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One man o-.it of every twenty-five o pies his own house in England. One child in fey five in the nortk oi ha'.f f tne United States dies before it bas lived a year. The number of fires in. London has In creased fifty per cent, since 1882; twen iu-re I-,er cent of tie fires occur in un , (insured premises. Reports from saving bank? In ew ;n?!aaJ and the Middle States shc.v an dacree in deposits, without the corre I ipoading demand for funds. An Atohison (Kan.) bride is7 not only supporting her husband, but is paying eomothing every month on his first wife's funeral expenses. Tii'- Farmers' Review says that the Tmtcd States produce 300,000,000 po'i:ik of wool per anmm aid iui twici-'that amount. - - - ...'9 The aim of the University Settlement Society of New York is to aid the citi zens of a neighborhood, "without in. fringing oa their self respect," and no . pairuJjJEmg airs are assumed. H irial at sea is to be abolished for those who have the money to pay for the transportation of their remains in case of iJt-ith on board ship. Airtight steel ca-Lrls for the transportation of bodies .arc no .v a part of the equipment of all jiar j best steamers. 1 Theiv are at present in the Gobelin s Wviiifacture two large State carpets Tsiued at $30,000 and 410,000 respec tively at least. They were made during tfhe Empiro, one being ordered by ths lt3.'iati Government and the other being itf.eaded for the palace of Fountaiue M.eau. France points with pride to it3 Tunis -"jian colony, where there are now 32,00'J Trench citizens and persons claiming Trench protection. Great results arc ex pected from the opening of the harbar of Tunis next year and of Bizsrta the year following. . Housekeepers know lb;a2!e33 col Ei'j," and no .v a member of the United States Fish Co.nn'ssion anaoance that thebouole3 shad is in process of evolu tion and well advanced toward comple tion. He do3s not lose his bones in the same way as the cod, to wit, after death, but by careful breeding and crossing. The 3j.:.e:ary oi tLu l'rut-mry !it ra quest 'J the Sj2ret-.tr of S:ate to ia Btruct the United State? couula.- oli;iri everywhere to refuse to csrlify invoic3s of goods on and after September lt ua lew the merc'aaadise is invoice 1 after the metric system. This action is taken oi iaforontioa received from the consuls at Pam and Lyoni, who say that tht 'aune'' system of measurement now ii U3Q in France on invoices of goods in. tended for the United States, facilitate frauds on the Custom House, and thtt the metric system would greatly simplfy commercial transactions and facilitait raiuparison of invoices and prices. Tars a wcil Kno.vu arc. meet in (he I'uii i !(.ln!tia Press: "'."he days of to v cring steeples ou churches and public buildings will soon be droppe l, and well they should be. For ye.-rs a tall steeplo ou a church was ouly a mark of compe tition to enable the next congregation if possible to erect their steeple a peg or two higher. They are very expensive things at best, and in a few ye?rs become very dangerous and are always targets lor the highest winds and the lightning stroke. Many serious accidents have oc curred in ttieir repairing;, and a first class pky high ornamented steeple costs oftea as much as one-third of the whole build, ing. How they originated is a matter of some doubt, but the general belief is that in the earliest days both in thi3 country and in foreign lands, the church steeple was the lookout tower to watch the enemies of the Metiers f,p uxilos iU'iMUid."' " A. man up from Venezuela, writer tW have been cutting oae another's throats in a revolutionary matinee, says of that unhappy country's wirriore; "FalstaJl's ragged regimi.it wasn't in It "with the soldiers down there. They are the hungriest looking creatures you eve. jaw. I've given pennies to them on the street. They wear linen breeches and &u undershirt, and whea they come into town they wwp their blankets around them to cover their nakedness. They carry old flint-lock muskets. There are a few Remingtons and Winchesters, but mighty few. They have machetes. A machete is a sort of big butcherknife without a point. It is about three Inches wide and thirty inches long, and pretty heavy. They cut wood and kill snakes and enemies with machetes. ;Some of them have shoes, but the most of them wear a leather sole with a strap across the heel and toe. The bare heels ind toes stick out." THE DREAD CHOLERA. U. S. Government Precautions to Prevent its Coming Here. People Dying By the Thousands in Germany. Persia and Russia. Washington, D. C The State De partment received further advices reative to the cholera, of a very disquieting na ture. The vice consul general at Teheran, Mr. Fox, son of a prominent newspaper man at Washington, D. C. says the esti mated deaths in Persia are 3.,00U; 5,000 in Mesched. 12,000 in Tabriz, 8,000 in Teheran and 10,000 in other places His appeals for assistance to the American hospital in Teheran have already been made public. The consul at Hamberg telegraphs that the auth rities of that city admit that Asiatic cholera has been prevalent there since August 18th, and that up to Aug ust 23d there were 291 cases and 75 deaths. Nevertheless, the fact of the ex istence of cholera there was denied, up to August 23d, just as it is now also de nied at Havr The attempt to suppress accurate information occasions much un easiness to health officers here. THE DREAD PKSTILENCE IN HAMBURG. Hamburg, Germany. One hundred and sixty-nine bodies of cholera victims are awaiting burial in this city. So great is the terror caused by the cholera that it is d-fficult to get men for the work of burying the dead and many assistants of undertakers have deserted their places. Business is prostrate and shipping is go ing to other ports. So serious is the panic that Russian immigrants now in the city find it diffi culty to procure food, as everybody tries to avoid them. At Altena the army surgeons have been ordered by their superiors to assist the civilian doctors in caring for the cholera victims. ANTWERP IN A STATE OF TERROR. Antwerp, Holland. The excitement in this city over the outbreak of cholera is increasing. There little doubt that the dbchse was brought here by vessels from eastern Europe. The first victims were dock laborers. They were taken to the hospitals, where the doctors stated that it was ordinary cholera and th it nothing was to be dreaded from it. The disea.se, however, spread and the public became alarmed. The first victims died almost immediately after entering the hospitnl and the appearance of the bodies showed the disease to be Asiatic cholera. LONDON MOVING AGAINST THE CHOLERA London. The health committee of the municipality held a meeting to consider precautions against the cholera. It was annouueed that all the steamship lines proposed to suspend their immigration tiailic until the danger from cholera s-hould be over. IT n.S REACHED ALBION'S SHORES. London. The Asiatic cholera has ar rived in England. The steamer Gemma from Hamburg has entered at Gravesend bringing several cases of the plague. Two women on the steamer have died from the cholera and another victim, a man, is improving. The news causes great consternation at Gravesend. Paris. At Havre forty-eight fresh cases of cholera and 21 deaths are re ported. RUSSIAN TRADE CUT OFF. Konigsberg. The government has or dered the suspension of all traffic on the Russian frontier except at Eydtkumen and Prostken. A multitude of intending emigrants have been stopped at points on the frontier and driven back to Russia. FEARFUL CHOLERA MORTALITY IN RUSSIA. Sr. Petersburg. Thursday, accord ing to the official returns, there were 6,322 new cases of cholera against 5,070 ou Wednesday. Yesterday there were 2,977 deaths reported against 2,743 for Weduesday. In St. Petersburg there were reported 103 new cases and 24 deaths. STEAMSHIP VOYAGES AFFECTED. London. The Hamburg-American steamship Columbia will not proceed to Hamburg She is unloading here and will start for New York on Saturday . The steamship Normandie, of the same line, will not be allowed to land, it is said, although she declined to take on board 400 emigrants who applied for pas sage. A CLOUD-BURST AT ROANOKE Over $100,000 Damage Done and a Man Drowned. Roanoke, Va. A cloud burst over this city at 0.30 Monday night and rain fell in torren's over four hours,filling cel lars and lower floors of business houses on Campbell and Salem avenues and Nel son, Jefferson, Henry and Commerce streets. Doors were burst open, windows crushed in by floating debris and goods washed away. The loss in goods dam aired will reach f 100.000. Many build ings are seriously damaged by the un d running of foundations. Barney Smith in trying to cross Salem avenus stepped into an excavation for a sewer and was drowned. Policeman Peck lost his f o 'ting there and fell in and was pulled out insensible. It is said that other people have been drowned, but the report cannot be verified. Men nd horses travelling the flooded streets were compelled to swim. The electric light station was flooded. The electric cars are not running, and it will be a week before lights and power for the operation of machinery in many establishments can be supplied. The storm was confine 1 principally to Roanoke. Six miles westward there was only a sprinkle. Farme s two miles South of the city were ploughing, and north and east the rainfall was very light. Was Afraid He'd Be Elected. Jackson, Miss. The Rev. J. II. Gambrell, the Baptist minister who was some weeks since nominated forCongiess in thisoistrict by the People's paity, has withdiawu. He gives the strange reason that he thinks he will be elected if he re mains a candidate He says le caunot afford to give up h's church and po to Congr. ss, and th?.t his former candidacy was "for the put lose of assistiug in the reform moveme t. His reason is th; theme of much diverse criticism. PRETTY POLITICS. Interesting Events From All Ovei The Field. Nominations For Congress and State Tickets Made at a Lively Rate A convention of Ohio Democratic col ored men will be held at Akron on Sep tember 15-10. Lynchburg, Va. The Democratic nominating convention fo.- the Sixth Dis trict nominated Hon. Paul C. Edmunds for re-election by acclamation. At Richmond, Va., the Third party district met and nominated AValter E. Grant for Congress. At Martinsville. Va , the Democratic Congressional convention for the Fifth nominated Claude A. Swanson of Pittsyl vania county. Raleigh, X. C. John S. Henderson was renominated for Congress by accla mation by Democrats of the Seventh Dis trict. Frank Koonca is nominated for Congress by the Third party in the Third District. The number of voters registered in Mississippi and entitled to take part in the November election is about 80,000, of whom 9,000 are negroes. It is esti mated that 94 per cent, of the negroes failed to register. Col. "NV. C. P. Brecken ridge has been officially declared the Democratic nomi nee for Congre-s from Ashland district in Kentucky, no candidate having ap peared against him. Senator Hale stated in an interview that Mr. Blaine will, if physically able, deliver two or three speeches during the campaign in Maine; otherwise he will express his views in a letter. The "Washington Democratic State convention at Olympia nominated II. J. Snivelly of Yakima, for Governor; J. R. Munday for Congress; II. C. Vi son for Lieutenant Governor, and B. K. tlanoa and II. W. Brinker for the Supreme bench. During the session of the Kentucky Legislature a Senator said that any man who said the journal was incorrect "lied from the tip of his ljing tongue to the bottom of his black, bribe-taking heart," and that he was astonished that the Sen ate would tolerate such a member who came into the Senate "bleary eyed and incapable of comprehending the business before it." When ke was called to or der he "disclaimed any intention of be ing personal." It Was A Mean Trick. That was a mean trick played on a Southern stranger in a Vine street saloon the other eveuing,says a writer in the Cin cinnati Times Star. The said stranger iloat ed in and opening the apetture in the face of the knot on which he carried his hat and perfumed locks, ordered a glass of ale. His dudish appearance and air of ineflable wisdom attracted the attention of a well known ward politician, who. slipping a chunk of ice from the lemon ade he was sipping, hastily deposited a bright silver dollar on it. Keeping the dollar on ice out of sight he engaged ia conversation with the Southern gentle man and finally led the talk to the coin age of silver. "And do you know, " said the W. P., ' that the dollars coined in the North are colder than those struck oft at New Orleans?" "No." replied the S. G. "Well, it's a fact. Look there," and the cold and carefully dried dollar was placed in the Southerner's sweaty palm, where it felt like a chunk of ice. A look of wonder passed over his face, and all he could say wa: "By bickers, ain't that strange?" Then commenced a dicker, which resulted in a brand new $2 bill being given for the cold dollar, and the Southern Gentleman departed happy as a boy at the circus. Laughter long and loud filled the saloon as soon as his locklets vanished, and "Well, boys," exclaimed the politician; "I'll have to set 'cm up on that." Ninety-five cents worth of beer went by the board and the $2 bill was passed to the bartender, who was about to hand back the change, when he seemed struck with a funny idea. "It's counterfeit he giggled as he pissed it back. Then followed more laughter, but in a more subdued tone 'ban at first, and when the gang went out to look for the long-haired Southern gentleman he could not be found any where. Er. Talmage As a Lion. Birmingham, Eng. Dr. Talmage Sun Jay addressed the largest assembly evei g-.'.hered in Birmingham. The town hak was crammed with an audience of 8.006 oersons, and outside there hovered '.fl.OOO lore people, whom Dr. Talmage addroaed om his carriage after the ser vices in theMl. On his way yck to his hotel Dr. Tal mage was iufoiined that 10,000 persons were still waiting on the other side of the town hail to hear him. He immedi ately turned and briefly addressed them, and the immense crowd, estimated at 20,000, sang "'Praise God, from whom all blessings flow." The main doors of the hotel had to be bolted against the surging crowd, which ran ahead of the doctor'a arriaf To Iuvite Senator Hill to Topeka. From the Kansas City Times. Topeka, Kan. The Kansas Democrat ic Flambeau Club of Topeka at a meet ing voted to invite Senator David B. Hill of New York to visit Topeka this fall and b? their guest. For this purpose the following committee on invitation was appointed with orders to report at the next regular meeting: Judge John Mar. in, Mayor R. L. Cofran, C. K. Hol liday, Jr.. Eugene Hagan, Kugene Wolfe, S B. Isvnhart, the Hoi. M. Heery, Ran kin Mason, John Mileham, and A. J. Arnold. Believed to Have Been 125 Years Old. Thomasville. The oldest woman io Georgia died at the poorhouse on Sun day morning. It will sound like fiction to state Aunt Peggy slater's age, but all her acquaintances and her eld master say that her age was 125. Aunt Peggy did not date events from the civil war as many do, but from the Revolution! Aunt Peggy had outlived all her chil dren except one. and there were juite a number of them. J he one living is ia her 97th year. THREE STATES' BRIEFS. Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points of Interest. The Fields of Virgina, North and South Carolina Carefully Gleaned For Newst VIRGINIA. There are about 1,000 miners rut on a strike at Pocahontas at present. The national archery tournament bepan at Old Point Comfort Thursday, an nearly all the clubs in the United State have representatives present. Col. John M. Brock enbrough died at his residence in Richmond. He whs G2 years of age and a native of Hichmond county. He commanded the 40th Vir ginia regiment in the war up to Gettys burg. Mrs Ye, wife of the Corean secretary, has not been well for some mouths past, and will leave Washington September oth for a visit to her homeinCorea, to which country she will be accompanied by Miss Davis, of Abingdon, Va., who will go as a missionary. I hey will sail Septembei 17th from San Fiancisco. A fa;al and eicgular accident occurred on board the train atter it left Quantico for Fredericksburg Saturday evening, by which a colored woman had her neck broken She was on her way from Wash ington to her home, near Brooke station. After the train left Quantico she at tempted to pass through the car, when by a sudden lurch of the train she was thrown viol ntly against the back of one the stats and her neck broken. NOBTH CAROLINA. The residence" of Sheriff R. D. Ross at Asheboro was burned Tuesday. The Rowan County Fair will be held in Salisbury October 4-7. Guy Maxwell, aged 23, was drowned in Lake Forsyth at Charlotte, Friday. A yourg lady, Miss Kate Patter, was killed by lightning at Farmer's Turnout, Brunswick county. The aggregate valuation of the prop erty in Forsyth county, as shown by the taxlisters, is $7,579,318. The property held by the white citizens is rated at $7,456,593, and the colored people at $122,725. Dr. Kemp P. Battle, of the State Un iversity, has accepted an invitation to deliver the historical address at Raleigh's centennial celebration on October 19th H.s subject as assigned by the csmmittee will hi "The First Hundred Years of Raleigh." The convention of oyBter growers was held at Ocracoke last week. Resolutions were adopted and ordered to be present dtothe Legislature next winter that the oysterman were opped to scrapicg r dredgiDg of any kind on oyster grounds. Two Second Adventist?, a man and his wife, have been conducting a meeting at Christian chaple, in Lenoir county, for about three months past. Their church now has a membership of about 140. The meetings are very sensational, the people falling on the floor in trances, etc. Three young men of that section have been or dained ministers of this church. SOUTH CAROLINA: Charleston has quarantined against tb cholera. Lieut. Commander Win. W. Rhodes has been ordered to duty at the naval sta tion at Port Royal, S C. The acreage of sea island cotton in the State is 12 to 15 per cent, less than last year. A little boy named John Meldow was drowned in Colonial Lake at Charleston, Thursday. Fairfield county fair will be held at Winnsboro October 27-23. The Rich land fair will open at Columbia on Nov. 15. The Geo getown Rice Mill has recently put t leven Kngleburg rice hullers iu its mili at a cost of $4,000. The acreage in r'n-.tt is increasing. OTHER STATES. A coroner's jury at Nashville, Tenn , investigated the killing of J. H. Taylor, a horse thief, and returned a verdict that Sheriff Hill was justified in killing the man. A man at Macon, Ga., has a $10 note of the State of North Carolina, printed in 1788. While he is rather proud of his treasure as a curiosity he cannot help cal culating the cotnpouud interest he has lost by the money lying there unemp 03 ed- JUMPING FOR LIFE. The Big Hotel at White Sulphur Springs Destroyed AsHEVii.i.E. N. C. The Belmont Hotel, at White Sulphur Spring", five miles from the city, was destroyed at mid night by a fire which broke out in -the laun iry and spread with great rapidity. There were nearly 200 guests in the house a- the time, many of them jumped from the windows. Mis. Dr. Von Ruck, of Asheville, was badly injured, and died Thursday morning. Charles Green, of New Orleans, had a leg dslocated. Clerk Henderson also had a le dislocat ed, and a colored nurse a leg broken. A few others were slightly bruised, but none seriou-!y hurt. All the guests lost their b.-iggam? and some of them other person al belongings. A good many dian onds and a good dcrl of money were lost in the fire, numbers of those in the building escaping only in their night clothes. The guest made their way, asbesttney could, to Asheville, where they were made com fortable. The hotel property was owned by a corporation and leased to Dr. Von. Ruck The building was erected at a cost of $05,000 and there was insurance of f22, 500 on it. Ran Away With His Mother-in-Law. Salem, Va. A citizen of this place has been placed in a curious predicament by the action of his son in law. The latter, who lives with his father-in-law and works at the mines of the fcalem Furnaece Company, returned home a few nights ago and eloped with his mother in law. The father-in-law has ins ituted a suit for divorce on the ground of de sertion. In May Boston pounds, of oatmeal tries. exported Z0U,mn to European coun BILL ARP'S LETTER. ! The Philosopher Lapses Into a State oi "Inocnons Desuetude," ! 4ND JOTS HIS KAKDOM THOCHT3 ACCORD IXGLY HE Has something to say OF MR. CLEYELAFP. When a patriarch has reen on the road for two day and missed the CDnnection at Meaa phw and bad to bum aronnd in a Btrange place waiting for the Dfxt train, and then tet and sets aii'l sweats all day for 300 miles until his back series and one of Lin kidneys gets restless and tries to set out, and his eyes and ears and the tack of his neck are full of cinders, he d can't feel like penning Lis random thoughts to please anybody. All he can do i- to rum ina'e and jump ftom one thini; to another, and think about home and its blessing- His con stant prayer is 1 hat he may In e to return to those who love him best and for awhile to net fr m his !a!o s. Now, whilelwiite, I am in that state of "innocuous de-netndt-" that Mr. Cleveland told abour, and that onuses me to think and to won dr. When lie used that cur.ou, original ex pression I reckon lOO.OO'i r. aders turned to the dictionary to s e what lie truant. It fit the case all r!:ht, an 1 the public was sitisrled. But it w-jii'i do fur ordinary men to venture upon such pipon Kuglisli. I've bve-i routing his speeches and his late ntternnefs, and I would like tc know when and where he j,-ot his scholarehip. Ctiauncev lit pew sets hiiu tip v-ry hiah ts a typical Atiurieui, aid th- New York Tribune in a late i-ditoria! admits that he has the liapoy faculty of Kuiiu: what lie means an! saying it in the very best manner. He leaves no 1 00m for doubt. The August imuii..-r of the Review of lieviews. which is the U-st and fairest of all our mon hlien. has a splendid biography of 5Ir Cleveland. Mr. Albert Stiaw, the editor, is a conservative Kepuhlican, but is opposed to the tVrcc bill, and ilares to say so in unmistikable language. He is hIm opposed to any political interference with the t-ta us of the negro, and declares iliat it i- a Southern burden and mav be a Southern !angr, and the South is far more capable of dealing with it than the North. It is good for us to read after such high-toned, candid men. The July number had an excel lent biography of Mr. "Harrison, and if I was away off in Europe and anybody should sp-ak disiept ctfnliy of him I would resent it. He i no little man, and his success proves it, but ho is a man of prejudice. He believes the South ern p. ople are heretics, 8tid he is such an old fashioned Calvinistic Presbyterian that he would rather torture us a little than not. This biography sa s that he was a poldier after Sher man s pattern, and that Sherman said he did not have a more capable general. It ays that Harrison especially distinguished himself in the battle of Carsville while marching through Georgia. We are i-orry to know that. We never did know before what vandal destroyed that beautiful town. We supposed that it was done by Sherman's orders, but it seems now that Harrison was the man. He ordered all the women ani children away and then applied the torch. Two iarg- colleges were burned and every church and every dwelling nothing wap left but tottering walls and lonesome chim neys. OI I Cassville wai the county seat of our county and was the nursery of education for our boys and our girl. The Duke of Alva never committed a more disgraceful act and I was in hopes that the shame of it centered upon Sherman, and tnat gentleman, like Harrison, turned away and wept when they raw the fires and the hoinelesj women and children. But let that pass. Let by-gones be by-gones. Mr- Cleveland's "innocuous desuetude" re minds me of Henry Grady for he enjoyed it immensely. How much he enjoyed revelling in big wo: ds himself just to perplex the boys. How heartily he would laugh when he had them bothered with his jawbreakers. Shockley was our town constable and had waited atten tion on the court and listened to the lawyers until he began to affect some largo words and very frequently made some awkward misfits. Henry was fond of perusing Shockley, and one dty called hira to one side and eaid seriously, "Shockley, I want to ask your opinion on a vefy private matter- Suppose you were just stand ing by yourself on the sidewalk not doing any thing to anybody and a stranger was to come right up to you without malice aforethought and was to re-cog-nize' you what would you do about it?" "Say that a.qain, Henry say it Blow," said Shockley. When Henry repeated it Shockley said, "Henry, I wouldn't take the likes of that from nobody. I should just haul away with my stick and take his interrogatories." And this reminds me of the original Bill Arp, whom the boys about town elected to the office of coroner just out, of mischief. Bill felt high ly honored, and. as he couldn't read the law about coroner himself, he got the boys to rerd it to him, and they garbled it so as to make B 11 believe that be must Bit upon thedeol body in order to make it a legal inquest. He was told that he held a very responsible posi tion, and that lie must do bis duty at all haz ard. A few days after his election a travel i tg showman came to our town with an Egyp tian mummy tlntt he placed ou exhibition at ten cents a sight. The devilish lawyers sent for Bill, and told him with great solemnity that he had a case a very remarkable case, and that he must do his duty; that there was a dead body in town that nobody knew how or when it became dead, and he must summon a jury and set upon it. They read him the law again, which snid the coroner should hold an inquest upon the bodies of all dead pi rsons where the cause of death was unknown, or wheie there were suspicions of foul play surrounding the death. The law also authorized thi coroner to exhume any dead body that hr.d been I uried, and to bury it again a fterth-examination. Bid was advised to see 'he Kentleinan first and interview hir before summoning a jmy. which he did. The show man claimed to be a preacher, who had been a missionary in foreign lands, but he had a fp c ulative turn of mind and the gift of language, and made the same little speech to all visit ors. When Bill called on him and made known his I usinss the showman was amazed, astounded and indignant. but Bill was solemn and r solute, and informed the gentleman that f he didn't at onoe prodiu e tli dead body he should ar.-e-t h 111. and Bill meant what he said. He b ated 110 man when in performance of duty. Th re was tire in his eye, and the phowruan saw it. He sent fo the mayor, but that gentleman was one .f Bill's best friends, and didn't seem to mid' rstand how an inque-t could be prevent ed if it was the law. '1 he argument got warm and then hot, and Bill demanded to iew the bo ly. "But it is a mummv," said the showman, "and she has been dead 3,000 yeais. "My Lord," sai 1 Bill, "is it a woman yon have got, and are to'ing her around. She ought to be buried, sir; decently buried. That is what the law says." "But she has been buried," said the show man. "Entomlrf-d in the catac-mbs embalm ed. She is a mummv. I tell vou,-' "What's that?" said Bi!L When the showman explained Bill shook his head and declared that it was all very BUspici ciou; that no dead lody would keep mora than a week in the country, and as for 3,000 years that was away before Christ was born, and he didn't believe a word of it. "I must view the body," said he, "and IT1 be doggoned if I'm gwine to wait oa you any longer." The mayor advised the showman - yield and let the coroner i, which he reluctantly did, and Bill was bewilde e I. "Is (.he folks are a monkey?" said he. "I-r shs white folks or an Injun? Looks Iik a Chinee. W'hat you got her wrapped up in all this barsys'uff for? How in te dingnation is a kurnner to tell what killc-d her while she is sea ed up in this way? Th law says I must view the body and you don't show nothing but fcer fingers and tees and a part of her f acc." "She was embaimei." said the showman-'Frankincen-e and mvrrh " "Frank who?"' said Bill. "What dil he have to do with it?" By this time several of the town boys had slipped in and we: e dying with the fun. The preach r became dsp ra'e and declared that h would proiect his pioifrty; that he had brought that mummy all the way from Africa. "Thought she was a nmlatter." said Bill. After much tribu'ation the mayor took Bill aside and advised him to hold up and let the poor fellow off if he would pay the coroner' fees, and bo he consulted his lawyers, and as thy concurred, he concluded to drop the proceedings for tS. He said the law allowed bam $5 where ht Bet on the body, but as he didn't set he would take off a couple. Never was a poor missionary more greatly re lieved than when thia one got rid of Bill Arp, He wrote a receipt and Bill igned with a K K at the end of his name, which he said was fur county coroner, but the preacher said it waa for koJrJax. Bat farewell for th present oh, my back! Bn.i. r.e. :n Sunny Soutk ULYVSY ULrJANIUGS. Alaska is raising ho Chicago handles 1363 train daily. U.xcls Sax has 3,935,812 dwelling. A great earn crop growing ia Texas. Of Watsrloo veterans Fran-M hij eizhfc left. Tue Unitel Statej contain 43,0)) oil well?. MiL tx is to have an elastricil ex'ii'oiti ji in l"'Jt. Switzer xd is erecting its Grit sugar factory. CaunoHES built in America in 1391 n-ia-beri 850S. Losdox h3 now over 7W,000 houses iniil its city limits. Caucabsia is said to bt iafestei witb hi wjirms of locusts. A twin watermelon is a fruit frai't in Ware Uiuntv, Georgia. A potato weighing twanty-six ou 10s U a euriosity of Gartiaa, N. C. SkvX-eiqhts of the braad mi ie in Lon don is male of A marie in whaat. The real and pdrsjnal prooarty ia Paila tie! p a ia is ass3a.se! at $732, 763,383. A mixer of Silesia hn bs9a ua:i;:i)ii for t jur months, suys a mslicit par: A de.vlsr in artificial lira jsestim it);thib 3JJ,!)) EugUsuusa havjiossouj o. u ;a ls&wroasDUA.sa is rejoicing over th catsniagof 400,0)) seal oy hsr 1jj; tliU easoa. Faexch speaking Canadians now s a :izs 29.3 pjr caut. of the population oi 1 1; :)- minion. A sociktt has been organia! in who S3 object is to pusa tat piur.t ttr flower of America. Mrs. Watsox&I. Svrra, of Bona, Mica., has given birta to four sets of twin in tea years. The eight are all healthy. A max in Maine lo3t nearly 6)0) lobars lately, that he had onSnjd ia a p J L by a . quantity of fresh wat-3r flawing inCo ic aai ' killing them. The highest viaiust in the worll his j'tisfc been eractel in tJolivia, over thj Rivj.- .jii, 9S33 feet above the sea level, and 4 MS iaii aoov) the rivar. Reports froai all over the JTori'axjstara wheat belt showgood prospects on tb.3 waole, with a a average crop certain, aai abor avrae with good weather. Thkrk are seven brothers and sist?rj ia New London, Conn., whose combine I a-;a are 512 years. Their family nam) is J 1 n stoct. ani their Christian names are tity. Oritur io, Cordelia, John, Frank, Eirx aai Stephen. FKOMINENT PEOPLE. Gladstone's first book was published fifty -four years ago. Lotris Kossuth the Hungarian patriot, is just eighty-six years old. President Harrison and David Jawing, the great Chicago preacher, were classmates at Miami University. It is said that the Sultan, of Johore, who is to visit thia country, observes the tenets of Mohammedanism so strictly that his only beverage is pineapple juice. Mr. Cleveland writes all his letters be tween 10 o'clock at night and 2 o'clock in the morning. This habit the ex-Prusident con tracted at the White House. General Lew Wallace is said to have been the first man to conduct I courtship by telegraph. This was in 1852, and the mes sages were to his future wife. The Queen of Greece is President of a sis terhood devoted to the reformation of crim inals, and visits personally the condemned prisoners in Athenian prisous. Miss Ella M. Knowles. whom the Peo ple's Party of Montana bas nominated for Attorney-General of the State, is a success ful practicing lawyer in Helena. Mrs. Guild, an Amosican sculptress, has recently completed a bust of Mr. Gladstone, which is very highly commended by the critics as a portrait and a work of art. John G. Whittier writes in a bold, dash ing, but irregular and uneven, style, as dif ferent as you can imagine from the plain, precise, unassuming Quaker that he is. In Europe th9 two most conspicuous pub lic personages to-day are Gladstone an i Bis marck, both of whom have passed far bj yond the mark of threescore years an 1 tea. William H. Rice went from Massac vi setts to Texas in 1S3S. He has given to.- city of Houston $200,000 in cash, J40.00) in securities, and 9000 acres of gooi Texas farm land to found a college. Squire Massie Beaslet, of Aberdeen, Ohio, has male that town famous as th American Gretna Green. For many years he has been marrying alt comers until now his record i3 between 5000 and 6300 couples. The adjournment of Congress completed a thirty years' service in the House for Mr. O'Neill, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, comes next in length of representa tion, as ne has been for twenty-eight year a Congressman . Two Roads Didn't Sign. Atlanta.Ga. The Southern Steamship and railway Association adjourned after nearly all the roads of Virginia, the Car olio as, Tennesse?. Georgia and Florida signing, the tinciuuati Southern and the Alabama Great Southern having failed to sign the agreement. Major Fink has seven days in which to make up his mind The impress on am' ng the members is that there will be a bitter boycott of these roads unless Major Fiok givsiu. Bigr Fire in Norfolk. Norfolk, Va. Fire broke 01 at 7 o'clock in the carriage manufaeto.-y of A. Wrenn & Son on Union street md de .s roytd all the work shops togeiher with 'heshops of the agricultural implement iioir-e of Wrenn, Whitehurst fc Co. ad joining. The entire fire department v .s in service and after hours hard work ,ubdued the flames. The loss is estima ted at 20,00Q. Richmond's Chamber of Commerce. Richmond, Va. The cornc-stoneof the chamber of committee was laid in due Masonic form at 5 o'clock. The grand lodge of Masons at 5:30 proceeded to the :t corner Main and Ninth etreets, the K-ights Templar acting as escorts. The address was delivered by Colonel John II Purcell in behalf of the chamber. To Prison for Hugging- Girls. Nvack. N. Y. Justice Matthews of ihis place sent John Lampke of Brooklyn to IJockland county jail for two months for hugging girls on the street.
The Goldsboro Headlight (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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