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O "Little drops of print er's ink, A littJ; type well dis played, Make gT(t merchant ,y building up tliwr trade." o " Lack ol business prin ciple, Iriscardiaji printer's ink Durst the inu of bnai- I1C6H, And Kcw Lis credit SINK." -0- -o- THAD R. MANNING, Pablisher. " Ojrqujjstj, Crolizsta., Bjbatte3st?s Blessings Atteistd Her""'1! I SDSCRIPTION $1.50 Cash. VOL. IX. " HENPERSOX, y. C, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1890. yq 23T North Carolina's Fayorite. j Old Nick, i North Carolina's famous brand of PURE OLD WHISKIES Have been manufactured on the same plantation for the past 122 Years. 122 Rye and Corn Whiskey,: iFeacli anfl ApIe Braufty ON HANI). New 1, 2, 3 and 4 years old. Shipped n any quantity. Write for price list. Old Nick Whiskey Co., (S-jccesBors to Jos. Williams) PANTHER CREEK, Yadkin Co., N. C. & Danville E. R. Co. CONDENSED SCHEDULE, IN EKFFCT FEBRUARY i6th, 1890. DAILY. Mill h)i;THiiOUNi). No. 50. Vo. 5'J. Lv. Richmond ;5 00 p in 2 HO a m " Buikeville " 00 p in 4 2!) a m Keysville 5 41 p 111 .r) 08 a in " Danville 8 40 pin 8 03am Ar. iJreensboro 10 27 p ni 9 42 a 111 Lv . ;oldsboro 2 20 p ni t " 00 p m Ar. Raleigh 4 40 p ni 'JOOpra Lv. RaleiKh 4 45 p m 1 00 a m " Durham 5 48pm 2 55 a in Ar. Durham 8 20 p m 7 M a ni Lv. Winston-Salem t" 30 P n 15 a Lv. C.teenslyoio 10 37 p 111 9 50 a ni Ar. Salisbury 12 20 a in 11 18 a 111 A r. Statesville 1 40 a m 12 09 p m " Asheville 7 22 a in 4 27 p in " Hot Springs 9 33 a m 615pm Lv. Salisbury 12 32 a 111 11 23 a m Ar. Charlotte 2 05 a 111 12 40 p m " Spartanburg 4 51 a in 3 38pm " Greenville 5 50 a ni 4 40 pm " Atlanta 11 00 a in 9 40 p m Lv. Charlotte 2 20 a m 1 00 p m A r. Columbia 0 :) a m 510pm " Augusta lo :) a m 9 00 p m datly: NoltTIU'.orXD. No. 51 . No. 53. Lv. Atmasta 010pra 8 50 a ni ' Columbia 10 35 p 111 12 50 p in Ar. Charlotte 3 13 a 111 515pm Lv. Atlanta 0 00 p m 7 10 a m Ar. Greenville 12 35 a in 148pm ' Spartanburg 1 39 am 2 52 p m Charlotte 4 25 am 5 30 p m " Salisbury G 02 a m 7 05 p ni Lv. Hot Springs 11 10 p ro 12 25 p m " Asheville 12 40 a in 2 07 p m " Statesville 5 02 a in ttOOpni Ar. Salisbury 0 53 a 111 C 50 p 111 Lv. Salisbury 0 07 a m 7 12 p m Ar. Greensboro 7 45 a m 8 40 p m Ar. Winston-Salem 11 40 a m 12 30 a in iLv. Greensboro 9 45 a m 11 00 p m Ar. Durham 12 01 p m 5 00 a m " Raleigh 1 05 p ni 7 45 a m Lv. Raleigh 1 05 p m 19 00 a in Ar. tloldsboro 3 00 p in 12 50 p m Lv. Greensboro 7 50 a m 8 50 p m Ar. Danville 9 32 a in 10 20 p m " Kevsville 12 45 p in 150am " Rurkeville 1 35 p m 2 45 a m ' Richmond 3 45 p m 5 15 a ni Between West Point, Richmond & Raleigh. Via. Keysville, Oxford and Durham. 54audl02T "T4TXTIONS7 55 and 103. 80O 40 11 00 1 00 2 05 2 25 2 32 2 45 3 (Ml 3 20 3 35 3 50 3 58 4 22 a m a 111 a m p m p ui p in P ni p ni p 111 p in p ni p m Lv. West Point Richmond Richmond Rurkeville Keysville Fort Mitchell Finneywood Chasewood Five Forks Clarksville Soudan Bullock's Stovall Oxford Ar. Lv. Ar. 0 10 p m 11 45 p m 4 40 p ill 2 45 p m 2 00 p m 12 58 p m 12 47 p m 12 30 p ni 12 10 p m 11 55 a m 11 40 a m 11 24 a m 11 15 a m 10 40 a m Ar. Lv. p m p m Ar. Lv, 4 00pm ."15pm Lv. Oxford Dabney llendarcon Ar Lv 10 00 a m 9 25 a m 8 55 a in Ar. 4 45 p m 4 22 p in 4 45 p m 4 55 p ni Lv. Oxford Stem's Lyon's Holloway Durham Cary Raleigh Ar Lv 10 40 a ill 10 1G a ni 10 09 a ni 9 43 a m 925 am 8 33 a ni 8 15 a ni 5 17 p in 5 30 p m G39pm 7 00pm lAr. Lv. t Daily except Sunday. Daily. except Monday. Dailv Additional train leaves Oxford daily ex empt Sunday 11 00 a m., arrive Hendeison 12 05 pm., returning leave Henderson 2 10 p m., daily except Sunday, arrive Oxford 3 15 p in. So. 50, leaving Golclsboro 2 20 p m and Raleigh 4 45 p m dally, makes connection t Durham with No. 19, leaving at 0 00 p m daily, except Sunday for Oxford, Hender son and all points on O. & H., O. & C. and It. & M. roads. Passenger coaches run through between vest romtand ualeigli, via Keysville, on Nos. 54 and 102, and 55 and 103. Xos. 51 and 53 connect at Richmond trom and to West Point and Baltimore daily ex cept Sunday, is os. 50 and 51 connect at Goldsboro with trains to and from Morehead Citv and Wil mington.andat Selma to and from Fayette ville. No. 52 connects at Greensboro for Fay- eueviue. No 53 conned at Selma for Wilson. N.C Nos. 50 and 51 make close connection at University Station with trains to and from Cliapel Hill, except Sundays. SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE. On trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buf fet Sleeper between Atlanta and New York, Danville and Augusta and Greens- ioro. via Asheville to Morristown. Tenn. On 52 and 53, Pullman Buffet Sleeper between Washington and New Orleans via Montgomery, and between Washington and Birmingham, Richmond and Greens koro, Raleigh and Greensboro and between Washington and Augusta, and Pullman Buffet Sleepers between Vashington and Asnevuie ana not Springs. through tickets on sale at principal stations to all points. For rates, local and through time tables, iy 10 any agent or tne company, or to OL H A AS, J AS. L.rAVLOR. traffic Manager. Genn. Pass. Agent W. A. TURK, Div. Pass. Agent, Raleigh, N. C. WAITING FOR MAY. Tis weary waiting for May, my dear; Tia weary waiting for Kay, When never a breath of the warm south wind Comes to open a green leaved spray; Sunshine for some, with Its glow and light; And for some gray sides but It must be right. Tis weary lorlng too well, my deer. And finding it all in vain; 'Tis ever the hand we have clung to most Can stab with the sharpest pain. And hope dies bani; but the old wounds stay. Heal them, hide them, as best we may. My hair was glossy and bright, my dear, When I watched and waited for May; Twas silvered long ere I learned to know It never would come my way. Yes, I know tbe May blooms wither and fall; To have never had thea it worst of aU. I should like to have had a time, ray dear. To look back on at close of strife, And warm myself in a ghostly Bun Which once had color and Ufa. Oh, never had light such a goldesi hase As that which shines through the mist of day! The shadows are falling fast, my dear; The night is coming soon; And I am hastening fast to a land That needs nor sun nor moon; And I think beyond the grave I'll see Sunshine and springtime kept for me. Chambers' Journal. A Legal Bed of Hoses. The justices of the supreme court are not to be blamed if they are vain. All day long they sit upon the grandest throne in the United States, surrounded by more show of deference and honor than even the President receives, with theatrical curtains of crimson silk draped behind them and a great gold eagle over their heads, with page boys at their elbow, venerable lawyers bowing before them, velvet carpets to hush the fall of feet upon the court room floor, negro doorkeepers watching over noiseless doors, a dim religious light in the semi circular room, and a never ceasing throng of awed citizens of this and other lands reverentially staring them out of coun tenance. The Libyan lion at a circus excites very little more veneration and awe from the spectators. I should think that the justices must feel sometimes how like wild beasts on exhibition they are. Perhaps they don't think of it at all, for one grows accustomed in time to anything, even to being a supreme court judge. Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. American Politeness. In America politeness goes, as it should. before all else. One rule can be laid down for general observance where person's ideas of the proper thing to do are unsettled let him make himself at home. He should do so in a manner to create some respect for home, unlike a young man who called at the office of a noted Philadelphian, somewhat famous for his straightforward utterances. "Make yourself at home for a few minutes " said the owner of the office to his visitor. The young man, having seated him self somewhat comfortably, but mistak ing a table for a footstool, responded cheerily: "I always make myself at home." "Then I pity the people at home," vu tha quick response. Philadelphia Press, iteportorlal Koodoos. "Speaking of Zoo babies," said Mr. Stephen, the superintendent of the gar den, "do you know that newspaper re porters hoodoe them? It is a fact. "As soon as any of our young animals get written up they die. Look at our giraffe. And when the grizzly bears were born we said not a word about them in public. One we left with his mother and the other I took and began to raise on a bottle. "One day one of the newspaper men came out and saw the grizzly baby get ting its bottle. He wrote it up at length and the little thing couldn't stand it. died at once. And so when we have more babies out here we will keep them under cover until they get big enough to stand the hoodoo of newspaper publi city." Cincinnati Times-Star. Edison's Little Joke. When the phonograph was a newer in vention than it is at the present time. Edison pnt one of the machines in clock and placed it in a guest chamber. Being a great lover of a practical joke he also placed a friend in the guest cham ber one night. Just as his friend, was disrobing he heard a voice exclaim "Eleven o'clock; one hour more." It U needless to say that slumber did not de scend upon the eyelids of the visitor during that hour. At midnight the voice exclaimed: "Twelve o'clock; pre pare to die! This was too much for the visitor, and he sprang from his bed and rushed to the library, where Edison and his friends were waiting patiently ex pecting his appearance. The invention was soon explained and quiet restored. Kansas City Times. Nearly Dressed to Death. The other day a woman rushed frantic ally into a Burlington, Vt., drug store bearing in her arms an apparently life less baby. The mother wept and moaned, and carried on at a terrible rate while chafing the little hands, and begged the drnggist to save the little one. A by stander took the child, when it was found that the sole cause of the trouble was the number of wrappings with which the fond mother had incased the infant, literally choking him into insen sibility. In a few minutes the child re covered and the mother went home hap py. New York Telegram. No cne ever saw a man and woman arm in arm in the streets of a Spanish city without knowing they were foreign ers. A Spanish husband, even, never takes bis wife's arm in public Nor would a Spanish woman receive a male visitor alone. Such is the system of pro tection exercised over women by hidalgo, grandee, tradesman and peasant in the sunny land of romance. At Fisk's restaurant in Middletown, Conn., an old time belle's slipper is shown that was made 150 years ago, and had been shut up all that time in a secret room of an ancient Middletown man sion. The slipper is two fingers in width, and is an evidence that our great grandmothers -were vain of dainty little God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold. His treasure-house is not the mint but the mine. Anon. A WOMAN'S ENTERPRISE. IMPORTANT AND PROMISING INDUSTRY YET IN ITS INFANCY. AN How a Persevering Woman Overcame Obstacles and Achieved Success in Spite of Unfavorable Circumstances. Durham Globe. The visit of Mrs. Joe Person to the city in the interest 01 her valuable rem edy for blood diseases, suggested to a reporter the thought that the readers of the Globe might be interested in some facts relating to tbe discovery of the medicine that has made her name a household word in North Carolina. Acting upon the suggestion, the re porter obtained an interview with Mrs. erson and learned from her own lips the story of her discovery and the ups and downs she has experienced in bringing a knowledge of the wonderful curative powers of her medicine to suf fering humanity. Some time prior to the death of her ate husband, a child of Mrs. Person's ay dying of scrofula. The physician in attendance called for the last time, and went away saying that the child could not live through the night. Without one beam of hope, the grief stricken mother prepared to watch the vital spark depart and leave her baby a lifeless piece of human clay ; but as the end seemed so be approaching, an old woman who sat by the bedside, was reminded of a preparation of wild herbs, which an Indian had revealed to her father as a sovereign remedy for all diseases of the blood : and though it seemed that all hope of human aid was gone, Mrs. Person yielded to her importunate request, to eive it a trial as a last resort.ana togetner tney went to the woods near by, and hastily gathered the herbs. No time was lost in prepareing the remedy, and in the morning the child was not dead, Dut improvement was clearly apparent The treatment was continued, and in three weeks the baby was well. Such convincing proof of the cura tive properties of the preparation were not lost on Mrs. Person. She knew that the medicine was good, and she permitted no opportunity to test Us merits to pass unimproved. Whenever she heard of a person afflicted with scrofulous or other blood diseases, she sent a quantity of the medicine with a request to give it a trial and report the result. By this means she came into the possesion of many valuable testi monials of undoubted cures belore she was prepared to place her remedy on the market. The first testimonial she received was from a gentleman whose three children had been treated for scrofula two years without relief. In less than three weeks from the time they began taking Mrs. Person's rem edy they were sound and well. The first money that Mrs. Person ever received for her remedy,was from a gentleman who had received great benefit from using some medicine that she sent him. He sent her twentyfive dollars, seven of which she invested in stock, and the other eighteen she spent for newspaper advertising. (What an exhample for business men who do not think advertising pays!) From such a beginning, her business has grown until her sales last year amounted to 4..4A7 bottles, and the demand is stil increasing. Thus Mrs. Person began her business career. Her husband was dead, and several small children to feed, clothe and educate. With her faith firmly pinned to the merits of her medicine and with confidence in the success of her efforts to introduce it to the public she went to work heroically to build up a business and support her family In the prosecution of her plans, she has met with mislortunes and reverses but her courage never wavered and her efforts never flagged. At the present time, Mrs. Person's business may be said to be in flourishing condition. Though, the necessities of her family have prevented the accumu lation of capital from the profits of her sales, she has a large and growing de mand for her remedy from all North Carolina and parts of Virginia and South Carolina. She now enjoys a fair income ; it is nothing compared with what it would be if she had ample capital to enable her to seek trade in other parts of the country. From the success she has attained, it may be easily imagined what results would be achieved if she had the resources of any one of three or four manufacturers of proprietary medicines at Atlanta, She certainly has vim, enterprise and busi ness capacity.and there seems to be no doubt that she has a remedy that pos sesses merits equal to any of the pro prietary medicines that have made great fortunes for the manufacturers of them. With these thoughts in mind, the reporter asked Mrs. Person if she would remove to Durham if any person in the city were disposed to furnish capital sufficient to enlarge and prosecute the business. She replied that she would, or that she would remove to any other city for that matter ; but that for various reasons, she would prefer to come to Durham. She knows that there is money as well as healing in her medi cine, and she has no 'doubt that a for tune could be made out of it in a few years if she had capital sufficient to put the business on a proper basis. Try Dill's Best, Totsy and Treeo tobacco -st Parker's new drug store. apr. 17. lift? Million Spiders. The weather was beautiful, not a breath of air was stirring, and the atten tion of the citizens of this place was at tracted by what at first looked like a small cloud, no larger than a man's hand, low down on the horizon, off to the north west side of the city. As hundreds were watching it, it grew larger and larger, until it took on the semblance of a bank of fog 1,000 feet long and several feet thick. It floated along in a slow, quiet way, but at times would bend and squirm about m a most uncanny fashion. After it had remained quite stationary in the air for some little time it began to slowly settle to the earth. A great many people,- who had been attracted by the strange sight, went out of the town, and, as the 6trango visitation came nearer and nearer to terra Anna, it was Been to be a gigantic spider web, fairly alive with spiders. There must have been 50,000, 000 of them, and after hovering over the ground for about five minutes it finally settled and broke into thousands of pieces. The moment the web broke the insects disentangled themselves and struck across the country in all directions, some on the ground and some on little frag ments of the web, which floated along slowly a few feet above the grass, and each little piece fairly alive with spiders. The sight drew a great crowd, which quickly scattered when the visitors began to scramble toward them. Thousands of them came to the out skirts of the city, where they caused the inhabitants great alarm. They were in all sizes, from that of the ordinary flea to half an inch in length, and the way they got over the ground, tumbling over each other as they went, was a caution. By noon they had all disappeared, go ing in the direction of the Merced river, and not a vestige of the great web re mained. Merced (Cal.) Letter. Property in Chicago. The largest acre sale of city property during the present year, so far as the consideration is concerned, was closed recently, by which the old Willard home stead, comprising seventy acres and lo cated just south of Jackson park and the Hyde Park water works, changed hands. The price paid was $350,000, or $5,000 per acre. The purchaser is the Turner estate of St. Louis. Nothing better il lustrates the extraordinary rise in values in Chicago property than this transfer. Mr. Willard, who was at one time the agent of the Bank of Montreal in this city, entered the land some time in the 40s, paying therefor $2.50 an acre, or $175 for the entire tract. In 1867 he was offered $16,000 for the land; in 1878 $68, 000, and four years ago a well known local broker offered him $105,000 cash. All of these offers were refused. Mr. Willard receives $5,000 an acre for what, about forty-five years ago, he paid $2.50. Chicago Times. Age of the Silk Hat. An interesting correspondence con cerning the reported centenary of the high silk hat, or cylinder, as it is called in Germany, is going on in The Mainzer Journal. ''You are mistaken," writes an artist correspondent, "in fixing the date of the first appearance of the higb hat at only a century ago. Among the marginal illustrations by Albrecht Durer of the famous prayer book of the Em peror Maximilian, there is a man wear ing a high hat, and in a book of. crests and escutcheons of Jost Ammann, pub lished in 1589, a high hat forms the crest of a nobleman. Had these hats not been worn at the period, great artists like Durer and Ammann would certainly not have painted such miserably ugly things, which are the most unsightly pieces of furniture the world has ever seen." Trouble Over a Wildcat. A few days ago a dog on the ranch of George Noble, of Hollister, CaL, treed a wildcat. Mrs. Noble went out with a rifle and succeeded in wounding the ani mal, bringing it to the ground. Then the dog took a hand, and in the scuffle dog and cat rolled into the Los Muertos creek. Mrs. Noble was anxious to con vince her husband that she had killed a wildcat, and leaned over the bank of the creek to secure the carcass. While so doing the bank caved in and Mrs. Noble was precipitated into the stream. She pluckily struck out, however, finally land ing the animal, and triumphantly exhib ited the carcass to Mr. Noble upon his return home. New York Press. Found a Gold Watch In a Tree, Within the decayed trunk of an old tree which was cut down in Fairfield township a few days ago were found a gold watch and ring of old time style and black with age. On the ring were the initials J. Z. S. and the date 1801. It is believed that these articles were placed in the tree by a fisherman by tho names of Shares, who hanged himself in the barn in the early part of the present century. The articles were in a tin box, which was full of holes caused by rust. Letters were also found in the box, which dropped into pieces upon being detached. Cor. Philadelphia Press. There is a cry of tear in Paris lest dancing may be forced ont of fashion. One reason assigned is that women with salons no longer encourage it. Another jp that the waltz, which has for some years almost monojwlized dancing, is too boisterous and exhausting. It has disappeared from many Paris salons. A revival of the art is called for. The Chinamen of Astoria, Ore., are amusing themselves with a huge top made out of an empty twenty-five pound white lead keg. A square opening is cut in the side, and it takes three men to pin it, one to hold the top and two to r. the string with a stick which sets it motion. While spinning it sounds like the whistle of a steamer and can be heard three blocks away. At the conclusion of a lawsuit in Phila delphia the ether day, the plaintiff re ceived a check for four cents as his share of the amount recovered after the legal expenses had been paid. Tbe most delicate constitution can safely use Dr. J. H. McLean's Tar Wine Lung Balm. It is a sure remedy for coughs, loss of voice, and all throat and lung trnhles. NEGROES IN OPFICE. A NORTHERN OPINION ON THE SUBJECT. The Black Man is all well Enough to Make Postmasters of in the South, but there is nojPlace for Him in the Effete of North. Much is said about the negro in of fice especially under the present ad ministration. In the South where such occurrences are most frequent there is a loud protest against it. In tlie North where they are not brought rce to face with the race problem to any appreciable extent, there is also a protest, but against the objections raised in the South. While the North ern people have no love for the negro when brought in contact with him, the Northern press raise a mighty howl whenever the South dares to speak out against the very thing which they themselves will not tolerate. It de pends entirely upon where the negro is placed in office as to whether it is right in their holy sight or not. The New York Evening Post some time ago had the following editorial on the subject of color prejudice : The appointments of black men as postmasters in some Southern towns where nearly all the mail matter is sent and received by white people have aroused much local criticism, which in turn has provoked no little comment in the Northern press. In one case, at Covington, La., a negro was appointed who had never been a resident, who was unknown to the people of the town, and against whose character charges were made. But the most conspicuous case has been that of the office at Bay St. Louis, a summer resort for well-to-do people of New Orleans, of which it is really a suburb. Here a negro was appointed postmaster whose character is conceded to be good, but whose selection is complained of solely on account of his color. The men of the families being generally absent in the city during the day time, the postal business is done almost exclusively by the women and children, and the local press complains that it is disagreeable for these white women and children to find a black man in control of the office. When such complaints by the local papers reached the North, a number of the Republican organs were moved to expressions of the most violent indig nation. "An insane prejudice, it was called by a Massachusetts paper, while the loud-mouthed Boutelle de clared, in his Bangor IVhig and Cou rier, "that this is simply monstrous." Why white people at a summer resort in Louisiana should object to taking their letters and buying their stamps from a black postmaster was something which these New England people pro fessed to believe past their comprehen sion. "Why should a good colored man be offensive as a postmaster?" asked Boutelle, with the air of a man who knew that nobody living could answer his question. In the same line were the remarks of Assistant Post master-Oeneral Ularkson, who is quoted as having talked in this way to one party of protesting Southerners: "Does not a colored servant cook your meal, another wait on your table, another shave your face, and still another mix your toddy for you? You admit that. Well, then, I m unable to see why it is that if you can take your breakfasts from black hands, you can't also take your letters and newspapers from the hands of negro postmasters. At the office in question, Senator, a colored man will be ap pointed before night." Anything more ridiculous than this sort of talk cannot well be imagined A New Orleans paper had objected to the appointment of negro postmasters in the sea-coast resorts of the South on the ground that these places " are fre quented by the highest, most refined, and best educated classes of Northern and Southern people," that such peo ple wanted white men or women in the postoffices, and that "this desired qualification is not an outcome of sec tional prejudice; Northerners and Southerners alike demand it." This is the exact truth. The most refined and best educated people in the North do object to negro postmasters at sum mer resorts or anywhere else, for that matter. Take Boutelle s own State The people interested in the prosperity of Bar Harbor would be as indignant at the suggestion of appointing a black postmaster there as they would be at proposition to enforce the Maine law in that famous summer resort, and simply because they know that the vis itors would be displeased with a post master of that color. It would be of no use to argue with these visitors that this was "an insane prejudice," that it was " simply monstrous," and that, if thev were willing to have black bar bers and waiters, thev oucht to be willing to have a black postmaster. They would reply that it was too hot to have long discussions in summer ; all they not want Harbor. had to say was that they did a negro postmaster at Bar Do not consider that vou are out of the road because the road seems to be longer than it might have been. Joseph Parker. He who has not learned his own mistakes or faults, has made the great est failure in this life ; but he who has ound out his ignorance is very wise. A Good Outlook for Hudson Hirer Fruit. The outlook for a large yield of high and low vine fruits in the Hudson river valley, between Barrytown and Corn wall, is promising. Fruit men who are tying and pruning vines say that unless a wet season is experienced in June, the strawberry crop will be beyond the aver age harvests in past seasons. The Ant werp raspberry canes are healthy and give evidence of an abundant crop. The peach crop has been more or less injured. There are many orchards in southern Ulster that will not yield more than a bushel of fully matured fruit. Other orchards in Marlborough, ClintondaJe, Highland and New Paltz will yield 25 per cent, of a full crop. Many of the trees are now in blossom, which confirms the statement of pains taking horticulturists, made early, in March, that the Hudson river peach crop will not be a complete failure this season unless unlooked for atmospheric changes are experienced. It is yet too early to predict the output of grapes. Fruit growers are taking every precaution de manded for the proper care of the vines, and tho disease which proved so disas trous to the crop last season is believed to have been cured by the application of remedies especially prepared for the vine. It remains to be seen if the predictions of practical men, made concerning the effect of a wet summer on the vines, will be verified. Kingston Freeman. An Active Centenarian. Uncle Billy Madden, as he is familiarly known, recently celebrated his 110th birthday. The early years of his life were spent in North Carolina, where he became a famous hunter and fisherman, and it was on one of these fishing and hunting expeditions that he came to this state over sixty years ago. For many years he ran flatboats down the Tennes see river, but this business becoming un profitable he bought a mountain farm, where ho has lived ever since, his sons doing most of the work. The old man is still active, but does not often leave his own premises, al though he has been known to walk sev eral miles in a day during the past two or three years. He has been married four times, and survives all of his wives. He has had twenty-two children, but five of whom are dead. His grandchildren are very numerous, but they have scat tered all over the country, and it is im possible, therefore, to give the exact number of his descendants. Kingston (Tenn,) Letter. A New Vehicle for Streets. A new system of transportation has lately come into vogue in Chicago. The vehicles are called carettes. The carette is a kind of combination stage and street railway car. Each vehicle will seat twenty persons. The seats and backs are upholstered and con tain springs. The vehicles are specially constructed for ease and comfort, and rest upon patented springs of novel de sign. A single low step to the platform in the rear gives easy ingress and egress. There is said to be an absolute freedom from jolting in motion. Fast time is predicted, as, although the motor is only horse power, there are no blockades such as obstruct street cars. As no tracks are necessary, these car ettes will probably soon be running on the most exclusively residence streets and boulevards. They are painted white, with gold decorations. New York Jour naL A Monument of Papers. At the tenth census there was obtained by Special Agent North a very unique collection of over 11,000 newspapers and periodicals published in the United States during the census year, which collection was arranged, bound and de posited for preservation at the congres sional library. In view of the great his torical value of such a collection, Super intendent Sorter nas decided to lorm a collection of all the newspapers, maga zines and periodical publications of every character and description printed in the United States during the present census year, to serve as a permanent memorial of the development of this important branch of American enterprise. This collection will be made in duplicate, one set for preservation at the library of congress and the other for deposit in the National museum. Washington Post. Satisfied with the Investment. An unfortunate young man of the name, of Robert Heard, living at Totness, be came enamored of a comely maiden who did not reciprocate bis affection. Last week Robert met the cruel maiden, and in a nioiaont of uncontrollable rapture put his arms about hrr and ravished a kiss. The fair but obdurate one lodged a formal complaint ajjiiust Robert, and the young man was rppreh ended and tried for his misdemeanor. The magis trate, after hearing the pros and cons. sentenced Robert to cix weeks at hard labor. As Robert walked off to prison he remarked proudly: " WelL the kiss was worth it!" Eugene Field's Letter. A Cah of 319 Trout in Day. A. W. Cooke, of Cayuga, If. Y., and R. B. Downs, of Rochester, fished in the Little Kettle creek, in the southern part of this county, one day last week. They caught 319 trout, and were obliged td leave the brook on account of a fire in the woods that endangered their safety. The fish filled two fifteen pound creels and all the pockets of the two anglers fishing coats. The biggest trout was foot long, and the most of them were of fair size, but a good many of them might better have been left in the brook. Cor. New York Sun. A large sewer in Portland, Ore., be coming choked, workmen dug it open, and to their great surprise found the roots of a shade tree had forced a pass age through the walls and formed a solid nass for fifty feet. The top of the ewer is ten feet below the surface. Jay Gould's daily income has been es timated recently at $7,446, Cornelias Vanderbilt's at $15,249, John D. Rocke feller's at $18,715 and Williaa Waldorf Aster's at $28,593. Sick headache, biliousness, nausea, cos? tiveness, are promptly and agreeably ban ished by Dr. J. II. McLeans Liver and; Kidney Pillets (little pills.) A PICTURESQUE SPOT. IN THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTHLAND. Corpus Christi, Texas, Pronounced the Eden of America. " God's favored land the Eden of America." This encomium was ren dered Corpus Christi, Texas, by Cap tain Henry, of the United States army, under General Zachary Taylor, in 1846 ; and this city by the sea is now what it was then the most beautiful spot that the eye of any American ever rested upon. In the year i860, Hon. K, B. Roosevelt said : " Corpus Christi is the only spot outside of New York City where I would live." This marvelous spot, which in 1846 brought from the lips of Captain Henry irre sistible bursts of admiration, enthuses to-day the soul of every beholder with the surpassing excellence of its beauty. But nature has added to its crown of unexcelled beauty the jewel of health. Its hygiene is finer than that of the most favored health resorts of the world. It is one of the few spots on earth where man under the ordi nary rules of hygiene, might reach the period alloted to human life, and when the great cycle came, completing the hour, would " die as dies the natural flower." But in addition to the natural beauty which delights the eye and the health which invigorates the body nature has here provided for the sustenance of man. Far behind this beautiful little city is spread a rich and fertile land, divided into hundreds of farms and cattle ranches. Within a radius of 150 miles feed one million of the finest beef cattle. Here grow fruits and grain and vegetables in prodigal pro fusion every month bringing in its fresh supply for table and market. In the front of Corpus Christi, lying as it docs at the head of Corpus Christi bay and just behind Aransas Pass, is a water frontage of 150 square miles, land locked (by Harbor and Mustang islands) and safe from the terrific gulf storms. This bay abounds in the most delicious oysters and fish. Aran sas Pass, a narrow strait flowine be tween Harbor and Mustang Islands, gives an outlet from Corpus Christi bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Here is the most available the only certain deep water harbor on the gulf of Mex ico West and South of the Mississippi river. Here is an outlet for the com merce of a larger section of country than is now tributary to any one seaport in the world. It has more harborage room than the Mississippi at New Or leans.the Thames at London or the Suex canal. This city is the coming sea port of the South-west territory of the United States. Being the most ac cessible point to Mexico and the vast Western territory of the United States it will be a rival to New York City in commerce. In addition to its com mercial advantages it offers the finest openings for manufactures, The South in this deep water port holds the key to the commerce ot a country producing I q 00,000,000 of agricultural products per year. In recognition of the commercial impor tance of this point, two railroads (the ban Antonio and Aransas Pass and the Mexican National") have already made it their terminus, and two others are now under construction, having it as their objective point. Statistics of the Episcopal Church in the State. State Chronicle. The following statistics of the Epis copal church in North Carolina are condensed from an address delivered by Rev. Dr. M. M. Marshall before the Episcopal convention in Tarboro : In 1823, when Bishop Ravenscroft took charge of the Diocease of North Carolina (undivided) there were just seven clergy, 480 communicants and 200 baptisms. Bishop Ravenscroft s salary was $750, payable semi annually, exclusive of what he might receive as rector ot Christ church, in Raleigh. Bishop Ives succeeded Bishop Rav enscroft in 1831, and found fifteen clergy,and 809 communicants. Bishop Ives' Episcopate lasted twenty-one years, and when he was succeeded by Bishop Atkinson in 1853, there were iorty clergy in the diocese and over 2,000 communicants. Bishop Lyman was elected to assist Bishop Atkinson in his duties in 1873, and at this time, notwithstanding the disastrous effects of the civil war, the clergy had increased to fifty, and the communicants to 3,74a while the re ported contributions for i873amountd to 155,381.58. From 1873 to 1883 or from the con secration of Bishop Lyman to the di vision of the Diocease, the number of clergy increased from fifty to seventy six and the number of communicants increased to 5,889. The contributions for 1883 were $61,817.69 Tbe Diocese was divided in 1883 and since then the number of clergy in the State has gone up to 85 and the communicants now number 7,500, about 4,400 in the Diocese of North Carolina and 3,100 in the East Caro lina Diocese. There are 165 parrishes and mission stations in the State. 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