SERIAL
STORY
REMINISCENCES OF
SHERLOCK
HOLMES
^y ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Illustrations by V. L. BARNES
threw It on the rustic table before us.
“That is why' I have done it,” said
he.
It showed the bust and face of a
very beautiful woman. Holmes stooped
over it.
“Brenda Tregennis,” said he. .
“Yes, Brenda Tregennis,” repeated
our visitor. "For years I have loved
her. For years she has loved me.
That is the secret of that Cornish se
clusion which people have marveled
at. It has brought me close to the
one thing on earth that was dear to
me. I could not marry her, for I have
a wife who has left me for years, and
yet whom, by the deplorable laws of
England, I could not divorce. For
years I waited. And this is what we
have waited for.” A terrible sob
shook his great frame, and he clutched
his throat under his brindle beard.
'Cfie,
ADVENTURE
Of THE
DEVILS FOOT
Then with an effort he mastered
self and spoke on.
“The vicar knew. He was in
confidence. He would tell you
she was an angel upon earth.’
him-
our
that
That
was why he telegraphed to me and I
returned.
What was my baggage or
(Continued.)
“I have lived so long among sav
ages and beyond the law,” said he,
''‘that I have got into a way of being
a law to myself. You would do well,
Mr. Holmes, not to forget it, for I
have no desire to do you an injury.”
"Nor have I any desire to do you
an injury, Dr. Sterndale. Surely the
■clearest proof of it is that, knowing
what I know, I have sent for you and
aiot for the police.”
Sterndale sat down with a gasp,
•overawed, perhaps, the first time in
his adventurous life. There was a
calm assurance of power in Holmes’
manner which could not be withstood.
Our visitor stammered for a moment,
his great hands opening and shutting
in his agitation.”
“What do you mean?” he,asked, at
last. “If this is bluff upon your part,
Mr. Holmes, you have chosen a bad
man for your experiment. Let us have
no more beating about the bush. What
•do you mean?”
“I will tell you,” said Holmes, “and
the reason why I tell you is that I
hope frankness may beget frankness.
What my next step may be will
pend entirely upon the nature
your own defense.”
“My defense.”
“Yes, sir.”
de-
of
“My defense against what?”
“Against the charge of killing Mor
timer Tregennis.”
Sterndale mopped his forehead with
his handkerchief. “Upon my word,
you are getting on,” said he. “Do all
your successes depend upon this pro
digious power of bluff?”
“The bluff,” said Holmes, sternly,
“is upon your side, Dr. Leon Stern
dale, and not upon mine. As a proof
I will tell you some of the facts upon
which my conclusions are based. Of
your return to Plymouth, allowing
much of your property to go on to
Africa, I will say nothing save that it
first informed me that you were one
of the factors which had to be taken
Into account in reconstructing this
drama.”
"I came back—”
“I have heard your reasons and re
gard them as unconvincing and inade-
•quate. We will pass that. You came
down here to ask me whom I suspect-
•ed. I refused to answer you. You
then went to the vicarage, waited out
side it for some time, and finally re
turned to your cottage.”
"How do you know that?”
“I followed you.”
“I saw no one.”
“That is what you may expect to
see when I follow you. You spent a
restless night at your cottage, and
you formed certain plans, which in
the early morning you proceeded to
put into execution. Leaving your door
just as day was breaking, you filled
your pocket with some reddish gravel
Africa to me when I learned that such
a fate had come upon my darling?
There you have the missing clew to
my action, Mr. Holmes.”
“Proceed,” said my friend.
Dr. Sterndale drew from his pocket
a paper packet and laid it upon the
table. On the outside was written,
“Radix pedis diaboli,” with a red poi
son label beneath it. He pushed it
towards me. “I understand that you
are a doctor, sir. Have you ever
heard of this preparation ?”
“Devil’s-foot root! No, I have never
heard of it.”
“It Is no reflection upon your pro
fessional knowledge,” said he, “for I
believe that, save for one sample in
a laboratory at Buda, there is no
other specimen in Europe. It has
not yet found its way either into the
pharmacopeia or into the literature
of toxicology. The root is shaped like
a foot, half human, half goatlike;
hence the fanciful name given by a
botanical missionary. It is used as
an ordeal poison by the medicine-men
in certain districts of West Africa,
and is kept a secret among them
This particular specimen I obtained
under very extraordinary circum
stances in the Ubaaghi country.” He
opened the paper as he spoke, and
disclosed a heap of reddish-brown,
snuff-like powder.
“Well, sir?” said Holmes, sternly.
“I am about to tell you, Mr. Holmes,
all that actually occurred, for you al
ready know so much that it is clearly
to my interest that you should know
all. I have already explained the re
lationship in which I stood to the Tre
gennis family. For the sake of the
was opening cabinet* and stooping to
boxes, that he managed to abstract
some of the devil’s-foot root. I well
remember how he plied me with ques
tions as to the amount and the time
that was needed for its effect, but I
little dreamed that he could have a
personal reason for asking.
“I thought no more of the matter
until the vicar’s telegram reached me
at Plymouth. This villain had thought
that I would be at sea before the news
could reach me, and that’I should be
lost for years in Africa.. But I re
turned at once. Of course, I could
not listen to the details without feel
ing assured that my poison had been
used. I came round to see you on the
chance that some other explanation
had suggested Itself to you. But
there could be none. I was convinced
that Mortimer Tregennis was the mur
derer; that for the sake of money,
and with the idea, perhaps, that if the
other members of his family were all
insane he would be the sole guardian
of their joint property, he had used
the devil’s-foot powder upon them,
driven two of them out of their senses,
and killed his sister Brenda, the one
human being whom I have ever loved
or who has ever loved me. There was
his crime; what was to be his punish
ment?
“Should I appeal to the law? Where
were my proofs? I knew that the
facts were true, but could I help to
make a jury of countrymen believe
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THE TEST FARM TO OXFORD
sister I was friendly
with the broth-
ers. There was a family quarrel
about money which
man Mortimer, but it
estranged this
was supposed to
be'made up, and I afterwards met him
Sterndale Sprang to
His Feet.
as
I did the others. He was a sly,
so fantastic a story?
might not.
I might or I
But I could not afford to
fail. My soul cried out for revenge.
I have said to you once before, Mr.
Holmes, that I have spent much of !
my life outside the law, and that I
have come at last to be a law to my
self. So it was now. I determined
that the fate which he had given to
others should be shared by himself.
Either that, or I would do justice upon
him with my own hand. In all Eng
land there can be no man who sets
less value upon his own life than I
do at the present moment.
“Now I have told you all. You have
yourself supplied the rest. I did, as
you say, after a restless night, set off
early from my cottage. I foresaw the
difficulty of arousing him, so I gath
ered some gravel from the pile which
you have mentioned, and I used it.
to throw up to his window. He came
down and admitted me through the
window of the sitting-room. I laid his
offense before him. I told him I had
come both as judge and executioner.
The wretch sank into a chair para
lyzed at the sight of my revolver. I
lit the lamp, put the powder above it,
and stood outside the window, ready
to carry out my threat to shoot him
should he try to leave the room. In
five minutes he died. My God! how
he died! But my heart was flint, foi
he endured nothing which my inno
cent darling had not felt before him.
There is my story, Mr. Holmes. Per
haps, if you loved a woman, you would
have done as much yourself. At any
rate, I am in your hands. You can
take what steps you like. As I have
already said, there is no man living
who can fear death less than I do.”
Holmes sat for some time in silence.
“What were your plans?” he asked,
at last.
“I had intended to bury myself in
Central Africa. My work there is but
half finished.”
“Go and do the other half,” said
Holmes. “I, at least, am not prepared
to prevent you.”
Dr. Sterndale raised his giant fig
ure, bowed gravely, and walked from
the arbor. Holmes lit his pipe and
handed me his pouch.
“Some fumes which are not poison
ous would be a welcome change,” said
he. “I think you must agree, Watson,
that it is not a case in which we are
called upon to interfere. Our investi
gation has been independent, and our
action shall be also. You would
denounce the man?”
not
FRESHMAN ISAAC
W. RAND OF
Such Is Belief of Tobacco Test Farm
Committee—Will Be Conducted By
U. 3. Government.
ABOUT 30,000 ACRES THAT
PM
HAVE
UN
IVERSITY OF
NORTH CAR-
OLINA THE
VICTIM.
CUTS THE JUGULAR VEIN
Slipped From Barrel Upon Which he
Was Being Made to Dance and Fell
on Broken Glass—Making Thorough
Investigation.
Chapel Hill.—The coroner’s jury
which investigated the death of Fresh
man Isaac W. Rand of Smithfield
which occurred while he was being
hazed in the athletic field by a body of
sophomores, made the following re
port of its finding: "We find that the
deceased came to his death by being
cut, caused by a fall upon a broken
bottle, and find furrier that the de
ceased, at the time of the fall, was
being made to dance upon said barrel
by a party of hazers of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, and that said
party was composed of W. L. Merri
man, A. H. Styron, R. W. Oldham. A.
C. Hatch and other parties unknown
to the jury. We recommend that said
W. L. Merriman, A. H. Styron, R. W.
Oldham and A. C. Hatch be held under
bond for the next term of court of
Orange county for further investiga
tion into said death.”
The bond was fixed at $5,000 each..
The boys are under custody.
As developed by the testimony giv
en before the coroner’s jury the death
of young Rand occurred while he was
being hazed, together with his room-
mate, on the athletic field.
The four sophomores mentioned
masked themselves and entered the
room of I. W. Rand and R. A. Wel
lons, two freshmen from Smithfield.
Without being given time to dress
the two first year men were taken
to the athletic field, a distance of
about 300 yards from the dormitory.
There, Wellons was first placed up
on an upturned barrel and made to
sing and dance. After performing for
a few minutes he slipped down from
the barrel, and in doing so scratched
himself slightly.
Then Rand’s turn
barrel came, and he
to perform, when he
to mount the
had just begun
apparently slip-
ped in the same manner as Wellons.
He fell, to the ground and lay there.
He was picked up and blood was dis
covered to be spurting from a large
cut on the left side of his neck. He
had fallen on some pieces of broken
glass. He died a few moments later.
Negroe’s Leg Cut Off by Train.
Will Temple, a negeo about twenty-
four years of age, and living at Wake
Forest, had his right leg cut off be
tween his hip and knee and his left
leg broken while attempting to "hobo”
a freight train. The accident occurred
at Wyatt, a station four miles from
Wake Forest. The negro was brought
back here on train No. 30 and the col
lege physicians were summoned. One
leg was taken off and the negro died
a few hours later.
which was lying beside your gate.
Sterndale gave a violent start
looked at Holmes in amazement.
"You then walked swiftly for
and
mile
separated you from
vl r
the
the
- You were wearing, I may
ark, the same pair of ribbed ten
ons shoes which are at the present
moment upon your feet. At the vicar
age you passed through the orchard
and the side hedge, coming out under
the window of the lodger, Tregennis.
It was now daylight, but the house
hold was not yet stirring. You drew
some of the gravel from your pocket,
and you threw it up at the window
above you—”
Sterndale sprang to his feet.
“I believe that you are the devil
himself!” he cried.
Holmes smiled at the compliment.
“It took two, or possibly three, hand
fuls before the lodger came to the
window. You beckoned him to come
-down. He dressed hurriedly and de
scended to his sitting-room. You en
tered by the window. There was an
interview—a short one—during which
you walked up and down the room.
Then you passed out and closed the
window, standing on the lawn out
side smoking a cigar and watching
what occurred. Finally, after the
death of Tregennis, you withdrew as
you had come. Now, Dr. Sterndale,
how do you justify such conduct, and
what were the motives of your ac
tions? If you prevaricate or trifle
with me, I give you my assurance that
the matter will pass out of my hands
forever.”
Our visitor’s face had turned ashen
gray as he listened to the words of
his accuser. Now he sat for some
time in thought with his face sunk in
his hands. Then, with a sudden im-
pulsi'-e gesture, he plucked a photo-
sraql. from his breast pocket and
subtle, scheming man, and several
things arose which gave me a suspi
cion of him, but I had no cause for
any positive quarrel.
"One day, only a couple of weeks
ago, he came down to my cottage and
I showed him some of my African cu
riosities. Among other things, I ex
hibited this powder, and I told him
of its strange properties, how it stim
ulates those brain centers which con
trol the emotion of fear, and how
either madness or death is the fate of
the unhappy native who is subjected
to the ordeal by the priest of his
tribe. I told him also how powerless
European science would be to detect
it. How he took it I cannot say, for
“Certainly not,” I answered.
“I have never loved, Watson, but if
I did, and if the woman I loved had
met such an end, I might act even as
our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who
knows? Well, Watson, I will not of
fend your intelligence by explaining
what is obvious. The gravel under
Murderer Attempts to Break Jail.
Bob Shipes, the alleged slayer of
John Brittain, in Burke county some
10 years ago, and who was arrested
in Los Angeles, Cal., and brought
back to Morganton and lodged in jail
made a desperate but ineffectual at
tempt to escape from prison. In some
manner he tore a heavy piece of iron
from the cage where he was confined,
and after getting out in the corridor
of the jail proceeded to demolish
everything in sight.
the window-sill was, of course,
starting point of my research. It
the
was
unlike anything in the vicarage gar-
den. Only when my attention
had
been drawn to Dr. Sterndale and his
cottage did I find its counterpart. The
lamp shining in broad daylight and
the remains of powder upon
the
shield were successive links in a fair
ly obvious chain. And now, my dear
Watson, I think we may dismiss the
matter from our minds, and go back
with a clear conscience to the study
of those Chaldean roots which are
surely to be traced in the Cornish
I never left the room, but there is branch of the great Celtic Speech”
no doubt that it was then, while II (TO be Continued)
Perfumer’s Day Will Come
Then He Will Have Odors That
Move Mankind Most
Profoundly.
A perfumer was talking shop.
"When will my trade,” he said,
Will
"de ¬
velop as it should? When will perfume
sway men’s minds as drink and fame
do now?
"I have a dog. Often in the country
my dog will spy a dead, rotting, sun-
dried bird or fish. The odor of that
carcass fills my dog with ecstasy. He
rolls upon it in a delirium. It is diffi
cult, even with a club, to make him
stop. Well, there, just there, is the
perfume that sways dogs, and a dog
perfumer, patenting it, would become
a billionaire.
"The serpent arum is a plant of
strong odor. The arum has, indeed, a
stench. Well, this stench attracts to
it from miles around all those insects
that fed on carrion. If you look into
the cup of the serpent arum you are
sure to see a very inferno of Insect
drunkards—hundreds of them, intoxi
cated by the arum’s odor, whirling and
leaping and spinning in a mad dancce.
For the serpent arum’s odor is the
odor par excellence of insects, as the
rotten, sun-baked fish odor is the odor
par excellence of dogs.
“Have I any perfume that sways
mankind like that? No, none. Imag
ine my new-mown hay drawing
lady from her milliner’s or her pet pi
anist’s! Imagine my girofle drawing a
man from his beer or his jackpot!
“Yet the day will come, I am con
vinced, when we shall have perfumes
that will move mankind as profoundly
as the spoiled fish perfume moves a
dog and as the serpent arum perfume
moves the Dermestes and Saprinidae.
In that day my address will be River
side drive, Newport, Jekyl Island-
Monte Carlo and Los Angeles.”
Raleigh.—That Oxford will get the
tobacco test farm, contended for so
spiritedly by four of the best tobacco
growing farms in the state, is the sen
timent of the test farm committee
which has recently returned from an
inspection of sites and received a an-
SO FAR BEEN APPROVED
PURCHASE.
FOR
THE PURPOSE OF THE
LAW
alysis of soils.
Durham, Stokes,
Granville
and
Rockingham were the bidders fo rthis
farm. All put up good land offers and
all were anxious to win it. Granville
has simply to meet a few conditions
imposed by the farm committee, re
quirements not yet made public.
This farm is to be conducted by the
government. It will be of immense
help to tobacco raisers. It corres
ponds to the test farms of other sec
tions of the state, though conducted
differently. There is none anywhere
else in half a dozen states near North
Carolina, it is said, and the state is.
very lucky to win it.
The impetus given to corn farming
by the endeavors of the department
has raised the yield to 22 bushels to
the acre. It is believed that this
method of encouraging tobacco grow
ers will multiply the yield and in
crease the poundage greately without
the addition of acres.
The members of the committee who
went out to make the selections are:
R. W. Scott, E. T. McCallum, William
Bledsoe, I. H. Kearney, Dr. B. W. Kil
gore and Maj. W. A. Graham.
North Carolina New Enterprises.
A charter was issued for the Wil
mington Market & Supply Co. of Wil
mington, capital $100,000 authorized
and $2,500 subscribed by R. R. Stone,
J. Allen Taylor and Martin O’Brien
for mercantile business. The Levi De
partment Stores (Inc.) of Rutherford
ton, capital $50,000 by R. M. Levi and
others was another firm receiving a
charter. The North-South Line (Inc.)
of Beaufort, capital $10,000 authoriz
ed and $2,000 subscribed by E. H.
Willis, N. W. Taylor and others for
operating river and coastwise boat
lines and doing a mercantile business
was also chartered.
Craig’s Speech to be Special Feature.
Hpn Locke Craig has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address in
Asheville on the night of October 10
for the United Commercial Travelers
of America, the occasion being a spec
ial program of entertainment that the
Asheville council is arranging for vis
iting traveling men. The Western Car
olina Fair will be in session, and a
special social meeting for the mer
chants and traveling men on the the
night of October 10 is to be the cli
max for entertainment that is to be
provided. Mr. Craig’s speech to be a
special feature.
Enthusiastic Senatorial Contest.
Enthusiasm in the senatorial con
test is begining to claim the attention
of almost every one in and around
Scotland Neck. The friends of Gover
nor Kitchin claim they will carry the
county by an overwhelming majority,
while the
mons and
of polling
chin men
supporters of Senator Sim-
Judge Clark seem confident
a larger vote than the Kit-
give them. They say while
they do not claim or expect to carry
the county, yet they will not concede
everything to the Kitchin element.
For Protection Against Floods, Pre-
vention of Erosion of Steep Slopes'
and Preservation of Timber—Parts
of This Land is in North Carolina^
Raleigh.—A special from Washing
ton states that Uncle Sam has loosen
ed up his purse strings and turned
over $55,000 to North Carolina for
lands for the Appalachian Park For
est Reservation.
The law of 1911, which created tile-
National Park Commission, the pur
pose of which is to buy suitable lands
for forest reservations, provided $2,-
000,000 annually for the purchase of
lands. The law permits the expendi
ture of any money that was not spent
last year this year or next year. It
w,as amended recently to that effect.
About 300,000 acres
of land have
been approved for purchase by the
commission, at an estimated cost of
$1,600,000, in several states.
Lands have been approved for pur
chase by the commission to become.
sections of the Appalachian
Forest:
Reservation in Tennessee, North Car
olina, Virginia, Georgia and New
Hampshire. The total of all areas ap
proved for purchase by the commis-
sion is 264,465 acres.
At the meetingss of the
which will take place in
winter it is expected that
commission,
the coming
these areas
will be greatly enlarged as the forest
service has already completed the
amination of a large number of
ditional tracts.
In North Carolina the total area
ex-
ad-
ap-
proved by the commission is 53,985
acres. This lies in what is known as
the Mount Mitchell and Nantahala
districts. The Mount Mitchell district
includes parts of McDowell, Bun
combe, Yancey and Mitchell counties.
The Natahala district lies in Clay,
Macon, Swain, Graham and Cherokee
counties.
Two Injured in
Kinston.—As the
side duel on the
Ben Faulkner w,as
Roadside Duel,
result of a road-
Grifton turnpike,
painfully, though.
not fatally, shot, his son Guy slightly
wounded, and Doc Wallace and his
son Ed arrested for the shooting. The
elder Faulkner is said to be on the
road to recovery, while the boy’s
wounds were insignificant. At a hear
ing for bond both Wallaces were re
leased on $1,000 bail by a justice. The
affair was the result of bad feeling
of long standing. The Wallaces and
the Faulkners are neighbors, and live,
three or four miles from here.
Have No Trace of McIntyre.
High Point.—The whereabouts of
young McIntyre—the alleged sender
of the infernal machine—are as entire
ly unknown as if the earth had swal
lowed him up. It is known however
that he had been to Birmingham, a
short time after the explosion and
that the police of that city could have
easily apprehended him had they
been notified at the right time.
To Have Chicken Fattening Plant.
H. H. Pierce of the United States
Department of Agriculture was in the
city the other day investigating the
feasibility of establishing a chicken-
fattening plant in Hickory. Chickens
are now being shipped from this city
in the same way as 20 years ago. Mr.
Pierce thinks enough chickens could
be procured within a radius
miles to make the plant very
ful.
Sheriff Comes for Ben Vann.
Sheriff Charles Reid, of
of 50
success-
Perqui-
mans, was at Raleigh for Ben Vann,
of Belvidere, charged with the mur
der of Oliver Layden in July. This
crime stirred the people considerably
and has very vicious features. The
evidence is purely circumstantial.
Young Layden w£6 missing about
three weeks before found and when
he was discovered, he had been re
duced to a skelton. Certain charges
against Vann, relative to the firing of
a house, are supposed,, to have fur
nished a motive for killing Layden.
Politics in Sampson County.
Sampson Democrats held an
thusiastic convention at Clinton
nominated the following ticket:
en-
and
for
legislature, J. Abner Barker; sheriff,
J. H. Swann; register of deeds, Red
man Herring; treasurer, H. L. Stew
art; coroner, Dr. J. K. Kerr; surveyor,
Lewis E. Whitehead;, commissioners,
A. H. Herring, George Rose and Frank
Highsmith. The platform declares for
a reduction of fees or salary system
for county officers. A. F. Howard, of
Salemburg, was elected chairman of
the executive committee.
Politics in Randolph County.
The Randolph county convention
of the Progressive party was held at
Asheboro. The attendance was large
and enthusiastic, and a strong ticket
composed of formerUemocrats and Re
publicans was put in the field. The
convention went on record as opposed
to the present alleged extravagant as
sessment system and as favoring
placing county officers on salary,-
thereby saving the county a minimum
of $5,000 a year.
Form Wilson-Marshall Club.
Democrats assembled in the court
house at Greensboro and organized a
Wilson-Marshall-Craig campaign club.
The organization was perfected by the
election of permanent officers: Presi
dent, E. D. Broadhurst; vice presi-
dent, L. J. Brandt; secretary
treasurer, Everett B. King.
and
Shot to Death While Asleep.
W. S. Cook, a Surry county farmer,
while asleep near his tobacco barn,
four miles from Mt. Airy, was shot
and killed by George Snyder, a ten
ant on the farm. Cook was curing
some tobacco for Snyder. The two
men had quarreled over the tobacco
crop. Snyder, who is alleged to be
unbalanced mentally, got a rural mail
carrier to purchase some cartridges
for him, claiming that he wished to
kill a dog. It was brought out at the
coroner’s inquest that one of these
cartridges killed Cook.
Mecklenburg Drainage Commission.
The Mecklenburg drainage commis
sion is mailing out notices to proper
ty owners along the streams that are
to be drained, informing them of ah
assessment that is to be made against
their property for improvement and
announcing that the commission will
hold a meeting for hearing any protest
that may be made as to the amount
of the assessment. All real
estate
lying within half a mile of a stream
designated for drainage is subject to
assessment in a graduating scale, ac
cording to its nearness to the creek.
Dare County Democratic Primary.
Manteo.—At the regular Democratic
convention held here the following
were nominated: For Representative,
M. D. Haywood; For Register of
Deeds, A. V. Evans; For Treasurer,
S. C. Tillett; For Sheriff, Alexander
H. Midgett; For Surveyor, John E.
Berry; For Coroner, J. T. Daniels;
For County Commissioners, I. J. Ed
wards, N. F. Jennett, W. S. Baum.
Man Killed By Shifting Engine.
Greensboro.—J. H. Stack, a white
man about 30 years of age from High
Point, was run over and instantly kill
ed by a shifting engine on the local
yards of the Southern. Stack, it ap
pears, was drinking and went to sleep
on the track and as the engine was
backing the crew, in its report, says
the man was not sighted.
Graven School Bands Are Valid.
Raleigh.—The supreme court hav
ing declared the Craven county bonds
for a Farm Life High School valid,
the work of providing for this insti
tution is to be gotten under way forth
with, says Dr. J. Y. Joyner, state stb
perintendent of public instruction.
This is the first school of the kind es
tablished under the state law passed
by the last legislature. Guilford county
three under a special act. Dr. Joyner
goes to Jamestown, Guilford county,
for a big educational raly at the
Farm Life School there.
A Tragedy Near Fayetteville.
Fayetteville.—A tragedy occurred
at the saw mills of William M. Wal
ker, at Linden, twelve miles from Fay
etteville, several days ago. Zene Car
ter, (colored) the night fireman, when
relieved, lay down in the dist room
and fell asleep. A plug blew out of the
boiler and boiling water rushing out,
scalding Carter terribly. He was
brought here to a hospital, where he
died from the effects. Carter hailed
from New Bern and had been working
at this mill but a few days.