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Subscription $1.50 per year. MUST WORK FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE. W. II. Kitetin, (iTner VOL. 1. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1885. NO. 44. TOGETHER. The winter wind is wailing, sad and low. Across the lake and through the rust ling sedge; The splendor of the golden after-glow, Gleams through the blackness of the great yew hedge; And this I read on earth and in the sky 'We ought to be together, you and I." .Rapt through its rosy changes into dark, Fades all the west; and through the shadowy trees, And in the silent uplands of the park, Creeps the soft sighing of the rising breeze; It does but echo to my weary sigh, 'We ought to be together; you and I." My hand is lonely for your clasping dear. My eat is tired, waiting For your call; I want your strength tt help, your laugh to clicer Heart. soUl and senses need you, one and all; I droop without your frank sympathy "We ought to be together, you jmd I." We want each other, so to comprehend The dream, the hope, things planned, or seen, or wrought; Companion, comforter,, andjguide and friend. As much as love asks love docs thought need thought. Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly- We ought to be together, you And I." -All tt I'Mit Mound. A EEFLY TO THE ABOVE. WL CANNOT BE TOGETHER. Yes, far across the lake and on the beach The weird winds sob, and dying sob again, And to my heart they speak with saddest speech And murmurs full of bitterest pain. A sad, low voice, seems ever whispering nigh "We cannot be together, you and I." Wliat though the rosy day has changed to night, And sceptre-like, appear the shadowed trees; And birds ceased singing, as out died the light? My soul's in sympathy with all of these My hope is dead, 1 can but sadly sigh "We cannot be together, you and 1.' J echo every loving wish of thine. And warmly long your friendly hand to clasp. But well I know, although I sadly pine, "Tis far, yes, far behind what 1 can grasp. To still my weary heart I vainly try- ' We cannot be together, you and I." Although we want each other, what of that? Xo waii ts, or aching hearts can alter fate 'The chair stands vacant, where of old you sat; No more you enter through the garden gat. 4 "sit alortvVand hear the winds sweep by . Wv cannot be together, you and 1." Annie Wall, Moatfort, Wi.s. A CTRIOIS LliTTlllt. We give below a letter which was written from Texas to a lad of this vicinity some weeks: ago. We do Jaot vouch for these discoveries, tut if real, and why should we doubt it, they are certainly worth your at tention. The author formerly lived in Kentucky : My Deak Cousin: Recently I have devoted some leisure moments in the examination of theAntiquitiesof Ky the evidences of a Piehi.storic race f people. Louisville, Ky., is situated at the falls of the Ohio River; at the foot of the falls the head of navi gation a little town sprang up in the first settlement of the country, called Shippings-port. Two French men of means bought property about eighty years ago to build a mill. In preparing the foundation it was necessary to dig up a large cak tree six feet through, in removing the stump and roots they found an ax seven feet deep in the groin tl i iiiuiediately under the center of the tree, it was made of a flat bar cf iron bent in .the middle leaving a round hole for a handle, the two ends nicely Avelded together and made sharp for cutting purposes. By examining the rings of the great tree it was passed to be six hun dred years old. A scientific gen tleman from New York in 18 Li visited -the Alammotlr Cave and made many wonderful discoveries. I will give you his report from short memorandums made in the Cave at the time. Some workmen in re moving the earth inside of our cave found a flat rock six inches under ground- this rock was four feet square, when they raised it there was a pit three feet square and three feet deap found, a woman sitting erect in it, her hands were crossed, tied together with a small piece of twine, the hair on her head ong eighth of an inch long, except the back of her head near the neck a patch one inch long; she had a mantle wrapt around her made of t wonleer skins the hair cut-off close and nicely dressed, differently from any other dressed by the indiatts and was neatly painted in vines and flowers. Paint used was per i'ectly white and beautiful, the hair was a reddish brown, her skin was dark not black .her flesh was dry and hard and solid A large sheep wrapped around' this lady woven or knit,made of the inside bark of some tree, perhaps lime, was beauti fully decorated with vines, leaves and wild flowers neatly worked on it. Her teeth were all sound and while I discovered no blemish on the body except a . wound between two ribs near the back bone, and one of the eyes had also been in jured, the fingers and the nails were perfect and long, the features were regular, the bone in the arm from the elbow to the wrist was 10J inches long. From the examina tion of the whole frame I judge it to be that of a very tall woman, say 3 feet 10 inches. At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins, a knapsack, and a reticule. The moccasins were knit or woven of bark like the robes I have described. Around the top was a border to add strength or ornament to the mocca sins, of small size for a lady. The knapsack was knit or woven out of bark like the shoes. It had a deep strong border around the top- and was about the size of a knapsack used by soldiers. The workman- shin ot it was neat ana such as would do credit to Workman of the present day. The reticule was also made of bark knit or woven. The shape wa-s very much likejthe horse man's valise opening its whole length at the top, on the sides were two rows of loops. A couple of Hrds Weft fastened at one end and laced up like a lady's shoe. The edges of the reticule were strengths ened by a deep border of fancy work, the articles contained in the knapsack and reticule were numer ous as follows, one night cap with border made of bark cloth, seven head dresses made of the quills of large birds and put together some what like our feather fans. Except the tips were not drawn together but spread out in strait lines the top. This was done by . ierfo rating the quills in two places and running two cords thr oUgh the holes then winding a fine cord around each quill and fastening so as to keep each quill in its place. These cords extended some length beyond the quills, so placing the feathers erect the cords would be tied at the back of the head together, this would enable the wearer to present a beautiful display of feath ers standing erect extending a dis tance above the head, these were splendid head dresses and would make a magnificent ornament for ladies of today. This is evidently a reminder of one of the prehistoric races Kentucky abounds with. Ev idences of them are remarkable that they had no war like imple ments of any kind; how they were destroyed and the animals we can not tell, but we are left without a doubt that a very different race of people and animals once inhabited this country. That history gives no account of these things gives food for thought, from whom, did these people descend, by whom were they destroyed were they descendants of Adam! No! No! - Were they destroyed, by a flood! No! No! From all I know or see I am inclin ed to think it was for the want of water that men and animals died. It is around large springs that we find the most bones of the pre historic races. It is near water courses. In river bottoms we find many burial grounds,the mound buil ders as we call Iieni as they bury all their dead in mounds, who in habited Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois, Arkansa, weres giants. We find relics - in New Mexico, Texas, and old Mex ico of a different prehistoric race. The latter was a smaller race of peo ple wih long heads like the Asiat ics and neither of the races was a warlike people as no implement of war has ever been found in or with relics of either. In 1853 I made a cistern in my yard twenty four feet deep by sixteen, the last eight feet I had to blow out rock, in doing so I blew out a human skull. Iu Tex as in fifty miles of me last summer a man dug a well, at forty feet he came to a human skeleton petrified. Marvelous are the many discoveries made autl still being made. The Eyes. Theik Color, Signification or Character, Disposition, and Tem perament. The colors most common to the eyes are brown, gray, hazel, and black, or what we call black, for those eyes which app.ear to be black will generally be found to be of a deep yellowish brown when looked at very narrowly ; it is the distance only which makes them appear black, because the deep yellow-brown color is in such strong contrast to the white of the eye that it appears black. There are also eyes of so bright a hazel as to appear almost yellow ; lastly, there are eyes that are positively green. Very beautiful, too, are some of the eyes of this col or when they are shaded as is. very often the case With long dark eye lashes : but, though beautiful, they are not iudicative of a good disposi-. tion. Clear light bluo e3"es, with a calm, steadfastness in their glance, ere indicative of cheerfulness of disposi tion, of a serene temper, and a con stant nature. These eyes are pecu liar to the northern nations ; one meets them among the Swedes, and also sometimta among the Sc?tch. The blue eyes we see among the rara blondes of the south that is, in Italy and Spain have among thera eyes in which are sortie greenish tints ; and such eyes, though often called light blue, have none of the qualities of serenity and constancy which belong to the light blue eyes of the north. Neither tiiust the plea sant lisht blue eye wifeh the honest glance be confounded with another sort of eye of a pale blue, almost steel-colored hue, which has a con-Linua'hy-shiffcing sort of motion both of the eyelids and the pupils of the eyes. People with such ejes as theses are to be avoided, as they are indicative of a deceitful and selfish nature. Very dark blue eyes, with something of the . tint of the violet, show great power of atifec tiou and purity of mind, but not so much intellectuality, Blue eyes are more significant of tender ness and of certain yieldingness of purpose than either brown, black or gray eyes. Blue-ejred pefcple arc not inconstant, like those of the ha zel and yellow eyes, but they yield from affection . GrajT eyes of a somewhat green isb gray, with orange as well as blue in them, and which are of ever-varying tints, like the sea, are those which denote most intellectuality. They arc especially indicative of the im. pulsive, impressionable temperament a mixture of the sanguine and the bilious which produces the poetic and artistic natures. In England, where there are more varieties of tints in eyes than in any other coun try, the poets have almost always a;ray eyes. A biographer of Byron spraks of his "beautiful, changeful gray eyes." " Shakespeare also had, we are told, gray eyes ; Coleridge, eyes of a greenish gray. Among the artists, too, eyes of this color abound. Black eyes or what are considered such, are indicative of ' passionate ardor in love. Brown e3res, when not of the yellowish tint, but pure russet brown, show an affectionate disposition ; the darker the brown that is. the more they verge on to that deepest of brown which in eyes we are in the habit of calling black the more ardent and passionate is the power of affection. The brown eyas which do not appear black that is, which are not dark enough, to appear so are the eyes of sweet, gentle and unselfish natures, with out the inconstancy of tlie light brown or yellow eyes, "golden eyes," as they were called by a lady novelist, and which are very little more to be trusted than the green eyes. Green eyes, although their praises are often sung in Spanish ballads, show deceit and coquetry. We some times see eyes which are a combina tion of yellow, Orange and blue, the latter color generally appearing in streaks over the whole surface of the iris, while the orange and yellow are set in flakes of unequal size around and at the same time little distance from the pupil of the eye. Eyes of this variety of tints show intellect or at anjr rate a certain originality of character. No commonplace nature has this sort of eye. Hasty, irrita ble persons have frequently eyes of a brownish tint inclined to a greenish hue. Although the pare ly green eye indicates deceit and coquetry, the propensity to greenish tints in the eyes is. a sign of wisdom and courage. Very choleric persons, if they have blue eyes, have also tints of green in them, and when un der the influence of anger a sudden red light appears in them. There are eyes which are remarka ble for being of what might be said to be of no color. The iris has only some shades of blue or pale gray, so feeble as to be almost white iu some parts, and the shades of orange which intervene are so small that they can scircely be distinguished from gray or white, not withstanding the con trast ot colors. The black of the pupil is in these eyes too marked, because the color of the iris around it is not deep enough, so that in looking at them we seem to see only the pupil. These eyes are expres sionless, for their glance is fixed and dead ; they invariably belong to per sons of the lymphatic temperament, and the' indicate a listless and fee ble disposition, incapable of enter prise, and a cold and indolently sel fish nature, San Francisco Argonaut. CHICAGO FEET. A SANDUSKY, OHIO, TOUXO frAtY WHO WEARS AN EIGHTEEN INCH SHOE. "Here is the exact size of the sole of Miss Fannie Mills' shoe." said a well known shoemaker to an Enquirer reporter , yesterda-, at the same time exhibiting a large piece of paper with the ble of a shoe sketched upon it. "Who is Miss Fannie Mills?" "Why, Miss Mills is the owner of the largest pair of feet in the State of Ohio, or perhaps in the United "tin j-ou know the size, &c, of her shoes?" ; "Yes ! They 'are eighteen inches long and eighteen inches wide, meas ure nineteen and a half inches around the instep. The ball meas nres nineteen, the heel twenty three and a half inches, and eighteen around the ankle and they are still growing. Miss Miiis, who is the owner of these feet, is a resident of Sandusky, Ohio, and is now twenty hve years old. Her feet were once written up by the Enquirer. She is very, prepossessing in appearance, and has-no diulculty in walking! as one would siippftse a person would have with such large shoes and feet. All of her 'cast offs are sold to i New York museum manager at twen ty-five cents a pair, and are highly prized by him as curiosities. A Snake's Revenge. "Speakiu' o' snakes," said the Texas frontiersman, "reminds me of a little adventure me arid a chum had with rattlesnakes that made mc respect the rattlesnake ever since "What kind of an adventure did you have that makes you respect the rattlesnake?" asked a St. Louis man "Well. . one evening just before dark out among the Rio Grande can yons there came the all-firedest rain you ever seed. Before we could get out the water had risen, so the only way to escape was to cross a canyon about thirty feet wide and five hun dred deep. - When We got to this canyon we found about one million rattUsnakos there. They recognized me as their friend, it seemed, as I tried to keep my chum from shooting into the mound of 'em, for they crawled around me and looked into my face, as much as to say ; 'You can help us over, if you will.' 1 noticed that the snakes paid no attention to my chum, except a big rattler my chum wounded would look at him, and then go around to his followers and seem to telj them something. "Well, I tied a knot in the tail of a big rattler and then got another and looped his neck into this, and so on until I had a snake rope about sixty feet long. Then 1 coiled it in my hand as I would a lariat and throwed it across, and the head of the snake tied himself to a tree, and the last one on my side did the same. I had my lot of- shakes to go over first, and then I went over on this snake rope bridge. The last snake let go of the tree, and he crawled up and the others followed until all were across, "My chum had done as I did, but lie let the big wounded rattler have himself made the last snake and tie himself around the tree, so when all bis snakes were over and my chum was going over as I had done, that big wounded rattler seemed to grin showed all his teeth and let go. Of course the whole shebang went down with swish, and my chnm was throwed off and smashed into jelly, and " but the crowd had scat tered and left the big lezan to him, self. He muttered : "I don't keer, these fellers think a rattlesnake is the deadliest enemy of mankind. He is not as poisonous as the copperhead and always rattlea a warning before be strikes. He is my friend, any how." . The "Tramp Printer A Brilliant tribune to the bed ouins of literature. "Wyer-Bryer, limberlock, Seventeen geese in a flock, ' ' One flew east and one flew west. And one flew over the cuckoo's nest." Whiff! whizz ! Presto change ! Ever shifting, always shiftless. Wheel about and turn-about, and ske-doodle every which-a-way. Tramping yesterday, working to day, drunk to-morrow. Now in the citv, where the pond erous, eight cylinder, self-paster and folder, mingles thun der and lightning, ink and cheap bombastic stupidity at chain light ning speed ; and anon in the back woods Village where the antiquated lemon-squeezer hand-press - squeaks and wheezes under its weekly burden of ignoramus politics, thanks for the pumpkins and ttirnip3, rurai rhymeste dOsgefal fo some freckle Nancy Jane or the memory of some infantile victim of whooping cough or green-aple colic, murdered English, massacred grammar and smashed orthography. Here a dan dy, there a ragamuffin, everywhere a philosopher and a vagabond. The BedOuin of civilization, lshmaelite of Christendom, stamped aby the fin ger of omnipotent destiny with the Cain-like brand of ceaseless unrest, the seal of perpetual motion. The world owes much of its light to him. A vast amount of its science, its art, its literature and its religion would lie buried in impenetrable obscurity but for him. Cot. Pat Donan. - mr: Guessed Him. - "Speaking of General Stonewall Jackson's peculiarities," said an ex Confederate, "why, sir, a whole book might be written about 'em.' One time I never shali forget it we were on a forced march in Virginia. I was hungry as a wolf, and I had begun to grow tired of the Confeder acy. , Fighting for a principle was all well enough, you know but I am drifting from my story. Well, we were marching along. I was a lieutenant and I had not been long with that division of the army and but few of the officers were known to me. Well, the rain was pouring down. One of my wagons got stuck fast in the mud. Oh, but I was mad and I couldn't help swettring. Pretty soon and old fellow came riding along. " 'Say,' said I, you needn't sit there looking at the wagon. Get down and help the men haul it out.' "He got down without a word of protest, put his shoulder to the rheel and tugged away. I didn't pay any particular attention to him, aside from teeing that he was doing his duty. After awhile, when the wagon was rolled oat, I felt sorry that I spoke so harshly to the old fel low. Well, to make a long story short, I'll bet you the drinks that you can't guess who that old fellow was." (T11 take you,'' said one of the company. "He was Stonewall Jack son." , "No, sir ; he was old Ben Bailey a noted chicken peddler. Here, bring us the drinks." Arkansaw Trav eller. . ' . TWO OLD CARRIAGES FOR SALE BY W. H. KITCHIN S KVENTEEN MOLES For Sale by W.H. KITUH1JN. Remember that I call sell you bug- eies as cheap as you can buy anywhere in the world, I sell the celebrated Wrenn work, 0. W.Dcnn. W. H. KITCHEN, MERCHANDISE, . S&TTLAND NECK, N. C, Keep constantly on hand a full line of Heady-made Clothing, from boy 8 size up. I have on hand a large and select stock of Calico. Ladies' Dress Goods, including, Plaids, Lawns, Buntings, Nuns Veiling,Trim mings, Notions and Fancy goods, Hats, Boots. Shoes &c- HEADQUARTERS FOR Pant Goods of all kinds, and Hard ware of all kinds, including, AXES, HOES, NAILS, TACKS CARPEN TER'S TOOLS, LOCKS AND HINGES, of every description, POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY, TRACE CHAINS, LOG CHAINS, ROPE AND TWINE, BOLTS SCREWS AND FILES, HOLLOWWARE AND WOODEN- WARE, SHOVELS, PLOWS, SPADES AND FORKS, And five thousand other articles. OILS. Linseed, Cylinder, Machine Oil and the Oil of Gladness. MILLS. My Gristmill, Wheat Mill, Saw Mill, Cut off Saw aad Lath Saw, all at work every day, turning out the best Meal and Flour mode in the country. Lumhefand Lathes always on hand. Can get your Meal, Flour or Lumber at any hour in the day. Black Smith Shop connected with mill. Work done at low rates forj CASH. Horses and Mules shod. This is the place to bring your work, j if we can't do it, Pearce, one of the best Smith's in the State, just twen ty steps distant, in Peter Smitk's shop, can. CARTS and WAGONS Always on hand and also made to order as cheap as you wish. We also have on nana cneap ior cash, one Forty horse Tanner Boiler good as new, one tw.enty-hve norse Engine. Also one Two-Xeur-oia urst class Tanner Engine and Boiler twelve horse power, ready for work Also one Tanner Rachel 8a v Mill, Saw and Carriage. Also one twenty horse power Tal bot Boiler, Engine, Saw Mill, car-, riacrii with screw head blocks. Also one driving wheel eight feet in diameter, twelve inches on face, six inches bore in hub, weighs three thousand pounds, good as new. Also one driving wheel ten inches on fac, eight feet in diameter, four inches bore in hub. Also one driving whetl, seven feet in diameter, ten inches on face, five inches bore. Weights of last two seventeen and thirteeg hundred, WHOLESALE H A T 49 Commerce Spreet, Noufol c. Va. REENWOOD SCHOOL. -TIIE FAI,!, OfJreenwood School will begin on th 1st Monday in August, 18S;1. MISS SALLIEJSPEED, PaiNCfPAU DENNIS & HORN Keep constantly on hand B" '.es, Wagons, Carts &c, which tuev will sell cheap for Cash, or on tirao Ui re sponsible parties. We are tu&n&iul to our friends for past favora and hope a continuance ol the sarn. DENNIS & jIO&In. OOKHERE! STOP It 100 lleifers Wanted from cn? to ihrefj years old. Also, 10:! Steers from oca to three years old. All persor?? wishing to sell will please call on W, H. KUCWX, :.. Scotland Neck, N. C. NAG'S HEAD. 18.85. Splendid and safe Sea Bathing. Fish and (jaine in abundance. K.;Uy H?iwk, Koanoke Island, and other liist: - Sur roundings easily accessible. The only reliable route to this delightful Su'-s' j re sort is via tho ALBEMARLE & RALEIGH I. Roanoke Steamer Plymouth to Ednton thence over Norfolk and Southfra .H. 1L to Elizabeth City and thence by OH Do minion S. S. Oompany.'S Steaiati1 b'heu iindoah every Saturday. Schedule for .1885 in effect Thnrfi.Jay Jar.e 25. Passengers will leave 'iVrboro. every Friday at 0 p. m. on regular train, arriving at Sag's Head on Saturday at fi p, m. Returning the Shenandoah !::. veft Nag's Head every Monday, Wedr,v-;day and Saturday morning, making cLs" con-, nection at Elizabeth City wuii traiii for Edeuton. Fare from Tarboro to In's H . j.: and return 64.00. Tickets Good for tfe. son. The Conductor on AUivLi.-irk' snd, Haleigh Railroad will sell ticket or. train to parties getting on cars .U '.;! : W- low Tarboro, upon samu ternu hr,i con ditions as frora Tarboro.' J. II. PiXTY. Gen. Su;:t, T.J. CHANDLER. Gen. F. a P. A;;t. NEW A DYEIiTi.-E?J EN1S. 11 AILHOAD HOUSE, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. MRS. LAURA B-ELL, FKOPKiKrauss Good bods, polite and attest)?; rr-'- ts, the best table th market jvU d good water: Neatness one cf its specis.1 ims. Stop at the Railroad House. JTJAVID A. MADRY, BRICK MANUFi CTURER. Will take contracts for furnishing "itfick as cheip as the next man, and givo .u tter work. Satisfaction guaranteed. The best brick ill tho market made by Liiqi at lowest prices. Uive him & lirick always on hand and for sai in any quantity. Scotland Neck, N. C. Iuiit t'5. L.IFE aiidFIR" isysuRA I am representing th stro?.jest, most liberal; prompt and resole Romonnies .n the U. S. Call ai,-iny office, take out a policy and sc:ura your property. A policy in the -tna Life Co., is more secure tECJ v.. .as Banks in the Union. J. II. LAWRENCE, Scotland Nee'-f. N. C. MISCELLANEOUS, NOTICE. 33 YEARS AT THE BUSINESS Look to your interest and dout be DECEIVED. NEW MAN but m OLD BUSI NESS. R. B. Pierce can oe fun ad a!- Mr. P. E. SMith's shdp wherac he has a Good Stock of the best, Aiatorial which he will make up in Buggies Wagons, Carts, &c. at short nouco and offer the most reasonable Terms LIor3e Shoeing a SPECIALTY Call and see ine, it will be to your Interest, - - - Respectful!-?-, R. B. V-mhCB, vr. h. KiTcnitf. vsr. a. trains, KIT.CHIN &DUNN, ATTORNEYS Jc COUXSET-tiOIiS AT LAW, S20tlau-1 Neck, C. . eyOifice on 10th Strat, ttrst dowf above Main Another car lol f Stoves just fcoir ed at F. Sterns, -
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