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VOL. I. GOLDSBOEO, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1881. NO. 9.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Gohtehoro, JV. C,
as Seeonil-class Matter.
All communications on business should be
addressed to Ceo. T. Wassom, Editor and Pro
prietor, Goldsboro, N. C.
A Forest Scene Beside the Amazon,
On the third evening after our de
parture from Bogota we encamped on
the banks of the Bio Patamayo (a tribu
tary of the Amazon), in a grove of ma
jestic adansonias or monkey fig trees.
High over our heads we heard an inces
sant grunting and chattering, but the
evening was too far advanced for us to
distinguish the little creatures that
moved in the top branches of the tall
trees. The next morning, however, the
noise recommenced, and we saw that
the grunters were a sort of small rac
coons, and tho chatterers a troop of
monos or capuchin monkeys.
After a consultation with the Indians
we fastened our monkey, Billy, to a
string, and made him go up the tree as
high as we cou d drive him without be
traying our presence to his relatives.
We had no traps for catching them, but
our plan was to let them come near
enough fotr us to shoot one of the
mothers without hurting her babies.
Billy's rope, as we had expected, got
entangled before long, and nuding him
self at the end of his tether he began
to squeal, and his cries soon attracted
the attention of his friends in the tree
top. We heard a rustling in the
branches, and presently an old ring-tail
made his appearance, and seeing a
stranger his chattering at once brought
down a troop of his companions, mostly
old males, though. Mother-monkeys
with theix babies are very shy, and
those in , the tree-top seemed to have
some idea that all was not right. 1 .
Their husbands, though, came nearer
and nearer, and had almost reached
Billy's perch, when all at once their
leader slipped behind the tree like a
dodging squirrel, and- at the same mo
ment we heard from above a fierce,
long-drawn scream; a harpy-eagle was
s -circling around the tree-top, and com
ing down with a sudden swoop he
; seized one luckless mother-monkey that
bad not found time to reach a hidmg-
"branch with all her might, knowing
tWt-fcer life and her baby's were at
staJre, but the eagle caught her by the
throat, and his throttling clutch at last
made her relax her grip, and with a sin
gle flop of his mighty wings the harpy
raised himself some twenty feet, mother,
baby and . all. Then we witnessed a
most curious instance of maternal deyc
.tion and animal instinct unless I
should call it presence of mind; when
branch after branch slipped from' her
grip and all hope was over, the mother
with her own hands tore her baby from
her neck and flung it down into the
tree, rather than have it share the fate
she knew to be in store for herself. I
stood up and fired both barrels of my
gun after the robber, but without eflect;
the rascal had already ascended f o a
height of at feast two hundred feet, and
he flew off, with his victim dangling
from between his claws. Dir. F. L
Oswald, in St. Nicholas.
;; k Feat of "a Surveying Party.
Ambrose Lomprax, of Natchitoches
; La.,' was wiiha party jof surveyors that
i were attaV ' Apaches Boutktf El
Passo rjP State of Chihuahua, Lom
pr' oined the - party the day
ick, and that night he lost
hired boy. He saw what
as signs of the presence of
he neighborhood. Thenex
rty started, and , he lingered
a mile behind. . When the
d the Sand Hills the fight
Lomprax says the party
i and were brave men,
. leader, ( and did not
ow how t jht Indiana He tried to
n the partiflTbut was taken prisoner
the Indians, and. would have been
lied had not bis lost "Mexican boy. ap
eared and told the Indians that he was
althy and could be ransomed. He
walfcecured and could not seethe fight.
The. surveyors, thirteen in number,
fought desperately against the Indians,
k n miTfitioiwi fnrtv.nve or ionv-six-
. 1 1 . . wHA 1 ill ,1 nw Hind
Nyounded, and all of the whites were
L-iMArl hit nf them being dlSDatched
Wane va me ueju uuuucu. iu-
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(V- nroT auvK t.liA iTidi.inH were nnder tne
most rigid discipline. After the battle
they took Lomprax into the Sierra
Madre mountains, where they buried
th ir dead. For more than a week the
Indians depredated under Unrig, in So
nora, committing a number of murders.
They went down the coast of the Gulf
of California, and - in crossing to an
island Lomprax made ihis escape and
got safely to Guaymas, ''-after a severe
five day' tramp. Lomprax says the In
dians were under the command pf Vic
torio, as he knew that chief yery ell
'by sight. .' i : . i : .
South America is Heading great qnan
titieb of tongues in cans to the London
varket
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
In a recent sun disturbance a pro
tuberance was thrown up from the sur
face which was 255,000 miles long, but
in a few hours it subsided to only 18,
000 miles.
A Paris manufacturer claims to have
discovered a process for substituting the
leaves of the eucalyptus tree, which in
burning emit a delicious perfume, for
tobacco leaves in making cigars.
The director of the bureau of statis
tics at Vienna has uiade some interest
ing researches concerning the compara
tive longevity of women and men in Eu
rope. He finds that out of 102,831 in
dividuals who have passed the age of
ninety-nine years 60,303 are women,
and only 42,528 are men. In Italy 241
alleged centenarian women are found for
141 men of that age.
A Fpider's web affords an excellent
barometer. An old sportsman of Cold
water, Mich., claims that one preserved
in his house has proved almost invariably
correct. When rain and wind are ex
pected, the spider shortens the thread
which suspends the web. When reefs
are let out, fine weather may be certain;
but if the spider remains inert, rain will
probably follow within a short time.
Near Schunga, on the western shore
of Lake Onega, Russia, a new kind of
coal has been discovered more highly
carbonized than any formerly known.
On analysis, it gives about ninety-one
per cent of carbon, seven or eight per
cent, of water, and one per cent, of ash.
In appearance the coal has an adaman
tine luster, and it is very hard and
dense. Its specific heat is set down as
0.1892. Although the proportion of
carbon is so high, it yields none of the
reactions which would justify its classi
fication as a true graphite. , '..
At a meeting of the Physical society,
London, on June 25, Dr. Guthrie showed
a new experiment in magnetism. When
a magnet is suspended over a disk of
copper and the disk rotated the magnet
is repelled upward. In tha experiment
a horseshoe" magnet was suspended
from one end of a scale beam and coun
ter weighted. As an explanation of the
phenomenon of repulsion it was sug
gested that the vertically resolved force
of the induction current before the
magnet might be greater than that
behind the magnet.
The printers of Vienna propose to
celebrate the four hundredth anniver
sary of the introduction of Guten
burg's art in that city in a manner be
fitting so memorable n event. An illus
trated book, prepared in the best style
of the printer's craft, and treating of
the history of the art in the Austrian
capital from its infancy, is to be one
feature of the celebration. Another
will be an exposition of all the inven
tions and improvements made during
the gradual development of printing.
Twenty prominent printers and pub
lishers of Paris will attend the festivi
ties, and all the leadingtaties Ypf Eu
rope are expected to send representa
tives. 1
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Flower Clocks and Baronif'
p.-o-on t.ka mrifit, fl.nnal observei .of na
ture must have noticed the closing ofJ
certain flowers upon the i or en
tire withdrawal of VgM Thus the
ohickweed is sensitive to cloudy
weather and acts almost as a barometer,
and every one knows the action of the
pimpernel," or " poor man's weather
glass," (AnagaUis arvensis, L). This
pretty little plant is frequent on New
port island, where I have found it, esr
pecially on the cliffs beyond the first
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Tennyson, who is an acute observer, says
of it: " The pimpernel dozed on ' the
lea." The well-known Marvel of Peru
is also called "Four o'clock" from its
habit of opening at about that hour,
If we watch any plant we shall find that
it has a pretty definite time of expd
ing or closing its petals '" '
particular way of doing
then, speak of the wak'
conditions of the plai
search has been bestow "Ob
ject in order to find o . aysicSl
action and causa of the phenomena. In
his recent volume on "Movement in
Plants," Mr. Darwin gives the results
of his painstaking investigations Of this
and kindred subjects. As generally
happens in his work, while he is steadily
aiming at some particular point, he dis
poses of any quantity of oljscurities as
side issues on the way. 1
Linnaeus, noting the precise times of
opening and closing of flowers, con
structed a floral clock in his gardens at
Upsat, where the hours were indicated
by the conditions of different plants.
Afterward DeCandolle did the same for
the latitude of Paris. The clock ,,of
Linnams in Sweden runs slower than
that of DeCandolle in France. Climate
as well as latitude, and particular sea
sons also, would influence this sensitive
horologe. Those interested will find
DeCandolle's list given in Figuier's
Vegetable World," American edition,
page 134.
Of a few familiar plants the hours of
opening are about as follows: Morning
glory, 3 to 4 a. m.; pimpernel, 8 to 10
a. m.; Marvel of Peru, 4 to 7 p. m.;
evening primrose, 5 to 7 p. sr.; night
blooming cereus, 7 to 8 p. u.
"Thus iu each flower and simple bell,
'J hat iu our path betrodaen lie,
Are sweet remembrancers who tell
How fast the winged moments fly."
The hours of closing are as definite as
those of opening, and thus we may ar
range quite a dial, the hours being indi
cated by particular plants. The plants
may be confused by means of artificial
light, but upon withdrawal of the un
natural conditions, will, sooner or later,
resume their normal record.
It is curious to watch the different
attitudes flowers assume in repose. In
the botanic garden in Cambridge tho
writer used to go out toward evening to
watch the changes. ;-Tho movements
are sometimes very quick, especially
those of the foliage, which also has its
time of sleep. Thus in the little Mar
silia, a water-plant, with four ob cordate
leaflets, these turn in upon each other
from the expanded condition, so as to
meet face to face. There is "aite a per
ceptible little "click" wheil the move
ment occurs. The petals of some plants
droop in slumber; others fold crosswaysf
still others curl up lengthwise. So with
the rayflorets of the Composite. The
whole aspect of a garden is, hence, quite
changed in the evening. In fact, it does
not do to allow our investigations to
ease with the daylight.
The Fly. ..
Much has been said of the Qy of the
period, but few write about him wh.o
are bald-headed. : , (
Hence we sav a word. It is of no jise
any more to deny the horrible tipjh.
AlthouKh beautinu as a pen m ,tner
wavs, our tresses on top have succumbed
to the inclemency of the weather, and
our massive brow is slowly creeping
over toward the back ot our necc.
Nature makes all things even. If a man
be possessed of such ravishing beauty
and such winning ways that his power
might become dangerous, she makes
him bald-headed.
That is our fix.
When we have our hat on and go
chasing down the street, with that camel
glide of ours, everyone asks who that
noble-looking Apollo with the deep and
melancholy eye is ; but when we are at
the office with our hat hung up on the
French walnut sideboard, and the sun
comes in through the rasewood shutters
and lights the shellao polish on our in
tellectual dome, we are not so pretty.
Then it is that the flyv with gentle
tread and seductive son comes and
prospects around on our bump of self
esteem, nd tickles us and'makes us
mad.
When W'Pget where forbearance ceases
to be a virtue, we haul off and sl4P the
place where he was, while he goes.over
to the inkstand and snickers ail us.
After he has waded around in the car
mine ink awhile, he goes back to the
bump of spirituality, and makes some
red marks on it.
Having laid off his claim under the
new mining law, he proceeds to sink on
it.
If we write anything bitter these
warm days ; if we say aught of our fel
low man that is disagreeable or unjust,
and for which we afterwards get licked,
it is because at times we are exasperated
and are not responsible.
If the fly were large and weighed two
hundred pounds, and came in here and
told us that if we didn't take back what
we had said about him he would knock
us out of the window with our remains
and let us fall a hundred feet in the
busy street, it wouldn't worry us so
muoh, because we could strangle him
with one hand, while we wrote a column
editorial with the other. We do that
frequently. But a little fragile insect,
with no home and no parents, and only
)ur or live million brothers and sisters,
.ins our confidence, and then tickles
r scalp till we have to write with a
sheet of tar roofing over our head.
Boomerang,
A Duke's Fear.
The Duke of Wellington, whose life
was for years almost daily in peril on
the battle field, was for years afraid to
travel by railroad, having conceived a
terror of locomotive engines from see
ing Mr. Huskisson kille.d by one. At
length, in 1843, he made his first jour
ney, being in attendance on the queen,
who herself did not use them until 1842.
The injury done to the railroad cause
by the death of Huskisson was in a great
measure neutralized by the simultaneous
news that Mr. Stepbens6n's locomo
tive engine carried the wounded man
fifteen miles in twenty-five minutes. ,: To
the end of their lives some people in
England could never be brougb to
travel bv railroad.
Manners are the shadows of virtues.
A MAGIC MAD-STONE.
Bow a K.a.n.a.3 City Good Bamuitan Pro
Tents Hydrophobia.
"I will give a hundred dollars," said
Mr. J. M. Dickson, at the Pacific house.
"for any case where a person bitten by
a mad dog and my mad-stone refuses to
stick. Then, after a pause, he added
"I will also give $100 for any case in
which my mad-stone will stick on a
person who has not been bitten by a
mad dog."
Mr. Dickson is a brother-in-law of
Mr. John Hall, proprietor of the Pacific
house. The brother-in-law conducts
the establishment. On last Wednes
day he applied his stone to a patient
who had been bitten by a mad dog. The
sufferer was a colored girl from Sedalia,
She was sixteen years old, and her name
was Lamson. On the interior surface
of the thigh, near to the groin, was the
wound madeby the rabid animal. It
was eight days since the girl had been
bitten, and the tooth marks had scabs
over them. In nine days all the horrors
of hydrophobia result from the intro
duction of the virus. Mr. Dickson took
the girl back into room ninety in the
hotel.
Two women attendants divested the
sufferer of most of her clothing and laid
her upon a cot. The wound was exposed.
Mr. Dickson took a knife and removed
the scabs. Blood commenced to flow.
The mad-stone was then applied. The
patient trembled violently. Every por
tion of her frame quivered. She was on the
verge of hysterics or spasms. Like a
needle to p. magnet the stone adhered
to the bleeding spot. Mr. Dickson
placed the point of his knife blade under
the porus cube ol tne mineral, ana at
temnted to raise it. Bv mean of the
leverage thus established, ne raised one
end of the little stone, ne tnen wxiu-
drew the knife, and the stone fell bacK
to its former position with the elasticity
of a niece of india rubber. ,
For fifteen minutes the stone stuck to
the scarified place ; then it fell off. A
greenish-yellow, ill-smelling pus was
seen upon the portion that had been
next to the wound. This, Mr. Dickson
savs. was the virus drawn from the
wound. He cleansed the stone, im
mersed it in sweet milk, and again ap
plied it. Again did it adhere. . A peculiar
sensation, a sort ol series oi tnruis,
pervaded the system of the patient. Her
nervous excitement gave piace to an
other feeling, more intense but inde
scribable. Her breathing became heavier
and thicker. Her eyes, with pupils di
lated, were fixed on the ceiling. Four
times did Mr. Dickson apply the stone,
and four times did it come off, having
one sidecovered with a foul yellow fluid.
Each time the stone remained about
fifteen minutes. Within half an hour
the girl's heavy breathing and strain
began to subside. Gradually it began
to decrease. Mr. Dickson attempted to
apply the stone a fifth time. It refused
to adhere. Bepeated attempts resulted
only in failure. "Get up," said he ;
"your system is as free from hydropho
bia as mine" Then there was a scene
of wild transport. The girl was locked
in her sister's arms, crying and acting
hysterically. The sister, a married
woman, thrust her hand into her pocket,
and pulling out $10, all the money she
had, pressed it upon Mr. Dickson. He,
however, lefused to accept of any re
muneration. The girl remained until after the
crisis (the ninth day) was passed. She
then returned to her friends in Sedalia,
with a lighter heart than she had on
leaving that town. Mr. Dickson is a
tall, commanding-appearing man, of
about forty-five. He is a Missourian,
having been reared in the vicinity of (
Palmyra. The stone, he said, had been
in the possession of his family for about
seventy years. It was given to his father
by a gentleman named Captain Massie,
who was an intimate and long-cherished
friend of Mr. Diokson, senior. The
stone is a light, porous grayish-buff
cube, about the size of a large die. For
the benefit of those who do not throw
dice, it may be well to say that the cube
is about a third of an inch in diameter
from side to side, not diagonally. Cap
tain Massie had a stone exactly twice
the size of this one. With a fine saw
Captain Massie cut in two the stone, and
gave half of it to Mr. Dickson, retaining
the other half himself.
This was long before the elder Mr.
Dickson was married. For many years
the stone was kept on the Dickson farm,
near Palmyra. Men came hundreds of
miles to be healed by it. Among those
was William H. Tyner, of Tennessee.
Mr. Tyner lived eight miles east of
Memphis. A mad dog bit him and two
other personsr It also bit some stock.
Mr. Tyner went to Memphis and took a
steam boat to St. Louii. From there he
voyaged on the Upper Mississippi, and
from a landing went to Palmyra. On
the eighth day, about noon, he reached
the spot he sought. Tyner had been
badly lacerated by the beast. He had
been thrown down and torn. v Mr.
Dickson, senior, laid him down and
worked with him all the afternoon. The
atone was put to him in many places and-v
a wonderrui amount ol greenish yeuw-r"' '
matter withdrawn. With great repi- ;
dation Mr. Tyner awaited the ninth day.
It came, but with no evil symptoms.
Tyner lived for many years, and wrote
many a thankful letter to the owner of
his preserver.
The two persons who, besides Tyner,
were bitten died terrible deaths in the
throes of hydrophobic frenzy. The
stock also died.
About twenty-five years ago two
Saline county boys were bitten by the
same dog. The father of one of the
boys took his son to Palmyra and had
the stone put to the lad. liecovery fol
lowed. The father of the other boy was
an ignorant, positive man, who had an
opinion of his own that mad-stones
were humbugs. This man did not take
his boy to Palmyra, consequently he
was a witness to his son's h orrible death,
which took place in a few days. A man
came in from Topeka about twelve days
ag, having received a rabid dog's bite
on the back of the hand. Mr. Dickson
put on the stone. It drew, but not so
hard as in the case of the Lamson girl:
The man writes that he has totally re-1
covered. Mr. Dickson estimates that
since the stone has been iu his family it
has been applied about fifty times, and
each application has been a successful
one. Kansas City Mail.
Wifely D n votion li A'nriea.
Referring to the courage, intelligence
and devotion shown by Mrs. Gain -Id
since the assassination of her husband,
and the tributes the people havni J
her in consequence, the Bpfingfleld
Union, without in . the least dauung
from the credit to which the nol? lady
is entitled, says the splendid trfriwi she
has shown as a brave ana loyai wj
but ' the legitimate outcome
American civilization, and illustrate;
a loftv and conspicuous place.
American wives may be and what
of heart and life is possible in pur do
mestic life. Mrs. Garfield is the type
of thousands of other wives in the coun-x
try. The Union adds : ' '
It is not right to say that such wifely
devotion is impossible in other , coun-,
tries, but it is certain that nowhere else
is it so possible as to be expected. In
no other society may the wife be so
clearlv the eaual of her husband, the .
helpmeet in all his duties, the lightenef
of his cares and the soother of his sor-
rows. " ihev twain snau oe one nesn
is thoroughly illustrated to-day in the
White House, but the White House is
happily the imperial example of the
true American home. There are unhap
py homes and disordered marriage ties
enough in this country, Heaven knows,
but the national recognition of the mu
tual devotion in the President's family
is a proof that the heart of the people i
right in its appreciation of the sacred
ness of the marriage vow. With such a
conspicuous example before the people,
it is to be hoped that more earnest
thought will be devoted to our domestic-
life. If the marriage bond appears now
more sacred, let it be guarded more se-,
curely. The loose laws of divorce have
occasioned loose ideas of marriage.
These laws must be rectified, society
must be raised to the elevation of its
best thoughts, the debasing inuendoes
of cynics must be hushed, the man must
learn to regard the woman as an equal
partner and the woman must labor to
become the very right hand and not the
mere toy of the man. ucu is 1 tne
privilege and dignity of American wives,
and such will be the outcome, if the
beautiful example at the White House
impresses itself as it should upon the
husbands and wives of the nation. . ;
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A Borbarous Bite. ;
Certr i classes of Hindoos in Ban
galore observed on a recent Sunday the
barbarous rite known to the English as
treading the fire." performed in honor
of some barbarous deity. A pit a foot
deep, six feet broad and thirty long, was
dug. Some five or six ? cartloads of
wood were thrown into the pit and set
fire to. As soon as the wood was re-,
duced to liviiK coals of fire the whole
was spread out Imd the fire flattened to
the surface of the pit. The votaries 6f
Thurmarajh im presiding deity) then
ran over the bed of fire the whole length
five or six times, each tune ooolmg
the feet in water.
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"When we are old, Claude, we shall
still be lovers," she said, gazing into
his eyes with the rapture of a gifted wo--,
man who writes poetry for the Boston
papers. "The warm hues of our youth
ful affectioi 'pll never fade, but onlyi '
grow hri?flVT'j8 we dnw nearer to the
sunset; vc shall still sit out in the'
hush of the summer eves and feed our
souls on the poetry of the stars!" "Well,
hardly," answered 'Claude, "unless you'
want me to remain up till day treat
basting your old back with" arnica." -,
Father Rudolph, a Roman Catholic
priest at Clyde, Ohio, has left the min
istry and married.
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