood before the musing four. One of the new comers was very fat. He was very red from the exertion of pulling 300 lbs. of human nature up the hill, and he fanned himself as he stopped with a broad, band less straw hat. He wore a heavy, reddish moustache that gave him a fierce, bull dog expression, and the most innocent young preacher in his first pastorate would never have mistaken him for the G. W. C. T. of a "dry" community. His shirt collar was open, very open, and he simply said as he nodded at the party, "hot!" "Have a seat?" said the Squire. "Believe I will," he said, as he took the Squire's chair, who went back into the store room to fetch another. His companion was a small freckle-faced, weavil-eaten, washed - out looking man with red hair, no sign of a beard, with big hands, with little islands of perspiration standing about on them. He carried the poles and had on a live oak withe one poor little mud cat. Nobody asked him to have"a8eat, but he gravitated over to the cat-squirrel man, took a seat by him on the beiveh, looked at him and grinned. "Go6d fishing about here?" asked the stranger. "Nothing like it was before the war," said the corpulent hot man. (He had been an overseer and dated 'everything from the war.) "I've caught cats as big as dogs down at the 'Ferry Hole.' " The stranger looked surprised, the huntsmen looked incredulous, the mer chant didn't look at all, and the little man gave a grin of satisfaction over his in ward joy of not having to lug such cats. The man with the rifle said that all the squirrels seemed to be cats since the "last fresh." Same thing with the fish said the J grum old 300 pounder, and thereupon all relapsed into a state of profound medita tion on the subject of cats. Among men of real genius there is a free-masonry in finding out each other's thoughts that is only equalled by the intu ition that leads a man who wants a drink to divine a similar disposition in men who are addicted to and fond of the "juice of the grains." Without looking up, the man who was now deeply absorbed in toying with the long, graceful tail of the dead squirrel, said in a voice of emotion and that would have stirred the breast of a stoic : "I wish somebody would treat to a level quart." Nobody responded, nobody moved a muscle not even a nerve quivered. They stood it like men who did not intend to treat, but who languished to be treated. It is due to the strict veracity of this story to state circumstantially that the store-keeper didn't stir. He wasn't that sort of a person. His breast may have stirred, for no man knows what is in a man's breast at such times, but it is a mat ter of fact that no other portion of his body did. The shuffling of his feet would have been a grateful sound to these thirsty toilers. "Let's pitch for it," sa& the taury headed man, as he laid down his cat ip the sun, vanished around the corner of the store and returned with four horse shoes that had been cast by the original wearers, but were kept bright as a trade dollar by constant use in a game called " Quoits V or Quates, as these simple citizens call it, much in fashion in that section of the country. Without saying a word he stepped off and Staked the distance, drove down the megs with a stone, and cut with a barlow some slender twigs which he trimmed into various unequal lengths to be used as measuring rods. The fat man and the two huntsmen arose, stretched themselves, and went to the manly sport with eager determination. Without agreement the two huntsmen went to one meg and the couple of fisher men stood at the other. The man with the rifle took up a shingle that was lying near at hand and spit on one side of it. "Wet or dry?" said he, as he tossed it up. "Wet," said the fat man before the shingle fell to the ground. The wet side was uppermost and he had the go. The old-time racers or boys at marbles never strove harder to win than did those worthy sons of toil. They lost their lassi tude, they were full of energy, their eyes were alive with interest. They laid them selves down on their stomachs and meas ured the distance between the quoits and megs to see which quoit was nearest. The fat man didn't lie down, because he wouldn't have been much nearer the dis puted distance than when he was on his feet. They laughed and smiled and grinned, and truthfulness to detail com pels us to say that they used very big d's. -The good old words of sin formed the staple of their expressions, to be accurate. At last the game was decided against the huntsmen. "Pitch off between you," said the fat man as he walked back to the porch and sat down. Thus narrowed down the last game was a short one. Fortune favored the meek squirrel-toter, and the man with the rifle was put in for the wished-for quart. With a satisfied expression, the whole party resumed their seats, with the excep tion of the man who owned the rifle. He took it into his hand and walked leisurely into the store. The merchant followed him, and they remained there in deep communion for a long while. The stran ger thought it all very curious. The three gamesters turned restlessly in their seats and made uneasy jokes about their ab sent friend. At last he returned with an aged and battered quart pot level full. He didn't bring the rifle back with him. The merchant sauntered out and resumed his seat. The man with the quart pot handed it to the stranger, who courteously de clined. He then took a long, strong pull at it himself, smacked his lips in attesta tion of its good qualities, and passed it to the cat squirrel man, who passed it to the fat man, who passed it to the little man, who was giving grins of enormous size and easy of interpretation. He handed it to the merchant, who, rather than dis credit his own liquor, took a sturdy swig at it. Conversation had been a luxury up to this point, which these economical people had not been able to indulge themselves in. It now became a necessity, and spon taneous. "How is your wife got?" asked the fat man of the man who now had only an equitable title to the rifle. " She's mighty poorlyjyet," he answered, "the children has all been down with chills and fever, and what with nursing them and that last child o' her'n, she ain't been able to do much since the spring." "Thank God, I ain't got no brats to get sick," said the fat man, who was an old bachelor. " Pass around the sperits." It passed around the entire circle, only mak ing a break at the stranger, once again twice, thrice. The man who treated had the last pull at it, and he saw the bronzed bottom very plainly before he took the measure down. In the short spaces that elapsed between these rounds various little scraps of domestic history had been re lated. The man with the cat squirrel had lately lost his wife, but his sister was tak ing care oi nis cniidren, and she was a monstrous managing woman, but she and the children had been ailing, and not much able to chop cotton this season The little man had lately been married to a girl very much his superior in stature as in all other respects, and he was severely twitted about a report in the neighbor hood that she had spanked him for not being as industrious as the average man is expected by exacting women to be. Now that the heavy and important busi ness of the day had been transacted, the conversation took a serious bent quite in keeping with it. Agriculture became thfe leading topic of talk, with the labor system and national finances as flankers. The stranger listened in awe as each husbandman foretold the certain destruc tion and wretched condition or his crops of all sorts. The wheat was awful thin and had the rust. Oats hadn't turned out what was expected. Somehow or other the stand of cotton was bad, and what there was of it was overrun with grass. The corn was yellow and twisted and wasn't going to turn out anything and the tobacco plants had been nearly ail eaten up by the flies. These were some of the ailments of the crops, and the merchant, who it was said in the neighborhood had mortgages on 'their little farms and crops, encouraged the depressing conversation by quiet questions. At last the fat bach elor asked, after an ominous pause, "What in the h 1 is the matter with the coun try, anyhow?" The little man grinned, as much as to say that he knew, but his wife had warned him against telling, and he had no idea of disobeying her. Keceiving no other re sponse ne was iorceo to answer his own question. Said he, slapping his fat leg with his chubby hand to give, emphasis to and to applaud his own wisdom, "What the country needs is more money, more money." The assent to this great need was unanimous; and, continued,, he, "more n that, this country am t never going to git right until the d n niggers go to work." About this no one of the party except the stranger, entertained a shadow of doubt, and they made bold so to express themselves. Having solved these two problems that have rested so grievously on the minds of our poorly paid statesmen, the orator grew dumb. " Couldn't the old rifle stand for another quart, 'Squire?" asked its former proprie tor. " I think she can," said the Squire. He brought it. They all drank it except the stranger. When the sun was burnishing the river's breast, and the shadows were growing long, the stranger mounted his horse add rode away, and as he rode the sun went down and the gloaming closed in about him. He thought of the men he had left drinking, and for the life of him he could not help taking a different view of the causes of the hard times from those that they had laid down with such gravity and expressed with so much emphasis. THE PHOSPHATE BEDS. FRENCH WAYS. The Goodly Prospect In the Eaat. How They Marry and Bury. Commissioner McGehee's Report, 1885. Among the important undertakings of this Board during the past two years the exploration of the Phosphate beds of North Carolina deserves a prominent place. The existence of phosphatic no dules in this State has been known since the first report of Dr. Emmons in 1852. It has been known for many years that cop rolites were found in and about Lake Wac camaw ; but there as elsewhere, in this State, they were regarded as accidental and fortuitous. No hope has been en couraged, no hint afforded up to the spring of 1883, of any probability or possibility that they would be found here in workable beds. The discovery of phosphates here, at several points, demonstrated that the same conditions had once existed in both States, North Carolina and South Carolina and warranted the conclusion that ' valuable beds might be found in this State. The Board was also prompted to the exploration by a consideration of the wealth that might flow therefrom to the State. It was estimated by Prof. !Shepard, in his report in 1880, that the South Caro lina phosphates had brought nine millions of dollars into that State. Such a source of wealth, even if but a possible one, could not be disregarded. There was another consideration which weighed much with the Board. It was felt that no section of the State possessed stronger claims upon the board than that n which these phosphates had been found. No section was more thoroughly prostrated bv the war. because so large a portion of the ' property there consisted of slaves, None had more difficulties to contend with in re-establishing order and prosperity, be cause of the predominance of its black population. If the Board could be instru mental in opening up a new and great source of wealth to the people of that section, iti would be a great boon to them, and at the same time be of vast advantage to the whole State. The exploration was accordingly entered on, and the hope expressed by Dr. n,m mons in 1852 was realized in 1883. ' hiX tensive deposits were found underlying a wide territory. Thev were traced through an area of country twelve miles in width and twenty-five miles in length. In gen eral features these beds bear a striking re semblance to those of South Carolina. Like them, they are found at a varying distance below the surface, generally but a few feet. Like them, they vary widely in quality; some being rich in phosphate of lime, some comparatively poor. Like them, too, the beds vary in thickness; some being but a few inches, some from four to five feet in thickness. Numerous analyses of these phosphates have been made. A large part falls but little below the standard rocks of South Carolina in the percentage of phosphate of lime. But, if inferior in this respect, the rocks of this State possess properties which countervail this disadvantage to a considerable extent. Our rocks are more readily acted on by the sulphuric acid, and hence a less quan 5tity by one-fourth is required to make the superphosphate; while the ease with which they can be mixed and worked will make the fertilizer manufactured from them much cheaper. This tends to equalize the value. Tried by field tests the results have been highly satisfactory. Superphosphates from our rocks were largely manufactured under the direction of the Board, and distributed gratuitously among the farmers, under the condition that they should report results. A large number of these have been re ceived ; in every instance they have proved a very efficient fertilizer, in many the re suits have been equal to those produced by any other fertilizer on the market. When the large extent of the phosphate deposits of this State is considered; the ease and cheapness with which they can be mined ; the readiness with which thev yield to chemical treatment ; their value as tested in the laboratory; and their efficiency when manufactured into superphosphate; it mav. with truth, be said that the value of this discovery cannot be overestimated According to the estimate made by the State Chemist of the yield of $124.98 acres only of phosphate land actually explored there exists phosphate rock in that space! enough to make all the superphosphate sold in North Carolina in one year. N. Y. Times Paris Letter. To be married in France is no easy mat ter, quite regardless of class. Not only is the consent of all your near relations on both sides necessary, but you must have certificates of birth, baptism, death of pa rents, &c, arfd very often at the last mo ment Rome cranky relation may refuse his consent and the whole thing comes to a standstill. Last winter a young couple were all ready to be married ; the invita tions had been issued for the ceremony at the church, when an uncle living in Paris announced that he would not give his con sent. The whole affair fell through, and up to this time the marriage has not taken place. Saturday is a favorite day for weddings. I have often seen three cou ples going through the ceremony in the differjent chapels of the cathedrals, and al mostany day you will meet a bridal party in the street, led by the bride and groom, she in her white dress and veil, with or ange blossoms in her hair, the groom in a tall hat and frock coat, returning from church, looking as gay and happy as one could desire. We attended a large wed ding in the beautiful church St. Goddard a few weeks ago. Those who were only to be present at the wedding bene diction assembled at the appointed hour, and were seated in the body of the church dressed in ordinary street costume, while the intimate friends followed the bridal party within the choir. The service seemed long but the music was fine. A part of the ceremony that was new to me was the taking up of a collection for the poor by the bridesmaids on the arm of their groomsmen, preceded by the "Swiss" in his elaborate dress with cocked hat and sword. As the bridesmaid offers the bag he says in a loud voice, ' lPmr le pauvreg. " This ends the ceremony, the bridal party go irito the sacristy to inscribe their names, and are followed by the guests, who salute the happy couple, say a word or two if so inclined or simply shake hands, and then pass out by an opposite door. It gen erally takes three-quarters of an hour, and as you have not seen much and heard less it seems much longer. FCNEBALS. Funerals in this land are conducted in a manner quite different from our own There is much that is touching about them. You are formally invited to at tend them. The invitation is a printed form with a deep black border, the names of all the relatives being written in full. At the bot tom you are told the relationship, and then you are asked to pray for the soul of the deceased. The day of the funeral the entrance to the house and church is draped with black cloth, with gold spots and gold fringe if for an old man, with silver for a young one, with white and gold or silver if for a woman or girl. The cofhn, cov ered with its pall, is placed on trestles just within the entrance of the court. At the foot is a silver vessel filled with water and a brush. Every person in passing sprinkles the coffin, making the sign of the cross, and every man or boy takes off his hat as he passes. From the time of the death till the funeral a loaf of bread, is given to each poor person who rings the door bell by the servant who is stationed at the door for that purpose. When the funeral passes to the church, headed by the priestsl chanting and boys carrying the crucifix and lighted tapers, every head is bared till the funeral car has passed, in the church a loaf of bread is placed be hind the chair of every poor person pres ent. A curious lawsuit connected with a funeral came off last week. A baker was sued for cheating in the weight of the bread supplied for funerals and had to pay a heavy fine. WOMEN IN POLITICS. How Jones Beat Dunn for the Senate. Little Rock Gazette's Legislative Report. 1 Mr. Baker, of Benton, when his name was reached rose to his feet and said : "Mr. President, I cast mv first vote in this Sen atorial contest for Gov. James H. Berry, and I have continued to do so up to the present time. I know him and I like him. He is a good man, and well qualified to fill the office ; an honored citizen, a brave soldier and an able statesman, he is high in the esteem of the public. I am a rough man myself a man from the mountains -and I am one of those men who stick by their friends ; I stick by my friends when they deserve it, when they are able and well qualified, until they fall, and even then I'll not desert them ; I am like Col lins's 'sheep;' when they fall I fall with them. I hated to see Gov. Berry with draw from the field, but when I saw it must be, I looked about me and took the thing under consideration and thought on it. I thought long and carefully over it, and I slept with it. Laughter. I saw I must cast-flay vote for some one else, and I must make a choice of the other candi dates. I'll tell you how I did it. Hooked over the field. I have met the other two, and I had studied them. I met the Hon. Poindexter Dunn and I saw in him many good points. I saw a fine head on him (I greatly admire a fine head) and I saw in him a great coming man. But I tell you what did the work for me. I met Mrs. Jones the wife of the Hon. James K. Jones and that settled it. This is how it was. I met her and I went and called on her yes, I did. . The room was full of beautiful women. I didn't hardly know what to do, but she sat by the piano and I asked her to play a little tune on it for me. Laughter. J 1 asked her that very thing; asked her if she could play 'My Old Cabin Home.' She said she would if I would sing a verse of it, and I said I'd try. Cries, 'Sing it now, let's hear it.' You wait. I said I would, and she touched up the piano, hit the very key-note of the piece the tune I know and love best on earth. It rang and echoed about the room. The place was full of women, and pretty women, too, Applause. And among them I saw Miss Roane, the daughter of old Gov. Roane, the lady of whom Mr. McMillan spoke so beautifully a while ago. They crowded around, and right there I stood and I sung the verse. Cries of 'Sing sing give us the verse.' All right, gentlemen, to ac commodate you I'll sing it," and, clearing his throat, the gentleman from Benton struck up a bear-tone solo and sang : "We'll hunt no more the grizzly In the nook, We'll leave the eanon all So dry; We'll drink no more of the Clear crystal brook. So, my log cabin home goode-by." As the "goode-by" floated up among the cob-webs in the dome of the hall the densely packed throng burst into cheers and shouts, a tornado of applause shaking the old house, while bursts of laughter broke out like thunderbolts, and hand clappings sounded like hail among the confusion. At length the orator succeed ed in gettiug silence again, after bowing and gesticulating several minutes, and said: "Hold on wait, and hear the chorus ;" and then he sang A IIIHDI. What the African Moslem Hold. BADLY MIXED. The Course of True Love, &c. Seaford (Dei.) Enterprise. On a large farm nearly in sight of the quiet little town of Federalsburg, Md., re sides a blooming young girl of 22 Sum mers, also her cousin and her father's ward of two years her senior. Both of these have beaux whom their stern old father and uncle do not approve of. The lover No. 1 and his sweetheart, unbe known to the other parties, had made all arrangements to: steal off in the still of the night and get married. This was also the nlan of the contracting parties. No. 2. The ladder was hid back of the garden for the purpose of scaling the walls at the proper time. In the bewitching hours of the night, when the graveyards yawn lover No. 1 placed the ladder to the win dow of girl No. 2. The night was dark iust at that time. She made her exit out of the window and into the arms of her supposed knight, and was hurried off to the carnage near by. JNot a word was sDoken as along the ramparts (the old man's back lane) they hurried. ine car riage was gained and the lash was applied to the horses. When they arrived at the preacher's house, who was waiting to tie the knot, the gallant knight tnen discov ered that he had got the wrong girl. Of course there were some salts and inward curse words, and the tug of war came how to get the weeping, girl back undis covered. .Lover mo. a met with an acci dent by running his buggy against a post and carrying away his port wheel, and failed that night to arrive at the house. The old man has bought a thirteen dollar trun and is nightly in ambush for the raiders. New York Herald. Mahdi, or Mahadi, as D'Herbelot-spells it, is an ancient title in the Moslem world which at first signified simply director of the faithful. But in the course of Moslem history, and especially Moslem history in Africa, it came to have another significa tion related to an accepted prophecy of Mohammed. It necessarily refers to the African part of Arabic history. By this secondary significance of the word the Mahadi is a certain ancient leader come again. His appearance is the "second ad vent" of a prophet who lived in the old days and who in all the meantime has been with the immortals. Mohammed, the twelfth Imaum in descent from Ali, is the real original. He is the Mahadi who comes again every now and then. He was hid den from the world at an early age and communed only with his disciples through his lifetime, and finally did not die, but "went up," with the fixed intention of re turning to revive the glories of Moslem As in the Christian theory and even in the history of several monarchies this legend of a prince who is to return has afforded a favorite pretext for no end of impostors, so it did in Islam. The most famous of these in past ages was Abulcassem Mo hammed Ben Abdallah, the founder of the Fatimite dynasty in Africa. Mohammed had prophesied that in three hundred years the sun would rise in the west, and as Abulcassem'8 glory was in 296 oi the tie gira, it was neio mat ine propnecy reier- red to him, and since then the idea oi the Mahadi has commonly had relation to a revival of the glories of Islam in that West ern world of Moslemism, the provinces of Africa held by the Arabs. Perhaps we should not plume ourselves too much over a race of men who are yet controlled by a vivid conviction that their leader was born a thousand years ago. We believe in leaders-whose claims to allegiance are equally ridiculous. STANLY COUNTY NEWS NOTES. i Crops Fence Accidents. Correspondence bf the Raleigh Rbgistkb. Nohwood, N.C., February 2, 1885. Small grain cropis are not very promising in this section. jThe unfavorable weather has injured them greatly. Tobacco .barns are being built by a num ber of our farmers. A considerable amount of tobacco is expected to be made in Stanly this year A little son of Mr. John Thompson fell off a loaded wagon and, I learn, was con siderably injured, the other day. The wheels of the wagon passed over his body. .Norwood and Albemarle academies are well attended this session. Mai. L. D. Andrews, of the former, and Prof. H. W. Spinks, of the latter, are experienced and accomplished instructors, and are doing much for the cause of education in Stanly. The bill introduced into the. Legislature for the benefit of disabled Confederate sol diers should meiet the approbation of every true North Carolinian. Many of those who lost limbs in defence of the "Lost Cause," are in needy circumstances, and should re ceive some assistance from their native State. I wish the Legislature would pass a law prohibiting all rnewspapera in the State from publishing patent medicine adver tisements in any other than regular adver tisement form, j It is extremely provoking to commence reiading an article with cap tivating head lines and find it to be a de scription of the! rapid decline of Mr. so- and-so, who was daily expecting death to relieve him of all mortal, aches and pains, when some one persuaded him to try Dr. Healemall's Infallible Health Restorer, sixteen bottles f which made a new man of him, and hesexpects to live to the age of two hundred; or thereabouts. Stanly votes on the no-fence question on February 10th. j A good deal of interest is being manifested, and- many arguments pro and con, advanced. This section will probably adopt; it whether the entire coun ty does or not. j It is said that a certain preacher in this county, who is rrather corpulent, met with a severe accident the other day in a rather remarkable way. He was looking after some of his calves, and one of them be coming obstinaje, the preacher raised his foot with tremendous force, intending to kick the offendang calf into the middle of next Week but he didn't. The calf evad ed the blow while the preacher's head and shoulders camejin contact with the ground, while his foot was making a vain attempt to reach the moon. At first it was thought the preacher's (arm was broken, but it proved to be not quite so bad as that. Capt. D.'N. pennett, our representative, is at home on Sa short visit. He will re turn to Raleigh in a day or two to resume his duties in the Legislature. Mrs. Jno. Tyson, died near Cedar Hill, Anson county, I January 31st. She was in her 75th year. 1 E. R. Wood. ONSLOW COUNTY. Its Lands, Waters and Industries. THE CHOBUS. "We'll mind no more, but play. : I never shall forget l That log cabin home That log cabin home far away." lAgam the storm broke forth, and it was several minutes before he could proceed. When a lull came he continued: "Well, those ladies crowded around me, and when Mrs. Jones stopped playing I seized her hand and I said : 'Madam, I am in love with you.' Shouts. Yes, I told her I had fallen in love with her, and she said she wished I'd fall in love with her husband as well. She treated me nice they all did, too. Now, I am a rough old man, but ladies have great attractions for the old mountain boomers. I know I do, I cheers. and I never forgot that visit. They looked so sweet and nice I wanted to hug them all. When I met Mr. Jones I looked at him closely, and saw in him a man I could well support. He had a big head, too a head like a washtub, eyes set away back in and a deep thinking look in them, and so, with all this to think of, af ter looking well about me, after consider ing the matter well, after sleeping with it, I have concluded to vote for the Hon. James K. Jones." Cheers, long and loud. BISHOPS LYMAN AND THOMPSON Disagree Abont Colored Clergymen. The Result Still In Doubt. The Way of the World. One Thing Necessary. Army and Navy Journal.1 General Judson Kilpatrick used to relate the following of himself: " Soon after the announcement in the newspapers that he had been appointed Minister to Chili, he was met by an old lady who had known him from childhood, and to whose bucolic mind the General's large way of stating things had sometimes seemed like exagge ration. ' Wall, Jud,' she said, ' I hear you have been called to the ministry. Glad to hear it. You'll make a real good preacher ; but (solemnly), Jud, you must stop your lying." Elizabeth City Economist. Some weeks ago it was reported in town that a worthy, industrious man, named Cory, had inherited a fortune of $60,000 from a deceased uncle in New York, and by some means the rumor got in the news papers. The report was incorrect as to our Cory, but the plain oyster vender could not account for the altered cordiality and politeness of our people towards him. It was Mr. (Jory, Mr. Jory, irom every body that passed him on the streets and from the opposite side of the street. He was astonished. This sudden popular ity continued about a week when the town found out the mistake and settled down to plain Jack Coxy, and sometimes "Jack," for mad. New York Times. Old Mrs. Bennington Did ye find out how Mrs. Brown is getting on? I heerd she's very sick. Old Mr. Bennington I saw the doctor as he was drivin' along to-day, an' he said she shuffled off a mortal coil last night. I s'pose it'll dp her good to git rid of it. Old Mrs. Bennington Drat these new fangled doctors, they can't talk nothin' but Latin. The poor soul may be worse. I'll try and get over there myself this ar ternoon. Grounds for Divorce. LPittsburg Chronicle. " Just listen to this, Martha J " exclaimed Mr. Jarphly, who was reading his evening paper, "one of the dogs at the London nrize show is valued at $50,000! Good gracious 1 That's more money than I ever expect to be worth in my lifel" "Some dogs' are worth more than others, Jere miah," quietly remarked Mrs. Jarphly, and Mr. Jarphly eyed her for a moment and said she need not ait up for him that even Baltimore 8un.J Bishop Lyman, of North Carolina, is out with a strong remonstrance against what he characterizes as "the sweeping condem nation of a colored clergy," by Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Mississippi. The latter had declared that it would never do for the Episcopal Church to choose its spiritual teachers from among that class, because of the ignorance and superstition" which pre vail among them ; now the former declares that in his own State fNorth Carolina) he "has found the experiment of admitting colored men to the ministry a very encour aging one," and "most of them are active, efficient, zealous and loyal church work ers." "It is a fearfnl reflection upon the race," he adds, "to intimate that they cannot be trained and qualified for- the gospel ministry." He also expresses sur prise at what the assistant bishop of Mis sissippi has written on this subject, "be cause, with all the other bisnops oi tne South, he has added his name to the ap peal which was made at the close of the last General Convention, asking for funds to help forward the good work at St. Augustine's Normal School and Theologi cal Department." The Hymn of Civil Service Reform. (Clinton Caucasian. Along New tiver, extending through the county from nrth to south, is abelt of the best fanning land in Southeastern North Carolina. Their productiveness under modern improved methods of culti vation would ! be hard to overestimate. gns of progress are visible. In the northern section of the, county many new evidences of Improvement are manifest. The Quaker Bridge road, erected by the State, connecting the navigable waters of New and Trent rivers, now completed, is of great value to the entire county. People who heretofore had to haul their cotton more than forty miles to Newbern, now reach the city in less than thirty miles. , New river, pow navigable to TarLand ing, could be made so to Doctor's Bridge, opposite Richlands. Many of the fore most citizens of the county have this scheme at heart, and are endeavoring to secure from Congress the needed appro priation. This, with the needed railroad communication with Wilmington, would place Onslow tar on the road to equality in population, wealth and influence with her more fortunate sister counties. Great as are; her possibilities as an agri cultural country, the fish and oyster indus tries of New nver are destined soon to be the' greatest usiness of the county. A very intelligent citizen said to us that the hope of the eounty was in the develop ment of this source of wealth, which la rapidly going on. ONSLOW PEOPLE As the Clinton Caucasian Found Them. They struck us as having some sayings and customs; mi generis. In the first place they keep the best roads in our knowledge. This results from two causes perhaps. The soil is of the kind of which good roads afe made and from, the fact that all travel; and transportation is done by private conveyances, the roads receive more attention than elsewhere. We are sure if any Onslow road overseer was ever indicted it was a case of malicious prose cution, j Again, if you want to see overcoats go to Onslow ihj winter. As the Spaniard never leaves his cloak, so the denizen of Onslow never parts company with his overcoat. Aiman of any class of Bociety would at once lose caste if he should be so forgetful of propriety as to leave off his overcoat, evea in doors or at work in open air. In other communities people die "in bed." Not ao in Onslow. At least we were gravely informed that several persons had "died ouit." The Back-woods is the funniest thing in Onslow. It as an imaginary section in which somebody else lives. We hunted for it all day land everybody told us it was a little further on. May be it was. New York Sun. Our system, very true it is, has many incongrui ties, Perhaps because so new it is, and some can't comprehend it ; But, though its queer ingredients may not be all remedients, We owe it our obedience, and some time we may mend it. Some term it autocratical, some deem it enig matical, While others, quite ecstatical, bepraise it aa they ought to. Though largely theoretical, ito aim is quite 9CStiAa.GtiC&l "Make politics unpolitical" has now become our motto. The theory tis founded on, and resolutely eronnded on. And rjolished uo and rounded on, is fitted to all cases. It means that letter carriers, tide waiters, office tarriers. Shall pass our wordy barriers before they get tnen- places. Sectional School Boo Its. Savannah (Ga.) News. In many parts of the South school books have been adopted the tone of which is al most on a par with that of itepuoacan campaign documents. This is especially true of school histories. In them histori cal facts are perverted, sectional views are recorded, and the political history of the country from the days of the colonies down to the 'present time is given a sec tional coloring. A Suit for Damages. j New York Sun. I "I understand that Smith has called you a thief and a rascal!" "Yes, shi and I propose to sue him for $5,000 damages." . .. "He claims he can substantiate , the truth of what he has said.". "That's tie beauty of it, my dear .fel low. The greater the truth, the greater the libel. I've got the dead wood, on him." f- ...". i
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