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;. F. YOUWG, Manager.
LIVE rAN D I H ETi-blVE,' '
67. IC GRANTHAM, Local Editer,
Volume I.
DUNN, HARNETT CO.,N. C, THURSDAY, ATJG-TJST 27. 1891.
Number 27.
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OFFICIAL D1-REGT0RY.
rorrr UOL'K, L T LIANG TON. N.V;
County OfTleers:
f -;fc.lin McArtan.
I'-rk Suj'rior Court G. E. Frinco,
l. -i-it'-r ..f Deeds H. T. Spears.
Trt'ir'-r A. L. Byrd.
(,;ii'.i:inTS W. F. Marsh, Ed Smith,
s.-iiirh, W. F. Bwann,J. M. Hodges.
Tdivn OHlcers, Dunn, X. C.
Vttvor J. F. riiillii,
( hi-f ..r l'olico X. T. Creel.
r,,-.vn It-ik M. Ij. Wade.
( i.tumissioners J. A. Taylor, 3L F. Gainey,
J. II. liallan'ce, E. Lo, E. F. Young.
ALLIANCE.
; The Count v Alliance meets on the 2d Friday
in January, April, July and October at Lllliry?
t.n, Nl C. J. S. Holt, President, Tim. Bex-t-.n,
Swretary.
CIiritCH DIRECTORY.
Jr"X CIRCflT.
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M.-thodist Episcopal Rev. J. D. Feqram;
I'a-tor. Chan?. Dunn, 2d Sunday night
mi l 4th Sunday. and night. Sunday school
dvrvSundpv at 3 o'clock. Prayer Meetleg
ivrv W.liiiday-mght. Black's Chapel; 1st
Sunday morning. A vent's School House, 2d
Siirid.iv nvnflng. Elevation, 3d Sunday
iii'Viiin'. Uenson, 3d Sunday afternoon
liapti-t Coiireh Rev. V. F. Watson, Pastor,
FiiTUv s-iioolat J:Mk. m., R. G.Taylor, Supt;
S.-rvi-w.-s 11 a. m., 8:30 p. m.. second and
f .urth Sundays. Prayer Meetingevery Thurs
.I?iy S-.IH) . m. All cordially invited.
IV-fhyterian Rev. G. A. Hough, Pastor.
Serviw every 1st Sunday morning and night.
Sunday school every Sunday morning at 9:30
o'clock.- " -
lis.:iplts Rev. J. 11. Tingle, Pastor. Her-i-i's
every 3d Sunlay rnoming and night.
Sunday school! 2M o'cck every Sunday,
l'r iyer mooting every Thursday night.
l-'reo Will Baptist Rev. R. A. Johnson,
Paslor. Si vices every 3rd Sunday. Sunday
s hxl ev;ry Sunday morning.
M)1)(1K DIRKCTORY.
jLueknow I.o.Ige Xo. 115, I. O.O. F. Regti-hn-
meeting everv Tuesday hight. I. W. Tay
lor. X. G. (i K. (Jrantliam, V. (l. K. F. Grat
ham", Sevn-sary. R. G. Taylor Tres.
Palmyra Lodge No. 147. A. F, and A. M.
Kcgular meeting, 3rd Saturday morning and
l'rid tv night before 1st Sunday. I. W. Tay
lor, M., F. P. Jon., S. W., J. L. Phillips,
J. W., U. A. Johnson, Treasurer, 8. W. Par
ker, Sivretary; AV. A. Johnos and. Kldridge
L-; Stewart: R. J. Xorris, Tyler.
"AT 1IOMK."
When I was dead my spirit tnrnod
To seek the much frequented house;
1 passed the door, and s;iv my friends
Feasting lienetth green orange bonghs
From hand to hand they pushed the wine;
They sueked the pulp of plum and peach;
.They s;uig, they jested and they laughed,
1'or eaeh w;us loved by tvch, J
i listened to their honest chat
Said one, ".To-moikow we shall be
JM'hI, plod uiuiig the featureless sands,
An I coasting miles and miles of sett."
Slid one, "Before the t,urn of tide
We will achieve the eyrie seat."
Said one, "To-morrow shall be like
To-day, but much more sweet."
"To-morrow,-siiid they, strong with hope,
And dwelt upon the pleasant way;
"To-morrow!" cried they, one and all,
While no one spoke of yesterday.
Their life stood full at blessed noon;
I, only I, had pjissod away,
"Tomorrow and to-ilay," they cried;
I was of yesterday.
I shiveml comfortless, but eat
Xo chill across the table cloth;
I, -all forgotten, shivered, svd
T A stay and yet to part how loth;
I ia.-ed from the familiar room,
1, whom from love had passed awny,
Like the remembrance of a guest
That tarrieth but a day.
Christina G. Rossetti.
NKWS COJIMKNT.
The Government test for rain
brought it in" ten hours.
TUe cummer girl Is afloat through-
out the land, so every prospect
pleases.
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The People's party'lu Ohio have
nomiuttted for Governor the Hon.
John Sietz and Frank llist for.
Lieutenant Governor.
rour thousand women are em
ployed in the yariqus government
departments at TVaslrington, They
gei good salaries, have easy hours
ancl do good work.
For a long time good' men have
been preaching that "honesty is the
best policy," but the finest peaches
and apples still find ,their way to
the top of the measure.
The little ling of Spain does not
know his letters yet, and all mental
education has been forbidden him.
He is so fragile and puny physi
cally that the slightest exertion 6f
the mind fatigues him.
THE state: CAPITAL
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING IN AND
ABOUT RALKIGII.
Run Over by a KIcycIe Cheap Trip
to Cuba The Comlne 3Iusie
Festival--CIreus Coming
. Miscellaneous.
BY Om BEHIPENT COBEESPOXDENT.
Raxeioii, August 22, .'91.
There is a great and unsatisfied de
mand for dwellings liere. Many neV
people are coming in and . the city is
growing in every direction. The elec
tric roads will push the suburlmn devel
opment greatly. The Street Car com
pany was understood to have options on
some property westbf here, but this
plan has fallen through, . it waif inti
mated a few days ago. All the roadway
between St. Mary's school and the Ex
position grounds will eventually be lined
with villas. The road is very suitably
constructed for all that distance. It
runs beside the sidewalk, thus giving
the macadamized road-way' clear for
vehicles. This is an ! admirable plan in J
all respects.
v RUN OVER BY A BICYCLE.
On last Tuesday night two of our
wheelmen came rushing down Xewbern
Avenue and ran over little Paul Faison,
who was playing iur front of Capt. J. 11.
Hill's house. They were going quite
fast and did iot see him m time. He
was ; taken home, a doctor summoned
and the broken limb set. Fast riding
on bicycles is dangerous and our city
fathers should pass an ordinance that
will prevent such accidents as the above
in the future,
CHEAP TRIP TO CUBA. ,
Col. E. G. Harrell, editor of -the
North Carolina Teacher, is arranging to
carry a party of fli ty teachers on a two
weeks charming trip to Cuba during the
Christmas holidays. The entire ex
pense of the tonr is not to be over $75,
which tili include transportation, board
and sight-seeing, and all necessary ex
pellees. A week- will be spent in
Havana, and four days will be given to
trips into the mountains'of .Cuba.
THE COMING MUSJC FESTIVAL.
Everywhere in the State- the talk is
about the coming music festival, and
the prospect is that it is going to bo a
grand success. The choruses and or
chestra outside and in Raleigh are re
hearsing with all their might and never
before was there much interest' taken
in any musical event here.
THE CIRCUS COMING.
'Tis said that the big circus and hip
podrome of John Robinson, which has
delighted -several generations of -young
folk, and old folks too for that matter,
will be hei-e some time in October, dur
ing the Exposition.' !he advance agent
is expected soon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The State of Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina have taken niucu space
at the Exposition. Florida has a great
stretch. All the ceiling will be of the
Tillandsia, the long grey moss so famil
iar in our State, and under this. there
will be a beautiful" display, in many re
spects" novel. ' As these exhibits grow
into beauty, your correspondent wi
tell of them.
New goods are arriving at the ury
goods stores for the fall trade this early,
in expectation of an early opening by
reason of the Exposition.
The Seaboard Aft Line last Tuesday
received two of the immenso engines
wiljh four drivers on each side, and de
nominated in railroad, parlance as
'hogs." Two more were expected that
night. Four new shifting engines have
also been recently built for tins line and
will soon be placed at different points
along the road.
In World's Fair Circles.
Alabama may be represented in minia.
ture at the exposition by a series cf
comprehensive relief maps.
All of the. iinikortant trunk lines in
the United States has agreed to trans
port exhibits at half the usual rates.
Texas has decided to set apart a
spacious room in the exposition build
ing for an exhibit by tne colored people
of the state. J - '
George Ward, manager of the Com
mercial Cable Cooiiviny writes to Chief
Barno.tt that h will make a big display
at tlm exposition, of cable'instrunients.
The London Times, in a long review
of the exposition, says there can be
no doubt now that the exposition wil1
surpass in many respects all exposition8
previously held.
The New Orleans .Vachineiy Com
pany writes to Chief Buchanan that it
will make -a complete exhibit of cotton
gins, sugar mills and other machinery
at the exposition.
The "Wisconsin state building will be
two stories high, with' not less than ten
thousand' feet of floor space exclusive
of porches. The whole structure is be
ing built of "Wisconsin rqatexiaL
A SUPPOSED 3IIRACLK.
Remarkable Cure Said to Have
Keen
( KfTceted at the Shrine. t
Boston, Mass., August 22- A sup
posed miraculous cure "of a cripple at
the front of the atar is reported in this
city. Durfng the services of last Satur
day at the Church-of Our Latly' of Per
petual. Help, Jrs. Catherine Garlaud, of
Stoughton, Mass., who is temporarily ill
the city and who has been for several
years an almost helpless cripple, was
present at the Feast of the Assumption
of the Blessed Virgin.'
During the services she felt a peculiar
sensation pf distress and faintuess, fol
lowed by an. accession of strength. Ris
ing she put her crutches aside and
walked out of, the church. Several pre
vious miraculous cures have been re
ported from this shrine.
IIK DROTPKI ;?OQ FEKT
And Drowned In the Presence of
70QO People. k
Syracuse, N. Y., August 22. James
Buckingham, known as Professor Deive,
the aeronaut, made a balloon ascension
from Pleasant Beach, Onondaga Lake,
this evening. When the balloon had
reached the height of about 300 feet the
aeronaut loosened the fastenings of the
parachute' and dropped.
The balloon was over the water at the
time, ard although the parachute opened
all right, Buckingham became tangled in
it and, falling into the . lake, he was
drowned within tifty feet of 7000 -people.
A 13oy Kills Ills Father.
In Cincinnati a few days ago about 8
o'clock in the morning Charles Niemann,
aged 20, shot and instantly killed George
Niemann, his father.
George Niemann was' a cobbler and
lived at 18 "Gorman street. He had
been divorced frpm his wife, but still
lived in the same house with her and
her children. lh had frequent quarrels
with his family and divorced wife, and
this morning's tragedy was the culmina
tion of one of thet-e disputes. He had
come down stairs, and, while the boys
were dressing, demanded tiit the door
be opened. '
Just before ha opened the dor the
son Charles 'took a loaded revolver from
the mantel and put it in his pocke1,
fearing that his father might get it. The
old man entered the room and began to
abuse his son and tnally assaulted him.
The boy's mother interfered but was
roughly pushed aside by her divorced
husband and she fell to the floor in a
swoon. The old man then pushed his
son out of -the room and backed him
down stairs. At the foot of the stairs is
a yard. As soon as he reached the bot
tom of the steps Charles stepped back
and drawing a revolver fired, killing his
father instantly. The boy was arrested
and his father's remains taken to. the
-morgue. The boy takes his arrest very
quietly. ' '
The South'. Prosperity.
Financially the '-Southern States are
glowing with health and promsie and
rejoicing 'in tthe consciousness of their
essential greatness. No furor has been
created by sensational advertising, but
the - world has 1 een astonished by the
latest statistics of wonderful growth as
shown in the national census for 1890.
The sum of all is in the fact that the
assessed value of property in nine States j
is estimated by the census omcials to
have grown from $1,000,000,000 in 1880
to $6,000,000,000 ifi 1800.
The reports of the census everywhere
tell of enlarged and enlarging areas of
cultivation, of new mines of oal and
iron, excellent in quality and inexhaust
ible in quantity, of new manufactories
in every department of human industry:
All the bases of wealth and of sound and
satisfactory finance are here; and in my
opinion Southern enterprises are anima
ted,, sustained and fortified by as sincere
and liigh a regard for commercial credit
and personal honor, and by as-profound
a conviction of the "necessity of fair
dealing, as aie to lo found anywhere. -4
The Forum.
In Lumbering Regions.
A Chicago' man is at Poland looking,
for a stick of timber one hundred and
ten feet long and four feet square. It i
thought he wants it for the cen.tcj.pole
of a circus tent. '
A Georgia -cinan has cut a tree
from whivh he got two saw logs, each
forty -five feet long, and forty feet of
the top of the tree was left after re
moving this section of ninety feet, mak
ing the tree one hundred and thirty
feet high.
A Sequota tree luis leeu found in
King's River canyon, in the NevWla
mountain range whose original diame
ter exceeds forty feet, but has been
reduced by fire to thirty-niue feet.
This is larger than any of the gigantic
trees discovered in California by seven
feet. '
In dragging the Au Sable river for
sunken logs, ' 100,000,000 feet was se
cured within a very sbor,t distance, and
now the statement is going the round
that it is believed there is ir0W,()Cp
feet of logs sunk in tHe. Au ablu alone.
At six dclh-f. per thousand this would
amount to $000,000. !
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PLOUGHED UP "A-POT OF GOLD.
A Texas Farmer Uiearthed $17,000
Which Santu Ann May Have
4 Burled.'
Sax Astqxio, TexAug22. yonng
farmer nanjr&l Edwards, rnile ploughing
near Sutherland Spririgra few days ago
struck aniron pot-tha . tajof which pro
jected half an inch above the ground.
It" was apparently1 filled with earth, .but
its great weight eH ta an investigation.
Under nn inch of dirt he fpund 817,000,
all in gold doub!oons. ' : ;
,Ed wards loaded his treasure into a
wagon, drove- to San , Antonio in the
night and next day deposited the coin .in
a batfk, sayipg nothing of the find until
his return! - '
There has long been j. tradition in
Sutherland Springs ti"eighhorS&ood that
Santa Anna buried treasure there on his
retreat, after his defeat at the battle of
San Jacinto, in the Texas war for inde
pendence, and various searchers have
hunted for it. .
GOOD NKWS IF TRUK.
Trinity College May Get an Endow
ment of half a million.
It is now being whispered arOund
that Trinity College is soon . to be made
the' recipient of a splendid endowment
amounting to oni-half a piillion dollars.
No one lias it straight but it is talked
secretly in circles that can be nothing
else but reliable. Some have it that
northern men will make the. donation,
but others, who are more probably cor
rect, have it that Col. Washington Duke
Durham's millionaire, w ho lias done so
much for Trinity, will be the principal
leader in this generous giving. If the
report rwoves true, and we hope it will,
it will put Trinity on an equal basis
with the best institutions of the country,
and we shall, expect to see her flourish
as no other' southeni college has flour
ished. Concord Standard.
A BABY PIPK-SMOKKR.
At 2 Years of Age .it Cries for the To
bacco." Chicago, August 23. The . Illinois
Humane Society has decided to prose
cute the parents of 2-year-old Leonard
Tucker, the tobacco-smoking baby.
Ever since the baby was 2 months old
his father has been ' teaching him to
sirioke. The child has now become so
accustomed to the weed that lie cries for
his pipe and tobacco.
The mother has had to work, and has
been leaving the loy at a nursery. The
matron of -the nursery refused to allow
the use of tobacco. Two physicians ex
amined tha child.. Ho was found to be
in- a veiy feeble condition, already suf-
luring irom acute nicotine poisoning,
ilnd having what is known to physicians
lis the "tobacco heart."
TIIK FIRST ELECTRIC LAMP.
Inventor Kdison Tells of the Dfllculty
of Putting it Together.
"Won't you -tell me about the. first
carbon lamp you ever made?" asked a
New York Jibrning Journal man of Mr.
Edison. "Ah, that is a story. The carbon of
the first lamp was made of a spool of
Clark's thread. All night Batchellor, my
assistant the greatest and best of my
assistants, the man of infinite patience
and indefatigable persistance worked
beside me. The next day we worked all
day and then all night again, and at the
end of that time we had produced one
carlxjn out of a spool of Clark's tliread.
Having made it, it vas necessary to
.take it to the glass-blower's house. With
'the utmost precaution Batchellor took
up the precious carbon, and I marched
after him, as if guarding a mighty treas
ure, to the glass-blower's cubby-hole.
To our -consternation, just as we reached
the glass-blower's bench the wretched
carbon broke.
4 'liatchellor' turned around and looked
at me'and said: 'Edison, we won't sleep
till wet, get one.'"
At the recollection Edison lay back in
his chair and laughed heartily. VV hen,
ne nad recovered irom tne ninesaiu:
"That was on of Batchellor 's perpet
ual phrases, which he had "said .to me a
hundred times before, and which I had
skid to him We turned back to the
main laboratory and set to work again.
"It was late in the afternoon before we
had product! another perfect carborn.
The same procession as in the morning
passed to the glass-blower's den. It was
safely deposited on a bench, where
Iratc-hellor'laid it down, when a jewelers'
screw-driver a very little utensil as you
know rolled down and broke the earljpn
"But we turned back again, and before
night a carbon was completed and in
serted in the lamp. The lamp was ex
hausted of air and sealetl, the current
turned on and the light that is to be the
light of the world met our eyes for the
first time in all its beauty."
A Precaution,
She Is that frier oi yours whom
yon are'eypscivag a tall man? :
Pe-r About 6 feet 2 inches. Why do
you ask?
She Because in that case I shall have
to dust the ornaments on the top shelf.
DetSehalk.
A BABY LIKE A COLT.
It Exrites the Wonder of Doctors and
Curious Folks.
: SpRrxojTEiJD, O., August 22. Green
ville, west of here, is just now the Mecca
of curiosity hunters. Tiny want to see
a male child recently born to Mr. and
Mrs.' J. M. , Whitehead. It is part
human and part animal. The child was
born alive, and is doing well. Mrsl
Whitehead, prior to the advent of the
monstrosity, gave birth to six healthy,
perfect and well-developed children.
This infant is fully developed, and
weighs about eight pounds. After birth
it seemed dead, but by careful manage
ment it, came to. It is abnormal from
the head' down. The legs resemble
those of a colt, even, to the feet, which,
while not exactly hoofs, are on cluli-foot
order. The child, if it lives, will be
obliged from its peculiar formation to
travel on all fours.
FINED FOR SAVING LIFE. .
The Next Time He Will Probably
Be Killed.
Vancebubo, Ky., August 22. En
gineer Hughes, of the Kanawah and
Frankfort Railroad, has just paid $9.01
costs and fine on a warrant sworn out by
William Stevenson. Hughes saw Steven
son lying across the track ahead of his
train. With an effort, the engine was
stopped with in a few feet of Stevenson.
He appeared to pe drunk. Hughes
pulled ,him off and - kicked him two or
three times. , Stevenson was in a fit, and
he had , Hughes arrested and fined,
though he had saved his life.
WILL WAR UPON CHINA.
Foreign Powers ' Demand Protection
for Their Subjects.
Shanghai, August 23. A most serious
state of affairs exists in the country at
the present time. . The tension between
the Chinese' Government and Jinisters
of the foreign powers increases. From
all appearances the former are obstinate
in their refusal to redress the injury done
to foreigners during the recent riots.
On the other hand, there is also no rea
son to doubt that if the Chinese authori
ties do not vield to . the firm demands of
- - X
hostile action upon the part of the war
vessels of the various nations represen
ted in these waters is imminent.
Blue Monday.
An explanation of the much dreaded
"blueness" of bnday has been afforded
by an erudite French observer. He gives
it as the result of extended observation
that the only nation in which Monday is
a day of poor lessons, headaches, scratchy
penmanship and "that tiredfeeling" gen
erally in the United States. Here he no
tices that people accustomed to great
regularity in eating and other physical
habits during the week, make a practice
of eating a late and unusually large din-,
ner on Sunday and- lounging lazily
around the house a great portion of the
day instead of taking necessary exercise.
This, of course, leads to temporary
dyspepsia on Jonday. The theory is
ingenious. Detroit Free Press.
Ella's Lucky Stroke.
Little Ella wanted candy, . and this is
the way she got it :
"Papa, you're going to give'me three
cents, aren't youi" she said.
"No."
"Two cents?" ,
"No."
"One cent?" '
"0."
"Then, how many cents are you going
to give me?"
"None."
k m -
"Well, I won't take it," with empha-
f ' - ' ' V
sis. . ,
After a laugh papa gives her a nickel.
New York Herald.
Every Man Has Ills Price.
Colonist (to African chief) "Will you
sell me your kingdom for this blue coat
and a bot tie of spirits?"
' Chief (scornfully) "Mow can you
dare to make me such an. offer! Forfeit
the royal title I hold by right of inheri
tance; abandon the throne of my an
cestors; sioop under the yoke of foreign
invaders? Never J Ah! if you had
made it two bottles of spirits!' Le
Monde Pittoresque. .
A Death Message In the Sand.
LoxG Braxch; N. J., August 23. An
unknown young man, who first wrote in
the sand: "I am going away," hung him
self to the hawser of a boat moored to
the : bluff last night. Many persons
viewed the body . to-day, bat it had .not
been identified up to a late hour to-night.
To Kxhlbt Jacob's Well.
i
Sprixgfiixd, O,, Aug. 22. A class of
young men in a Snnday-school at New
castle have hit on the remarkable scheme
of excavating Jacob's well, in Palestine,
and, bringing the contents to America
jor exhibition and sale at the World's
Fair.
A Woman ' Saved From the Gallows.
The counsel for Martha -Yillen. the
negro woman who was to have been
hanged at Chester, S. C, for poisoning
her husband, has secured a stay of sen-
rtenoeand has carried th case to the
8npreme Court.
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THE ,STATE SURVEYED.
'NUMEROUS NEWSY NOTES FROJI
OUR BRIGHT EXCHANGES.
What Has and Will Happen of Inter
est Throughout the Old North
State Industrial and
Otherwise.
Philip Taylor is erecting, it is reiKrtod,
a plug tobacco factory. .
The establishment of a steam laundry
at Graham is projected.
A cotton gin and a saw mill will be
erected at Fallston, it is reported.
Mrs. P. P. Snides is reported as hav
ingpurchased the Saleni Grist Mill for
$20,000,
W. H. J. Goodwin, of Raleigh, has
invented a cotton chopper, and will
manufacture same.
A college, church and two largo brick
storrsare oeing built at Smithfield. J..
C. Bingham can give particulars.
The Goldsboro Lumber Company will,
it is reported, erect a saw and planing
mill with daily capacity of 50,000 feet.
J. F. Prettyman, of Pemberton, Ya.,
is erecting a saw mill at Newborn, as re
portedlately; 3,500 acres of pine land is
to be cut.
Endeavors are now being made to
organize a stock company to erect the
cotton mill at Belmont mentioned last
week. W. W- Davis can give informa
tion. '.'.'"
The Somerville Compress Company,
of Somerville, Tenn., states that i,t will
probably erect in Newbern the cotton
compress recently -reported as contem-.
plated. , -
The Montgomery Vidette is being
moved to Norwood, Stanly county. The
name is changed to Southern Vidette.
This leaves Montgomery without a papier
and gives Stanly two.
A. C. Zollicoffer, 3. R. Younfr, J.c D.
Cooper and J. P. Taylor are reported as
having purchased and as to operate the
electric light plant of the Henderson
Electric and Gas Light Co.
O. F. Janes, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
has. purchased 10,000 acres of mineral
and timber lands in North Carolina, and
will at some future time make arrange
ments for developing same.
An officer from Moore county, on last
Tuesday, brought here . to jail Aaron
Alston, colored, who had been indicted
for larceny in this county and had, fled,
says the Chatham Record. .
Tarboro" Farmers' Advocate:' The
farmers say if the dry weather continues
the cotton will fruit all right, despite so
much rain during the past month. Cora,
peanuts and tobacco look well.
Lincoln Courier: The news of the
death of our worthy and highly efficient
Sheriff, J. B. Luckey, which occurred
at this place last Thursday, was received
vith' deep sorrow throughout this coun
try.
The county commissioners at 3organ-
ton will soon advertise for bids for the
construction of an iron bridge across the
Catawba river; bids to be made on a sin
gle span of 200 feet and on two spans of
100 feet each. '
Hendersonville Times: Preparations
for building the new hotel are still in
progress, and by the next season Hen-
l dersonville can boastof one of the most
convenient and best equipped hotels in
the State.
Durham Globe: The painful news was
received here last night which an
nounced the death of Charles G. Mark-
ham, at Morganton. He formerly lived
just outside of Durham, and was well
and favorably known.
We have been informed that Johnson
the fiend who murdered the colored
girl, Fannie Sutton, near Ivanhoe, on.
Saturday last has been caught. -Wo
have received no particulars, says the
Fay etteville' Observer.
' Regular trains are now running to
Advance. The road is leing pushed
forward to Mocksville as fast as poss:
ble. It will 'not be many weeks ere the
"toot" of the iron horse will be heard
here, says theDavie Times.
The Winston Land and Improvement
Company (office Winston) has let con
tract to Andrew Murdoch, of Salisbury,
for building-tne abutments and other
stone work of the brihre it will build
over the Yadkin river at North Wilkes
boro.
Kinstou Free Press: Our farmers re
port the finest corn crop they liave ever
had, but most of them say cotton is
making too much weed because of the
continuous rains. Cotton is larger than
it was last year, but it is not fruited
near so well. j
The Granite City Land and Improve
ment Company, of Mt. Airy, has in
creased its capital stock $00,000, pur
chased and will improve the, White: Sul
phur Springs property. ! The eomrjany
desires plans and specifications for wagon
bridges. Address H. C. Cooper, general
manager. K
BALLOON ISTS' 'AWFUL' FALLS.
One Tumbles Into the Sea Another
Falls With a Bridal Pair.
RoMEi August 24; Among f the many
recent ballooning -accidents reported
from various parts of Europe was one
that lias just occurred near -Vueerta, cap
ital of the Italian province of that name.
The aeronaut was unexpectedly carried
out to the Adriaic, where he fell from
his balloon, and Was droxvned within'
fall view of thousands of people.
Denver, Col., August 23.. A ludloon,
with Professor King and a young couplo
to be married in it, burst at a height of
.8000 feet above -Manhattan, near hero,
and fell. Its silk formed "ft parachute
and saved the lives of the trio.
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The
Patent Tto well-Hack. Man.'
"Well, how goes the Seek-No-Furtner
roller towel-rack?" I asked of the inven-
tor and proprietor yesterday as I met
him in Canal street. , .
"Oh! Is that, yon again? Waal, the
New York public is still fighting shy of
my great invention, but Fm liangin' ou
like a dog to a root. If I ain'ttakin'
orders and gittiu rich I'm havin' lots
of experience, and that's Wuth a good
deal. Lands save "ye! but I know forty
times as much as I did a week ago!"
"Well, that's good."'
"Yesterday a feller comes up to me on
a street down hero a piece, and says he :
" 'Obediar, that coat 'of yours needs
repairs. G o ' down on the eoyner and ask
the policeman to givo you a collar. He's
an awful nice man, and he'll bo glad to
obleege.'"
"But you diidn't go?":
"Oh, yes, I did went right up to
him and said I'd take a collar if ho was
givin' 'em away and wasn't too tired.
Ho said I wasn't drunk 'null and told
mo to go on." : '
"liu mustn't ' mind such jokes."
"Oh, I don'i. I'm a great joker myself
when I ant at home. It was me that set
one "of my strawstacks- afire to scare out
a hog, and the ragin flames licked up
two barns aiuL a stack of hay no insur
ance. I'm right on hand every time
when ther's fun gain' on. Say!" '
"Well!"
"I've struck sunthin' in this town -which
beats hard ciderkvith gin in it!
Up to a week ago I thought that wos'tho
gloriousest drink in the world, but it don't
beirin. Thev call it Thomas and .Terrv.
- j
was a-feelin a little down-hearted
yesterday, and kinder -hankerih, arter
some Huckleberry Plains hard cider
when I droped into a place and says I:
" 'He' you got. sunthin' to cavort over
he heartstrings of a man who is far, far
from home, ckal to hard cider? I'm in
the middle of strangers and a bit discour-
ed, and I want sinthin' to cheer me. '
"And he riixs.ne a Thomas and
Jerry, and I hadn't got it down three
minutes when I wanted to jump a seven
rail fence and yell for this glorious old
Union. Say! I wouldn't have Elder
Spooner hear of it for an acre of turnips!
I know what he'd say. He'd come over
and sot on my cornfield fence and put
on his spectacles and say:
" Noer, you invented a kitchen roller
towel-rack and went down to New York
to sell it to the people. -You was guile
less as a red calf in the front yard when
you started out, but alas! you fell. I
know all about it, and you can't neither
tunny our hogs into my stubble any more,
nor kin you come to prayer-meetin till
you've repented.'
"Do I look like a dissipated wretch?"
he anxiously asked.
"Oh, no." ,
"Thankee I didn't know how that
Thomas and Jerry would work. Jest
wait till I put a lectle more hayseed on
my hat. I'm jest a plain every -day man,
tilfing the sile fur a fivin', and I don't
want to false pretense anybody. This
morning I was down by the river and a -man
stops me and looks at my towel rack
and says: -
" 'Wliar's the drive-wheel ami the low
water indicator, and so on?' -
" 'My friend!" says I, 'that's one of
the strong points in favor of my patent
Suk-No-Further kitchen roller towel-rack.
She ain't got no machinery to git out of
order, and. any child kin rrn it. After
a towel lias, ijeen used fur two or three
weeks you just lift np this end of the
roller, slip another on, and away she
goes. Hang by one nail only, saves a
quarter of a yard on every towel, and
she's bound to" git to the front if you
give her time.'- -
" 'Do you want somebody to hoop'tr
up?' says he. - '
" That's the plumb-centre idea,' suvs
I.
"Then he tells me to go down half a
block and turn into the alley, amd I'd
r find a man to do the hoopinV -
"And did you?" I asked.
"Sartin! He was a cooper! I hunted
around for the other feller, but couldn't
find him. I was going to daro him out
sidjb the city l'mits and mop him over a
ton-acre lot, but njtbbe it's jest as welL
I lit onto ..a chicken buyer down ut
Huckleberry plains lasi winter fur M-lhV
my wifd "No. 7 hhoes when he knowed
she wore 8's, and it cost me $7 fine and
mor'n a bar'l of nightmare." M. Quad,
In New York World.
The King of Servia is in Faris and is
the guest of President Carnot.
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