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1 fir ITT" TT X.3L, . i.l . i - -JJ vl -HEADLIGHT i A. K05C0WT.K, Editor & Proprietor. L f'()L. IV. NO. 22. 11 HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S IlIQJITS MOUNTAIN , U2TAWED B7 INFLUENCE AND VNBRTBED BY GAIN." EIUMT TA(JES. GQLDSBORQ, N. C, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 23, 18!)1. Subscription, 81.00 Per Year ll , JTMITOMS OF I.IVKIl DISEASE: j-oi ;i ).( tit..-: breath; bad taste in thjii.iirii : injnic coated ; pain under the if.- .iiine; liixtic t.acicor side otten wyfR ii" rheumatism; sour htormu-li tncb tiiriicy aii'l water brash; indices- tiao: t is lax anu costive hj- turns; tcifcd i( i"'- v-iih 'lull, heavy sensation; fCjti' --ii' s. with sensation of )iairiK left g;3' -r t i i :ii- uu'ione wnicri ougnt to navo teen l:ie: fullness alter eating; bad temp'r: muc: tired teelinf?; yellow ; aj' pefli Muee of skin and eyes; dizziness, etc. Net nil. l ut always some of these indi cate v.-ant of action of the Liver. For A Safe, Reliable Remedy . Ct. can Ho no harm and has never been tjMjWM to fail to do good. Jake Simmons Liver Regulator -AN I I '"I IXTI AL SPECIFIC FOR L2al.tr:. i'.owel Complaint, Xv! J'a, Sick Headache, i t'iiiv( i put Jon, JMliousne.HS, 2ihli;ey Atl'eotions, -laundtcr, t JMental Depression, Colic. A PHYSICIAN'S OPINION. :," T i.av rx-en practicing medicine for twenty yea: and h.ivr neve r l een able to put up a vegeta ble 1 "lnjiournl that would, like Simmons Liver Re;. !!!, promptly and effectually move the tiv-r t" .ii (ion, and at the same time aid (instead of v. ii. i-miii; the digestive and assimilative pov.-r 1 f die system." L. .'l. liiNTON, m. v., vvasmnjton, Ark. OJfl.Y (JKXriSE li l. o ;r 'Sa Starr.71 in red on front of wrapper. J. II. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. I !k Not Imposed Upon! Exaiuine to -ee that (.u get the Genuine, , Pi.-1 it rshed fio-n nil i'nu 's and iniita by our red Z Trade Mork on front of Wrapper, and 11 tr e side ti e seal and signature of ,1. H. Zeilin & Co. 1 HdllJO WORRY! TAKE YOUR TIME, Aswc ouaiantce as fine or finer bak ing after Lours delay as you have with other venst powder dough baked at once. "BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT (which means use) ROLAN SAKING POWDER, If Then so Ahead." ttT. 1 . - 1 . . ?ii.viy j.'aLKHge warranted 10 give B lire satisfaction or your grocer will JB, ..Aind your money. Manufactured by bMiTil, HORPEL & CO, Baltimore. Blmll Urns, ft Pn.. Enlilshnrn. Ms Sol?. Z " U" , ..b... ' HEADS ALL COMPETITORS! I. S. D. SAULS, . Wholesale and Retail Dealer in iwy ami Fancy Groceries. Keeps constantly on hand a line of full FAMILY GROCERIES AND FABHBB'S :-: SUPPLIES, Including Oats, Bran, Hay, ShipslurT, Corn, Meal, Flour, Meat, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, etc. SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. I. S. I). SAULS, Goldsboro, N. C. . James H. Powell, - Drug Stoke in "Law Building"-J-(cor. store, north end) Keeps constantly in stock Fresh Drugs, Patent Med icines, Etc., Etc. ITJCES AS LOW AS AT ANY DRUG STORE IN THE CITY. Also offers his professional services to il'e surroundings community, at any hour the day or night. Can be found at the drur st-re, udIcss professionally en--'i'ul. Residence on West Centre St., - ttv.een Spruce and Pine. SOME PEOPLE M::y l.e pposed to the use, and some :' tin ftii'.;-e of whiskey, vet its use is ' 1 xrtt ly neccsf-ary, especially for rned- rurr..sos. In such cases, the pure, ' n.Muiterated stufT is needed not a t:0(""!e(l, d ruined combination and -hen ti e I. W.' HARPER is ued, you i ' j the bfst results, without any bad ' l its purity and hii?h standard ! ' n,i;i;tiined btcaue this firm has ! i. pi't.le reputation which it means - had from J no. Edwards, UOLDSEORO, N, C. M?" NA,'E HAD THE TIME. If I had the time to find a place, And sit me down full f aco to f ac3 With my better self that stands no sho' In my daily life that r us": 10s so; It might be then I would st-e : ny soul w as stumbling still toward the goal; I might be nerved by the thought sab lime, If I had the time! If I had the time to let my heart Speak out and take in my life apart, To look about and to stretch a hand To a comrade quartered in no-luck land; Ah, God! if I might but just sit still And hear the note of the whip-poor-will, I think that my wish with God's would rhyme If I had the time! If I had the time to learn from you How much for comfort my word could do; And I told you then of my sudden will To kiss your feet when I did you ill If the tears aback of the bravado Could force their way and let you know Brothers, the souls of us all would chime, If we had the- time! Richard E. Burton. ALMIBA'S VALENTINE. BY IIELEX FORREST GRAVES. Down in the valley, the clock of Os borne Church had just struck twelve, the sounds coming in muffled throbs through the waves of feathery, fast fall ing snow, and Miss Almira Brown, mak ing her way across the deserted church yard, stopped to listen, with one hand behind her ear. "Sounds dreadful natural," said she. "Seems like only yesterday I was here instead of eighteen good years. I wish it wouldn't snow so! It's sort o' bewilder in'. I believe I'm oil the true path agin. I don't really know if I'm close to the north wall by Deacon Linsley's grave, or down under the hill where Squire Dewey's two daughters are buried. I wonder," with a little shiver, "if there is really such a thing as a ghost? And if there was, wouldn't it be strange and sort o' creepy like to meet one, spookin' 'round here in the snow on Saint Valentine's Eve? Most folks would say that was a sign of speedy death; and the Brown3 never were a long-lived family. Oh, here I be!" as she perceived, through the glimmering veil of white, the black outlines of a rude stone stile. "I guess I'll find my wav all right now." Carrying her carpet-bag in her hand, Miss Almira made a plunge for the high road, and presently stood under the porch of a pretty, old-fashioned house, a stcry and a half high, with brooding eaves that came nearly to the ground, and windows barred with wooden shut ters, painted red. "Hump!" continued Almira, stamping the snow from her substantial calfskin boots, and changing the carpet-bag from one hand to the other. "Zenas has had the fence repaired and a ne w gate put in." She knocked vigorously at the door. No reply came. She knocked agaiu, still with no better success. 'Just like Zenas," muttered she. "The most absent-mindede3t creetur that ever lived to go off the very night he ex pected his only sister to come home. I nevcr'd ha1 left Canaan Centre to come back here and keep house for him if I'd 'a suspected such treatment as this. How ever, doctors have got excuses that other folks hain't, especially country doctors. I dare say Zenas had a sudden call, and I guess likely I'll rind the door-key in the old place." She stooped down, and lifting the corner of the door-mat fished out a big brass key, wherewith she proceeded to open the door and admit herself into a little carpeted entry, where a kerosene lamp burned low on the table. I do declare." said Almira, "he's Cxed up things real nice. A carpet on the floor, and new paper on the walls. I guess he meant to give me a surprise. Here's the teapot 0:1 the kitchen stove. Zenas always was partial to a cup o' tea and a good fire, too. I'll jest set down and dry myself a spell before I look around. Zenas'll be back directly, I hain't no doubt." The warmth and quiet of the cozy little kitchen acted as a soporific on the chilled and wearied traveler, and the first thing she knew the clock in the corner was striking one, and turning with a sudden start, she saw a short, stout man on the threshold staring at her. "What do you want?" she demanded, curtly, remembering, with a pang of ter ror, that she had forgotten to relock the door, in her amazement at the new pa per and the striped carpet in the hall. "The doctor ain't at home, aad I don't know when he'll be back." "I don't want the doctor," said the short man. "Then," said Almira, rising to the emergency, "you're a burglar, and you'd better clear out o' this!" She seized the poker ai-d advanced resolutely lo-vard hi .11. 'Look U i'..:u.' said the stran- "I won't look," shrilly uttered Miss Almira. "I'm in charge here, and " At this moment she caught the toe of the calfskin boot in the thrifty rag rug that lay in front of the lire and stumbled, and as she did so, the poker flew out of her hand and went hurtling through the air, hitting the strange man on the side of the head. Miss Almira was appalled, as she scrambled to her feet, to see him stagger backward to a chair, with a dull red stream trickling down his face. "Good land I" she ejaculated, "I've killed the burglar! I'm a murderer, and never meant it, neither! "It's your own fault' she added. "Why did you come burgling here? Be you much hurt? Oh, dear! oh, dear! why don't he speak to me? Why don't Zenas come? Where's my camphor bot tle? Oh, my goodness! I do hope he ain't goin' to die right here on th kitchen hearth!" The sound of sleigh-bells outilAo chimed joyfully upon her ears. She laid the strong man's head carefully down on a pillow improvised out of her owji carpet-bag, and rushed wildly out, holding the kerosene lamp high above her head. "Come in, whoever you be!" ho screamed. "Help ! help !" The passer-by drew rein. "Hullo!" said he. "Ain't this my sister Almira Brown?" "Why," cried the bewildered spinster, "it's Zenas. Where have you been so' long?" "I've been to see a sick patient," the country doctor made answer. "What's the matter, Almira I When, did you come?" "I've killed a burglar!" faltered the woman. "Do come in quick, Zenas, and see if you can do anything! I don't s'pose they'll hang me, do you, if it was done in self-defense? And I didn't do it, either it done itself." "Here in this house?" "Whv, ccrtainlv! Where should it be?" "But what was you doing here, Almira?" as he slowly unwound liimself from fur robes and buffalo-skin cushions, and dismounted from the little red cutter with slow, cramped movements. "Doin'here! Whv, waitin' for vou " "For me, Almira" "Good gracious, Zenas, I hope you ain't gettin' hard o' hearm' in your old age I For you, of course." "But, Almira, I don't live here!" Miss Almira had nearly dropped the kerosene lamp into a snowdrift in her consternation. "Not live here?" she echoed. "Why, no. I live iu the old house a quarter-mile further on don't ye re member? under the old buttonball tree." "I thought the old buttonball tree had been cut down!" gasped Almira. "And this is just the same sort o' house." "It's one that Silas Safford built, after the same gin'ral pattern," said Zenas. "A reg'lar old bacheldor. And he lives here by himself. Do you mean to say, Almira, that he is hurt?" By way of an answer, Almira energeti cally pushed her brother into the kitchen, where by this time the injured man was sitting up on the hearth, looking vaguely around him. "Eh?" said Zenas Brown, cheerfully. " What's the matter? Just a little skin cut that's all. . And you're weak with loss of blood. I'll soon fix you up. A pretty Saint Valentine's Day you'll have, and all the mails to l e sorted out! "For he's the postmaster, Almira," he added, to his sister. "Been here two years now. Fetch in a bowl of warm water, and just hand over your pocket handkerchief, Almira." "Oh, dear, can't I sort the mails, Zenas?" faltered Miss Almira. "I used often to do it Canaan Centre, when the postmaster was busy invoicing railroad freight." "I gusss you've done about enough al ready, Almira," soil Zenas, with a sly chuckle. All night long Almira sat up, chang ing the bondages on poar Silas Sufiord's temples, feeding the lira aud attending to various little household cares, and , when Zenas came arouad, at about tea o'clock, he announced that the invalid no longer needed her care. 'He's all right now," said the country doctor. "Ain't you, sir?" Silas Safford nodded, cheerfully. "She's been proper good to me," said he, with a glance at Almira. "It wasn't KO fault o' hern. Shp s'nncerl thia wo a I your house and that I was a burglar. She did quite right." "Itwarn't me!" almost sobbed Al mira. "The poker flew right outen my hands like it was bewitched." "And," added Zenas. "Abiah Crook he's took charge o? the postomce, and distributed the mail, aud sent out the bags, and all that. And here's a Valen tine for you, Si, all lace paper an' roses; an' I'll bet it's from your old sweetheart, Sally Dawson, atLum's Settlement!" But Silas made no attempt to open it. "Nonsense!" said he, ungraciouslj pushing the missive away. "I don't care nothing about no valentine. And, be sides " "Eh?" "Your sister she was the first woman I caught sight of on Saint Valentine's Day," sheepishly remarked Silas. "Well, if we come to the rights of the thing, the poker was your valentine, I guess," chuckled Zenas. And Almira, choking with iage and mortification, hurried out of the room, caught up her bonnet and shawl and went home. "I never shall dare to look him in the face again!" she sobbed, as she went to work to get dinner for her brother. But she did. She took him a bowl toothsome chicken soup that very noon, and by common consent they avoided the question of the poker. A month passed by six weeks. The April wild flowers began, to peep out from under the layers of dead leaves in the woods, and Almira had a pink and fragrant cluster of trailing arbutur in her hand one day when she met Silas Safford coming home with the key of the postof ice dangling over his finger. "You're fretting about something, Al mira," said he, pausing to greet her. "Yes," said she, frankly, "I am. Ze nas he's going to be married to Widow Parlct, and he ain't no more use for me. I've got to go back to Canaan Centre, and" Silas deliberately put the key in his pocket, so as to leave both hands free, j and took Almira, trailing arbutus and all, into his capacious grasp. "Stay!" said he. "Don't go. If Zenas ! can get married, so can you. I meant it, j Almira, that day when I said you were 1 my valentine. I mean it now. Don't go j back to Canaan Centre. Stay here with me!" ' Almira's eyes bright, cheerful brown j orbs they were sparkled; a smile ( daw&ed around her lips. "Ain't you afraid," she said, in a low voice, "of mehittin' you again with the poker?" "No," said he, "I ain't." "And we're too advanced in life," she hesitated, "to talk about valentines, like the young folks." j "No, we ain't," protested Silas Saf- j ford. "I'm your valentine, and you're j mine, if we was as old as Methuselaa. j And nothin' can alter it." And nothing ever did! j Gotham Courts Perturbed by a Hat. One of the most astonishing features of the running of the civil courts of this city is the excitement which a harmless citizen can cause by walking into the court room with his hat on. Of course no one is so ignorant as not to know that it is not the proper thing to keep his hat on in the presence of a judge holding court, but it frequently happens that a man who is strolling about the corridors of a courthouse will step into a court room and absent-mindedly fail to remove his hat. Now, there may be a court offi cer within two feet of him. He taps the offender on the shoulder and whispers to him to take off his hat? That is the curious feature of it. He doesn't do any such thing. Instead, he shouts at the top of his lungs, "Hats offl" The offi cer in the corner, who ha3 been dozing, wakes with a start, also shouts, "Hats off!" and the third officer, who has had his back turned toward the offender, in the act of handing a paper to the witness on the stand, wheels around and likewise shouts, "Hats off!" Judges, lawyers, witnesses, jurymen, all are startled at the ' sudden outcry, and the offender against court room etiquette sneaks out of court, j abashed and wondering why he couldn't have been asked to remove his hat with- ' out so much attention being attached to i .hiaotoHszafiaU LADIES' COLUMN. FRIXCESSES AS OLD MAIDS. Numbers of foolish heads are wagging over a perfectly ridiculous rumor to the effect that the Princesses Victoria and Maud or Wales have stamped their little feet and made the startling announce ment that they will never marry. Even if they ever said anything so silly and even princesses cannot be always wise it is certainly a mistake to suppose that their mother would encourage them in any such very whimsical notion. The only possible and very insufficient ground for the stupid report is that Princess Maud, in her pretty, petulant way, may have been heard to express the opinion that she would never marry un -less she really cared for the intended. In that, we may be sure, the Princes of Wales fondest and kindest of mothers would support her, but anything be yond that may be dismissed as sheer nonsense. Lady's Pictorial, SFIELTER FOR ARISTOCRATIC FEET. A fashionable equipage stopped in front of the Academy of Art on Twenty third street the other afternoon. A foot raam descended, carrying a small shawl of a color to match his livery. When he opened the carriage door he held the shawl in such a position that the feet of the lady alighting from the equipage could not be seen. This is a new whim :with ladies in high life. It originated with a celebrated heiress who has feet of the proportions which the funny para grapher is prone to ascribe to the women of Chicago. She is extremely pretty and wears a number six glove, but only her shoemaker and her maid know the num ber of her shoe. Sheis painfully sensitive concerning her pedals; her skirts are all made to touch the floor, and so skilfully hung that when she walks they drape their folds in such a way that not a glimpse of a boot appears. One day she alighted from her coupe in front of a large mirror outside a furni- I ture shop, and then and there discovered j to her horror that every time she stepped in and out of her carriage all her pre cautions for concealing her feet were j useless. She went home in despair, and j never put one of those unhappy feet into j her carriage again until she had thought j out the plan of the shawl. Being a woman of wealth and a social leader, any thing she did was sure to be copied. And now all the footmen are provided with little shawls for sweet modesty's sake. ( New YorJi Telegram. A CHANGE IN MOURNING MATERIALS. There has been a decided change in the materials used for women's mourn ing within the past few years. The bombazines and English crepes have given place to softer, tenderer fabrics, just as is true in the weaves of colored materials that we now ustf. Henrietta cloth will be selected for street wear except on rough days, when serge or camel's hair will be preferred. Crepe cloth and dull wool finish India silk will be worn at home. Crinky crepe will make one's best gown, and plain net and Canton crepe for summer wear. English crepe is not worn at all except during tne first six months of mourning and by widows for two years. These are generalities to come down to actual individual needs. A widow who has the sad occasion to put on mourning should buy two street dresses ; one of serge, an absolutely plain tailor- , made dress; the other of Henrietta cloth, j trimmed heavily with crepe in flat trim ' mingj or wide folds, bands or panel, j Nothing is more inelegant than English crepe cut up into little trimmings. The , plain gown she should wear on every or- dinary occasion that takes ht-r out, to drive, to shop, to market, to her com mittees or charitable boards, ttc. ; the ! finer dress to church and to any friend's j house that necessity calls her. Tl2se : are all the occasions when it is' ,rm-;si-j ble for her to be seen for the first six j months of her sorrow. Mim'sell , lot j say "of mourning," for that wift tJsv her , all her life, though sorrow's edge may grow less keen aad poignant. J Many widows give up even these ap pearances, particularly their interests in charities and in dear and near friends. It is the first duty of their families to force such matters on their attention and get them to fill up some small place in tQe saddened lives with outside things. Chicaqo Herald. fashion notes. All thc jeow 6aaJes are fashionable, Co3lblDatioa garmeat3 popularity with each season. I IIoue shoes htvj n?rcr boea mora elegant than at the prerat. The Henri Deux bodice, with pulls on the hips and high frills on the shouUers, appears on some of the imported gowns. Feathers are very becoming massed in the high Medici collar, and the popular jewel embroidery with soft feather trim ming is a happy combination. A favorite garment wiil be the small fur visite, fitting closely over the arms, it is so easy to slip 0:1 and o;T, and .- young looking. Sonietimv? huro velvet sleeves are added, and astrakhan collar and sleeves or skunk sh-eves iro ued. Diminutive ll.it toques have no trim mings except ribbon loops and ends com ing over from the back. These are pret tiest when made of the richly colored, long-napped silk plushes, as the material requires trimming :i little, :is does fur. Do not wear the white kid glove so eager to force their way. They are hideous, and mike the daintiest tips look like swoolleu sausages. Wear black gloves for economy, with black gowns or with black-trimmed cloth costumes; otherwise use pale beige or straw. A tea gown of old rose camel's hair is shown made with pointed and finely tucked yoke, outlined with narrow sable bands, which cross under the bust, fin ishing under the arms. A heavy silk cord of the same shade as the camel's hair confines the folds at the waist and the throat and hem are finished with fur bands. A Hsqnetic Flar.t. India, the land of poisonous serpents, immense jungle?, fabulous wealth, fevcis, cholera and mystiscism, has a'iiu come to the front through the recent discovery of a strange plant with magic powers equal to a dynamo. To attempt to pull a leaf from this marvellous plant is to in vite an elecric shock equal to that pro duced by an induction coil. If a compass be held within six meters of this lightning-charged vegetable tho needle acts as strangely as if it were be ing held above the true magnetic pole. Its electrical qualities, however, do not cause more amazement than the wonder ful variation of its magnetic power-), which are most mauifc-t at '1 o'clock ia the afternoon, gradually diminishing un til at midnight or between midnight and 2 o'clock A. m. , when it can hardly be noticed. Day after day the:;e wonderful changes take place, the plant gradually losing its magnetism as tlie darkucss becomes most intense only to have the current renewed with seeming increased vigor a? the sun mounts the tropical skies. ' A thunder storm augments its peculiar qualities a dozen fold, and, even though sheltered, it drops its leaves and branches as if ia the last convulsion of death. Birds and insects slum th-; plant, as do the natives of Java the deadly upas tree. One would naturally suppose that the plant would be found growing in a region abounding in magnetic metals; the contrary is the case. There is neither iron, cobalt or nickel found ia the hom-j of the wonderful magnetic plant. I A new variety of seagull has made its. ' appearance on the New Jersey coast. It ; is darker than the old kind, and the most 1 remarkable peculiarity is that its tail is ! narrowed to a sharp point. Absolutely Pure. Acie-m of tfi.tir biking jovrle. Highest .-f t-!l in leavening str'-nglh.. V. .9. Gocern men t Rtjyjrt, A g i.-t 1 7 1 nnr l!rt f'.r-nrkiTT f.n mJJ f"T u. Vr Jknnm Y'f, ,f. an I ,nn. ll'tin. 1 o'!o. l: -. cut. l!.i r i!'..tr !. Vbjr nonili. Y, mid j tkrwtirk t:-1 ,f k-R.f. n h -r- you r. I.rm 1 ' -inn"r mrr rmn'.r nrnimr ftwm t to la"i!T. Allap-t. V.how youbw and ttt t'u. n Mori, in par- nm of all tli Time. Hij nwarr fi noik rre. lI:ur enkuu n anion a; tb'in. SKW ami wniMlarfiil. Particular f'. IX.llaWlettd: Co.,Uis8Ul'Filuu-i,MaUie 81 roKR ' i , r . ; " r -' I '.! I. v. A t j - 4 . i - ' if':: 1 :r.. : : V" f . 5, ' r,;. . ' : ,- i if? , rj m X
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