North Carolina Newspapers

- 7 -t . . 1 . . . a . ii r - - . . - - .. . ft. a. wvrw- INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. Term a.OO Zr Tr.-. VOL. VI' NEW BERNE, CRAVEN COUNTY, N. C, OCTOBER 11, 1883. ' ! - ' i . -: :. . " v- : . j - If :V - ;. - ADVEETISEMENTS. r f .' (.Trow tke Keuf Oriean Time-DevucraL) ' .TIi3 Gullclt Kisnclia Coif oiri - - , r t. a . . - a - ' J " jl. T ..- v - Iu onr paper to-da j will he found the advertisement of that justlj cel ebrated cotton gin the "Gollett Magnolia.' "We hare traversed with in the cast tii months the entire cotton belt from Texas to Virginia. - and throughout the States Combined tUi noted gin is beyond cavil or question. - It stands first and foremost with all, in mechanism, durability and perfection J And, indeed, no en x terprise conld fail of saccess, conducted as is the business of this corn ran v. Or finally nader the. control of Benjamin D.vGuIIetL a man fjniiliar throughout the South, at his death its management devolved . upon one whose name is in itself a tower of strength Albert Baldwin, llsa. To his s'kle this eentlemaa ! Geo. A. Teete, than whom, in executive ability, aontf -abler can be i found. Truly is this establishment a home-nstirutioD, everything used in the construction of the .machines, even to the castings and saws.- be ing made at their own factory; while the, majestic magnolia and long loax yellow pine, or wnicatueir gins are nianoiacturea, grow micit uu their own immediately adiaeent landfu In fine, the "Guile tt Magnolia, " as a gin, cannot be excelled, and ail who use it sound its praises ever afterward. - " For sale by I carry ; a full 'line of n::d solicit - a share A)f fiena in your oraers..ior.;jDguies,: .-wjwou Gins, Presses Rice -Trehers &a, as early as possioie,. ana. appointments "Kectncky''CnaMill8, Cook's" Evaporators,'- -: .-i ! ."t 6 Mi rjland" Com Shellem, " -"v r. : kawsy and Champion Grain Fans, r Sranj Engines, al) sues, ' . --'" , ;. "Tennessee Wagons, , " r.iee and Wheat Threshers and '"Hanceck Inspirators, - -?rrators, . -" i Hognes Graded Injeetor Carver Cotton GuiaV"CC'"5V'"- Cotton Seed Hollers; f . V " ''arTer Condens?, ; .'.;-' '- :J ' - Saw Mills, -V i- Carver Cotton Cleaners,'-. 'V-'""i' Circular SawSy Gumajere, .": ' Gh":;:"j Magnolia" Gin '-1 Side fcSfSwages,, -Ir y La '".0 Cotton Press, , ;; , -;" Shafting. Polleys, Belting, l t wer Cotton rreas, r :: V , T Roanoke Hand Press," . . ' : I ?-T9 Co." Grit Corn Mm.?" r" Maid of the South Com Mills, . Drake's Tat. Shingle Machine,"":" et rite ior terms ana that ho well regulated be yrithout a vGOr?IrcePump. : CILl YS STREETS XEXTJtQOll T$ ' VJTXOHJfpEy 2 , ooo d ales? no fftffli if n Pii ay; RosendaIe,Portland SeltaW Cements. : v PlasterrGoattHaire. SALEa EOQM-CaywStrMtbelwEirjre . . Aal& J rt i i i M A li.it NelJ, TT anies : -'V-V: EERGNER ft N GEL'S : " ? CHiEBElTED .BOTTLED LAGER BEER ;: FiF CRATE. Also on hand a roll stock of (Jroceries, Provisfons, Cigars . ! '' : . AND TOAdCO Open FTt Brick StorMTODLE STKBET, A: 1 d'wit - . 1 vew BEitsr n c. iS0ALlE;M'& CO., f Pollok -Street, New Berne, N. C, General Hardware, m i.r jit . a , i lit- .A" i mi 11, . j'.Iili 'RI0ES;.YERY in that district the reputation of has called, as teaeral, manager, Mr. : ' ' ' " "the Tollowing goods, Y6ur)atronage4 i Kentucky Shingle Machine, : Box Board Machine. . c J- 1 Acme Pulveriaing; Harrow, "unsur- ( passed for puttingn vmall rram- 'KJoLEaay" Feed ottera, kEtcv:Eto'Etfc 4.1:: .1 prices, ana rememoer - family r n afford - to IN' Agricultural Implements. ' Steam En jfi lies, Cotton Presses. ! Horse Powers, j Tlircsiiors, I Farm JtlAcliiuery,' Grain Fans. Straw Cutters, ; Corn Shelters. Cider Mill,' Beltlug, i Packing, Pipe. Fitting. Paint, Oils! i UIajm Ume, Cement, Plawtcr, Fertilizers, Brick, Etc, tnereoys avoia . aeiays, ana ais- QW FOR CASH. WHEAT SOWING. We give below Bill Arp's advice on wheat sowing as given in the Southern Cultivator. There are two points that we wish to call es pecial attention to, and these are the selection of seed and the use of the roller. There is not one-tenth of the wheat sown in this section that ought to be, and one reason of this is the crop too off en a failnre, and the failure js lecause the far mer does notgive it that attention it deserves. The usual plan is to sow the grain, turn it under with a. plow and leave it to work ont its own salvation. Bill Arp is noted for his common sense; read his advice and act upon it. Bear in mind, however, that we are a little further North than Bill Arp and for this reason the seed should be put in a little deeper than in Georgia. Judge Henderson tells me that he has written letters to a good many successful wheat growers to know when they sow and how they sow and how they prepare the ground. I hope he will get answers in time to publish them in. this number, for I find that good many farmers in this region differ very much on these things, and we want to know the best way. With fair, average seasons we are pretty sure of a good corn, crop and a good cot ton crop, out tne wneac is always uncertain, and nobody seems to know why. One good crop i n three years is doing pretty well for North Georgia.! It is not soink the West or the Northwest. It is good, and it is better, but hardly ver a fail ore ; I've been rending some upon this subject, and my own conclusions are that it is the farmers' fault and not the lands. or: the seasons. In the first place we ought to get our seed south of us, where the grain ripens earlier, and it will then come in ahead .of the rust. Col. Carter raises from six ' to eight thousand bushels a year, and he sells it all and sends down country for his seed. He larms in Murray county where the spring opens from four to six weeks later than it does in Southern -Georgia Year before last I got some seed from Lincoln county, and some from Kentucky. The first ripened early and had no rust, and made sixteen bushels to the acre. The last made noth ing. After I bought it, I didn't want to sow it; I thought I was a fool, and now 1 know it. - Some farmers plow their wheat m with scooters, some - harrow it iu, some brush it in with a grain drill. All agree that it onght to be put in shallow at the South where the winters are neither long nor severe. I had right good : wheat one year that come up where we had run the thrasher, and it was not covered at all. So I think-the best plan is to harrow it with a light dressing har row and follow i with a roller. I think more of my roller than most any other implement. We made it at home and it cost only two dol lars, and it is as good as an iron one that eost forty: It is made of poplar? and is La two sections, each three feet and a half long and three feet In. diameter; has a frame around it, and a seat on top and ' a sheep skin on the seat to make it luxur ious. The roller -presses the earth around the grain, and after it conies up and begins to show green, it should be rplled again, and when it will hide a rabbit roll it once more. The fact is, you can't roll it too much. One writer says his tenants made a path through his wheat field, and tramped it ' hard, and he didn't like it and stopped 'em, but the path was the best wheat he had, and was plainly visible when the wheat got ripe. Another writer says he had to move his gin house. and drove his teams across the held soon alter the wheat came up, and the mules and the wagon wheels packed it down'pretty bad and the best wheat he made was there. If these te facts, we ought to learn something from them. But nobody need expect a good crop unless he has plowed deep and pulverized the BOil,r: It is only the surface that needs rolling and packing. The top soil must be kept close around the" little rootlets, and if a freeze spews up the ground and tears some of them, they must be pressed back again as soon as practicable. One man from Kentucky, says he has doubled his crop since he began with the roller. There is another question to set tle, and that is, wheu to sow I mean when in this latitude, or rather the region for the same latitudes have not the same climate. There is an old Englishman living near me who says that, "Mover hiu Ilinglaud they sow weat hin dust and boats, in mortar." He says he has seen his -father sow his oats when it was pouring down rain, but he waited for a drv time to put in his wheat. That may be good prac tice nd the result of long expe rience, and there may be a good reason for it but we dou't know it. About this question of acclima tion I was very much bewildered until I had a talk with Mr. New man, of our Agricultural Depart ment, and he gave me the general principles. lie says that all an nuals that begin their growth in the spring ana mature m tne summer i will ripen soouer if the seed comes j from the North, while plants that ; begin their growth in the fall and j mature the next summer will ripen J sooner if brought from the South. Northern corn will ripen here in three months like it does there, but ! the next year it will begin to accli- j mate and ripen later. But Georgia corn will not mature at all in Mas-1 sachusetts. Their summer is too ! short. And so it will not do to sow Northern wheat iu our Southern States. It takes eleven months up there for it to mature, and it wants to be just as long about it here. He says that it would pay our North Georgia farmers to get our cotton seed from Tennessee, or as far North as good cotton is made, for it would mature earlier and escape the frosts. I didn't ask him about those plants that grow in winter and summer both, such as Irish potatoes and onions, and turnips. We get most of our potato seed from the North, but I Buppose it is because they bring us the earliest fruit; but suppose we get them from the South and plant in October or November, would they not mature as earlyt But after all there seems to be another law to come in and have some force. The law of adaptation. I-That Yankee corn that gives us a few sickly nubbins in the garden by the fourth of July, is not much account. It is not near so good as our own corn that comes a month later. It is not near so good, nor so perfect, as it is up North where it come from. I believe that every couutry and climate has its natural launa and flora. The Creator gave every land both animals and veget ables that were suited to it, and when you remove them their na ture has to go through a change, or they can't survive it. And that is the reason why cattle take the mnr- rian and die when brought here from west of the Allaganies. That line of mountains seems to cut the climate ia two as well as the coun try. It cuts it Northeast . and Southwest. But it didn't cut the people in two. Our oeonle assimi late better with the people west of ns than with those Northeast of us Climate is a very subtle thing, and its influences on vegetable life are curious. A few years ago our peo ple liked to have broke" themselves buying Northern fruit trees, and they were not worth a cent when they got them . The beautiful pic tures of the fruit sold them. Ap ples won't grow to much perfection in Bartow county, but fifty miles north of ns most any kind of a tree will bring fine apples. Gilmer and Pickens counties grow as fine ap ples as ever come from Michigan. I have seen them come from there that measured 20 inches around. A learned judge told me there was a tree up there that was known to be over acunarea years oia, ana was sixty feet , high and three feet in diameter, and its limbs spread ont in proportion. Another man told me that one time when the lawyers were all going up there to court, in ten buggies and more on horseback, they had to pass through a narrow lane with large apple trees on each side, and the apples were six inches deep on the ground in the lane, and the horses smashed 'em, and the wheels cut 'em, and after the last buggy had passed there was a stream of cider running down the lane big enough to turn a saw mill. I could prove this to be a fact, but the man who said he saw it is dead. Truly, truly climate is a wonderful thing. Bill Aep. State Fair Its Outlook. The prospects for a grand success were never more promising for a State fair than for the exhibition to be held at Raleigh from the 15th to the 20th of the present month. The d splay of ma chinery of all kinds will be large and full, comprising many new articles of Sractical utility. - The display of fine red live stock promises to be the lar gest ever witnessed in the State, if not in the South. Hogs worth $200 a head are not often seen and yet, that is the value fixed upon hogs now being pre pared for shipment to our State fair. Fine sheep, in the raising of which our people have great need of becoming more interested, will be present in all the best breeds. The trials of speed will be very at tractive for at least four days of the fair. Then come next fine breeds of cattle, including Jerseys, Devons, short horns and other fine bloods, in all of which our people are becoming more interested each year. Those fine butter makers will ere long take the place of our scrubs to a large extent,' and the sooner the better. One man has en gaged coops: for 120 fowls. The pros pects are very flattering for an unusually large exhibition of farm products of all kinds. Onr farmers are showing more of the present day progressive spirit, and we trust at their State convention they will infuse the intensive spirit into each other, and spread the same throughout our grand old State. The side-shows, frequently a source of entertainment and profit to visitors, when they have become jaded from walking around, promise to be better than uraal. One party with educated canary birds has applied for space; another with a pair of sea leopards and eight alligators; and still another with a mammoth museum, then another with a three-legged calf; and still another with an ox weighing 3,700 pounds. Then last, but not least, there seems to be a general determination on the part of the people of all sections to come to the State fair. The railroads will run excursion trains each day and will bring the people at two cents a mile each way and bring their exhibits to the fair and carry them back home, all free. So, with the prospects of a gand exhibition, the liberal rates furnished by the railroads and the people all anxious to come, the State fair this year must be a grand success. News and Observer. A UAKD. From Mrs. "Stonewall'' Jackson. To the Editor of the Journal-Observer. Upon my return from my recent visit to the North, 1 find some comments which are not entirely just, from the Southern press, and in justice to myself and my daughter, I must correct some statements which have been made. Af ter joining Gov. aud Mrs. Jarvis, who were going to take the same trip (and where could we find a more pleasautand suitable party to travel with, than the Governor of my native State and his ex cellent wife V) an invitation was extend ed to us to become the guests of the State of Massachusetts. I was advised by Southern friends to accept it; and it was urged that we would not be the guests of Gov. Butler, but of the State, which represented many good and noble people. While in ' and did not cross the threshold of Gen. Butler. Justice, however, compels me ; to say that he was wanting in no cour i tesy to the guests of his State. The peo ! pie of Boeton and at every point we vis J ited in the North, certainly gave evi ; dence that my husband's name was held In such honor and reverence, that 1 my heart could not but bo touched with i tender and grateful emotion. I was told they admired him for "'his moral grandeur," "his exalted piety;'' that he was the " bravest man the war produced on euner siae, anu mat they were "proud of him as an American citizen," &c. Surely there must be enough of chivalry and right feeliDg on the part of all true Southerners to cast no blame upon me for having been the means of I evoking such sentiments as these: and ! while every instinct of my nature is j loyalty and devotion to the South, I can testify that there are many excellent Christians at the North, who are anx ious to blot out all sectional differences, and extend to us the love and kindness which makes a nation "that happy peo ple whose God is the Lord." M. A. Jackson. GENEEAL NEWS. The excitement of Spaniards against the French increases. Manv cannon have been sent to the Eastern frontier of France, TLc youngest and favorite son of the Ameer of Afghanistan has died of measles at Cabul. . . An explosion at the California Powder Works killed forty China men and one white man. A fire at Bellevue Gardens, Man chester, Eng., burned a panorama during a performance; no one in jured. . Sixteen hotels in Chicago are assessed at $6,500,000. The theatres of the city are valued at about $800,000. The top crop of cotton in Texas will be a failure; worms are appear ing in large numbers; picking is far advanced. There has been another serious fight between Irish harvesters and English laborers this time in Yorkshire. There are over . three million pnpils, or about a ninth part of the entice population, in the pnblic schools of Italy. The Philadelphia Record esti mates that there are 10,000 liquor shops in Philadelphia one third of which are not licensed. A fatal affray occurred in a Bap tist meeting house at Comanche, Texas-. one man was killed and his assailant was fatally injured. Bepresentative S. S, Cox is try ing to help Judge Hoadly in his canvass. He is making speeches in Licking county, the home of his boyhood. i ; Prof. Bothrock of Philadelphia says that at the present rate of destroying American forests the country will be without woodlands thirty years hence. Astoria, Oregon, has 7,000 popu lation in the fishing season, and 4,000 the rest of the year. Sne has dozen canning establishments, which yield $3,000,000 a year. Mrs. Ralston, the widow of the famous San Francisco banker, is living with her two sons at their new mining camp in California, where they have erected a house for her. It is fonnd now that tea and cocoa are Ceylon's most paying crops. Cinchona, too, is rapidly increasing in production. Crop prospects there are decidedly better than last year. Arrangements are making to run "Blitzzug'' or lightning train from Paris to St. Petersburg. It will travel at fifty-six miles an hour, and have ail the accommoda tions of our palace cars. Hunters in-Panther creek swamp, in Mississippi, shot a deer that had a human skull impaled on one of the prongs of its right horn. The prong had entered the eye, and grown up around the skull bone. The National Cotton Planters' Association will hold its Convention in Vicksburg, November 21st; plans are on loot to secure a thorough representation of the entire cotton producing, handling and manufac turing interests of the Union. One of the colored, lawyers who practices at lirenham, Texas, being an observant man, noticed that several senior and leading members of the bar wore bald heads, and so he had the top of the back of his head, where the bald place ought to be, shaved. Thirteen members of the Polish Catholic- congregation, who took possession of the doors of the church in Nanticoke, Pa., on Sunday, re fusing to admit anybody, . either priest or laymau, into the building, have been arrested. The Town Council of Bombay has refused to sanction the vote of $25,000 granted by the Municipal ity for defraying the expenses- of the public reception of the Duke of Connaught, declaring $1,000 to be the total sum that could be allowed for the purpose. A large number of the Lancashire aud Yorkshire (England) mill own ers, who twenty-five years ago out shone the territorial magnates in the lavish splendor of their estab lishments, are now living almost in obscurity. In some cases their condition is on the verge of penury. The Executive Board of the Brew ers' and Liquor Dealers' Associa tion of Ohio recommend to brewers and distillers that, owing to the threatening aspect of the prohibi tion.amendment, no grain be pur chased by any one connected with the trade until the result of the election shall be known. A severe wind storm iu Lexing ton, Ky., on Sunday afternoon blew down the Cincinnati Southern Rail road Company's engine house, and took off the roofs of the First Na tional Bank, the Press office, and Baker & Mason's warehouse. For shoe's tobacco warehouse was de molished. No lives were lost. Two torpedo boats, which have just been built at Havre for the Russian Goverment,, were recently tried at Cherbourg. Their guar anteed speed is 13 knots and they can carry coal for a cruise of 1,500 miles. They are considered to be the most perfect boats of their class which have ever been constructed. The latest potato story is from Chester county, Pa. Michael Mover, constable of Robeson, intending to examine the tubers iu his potato patch, dug up what seemed to be a stone. It was the shell of a mam moth potato which a mouse had bored out, and in which the rodent , - . During the progress of lhe joint discussion here jesterday afternoon between Judge Kinne and Gov. Sherman, and while the latter was speaking, he was taken with one of his apoplectic fits aud stood mo tionless and dumb before the as sembly for several minutes. Wheu about to fall he was rendered as sistance by the inemlersof his com mittee on the stand. Mr. Gladstone, iu his late trip, climbed the ruined walls of old Dunstaffuage Castle, and inspected nad maue a sou nest tnat eonrineu j be ompty next morning. They had ac a U Ulllber of young mice. ; cordingly been setting a watch for the . . T . ! thief, but were unsuccessful in their the site of the stone of destiny which the English' invader carried off triumphantly to the south, re gardless of the legend inscribed on it: "Should fate not fail, where'er this stone . be found The Scot shall monarch of that realm be crowned. This tradition was fulfilled to the letter when James VI. of Scotland became James I. of England. The stoue still reposes in Westminster Abbey beneath the coronation chair, BUELINGTGN, IA., Oct. 2. A special dispatch to the Haickeyi from Iowa Junction. 111., on the Carthage Branch of the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney railroad, gives an account of a fatal tragedy which took place , there yesterday W. Diver, a deaf mute, who had been rejected as a suitor by his orotner s widow, attempted to kill her with an axe, and inflicted sen ous injuries. Interrupted in his endeavors to spiritualize his sister in-law, he cut his own throat and pounded himself on the head with the axe until he fell dead. The woman will recover. Vicksbubg, Miss., Oct. 2. At the Interstate Levee Convention to-day three States Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi only were, represented. Resolutions were adopted, declaring that it is the imperative duty of Congress to improve the navigation of ,the Mississippi and its tributaries, ad vising that a permanent organiza tion, representing1 aft the people of tne valley and tributaries interest ed in the subject, be formed, and endorsing the scheme of the Missis sippi River Commission. An ex ecutive committee was appointed, to meet in Washington, January 15, to aid in securing tho necessary legislation. Tho convention then adjoured. A year or so ago a member of tho Spanish diplomatic service married a young lady of great beauty. Shortly after his marriage he was somewhat surprised to receive no tice that ho had been appointed to a high position in Cuba, and that he was expected to undertake his new duties without delay. The time was so short that he was obliged to leave his wife behind, and accordingly prepared to start at once. He bade farewell to his family and left his house, but in stead of leaving Madrid he managed to miss his' train and returned home somewhat late in the evening. On arriving he was surprised to find the Duke de L. in possession, but of course took care not to express astonishmeut. Suddenly he rose and said he was going to see his wife, from which the Duke, in great perturbation, strove to dissuade him. The next evening the in quisitive Spaniard was found stab bed to death in his own room. An apology for an inquiry was held. Verdict, suicide. STATE NEWS tilianeil from onr Exchanges. Raleigh Farmer and Mechanic: Al tnouga judge strong did not receive the Supreme Court appointment, he cer tainly has a right to wear the tallest of stove-pipe hats until the people elect him ODe of the new Judges (the in crease of the court by two is a foregone conclusion): because a very large number of the leading papers have given him half column of praise, of the warm est language1, and the people endorse it. Raleigh News-Observer: Construction bonds to the amount of $5,000 came into the Slate treasury for exchange yester day. The executive committee of the State Agricultural Society met last night. Quite a large number of the members assemb'ed and much important business was transacted. The executive com mittoe are using every effort to make the fair a great success and the outlook is fair for one of the largest and most attractive exhibitions we have seen yet. Goldsboro Messenger: A series of Rightly prayer meetings is being held in the Presb terian church in this city during the present week, preparatory to the members receiving communion next Sunday.' The graded school continues to grow. The enrollment already is some forty in excess of tho average attendance for the closing month of last session. The teachers are doing faithful and earnest work, and soon another, teacher will have to be employed. Wilmington Review: Mr. C. C. Woodcock, of Moore's Creek, who was in the eity to-day, tells us that the dam age to the crops in the Black River sec tion, heretofore reported by us, has not been exaggerated. The country has been flooded with .water. Corn and cotton will hardly realize half of a crop; and the crop of field peas, generally a great reliance for the farmer, has been so completely ruined that scarcely enough will be saved for seed. The present weather is good for cotton, it is true, but it comes too late. Wilmington Star: We notice in the Scientific American of Sept. 29th men tion of an ingenious mechanical move ment for transmitting circular motion, whereby small power applied may serve to overcome great resistance, which has been patented by Mr. W. Bt Cam pen, of this city. Upon a shaft designed to be rotated by hand or cogs, are mounted thiee circular eccentrics one-third of a circle apart, so that their motions are relatively alternate. Each eccentric is provided with an arm which, when it is thrust forward Dy tne motion of the eccentric, tends to act upon a ratchet wheel secured to a second shaft, and since there is cue ratchet wheel for each eccentric, when two of the ratchet wheels are at dead center the third will be rotated by the action of its eccentric and a continuous motion thus obtained. Charlotte Journal-Observer: Yester day morning as Mr. Jim Ross, junior partner of Phelan & Ross, opened his store and was sweeping out, dusting and setting back boxes, he saw a curious looking object lying; in a maccaroni box, which upon closer inspection proved to be a fat coon, taking a nap. Jim fell across the box with a board and his coonship surrendered uncon ditionally. It was a big specimen, weighing 25 pounds. For several nights past Phelan & Ross had been missing cheese, herrings, sugar, candy and cakes. A freezer that had been left hall' full of ice cream at night was found to lull ti.mi tu efforts to detect and capture him, until Mr. Boss stumbled on him by accident as has been described. The cjon was no doubt the guilty party, as the ex panded nature of his girth indi cated. How he came to be in the store and how long he was th?re, are questions that puzzle. The cholera has become epidemic amoug the chickens about town, and is laying them on their backs by the hun dred One who ha-s tried it recommends the following as a sure remedy and pre ventive, and says that the use of it will tave the poultry: With one quart of corn meal mix eleven drops of lauda num aud a teaspoonful of soda, and feed to tho fowls regularly. Pretty Tales Devoid of Troth xuo preny iaie oi uooiva, we tear, must be added to the list of those which have fallen victims to the modern spirit of skepticism and critical investigation. Oue by one tne romautlc chapters of history, unoso wnicn used to enchain child ish fancy, and form the landmarks of childish knowledge, are being iosc ro us lorever, except as by words of credulous ignorance. Once they were long-established beliefs which no one dreamed of assailing: they were enshrined in the pages of Aiauguaii and revered accordmerlv: To those persons, bo they of Coven try or any other place, who bewail an assault upon a favorite letrend. the only consolation to be offered is that, in Homeric phrase, many and better traditions have died ere this one. The kings of Rome perished a long time ago by the pen of Nie bnhr, and they have been killed over and over again since the great historian's time. Homer has not exactly forfeited all claim to an in dividual existence under the attacks of Wolf and his followers, but he has been sadly compromised. Esop has not escaped, for it is now the fashion to maintain that there never was such a person, but that he only afforded a convenient name under which to group the composers of ancient fable in general, although by a curious piece-ot irony Sir George Cornewafl Lewis, one of the greatest of historical skeptics, ed ited a spurious collection of Esopic tables, palmed oft on .the world by an impudent modern Greek, as if iEsop were a genuine personage and tuese tables were the genuine production of Esop. To come to more modern times, the current story of Joan of Arc has been a dozen times refuted aud as often reasserted. The historical story of William Tell is indeed melancboiv. for he has been found out by the critics, instead of a patriot peasant, to nave been an innkeeper and a horsedealer; but perhaps these Crit ics may be suspected of Austrian leanings. The romantic attachment of the Princess Pocahontas to Cap tain John smith is demonstrated by recent historians to be indebted for much of its romance to the im agination of Captain Smith himself. What need is there to allude to the story of the Vengenr, or to the abundant parallels of that tale which are found in the annals oi every country, and which have been found not altogether proof against critical investigation f Jjondon Times. At the "Zoo" in Paris. In the Jardin des Plantes, iu Paris, which is something like our Zoological garden, a very exciting incident; happened the other day. A little boy of five years old, reaching too far over the rails of the white bears' den to give them a bit of cake, overbalanced himself and fell iu. His nurse, who had been looking the other way for a minute, missing the little fellow and hearing the cry of affright, set up a shriek ten times as piercing, wring ing her hands and bemoaning the child as dead. The two great clumsy bears were a good deal puzzled at the event. They sniffed aud snuffed at the boy, and finding he was not cake, retired to consider how to treat him. Now was the moment to save the poor child, but who was to do itt The company in the garden con sisted chieflj' of old people sunning themselves on the benches, babies and nurses. All at once something blue came in sight a young workman in his blouse with his tools over his shoul der. In a twiukliug he threw down his tools and called for a rope Then down into the den he caused himself to be lowered, just between the child and the savage beasts. He did not lose a stcond in seizing the halt-stnnned creature, and with eyes still fixed on the bears, he shouted, '"Up, comrades! up."' But then, the bears became irri tated. Two people in their own special den was past a joke, and with one accord they shambled up to their visitors, charging violently and growling angrily; but they were just a few seconds too late. The nurse snatched at her boy with tears and laughter; the crowd mainly gathered around the work man to shake his hand and call him ''Brave fellow!" but ho only smiled, picked up lus tools and walked on. Hen and Rat. A California hen, while engaged with her brood of chickens in plow ing up a neighbor's garden, recent ly, was charged upon by a full grown rat. The old representative of the "poultry show" immediately established herself as a cordon around her Hock and awaited the onslaught. The rodent, somewhat checked by the bold front presented by the "garden destroyer," crouched for a moment, and then made a dart for one of the chicks. In an instant the old hen opened her cackle battery and commenced bat tle. She tiew at her enemy, and striking it with her bill, grabbed it by the back aud threw it in tho a if. The rodent came down witli a thump upon tho walk, but before it could regain its feet the lien repeated the performance, and kept it up until the rat v;is only able to crawl away a lew feet and (lie iu disgrace. After contemplating her fallen foe for a few moments, the old hen called her brood around her and walked oil". How He Helped Them Over. Two of our belles while walking out the other day came to a ditch near the railroad grade at Mont clair which they did not know how to get over. Seeing a young man coming along t lie road they ap pealed to him for help, whereupon lie pointed behind them with a startled air aud yelled out "Snakes!" The way those girls crossed that ditch was a sight to behold, and the young man lives. An Observation Of Life. How mueli more graceful, elegant and superior does the man on the bicycle look than the man with the wheelbarrow! 15ut wait until they come into collision and see which procession turns up hi tho most handsome condition Letter Frm Hookertom.: Hookebton, N. C. Oct 1st IsSU Editor Journal: A' your regular correspondent at thin plac h ffomewhftt wv.caav, w ibiq QU UUIWII llll, llUK Of telling you the latest fchd befct-newi concerning the new brldire.' and thine otherwise pertaining to our -antlqnal.it Tillage. 'Th bridjre Is jut fcampletad and pronounced by those who Vnow to d a gooa bridge: No accident of i graver character than you have been fit formed of occurred. eiM MrAIi Aldridge and Uncle Green Soott'iyal lr og were oaptizea aurmg i erection. This of course wan not inUntlonaf fm the part of either. The only philowophV-'t i explanation yet oncreri ting that moon nnu not yet lulled and I to powers of attraction d id not ' equal that oi gravitation. - mere la ' no patent on this that we know of , Mr. Editor, and it is as free to be used an to go where n pieaees as tne geene and ganders are, in the region where we have the tocb law. Indeed , evervthinir along Contentnea creek. In the llivl act it wm made lawful foo,Uheto tne territory waa , extended, wjthout re pealing the first act. so it ret s lawful fence, which in the dry weather of a few weeks ago was,. such s noor icueo, uiui even JOUI lurxev ID Ills moat emaciated -days could have eaMlv fnUmwl if This Ka r.: Rn . ..iu, 1 , mvm Qt.fiu a. I cbi. UVM of trouble along the river Stock havn crossed and would be taken b." hrt vervTeiuctaniiv tner nad to be returned to their owners without any ramuneri fcn to those who' ttdnbled" (henuervps to take them no. for th Uw mvb tlul creek is a fence. We' suggest that .the, next General - Assemblv. be double somethimr after the fashioa MC tfc? luaC inrenor court in this poupty and whUe one body enacts let others repeal. . ' The facilities of boat) tramiBOrla'tin has added considerably ts the-ayaDL ww vino ovufaiuii. Aiie larmers UQU merchants alike prontrair br tMtnt Wishing the.JouBNAl,. long lite, with a brillian. future, we subscribe ourselt. ' ' A OUBSCRIB1ER. Bayboro Items..!i ii r Cotton is coming in "town a freer for the last day or sot ' ' ' Utile "1 Al Dr. . Attmore , says-, he has been very bnsy for the last two weeks. . , urapes are .very plentiful on our streets now at 8t cents per quarto ' Miss Sina Stilly; has- gonauOTar to uregon to take charge pi a school j (( Mr. Uharles DiJton has moted to Aurora, where he is going to embUrks in to the mercantile feusineM.i Ht ..H Mr. 8. EL Fowfer ia irer ,alok,f Mrs. and Mr. Stilly are sick. - It is very sickir in rami ico county at (bur time. .,". .' t, u t One of our married .Werchantti white walking the road , Sunday, night . was frightened very much by a supposed ghost. '-l; - ;.;.; I hope "Mr. Vaademera Itema?wili tell some of his fishermen to bring us some fish, as we haven had any sine we left Vandeniere. ,,, ( j Cotton ia opening j very fast , and pickers nte scarce. Hope. soma. of the cotton' pickers 'from''New Herae -will come this way soon. . tt,0 Mr. W. B. Sawyer, .conimanpea' yxrut rice Monday, 1st innt. Several otner farmers of the New Ditch" eeotloft trill commence la a day. or. eo. )...: ,j J,.i Old aunt Kate . Alfred .died at the oounty poor house, Sept. 29th. at the ripe old am of ai hundred and fiften;t She was a faithful, old servant, feafe to ner soul. The Pamlico 'Band 'rlve Stonewall's serenade Saturday night. ' Itayfeoro feels a little slighted, as we all would be deliehted to have (he 'Piinili'co rfcitiJ te give us a serenade ' . ml . I"-!:.! Vanceboro Items-i : ,! Mr. George 'Wilcox 1s recovering from an attack of paralysis. x ivs Our farmer leet ooaHiderabU Ifothlar during the recent storm, ( ' uur DiacKsmitn. wooa woafejmaa ana painter, Ool.-'W1ins;,l improving: in tits work. .: i . ,n tei,;,iH Elder p. D. Albrtjcm,,,w.iU preach tL Piny Grove tfhurch on the First Saturday T auu OUHVttf'lu WWUvn " Two new school houses are beigtuiU in the neighborhood below .Vaoccboro: one at Major Gabkins' aVenue by Mr. 3. l '' , -uji) Ml muat '.an. Mrs. Winnie Clark af thir'plBovl !f Mr. P., C. South Is making, a nips chance of wine.' " '. , Mr Jas. Bright? is getting rich mauling sh ingles for EX, A QherrjFt. .ml ' i i hw Smith's Fordr,.on,he1,Cafa4 patipiy side of Clay Hoot pwmp, 1 nearly ua- passaoie. . ij w, . iiuM A negro man by the. name of San Simpson' disappeared' 'last Saturday morning and has net been beard roui since. Stoiiewail Itein' ' l',m lit' i . '.! ! The Congressional delegatidn avrlvail home last Friday night. and re4ort,a lively time at the 'convention'.' and the result was the oomtinatioB f Mr T. Qt Skinner, of Eden ton; a very good man But if the f unionist Unite ' 'On Mr. John King, of Pitt, and 4.6 i accepts, there; 4fi breakers ahead. Mark what I say. Who are the fusionistsr ED. Journal. . , ..... The citizens of this place were a few oveniDgs ago the recipienls-of the most enjoyable musical treat that -baa ever fallen to their lot since' the town has been chartered. It was a serenade bv the Pamlico brass band;P,rof. Folitnan, thoir instructor, accompanied them. Ye Bay boro band look to your laurels.' ' ... ' , r , wi Iim,. v.i l r. Seareh(na; ths Scrlptares.iw' . . We venture the assertion, .that taera has been more searching' of the Scrip tures among a large number, of our young people during'the, last week or two than has been known in a long time, and it all came from the pastor of one of our city churches asking his Bi ble class to tell him, at their next fit ting, the name of the wife of Samuel, the prophet. The members ef the class searched in vain, and then made iu quiry of their friends, and they joined in the investigation, until a good nor" tion of the religiously inclined pemns in this city were striving to attain the desired information, Some road the' two books of Samuel entirely through, and then hunted up the old eucycloiK- dias of religious knowledge, and oth?r works upon the bcriptures and ocrij ture characters, thinking they might prad venture hit upon the coveted states ment, but at last accounts they wore ap parent ly as much at sea as ot the start. H'lV. Star. Hicjclinir at the Slalc Fair. Mr. K. H. Euglehnrd, manager of the bicycle races at the State Fair, writes us tluit arrangements have been completed for two bicycle races on Thursday, Oct. 18th, 1H83, on the grounds and under the suierviKi"n of the N. C. Agricultural Society . Races to begin promptly at 13 m. Mile dashes; open to any niiiaU'iir resident of the Stute. Prizes 1 hand some bicycle, by Western Toy Co.; 1 superb "Harvard Special " by the Gun inngliuni Co. Entrance f.l.ffo for both races, which piveR the i.dmitlanre to grounds. Rules of E. A. Wheelman Association to govern races. The West ern Toy and Harvard Special might just as well be shipped to Charlotte at onoe by Mr. Englehard, for members of our bicycle club intend to take part in the races and those prises "are theip'a,?', Watch our boys. Journul-Obsrrtyrr. , ; ' 1 ' Profostional Car&." ; GEO. M. HIND SAY, Aftt'orhiAy'itt Tjtxw ) llOW illU, iMH.tMai;, c. 6. Mi I lor, luaOl.A!, B. Wrrlmim. II, m 1". aotr. 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