Newspapers / The Goldsboro Headlight (Goldsboro, … / Aug. 28, 1889, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Goldsboro Headlight (Goldsboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THE HEADLIGHT. ROSCOWER, Editor & Proprietor. "HERE SHALL TIIE PRESS TEE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN A WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." EIGHT PAt-M. VOL. II. NO 51. mttvn attb lttiaUatt3 SLEEP. , best of all, God's choicest blessing, j ner than Earth can afford wealth. Xhey change, aecay; tnou always art the Through a" tne years thy freshness thou dittt keep; ;rer ail laniis thine even pinions sweep. The k, iiio wuru, me Diina, me lone, th . lame, Hearing thy tranquil footsteps, bless thy Kit?"5'1 is soothed, sorrow forgets to weep, i IjTipu oie st ttie captive's cell and bid'st him roam ; T'j.ui giv'st the hunted refuge, fre'stthe fJave-, 8:w,v'st the outcast pity, call'st the exile noine; 'ossar and king thine equal blessings reap. ' v, for our loved ones wealth, joy, honors crave; : But God, He giveth His beloved sleep. j Thomas Nelson Paae. in the Century.' A WILD GOOSE CHASE. Mrs. Jeannette Borroughs, for manv! rears a client of the law-firm of Hibden! & II olden, in whose office I was under-' clerk, was at last dead ; and by a willj had left the greater part of her comfort-; able little property to a certain Miss Em-: ma Brookes, who had for five years lived with her as companion. Mr. Holden was appointed executor of the will, in which capacity it became necessary that he should immediately communicate with Miss Brookes; but here an unexpected difficulty presented.- Everybody knew that the young lady5 I had left Mrs. Royal some six months since to take charge of her father, who had become blind and paralyzed ; but be-, youd the fact that she was in New York,; nothing was known of her address. Ad-' vertisements were inserted in the papers ; but, as after two weeks no answer was. received, Mr. Holden began to think of employing a detective to hunt out the missing legatee. i It was just at this moment that Mrs. Royal's late cook suddenly remembered, that shortly after she herself came intoi the old lady's service, Miss Brookes had visited a relative in Greenville, whom she called "Cousin Mary Dixon." Here was at last a clue, and Mr. Hol den straightway directed me to proceed, to Greenville, and there hunt up Mrs. or Miss Mary Dixon, and through her ascer tain the whereabouts of Miss Emma Brookes. As Greenville, though a considerable town, could not boast of a directory, I had no other alternative but to canvas the place as it were; and thus, after a day's arduous work, learned from a cler gyman that a member of his congrega tion bore the name of Dixon, and also, he thought, the Christian name of Mary. She was a widow, and resided on Or shard street. He did not remember the aumber, but the street being a short one L coud easily lind her. This indeed I did, for the first person of whom I inquired on the street in ques tion a small boy not only pointed out to me the house in which he said Mrs. Mary Dixion resided, but volunteered to arouse the inmates, which he did by f vigorous pounding on the door, until '4 bought him oil with the present of j nickel. In answer to the summons, a neat vo raan presented herself with a broom ia her hand, which she quietly dropped at light of me. I apologized, explaining that the per formance on the door had not been mina and inquired if Mrs. Mary Dixon live there. "Yes, she lives here," the woman re plied. "Shi own the hou and T nni my son rent part ot it Irom her. Do yoi . want to see her particular?" ' 'I wish to see her on a little business matter." "What sort of business!" "A little private matter, which I will, explain to 3Irs. Dixon herself." "Oh, there's no call to be so particular. I asked merely because she ain't at home, and I thought I could explain when she I )mes back. She's gone to Middleton to help nurse her sister's children, that's, down with the measles." I was vexed to find myself thus balked, just as- my searoi seemed crowned with success. But there was no alternative, save to follow Mrs. Dixon to Middleton a journey of two hours by rail and I accordingly inquired her address in that town. "Well, I don't know the number; it's at Mr. John Smith's she's staying. Some where on Cherry Street Or, stay! it may be Peach, I dare say my son's wife knows." ' ! ' Then lifting her voice, she called: ! "Mariar!" There was no answer, but from the tdtchen came the strong odor of baking' bread, and the woman hurried off, cx claiming : "Jest wait a minute and I'll send Tom's wife.1" In a minute, accordingly, there came, quietly along the passage a tall, ladylike young woman, with a pretty child in her irms." She was neatly and tastfullv dressed.: and struck me at once as being of an order quite superior to that of her mother-in-law. ; Glancing at her from head to foot as she advanced, I noted her handsome, pleasant face and intelligent look, and in my own mind set down Tom as a fortun nate individual. I took down the address as she o-ave it to me and the next day was in Middle ton, where I experienced no difficulty in finding Mrs. Dixon, though the finding of her relative. Miss Emma Brookes, seemed nearly as remote' as ever. , Mrs. Dixon gave me an account of the family, and described Mr. George Brookes as "a gentleman-born, and one of those clever men who could do everything ex cept work and support his family." His wife had done the last,until,broken down in health, she died, and oua I daughter had married and gone to Ne braska, and the other, Emma, answered an advertisement for a companion, i She was a fine, self-reliant girl, Emmj . was. and Mrs. Royal had been very fond of her; and for" her part she wasn't sur prised to learn that the old lady had left her a legacy, for she had surely deserved it by her kindness and attention. But where to find Emma she did not know, except that she was somewhere in New York, where her father always re sided. He had been a daily newspaper reporter and in the habit of frequenting the public libraries, to some of which she had heard Emma remark, he was a sub scriber. Beyond this Mrs. Dixon could really give no inforniatron; and with this slen der clue I proceeded to New York. My inquiry at the office of the news paper met with no success. They re membered Mr. George E. Brookes, but knew nothing of his present place of abode, except that one of the staff of re porters was positive that he had removed to the country for the benefit of his health. This was discouraging, but I proceeded to inquire among the libraries and here was more successful. On the list of sub scribers to the Mercantile, was the name, "George E. Brooks, No. S India street, Green Point, Long Island," with a date of some six months previous. In less than an hour I presented my self at the door of the designated house, which I found to be a plain, but respect able boarding-house kept by a widow by the name of Miles. My first inquiry was: "Does Mr. George E. Brookes live here?" Mrs. Miles surveyed me solemnly from above her spectacles, and replied slowly: "He did live here, young man." "Then he has removed?" "Yes, he has been removed to a better home." "Will you be kind enough, madam, to edve me his present address?" She stared at me stonily, and appre hending that she had not understood my inquirv, I repeated it : "Where can I find Mr. Brookes at present?" "He is where I trust you will some day ind him in heaven !" With some difficulty I obtained from !ier the information that her lodger had lied some three weeks prjous; that he lad been kindly cared for by his daugh ter and a beneficial society of which he tvas a member; and that after the funeral ihe young lady had left the house, as she ?aid, to return to the friends with whom she had lived before joining her father. ?he had mentioned the name of the town; but it had entirely escaped the landlady's iteniory in the trouble and worry of get ting the two" vacated rooms ready for new sccupants. And thus again had Miss Emma Brookes, will-othe wisp-like, es ped my grasp Just as she appeared ac tually in my reach. After transacting some business, I next Hj took the cars for home, in the hope that Miss Brookes, ignorant of Mrs. Royal's death, might have returned to aer house, and there learned of what so aearly interested her. On taking my seat in the car, the first person whom I recognized was the young GOLDSBORO, N. a WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1889. iady whom I knew only as "Tom's wife," but this time unaccompanied by the baby. I saw that she recognized me ; and some ilight attention in regard to the window lash led us into conversation. She replied to my inquiry that Mrs. Dixon had not returned home when she ieft there on Tuesday, but she expected to find her arrived, her sister's children being now so much better. She said this so sweetly, and was such 1 pleasant, ladylike young woman, that t essayed to make myself agreeable by Japiently remarking upon the prevalence Df measles and whooping-cough, and hoping that her little one had escaped the. jpidemic. ; At this she gave me a quick, inquir ing glance and blushed. "I mean the little fellow that you had In your arms when I saw you. I sup posed it was yours, as the lady called you her son's wife." A swift, laughing glance lighted her face. "That was a mistake- Mrs. Landon's laughter-in-law had just stepped out md left the littlo boy with me." It was now my turn to feel embar rassed, though this was almost swallowed up in an unaccountable sense of satis faction at finding that my companion was not "Tom's wife." "Pray excuse my absurd mistake!" I said. "It was only because Mrs. Lan ion told me that she would send her son's wife, and you came." She laughed, and we chatted on quite pleasantly, until at Greenville she left the cars. It was not strange that I should on the following day have suggested to Mr. Holden the advisability of my going to Greenville to inquire again of .Mrs. Dixon in regard to Miss Brookes, of whom she might have received information since my first interview with her. It was little more than an hour's ride, and a pleasant excursion for a summer's evening. On ringing at the door of Mrs. Dixon's house it was, to my gratification, opened by my fair traveling companion of the day previous, and I was sure that sb blushed at the to her unexpected meeting. Mrs. Dixon had not yet returned, she said, though they were expecting her by the next train, which would be due in fifteen minutes, if I did not object to waiting. Then she showed me into the parlor; and fearing that she was about to leave me there, I essayed to detain her by en- terLafijito a business talk. "3Iy business with Mrs. Dixon is of rather a peculiar nature," I remarked. "She has a relative a Miss Emma Brookes whose whereabouts we are very anxious to discover." She looked up with an expression of surprise. "Emma Brookes?" she said,, doubt fully. "Yes; who lived for some years with Mrs. Royal. May I inquire whether you know the lady?" "I ought to know her," she replied quite gravely. "1 am hmma lirooKes. , She was not more surprised than my self. What a stupid idiot I had been ! If I had only when I first saw her put the inquiry which I had just spoken, hovr er.silv the matter would have been set tled! But instead I had been racing about the country in search of Emma Brookes,, and even traveled in company with her, and never found means to ascertain her identitv. I had to explain to her now about Mrs. Rovals death and bequest to herself. She had heard of her friend's death, she said, a day or two before that cf her father, and in consequence, instead of returning to her former home, had gone to Mrs. Dixon's house, only to find that lady absent. There she had awaited her return, only running up once to New York on some business. Thus ended my amateur detective work. When I returned I informed Mr. Holden that I had at length found 3Iisa Emma Brookes. He actually complimented me, and hinted at promotion to the second clerk's desk. I returned to Greenville next day, and brought down Miss Brookes to our office, and after that all was, as regarded my own interests, pretty easy sailing. I had no difficulty in convincing my darling of my disinterestedness, for, asshe has confessed since our marriage, shej knew that I fell in love with her that day ; on the cars, before I had an idea that she was Miss Emma Brookes and Mrs. Roy al's legatee. Saturday Night. thc first bootblack probably came from 11:2 Dlaias Shinar. LADIES' COLUMN. THE NEW FEMINISE ACCOMPLISrorEXT. "Know all about it? Of course Ido.' said a bright little lady the other even ing. "There is a new craze in society, and it is a craze for wood carving. It net and crepe. is the latest fad of fashionable women I hats cho&(;Q qt outoMoor CQter. having tune and money at command. In j nments have very low crowns, but wide Sweden this occupation has long fur- projecting ovcr the forelieaj, and nished recreation and amusement to the j tQ almo5t nothing jQ the back fair sex during the dark and dreary j at the sJdes winters. Learners are apt to become dis- j Black lace toilets are as fashionable a3 couraged, but average patience will j ever, but they are now made up in com triumph over a few difficulties, and soon i bination with black velvet, and some- deft lingers will be able to turn out beautiful specimens of wooden sculp ture." As this fad has started so late in the season and just at the time our ! select circles are hieing themselves off to ; their summer resorts, it is feared that j when tne cool weather sets in its vo- taries can be counted on the digits of one hand. Baltimore Free Press. WONDERFUL JACKETS. Short jackets are very fashionable of black cloth, with various colored waist coats trimmed with gilt buttons, and braided with gold. Another favorite style has a turn -down velvet collar and Kimi-fittinnr fronts fastened nt the. throat 1 .,, , , ,T xi with three large buttons. Many rather , , , , , dressy jackets are of crcemsh-sray cloth, . . . , " , , , M cut out in tabs and turned back so as to 1 form loops, through which a soft silk scarf is worn. These jackets are worn nivn with .1 vpst of -nl.-iin TPMtprlnl fast.- ened down the middle with gold buttons, j The newest dust cloaks are of silk or woolen material, almost tight fitting, very long, fastening at the throat and waist with metal clasps, three-quarter length sleeves, widening from the elbow and slightly turned back with the shot silk with which the mantle is lined. An other style has the back fitting to the figure, the lower one plated, the flat sides okthe cloak forming panels. Wide hood lined with silk and a ribbon holds the pleats in place, starting from the centre of tho back. More dressy cloaks are tiinuned with lace p.nd passementerie. Ladies' Gazette of Fashion. THE CLOTHING OF lilCII WOMEN. Some of the richest women are the least extravagant in their clothes, as is the case, for example, with old Mrs. W. II. Yanderbilt, who does not spend above $1000 a year, and the late Mrs. Gould not so much. Nelly Gould, who will in herit $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 and al ready has an income of $50,000 a year, spends about $2500 ia dress. The late Mrs. A. T. Stewart was a fortune to-the dressmakers, who puts away 'S00 or $10,000 a year on her furbelows. When she died and an inventory of her cilccts was taken her great white mausoleum of a house on Fifth avenue was found to be run over with the most marvelous amount of clothes, laces, furs, bonnets, and jew els, most of them very youthful in ap pearance, though she was over seventy years of age. 3Irs. Astor dresses with a sol emn, handsome expensivencss at the cost of $4000 or $5000 a year, and all of the younger Vanderbilt women spend a great deal of money on their clothes. Mrs. fipnro-P Gould, who was Edith Kinirdon, i x , , i . .1,,, the actress, ana who has been the quiet- est and most careful of women since her marriage, spends money like water when it comes to a question of clothes, and must put a good $10,000 a year in the hand of the dressmakers. Her dress maker, by the way, is a woman who had a good deal of social position, but who, when financial misfortunes came, fol lowed the example English women have set of late years, and went into the mil liner's business. Chicago Ntics. FASHION NOTES. There are fans and fans, but the good old-fashioned palm leaf takes the prize. There is a new envelope that is square but has the flap from corner to corner, opening also up one side. Nearly all the bouquets carried this season are in loose clusters and sprays I most artistically arranged, i Some of the daintiest parasols of net and tulle are fringed all around with t til nf roses. Dowries, lilacs or llAV L'V- 4.- - J A A ' ferns. SinalJJowhats, low coiiTures-, uudraped j skirt, no bustles, full sleeve- and wie belts, are the features m ail laamonaoie toilets. A scarf of lace, resembling somewhat J the Spanish mantilla, has been introduced ! to wear on the head and shoulders at I lawn parties. i Parasols ornamented with beetles, liz I ards and various fantastic creatures crawl : ins about among siik and lace 2re being Subscription, 01.00 Per Yoar. osed in Pari3 by some eccentric fashiof? alle dames. Butterflies made of colored, dyed, t painted feathers, large as life, an mounted on spiral wires, are one of the decorations of summer hats of lace, tulle, times with green or purple velvet, but Dot with red or blue. Sea wave velvet, exactly the tone you see when you look down into the hollow 0f the waves, is bebg made up into tht amplest dinner gowns, with just a sash of rream erene do chine. White China silk with silver pas sementeries and sometimes vfith gold dotted embroidery and gold prizemen tori e or gold galleon, makes a lovely garden party or summer out-of-door festival gown. The Queen chain has a competitor in a chain of delicate, light workmanship in what is familiarly known as the fancy vest style. Sometimes this chain is fin- J ished with a swivel and some times wita a . m . Din to fasten at the side, .Chipmunks Charmed by Rattlesnakes. "Those knowing folks who ridicule the idea that a rattlesnake can charm the bird or animal it covet? for its dinner, don't wan't to talk to me, after an experience I had a few days ago," said Edward Blais dcil of Hawley, Penn. "I was always a little skeptical myself on the power of the snake to charm, and consequently when ! I was taking a walk through the woods near Hawley one day last week, and saw a cliipmunk sitting on the rock and giv ing no sign that my near approach to it disturbed it in the least, the thought that the influence of a snake had any thing to do with the indifferenco of the little squirrel was the furthest thing from my miud, idthou-h is .tmr:k ire as being singular, the agility with which the chip munk makes itself scarce as a person ap proaches it being well-known to me. - "The squirrels side was toward me, and it was as motionless as if it had been a part of the rock itself. It was gazing intently in the direction of a log that lay a few feet from the rock. I stopped within less than a rod of the rock, and watched the chipmunk a moment. I had my revolver with me and made up my mind I would see what the affect cf a shot at the squirrel would be. I fired, not aiming to hit the chipmunk, and the bul let furrowed the rock close by it. The squirrel did not move a hair. I fired again but the chipmunk paid not the slightest attention to the noise or the whizz of the bullet that struck the rock directly in front of it. I began to think that the little animal was dead. I stepped a little closer and got directly behind the squirrel and tired a bullet, close over its head and into the log. The result was startling. Something fell from the log and began to thresh around among the ferns and low bu-hes. The chipmunk I started up, ran to and fro on the rock in v a dazed manner and then dodged with its peculiar chirp into its hole off to one side of the rock. I stepped forward to the log to see what was the cause of the dis turbance there, and found an enormous rattlesnake. It had been shot' through the neck, and was still writhing under the eiTects of the wound. I had been so taken up with the strange conduct of the ciupmun-i tnat I naa noi .seen me su.c, which must have been lying on the log amonir the moss that covered it in range of my bullet. That the snake held the squirrel under the spell of its fascinating powers which accounted for the chip munk's indiiTerence to my presence, there can be no doubt, the moment my bullet struck the rattle snake and knocked it from the log the fatal spell was broken, and the squirrel, recovering in a few sec onds from its effects, was able to escape into its hole. "In that sa?ne vicinity, some years ago, Solomon Purdy, who lived near Hawley, discovered a red squirrel on a log, in a condition similar to le one in which I discovered the chipmunk. He knew the habits of rattlesnakes 2nd understood at once what the situation meant. He got his eye on the snake, which was coiled on the end of ths log, his head uplifted, pvk f:irlv "ylitterincr. He shot the snake's head off. The squirrel dropped from the log also. Purdy went to th1 spot where the squirrel had disap peared. He found it lying on the ground dead, although there was not a mark of injury upon it.' JYciJ Yori Sun. . IN SUMMER DREAMS. In summer dreams beneath the tree. While gently blows the languid brimaa While thought go by at rapid pace. And many an old-tine pictured face A cress the rusty mem'ry flees. How sweet to lie and watch the 1 Of grain that rise and fall at Or gaze aloft to azure space. In summer dreama. How swevt to watch the honey beea Launch out across the fragrant leas. And see the butterflies at rha O'er every field and flow'ry place; What happiness we find in these, In summer dreams. New York State Camo Journal. FUN. Volumes of gas must furnish very light reading. Baltimore American. "It is a good rule not to wear tight shoes," says an exchange. Yes a good foot rule. Motto for the buzz-saw (before and after taking) "Hands off." Burlington Free Press. The husband who lavishly keeps hi wife in pin money has tho right to ex pect to be able to find a pin about the house when he wants one. The Artist (to his model in a tuit of mail) "What's the matter, Foley! Ctn't you keep still ?" The Model' 4I cannot, for. Yez shut a bluebotthle fly in th hilmit." Time. The Chicago Idea. "Will you nhara my lot with me?" asked he of the real es tate agent's daughter. "What's it worth afront foot?" calmly inquired the iweet creature. Chicago Mail. Miss Boston "Papa, I find our pro fessor of pathology interesting." Mr. Boston Our what?" Miss Boston "Our professor of pathology our guide, you know." New York Sun. Typewriter Agent "I called to see you in reference to your typewriter. Would you exchange if you could get some improvements?" Merchant MI can't; I'm engaged to her." Judgt. She (in the art depot) "Didn't the clerk say, Jim, that them two people on that there pitcher were Paul and Vir ginia?" Ife "I don't remember, Susan, whether he said Virginia or Wist .Vir ginia." Judge. Delinquent Subscriber "I don't like the Spread Eagle as I used to. I think the paper Is rather dry." Sarcastic Edi tor "I don't see how it can be dry. There is considerable due on your copy. Pittslurg Post. According to the descriptive writers on the London papers, the Shah of Per sia, when on dress parade, must resemble greatly the front window of a pawn shop when the sale of unredeemed pledges is on. New York Herald. "Court the fresh air," wa3 the doctor's ad vice To a widow quite feeble, yet fair; So she set hrr cap for a rich man's son. And she easily caught the fresh heir. Table Talk. Eccentric Old Club Man (to a new footman) "Now, then, Patrick, call me a cab." Pat (who thinks this is a dodge to try his sincerity) "Och, no, yer honor ! It's not meself that'll be call bg you any name, at all !' A garrulous fop, who had annoyed by bis frivolous remarks his partner in the ballroom, among other empty things isked whether ' 'she had ever had her ears pierced?" "No," was the reply, "but I have often had them bo red 1" The Shah Loves Cueuwbers. If the Shah of Persia was as thin skinned a person as his representative at Washington he would not have remaiae4 long in the British realm, for the iM. Mall Gazette prints a series of aaecdotea ' concerning him of which the following to specimen: "Something is known ia England of the Shah's conduct at toWe. Here is a story bearing on this point: On one occasion the Shah had dinner at tha house of his Grand Chamberlain, aod a huge dish was placed before him bearing a pile of cucumbers (of which the Per sians are passionately fond), almost worth their weight in gold. The Shah said never a word, but began to put bisell outside of as many of these cholera-pro-vokers as he could safely do. Ha had buried a couple of dozen of them and At Jioat and his more prominent guests Ka aaa to indulge the hope that their tan would soon come, when His 2Xpct) quietly and solemnly stowed the remain der away in his bosom and pantalocca, and left the table literally loaded." In Sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemburg there is practically w one who cannot read or write. The present permanent popuUtica d Oklahoma ia about 20,000. s i- ir- li 1 1 1 i k i : I' J & Ml 1 i
The Goldsboro Headlight (Goldsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 28, 1889, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75