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Tho O nly W ooklv PAPER Published in the Territory Lyfng between the Roanoke and Mor.crnn ADVERTISING ME DIU M- JOHN W.HICKS, Editor and Proprietor. DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OP HERTFORD AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. 3I.GO Por Annum Rates Reasonable. VOL. II. MUR FREE S BORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1887. rivers, embracing the three count;:. Hertford, Northampton and Her tic. NO. 48. THE CALL. - ' I When evil, like a poisoned wind, G weeps the good seed from soul and mind, Or hearts ignore the love divine 7 Tho tempter seeks each vacant shrine. We fall and feel we cannot rise, r While others grasp the sacred prize; Sin's fog enshrSuds our spirits view TU1 God's clear sunshine glimmers through. William II. Hayne. Practical Simplicity. "Just the way with vfomen folks," growled Mr. Harrison, "the old story of Flora McFlimscy over again, 'nothing to wear."? . ' ; - J ... . "But, papa, you w ant ii to dress re spectably, don't you." asked preity Polly, with a suspicion of a tear in her eye. . . "Why, yes; respectably," replied Mr. Harrison, still grumpily, 'my mother dressed respectably without these ever lasting flummeries you girls are always teasing me for; good, pTain, sensible clothes and common sense shoes, no opera toes and French heels on her feet," and he glanced, suggestively at the dainty slipper, which inopportunely showed it self beneath the rutlie of Tolly's pretty morning wrapper. "Grandmamma wore a long green veil, and a nice big bonnet, too, didn't slier" said misc-hievous Nellie, "and her hair in a little knob at the nape of her neck." "You- ne dn't make fun. miss," re pliM her father, sternly, "your grand mother was always sensibly and neatly dressed, and it would be refreshing to ee some of her good taste in my fam ily." . "But, .really, Mr. Harrison, the have nothing .suitable to wear to ' Lincoln's Igrand party," said' Mrs, rison, "a- meek, gentle-voiced girls Mrs. woman. ' . 4 2s o, and they haven't had anything for the last live y ars," replied Mr. Har rison, with withering sarcasm; "buy! buy! and yet they are in the same dis tressing situation of the female before mentioned," a:id he leaned back in his chair with an air of having clinched the conversation with an unanswerable ar gument, i "I wish I wa a man," said pretty Nell, withapMit, "then I could wear one suit everywhere by varying my rc. ac tios." ; ' ' "Fapa, dear, you are going with vis to the picnic, ain't you?" said Kitty anx iously; she w;3 a dainty little fairy and her father's favorite, and, as she spoke, she glanced at her sisters with eyejs so fiill-rff fun and mischief, that they knew hebad some plan in her fertile ftittle brain. . 7 "Picnic!" said Mr. Harrison, in a soft ened tone; ho could' not be crossi with , Kitty and she well knew it. ."Bugs and earsigs! AVhcn I want my dinner sea toned witU spiders and grand-daddies, I can eat it in the garden." J "i)h, but, papa, we want to go aw fully!"" said Kitty, coining and perching herself on his knee; she took darng ad vantage of her privileges as the young est, "and it is so awkward, to go to such a place without a gentleman." "Oh, well! lean chaiterTom for the occasion," replied Mr. Harrison, quite good humored ly, "he is used to handling packages, and you'll lind he will manage jour five baskets and fifteen bundles in good style." Tom was porter in Mr. Harrison's largo store, and doubtless merited the jecoirunendation. "But that isn't you, pap 1," replied per sistent Kitty, winding her arms around her stiff-necked parent, and kissing the , lips which could say such unkind things. "Oh, you wheedlcr!" responded Mr. Harrison, with a feeble attempt at dig nity, "but there; I have just been in formecithat you have nothing to wear." "Oh! just for a picnic, papa, one can wear anything, you know," and her eyes danced a perfect jig of delighted mis chief, "plain white is perfectly suitable for a bug and beetle affair of that kind." 'In my day, plain white was consid ered just tho thing for party occasions alsoT" said Mr. Harrison, quite mollified by his pet's attentions. "No hoops, or bustler, I suppose," said Kitty, thoughtfully. "Not a hoop," replied Mr. Harrison, "and as for bustles, pah!" "Now, papa, I'll make a bargain with you," said Kitty. "If you will go to the ncnic with us, we 11 agree to wear our ionic dresses to the party. Isn't that air?" "Well, fair enough if there's no hidden reservations," replied Mr. Harrison, cau tiously. "How many yards of muslin and bolts of ribbon is it going to' take to be frill you for the picnic?" "If you'll give me ten dollars I think I can manage the whole matter' replied Kitty, demurely. ''. "U'cIU wcll! that's getting off quite cheaply," said 3Ir. Harrison, laughing, as he counted out the money, while Mrs. Harrison and the sisters looked On in rier feet amazement, well knowing that Kitty had some plan in her wise little head, without in the least comprehending.what it could be. - The picnic morning was a rarity in the weather line; a perfectly clear sky, and just breeze enough to make it delightful, and Mr. Harrison was in a rare good hu mor also which was unusual enough to add materially to the pleasures of the day, for, unfortunately, he I could be de cidedly "grumpy" on occasions, but hap pily for all concerned, the preceding day had been a particularly profitable one. "It appears to me, mother, it takes those girls an unusual time to prink this morning," said Mr. Harrison, looking at his watch a little nervously, "the train leaves at eight." "They'll be down presently," said the mother, with a surreptitious smile, as she p.vckcd the sandwiches into one of the baskets. At length there was a subdued rustling pn the stairs, and the three girls filed in demurely, and announced themselves ready. ' " . "What in ," said Mr. Harrison, as his eyes fe'.l upon them, and seeing the joke and his own defeat at one glance, he bit his lip, and left the sentence unuttered. Plain white dresses without a ruffle, tuck, or overskirt, thick, high boots, broad toes and no heels, not a hoop or l ustlr', they were the plainest, primmest trio of maidens, that ever appeared before fault-finding papa. NtH's bright har Was t ained back from her high forehead. giving her a wild, hawkish look, under her immense poke hat, which was adorned with a long green veil hanging in folds over one shoulder. ! Polly was as near hideous as possible, under a great' limp, sailor hat," which flapped discontentedly at every motion, while dainty Kitty's good looks were effectually buried in the depths of a gen erous white sunbonnet. "Your, dresses are very becoming, girls," said Mrs. Harrison, sweetly, as the youthful grandmothers ranged them selves in a row. I "We think so,", replied Kitty, sol emnly. "If I could only have finished my black silk apron. "And my handkerchief reticule," said Nell. ; ;. : :;. : -Tr-.-; 4 'Don't we look neat, papa ?' said Kitty, turning herself around for his inspection."-' ; ...'.'; M f ::;'ny-:..;-..y-; Si'' "Very neat," replied Mr. Harrison, dryly, turning away to hide a smile of mingled amusement and vexation. "We quite agree Tvith you papa, that so much frippery is all nonsense," said Nell, arraugiug her veil carefully. 'And ,we are counting on creating quite a sensation at Mr. Lincoln's party, ', said Polly, mischievously, as she picked out the bow of her muslin hat strings. Mr. Harrison was fairly caught in his own trap, and his owu often repeated words came back to him with rather un pleasant force, as he looked at hi3 daugh ters', in their unbecoming array, and thought of chaperoning-the outlandish figures through the'day. He had not before realized how proud he had been of the daughters whose good taste had made so much of nature's charms, and the scanty supply of pin money, so grudgingly doled out to them. Not that Mr. Harrison's means necessi tated close management; on the contrary, a steadily increasing bank account made such economy totally unnecessary, but unfortunately, as riches increased, liber ality shriveled and grew less, until Mrs. Harrison actually dreaded to ask him for money to carry on the household, even upon the most economical basis. "You see, papa, I've given up cosmet ics, and have to rely on nature and a green veil for a complexion," said Nell, drawing her veil closely over her face, as she dropped Polly's arm, and took her father's in a delightfully filial clasp.- " Ah, ' Harrison ! out for a pleasant trip, eh?' said a fashionable acquaintance, as they turned into Madison street, looking quizzically at the curious figures with a puzzled air. . "Yes, sir; yes," replied Mr. Harrison, stiffly, getting very red; he "would have given a month's profits if the girls had been dressed in the usual "fripperies." As might have jbeen expected, the party was the observed of all observers, as they passed along, and one little street gamin called out enthusiastically to an other: "Hi there, 'Jimmy! see them yer Kate Greenyways?" and Mr. Harrison felt as if he was the proprietor of a circus, and would gladly have left them to go alone, if he could have done so, without acknowledging himself ignominiously beaten. J In the car it was worse still; sly giggles and whispers greeted them on every hand, though, of course, their acquaint ances understood that there was some joke about the matter; but the girls were seemingly en tirelyj unconscious of the sensation they were creating, and chatted and laughed under their monstrous head gear with all their; accustomed vivacity, keeping close to their s father the while to check any furtive attempt on his part to escape to the smoking car. In the grove, however, it was not so easy to keep him in surveillance, and after dinner he took an umbrella and moodily stalked off to the shade of a giant oak, and stretched himself upon the grass for a siesta. He- had been there but a hort time, when -a couple of gentlemen strolled along that way, and, seating themselves on the other side of the tree!, entered into conversation. .., ' ' "By the way,. Clifford, who are those gawks over yonder, in the stupendous millinery?" I " Mr. Harrison turned cold with horror; the speaker was the returned European, in whose honor Mrs. Lincoln's party was given, and whom he had thought of in connection with Nell, who was still heart whole. " 'Gawks' indeed!" "Those?" replied the . gentleman ad dressed as Clifford,! "why . they are the daughters of Mr. Harrison, the rich mer chant." , 1 "Not Chauncy Harrison's 'daughters ?" replied the first in a voice of amazement.- "The same," replied the other, "and, as they are usually models of good taste and neatness, I presume there is some joke at the bottom of their absurd ap pearance to-day. j I shrewdly suspect their father has been giving them a cur tain lecture on the follies of fashion, and they are giving him an oc-ula"rdemonstra-tion of his own ideas." "But surely, he has no need to restrict them in any reasonable desires," said the first voice. ' ' ' ' ' "Oh, no !" replied the other," "but they do say he is a stingy old bear in his own family and though the girls appear neatly and tastefully dressed in public, my wife tells me that they are obliged to turn and re-turn and make over as rigidly as if they were at the very foot of the ladder, instead of at the top." "It's a shame!" broke out the younger man with warmth, fa man don't deserve a family who willj treat them in that way." "That's true," replied the elder gen tleman, and his tone had a shade of sad ness in it. "I would give all I'm worth, if I had those merry girls to make sun- shine in my quiet home," and he sighed, as he thought of a far away cemetery, where the hopes of a lifetime lay buried. Just here the conversation was inter rupted by Kitty, j who came tripping along toward the umbrella on the ether side of the tree; usually- her movements were most graceful,; but to-day the short, flappy drsss persisted in catching on the tops of her big shoes, in a most awkward manner. I "Why, papa, are you tired of us, that you get away by yourself I1 she asked, sweetly, as she curled down by his side: meanwhile the gentlemen had risen, and, j time. After they have been captured looking at each other with horrified ' two or three months they go off their faces, had beaten a precipitate retreat. I mental bases. For snakes, crocodiles, "No, Kitty; no," he replied, in an and that sort of cold-blocded creatures, unusually gentle tone, and placing, a j. confinement is not irksome; they obtain caressing hand on the trim waist, "but I j their, provender without hustling for it, am thinking, so run away dear, please," i and that suits them; to a dot. Some and Kitty wisely obeyed. j kinds of birds, too, find imprisonment a Yes, he was thinking, and his train of i natural condition, for they and their an thought was on a new line, as he pon- j cestors for many generations were born dercd over and over the words he had I in casres and never knew liberty. heard, and, somehow, as he weighed hie merry daughters, with their pretty, win some ways, and their gentle mother ic the balance with his long bank account, the money side grew wonderfully light, and he thought with a shudder of what the world would be to him with even one of. the loved ones taken from him. - 'Stingy old bear,' that just describes it, 7 he said to himself, as he looked back over the many, contests, in which the very least which could be made to supplj the family wants had been grudgingly given, only too frequently, with bittei - - i t j ii . - wurus n mcn maue ine giving worse man a charity. "Hasn't this been a most delightful day, papa?" said Polly, who escorted hei father home from the train.! "Yes," assentedMr. llarrison, soberly, "and a most -profitable one also," and he meant his words, most sincerely. "I don't think so," said Kitty, as thej were entering the gate, "for I have a ho& rid green grass stain right on the hem oi fmy dress, and I shall have to put in a new Dreaatn "before lean wear it to the party," and Mr.- Harrison bit his lip at the allu sion to their compact, but said nothing "Poor papa ; he was so ashamed of us,1 said Kitty, as 'the girls retired to theii bed, "actually, Nell, I never wassosorrj for any one in my life." 'j "Girls," said Mr. Harrison, the nexl morning at breakfast, "didn't I hear you say" something about '& party to which you had been invited?" with an innocenf air of inquiring for information. "At Mrs. Lincoln's, perhaps you mean replied Nell, falling in with his conceit and willing to ignore the past. "You may need a little pin money for the occasion," he continued, taking a roll of bills from his pocket-book, and care lessly flipping one toward the plate oi each oLhis daughters, "and I presume a trifle of spending money wouldn't com amiss with your mother," he continued, as he laid a bill beside his wife's plate, and hurried away before the astonished familj could thank him for such a remarkable performance. -: "One hundred dollars !" said Polly, in an awe-struck tone as she gazed at hei bill in amazement. . ; "And mine is two hundred," said the little mother, with actual tears in hei happy eyes. . , ' 'That means that the new silk whicl you have needed so long is to bo forth coming at ance," said Nell, patting hei own bill with loving fingers. "And for once we ! are going to ha vt party dreses, without one shred of econ omy stitched into them !" - said .Kitty, getting up, and dancing such a spirited pirouette in her delight, that the parrot wagged her head in wonder, as she shrill inquired in her favorite phrase: "Blesj me ! what ails the child !" F. M. Houard, in the Current. , The Compass Plant. Long before men learned to poise 1 piece of magnetized iron on a pivot tc indicate the north, there were natural compasses growing on the American prairies, and they still flourish in larg numbers as a reliable guide to travelers across the American desert, v They area peculiar species of plant, called the com pass plant, the pilot weed, or the pola'i plant, and have been known for genera tions to the Western hunter, although the scientific world has known them but a short time. The edges of its leaves are said to be always pointed ; due north and south. An authority ; states : "Repeated observations upon the prairies, with measurements by the compass of the di rections assumed by hundreds of leaves, especially of the radical ones, have shown that as to prevalent position the populai belief has a certain foundation in tht fact." Captain Mayne Reid mentions it in one of his books as follows: : "We had a guide to onr direction unerring as the magnetic needle. We were traversing the region of the polar plant, the planes of whose leaves at almost every step pointed out our meridian. It grew Upon our. track, and was crushed under; the hoofs of our horses as we rode onward.r The traveler Burton also refers to it: "Whilst in the damper ground appeared the polar plant, that prairie compass the plane of whose leaf ever turns toward the magnetic meridian." Another writei says: "Fortunately none goes to the prai ries for the first time without being shown,' in case of mishaps, the groups ol compass-weed which abound nil over the plains, and the broad flat leaves of which point due north and south with an ac curacy as unvarying as that of the mag netic needle itself.- Harper's Youn$ People. : S'p.; ; ' Only a Fly Speck. the Adiutant-General's office In at Washington there is a division where mutilated army rolls are copied. These copies have to be exact fac-similes of the originals, even t6 the spelling of words improperly and tracing the sky rocket marks on the rolls caused by the slip oi the pen of the not always over careful company clerk. Among the many clerks employed on this work are two old men, who are great sticklers in having theii copies exact. For a whole half day, a short time since, they examined, a black spot on a roll one was copying to see whether it was a comma, period, or a slip of the pen. They had criticised the spot at every angle,, had placed it" in the sun light and had brought a powerful mag nifying glass to bear, on it, without be ing able to agree as to whether it was n comma or period -one contending , it was the former point, while the other felt certain it was a period. They re ferred it to another clerk, wha was con sidered an expert in reading such things, and he thought it was meant for a colon. As a last resort they referred the matter to a young fellow-clerk, and he soon set j tied the question by picking the disputed black dot off with his finger nail. It.wa a fly speck. Animals Confined in Cases. A Brooklyn physician says that most wild animals become 1 insane after ! they have been confined in cages' some BUDGET. OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FK03I VARIOUS SOURCES. I " Wanted lo Ply A Boarder With Tvo Throats He Paid, Off . An Old Debt-r-Prefcrrcd a Mod Color, Etc. "My son," said a Boston father as he took his boy, by the hand, "you are about to start for the West to; found a city. Consider well. Found it upon the banks of a river, "so that steamboat rates will keep railroad rateldown to the low est notch." I (A period of six months is supposed to have elapsed, ,and the old man gets a let ter). "Dear Father i River is frozen up and railroad snowed under. Send wings for me to get out of the durned coun try." Wall Street AWs. A Boarder With Two Throats. The Widow Flapjack ! got a new boarder the other day. At the first meal he took he choked and had a terrible time trying to swallow some coffee. "What's the matter, stranger?" she asked, kindly. "Nothing, except the coflTce went down the wrong way." "Good heavens 1 It isn't possible that I have secured a boarder with two throats!" exclaimed Mrs. Flapjack, who has been complaining very bitterly of the amount of food a man. with only one throat can punish. Chicago National. He Paid Off an Old Debt. There is in this city a young man who has a habit of personifying objects in his speech, and this habit has brought him no little anno3mce, particularly in the office w-here he is employed, and where the young lady bookkeeper ! seizes upon every such lapse of speech to make him uncomfortable in the presence of his other offic3 associates. The other day in speaking of the clock he said: "She keeps excellent time," and was immediately brought up short by hi3 tor mentor with the question? "Why do you say .'she' in speaking of a c'ock? ' Here was a chance to pay off an old debt, and promptly came the reply : "Be cause its pendulum, like a woman's tongue, Budget. is always wagging. " noston Preferred a Mud-Color. "Yes, a pretty good looking carpet," she said as she stood off and surveyed it, but?" "Aren't the colors all right, ma'am?" "They seem to be." "And you like the pattern?" "Very much." ; "And I'm sure the price is very reason able." . - ; .-V "Ye-s. It wasn't that so much, but I was wTondering how this carpet would look aftefjny woodshed got on fire and the engines had filled the house with wa ter, the firemen had tramped through all the rooms, and twenty reporters had come around to ask about the insurance. I guess I'd better get something of a mud color." Detroit Free Press. A Possible Explanation. "Snifkins says he's no friend of yours any more," said Sam Sample to Charley Sellers as they met at the store the other morning. "Indeed?" . j "No. He says that your are no friend of his any more. Now what is the trou ble? - You haven't insulted him simply because you both happened to be going to see the same girl, have you?" "Certainly not." "Then what can be the matter?" "I don't know unless he has found out who it was sent that newsboy in front of her house to holler, 4 here's your morn ing papers,' while he was in there calling. I understand that that call aort of waked up her father and made trouble for SniP." Merchant Traveler. The Dark Side of Things. Some people will persist in taking a gloomy view of everything. There is a man of that kind in Austin, living in Ward No. 13. A neighbor happened to drop in to see him the other day. and found everybodjr lively except the bead of the family. "How are you all coming on?" "We are all tolerable except Bob. He is laughing and joking because he is go ing fishing. I just know that he is go ing to come home drowned, and howling with a fish hook sticking in him spme wherc." "Well, the rest seem to be cheerful." "Yes, sorter. Jemimy is jumping and skipping about because she is going to a candy pulling, but I know something will happen to her. I read of a girl in Philadelphia only last year who was com ing from a candy pulling, when a drunken man threw his wife out of a three-story window and killed her." "Killed who?" ' "Jemimy." i "Why, no; there she is." : "Well, it might have been her if she had been on the pavement below where the woman fell.". "Well, you are looking healthy." "Yes, I feel just like the man did who dropped dead in New York l ist week from heart disease. He was in high spirits ind had a good appetite, and them's just my symptoms." Texas Sifting. He Filled the Prescription. When the fizz of the soda fountain iied out . in a Washington avenue drug itore yesterday afternoon the good looking clerk glanced up and saw a man itanding there with a deprecating look aear the door. "Well, what is it?" demanded the ;lerk. The man cameforward and spoke a few words, in the language of Esaias rcgner, which were entirely unintelligible io the good-looking clerk. ; Then the man produced a folded paper, which the :lerk took, studied a moment and said : "I don't know this doctor, but sit down and I'll have it ready in a moment." He went behind the prescription case ind in a few minutes reappeared with a four-ounce vial, which he neatly labelled, md marked the dose: "A tablespoonf ul if ter each meal. , Shake well before tak ing." Handing itto the man he re narked laconically : " 'Dollar and a half." ' It evoked " considerable ; pantomime jefore the Swede understood, but he finally paid the money and disappeared with the medicine. The good-lookina clerk went down to . the ball game ana had hardly disappeared before in rushed a well-known young attorney froin Temple Court. He carried the vial in his hand and blood in his eye. " Where's the man who filled prescrip tion No. 3,006 F he demanded. '- The' proprietor! cooly surveyed the bottle, and with a look that would have disarmed a pirate, blandly replied: "Why?" j "Great Cesar! I Why? I'll show yon why 1 Produce tho prescription ! Dc you hear me? Trot out the prescription before I strangle you " The druggist produced the scrap of paper and the excited attorney straight ened it out on the show-case and de ciphered the bad writing as follows: "Ivan Olsen Come to my office this afternoon at 6 o'clock, sure. Business ol importance. Saw your man and every thing is all right." This -was the "p rescript ion." Th drug man fainted and the clerk is now advertising for a position as porter in a hardware store. St. Paul Globe. Just a Bit Too Previous. A Chicago society youth recently at tended church with a young lady on whom he was particularly sweet. When the contribution box starter! out on his rounds the young man took a five-dollai gold piece . out of his pocket and dis played it in such a way that the young lady saw it. She mildly rebuked him foi his extravagance, but he said he ofter contributed that much, especially when in strange churches. Watching hi? chance he slipped' the gold coin into his pocket and slypy took out a silver quar ter which he as slyly dropped into tht box when it reached him. This fixed the impression on! the young lady thai her beau was generous, and held th( church in high esteem. At the close ol the services, as was the custom of th church, the amount in the box was an nounced. The total was $3.75. That young man has had no business in tht immediate neighborhood of that young ladies' house since that eventful evening Chicago National. Need for a Central American Canal Some may still ask, is a canal or a ship railway worth building after all? Ever Admiral Amme'n intimidated doubts ai late as 1879, after the decision of the Paris Congress, as to whether the time hac come to cut the Isthmus. It -may not b hard to satisfy ourselves on this point. In a report submitted to the Navy Depart ment in 1806 by Admiral C II. Davis, ar estimate is given of the tonnage whicl would have used a canal had one.been in existence,, as well as of the loss inflicted upon commerce because of its lack. The former estimate is 3,094,070 tons, which agrees pretty well with the, estimate oi the Paris Congress for the year 1879, il weassume the rate of annual increase from 1866 to 1879 Svhich the Congress adopted. Admiral Davis's estimate ol the loss annually experienced by com merce was $49,530,208. These estimates made over twenty years ago, would be evidently too low for 1887. But even should we assume that in the course of the past twenty years no increase of traf fic had occurred, a result sufficiently sur prising would be arrived at. The loss tc commerce would amount to $200,000,000, about, the cost of the Panama Canal ac cording to the estimate of the Paris Con gress. This simple calculation shows the importance of the work. Mr. Bigelow, in his report, already quoted, says, writh reference to the Panama Canal, "Were all nations to contribute to its construction in any equitable proportion to the advan tages they would derive from it, the stock would be as difficult to obtain as the golden apples of Atalanta." Street Cars in Mexico. The street cars run in groups, one never being seen alone nor two together, but always three or four in a row less than half a block apart. Instead of starting from the terminus one every five or ten minutes, several are started every half hour. To run each car it re quires two conductors besides the driver, and also in many places two or three sol diers armed cap-a-pie. The first con ductor approaches a passenger, .sells him a ticket and pockets the money, and soon the second conductor comes along and takes up the bit of printed pasteboard ; meanwhile the brass-buttoned guardians of the peace stand glowering upon you with suspicious eyes and loaded carbines. In some respects the double-conductor system is better than the "punch-in-the-presence-of-the-passengaire" mode of the United States, but though the soldiers are provided to insure the safety of pas sengers from robbers and revolutionists, a timid person is more worried by their presencej than by the possible dangers they are supposed to avert. Sacramento Record. J I A j Ghost Guards the Cave. In the Squaw Peak Range, Arizona, is a cave which no prospector has the nerve to attempt to explore on account of it being guarded by a ghost. In the en trance sits a thing that looks like the corpse of an Indian woman. In 1868 a party of whites found the cave filled with Tonto Indians, whom they attacked and murdered. Since then no one has had the courage to try to enter the cave be cause of the thing that sits in its door. Last week George Matthewn and his partner, named McCloud, being in the range, concluded to have a look at the Squaw Cave, not having any faith in the stories told of it. The cave is situated under the highest but te of . the Squaw Peak Range. They found it and just took one look at the thing sitting in its mouth. The Herald says: "3Iatthews declares there is not enough money in Maricopa. County to pay him to go there again, and his partner, McCloud, has not stopped running since at least he has not been seen since that time. Virginia Kev.) Enterprise. 1 Doubly Left. Once, doubly in love, I wavered between The two sweefest girls that I know, And only these faults in the pair could be seen: A litle too lively and quick was Pauline, While Jane was a little too slow. But alas! their behavior no harmony kept, - When I begged them, by turns, to be mine. In spite of tho way that I pleaded and wept, Paulino was unfeelingly slow to accept, Jane cnw.ly qu:ck to decline. Tid-Bits. THE II 021 E D0CT0IL Best Time to Bathe. It is best to b3the just before goinfj to Jed, says the London Laruef, as any dan ger of catching cold is thus avoided, and the complexion is improved by keeping Warm for several hours after leaving tho bth. A couple of pounds of bran put into a thin bag and then in the 1 ath tub is exccllent for softening the skin. It shquld be left to soak in a small quantity of water several hours before being used. " . -- ' Salt a Cure for Falling Hair. t am very glad of the opportunity 1 givcrt me by the query to thank ".Notes and (Queries' for the recommendation of dry salt as a cure for falling hair. 3Iy hair had come out fright fully for several monthk, so Ihut I -dreaded touching it with abrush. Thinking thatwilt could do no harm, anyway, and remembering the benefit always derived from sea air and bathing, I tried ittand was surprised at the result, for after three applications putting it on at night and brushing and shakjimr.it out in the morningnot one hair came out with the most vigor ous brushing. I have used it three or' four times a week since the middle of Novem ber, a. nd notice a perceptible thickening of my hsdr and no disagreeable results whatever. The treatment might not Ik 9 beneficial to even one, of course, but I have writien this full, feeling that I could hardly say too much in praise of what has bcn to susccssful with my self." Ryubm Tratisct'qd. Lcmoim in the Sick Room. The lemon is a fruit much used in the sick room, and, many times, unwisely. Lemonade being a very refreshing and agreeable drink, is easily taken in excess by persons suffering from fevers, a fact which should not be forgotten. In ty phoid fever, for instance, its immoderate use would bo at-t ended with danger, in ducing, as it might, additional derange ment in an already inflamed intestinal mucous membrane. In all inflammatory diseases of the stomach and bow els lemonade should only be given after the attending physician has sanctioned its use . During the past few years lemon juice has become quite pop ular in the management of diphtheria from the supposed action on the membranous deposit in the throat. There have also been attributed to the juice marked vir tues in the functional derangement of the liver, commonly galled "bilious dis orders." . Some persons so affected have found benefit from its crsi-tent use. The symptoms of others, however, have been aggravated by it. Uosfoii Herald. To Allay Vomiting. At this season of the year diseases of which persistent vomiting is one of the important symptoms', are exceedingly common. In summer complaint especial ly, the stomach is often so excessively irritable that everything taken excites immediate vomiting. V In such cases prompt measures of relief are required. The vomiting is then almost always at tended with great thirst, and, as a rule, water or other drinks are freely given by those who have the patients in charge. Where much is taken into the stomach, even if it be simply water, the vomiting is sure to persist. Therefore, the most important thing to do is to give that organ opportunity to rest, for a time: at least. Nourishment should be entirely dispensed with, if necessary', even for twenty-four hours. Experience has shown that such a privation is borne well by infants even less than a year old, and it is certainly better than to con tinue to give them food that is thrown up again as often as it is taken. To re duce the irritability of the stomach, and to allay the thirst as well, ice pellets are advised. If ice water is allowed at all, it must be restricted to teaspoonful doses. When it is proper to give nourishment, milk and limewater in equal parts is the first to be given. That, also, should be limited to teaspoonful doses. '- One tea spoof ul may be given every fifteen or twenty minutes. If it is retained, the interval between the doses may be gradually shortened until such small quantities can be safely allowed every two or three minutes. Their the dose may be increased to a dessertspoonful at long intervals, and, -after a time, to a tablespoonful, then to a wineglassful, and soon. By this method nearly all cases of vomiting due to irritability of tho stomach of recent origin can be allayed in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Under all circumstances, even light food is forbidden in s ich cases for at least three days after the vomiting has ceased, and even then it should be selected with exceeding care, and given in gradually increasing quantites.- Boston Herald. The Giant's. Causeway. The Giant's Causeway is a series of col umnar basaltic rocks in County Antrim, on the northeast coast of Ireland. For eight miles along the coast the land abuts on the sea in cliffs of basalt, many of them made up of rude vertical columns, and the appearance of these columns from the sea suggests a partial resem blance to architectural forms. The name Giant's Causeway is often applied to all this coast range of cliffs, but it properly belongs to only a small part of it, which is a platform of basalt in closely arranged columns from fifteen to thirty-six feet high which extends from a steep cliff down into the sea till it is lost below low water mark. It is divided across its breadth into three portions, the Little, Middle and Grand Causeway, these being separated from each other by dikes of basalt. The columns arc generally hex agonal prisms, but they arc also found of five, seven, eight and nine 8idcs,in almost every instance being fitted together with the utmost precision, and it is said that even water cannot penetrate between ad joining columns. The-name caueway is given to the platform, as its columns ter minate at so nearly a uniform height that it presents an almost smooth area extending to the water, seeming to the primitive imagination a. road that had been prepared for the convenience of giants. Inter- Ocean. Had Been Swimming". I met a f reckled village boy, Who loitered by the way ; His bat was off, his brirkdnj-t enrh With balmy winds did p'av. "Oh, whither bouud, bareheaded boy, Beeeath this blazing skyf "fm going home but have to wait Until my hair is dry f --Detroit Frc rress. BuMED IN'A THEATRE. SUVtLVnniX LIV!vI.OST AND MANY INJriUID. Bnmcv IIous-s Itroycd Half .-v Million iKdlars of Property Durn ed up Names of Tho- W'lio - PerUlMMl." A 'lis'iatch from IIurlv. Wis., savs; lr- broke out on th st.ipr of the Aloair Th- 1 Ut at d-Lt oVI-H-k Safari iv vAht. .1-, 1 within an hour th fntirv busin- j- rti i of tho town wm i:i i ua is, whi! t ! . m j-;-sons ha-1 iorish.vl in th th -at r. Th- !, ir. rri reuiaias of inn peo;4,i, have U t k -u from the ruins. Th? t.ts-4 i fully half a million dollars. Tho Aloaz tr w.is a vari-ty theater, chiefly frvqii'Mih'd by inin r. an i was ono of th resorts of unsavory r !?. .associated with ,the notorious lam- hu-. of ill mining' regions. Duly a sru'iil nu i; fnc lul l gathered when the fuv br -ke out R-id they scrambl'-d out in a hurry. s,-vt ; tl of the actors, however. ruh--d up-:,iir- t sive th'MT war.lrob , an I when tiny ?-:ii.t .to s -ij found tint they wrn' l inm-l i: all sides, the tl im-s hiving Miva l thr iU th w.xleu buiMin with incredible it,;., ii ty. How they strul"l to tl.e will n.'vr le known, us none of them, -. 1 t S !i Wells and Malel Pow '.. w, re .-r m ajain. The former npn.wred at 11 - -u I story window, sind eilil itudy i:j-n t)--crowd out-side to save her. l?i';.re a I. u I could Ise ta!.s.d the ll lines rearh-d I er, ;h. i communicated to her clothing. Sh- m ) i . frantic effort to jump through the wu. i : then, with a piercing hrieW, f.-ll into tt .. furnace lelov. Mabel lo ers hi I re.i' he I a third try window, sh jtium 1 an 1 was s billy injur el thit her recovery is doubtful. Amoiv thse w ho pert-he t in the th at- i wtrer Frank Yonng. Stdi?"Mc'CaU' and eorg Ja--k. m, o 1 ! I comedians. Till e Moore, song and dunv artit. MjiIk-1 (i.oli-ieh and husband. " Sadie Wells. - , Mr. Kenton and two or thre o;h-rs wh.- name.s are not known. The Alcazar was in "the very henrt f tie city. It was a liia-ss ol names in a i y )-i t time. The tire seem l to leap from building to building, until several hi .wts Ih-eam- a roaring oven. It w ls not loi.j lief ore e rv busines building between Third and Fifth avenues was in flam-s. A I efforts i t-,', the fire under control seeml futile. The h department, reinforced by scores of . ohm -timers, sent its puny streams amulet tie a i vaucing walls of llam . but had to ivu .m as 'the tire swept resist lessly on. It did n-.t stop until the material for it to fe.d v,-n was- lacking. The individual I-s over $5,000, are as follow-; Moore. MeFanan.v Uo., m.'rcliin lis and clothing, sOi.ii, Moore, Agnew Ac Co., general hardware. $40,(X0; Heineniaiin liros. & Co.. dry v . $i5,Oi)J; Cohn S: Ninn, geue- mereh.-iu li-.-, 10,0-; Brill n I Lringdou, same, f t.ioi; Cirrothers Bros., stx-k of liquors, .",,oii; J. li. Lanlois, saloon 'and hovwhold ool-,, :f,0:0; Oscar Hanson, furnishing iis, ;, UJ'J; Lemon & Goster, drus, skki; Proprie tors of the Fair, 5.0:0; John '.. p.utto-i. sixteen building,s S.VMI; Charles Le.-ian.-, Aleizar theiter, $iV)i); I). P. Mi N. il, - 1 loon'a.ul housfjtiold. .lo,i M; P. S." Pn-lie, wholesale liquors, a.o;; A. 11. t liable r law library, 5000; 1'aeske Pros., - 1 i- s with building, 11,000; C. Perrif, restaurant.. t5,O00; K. A. Hay, hirdwaie, .". oo; J. Itidgeman, saloon and restaurant. 5.ono. A sjxcial from Ironwmd, Mi h.. a r.,, the river from Hurley, Wis., says. S-v n t:n peopl'i lost th r live in th - Al aar. The billowing additional names of dead are giveiii J. W. Vampiick, Samuel Ha!. , ljauris Urainerd. It is provide that .Join Jarrett, the stage carp-nter, Avill die fr- ni his i ijuries Jennie Sheridan, an aetr--", who-leaied from the third story, i a -1 severely hurt, She said that she tri-d to pursuade several ot hers to jump, , but t hey delayed and tha floor fell in, taking them with it. FRIGHTENED BY HIS PERJURY A Father Swears I'aNely for UN Son ami Swoons. A dispatch from Halifax X. S., Kays; p tho preliminary examination of j-ouug Mi'l mine, accused of the murder of Mis Tiijuu at Margate, 1. K. I., whom he is allege-1 t 1 have betrayed. 3Iillmine's father t-t;h'.. that both he and his son (the prisoner; were at home all the evening of ' the ni-rht of tie murder. Hardly were these wor,s ouoft his mouth before the witness fa"nt-d. As noon as ho recovered he admitted that h -had sworn to a lie, and then t tile-.! thai he wa absent from home that evening, l nt when he arrive. 1 home at 11 o"eh-k hi was in the house. The prLsmer was committed for trial. Bloodstains have ln-en found in tie woods a few yards from wh'Te the handkerchief w found which led to the discovery of the girl's body. It is believed that the munh-r'was committed at this upot and that the lly was placou on a gate, noat'd down the nv r to the boiling springs and there tomk, tie gate leing allowed to drift. 17ie gat-j has been found!. Bryan ton, who was arrested as an ae. sory, was discharged. The prisoner's mother ha,s y a.e era 7 v. The murdered girl s brother was buried ti -day before she was killed. MURDERED BY HIS NEIGHBOR The Terrible Vlml of nn Old I'ued in an Indiana Town. Adispiteh from JyiuLsviJIe, Ky. say: D. Samuel Hay w. 13 shot an 1 kill -d at Char:- -town, Ind., while ri ling in a buggy with hi . sister. The-murderer was Jacob Itobir; -ov. who lives on an adjoining farm. I-a!li u instantaneous, two loads of buckshot from a double barrel shotgun fired at Hay at a dis tance of feet. The tragedy was the result of nn old f-u I. Hay fnd itobinsi dved on adjoining farm-. The only outlet for Hay to the public r 1 was through Robinson's .premis-s, and th-lattef- refuse I him the right of way. Ha v bro igbt suit ami the court :e-id-t, in h. favor. Other suits followed, a d lto! ir: -i l-came a deadly enemy of his iiei-ti? -r. Saturday morning aliout "x o'clock he 10 i l l his gu 1 with buckshot and rtart-d toward bis neighbor's house. He met Hay and las sister, and, without giving his victim a word of warning, he tired. He then put th- g';a on his shoulder and walked c Irnly a a , Tli" -r aim of Miss Hay attracted a iarg--crowd a ad before the lly was cM gari.-s of men were uriiig the count ry for t!i murderer, w hom they threat .:.-1 to J.vn U if caught. Hay. was rich and prominenr. 1.1 politics. He was one of the l-st know 11 la -n in Southern Indian;!. His brot i.r is st. -i-kT" of Clark coup ty. Ilobinson is cp-ally 'A to-do and almst as well known. He at teniptek to shoot one of thy Hay family Friday evening, but his revolver was tak-:i from him. Both men were marrie 1 an i ha ve powerful family connections. isesob KOMERO, the Mexican Minister at Washington, thinks that $lo,n. ),(; worth of American goo-Is will go into Mexico c v -ry year under the new mail arrangement. SvP-Acrsr: boai?ts of having the bigg-t d-T in the worl'L He weighs -Jj-i inu:di nn l measures six feet an i three inches fro; 11 11 - to taiL He is nearly two curs old and wa born in England.
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