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OFFICIAL ORGAN OP THE FltOHIBITIOmSTS ; III NORTII CAROLINA. i - VOL. V. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY OCTOBER 217 1887 NO. 41. POMONA HILL POMONA, N. eC. 0T These Nurserl' s tire" located 2 "miles west of Greensboro, on the Richmond & Danvil'e ana csaiem .Branch Kaih ads. J Th re can find - - -... you One and! a-Half: Million O Trees and -Vines Growing. ' Parties wanting Trees, &c, are resptt. ful.y invited to call and examine s'xck ai d learn the exten of these. Nurseries. Stock consists of all the leading and new . varieties-" of Apple 'Pea h, Pear,- - (Stand u d - and Dwart.) Plums; Apricots, Grap s, Cherries, Mulbei ri s, Nectar.nes, Figs, Quinces, Goo e- : L ernes, Raspberries, currants, Pecans, -English. Wal uts,-Ja-fcnese Pe.simmon, Straw berries, Shyubs, Roses $.vergreens, Shade' Trees, &c, and in fact ev rj thing of the hardy class usually fco t in a first-class Nursery, : T v ;v-. . SUITABLE f OR NORTH CAROLINA AND THE SOUTHERN BORDER . ' s" ;STA1ES.' , y New Fruits of sp cial note are teie Yel o v T anspareno Apple, Lady Ingold 1 each, the Laws n Keiifer, Lucy "Duke and Beaufo t Ptars, Lutie ,'Niagra, andtheOeorgia Grape,' WoitcidV Winter. - - - v : V Descriptive Catalogue free. - rt l3r"Cor.spoadence solicited-' - Special in-" ducements t large PI, ntersl ' Address. - . j. vAn. lindley, Pomona, ul9-6mo - ;- Guilford Co. vM. C INSURANCE AGENCY Tornatia, Fire Life. 0 W. CABK & CO. Greensboro, NV-- C. O. W. CARR, Trinity College and High Point, NV C ASSETS OVER $200,000,0001 luUllIj 1 and return to ns, and we will send you free, something of great value and importance to you, that will start you in business which will bringyou in more money Tight away than anything else in the world.- Any one can do the work and live at home. I itherlsex, all ages. . froinelhing new, - that, just coins money for all workers, you; capital not needed "We .will stjt This is one of the genuine important chances of a life time. Those who are ambitious will not delay.S Grand outfit free. Address. Tbve & Co., Augusta, SJair.eu. -. A WALKING LEAD MINE: TlisJRemarkable Career of H. P. Os- rV good Settled at Ijast.-. t i I. - rri Til T II k.Mi scarred veterai "of two wars, who for nearly twenty-two years had been held in captivity by Mexican brigands, was in town and rela ted the '-WifcLTveird tale of his adventures. The story sounds . more like romamce than history, but hi3 personal appearance and a mass of letters, from prominent men attest "i ts at least truth, in part. 'The Old Walking Lead Mine' is II. P.-Osgopd. - At. sixteen, he joined t&3 regular array,, at New Orleans, in 1lIO TT. J A 1 l 1L If nrnn i . j i - r a Si i t 1 and was aE'ne nrsi-xa i xvuu, ,uuu ue, received a scratch ; until- he reached Vieks burg, after which t e shot poured info him thick and fat, and seveQ buQets can how be p.ainly felt through his skin. Almost every part Of his body is horribly mutilated. 4 One tand and foot are nearly ; gone. -He spent eleven' months and five days at Andersonville where he was unintenti nly shotthrough the head by General -Winder. , A, band of Mexican greasers captured him oi the Rio Grand in I8G. "He made several ineffect ual attempts to ' escape, Only to be shot 'for his pains'. -Two wounds received three weeks before his rescue are yet Unhealed. One is in the' f orehe id; the other, inflicted " with a copper missile on his breast - is six' inches across. Lost April the Mexicai troops sur nrisel and inade rwisoners nf theiOUtlaWS. who held him captive. ; vOsgOdd j was ,S9nt to I the Amencanconsul general, ac trie city ot Mexico; Whence to Vera Qr0z, where the Vice Consul provided him transportation to New whom lie "believes to be stall ; livins: near 4 : Altoii " : t ' ' - ' : ; .; '.' t A STRIKE LIKELY TO END, :Y7"-"--''fc?J :'' ''-":-.'t-i ' Botn Sides at Ilazleton .Tired of It ThreejThquisand Indiana .Miners 7; : , m There is a growing feeling at H'zleton, Pa. , that another month will bring about ai ; end tothe strike in this region. . Both sides have' been suffering great loss by the con tinued idleness. The - loss is- estimated at $1,500,000 a month. There is much dissatis; faction among the men on account of their not receiving the support that was promised t them from the Seuuykill, Wyoming and - other regions that are. working. ' ' . . The breaker rot A. Pardee & Co., at the " Hazletcn mines, was not running, the m en - being engaged in cleaning up things about the breaker and preparing coal inside.-,- The breaker, will. be. probably be started again soon. Information comes from Eckly that No. 2 breaker there will probably be started again next Monday and that seventy of tiie ineu there have signified their willingness to " begin work any day that Air. Cox desires t em to. f -This action is severely denounced by the other men, who are in favor of hold . invnnf. tint.il t.hf.ir rnanffflS' havfl hpAn rrm- plied witlt ;. - - . h--JrC:-h A' dispatch from- Vincennes, Ind.f says: Twenry five hundred to three thousand miners are out im a strike in Southern Indi nua, and a coal famine is upon us.. One thousand miners or more are out in the Da vies county coy 1 m'n3s, and they propose to stay ut a jd will not listen to any com promise. The companies are equally stub-; bom and the jEight promises to be a long, varm and bitter one. ChIca go policemau - are ' how having what they call "Aparchi-t drill." - They, meet in squads every other da; nnd are instructed in the use of Winchester rjes, with which every jwliceman on the force is said to be supplied. REV. DR. TALMAGE. THP BROOKIitN DIVINE'S SUNDAY ..1 fi': . SERMON., f.; , - - " r - - - - - . -, , rr, : rrr .- " Subject : -' "Forbidden Honey.' 1 r Text: ''rft(J but tasl a little honey with' Vie end of the rod thai teas in my hand, and lo ! I must die." I Samuel xiv., 43. ; The honey hec is amost ingenious arcMtect, a UhrLstophor Wren among insects, a geome-. ter drawing hexagons and pentagons, a free--booter robbing the fields of pollen and aroma, a wondrous creature of God, who se biography, written by Huber and Swammerdam is an enchantment for any lover o nature. .Virgil celebrated the bee in his fable of Aristseus, and Moses, and Samuel, and David, and Splo mon, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and Sk -Johnuod the delicacies of bee manufacture -as a Bible symboL, A miracle of formation i$ the bee: five eves, two toneracs. the outer hav ing a sheath of protection, hair on all sides of ; its tiny body to-brush up the particles of flowers; its flight so sti-aightthat all the world knows of the bee lin.-;Jrhe. honeycomb is a- paiace sucn as no one out - Uod cou d plan and rthe hon3y ; bee construct; its cells ; sometimes a dormitory, sometimes a Ktoi-- house, : and sometimes - a -cemetery. Thse winged toilers- first .nake . eight - strips of wax, and by their antennaa, which are to them hammer and chisel, '; and " square r and plumb ; line, fashion them' for use. -Two and two thess " woi kers shape- the; wall If an accident happen they put up but tresses or extra beams'to re-.ne.1y the dam age. When about the year ;1T70 ran - insect, before unknown, in the night titne attacked thebeehives- all -over Europe, and the. men who owned them were in vain trying to plan something to keep out the invader- that was the terror of the beehives, of the continent, i$ was. found hat every where the bees had ar twiged for - their, own protection; and built' before their honeycombs an especial wall of wax;. With portholes through which the bees might go t9 andfrcvbuS not large enough to admit the winged combala.it, called, the' Sphinx Atropos. . ; ' ; : . . :. ; , Do you know that the swarming of the bees isdiyinely-duTcteil- The mother bee starts for. a new botue, aad because at this the other bees of the hi ve get into au excitement which raises the heat of the hivo some fo-ir degrees and ,.th?y m ust d;e unles 5 , they leave their heated apartmeiits; ,and they-' follow the" mother Lee and aMght ov the branch of a tree, and ' cl-'ng to etdh other and hold ou" until a coramittee ot twoor three have ex plored the region and found the hollow -of a tree or; rock not fa- off from a stream ot water, and they here set up a new coloay, and ply .their aromatic industries, and give themselves to the manufacture of the saccha rine edible. - But who can tell the chemistry of that mixture of sweetness, part of it the very life of the bee and part of it the life of the fields? .- - ; ... - Plenty of the Juscious proiuct was hang ing in the woods of Beth aven during the time of Saul and Jonathan. ..Their army was iu tursui6 or an onemy tnat ny uo-a s com mand must tre extermmated, The- soldiery were positively forbidden to stop to eat any thing until the work Wits done. If theydiso' beyed they were aec-ursed. Co ning through the woods they found a plaie where the bees had teen busy, a great honey manufactory. ' Honey gathered in the hollow of the trees until it had overflowed upon the ground in great profusion of sweetness. , All the army obeyed ordersand touched it not save Joaa than, and he hot knowing the military order about abstinnce,dippe 1 tha eni of a stick ha had in his hand into the candied hquid, and as, yellow and brown.and te.noting,it glowed on the end of the stick he put" it to his mouth and ate the honey.- Judgment fell upon him, and but for special intervention he would have been slain. - In my, text Jonathan an nounces his awful mistake: "I did bu& taste a little honey with the en 1 of th3 rod that was in my hand, and, lo, Lmust die." Alas, what multitudes of people in all ages have be ?n damaged 'by forbidden honey, by which I mean temptation, delicious and -attractive, but damaging and destructive. ' ' Corrupt literature, fascinating but deathful, comes in this category. Where one good, healthful book is read now - there are one hundred made up of rhetorical; trash con sumed with avidity. 'When the boy in the cars comes through, with a pile of publica tions look over tne titles and notica that nine out of every ten of ? the- -books are depleting and injurious. All the way from New York to-Chicago or New Orfeaas notice that ob jectionable books dominate. : Taste for pure literature is poisoned by this scum of the publishing house?, . Every book in which sin tiiumph.5 over virture, or in which a glamor is- thrown over dissipation, or which leaves you atits last hae.w:th lss respecc-for- the hiarriage institution and less abhorrence for the i paramour, i is - a depression of your own moral character. The book bindery may be attractive, and the plot dramatic and startling, - and the style of writing swest as the honey that "Jonathan dipped up with his rod, but your best inter ests forbid it, your moral safety forbids it, your God forbids it and one taste of it may lnnJ 1. 1 M lj . i -. " . J ibw ou ua;i rv-suits inas. you may nave to say at the close of the experiment, or at the close of a misimproved lu'etime: 'I did but taste a little honey with tha rod that was m my Hand, and, lo, I must die!" ;s - - ? P Corrupt lit'j-atui-e is doing more to-dav for the disruption of domestic life than any other causa lilopemeots, marital intrigues, - sly correspondence, fictitious names given at postoitice windows, clandestine meetings in parks, and at ferry gates, and in hotel par lors, and conjugal perjuries, are among the damnable results., . When a woman, young or ;-old; gets- her head thoroughly: stuffed with " the modern ; novels she .is in ' ap palling periL - But some one will say : - ? The heroes are so adroitly knavish,-and the per sons so be witchingly untrue, and the turn the story so exquisite, and all the charac ters so : enrapturing, I -cannot: quit them.B My brothor, my sister,-you -can find styles of literature just as charming that will elevate and purify and ennoble, and Christianize while they pleasa. ' r The devil does noS own all the honey. There is a . wealth of good books coming forth? from' our publishing houses that leaves no excuse for the choice of that which is debauching to body, mind aal soul. v Go to some intelligent man orwo.nan and ask for a list of books that1- will -be Strengthening to your mental, and moFat condition. Life is so short and your, time for improvement so""abbreviated- that you can- noi afford to fill up, with husks and cinders and debris. In tho interstices of business that young man is reading that which will prepare him to be a merchant prince, and that vonnff woman is iillinsr hor mind with an intel jgence that will yet either make her th& chief attraction of a good mail's home or give her ' an independence of character that will, qualify her to build her own homo and main tain it ina happines that requires no aug mentation from any of our rougher sex. That young man or young woman can by the right literary and moral improvement of the spare ten minutes here or there in every day, rise head and shoulders in prosperity - and charac ter and influence above - the loungers who read nothing, or read that .which bedwarfs. See all the forests of good American -literature dripping with honey. Why pick up the honeycombs that have in them the fiery bees rWhich will sting you with an eternal poison while yon tasti it . One book may for you or me decide everything for this world and the next.! It was a turning point with me when in , Wynkoop's : bookstore, Syracuse, one day 1 s picked up a book called ' " The Beauties of Buskin."-; It was only a book xf extracts, but it wat all pure honey, and I was not satisfied until I had purchased all his works, at that time expensiFe beyond an easy capacity to own them,-: and what a heaven I went through in reading his "Seveu Lamps of Architecture and his Stone3' of Venice", it is impossib'e for me. to describe, except by saying that it gave me a rapture for good books and an everlasting disgust for decrepit or immoral l ooks that will last me while my immortal soul lasts. All around the church and the -world to-day there are busy hives of intelligence occupied by authors and authoresses, rora whose pen drip a dis tillation which is the very nectar of heaven, and why will you thrust your rod of inquisi tiveness into th? deathful saccharine of per dition 1 1 - j " - - Stimulating liquids also come into the cate gory of t3mptatioas delicious but deathfaL Vou say: "I canuoS bear the taste of intoxi cating liquor, aii'ho v any man can like it is to me an amazement." Well,, then, it is no credit to you that you do not taste it. Do not brag about your- total - abstinence, be cause it is not from any principal that you reject alcoholism, but for the same reason that you reject certain styles of food you simply dont hk the taste of them." - But multitude.; of people have a natural fondness for all kinds of -intoxicant., , They like it so much that it makes them smack their lips to look at it. They are dyspeptic, and they take it to aid d'estion, or they are annoyed by insomnia, and they take it to produce sleep, or they ara .troublad, and they take it to make them oblivious, or they feel good, and ; they must : celebrate theii hilarity. They begin - with mint julep sucked through two straws on the Long Branch piazza . and end in ?the ditch, taking from a jug a liquid half kerosene and half whisky. They not only like it, but it is as all consuming passion of bady.mind andsouL and after a while have it they will, though one wine glass cost the temporal and eternal destruction of themselves, and all their" fam ilies, and the whole human raee. .They would say: Ti am sorry it is going to cost me, and my family, and all the world's population sc very much, but : here it goes to my lips, and bow let it roll over my parched; tongue anc down my heated throaty the . sweetest, -the most "inspiring, the mos rapturous thing that ever thrilled mortal -or.' immortal.1 To 'cure the habit', before it comes . te is last stages, Yarious plana were 1 tried in olden times. . This plan was recommended ix tha books: When a man wanted to reform h put shot or bullets into the .cup : or. glass ol strong drinks-one additional shot or bullet ach day, that "displaces so mach liquor. Bullet after bullet, added - day by day,, oi course the liquor became less and less until the bullets would entirely fill up the glass and there was ho room for the liquid, and by thai ti me it was said the inebriate would be cured. Whether any one was ever cured in that way I know not, ' but by long experiment "it i found that the only way is to stop short off, an I. when a man does that he needs God to help him; : An i there have been more case than you can count when God has so helped th 3 "man that he quit forever, and I could count a score of them here to day, some ol thani pillars in the house of Go J. -? i Oae would suppose that men would tak warning from some of the . ominous names given to the intoxicants, and stand off from the devastating influence. Ton have noticed for instance, that some of -the restaurants arc called "The Shades," typical of the fact that it puts, a man's reputation in the shade, -and bis mora's in the shade, and his prosperity iu the shade, and his wife and children in tho shade, and his immortal dest'ny in the shade.' .Now, I find on some of. the liquor signs in all our cities the-words: ;OIi Crow,"; mightily suTgestive; of ia cai-cass, - aud the filthy raven that swoops upon it "Old Crow P Men and women without numbers slain of rum but urtburied, and this evil is pecking at ther glazed eyes, and pecking at their bloated cheek, and pecking at their destroyed J man hood and womanhood, ; thrusting beak and clew into the mortal remains of what once was gloriously: alive but now morally dead, Old Crow!" Put alas, how many take no warning. They make - me think of Capsar on his way- to assassination, fearing nothing; though his stat ue in the hall crashed into fragments at his feet, and a scroll, con taining the Tiames of the conspirators was thrust into his bauds, yet walking right on p meet' the dagger -that was to take liis life.; This infatuation of strong drink is so mighty in many a man that," though his fortunes are ' crashing, and his Leaith ,:s crashing, and his domestic interests are crashing, and we hand him a long scroll containing the names of perils that await him, he goes straight on to physical, and Omental, ami moral assassina tion. In proportion as ?iy style of alcohol ism is pleasant to your tasto. and stimulating to your nerves, and for a time delightful to all your physical and mental constitution, is the peril awful. Remember. Jonathan and the forbidden Looey in tin woods of Betb aven. - Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence must be put to tne list of t mptations deli cious but destructive. I have crossed- tho ocean eight times, and always one of the lest rooms has,- from morning till late at night been given up to gambling practices. 1 heard of men who went on board- with, enough money for European excursions who landed without enough money to get their tiaggago up to the hotel or railroad station. To many there is a complete fascination in games of hazard or the risking of-money on possibili ties. It seems as natural for them to bet as to eat. Indeed, the hunger for food is often overpowered with the hunger for wagers, as in the case of Lord Sandwich, a persistent gambler, who, not being willing to leave the dice table long enough for the taking of food, invented a preparation of food that he could take without stopping .the' game namely, a slice of beef between two slices of bread, which was named after Lord Sandwich. It is absuri) for those of us who have never felt the fascination of the wager to speak slight ingly of the temptation, it has slain a mul titude of intellectual and moral giants, men and women stronger than you or ; L s Down under its power went g!oriou3 Oliver Gold smith, and Gibbon, the historian, and Charles Fox, the statesman, and in olden times fa mous Senators of the United States, who usad to be as regularly at the gambling bouse all night as they were, iu the halls of legislation bv dav. f Oh. the tragedies of the faro table! I know persons who began with : a slight r stake in a ladies parlor, and "ended with the suicide's pistol at ; Monte Carlo;, t They; Elayed with the square pieces of bone with lack marks on them, not knowing .that Satan was playing for their bones at the same, time, and was sure to sweep all the stakes-off on his side of the table f The last New . York legislature sanctioned the mighty evil last spring bypassing a law for its defense at the race tracks, and many young men in these cities lost all their wages at Coney Island thi3 bummer; and this fall are borrowing from the money tills of their employers or arranging by means of fals entries to adjust their demoralized finances. Every man who Voted for the Ives pool bill has on his hands and forehead the blood of taesa souls.- - ; " ru But in this connection some young converts j say to me: A'ls it ngnt to play carusr is tuere any- harm in a game of whist or euchre?" rll, I know good men who play whist and euchre and other styles of game without any wagerX I Tiaa a friend ,wh o played cards with his -wife and children, and then at the close said: "Come, now, let us have prayers." I will not judge other men's consciences, but I tell $rou t at cards are, in my mind, so as sociated with the temporal 'aui eternal dam nation of solendid young men, that .1 should; no sooner siy to my family: "Comelet us have a game of cards," than I would go into a menagerie and say : "Come let us have a game of rattlesnakes," or into a cemetery, and sitting down' by a marble slab, say to the grave diggers: 4 "Come, let ushave a gams of skulls." Conscientious young ladies are silently saying to me while I speak: Do you think card playing will do us any harm?" Perhaps not, but how will - youieel if in, the. ereat dav of eternity, when we are asked to give ah account of our influence, some -man in your house, and I went on from that sport to something more exciting.'and went on down until i lose my Dusmesi, ana lose my iuurais, and lost my soul, and these, chains that you see on my wrists and feet are the chains of a gamester's doom, and f am on my way to a gambler's helL" ; Honey at the start, eternal catastrophe at tha last, v "V v: '". Stock gambling comes into the same oat logue. It must be very exhilarating to go into Wall street, New Y ork, or State street, Best'on, or Third street, Philadelphia, ; and depositing a small sum of money, run the risk of taking out afortunc. Many, men are do ing an honest and safe business in the. stock market, and you ard an ignoramus If you do nrfc know -f.hnt it: ia tnst a lfltritiTTiafcr to deal in stocks -ns to deal in coffee, sugar?; or nonr. ism neany au tne outsiders rs who go there on a little financial excursion lose all. ;Theold spiders eat up the unsusecting Viies. I had a friend, who put his hand, on his hip pocket and . said to me in substance: t-'I have there the value of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars." His -home is to-lay peuniies. What was the matter? Wall street. Of tho vast majority who are yictim- ized you hear not one word. One great stock firm goes down, and whole columns of news papers discuss their fraud, or their dis aster, and - wo are presented with "their features and their biography. But where one such famous firm sinks five hundred un known men , sink with them.. The - great steamer goes down and all tho little boats are swallowed in the same engulfment Gam bling is .gambling, whether in stocks, or breadstuffs, or dice or race-track betting. Exhilaration at the start, and a raving brain and a shattered nervous system and a sac rificed property and a. destroyed soul at tho last - Young man, buy no lottery tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet on no base ball games or yacht racing, have no faith in luck, answer no mysterious circulars - pro posing great income .for small investment: Shoo away the buzzards that hover around our hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go out and make an honest living. Have God on your side and be a candidate for heaven. Remember all the paths of sin are banked witn flowers at the start, and there aro plenty of helpful hands : to 1 letch--the gay charger to your door and hold the stirrup while you mount. Vui further ou: the horse plunges to the bit in r slough inextricable. The best honey is . not like that which Jona--than took on the end of the-rod and brought to his lip, but thtt whichv God puts on the banqueting; table of Morcy, at which we are all invited to sit- I was reading of a boy among the mountains of Switzerland ascend ing a dangerous pk- with his father and the guides. , The boy. stopped on the edge of the cliff - and said:' '-. There ia a flower X mean to get." . "Come away from here,?said the father, "you will fall off." "No," said he, "I must get that beautiful flower," and - tha guides ruhsd toward him to pull him back; when they . heard him - say: "I almost have it," as he fell 2,00) feet. Birds of prey J were seen a few days after-circling through the air and lowering, gradually to the place- where" the corpse lay. -Why,. seek flowers on the edge of a precipice when "you may walk knee deep amid the full blooms of the very Paradise of God? When a man may sit at a king's banquet why will he go down the steps and contend for the gristle - and bones of a hound's kennel? - ! .'.-. .-'"": . - " Sweeter than honey and the houeyeomb," says David, "is the truth of God." . With honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee," says God to -the recreant t Here : is honey gathered front the blossoms of trees of life, and? with a rod made, out of the wood of the cross I dip it up for all your souls. - The, poet Hesioi - tcl!s of . an ; am brosia and a : nectar tho drinking of which would make "men ' live - forever, and one sip of this honey; from the Eternal Rock will give ; ybu immortal life with GoJ. Come off of the malarial levels of a sinful life. Come and live on the Uplands of grace where the vineyards sun themselves. .- .Oh, taste and see that the Lord , is gracious. Be happy now and happy 'forever. For those who take a different course the honsy will turn to gait For many things I have ad mired Percy Shelley, the great English poet, but I deplore the fact that it was a great sweetness to him to dishonor God."- The poem 'Queen Mab" has in it the maligning of the deity. The infidel poet was impions enough to ask for Rowland Hill's Surrey chapel that he might denounce the Christian religion He was in great gee - against God and the truth. But he visited Italy, and one day" on the Mediterranean with two friends in a boat which was twenty-four feet iong.he -was toward shore when an hour's squall struck the water. 'A gentleman standing on shore through a glass saw many Doats tossea in this squall, but all outrode the terror-except one, that in which Shslley, the infidel poet and his two friends were-sailing., That ashore, but thti bo lies of two of the occupants were washed upon the beach, one of them the poet. A funeral pyre was built on the sea shore by some classic friend3 and the two bodies were consumed. 'Poor Shelley! He would have -no God while, he lived and he probably had no God -when he dieJ. "The Lord knoweth tile way ofthe righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish." Beware of the forbidden honey I A LADY PLIES THE uWHIP- Excitement in Prominent South Car- 'i . olina Circles Growing Oat of. ; r - T ' ' Draw Poker. - - ' ' . - , ' i i " ' ' , Waltcrboro, Colleton county, S. C. , i3 in tensely agitated j over a recent series of cowhidings am- threatened duols, all.-the parties concerned belonging to the first fam ilies of the place, - , . ; The eldest son of Major Edwards,' the principal lawyer of the. town, has been lead ing a fast life since he married the beautiful daughter of Colonel James II. Rioa, who was alleged to be the son of the Dauphin of Fraaoea ; Young Edward's frequent and pro tracted absences from home at night aroused his wife's ire, and - last, Saturday, night, guided by a lad named Izlar, she unceremo niously entered ; the .; room in I which -her husband and several of his male friends were engaged in a game of draw poker. Among those present was a MriBellington, who bears the reputation of beit g 'a bad man" i i..a fight .: Mrs. Edwards seems to have thought him in some way responsible for her husband s habit, ana drawiRg a cow hide from beneata her sh twt sue ssufupoj and beat" him unmercifully before she couid be secured, " Her sex saved. her from retalia tion on the part of BellingtonJ who, however. expressed nis intention 01 noiding ;: ner nus band responsible, and forthwith drew a pistol to kill him. Then Mrs. Ed war Us5 nerve forsook har, and sinking oa har kuees before Bellinzton she bezzed foreiveness-for ithe "cowbidinff and i entreated him to spare -her husband's life. - -. -. -- '': - ' Bellingtn then left the rdm threatening L to kid any one who should divulge the" 00 curl Hutu, : . noimav , uqu huoowi j guj uu, Bellington souaht-Edwards and wore ou. a cowhide upon his person. - - -' -" :vi Ji; ; ; It is further -stated that Bellington; com pelled Ed war s, at the point of a pistol, to go to the - house of voung: Izlar; to cowhide him for; showing Mrs. Edwards Ithe - poker room, bub he appearance of the boy's father prevented it being done, - v ,: -'.-" i - ; ". :" ' A hostile meeting is r expected ' between Bcillliigton and Edwards. ; x, -t t'ts -j Tli CLUBBED BY A BURGLAR. Frightful Midn iffht Experience '? of a ' ; Wisconsin Widow and.Three : 'i '" " -. Daughters, - i - . . : '"! The most atrocious crime ever committed in- Fond-du-Lajf county, Wis.i was perpeP I trated by an unknown person. - Just outside the city limits, south,' is a brick bouse occu- , pied by Mrs. William Koehne, a widawi and Uiara. ADOUtmionigai, wuuu me occupants were as'eep, a burglar entered the house. When discovered -by the occupants he at tacked the women with a club, an I attempted a criminal assault, but in the latter object he was -defeated." He succeeded, however, in nearly killing: all tne members or tne family. The walls of the room in which the struggle "took place are spattered with the blood of his victims. - " .' - -' -" ."' ---r " The mad secured $3, and by his threats succeeded in keeping bis iiali-dead -victims from eiving an alarm until he escaped; The county has offered a reward of $300 for the apprehension of the vjllian... One of Mrs. I Koehne's daughters was not at hom! xne iCther three, with the mother, were all badly i injured. - iney-siept in seperaie rooms, duc all were arous d as soon as the intruder was discovered. The four women ;where then hustled into "one apartment and on to a Ued, where the assault was committed., . They were all beaten over the head with a heavy club. It is tnouant tnat ail may recover , with the possible exception of Lena, w hoso skull is probably fractured. . - x TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. - Eastern, and Middle States. " . The principal suzar refiners of the conn- try are if )orted to be forming a combin ation, witn a united capital of $50,000,000. The great bulk of the business is centered in New York. - Thomas O. Manninb. United Rtata Min ister to Mexico, died a few days since in New York,-where he had gone to attend a meeting of the Peabodv Educational Fund Jiide-e Manning was about - fiftyone years old. and was a native of North Carolina. He moved in 1855 to Louisiana and served - in the Con federate army, c. He- was for some years Su preme Court Justice of Louisiana - 1 R. S. ' Hicks, Cashier of the Stafford (Conn.) National Bank, has been arrested charged with embezzling $80,000. . Hicka is also Treasurer of the Stafford Savings Bank, , which is a heavy sufferer by his downfall. The defaulter is a young man, and has lost" rauch money in cotton speculation. y The American. Bankers' Association has been m session at Pittsburg. ,-fy;i' -;. The fisbine schooner T. C. Tarr.of Glonce- ter, Mass., and her crew of fifteen men are given up as lost by her owners. - ' A box containing dynamite exploded at the Callao (Penn.) Custom House with ter- rible effect- Twelve of the persons- present were blown into fragments, three others died shortly afterward, and nineteen others were expected to die from injuries received. David Stain and Oliver Cromwell Smit'v charged by the former's son with having killed Cashier Barron, of tha Dexter, (Me.) Savings Bank!" nine years ago, have been taken to Dexter. "Doc" Andrews, another man mentioned in connection with the crime, has been arrested at Bangor: - Smith declares he never was in Dexter. - --v.v -l; . The large Sorasrue Baltic Mill, built of stone, five stories In height, 1,000 by 500.feet,. at Baltic, Conn., was totally wrecked by fire the. other morning, ' The loss is $1,500,000; in surance $2o7,000. , - - . i Three members of the British Parliament Sir John Swinburne, O. V.: Morgan -and Halley Stewart who will present an inter national arbitrat oa memorial to the Pres-' ident , and Congress, ; have arrived in New York. - . . - - South and .West . -'.- ' ;; . ; John Owens," a trusted messenger of tho Pacific Express - Company, residing in ' St Louis, has fobbed his' employers of between $30,000 and $00,000. s -; The Knights of Labor "General Assembly at Minneapolis voted down a resolution of sympathy, with the condemned Chicago An archists by 151 nays to 52 yeas. : ': f ' The banking hou e of Morton E. Post & Co., Cheyenne, -Wyoming Territory, has failed, owing depositors, many of them work ing people, about $500,000. ; ; -,, .1 s. The" opening ceremonies of the Piedmont Exposition at - Atlanta,-; 6a., included ad dresses by Governor Gordon and Hon. Sam uel J. Randalt - - ' T ; -- i ;' r Forest fires in the slope counties -of Cali foniia have burned over many farms and de stroyed numerous bridges. ;- , r i. Robert Garrett has resigned as President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. William F. Burns is acting as President ; : Newman & Farb, heavy cattle dealers of St. Louis, have failed, carrying down also the - Niobrara Land and ' Cattle Company. The liabilities are heavy.- . . --- - -- : Ths Yacht Nettie has been lost in Lake Superior with all on board six persons, . A Fond du Lac (Wis.) burglar attacked Mrs. William Koehae and her two daugh ers with aclub, nearly killing them all. i There are more than fifty cases of yellow fever-at Tampa,-Fla. y v -U; -; - ' .. . ,-i Charles Edwards (coloredl was hanged at Clarks ville, 6a. j for the murder . of Wil liam Echols (white). - ' --'.H : - - , Washington. General Berden has prepared drafts o seven -pension bills, jwhich 'he proposes to have offered in Congress at the coming session. . The last report of the: Department of Agri culture shows the average condition of crops to be as follows: Corn, 72.8; oats, 95; barley tsO; buckwheat,' 77; potatoes,- 61.-5; cotton, 76.5 tobacco, 75.5. The yield of ecru will be about 450,000,000 bushels; oats, 600,000, 000;,baiiey, S4,Oa),000. - -, The percentage of funds which depository banks may be allowed to hold upon bond se curities has been increased, in order to allow the banks to make profitable use of the funds. Tho Treasury surplus is v no w being used in this way. ;" . - ; . The coinage of the United States mints during September was S,757,0i5 pieces.- v-w"" . An excellent counterfeit of the fivedollar f;old pie?e is in circulation. It is perfect in orm, size and weight and is marked as hav ing been coined in 1855. . - - . ..v-:-: ;"v.. Foreign. - A yacht capsized in Lough Neagh,- Ireland, and out of a pleasure, party of a dozen five -were drowned. - -" A French steamer ' was wrecked in the Bay of Bormes, and twenty-two passengers were lost - - . - - During an election riot at Plevna,' Bulga ria, - twenty-four,- persons were- killed and thirty wounded.-; -' -- - -.- ' :-' : :: - A 'A.RQE Spanish force has been- ordered to the Carolina Islands to punish the natives for their rebellious acts. The American cor vette Essex has been" ordered to . protect the missionaries oh the islands. " - - : - ;; . : Ayoitb Khan, the . leader of . the revolt against the Ameer of . Afghanistan, has been killed in battle. :; -" - ; ' - - ' - -' ' - A mrMBER of prominent French OiBeials irechareed with' bein? accomplices of Gen eral Cattarel, ot tne War .Department, wno flas been - caught selung civil decorations to whomsoever would buy. The affair has caused great scandal in France. A fire destroyed a portion of the Northern Ohio insane -Asylum, near Cleveland, unio. oix maniacs pei laueu. - - ; , , . FirE of the bandits who recently abducted Senor Berrera' from the Texan side of the Rio Grande . have been summarily , executed by 'theJIexican rancheros who pursued them. Queuto. Mexico, a town of 8,000 jpeople. has- been totally destroyed by a storm. Many lives have been lost The coroner's jury at Mitchellstown, Ire-. land, have brouffht-in a verdict of murder asrainst the police accused of killinz several people during tne recens discurDances. General Botilanger, the French ex-War Minister, has been arrested by the Govern ment lor utterances regarding - tne cjauarei scandaL i General Caff areL has been found guilty of selling civil decorations and been placed on - tne army s retired usuw - xxe wux also be deprived i of his decoration of the Legion of Honor. - ..' -:. t- The days of 'Germany's Crown Prince are said to be numbered, i: He is suffering from cancer of the throat The. case is very sim ilar to General Grant's. fc - .; .; " SOME OLD PEOPLE. Mrs. Lydia Bacon, of Boston, was 100 years old a few days since. ; ,i' SAsnjEL Post, who died at Ketchum's Cor ners, N. Y., recently, was in his ninety-first yeajv i . ' ." ' . " : ' , , :.-?;,;;.";--;:.C;-i , Mrs. Nancy" Edgerly. of "Wolfboro, N." H., is 103 ycai old. She deh'ghts in political conversation. 'Z ;:; --' ; : V- -l ' '' ..; . " - When Thou as Whipple died at Brown Set tlement, Sullivan county," N. Y., recently, he had enjoyed pearly 101 years of active life. . -FOR 103 years Mrs. - Lucy Luther, . of Hadlyme, CoanT- who died on Wednesday, had been a iti anger to disease, and had all her montal facultic?. " " The oldest volunteer fireman in the United States is siid to be John de Mier,"df Allen town; Mo., who joined Relief Company No. 2 of Cincinnati in 1823. He is more than 80 years of age. -- - ,. v THE PUBLIC LANDS. SYNOPSIS OF LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS' ANNUAL REPORT. , An Entire Change fat Existing Laws Recommended. Land ' Land Commissioner Sparks in his annual report, just issued, shows that since March 4, 18S5, 31,824,4S1 acre3 have been restored to the public domain. Tha sales,- entries, and Elections of public laud under the various acts of Congress relating thereto, for the fis cal year ended June SO, 1837, embrace 25,111, 400 acres, and of Indian lands 740,637 acre making a total of 25.853,033 acres, being an increasabver the'year 1885 of 3,733,474 acres, and an increase of 4,862,524 acres &s compared with 1885. - ;. w J,;--,-r. - The receipts from the- disposals of public lauds are $1),7S3,921, from sales of Indian lands, $1,484,303 a total of $12,a63,234,being an increase as compared with the year I880 of $3,247,727, and an increase of $3,648,625 as compared with the fiscal year 1885; to which is to be added $3,291 received 011 account of timber depredations, and $12,493 received for, certified copies of records furnished by the Greneral.Land OfBcs, making the total receipts for -the year from all sources $12,289,008. . . With respect to the surveys of public lands, he says that charges of fi'aud are made in all the public land States and Territories, and that an appropriation to cover the . examina tion of such surveys and for necessary remr- veys is a matter of the highest public import ance. A large proportion of the Surveyors- General recommend that -rates for survey be increased, so that competent surveyors may be able to perform their work without "call ingon settlers for assistance. JLhe report briefly reviews the worker the Surveyors-General, of Arizona, Califor nia, and New Mexico in examining private land claims. About forty-claims in New Mexico-were examined, and -in nearly every instance the (Surveyor-General recommends their rejection, principally on the ground of fraud or non-compliance with the law. Many "were found, to cover areas several times as large as that of the original grant -- . ; In discussinar the swaniD land erants the (Commissioner says that claims under these grants nave already reached the enormous amount of nearly 77,500,000 acres, and that patents have issued for nearly 56,745,000 acres. During the past year, says the Commissioner, swamp land claims nave been made tne sub ject of thorough investigation. These investi gations, ne says, nave demonstrated tne fact that many of them are fraudulent the char acter of the land being misrepresented. :" Un the subject or the f orieiture 01 railroad land grants the CommisFioner quotes from his last annual report, and adds: - : "I renew, the recommendation that for feiture be declared in all cases in which the roads were not completed within the time and in the manner conditioned in the respec tive grants." - . - Of f ra udulent land entries the Commissioner says that the investigations of the past year have been satisfactory, and that in no provi--ousyear has such effective work; been done. As a result, 2,312 entries, covering about 370,000 acres, were held for cancella tion, and. 1,153 entries, covering about 180,000 , acres, were cancelled for fraud. This subject " the ' Commissioner pur sues at some length. He says: "Such a.. record of crime as that shown by investigation made by special agents during the last two years is rarely to be found. Bold, reckless, and gigantic schemes to rob the Government of its lands have been dis covered and exposed in every State and Territory containing public Iands,and I think I can truthfully say in every land district and county; which - a special - agent . has visited. Systematic : efforts to mislead and corrupt entrymen, in order that they might become instruments in def raudinethe Govern ment, have been resorted to. - Men of intellir gence and high- standing m . the- com munity. ; id ; many instances - - million. aires, were the leaders in these unlawful trans-. actions, uver nve-thousand cases have been discovered wherein perjury or subordin ation 01 perjury was committed. In a ma jority of cases the officers before whom the proofs or other papers were executed, largely, fetate and Territorial othcers not directly re sponsible to - the Land Department, were cognizant of the fraud, or could have become so by ordinary diligence. " - v . ' : 'While, under improved- regulations and more efficient supervision, the area of fraudu lent entries is gradually - becoming circum scribed, there still remains much to do, and the entire or general cassation of fraud can not be expected as long a-; the facilities offered for its perpetration by " existing laws -are so great and the m?ans provide 1 for their pre vention are so smalL Upward of 10,003 un examined cases are, now on tha rues ot.this office in which fraud bas bean charged by affidavit or information, or in which evi dences of fraud are indicated.-' - One thousand and eleven cases of timber depredations ortimberi trespass have bean reported on during the -year, mvolviag a value in timber and product theiefrom amounting to $6,1 if5,fl35 recoverable to the united- Ktat-?s. - The amount actually re covered during the year through judgments. fides, etc., is $128,643. - The wholesale destruction of public timber oa old numbered sections of public lands, says the Commis sioner, within the granted limits of uncon structed raUroads continues to an alarming extent ' -. -;;;. ;, On the- subject of "reform In- the public land laws" the Commissioner says: -.- -,: - x ':". "All efforts to secure a reform in the land laws, by a repeal pr amendments of particular. acts and provisions have failed throuzh the opposition of interests, at variance . with cro posed legislation. I am satisfied that amend ments m detail-are impracticable. The time f or tinkering has passecL. ; Existing systems vt uisposai, iunaamentaiiy detective m the oi-ig;nat instance, nave - become wholly - un- suited to present conditions. What is needed, in my opinion, is anivtire reformation of exi 1st ng laws, retaining an absolute home s ervd - .law- and -olsoleting -all- .-other forms of ; disposal of agricultural lanas. a tuai resideacer improvement and cultivation for tha homestead period of five yr ars should be the exclusive condition of ac quiring title to such lands. It would also ap pear that tha 1 time has arrlvad when the privilege of appropriatins publiclands should be confined to citizens of the United States, Ihe mineral laws should be so amended as to preserve the public right of- mineral explor ation to citizens or the united State and to prevent a monopoly of native mineral wealth oy individuals and corporations." FIRE IN AN ASYLUM. ' Three of the Inmates Burnt to Death. and Others Injured. ; - The Northern Ohio Insaui Asylum was damaged by fire and the bodies of six insane woman, who had met death by asphyxiation and burning werT recovered, and three more were lound in an injured condition. ;l Two of - the' dead wi unrecognizable- The nam?s of the others arei , . ' . - fi MaromTOt Pitta TVTfss Jennie B. Hall MissfEmeline Scribner and 'Mrs Charlotte Knowlton. ' " , ' " ' - -v The injured are Miss Caroline Knowlton, CQTisia of Charlotte", perhaps fatally ; Miss Jane Black and Miss Mary Ogle.. . But for the heroic conduct of the physicians and attendants, who rushed into the blinding smoke and flameand dragged the t rror stricken insane people from the chapel, the loss of life must have been terrible, r As it wss, the side of the ch pel was on fire before all the unfortunates had been removed. " The fire started" in the laundry, a one-story build ing, which adjoins the wing in which the chapel is located. The prompt responce and active work of the firemen prevented a dis astrous spread of the flames, and the loss to property Will fall below $25,000. Had the fire occurred on any other night of the week, there would have been no loss of life. FROM WEST TO SOUTH. Particulars of tbe .. President's Trio ; - Southward.' . . President Cleveland and party went fish- mg in Lake Mendota Saturday morning. . A steam launch conveyed them from Madison, - wis., to an island in the lake, where" they took small boats, for ,the fishinff grounds. Cornelius Vanderbilt Chauncev M. Depew and 'Marvin Hughitt arrived in a special train at noon and at nnm mnaiFoi y th Vilas mansion to pay their respects to the "i, nt-, He had not returned, however, and the railroad excursionists went on to Du- iuiu. jurss. ivieveiand did not jom the fish- ing party, but rested quietly in the Vilas -house. Sunday - was spent quietly by the ' President and Mrs. Cleveland at the resi- dence of the Postmaster-General. . - monday morning the Presidential party took then-special train for St PanL At. Alia Qtofinntt 1 . . . iiuo i uum) me train made short stops to enable the crowds that had '" gathered to get a look at the President and uiswue. jx saiute 01 twenty-one guns was v fired at La Crosse, and the from the train and were escorted through the principal streets m carriages by the Gov ernor's Guard. All the Diincinal street wnm decorated, and many people from the sur- rou ruling country were in the city. - 1 he special tram reached St Paul at 5:30 Monday afternoon, and the nartv were at once driven to the Rvan Hotel The Presi. dent's carriage was drawn bv four whit horses, and the sti'eets to the - hotel were decorated. -,-;-.In response to Mavor Smith's speech of -welcome the - President made :f an . address in which i' he referred to his " wife having once" dwelt in St ' Paul, - and; said that the - people . of.-. Hz. Paul were related to that in his life which was "better than all earthly honors and dis tinction." At 7:30 p. m. the President re viewed a long procession of tobOganmneand snowshoe clubs, and later held ; a- public re- -ception atthe hoteL.; rThe city was brill iantly illuminated, and many public build- ings were covered with bunting. y . , " ; The President and Mrs. Cleveland, accom - " inied by Governo: McGill and Mavor" Smith, were driven through the handsomest part 01 bt- Paul on Tuesday morning. The party took refreshments at Mavor Smith's" residence, - after which Mrs. Cleveland was . -driven to the railroad station, while the President was taken to the Minnesota Club j and presented to its members. Soon after he - joined his wife, and the special train soon " f bore the party to Minneapolis. , .. . - , u pon their arn val at Minneapolis the party 7 were conveyed to the West Hotel through streets thronged with people, many of whom had come - hundreds or miles. After lunch the Presidential party were driven through 1 the fine business and residence portion of the i city, and upon their return Mayor Ames made ; an address or welcome irom the hotel . balcony. The- President responded m a short address, and then the party went -- - to the Exposition in carriages, escorted by military companies and a band of music. At i the Exposition grounds the President made another short address. Af t?r supper at the -hotel the party at 8 p. 11., under military es cort, returned to the depot and took the train -for Omaha. , . .. The President and Mrs. Cleveland, accom- ' panied by the rest of the party, were driven through the streets of Kansas "City on Thurs day morning. .- Large crowds greeted them heartily at every point. After the drive Mr. Cleveland laid the xxrner-stone of the new Young Men's Christian Association Building. The Tesident . made an - address, re- , furring . tc the " rood work done by 1 Young Men's Chrintian Associations . throughout the country. After the cere- -' monies the party took - lunch and then . were driven to the Custom House, where- Mayor Kumpfjriade an address of -welcome in presence of "50,000 spectators, the Presi-" dent responding. . Then Mr. aud Mrs. Cleve land held an open-air reception, thousands -of people walking past the Chief Magistrate . and Ihs wife. At 6 o'clock there was a ban quet at the Coates House, and later Mr. and -Mrs. Cleveland reviewed an imposing parade.' The streets were brilliantly illuminated. At . 10 p. m. the entire party took the special train - for Memphis. - - - - - ; At - West . Memphis, which was - reached Friday afternoon, the visitors, were received by a Committee of 200 - leading, citizens, and . taken by steamer to Memphis. About 60, 000 people had gathered on the levee when tho Presidential party left the boat,thousands : of strangers having traveled to the city from - Mississippi and adjoining fctates.x The party were taken in carriages to the Gayozo House. ' In the morning there was a reception at the : hotel, and later the guests were driven out to see a fine display of fireworks. - Saturday, morning there was " a grand parade, an ad-' dress delivered by Judge Elliott in the Court Square, a reply by the President, and after-... ward a public reception at the Merchants' .Exchange. jiariy Saturday- arternoon s tn . -special train was again taken, and Nashville, v Tenn., was reached early Sunday morning. THE FATAL. CAR STOVE. - ; "Tj -' 1 ' . " . ' .'.'....'''... Congress to- be Ured to Abolish It - Incensing of Train OiSeers. . A dispatch from Washington says: Con gress will be urged this winter to pass somi measure looking- to the V correction of the . present system of heating railroad cars. ; Ex-7' perience has demonstrated that the stoves now in use have more thau doubled, the ., number of victims in railroad accidents, It . is thought a bill will be introduced iorDiamg the use of" stoves in "railway cars. This would have the effect, it is beli. ved, of forc ing the railroads to invent some suDswiute lor the. fatal stove that would insure greater safety to the travelling public In this rela- tiqa, it is probable that a bill will be intro duced to license : railway conductors and engineeri ' At the meeting of the National . Association - of Railway Conductors i iast summer a bill was prepared on this subject, which will be; submitted to Congress this r The first section of the act provides that on : and after July T, 1S89, no railroad in the United States engaged in tie transportation from one State or Territory to another, or to a foreign country, shall employ or p rmit any-person to serve as conductor or engineer ; mvlfiK such nerson is licensed, as orovided in - the ect. r The second section provides for the-- appomtmeui 01 a cniei examiner , oy .. tue . . President, by and with the advice and cor S3nt of the Senate, to carry out the provisions of the act, to receive a salary of $3,500, with travelling expenses, who shall, from time to time. reixrt tothe Secretary of the Treasury. Another section authorizes the appointment by the chief examiner, of ten supervising examiners, at a salary of $2,500 per year each and travelling expenses, all to be. selected for. knowledge, skill and practical experience in railway train service and the operation of trains and engines. : The chief and supervis-v ing examiners shall meet in this, city and nro-nnivpi on the second VV ednesdav in each January folio a ing, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. They. shall di vide the United States into ten districts, -end in each district there shall be two district examiners, one a conductor and the other an. engineer, at a salary of $2,000 per annum, and in addition assistant examiners when their services are actually needed, at a salary of not exceeding $1,500 per annum. ' - -Under the provisions of this act the con jnfyKi artii Ancrineer are reauired to show UUWS.0 -.- - . their license on the demand of any passenger. The railway companies employing an unli censed conductor or engineer are subject to a fine of $500. : It is not thought this measure -will pass in its present form, but many mem bers jarecjonfident that a general discussion of the subject will result in Eome legislation of benefit to the travelling public. . ' The fish in the Arkansas river appear te be affected with some strange disease. -.- Manj of those caught with hook or net spoil within a few hours after being taken trom the water.
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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