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HENDERSON. N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1888.
vol. vir.
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JiLOOD POISON.
three veur as') I contracted a blood poi
,tj 1 aui'lW l" pliyi-an at once and
lwitrentn.ent wine nnr killing me. 1 em
ployed au old physician and then went to
KV I then weiit to Hot Spring and re
mained two months, but nothing seemed to
, urc me pcrni:uiciitl v, although temporary
relief was given me. My condition Krow
dnicrate m.d I applied to a noted quack,
,ul I did not improve. I then usee a prep
aration which wffi:riwlValiN b,lt
it contained too much alcohol and ajjgra
vatcd my suffering. I then place.! myself
under the treatment -of a noted Nashville
i
,!,VMi. i:.n and for a tune was tx-neiiUM, uui
v'fll I returned home n ruined man phys-
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nllv and finincislly, with hut mue pro,-
c,-t oferer Kettin well. My nu.i.ej u
? I fiiJ not know what to do.
mr mother persuaded me to
Kct a bottle of li. H. U. a.le in aui.us,
H.id I did so to gratify her, but to my utter
aitmiiiliuiciit I had not finished the first
bottle before everv ulcer had been healed.
To the present time I have used live lit
tles and have received more benefit than
from all the rest combined ; and I am nt
jstivd that l'. li. V i the most wonderful
bl)d purifier ever before known, and I
all alllictcd young men to try one mn-i-lebotlle
and be convinced. lean truly
far 1 think it the best medicine in the world
J Z. T. IIALLEKTOX.
Macon, (la., May 1, 1886.
VERY NERVOUS.
Kor many vearn I liave been afflicted
with Rheumatism combined with Rome Kid
ney Trouble. Indigestion finally added to
mr miser? and 1 won became feeble and
verv nervous, and my whole xystem was
prostrated. Srver-I phyrticiaiis were em
ployed and nu -lerous patent medicine re
torted to without benefit. After tcinr so
many testimonial extolling the wonderful
merit of II. 11. II., 1 commenced Uh une and
the effect was like mauic Hheumatic pains
vesacd, my kidneys were relieved and my
institution improve! at once, and I cheer
fully recommend it to other who may be
hiti.Ilarlv afflicted.
M iss s. Tom li xso.w
Atlanta, (2a May 4, 1S8G.
TO THE PUBLIC.
t'AKLoTTK, N. C, April 21, 1836.
After usin li. li. 15. I iinheitalinly state
that it did more ;ool for Kidney I'omplaiut
th in all othei remedies combineJ. Its ac
tion is speedy and 1 cheerfully recommend
it for Kidnev Iferangements.
T. li. CALLAHAN'.
All who d "aire full Information ahout
tb muse and cnr of IJbod I'oiMon,
Mcroful.t tnl Morofulou'4 Swe!Mnsr, CU
ci, Sor, Kheuinati-in, Kidny :ni
plaint, Cararrh. etc , n secure hy mail
fr-, a coov ot our li-paj; I il utrt rt
Uo..K ot Wonders, filled with tb not
wonderful and Mtartllnjt proof tver b
Utru known. Addre,
KLOOI) BALM (-O..
Atlanta. Ja.
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13 e rea v e m c n t S h a x en cd.
It it ri.bt that any virtuoua woman
U i l-e l. lt hoineler-n and unpro-
tecte ,? And yet bow mivy uuch ihre
re J a i-d whv ?
Tliro r cinparati vf-1 v few homes
entirelv fiee Ir in incunioravce., ty
nmrt(cat;e or .thfrwi; and in very
tivinv eaei, on Mi" deces of th bus
lnU an. I Inilier, th 'ife and children
nrm forced trom toeir loiij; chtirisned
Hbodc ll bad his propeity nearlt
jaid for. but diet ; ant in the confusion
rf his anViire, or tbe nant f goo,! man
Micenient on th part ot th wife, or ex
cuior, ht lanuly loses every hinir. A
fw bundre! or a fw thouaand dollaia
4f ready money at hia death, would
have aavd the hm-stead 'or them, free
from incumbrance. Ilw lack of that
fw hundred it thousand dollars which
a life policy would have procured dot
the w uiow Ler all.
And now, in alject poverty, she can
carcely endur the retlection ihat a
comfortable aiibitne wan within her
reach, and et is nut hers!
Lonely, !he frequent the churchyard,
but only to bring Ut freah r-uienibrfloce
her folly in oj poiiiir, or being in titter
nt to, an assurance upon her huaband'a
life, yhe blames herxelf, and forcibly
illuatrates, in her experience, tbe folJow
lug lines :
WORD to wives.
' So the stuck eagle, stretched along tUe
p ain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar
again.
Viewed her oun father in the fatal dark ,
And winged the abaft that quivered in
hex heart !
"Keen were her pangs; but keener, far,
to feel
She nursed the pinion that impelled the
ateel :
While ihe name plumaire that had
wanned the nest,
Drank the Ust drop of her bleeding
breaat !"
If you are such a one take warning
before, it ii too late, if not for vour own
oake, for the aake of yoor litt'e ouee.
Make it impossible for tha eif in flic tad
orrowa to come upou jou, by uaeana of
the proffers of Life Insurance.
J. R. YOUNG,
Life amd Fire Insokanck AttKXT,
Henderson, N. C.
Podcies written in first class compa
nies only.
SOME TESTIMONIALS.
Extracts From Letters Written
by Tontine Policy Holders of
the Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the United States.
It affords me pleasure to Ustify to the
prompt and satisfactory manner in
which Ti KquiTABLB settle Tontine
policies. I find, after ten veara of as
surance, that I am out of pocket only
about 18 per cent, of premiums paid,
equivalent to an anaual dividend of over
SO per cent.; a result that conid be
achloved only by the most careful and
u pWior m a n a ge men t.
Kv. Samuki. Mkaib. D. D..
hicsjro. III.
J. R-Yoitno.
Liyi axd Firi Iksurascs Aomkt,
,. ilenderaoo, N. C.
Policies wiitteu in firat-claas oouipa-
dies only.
The "WigrRler's" Woe.
Thos. P. Monfort in Independence Demo
crat. In the Swampvillc
last week, we find the
WiggUr, of
following in-
teresting local :
Last week we failed to get oar paper
out, and we feel that we should ex
plain the reason of iti non-appearance.
While we were up at Dyke's saloon to
see a man on pressing business mat
ters, Col. Jones' old sorrel sow rooted
our office door down, and getting in
side upset the imposing stone and
pied the forms. She then turned the
galley rack over and scattered the type
over the floor, after which she ate a
keg of ink, and when we returned she
was up on the press eating the tympum.
We hurried inside to drive her out,
when she jumped down off the press
and took after us and after racing
around the room two or three times
we were forced to skin up the wall and
seek safety on the joists. It was a
narrow escape, however, as when we
looked down we saw the old sow com
placently eating a leg of our pants
which she had torn off as we started
up the wall. This was about noon,
and after spending the entire afternoon i
in hallooing for help and soothing the
old sow, we were somewhat relieved
when, just about sunduwn, the old rip, j
after eating everything she could chew, I
took up our subscription book and ;
trotted off toward home, thus giving
us an opportunity to comedown off
the joist, the sharp edge of wich was
becoming uncomfortable. We gave j
chase in order to recover our subscrip
tion book, and after running five
blocks, the old hazel splitter dropped
it, but not before she had eaten up all
the names of our subscribers. In the
chase we lost our hat, and one leg of
our pants being already gone, the
crowd that gathered to witness the
scene showed an inclination to treat
us in a light and jesting manner, even
going so far as to make remarks cal
culated to grind on the sensibilities of
i cultured and refined gentleman as
well as a scholarly editor of a great
jopular educator. Some ot our citi
zens so far forgot our importance and
the dignity of our calling as to ruth
lessly and unfeelingly engage in
making bets on the race, while others
indulged in such rude remarks as,
" Get there, old Redtop," " Go it old
bow legs," " Whoop it, old bandy
shanks." In the mad excitement tf
the race when we had almost over
taken the old sorrel sow, and was just
about to lay hold of her tail with a vice
like grip, when Lol btokes old gray
mule, whose presence we had not no
ticed, let drive with both hind feet
and plowed a couple of furrows through
our hair taking off a couple of strips
of scalp. We think our readers after
jierusing this will be inclined to lie
lenient and forgive us for missing our
last issue. In order to avoid any ac
cident in the future we are having a
fence built around our office. As some
of our readers will probably remember
about a year ago an old red barrow
belonging to Major Blake came in
and turned the desk over on which
we were engaged in writing an able
and exhaustive review of the growth
and progress of our city. We don't
hold any enmity toward Col. Jones,
but we do feel that he ought to make
an effort to restrain his old sorrel sow
from destroying our office, and if she
is not restrained, we say now, she and
us can not live peaceably in the same
town.
Hon. V. H. H. Cowles, of the
North Carolina delegation in Congress,
speaks encouragingly of Democratic
success in the State election. He is
represented by the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Star, as
saying :
Wuh the promise of the slight re
duction in the internal revenue tax
which has been promised us, North
Carolina will be as solid as a brick for
the Democracy this year. The peo
ple down there think President Cleve
land is their great defender and
champion. His recent tariff message
is taking well with them and is grow
iDg more popular every day. They
account for his position on internal
revenue taxation on the ground that
he considered it of secondary impor
tance to the tariff question. They do
not think that it means that he would
oppose by his vote any measure of
relief for the internal revenue system.
Taking the whole political field into
consideration, the President has grown
and strengthened in the hearts of the
people of North Carolina ever since
his inauguration, and he was never so
popular as he is now. Things are
looking bright down there now, and
we will give the Republicans such a
beating this fall that we will drive
them out of the State.
The man who would not live always,
generally tries all ways to live when
the scratch comes.
MY WIFE.
BT WM. J. DAWSOX.
She Is my wife, and all the livelong day
1 think of her,
And in the deep oblivion of the night
I dream of her;
When she is n.ar a sweet and tender ealm
Falls softly on my heart with soothing
balm.
Like the uiurmur'd sound of an angel's
salm
Pleading for man.
She is my life, if love is life's author,
Guardian aud friend.
Guiding my feet from the pitfalls of woe
E'er to the end.
When she is far my heart is sore oppressed,
And sadly beats against my weary breast,
Like prisoned bird that seeks its distant
neat
With restless wing.
She is my soul, if from the soul there leaps
That holy tire
That scorches at its birth the poisoned
glance
Of base desire.
She lights me as of old o'er desert sand
As 'luring vales of sense was lit that band
That followed Moses to the promised land
Of rest aud peace.
Ah ! wife of mine, my wife, my soul, my
all,
Ie ever near,
May chilling shadow of thy loss ne'er fall
Upon me here ;
But down the opening aisles of future years
Be by my side to quell tbe rising tears
That How from hidden springs of doubts
and fears
Within ry breast.
Detroit Free Trett.
The Local Press.
Durham Recorder.
A town cannot do too much for its
local press. It is the office of a news
paper to represent well the interest of
its time : reflect the sentiments of its
locality ; guard the rights of the peo
ple among whom it is published ; and
disseminate sound principles; honest in
its correction of abuses, and fearless
in maintaining truth and justice. To
successfully do this the people must
take a lively interest in their home
paper subscribe for it ; advertise in
it ; talk it up. A town without live
newspapers is a dead place.
View the matter in another light.
The publisher has his capital in the
enterprise. His time and energies are
spent in serving the public. His sup
port, and the return for the outlay in
the enterprise, is based upon the pat
ronage lie receives. Better the pat
ronage, better the paper. The united
efforts of all enables him to improve
his journal and more satisfactorily
please his readers.
Few people, outside of a newspaper
office, know what a paper is called
upon to endure. As the Burlington
Hawkey e has well said, the press en
dures the affliction of dcadheadism
from the pulpit, the bar and the stage ;
from corporatisni, societies and in
dividuals. It is the truth. It is the
common idea and generally expected
to yield its interests. It is requested
to give strength to the weak, eyes to
j the blind, clothes to the naked, bread
to the hungry. It is asked to cover
up infirmities, hide weaknesses, wink
at quacks, bolster up dull, sap-headed
politicians and flatter the vain. It is
thought to lie the duty of the press to
spend several dollars in puffing a ten
cent article with no return for the
trouble and the expense. It is, in
short, to be all things to all men ; and
if it looks for any reward it is de
nounced as mean and sordid. There
is no interest under the whole heavens
that is expected to give so much to
society without pay or thanks as the
press.
Talraage's Income.
Talmage, the Brooklyn partor, ed
itor and lecturer, has a larger
income from his work than per
haps any other brain worker in the
United States. As the Tabernacle
preacher, he receives a princely salary
and as a purely business proposition it
pays the official board of that church
to employ him at $25,000 a year, as
he draws the biggest crowds in the
city. The great Tabernacle is packed
every Sunday, rain or shine, and the
basket collections are, of course, very
large. The same- sermon that is
preached to the Tabernacle audience
is sold to a newspaper syndicate and
is published in about 1,000 papers
in Europe and America and now a
syndicate has begun to handle" his
" Friday night talks." He is editor
of Frank Leslie's Snndy Magazine,
and for this work he receives several
thousand a year for his popularity. Pond,
the amusement agent, paid Talmage
$50 a lecture more than he paid the
Plymouth pastor. He was a "bigger
card." Beccher and Talmaee were
always noted lor their industry, but in
the last two or three years, since the
demand for Talraage has gone ahead
of time, the vast amount of work
that he gets through with in a
week is simply prodigious. He keeps
his private secretary and stenographer
very busy, for his daily mail is almost
as heavy as that received at the White
House.
Read
LtAr.
and advertise ia the Gold
TOBACCO CULTURE.
How to Prepre the Plant Bed.
By Capt. R. B. DTis, wf Hickory, X. C.I
To the planteran early and abun
dant supply of tobacco plants is the
thing of prime importance. To se
cure this the seed may be sown at any
time between the 15th of December
and the 15th of March, the earlier the
better, and allotting xoo square yards
of seed-bed to every 10,000 plants
that will be needed. The gTound
selected for this purpose should be
virgin soil, of sandy texture, rich and
moist, with full expomre to the sun,
but sheltered to the North and West
by rising ground or growing timber,
against the cold wind of early spring.
Such spots can be readily found in
wooded hollows, at the foot of hills,
and near to or alon side some water
course. Other things being equal, the
farther into the woods the sjkm. selected
is the better in order to escape the bug.
The ground having been well cho
sen, the next thing is to rake it cleanly
and then burn it thoroughly so as to
kill all germs of vegetation. The
burning can be done at a single blast,
if dene with dry brush, heaped upon
the entire bed a height of some four
feet. A better but costlier method is
to burn with wood laid upon green
poles, which serve the purpose of ven
tilation, which case the wood should
be piled the whole length of the bed,
and of convenient width, say six feet,
and after the pile has been well kindled, !
it should be allowed to burn some two
hours, or until the poles underneath
are burnt up. The burning wood and
fire coals should now be moved by
using old hoes fastened upon long
handles, and again spread a convenient
width and fresh wood added, which
should burn until the ground under
neath has been burnt ss thoroughly as
before, and so on until the entire bed
has been burnt oyer. So soon as the
ground has cooled enough to walk
upon it, and without removing the
ashes, it should be; broken deeply and
finely with the mattock, care being
taken not to invert the soil, nd then
chopped with weeding hoes and raked
instil clear of roots and well pulverized
lor which reason land should never
be burnt when too wet.
The bed is now ready for seeding.
The variety of seed recommended is
the Yellow Oiinoca. The quantity
sown should be one and a half table
spoonfuls to every 100 square yards.
Cireat care should be taken to sow the
seed as regularly as possible so as to
prevent some spots from being too
thin, and what is worse, other spoots
from being too thick. To do so the
seed should be carefully measured and
then thoroughly mixed in a convenient
quantity of dry ashes, and the mix
ture divided into two equal parts. The
bed should be marked off into conven
ient sowing breadths by lines four feet
apart, and sowed entirely over with
one-half the seed in one direction, and
then over again with the other half in
the opposite direction, the sower re
tricing his steps. The seed should be
left upon the surface and neither hoed
nor raked into the soil, but trodden
in with the foot, or pressed in with the
back of a weeding hoe, or better still,
by passing a light roller over the bed.
To prevent drifting or puddling of the
seed by washing rains, where the
ground is rolling, trenches slightly in
clined and two inches deep and four
feet apart should be made with the
mattock across the bed. Where the
ground is flat and subject to being sob
bed, it should be thoroughly drained,
as nothing drowns more easily than
the tobacco plant.
F?r the three-fold purpose of warmth
moisture and fertility, the bed should
now be top dressed with a covering
half inch thick ot good stable manure
broken fine, the fresher the better, but
in any case free of grass-seed. When
such stable manure is not convenient,
that from the hen house or hog pen
will answer, top-dressing. If neither
of these is at hand, some strongly
ammoniated fertilizer should be ap
plied at the rate of half bushel of it to
every 100 square yards, and raked into
the soil before seeding. The lied should
now be thickly covered with fine brush
to prevent both drying and freezing of
the soil, by which the plants are either
checked in their growth or lifted out
by the roots.
The next thing to be thought ot is
to guard against the ravages of the to-
bacco bug, an insect wmcn Dy a pop-
jular misnomer is called
"The Fly,"
which makes its appearance about the
first of April, and for which when once
it gets possession of a plant-bed, no
remedy has yet been faund. None of
the insect poisons, such as carbolic
insect poisons,
acid or kerosene oil, have any effect
upon it. A partial preventive is to sow
the borders of the bed thickly with black
mustard. It springs up thickly, and
upon it this bug loves to feed. A still
better preventive is to shut the bug out
by a fence around the bed one foot
high, built of 12 inch plank nailed to
pegs driven into the ground, with a (
little earth pressed aganist the bottom
of the planks so as to make the fence
bug proof. Such a fence or cold frame
does the additional good of keeping
the bed warmer . and moistcr and .
should never be omitted. !
Ordinarily and after early seeding
the plants will begin to show them- 1
selves about the first oi March, at which
time aaadditional half spoonful of
S a
seed for every 100 square yards, should
De sown as ai nrsc. 00 soon as me
plants are well up and have begun to
grow, they should be pushed as rapidly
as possible by top-dressing the bed
before each successive rain with some
good fertilizer, at the rate ot one gal
lon of it to every ioo square yards,
mixed with an equal quantity of damp
earth. The fertilizer should never be
applied while tbe plants are wet with
either dew or rain, for fear of scalding
them. Dry leaves and young grass
should be hand-picked off the bed.
But the covering of brush should not
be permanently removed until the
plants are nearly large enough to set,
but should then be, in order to toughen
them. And after it has been removed,
1 ...u : 1 r .
aim wuiic wanuix 101 it bcusuii iu
transplant, should the plants begin to
parch from drought, the bed should be .
well wartered and again covered with
green boughs laid upon a scaffolding
two or three feet above the growing
plants. I have never known this pro
tection to iail in even the severest
drought. But after a rain this shelter
should be removed in order to accus
tom the plants to the heat of the sun.
A FRIGHTFUL BLIZZARD.
Such Weather in the West as was
Never Belore Known Great Suf
fering and Loss of Life.
Just to show something of the effects
of a genuine blizzard in the West, we
clip from the newspapers a few dis
patches of the 1 2th the first one Irom
St. Paul, Minnesota, as follows :
Railroad men agree that the storm
of to-day is the worst ever known "in
the North-west for their business. It
xtends from the Rocky Mountains to
Lake Michigan, but its worst effects
are tclt in Dakota ana Minnesota.
Everywhere it has been accompanied
by high wind which drifts the snow
badly, and in northern Dakota with
below zero temperature it assumes the
character of a genuine blizzard. The
railroads had hardly finished clearing
their tracks from the previous storm,
and that of to-day has aiisolutely
blocked all the small roads, though
the through. lines are battling bravely
against the elements to keep trains
moving. Trains on the roads to Chi
cago are one to nine hours late, but
all the main lines are still open and
Eastern trains left as uual to-night.
All freights on the Northern Pacific
and Manitoba lines have been aban
doned, and no trains were sent out on
these roads to-night. The Kansas
Citv train on the Omaha road was also
abandoned. Supt. Egan, of the Man-
itoba line, s;ys the passenger trains
are laid up at stations where there is
plenty to eat. The St. Paul and Du
luth road is trying to keep its main
line open, but has abandoned the
branches."
A special from Huron, Dakota,
said: "The wind is blowing fifty
miles an hour. The air is so full of :
snow that one is unable to see fifty
feet at any time. Some unthinking
teacher dismissed young school chil
dren, some of whom have to go four
or five blocks across the open land.
Five or six children got lost. Whis-1
ties were blown, bells rung and people
turned out a.nd took long ropes and ,
walked fifteen or twenty abreast back '
and forth over the ground. 1 hey have
found two, but the others hive not yet
been discovered. The mercury is four
degrees below zero, and has fallen
twenty-eight degrees since 10 o'clock."
A Pierre, Dakota, special said the
wind blew sixty miles an hour, and it
was impossible to see one hundred
feet.
Minot, Dakota, reported the storm
raging there and the temperature iS
below zero. All railway travel sus-
pended. Jamestown, Dak., reported
no trains moving on the main line of
the Northern Pacific Groton, Dak.,
reported the wind blowing a gale, the
mercury 20 below, and impossible to
see more than two rods.
Sioux City, Iowa, says the blizzard
there was the worst in years.
The following graphic report of the
blizzard and its work was sent to . the
associated press from Sl Paul, Minn.,
under date of the 1 6th:
The terrible snow storm which has
swept over the North-west, blockading
railroads in five States, is now over
and the victims of its fury are being
counted- The pitiful list is growing
almost every hoar. It is not improb
able when the. record is completed it
will show a hundred lives sacrificed to
v
the awful fury of the blizzard. Next
to this the worst blizzard that the
North-west ever "experienced occurred
January 7, 8 and 9, 1S73. In that
storm seventy people were frozen to
death and thousands of dollars worth
of property was destroyed. . The pres
ent storm promises to be even more
terrible in its results. It came without
warning. At sunrise last Wednesday
Dakota never had more lovely winter
weather. The air was clear as crystal.
The wind was from the South, warm
ana oaimy, ana betore the sun was
high in the sky a decided thaw set in
Farmers took advantage of the beaut i
ful weather to go to town, to draw
wood, hay, etc. About noon a cloud
was seen along the North-western hori
zon, lying close to the ground, but
stretching from West to North in a
dark semi-eircle. Little attention was
paid to it, but in an hour the cloud
had swept over the country, the sun
was obscured, snow was falling fast,
and a gale was sweeping from the
North-west with terrible fury. A bliz
zard had begun. The mercury fell
rapidly. By 5 o'clock it was 15 de
grees below zero, and next morning it
registered 30 degrees below. All the
while the wind increased in furv, the
snow fell thicker and the large amount
of snow that was already on the ground
was blown into powder and hurled
along by the wind. On the prairie an
object forty feet distant could not be
seen. A man's voice could not be
heard six feet distant. The air was
full of snow as fine as flour and the
roaring of the wind and the darkness
caused by so much snow in the air
made the scene tbe most dismal, drear
and forsaken that man ever looked
upon. Every railroad in Dakota and
Minnesota, and many Iowa, Nebras
ka and Wisconsin roads were blocked.
The telegraph wires everywhere were
down and it was not until Saturday
that the full extent and awful results
of the storm became apparent. The
telegraph hourly brings the most piti
ful stories of suffering, terrible strug
gles for life and heroic deeds by brave
men and women of the storm -stricken
sections that have 'never been equaled.
Mary Connell, a little school teacher
near Cavour, started home with two of
her pupils, a boy and a girl. The boy
left them and perished. Miss Connell
put her dress folds about the little girl
and made her walk all night, shelter
ing her charge with her body. They
were found next morning alive but
horribly frozen. Another teacher,
Miss Jacobson, near Stoloff, started
home with a little girl. Both perished.
When found, Miss Jacobson was
crouched in a little hollow in the
ground with her arms about the little
girl and her dress skirt wrapped about
her. Her own bonnet was off her head
and her hand clutched her dress at her
throat but there was a smile on her
face. Two children, boy and cirl, of
J. Hutchinson, near Gary, were lost
going home from school. Twenty-five
men at once srartcd on a search for
them and the mother could not be kept
from going along. The poor woman
was with the party that found them.
They were lound close together and
the boy had his sister's hands between
his own. Thursday forenoon, just be
fore the bizzard struck this point, a
party of seven farmers, about twenty
five miles North-east of here, started
for their homes, having been here with
wheat. The report comes that tbe
bodies of four of them have been found
dead. Searching parties are out look
ing for the others. Mrs. Knutzen, oi
Rushmore, was found frozen to death
within fortv feet of her door. Her
husband was absent. Becoming un
easy, she started in search of him, los
0
ing her life in the act
These are but few of many terrible
of the had tfce appeanillce of
. . ... . m lffnMlrftn. ome
stories which have come in. A num
from suffocation. Some
had torn their clothing away from their
throats as though struggling for breath.
During a genuine blizzard the air is
filled with fine ice dust, driven with
terrific force, which chokes the unfor-
t xsva
; tunate victim in a short time if.he at-
I tmic tn ctfinrl atalnf if.
j td of lhe l6th from Minnc.
y .
rL. Tournar s xtsscA list of bliz-
, ri.Mw n, rlearl in D;
zard fatalities shows 97 dead in Dakota,
12 in Minnesota, 6 in Iowa, 17 in
Nebraska and 3 in Montana, toUl 135,
besides 55 reported missing.
Dakota has just had the worst bliz
zard she has ever experienced. It is
much worse than tbe one in 1873, in
which seventy lives with many thusand
dollars worth of property were destroy
ed. Every railroad in Dakota and
Minnesota and many in Iowa and
Wisconsin were blocked, all the tele
graph wires were down and not until
Sitorday did the amount of damages
begin to be made known. This storm
began on the iath. The most pitiful
stories of suffering are being telegraph
ed hourly.
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1'UOFESSIONAL CAKDS
T.
M. PITTMAS,
ATTOUNKY -A.T LAW,
HENDERSON, N. C.
rawmpt attention to all professional but.
ess. Practices In tka uitm ni rH.r.i
our St.
Rsft-rs bjr permission to rowBoercial Tf a.
UonaJ Bank and K. I. Lsit nroSChtr
lotte, N. C,: Alfred Williams A Co., KaJrtfth.
N. C.; D. T. Cooper and Jas. H. Lawtssr!
H endsrson. N. C.
umoe: or Jm H. Lssslter A Son's store.
nov & l e.
1KEW J. HAltUIrf,
ATTORN 13 V AT r.A W
HENDERSON, N. C.
Practices In th
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Supreme sr.d Federal courts of the Htoto.
Office: in Harris Law building, next to
Court Huum.
L. C. EDWARD, A. . WORTH AM.
Uirord. JS . C. Henderson. N. C
JMWAltDS & TVOUTUAM,
ATTORNKYH AT I. AW.
HENDERSON, N. C.
Offer their tervlrM to t li nMmU nr
county. Cd. KUwanls will attend all Lbs
V,our" ance county, and wilt come to
Henderson at any ami all times whsu his
assistance may be needed by his partner.
marcn jv a.
W. H. HAT. A. r. Tnmrnrtv
AY & ZOLLlCOFFKlf,
ATTOUNKYH AT IAW,
HENDERSON, N. C.
Vraotlce in the courts of Vance. Granville.
Warrnn. IlallfUx and Northampton, mi! tn
the Hnpi erne and Federal courts of the HloU.
CnVe: Jn Harris' law bulldlnr nexttotha
coavthoui e. irh. V-6 1.
The Bank of Hndcrson
HENDERSON, VANCE COUKTT, H. C.
Coaor&l aaklar. bclasft asi
Colleclloa !
FIT MoBTdAGB LOANS X ntiatl
cn good farms for term or jeare, la
sum of $bW aud upward, at 8 per cent
inter eat mm) moderate charge. Applj to
WJ!. II. 8. ISUKUWYJf,
At the Bank of lleudeiao.
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M.H.8. BURti A TN ,
ATTORNKY AT LAW
.HEXDEItSOX, N. C. .
Persona desiring to consult na prrfos
sloaall, will find modal vat to 7 oSeo la
Too Bauk of Henderson Building
JH. C. 8. BOYD,
Dental
rjp jf Surgeon,
Satisfaction gusrsnteed as to work and
pric w. Offlc oror Parker k Close' store
Main stree fsb
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DENTIST
IIEXDEBeON,
N.C
9 Office over E.
Main Stroet
DatlC Store,
tr r. 25, 1 .
Fashionable Tailoring and Dye
ing Establishment.
Balu tasdot erosr la aaj stylo. So
loet Uaa ot aajaalsa aaot Mart.
WorkoMsul fmaraaM. Ilowtada
od a dyotM defsartoaaot Ut my totoV
oeaav aod mm make tsdod clotfc look
moat as woll a now. PvUbb aoo mod
erase and will bo U4 of lao patraaoC
of thooo who ao inclined to sooTmraf
homo vftsrytiao. 1 a sop soar old stand
up stairs ovss Ursflsor'a stoss.
aWaoftfeUT.
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oct. 27 1 1. liofidofWHt. N. C
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