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VOL. 86. NO. 25. B HOWELL. , . , C. W. JEFFREYS W E MWElt THIS WEEK, TO LARGE CASH BUYERS, SPECIAL PRICES ON Corn, 3!eal, Oats; Black and White Spring, Ha Best Timotuy, Bran and Sbipstnff IN FLOUR. WE CA.N GIVE YOU, Boyd Crown, Sv an Lake, Standard, and a Brand that we call our BEST, which i th he; 5.oo Flour on tin market. MEATS, C. R Si Ie, Short Backs, Baits, S. a and California Ham-. Also N. C. Hams and Should- BUTTER, the best Creimeiy and Bracebridge, (Carr's) Dairy, 35 cents. Remember we buy in large lota for cash. Our expenses are as small as any Merchant doing ; buainest ia Tarboro, and we can and will sell at a very small margin for the money. M our Goose Nest Store we cfler to our Martin county mends. A FUM STOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE at Tarboro prices, which we guarantee to meet every, fim Examine stock and prices and sate your expeases and freight from Tarboro, Scotland Neck or Hamilton. Coutajc'ous Blooa Diseases. I'll is. tor f, id lcs 1 -b, It rbeui. etc., arc i vir! i t f of tot tapif'J s hi- rd dlsefe. It i ui i i'r--tly a dctT o eradic to Mty-d i i? i. In m ti e system by the an? of B H B. (M "ai ic Hit t.et Halm), thus enables llie sore , :imf to heu . and thereby ramovinir all uos--i' li'i e of oti er mem era of the fsoiih le , ii. 'f lik-i-e i flhcted. Pend to Blood Halm . Atl.iut.M, forbookthat wl'l convince. .Il l n! . 1 live. N ntites: hud ru li it Mjtes "ii my shoulders ,rd aruis. ( nc Lot lie B B 1 o"i me ex-tirel." L lolinfin. Bilcort Vta ion. M-8 riS; ' n B B b:s or Led o; nits like n cbarui. My In ad and body was covered wi h eoresani my 1 air came cut, but H B H bealed me quifV ly." W J Kinnin, Hutch' ns. Texas writrs. "B H ti h- s cured my wife of a larg u'cer on her lt g that d-ctor6 aud all other medicine ojld not cure M Roviui'D, a . l rt miuent merchant, of Greenloo, (ia. writes. "I know of severs! cases oi blood disease speedily cured by K B B. To brult-P curtd a lady of ugly wrof li ons sk in sores." W Birchn ore A Co, Maxey Ga, writes, "B B B id curing Mr Roit Ward of b'o d I oitoo effecU d one of the mo?t wocdi-rfnl aures Uiat tv r came under our knowledge. l!FMMONtl. AltDs. 7 " M. t'OUNTAIN, Attorney-at -Law. Lo ns niv' tialed on real icuii y nt le.-M nlii tales. 'P F. WYNN, M D, I. Tarboko House, Tarboro. N. C. I K. H. T. 3AS3 Offers his oroteosional -iorvices to tb iti x ns of Tarboro and vicinity. OfUce on Main Street near Coker's coi ner D R G S. LLOYD. EYE EAR, NOSE AND THROAT. Recently having taker special courses Id the above, offers his services to the people of dgecouibe and surrounding counties. Office in old Bryan House, near bank, TARBORO, N. C. D H. DON WILLIAMS, Jr., DENTIST, graduate Baltimore College Dental Surgery.) Office, Old Bryant House, Main St., i0 ly Tabbobo, N. C. ieo. Howard. J. J- Martin jOWARD & MARTIN. Ai'-omej aad Counselors &t Law TABBORC N. C. : .yPracicf8 in ali the Courts, State aOt F--iitral. eot.5-1v .1. A. Uilxjam. UOHHBXI. UIIA1A rULLIAM & SON u Attorrifeys-at-i-aw, TARBORO', N. C. Vill practice in the Counties of Edgecombe, Halifax and Pitt, and in the Courts of tbe Pirt Judicial District, and in the Circuit and S loreme Courts at Ralelo-h. 1anl8-lv. TO UN L. BK I DOERS & SON, Attorneys-at-Law, T?l RBORO, It lyr x. a PHOTOGRAPHS, AND- i Uit isHe;t 0tyla e! Utt S. R. ALLEY'S ART ROOMS, Up Stairs, Opp site Pjlhlic Bank RUNS EAST. GINS FAST. Cleans SEED PERFECTLY. Make FINE SAMPLE. NEVER CHOKE er BREAKS THE ROLL. THE CELEBRATED Has All LATEST IMPROVEMENTS including Balance Wmeel oa Bruk which la urea even speed. Thie feator im peoollar to ibis make of Oto and la naad oa no other. An F' OrARAHTEGD aad AN XellTerii RK: OF rKEICIHT at may &. R. Station or the lending of any Begrolar Staamboat Use ia the South. If we have no Airat Bear you. address the Oeaeral Southern Agent, H.W.HUBBARDVaVT 3 lam OSGOOD U.S. STANDARD I RlifBINGHAMTill 'SCALES relaaaaM.AUIr t -- .. THIS MAN JOKES. -t- This man Jones was what you'd call A feller 'at had no sand at all ; Kind o' consompted, and undersize. And sailor-complected j with bis sad eyes. And a kind-of-a-sort-ot-a hans-dos style. And asne&kin' sort-of-a half-way smile 'At kind o give blm away to us As a preacher, maybe, jer somepin' wuss. Didn't take with the gang well, no But still we managed to use him, though, Coddiu' the gUly alone the rout'. And drivin' the stakes t he pulled out Fer I was one of the bosses then. And of course stood in with the canvas men; And the way we put up Jobs, you know On this man Jones jes' heat the show! Ust to rattle hint scandalous. And keep the feller a-dodgin' us. And a-Btiyin round balf skeered to death. And afeerd to whimper above his breath; Give him a cussin'. and then a kick. And then a kind -of-a back-hend lick Jes' fer the fun of seeln him climb Around with a head onj most the time. But what was the curlooxt thing to me, Was along o the party let me see Who was our Lion Queen " last year? Mamzelle Zanty, or Do La Pierre? Well, no matter astunnin' math. With a red-ripe lip and a long eye-lash. And a fiVger ich as the angels owns And one too many fer this man Jones. i I He'd alius wake in the afternoon, As the band waltzed in oa the lion-tune, nd there, from the time 'at she'd go in 'Til she'd back out of the cage agin. He'd stand, snaky andjlimber-kneed 'Specially when she come to " feed The beasts raw meat with her naked hand" And all that business, jyou understand. And it was resky In that den Fer I think she juggled three cubs then. And a big "green" lie 'at used to smash Collar-bones fer old Frank Nash ; And I reckon now she hain't f ergot The afternoon old M Nero " sot His paws on her t but as fer me. It's a sort-of-a-mixed-tip mystery Kind o' remember an awful roar. And see her back fer the bolted door See the case rock heerd her call "God have mercy I" and that was all Fer they ain't no livin' man can tell What's it's like when a thousand yell In female tones, and a thousand more Howl in bass till their jthroats is sore! But the keeper said 'at dragged her out. They heerd some feller laugh and shout "Save her! Quick! Fve got the cuss!" And yit she waked and smiled on us! And we daren't flinchj for the doctor said, Seeln' as this man Jones was dead. Better to jes' not let her know Nothln' o' that fer a week er so. IFrom "Pines o' Tan." MAKE CHILDREN HAPPY. An Importaat Secret In Successfully Training Them. Some one whose experience of life had been both wide and painful once said : "Religion begins the wrong way. It says, ' Be good ana you will be happy.' I saj make people happy and they will be good. " So we "too often proceed in the wrong way with our children. "We preach and scold land punish to make them good, but do very little which truly makes them happy. Children are so easily pleased, but we too often make the mistake of giving that which is to them so little pleasure. More of moth er's love, time and attention, and fewer tucks on the tiny garments, would make many a child happier. " Some one has said that we prick our fingers and blind lour eyes over fancy work on which oar male friends rest their heads and dream of something we are not ; so for our children we stitch till our mind loses; its brightness and our temper its sweetness, while they out grow the clothing and us at the same time. Again, some mol hers put all their en ergies into "housekeeping. " So neat they are that there is no rest in any cor ner, while the wee ones say with a sigh, "Mamma is too busy to talk to me. " If I were desfrVnis of making children happy I should first have a "children's hour." It . might perhaps, be at the time Longfellow speaks of in his exquis ite little poem : I "Betwixt the dark land the twilight. When the night is beginning to lower. Comes a pause In the day's occupation " That is known as the children's hour. That time shoulcj be, as far as possible sacred from intrusion. Tliey should have a romp, a game, a story, whatever they wish., I would save my best thoughts and best Sunshine. spirits for that time. Too Public Spirited. "He was a good : 'ellow, was Smithers, " said the old miner is he stood with bared head where Smithers had last been seen, "but no man can go foolin' along in a camp like this, kickin' off every tin can he sees lyin' on the sidewalk. It may be public spirited, bu; it ain't good policy for the individooaL Course Smithers didn't know that Bill Jones had left a full can o' dynamite on the walk, jest from be in' too lazy ter fcarry it inside, but he orter bin on the lookout. Whar is Smith ers now? He's all over! He was public spirited, ez I said, and mebbe it's a com fort ter him ter be all over the camp at once, but his inflooence is too much di foosed now ter count fer much. Thai's a lessen in this, bbyss Don't difoose yer in. flooence. An' thara another lesson: Don't be too public spirited. The leadin' men ain't that way in the big cities. They talk big and do a little suthin' now an' then, but fust they look out fer the indi vidooal. Wa'al, Smithers ain't here, an' he was a eood man. Let's licker." Merchant Travel TIte Arab Woman. The Arab woman, save in rare and pleasant exceptions, is hardly what the poets and painters have shown us. ' If she be graceful r beautiful it is ex tremely difficult to discover it; and she possesses neither of these attractions af ter she is 25, for she is a "wife" at from 12 to 14 years of age, whatever that sta tion or condition mWis among the Arabs. AH there is abouS this being to become astatic over is that subtle Drorunu ri 8E 8TJBE YOTJ me poetic fancy which ever, to the maie mind peculiarly, blooms like the rose in any soil of apparent coyishness and mys tery in the gentler sex. The Arab woman is simply a vacuous, insensate, voiceless, and dreamless human animal, sheeted like the dead in the streets, and dead to the world when within the four windowless walls where the majestic being who owns her keeps her penned. You can make nothing more or less of her. Boston Transcript BITS OT UCTOKMATIOX Chicago has 200,000 voters. Milwaukee has 8,000 Polish voters. The valuation of Maine is placed at $258,912,000. A Hamburg restaurant is built and furnished with paper. Twenty club hi Chicago have hand some houses of their own. Gambling is licensed in Montana, but gambling debts cannot be collected by law. Seven years ago Q3 per cent, of British vessels were iron, now 92 per cent, are staaL In 1848 there were fifteen daily news papers published in Boston, now there are but eight. The liquor bill of the English people is said te have been last year $90 to every family of five. I Professor John Fisk, of Harvard sol lsge, believes that .a American Indians originally came from Asia. The following is said to be the shortest Sentence which contains all the letters of the alphabet : Pack my box with five dozen liquor juga Russia is building one big ironclad to be called the Three Patriarchs, and an other which will do battle under the name of tlie Twelve Apostles. The daily rations of a pair of ostriches en a farm in San Diego county, Cali fornia, are forty pounds of beets for breakfast and a half a peck to a peck of grain for dinner. New York's real estate, well located, doubles its value every eight years. It is said that there are only 40,000 vacant lota now remaining on Manhattan Island. Phil Armour, of Chicago, it is said, proposes to tan his own hides and "make his own glue, and for the purpose will establish tanneries and manufactories in Illinois. By guesswork it is figured out that the average income of cite one hundred rich eat Englishmen is $450,000, while that of the one hundred richest Americans is $1,2C0,000ayear. Recent investigation has shown that the people of Great Critain swallow over 6,500,000 pills daily, or one pill a week for every person in the population. The pill consumption for one year would weig-h 17e tons, and would fill thirty-six freight cars. - The first German Catholic church to be lighted electrically is the grand old ca thedral at Strasbourg. Arc lights have been used outeide with fine effect, and it is stated 3 hat many of the noble lines of the architecture are accentuated by night as they never have been bv da v. WEALTHY JOBS BLAIR, n Changes Bis Shirt In the Washroom to Save a Hotel Bill. Sunday afternoon a solidly-built old man, with a long face and close-cut gray hair, registered at the Grand Pacific. "Want a room?" asked the clerk. "There is no use of going to the ex pense of hiring a room, " was the answer, "for only a few hours. I -expect to go West to-night, but I'd like some place to change my clothing. " "Let me give you a parlor room for a few hours. " "No. There are few. people in the washroom; I can change my shirt in there and then sit around the office for a few hours. No use of spending money foolishly. " The guest changed his linen in the washroom, and then began to clean his silk hat and coat with a little rag and bottle of benzine. The eccentric person was John L Blair, of New Jersey, whose wealth is estimated at fabulous amounts. He is rated to be worth from $40,000,000 to $100,000,000. yet he was seated in a porter's chair hvs&he Pacific yesterday scrubbing his oid hat as if he could never get another. While Mr. Blair spends little money on himself he is quite gen erous to others, and many kind deeds of charity, are credited to his wordly ac count. He is a remarkable man, for al though eighty-eight years old be pre sents the appearance of one at sixty, and accomplishes twice as much as most young men. Chicago Tribune. Why She Called a Halt. $ "George!" It wasn't what she said so much as the way in which she said it She took the word and drew it out until is was a long tremulous filament of sweetness. Yet there was a tinge of reproof in her tone. "George!" she only said itonce in real ity, but it is customary with story writers to say George twnte under these circum stances. "What Is it?" "Yon have been squeezing my hand with great regularity and emphasis for some time." "I know it," he replied with the frank ness that was characteristic of his manly nature. "Please don't do it any more, " and her voice dropped almost to a whisper. Ho-more?" This sounded like heart throbs of anguish whatever they are), and his form shook with emotion. " Why not?" " Because, " she faltered. "Go on. " "Because, I'm getting a corn on my tittle finjzer. "Washington Post. AR"F! RIGHT; TARBORO', N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE CRUMPETS AND TEA. There are happenings ia Ufe that are destined to rii.e Like dear, hallowed visions bjfore a inau's eyes, Aud the passage of years shall not dim in the leat The Rlory and joy of our Sabbath -day fe ist The Sabbath-day luncheon that's fepn-ud for us three, My w orthy companions, Teresa and Lei-li. And mi', all so hungry for cruin.et-i and tea! There are cynics who say with invidious zest That a crumpet's a thing that will never di Kest, But I happen to know that a crumpet is pritno For digestion, if only you give it its time; Or if, by a chance, it should not quite anre Why, who would begrudge a physician his fee For plying his trade upon crump .its aad tua 't To toast crumpets quite a la mode I require A proper long fork and a mighty quick lire. And, when they are browned, without furtuer ado I put on the butter that soaks through and through; And meantime Teresa (directed by Leigh) Compounds and pours out a rich brew for us three And so we sit down to our crumpets and tea! A hand organ grinds in the street a weird bit Confound those Italians I I wish they would quit Interrupting our feast with theirj-dolorousaira Suggestive of climbing the heavenly stairs. (It's thoughts of fe future as all will agree That we fain .would dismiss from our bo-onia when we Fit down to discussion of crumpets and tea!) The Sabbath-day luncheon whereof I now speak Quite answers its purpose the rest of the week ; Yet. with the next t'abbatb, 1 wait for the bell Announcing the man who has crumpets tosell ; Then I scuttle downstairs in a frenzy of glee And purchase for sixpence enough for us three,' Who hunger and hanker for crumpets and tea! But soon ah ! too soon I must bid a farewell To joys that succeed to the sound of that bell Must hie me away from the dank, foggy shore That's filled me with colic and yearning for more! Then the cruel, the heartless, the conscience less sea Shall bear me afar from Teresa and Leigh And the other twin friendships of crumpets and tea! Yet often aye, ever before my wan eyes That Sabbath-day luncheon of old shall arl-e! My stomach, perhaps, ah all improve by the change. Since crumpets it seems to prefer at long range; But, oh ! how my palate will hanker to be hi Ixjndon again, vrith Teresa and Leigh, fcnjoying the rapture of crumpets and tea! LEugene Field. London, February 21. 189a From Fat to Thin. " This is the latest and most approved method of getting thin. ' " It won't do you the least bit of good, though, " declared a pretty Drexel boule vard brunette, whose black eyes shone almost as brightly as the big diamonds that scintillated in her ears, "unless you -follow a strict dietary. Why, I laid off 35 pounds of flesh into intangible no where last winter in six weeks. " "Did you starve ic off?" asked tha writer. "Starve? No, indeed. I just dieted. I had all I needed to eat, but not every thing I wanted. I ate three times a day as regular as clockwork, and fruit all I wanted, too between meals. I had a glass of wine at bed-time, but, oh, dear me, I couldn't have a drink of water all day long. But you know if you eat an apple or a pear or something you don't feel thirsty. " "What food did you take at meals?" "Mornings just a cup of tea or coffoe, with cream, but no sugar, one slice of bread or toast without butter, and fruit At noon I had soup, one kind of lean meat no pork one slice of bread, one or two kinds oflight vegetables no po tatoes; oh, never potatoes! The potato is the arch enemy of the fat. I had fruit and a cup of tea or coffee for dessert. At supper I ate two eggs, a slice of bread or toast, fruit, and liad a cup of tea or coffee. Goodness! but Ijust ate fruit the livelong day, though. I read all the books on training down, too, and what Mr. Sullivan does when he trains, and I did whatever I found out he did. I think it would be a splendid thing if Mr. Sullivan would go around and deliver lectures on his system of training down. "But, as I said, I made myself 35 pounds lighter last winter, and I'm going to get myself down to a 20-inch corset before snow flies, and be comfortable in it, too. " " Did you get your lost 35 pounds back this summer ? " "Oh, yes. You see I went down to tho seashore and ran around to clam-bakes and that sort of thing. I kind of forgot about my dietary and got switched off. The first thing I knew I was eating but ter and sweets and roasted new potatoes and corn. Corn is dreadfully fattening. Then I thought I might as well enjoy myself all I could and take the winter for working off my superfluous avoirdur pois. So I' ve gone to work again, and I'm determined to be a real sylph-like creature by Easter time. Chicago Times. THE OLD FASHIONED WAY TO GET THIN. Peter the Great was once traveling in cognito in a part of Finland just con quered, where he was executing some naval works. He met an over-fat man, who told him he was going to St. Peters burg. "What for?" said the Czar. "To consult a doctor about my fat, which has become very oppressive." ("Do you, know any doctor there?" "No. " "Then I will give you a word to my friend, Prince Menschikoff, and he will intro duce you to one of the emperor's phy sicians. " The traveler went to the prince's house with the note; the answer was not delayed; the next day, tied hands and feet, the poor man was dragged off on a cart to the mines. Two years after Peter the Great was visiting the mines; he bad forgotten the adventure of the over-fat man, when suddenly a miner threw down his pick, rushed up to him, and fell at his feet cryingr, "Grace, nuMi wnat is ri I have done? " Peter THEN GO looked at him ascomsnea, an ai ne re membered the story, and said: "Oh, so that is you; I hope you are pleased with me. Stand up. How thin and slight you have become! You are quite de livered from your over-fat; it is a first rate cure. Go, and remember that work is the best antidote against your, com plaint!" Jean Ingelow, although nearly sixty rears of age, looks still quite young. BENEDICT ARNOLD'S HOUSE. Still Standing in New Haven-Some Kem iniscences of the Traitor. The old Benedict Arnold house is still standing in the fifth ward, ou Water street, near the corner of Olive street It has fallen into decay, but there are some gray-haired citizens who remember ! it when it was one of the show places of i the town. Its orchard was the larger t ! and finest in New Haven, and the 1 grounds were laid out in handsome ter ! races. i Arnold built the house soon after his ! return from Ticonderoga. He must have been a man of some wealth, for the ' house was well built and the grounds j were ample. Arnold was not a popular I man. He had a violent and irascible I temper, and "would rather fight than j eat, " as has been said of him. He al- ways found fault, and the ferrymen who j took passengers across the mouth of the Quinnipiac river before the bridge was built dreaded to have him for a passen- i ger, for he always swore at them for not rowing faster. Nevertheless Arnold was a man of affairs. Besides his business as a drug gist and bookseller, he, with Adam Bab cock, owned three vessels engaged in the West India trade. They were the brig antiue Fortune, 40 tons, the Charming Sally. 30 tons, and the Three Brothers, 28 tons. Arnold never took particular pains to see that all custom house dues were paid; in fact, he was very lax in this particular. It is related that once on a time a sailor on board one of his vessels reported some of these laxities to the collector of the port The report was made on Sunday, and the collector refustd to receive it and told the sailor to come again on Monday. In the mean time Arnold had heard of the sailor's tale bearing. Before Monday came Arnold adopted a course of moral and physical suasion which compelled the sailor to leave town with his tale untold. Arnold's laxity in regard to the cus toms laws was probably not much greater than that of his neighbors. In deed, to evade the customs was a "irtue rather than a fault, for it was regarded a3 a justifiable method of protest against taxation without representation. Arnold's property was confiscated after his treachery at West Point was discovered. Pierpont Edwards acted on the government's administration and sold the property to Captain Isaac Prout Captain Prout made only a partial pay ment, and was unable to meet the sub sequent payments as they became due. In litis way the proerty came into the hands of Noali Webster, the lexico grapher, and he lived there for some years, finally selling it to James Hunt, a West India merchant, who devised it lo his daughter, wife of D. Goffe Phipp3, of this city The house still remains in Mrs. Phipps's possession, although it has been almost dismantled. Betsey Arnold, a sister of Benedict Arnold, lived for years and years after oer brother's disgrace in Norwich on public charity. When she was 90 years oM she was taken to the almshouso by old Sheriff E. G. Thomas. Betsey made a fci'eat how-de-do about it, and was so grieved that she lived only a few months. She was a strong old woman, and had much of her brother's temper. New Haven Palladium. Duluth. Duluth is all that remains on this con tinent to perpetuate the name of one of the most devoted French missionaries who were sent over here in the seven teenth century. It is not likely that this daring Jr ui: priest ever dreamed qf any monument to commemorate his life on the lonely shores of Lake Superior, and leasi. of all one in the form of a large and growing city built by English-speaking men. Duluth, or, as the name would more properly be writtten, Du Lhut, occupied ground which was known to the French as Fond-du Lac which we should call the Head-of-the-Lake. All the shores und islands of Superior were surveyed aud mapped by the French at an early date. Du Lhut was among these explor ers, but his name does not appear until 1678. About this time the missionary ex plorer established a fort three or four miles up the river Kaniicistiqnia, on the north shore of the lake. It was no doubt much more a trad iug-post than a fort, for the French had no rivals to fear toward the north. The spot was after ward the site of Fort William, and was the point from which the Hudson's Bay Company shipped furs over the lake. The nearest white neighbors that Du Lhut had were at the Jesuit mission of La Pointe, on the south shore of the lake, directly opposite the Apostlas islands. This place is now known as Bayfield. It had been established in 1670. and re mained the leading point of trade and of influence with the Indians until the fall of the French power in America in 1759. Du Lhut is said to have been a great sufferer from gout, but this did not pre vent him leading au active life. What explorations he may have made on his side of the lake we do not know; but there is a tradition connected with the man that shows how keenly jealous the French were of any interference with their trade or their management of the Indiaus. 4.miu that Da Luht was on his Crockett. 19, 1890. way to Li rotate oy cne western snoro of the lake, and that he was somewhere near the site of the town that bears his name, when he heard from the Indians that white men had been seen ou the Mississippi He immediately suspected that the strangers were English explor ers, so he took with him a posse of four xneu and went .down the St Croix river until he reached the Mississippi. Here he feiliis willi Louis Hennepin, who had gone above the falls of St. Anthony, but had been taken prisoner and brought down the river by the Indians. It was then plain that Hennepin was the white man of whom Du Lhut had heard rumors ou the shore of the lake. It is reported that Du Lhut returned from his expedition by way of Lake Michigan. If this was the case then it may be supposed that he went down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Wiscon sin, up that river to Portage, across to the Fox river, ahd by that stream to Green bay. He had then a good many hundred miles of coasting alon? shores that were difficult of navigation iu open canoes. This following up by Du Lhut of a flying rumor of a white man seen some where on the upper waters of the Mis sissippi gives us a lively idea of the feel ing with which neighbors would hare been regarded, especially if those neig bors had chanced to he English people. i A LONG-LOST SWORD Qtven to a Courteous Southerner and Re covered After Tears. Fr-derick Mather, superintendent of ihe'New York State Fishery Commission at Cold Spring Harbor, has recently had a peculiar and interesting experience. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirteenth New York Regiment, which was shortly af terward converted into twelve batteries of heavy or garrison artillery. These batteries were instructed in gun-drill at Washington, but when it became certain that there, was little danger of. the Con federates attacking the capital the regi ment was ordered ' into the field as in Tantry. They, however, clung to their litle of the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, a designation they had re ceived on being transformed into gun ners. On June 16, 1864, Lieutenant Mather was in coat man d of L company, which was the color company of the regiment, and belonged to the first division of the Second Corps, commanded by General Hancock. The command was moving on the enemy's works at Petersburg, Va, Ou the right was the Irish Legion, and the two bodies diverged. The Confed erate forces' rushed through the gap, and the right of the One Hundred aad Thir teenth or Seventh New York Heavy Ar tillery were taken prisoner To save the colors Lieutenant Mather determined to bury them. This he did, and he was in the act of burying his sword, a pres entation from Battery I, on which his name was engraved, when a Southerner stepped up and said: " Look here, Yankee, just drop that," and ordered him to move inside the en emy's trenches. "I obeyed the order," said Captain Mather, "and was carrying my sword in its scabbard, and belt in my hand, when a man in plain clothes demanded it of me. I saw he was a civilian, who had only come out to have a shot at us, and I resisted. During our struggle, tnd just as the man was about to strike me with his fist, an officer came up and indignantly asked if he was. about to strike a prisoner. The man fell back, and I handed my sword to the officer, who, thinking I was wounded, offered' me hospitality, and I wrote his name and address on a New York Tribune that I had in my pocket Nothing could have been kinder than the behavior of my captor. I was subsequently confined in prisons at Macon, Ga., Charleston, and Columbia, S. C, and lost the memoranda with the name of the man who had my sword. I had some idea he was a Georgia man, and in my travels in connection with fish-culture in the Southern States have always been trying to find some trace of him. "A few years ago Captain L. Brewster, who had servad in A Company, Tenth Alabama Regiment, during the war, died. A Southern paper published that among his property was a sword belong ing to Lieutenant Mather. The item was copied into the National Tribune, and I fhw it I communicated with Captain Brewster's representatives, and the 1st of this month the old sword, scabbard, and belt once more came into my pos session. The scabbard has an indenta tion, where a ball struck it in the battle. They are relic of a by-gone feud, but I prize them very dearly." New York Tribune. A Western Inconvenience. Eastern i:nner (contemptuously) Catch me going West, where you have neither coal nor wood. Mighty incon venient burning corn for fuelL isn't it? Western Farmer WelL yes, it is, rather. The ears is so big we can't git "em in the stoves. fNew York Weekly. Highest of all in Leavening Power. PRICE Old Legends Proved True. It has not infrequently been discov ered of late that some of the statements of ancient writers, which we have re garded .in our fancied wisdom as too marvelous to be believed, are neverthe less true. The geographer Ptolemy, for instance, wrote that the source of the Nile was in a mountain range known as the Mountains of the Moon, because of the 6iipw upon them. Modern geographers scoffed at the idea that there could be such lofty mountains under the equator, but Stanley, in his now famous "march to the sea, " skirted the foot range of snow-clad mountains, called by him Ru weuzori, from whose streams is formed the newly discovered Lake Albert Ed ward, the extremest source cf the Nile. So Herodotus, the father of history, repeatedly asserted that the Phonicians thought they originally came from the Erythraean sea or Persian gulf. This statement modern scholars have found very difficult to believe the writers of toe article Phonlcia in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica style it "a mere blunder. " An English traveler, however, has very recently made discov eries in the Bahrein islands in the Per gulf which render it almost certain that the great historian was right The islands are a small group lying about 20 miles off the Ararbian coast, and were formerly of great commercial importance. The inhabitants, besides possessing a pearl fishery which was noted in the days of Alexander the Great, aud now produces the finest pearls in the world, carried on an important trade with Arabia and Persia. This they have almost entirely lost, but with the con struction of the Euphrates railway it will doubtless spring up again. One of the two principal towns has a singular water-supply in a spring which at high water is 6 feet below the sur face of the sea " Water is brought up either by divers who go down with skins, or by pushing a hollow bamboo down into it At low tide there is very little water over it and women with large amphora and goat-skins, which look very real and life-like though headless, wade out and fetch what water they re quire. " The Arabs believe that this and several other similar springs on the coast come from the Euphrates, '"which they think flows beneath the Persian gulf in an underground channel, a .legend as old as the days of Pliny. In the northern part of the largest isl and, which is 27 miles long by 10 broad, there is a very remarkable collection of sepulchral mounds, covering an area of many miles. Sonie of these are elevated only a few feet above the level of the desert Others are more than 40 feet high and about 400 feet in circumfer ence. Several of these have recently Oeen excavated by Mr. J. Theodore Bent, a well known English traveler, who has given an account of his discoveries to the Royal Geographical Society. He says that they consist of two cham bers, the one above the. other, as is the case with some Phonician tombs just un covered in ancient Carthage. - In the up per chamber of one which he examined were the bones of an animal, presum ably a horse, and innumerable fragments of ivory boxes, ornaments, bits of small small statues. Many of these fragments were ornamented with patterns which bear a close and unmistakable resem blance to ivories found in Phonician tombs on the Mediterranean. Our read ers will doubtless remember that King Solomon got ivory by means of, .the ships of Hiram, the Phonician king of Tyre. The lower chamber was more care fully consiructed than the upper, and contained human bones together with the remains of drapery which had been hung around the walls, another Phonician cus tom. The ivory fragments have been deposited in the British museum, and an official has recently publicly said that "as far as the evidence went at pres ent he thought the museum authorities were prepared to admit that the Bahrein islands probably represented a primitive site of the Phonician race. " This probable confirmation of the statement of Herodotus is certainly more satisfactory than the favorite occupation of some modern writers, the proving tho falsity of stories which have always oeen. confidently believed suli stories, ior instance, as that of the Swiss hero, William TelL In the Treasury Attlo. 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The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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June 19, 1890, edition 1
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