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9- r. "LIVE AND LET LIVE." VOL. I. NO. 33, DUNN, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1889. SENTEB & STEWART, Eds. and Props. ffl J i i. tf nfrfi e.v ork i it v has contributed more than jO' to th Jnoi ne sufferers in the l8!3 ,,f ( or inc u . ami of ths sum only v.- - i v.V'' i mnnmen. Australia i apparently in need ol ipinste'r; immigration, and the want ojight easily be supplied from several differenquarter. if judicious arrangement- were made. It is reported that iii" the colony of Queensland there are so few unmarried women that their life i$ caJe a burden by proposals of marriage The to Argentine universities, under the patronage of the Government, are among 'the best in South Amer.ca, and -cording to the Mail and Kxprets, they lank r.ith Vale and Harvard in curricu fim' and standard of education. The public school system also ia under the patronage of the Covernment under a compulT education law, and includes ill grade-; from the kindergarten to the oormal school. There are thirty col lege? and normal schools for the higher education of men and womeu in the re public, and l,''i public schools. The Urge immigration of Japanese to Hawaii is said, by the San Francisco Ci,n-hkk,io have benefitted several dis tricts in Japan which were formerly overcrowded. Now here is a demand for .laborers' and the excessive land rent als have been reduced. On the Hawaiian islands, however, the effect of this im migration has been to throw the Portu guese oat of employment, and no less than 2000 of these people on the Island of Hilo are making arrangements to re move to Washington Territory, as they are threatened with starvation in theii present quarters. Mtdircd Classics, a j in New ySork, caution: ournal published ns people against the quin-inc habit. It mentions a gallant soldier who shattered his nervous system iy the use of the drug until he wa3 afraid to cross the street alone. Another case is sadder stiil. A lady took sixty grains of quinine at one dose. Whether be wa3 cured or not is not stated, but she west totally blind, and will remain to for life. Probably there is no medi cine so universally used in this part of the country. People prescribe it for themselves as a tonic and to break: up colds All this is wrong. Let the doc tori do the prescribing. It is apparent that the antipathy to 'trade,1' or at all events to the money derived therefrom, is not as bitter among tie. .liistocraey of England as it once was, or as they would willingly have the outside world believe. The Duchess ot Hamilton Las recently established a dairy for supplying the market with a good quality of butter. Lady Shav'tei Grey has an establishment at Bourne mouth for the sale of butter, eggs, etc., and a number of other titled yr.-sonages are said to be on the point of engaging in "trade .of one kind or another. Evi dently the chicken-ranch stage of growth has but recently been reached Ja England. That all the world loves a lover has recently been proved in a growing town of Texas. Two colored men fought. They were rivals in love. One killed the other. The murderer was janitor of 'a building in which lived a number of lawyers. I.ighteen of them with hearts tou hed volunteered their services. They pre-ent d themsehes in a body at the prison, but thejailer, thinking he was assaulted by a mob, tied and hid himself and his key. He was "with difficulty calmed and made to understand the situa tion, But here, alas! the story ends. We arc uot yet informed whether all the eighteen lawyers succeeded in clearing the prisoner or whether he still languishes aad mourns. A gentleman just returned from Indian Territbry makes a ctarieus contribution to the Harrison family history. He saw in the relic collection of Indian Agent Dyer, a silver pipe in scribed "Presented by Major-Geneial Harrison, I. S. A., oa behalf of the Un.M.l sitnte to the Shawanoese tribe of Indian, 1SU4." The Shawanoese have l,-nr Knon vtim-t and the DIDe WHS - -i, ftrwu - " ft given to Major Dyer several years ago by Tom Blackhoof, their last descendant. This particular pipe is, bowl and stem, of solid' silver. The bowl is elaborately chased, and on one side contains a pic ture of an Indian and a soldier shaking hands, the military mau in the full le- c, g'tmentals of three quarters of a century ago. The Pennsylvania Railroad, after giv iag a year's trial of iron ties, has aban doaed their use. The chief reason for doing so is that the iron ties ha e not tne elasticity nttc-:nj iui ms s of the rails. On a roadbed of broken Stone, such as the Pennsylvania road has, this has been iound to mke tb.9 riding hard and unpleasant to the passengers, and has also greatly increased the wear and tear on locomotives and rolling sto k. The iron ties, moreover, cost about three times a much as the best wooden ones, and as long as the latter are to be had they will doubtless continue in general V$?i When the forests become exhausted, ays the New York Graphic, it will be absolutely necessary to have recourse to metal ties, but in the meantime wood appears to be the most suitable material for many reasons. . . - . . , . f Urlnnff ' 1 NORTH AND WEST. NEWSY ITEMS. BY TELEGEAPE Being A Condensation of the Princioal Han penings in Different States. Russia has 138 vessel. An ice trust is the latest. Florida has fresh pineapples. Profocxd peace reigns in Samoa. Is America there are 500,000 Jews. Lovisville is to have natural gas. Feogs' legs cost fifty cents a pound. Boston eats fifty tons of candy a day. Chicago receipts of hogs are increasing. The United States has ninety-eight vessel. European crop prospects continue favor able. The number of priests in this country ia 8118. , J Murders are decidedly on the increase in Paris. In Germany there are one million surplus women. A foreign steel rail syndicate is beirus formed. A strong current of emigration to Chile is noted. ;In all there are 7000 miles of pipe lines in the world. Louisiana crpwVmrHoc York market. Cincinnati is paving its streets with Georgia granite. The zouave uniform is to be abandoned in the French army. The brewery combination in this country has not succeeded. Maud S., queen of the trotting turf, is now fifteen years of age. The annual production of mineral oil is 2000 million gallons. The Hessian fly is destroying the wheat crop in central Illinois. Gas wells are being struck along the rwcKy mountains' slope. Farmers are Davincr hii?-h nnVre fnr a vi wheat in the Northwest. A boom 13 on in the City of Mexico and prices of real estate are high. All the election cases in Tnf.inn have be quashed by Judge Woods. It costs two cents per car per mile to run electric cars in New York city. Is five years there has been coined in gold $103,775,000, silver 1263,932,000. O.VE thousand locomotives and steamers are now operated by petroleum. En glish and German bankers are gobbling up gold territory in South Africa. No Russian liable to military service is permitted to leave that country now. Florida has sent 2,000,000 young orange trees to California since last September. The Indiana Legislature refuses to allow natural gas to be piped out of the State. An Australian experiment of shipping oranges to London proved very successful. There will be about ninety vacancies this year at the United States Naval Academy. During the last seven years Atlanta, Ga., has put nearly $1,000,000 in her streets and sewers. The Spiritualists of Boston recently cele brated the forty-first anniversary of modern spiritualism. I Nearly two hundred thousand barrels of apples are lvins unsold in the northern part kof New York. Alabama got the first Postmaster ap pointed in the Southern States under the new administration. Trotting begins to be recognized in Eng land. A track for it is to be established just out of Liverpool. A newspaper trust is being organized In England. Newspaper men are ordering sup plies from abroad. ; The Chinese are getting: ready to build 000 miles of railroad,571 locomotives, 150 coaches and 630 ca. s. All American make. A MEAT syndicate, to be known as tha American Meat Company, has been organ ized in Philadelphia with a capital of $25, 000,000. Mr. Keely, of motor fame, announces that he has found the missing link necessary to make tne vibratory resonator and etheral generative evaporator a success. A. G. Spalding, of Chicago, and his party of baseball players who left San Francisco last fall arrived in New York city after a tour around the world. i Isaac Rich & Co., the oldest fish house in Boston, are financially embarrassed. Their liabilities are placed at $200,000. The firm was part owner of the steamer Haytien Re public, which was seized at Hayti. The troubles at Hayti are said to have had much to do with the firm's trouble. Downs & Finch, shirt manufacturers of New York city, with large factories at James- burg, Bordentown and Hightstown, N. J., regarded as the leading firm in the business in the United States, have failed for $500,000. AT Frankfort, Ind., William Pray shot and killed his wife, and then shot himself through the head, inflicting a mortal Wound. AT a revival meeting at Calhoun. Ky., J. W. White, Sheriff of tha county, confessed that thirteen years ago he stole f 1000 from the county. He made restitution at once. Commodore Benham has taken command of the navy yard at Mare Island, Cal. Thomas Washxgton, fourteen years old, was put off an engine near Charleston, W. Va. He returned and struck Engineer Spriggles on the head with a pump handle, knocking him down, and then beat him to death. The President has appointed Joel B. Er hardt Collector at the Port of New York. Colonel Erhardt was the Republican candi-. date for Mayor of New York last November, and is a prominent party leader in the Me tropolis. Cornelius Van Corr was appointed Post master of the city of New York by fee I President. Mr. Van Cott is a state senator, ' ... , i T- i . . -a - Von f.--r raara iinil use Oiouei wuiuut " a Republican leader in New York city poli tics. A parcel post couventioii between the United States and the I.eward Islands, has fcen Dy postmaster-General Wana tnaker. SCHCVLiR DCRTZE has been appointed chief clerk of the Patent Office. He is forty WO years of age and was born in New J er sey. Thx Secretarj ct Navy has formally ir-vr-f,l i crrmboal Yorktown. r the Afri- mwuuuvi..w.k - mile road from Springfield to Hannibal. Mo., can explorers Stanley and Emin Bey are re- a 210 mile road from Waco, Texas, to Shreve nortod to have with them, are valued at port, La., and a sixty mile road from Cole- $600,000. 4. jrjpsiw of Guzman Blanco, ex-President of Venezuela, who committed forgery to the amount of $23,000, has been arrested in Mexico while trying to escape to the United States. A kkw Peruvian Ministry has been formed, wtth Pedro Ale jandrino de Solar as Premier. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. i Scott's "Marmion" has been dramatized. German opera is to be produced in Boston. I ' Mrs. Crabtp.ee (Lotta's mother) is worth 1800,000. Bernhardt is making a tour of Algeria, north Africa. i Emma Abbott, the opera ringer, was born j In Peoria, 111. j ' The Buffalo Bill Wild West will open in Paris May 15. It is said that there are 1200 actors out of employment in this country. Del Puente, the tenor, is to be with the Patti Opera Company this fall. J osee Hofmajtn, the boy pianist, will re turn to America next November. Mxe. Alb ant will head an Italian opera company in this country next season. Adelaide Moore, the English tragedienne, is to return to this country next season. Pauline Lucca is concertizing in Austria prior to her proposed departure Jor this coun try. f Ernest Gye promises us a season of Ital ian opera with an American prima donna and chorus. Victoria Vokes. the handsomest of the Vokes Sisters, will tour the United States next season. i Clara Morris, the emotional actress, was taken ill in St. Louis recently by an abcess on each hip. A floating Russian theatre and hotel is successfully touring the shore towns of the Volga River. Another American singer, Miss Jeanne Danisi, has made a success on the concert platform of Berlin. Marg aret Mather, the actress, has made arrangements for a twelve weeks' tour of the West this summer. The "Passion Play" will be given at Ober ammergau in the autumn of lt90. The text and music have been revised. John Duff, lessee of the New York Stand ard Theatre and an old-time theatrical man ager, died recently of paralysis. Miss Mary Anderson has sailed for Eng land. She was much improved in health and will probably resume her American tour in October. Fanny Davenport, the actress, who was at one time very obese, has reduced her weight from 215 pounds to 168 by the system of Banting. In Japanese theatres females are not allowed to act with men, consequently the Ophelias, Juliets and Perditas are played by men with shrill falsetto voices. Macrel, the baritone, is to receive $100, 000 for forty performances in Buenos Aryes, while Patti is to be paid $180,000 for singing thirty times in South America. Harriet Muir, an ex-English actress and a fine-looking young woman, was lately ar rested in London for attempting to enlist as a private soldier in the British army. Signor Massini, the famous tenor, at his recent benefit in St. Petersburg, Russia, re ceived so many presents that twenty-four servants were needed to carry them from the opera house to his hotel. Catelin. a once popular French tenor and a pensioner of the Societe des Artistes, and noted of late for his squalid poverty, was lately discovered dead Ln his miserable garret in Paris. Over $7000 was found by the po lice hidden in his wretched mattress. Villae3 Farm Houses and Live Stock Des troyed. A dispatch from Scotland, Dakota, says: Another terrible prairie fire swept over the country south of Scotland during the after noon, and its path was marked by the smould ring embers of many homes. A very high wind prevailed all day, and with the grass as dry as tinders the terrific force of the fire is beyond description. At three o'clock word was brought to town that the prairie was afire north of West Town, and immediately a hundre 1 men started in teams to ward off tha approaching flames armed with brooms an i sacks. Arriving at Alfred Brown's farm, two miles north, all his barns, dairies and cattle sheds were ona blazing mass, and the efforts of the crowd were directed to saving his resilience and beating the fire out that would in a short time have swept down upon the town. Brown's residence was saved, but all his household goods that had been carried out by t'.ie family were burned. One mile north of Brown's the fire burned Henry Hajcelfry out of every possession. His house, barns and stock were consumed, and he barely escaped with his family. Across from Hagelfry lived D. R. Tom linson, a prosperous farmer, and everything about hi3 place except his house was swept awav. Five houses and several head of live stock were among his losses. His wife was at home alone when the fire began, and could do nothing to save the property. By even in? the fire in the west had been extinguished, but it is still raging in the southeast The town of Oiivet, the county seat of Hutchinson County, eight miles north, ia reported to be more than half burned up The bridges on the railroad west of the town were burned. The loss for the two days were fully $50,00J. Almost the entire population of Beaver Creek, Minn., about thirty miles east of Sioux Falls, were aroused by the flames and turned out to fight them , but not before they had consumed "considerable property. The telegraph wires running into Minnesota from Sioux Falls have been burned out and communication practically cut off. At RaDid Citv. Dakota, the flames were driven before a sixty-five mile gale, destroy iug three bouses in their course. In one of these was Mrs. E. G. Bailey, Eloise Madison, and a mab servant named Aston. This party abandoned the burning house and ran through the prairie fire. Mrs. Bailey and the man escaped with s':ight burns, but Miss Madison's clothing was ignited and burned from ber body, inflicting fatal injurbs. Several buildings in the neignborhood of Blunt were destroyed, J. L Richardson los ing 500 sheep and many other farmers their homes At Desrnet $10,000 damage was done. The fire extended over an area of nearly fifty miles and were confined almost entirely within the Territory. The damage will amount to nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. Leola, the county seat of McFnerson County, thirtyfive miles north of Aberdeen, was destroyed by the prairie fire during the whirlwind. The fire came from the West, and was not noticed until it strucK the town on account of the terrible stcrm. Sixty dwellings and business houses were burned, entailing a loss of 150,000. The only ' buildings remaining are tha court house, two stores and six dwellings. C. W. Old and Thomas Wardell ire terribly and fatally burned. Leola u. aa interior town with no railroads or te'.egyaph and fur ther particulars cannot be obtained. Per sons who drove across the country to West port, the nearest railaoad station, say that the surroundine country is nearly de vastated. Hundreds of farmhouses are in asbes and the bones ot burned animils ar lying about the road. Kew railroarLs are rroiected everv dav. Among the recent announcements area 255 Texas, to Albany. Texas. Railroad 2 is loo cms uq. Trials cf the pneumatic dynamite guns aboard the new cruiser Vesuvius demonstrate that they can fir more than five shots each In ten minutes, as required by contract. Ths Palis Exposition will extend two and one-half miles long and one and one-half miles wide. It will he opened Mar 5. buildin i The Big Celebration. The following k the official programme of the Washington Centennial Celebration ex ercises at New York: Wednesday. Ar.fi! 17 j 1 - - wwuvu i the Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits ! in the assembly loom of the Metropolitan Opera House, at 8 r. u. Monday, April 29-Arrivnl of tha Presi dent and Cabinet at 11 o'c'.ock, a. m., at Elizabetbport, where thy will embark at once for New Yor city on the United State; steamer Dspatca. Governors, Commis sioners and other guests will embark at Q.& o'clock, a. v., on the steamer Erastu Wiman at tha fprry slip foot of West Twenty third stret, and proceed to Eliza bethport and to meet tha respatch and ac company 'her to the city. The steamer Sirius will also acv'mpany the Despatch. The line of United States war ships, yacht and steamboats will be formed iu the upper bay and after sahitin? will follow in this order: 1, President: 2, Governors and Com missioners; 3, other guests. On arrival at the foot of Wa:l umI, barge manned by hipmtrfters from ths Marine 8ociety of New York, Captain Ambrose Snow, cox swaiu, will row the President ashore. He will then le receivcl by Chairman William U. Hamilton, of the Committee on States. The Presidential party will be escorted to the Equitable Building, where collation will be served and a receptios given. This will consums the tims from 1 until 4 o'clock. After the reception at ths Equitable Building the President and Gov einor will proceed to tha City Hall, under military escort, where there will be a publie reception in the Governor's room, from 4 to C o'clock. In th3 eveiiing'oceurs the Centennial Ball Tuesday, April 30 Services of thanksgiv ing in the churches of New York and througlout the country at nine o'clock a. m. A special service of thanksgiving will ba given at St. Paul's Church ot nine o'clock a. m. , which the President will attsnd. At 10 a. m. the commemorative Centennial exercises will taV.e pla:e on the south front of the Sub Treasury Building, the scene of the inauguration ceremony on April 30, 1789. 7 ha exercise? will cousist of prayer by tLe Lev. Dr. H S. Storrs, a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, an oration by Chauucey M. Depew and an address by President Harrison and benediction by the Most Rev. Michael Augustine Corrigan, Archbishop of New Yc-k. After these exercises the military parade will take place under command of Major General Johu M. Scofild. The right of lias is given to the military and naval cadets, followed by the troops of the regular armv. and the National Guard in the following order, each State contingent being headed i bv its Governor and his staff: Delaware. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Con necticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina,' Virginia, New York, North Caro lina and Phode Island. The other States will follow in the order in which they were admltte 1 into the Union. Following will be two hundred companies of the Loyal Legion, and then the posts of the Grand Army. The route will be up Broadway to Waver ley place, to Fifth avenue to Fifty-ninth street. The reviewing stand will be at MadJ son Square and Twenty-fourth street From 5 to 7 o'clock a reception will bs given the President by the Art Conirnittea a the Loan Exhibition rooms in ths Metropolis tan Opera House. At 7 o'clock p. m. the banquet will occur. Wednesday, May 1 The Industral and Civic warade. Wednesday, May 8 Close of the LoanE bibition. April Thanksgiving. A hundred years have passed since the Government which our forefathers founded was formally organized. At noon, on the 80th day of April, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, in the city of New York, and in the presence of an assemblage of the heroic men whose patriotic devotion hed led the colonies to victory and independ , George Washington took the oath of olhoe as Chief Magistrate of the newborn Republic. This impressive act was preceded at nine o'clock in the morning, in all the churches of the city, by prayer for God's blessing on the Government and its first President. The centennial of this illustrious event in our history has been declared a general holi day by act of Congress, to the end that the people of the whole country may join in com memorative exercises appropriate to the day. In order that the joy of the occasion may be associated with a deep thankfulness in the minds of the people for all our blessings in the past, and a devour, supplication to God for their gracious continuance in the future, the representatives of the religious creeds, both Christian and Hebrew, have memorial ized the Government to designate an hour for prayer and thanksgiving on that dav. Now, the f ore, L Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, In response to this pious and reasonable re quest, do recommend that on Tuesday, April 80, at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning, tho people of the entire country repair to their respective places of divine worship to Implore the favor of God that the blessings of liberty, prosperity and peace may abide With us as a people, and that Hi hand may lead us in the paths of righteousness and good deeds. ln witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the sealcf the United States of America to be affixed. Done in the city of Washington this fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth. Benjamin Harrison. By the President. James G. Blaine, Secre tary of $tace. Stanley and Emin. f Advices received at Brussels, Belgium, from Stanley Falls state that Arabs who have arrived there report that Henry M. Stanley and Emin Pasha were heard from in Febru ary. They were then marching toward Zanzibar, with several thousand men, women and children. They also had 6000 tusks of ivory. The Arabs who brouzht news of Stanley and Emin arrived at Stanley Falls in TTAi-n-ll JJY-Tr TVlotr (loimoH tv-. liova caan Stan. r . j'-'i Lvr re rv. ev bevei uj uiuuius ueiure mat lime. This report, says the New York Post, seems to be a confirmation of the rumor, published recently, that Stanley was on his way to the East Coast, and it would also indicate that he had safely rejoined Emin according to the plan mentioned in the letter just published, and that the latter had determined finally to return to civilization with all the men, women and children attached to his com mand. This would apparently fulfil the main object of Stanley expedition, although there is a political side to it yet to be explained. Three Eailway Tragedies. A collision occurred on the Northern Pa cific, near Helena, Montana, by which three passengers were killed and three wounded. The east bound passenger train leaving He lena ran into a double header freight train standing on the side track, wrecking three engines and piling them in a promiscuous mass on the track. Of the killed only one was identified, Charlie Green, a fireman, whose home is in Balti more. The injured were Harry Conger, A. L. North, mail agents, and Joseph Jackson, The station agent is blamed for not closing the switch, knowing that the passenger train was due. Two yard engines in the Chestnut street yards of the Omaha Road collided at St Paul, Minn., and two men were instantly killed, two others fatally injured and three more badly injured. Fergus Flanagan, the yard master, and an unknown person suppoau to be a young man named Fonk, were tilled instantly. James Davidson and William Utz were fatally In jured. A freight train on the Chicago, St Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad broke west of Cen tre viile, Ind., and killed five persons, sup- posed to be tramps. All OVFR THF SOIT1 U rviwn d oj u i n i NEWS JTOM EACH STATE. t , Fanners Alliance Active-Notes of Acci- dents, Etc., Classified. HOl'TH CAUOLINi. The Hampton County Tiachtr's Asso ciation held au interesting Session at Varnville. The Camden, Chester and Gaffney Railroad Company has been organized, to build the Chester and Camden" Road. Mr. L A. Coulter, General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of North and South Carolina, is doing good work at Walter boro, aiding the Association. Governor Richardson has made a requisition on Gov Fowle.of North Caro lina, for David Cash and Richard Ward, negroes, who stand ehargtd with bur glary committed in York county, S. C. They will betaken at once to the latter plat e for trial. Dr Andrew Simond, of Charleston, has taken the whole issue of $20,000 of 6 per cent bonds issued by the new county of Florence for the purpose of building a Court-house and i n i I at Florence. The Cheraw and Chester Railroad Company will, it is reported, change their road from narrow to stan dard pr-uige and extend it from to Socie ty Hill. At Yoikville, CharKs Colston, John C. Feister, and Charles McMauus, all colored, were tried for the murder of W. C. Abernathyr white. Colston and Feast er were convicted and McManus was acquitted. Jackson Bainett, col ored, pleaded guilty of attempting to rape Abernathy's daughter. The Jen kins Rifles are on guard at the jail, but lynching is not feared as the people are satisfied with the verdict. Moses Johnson, the negro driver for Dr. McDow, and who was presented by the coroner's jury as an accessory to the murder ol Oapt t. . Dawson, at Charleston, was taken before Judge Witherspoon on a writ of habeas corpus. The Court directed his release on bail in the sum of 1,500. The jury brought him iu as accessory before the fact, but the foreman subsequently published a card, fctating that the jury meant acces sory after the fart. McDow is still in jail. FLORIDA. A company has been organized to con nect the St. John's River, at or near Lake Harney, by canal with Indian River to the St. John's. Jacksonville is full of colored people from all parts of the South, cheap excur sions having brought them in by the thousands Fred Douglas lectured to them at the Exposition. More real estate is now changing hands at Tampa than at any time for the past two years, and the prospect is that there will be a good demand during the entire summer. From indications, judging from the blossoms, the next crop of oranges on the Halifax will be at least 50 per cent larger than this season, and prices will be satisfactory to those who hold their fruit until February and March. A bill levying one mill for immigra tion purposes will be offered to the i Legislature, and the State press will back it up, the Press Convention &t St. Angustine having voted to that effect. The idea is to establish an immigration bureau, aud the tax will be us d to sup port it. Grover Cleveland and party fished for tarpon at Ju peter Inlet, Fla. Many bites, but no fish waarirmbj. hook eel until Mrs 11 B Plant secured one gamy monster She played him until she was exhausted, then called on Mr. Cleveland for assist ance. After forty minutes' pluying the tarpon was landed. It weighed ninety four pounds and war a im.'guiriceut speei men of the silver king, the only one se cured during their stay. liEORIi I A . Negotiations are an foot f..r the estab hshment of a college in Thllapoosa at hn earlyday. The work on the Rome rolling mills, iu West Rome, is piogressing (fuite rap idly. A fleet of square rigged vessels has been charteied tor Urunswick, some thirty in all, besides the various ehoon ers aud other coast wie craft. A severe hailstorm passed over Eatou ton last Sunday night. As a cyclone was lookd for, pits w ere in demand, aud many hid tin mselves a way during its prevalence. 1 . I he post orhee at hatidersvllle Was in- i terea by burglars Tuesday uk'ht, the safe blown open and severia hundred dollars taken. San le-rsville ih much alarmed, apprehending a repction of the robber's visit. A man named John Winningham, who has been living for some time near Lodi, eloped last Tuesday night whh a voung widow named Araruinta Beck. It is' supposed that hey have gone to Gadsden, A'u., where Winningham has a brother lmsg. Winningham has a wife and six children at Auniston. Ala., who are said to be in destitute circuin- stances. Mrs Adeline Lenolev, mother of the young woman, if dee-ply distres-ed over the affair. TENNESSEE. The Rangum Root Midicinc Company, of Nashville, assigned on Friday. xx iree urieige ib BUU" lUB t 1 -3. 1 1 . -l. . Tennessee River at Chattanooga at a cost of $200,000. Sheriff Greenlee, of Granger county, was shot and instantly kil ed Tuesday night while attempting to arrest John Wolfbargen, an escaped conv'ot flora the penitentiary. The peo de of the vicinty are greatly excited over the killing. At Knoxville, the box, keg and wheelbarrow factory of D R Samuel & ! Son was destroyed by fire Wednesday. Loss fu.ouu: no insurance. The Legislature finally passed the Doritch election bill, w hich embraces the Australian system of voting. It &Uo vasscd a ropiMra-tion bilK The Senate by a strict party vote, pa.s std the bill making an interchange f counties between the third, fourth aud fifth ( . nn-ssional ditri ts, so as to mtk tin third district Democratic A .p i i u Intwrt u freight trains io purred at Brown's Cross Koad, thrte miles fr. in Xashvilie on the Nashville and Dicttur Railroad, Both tnin8 and sixtt-en cars were totally wiecked, and Earnest C irctn and M L Lby. brakemen wcte killed. Alj-rt Finch, fireman, was .severely hurt. The collis ion was caused by a misundcrstandipg of order. At Staunton, large tuiLtture burned. BerUe A HaruruVs store and fact or v was Snipe sh iotiug at Viriiim Beach at this time is very popular, and the portsnien nie having a luxuraut time killing the-e seasonable birds. Having obtained consent of the (Jov eruor, the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues have conferred the rank of brevet major on Capt .lames W Gilmer, who recently lesigned the command of that company. Ml Mann, . f Appomattov, charged with k illin;r the c lored man, Leftwich, a few days ago near Lvnchburu, was tried and acquitted. It appeared that the negro robbed aud tried to kill Mann, aiui not Mann the negro Mann's pocket book with $10.50 in in was found in Leftwir-h's pocket. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh reports 22 deaths f..r the year ending the isth of February, aud 1,190 arrests A fund of J4.00 has been lalse.l in Salisbury for the puipo; of advertising that town. Senator Yam e. w in) is at his home, Gombroon, near Black Mountain, says that, though suffering from nervousness, he is being very much improved by rest aDd the mountain air. Mayor Thompson, of Raleigh, gives notice that on May (Uh the people will vote on the issue'of $100,000 for im provement bonds, of which $25, COO will be for streets and the remainder for a sewerage system. Fifteen n. w mu undirfs hie beum built betwetu Charlotte v.:d Richmond. The Richmond and Danville yet has a few wooden brider o:i its line, but all of these have to go, and iron bridges have been ordered to take their place. The neiiio Republicans of Kinston and vicinity aie holding daily prayer meetings and pray that the hands of the President may be laid upon them and that their services may be required by the Uovernment. Governor Fowle has issued a death warrant for the execution of Eli Ward, a netrro burglar, at Jackson, Northamp ton county, May 30. Ward is a despe rado of the first class. He set fire to the jail recently and is now in jail at Hali fax. His execution will be public and will be the fourth dining the present year. The State State Sunday School Con vention at Charlotte adjourned Thurs day. Wilmington was selected as the place for the meeting of the convention next year. The convention elected eight dekj. ates to the International or World's Sunday-School Convention, which meets in London, England, this summer. Major Fille r, State Snpei intendeut :.f Public Inst i lift ion, has perfected a plan to cany out the net ot the last Leg is lature, whb h abolished all the white normal sehooh, and provides that the sum st-t apuit for them shall be expended for teaehers' institutes Major Finger says that these institutes will begin July 1st next, and that in a year troin that date they will have been held in each of the l inety-six counties of the Slate for a em of at leag one week each. They will cost ten thousand dollars, of which the counties will j ay half. The State appropriates fiiiir th-iiS viul, and a thou sand comes from the Peabody fund. (My North Carolina tPi.cbers will be employed to (Onduct thc-J-e institutes. The South a Revelation. Frederick Taylor, banker of New Yolk, who accompanied Messrs Cooper, Hewitt and Inrnan ..n their recent trip south, gives his impression of that se tion to the Manufacturers' Record. Mr. Taylor states that the South was a reve lation to him. "It seems to me," said Mr Taylor, "tl at we traveled through a continuous and nnbioken strain of what has be-in aptly termed the music- of pro gress. The whir of the spindle, the buz of the saw, the roar of the furnace aril the throb of the locomotive." To the young men of the South Mr. Taylor accords high praise for the work which thev are doing.and to the 'esger. 1 earnest, nitless, driving CDergy which seems to fill them." The South,1' aays Mr Taylor, "to my mind, is only now on the thre&bflld of it a boom. It baa ( every possible advantage, everything that Go3 can give. The new South has been built up hy indomitable energy ALd by the hard work of the SoutE ern people themselves." And he adds: "To any fount; man. to day, of pluck ftad grit, with the world before him and his future to make. I j e . g hould sa.v. go south, young man : go south." Fighting the Jute Eagging Truat The Georgia State Fanners' Alliance! met Thursday to take some action to ward fighting the jute bagging trust. The result was the adoption of a resolu -tion that every bale of cotton made by Alliance men in Georgia shall be cov ered by cotton cloth instead of jute bag- KO'K- This action a fleets nearly 100, OWI farmiir. nH .ill r.w.lVdv riuilt in the establishment of many new cotton factories in the State. A Phenomenal Well. There is a phenomenon about a well on a farm near :.ongf iew, Texas, which ba-i es philosophy. The well is thirty three feet deep. (It is said by the owner of the farm that, during the years 1SS4 'i it would cro drv whenever the wind rlew from the northbut when the wind blew fr m the south it afforded an g O - - abundance of water. It has been known to go dry in two hours' time and then ! fill in aa short a time. Since the year '85 it has never failed. Atlanta Constitution. SOUTHERN FARMING. THK USE OF THE HARROW. A Talk by Dr. W. L Jones, wf Georgia, for the Farmer.. A more eiteuded use of the harrow has been urged upon the Southern farm ers. But we are so impressed with the importance of the matter that we take the hbertv ot calling attention to it again. The present is au auspicious time to elo so, localise spring rains and winds pack and crust the laud so much . In winter the freezes keep tho noil mel low in summer the earth absorbs water so readily the soil does not run together much, in spiing-rthe subsoil is too wet to permit a rapid downward movement of water, f -veies no longer loosen the sur face soil and crust forming reaches its maximum. Crusts retard the germatiou of seeds by cutting of the air from theiu, and young plants find difficulty in forcing their way through them to the surface. Every farmer of any experience appre ciates this. Sometimes he finds his laud as hard and iutractable as it was lefore it was broken, and yet he cannot take the time now to break it all over agaiu. The result is the practice of plowing crops the first time with scooters and other deep running plows, virtually breaking the land, when cultivation, not breaking, should be the object aimed at. This is a very slow process and throws the farmer far behind. Rapid cultiva tion in the early stages of crops is all im portant, but it is often impractic iblo under the Conditions described. The free use of the harrow, we think the so lution of the dirhculty. A two-horse harrrow will go over six or eight acres u day. This meets the trouble on the score of time. If run as soon after a raiu as the ground is in order, it will not only prevent the formation of a crust, but by retainiog moisture in the soil will keep it mellow and Foft. That is, it prolongs that condition of the soil which prevails soon after a rainfall. The h ir row should be run over land frequertly between the breaking and p anting, and indeed after the pla-iting, if impacting rains make it needful. In the North and ia Eur.'jie, whtre the soil is much better tilled with humus, from grass and grain crops, aud is there fore more friable than it is with m, tho harrow is used very extensively in the pieparation of land. Harrow ing is con -sidered quite as important as plowing and the harrow follows the plow as a matter of course. The idea is that the woik of fining and mellowing the so:! can be done with more case and more cheaply before anything is growing on the land than it can be done afterwards. The glowing crop is in the way of such work. The importance of the harrow for such work is shown by the wonder ful improvements made in this imple ment of late years. In addition to tha old spike tooth, in almost endless varie ty, we have the Acme, the Disc,, the Cuttaway, the Sharea and the Spring Tooth, each claiming its pec uliar fitness for special kinds of work and all good. The greatest drawback to their more ex tended use, bating the lack of appiecia tion on the pant of our farmers, in the high price at which most of them are sold the manufacturers having to pay a heavy royalty to the patentees. But even at the present high prices it would pay our farmers to use them much more extensively than tbev do. W. I.. .1 Licorice Culture. Large quantities of licorioe are annu ally imported into the I nited States, and there is no doubt that the coil and climate of Florida are well suited to its production. But there are many other crops more likely to eogage the atten tion of cultivators of the soil at present. Still, it is well to learn something of this. Licorice is propagated like horacj'r radish by means of root slips, which are removed from the main root. The soli must be we.l fertilized and thoroughly broken to the deptn of three et to attain the best results. Th s graT -pth, is necessary to encourage tnert6tA j ,",v grow downward to escape Xlj iatsl! -" heat not only of one but tetert fctrfnCi-'r ; ' merf, as it takes three or Soar ye effii V" protect the roots for ylnarket, (TatiDs,, wnicn time tne piantmust receive eonl - - itant and ta-eful cultivation with iKeu . nmn cr h(M ' " . prong hoe. If weakened aid checked in growth by insufficient preparation of the soil, want of manurfi or careleis culture, the plants are liable the attack of tbo . red apider, to their serk-us if not fatal ! injury. 1 . Lay off the rows tno feet apart, and", after cutting the oot slips into section oj five cr six inches, plant them id verticil holes made with a dibble six teen inches apart, observing to thrust them several inches below the surface and cover them. ! As the growing season closes eacb autumn, and the leaves turn yellow, the items should be cut down and removed, and a liberal coating of manure given a a top dressing. Apply well-dectyeck barnyard manure cornpojed with rich? hammock (top; soil. j If the plant have been well cared fori the roots may be lame enough in three? years to harvest for market, though four years is not uncommon Harvesting is! quite a tedious job, and on account of the depth two or three feet has to oel done with a spade. j When dag tne side roots, used for propagation, are cut oil and the mainj roots are washed, dried, and tied in conn venient sized bundler. Florida Agru tulturitt. j Loppinx by Steam. Forest Commissioner Theodore B. Bag-i selin has introduced logging by steam. Into the woods of Lewi Cbnnty, Newj York, He has built a steam sleigh which is capable of carrying 15,000 feet of logs, equivalent to the loads of fifteen teams of horses. The contrivance re-j sembles a box car. The motive power is t :-l 1 1 1. '1 . li.i . 1 uiuuucu uj uouer aercu icei uigBaa weighing lour tons, ana two engines ol S00-hore power each. There are four drive wheels weighing two tons cachj and an arrangement by which the ex-j I S9 J thaust steam, condense! into water, falls; I continually before the runners of tho sleigh, turning the snow into ice. ino machine cost $9000, bat is expected to! be a profitable investment on account ot the saving in cost ot teams and men, ;'. ' j V V
The Harnett Courier (Dunn, N.C.)
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April 17, 1889, edition 1
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