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VOL L 1 fir HILLSBOKO, K C.; THURSDAY,-' APRIL 1 19, 1888. NO, 37.- .u-:.' Uii One of the most difficult problemi to aolve In Great Britain at prawn t irhat, to do with the vast army of young lad ire of good family who are looking for em- The French Council baa Itakeh. ftff JbA Legion of Honor list 157 persona who se cured .heir crosses fraudulently and haft tnipended sixty-six other pending a more thorough examination. nit .Confederate money and bonds (lad a ready sale at good prices in Nashville and some other Southern cities, records the New .York ; World. litany,, of the purchaser are curiosity - seekers,- who buy the bill for relics, but there are many other buyers who invest ' ia ' the note la the fond hope that they may mm day b redeemed. .! M '-,J. J a. 'saswMasMwsawsMBssaMsiawMa) j ti - 'i n imw m ninMJi ;Mnatitai' u wsiei in ' ' 1887, and the population - was ' 819, 88 ,- 800 for China proper, or 200 to the square mile. ; For the Empire, 382,429, ' 873, or at average of 85 to the square mile. Rhode Island has 255, JIassacbu- . ..setts 221, 5fw Jersey 161, Connecticut ; v 128, New York 10 J to (lie .squaw bile.' England has nearly 800. China' is a very I sparsely settled country , by comparison, According to the St. James Qauitt, the British Viceroy of India yule wort, subject than the . Emperor of Russia, the President of the United ' States, and the President ' of the French republic, takes together; he lias more real oppor-. tunitie t of usefulness than President Carnot or President Cleveland, and bis outward state and dignity io ki domin ions are scarcely less than that of the Czar himself. O'rth ' One case of advertising for a wife has turned out well, moralizes the New York Xiil md Knut, end It was an Interna ilonal match at that,- Miss Gold, of Sus sex, in England, agreed in that way to marry Mississippi farmer lamed '"; Jlitchell, and itarteior this country on the ship Scho'.ten. In the wreck of that steamer Mis Gold behaved so bravely that Mitrhetl thought alio was worth V 8UT England tor, end so they were married at the bride's home. Prof. BlaUdcll, of Beleit College, Wisconsin, has given t the Regents of Mount Vernon a small volume entitled. . "A View of the War." which once be longed to George Washington. One of i the fly leaves bear the following; insrrip , . tion in Lord Erskinc handwriting, addressed to Washington: It has been my good fortune through life to be asa elated with the most talented and dis tinguished men of Europe; but you, air, an the only human being for .whom ' il ever felt a reverential awe, totally no- like anything I ever felt for any other of the human race." (W SBS f V. " i NATIONAL CAPITAL INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR , t , UNITED STATES' OFFICIALS. , ' t ' -4 ..,. i A ' t i.iiv iv fl1 ! u White Uaae-Ary ana lNjr BUttara-Oar Retaslaae With Otaer ji'aawna Uf4 NatiM.. r.O.iw r, ' I A il v COHOKBSUOHAL. i In the 8onte, lit Kxnna, from the ommlttte on commerce, reported the kill changing the boundaries of the fourth collection district of Virginia; f astcd. Among the bills reported from commit tees and placed on the. calendar were the following; louse bill for the relief of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Among the bill introduced and referred were the following: By Mr. Ceil, to locate tho Indians in Florida on lands U severally.1 By Mr. Butler, to divide Into six classes - the employe of the railway mail 'service' .and . to fix the salaries of each chss, f Mr,: Call offered a resolution (wh.ch was adopted) instruct ing the committee on public lands to in quire into the titles of actual settlers on public lands 4 in Florida, heretofore im properly patented . . . .The House has not transacted any butioess sine the dead lock was fcrokeo.-j f p fi'l f ' The Senate passed a number of bills, including llou-e bill to purchase the swords of On.' James Shields; for the erection of a statue to, the memory of Gen. Joseph Warren, who till at Bunker UilJ; for a public building at Tallahas see; Fla. (appropriating 879,000); f ra Siublic building at Birmingham, Ala., appropriating 8300,000) ; appropriating $10,000 for a monument, to Bng.-Uen. William Lie Dandron, who fell in the battle of Cowan Fcrd, N. C, in Febru ary, 1781; House bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across tbe Ten ness river at ClaUaaooa) House bill appropiating $75,000 for a revenue cutter for Charleston, 8. C, to replace the Mc Cullough. The bill for tho purchase, from Miss Virginia Taylor Lewis, of the sword of Washington, for $20,1 00, wu taken up and discussed for some time. Con siderable owMtitioo was manifested. based chiefly upon tbe amount asked for the sword. . . .The deadlock in the House still continues. , Is the fecate, the bill to remove the political dUnbilitios of John Rut ledge, of rVrath Carolina, was reported fiom the judiciary committee and pwl. On mo tion of Sir. Sherman, the Freedmen's Bank bill was taken from the calendar and referred to the committee on "pence. Tbe Senate then resumed consideration of the bill to authorize the sale to aliens of certain mineral lands, the question lie ingon the smendment oftVred by Mr. Faulkner, repuiring a majority of tbe stockholders, trustees or directors of the mining company to be citizens of the Veiled States. The amendment was re jected 20 to 81. . After several amend ments of . f he . phraseology of tho bill it waa passed yea 81, navs 18.,., The House atiil continue in a deadlock, and apcarancea Indicate that it will continue fur many da;. David Dudley Fleldha been Impress lag upon ft Congressional, committee "what h believe to be the unwisdom of going to Europe for our State name when w are so rich In the musical words of tho Indian. . New York, be aaid, was just about th wont name that could have been selected for an American BUt. President Lincoln, ho thought, ought to have insisted that West Vir ginia wu too poor a name with which to admit new State, when Cumberland and Kanawha were o arailable; and In stead of New Mexico we should have had MoaUauma. ' Wherefore he hope that hereafter w will have to such inbosu f log when Teiritorlc apply for Slate hood. , mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm In 1887 tb South mad n larger corn erop than ever before. Fortunate as this would be under nay circumstance," ob- : , aerve th Mmfctunr0 lU-vri of V Baltimore, "it waa exceedingly fortunate hi view of th extremely short crop in th West and th consequent high prices. , Th increase in the South' 1887 corn rop over that of 1888 will keep at leaat 130,000,000 in that section that would would otherwise hat gone West At t th planting season return it becomes of great Importance that Southern farmers should b urged to plant more largely than tvar of corn. Before another crop , I raised th West will b almost bar of corn, aad stocks will be at u hlow t point than an unusually heavy crop for th whol country would be so greatly needed to wpply tb deficiency of 1887 and to meet current wests that prlre would (till continue high, even If the yield be ery large, it Is very lm ' portsnt, therefore, not only forth good ' of tho Pouth in general, but especially for th prosperity of the farmer that . they would again raise a large crop, f Th Bouth ought to di even better In , thl line than lastjear, and Pou there farmer will mak a acrlou tnlUklf they do tnt plant for n large erop of : eon and also of oat. .; We btliev that every paper In the South would do well win maiKrujoa it reaasrt," all unearned, railroad, land grant oppo site those sections of roads not completed ill the time mentioned in the granting sets. Tho granta of lands projwscd to be for feited by the' general bill la as follows: To Florida and 'Alabama, in 1850; to Alabama, in 1858; to Wisconsin and Michigan, in 1856; to Wisconsin.in 1830; to Wisconsin, in 1885; to Mississippi, in 1838; to Minnesota, in 1850; to Minne sota, in 1837: to Minnesota and Iowa, In 11865; to Iowa, in 1861; to Wisconsin, in ibo; to tbe Centra FaciUc Railroad ol California, iu , 1860. , , The bill confirms the right of actul settlers and innocent purchaser of forfeited land. , ' , . 6 !i tM f t li i i i . . "NEW ITALY DOTS. eA WORLD AT LARGE. pzjt rtciunes paixtxh by a , CORPS OF ABLE AUTISTS. eoMir, The President signed 'Mr. Clement bill to return certain lot of land la Geor gia to Joel J. Goss. The President nominated Thomas T. T. Tunstaii, of Mobile, Ala., to be Uni ted State Consul at San Salvador. Th comptroller of the currancr ha appointed Clement Dowd, of Charlotte, N. C, receiver of the Stat National Bank of lUMih-i a i; . Senator Brown introduced a memorial from the Atlanta loard of bsde asking tbe pasag of Judge Stewart's bill pro viding for an extra appropiiatioa for the Atlanta bairacka, West Washington (Georgetown) cele brated the completion and opening of tbe free bridge built acrots the Potomac. Gen. W. II. F. Lee and Diftiiet Cora misoion- r Wheatley made addrcssra. The Secret irv of 8tte has reeeivcila rablo message fiom United State Con sul Lewis, st Tangier, saving that the re cent trouble with the Mooi ih govern nient has been .tisfactorily settled. President Cleveland is cont'-mitlating another rViuthern tr p, to vblt Texasdur log tbe week the stew atate rs itol at Austin is to be dedicated. The dedica tion will occur on the 16th of Mar. The cvminifiopcr of pensions is ad- viaml that William Graham, William A. Di'ilshaw and It. G. Chambers bar been held to answer at Atlanta, Ga., on charge of consp'nry to defraud the gov ernment and using afBdavita in support of a irnsion tUim. i The President sent to the Senate th following nominationa In th engineer cor): Lieut. -Col. Cyrus B. Comstock to be colonel; Maj. Jared A. Smith to be lieutenant-colonel; Maj. Gntasld II. Kr tint to be member of th Miblpj4 river commission, in place of Gen. Gil more, deceased. . April ststlrtiral returns to the l)eert ment of Agriculture relate to the condi tions of winter grain and of farm ani mal. The season for seeding ws long, three month iu some Southern laU,aud the appearance as the Winter set In was uneven, though the plants were generally vigorous and those of early (reding well fooled. -The average of the Mutt a of principal production are as follows: New York M, Pennsylvania 00, Ohio flH.Mkh- Iffaa 78. Indiana Illinois 74, Missouri H Kantss 87. Th average of Texas is 88, and of most of the Southern Uitt higher, from PS in Arkansas to 87 in Ti n traace, though the area seeded I small In ui uu region, j t c Th House committee on puMie lands aa insirvnteo: tiiHroiSti llolmsn to re- tort Jh bill declaring th .forfeit ore ol All th Sunday train on tbe Florida Southern Railroad will be discontinued, .;..Palatka will have two new hotels in time for next season's business. ... Tho tobacco crops about Tallahassee, .are do ing finely. . . .An immense cahbago crop is being shipped from Florida, and hun dreds of thousand of dollars are being reiiliS'.'d therefrom, j., The new manugo meut of the, Florida Midland have ac quired wuat waa known as the Alabama, Florida & Atlantic Road.... Cypres block are being used in paving St. Au gustine. Many of the people would prefer asphalt The difference in cost is considerably in favor of the cypresa pavement and it will probably be more generally used than any other.'.. As many as 1,177 carloads of lumber have been transposed to Fcrnaudina by the Florida Uaiiway ana jsavigauun com pany in one month an average of about forty-three carload per day. . . .A very large force of hands are now at work ou .. the La Camelia tobacco plantation near Quincy. and work is progressing rapidly. Over 200 acres of land baa been cleared. ....D. A. Miller, of Ocala, hsd ten orange trees in his yard on Magoolia street insured for $5il apiece, which were destroyed by the late fire, and for which the insurance company promptly paid. . . .The orange tre.e throughout Pasco county are in the most vigorous condi tion, and the promise for an unusually heavy crop is encouraging.... Coloted people own n great deul of property in DeLand; some of it right in the business centre. The property they own in the corporate limit covers at least thirty-fiv acres, and ia valued at about $25,000. ...R, F. Krc-igman, of Eustis, bas a cuiiosity in hi garden in the shape of a combination tree. It con sists of n lemon, peach, pear, gra fruit, persimmon, oiange and guava, nil io bloom. ...Dr. J. F. Appell, of Like City, ia prcbublv tbe largest ama.eur florist in the stau. His grounds em brace about eight acres, lie culiivarea ia their highest perfection 250 varieties of rosea of the choicest species, and many other rare flower and fruit . . . During the mouth of February the books at the United States Isnd office st Gaiues villc show that there were entered 102 homestead', embracing 13,006.64 acres of land, 152cah entries, embraciug 30,004. V4 acres, and 41 pre-emptions tiled. Tho cash receipts of the office were $31,000. ... .It is rumored that one of the largest corporations in this country, worth $50, 000,000, has negotiated for the purchase of that large and mguificcnt tract of laud couth vf the barracks at St. Augus tine, commanding a beautiful view of the bay and fronting thereon, owned by D. Dunham and ethers, and will build on it a concrete Moorish hotel to accommodate 1,000 guest. ,. What ia UatBf aa Narth, Baa Wrat a Aetata ta Watar-Tbe Canting to vanama alarm. - ' Hie condition of ex-Senator t Roacoi Conkling, of New York, appear to li I improving. I Mafietoa, the deposed king of Samoa I ha been left at Cameroon as a prisoner j by a Geiman gunboat from Samoi. V Bfsmarck has withdrawn his oopositiou to th marriage of Price Alexaudcr of trBattenburg, and Princes Victoria, Tbe Spanish Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 154 to 29, rejected the pro posal to grant amnesty to political exiles. The conviction and sentence of Roodlc Alderman O'Neill waa affirmed by tbe New York court of appeals, and he wilt stay in Sing Sing prison. k ii f r !! .4 The resolution providing for the sub mission to the people of New York state of a prohibition amendment to the consti tution was adopted in the Assembly. , , Senor Gallendiza, a wealthy merchant, who was recently kidnapped at his estate in Santa Ra, Cuba, by bandits, bas been released ou payment of (17,000 in gold,, Mr. Gladstone, the Grand Old Man of England, was banquet ted by the National Liberal Club in London, and reviewed the conduct of the Government in strong language. Sir Charles Tuuper. in the Canadian House of Common mqved the second reading of the bill to ratify tbe fisheries treaty, and mado complimentary remark about Americans on the commission. hat SOUTHERN GOSSIP. BOILED XOIV.V FACTS AD FAN CIES INTER, ESTIHGL Y STATED. itrelrienu aa Laaa! aad aa Sea-New tutrr-nrlara-PalcldesUeltgiaa, Temperance !'' an Social Matter. .-, iti-i j-r..j ? . CoL W. II. Chapman, an internal rev enue agent, was shot' by moonshiner while raiding an illicit distillery near Florence., Ala. . j,-;.. Tbe Shreveport Arkansas Railroad wad completed and a golden spike was driven by Mrs.. Julia Rulo (Pansy), of the bhreveport limt: FOT WOULD VOU TAKtt FOR MB. BW-aMl ; t.e4U 4k Bh was ready for bed and lay ob my arm, In hiw little frillel cap so flue, ; , , SYfl4 fl With her gohjen hair falling out at the edge, Like a circle of noon sunahlnc, i!ltVtj!l:xJ ..! And I hummed the old tune of "nnbury ,,j :iui And " Three Men who put out to Pea," When she speedily satd, as alia closed hor bla tul.it . eyes, ... ... ,., t Fan,, rot. wnma tod uiko lor mo i And I answered: "A dollar, dear littla ' And she slept, baby weary with play, ,,,( .,.., n cut i neia ner warm mmj mvo '.iuuiio.T ( And Irockod her and rocked away. "' .-' Ob, th dollar meant all the world to m Tbe land and the sea and sky, 1 ;U' it. Vbiiii u ,, Fifteen buslnesa buildings jmd -.eight i ibaiowart depths ot tho lowoatplao TENNESSEE DOTS. W. H. Vance, a farmer livlnaf ie r Strawberry plain, had n difUctilty with Alexander Anderson, n hand working on bis farm. Vance struck him on the hea I with stick. In a short time Anderson be am unconscious and died in about tlx hours.... A young workman named Keeling fell In front of a saw in the Mitchell mill near Gaddcn, and bf fun he could get op, the saw cugl l him and passed almost through his body jwt above the bips:...F. C. Bcaman'a rme-year-old girl at Knoxville uivt a cup f boiling coffee into her mouth and died in a lew minutes .. j. i. .nuiimn, postmaster nt Columbia, has had bis ap- riniment confirmed by the U. 8. Senate. . large number of rrprraentativea of the wholesale poplar lumber dealers at d mnnufurturer ot Ohio, Indiana. Ill'ii. is, Kentucky, West Virginia. ugluia aaU Ten net are, met at ahville, and formed an "swocistion for mutual uon fit aud advancemcnt.w Nearly all the firm in th state named were repre sented penonslly or by letter.... A tr rifle rain storm with hieh wind ped over the country around Nashville. Im port from surrounding towns shown an almost unnrecedenledminf.il that washed away fence and in many ease drowsed (lock, but Bo I'M Ol in is rcponru ... Mr. LouWstkios, widow of the late Editor Abner Watkins, of the Chatta nooga Timm, died suddenly at tbe tn terprise hotel In Chttnooga..... The manufacture of the Bob White plow will be carried on la Cbsttanoogs hereafter, and a large fact-ry will -e built ...John Grudup, father of D. G. Crudup, of the Arm of Tablet CrrHlup. and of Mrs. J. A. Tabler, expiiel at the residnce of J. Tablcr, In Cha la noon. He waborn In Wilon county, in 11)09, and lived there until sl-out three yea before his death. He wa an x lenslve slock drab in Middle Tcnww , and ws well known and highly wt mA all tbwugh thnt section. EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. A alight shock of earthquaVe took place in Lancaster omiuty, . C, recently. There waa no damage, but the people in the vfcluiity were vonsldvrably txtlicl. Gen. Quincv A. Gilraore, who been tuftering for some time from kidney (Urease, died at his remdence in iirooK lyn, N. Y. He was tho inventor of tha "swamp angel" at Charleston, S. C, dur ing the War. ' j i At the funeral of John S. Brown, at Shawneetown, III., the Horn gave way, throwing the coffin and various at tides of furniture and about forty men, women and children into a deep cellar, and number were hurt. The accounta of S. M. Weir, treas urer of New Albany, Ind., have been found $70,000 short. Expert account ant say it has been exceedingly difficult to trace moneys received and expended. Weir has been treasurer for fourteen year. . , ; v . ., A large number of accidents have oc curred on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad since the inauguration ' of the (Engineers') strike, but the facts are kept from the public, Tbe corujany has improvised a special hospital in Chi cago. Near Carrollton, I L, double-headed freight train was wrecked by a cow, which had got on the track, 'ihc two engines and ten cars were wrecked and macy cattle killed. Bmkcman L. Pow ell was killed. Fireman P. Richards wus terribly scalded and Fireman J. K. Brown had an arm broken. Brig. Gen. George Crook, in command of the department of the Platte in the military division of the Missouri, ha been promoted to the command of the division, Uking rank and office ot Maj. Gen. Ter ry, resigned. He thus assumes nf ponsi bititlcs where his experience will be of the greatest service. He is a noted In dian fighter and they pave blra the sou briquet of the "Gray Fox." A "Q" engino manned by new men wa approaching Chicago, lib, over the Western Indiana tracks from the south west. At 47th street a crowd threw tones through the cab window, when Charle Jfommers, one of the crew, drew n revolver, and firing it at the crowd, sttuck James lloylau, a foundryman, in the knee. At 4th street the engine met the same repuUe frcraanothercrowd, and Sommcra again brought his piMol into use. He hot Mike Welch, a Wa bash engineer, in the groin, wounding him fatally. An alarm having been given to the police, the engine waa intercepted and Sominer placed under arrest. cottages were destroyed by tire atTavures, a la., entailing a loss ot proDaDiy , suv, 000; insurance very smaiL t , J Negotiations are pending between' u large firm ef Pittsburg, Pa.y and a ciii- j zen of, Athena, ,Ua,; for tue necessary platt and buildings for extensive gloss works.'.' ,' ' ) ; .;) i The treatment of convicts in Alabama is receiving considerable attention from Gov. Seay, and somo Officers at Love lace's camp near Birmingham are likely to get iuto trouble for unnecessarily shooting prisoners for trifling oHonses. . The Farmers' Alliance entered North Carolina about a year ago. It now has 680 sub-alliances in the state with 82, 000 members. The Knights of Labor are losing strength and the new order is over shadowing everything. In Sumter county, S. C, a stroko ol lightning killed a negro boy, who was ruing along a public rond, killed the mule he was driving aud shattered the buggy. Iu the same couuty, about tho same time, a stroke of lightning killed a mule, a cow end a pig. There arc no Other casualties reported. While a construction train on the Kan s is City. Memphis & Birmingham Rail road was running backward at a rttto of taenty miles an hour, near Amory, Miss., it struck a cow and the entire train was thrown from the track end bndiy wrecked. Four negro laborcis were killed outright and eight others injured, tome of them fatally. The jury in iu the case of David Walker, chief of tho Bald Knobbers, who have been or tiial at Ozark, Mo., ie turned a verdict of murder in the first degree. James Mathews, William St m ley, Amos Jones and C. C. Simmons, were then sentenced by the court, three ot them baviug pit ad guilty to murder in the second degree. Stun ley mid Jones go twenty-five years in tho penitentiary, Summons fifteen years, and Mathews was released on $1,000. A negro named Jack Wilson attended Joe Jefferson's play of "Rip Van Winkle" a few weeks ago at Macon, Ga. From that time he hs developed a longing to imitate Rip in bit long stnvp, aud has almost lost bis mind on tho subject, lie was taken to the hospital, where ho suc ceeded in sleeping two nights and days without waking. About 3 o'clock tho other morning he awoke, shrieking like a demon, and showing eveiy symptom of a raving maniac, smashing furniture end attemptiug to UU cvrv one he met. From November 1, 1880, to April 1, 1887, tho sale of ccsimerciul fcrtilizor in South Carolina amounted to 81.0;3 ton; snd for the same period in 1887-68 thesMia have been 110,220 tons, an in crease for tho present eeafon of 29,188 tons. Tills is probably the largest quan tity of fertilizers ever purchased by the farmers in one season, and is a good in dication of an iucreaed cotton i res, al though the low prices prevailing this year may have indue d the fanners to use it mora largely than usual on other cropp. FRENCH AFFAIRS. Th French Chamber of Deputies will reopen toon, and it i expected will re main in tension until May, In c spec-a tion of tbe debate on tbe policy of the cabinet, th President ha postponed hi Journey to the south, and M. I loqtu.t his tour of the departments.... Acraok fired three hot from revolver at the gnte of lb Elysee palace, the President' residence. Vpo being anet d he niJ, In explanation, that he wanted M. Carnot to stu-nd to grievance of which hi was the victim.... M. Lalande, a deputy of tbe department of Giromlc, hai written e letter to M. Lcgrandc, tninistrr of commerce, in which he ay that the niopoacd English duty ou bottled wines is detrimental to the wine-growing in dustry, and tbst wine merchsnM of Bor deaux: box tb government tn protect their interest.... The Orlcanist will meet at the residenci of the count of Perls, at Twickenham, England, to dc ci le upon the advi-ability of supporting or condemning th union of tho scctim.s of tho French conervtiv imrty who are advocating the cause of Itoulangcr. ABOUT THE FLAG.. Mayor newitt, of New York, trans mitted to the Common Council a stirring incsssge disapproving the resr lutlon tak ing from the mayor the power of di recting what flag shall be displayed upon the city buildings. lie show that w hile the Irish born population amounts to 18.45 per cent., 87 per cent, of the b-.ar.l of aldermen are Iiih, more thin II) time tbe normal ratio of representation prevail la all department except the police, where 28.10 re Iiih tioro. warty double th normal per orntige, Thi, he declares, is tt the expenso of the Gvrmnn element. The highest of all that's high. The cities, with streets and palace v Their pictures and stor ot art, , , I would not take for one low, soft t'l 1 1 Of my little one's loving heart Nor all tha gold that was ever loan J In th busy, wealth-finding pail Would I take for on smile of my ' ' "face,' -!. . Did I know it must be the last r XT If!!! .Tm.'i a V iv m'.i t,i .il :it tit i1iLiH,1 ho .VtiSi ;,; m vl tthi r-ii -Jin: i Bo I rocked my baby and rooked away, s. And I felt such a street content, , For th words of the song expressed to me more - en. : Than they ever before had mant , And tbe night crept on, and I s'ept and ' dreamed ; .u Of things far too glad to bo, ,. j And I wakened with lips saying close to my ear, , "Papa, fot would you take former . , HE WAS BOYCOTTED. The friend of tha striking engineers flooded Cheyenne, Wyo., with flaming handbills, reading! "Boycott Mrs. J. Brown Potter; she patronize cnb road, the t hlrago, Burlington & Qirln e v The actrw leached Cheyenne on a branch of that line, and played toasmnll bou ' " "" ' RATHER OLD. The oldest woman, familiarly known a Granny Rosc.diud at D.rtidsun College, North Caro Jns, at th age of 131. Nie was owned and nbed by the grand fat her of David A. Moan, who i now ia Lis eighty-first year. Her age Is well estab lished. Her mind gave way aevcml year 40. H e became blind and 'c lormcil, nd has finally died of sitter old ge. She did not com plain of fcilingun well up to within an hour of her death. A ia.uliar circumstance in h-r life w.n that ho would occasionally cut new Ktoftrcth, and fhc had jtit finished cutting an ctitire nuw si t a few daj be fore the did. MISPLACED SYMPATHY. Earnest effort r being mvle to ex cite sympathy for Crosa and White, the tioodlcn, who are la jail at llahih, X. C. A yet bail ha not been w cured. On of counsel for the prisoners said that it wa Impossible to secure bail, and that it might be announced that the idea of giving it wa abandoned entirely. Some preacher gathered at lb jnit, and be d abort services la the room where Cro nod White are confined. Both prisoners were much affected, and shed many tenr whenever friend e them. t;5 o.'sll ' jh.-1'e PITH AND. POINT. ' -' A cold dealer The ice man. ' A tabl character Tho groom ! ' . ' One of the teacher recently nskedn pupil what .lb. tood for. "Elbow, I . . , guess," wa the unexpected reply. ' Minister "Well, Boby, what do you want to be when jou grow upl'' Bobby . , (suffering from parental discipline) An orphan." Ai York 8n. Whatever pleases people's tastes Ia said tbe bun to tuke; The baking pan, however, scams l , To always take the cake. Sifting. , Customer (to boy in cigr store) "Your five end ten cents cignr look n ; good deal alike, sonny. What's the dif ference between them?' Boy "Fl cent." Epoch. Your husband is a self-made man, 1 u -believe," remarked gentleman to n Congressmau'e wife. "Ves," she replied, her plumage pulling up with prid; "yes, he is the anarchist of his own . fortune." WaalungtM Cri'k. "I was completely carried away with your ermon this morning. Brother Brighton," aid a leading omnambuliat to his pastor. "Ah, yes," replied the shep herd; "so I olisorved. Into dreamland, -too, wasn't it!" Iktroit Free JVao. , St Louis Swain (returning from the opera) "Well, Mii Shawsjrardon. did you enjoy the opera! " Miss ?haw garden "Oh, very much, indeed; but I think, Mr. Swain, that charging you fifteen cents a pint for peanuts wa sim ply outngeousl" York Sun. A lecturer on optics, at the University of Texas, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vw'mn, remarked : "Let ny man gaze c!ocly luto his wife s eye and he will see himself so exceedingly mall that" Here the lecturer voice wu drowned in shout of laughter. . Sifting. When Dubtin Cathedral wn opened after restoration at the expense of Mr. t Wise, the Archbishop took for his text: Go thou and do like Wise." Not to be outdone a clergyman in hi dhrcse, when opening a church built by a brewer, said that hi text ws to be found lie brew xxx. Xt Turk A'eie. When we look on lovely women. And tbe style in which she's dr&- Tve ttuna or. tor Arau.a. . Of "Araby tli lilcst" And for the simple reason Thixt fhlon bids her wear A dromedary bmtlo And a su.t of camel's hair. ftiHfoa ConrUr. Cno of otir binhop when paitor at Stamford, Connecticut, asked a little boy inflicted with an impediment of speech how be would like to bo prea her. The little fellow replied : "1-1 w-w-w-would l-l-l-like the p-p pounding an the h-h-holleriog, b-O-but tbe a speaking w-would b-b-b-b bother m-rae:" CAria tutu AJtotatt. Sagacity of AalmaK A Et Bernard dug at Muscatine, Tn,' rescued a two-year-old from two angry fighting boar toward which tho youngster wa unsuspectingly biddling. A half-grown deer at Orovillc, Cat, attacked two youn? ladies, butting savagely with It horns. Tlswr uo ceeded in tying it to n trr with a halter, but their bustle were io a badly de moralized condition. The fema'o of a pair of affectionate marmosets d.ed. It was ome time be fore her mate could convince bimrlf that the was dead, b it when ho d!dh i re fated all food, and ia three day died Of orrow. A tick cat in s Mlouri town w'ked into dru store, and after snutUng round amorg the jr and packagee p'ckeJ out per of catnip and gnawed it open. Every day sh returned for some of it until cured. A frog in a New Haven annatlum ha been trained to lia on his back in the water, feigning death until his master approaches with a piece of me.it in hie hand. The frog make a jump, securw the meat and iwims oft with it. Australia now export ersrgsi to Eag land.
Hillsboro Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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April 19, 1888, edition 1
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