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Hear Instruction and be Wise, and Refuse it Not."
VOL. I.
GOLDSBOKO, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUAKY 21, 1882.
NO. 19.
Parker & Peterson
Desire to inform their friends and the public
that they can be found one door west of Ex
press Office, where they keep constantly on
hand
FRESH BEEF, MUTTON, VEGETABLES, Etc,
Which they will be pleased to sell you at lowest
oash prices. Respectfully,
PARKER & PETERSON.
aelO-lm
I wont to New York and found Dry Goods
Made Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, etc., cheap,
and bought too many. They ranut be sold at
some price'. I ask the public to call and see
what bargains they can get.
MRS. MOORE
Will sell the most fiibhionable
MILLINERY
UP STAIRS CHEAP.
8017-tf C. C. PERKINS.
Bcolsai Sewii lades.
Oome here when you want School Books,
Note Books, Blank Books, Bibles, eto. Every
thing in the Book lino at lowest prices.
Merent Makes oiQ SEWING MACHINES,
From $16 up. On time or for Cash.
OFFICE AT IBM
Messenger Book Store.
J. H. PRINCE,
Agent and Proprietor.
Goldsboro, N. C, Aug. 6-tf.
GrO TO
Oodson's Gallery,
West Center Street,
For good Pictures of all styles. Frames, etc.,
for sale. Prices as low as the times will allow.
eel7-tf J. M. DODSON, Artiat.
New Groceries!
JV J?. DOBSON,
Three Doors Soulh of Market, i
Keeps a full stock of Groceries, Cigars, Liquors,
Smoking and Chewing Tobacco.
Bottled Beer Till You Can't Rest,
CALL.
FUCHTLEK & KEM
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
PARLOR, CHAMBER
AND KITCHEN
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FURNITURE!
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BEDSTEADS, CHAIRS,
MATTRESSES, PIOTUBE FBAMES
LOOKING GLASSES, and FURNITUBE
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
57 & 59 East Center St.,
GOLDSBORO, N" C
Belief for Rheumatism.
WHAT 0UB1 FTBKB IB.
This now material is a strong, tough, elastio
fiber, cut from the pine leaf and chemicalized
for Mattresses and Bedding purposes. It re
tains all the curative virtues found in pure
imo, which is so benefioial to those Buttering
rom Bhoumatism and Fever. It generates
Ozone oxygen air purifying the atmosphere
of the apartment in which it is placed. It
makes a comtortable, aura we ana eiaauo mat
tress, and will not break or mat down.
FOR SALE BY
TUCHTLER & KERN,
COLDSBORO, N. C.
Jn23-tf
Entered at the Posioffioe at Goldsboro, IT. C,
as Second-class Mailer.
All communications on business should be
addressed to Geo. T. Wassom, Editor and Pro
prietor, Goldsboro, N. 0.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Brittle llool'n.
Among the causes which produce brit
tle hoofs in horses and cattle, the National
Live Stock Jiwmal mentions the frequent
standing in rotting dungheaps or in
pools of decomposing liquid manure.
In the dung heap there is not only the
moisture and steam soaking and soften
ing the hoof, but there is abundance of
ammonia gas, which is especially cal
culated to soften, dissolve and destroy
the horn. Standing in such decompos
ing organic matter is still more injuri
ous when the animal is confined to a bos
or stall, for here the injurious effect of
inactivity is added to the other condi
tions. To Ki cp Very Hlinileil Places Clean.
Especially in the front yards of dwell
ings, both in town and country, which
are much shaded, we often see the
ground completely bare, not a living
tiling being perceptible. Sometimes
there are many nearly nude, straggling
limbs lying upon the ground or very
near it,' which are unsightly and every
way worthless, that ought to be cut
away. This would give room for the
growing there of some plant or vine that
would be adapted to it, and which would
not only recover the naked spot and
make it a "living grten," but would be
adding very much to the general appear
ance of the premises. The best vine for
this purpose is undoubtedly the peri
winkle. It will grow almost anywhere
in th3 shade if the proper attention is
given to it, but not otherwise. It is a
beautiful vine and will densely cover
the ground, producing nearly the whole
season a very pretty blue flower. Weeds,
however, are its deadly enemies. It
cannot fight them. Steadily they will
encroach until they drive away our favor
ite and occupy the field of battle. A
little help now and then, however, will
defeat the common enemy and allow us
to enjoy the cool-looking, popular ever
green for many years without renewal.
Germantown Telegraph.
Healthy Homes for Animals.
Horses, sheep, dogs and the higher
animals in general Have vital systems
exactly like those of man, and seemingly
as sensitive too. A dose of any partiou
lar poison is just as fatal to a large dog
as to a man of similar weight, and poisons
that are breathed in by the lungs
of a horse find their way just as quickly
to the blood as they would if inhaled
by man, woman or child, while bad food
is just as mischievous in its effects upon
the health of animals as of humans.
The inmates of stables and sheds need
light and ventilation fully as much as
the denizens of our handsomest houses.
And yet thousands of horses, upon whose
work men and families depend for their
livelihood, are stabled in close, dark,
filthy inclosures, while cows, of whose
lives thousands of children are partakers
in the most literal sense, fare far worse
in all that pertains to health. It is be
lieved by many careful observers that
animals are as sensitive as man even to
malarious influences. Certain it is that
in malarious regions the horses and
cattle are always thin, bony and spirit
less. Epidemics that are not infectious
never appear without good reason, and
the frequency with which they affect
animals should inform owners of living
property that it is expensive as well as
stupid to give improper food and un
clean housing.
s Mineral Manures.
J. B. Lawes, of Bothmasted, St.
Albans, writes as follows in the Country
Gentleman : Among our experiments
upon permanent pasture we have also
results proving that the Influence of
mineral manures is competent to pro
duce large crops of hay for twenty
five years in succession. With these
facts before me I can quite understand
why corn grown on the various experi
ments recorded by Professor Atwater
has been benefited more by mineral
than by nitrogenous manures ; but I
hardly think that I could agree with
him in classing corn among, the renovat
ing crops. Still I think the United
States farmer will be wise in using phos
phates for the growth of corn so long
as they continue to give him a good
crop, and at all events, if they fail to
do this they will remain in the soil and
can at any time be made available for
vegetationby the use of some nitrogenous
manure, whereas an application of
ammonia or nitrates is irretrievably lost
if not taken up by the growing crop.
It will, I think, be generally found that
the beneficial influence of mineral ma
nures, and more especially of phosphate
of lime, bears some relation to the
period when the seed is sown, and tht
when active growth commences the
nearer these periods are together the
greater will bo the influence of the
minerals. It is the practice among our
farmers to apply nitrate of soda alone,
in March and April, to wheat sown in
the previous autumn : during the
autumn and winter the wheat has time
to extend its roots sufficiently to obtain
the requisite quantity of mineral food.
In growing barley, after a previous
cereal crop, phosphates are generally
used with ammonia and nitrates ; with
root crops phosphates are often used
without nitrogen. We nave in our root
crops a seed sown at about the same
time as corn in tbe United States.
Both crops also terminate, their active
growth at about the same time in the
autumn and both are equally benefited
by phosphate of lime. At Rothamsted,
on the land under a rotation-experiment
of turnips, barley beans or clover, and
wheat, which has received no nitrogen
for thirty years, the last turnip crop,
manured with mineral superphosphate
of lime, weighed elevan tons per acre
and contained twenty-seven pounds of
pitrogen. If our soil, after the removal
of every particle of produce grown upon
it during this long period, still yields
so large a crop, surely we may expect
that, upon the more fertile soil of the
states, greatly increased crops of corn
may be obtained by the same manures.
Recipes.
Johnnicake. One cup sweet milk,
one cup wheat flour, one and one-balf
cups corn meal, one tablespoonful
sugar, one egg, butter half the size of
an egg, one teaspoonful cream tartar,
one-half a teaspoonful soda, a little salt.
Bake in a tin about four inches by eight
inches.
Ladies' Fingers. Take one pound of
pulverized sugar, one dozen eggs, three
quarters of a pound of flour. Beat the
yolks and sugar to a cream, then beat
the whites, and lastly stir in the flour ;
flavor with lemon. Bake in long, small
tins, made expressly for these little
cakes, or you may drop them on white
writing paper ; they are likely in this
case, however, to look irregular about
the edge. Be careful not to put too
much dough in the tin as it will rise a
good deal. Have the oven hot and
success is certain.
How to Bom Rice. Few cooks seem
to know how to prepare this article of
food properly, so a hint or two will not
be out of place here. The rice must
be carefully picked over, and tnen
washed in cold water until it is free
from all the loose starch which may
adhere to it, or until the water looks
clear. Then dry it. It can be put in a
flour sieve for this purpose. In placing
it over the fire, use three pints of water
to a cup of rice and a teaspoonful of
salt. The water must be boiling before
the rice is added. Boil precisely twelve
minutes, and then pour off the water.
Then place the saucepan with the rice
on the back part of the stove, where it
will keep warm without burning for
ten minutes longer, with the cover
partly removed. In this way it is not
sggyi or too soft, and every grain is
cooked separately by itself. After being
cooked, if left covered, it will soften
and the grains will burst open in their
delicate tenderness.
The Carnage at Fredericksburg.
"I was sergeant of a gun which was
stationed just there," said an ex-Confederate
to me as we faced the height.
"We did not believe the Federals
would charge the hill, and when they
came the second time we cheered them.
Such bravery I never saw on a battle
field. Some of the men who were hit
way down the street hobbled and limped
forward, and were struck down within
one hundred feet of the wall. This
road was the worst spectacle of the
whole war. Our artillery created hor
rible slaughter on the heavy lines of
men at such close range. That tree
down there at the corner of the garden
stood in an open field then, and just
beyond it was a slight swell. As Sum
ner's troops came over that swell in
their second charge, I fired into the
lines just to the right of the tree, and
the shell killdd or wounded nearly every
man in one company. I saw grape and
canister open lanes through the ranks,
and yet the blue lines closed up again
and dashed at the base of the hill. We
thought they were madmen.
"Down where the old shed stands I
saw a curious thing that day. When
Sumner was driven back the second
time a single Federal soldier was left
on his feet among the dead there. In
stead of falling back with the rest he
stood there and loaded and fired as
coolly as if at target practice. He
wounded one man in my company,
killed a corporal further up the hill,
and shot a lieutenant there where the
wall curves. He fired as many as six
shots, being fired at in return by 'a thou
sand men; but, as he turned and walked
away, our men ceased firing and gave
him cheer after cheer. if. Quad.
No man knows what a ministering angel his
wife is until he comes home one day, suffering
with a dreadful cold, and she happens to hare
a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup in the house.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
As we ascend from the earth the air
grows thinner and thinner. From this
fact astronomers believe that the limit
of the atmosphere is 200 miles from the
earth's snrfaoe.
In Alpine regions there are more nar
row, partly-closed flowers than else
where, and a greater proportion of long
tongue insects, the flora seeming to be
exactly adapted to the insects feeding
on its honey.
Professor Osborne Reynolds has been
trying to discover why, under certain
circumstances, drops of water may be
seen floating for some time on the sur
face of pools during a shower before
they disappear. He believes that his
experiments proved that the suspension
depends only on the purity of the sur
face of the water, and not at all on the
temperature or condition of the air.
The results of the experiments of Dr.
Lacerdo Filho on the poison of the rat
tlesnake are : 1. The poisoi) acts upon
the blood by destroying the red corpus
cles, and by changing the physical and
chemical quality of the plasma. 2. The
poiuoti contains some mobile bodies,
similar to the microceccus of putrefac
tion. 3. The blood of an animal killed
by a snake's bite, when inoculated to
another animal of the same size and
species, causes the death of the latter
within a few hours, under the same
symptoms and the same changes ol the
blood. 4. The poison can be dried and
preserved for a long time without losing
its specific quality. 5. Alcohol is the
best antidote for the poison yet known.
Frozen salmon have been imported in
excellent condition in London from the
Hudson Bay settlement?. The vessel
was fitted with one of the patent dry
air refrigerators, invented by Mr. S. I.
Coleman, and manufactured by some
Glasgow company. The hold was made
air-tight and lined with a non-conducting
substance. As soon as the fish
wera caught, they were deposited in the
hold at the rate of about three tons a
day, until the compartment, holding
thirty-five tons, was filled. Th tem
perature at which the fish was kept
during the voyage was between 20
degrees and 22 degrees Fahrenheit. This
successful experiment is an important
one for the fish industry in the United
States.
Well Paid for H is Greed.
In the Alexander Platz, in Berlin,
there is a house which is known an the
"House of the Ninety -nine Slueps'
Heads," It is said that Frederick the
Great, once upon a time, having heard
much good of some one who bad lived
in the Landabergstrasse, of his royal
clemency bestowed a gift of a fine house
on the person. Whereupon a neighbor
who lived round the oorner in the Alex
ander Platz, was so filled with envy that
he could not sleep for sheer longing
after a like mark of the royal favor.
Not that he had need of it he was rich;
the honor of the thing was what his
heatt was. set on. So he began to
give large sums of money to tbe
poor, and to take a leading part in
useful and benevolent enterprises. And
to be sure, the king hearing of this noble
character, sent for the man and told him
to ask a favor. So he begged to have a
house. And before many months had
come and gone the house was built, the
happy proprietor had taken possession
of it. Yet even then he was not happy.
The statues on the roof of his neighbor's
house made him so envious that he
conld not sleep for thinking about them.
Now, as it happened, old Fritz riding
that way one day, stopped his horse
and asked the man how he liked his
house. He said he liked it hugely, but
there was one thing. If his majesty
would only deign to give him some
figures like hia neighbor's.
"Yes surely," said the king, "you
shall have figures," and rode on.
And the king ordered ninety-nine
sheep's heads in freestone to be set up
on the house (about fift9en are said to
be to the front). The next time that
the king rode that way the man in fear
and trembling made complaints of his
neighbors, who were so ill-natured as to
think that there was an allusion to the
proprietor in these sculptures.
"But you have got what you want
ed," said the king.
" Oh, certainly, your majesty," said
the man. " But the sheeps' heads, you
know !'
"Well, to be sure, there are only
ninety-nine," returned the king; "but
if you want a round number you have
just to put your head out at the win
dow. Good-day!"
And the king rode on.
A vessel recently carried scientifically
frozen fresh a eat, fresh eggs, ana
everything else, all the way from Aus
tralia to London in perfect condition.
i
Some idea of the magnitude of the
railroad Interest in this country can be
had from the fact that 860,000 people
are employed in its service.
Cutting Cameo Portraits.
" Yes," said a eameo-outter to a New
York TYibune reporter recently, " the
demand for the old style of cameo
jewelry is decreasing rapidly, but the
demand for good portrait cameos is
increasing just as fast. It is the general
impression that no good cameo portraits
are cut in this country, but that they
all come from Paris. As far as I know
there are no portrait cutters in this
oountry outside of New York. There
is one cutter of cheap cameos in Boston,
but they send to New York for all the
portraits they have orders for."
" Are there first-class portrait cutters
in this city?"
" Well, I claim that there is ono, at
least, here. I have made cameo por
traits cf Garfield, A. T. Stewart, ex
President Hayes, tio late Senator
Morton, of Indiana, Mis. Scott Siddons
and many other prominent men and
women, and here are letters from Mr.
Hayes and Mrs. Gjriield praising the
portraits highly. A galvano-plastio
copy of the Garfield cameo I sold for
$50 to a sculptor, who had an order
to make a marble bas-relief of the late
President. The wiginal cameo portrait
was bought by a jeweler and set in a
broad, gold setting, in which thirty
eight larger gems were set ; thirty-four
diamonds close to the cameo,two rubies
above aud two below and two emeralds
on each side, without the row of dia
monds. This coj:y of the well-known
picture, "Cleopatra before Caosar," I
value at $1,000. It is, as you see, an
oval, three and one-half inches long and
two and one-half wide. The cost of the
stone before it was dressed for cutting
was $75. I worked on it at frequent
intervals for three years."
" Do you make your portraits from
life or from photographs V"
' I start them from photographs, as it
would be too tedious to do that from
life, and finish them in a few sittings
from life, it being impossible to get a
natural, life-like expression from a
photograph. Yes, nearly all the por
traits are ordered for making up into
jewelry, brooches being the most com
mon, and sleeve-buttons next. These
are two portraits of a little boy and
girl, whose father wants' a portrait of one
of them on each of his sleeve-buttons."
"Where do the best cameo stones
come from now ?"
"They all come from Brazil ; they are
taken to Germany, where they are
j reused ready for cutting, and then
taken to Paris, which is the only
market J or them, as most of the cutters
are there." " What is the process of
cutting ?" " It is done by a lathe, worked
by a treadle, with those detachable
bools and diamond dust. The tools are
of three kinds for cutting, for grind
ing and for smoothing. These detach
able tools are tapering iron bars, on
the small ends of which are fastened
wheels of soft porous iron, to hold the
diamond dust better than the steel
would. These wheels vary in size from
an inch in diameter to such ones a?
this (holding up one), which an
untrained eye cannot see. For cutting
the wheels have sharp edges ; for grind
ing they are blunt edged, while for
smoothing the wheel beoomes cone.
The diamond dust, which, mixed with
oil and rubbed on the tools, does the
cutting, is prepared thus: Here is a
cast-steol mortar and a pestle of the
same material that fits this deep mortar
closely ; into the deep mortar I put a
few diamond fragments and a drop of
oil, insert the steel pestle, and pound
vigorously with this hammer. There
is the dust ready for use. I make it
myself, as it mnst be of different
degrees of fineness for different stages
of the cutting.
The Boar's Head.
Tf. waa in thn nlden time when Baron -
Rowdodow held possession of all the
German provinces that a grand Christmas
1 V I i. i.
dinner was preparea ior au uib retain
era, and the great event of the day was
to be the bringing in of the boar's head,
which dainty dish was to grace the
centtr of the table. But it so happened
that the chief cook fell ill, and his plaoe
was fille l by a young Milesian, and he
it was that stood by the chief door when
Baron Rowdedow called forth in a
stentorian voice :
"Hence, knave, and bringst unto us
the boar's head."
And he of Ireland wot not what was
meant, because in his isle a pig was a
pig. Yet he bethought himself, and
went forth, and returning, sat before
Baron Rowdedow the head of a book
agent who had devasted the baron's
domains with a book sold only on sub
scription, of which there were 999 parts
and an index.
And the Milesian said, "Here, sur, is
yor bore's head." And the baron and
his retainers did laugh a laugh of great
oy, and suoh a Christmas was there
never before held in those parts. Der
riok. '
Laying down the law" The juJge
on the point of resigning.