North Carolina Newspapers

THE STANDARD. HE III THE IIAX;iJ. Y OPIE P. READ. 1 had acquired the habit of "writ ing up" hangings, and ha(l become identified with that indulgence that whenever a hanging was adver tised to take place within a radius of 150 miles of Little liock, Ark., I was sent to catch the last words and comment upon the last appear ance of Mr. So-and-so. One day I received instructions from the managing editor to repair at once to Buck Snort and describe the sudden though unexpected death of a notori ous negro named Crump. A rail way train carried me within about thirty miles of Buck Snort. The rest of the journey must be made on horseback. I experienced some diflieultv in securing a horse. One old fellow of a moralizing twist of mind said that he could not let his horses be ridden to a hanging, "es pecially," he added, "as I don't M'eve iu this here capital punish ment nohow." Just then a man who was looking for a suitable location for a distillery mounted one of the old felloiv's horses and rode away. Finally a negro who had announced himself a candidate for constable, told me that if I would write him a few lines, stating his fitness for the position, he would take his horse from the plow and let me ride him. "I ain't got no saddle," said he, "but Fse got one o' de best sheep ski ns in de county." I agreed to his proposition, wrote a strong indorsement for him, mount ed his old horse, and rode away. I had not rode far until I discovered that the animal was afflicted with extreme leanness ; and, upon a sud den turn in the road, when the horse stumbled, I fancied that his back bone had cut through the sheepskin, limit tlies, that only flourish in the woods where the ground is damp, came out in annoying swarms, and knit flies those stingless insects the very buzz of which frightens horses nearly to death kept the old nag in a constant state of abject and tremb ling terror. I had traveled about ten miles when I came to an old-time planters residence. Turkey gobblers stmtted in the yard, mules brayed in the lot, and on the long gallery, where the vines hung in perfumed profusion, there sat an old man. A glance told me that he was typical of a day that is gone; that he was the lingering echo of a once vigorous shout. I dismounted, tied my horse, approach id the old fellow,- and asked if I could get a drink of water. "Come in," he said, arising. "Set down here. Drink of water! AVho in thunder wants a drink of water. Here, Bill calling a negro, make two mint juleps." I sat down. The juleps were brought and, while we were sipping them the old gentleman said: "Why doyou go through the country riding such an outrageous critter?" I explained my difficulty in se curing transportation, and added that had it not been extreme urgency of my business, I would not have taken the old horse. " What is your business ? " I am going over to Buck Snort to report a hanging, and must get there by tomorrow morning. " "Let the hangin' go, an,' stay here with me. My folks are all gone to a sort of camp meetin' an 1 am sorter lonesome." "A'o, 1 must go," I pleaded. "Xo, sir," he replied, reaching over and placing a hand on my shoulder, "you stay here with me and I'll send a nigger over to report the hangin'. Bill, go tell Felix to come here. He's the man to attend to that business.'' I began to protest, declaring that the negro .could not do the work. "You don't know him," replied tli planter. "He's as smart as a fox. Why, when I want a colt broke, who breaks him ? Felix, sir. When I want to be rubbed down with a co'n cob for rhematiz, who does it ? Felix, I gad, sir. And now you tell me that Felix don't know how to see a nigger hung? You don't know what you are talk ing about, sir. Here, Felix the ne gro had made his appearance, ketch old Bob an' go over to Buck Snort and see that nigger hung, and hur rv back here and tell us all about it. " "My dear sir," said I, "nothing would give me more pleasure than to remain with you, but it is abso lutely necessary that I should re port that hanging." "Bill," the old fellow shouted, " take that skilletin of a horse out here and hitch him in the stable. Sit down there (turning to me.) Oh, you mus'n't fool with me. This is one of my julep days, and old mars ter sent you along to keep me com pany. " I could not get away, so great was the old man's importunity, and, in deed, so threatening was his aspect ; so, placing a vague trust in Felix, I surrendered. The old fellow was delighted. He told bear stories, and related, with many a watery wink, his gambling exploits on the Mis sissippi river. The hour was late when we went to bed that night, but t he old fellow was so loth to release me; so interested had he become with his own past that he went with me to my own room, sat on the foot of the bed, talked the candle out, and then occasionally struck a match to shed a glare upon some point that lie desired to be impressive. Felix returned about 3 o'clock the next day. " Come here, now, and tell us all about it," said the old man. Then n.d dressing me. he said: "Git out your book, now, and take down what he says. " I did so, and this is his report: "Xeber seed de like o' folks. Ha 'peered to come from ever'whar. Arter.while de sheriff an' some ud der generman tuk dat nigger outen jail, he did, put him in er a spring wagin an' hauled himout in er ole fiel whar da had put up er sort of er platform. De nigger he didn't pear to be skeered a bit, an' he walked up dem steps an' looked down like er preacher in a pulpit. I tell you he wasn't skeered, uo he wau't ; but I didn't feel jes right, an wen de folks gnnter sing, my knees gnnter hit tergedder. Dis wouldn't do me, thinks I. Couldn't stau no sich progickiu as dat. roan' want no man ter come puttin er rope roun' my naik like I wuz er calf. But dat nigger looked at dat rone and sorter smiled, he did. Uh, huh, thinks I, you aint got as much sense er. I is ter stau dar smilin at er rope dat gwine choke de life outen you. Den der nigger gunter ter talk ; knowledged dat he killed de man an' 'lowed dat he wanter to meet us all. Den er ole black oman says, 'Oh, Lord,' an one ter lef she lows, 'Ah, Lawd, wen dis yer cup gwine ter pass ?" "Den da put er black thing ober de man's head an' fixed de rope roun' his naik. Didn't say er word, but I 'lowed ter inese'f, ole feller, you ain't gQt ez much 'uinan uater in you ez I is, fur I'd be beggin, dem men monstrous, Itellycu. Den de right ban' 'oman snuffle like she got er bad col' and delef'han"oman sorter whine, an' jes' ez I wus won derin' wu't da gwine to do, nex', ker flip ! down come de nigger an' de fuz stood out de rcpe. Den de wimmi n' gunter holler an' I looked roun' an' says, I did: 'Ladies, dar ain' no u'seD hollerin' now, fur de man's dead. Dat wuz al! dar wuz o' de 'formance, an' I says, 'Hump, I doan' want no sich progickin' 'bout me,' an' I doan' nuther. Come er snatchin' er man roun' dat way. Aek like er man ain' humau, da do." I took down the report word for word and sent it in ; and as it con tained none of the professional re marks incident to ti e conventional hanging, people were at first sur prised, but after they had realized that I was attempting to create are form, they agaiD admitted me into reasonably fair society. A Boy Xeeds a Trade. "What about a boy . who does not take up with a trad or a profession ? Look around you and the question is speedily answered. He must cast his hook into any sort of pond and take such fish as may easily be caught. He is a sort of tramp. He may work in the brick-yard to-day, and in the harvest field to-morrow. He does the drudgery and gets the pay of the drudge. His wages are so small that he finds it impossible to lay up a dollar, and a fortnight of idleness will see him dead broke. The other night I saw a man drag ging himself wearily along, carrying a pick on his shoulder. "Tired John ?" "More so than aDy horse in De troit." "What do you work at ?" "I am a digger. Sometimes I woik for gas companies, but of tener fcr plumbers.'' "Good wages ? "So good that my family never has enough to eat, let alone buying de cent clothes. If it wasn't for my wife and children I'd wish for the street-car to run over me." "Why didn't you learn a trade !" "Because nobody had interest enough to argue and reason with me. I might have had a good trade and earned good wages, but here I am working harder for $8 ond $9 a week than many a man does to earn $18." And now, my boy, if men tell you that the trades are crowded, and that 60 many carpenters and black smiths and painters and shoemakers and other trades keep wages down, pay no attention to such talk. Com pare the wages of common and skill ed workmen. Take the trade which you seem fitted for. Begin with the determination to learn it thoroughly, and to become the best workman in the shop. Don't be satisfied to skin along from one week to another without being discharged, but make your services so valuable by being a thorough workman that your em ployer cannot affoid to let you go. Detroit Free Press. An Alarama Negro in Saxonx. Among the curiosities of the popula tion statistics of the Kingdom of Sax ony is the application for naturaliza tion of a negro boy, a native of Ala bama, who arrived in Hamburg as a cabin boy at the age of 13 years, has since remained in Germany, and af ter having been baptized into the Lutherian church at Breslau three years ago, has now concluded to set tle in Chemnitz Pari American Register. An excited military looking gen tleman entered the editorial sanctum one afternoon, exclaiming, "That notice of my death is false, sir. I'll horsewhip you within an inch of your life, Sir, if you don.t apologize and express your regret in your next issue. The editor inserted the following next day. "We extremely regret to announce that the paragraph which stated that Major Blazer was dead is without found ation." Ex. A PI.AXTATIOX PtOW SONG.; The Quaint Melody Sung ty tlw Simon Pure Southern Dnrkey. The following is a crude photo graph of a plowing scene, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, on a Louisiana plantation. As the picture is taken from-life, the names of the two mules in the team, Sherman and Morgan, are given ; the prose inter polations are rendered verbatim, and the uncouth song repro'duced as nearly as possible : Git up, mules ! Brer Moses say dat music Is gwiue to hu't de soul, And Satin's in de fiddle Sho's sugar's in de bowl ! Git dar, Shumman. De blackbird ax de jaybird What make him war such clos, He better put on mo'nin' 'Cause all de ground is froze, Dis worF is full o' trouble, F'om summer till de spring, Den pra'rs an' tears is propur For dem dat dance an' sing. "Haw, Morgan don't you heah me tell you to haw, mule ! Xow go 'long. "De jaybird tell de blackbird De winter f ho'ly hard ""Wough, dar! you pestiferient beases, you! Yon been pas' dat burnt stump fo' times already dis mawnin,' an' now yo's cockin, yo' ears an' cap'n an' prancin,' like you 'lows it must be a gret big terrifyin' black bar, or sech. Wough, dar, I say! Git up. "I been down to de weddin' I see Miss 'Mandy Green ; She,s 'bout de livehs' lady Dat ever you nas seen "Hi! dat ain't what I was singin' pleg tek a mule, nohow! dey 'stroys eber bit de sense a man was born wid what wid strivin' an' nater'l contray'ness dey's miff to make even a hungry man forgit 'bout he. vittles Oh, yes, I 'mem bers now. "De jaybird tell de blackbird De winter's sho'ly hard, But what's de use of grumblin' 'Less yo' po'kaiu't gDtno lard; You gwine to let you 'ligion Freeze up yo' sperrit too. An' help along de misery We's got to trable frou ? "De Lawd bless dese mules! dey been workin' o' cane craps nigh on to fifteen years, an' de ain't larn't de diif nils.1 betwixt de water furrow an' de stubble row yit! Will you! Git up dar, consunded varmints, you "Miss 'Mandy look so smilin' "Look a heah, ain't I got dat 'Mandv gal chune out'n mv head yit! Brer Moses shout at meetin An' we can't sing at work, Brer Moses jump to hymn tunes Tell all de no' is suuk "What yo' doin' dar, Shumman? You wants to kick up, dose you ? Ween vo' ole heels gits to fannau' de yar hit look like you got a spite again de sun, an' gwine to kick it up all de way to 12 o'clock. Take dat an' dat an' dat! Xow you got sumpen to kick up 'bout don't you hear me? Xow 'long. I sav "Dis yarth warn't made for trouble Nor 'pen ten' he was born ; Some sinners at salvation Is gwine to play de horn, An' some dat heah de fiddle Will get a higher place Dan some dat w'ars dat 'ligion Upon a solumn face. " Bless Gawd, dar goes de dinner bell! You heah it, does you? Oh, yes, you's a hollerin' now! Stan' roun' heah, Morgin, tell I gite on yo pleggity ole back. Dar, now ! If Shumman ain't done gone au' juk de briddle clean outen he mouf an' goire home a clattin." Git up, Mor gin! "Miss 'Mandy looks so smilin'; An 'her mouf chirp like a chune I wish I had o' axed her For anubber wedd n' soon." The Coreans Puzzled. A Washington letter in the Chris tian at Work says: A story, too good to kee, was told at a late social gathering here of the effect on the Corean Embassy of the dressing of American ladies. At the first party in this city which the Coreans attended, many of" the ladies were dressed en decollete. The Coreans gazed at them in a sort of wonder, and remarked to the in terpreter: These ladies seem to be above their dresses; are we permitted to look at them? A few minutes afterwards they noticed one of the ladies, who, besides being en decol lete, wore a long train, standing by an open door and shivering from the effects of the draught. The Corean Ambassador turned to the interpreter and asked with the utmost simplici ty: Why does not that American take up her dress from the floor and put it on ? . Ciiazlns at the Noon. I could gaze at the moon for hours, Mr. Sampson, she said in a voice full of sweetness and pneu monia. I never tire of it. Ah, he responded, would that I were the man in it! Yes, she assented soft ly. And why, Miss Clara? he ask ed, getting ready to take her hand. Because, Mr. Sampson, she said, shyly veiling her eyes with their long lashes, you would be 4,000,000 mile saway Epoch. rueful and Interesting:. There are 2,750 languages. Two persons die every second. The average human life is thirty one years. Slow livers flow four miles per hour. Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour. A moderate wind blows seven milos per hour. A storm moves thirty-six miles per hcur. A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per hour. Sound moves 743 miles per hour. Light moves 192,000 miles per hour. Electricity moves 288 000 miles per hour. The first steamboat plied Jhe' Hud son in 107. " The first iron steamship was built in 1830. The first lucifer match was made in 1829. The first horse railroad was built in 1826-7. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. The first use of a locomotive in this country was in 1829. The first printing-press in the United States was introduced in 1829. The first almanao was printed by George Von Furbach in 1460. Until 1779 cotton spinning was performed by the hand spinning wheel. The first steam engine on this continent was brought from Eng land in 1753. Measure 209 feet on ach side and you will have a square acre within an inch. An acre contains 4,850 square yards. A square mile containa 640 arres. A mile is 5,280 feet or 1,700 yards in length. A fathom is six feet. A league is three miles. A Sabbath-day's journey is 1,155 yards; (this is eigheen yards less than two-thi:ds of a mile). A day's journey is thirtythree and one-eighth miles. A cubit is two feet. A great cubit is eleven feet. A hand (horse measure) is four inches. A palm is three inches. A span is ten and seven-eighth inches, A pace is three feet. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds. A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds. A barrel of rice weighs 900 pounds. A barrel of powder weighs twenty five pounds. A firkin of butter weighs fifty- six pounds. A tub of butter weighs eighty-four poun Is. The followiug are sold by weight per bushel. Wheat, beans, and clover seeds, sixty pounds psr bushel, Corn, rye, and flaxseed, fifty-six pounps per bushel. Buckwheat' fifty-two pounds per bushel. Bailey, forty-eight pounds per bushel. Oats.thi ty-five pounds per bushel. Bran, thirty-five pounds per bush el. Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per bushel. Coarse salt, eighty-five pouuds per bushel. The Ilible Written In a Square Inch. A contrivance may be seen in the rooms of the Royal Microscopical Society, of London, Eng., the inven tion of Mr. Peters, which enables its user to write with such marvellous minuteness as no one unaware of the existence of the machine would be )ieve to be possible. The mechanism consists of a series of levers support ed by four brass rods, and into the the centre of these levers a pencil is screwd which points to a sheet of paper placed on a plate below. Above is a viry fine diamond point which touches a sheet or glass and trans mits to it in wonderfully reduced form any writing done by the ope rator with the pencil beneath. The writing on glass is quite invis ible to the naked eye, but a strong microscope will show the Lord's Prayer written legibly within the compass of one ten-thousandth part of a square inch. Mr. Webb, who made a special study of this ingenious machine,suc ceeded in writing the entire Bible, which contains 3,566,480 letters, with in the space of a square inch, and by continuous practice he attained such proficiency that he was able to trans cribe the Bible no fewer than fifty nine finals within the same mall compass. Chamber's Journal. . A contemporary asks: . "How shall women carry their purse to fustrate thieves?" "Why, carry them empty. Nothing fustrates a thief more than to snatch a woman's purse, after following her half a mile, and then find that it contains nothing but a receipt for spiced peaches and a faded photograph of her grandmother. " KM, . . "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." Oh, it does, eh? In the spring a young man's fancy doesn't do anything of the sort. It turns of thoughts of how he's going to get in about five thousand hours of four-hundred-dollar-a-week fund in to fourteen days of ten dollar vaca tion. They have a way out in Kansas of bringing to time unruly members of the Legislature. Mr. Funstan. mem ber of the Committee on Agriculture, was late at a committee meeting and the Chairman fined him six cans of corn. Commercial Advertiser. HEDMONT AIRhLINE ROUTE RICHMOND ANDANVILE RAILROAD. Condensed schedule in effect Sep tember 4th, 1887. Trains run by 75 Meridfan Time. Datlv. No. 50. . Daily No. 52 SOUTHBOUND. Leave Nw York Philadelphia Charlottesville Lynchburg Richmond Burkeville Keysville Drak "s Branch Danville Green'-bo ro Ooldsboro Raleigh Durham Arr ve Chapel Hill IJillsboro Salem High Point Snlisbury Statesville Asheville -Uot Spriugs Leave Concord Charlotte Hpartanbu'g Greenville Arrive Atlanta 12 15 am 7 20 am 9 45 am 11 24 am 3 32 , m 5 50 pm 3 10 pm 5 17 pm 5 57 pm 6 12 pm 8 50 pm 10 44 pm 3 30 pm 5 50 p m 6 52 pm f8 15 pm. 7 27 pm 7 iO ( in 11 1C pm 12 37 am 4 30 pm 6 57 pm 9 42 pm 1100 pm 3 CO am 5 20 am 2 30 am 4 23 am 5 C5 am 5 21 am 8 5 am 9 48 am f8 10 pm tl 00 am .2 37 am 3 32 am 6 30 am 10 10 am 12 23 am 12 31 pm 5 38 pm 7 35 pm 12 01 pm 100 pm v 3 34 pm 4 48 pm 1 2Gam 2 25 arn 5 28 am 0 43 am 1 20 pm 10 40 pm Daily. No. 51. Daily. No. 53, NORTHBOUND. Leave Atlanta . Arrive Greenville Spartanburg -Charlotte Concord Point Greensboro Salem Hillsboro Dnrham Chapel Hill Raleigh Goldsboro Danville Drake's Branch Keysville Burkeville Richmond Lynchburg Charlottesville Washington Baltimore Philadelphia New York 7 00 pm 8 40 am 1 01 am 2 13 am 5 05 am 6 00 am 6 44 am 7 57 am 8 28 am 11 40 am 12 06 pm 12 45 pm 8 15 pm 2 10 pm 4 35 pm 10 10 am 12 44 pm 1 00 pm 1 40 pm 3 45 pm 1 15 pm 3 40 pm 8 23 pm 11 25 am 3 00 am 6 20 am 2 34 pm 3 46 pm 6 25 pm 7 25 pm pm 9 11 pm 9 40 pm T12 34 am t2 41 am 4 05 am f6 35 am til 45 am 11 29 pm 2 44 am 3 03 am 3 55 am 6 15 am 2 00 am 4 10 am 810 am 10 03 am 12 35 pm 3 20 pm 'Daily. tDaily, except Sunday. SLEEPING CAR SERVICE. On trains 50 and 51 Pullman Buffet sleeper between Atlanta and New York. On trains 52 and 53 Pullman Buffet Sleeper between Washington and Montgomery : Y ashington and Au gusta. Pullman sleeper between Richmond and Greensboro. Pull man sleeper between Greensboro, and lialaign. Pullman' parlor car between Salisbury and Knoxville. Through tickets on sale at pricipal stations to all points. For rates and information apply to any agent of the company, or to Sol Hass. J. S. Potts, Traffic Man'r. Div. Pass. Ag't, W. A Turk, Richmond, Va. Div. Pass. Ag't, Das. L. Taylor, Raleigh, N. C. Gen. Pass. Ag't. NEW filllLIH S ORE. I would intorm the ladies of Con cord and surrounding country that I have opened a new Millinery Store At ALLISON'S CORNER, where they will find a woll selected stock of Hats and Bonnets Ribbons, Co lars, Corsets, Bustles, Kuching, Veiling, &c, which will be sold cheap for CASH. Give me a call. Respectfully, 6 3m Mrs MOLLIE ELLIOT. THE KAFFIR CORN. This crop was cultivated very larsre- ly in some sections of the South the past year with great success. It hhoulf be sown or planted early in spring, when required lor forage, sow either broadcast or thickly in rows about three leet apart, or if desired for the errain. plant a few seed every foot in the row and thin out to three or four stalks, according to the quality of the soil. "When the grain turns white, clip the heads, and other heads will come ; this enemes the largest yield of irrain. It gives the best res alts by cutting the first growth for forage when in early .bloom, and letting the second growth yield both grain and forage late in fall. If forage only is desired, the seed may be drilled light Iv in tle furrow It withstands drought and is particularly adapted to the thin land of the I otton Belt section The grain when greund makes excel lent food for stock, and equal to flour for bread. Price per lb 25 ct ; 5 les. 1.00 For sale at FE1ZE 'S DRUG STORE. YORKE & Hadware Headquarters, SEE HERB, HlfiCMM'Uiimi IIICIM, LlillS, Farmers and Everybody Else Can be suited in Hardware at YORKE & WADS WORTHS at bottom prices for the CASH? Our stock is full and complete A P enaidline of Uook Sove 'and cooking utensils in stock. Turning ; Plows. PloT Stocks, Harrow , BeSU Feed Cutters, Cornshellers, Tinware, Guns. Pistols, Knives, Powder, Shot and Lead, Doors, Sash and Blinds, Shingles, Glass, Oils, White Lead, Pahits and Patty a specialty ; Wire Screens, Oil Cloths, wroaght, cut and uCe Shoe anPd in ilet everything usually kept in a hardware Store. c will sell all these goods as cheap, quality considered, as any house m North Carolina. , . w . T?a0ra MW- Our warehouse is Oiled witn carriages, igg., u ers. Hay Rakes, of the best make on the market, which must and will be sold C1 . .J ' t x co. ,1C whpt hoi-v.iii hnv or not- at the lowest ngures. e sme iu YORKE & P. S We have always on hapd at prices to suit. UNDERBUY! Gnat Motion in Prises of Flour to Rota our iiMiiMiiEisrsiE stock: I WE 1 Car Load of Pilgrim, 1 " "Light Loaf, 1 " " Choice Family, 25 Barrels " Bob White. Our flour is all bought dhect from the , i Largest and Best Mills for CASH, And we can sell you flour for less money than you can buy elsewhere. We have a large stock of Cr H O O H I IE! I JS S And you will always find our prices as low as the lowest. PATTERSON'S CHEAP CASH STORE. J TOP THAT COUGH. For to delay is dansrerous Mooses's Uough Syrup is the best, for cougns, colds, hourseness, Bronchitis, croup, whooping cough and ) diseases of the throat and longs, as many attest who have used it. For sale at Fetzers drugstore. For Sals Oteap, A SECOND HAND OMNIBUS with a cap?c'ty for We've passengers infrocd rtn iing order. Call at this omce. WADSW0RTH. i , . j WADWORTH. Lister's m4 Waldo Gnano and WandoAciJ ''. UNDERSELL!! OFFEE FURNITURE CHEAP FOB CASH AT M. E. CASTOR'S I do not sell for cosr. hnf fcw 11 goods Come and eamine my liQe f MM STORE E01 lus, 3uria Cases Caske Old furniture repaired. 12 M. E. CASTOB.