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WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL U .JLL* IXiUJU£iL i. U advancement of our country. IN POLITICS, DEMOCRATIC; IN PRINCIPLES, UNCHANGEABLE; FOR THE RIGHT, YESTERDAY. TO-DAY AND FORE VCR GULLEY & MORRIS, Publishers. -—Jr-- _ —... FHANKI.IXTOX. X. C„ FRIDAY DECEMBER 7, 1883. VOLUME I. NUMBEB 6. ujmnERAL NEWS. “ *° have a $200,001 fao^ori™ CABOLINA has 8kty-^nr cottoi There iff * Mormon church at Aber aeen, Ala. The salted mul et trade of Florida it increasing. Eaat Mississippi Devon cattle an very popular. Peanut growing in Florida is beim warmly advocated. The: ruling • —i Frioe °f V«nges in T-impr w $10 per thousand. . The Assessed valuation of property i Texas is $520,000,000. Theke are nine negroes in the nei legislature of Virginia. 1 The domestication of buffalo calves i to be attempted in Arkansas. It is asserted that no other state cai make such a show in coal as Alabama There are over 50,000 miles of un broken pine forest in Southeast Georgia # “Thebe are only forty-seven countiei in Georgia in which it is lawful to sel liquor. j Texas is said to produce about one lialf the cotton raised in the Unite* States. * A Society for the Prevention of Cni el tv to Animals has been organized in Chat tanooga. A OOjTTOH: compress, gas works and a str#et railway are being constructed at Pensacola. A land syndicate has bought 60,000 acres of land in Clay county, Mississippi for $75,000. Twenty cotton mills in Alabama are paying an average of fifteen per cent per annum in dividends. Tee St. James Hotel at Tallahassee is exchanging its entire corps of black servants for white ones. Cookeville, Tend., bids fair to be come an oil region. Three wells sunk there recently have struck oil. , The Unitod States Court in Savannah ^advertising for “good, honest and re vertifeed for. UroN the recent visit of the agent of the American Bible Society to W eakley county, Tcnn., 750 families were found without Bibles.' The Rome (Ga.v) cotton factory, which has been in operation eighteen months, night'and day. It is now claimed that the south is getting tq be the best market in the world for machinery and mechanical ap pliances of all kinds. ' *X'HE pliCuB tor iuo ikApOoiutM bnilaiog at Birmingham have been approved by the Prfard of Arrangements and bids ad FitoifanJ orange tree owned by Captain Dukes, of Lake City, Florida, he sold $G7 worth of. fruit hist season. He will do better t^is season. Two hundbed thousand dollars’ worth of gold dust has been shipped to the Philadelphia mii/t from the Coco Creek gold mines in Tennessee. A company of Indiana capitalists are contemplating the erection of a jute fac tory at Memphis. The building and ma chinery will cost $150,000. The'State Controller of Florida has decided that merchants selling brandied peaches, cherries, e-c., must pay the re tail liquor dealers’ license. The ore from the Magruder silver mine in Washington county, Ga., assays about $18 jto the ton. A smelter is to be ptu up at the mine very soon. Texas farmers sold last year $59,000, 000 worth of cotton, $53,000 worth of cattle, $7,000,000 worth of wool and mut ton, and $1,000,000 worth of horses and hides. The electric light company of Savan nah has resolved tto rebuild their towers and continue business. $25,000 in bonds will bo placed on the market to secure funds for that>purpose. The Little Rock University, now ap preaching completion, will be the finest brick building in the State of Arkansas and one of the largest and most con venient in the Southwest An appropriation of $150,000 wni voted for, the new/extension to the Uni versity of Alabama. This extension wil accommodate over 300 students and wil add greatly to the/usefulness of the Uni versity. Mb. W. M. Dukes, of Lake City, Fla. has an orange tree on his place tha measures five feet aud three inches ii circumference three feet above th aifcund, and the oranges gathered thi Been nearly all reclaimed from tli desert. The apple crop of Virginia is so larg this season that purchasers are unable t find barrels, and the fruit is being loade in bulk on the cars. One gentlema from Baltimore last week bought 20,00 vear from it sold for $67. ' Samuel Mackey, of NewSouth Walef sheared 1,500,000 sheep last year, an this year he expects to have 2,500,00( His lands run 700 miles in one directior and comprise 5,000,000 acres, and hart1 r barrels in Angnsta county at prices rang ing from 11.50 to $2 per barrel. ^ On account of the drouth, which seems to be prevalent all over the country, the i orange crop of Florida is maturing slowly, and the fruit is^ somewhat smaller than usual, but the prospect for a good crop is considered excellent. The yield is ex i pected to be much larger than last year’s. Chattanooga Times: At Dayton the Coal and Iron Company have struck it rich by discovering six new veins of coal. ; Eacl1 of t ese veins leads into the center of the mountain, where it is almost a solid mnm ©f fine coal., About 200,090 1 mshels per day will be take*ouf of t hese veins. . New Orleans claims to be the best port in the United States, and the papers of that city do not hesitate to mention that fact occasionally. The jetties are supposed to be- in successful operation ; at any rate.they have p ovided a channej through which the steam hip Silverton passe i the other day, drawing twenty five feet of water. The Silverton car ried out a cargo equal in bulk to 13,780 bales. The Silverton, bv the way, has been engaged to lay the new cable for .Tames (Tordon Bennett and J W * Maekay. . EDITORIAL NOTES. The waters around Florida, tlie Med iterranean and the Bahamas supply most of the sponges. The Florida p nge is coarse and cheap. 1 hat from the Med iterranean is used in surgery, but the 'finest .and costliest sponge is from the Bahamas. The harvest of sponges last about eight months in the year, and dur ing that timeskillful divers make as much ns i 10 a day each gathering them. It requires from twelve to fourteen months for a sponge to get its growth. According to General I'adeau, our minister to Cuba, the irade relations be tween the little island and the United States could not be in,a worse condition. -Owing to our nearness to Cuba, Arner ieaip merchants should have almost a monopoly ^existing tarifl rates practically shut them\°uS w^e Great Britain and Gennany g^ ever*' thing. As ar. instance of th‘e At-*. —i’iSi fl*rt i,grt.inst Amtlican- gi He states that flour from this count] first shipped to Spain, thence to Cuba, and sold for considerable less than that which is sent direct to the island. zee The fir.-t ground was broken in Pul - man, 111, three years ago, and nowit ha 6,000 inhabitants. It has a lesson foi Atlanta iu its waterworks and its sewer age. 'i he system of sewerage is admir able. I he refuse of the town flows to an •immense cistern under the water tower. The steam power is used to pump the sewerage to the town farm of 15,Q0( acres which is thus irrigated and en riched. The profit-on the farm under this system of culture when it had only sixtx , acres was f8,500. This laud was consid ered exhausted and worthless. The suc cess of this experiment suggests a new use and value for city sewerage. Adulteration of food is a growing disgrace in the United States where th( people eat more impure and unwhole some.matter than anywhere else in the world. As long as the black art wa( confined to the luxuries it made little difference, but the necessaries of life are now tampered by some of its most cun ning tricks. The many adulterations oi flour and sugar represent a vast amount of vicious enterprise. Startling analyses and repeated exposures of these frauds seem only to increase the daring energy of their perpetrations The baby born in a poor American family to-day starts life with the prospect of eating far more than the proverbial peck of dut said to be destined for every' human stomach. The Chinese Minister at Washington says he has received many tenders of ser vice from ex-officers of the union and confederate armies, but he has told them all that their acceptance or rejection rests with the home viceroys. He does not think the trouble with France admits of mediation, which would naturally result in a compromise. China, he says, can not accept a compromise in a case that in volves the integrity of her territory and ' the control or her own subjects. His I country, he adds, does not dread awai with France. Her army is wel officered ! by European soldiers of experience and capaci y, and its equipment is up tc ’ modern standards. I he reported medi i ation of the United States is, therefore, believed to be without foundation. China is probably ready to fight, and she counts, I no doubt, on a long war and the creation of expenses that the French people will not be apt toatand up to. I 1 While cotton and grain are moving i across the water as rapidly as at some 3 other periods, the exports of provisions are unprecedented, and there are no in dications of a decreased movement. The 3 exports of fresh beef are more than i. doubled, while there has been a hand some increase in the amount of bacon e and hams exported. Lard and pork also show increased figures, totals for October are wonderful. Fresh beef which in the same month last year amounted to 3,000,000 pounds, runs uj to nearly 13,000,000 pounds. Bacoi shows an increase for the month 22,000, 000 pounds, o: a total of 27,000,001 pounds, while the export of h»m» h three times greater than that of Iasi year, or over 3,000,000 pounds. The ex port of pork in October was 8,000,00( pounds, as compared with 3,000,001 pounds in 1882. Tallow shares in the general increase. During the month oj October there were 6,000,000 pounds ex ported, an improvement of 4,000,001 pounds over the corresponding period of last year, apd for the twelve months there were 52,000 000 pounds exported, an increase of 11,000,000 pounds ovei that of 1882. The total value of pro visions and tallow for the twelve months ending October 31 was nearly $99,000, 000, while for 1882 it is $86,000,000. It is cold comfort to talk of money, but this country has so many rich met that they constitute one of the staple themes of gossip. Everybody knows about the Vanderbilts, the Astors and day Gould. In the class of sma lei for tunes are some names worth mention ing The wealthiest men in ] Philadel phia are said to be Frank Drexel, I. V. Williamson and William Weightman, the quinine moflopo ist. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, is known everywhere for his charities. Giving with a lavish hand has not left his fortuneless than f4,000, 000. Joseph Willard ranks next in the District of Columbia, and scrupulously conceals the amount of his lucre. Fred. Ames, of Boston, is credited with $20, 000,000, and John. M. Forbes, of„ the same city, scuffles! along on $15,000*000. t leveland has her John D. Rockafeller, with §15,000,000. Cyrus McCormick, of Chicago rates along near those fig ures, and J. H. Wade, of Chicago, has about half as much. Some people say Phil Armour is the richest man in Chicago, but he gambles heavily and his figure is uncertain Alexander Mit-. chell, of Milwaukee, flies among the king bees with $40,000,000. Henry Shaw uis list with $8,000,000, for.—David' Swim tom o£ as many millions as he has fingers on his right hand. John Hill, of St. Paul, counts to nearly $10,* 000,000. '1 he south furnishes very few millionaires. rl he richest of these is A. S. Abell, of the Baltimore Sun, who mud have nearly $20,000,000. Ross Winans has hardly less, dhe richest man in Richmqnd is James B. Pace with $15, 000,000. W. B. Smith, of Charleston, has over a million Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, is put down at all figures from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. Ed. Richard son, of Mississippi, is the largest cotton planter in the word, and has $5,000,000. .the St. Lo Icmnati, has A Lesson in Boxing. “Pa told my "dram and me that it was no harm to learn to box, cause we could defend ourselves, and he said he used to be a holy terror with the boxing gloves when he was a boy, and lie lias been giving us lessons. Well, he is no slouch now I tell you, and handles himself pretty well "for a church member. I read in the paper how Zach Chandler played it on Conkling by getting Jem Mace, the prize tighter, to knock him silly, and I asked pa if he wouldn’t let me bring a poor boy, who hid no father to teach him boxing, to our house to learn to box, and pa said certainly, fetch him along. He said he would be glad to do anything for a poor orphan. So I went down in the Third ward and got an Irish boy by the nairie of Duffy, who can knock the socks off of any boy in the ward. He fit a prize fight once. It would have made you laugh to see pa tell him how to hold his hands and how to guard his face. He told Duffy not to be afraid, but to strike out and hit for keeps. Duffy said he was afraid pa wojild get mad if he hit him, and pa said, ‘ Nonsense, boy, knock^me down ii you can, and I will laugh ha! ha!’ Well, Duffy he hauled back and gave pa on* in the nose and another in both eyes, and cuffed him on the ear and punched him in the stomach, and lammed himii the mouth and made his teeth bleed, anc then he gave him a side-winder in botl eyes, and pa pulled off the boxin{ gloves and grabbed a chair, and we ad journed and went down stairs as thougl there was a panic. I haven’t seen pi since. Was his eye very black?” “Black?- I should say so,” said tin grocery man. “And hi-4 nose seemed t< be trying to look in his left ear. H was at the market buying beefsteak b put on it.”—Peck’s Sun. Texas Fever. Allerton, the Chicago cattle dealer denies that there is pleuro-pneumomi among cattle in the United States. Hi says: “They have been locking up cattl in native vards or fields formerly occn | pied bv tick-covered Texas steers. Whei j the texas cattle are shipped to the Eas I manv of them are covered with iittl nests of ‘ticks,’ or bugs, and these in sects fall off to the ground and craw over the grass. It the herds are changed as they usually are, it often happen that the native" cattle get into theTexa pastures. The native cattle, eat th grass covered with these poisonon green ticks, and in a short time g< sick and show symptoms of what i termed plenro-pueumonia. But it i not pleuro-pneumonia. It is casil cured. Give a steer a lot of green cori and see how quickly this dreadful tfeip they talk abogt wili disappear,” GETTING OUT OF THE ABUT. Why Young Men Enlist, and Why They Wish to Be Free Again. [Washington Letter In Philadelphia Reoord.] Mothers and fathers are constantly applying to the Secretary of War for the discharge of their sons from the army. As a result lie has to talk to a dozen or two agonized parents every day. As a rule they represent that their sons were under lavful age when they enlisted. If they am prove this their sons are discharged. When they can’t they complain that it is unjust to hold a young man to a contract which he concluded impulsively! in a moment of desp.-.ration. Som< iimis it was the result of money troubles, ^sometimes of love troubles, and some tildes of family troubles.! You would i.nhgme, if you heard all these tales, that this was the popular method of committing suicide. Most of our young soldier* appear to have taken up arms because of a sea of troubles. In almost every case the young man is just about to lesert. He nothing before him it the army slavish, monotonous life of a cent and without a He sees about lim, if he the West, as he dually is, sees but the soldier without future. is in splendid possibilities for a young man. They want to get otit of the army. They want to get at [he possi bilities. So they write to their people in the East that they will desert un less they are honorably discharged from the army by a certain day. Thereupon the half-frantic mothers and fathers and uncles and aunts fiock tolthe War Department. The War Department holds On like grim death to tni few sol diers it has. The army grow.i smaller day by day. A year’s deserthW deci mate it as a battle would. There are only 20,000 men in all. They ire drop ping out by twos, threes, dog(pS every : Wa day. The fascinating recruil do not charm enough recruits up for the losses. So the ment fights for its soldiers diers ought to fight for it. desert they are chased, if el diers remain in the garrisq deserters are caught they ari court-martial and sentence*!’ years’ imprisonment at hard the military prison at Fort worth, Kan. At the expiratio: term of imprisonment he is bly discharged from the United States. I (-agents Njnake >art k *ol T.ey ;SOl serv men to keep or least thr grow a eo into THE JOKER’S BUDGET. "nAT \VR FIND IN THE HTMOKOUS PAI’Eas TO M.Ull.K over. wanted a whitping. I know'' a pair of boys beside whom even Helen's IT ibiis must have dwindled anil grown tame. Naughty, wilful, mis chievous, loving lit tie scamps. They were at times as soundly thrashed as a rather BOft-hilarted father would permit. For a time they would nriud; .but they “wouldn’t stay minded.to me a child ish expression. Nothing seemed so forcible a method of punishment as tak ing away their spending-money—a few pennies each day. For some particularly grievous offense this was resorted to two or three days before the Fourth of July, and great was their grief and indignation. f Very early the next morning the father, who hail visited this upon them, was awakened by hearing them at the chamber door crying. “Boys?” “Oh, papa!” “Boys—go back to your room I” “Oh, papa—dear papa—won’t yon please give us pur pennies and go back to the whippings?’ PLANTATION PHILOSOrHT. Dar is a hundred seekers arter money wliar dar is one seeker arter happiness. We ain’t got no respeck fur de stingy man, nor fur de feller what flings his money away. A man’s awkward shape ain’t no argu ment agin his ’preeiation ob de finer pints ob life. A ole black ltear ain’t putty, but he’s powerful fon’ ob honey. De ’possom was neber thought ter hab much sense, but lie’s mighty smart. He has fooled marfy a man in pretendin’ like he was dead, while the coon, w hat all ob de animals call jedge, r’ars aroun’ an’ neber fails ter git hurt. I has often lieerd ilat de lies’ is de [•heapes’. Dis doan’ hole good in all Bases, fur I’ll be dinged ef do ehenpes' way ter lib is de bes’. A man mout tell Die dat bread an.’ ingons as better den bread, meat, ’tutors un’ ingons, - but I wouldn’t helebe him. strange, but de biggest ininexKSf.de Worl’ believes in de ci.vr tastrn’flr§ ou^de debil. I has knowed rnatt;##lg«^5pt|in what didn’t believe . Jialf sinh a powerful as de preacliers said, an’ I lias ' i$jaa&,ny a thief chit l>elh-v: ll jie was tol<\ab-..>nt de lile.niuu. t.much Confidence in ilat ’l-gion hon fear. A convict may rd ’cusa de obcrseer is e de work ’3 neber done as |,a« if UtogStUfa* ter doj 7 M Bacteria have their name from their j rod-like shape. They are vegetation so minute as to be visible only by the aid of powerful microscopes. They multi ply by division, each rod separating in to two parts. Then each part speedily becomes a complete whole, but sood divides into two parts. It will be seen what countless num bers must result. The view has been extensively adopted that these micro scopic vegetations are the actual poison that produces most- infectious diseases. Prof. Lionel Beale, F. R. S., knighted for his attainments in microscopy and medicine, is not prepared to accept this. We present a condensed statement ol his views. The tongue is constantly covered by whole forests of bacteria. Millions pass into the stomach whenever we swallow. It is the same with all ani mals. Every vegetable and fruit and leaf also contains countless numbers. So does the air we breathe and the water we drink. All disintegration and decay facilitates the growth of this mi nute vegetation. It is certain how, that bacteria in large quantities are constantly passing into the alimentary canal of men and ani mals without doing harm. There is probably not a part of the body of any one of us, one-quarter of an inch in diameter, where their germs are not present. So small are they that they pass freely into the substance of, every organ. They exist within ils, even in the blood, without disturbing us in any way. • In disease their numbers are vastly increased. “I have seen every part of the stomach, the small and large, intes tines, filled with curdled milk which, when placed under the microscope, Beemed to be almost composed of bac teria. But this probably did not origin ate the disorder, but resulted from the prior diseased state of the secretions. It is still an open question whether in fectious diseases originate from some special kind of death-carrying bacteria; or from practices wholly independent of all such organisms. Though some evidence has been adduced in favor of ' the first hypothesis, many new facts i must be discovered before the problem I is solved.” _* Wit UVTVI Hlii' The-following is the formal report ol a young pension examiner, presented in all seriousness, on a pension claim. It need, not be stated that the letter critic of the division returned it with instruc tions to the writer: Sib: In the claim for invalid pension. No. 3S9/J6:!, of Jacob Fresh, ?d independent Ohic cavalry volunteers, the claimant alleges thal he was engaged in a hand-to-hand fight witt his saber for a distance of five miles, neai HuttonviUe, Va.. July 2, In;;, and that, whil< in said fight, he was cut in the right arm anc shot in the left arm and leg. The claim ii inadmissible without further and more defi nite information. The claimant is therefon required, with the return of this letter. t< sta .ejunder oath, what caused him to ge into a tight with his saber; what kind of i saber Was it he got into a tight with; how h< happened to have a hand-to-hand fight wit! it; whether he had hands; whether ther were any witnesses present during thi fight; how ne managed to get shot tvhil fighting with his saber; whether it was shooting saber; whether he believes the sabe shot him; whether it shot anybody else whether he shot it; how many shots wer firedwho fired the first shot; whether th soldier was in the habitof fighting his sabei how long a time he fought it, and wbethe he had ever fought any other saber. 1 should be shown by competent testamon whether the soldier shot the saber or th saber shot the soldier. It should also b shown whether they fought for a distance c five miles apart or the saber was five ymg. Very respectfully, -y—■—'> FEAT "al In the Lime Kift Club jfucfge Chewso arose to ask for information. lie wanted to know how strong the fraternal ties of such a club should be considered. IIow far was he obligated? ) “Brother Chewso,” replied the presi dent, “I will read de fullerin' fur your beuefit: “1. All meet heah on terms of equal ity, but de member who blacks stoves an’ saws wood am not ’spected to be so familiar as to ask de barber airniu’ §17 per week to lend him his toof-pick. “2, If you find a brudder in distress, aid him. Dar am no pertickler objeck sliun to takin’ a mortgage on his stove, in case he wants to borrjy fo’ dollars in cash, but give him a little show befo fo’closin’ “3. Excuse a brudder’s faults as fur as you kin, but arter he has spit on your butes about three times you kin con clude dat he aches to be licked. “4 Speak well of each odder; avoid wrangles an’ slander; be ready to give good advice; encourage l sobriety an’ in dustrv, but doan’ let a man kick yei dog simply bekase he sits on de stool nex’ you in Paradise Hall.”—Detroit Free Press. USING A FIKE ESCAPE. The other day a prominent citizen of Detroit, says the Free Press, who has been greatly interested in the subject of fire-escapes, was inspecting a building on East Woodbridge street which had just been equipped with balconies and ladders, and he summed up his opinion with: “Well, sir, there’s no need of an acci dent here in case of fire. All any em ployee has to do is to coolly step fro® a window to one of the balconies and de scend in perfect safety.” At one o’clock Saturday afternoon, this same citizen was in the same build ing when some rags took fire on the fourth floor, a smudge arose, and an alarm was sounded for the steamers. “Fire ! fire !” was echoed through the building, and the employees rushed for the stairs like frightened sheep. The eminent citizen lost his legs as soon as he heard the cry-—ran twice around the room without seeing the open door, and finally brought up at a win dow The sash was hung on weights, and yet he pushed, pulled .and tugged in vain, and finally lowered the top sash and climbed over. As he descended to the second balcony he left one coat-tail on a nail, broke his watch chain, and took a tumble which landed him on his back, and he was there yelling ‘‘*“e • when the engines came up. He had to be helped through a window and down stairs, and when a heartless wretch m the crowd asked him how long lie had practiced the “escaping’ business, ae replied • . —. . “None o’ vonr bnsmess, sir 1 Driver, take me home.” A NEAT RETOBT. Mr. Falls, a well-known Irish sports man happened one day to ride down a hound. The irascible but witty master attacked him in no very measured lan guage. “Sir,” was the reply, recollect that I am Mr. “I’d have you Falls, of Don rannon.” _ _ , The answer was ready: “I don t care I you are Mr. Falls, of Niagara, you iha’n’t ride over my hounds.” The New Orleans Picayune says iat “genius does not require clear nen.” Perhaps not, but we always el more comfortably in Quriar, A TRAP FOR SEVEN. A WESTERN DESCRIPTION OF AN IN. CipENT IN REAL 1.1 FK OCT THERE. IIow Sercii Well Armed Mon Were denned Out kr Two-Tbe Palnlnl Silence Which Ensued. Catch a rat in a trap and he will fight Trap a man and—well, you can’t rely on him. It’s according to the trap. In the heavy stage-coach as we roll out of Leadville are ,seven men. One is an army officer who has half a dozen scars to prove his bravery. Cut off from his command on (he plains last summer by a score of Indians he entrenched himself and fought the band off until help arrived. Two of the others are desperadoes who have killed their men. Three of the ot hers are stalwart miners, each armed with two revolvers, and they look as if they would prove ugly custom ers in a row. The seventh man might do some shooting on a pinch, but be hopes there will be no piuch. In the crowd are ten revolvers, two derringers, three repeat ing rifles and four or five bowie-knives; and there is perfect good feeling as, the. stage rolls along. It is tacitly under-, stood that the army officer is to assume command in case the coach is attacked, and that all are to keep cool aud tiro to kill. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The windows are down and the passengers are smoking and talking and seeking for comfortable positions. The coach has just reached the top of a hill, when ev ery horse is suddenly pulled up. “If it’s a b’ar we’ll have some fun,’f growled one of the miners, as he put his head out of the window. ‘'“If it’s.a robber, gimme the fust pop at him,” whispered one of the despera-, does. • No one could say what the trouble was when a wiry little chap, about five feet six inches tall, with black eyes and hair, clean face and thin lips, appeared at the left-hand door with a cocked re volver in either hand and said: “Gents, I am sorry to disturb you, but I’ve got to make a raise this morn ing., Please leave' your shooters and climb down here, one at a time.M It was sudden. It was so sudden that it took ten seconds to understand the drift of his remarks.. Then every eye turned to the right-hand door, and the two revolvers held by a second robber were seen at the open window. It was a trap. .The rats were caught, and would they fight ? “Gents, I’m growing a leetle tient,” continued the first robber, n.o<we!”t0 ^ the * COMMUNISM IS AFRICA. Some of the Pleasure* of Llttnf Where There Is Free Ownership of Land. The traveler coming fresh from Europe into Damaraland, says C. G. Bintner, in the Popular Science Monthly, is struck by the complete communistic freedom with which every man appropriates the land and; its natural products. Roads have been worn through the thickets by footmen, and the heavy ox wagons, and the chief villages are connected by a kind of highway, but no one is obliged to keep the road if he does not waut to. They are of no more significance than the rebra or rhinoceros tracks which led to the drinking places before man ap peared in the country; and there is no reason why the traveler should not make a new road at pleasure. The pasturage is free for the teamster's hungry cattle, the wood for the fire needed to cook his supper. If a stray spark sets the grass on fire no one thinks of complaining; if a hunter com mits devastation among the game, the native may grumble at the waste, but he will not imagine that his rights are trespassed upon, or venture to interfere until the proceedings. The game is as much the stranger’s as his. If one sees a spot that pleases him he is at liberty to settle upon it and build himself a house there. If any objection is made to tlie stranger, nothing worse happens than; that something unreasonable is de manded of him in the same way that people in other parts of the world are not ashamed to overreach strangers; this'is not so easily done, however, if the intruder is a native or a member of the same tribe, and even if a stranger, | if b© does not allow himself to be scared awajt, is at last permitted to remain un disturbed. Whoever settles in any par ticular spot must, however, expect that othey persons, finding it well supplied with water and pasturage, will bring their herds there too; and it is the practice of the Hereto, when they wish to get rid of an unwelcome neighbor, notwithstanding thdir communism, to bring up so many herds and establish so many cattle-ranges about his house that he becomes disgusted with the frequent intrusions and is obliged to go away from the exhausted tract. Some of the Herero chiefs have recently begun to drive single cottiers sway by force, but they are actuated by ulterior political views. The people are pot dispoapd to grudge a strange ^thej laud he - tore L-m, But vecfiptaiiprai stowing wsw® ' iround the- mouth, 4nd nobody had a weapon in hand. The rats were not go ing to fight. One of thp miners opened the door and descended, and the other six humbly followed. The seven were drawn up in line acro'ss the road, and while one robber heJd his shooter.on the line he coolly observed to his partner: “Now, William, remove the weapons from the coach and then search these gentlemen.” As William obeyed, every victim was ordered to hold his hands above his head, and whatever plunder was taken from their pockets was dropped into William’s hat. Four gold watches, two diamond pins, a telescope, a diamond ring, a gold badge and 81,200 in cash changed hands in ten minutes. Not a man had a word to say. The driver of the coach did not leave his seat arid was not interfered with. When the , last man had been plundered, the genteel Dick Turpin ob served kindly: “You are the most decent set of men I ever robbed, and if times weren’t so darned hard I’d make each of you a present of 810. Now, then, climb back to your places, and the coach will go on.” The crowd got inland the vehicle re sumed its journey. Not a weapon, a timepiece or a dollar had been saved. Seven well armed men had been cleaned out by two, and not a shot fired nor a wound given. Mile after mile was passed in silence, and finally the seventh man, the one who might fight on a pinch but didn’t, plaintively suggested: “Can’t some of you gentlemen think of a few remarks which would be apropos to the occasion ?” No one could, and the silence was re sumed,— Seattle Post-Intelligencer Lincoln in Richmond. •After Richmond had fallen into the lands of the Federal forces the Cabinet oom of the Capitol was kept-in exactly he same condition as when occupied ,v .Jeff Davis. Bre-ident Lincoln, it vill be remembered, arrived the day liter the surrender, and while walking hrough the building, inspecting tho leadqnarters of the Confederacy, came o this room. God bey \\ < itzel, who was in charge, said; “Mr. President, ;hi is the ehiiir occupied by President Davis,” and motioned the President to dt down It was a trying moment, and those present expected to see a look of triumph in his face as he performed the set which signalized the complete down fall of the Rebellion. Mr. Lincoln ap proached wearily, sat down without a word, and as his great head fell into his broad hands there was an oppressive si lence. Ills mind seemed to lie wander ing back through the dark years of bloodshed and carnage. He saw visions of .bath, of broken family circles, loss of treasure, and the little mounds that dot the South under which sleep the Northern dead. He did not utter a word, but heaved a deep sigh, and ever to this day the w;arriors who stood ir hi", presence at the tune tell the storj with-tears in their eyes.—W an king tor* letter. > “The Chinese must go!” is npw : Salt Lake Ciry shibboleth. An .brdi nance is before the Common Council to compelling the wash-houses to remov outside the citv limits. John explain the matter time: “Chinaman he ten own business; he washee clothes, an be hab’no one, two, three wives, alle sam Mormlon; Mormlou he wantee ns awa bo we makee no money, sabe? Want* ta* ns iikee church qjakee pay tidUa$B. away; 'estament. „_ „itanwgl of our Lord Jc jixiun, translated ’Cu1 of Grecke Clieod. Beza; wit'- Brief summaries and expositions upon? the hard places by die said Anthor Ilac Camar and P. Lo laler Yillervis. Ei*glished by L. Thom son. Together with the annotations of Fr. Iundus upon the Revelation of 8t. lohn. Imprinted at London, by Rob ert Barker, Printer to the King’s most excellent Majestie, 1009.” The blank page at the beginning of the Old Test imeht has the following inscription: ‘Jacob Averell, Junr. His Bible, had it Bound June 13, 1761, prise 2£. 15s. Od.* ‘Jacob Averell, Junr. this hand and pen of mine which may Let you know that I was born in the year 1729. “William Hubbard’s Bible Bought at Auction April 5th A. D- 1813. Daniel Bixby, auctioneer, it being the property of Jacob Averell, Deceased. This edi tion of the Bible is that commonly called “The Bishop’s Bible,” which was first published in 1568, forty-three years before'our present version, which was first published in 1611. It has the distinction also of being called “The ' Breeches Bible, ” on account of the word “breeches” being used in the 7th verse of the 3d chapter of Genesis, instead of the word “apron,” used in the present version. The old version read* as fol lows: “Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaues together and made theitoselues breeches.” Tliis is aocompanied by a queer marginal note. The 20th verse of the same chapter says: “And tne man called his wiues name Heua, be cause she was the mother of all liuiwr.” The Effect of Chic**® Sand-Bagging “I have a case of pulsating ex-oph thalmus at the Michael Beeee Hospita.," said Dr. Boerne Bethmaa to a reporter. 1 ‘There have been bat ten cases of the disease reported in America. Very few physicians ever met with a case. I have'been fortunate enough to see one patient before this. My subject is a young man who was waylaid and sand-bagged. He has suffered most from the throbbing in his eyes and the veins running back over his forehead, which are greatly distended, and the ter rible pains in his head. Both eyes are abnormally swollen and protruding, and the left one is turned toward the nose, causing him to see double. I account for his suffering and present condition on the ground that ex-ophthalmns was produced by the blows he received on the back of the he;id. 'The internal carotid artery, which carries blood to the brain, and the large vein which carries blood from the brain to the heart run closely together ( for about an inch at the base of the sknll. Well where the blows were received a slight fracture of the skull took place, •lBd a s picul a of bone was driven through the vein and artery, so that the blood from each obstructs the flow of nutritive blood to the brain, on the one hand, and the exhausted blood to the heart on the other. The stagnation thus brought atx>ut is responsible for the pulsating, the throbbing in the head, the ■celling of the veins, etc. Unlees this difficulty -,8 relieved the patient wi)|> die of apo plexy. Chicago Newt. The merchant said be had some pretty good bar soap gt home, and the intomt?* ooartu&a. Jr r A
Franklinton Weekly (Franklinton, N.C.)
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Dec. 7, 1883, edition 1
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