'This Argus o'er the people's rights
Doth an eternal vigil keep ;
No soothingstrains 6f Maia's son
Shall lull itshundred eyes to sleep."
$1.00 a Year
aOLDSBORO,N,C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1909.
.VOL.. XXTV
NO. 72
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OIL SEi-CEIITEllAL
Edwin L. Drake Drilled First
Oil Well Naar Titusville
in 1859.
How Enormous Has Been Its Growth
I Seen From the Production of
1,186,600,000 Gallons in This
Country in 1907.
Meadville, Pa., August 5. The
semi-centennial of the founding of
the e-reat oil industry of the United
Str-tes by Edwin L. Drake, who drilled
the first oil well near Titusville in
1859. was celebrated today by the oil
men if this count-y, in onnectio
with the annual picnic and outing of
the Western Pennsylvania Pipe Line
Assoi'a. ion at Conneaut Lake. Weeks
ago the managers of theoufing had
sent invkations to handreds of oi!
rr.en throiitfhout the country and a
large nuniler of them came to attend
the celebration. Among them were
many of the leading oil men of Ohio
Indian.'., Kentucky, Illinois and Okla
homa, who had gained their first
knowledge of the oil business in and
around the Titusville oil basin
Edwin L. Drake, although justly
famous as the founder of the oil in
dustry in this country, was not the
discoverer of oil. From time imme
morial the Indians had obtained oil
for medicinal purposes from the val
ley of Oil Creek, near Titusville
where the oil in many places rose to
the surface or exuded from the porous
Tock. Even before the time of the
Indians the mysterious mound-build-
, ers knew of the existence of oil and
it is known that they dug deep wells
to collect the oil, which they proba-
:bly used for no other than medicinal
purposes.
The early settlors of Pennsylvania
: found oil in many places in the Oil
tCreek valley and its vicinity and used
.crude and primitive methods to col
lect oil from springs and wells, to sell
it as a liniment, put up in bottles and
labeled "Harlem Oil," "Rock Oil,"
"American Oil," "Kier's Petroleum,"
"Seneca Oil," etc. The oil which was
found only in small quantities was
worth eighty cents a gallon where it
was found and $1 a gallon in the East,
where it was sold in drug stores.
In 1854 a lawyer from Maine, by the
name of Eveleth, and a man namea
Bissell, who had been a school teach
er in New Orleans, passed through
the Oil Creek region, on their way
north. They became interested in the
oil and took samples -with them to
New Haven. They submitted these
samples to Professor Benjamin Silli
man to test the oil for its value as a
lubricant and for illuminating pur
poses, in place of sperm oil. The re
port which he submitted in the fol
lowing year was so favorable that
Eveleth and Bissell and several oth
ers formed, under the laws of New
York, a joint stock company, -called
"The Pennsylvania Rock Oil Compa
ny," which company purchased in fee
.simple all the land on Oil Creek, upon
which there were any traces of oil.
The company also leased for ninety
nine years all the lands, which wer
.supposed to contain oil.
In 1856 the company sublet the land
to parties in New York who were to
develop the property and pay a roy
alty of 12 cents a gallon for all th
oil produced, to the company. Dur
Ing the hard times of 1857 the New
York contractors became financial ly
Involved and unable to carry out the
contract. Taking advantage of a
slight flaw in the deed they surren
dered the land to the Pennsylvania
Rock Oil Company. James M. Town
send, one of the stockholders, who
lived in New Haven, conceived the
idea of examining the property, and
If it was found as reported, to assume
the leases surrendered by the New
York parties.
Mr. Townsend engaged Edwin . L.
Drake, formerly a conductor on the
New York and Newi Haven Railroad.
who had been compelled to give ui
( his position on account of bad health,
to go to Pennsylvania to Investigate
the situation. Drake sent a favorable
report and Towsend organized a new
company with a salary of $1,200 a
vear and established himself on Oil
- .Creek. The first crude attempts to
gather the oil were not very success-
! ful, and at last, upon Drake's advice
it was decided to bore for oil.
The work was begun in 1859 and
progressed but slowly. After $50,00j
had been expended on boring without
result, the company decided to aban
don the work, but .just then oil was
struck and it rose in the bore hole to
within fiveeet of the- surface. It hd
tn he DumDed from the well and the
.:supply seemed Inexhaustible. The
company was in a fair degree to be
come rich, when the works were d'e
stroyed by an explosion of gas in.th?
well, which ignited the oil. In the
meantime overproduction had caused
the price of oil to fall to $1 a bar
rel and, discouraged, the Senaca com
pany sold out. For two years noth
ing was done, but then the work was
resumed, additional refineries were
built and from that time on the o!l
industry made giant strides. How
enormous has been its growth may be
inferred from the fact that the pro
duction of crude petroleum in the
United States in 1907 was nearly
1,186,000,000 gallons, representing a
total value of nearly $85,000,000.
FULL OF TRICKERY, SHORT-LIVED
It -Will Be Repudiated When a New
Congress Is Elected Next Year.
While the consumer gets nothing
from the Aldrich-Cannon tariff
scheme, yet the period of business
waiting and tnueitciiiity will be ended
hen the bill ntues the Senate and is
signed. 1'jsiness will then go on in
practically tho cid Dingley grooves.
But the tariff planned by and for
New England will not last long. No
tariff does. The Dingley tariff lasted
twelve years, and it is the record.
The Morrill tariff, signed by President
Buchanan, was changed during the
Civil War. Rates were frequently al
tered between 1865 and 1883. The
tariff law of 1883 was repealed by the
McKmley act of 1890, and the latter
was replaced by the Wilson bill in
J8P4, and the Dingley law was passed
in 1897. The last named has stood
twelve years, not because of any good
ia it, but because the Republican par
ty lemained in power.
The new Aldrich bill nearly met de
feat when th- conference report on
it was brought before the House. The
vote to recommit it was 183 yeas and
193 nays. Twenty Republicans, chief
ly from the Middle West, voted
against it, and the Republican party is
a party of discord over it. It will not
last long. It will be repudiated when
a new Congress is elected next year.
It is full of jobs at the expense of
the consumer, but the worst joker in
it is, no dubt, the maximum "and min
imum section. Under this section all
duties on goods are automatically in
creased on March 31 next 25 per cent.
If a country can show that it in no
way discriminate against American
goods the Presidf tt may grant it the
rates name l in the bill as it was re-!
ported Horn the conference commit
tee. Possibly England can do this.
Other European countries cannot and
r e ther can Brazil nor Canada. Twen
ty-five per cent, may, therefore, be
snfely added to published rates on
nine-tenths of imports. This clause
i- a piece of trickery to advance rates
while it hoodwinks the consumer.
THE BUSINESS AT HAND.
Does Goldsboro Realize Its Opportun
ity and Obligation?
"Twelve-cent cotton" spells "Good
times in the South." "$1.25 wheat"
means "Good times in the West."
Three billion bushels of corn this fall
will surely bring good times again to
us all.
"Then lumber will be high and cars
will be scarce.
"Delays will be vexatious and the
worry simply fierce.
"Don't procrastinate, but get busy
now, today.
"Place your lumber orders without
further delay."
Such is an extract from an adver
tisement of the Massee & Felton Lum
ber Co., of Macon, Ga. It tells a story,
for it applies not only to lumber, but
to everything else. Twelve-cent cot
ton does mean great prosperity for the
South, and $1.25 wheat delights the
heart of the Western farmer. Three
billion bushels of corn," which Is now
the promise, though of course it is too
early to predict the final yield, would
largely exceed the biggest crop ever
before raised and add mightily to the
conditions making for prosperity.
jWfhat a wonderful country this is!
How nature has given to us illimitable
opportunities! With its vast possi
bilities in cotton, wheat and corn and
other agricultural products, with its
almost boundless stores of mineral
wealth awaiting utilization, how infi
nitely great are the possibilities of
nnr country for business.
"Get ready or get Left was the
theme of a recent editorial In the
Manufacturers' Record.
Get ready for business or get left in
controlling your share of business in
the coming days of great activity may
well be the thought of every business
man of the country at present, and nc.
only of every business man. but ot
every community.
What is Goldsfcoro doing?
KILLS FLEAS
Cures worst -case mange.- Bicaise's
mange cure. Not poisonous. Full line
Bicaise's Dog Remedies for sale' by
M. E. Robinson & Bro., Druggists.
sa we-sw
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The tariff bill missed defeat in the
House by a small vote, but this miss
was as good as a unanimous vote..
COLORED BAPTISTS
State Sunday School Con
vention Holding Forth
Here.
Delegates From All Sections of the
State in Attendance An Impres
sive Body Raleigh Chosen
for Next Meeting. . ,
Editor Argus: The Colored State
Baptist Sunday School Convention.
Dr. Roberts president, now in session
at First Baptist Church, this city, is
being attended by large delegations
from every section of the State. Part
of Tuesday was allowed the State
Baptist ' Young People's Union, Prof
W. H. Knuckles, president. The lec
tures by Dr. A. W. Pegues, supervisor
of the State School for Colored Deaf
Dumjb and Blind Youths, and Prof. C.
R. Frazier, of Shaw University, were
comprehensive and effective.
Reports from the various unions
made the past year's work of the local
organizations the best in the annals of
the B. Y. P. U. among negroes in the
State.
Tuesday evening the first session
of the Sunday School Convention was
held. - i
In behalf of the city, Col. J. E. Rob
inson delivered an address of welcome
that was scholarly, logical and whole
some for the hundreds of colored peo
ple, who applauded him.
Dr. S. A. Vass, superintendent of the
work among colored people for - the
American Baptist Publication Society
in behalf of the convention responded
to the welcome address and caused
the enthusiasm of the conevntion to
run high.
The annual sermon was preached
by Rev. O. S. Bullock. Every phase
of the Sunday School work is being
discussed by the delegates and the
interest manifested by them in the va
rious topics and lectures is making
the program an interesting one.
"Some of the Causes and Prevention'
of Tuberculosis," was comprehensive
ly discussed by Dr. J. E. Del linger, ol
Greensboro. Subjects of vital inter
est were ably discussed by Dr. A. M
Moore, Rev. Dr. A. Shepard, Miss A
M. Hall, Dr. J. A. Wfhitted, Miss A. L.
E. Weeks and others.
The delegates are representative
colored people of the State and among
the prominent colored business men
present are Mr. C. C. Spaulding, man
ager of the North Carolina Mutual and
Provident Association, the largest ne
gro insurance organization in the
world, and Col. James H. Young, of
Raleigh.
Today Col. James H. Young, of Ral
eigh, made a strong appeal for the
convention to continue its efforts in
behalf of educating colored girls for
active and conscientious service. He
praised the white people of the State,
for their interest in the work. '
The work that Prof. A. B. Vincent.
a missionary of the convention among
the negroes of the State, was highly
commended by the convention.
The following officers were unani
mously elected for the ensuing-year:
Dr. N. F. Roberts, Raleigh, president;
Rev. P. S. Lewis, Charlotte, recording
secretary; Mrs. Sallie Barber, Wilson,
assistant secretary ; Dr. A. W. Pegues,
Raleigh, corresponding secretary t
Col. James H. Young, Raleigh, treas
urer. Dr. N. F. Roberts was given an ova
tion by the convention upon being re
elected president.
The convention will meet at Raleigh
next year.
OFFICIAL REPORTER,
August 5, 1909.
Appointed to West Point.,
Ray Lee Wooten, of La Grange, has
been appointed a cadet at the mili
tary academy y- Senator Simmons.
Carl D. Taylor, of New Bern, has been
designated as the alternate.
GOVERNMENT AEROPLANE.
Will Be Thrown Open to All Aviators
Who Wish to Experiment.
Washington, D .C., August 4. The
government aeroplane, which is to be
placed at the disposal of - Wilbur
Wright for the purpose of training
Lieutenants Lahm and Foulois in the
manipulation of .the Wright aeroplane
purchased by . the government, is to
be thrown open for the use of any
aviators who desire to conduct exper
iments. This decision was reached
today by General James Alien, chief
signal officer of the army.
Little is to be done with the army
dirigible this summer. It is now
housed. The attention of the aero
nautical division of the signal corps
will ' be given almost entirely to ths
Wright aeroplane during, the summer
and autumn months.
EXTERMINATE "TYPHOID FLY."
He Is the Proven Common Enemy of
Mankind.
Wle are told that this common pest,
which we are so much accustomed to
look upon merely as a nuisance, is, in
reality, the-most dangerous insect
known to man.
Dr. Ta. O. Howard, chief entomolo
gist of Georgia's department of agri
culture, in order to fasten upon the
popular mind the dangerous character
of the house fly, has suggested that
the name of this insect be changed to
the "typhoid fly," and it is by this
name that the house fly Is henceforth
tc be known by a number of earnest
medical men who feel that we cannot
do too much to arouse the people to
the danger of this pest.
It is reliably estimated by those
who are capable of judging that 85
per cent, of the cases of typhoid fever
in cities, and 95 per cent. In the rural ,
districts, is caused by the "typhoid
fly." They generate and live In filth
and everything they toush becomes
contaminated to some degree. . It Is
highly probable that this contamina
tion contains the germs of typhoid
fever, and hence it is not difficult to
understand why the typhoid fever ep
idemic occurs in summer and remains
until frost has driven the "typhoid fly'
into hibernation or destroyed him al
together.
The fly committee of the Georgia
Medical Association has undertaken
the task of distributing some printed
matter which points out the danger of
typhoid from the common house fly
otherwise known as the "typhoid fly'
and strongly urges that people
Don't allow fles in the house.
Don't permit them near food espe
cially milk.
Don't buy foodstuffs where flies are
tolerated.
Don't eat where flies have access to
the food. r
Some startling descriptions are
printed of the manner in which the
common . house fly distributes death
and disease. . v
There is no need to go into the sta
tistics of typhoid fever, but if anybody
chooses to look, them up they will
find that it is high time we were takr
ing steps to prevent the recurrenp of
typhoid epidemics, J
Scientific investlgaCioa nas proven
beyond a doubt that it is the common
house fly which is responsible for
these epidemics. The old" idea that
bad drinking water was the most
fruitful source of typhoid fever has
been exploded. While there is danger
from this source, of course, It is the
deadly house fly which really does the
damage, and this crusade to destroy
h'ni should be carried forward with
an unsleeping vigilance worthy of the
gravity of the situation.
KITCHIN ON "TRUST BUSTING."
Many Believe Speech Yesterday Means
He Will Oppose Simmons.
Raleigh, N. C, August 4. In what
many take to be a pronouncement
leading to his active candidacy for
the seat of Hon. F. M. Simmons in the
United States Senate, Governor W. W
Kitchin today addressed . the Wake
County Farmers' Union on "Trust
Busting," taking the ground that
state legislation can accomplish but
little and that the real fight must he
through national legislation.
He defended his own and the North
Carolina legislature's record in anti
trust effort, insisting that it is in the
halls of Congress that the people
must have their anti-trust law mak
ers. He regretted adverse criticism of
the last legislature and of the execu
tive for not raising a -row with the
legislators for not doing more and
argued that sub-section ""F" adopted
by the last assembly Is no "pink tea"
concoction, as compared , with the de
feated sub-section "A" or the Texas
anti-trust act either.
- Jeffries Off for Europe.
New York, August 5. Reiterating
his willingness to fight Jack Johnson
f rothe heavyweight title before any
club offering suitable terms, James J.
Jeffries, accompanied by his wife and
manager, took passage today for Eu
rope, to rest, after a long and arduous
theatrical tour and to get himself into
condition for the expected contest
with Johnson. The immediate objec
tive . point of the big champion is
Carlsbad, the famous health resort hi
Bohemia, where he will do a little
preliminary training. "After leaving
Carlsbad he will make ; a short trip,
visiting Germany, France and Eng
land, and will probably re turn to
America about the end of October.
After that, he sayshe will be ready
to take on Johnson at any -time or
place. Meanwhile Sam Berger, Jefr
tiles' sparring partner, is left on this
side to take care of any offers from
clubs or individuals desirous of se
curing the championship contest.
A news item, says candidates are
becoming plentiful. If this contin
ues there wilL be' more candidates
than voters.
EflD OF TARIFF REVISION
Littla Better Than IlewDea
of the Same Old
Cards.
Any Attempt to Compare the General
Tendency of the Present Law
With the Dingley Sched
nles Is Difficult.
It is conceded that there are so
many changes of classification in the
new tariff bill, such as the familiar
device of substituting specific for ad
valorem duties, that any attempt to
compare the general tendency of the
present law with the Dingley sched
ules is exceedingly difficult, but the
general impression prevails among
those who are most capable of judg
ing that the new tariff is but little
better than a new deal of the same old
cards.
There are many reductions and
other excellent features embodied in
the new bill, but there are others
which the President himself,- in spite
of the concessions he did succeed in
extorting, is compelled to deplore.
The South gets the hot end of it, as
usual, for while the manful stand for
free hides finally prevailed, the tax
continues on cotton bagging, and the
impost on many of the necessaries of
life remains unchanged. "
"Vile should be duly grateful to the
President for having insisted that the
tax on lumber should be reduced to a
dollar and a quarter and a reduction
from forty to fifteen cents on iron ore
is a further concession, which the
public, hat in hand, is truly thankful
for, but the woolen schedule remain.
practically the same thanks to tbt
influence of such manufacturers as
Whitman and the changed terminol
ogy of the cotton schedule does not
conceal the fact that there is an av
erage increase there of about three
per cent.
The adoption of a maximum and
minimum basis is one of the wisest
features of the bill. It is in accord
ance with the Jbest thought of the
century in the matter of tariff rates
It gives the government, through the
chief executive, a weapon with which
it can compel foreign countries to
give us their most favored nation
rates. To have to overcome a twenty-
five per cent, penalty on all commodi
ties they export into this country un
less they give as good rates to our
own exports as they do to those of
other countries is calculated to secure
the best possible treatment from for
eign countries.
Something like justice has at last
been done to our fellow citizens of
the Philippines. Some day, when in
ternational complications have
brought serious embarrassment upon
us, and our own repudiation of the
Monroe doctrine has been brought
home to us, we will regret the fact
that we have not turned loose those
islands long ago, which hang like a
millstone about our necks, but so long
as they are ours the nihabitants
should be treated justly and fairly,
and the most patriotic of our citizens
cannot contend that they have receiv
ed justice in the matter of the -tariff
until now.
Restrictions still exist in regard to
the amount of sugar and tobacco
which may be imported free into this
country in any one year one of the
most flagrant abuses of the protection
principle of which we have any rec
ord. As a practical fact, however,
good encouragement is given to Phil
ippine industry and complete justice
may come hereafter.
President Taft announces that he
stands ready and willing to "defend
the present tariff law. He thereby in
dicates that it will stand in need of
defense, and such no doubt is the case
As its provisions become clear under
the fierce light of investigation, it
will be found that the campaign
promises were but hollow mockeries.
That the people who expected mate
rial reductions have been deceived
scarcely admits of debate. The Dem
ocratic party will have a good battle
cry when the next election comes
around, for it 'is the hollowest mock
ery to talk of revising the tariff "at
the nands of its friends."
FAVOR REORGANIZATION.
S. A. L. Stockholders Approve Adjust
ment and Plan Bond Issues.
Petersburg, Va., August 4. A meet
ing of the stockholders of the Sea
board Air Line Railway was held here
today, presided over by Judge Lehigh
R. Watts, of Portsmouth, Va. v
The adjustment plan incident to the
company's reorganization, was ap
proved, as were the authorizing of the
new refunding mortgage to secure an
' Issue, not to exceed $125,000,000,' of
! refunding bonds and of the new mort
gage securing an issue, not to exceed
$25,000,000 for adjustment bonds.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.
It Is Largely Attended and Good
Work Is Being Done.
1 ,The Wayne County Teachers' Insti
tute, now in daily session at the
Graded School in this city, with Pro
fessor Walker and Mrs. Marianna
Cobb Gariessen in charge, is growing
in interest and in benefits to thu laree
number of teachers in attendance, and
the responsive spirit with whih the
attending teachers meet the co-opera
tive work of the instructors makes th
institute one of exceeding pleasure
as well as profit.
Tomorrow afternoon the Goldsboro
Woman's Club, always ready to do itl,
full part by Goldsboro, will g'.ve au!
"at home" to the teachers, in the na?
ture of an open-air outing at thij Pari;
pavilion, where refreshments vill br
served.
TURKEY AND GREECE MAY LIGHT
Report Is That the Belligerents Hart;
Had a Bloody Battle Already Near
the Frontier.
Const.ant.innnle. Alienist K TnrVav
planning war with Greece bvr thtl
t , j or, i , t
Island of Crete is menaced upon herj
noruiern irontier oy the uuig,iausj
While iour 1 urkish transports bear-!
. ...
xMvauc w ismun, wuiu
was brought to the Grand Vizier that?
a bloody encounter between Turkish
and Bulgarian troops had taken nlace:
near the frontier. Villagers took part
and many were seriously wounded.
According to the Turkih version, the
Bulgarians precipitated the fracas bv
firing on the Turks. The dispute
with Greece over Crete has assumed
alarming proportions bordering on
actual warfare. Rifast Pasha, tho
minister of foreign affairs, declared to
the Helenic minister today that the
Ottoman government would make a
formal demand for the immediate re
call of Grecian officers from Crete.
The Turkish minister in Athens will
also make this demand. If it is not
fulfilled, and Greece has intimated
that it will not be, Crete will become
the battleground. Turkish troops will
soon arrive there to enforce the pol
icies of the Ottoman government.
Turkey already has a flotilla of ward
ships off Crete. These policies are
about being resented. Greece Is pre
paring for a more vigorous protest.
While Turkish transports carrying
troops are ploughing through the
Aegian Sea, the Grecian government
is preparing for war. !
EUREKA HAPPENINGS.
Prof. E. B. Phillips and Mr. T. F.
Jones spent Saturday in Goldsboro.
Messrs. Ed. Dawson and Leslie Da
vis spent Sunday in Wilmington and
V.'rightsville Beach.
Qi.ite a number of our people at
tended the Masonic picnic last Friday
at Stantonsburg, This picnic is given
annually for the benefit of the orphan
age at Oxford. All report plenty of
larbecue and a pleasant day.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Overman are
spending a few days in Goldsboro this
week visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Hill spent Sun
day in Eureka at Mrs. Missouri Yel
verton's. Prof. E. B. Phillips is attending the
teachers institute this week.
Messrs. W. E. Dawson , and Jake
Mayo and Misses Bettie Barden and
Bertie Becton spent from Saturday
until Monday at Warsaw, visiting Mis
Irene Boyette.
Miss Mary Lewis Sasser, of Golds
boro, is spending this week with her
grandmother, Mrs. Missouri Yelver
ton. -
Mrs. J. R. Sauls is quite sick this
week. Her many friends wish her a
speedy recovery.
Miss Ruth Jones spent from Friday
until Sunday visitng friends in Sara
toga.
Quite a number of our young peo
pie attended the yearly meeting of the
Primitive Baptist Church at Saratoga
Sunday.
Mr.v and Mrs. L. D. Minshew attend
ed the quarterly conference at Leb
anon Saturday and Sunday.
' Mrs. Bon Witherlngton and children
spent a few days the past week with
her sister, Mrs. Luby Edmundson, of
Lindell. , -
Mr. and Mrs. June Davis were vis
itors in Eureka Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Black filled his regular
appointment Sunday in the M. E.
Church here. He preached. an able
and inspiring sermon.
All Sunday Schools of Nahunta
township are requested to send reo
resentatives and reports to the con
vention, . which meets at the M. E
Church in Eureka Friday, August 6
1909. Several able speakers will b.
present and- much good is expected
to be accomplished for the Sundav
School cause.
MAG1STER.
aOLDSBOROIflTERESTED
Pacific TouringJjParly na?e
Miraculous Escape in
Wreck.
At Dubuque, Iowa, Defective Switch
on Illinois Central Causes Acci
dent to C. H. Gattis JToria ,
Carolina Party Train.
Raleigh, N. C, August 5. Informa
tion came to Raleigh yesterday that
the North Carolina party touring the
West in charge of Mr. C. H. Gattis in
the Seaboard Air Line personally con
duced party had been in an accident
ru iowa, but that no one was injured.
Air. Gattis, who is a traveling pas
senger agent of the Seaboard Air
Line, telegraphed as follows from Chi
cago: ' , ;
"Our party -was derailed at Du
buque, la., on the Illinois Central, this
TT iivn " K'f a a 1 .
iu "mo uuii ui received s
scratch. Four rear carJ
uiw.ujug.. iiu uue nurt or receiver! a
but no dama and WQ fe
n ,iriW tar . .
- uuuid laic.
is
declared to have been
a marvelous
escape were received last night from
the 1 elegraph-Herald, of Dubuque, la.
In reply to a telegram sent by the
News and Observer asking for partic
ulars as to the accident, that paper
replied:
"Accident was due to defective
switch, which opened when a part of
the train had passed. The accident
occurred at a point thirty feet above
a slough on one side and the Missis
sippi river on the other. None of the
passengers was injured, but their es
cape is regarded as miraculous."
It will be pleasing news to friends
and relatives of the North Carolina
party that though there was a wreck,
no one was injured, and that the part
is still "happy on the way" in the
West. f
CAPE EEAR ON A RAMPAGE.
Reaches Forty Feet at Fayetteville,
and Still Going Up.
Fayetteville, N. C, August 4 The
Cape Fear river is on a boom, but it
is earnestly hoped that a repetition of
iast August's disastrous flood which
ruined crops in the lowlands will not
ji had. Today all the cotton mills in
f'ayetteville which are run by elec
tricity from Buckhorn on the upper
Cape Fear have been suspended for a
The street cars were stopped on ac
count of backwater at Manchester on
Little river. Later in the day they
were run by the city dynamo.
The latest advices state that the
river has reached more than a forty -foot
rise, and is still rising. A fifty
foot rise would be nineteen feet less
than last year.
Reports from the lowlands are that
some corn is already submerged and
consequently ruined.
WOODLAND CRUMBS.
Mrs. Sally Holowell Byers and sis
ter. Hiss Emma Hollowell, of Golds
boro, attended church at Woodland
Sunday last, where we were glad to
tuett them. Mrs. Byers was reared 5n
this community, but since her mar
riage has made her home in Ala
mance. -
The Sunday School convention,
which convened at Providence Church
last Thursday, was a very enjoyable
occasion. Mr. George Hood, of Golds
boro, made an excellent speech, as
did Mr. James Mitchell, Mr. Marshal
Hood and Mr Charley Stephens. The
program arranged by our township
president, Mr. G. W. Parker, was
carried out nicely, while it was very
warm - the Ice cream and lemonade
contributed to make it comfortable. It
was thought by some to be the best
township convention we have .ever
had. .
The sad news of the death of Dr.
Swindell reached us last week. Ha
had many friends through this com
munity who mourn the loss of such a
noble soldier of the cross. t
Prof. W. E. Yonts came down from
Guilford College Saturday evening to
resume his work as nrincinal rf
Woodland Academy for' another vear
He will attend the teachers' institute
at Goldsboro for two , weeks. Then
the school will open with Miss Roella
Cox assisting. READER.
Woodland, N. C, August 2. '
Nine million seven hundred
and
3eventy-six thousand words were ut
tered in the tariff bill. What a Job
of embalming for the Congressional
Record. .
The WJright brothers were paid $30 -000
for an airship and their expert
services. The field is profitable, and
we may expect the correspondence
schools to take it up.
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