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GOLDSBOKO, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1901.
VOL. XIY. NO. 24.
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are l."'. i; and selected with special
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of its Uiii'l in helpful ami
useful infoi -iiiation f..r Gardeners,
Truckers and Farmers.
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Seed Growers & Merchants,
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Suite cf six moms, private Iath,
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Suite f thriv moms, private
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week; private l-::ih: -outliern ex
posure. Parlor, i'x-.li-oom and private
bath, li."'1 per week.
Single Ilooins, with privilege of
.. bath, $7.f'' per week.
Special aecointiiodation for visi
tors to New York.
' Ladie ,,- families ran serum a
reasonaV.e and romfortuMo home
if they de-iiv to viit New York for
shopping or amnsrnieiit.
Madi-on aventii: trolleys pass
hotel every two minutes, oivinir
transfers to any part of the city.
HORSES - AND - MOLES
Ha i- arrived at my stables from the
' West'-rn stoek-rai'mg centre.
Ofllon"! buy till you see tin-in and
gettny jir'u-es you ill save moiit-y.
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The Suusliiiiy World.
(). bright world of sunshine'' and bright
world of rest,
From the east to the west
You are thrilling with music and lovely
with light;
Vour red Wrong forever is trampled of
llight;
To joy it's '-Good morning!" to Sorrow
'(Jood night!"
And 'Weleomc the dawn of God's
morning!" '
Eaeli hill rising heavenward in majesty
seems
An altar for worship; the sea-faring
streams
Sing ever a song as they sweep to the
deep
Past meadows of beauty where riches
we reap!
Under the wings of the starred night we
sleep
And dream of a beautiful morning!
(), bright world of sunshine! Vj would
not depart
Without giving you all o' the love o' the
heart:
Nor murmur "Farewell" to your path
ways so dear
With never a sigh or the fall of a tear!
In life you were lovely in death you
are dear.
As we drift to the light of God's
morning:
Fuaxk L. Staxtox.
A Strange rensioii Story.
A pension has been allowed re
cently to the. widow of a soldier of
the Sixth United States Cavalry for
whose death the beneficiary was re-1
sponsible. While this startling fact
would seem to debar the widow, the
peculiar and interesting circum
stances of the soldier's demise ren
dered it proper for the pension offi
cials to pass favorably upon her ap
plication. It appears that the soldier, accord
ing to the coroner's verdict, came to
his death May 7, 1S;-S, through chok-
iny with a leather watch chain in the
hands of his wife while she was pro
tecting her life. The widow's state
ment before the jury disclosed a
remarkable series of incidents, and
was corroborated in all essential re
spects by other witnesses. She tes
tified that her husband had been
drinking heavily for a week. She
had gone to him at 12 o'clock and
told him that dinner was ready. lie
made no response, and after the meal
was finished and the diners-had gone
he tame and told her to prepare din
ner at once. She at first remonstrat
ed, but observing a strange look up
on his fare, became frightened and
began to do as commanded. The
husband then said, with an oath,
that he was going to kill her, and
s'ruck her, knocking her against the
table.
The wife then fled from the house,
thinking to find some of the men
about the place who would quiet or
restrain her husband. She ran to a
field where men were plowing and
besought their interference or pro
tection. They refused, saying they
could do nothing with the man.
Meantime he had gathered up the
baby, mounted a horee and followed
iu pursuit of her. The husband rode
up to his wife, who begged him not
to hurt her. He replied, with an
oath, that he would break her bones
and would kill her; that she must
die. lie then threw the baby to the
ground, pulled his six-shooter from
his belt, tried to make his horse run
over her, and reached out trying to
strike her with his revolver. As he
leaned over he fell from his horse to
the ground on his side and back.
In falling he fell against his wife,
knocking her down. She jumped up,
threw herself upon her husband, in
tending to get his revolver an ay from
Lim. She laid hold of his leather
watch chain, which he wore around
his neck. This leather guard fasten
ed with a slipknot. The wife clutch
ed the chain with one hand and with
the other held one ofiber husband's
hands. She was exhausted, and lay
in that condition for four or five min
utes. He did not struggle, but made
a queer noise in his throat.
When the woman recovered she
arose, hid the revolver and ran to the
house. When the men went to where
her husband lay they found him
dead. The wife had unintentionally
strangled her husband. Her pension
has been granted, and to-day she is
drawing $3 a month.
Her Head a Flaming Torch.
Someone told Miss Anna Slvo-J
vachi, of Mahoney City, Pa., that if
she would wash her hair in coal oil
it would preserve its lustre and
would keep it from falling out. Mon
day she obeyed the direction, and
when she had doue so sat down, with
her back to a stove, to let her hair
dry. It caught fire, and was entire
ly consumed. She is completely bald,
and had not her brother appeared on
the scene her dress, already on fire,
would have been destroyed, and with
it, probably her life.
Charcoal fumes or poison are sup
posed to have killed three miners in
the Schulte, Cal., camp, Saturday.
A Convincing Answer.
I hobbled into Mr. Ijlackinon's drug
More one evening," savs Wesley Nelson.
of Hamilton, (ia., "and he asked me to
try Chamberlain's l'ain Halm for rheu
matism with which I had suffered for a
long time, i told him 1 had no faith in
any medicine as they all failed. He
said: 'Well if Chamberlain's Fain 15alni
doe's not help yon, you need not pay for
it.' I took a bottle of it home and used
it according to the directions and i one
week I was cured, and have not since
been troubled with rheumatism. ' Sold
bv M. K. P.obinson & l$ro., J. F. Miller's
I'rug Store, Goldsboro; J. li. Smith,
Mt. Olive.
MAKKI.KiE AM) D1V0KCE.
The Former Is On the Decline W Iiile the
Latter Is Ilapitlly Increasing.
In spite of the prosperous condi
tion of the country, which ought to
encourage matrimony, it is general
ly believed that there are fewer mar
riages and . more divorces in the
United States in proportion to its
population to-day than there were
twenty, or even ten,' years ago. The
census returns for 1000 on this sub
ject are not yet tabulated, so that
the common- impression cannot be
confirmed by exact figures. The
late eminent jurist E. J. Phelps es
timated in 18Si that 35,000 divorces
were then being annually granted.
The statistics carefully collected by
Mr. Carroll D. Wright, by direction
of Congress, and which covered the
20 years from 1SG7 to 18St inclusive,
showed that for that entire period
divorces had been increasing more
than twice as fast as the population.
There is no reason for thinking that
that startling rate of increase has
since diminished. On the contrary,
the general evidence is that divorces
are being more numerously sought
and granted than ever. The pro
portion of divorces to marriages was
found by Mr. Wright to vary in dif
ferent States, running in some as
high "as 1 divorce to every 7 mar
riages, and in others as low as 1 to
every 20. The returns of 1SD0, which
are the latest we have, showed that
in one year 2 iu every 2,072 of the
population of all ages were divorced;
that 3,-102 tpersons were divorced in
the State of Massachusetts alone,
and that the total number of persons
divorced inlhe United Stales was
110,434 in a total population of (12,
(lt!2,230. Our present population
being about 13.000.000 larger, it is
probably true that about lit, out) per
sons will be divorced during the cur
rent year in this country. These di
vorces are almost entirely limited to
the non-Catholic population, so that
these 73,01)0 husbands and wives put
asunder by the courts furnish the
measure of domestic unhappiness
and marital failure among not more
than 00,000,000 of our white people.
No such statistics as these were
known toour grandfathers and grand
mothers, and though we are in the
habit of referring to their days as
unprogressive, deficient in education
and generally crude in civilization,
these appaling figures give us pause.
On their face they seem to argue
that we have lost in some degree the
secret of marrying visel' and well
and '"living happily ever afterward"'
which was known to our immediate
ancestors. We still repeat the old
entimeut "There is no place like
home," yet homes are not being
made by as large a percentage of our
people now as o0, or even 30 years
ago, and when they are made it is
painfuily apparent that they are not
being maintained nearly so faithfully
"until death do us part" as in the
period when President Buchanan
and Queen Victoria were exchaug
ingcompliments. Older Americans,
in discussing the many evidences of
diminishing marriage and increasing
divorce, reflect that it was not so
until after the Civil War. There
were many things unknown in this
country previous to lSlil that have
since become disagreeably familiar
features of its social life. In the pe
riod of our history that closed with
President Buchanan's administration
we had no millionaires, no trusts, no
monopolies, no tramps, no anarch
ists, no marriages of American heir
esses with European noblemen of
the Count de Castellane type, no
gorgeous New York and Newport
marriages at which money was spent
by the half-million and bridal gifts
were valued at two millions.
The philosophic analyst of our so
cial development is yet to come who
can tell us exactly how and why the
terrible war between the States
brought in its train an era of wealth,
Iuxur3r, ostentation and extrava
gance that manifested itself in a hun
dred different directions, Iet the
explanation be what it may, the fuct
remains that the American people
as a whole, and particularly the peo
ple of the North, have never lived as
simply, modestly and economically
since the war as the- did before.
And when the causes of domestic
discontent which on the one hand
lead to the divorce courts and on
the other disincliue our young peo
ple to marriage are analyzed it will,
we surmise, be found that a love of
luxury, of expensive living, and a
desire, to gratify tastes and habits
that are not compatible with domes
tic thrift and the rearing of children
are largely to blame.
Mr. Gladstone, in a thoughtful ar
ticle on this subject written shortly
before his death, remarked that the
old simple New England life de
scribed in such novels as "The Min
ister's Wooing" had almost entirely
vanished. He expressed himself as
startled to learn "that iu the old
State of Connecticut one marriage
is dissolved in every ten, and in the
new State of California one in every
seven." To appreciate what the
earlier American's idea of happy
marriage conditions was we may
turn to Henjamin Franklin's letter
to John Allyue, a young man who
rote to the philosopher concerning
his own recent wedding. Franklin
advised him that he had done well to
marry while he was young, as he had
observed that early marriages "stand
the best chance of happiness." The
good Doctor goes on to say : "With
us in America marriages are gener
ally in the morning of life; our chil
dren are therefore educated and set
tled in the world by noon, and thus,
our business being done, we have an
afternoon and evening of cheerful
leisure to ourselves. By these early
marriages we are blessed with more
children; and from the mode among
us, founded by nature, every mother
suckling and nursing her own child,
more of them are raised. Thence
the swift progress of population
among us, unparalleled iu Europe."
That this will not serve at all as a
description of the average American
view of marriage to da' hardly
needs to be said. Iu these times
few young people contemplate mar
riage for the purpose of being
blessed with large fifmilies of chil
dren. The family of one child, or
two at the most, ,is now the fashion,
and in our large cities the numberof
"family" hotels in which children
are not admitted on any terms is no
toriously large. Hut for the steady
stream of European immigration the
increase of our population would be
very small, and if the children born
hereof foreign or half foreign pa
rentage were excluded our deaths
and births would hardly balance.
The extraordinary facilities for
easy divorce held out by many of the
new Western States, and the lack of
uniformity iu State marriage and di
vorce lav.s, pre clearly responsible
for many disbanded homes. In for
mer times, when divorce was not so
easy to obtain, family jars and dis
cords occurred probably as often as
in our day, for human nature is not
essentially changed, but tempers
cooled off and the general aversion to
divorce was such that the parties
were apt to "kiss and make up" and
go on again, and so on to the end of
life's checkered course. Hundreds of
homes were thus preserved from de
struction and children were brought
up to love and be loved by both their
parents, where nowadays they would
be torn asunder and the children
scattered to be reared without fath
er's or mother's care. It would be
well if we could have a revival of the
genuine domestic spirit, based on the
old-fashioned reverence for marriage
as something more than a mere con
tract to be lightly broken at the
pleasure of cither party thereto,
reckless of the consequences to chil
dren. And we believe that one of
the first steps toward such a revival
must be a return to the simpler,
plainer and less expensive standards
cf living which prevailed in the days
gone when marriage was so much
more popular and divorce so much
less frequent. The feverish desire
that has seized upon so large a part
of our people to live in a showy way,
to ape at a distance the grand and
gay social functions of the vulgar
rich, and hence to avoid marrying on
modest incomes and plodding along
quietly and contentedly in the paths
of domestic virtue and thrift as our
forefathers did, must somehow be
checked and moderated. Otherwise,
marriage will go on growing less at
tractive, and divorces, which spring
largely from a restless discontent
with plain home life and an ambition
to seek the happiness that is found
iu pleasure rather than in duty, will
go on multiplying.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Courage is hard"; it thrives on
heaps of sand.
Money talks, but a little scare
makes it shut up tight,
The thermometer and the college
student rise by degrees.
Most ministers are.judged by the
mortgage on the church.
The fellow who goes out for a
lark takes swallows first.
A woman is minded better when
she is not strong-minded.
We only learn to understand the
weather man by degrees.
Most of us wouid rather profit
by the mistakes of others.
The fellow who always tells the
truth loses lots of friends.
Nearly any girl can wear a No.
3 shoe, if it comes to a pinch.
The baker who mixes his dough
properly has a soft thing of it.
The age of an egg and a woman
can't be told by outside appearances.
The committing Magistrate
always has lots of time at his dispo
sal.
The claim of other cough medicines to
be as good as (. hamuerlam s are effectu
ally set at rest in the following testi
monial of Mr. ('. 1). (ilass. an employe
of I.artlett v Dennis Co., Gardiner, Me.
He savs: "I had kept adding to a cold
and cough in the winter of 1S'J7. trying
every cough medicine I heard of with
out permanent help, until one day I was
in the drug store of Mr. Houlehan and
he advised me to try Chamberlain s
Cough Henfedy and offered to pay back
my money if I was not cured. My lungs
and bronchial tubes were very sore at
this lime, but I was completely cured by
this remedy, and have since always
turned to it when I got a cold, anil soon
find relief. I also recommend it to my
friends and am glad to sav it is the best
of all cough medicines." For sa'e by
M. K. Robinson & Bro., J. F. Miller's
Drug Store, Goldsboro; J. R. Smith,
Mt. Olive.
AT HOME AM) ABROAD.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
Striking moulders at Cleveland, O ,
have reached an agreement.
A whisky pool with $1,000,000 to
spend is speculating in Kentucky.
An earthquake shook several
places in Eastern Tennessee, Thurs
day night.
The headless body of a man was
found in a vault at Columbus, O.,
Tuesday morning.'
The leaf tobacco crop of l'JOO is
said to have been ruined by rust,
smut and pole rot.
Many vessels limping iuto Norfolk
report rough experiences at sea dur
ing the recent severe gales.
After giving away all his proper
ty, Darious Gifford, of Ira Hill, N.
Y., liar.ged himself Monday night.
A seat in the New York Stock Ex
change is said to have been "sold for
$51,000, the highest price on record.
While thawing dynamite in a rail
road camp at Pinto, Pa., Saturday,
six men were killed, the dynamite
exploding.
After drinking two bottles of cham
paign, John C. Murray, a Chicago
politician, shot and killed himself,
Monday night.
The steamer Comanche, which ar
rived at Charleston, S. C, Thursday,
was on fire for two hours on the way
from New York.
I5y the explosion of a saw-mill boil
er near Colquitt, Ga., Thursday, two
men were instantly killed and four
others badly hurt.
Frank Crawford, aged IC, was shot
and killed by his brother Charley,
aged 14, at Hall in gee, W. Va., Tues
day, in a quarrel.
Governor Smith, of Maryland, is
sued his proclamation Thursday call
ing the Legislature together in extra
session on Match (ith.
The Delaware Legislature has ex
tended the whipping post law to in
clude wife beaters amoug those to be
punished by whipping.
Policeman Henry B. Fender, of
Savannah, Ga , was shot dead Satur-j
day night by Henry Brooks, colored,
whom he was trying to arrest.
An electric car jumped the track
while on the way from Dayton, Ky.,
to Cincinnati, O., Friday, and fell in
to a creek, injuring 21) persons.
In a fight over a woman, at Hollis
ter, O., Sunday, Albert Stilzer shot
and killed Mike Johnkac and Joe
Fobish, and was himself badly stab
bed. The Virginia Legislature fixed
Juue 12th as the date for the meet
ing of the Constitutional Convention.
The Legislature adjourned sine die
on Saturday.
Five $1000 bills have been myster
iously stolen from a Kansas City
(Mo ) bank, and a woman is said to
have offered one of them at a depart
ment store in Chicago, 111., Monday.
Dr. W. L. McLeod and his wife
were found dead in their residence
at Crescent, Fla., Saturday morning.
The evidence disclosed that McLeod
had killed his wife and then himself.
Seven miners, including the super
intendent, were blowu to atoms at
the Commerce mine, in Graham
county, Arizona, Saturday, by the
explosion of the company's maga
zine.
The executive committee of the
Confederate Reunion has explained
that President McKinley has been
invited to be the guest of Memphis,
Tenn., and not a participant in the
reunion.
A street-car at Pittsburg, Ta.,
jumped the track Saturday uight and
toppled over against the curb, com
pletely wrecking the car and injuring
twenty or more passengers, four of
them seriously.
For soliciting money and jewelry
from many suitors, obtained through
a matrimonial agency, Miss Eliza
beth Karburick, aged 21, of Bioom
iugton, 111., has been -held for violat
ing the postal laws.
Over 200 people in Milwaukee,
Wis., who supposed themselves di
vorced are married. This discovery
was made Tuesday when it was found
that in over one hundred cases where
divorces had been granted they had
not been docketed.
Foreign Affairs.
Reports of fighting in Abyssinia
are confirmed.
Many arrests have been made by
the political police in Russia.
The first American provincial gov
ernment in Luzon has been organized
in Pampanga Province.
Sixty miners are imprisoned in a
mine at Cumberland, B. C, with lit
tle hope of rescuing them.
Se'veral of the Boxer leaders have
declined to commit -suicide, as re
quested by the Chinese Emperor.
Six men were killed by an explo
sion in the Chil worth gun-powder
works, near Guildford, England, on
Tuesday.
King Edward VII opened his first
Parliament iu London, Thursday,
and a debate on the South African
war followed.
National Capital Matters.
From Our W.-ulr Curresjx.ndent.
Washington, Feb. 19, 1001.
Senator Hanna is the maddest man
in Washington. He knows that the
Ship subsidy bill is dead for this ses
sion, but refuses to allow the corpse
to be buried, and is indulging in all
sorts of threats of what he is going
to do to get even w ith those republi
can Senators who declined to help
him jam the bill down the throats of
the minority. Senator Spooner who
has been classed as one of the repub
licans who would prefer seeing the
Subsidy bill fail, but would vote for
rt if a vote was reached, publicly put
himself on record this week by say
ing: "I am against this bill, but as
it is in no danger of becoming a law,
I see no need in working up useless
fears," and Senator Elkins, who has
been classed as a supporter of the
bill, said: "The Subsidybill is dead.
There can be no question about it
now. I might say that it died born
ing." Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
to whom no little of the credit for
killing the vicious bill is due, said of
its present status: "The republicans
know themselves that it would be im
possible to get the measure through
at this session, and hence their in
differeuce. The bill is dead." One
of Hanna's threats is that the River
and Harbor bill shall fail, but wheth
er he can make it stick remains to be
seen.
Representative Bell, of Colorado, a
member of the committee on Appro
priations, made a telling speech
against the unprecedented extrava
gance of the present Congress, in
which he said it was time for the
people to become alarmed at the rap
id ir.crrar.n :n pub'ic expenditures,
which had grown in a single decade
from $4 75 per capita to more than
$10 per capita. He said that Con
gress had become so callous to vast
increases in appropriations that it
was considered almost disreputable
to call attention to the extravagance
of the government. Representative
Cochran, of Missouri, made a speech
along similar litres.
Doubtless the reason why some of
the republican Senators are not ac
tively supporting the Ship Subsidy
bill is that they have heard from
some of their constituents and that
they wrote something like the editor
of a Michigan republican paper did
to .his Washington correspondent
who had sent him some favorable
comment on the attempt to pass the
bill "We don't waut any more such
gush. We are not running an ad
ministration paper but a republican
paper from an honorable standpoint.
There is no more damnable steal be
fore Congress than the Subsidy bill,
and we will bet you a new suit of
clothes that it will never become a
law."
Just before the House passed the
Army appropriation bill, carrying a
little less than $113,000,000, Repre
sentative McClellan, of New York,
in a short speech presented some fig
ures that are worthy of the country's
most thoughtful consideration. He
stated that the annual ost of each
soldier to the United States exclud
ing pensions, would be $1,283, and
including pensions $2,823, while the
annual cost of each German soldier,
including pensions and the expense
of past wars, was only $227, and that
of each French soldier, including
pensions and the cost of the Franco
Prussian war, was only $232. He
said the total cost of our army would
soon reach $300,000,000 a year, to say
nothing of the expense of the navy,
which is now more than $100,000,
000. Perry Heath has uot attempted to
reply to the c hallenge of Representa
tive Sulzer, of New York, in connec
tion with the anonymous letter Mr.
Sulzer had read as part of his speech,
which charged Heath with guilty
knowledge of Ncely's stealing and
other crookedness. Mr. Sulzer said
on the tloor of the Bowse: "I am re
sponsible for every word iu that let
ter. If Mr. Heath thinks there is
anything libelous or scandalous in
that letter I will not plead my con
stitutional privilege. I will plead
the truth of the statements. But I
serve notice that I am going to say
everything in that letter, and I want
Perry S. Heath to answer. If he
does truthfully he will be fit for the
penitentiary. I want him to under
stand that I am responsible in dam
ages for what I say. The House has
no compunctions of conscience when
he attacks me, but when I attack
him he squeals like a pig under a
gate. I got that letter in the Rec
ord. That was what I was after." I
am now content to have it stricken
out." The House without a division
ordered the latter expunged from the
Record, but it had already been
printed in the Record as well as in
newspapers throughout the country.
The Diplomatic and Consular ap
propriation bill has been reported to
the Senate, with an increase of $47,
420 over the allowance of the House,
making the total $1,845,228. The
largest item of increase is $20,000 for
legation grounds at Pekin, China.
The President told Senators who
called upon him to-day that Congress
would be called in extra session as
soon as the Cuban constitution was
received.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Snnimarj of Current Events for the
Past Seven Days.
The Bank of -Montgomery has just
been organized at Troy.
The Queen City Telephone Com
pany, of Charlotte, has gone into the
hands of a receiver.
Cul Tarlton, of Union county, has
lost three of his children since last
Friday with pneumonia and another
is now lying at the point of death.
Becoming suddenly deranged Fri
day, Mrs. James Trantham, aged 35,
of Buncombe county, committed sui
cide by hanging during her hus
band's absence.
Thirty-eight persons applied to
the Supreme Court last week for li
cense to practice law but only 20
passed. Two of the applicants were
negroes and one of these passed.
The town of Robersonville, in Mar
tin county, was visited by a destruc
tive tire Tuesday morning, burning
several business houses and causing
a $15,000 loss. There is no clue as to
its origin.
Mrs. Maggie Mease, widow of Dr.
J. M. Mease, of Canton, Buncombe
county, drowned fierself in Pigeon
river Thursday night, jumping from
the bridge. Despondency is supposed
to be the cause.,
George Walker, the colored well
digger who was injured by a stone
falling and hitting him on the head
while cleaning a well at the Louis
burg Female College, died Saturday
night from his injuries.
The two-year-old son of James
Houser, in Gaston county, was found
dead iu a a spring near the hou:-e,
Tuesday. The child had toddled
away fryui the houe and had fallen
into the spring and was drowned.
At an early hour Monday morning
there was a wholesale jail delivery
in Durham. There were six prison
ers and two insane persons confined
in the jail. All six of the prisoners
made their escape, leaving those of
weak mind behind.
Judge Council after opening Chat
ham Superior court Monday ordered
the sheriff to get some new Testa
ments for the exclusive use of white
witnesses, as he does not believe in
making white people and negroes
kiss the same book.
Thursday night, the dwelling of
Andrew Wolff, near Pittsboro, was
accidentally burned with all its con
tents. The famiiy narrowly escaped
being burned before they could get
out of the house, and saved only the
clothes they were sleeping ia.
One case of smallpox has been dis
covered at the Baptist Female Uni
versity in Raleigh. The young lady
who has the disease is Miss Melda
Ilighsmith, of Sampson county. All
students have been vaccinated and
the institution lias been quarantined.
The four-year-old daughter of Geo.
Farmer, colored, was - burned to
death iu Cumberland county, Mon
day. The child had been left alone
in the house, and when the parents
returned they found only a charred
mass in the semb-auce of a human
body.
The numberof State convicts has
now fallen to but little over Suit. Of
these 273 are in the prison proper,
while 475 are on the State farms.
One of these farms is owned by the
State and two are leased but the
leases expire this year. The remain
der of the convicts are on railway
construction.
Washington Duke and B. N. Duke
have given $5,000 to the colored race
at Durham to establish a hospital.
Work will begin in the near future
and a first-class hospital will be
erected. The amount given by the
Dukes will be supplemented by other
private donations and in erecting
the building and equipping the same
from $7,500 to $10,000 will be forth
coming. The four-year-old daughter of J.
G. Jackson, in Wilson county, was
burned to-death Thursday afternoon
The child was in the field where her
uncle, Wright I lagans, 12 years of
age, was burning of a ditch bank,
when her dress caught lire. Young
Hagans ran to her throwing Lis coat
around her and also tried to tear her
clothes off iu his efforts to save her.
But he did not succeed.
J. R. Westbrook, of Newton Grove,
Sampson county, had the misfortune
to lose one of his eyes last week in a
rather singular manner. He was
out about the lot looking after his
stock, when a pig ran under his feet,
causing Mr. Westbrook to stumble
and he Ml against the head of a
cow. One of the cow's horns stuck
him in the eye, knocking it out en
tirely. Be left at once for Richmond
for treatment in a hospital.
The store of J. C. Gaskins at
Grifton, Pitt county, was broken in
to Saturday night and robbed of $75
worth of goods. Blood hounds were se.
cured and one without hesitation, in
a crowd of negroes, run his nose over
the pants of Amos Moore and bayed
several times. Moore had been seen
previously to leave his house with a
pair of pants under his arm, and it is
supposed that he went to the out
house, to which the dog had trailed,
to change his pants.
Murders Her New-ISorn IJabe.
A horrible crime occurred at Wil
liamston, Friday afternoon. A col
ored man returning from his work
was attracted by the cries of a baby
as he reached the outskirts of the
town. Upon investigation he found
a new-born, half negro baby behind
a fence. The baby was in a dying
condition, with its head mashed, an
arm broker!, and other injuries in
flicted by a club that was left lying
near the scene. The child was placed
in charge of a physician and lived
about one hour after being found.
The coroner went to investigate the
case and the woman who had given
birth to the child was found and
placed in jail. The woman's mother
was also arrested and put in jail
charged with being accessory to the
crime.
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Third: -Because it l:r.s made so
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