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LAR3&8T OlTT CIKG0LA.TION.
HALE1UII, AUGUST 10, 1892.
THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT
The effect of building railroads
across this desolate and deadly re-
gion has been to almost blot it out of
public notice. The school boy of 10
years ago knew a great deal more of
it than the average school teacher of
today In the days wlien California
gold digging was at its zenith, and the
highly colored stories attracted thou
sands of the hardy argonauts of the
country thither, in traversing that
fearful waste hundreds of them with
their famished ox teams left their
bones to bleach upon the burning
sands. The sun Ivors of those awful
journeys had very vivid ideas of what
that desert was, but now you can roll
across it in palace cars, and its real
and still existing horrors and dangers
are lost sight of and largely forgotten
except locally.
Says C. F. Lnmnies in St. Nicholas:
I have walked its hideous length
alone and wounded, rfnd realize some
thing more of it from that than a
great many railroad journeys across
it have told me. Now every trans
continental railroad crosses the great
desert which stretches np and down
the continent, west of the Rocky
Mountains, for nearly 2,000 miles
The northern routes cut its least ter.
rlble parts ; but the two railroads
which traverse its southern half-tb9
AUantic and Pacific allroad and the
Southern Pacific pierce some of its
grimmest recesses.
The first scientific exploration of
this region was Lent. Wheeler's Uni
ted States survey, about 18S0, and be
was first to give secien title assurances
that we had here a desert as absolute
as the Sahara. If its parched sands
could speak their record, what a sto
ry they might tell of sufferings and
death ; of slow plodding caravans
whose patient oxen lifted their feet
ceaselessly from the blistering grav
el ; of drawn human faces t hat pe;r
ed at some image of a placid lake and
toiled frantically on, to sink at la?t,
hopeless and strengthless, in the hot
dust which the mirage had painted
with the hues of the very waves of
water. Even people at the railroad
station sometimes rove off, lured by
the strange fascination of the desert,
and never come back ; and of the ad
venturous mineis who seek to probe
the golden secrets of those barren
and singled hoed ranges, there are
couneless victims.
The Great American desert is full
of strange, burned ragged mountain
ranges, with deceptive, sloping broad
valleys between though it is said,
near its southern end the mountains
becomes somewhat less numerous,
and the candy wastes more promi
nent. There are many extinct vol
canoes upon It, and hundreds of
square miles of black, bristling lava
flows. A large part of it is sparsely
clothed with the hardy grease wood,
but in places not a plant of any sort
breaks the surface as far as the eye
can reach. : .
LOVER CAUGHT ON A SCYTHE.
Ralvj&h, N. C, Aug. 7 A youcg
lover named Wyttt, in Gaston county,
was in the habit of meeting bis sweet
heart at night, he crawling through
the window. The father Friday
night fixed a sharp pointed mowing
scythe in the window and Wyatt was
horribly cut. Philadelphia Record.
Wilmington 8tr: Some of the
boys who rode their biyccles down to '
Wrightsville Sunday afternoon miss
ed the train from Ocean View, an 1 in
consequence did not reach the city on
their return trip until about 2 o'clock
Monday morning.
The New Berne Journal tells this:
Th re is a hen iu James City which
has just laid four eggs in two days
a Urge one in the morning and a small
one in the afternoon. They are on
exhibition at the fair.
Goldsboro Argus: Col. A. C. Dvis,
of the vull known Davis School, of
Wiuston, was in the city for a few
hours between trains yesterday. He
has hosts ot friends throughout this
st ctiou who will be pleased to learn
thut 1 is excellent school is assured of
a large attendance next session.
Berkely News: Secretary Foster of
i he Treasury department has award
ed the contract for the poles for the
telephone line along the Virginia
coast from Cape Charles to Assatea
gue Island, for the use of the life sav
ing station, to Charles S. Colonna, of
Berkley, Va.
A Connecticut man who wanted to
put a water pipe through a drain sev
eral feet below the surface without
digging up the drain. He tied a
string to a cat's leg, thrust her into
one end of the drain and gave a ter
rific "scat." The scared feline quick
ly appeared at the,; other end. By
meaus of the string which was
carried through by the c it, the pipe
was soon drawn through nod an ex
pense of about ten dollars saved by
the operation.
HK POPPED, THEN SHOT
Columbus, O., Aug. 7. A cold
blooded murder took place in Clinton
towrship, near North Columbus, last
night. James Cameron had been
courting Mary Smith, a divorced
woman, and he wanted her to marry
him. but she refused and added the
galling information that she would
soon be married to a man hy the
name of Kilver.
Last night Cameron met her in the
road and shoe her dead.
A s t ranger, when dining at a f oreig n
hotel, was accosted by a detective
who said to him: "Beg your pardon,
we are in search of an escaped convict
and as a matter of form, you will
oblige us with your passport." "Do
I look like a convict?" "Possibly not
In any case I shall require to see
your passport " The stranger, feeling
annoyed, presented the officer with a
bill of fare, and the latter commenced
to read: "Sheep'shead neck of mut
ton, pier's feet." "Very good," he ob
served, ' the description tallies. You
will piease come along with us-"
Dundee Weekly flews.
In Russia the plague of cholera in
steadily advancing westward, and
may at any time reach the sections
from which are drawn the contingent
of Ruesian emigrants to this country
The authorities of the Marine Hos
nital Service in our seaports have al
ready hflld consultations as to the
host means for keeping out conta
trion diseasesdoringthe critical com
ing months, and the public will re-
j i io t he ass re nee that nothing
wi I i left undone to secure immu
nitv from the dread d plague.
Willie Ttllbrook
. . .". Son of '
ayorTillbrook
of McKeesport, Pa., had a Scrofula bunch under
one ear which the physlcan lanced and then it
became a running sore, and was followed by
erysipelas. Mrs. TlUbrook gave him :
Hood's Sarsaparilla
the sore healed up, he became perfectly well
and Is now a lively, robust boy. Other parents
whose children suffer from Impure blood
thould profit by this example.
HOOD'8 PlLLS cnr Habitual Constipation br
storing peristaltic aotlonot the alimentary canal.
lo You Drink Soda Water,
Shake or Limema.de ?
Hothinor so Refreshes a Person .on a Hot
Summer Day as a Cool Drink at
J. HAL BQBBBTT'S
Mammoth
So dm
FoMBiitainiie
Another New and
Pine Apple
A full stock of Fresh Drws and Medicines
always on hand.
Buist's Prize Medal Turnip Seed. Hew
Crop now on sa1 e, at lowest prices.
J Hal Bobbitt Druggist
Gullev's Old Stand:
W - I ...
NORTH CAROLINA. PHARMA
CEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.
Account of above occasion, the
Richmond and Danville Railroad will
sell tickets to Raleigh, N C, and
return at reduced raes for round
trip. Tickets on sale August 9 10 and
11th, limited returning August 15tb,
1892.
All bhades of intelligent opinion on
questions of f inauce an i currency
are fairly represented iu ha in tubers
of the International Monetary Con
fere uce selected by President llarri.
son There cm be uo oubt thai
American interests and g ni nt ir
regard to tbe various points nt isnie
will be zeal usl. guarded and proper
1)' presented in tbe coherence by
such able men as Senators Allison
and Jones, Representative McCreary
General Walker and Hon Henry W.
Cannon. Whatever may be -the ouc
com of the proposed Conferent e, the
distinctively American side of the
currency ques ion is certain to be
clearly and cogently set forth in its
proceedings.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS' RE
UNIO , WRI9HTSVILLE, N.C.
For above occasion, the Richmond
and Danville Railroad will sell tickets
to Wilmington, N. C, and return, at
following rates from point" named.
Tickets on sale August 14, 15, and
16th ; limited returning August 23rd,
1892: '
From Way nesville, $1175
Statesville, 6 60
Salisbury, 6 80
Greensboro, 4 75
Reidsville, r 7)
Winston-Salem, 5 9
Wilkesboro, 8 15
rurhain, 4 7j
Henderson, 6 25
Oxford, 25
Kaleigh, 4 75
Selma. -i
Rates from intermediate points in
same proportion.
R U I IM ft! F Q and Stove Wood
TT . - i 7-- ror oaie.
WMt n n H m rautt. at root nn H T? of mill. k.t
w For Sale.
heart shingles. Also a cheap lotforpatch-
ft.01" na covering sneicers, dec. u u
APAMS. Office Adams B'n'g and mill, t'i
Milk
Popular Drink,
- Slier beit
. Meiffh. H. G.
Remington $tandrd 'PypAV
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More Remington a are used in Raleigh thai
all other makes combined.
, For catalogues or information, apply to
the undersigned.
WM EA8DALE, J B GULPEPPRR.
Raleigh, N f lltf Richmond, Va
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