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In the Worlft's Broaa Lives of Rich Men j All Remind Us Field of Battle, In the conflict of real life t e can make our lives ' Miblinie ; i And by Liberal j ADVERTISING I vTT ADVERTISING j I the Secret Of achievement in the strife fT th' highM summit climb Oaoxjcnt G-AJROunsr, JEiEkVEisr's Blesshtos Attend IEQBItJ,, THAD R. MOHING, Publisher. cc SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Casli. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1890. VOL. IX. NO. 85. North Carolina's Fayorite. 1 8 9 O 3 North Carolina's famous brand of PURE OLD WHISKIES Have leen manufactured on the plantation for the past same 122 Years. 122 Rjeani Corn WMslej,: :Peacli anil Apple Braiiy ON HAND. New 1. 2, 3 and 4 years old. Shipped in any quantity. Write for price list. Old Nick Whiskey Co., (Successors to Jos. Williams) I'AXTll EK CREEK, Yadkin Co .. N. C & Danville E. S. Co. CONDENSED SCHEDULE, INEFFFCT MAY i8th, 1890. DAILY. SOUTHBOUND. I Old 8 Id No. 50. No. 52. Lt. Richmond 3 00 p ni 2 30 a m " ISurkeville 5 0fipm 4 30am ' Keysville 5 48 p m 5 10 a m " Danville 8 40pm 805am Ar. (Jreensboro 10 27 pm 9 42am Lv. ;oldsboro 2 40 p m f3 00 p m Ar. Raleigh 4 40 p m 9 00 p m Lv. Raleigh 4H5 pro 1 00 a m " Durham 5 48pm 255am Ar. (ireensboro 8 20 p m 7 30 a m Lv. Winston-Salem G 30 p m 0 15 a ni Lv. Creensboro 10 37 p m 9 50 a m Ar. Salisbury 12 20 am 11 19 a m Ar. Statesville 1 49 a m 12 08pm " Aslieville 7 22am 422pm " Hot Springs 9 34am 0 55pm Lv. Salisbury 12 32 a m 11 24 a m A r. Charlotte 2 05am 1240 pm " Spartanburg 4 51 a m 3 38 p m " Oreenville 5 50am 440pm " Atlanta 11 00 a in 9 40 p m Lv. Charlotte 2 20 a m 1 00 p m Ar. Columbia 0 .50 a m 5 10pm " Augusta 10 30 am' 9 00pm DAILY. NORTHBOUND. No. 51. No. 53. Lv. Augasta 0 30 p m 8 00 a m " Columbia 10 33 p m 12 50 p m Ar. Charlotte 3 13 a m 5 15 p m Lv. Atlanta G 00 p m 7 10 a m Ar. Greenville 12 35 am 148pm " Spartanburg 1 39 a m 2 52 p m ' Charlotte 4 25 am 530pm " Salisbury 0 02 a m 7 05 p m Lv. Hot Springs 11 10 p m 12 24 p m " Aslieville 12 40 a m 2 05 p m " Statesville 5 02 a m 5 58 p ni ir. Salisbury 5 53am 0 42pm Lv. Salisbury f 07 am 7 12 p m Ar. Greensboro 7 45 a m 8 40 p m Ar. Winston-Salem 11 40 a m 12 30 a m Lt. Greensboro 9 45 a m 11 00 pm Ar. Durham 12 01pm 5 00am " Raleigh 1 03 p m 7 45 a m Lv. Raleigh 1 05 pm 19 00 a m Ar. Goldsboro 2 55 p m 12 50 p m Lv. Greensboro 7 55 a m 8 50 p in Ar. Danville 9 32am 10 20 pm " Keysville 1218 pm 155am " Hurkeville 100pm 245am " Richmond 3 30 p m 5 15am Between West Point, Richmond & Raleigh. Via. Keysville, Oxford and Durham. 4 a 1 id 102 STATIONS? 55 and 103. 'xooam '. 4 a m 11 (hi am 1 in) p m 2 or. p m 2 25 p m 2 :t p in 2 44 p m 3 n p m Lv. West Point Richmond Richmond Hurkeville Keysville Fort Mitchell Finneywood Chase City Five Forks Clarksville Soudan Bullock's Stoval I Oxford Ar. Lv. Ar. (5 10 p m 4 35 p ui 4 30 p m 1 45 p m 2 00 p m 12 58 p m 12 47 p m 12 30 p m 12 10 p m 11 55 a m 11 40 a m 11 24 a m 11 15 a m Ar. Lv. .5 l. p m 3 33 p 111 3 .TO p Ml 3 58 p m 4 13 p m Ar. Lv, 10 46 a m 4 40 p m Lv. Ar. Oxford Dabney Henderson Ar. 10 00 am 9 25 a 111 S 55 a m 5 15 p 111 o 4j p 111 Lv 4 13 p m Lv. 4 45 p 111 4 55 pm " 5 17pm " 5 M p in " Oxford Stem's Lyon's 11 olio way Durham Cary Raleigh Ar. 10 46 a m 10 16 a m 10 09 a m 9 43 a m 9 25 a m 8 33 a m 8 15 a m Lv. (5 39 p m 6 57 p ml Ar. Lv. t Daily except Sunday. Daily. i Daily except Monday. Additional train leaves Oxford daily ex eept Sunday 1100 am., arrive Hendeison 12 05 d m.. returning leave Henderson 2 10 p m., daily except Sunday, arrive Oxford 313 p m. No. 50, leaving Goldsboro 2 20 p m and Raleigh 4 45 p m daily, makes connection at Durham with No. 19, leaving at 6 00 p m aily, except Sunday for Oxford, Hender son and all points on O. & 11., O. & C. and K. & M. roads. Passenger coaches run through between nest Point and Raleigh, via Keysville, on Nos. 54 and 102, and 55 and 103. Nos. 51 and 153 connect at Richmond from and to West Point and Baltimore daily ex empt bundav. Nos. 50 and 51 connect at Ooldsboro with trains to and from Morebead City and u mington.and at Selma to and from Fayette ville. No. 52 connects at Greensboro for Fay- euevme. No 53 connects at Selma for Wilson. N.C Nos. 50 and 51 make close connection at tmversity Station with trains to and from Chapel Hill, except Sundays. SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE. On trains 50 and 51, Pullman But let Sleeper between Atlanta and New ork, Danville and Augusta and Greens Wo, via Aslieville to Morristown. Tenn. On 52 and 53, Pullman Buffet Sleeper between Washington and New Orleans via Montgomery, and between Washington ami Birmingham, Richmond and Greens ro, Raleigh and Greensboro and between ashington and Augusta, and Pullman unei Sleepers between Y aslnngton and Aslieville and Hot Springs. through tickets on sale at principal stations to all points. tor rates, local and through time tables, vf H J. w " "gent or the company, or to haas', jas. l. taylor. iraihc Manager. Genn. Pass. Agent W.A.TURK, Div. Pass. Agent, Raleigh, N. C. "THE OLD KOBTH STATE." GRAND DOMAIN, RICH IS NATU RAL RESOURCES. Native of Michigan Who has Re cently Traveled Over North Caroli na, Questions "Whether Another State in the Union is PossessedJof Equal Natural Resources, for Main taining: Herself as a Separate and Exclusive Little Empire. James Clement Ambrose In Chicago In- terior.J My late several weeks of travel in the " Old North State!' that is south, yet not too southern, persuade me that was amazingly ignorant as to this one of our thirteen "original packages," that I then represented a large north western class not yet exhausted, and that I ought to make them this dis closure. To day I question whether another State in the Union is possessed of equal natural resources, for maintaing -herself as a separate ana exclusive little em pire. Lying halt way between the fakes and the gulf with her feet in the ocean, and stretching westward over lowland, upland and mountain sections, till her head is bolstered by the Smoky Mountains 7,000 feet up and 500 miles away, she holds the golden mean of this temperate zone, and is gifted with bountiful variety of climate and pro ductions by great change in elevations. And still, shielded west-northwest by her private mountains, and the gulf stream washing her coast, she keeps mild tempered even at mid winter, vegetation in parts always growing, and stock always grazing even in the mountains at new year's. Her soil is productive of all good things to eat, drink, wear, and keep warm by,besides something to chew : and two thirds of her 52,000 square miles is still shadowed by forests of heavy timber. Her pockets are full of useful minerals, notably iron, gold and copper. She enjoys a rainfall of forty-five inches, has a mean summer warmth that is not mean of 75 degrees, and a winter coolness of 43. In the midst of tar, pitch and turpentine.she revels in good j health. She grows chiefly cotton.com, tobacco, wheat, oats, rice and rye. Her factories handle cotton, wool, to bacco, iron,paper,furniture and cotton seed oil. In her fish and oyster beds sleep millions of tons of food enough for people of brains, and those who need them. She rides upon 1,100 miles of her many streams by steam craft, and has railways enough to tod dle around comfortably on. So, you see, she could manage to live alone a nice old maid if the rest of the conntry gave her the mitten. Now, let me open my note-book a little more in detail. Stand on deck in the mouth of Tar River,and looking seaward to the " Banks" you cover a twenty-mile breadth of shallows. It is Pamlico Sound at its widest. It is sixty miles in length, and the county clerk will show you the chart of its survey into lots, and the entry of title to many blocks of odd shape and size. They are natural oyster beds, artificial beds, and many still unplanted. There and in adjoining small sounds, are oyster farms of one million acres; and at Savannah I lunched on Pamlico oysters as robust as if selected in Bal timore, while shad, herring, bluefish, Spanish mackerel,mullet,sturgeon, etc., yield to commerce an annual catch oi 50,000,000 pounds. Iry to go ashore and at many points you will wonder, lor many nines, whether you are on land or under water, so thoroughly on a level with the sea does the State begin ; yet por tions of these lowest bottoms are drain able, and others are becoming so by wider inland cultivation. A few miles farther back you are on the seacoast terrace of the State, a timber shelf rising but a foot to the mile, railways running forty miles without curve, cut, or nil. It is mostly a productive sand loam, the habitat of the long-leaf pine, cypress, white cedar, live oaks, grapes and oteer fruits, as lavish as the Prom ised Land. This is one of the grand patches where grow the early water melons of commerce,and present means of transportation seem tired with over- carriage of the forest products. After about 120 miles in this old valley of the deep, you meet a rapid ascent to the second plateau, a change of climate, soil, surface, vegetation ; and now amid hills and valleys of various grades, and embrading half the State, you feel more at home. It is something like my native Michigan, with it villages much like hers, and their people as pleasant and industrious as "Michiganders." The cultivated lands are devoted to corn, wheat, oats, buckwheat, sorghum and tobacco, all familiar north.as also the redtop mead ows and the clovered hills here and there. The atmosphere is clears little cooler than below, and its partakers more active. This is the solid section of the State, the territory of principal agricultural and manufacturing indus tries. Many Friends made homes here at an early day, and their habits of thrift have given character to the community. I was amid their blos soming orchards of peach, pear, apple, appricot and cherry of great size in the region of Greensboro, while vine yards are numerous, and gardens and neglected fields are laden with aU the small fruits. Many tons of wild berries gathered and dried, net a comfortable fall and pin money to thousands of women children. This is the Piedmont section,where the gold belt of ten to thirty miles in width crosses the State. And in the United States assay office at Charlotte I learned from Prof. G. B. Hanna that one hundred mines are worked as steadi ly as the farms ; that' the mint was es tablished there in 1835, and up to the war times coined money ; that up to '48, when North Carolina mines yielded one-half of the gold of the country ; and that the leading mine, the Gold Hill, has yielded up to date 2,ooo,ooo. And from the superin tendent of the St. Catherine mine, I learned that the negro is estimated the best mining help, and coTmrionly.ero ployed. But this colored monopolist doesn't get rich on seventy -five cents a day, sometimes a dollar; and that is the average income of unskilled labor there. ' Here the current of many streams is rapid, the opportunities for damming excellent, and the State geologist gave me his estimate of the water-power as equal to 3,000,000 horse-power ; equal to the aggregate steam power of all the States. And within easy distance of this power stands the millions of acres of beautiful white oak, ash, elm, pine, bird's eye maple, walnut and the like, while her hills could grow many fold more cotton, and her mountain pas tures maintain unlimited flocks. So the materials, the power and skill to work them need only be brought to gether to make her the peer df the best in many manufactures. To-day twen ty cotton factories, thirteen woolen mills, nine cotton-seed oil mills, four rice mills, five paper factories, many flouring mills, six fertilizer factories, twenty iron and steel works merely sample the capacity for good works, not to name the 240 tobacco prepra to nes, nearly halt of them at Durham alone, the welthiest town in the State. But the finest feature in labor there is the fact that three-fourths of the people are engaged in agriculture, though some of them after a rude model ; and about two-thirds of the farms are tilled by their owners. The mountain section, twenty-five to forty miles wide, is full of1 romance as well as utility. The main surface is an undulating plateau, about 2,500 feet above sea, with many knobs and peaks of twice to thrice that height, a few of them bald-heads, but mostly clothed with grass and forest to the top. Pine, hemlock, birch and ches not, with rare flowering and medicinal plants, decorate the slopes, and moun tain streams have cut canons between the ranges, and now laugh beween the solid banks of a 1,000 upright feet as they tumble on untamed. I have wan dered through Colorado and looked upon nothing more enchanting. Cattle range there unfed all winter ; fruits, vines and vegetables thrive far up the sides of the peaks, and the narrow valleys are of the finest mold ; yet only ten per cent of thd surface has felt the caress of a plow.- Numerous minerals besides the iron and copper, have beds among the mountains, notably mica and corundum ; and the net limited working of these beds has yielded gems in wide variety, as emerald, ruby, sapphire, agate, opal, garnet, berl,and a few diamonds. The mountain section is thinly peo pled, and most of the people are white. Withal, it is a charming and whole some land, with a future vastly gaeater than its past. Evanston, 111. "TILL. HE COME." BT MRS. E..V. JOHNSON. " Till He come," precious words sweetly tender in tnetr strains. Telling me in loving tones, my Lord will come again ; Just a little while of waiting, making me for Heaven meet And then a blest eternity, in raptures at His feet. . ' Faithful'be my watchword while Iwait Thy coining lxmi, Content with thine approval in hope of sure reward. I would fill the " interlum" the " waiting . till Thou some. In sentle. patient ministry. In deeds of kindness done. To the very brim, 1 would fill life s pass ing hours . In faithful, loving service, nor waste God's riven powers i- Not an Idler while I tarry, but a laborer I'd ha. Toiling late-an&atly, that some Bheaf be - cleaned for Thee. " Till Heeotne,0 dear Lord; 1 am waiting the triad hour. . When Thou shalt teThv servant say "'tis enotrtrh eotfle nn-hwher V 1 am waiUnff. ealmly waiting, the message sweet to me. The Master dear has now for thee." Lynchburg, Va. come, and calleth A Beautiful Legend. Charleston Courier. After Stonewall Jackson's death at Chancellorsville, a story became cur rent in the Confederate army which the soldiers loved to repeat over their bivouac fires that, on account of his extreme piety, when their famous chief tain fell, a detachment of angels left the heavenly gates to visit the battle field and escort the hero's soul into Paradise. The celestial squadron searched the close strewn plain, but without effect. He whom they sought could not be found, and they returned mournfully to Heaven to report their want of success But"To! on arriving they found'the spirit of the ihiadrtal warrior there already. Stonewall Jackson had made a flank march and had got to Heaven before them. Ooeof Dr. J.H. McLean's little Liver j effect will astonish you. oct.l. IHJDfnCE TO SENATOR TAHCE. THE ALLIANCE AND THE TREASURY BILL. SUB- A Wrong: Impression With Regard to a Change Made by Him in the Bill Which He Introduced by Request. r Raleigh News and Observer. J We understand that there is a defi nite feeling among many Alliance men that Senator Vance has treated them badly. They are under the impression he undertook to amend the Sub-Treas ! 01 form, u a lady or a certain name, giv ury bill and agreed to support it after it ty own was stay1 there. On be- should have beer put in shape, and - .1 1 f . j urcu Miixicqucuuy ne announced mar he could not vote for it. We do hot understand that they ob ject so much to his differing with them in regard to the constitutionality of the measure, for they differ among themselves as to that, but they make the point that he undertook to put the bill in such shape that he could vote for it, and after introducing it, said he could not support it. To be sure they are wrong and do Vance a great injustice. They get their ideas from the Progressive Far mer and the National Economist, papers that have spread these incor rect reports and will not correct them. We had hoped that Col. Polk would see that his own paper should deal justly by Senator Vance in this matter, for he says that he is Vance's friend : and we had also hoped that the Na tional Economist would state the whole truth about the matter, which, how ever, it has not yet done. The Alliance men who have im bibed this impression probably see no other papers but the Progressive Far mer or the National Economist, and it seems that the light of truth will not reach them through those columns. In our opinion it is very desirable that wrong impression should be re- moved not only because it is an - in jury to senator Vance, but because it undermines the confidence and trust which these people have felt in public men. If Vance could treat them badly, certainly no better treatment can be expected from other nuUlic men. It seems to us therefore to be a public duty to undeceive these Al liance men who have been so grossly misled. To this end we hope the press and the friends of Senator Vance all over the State will address themselves. As the Progressive Farmer and the National Economist will not assist in undoing the work they have done, it behooves us to make it our special bus iness to set the misguided people right. We should agitate the matter with the view ot enlightening those who have been misinformed and putting them in possession of the facts. And in this work we hope all the alliance organs will cordially assist. We have several times printed the facts, but repeat them now. I he bill was a long one, and con tained many provisions, the backbone of it being the lending of money to the people by the government. As to that, Vance was unwilling : to express an opinion off hand, and said he would not commit himself to the support of the bill. But he said he would put some of the other provisions in better shape, and would, at their request, in troduce it. One of the provisions was that the people should elect the ware housemen and as that was plainly against the constitution, he made the bill conform to the constitution in that one respect. He never offered to put the bill in such shape, that he could support it. He reserved the right to consider it, after he had made the change above stated. This ought to be explained to the Alliancemen verbally and through the press, so that they will be put in pos session of the facts of the case. We think this an important duty devolv ing on us all. orry He Bad Bfanejr "Say, mister, won't asked a boy of m the Bank. yon lend me a man in the street.' "Four dollars!" cried the man, gasping for breath. "That's a good deal for a little fellow like you to want- to borrow." "Well whimpered the Loy, "I went and bought one of those banks in which you have to put $10 before you get any thing out. I've got $5.50 in it and now the circus is here and I can't get any of my money. If you will lend me $450 I can get it changed into ten cent pieces and put it all in, when the bank will come open. I can pay yon right back.' But the man said he could not wait that long and left the boy with a woebe gone face, pondering over the. care and misery ci one who has a bank account. New York Tribune. A Vang Oil Pipe XJae. A colossal scheme has been projected for conveying petroleum in pipes from the port of Baku, on the Caspian, to Ba toum, on the Black sea. It has been shelved for a time a being too costly, but all the specifications .have been 1 drawn out in detaiL The length of the line of piping is 497 miles, the cast iron pipes are to he eight inches in diameter, and there are to be sixty-four intermedi ate stations. And the. nines must be buried at a wmaiderable depth to guard : against cracking in the intense frost. New York Telegram. Sat Uflerf wlta'HU aw. -Tnexesonry one xaurs 1 nave to una There's onhr one fault I have to find Pools, whose pew is in thi? "back" part of a large and, fashirvnahle churdw , What's thatr asked Mr. p. . "I can hearenelpord hesaa. "Hnuiph! That's Just what I like about 'enC grunted Poota. Texas raft Eseapinx an Embarrassment. A local newspaper man who went down to vi.it bis wife at the seashore recently had a verynarrow escape from causing what, to pat it mildly, would have been talk. His wife -was boarding at the Blank house.- It seems that there is also a New Blank house at this resort. Ignorant of that fact, when the young journalist espied a porter with Blank house- on his cap- he said to himself, "This is my place," and he allowed the porter to pilot him over to the hotel. On arriving there he asked, as a matter 4a5ared 'J W hemnfkd that he guessed he would go up to see guessed iie would go up to see her. "I don't believe she is up yet," re marked the clerk. "Oh, that doesn't make any difference," the other respond-! ed confidently; "I'll go up." The clerk stared at him, but finally gave him the number of the room and sent a porter along with him. - "She; must 'be np, by this time," he remarked to the porter; "the baby wouldn't let her stay in bed. "The baby? ; Why, she has no baby," the porter paid. Reiteration and denial followed, and finally it entered the jour nalist's mind that it was possible for a lady of the same name as his wife to be staying at that hotel. The matter was finally straightened out and he found his wife at another hotel. Washington Post. Signs of War an Broadway. A procession of odd and dilapidated looking vehicles, fastened together and hitched to the tail of a large two horse truck, excited considerable interest as it proceeded lumbering along Broadway from South ferry. The horses were pretty well fagged out by the time they reached the T inter section of Park row, and the driver of the truck hid ted opposite the Astor house to give them rest and a breathing spell. The vehicles, which consisted of four timbers and gun carriages, two of which were surmounted by four-inch bore field pieceB of an antique pattern, were soon surrounded by a large crowd of idlers and curiosity seekers. The guns and carriages were marked for the "Commanding Officer, Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y." The truck , driver explained that they were from ' Governor's island, and were en transit for shipment to the West Troy arsenal, where they were to be rehabilitated and modernized. The carriages, he said, weighed 2,200 pounds each, and the pieces of ordnance 800 pounds each, or 10,400 pounds together, which, besides the truck and driver, made a good sized load for a team of horses to draw on a warm day. New York Herald. Burglar ' View of a Strike. At first sight one would suppose that the class above all others that would hail with delight a general strike of po lice would be the burglars. Curiously enough this is not so. The professional burglar is dead against such a strike; for, as he correctly reasons, though the police ceased to protect property, prop erty would not thereby be left unpro tected. In fact it would be protected all the more by the owners themselves, and the burglar's special knowledge, ac quired from local observation of the habits of the police, would for the time being be useless. In the police the burg lar knows exactly what he- has to cope with. When every householder is his own policeman, however, it is different, for the burglar is quite ignorant of the weapons that may be waiting to receive him in any given case. London Mer cury. " Keep Off of White Sidewalks. If a man wants to avoid being pros trated by the heat he needs to be careful how he walks over a white sidewalk with the sun on it In very hot weather people wear white or very light clothing because it repels the heat, while dark clothes absorb it. It is just so with these white pavements. They never get so hot as dark ones, and are easier on the feet in consequence, but they reflect the heat on the . person who walks over them. It is better to walk in the street than on one of these white heat reflect ors when the sun is shining on it. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Wealthy lee Man. The other morning an ice man, after firing three or four cakes of ice into the kitchen of an uptown restaurant, en tered the latter place and ordered "one top surlom, fried pertaters, er cup o corffee an' some toasted bread." "Does he do that often?" the waiter was asked. "Yes, every morning. Those fellows make a lot of money besides their wages. They can give us points on getting taps, he sadly said. Chatter. Complacency in Modern Athena. A smile as big as a barn door adorns the Boston countenance when it reads of the social aspirations of some of the peo ple who have gone to London this sea son. It appears to the self assured Bos tonian that society in that vast town is nothing if not democratic, and he no longer wonders at the attraction it pos sesses when everybody who isn't any body succeeds without difficulty in get ting iu there. Boston Herald. A remarkable freak of lightning was observed near Martin's Point, S. C, lately. A negro woman was sitting in her house with a 2-year-old child in her lap. Her husband was standing on the opposite side of .the room. A thunder storm was in nrogress and a stroke of lightning descended upon the house. The child was instantly killed, its fa ther severely, perhaps fatally, shocked, while the mother was not injured or even shocked by the stroke. A little child in New York, in falling out of a second story window, grasped two pillows that were airing on the sill, and when she struck the ground the pil lows were underneath her and she ea- caned injury. The place where she fell - - ith cobblestones, and if the would probably have been IdBed. wejcier '"J """" Washington, making the journey about : eight miles in an hour and without ac NORTH CAROLINA BISTOT. COL. JOHN D. CAMERON CONTRIB UTES A VALUABLE PAPER ON THIS SUBJECT. A Thoughtful, Graceful, Lueid Article Relative to the Part North Carolina Bore in thaWarofthe Revolution. Wilmington Messenger. We have read with genuine pleasure the paper contributed to the last North Carolina University Magazine by oar friend, Col. John D. Cameron, of Asbeville, entitled North Carolina in 1780-81. . It is well done thought fully, gracefully, lucidly done. It is a review m part of Judge Schenck's ex cellent workj which we have noticed several times in these columns, and an outline sketch of the very, impor tant events during the fateful years in dicated when the South was the chief seat of military operations. Col. Cam eron's article is well written of course. It is an interesting production that may be read by all however well versed in the Revolutionary history of Nortli Carolina. No State ever fared so badly at the hands of friends and foes as North Carolina has fared. Her neighbors have maligned, slighted and rejected her records. The North has never un derstood her merits or done justice to her substantial and noble qualities. Colonel Cameron quotes from Judge Schenck's work the letter of the South Carolina Charles Pinckney, written 24th February, 1789, to his aunt, Mrs. Pinckney. As throwing much light upon what North Carolina was doing at that time in aid of South Carolina, we copy it. Mr. Pinckney wrote : " As to farther aid from North Car olina, they have agreed to send us 2,000 more troops immediately. We have no7v upwards of 3,000 of their men with us, and I esteem this last augmentation of their number as the highest possible mark of their affection for us, and as the most convincing proof of their zeal for the glorious cause in which they are engaged. They have been so willing und so ready on all occasions to afford us: all the assistance in their power that I shall ever love a North Carolinian, and join with Geo, Moultrie in confessing that they have been the salvation of the country. '. This was hearty and deserved praise, and as CoL Cameron remarks, ' it is pleasant to quote from one contempo raneous South Carolina writer, who was wise enough to recognize the source from . which aid to his suffering State was coming, and just enough to express his sense of obligation." It will be remembered that already what remained of the six Continental troops from North Carolina that had done such splendid service on the hard fought fields in the Northern States, had been marched to Charleston, S. C, and totally obliterated by the bad judgment of Gen. Lincoln who sur rendered his force to the British. We have not the means of showing the actual number of troops furnished by the thirteen Colonies, but we have an impression made many years ago, that North Carolina in the War of the Revolution furnished more troops than any other state, as she did beyond doubt in the later and greater and more disastrous North. Our friend Daniel R. Goodloe, Esq., would do a needed thing if he would publish the full strength of the troops furnished by the several Colonies in 1776-82. He lives in Washington and has access to the records. CoL Cameron, page 281, refers to the "exhaustless resources" of the British Empire in the war, &c. One fact is generally overlooked in dealing with the subject of British resources. England had several wars on her hands while trying to subjugate the Ameri can Colonies, it she could have con centrated her full strength and re sources upon the American war the re sults would very probably have been different. She was engaged with two or three European nations. France helped prodigiously to make success ful the American " rebellion." We are glad to see the University Maga zine giving so much attention to North Carolina history. Kavenoas I'rairie Chlckeas. Voua. -.inirie chickens are4esianing to roam about hcis. "to ravenous have tiny Uoia that nearly every gentle uiau who sues outside of the city limits for a walk carrie a breech loading shot gun to protect himself, and is frequently roiupelled to lall lare numbers in self iefemse. The bite of a'prairie chicken causes an ugly wound. North Platte (Neb.) Tribune, The Morg-n Crowded. Forty bodies were taken to the morgue Friday, and the number is extraordi nary. Thirteen were from Bellevue hospital, eleven from the institutions on Ward's and Blackwell's islands, six from the Foundling hospital, and the others from police stations and persons too poor to bury their dead. New York Times. The accounts of a pill maker who has just died in England show that he has been Fpmdiug $200,000 a year for adver tising. - His uirs. however, are finding no iRrticular fault with thin extrava- K" "r : w" 7 " ' - traur?. -s he leaves an nr.ie Tauiru at. j m ' ! air iioalnrhp U the bane of manv lives. , r7' mrI.ln h cured Mfitl- nilLO. ' Grasshopper War la Algeria. Immense swarms of grasshoppers have invaded parts of the country of Algeria and are spoiling lots of things. Two thousand soldiers, aided by 13,000 Arabs, have been employed to fight the pest. The roadways present the appearance of a battlefield, and extraordinary efforts are being made to rid the surrounding country of this insect enemy. This is not the first time that this plague has devastated Algeria. In 1845 the harvests of almost the entire country were destroyed by grasshoppers. From 174? to 1749 these insects desolated Al geria, extending their ravages even to parts of Europe. Millions on millions of the dead bodies af these insects are covering at present the great roadway leading from Mascara to Mostaganim, and filling the springs and rivers. The task of killing these ansBoos of grasshoppers is no small one. Imagine a district of 100 miles in cir cumference which not long ago was covered with wheat, tobacco and fig and olive trees, but now is so densely cov ered with grasshoppers that not a single green branch or leaf can be seen. For three years a distinguished Parisian naturalist, M. Kunkel, has been study ing how to exterminate these creatures. The best plan seems to be that of stamp ing the moving, quivering heaps with the bare feet Shovels and other sharp instruments are used, but it has been noticed that the elastic layers of grass hoppers tend to rebound after pressure and only the layers on top are crushed. Large fires have also been lighted, but the dense smoke arising from the flames is only partly effective in preventing the descent of these all devouring swarms. New York Sun. Banker Von Handler's Trial. Herr Alfred Von Kendler, whose trial for fraud has commenced before a Vienna jury, was the head of an old banking house founded in 1790, which failed in November last with liabilities amounting to upward of 2,500,000 florins. The prisoner, who was arrested a week after this event, is charged with appropriating, to his own use deposits of private per sons or firms amounting to nearly 2,000, 000 florins. It appears that the accused, who was of extravagant habits, began to tamper with the deposits in 1881. Among the persons defrauded is the head waiter at the hotel where Kendler used to dine, and who had given up the whole of his savings, amounting to over 22,000 florins. The accused, who is a man of 60 years of age, when asked by the president of the court whether he pleaded guilty, an swered that the facts stated in the indict ment were, generally speaking, correct; but that, as he firmly believed and hoped he would be able to replace the borrowed money, he did not feel guilty. The trial is the topic of general conversation in Vienna society. Cor. London Standard. Treasures In the Patsalo Blver. A few days ago "Bert" Lyons and a dozen other boys were diving in about ten feet of water in the Passaic river near neuevuie, a. J., in rivalry as to which of them should bring up the most shells from the muddy bottom. When it was young Lyons' turn to plunge he remained so long under the water that his companions began to fear that he had gone down to stay, or else was gath ering so many shells that the contest would be virtually over when he reap peared. He came up at last, however, without any shells, but holding aloft tri umphantly, for the contemplation of his envious friends, a solid silver double case Waltham watch and chain that he had fished out of the depths. The watch had stopped at 7120 o'clock, but the proud finder has ascertained that it will merrily resunro work when the water has been pumped out of it and its in ternal organization has been soaked for ten days in oil. New York Tribune. Old Hats. The man who was hurrying into the hatters recently was on business. He wanted his old hat "When did you leave it here?" "I dunno," was the re ply. They hunted over a great pyramid of hats and found it, labeled July 2. When the man went out the hatter said: "That man bought a new hat here and when he went out said he would call for it in hah an hour. It has now been four weeks. We throw away seven or eight hundred old hats every year, for which the owners are going to call 'in half an hour.' " Lewiston Journal. Artificial vs. Nataral lee. The manufacture of artificial Ice has been begun in Reading, Pa., and the en terprise is already pronounced a decided success. The Ice is made into cakes of 100 pounds each, and is declared to be of the finest quality. The retail price is the same as that of natural ice. Several of the big brewing companies of Bead ing have decided to manufacture arti ficial ice. The Reading Brewing com pany is now manufacturing artificial ice by the ammonia process. New York Telegram. Far the Blark fcea Fleet. Our Odessa correspondent telegraphs "The three new torpedo boats which have been built in Germany for the Russian government are to be added to the Black sea fleet It is not improbable that the porte may raise an objection to the tMusage of these vessels through the Bcephorus, although, of course, they will not receive their armaments before reaching SebastopoL One of the torpedo boats, the Adler, attained a speed of over twenty-six knots on her trial trip at Cronstadt The Anacria and the Kocarskj are built on somewhat similar lines to the Adler. but according to the contract will not exceed a speed o twenty-one knots. London News. - 'Looking Backward" is beginning to bear fruit Twelve young ladies of In dianapolis, employed in stores and offices, have rented a suite of twelve rooms and are living on the Bellamy plan. Each pays into the treasury $8 per week, and a cook is employed, to prepare meals. In addition each is assessed 25 cent for a contingent fund, which is held to meet unusual expenses. The young ladies room in couples, and each week two of them are appointed purveyors. The only time they are au together is at supper, waj wiu. Mr ie.. .f ) OIVJ$ ISISTTOYQ Both the method and resnlta whan Sjrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta eentlv vet womntlv on the Kidntv. Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sya- tern enectuaiiy, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the uuij iciueuy vi 11s aiuu ever pro duced, pleasing t0 the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, nromnt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most 1 i.i i ucjuwy oiiu agrccaoio Buosiances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. SvruD of Furs is for aala In 50o and $1 bottles by all leading drug a il-vi. j jr. 1 giots. Any reiiauie aruggisi. wno may not have it on hand will pro cure it DroniDtlv for anv one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any suDsuiute, - CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL LOUISVILLE. Kf. NEW fOMC. H.f. VlEKIiaV I Mind wsndmtag rarsd. Books karaeS I in on recdinc Tmttntonisla from sll part ot the slob. Pmapeeta roar ruL amit on a indication ta rmf. I A. Iruiaatto, tB Fifth Me York. F. S. HAKIMS, DENTIST, Pure 7Urous Oxide Gas adinlnUtered for the painless extrac tion of teeth. t-Office over E. C. Davis' store. Main Street. Ian. 1-a. T. W ATKINS. Attorney and Counsellor at Law1 HENDERSON, N. C. Cntirta Von ft rironvllla onl W..ii and the Federal tJourt at Raleigh. opeciai attention given to negotiating loans, settlement of estates, and Militated cases. Jan. 6. w. It. IIENItY, ATTORNEY AT L.AW,i HENDERSON. N. C. OFFICE IK UCRWELl. BUILDIKO. ville. United Strten Court at Ilaleigb, and Supreme Court of Nortli Carolina. ItxFEKKNCEti: Chief Juxtice W. N. II. Bmltb, Hon. Angumug 8. Merrlmon, Oor, . rwi, jiou. 1. c r uiier, lion. I - M. Anrn Tlr W T f 'lusatl.nn. t f If Tucker, Mr. M. Dorsev, II. Jl. Burwell, Kq.t ofU.B. Bamuel K. Phillip. yjiuce ncursw a m. 10a p. iu. men. 7 3 1 M. PITTMAN, ATTORNEY AT L.AW, HENDERSON, N. C. Prnmntittimllnn In all nmr.im.i ft. -1 - neas. Practices In the Htate ana federal courts. Office: Room No. 2, Iturwell Building, nov 61 c. ADltEWJ. HARRIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW HENDERSON, N. C. Warrftn ami franklin r.nniA L iM .w Supreme and Federal court of the 8tt. Office: In Harris Law Building-, next Court House. B. DAT. 4. C. ZOLUCOFFKB. D A.Y & ZOLLlCOFFKif, ATTOIINKYH AT LAW, HENDERSON, N. C. frartira In f h rnnrlM nf Vannj. n.Mnf warren, iiaiuax ana ivorm&mpion. and in th Supreme and Federal court of the State. sim Hn . wn -.111 m i- 1 1 . . --- ------- . . - . .., wuiuci au uhiiwiui jaw vuiiuiar, uar nett street. rb. ff- 1. I. C. EDWARDS, A. R. WORTH AM. Oxford. Jl. U. Henderson. N. C gDWAKOS & WOKTif AM, ATTORNEYS AT LA "W, HENDERSON, N. C. O flier the I r errlra to thA rwonla i.r Van county. Col. Edwards will attend ail the Court of Yance county, and will come to nruuciauu av any ana ail limes wnen Hill assistance may be needed by his partner, R. C. 8. BOYD, Dental Surgeon, HENDERSON ,W. O Satisfaction guaranteed as to work and prtc m. Offlc over Parker tt Clous' store Main stra feb 4 a. The Bank of Henderson. (ESTABLISHED IN ll8.) General Banking, Exchange & Collections. MONEYTO LOAN On improved farms in sums of 1300 and up wards at uven per tent.; and moderate charges. Loans repayable in small an nual installments through a period of live years, thu enabling the borrower to pay off bis indebtedness without exhausting hi crop in sny oneear. Apto At The Bank of Henderson. yyW. H. S. HUKGWYX, Attorney and Counscllor-at-Law HENDERSON, N. C. Offlee: In The Bank of Henderson building. D . ...1
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