1 1-':
Weekly Sun
ONLY $1 TER YEAR.
,NO FARM EI SHOULD BE "WITH
s . . OUT 'IT.
EDITORIAL. SQUIBS.
The color of .the current -. two
cent postage stamp will he chang
ed from carmine to green. '
: " Mark Ilanna was'so red hot
in his loyalty that he senftwo sub-
stitutes to tight the Confederates. ,
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Senator Wellington resigned
the chairmanship of the Maryland
; Itepuhlican comiuittes. i lie A uys
the party Ls doomed to defeat in,
the commr election. .
- The crowded conditio of the
Virginia penitentiary is exciting
comment, and ' may be discussed
. during the coming campaign.' "It
has 1,324 inmates, an average of
aver six to a, cell. sI
Atlanta is the only Southern.
city, which lias not closed doors
against New Orleans ynd the. f ever-
stricken district."1 It is expected
that ' thousancfe : will flock there
should a general exodus occur at
New-- Orleans.'"?-
I Ion. ,Uat Walsh will probably
- be the next mayor of Aiigusrii.
If Pat makes as" ,g09d a 'mayor as
" he does an 'editor, ; and dixl a Unit
ed States Senator, he'H- be a "vyhole
team, w-ith a yaller.dog under the
t. wagon. v ilmington Star. .
" t At the meeting of the cabinet
- ;inWashingtoi1 Tuesday the fore
closure sale of the Union Pacific
t Railroad and the relief of Ameri
can citizens who have started for
the Klondike ' gold ' i fields were
among the subjects -considered but
no final aci4fln"vas taken in regard
to eiTTier
" L is only Xterykar. ; ... v ' . - " .' - , L.- y - .. ' ' -' .' ' ' ) ' . :
' -" ' ' -I.,. ; . axriiljr . Newspaper, pev-qt.ed. , to tiie "beset rintef pets '".of Itowan' County.' " ' ' , ' ! -
It is estimated that a ;200-fpot
shij) route through Florida would
Vcpst about f75,000,0CK). r That 8Um
is almost a third as large Jagain- as
the price paid by the great com
mercial .commonwealth of New
York for its Erie Canal. It is a
good deal of ruoneyf but the Flori
da canal would prove a decided
. v benefit to the maritime interest of
H the Gulf, which with the rapidly
' increasing export trade of Texas,"
Ix.)uisiana and Alabama are bound
to be jif the first magnitude,
The; following is taken.irom
the . New York. Evening Post:
"This is no sectional question.
Most of the Iynching8 of black tneri
, for "'the usual crime" occur in the
South, .but that is simply because
A most of the black men live in the
, boutn. If aegro - brutes were as
numerous in the North, the whites
of -this' section' would feel as strong
''. ly and act "as rashly as their breth
ren in the South the Ifrbana in
cident showed that.' We are all In
the same, boat North and South,
Eas't and West. If we lynch ne
groes in "Ohio without restraint,
; the next thing we know the life of
a white man accused of crime in
1 New; York or New England will
not be safe." " .
The Hon. William Jennings
Bryan has no reason to complain
of the audiences that assemble to
hear him. talk free silver,' as he
calls it, . ."bimetalism." At-Bur-linjjjame,
Kan., one, day'last week,
he spoke to " 15,00(i fers)ns, and
"his reception was most, enthusi
astic." At Iola, in' the same State
. the pext day, he addressed." from
' 10,000 to 12,000 ! persons on "bi-
metalism." "People came . fifty
miles to hear him."' We quote
from Republican accounts. Peo
' pie "who think that the back of the
V ' free silver movement is broken are
deluding,,' themselves. Wherever
the Bryamtes were strong.in 18U6,
. thSy are. strong today ; and when-
l . ever IBey are strpngv tH l
and the demand for the free coin
', age-of silvter have not' been dimin
isned a particle. New York 'Sun,
Rep. 1 .
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' The pension outgo daring the
quarter ending September oO will
r be atout f 40,000,000, or at the
rate as some f 160,(K)0,0)0 for the
year, against1 $141,000,000 last
. year. The outgo may not be so
large as at present indicated, but it
seems clear, that the aggregate
.bounty to the ex-soldiers will be
$150,(HX,00(). This promises an
increase of the deficit with which
the. last fiscal year closejd. The
higher tariff was meant to discour-
agejimports and will, no doubt, do
I so, with the result of cutting off
customs revenues. At the present
rate of receipts the deficit next
July will be $115,000,000, even if
.pensions do not increase. But
customs revenue may increase and
the internal re, veijiue almost certain
ly will increase. .Under the most
favorable circumstances -the deficit
on July "1, 1S98, the Journal of
Commerce thinks, willbe fftl,009,-
OiHX ;
VOL. J.--NG.. 30.
-Ex-Gov Cameron-of Virgin--ia-
announces that he' will-svtppoft
,the State Democratic ticket, and
urges other gold Democrats.- to qu
the-same. ; . ' "'' ,
---The Paughters, o the t3pn
fetleracy in Georgia intend to
menforialize the legislature in that
State in the interest of the estab-
lishmen-t , of cjeducfftiou in thej
State University;. " j
" If the Afridis and the Orazais
have 47,000 men to. pit against the
English on the Afghan" frontier,
'arid they are the fighters they are
said to be, they can make it hot on
the border, '
;--Hon.. Wv J. Bryanjri an inter
view says that " persons who sug
gest the burning of property, or
-the destruction of life as a means
of settling labpr disputes do not
Understand the genius of Ameri
can institutions.. '.
. Since wheat has.- bceivbringing
such good price cohnncn-sense
American irl.s are looking for
husbands among the American
farmer's rather than --among the
members of the English aristo
cracy, : Railroad oflk-jals have agreed
not to sell' tickets to persons from
infected districts to points south
of Atlanta. Medical inspection of
incoming trains from the South
was inaugurated by the board of
health yesterday. Atlanta & West
Point trains are met by competent
inspectors 40 miles from Atlanta,
and Southern Kailway trains from
Birniingharij 20 miles out.
Five men lynched at the same
time and place, first shot and then
hanged from the-: same tree! A
Southern outrage, of course.
Well,- no, unless. Versailles, Indi
ana, is to.be credited to the South.
This time the shoe pinches another
toe, and pinches, it very hard', in
deed. The men , lynched at Ver
sailles were put to death for rob
bery, or alleged robbery. . In the
South their lives would have been
safe, and theaaw would have been
permitted tf take its regular
course. They lynch for but one
crime down here, and the crimi
nal commits that offense with the
knowledge that swift and certain
punishment will be meted, out to
him if he is captured. In some
other sections the rights off proper
ty are apparently considered more
sacred than the virtue of women.
What a) howl would have gone up
ffom all. the truly good in the
East, "West arid North if these fi ve
men had been negroes lynched in
the South for'tl)e most outrageous
of. crimes! TheVe will be sermon
izings and protests and moral re
flections on the Versailles affair
by tbe Northern critic, but they
will Jack the fiery indignation
which he puts into them when the
South is the target. ! .
- NOT ENCOURAGING.
Reports, from the" towns n the
Gulf where rel low-fever has found
;.'f -
a lodgment are not encouraging,
and rather indicate that' some of
them ijiay be subjected to a very
severe ordeal before the end comes,
says the Wilniuigton Star. In
such cases the disposition at first
is always to make light of . the sit
uation, conceal the worst, and ev
en the presence of the disease is
denied until the mortalities result
ing from it make; denial no longer
possible, and then they hustle and
r- Miiary ,ant , other , regula-
tions, which they should have
adopted at first. The probabili
ties now are that all the outlying
towns and cities will quarantine
against the infected places. Yel
low fever arid its treatment, and
the methods of restricting it are so
well understood now', that although
still a terrible disease, its presence
is not attended by the horror that
it once was, when to be stricken
seemed to be doomed. Therefore
we do not think there is much
danger of its spreading this y ear,
or , of its becoming very fatal in
tire places where it exists, although
the warm weather and the atmos
pheric conditions are rathpr favor
able to its propagation. While
the truth should not be couccaled
care should be taken not to mao--
nify the danger for f rightTliiis a
great dear to do somet imes witl
feeding epidemics and making
them the harder to stamp out.
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NEWSOFTHE WEEK.
.. friiuy: ; -
t ' is -'roported that' Henry
George is paralyze.dv
' ' v
Heavy rains have caused slight
damage to crops in portions of
Texas.
Augusta, G a., has quarantined
against all yeHow fever; points and
also against Atlanta.
Mrs. J. W. Field, an American
lady, was burned to death in her
apartments in London.: r
At Lexington,, Ya.,; yesterday
Hon. yilliaru L. Wilson was in
augurated president of Washing
ton and Lee University.
Miss Sarah Randall, of Balti
more, who would have been 103
years bid yesterday, died Tuesday
at the Home for the Aged.
New York's public schools were
reopened with an enrollment of
about 225,000 pupils, 10,000 of
whom could not be accommodated.
She board of health of Charles
ton, S. C, has established strict
quarantine against New Orleans,
Mobile and other fever -infected
-places. y ,
, The thirteenth centenary of the
landing of St. Auguitin in Eng
land w as celebrated near Ramsgate
by the Catholic hierarchy j?f Great
Britain. -
k .-
Mrs. Frank Williams, the white
wife of a negro, "was arrested at
Wichita on a charge of incendiar
ism. She was caught setting fire
to a liquor store. '
While attempting to. rob the
postofhce at Correct Ind., Ber
trajm Andrews and Clifford Gor
don, prominent citizens, were f a
talty shot by the Sheriff's posse.
Rev. W. S. Coffee, ,of East
Chester, Pa.; and Miss Anna Chat
terson, who were lovers fifty years
ago, will be -married today by
Bishop Satterlee, at Washington
D. C.
Colonel Guy Jack, a wealthy
planter near DeKalb, Miss., is on
trial for causing the death of
Charles T. Stewart, whose life
was insured for. 21,000 in favor
of Jack.
Five members of the Pleetion
Board of South Bethlehem, Pa.;
were "convicted of violations of
the election laws and were sen
tenced tosixfy days' imprisonment
and a tine of .-100 each.
Charles Giimmell, of Washmg-.
ton, D. C, tried to kill his wife
yesterday, and thinking he had
succeeded, cut his own throat and
is dead. . Jealousy, inflamed by
drink, the cause.
' ' .
The National Evangelical Luth
eran Synod' is in session in the"1
Auditorium at ,'Asbury ParkJ N
J., which will continue for a week.
There ai-e 250 delegates present
from all
t Great
Spain.
iflrts of the country.;
floods are reported in
On the Jabalon river 100
houses have been inundated, many
families I have been completely
ruined, a number, of people have j
been drowned and the damage is
estimatecj at iOOOO.
Dayid 1 ..Agee, aged eighteen
years, attempted suicide at Dan
ville, Va. He " had taken lauda
num, and when found by, his
mother "was supposed to be beyond
recovery, but the doctors by
vigiorous andheroic treatment
suved hija.-; , ATcre, is a .dissirmtp!
youth, out of employment.
Five . highway robbers and
burglars, who .have been terror
izing: the crfuntry in and around
Versailles, Ind., for a long time,
met an awful punishment yester:
day atithe hands of an indignant
mob of four hundred. Three of
the wretches were shot' in the jail.
and dragged along with the living
to the place of execution.
Anttempt was made yesterday
on the life of President Diaz, of
Mexico. A riotous individual by
the name of Ignacio Anulfo tried
to strike the president on the back
ofjthe neck during a parade while
the president was on foot and
marching. He turned around and
caught -wight of his assailant and
resumed his march writh admirable
coolness. 1 Returning to the palace
he was cheered, and an immense
crowd assembled in front of the
palace, cheering hud shouting and
calling for him. The motive of
the scoundrel is a mystery.. The
populace wanted to lynch Anulfo.
..SALISBURY; N. G., THURSDAY,-SEPTEMBER" 23,
;.V w. SATURDAY; ' "
census of insane Ibdians shows
only 68 in the United States.
. Five new cases of yellow fever
are reported at Mobile,; Ala. The
disease is slowly spreading. .
Miss Elizabeth D. Clement, of
(Jeeil county, Md., fell down stairs
yesterday and broke her neck. a
Yellow fever refugees are pour
ing into Atlanta. Among the ar
rivals were J. S. troops from New
Orleans. ; i
Michael wbn the 20-mile bicycle
race at Springfield, Mass., and beat
the world's record; time 38 minutes
and 11 soconds.
In;Princess Anne county, Va.,
a cal4fl,-was burned yesterday and
tvo-small colored children perishn
ed in the flames.
Major -Moses P. Handy, the
special commissioner of theUnitedJ
States to the Paris Exposition of
1900, has arrived in Paris. : ':
A yellow fever panic at Jack
son, Aiiss. inecity is nearly uer
populated, business houses closed,'
and newspapers suspended.
Mrs. George N. Smith, shot in
the head ; at Churchville, N. Y. ,
while asleep, is dead, and her hus
band is accused of her murder.
To keep his father from being
whipped in a fight at Louisville,
Ky., Jay Adkins, aged 14, fatally
stabbed his uncle, Andrew Adams.
Secretary of State Sherman will
not go to Ohio until the end of
September. He says he will not
fake an active part in the cam
paign. Richard Dutton, a painter, fell
GO feet from the third story of a
building at Mt. Vernon, N. Y.,
and escaped with but a small gash
on the back of his head.
Oliver A. Gossman has been ar
rested in Ellicott City, Md. ,
charged with perjury in swearing
to the age of a young lady he mar
ried against the wishes of her
parents.
President McKinley received a
number of official visitors at the
White House, among them the
French ambassador, who is ready
to begin negotiations for tariff
reciprocity.
Troops at Latimer, Pa., fear an
attempt to poison the water sup
ply. The company stores are also
guarded because of a rumor that
strikers were plotting to blow up
the building.
At Hazelton, Pa., yesterday, two
hundred and fifty women made
more- trouble than ten thousand
men, by j attacking with rolling
pins, pokers and other weapons
available in the washerics, arid
forced the men to quit. There.
was little resistance.
Two Russian steamers collided;
yesterday in the river Volga, near
Astrakhan. The former sank, and
while she was going down her pas
sengers, panic-stricken, jumped
into the river. Many of them suc
ceeded in reaching the shore, but
forty persons were drowned.
The rumored clandestine mar
riage of, the Archduke Franz Fer
dinand, heir presumptive to the
throne of Austria-Hungary, and a
middleclass lady, creates a sensa
tion In court circles. . .
Mariah Billingsley,- colored, pi
Richrhond, Ark., went to church
leaving her five children, the old-:
est being 11 years of age, locked
up in her house. The house
caught fire and burned to the
growtid, "f the ti vo children ;beinj
cremated. .
Ignacio Anulfo, who assaulted
fresident Uaz, .or Mexico, was
taken from prison and lynched by
a mob i of the common peoples
Alniut, twenty ef the lynchers were
arrested. The mob proceed
along the .approved lines of an
American lynehing.
The. Spanish - government has
received a cablegram from Cap
tainGeneral Weyler, in the course
of which he says that, his plan of
campaign is to complete the paci
fication of the west end of the
Island of Cuba before commencing
operations in the east. I
The fever situation in New Or-
' i '
leans yesterday assumed a mdre
serious aspect than at any the
since Sunday lrst, when six of tihe
St. Clande cases were declared to
be yellow fever. At 6 o'cIick
yesterday 'evening the board of
health of the city announced ' the
appearance of eight new case3 hnd
- - ,.i ii flfr
one ueam, ;
Henry F: Thorn was struck
with apoplexy during a rest from
cycling in New York and died.
i Dr. T. B. Carter and Chas. P.
Russell shot and killed each other
m a street affray at Abbott, Texas.
It is said in Germany that
Queen Victoria contemplates visit
ing Emperor William in Ger
many. . .
The long overdue steamer Ex
celsior has arrived at San Francis
co with 63 passengers and 2,500,
000 in gold.
The Richmond, Va.r office of
Seymour Bros, brokers in stocks
and grains, New York, closed its
doors yesterday.
The executive committee of the
Tennessee gold Democrats decided
to retain its organization for: the
coming campaign. ,
At a meeting of manufacturers
invNeAV York it was determined
to advance the price of knit goods
from 15 to 40 per cent.
The New York Merchants Asso
ciation is said to be disappointed
with the results of the merchat's
excursion to that town
The Norwegian . Colony in
Brooklyn are preparing to receive
Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer,
who will arrive in October.
John Hudnan and two sons
were killed by gas while cleaning
a well at Camden. Ark. I he
father was trying to release his
sons. " .
Suspicions of yellow fever were
caused by the death in Boston of
Franklin S. Conant, a student of
the Johns Hopkins University,
who had just arrived there from
Jamaica.
Mr. John E. Dubois, a million
aire, of Dubois, Pa., and Miss
.Willie Gambill, of Roanoke, Va.,
were married yesterday in the
latter city. .
, A disastrous wreck occurred on
the Wisconsin Central Railroad
yesterday morning, resulting in
the death of five people, arid the
injury of several others. fc -
The coroner's jury in the case
of the five man who were lynched
at Versailles, Ind., for alleged
robbery gave a verdict that the
persons who committed the lynch
ing are unknown.
Did Not Scream or Faint.
Mrs. Daniel Palmer displayed
a wonderful-amount" of nerve Sat
urday night. She went into her
bedroom and saw a negro Iman
lying under her bed. Nine ladies
out of ten would have screamed or
fainted. Mi's. Palmer did neither,
but went out of the room and
across the street to Col. R. L.
Bush's home. Cok Bush came
back with her and with the assis
tance of Mr. Mayor the negro was
captured. - The negro was Joe Ci
cero, a well-known thief, who has
already served one or more terms
on the chain-gang. Joe is now in
jail, where he will probably be un
til transferred to some convict
camp. Camilla (Ga.) Clarion.
Bryan's Genius.
Detroit (l&ie-h.) Xews.
What defeated candidate for the
presidency ever before returned to
the stump almost as soon as his
successful rival was warm in the
presidential chairf and secured. as
enthusiastic and as patient and at
tentive audiences as during the
campaign? Bryan hasrloRa,,lbt,
lie iw out iiiiin. lie frits 1)CH till
over the Pacific slope this summet
and the number of his hearers,
their eagerness to listen to him,
and their evident interest-in the
subject be discusses, would make
an uninformed person imagine a
new presidential campaign was in
full flood.
' Bryan's speeches are even inter-
estingjto those . who heard him re
peatedly last fall, of followed his
utterances through the papers. He
sfeenis to have an infinite variety
of argument and illustration with
which to present the innumerable
phases of the questions which
formed the subject of last year's
contest, and fan inexhaustible
charm with . which to hold his hear
ers. His speech at St Louis the
other day was as full of fresh
matter, ingeniously and eloquent
ly presented, as vvas the first of
his speeches last year. It con
tains more thought in two or three
columns as would be found in the
averagre issue of the Congressional
Record of a hundred pages.
1897
STATE NEWS.
FRIDAY.
Greensboro Republicans are to
have a primary to settle on a post
master. '
For wantonly killing a duck be
longing to a white man, a States
ville magistrate sent a negro to
the chain-gang for SO days.
The town of Elkin will put in
electric lights, as 30 residences
and enough business houses will
take them to justify the enterprise.
William Day, colored, who killed
his sweetheart at Winston Satur
day night, was arrrestcd at Stone
ville. .
Paul Adams, a colored ferryman
at Weldon,,was drowned night be
fore last, while attempting to wade
across the river.
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The citizens of Person county
are very much dissatisfied with the
new valuation placed upon horses
and mules, by Auditor Ayer.
Mall Tyson, a packer in a cotton
gin at Wadesboro, got caught in
the shafting and had all of his
clothing torn off ajid his right arm
broken.
State Treasurer Worth yester
day gave a check for 82,400, this
being the interest on the construc
tion bonds of the North Carolina
railroad.
Two of the Mitchell convicts
that escaped from the chain gang
on Monday night of last week,
were captured six1 miles bej'ond
Blowing Rock.
The Scout says a family num
bering 28 passed through Hay
wood county last week going to
Georgia. The chimney fell down
and killed the rest.
The Statesville bund, composed
of 18 pieces, has been engaged for
fair week in Raleigh, and Chief
Marshall Lybrook is meeting with
much success in securing his corps
of assistant marshals. .
At Evangelist Lee's meeting at
Winston, the other night, some
body put a pebble in the collection
basket, but he said that was not as
bad as at Martinsville, Va., where
some one chipped in a beer check.
Master Jack -Akin, the seven
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Akin, of our town, was acci
dentally killed last Wednesday
morning by the hind wheel of a
wagon running across the upper
part of his chest. Murphy Scout.
-Winston Republican:? Ander
son and Phoebe Williams', a color
ed couple living near Lewisville,
this county, "have been fruitful
and multiplied." Their dark hair
ed progenity number 18, the
youngest member of the family
being nine years old.
The Ort'enslioro Telegram says
that Rev. J. A. B. Fry, a Winston
minister, created quite a sensation
when he made the statement Sun
day afternoon at the Y. M. C. A.
meeting in that city, that he had
been informed that every usher
in one of the most influential
churches -of Winston had been
drunk save one.
The Times says the railroad sur
veyors have completed the survey
of the road from Mocksville to
Mooresjille and on last Monday
moved to .Cornatzer and . are now
surveying the road from- Mocks
ville to Winston with a view to
Straightening the line.
Fayetteville Observer: , Mr Ed
ward , Mazingo died yesterday at
his home in Campbellton, aged SO
years! " Ed waHdjMazingo was a
r1""1 ma?y oattles, having fought
111 IUB XUUian War la F16rIA.
in the civil war, and always ac
counted a good man and ' a brave
soldier.
Rocky Mount Motor : Mr.
Robert Harris informed us that on
last Wednesday a Mr. Batts moved
to another place about four miles
distant and left a setting of eggs,
taking the hen with him. On the
following Sunday some one. went
to the nest and found eleven little
chickens, the weather being warm
enough for the eggs to hatch with
out the hen.
Lex Green, son of Mr. W. H
Green, of Dexter, told his father
the first of the year that he want
ed to go to school, and pitched
him a crop of tobacco and went to
work with a vim. He made a nice
lot of tobacco, cured it, stripped
it out and sold it for $58 net and
added it to what he had and has
gone off to school. This shows what
a boy can do whenr he wants
to
get an education. Oxford Ledger,
Price? $1 Per Year.
:
Mormon elders are at work in
Lenoir county.
There is an old colored woman
living near Apex, Wake county,
who is 105 years old,;
The mayor of Raleigh sent a
woman named Lizzie Powell to
the roads for thirty days.
If is less than four weeks t till
the Alamance fair and all signs
now point to a successful one.T.
, The Wilmington Star says the
Cape Fear -is lower than it has
leen in 20 years and river trans
portation is about checked.
The Observer says Mr. Chas.
Henderson, a prominent citizen of
Mecklenburg, has moved to
Mooresville to school his chil
dren. , - , .
Evangelist Fife has closed the
meeting in High Point. It is
learned that be will hold a meeting
at Thomasville, beginning in a day
or two.
Dr. George W. Saunders, for
mer State auditor and later fourth
auditor of the United States treas
ury, is in an asylum at Baltimore
for treatment for mind trouble.
Mr. Bamford, the proprietor of
the silk mill recently established at
Greensboro, has decided to move
the factory back to Patterson, N.
J. He cannot make the business
pay here on account of the high
rate charged for transportation, he
saj's.
The three-year-old son of Robert
lubbard was burned to death at
Elkin, The child turned over, a
amp, from which its clothes caught
fire. The mother's hands were
badly burned and it is feared one
of her arms will have to be ampu
tated. Greensboro Record: The killing
by Geo. Craige of his wife in
Rockingham countv last week
turns out to be purely accidental,
so says a gentleman from Reids-
ville, who is conversant with the
'acts. No motive at the first could
be ascribed, and it was put down
as deliberate murder. Craige has
since lost his mind, so our inform
ant says.
Mr. Jno. C. Hope', the rattle
snake capturer and destroyer, of
Long Shoals, came into see us
Wednesday. He says that Mrs.
Harrill's place seems to be a favor
ite resort for rattlesnakes. In ad
dition to the large one : recently
caught by Mr. Hope, one man has
illed four on that place in the last
two years, lhey had from 7 to
18 rattles. Six years asro one that
had taken up its quarters in the
walls of the house, crawled out and
was killed upon the floor. Many
years ago a rattlesnake bit a broth
er of Mr. Hope, killing him in less
than an hour. Lincoln Journal.
Snow Storm Off Hatteras.
The Philadelphia Times of 13th
inst. says: "While the people in
this city were suffering last Thurs
day from the extreme heat the
crew of the steamer Etheired,-
which reached this port last even
ing, were almost frozen by cold
weather. The Ethel red pounded
her way successfully along the
coast from Jamaica without any
great change in the climatic con
ditions until off Cape Hatteras,
then the vessel was struck by a
cold 'wave.' which almost froze
the crew, and compelled each one
of them who was on duty to don
mits and heavy lop coats.
The mercury in tben thermome
ter dropped fifty-nine degrees in
three hours. " When the winds
coldest kind of sleet fell until
the deck of the, vessel was danger
qus to tred upon. The sleet was
followed by a fierce snow storm
which-'continued for fifteen min
utes." - "
lhe American hen is a rattler.
She goes in and attends to busi
ness, and takes care of her family
regardless of the times. - There
are 350,000.000 of her. She lays
13,750,000,000 eggs, which would
make an omelette 542,218 miles
long which would weigh 853,125
tons. Yet she isn't putting on any
style or doing any crowing over
her achievements. : She lets the
fellows who don't do .the laying
niit on the stvle. and do ail tne
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strutting and crowing.
it is a
good, deal that way in
family sometimes.
the 'human
The best -thing out an aching
j tooth.
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ONLY ONE MOTITER.
You have only one mother, my boy, t
3Vhose heart you can gladden wit!h
joy, - ' :
Or cause it to ache
Till ready to break
So cherish that mother, my boy.
You have but one mother who will
Stick to3'ou through good and through
. HI,
And love you, altho' .
The world is your toe
So care for that love ever still. f
You have only one mother to pray
That in the good path you may stay,
Who for you won't spare ' j
Self sacrifice rare
So worship that mother always.
You have only one mother to make
A. home ever sweet for your sake,
Who toils day and night
For you with delight
To; help her all pain e ver take."
You have only one mother to miss
When i yoir-hyedeparted from this,
jso mve ana re rcie
That mother while here
Some time you won't know her, dear
kiss.
You have, only one mother, JUST
ONE
Remember that always, my son;
' "None can or will do
What she has for you,
What have you for her ever done?
THE CALF PATH.
One day through the primeval wood,.
A calf walked home, as good calves .
. ; should;
But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail, as all calves do.
Since then two hundred years have
fled.
And, I infer, the calf is dead.
But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs a mortal tale.
The trail was taken up next day,
By a lone dog that passed that way,
And then a wise bell-weather sheep.
Pursued the trail, o'er vale and steep,
And drew the flock.behind him, too,
As good bell-weathers always do.
And from that day, o'er hill and
glade,
Through these old woods a path was .
.made,
And many men wound in and out,
And doged and turned and bent
about, .
And uttered words of righteous
wrath,
Because t' was such a crooked path,.
But still they followed do not laugh
The first migration of that calf.
And through this winding woodway
stalked
Because he wabbled when he walked.
This forest path became a lane,
That bent and turned and . turned
again,
This crooked lane ecame a road, .
Where many apoor horse with his
load,
Toiled on beneath the.sun,
And traveled some. three miles in one,
And thus a century and a half,
They trod the footsteps of that calf.
The " years passed on in swiftness
; fleet,. " '
The road became a village street,
And this, before the men were aware,
A city's crowded thoroughfare,
And soon, the central street was this,
Of a renowned metropolis.
And men two centuries and a half,
Trod in the footsteps of that calf;
Each day a hundred thousand rout
Followed the zigzag calf about.
And o'er his crooked journey went,'
The traffic of a continent. f
rA hundred thousand men were led,
By one calf near three centuries dead.
Buffalo Express. -
A negro in Alabama has just got
through being tried for a murder
with which he was charged' six
years ago. He went through the
justice "fmilfive times, first time
convicted and sSK8Cd to death,
second to life imprisonmeut,'tlr
to fifty years, fourth time to ten
years, and the fifth time acquitted.
He got justice in big and broken
doses, but was probably satisfied
at last. Wilmington Star. '
An Indiana farmer was in such ; -
a hurry te get a divorce that he
wrote the Judge and an induce-
mentff ered &m $20 to hurry it
up. The Judge not taking the .
same business View of it summoned .
him before the court, fined him for
contempt, and now the prosecut- :i
ing attorney talks of taking a t
whack . at - him for attempted,
bribery. And on top of all this j
he doesn't stand any show for V
divorce, as the Judge had his case .
wiped from the -calendar. "
Two maiden sisters, Miss Har
riet C. Sheldon, 82 years old, and
Miss Matilda Sheldon, 86, were
fatally burned at their home in
Lynn Mass. They lived by
themselves and4 were cooking with
a kerosene stove, when the latter
tipped over arid ihe oil ignited
The blaze communicated to- Ma
tilda's clothes, nd Harriet at
tempted to extinguish - the fire,,
when her clothing also caught.''
Both died in a short time after a
neighbor reached them. ! " "
; Never marry a girl who is not
afraid of a mouse unless you want
to play second violin, j
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