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HALC0TT, ARCHITECT ! UOTKl, CLAI1SOKX, DCKijtAM, X. C, : ni'ilT I'liy j Ami :i7 .Miiiih-trLainl'AIbuny, X. Y. I JN0. W. WOOD, Attorney at Law, DURHAM, N.fc. K tfii-e over Dike's 1;kS: Store." D R. WM. LYNCH, (DURHAM, if C. OllUvIii tin" I'arrisU: BniilnigM;Lngum Street. W. W. FULLER, Attorney and Counselor at Law DURHAM, N. IP. BYRON A. PDaiN, ARCHITECT, j ; DURHAM, N.C. SAM'L T. ASHE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ; DURHAM, N.C. 1 Uilice in Crceit "luilrlinr. Main strcet-Jl W. C. BAIN, CONTRACTOR AND 'BUILDER S GRAHAM, IMJC. j tti Or Hoi'KlXS HOUSE, Itufliam, N.'C.-fi i'l J J KEFEKEX E liIVEr. IMO M MORINlfi Iaworney at law, j 1 DURHAM, NiC. . : -OFFICE IX I)l"KE mLDIXG.' W. F. REMINGTON. CONTRACTOR ANDjBUlLDER DUH1IAM. NC. i A. MANGUM, t i -ttorn.e3r at" La-w, : FLAT RIVERj N.C. , ! Ctilk-etiiins aiiil settlements arf e-ialty. 9. H. NORTON, Contractor and jBuilder, DURHAM, N, C. MANNING 6c MANNING, Attorneys at law, ; DURHAM, N.C, rmctu-e in OninKC, ChatliHiii and Inrliam ('utilities. mi. .-iy R. f. STKfliWICK. ' It. II. IK MINE, STRUDWICK &. BOONE, Attorneys at Law, i duriiam, n: C. i T'riietiee in the Courts of iMirlmin, OraiiRe and Person Counties, and in the Federal Courts. R. W. RICE, T Qentlemejh-s Furnisher, ' Ho W. BALTIMORE ST.j j s Fine shirts a sjeeialty, and fits truaranteeJ. , WM. A. GUTHRIE, ! Attorney at Law, DUKIIAM. - - .TS.C.l V ; OFFICE OVKlfc ' i j P. V. V A U( i 1 1 A N'S DRU(r STORE. T. W. HARRIS.-M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DURHAM, N. C. OFFH'K HOI KS: VI to 1 aijd .") to R, F. M. fte -Otliee Over Kawls' new stre on Main street, iH'tween Miuiffiun and Chureh tflreets. -Kesidem-e neareorner of atkins street and Kiysbee av-etiue. j M. H. JONES, WATCHMAKER, & ;JEWELER. DURHAM, N. C, liealer in Cl.x ks. Watehes. Juelry and Silver- wan-. )e.airmi? a speeiaiiV; iaii wors guaian- teeil Old i;oll ana siu e wiipui. NEW BRICK! I am now mating a large quaiitity of . Good Brick, And will increase my sni.ply.jtliis sprirts. For terms and particulars, apply to W . H. UK Ks?, S.N. & F. J. COLLINS, ! Hqbsb, Sip aifl DeeoratiYB Painters. 1 t ' PAPER HANGING -ANI- DURHAM, N. C. Ellington, Royster & Co., BUILDING CONTRACTORS, Raleigh, N. C., ' ! : i. I ' I Will contract for work anywhere in the State. Manufacturers of - s " SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS, Ami everything in the HuildiDgline. IVicesbe yimd coii))et'tion. CorresiKtiulenee licitetl ami 'r.l. rs iiriiniollv filled.! ' ': auSl tf VOL. XVI. NO. 41. ZIGZAG ZSCHOPAU. THE PLANT'S LETTER FKOM THE OLD AVOKLI). The Mountain Villsiirt' of Si liel- leiibei-H: The Glories ot'iiei uiaii Moimtuiii Scenerv. The Zsthopau is a small, babblintr river that flows from the center of hrzp-ebirge, or Ore Mountain region. and at le.ngth loses itself in the beau tiful Elbe. The vallev of the Zscho- pau conjtains some of the most beau tiful scenery in Saxony, all of which I naa Jrequentty enjoyed from the windows of the train which winds back and forth with the bends of the stream until it finds itself at An- naberg. After spending a more or less comfortable night beneath the heavy feather beds of the Inn of the White Stag in the pretty little' mountain village of Hchellenberg, I was awakV ened by my comrade, who said that the sun was already high in the heavens. We had both forgotten to wind our watches the previous even ing, so we were obliged to be guided by ah instinct that whispered to us that it was about breakfast time. We accordingly hurriedly dressed our selves and descended to the public room of the inn in search of coffee. To our surprise, however, we found the shutters closed and the door barred. At length we succeeded in getting into the street by means of a back "door. That I was not wrong in speaking of Hchellenberg as a mountain village is evidenced by the fact that this back door was situated in what front the front of the house appears to be the second floor. The morning air was delicious, as it usually is when one breathes it sixteen hundred feet above the sea. Above us lay the massive walls and white turrets of Augustusberg, framed in on the sides with a net work of dense foliage ; while over head the soft blue sky seemed to touch the sharp gables of the old We started out for a visit" to the Kunnerstein, a precipitous cliff which overhangs the river audits attendant railway and affords an ex tensive view of the outlying hills andvalleys of the Erzgebirge. After a brjsk walk-we reached this pretty outlook and found its beauty a hun dred fold increased by the taint morning mists that gave a soft, poet ic blue to the fields and meadows four hundred feet beneath us. Having enjoyed the peaceful scene to our hearts' content, we were in formed by the same vigorous instruct which we had felt before, that break fast might, could, would or at any rate should be ready by this time. We therefore hurried back to the White Stag and were called at once bv a modest little waitress to a break fast of ham and eggs, with cofl'ee to wash it down. The dear reader may imagine that ham and eggs, with good black coffee, is not much of a meal. JJut if this same dear reader were to get up at o a. m., walk three miles up and down hill and breathe several hogsheadfuls of pure moun tain air in the meanwhile he would be just poetical enough to appreciate, the refined and u-sthetic beauty of ham and eggs. The scenery along the Zschopau, for the. most part, proved to be pret ty but not remarkable. From the brow of the hill which overhangs ' the town of Zschopau, however, we obtain a beautiful view, lieneath us lay the town with its quaint many windowed roofs. On one side rose the. high tower of the principal church, while to the left stood the castle of Wildneck, which is situated in the middle of the town. Wandering through the narrow, ancient looking streets, we at length reached the main square of the town, on one side of which stood the rath, or council house, an interesting struc ture of great age. Obtaining a guide we at once has tened to the Schloss Wildneck. The castle itself, like all the Saxon cas-f ties, is a combination of stuccoed ug liness and massive grandeur. But by far the most interesting feature of the Schloss Wildneck is its circu lar tower, wnich is much more an cient than the castle itself. The present castle was -probably built in the sixteenth century,but the tower is said to date back to the year nine hundred. Think of it! This tower was standing where it stands now six hundred years before the e-es of Columbus rested on the great new world. While it was being built the power of Rome had not been entire ly forgotten, and Constantinople had still to exist several centuries as a Christian city. In fact, this old tower was proba bly built before the days of the Sax on by some old Wendish or Sorbish noble whose very name is forgotten. For several minutes we stood at its base dreaming of the history which no doubt centers about it. It is situated on the main road which leads from Leipzig to Prag and was undoubtedly used largely as a watch tower. It was probably on account of its excellency for this purpose that a robber-knight in the middle ages built the castle which nowr ad joins it. The original use of the tower was threefold : It was an excellent watch tower, a terrible prison and an im pregnable stronghold. It, appar ently, has two entrances. The first, a door-way on the level of the ground, does not," however, open into the tower. Instead, it was the entrance to a secret, underground passage which led to the castle of Scharfen stein and then on to Wolkenstein, a castle on a magnificent cliff, eight miles from Zschopau. ine qni other opening was a small door about forty feet above the ground. To this access is obtained by means HERE SHALL THE PRESS of a rickety ladder, up which we as cended one; at a time. The small wooden door opened in a hallway ten feet long, irhif-h ica-i nearly the ac tual thick-net of the vsall. I have seeh a great many castles and plenty (jf magnificent stone-work, but I have never .seen anything else which ap proached this in massiveness. At the end of the passage we came to a short flight of stone steps, and trie rest of the way to the top was by means ol a winding stair-way of boards resting on massive oak tim bers that have been fastened into the walls for centuries. The whole interior of the tower is empty except for these bare timbers that span Jit from side to side. Hardly a ray pf light makes its way through the few lookout holes in the walls, and con sequently there is an exhilarating feeling of danger as one recognizes that a single false step may plunge him into the darkness below. At length we reached the roof and, opening a trap-door, we took turns in protuding our heads and catchiiig a glimpse of the land to the nor:h and west. 'The tower is never vis ited by tourists we were told that we were the first Americans thjat had ever been inside of it and con sequently it is full of the dust and dirt ot ayes. I C EL I U I O IS INTELLI GENC I Bishop Key for several weeks hjas been laboring in our State. He hjas done great) good, and reports "from places he has visited prove him 'to be a devout Christian. (ireensboro Work-man: Rev. S. W. Coe, who has been assisting the pas tor, Rev. W. F. Kennett, in a pro tracted meeting at Winston Meth'o dist church, reports over twenty cob versions, a large proportion youiiig men, accessions over a dozen. j Washington Proyrcs . The annual conference of the colored people pf the M. K. Zion's Church meet in this town at Farmers' chapel, on the 4tji Wednesday in November ne.t. Rishop .1. P. Thompson will be pres ent and preside during the sessioh. Webster's Weck hj : Rev. Mr. Stanley commenced a series of protracted meetings at the Methodist church last Sunday night. We are glad 0 know that there is every assurance that it will deepen into a gracious revival. Some seven or eight stood up for prayer the first night. Dr. Hannon, of Lynchburg, will be here either Thursday or Friday night. J Revivals reported to the Christian Sun, Raleigh, condensed for Tnk Plant: IIolv Neck, 74 conversions, 54 additions ; Pallentine's Mill, 12 conversions, u accessions : Amelia a 1 church, Johnston county, 2 converts, 1 accession ; Lassiter's school housej, lo converts, and a new church of lo members organized ; High Point, 20 converts; Catawba Springs, 4 accesr sions. i Ilillsboro Recorder : Avery inter esting meeting is now going on a the Baptist church in this place unj der the ministry ot the Rev. C. C Newton, the pastor, assisted by the Rev. W. Li, .Wright, of Reidsville. There have been up to this time (Tuesday) about 12 or 15 conversions and there are now about ; 15 or 16 penitents. The meeting seems to be greatly gaining in interest Statesville Adrorate : The three Methodist papers of North Caroliiia! agree that Rev. (i. F. Round, late of the N. C. Conference, has gone to' (iregon. But where is he stationed?; We did our best on the note before! us andmadeit"Albey and Tangent," which ought to have been Albany and Tangent. The Methodist' Advance puts it "Albany and Sarjjent." The Raleigh Advocate says "Albany and Tangert." We have since learned that Albany and Tangent is correct. Monroe Enquirer and E.rprexs : Re vivals reported in the liiblical Re corder : Clemmonsville, 15 baptisms; Lexington, 8 additions; Island Creek, 7 additions; Ephesus, byconversions; Kannie Creek, 3 baptisms; Swift Creek, P.) conversions ; Bethel, Per quimans county, ;l professions; Lumberton, 10 conversions ; Berea, 10 professions ; Colvin Creek, G bap tisms ; Magnolia, baptisms ; Mt. Pisgah, 10 baptisms ; Waughtown, 1!) professions ; Pine Forest, o bap tisms; Bethel, Orange county, 34 baptisms ; Roxabel, 2G acjditions. Revivals reported to the Raleigh Advocate, condensed for The Plant : Mt. Pleasant circuit, GO conversions, 40 accessions to the church ; Nash- hville circuit, 7 converts, 5 accessions; Ldenton street, Kaleigh, 6b converts, 31 accessions ; Farmington circuit, 23 conversions, interest increasing.; Ilillsboro circuit, 14 conversions, profound interest ; Tar River circuit, 44 conversions ; Rev. J. J. Renn has held six meetings since last of July resulting in 140 conversions and large accessions to the membership of the church; Rev. Solomon Pool reports a new church organized at Sander's chapel, 31 members, and conversions on his circuit to the number of 50; Madison circuit, 31 conversions, 25 accessions ; XewtOn drove mission, 21 accessions; Clin ton circuit reports 52 accessions; Deep River circuit, GO conversions, about -iO accessions ; Mt. Airy, GO conversions, 47 accessions. - t : "" y : - To Ladies suffering from functional derange ments or any of the painful disorders or weaknesses incident to their sex, Dr. "Tierce's treatise, illustrated with wood-cuts And colored plates (1(50 pages), suggests sure means of com plete self-cure. Sent for 10 cents in stamps. Address Word's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. So Hard to Realize It. New Orleans Picayune. Small ideas and big words make a painful combination. THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, WASHINGTON NEWS. THE PLANT'S LET I'EK FIMI THE CAPITAL. The City Filling up 3rr. Garland Back from Homiiiy Hill Per sonal Notes. Washington is already beginning to fill up. By the time the Presi dent returns the appearance of things will have greatly . changed. Politi cians, lobbyists, pleasure-seekers and sight-seers are coming in rapidly. It is said this session of Congress will be one of the most important and one of the busiest that has marked the history of this country. The Democratic party will have to take definite action on the tariff bill, the educational bill and perhaps another dependent pension bill before thy go into the campaign of ISSN. j Attorney General Garland has re turned to the city very much Un proved by his long rest at Hominy Hill. A member of the family gives me the following brief sketch of Mr. Garland's country seat: It is about eighteen miles from Little Rock, is a large, roomy, old-fashioned house, and stands in the midst of high hills and primeval forests. Game of all sorts is abundant. A river, in which there are plenty of fish,skirts the plantation. Mr. Garland's favorite sports are hunting deer and fishing. He often has from twelve to eighteen friends at Hominy IT ill to enjoy the hunting and fishine with him. The house is in charge of a trusted ten ant who has been there for years. When Mr. Garland has a crowd jof his friends staying with him they have breakfast before day-break, hunt all day, and keep the larder well supplied with venison steaks and fresh fish. 1 am promised a trtfat in the shape of fresh venison from Hominy Hill this fall, and the an ticipation of it may have impressed the above outline on my mind more vividly. The estimates for the expenditures in the various departments, which are due at the Treasury Department October the first, are coming in slowly this year. The only ones bo far submitted are from the State De partment, the Department of Jus tice and the Interstate Commerce Commission. j A statement prepared at thcTreas ury Department shows that during the month of September there was a net increase of 32,350.375 in circu lation and a net increase of $7,2(4,- 13G in the cash in the Treasury. ' There are only three more days during which otlers can be made at the Treasury Department to take up the $2,000,0()0 remaining of the $14, (100,000 bond call. There was a large offering of bonds to-day. j B. S. Piatt has been appointed en rolling clerk of the Senate to succeed the late C. C. Sympson. j Mr. Charles M. Ilendley, corres ponding clerk at the White House, was married to Miss Robinson, of New York, on the 4th instant. Among some very handsome presj ents were a solid silver tete-a-tete tea service from President and Mrs. Cleveland, a set of silver coffee spoons from Mrs. Lamont and an orienta bowl from Mrs. Henry G. PearsonL Mrs. Rachel Strong, wife of Judges Strong, of the Supreme court bench j now on the retired list, died in this city this morning. The Maryland Democratic club held an enthusiastic meeting last night. Col. Snowden, of Baltimore, delivered a stirring address. The Oberly letter gave rise to a lengthy discussion. Mr. C. C. Lancaster, a son-in-law of the Hon. Sam Randall, offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted : "In view of the recent letter of Mr. Oberly on the policy of the civil service law it is resolved that "the !Maryland Demcratic club, composed of stalwart Democrats, is organizeel to attend to its own business." ; The United States Supreme court Sconvenes afnoon next Tuesday for the October term. The number of cases on the docket to-day is 1,111). jl he most important case that will pome up during the first two weeks jof the term is the famous Myra Plark Gaines litigation with the city bf New Orleans. Mrs. Gaines is tlead, but one of the heirs is Mr. James l"Y. Christmas, whose wife, Ithoda Gaines, is a native of Wax Fenton, N. C. Mr. Christmas is ex ecutor of Mrs. Gaines' will. j Col. Wm. Elliott, member of Con gress elect from the Seventh S. C. district, is in the city conferring with h'is attorneys with regard to his con tested election case. Robert Smalls, the well known colored Congress man, is the other contestant. Col. Elliott says that his majority is 584. lAbout half a dozen Congressmen hive just arrived in town. Mr. Paul Clary and bride nee Miss Brodie, of Henderson, are in this city at the Ebbitt House en route to New York. ML Clary is a member of the firm of Clkry Brothers, leaf tobacco dealers, Henderson, N. C. The President's cordial reception in the West is very pleasant to his friends here. It will be of great ser vice to him in l'SSS, to have known personally so considerable a portion of our great country. Civil Service Commissioner Oberly has got himself into hot water by the pbnoxious letter he wrote deny ing the right of legal existence to the State Democratic Associations. He has been roundly denounced by the members of the Ohio, Illinois and j Virginia Democratic Associa tions: in formal convention. If his letter: should prove to contain ; the law on the subject some very high officials would find themselves sub ject to legal prosecution. Assistant Secretary Maynard, Chief Clerk You mans,and Public Printer Benedict are active members of the New York Democratic Association and pay their dues regularly. President Cleve land, Col. Lamont, Secretary Fair child, Secretary Whitrtey and ex Secretary Manning hav been elected honorary members of the association. In the club rooms theire are three large portraits in a row, Cleveland, Hill and Manning, and on the man tel are large photographs of Secretary Fairchild and Col. Larhont. If Mr. Oberly starts to prosecute these gen tlemen he will doubtless have his hands pretty full, and jwill have to ask Congress to appropriate all the surplus in the Treasury to be used for the payment of lawyers to be employedjin this decidedly unique prosecution. It is intimated that Oberly's famous letter originated in the versatile brain of. Mr. Civil Ser vice Commissioner Lyman, who is a shrewd, calculating t Republican, neV.r losing sight of an oppor tunity to serve his plirty. Oberly would never impress any one as a man with any sense td hurt, and I would not be surpristnl to find that he had fallen a victim! to Lyman's well 'laid and adroit schemes. STATE POLITICS. The (ireensboro Pafni'ot says either Gov. Scales or Col. J. ff Moreheati will represent the Fifth district in the Fiftieth Congress. 1 Reidsville Democrat i Jarvis and Carr for Governor arid Lieutenant Governor will make af strong team, and would carry the ltate by good majorities. ; I A Watauga correspondent of the (ireensboro . North; Slate favors 1 pick ery and Furches as thb Republican candidates for Governor ami Lieu tenant Governor. f j Webster's Weiklij: ThbpTty which proposes in dead earnest to abolish the Internal Ueveniji'', root and branch, will carry Nfrth Carolina next fall. We are wflling to ri k our reputation for prophesy on that prediction. ! ! Chadburn Times : lany predic tions are going the rounds of the pa pers as to' the next GovjernQr of North Carolina. .Stedman, Jarvis, Holt, Gilmer, Clark, Dowd, Armfield,Saun ders, Cook, Bryant, Cafr, Polk, Bail y , Brouglrton,Grahani,anjd others whose names we do not reball, are men tioned for the Governorship. We are clearly of the opinion that it is entirely too soon to predict who will be the next Governor. Asheboro Courier: Gilmer, Clark, Jarvis, Steadman, Holt, Carr, Arm field, Coke, Creecy, Cok, Davis, Bry an and still they coine. But it is not yet settled who is fo be governor. As yet public opinion! has made no choice. In a discussion of the sub ject the writer heard tfie .other day between half a dozen or more intel ligent gentlemen, no lone of them had any settled conviction as to the right man for the plae. However, there is no discounting the amount of good; material. " ( m i "Fools. Rush in, AViere Angels Fear to Tread." So impetuous youth; is often given to folly and indiscretions ; and, as a result, nervous, mental and organic debility follow, memory is impaired self-confidence is lacking ; at night bad dreams occur, premature old age seems setting in, ruin is in the track. In confidence, you can, and should write to Dr. It. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., the author of a trea tise for the benefit of; that class of patients, and describe your symp toms andsufferings. lie can cure you at your home, ancf will send you full particulars by mail. Optical Illusion of Course. Statesville Ijindfiiark. The presence of Hn. John Sher man at the colored fair at Raleigh this fall will probably give quite a boost to the Sherman !oom in North Carolina. Of course jthe managers of the fair have no idea in connec tion with it that is no strictly agri cultural and industrial, but the Landmark- sees the lily white hand of Logan Harris in the selection of the principal orator, or else it is the victim of an optical illusion. "" ! Democratic Doetrine. Augusta Gazette. The Macon Teegrajh says that "the time is gone by wher this govern ment played baby carriage to 'infant' industries. The mother of infent industries is capital and not monop oly." That is Democratic doctrine, without the smell of Republican brimstone on it. And He Must Shoot After He Aims. New Orleans Picayune. If a young man wants to hit the bull's-eye in this world, and make a good record for himsejf, he must not aim too high. If he jsimply wants to make a noise he mhy aim at the clouds. A Lesson in Engineering. Cincinnati Telegram J The way to boom ajriver is to dam it, and then break tile dam. The wav to dam a town is to boom it, and then break the bejom. Keason for Dethroning Reason. Wilmington Mes4:nger. There are some statesmen whose minds would be improved if they could have a well developed case of insanity. I Two Great B's. Wilmington Sar.l Mary Anderson is nigh unto thirty years old and is still unmarried. She has beauty and booty! State Fair will begin Tuesday, Oc tober lSth. Ay AND UNBBIBED BY GAIN. 1887. ALL OVER THE STATE. ITEMS OF NEWS SCISSORED FK03I EXCHANGES. Marriages, Deaths, Personal Par agraphs, and All Sorts, Culled for the Headers of The Plant. Fayettevi le hopes for another cot ton mill, and has reason for her hope. Hickory ishipped thousands of pounds of blackberries. That's the way. Keep it up. Wilmihgtbn Star: Six. foreign steamships in port at one time will do. . That l(ioks like business. W'ilmingtbn is trying , to induce the C. F. & Y. V. R. R. to go to her. She will probably offer $150,000. New Berne is taking steps towards extending the A. it N. C. R. R. to connect wit 1 the C. F. Y. Y. R. R. La Grang e is a live little town, ami the tree i n -. thinks it is owing to iooIs. 400 pupils are the fine sc there. Roanoke News: The sumac season is aobut oyer. Several hundred thousand pounds have been shipped from V eldOn. Somebodj' attempted to burglari ously enter the handsoin store of Messrs Harris iv b lippin,( ireensboro, a few nights! ao. Wihningtj on MessciKicr : The first shipment ol cotton to Finland was made I uest ay, 4th inst., by Messrs. Alex. Sprunt it Son. Mr. I). R. Harry, of Charlotte, and Miss Fannie Neely, ot Salisbury, were marri ea in tne 1 resovierian church, Salisbury, last Wednesday. New Benie Journal : Hon. F. M. Simmons has re-appointed George (i Ransom, of Craven county, cadet to West Point, with Robert Dunn, of Lenoir, alternate. Neics t- Observer : A valued sub scriber writes from Athens, Robeson county, that more sorghum is being made in that vicinity than can be consumed in two years. j Lenoir Topic : We saw, last week, in the ware hardt & Co. weighing S(' touse of Harper, Bern a mammoth,pumpkin, pounds, raised by a Mr. Bullinger inj Watauga county. M r. Jefferson M. Lamar, of Jack sonville, Florida, and Miss Alberta C. Hawkins,! of Raleigh, were mar ried at the ciurch of the Good Shep herd, Raleigh, last Wednesday even ing. I j Dr. A. B. (,'hapin, of the Washing ton 1'rogress, has been appointed by the Governor a delegate to the South ern Forestry Convention, which is to meet at lluntsville, Alabama, Octo ber 2ith. ! Reidsville Democrat . Gov. Scales has appointed Dr. W. A. Lashj of Walnut Covei, a dekigate from the Fifth Congressional district to the National Convention of Farmers to be held in Chicago, November 11th, 12th and 13th. i N. C. Teaciw., : Prof. A W. Man gum, of our State University, has been elected a member of the Yic toria Institute) or Philosophic Society of:Great Britain ; and also a member of the School ! of Christian Philoso phy of New York. Wilmington Messenger: ITiineas Quinn, who was feeding a job press at the office- of "The Lutheran Publication vompany," yesterday morning, mas led all five fingers off his right hand. The index finger was fractured jin three places. j Neivs((: Observer: The saw mill of Messrs. J. H. alker it Co., Reids ville, together ;with a large quantity pf lumber, Was! destroyed by fire last week. Loss, j $20,000; insurance, $10,000. Watchman asleep, the fire was beyond control when discovered. The fishing industry around More head City and Beaufort is booming. 430,000 "fat backs" have just been caught and thej porpoise fisheries are also having fine runs. The business has increasetl over 100 percent., and two new factories for tr3'ing out oil and working skins are contemplated. The Chocowinity Association of ex-Confederate j soldiers held a re union last month. The Washington Progress says : '-"It would be well for the ex-Corifederate soldiers of other precincts in the county to or ganize and follow the example of Chocowinity." Yes, it would; .who next? i Wilmington Si.ar: Mr. R. M. Gavin had one of his hands terribly man gled a few days ago, while ginning cotton for Messrs! J- F.Croom it Bro., at. Magnolia. The first finger of his hand was cut off, the little finger nearly severed near the hand, and the two middle finers split their en tire length and up into the hand. Greensboro Workman: Mrs. Mary Read Goodale, daughter of the dis tinguished Mrs. Read, of Baton Rouge, La., a leading educator of the preceding generation, will spend October working in North Carolina. Mrs. Goodale is the wife of a promi nent lawyer of Baton Rouge, and comes to us highly recommended as a public speaker, j Weitster's Weekly: The graded schools have opened more prosper ously than their most sanguine friends expected. ; Four hundred and twelve colored children matric ulated and two hundred and eighty one white. Quite a number more are expected in each school. All the teachers are on hand, and a suc cessful session may be looked for. Webster, Weekly: The county com missicners at their session yesterday refused to grant license to sell beer and wine in Reidsville. They, how ever, passed a resolution instructing the chairman of the board to issue license if the town commissioners should decide to recommend it. The town commissioners will not take any action ui the matter, until the $1.50 PER ANNUM. Supreme court of the State has I passed on the Raleigh case. i Statesville Mail: Mr. Milus Brady j has a curiosity in the way of a hog- i pen. He calls it a portable hog- j hoUse. The advantages it has over old: rail pens is it can be moved from i persimmon tree to another, until all thej persimmons are used up, and then it can be put under an oak tree to catch the acorns. When corn is scarce the utility of this invention will be appreciated by all. There was a shooting affair near Mebane last Thursday. The Graham Gleaner gives the following particu lar : "Yank Allen had a para mojur named Ida Armstrong, whom he liked better than his wife, and to her gave his pistol and told her to shoot his wife". She ditl as bidden, putting four balls into Yanks wife. She is in a precarious condition. Physicians are attending her. Roanoke Neivs : While superin tending around his gin housejMr. K. L. j Summerell, of Northampton county, inadvertently approached toq near the high platform, and miss ing his footing, fell some distance to the grounel. He was carried! home in an insensible condition. ) I'pon examination it was found that one of the bones of the leg was broken. We extend our sympathy and hope he;will soon be well. j Christian Sun : The . Governor has appointed the following gentlemen as representatives to the Southern Forestry convention, to be 'held at Huntsville, Alabama, October 2Gth : A. B. Chapin, Aurora; Dr. JR. H. Lewis, Raleigh; Capt. Hugh Leach, Carthage ; A. C. Dunn, Wake Forest; ILIE. Fries, Salem; W. J. I Yates, Charlotte ; Theo. F. Klutz, Salisbury ; J. M. Connelly, Connelly's Springs ; Capt. Nat. Atkinson, Asheville. Asheville Citizen: Diligent inquiry from the planters in regard to the damages to tobacco by the recent frost lead to the conclusion that about 15 per cent, of the standing crop" was injured. About half, pos sibly not so much, had been cut be fore the frost. The action of the frost was capricious. In somej neigh borhoods no harm was done, in oth ersj not far remote, whole fields were killed. Major Rollins, one of the largest planters, says along the French Broad the effect of the frost was not apparent. A correspondent of the Goldsboro Argussays : Since gambling has been excluded from the grounds of the next fair to be held in this county, we trust that every one may have county pride and public; spirit enough to contribute in some way to making it a grand succesi. But to advertise other things so j exten sively, offering every inducement for the people to go out and pution ex hibition the products of their farms and mechanism, and then turn up on them a banel of gamblers, thieves and pickpockets to cheat and de fraud them out of their money, was perfectly outrageous, and a disgrace to our civilization. We hope that every other county will follow the example of Wayne. Right. Head level; Tell it again. Charlotte Chronicle: Mr. Wm. Hinson, an old gentleman aged 71 years, and who lives near Lincolton, has been troubled for a year past by a very painful affection of one of his eyes. The,sight of the afflicted eye was finally extinguished, and the pain continuing, Mr. Hinson de cided! to come to Charlotte and have it treated. He arrived here, last Tuesday and applied to Dr. Geo. W. Graham, and after an examination was made the sufferer was imformed that no relief could be given except by extracting the diseased eye ball, that, in fact, being the treatment de manded by the case, to prevent the other ieye from being aflected. Mr. Hinson readily submitted to the operation and displayed an amount of grit; and nerve quite wonderful for one of 4iis age. The operation was entirely successful, ami has re sulted in great relief to the patient,1 who expects to return, to his home to-dav; iElated Ashevillians. ExcliunKe. President Cleveland has promised to call a few hours at Asheville on his way home. 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RATEsTor ADVERTISINgT 1 inch, one insertion, 1 00 1 inch, one month 2.50 1 inch, three months, ". 5 no 1 inch, six months, " " 7" 50 1 inch, one year.. . . jonO 4 column, three months, 17 50 i column, six months 30 00 I column, oneyear !!!!!."!!". 5o!o0 4 column, three months,.... J 25 00 4 column, six months, . . ."..".. 45 00 column, one year,.- 8000 1 column, three months ..".".' 45.00 1 column, six months 80.00 1 column, one year, !!! 150.00 1 column, one insertion !!!!!! lo!ofj 2 columns, one insertion, . . . . . . 15.00 Space to suit a.lvertiser charged for in accordance with above rates. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Tl iere is another rnmm- that Blaine's health is not good. The widow of ex-President John Tyler is visiting New York. If he carry New York, this fall Fred Grant's the man of destiny. Miss Alice Fletcher has recently been appointed Indian Agent of Ne braska. E. B. Washburne's mental facul ties were unimpaired bv his recent stroke of paralysis. If Bob Lincoln isn't a candidate what is he doing with a literary bu reau ? ?. Paul C,l,i: . A great many people will be sur prised to learn that Ruskin is not' insane. Macon Telegraph. Foraker positively refuses to tell who snubbed him. 1 Le prefers to be a iWAXiyr. Atlanta Constitution, Dan. Massachusetts, too. For Governor Oliver Ames. Platform Give the son of his father a chance. Chi ago Neus. The President has a lame shoul der. Excessive handshaking is a species of pernicious activity. Chi cago Tribune. The red-haired lady who kissed, the President in Philadelphia would have turned scornfully from Mr. Foraker. Louisville Courier-Journal. For President Edward Burgess; of Massachusetts. For Vice Presi dent tuneral l'ame, ol Massachu setts. Phihulelphia North American. Carl Schurz is said to be perma nently crippled by the result of the fall on the ice last winter -that was at first believed to have caused only a sprain. The writer of George Sands pos thumous works has been run down, but the Hugh Conway author is still uncared for and unhung. Rochester rst-E.rprcss. They say that Charles Dickens, Jr., has a very poor delivery. This disproves the rumor that he is com ing to this country to engage in the baseball industry. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Senators Sherman, Hawley, Hale,. Harrison, Edmunds and Mahone are to encourage the New York Re publicans to try and whoop up a majority for Col. Fred Grant during the coming campaign". Hon. Thos. Powell is devoting himself assiduously to the tariff ques tion, but Foraker is confident of car rying Ohio if he can get Mrs. Fora ker "snubbed" often enough. St. Louis Pteputuican, Dem. Henry Irving's season in this country will begin at the New York Theatre on November 7th. Mr. Ir ving anel his company will arrive about October 24. "Faust" will be played five weeks in New York. The Century Mayazinehtis been pub lishing, a series of articles entitled, "Snubbin' through Jersey." Foraker should follow this up with a bro-' chure entitled "Snubbin' through Pennsylvania." St. Louis Post-Dui-patch. Emperor William is enjoying ex cellent health. He mingles freely in society in Baden-Baden and has held several receptions. Reports are sent to him daily concerning the condition of Crown Prince Frederick William. Gov. Foraker, of Ohio, now some times referred to by irreverent poli ticians as Trivial Trousers, has been making a speech at Mid-dletown, in bis State, in which he bangs 'Presi dent Cleveland to the best of his ability. N. Y. World, Dem. Statesman Joe Brown, of Georgia, appears to have his hands full in de fending the infamous treatment of convicts by a mining company of which he is president. He owns up to the fact that the convicts were worked xm Sundays. Philadelphia Record. Governor Hill bas refused to dis cuss land taxation with Henry George. Why doesn't Mr. George challenge a 'man of his size? Ix;t him try Editor Grady. George has one idea, and Grady has made one speech. Have at each other. Phil adelphia Record, Dem. Miss Braddon is tall and In-oad-shouldered, but not stout, her con stant horse-back exercise keeping down any excess of tissue ; she has pleasant features, light brown eyes, hair without much trace of gray, and dresses handsomely, sometimes wear ing very beautiful diamonds. Kan sas City 'Times. If Gov. Foraker will pardon us for frankly stating a most obvious truth, we should like to remark," in language which is plain, that the obtrusiveneKs upon the public at tention of his private griefs and per sonal lacerations are becomjng a tri fle, or, for the matter of that, a good deal tiresome. Philadelphia Enquirer, PV- Oscar Wilde's judgment is some time remarkably good. In assum ing the editorship of an English mag azine Wilde insisted upon having the name changed from the Lady's World to the Woman's World. This little incident serves to show that the erstwhile Apostle of Estheticism isnot quite so namby-pamby as he used to be N. Y. World. The reports of John Ruskin's fail ing mind have revived the story of how Millais used to visit Ruskin and his wife as a dear friend ; how he took Mrs. Ruskin as the original of the sad, clinging sweetheart in his famous picture of the "Huguenot levers;" how the painter and his friend's wife fell in love with each other, and how John Ruskin gave her u.i to Millais and said he hoped they wc uld be happy together. In the opinion cf most people Ruskin's insanity is at least as old as this re markable action. Atlanta Condilu