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NEW SERIES-VOL. IV NO. 229.
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jS COKTKHT.
i-rilmer's Magushte.
iau,
1 tw, dwelt in far Jap
j . ' since, a mn
1 i l.v hammering stone his daily food.
Content and dole
on his soul,
riches as the only good.
hi'11
Tj,v heavy
I ...
AnJ so the gods on high,
lio sometimes bitterly
by granting all his prayer,
....Hands to have and hold,
" . i: !..:
j i)v ureeu icuui nuivs
But oon he, murmuring,
Twdtolneaking;
. . VI!
I ruk ah, tuai were jn-rivct onus;
1 V ..el ak.i.l Q If
With his incessant prayer,
. i . :..,ln .nd him e eu in iuu.
;!tilUlfgl,u,
His courtiers fawned aud lied,'
in.1 rival powers, outside
wsailM his peace with fierce debate,
And heaviness buu
BU-ached gray his youthful hair,
Ljiudehiui.weary ol nis regai
"0 change me to a rock!"
He 'cried, "That no rude shock
U stir, nor any w- -"-
And lo: he sroou, ere ivug.
A hoWer fixed and strong.
Lt.ntK could not move, nor tempests
IliKI'"
brent.
In v.iu the burning heat
Of fiereest sunshine beat
I art liii" head; in vaiu the storm-wind smote
1 Jlw rugged sides; in'vain
Great rivers, swell d by rains,
wtriiig from their mountain caves re
mote.
He ws at rest ; and lie
Kfjoieed exceedingly.
Will there W change ana woe,
And wavering to and fro '
f ....1 ... uluviial
But on a summer day
A workman brought that way
Lkimim-r and a chisel these alone.
He measured here aud there, j
Ami then, with patient earo.
1 8rj3ii to ut away the stubbonnrtonc.
"AliT said the bowlder-king.
'Wliat means this wondrous thing f
Tiii i'!"diliiig worknian smites and conquers
lie cuts, as suits liiiu best,
Hnge blo4-ks from out my breast
I Hr v niore xtronc than I ! Would I were her
-
And h! the' powers aloft.
Who had so long and oft
Liu::Wat his follies, eravel and then
grown.
Again his pleading heard :
lie. tak-n at his word.
?riiuee more a hammerer of stone!
So, liser than before,
: And asking nothing more,
I .1 i.: . . i i . a i a.
I,uhimii uix uiiif ii ion ue went.
Until lie died of age
He toiled for scant v wage.
levtrsiK.ke a word of discontent!
way, nor
ont-
Emudpation of Southern Whites.
W.TIMORE, Mr.., July 7, 1S87. Under
Mns "llie Lmaneination of the
hitiiorn Whites and Its EffWr on Roth
the Hon. .Iihn W. Jobnston. of
swimoiMi, for manv years .1 member of
diluted Stages Snate from Virginia,
IjnintiHv m the Manufacturer' L'econl
UlV 9 an PXeodilKrlv inlonxitiniT anil
NiuUe article, tliat is sure to command
attention. All the world, savs Mr.
Won, knew that the black man in the
a a slave, but none recognized or
'wwmstious of the fact that the wbite
m wa a slave also. It is true he could
P ue lKn?it nnd c.hl ur im bo it!
'J )jwt to the ordere of a master,
evwtlielei he vj a bondsman, and
I iir !,.... . il l . . . .
i v vuaui) I liar ntl mtuiraH Itinrr vaii oa
as those that bound the colored
ihe negro was a slave to him, and
7-Mave io the situation, lie was
TOI with bein
an indolent lover of
"ire, lai-kll)L' in indntr' rnrTT xnil
Iwprise, follow hi'' vear aftor vear and
mtioii after generation, the same old
J traek, wiili no apparent wish to
it ami
ir i was reproached for persisting
f nu tenaeiously in one uniform course :
' ne wax Uiiid to the vast resources and
i-uuesot the country he lived in; that
Li r'i umn,Dded mines of wealth,
I"? Hl not ran 1 . A
tWra but "never," says Mr. John-
n,!. mure iuisiaxeu iut,
I never we i
- mcic n pvupio bu lime uii-
'Xl Or en i t iL.
hwls-m u,: niisjuogea as me
An, . ulcr anuaarmer."
S.JTtho cviid world, even in the
.-'oiaitK, with
another, as tW r, .
v - uuu nu iiasxern la-
KTKf-'S!- Rnd slave were,
thTi'rwlu'y were couplel, and
"ie ligament was a strontr on. WbV
it at bnbo,u g Class had Work aftd had
ii at norae. H wiiMct.n.i i
i , ".wiiuicu io one ciasj
of laborers and one locality. And he was
obliged to, conform his LsWc,
tlio sort of work his men could do and what
waa most profitable. w
liiusthe persistence of tho Sr.
man in adhering year after year to the
same course of life did not arise from in
2Cf UL -f"e ccessfully in some
w" i , """X irom nis surroundings.
coum not abandon it without disas
tnous results to himself, to the negro, to the
ptate and the world. If ever men were
impelled by an irresistible force, it was the
Southern white man. What did it matter
to him if the earth beneath his feet was
loaded with all the mineral n-KUb
tribute to the wealth, convenient r en
joyment ot mankind, or that the stream
i uuiuri'T ov nis aoor hnl
enough to .turn a thousand wheels? He
could not utilize them; he was bound hand
and foot bound to his slaves, bound to
his plantation, bound to cotton, to his hab
its or nte, to the exigencies of the situa
tion, to the necessity of providing for his
slaves, so many of whom were non-producers.
There raav have bean
than one elsewhere to answer the question:
How to find work for the laboring class
es? and more latitude in solving it; but
to him there was only one answer labor
in the neiu. He saw no other
has the world seen any other.
The Southern planter, says the -writer,
did his work well. He had a hard and
what would seem to have been an almost
impossible task. He was brought into
contact with a race who, in their own
country and in their native condition were
all savage, with scarcely a redeeming vir
tue. Out of such material he made men
who 1ecame docilr, industrious, kind and
faithful; whose work reduced a vast wil
derness to a state of cultivation. The in-
A a 1 .
uurnce, coniroi ami icaenings tnai am tins
must have been judicious and prudent;
no other course of conduct could have ac
complished so much.
More than twenty years have passed.
writes Mr. Johnston, since the negro was
made free, and that period affords us some
means of judging 'the effect on both, races.
This he rightly says is a momentous, a vi
tal matter to the American people, and
one that it behooves them to look into
closely.
The question is repeatedly asked why. if
the South has such vast mineral wealth as
is now claimed, was so little done to de
velop it prior to the war! Why did the
Southern people with all this wealth be
neath their feet leave it comparatively un
touched 7 lo these questions Mr. John
ston gives an answer, the correctness of
which cannot be questioned.
To compare the work of the white man
of the South with that of the negro, Mr.
Johnston presents some very striking
statistics as to the main agricultural pro-
ductsof the Southern States, such as to
bacco, cotton, nce-and sugar, prior to the
war and at the present time. He ssiys:
I will offer further on what 1 .consider
the proper explanation of this seemingly
anomalous result of a decline in a number
of industries to which the soil and climate
of the South are suited and a marvellous
growth in others, and in the meantime
will present the reader with some account
of industry, entenmse and energy and
their, results more agreeable than the pic
ture of decline heretofore drawn.
It can no longer be said, even by the
enemies of the Southern white man, that
he i not now at least making good use of
the bounties which nature has bestowed
unon his country, for there is scarcely any
thing in the way of a natural resource or
of an industry suitable or practicable that
is not recognized and developed or put in
the process of development. From rail
roads, mines, manufactures, commerce
and education down to trucking and
the growth of small fruits, everything is
active. Materials once thrown away are
husbanded and. made profitable, and it is
not extravasrant to say that no five years
in the history of any people, ancient . or
modern, exceeds in material advancement
the past five years in the South, notwith
standing the decline already noted1 -
He then points out a few facts in this
marvellous growth, showing that in 1880
the South had 180 cotton mills, win e rit
now has 353. In 1880 there were 34..G2
manufactories in the South, producing
.$315,924,794, against 51,419 now, produc-
ing $505,'J,WU. in low me k"1"
ed 6,000,000 tons of coal and in 18S6 over
13.000.000, while during me same
$000,000,000 have .beeu spent in building
new railroads ami improving
THE LONELY LITTLE GRAVE.
A Sad Story from the Plaina of the Wild,
Tntamed West.
Did
Dakota llel!.
VOU ever come suddenlv' nnnn n.
grave off on a prairie, far from any human
habitation t Nothing can seem more sad
aud lonely than such a grave', with the
summer wind bending and waving the tall
grass with a low, murmuring harmony,
which you can just hear, if you listen close
ly, like far-off music.
1 remember finding such
from the sun, and he is so smfcll that he is
generally quenched, for an earthly obser
ver, in the rays of the setting sun. Venus,
our nearest neighbor and the most glorious
ornament of the evening skies, is now in
her glory. She is at about the end of the
invisible rope that ties her to the sun, and
will get no further away from him. From
now until Sept. 21 she will perform the
rocess known as backing up. It is need
ess to say she will do it gracefully. This
is a fine opportunity for watching the
backward progress of a planet. It was
from this apparent erratic wandering
backward and forward that the planets
n fvrflva o lit
tie one a number of years ago, in a then I pot their name, the word for "wandering"
almost unsettled portion of Dakota. It was m Greek being 4,planao.n Mars cuts a
ten miles to the nearest house. But there
was a board at the head and foot it was
less than three feet long and an attempt
at a fence around it. It was not an eld
grave, and there was a little wild rose bush
growing on it, but the soil was so dry that
it was not flourishing, and it had but one
little, withered bud, while on the surround
ing prairie the roses were all in bloom,
making it seem almost like a garden.
I rode twenty miles beyond before I
came to a house. Here a man was work
ing near a Kttle new board ''shack." I got
into conversation with him, and asked if
tie knew anything about the little grave.
"'Bout flftfvn milna bJa
mo atuv v vw iii
nigh a little
the town is started now, an'
mound V
"Yes."
f 'Our little boy is buried there the only
child we had. He died there when we
were movin' into the country a month ago,
and I buried him there with my own ban's
an' nobody with me 'cept my wife an' the
hosses, the hosses looked on an' we come
away an7 left him. I m goin' back after
him soon, an' we'll make him n littl
here near our new home, where it won't be
so lonesome Tor the little feller."
"Was he sick longt"
Liess n a week. He was took sick one
af ternoou, an' the next day it hurt him to
ride in the wagon, an' so we stopped there
with him. He crew worse, an nothin' mv
wife or me could do seemed to heln him. so
I took one of the hosses an' rode fiftv miles
to the nearest town. The doctor couldn't
go out, but he sent some medicine, an' I
went back as fast as I could. My wife was
all alone there on the prairie in the cov-
erea wagon, an' the little feller crrowur
worse. He seemed to know he was croin' i
to die, an' all day he kept askin' when pa
pa was comin'. My wife set an' heUl his
head in her lap an' kept tellin him that
papa would come pretty soon. Sometimes
ho would drop into a feverish sleep, an'
then he would start up an' say: 'Mamma,
ain't papa turn yetf I wan't to see him.'
An she roothed him the best she could,
an' tried to hide her tears.
"I got there jes 'fore sunrise. The sky
was all red an' mighty fine lookin an' the
wind was still an' the grass an' little spring
flowers all wet with dew. My wife heard
me outside, an' I heard her say that papa
had come. Aa 1 stepped up an' crawled
into the front of the wagon, an' he 'raised
up his head a little, and his great big eyes
were opened awful wide, an' he held out
his hand to me an' said : I's waitin for oo,
papa; oo was gone awful long. I knelt
by his side, where his mother was holdin'
his headin her lap, an' his eyes wandered
an' looked out the front o' the wagon at
the bootiful red sky, an' once he stretched
out his arms a little an' then the sun come
up an' he shut his eyes, an my wife took
holt o' my hand, an' we both "knowed he
was gone, jes as the sun come up.
"We did the best we could, burying him
there in a rough box 1 made,
not Know now tur we might go, an
iom you, I'm groin' uacic pretty soon an
bring him where it won't be so lonsomc
for the poor little feller."
cause l did
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19 A
"Gombroon.
Dr.j 7 ' un onmea variety
, "8 Public lands and its insti
J hich open any life to any of its
Pfeemwr . m 18 : w to pro-
u -r-:J ior me laboring classes T"
milu h heen disturbed, loss
. uL'nitn i . . .
I jy the L T "vurreu, and society. shaKen
"uicn nave become so ire-
"i and i . .. . . .
i 7 " ,upread. so easily induced
PftdTk mUe' The PwMer has
men ntioa mo8t Pfound, of
lin.'it1! elitists and govern
terLm j L,peaa "ation; hut no ad-
iet y 043611 yet found, nor a
at- ."answer to th nnostinn vet
fcatk o 8ame problem existed in
SdS t8' .ou?h in different
New P leaning elsewhere.
Ogland farm in nr.. Bra a ist.
fe nPju?uit'beeai" th fraA lacked
tin a ol that ieetiori nat
i. J ,urnei to ma
jf. i wwwm r lieu
uePresed and the market over-
ii ., ue lnannfa...,. iA
'llenii . 'tuict wan vviiicpniw
,kW l0,n ot what to Jo with those
d DO forlr
Uttmm -
SonSj ?dit.ion of "lavery itself kept
Cto l!d 10 their e. They were
t
er i. i .QOeeaWy. The ne-
TirJ,,pi0?ment had to be found for
Raleigh "Seven iiikI Olwvrvcr.J
This name of Senator Vance's new home,
at' which he received the survivors of the
Bough and Beady Gnards last Thursday,
has for some time been a source of specu
lation among the friends of the Senator as
to where he got it. why he chose it for his
new home, &c. The Asheville correspond
ent of the Wilmington Messenger has ex
plained it beautifully and concisely in the
following language:
"Gombroon, the name of the Senator's
residence, has been a -stumbling-block to
many and a case of sport to many, as it
was to Ocecv, of the Economist, who rung
all possible changes on name and sound
Gambroon, Brombone, Gamboge, Ham
bone. All sorts of queer suggestions enme
to his tongue as he tried to master the un
known word and sound. But the Senator
is a reader of wide range, outside of poli-
and the problems of statesmanship,
very small figure nowadays. He is on the
other side of tho sun from us, and
being so far away he is scarcely equal in
brilliancy to one of the first magnitude of
"fixed" stars. When he is nearest ns he
looks as big as Jupiter, and is a very fine
sight through a telescope. Jupiter is now
in excellent position' for observation. Ho
has been backing up for some time, and
his motions can be very accurately meas
ured, because he is so close to the first
magnitude star Spica. A week's watching
of him will show which way he is going.
He is going forward again now, aud has
passed Spica to the eastward. Jupiter is
as near the zenith as he ever gets, and di
rectly to the southward, about 8:30.
Tho other planets are out of sight now,
and Uranus and Wept line are never m
sight to the ordinary observer at any time.
oat urn would be worm looKing at, ii you
could find him, because he is nearer the
earth now than he will be in seventeen
years, and is tipped up so that his rings
are clearly exposed.
One Who Xeprcients the Days of 1776.
A correspondent of the Concord Times,
giving an account of the 4th of July cele-
d ration, savs mai me nay wasmaae mem
oraoie to tnem oy tne presence oi a gen
tleman who was born, it is said, in 1770,
one year before the Declaration of Inde
pendence. This gentlemen is old Billy
Whitley, of Stanley county. For him Rev.
Mr. Martin, of Rocky River Springs, spoke
in a very interesting wav.
ine iamiiy record has been lost and so
was not at hand to speak for itself, but
the proofs wero pretty conclusive that this
old man is now 112 years old. He remem
bers distinctly seeing tne soldiers coming
home from the Revolutionary ar. He
married at 33 years old and lived with his
wife t J years, who died at the age of 101 in
1881. He has in possession a gun used at
the fight of lorktown by a gentlemen
who heard the conversation between Corn
wallis and Washington at the surrender.
With this gun uncle Billy has probably
killed more deers than any other man in
N. C. He has also a pocket book which
belonged to his father and is possibly 125
or 150 years old. He has his third set of
teeth not from the dentist, but from God.
He cut liis last set at the youthful age of
109. To show the strength of his man
hood vet,' it is enough to state that last
winter he cut wood, cut up and split into I
fire wood a large dead tree, and last vear
sprouted 14 acres of ground. He has lived
a member of the Old School Baptist church
for more than GO. years. Never was known
to tell a lie; never had a law suit, never
took a dose of medicine, aud never paid a
doctor's bill. He fired off the old musket
over the heads of the immense crowd
after which a tremendous shout of three
cheers was given him.
One felt like taking off his hat in the
presence of this venerable man of four
generations back.
The writer shook hands with him and
talked with him. He has now but little
wind.
Think of this man who has lived co-ex
tensive with all the wonderful history of
this most wonderful nation! It makes one
feel nearer to the Revolutionary times to
sec and talk with one who saw the light
before that great event.
THE BLXHS TXGE2.
The Wheel Devioe
Taed by Liquor
SaniM.
Sealer ia
Popek Letter.
In several cities in the State what is
known as the "blind tiger" is the scheme
which is being nsed to; sell beer and whis
ky. A description of this novel little ap
paratus, given by a gentleman who inves
tigated it, is given as follows:
1 he other day when I was out in west
ern Kansas, in a town of not over "00 peo
ple, I asked the hot,el ' proprietor if there
was any place where I could obtain some
beer. He pointed significantly to a little
dug-out in the rear of the hotel, and mo
tioned me to go ahead.'
" 1 did, and passing five or six steps I
entered a room about five feet below the
surface of the earth, ten feet long by six
ieei wiae.
"And tho steers can't do-it t"
"No, nor any other yoke in these parts. !
Itll take a pound of gun-powder to lift
that stump."
"Shoo! now, but take off your cattle.
I'm something on the pull myself."
"You! Say, do I look like a fool! You j
can drive on, stranger,"
But Joe jumped down, slipped the chain
off the yoke, drove the steers one side, and
then walked over to the stump and said :
"Sometimes the dirt flies over half an
With that he spit on his hands, clasped
nis arms around the stump, and without a
bulge of his eyes he lifted the whole thing
out of the earth and flung it aside with the
remark:
"Shouldn't like any better fan than to I
pull those steers backwards over the fence.
but we must be going ,now. So long, old
man."
Racket Store,
Backed by the
LITE GASH DOLLARS,
Having gained in a few months a patron
age which others hare straggled for
years to obtain.
Aw-I 14 itliiMhAil a Atns-fl fwwvA mt1t Ik. 9 tm
jooKing arourm on eitner side of ml Vnd in the road half a mile away they
was the dirt wall, but cazinsr ahead was a
partition di viding the room. In the centre
of this partition, midmay from the floor to
ine ceiling, was a revolving cylinder di
vided into compartments. Above the
'wheel,' as it was called, -rere printed the
following words on a placard:
looked back. The farmer stood there, I
mouth open and e.res as big as Bermuda
onions, and when they waved their hats at
him he never moved a hair. He couldn't.
He was paralyzed.
Zaaks sad Private Bankers.
: PUT YOCR MOXEY I
'. On the wheel. '.
Your change will :
i '. Come back ;
; I Beer, 40c. per bottle. :
I Beer 5c. per glass. ;
: Blackberry brandy, :
I Two drisks for 2m. '.
"I went down into mv pocket and find
ing among the ruins a fifty-cent piece, I
placed it on the wheel in one of the com
partments. In a clear and distinct tone pf
voice I said:
"'One bottle of beer, please.'
"For a second silence reigned supreme
in the cave-like saloon. I soon heard a
creaking sound, the wheel revolved, and
my fifty -cent piece disappeared from view.
"For the space of several minutes I
heard nothing. Then' the wheel revolved
once more, and before my astonished gaze
rested a bottle of beer, a glass and a ten
cent piece, the glass being in one compart
ment and the beer in the other. I drank
tho forbidden fluid in silence, and. placing
the empty glaw and bottle back in the
compartments of the wheel, saw them
whisked from my sight, and then I with
drew. "Now, at no time was the party who
sold me the liquor visible, and it would be
impossible for me "to swear who or what he
was. .The partition which divided the
cave and behind which the unknown seller
transacted his business was very tight,
having but one crack in it. I looked
through this, striving to see what was be
hind this mysterious partition, but I could
see but one thing and that was a govern
ment license from the Internal Revenue
office at Leavenworth.;
(Rulelgh XewB-Olwerrw.
A new law passed by the last legislature
provides: "That all incorporated banking
institutions now organized or that may
hereafter be organized, under the laws of
this state, whether savings or general, and
all private bankers, shall be required to
make to the state treasurer statements of
their financial condition, at such times as
the treasurer may call for them, not less
then twice in each and every year, and
also shall publish such statements in con
densed form as published by the national
banks, in some newspaper published and
printed in the city or town where such
banking business is carried on,and if none
there, then in a newspaper pubiisnea in
the town nearest thereto."
"That any banking institution failing to
comply with the provisions of this act tor
a period longer than ten days after being
called upon by the state treasurer lor a
statement shall be subjected to a penalty
of three hundred dollar. &.. &e."
In compliance with this law Treasurer
Bain is looking np the various banking
institutions of the State and calling for
statements. On account of the great num
ber of private banking institutions in the
state he is experiencing some difficulty in
nnuing in em out. i nereis no proiiou
for a systematic "looking them np" and
the treasurer is wBolly dependent up
on replies to enquiries sent to county offi
cers for his information of them. Indivi-
tiuais operating sucn insiiiniions wpum u
well to examine the law and prepare their
returns. From these returns the condi
tion of the lanking interest of the State
may be fully learned, and irresponsible
5arties, if there ho any, shown np. So
Below yon will find a Price List which
A CASH SYSTEU
enables ns to adopt. Read it carefully and
note the advantages that are thereby of
fered:
Xi-oms GoodH, 3cc
Figured Lawn 31c. up, Victoria Lawn
5rc np. Crinkled Seersucker Cc. np. Pique
7c, Cross barred Muslin, Apron and Dress
Ginghams. Prints, Shirting, Sheetings,
Ticking, Curtain Net 10c a vard up. Mos
quito Net, Jeans 10c np. Towels 4c np.
Handkerchiefs lc np, Laces. Edging and
Inserting lc. a yard np. Tabic Linens, &c
IVotioiiM.
Pins 2c, Best Brass Pin 3c, Thread 2c.
(200 yards). Silk Thread 4c, Dressing
Combs 2c np, Tucking Combe 4c np. Hair
pins 2c per bunch (43), Toilet Soap 2c np.
Garters 3c np. Garter Elastic 3c y'd np.
Parses 4c np. Hand Bags, Baskets, Per
fumery 5c np. Face Paw-lcr 4c n p. Dress
Shields 10c, Ladies Gauze Vests 23c op,
Bass Balls 4c np, Whalebone 4c per pc.
Featherhone 14c. y'd. Pant Buttons 8c per
gross. Dress Buttons white and smoked
pevrl. pearl, agate, Ac, lc doz. np. Fine
S.Ik Jersey Gloves 33c, others from Cc np,
Ladies, Misses and Gents, 5c np.
MM
Umbrellas, Fans. Parasol, Whins, Cor
sets 25c np. The Racket Corset 47c
FiHliiiier Tnoldo.
nooks 5c doz., Hooks and Lines 4c up.
47c up; a Fast Black. Coat Back, EUstie
Scams, 61c; an all wool Die.
Ooods.
3 and 4 ply Linen Collar 7, 8, 9, 10 and
12c, 3 and 4 ply Linen Cuffs 14c on. 100
rar. retnrns have been received from over I dozen Ties and Means, beautiful styles, "
Point About Rattlesnakes.
tics
nMCAt trvIWo-p in the Southern States and beseems to be fond of De Quincy, both
beim 33 767 miles, against 20,042 in 1880. in his fantastical reveries and in his more
sane prouuviious, aa x unu wcnsiuii if
learn in a recent conversation with him),
and somewhere he came across De Quin
cy's brilliant history of his imaginary king
dom, with its splendid castles, and its glo
rious mountains, and its deep forests,
and its grand, roaring torrents. Of this
kingdom Gombroon was the capital; and
what more appropriate that real local hab
itation, as well as name, should be fixed
for it among the majestic masses that have
the name so little worthy of their height
and grandeur the Black and thus Gom-
Tie Elections the Coining TsXL
r.opntto' the extent that the Legisla
ture chosen this fall in Virginia, Kentucky
Jrl. t navti'AtnAtfl in the election ol
aim j. . .w, ..i
tt:.1 Ctotoa Senators, tlie elections ui iuc
UUireu ..v. , l .!
present year can uardiy De consmcrcu .
rot national iiuyunuw
W V T
, 1 AL--
Massachusetts, Kentucky.-lowa ana vm
will elect Governors, and these States, with
Virginia, New York nd New Jersey, will
choose new Legislatures, wholly or in part.
i-ennayt "--" - nnaaata TVxns broon cot its name
whether to sanction proniuiwijr
tiorial amendments. The elections m sev
eral of the States named will possess ex- Nexfc to the 8un an(j the earth 'ltset, in
v . m 4.1 A r,.mh that T nOV I ... . .
ceotional interest ior.merKi"" a8tronomieal importance to us, is tne moon,
will afford indications of the voting Her majesty rose on the 6th at 5 o'clock
The Xoon and f tars this Month.
strength of new political movements. iNew and ftt in the morning. Her "day,"
York politicians are curious w it wjjj een, ls very short now only ab-
whether Mr. Henry lieorge anu r.
Glynn are factor to be taken; much into
amount in 1888, and whether .in that ad
ta Mr Powderlv will throw nis
influent unifoVmly for the meparh;.
In Virginia the condition of the .Repubh
1U "JL... ; mV. Ahafed bv its oppo-
"ry--r Zn; A Srer on the point
Xther it b weaker or stronger than it
i vvpmber. when it dereaieaai
good many Democratic aspirants for con
gressional honors.-
Sneculator (enthusiastically) I tell you.
pn&Sm?n there is wealth in the Great Ar
EtfSSnV conntry. Rock fairly ghtter-
lDRi Mer-I can testify to that.
There is a fortune there, gentlemen.
Sp -Have you been prospecting m
th& MJ& came back. I left my for
tune therej
out nine hours and she rides low in the
sky throughout her course. .She was full
on the 5th at half-past three o'clock in the
mornincr. Her last quarter .was on the
13th. and she disappeared in the sun's glo
ry on the 19th, emerging from her bath of
light on the 21st (to-day) modest, fresh
and new, a tiny silver rim. The moon is
moving away from the earth now. She
was 227.000 miles away on the 5th. On
ha 12th day of July unconsciously eel
abrating the battle of Boynewater she
was over 250,000 miles away, at her apogee.
Then she comes back again, and is in per
igree, or nearest the earth, again on the
24th. , . .
Of the planets. Mercury was at his fur
thest eloncration from the sun on the 5th, a lit
tle south of the Bun's setting point and very
near the horizon. It takes a good eye to
catch this elusive little fellow. His.t ether
is so short that he never gets very far away
Canning Fruit.
rtiilanolpliia TYra.
First of the jars, which should always be
of glass, with glass or porcelain lined tops.
Ureat cure must bo used to have them in
perfect order. No matter how clean they
little I
half the counties of the taV and others
are daily beinir made. The returns will
also be of matnrial nse in adjusting the
bank tax. It should be remembered, that
while the Treasurer has no authority to
compel the publication of the statement,
the law requires it.
np, colored blurts 39c up. wlutennlann
dried Shirts 33c np, the N. Y. Mills cele
brated Shirt GTc latmdried Shirts 53c
np. Jeans Drawers 23c np, Balbriggan
Suits, Suspenders, work Shirts. Overalls,
Seersucker Coats and Vests $1.31
Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser. ,
A gentleman who has had some experi
ence with rattlesnakes was speaking a day
or two ago about the habits of the reptile.
"rew people, said tue gentleman, "un
derstood the habits of 'rattlesnakes, .con
sequently there is a good deal of unneces
sary fear -regarding them". In the first
place, o rattlesnake will not chase yon
and in the second place, it will not attack
you unless you come uponnt in sucn a way
that it cannot escape without attacking,
If a rattlesnake is disturbed it usually
sounds its rattle and makes off, but' if j-ou
come upon it suddenly aud it has to fight.
it will coil itself up, poise its head and
strike at you downward. The fang is
turned up under the upper jaw, and as it
stnkes this is thrown out and cuts into the
flesh. It is as sharp as a razor, and goes
through1 a thin boot like a steel blade.
.What is the best antidote? v Whiskey. The
man who is bitten by a rattlesnake should
have whiskey poured into him until he is too
drunk to stand, and he should be kept
drunk for two or three days. The one poi
son conteracts the other. If ho can't be
made druuk there is lit t tie hope for him.
1 have seen it stated that a bottle of tur
pentine turned np on the bile will draw
the poison out in the shape ot a greenish
cloud that will float up into the white fluid,
but I have never seen a test made of that.
Live flesh will also draw ont the poison, it
is said, and I know that in some places,
where a person is bitten by a rattlesnake,
the first thing done is to kill a chicken,
cut it in half, aud while the flesh is still
quivering put it warm to the bite.
The Work of Some Lasy If an.
Abbeville Medium. J
A man who has more time than money
has taken the trouble to find out how far
a farmer has to cultivate forty acres of
corn. To plow the ground wdh a sixteen-
mch plough he walks dot) miles; to harrow
the ground thoroughly before planting he
walks 60 miles; to cultivate it afterwards
he walks 300 miles; making a grand total
of 700 miles, besides the gathering. Brood
ing over information like this U one of the
things which makes farmers sons too tired
to stay on the farm. Af a set-off some
body ought to find out bow many miles a
dry roods clerk walks in a day.
may have been when pnt away, a
carelessness at the time of nsing will not
only ruin the flavor of the preserves, bnt
will prevent the fruit from keeping. A
jar that has been tightly covered for some
time will be found to have a close odor
which will taint the fruit and particularly
so, it by any mistake the rubber rine has
been shut up inside it. Therefore, when
rpady to use scald each jar thoroughly,
then partly fill with fresh boiling water,
and stand in a pan of hot water on the
back of the range nntil ready for use, first
using the precaution to put a folded towel
on the bottom of the pan to prevent the jar
from cracking or breaking. When the
fruit is done pour tho" water from the jar
slowlv,- then through' a wide mouth fun
nel fill with the boiling fruit to overflow
ing, in order to exclude every particle of
air; cover quickly and screw down the tops,
it.. ,
oianu ixmom nnwarus in a warm piace,
where the wind wilt: not blow on them.
When entirely cold, .tighten the screws,
which the shrinkage of cooling will have
left a little loose. The next day label
plainly and put nwaj in a dry, cool and
dark place. Jellies should never be kept
in a cellar, but if the cellar is very dry
canned fruit may be kept there safely.
Next of fruit. Iu selecting fruit for put
ting np great care should be nsed to have
it perfectly sound and fresh, and not too
ripe, particularly for jellies, as any amount
of boiling will not make the juice or over
ripe small fruits to jelly. In canning
fruits they should only be cooked until
thoroughly scalded through, for overcook
ing destroys the natural flavor, and, in
case of small fruits, long cooking with su
gar not only renders the seeds very hard
and indigestible, but destroys the delicate
flavor of tho fruits. Nearly all the small
fruits are much letter to be sufficiently
cooked first, and to have the sugar put in
hot just before they are taken off the stove.
The added flavor imparted by tins mode
of treatment is surprising. To heat the
sugar, put it into the ovens in pans, but
do not allow it to brown. Granulated su
gar is the only sugar which should be used
for putting up fruit in any form, especial
ly for jellies. Careful skimming, too, is of
great importance. Do not stir the fruit af
ter it commences to boil, but, spoon in
hand, watch carefully the rising scum un
til it is ready to break; then scum quickly
and thoroughly, and continue to skim until
done If this rising scum is allowed to
boil nnder as it breaks it will not rise to
the top again, and so will not only cause
the fruit to be cloudy,' but will prevent its
keeping well.
A ratal Start.
With 7,858 money order post offices in
the country, including 353 new ones estab
lished this week, it is plain that the postal
transfer bank business is assuming the
proportions of an almost universal public
convenience.
KrtNN the Charlotte Chronicle.
Information was brought to the city yes
terday of a fatal explosion at the camp of
A. & C. right, contractors on the Caroli
na ami Geonria and Midland road, at 6
o'clock last Friday afternoon, whieh re
sulted in the desth of one white man, eight
colored men and two mules.
The scene of the accident is near the
banks of the Catawba river, about 30 miles
from Charlotte.. Wnirht Brothers have a
contract on Gen. R. F. Hoke's new road,
which is to connect Monroe or Charlotte
with Atlanta, and they work a large force
of hands. A squad of twelve colored men
were engaged in blasting through a rocky
cnt nnder the supervision of a white man
named Agio. One of the dynamite cart
ridges used in firing the blast became fas
tened in the drill hole before it could be
driven home, and Agio, the boss of tho
gang, seized an iron erowoar anu went io
work in an effort to drive the cartridge to
its proper place.
It was an immense blast, charged with
ten kegs of powder. 1 As soon as the bar i
struck the cartridge it exploded and fired
the blast with dreadful effect. Three of
the twelve men escaped unhurt, but the
others were either blown to pieces or buried
nnder tho immense mass of earth and rock
that was thrown up by the explosion. Some
of the unfortunate men were horribly mu
tilated, fragments of their bodies Wing
scattered around the scene of the accident.
Three of the men whoscaped being killed
outright were caught nnder the mass of
falling debris and suffocated to death, and
it was not until nine o'clock that night.
three hours after the explosion occurred,!
that the last body was dug from the debris.
Agio, the foreman, was badly lacerated
by the explosion and lingered until 12 o'
clock vesterdav, when he died. In addi
tion to all this loss of human life, two
mules that were hitched to carts in the vi
cinity of the accident were killed.
dfarettee Xajvinf the Zjes.
A great many medical men claim that
the nse of tobacco in its various forms is
very injurious to health, while others say
it affects the health of men to no percepti
ble extent, and still another class claim
that it is actually beneficial to most con
sumers. The latest charge brought against
the weed is by ad optician of New York.
He says: "Cigarette smoking is doing
Note Paper, 3, 4, 5 and 7c quire.
Envelopes 3 and 4c. pack, 2. in pack.
Legal and Fools Cap 8, !), 10c. quire.
Memorandum Books 3c np
Order Books 5 and 7c
Writing Tablets 3c up.
Copy Books 2c np.!
Lead Pencils 10. 20 and 25c dozen.
Slate Pencils 2c dozen.
Slates 2 cents each. Ink 3c
Falcon and Stub Pens 5c dozen
Penholders lc dozen np.
Beautiful Scrap Books 17 eents np.
Scrap Pictures lc. dozen up.
Autograph and Photo Albums.
Playing Cards .V. pack.
Photo Frames, Easels, Plaques, Ac.
Lead for Automatic Pencil.
School Satchels.
SllOON,
Examine our new lot of Shoes, which we
ltought at the late failure of Clutman &
Bingham, Manufacturers of fine Shoes.
Men's Buttons, Congress and English
Balmorals and Brogans. Boys fine Bal
morals and Brogans. L-idies and Misses
fine Kid and Goat Bntton and Lace Shoes
and Slippers. Gents' Patent Leather hand
sewed Pumps. Infant Shoes, &c All at
25 per cent, below current prices.
Handsaws 29 to 3Sc Hammers lie np.
Hatchets 38c np. Wrenches 10c np.
Braces 35c Chisels 17c np. Drawing.
Knives 33c Spirit Levels 8 cents. Curry
Combs 4c. np. Pocket Cutlery 4c up.
Padlocks 7c np. Clone t and Door Locks
14c np. Scissors and Shears 4c up. Razors
23c np. Wade& Batcher's fine Razors
51c. Carpet Tacks 2c Tack Claws, Screws
lc dozen np. Pliers. Can Openers, Oar
den Tools, Hoe, Rake and Sonde 23c.
Lemon Squeezers 23c Paint Brushes
Razor Strops 14c un. Pipes, Gun Caps,
Moeilage 4c, French Shoe Dressing 5c
bottle. Rules 5c np, Sliaving Brashes 4c
np. Table Spoons 17c set np, Toothpicks,
Coffee Mills, Blacking lc and 2c box.
Brushes, &e.
TiiiAvnre.
A Faralrsed Tamer.
' Detroit Free Prete.
A Detroit butcher named Joe Wiilets.
was np in Mecosia county a few days ago
to see some relatives. . Joe is built after
the old style architecture one story and a
basement and auy man who picks him np
for a consumptive is bound to feel sad over
'the mistake. While out ridieg one day
with a friend he came across a farmer who
was trying to "yank", a stump out of the
ground with a yoke of feeble looking
steers.. The stump had begun to "give,"
but the steers strained and twisted and
pulled and couldn't budge it another inch.
"What are von trviuc to dot" said Joe.
as he stopped "his horse.
" Trying to pull out this stump, sir," was
.the reply. . . .
Always on hand a large assortment at
Racket prices; besides many other lines
too nnmerons to mention. Cll n.1 ma
more injury to the eyes than anything I us and secure your bargains while they are
know of. Smoking pipes or cigars is bad J here.
enough , but t here is somet h i u g i n t he paper
with whieh the cigarette is rolled that is
very injurious to the eyesight. There are
more men and boys wearing glasses now
than I have ever known before, and I at
tribute it all to excess in tobacco smoking:.
Nine of ten Germans wear spectacles. They
are inveterate smokers." '
Xememhers tke Goof 014 Times.
Our stock has been largely increased
within the last few days, and yon will find
it toyoar best inters to examine it before
furchasing elsewhere. You will find many
ines which space wUl not permit us to
mention, l&a early and avail yourself o
an excellent opportunity to secure -
Respect fully.
Darlington Free Pirn
rtannila. lmaat wl. nnntpp 1 ftt vmm rAA
He remembers having seen a clean office I MORRlSt CARNEY & CO.i
ivr tv a vi u h v v r
A straight line can be drawn through
seventy-five miles of the Indian river. Fla..
without touching shore. It is called the
straightcfct nver in the world.
HAY STREET,
Fayetteville, N. C.
New York ofilce, 4GC Broadway.
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