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VOL-
VI.
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY. MARCH 14, 1888.
NO. 52
WONDERFUL
BAlin5 BBOKE2C HECK.
Him Great Iateonvenleatee,
1 1 8 -V.nH C.use Hl Death.
ferrT Baldwin, of Birmingham, Ala.,
fillve . J , Himself "worth
rh h6 aoes uut " .
it Vig nas nau me -
..... i ninnr crm nw
all tne ulk-iui , .
broken
called out: "I see them!" and fell back
dead. His wife was com Dletelv orostrated
at this terrible ending to her hopes. Med
ical aid was summoned and an electric bat
tery was applied, but the doctors finally
decided that the man was indeed dead this
time. Last nieht the erief-stricken wife
left her old Georgia home, near Atlanta.
with the body. Augustine Inquirer.
cent,
tti to science and making over $too,
the process. What adds to th
tiAnss wdra
pr is that many umci
. . 1 1 .-1
as well as tne cervical vwicuiac,
j when he was "v..
he was dving and left him to nature
several hours. As he was a very strong
nA health v man, he pulled through, and
-o, ranks with Alexis St. Martin, the mat
th - gide door to his stomach.
Terrr E. Baldwin was born in New York
aT in 1853. andjn 1887 was yard master
,t Birmingham, Ala for the Louisville
..a Kashvllle railroad. Before daylight of
March 19 he was standing in a caboose on
s .Me track, when a runaway engine came
down the track at terrific speed, and struck
the train to which the caboose was at
tached; he fell to the track and the engine
md dx cars ran over him, breaking his
jjght kz in tw plcc lcft lc and fivc
rX besides snapping the sixth cervical
tertebrae (of the neck) and splintering the
joint between the sixth and beventh verti
fcte. All his clothes were torn off and a
tery ugly hole was made in his side. He
wu taken home and laid on a bed to die as
fee doctors said he must In a few minutes.
But when at the end of six hours he was
fcund to be breathing stronger. Doctors
GucUe,Copeland and Barclay determined
upon a leries ot experiments to save his
ffe. in whkh they were finally suscessful.
liter resetting as many of the bone as
jwible, thev encased him wholly in a
fxtcr ol paHs frame, and thus firmly
tightened he lay on a rubber mattress
filed with water for four months. After
Jul he lay two months in ed.s For..four:
Teen days-he was totally blind, and for six
aontha was on It occasionally conscious:
iKen hU recovery began to be noticeable
Attn daj to day.
Dr. A. J. Baxter, of Chicago, designed
tor him a corset, reaching from the hips to
the back of the neck, and holding his body
Irmly in position ; at the top of it a flexi
le bar of steel is attached, which rises
above his head, and to this wired a "jury
fcik," which kolds his head up. The
weight of the head thus rests upon the
kips. The experiment of removing the
k has been tried, but the head at once
5iifcs upon the spinal column, the neck be-.
g useless, and he relapses into a coma
e condition. Nor can he He down, and
tkonly sleep he get is the short naps in
chair. His right arm is useless, but the
kfc is strong enough to handle a cane and
to other services, and he can walk with
fctle assistance. His wife accompanies
everywhere, and by cheerful and
Pleasant ways lightens greatly the burden
ms iife. To say that his case astonishes
the doctor&s putting it mildly, and he
. "seived the proceeds of many lectures
medical circles, and obtained $75,000
SM from the railroad company.
How lie Explained It.
A certain Judge made a reputation for
being explicit, and he deserved it as the
following will show. Suit was brought
before him by Smith against Jones upon a
promissory note given for a horse. Jones
defence was a failure of consideration, he
asserting that at the time of the purchase
the horse had the glanders, of which it
died, and that Smith knew it. Smith re
plied that the horse. did not have the glan
ders, but had the distemper, and that Jones
knew it when he bought it. The judge
charged the jury:
"Gentlemen of the jury, pay your atten
tion to the charge of the court. You have
already made one mistrial of this case be
cause you did not pay attention to the
charge of the court, and I don't want you
to do it a gain, I inter d to make it so clear
to you this time that you cannot possibly
make any mistake. This suit is given
upon a note for a promissory horse.
hope you understand that. Now, if you
find that at the time of the sale Smith had
the glanders and Jones knew it Jones can
not recover. That is clear gentlemen.
will state it again. If you find that at the
time of the ale Jones had the distemper
and Smith knew it, them Smith cannot
possibly recover. But, gentlemen, I will
6tate it a third time, so tliat you cannot
possibly make a mistake. If, at the time
of the sale. Smith had the glanders and
Jones had the - distemper and the hoi se
knew it, then neither Smith, Jones or the
horse can recover. Let the record be giv
en to the jury."
The jury that sat on this story, told by
Mr. Call's colleague, found no difficulty
whatever in reaching a verdict.
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHONI-
OU8LY ELUCIDATED. .
Numerous Newsy Notes and Many
Merry Morsels Paragraphleally
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
Every trial ad Js to our strength.
The greatest fool of all is he who fools
himself.
Why is it that the rising generation
rises late?
A LIMPSE OF HEAVEN.
to
Br atnvw .
u luaawntrfinrnva
9 er being pronounced dead.
Jhere is considerable excitement in a su
ISOmi m!l . .
. ..ta uul over tne oeatn ot a.
r-smith.
Last Monday he died, to all
ftweet'PoSatoes.
Now is the time to prepare for a big
yield of this excellent crop. You don't
want rich land, but you want it loose, well
drained and generous. Break it deep now.
Go into the woods and rake up woods
mould, decayed vegetable matter, and
when practicable put in a generous pro
portion of pine 6traw. Lay off your rows
three feet tlx inces. with a turn plow, run
ning two furrows cacfi way so as to clear
the furrows each way so as to clear the
furrow broad and deep. Put in your rat
ings from the woods. Tf you have any
leached or unleached ashes about the pre
mises, sprinkle them on the Takings in the
furrow at the rate of 300 to 400 pounds
per acre. Run one furrow with the turn
nlow and cover the manure. Let it lie
1
until about a week before .the 6lips are
ready to transplant. Throw up the beds
on this furrow smoothly and nicely. Put
tne slips 16 incjies apart. Do not set them
out when the ground is wet We prefer
dry weathei for this work. Cutivate well,
and yoo will gatner a spienaia crop 01 ex
cellent potatoes.
! An Anthem.
ances, after calmly bidding adieu to
kth " "e was then dressed
grave, and on Tuesday prepara-
ncre made fnr t
tne services a thumping on the
m was heard. th
jjvj , ' wan uum ou,
omitn hat un fnic;n
ion and dismay. He was at once
.ved to hie kj t
bourc L nome, and in a tew
- .v. me worse ior mis
Le?rience' Mr-Smith sa3rs he
. 10 Heaven anri c,..
Wn lme f thCm friends whom he had
ian Thev shook their heads
""crto h:c
- 4e5uons, and pointed to
wolt Ivinsr onn tj. i '
lian v. uc name of his wife, him-
v. Chlldren. who were alive. His
HetftU. W' 8eemed partially erased.
V , "aerous ory of his other
1 dr" 6trange world, and its
mc. reS f curisity-seekera to
Utl Wednesday he suddenly
A 6ailor, who had been to a cathedral
and had heard some very fine music, was
descanting particularly upon an anthem
which 'gave him much pleasure. His ship
mate listened for a time and then said : "I
say. Bill, what's a hanthem?" "What!"
replied Bill, do you mean to say you don't
know what a hanthem is?" "Not me."
"Well then I'll tell yer. If I was to tell
yer, Ere, Bill, give me that 'andspike,' that
wouldn't be a hanthem. But was I to say,
Bill, Bill, Bill, give, give, give me that.
Bill give me, give me that hand, give me
that handspike, spike, spike. Bill, give,
give me that, that, hand, handspike, hand,
handspike, spike, spike, spike. Ah-men,
Ah-hem. Billjrfvcmethathandspike spike.
Ah-men,' why, that would be a hanthem.
The Biff Prise Flffht.
and
ex-
re-
Sullivan, the champion of America, and
Mitchell, the champion of England, fought
a prize fight in France on Saturday which
lasted three hours and thirteen minutes.
It was decided a draw, both were badly
punished. t
-Gratitude preserves old friendship and
pictures new.
Drop your bad habits and they can
not lower you.
This is the year when the girls leap
and the men fly.
It is a clothes rub for the washer wo
man on Monday.
Those who go for berries should not
retreat from briars.
The wedding ring is woman's sphere
and also man's fear.
One grateful man does an injury to
all who stand in need of aid.
It takes a great deal of pluck to get
the features off a live goose.
Genius beckons a man up, and if he at
tempts to Climb will held him.
Think of a daily issuing 34 pages.
Such was the World for Sunday.
It is the dry goods clerk who most
frequently sales under false colors.
The world is a comedy to those who
think; a tragedy to those who feel.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity
is the only balance to weigh friends.
1888 is but little over1 a fraction of
time, anyhow one and three eights.
New York has a new and elegant
theatre known as the New Broadway.
There are growing fears in London
for the safety of the explorer Stanley.
The whale and the school girl are the
great sources of blubber in thk country. v
The sooner you cut loose from one
who deceives you the better off you will
be.
The man who is 6low to express an
opinion might just as well send it by
freight.
They raise vegetable tallow in Aus
tralia. There's the place to laugh and
grow fat.
A show spoken of as a rare enter
tainment" proved to be a performance not
well done.
They are building basements on the
thermometers to be shipped to Dakota and
Minnesota.
-Tramp, meeting dude on the stree:
"Say, young teller, can't vou give a poor
gentleman a few pennies."
A physician says: "If a child does not
thrive on fresh milk, boil it." This is too
severe. Why not whip it?
Vanderbilt has hired a Parisian cook
at $10,000, and the pick of the larder. This
sort, of folly aids Socialism.
Soloman, when he gave the famous
Judgment, was the first man who ever pro
posed to 6plit the difference.
In Arkansas squirrels are so plentiful
that the are sold by the bushel. They are
geneielly shot by the barrel.
For the past two years everything has
been at sixes and sevens. But this year
we hope to str8en things out.
There are two kinds of clubs, social
and constabulary, and they are both effica
cious in knocking a man out.
Hearts are flowers; they -remain open
to the softly-falling dew, but shut up in
the violent downpoor of rain.
Women in Washington Territory can
vote. Those who take advantage of the
privilege are called ballot girls.
The best mechanic in the world can't
make a pair of boots that are ail right.
One of them is bound to be left.
We often see the words "John Boyle
A sea-green glaiw vase has heen found
at Bologna. It beau the world what some
butchers will put into their bologna.
More than 10.000,00a eggs are carried
into New York each week. One mteht
be tempted to think this is an ova supply.
John L. Sullivan once drove a street
car in New York city for two dollar a
day, and his overcoat rivalled that of Jo
seph's for its many colors.
The astonishing statement is recorded
that Justice Gray has drawn 1,000 French
novels from the Congressional - library
since his accession to the Supreme Bench.
Abel Willard, of Wisconsin, who is 89
pears of age, after having been toothless
for manj years is now growing a fine et
of new teeth. He feels as if he was a child
again.
Nothing good bursts forth all at once.
The lightning may dart out of"a black
cloud ; but the day sends his bright heralds'
before him to prepare the world for his
coming.
A book agent tried to sell a Pittsburg
woman a volume entitled, "The Art of
Speech" yesterday, but she cast such a
withering look upon him that the wretch
slunk away in shame.
A sportsman is a man who spends all
day away from his business; $2 for pow
der and shot, and comes home at night
tired, hungry and uglv, dragjng a four
teen cent rabbit by the ears.
--The oldest arm-chair in the world is
the throne of Queen Hatafu, who flour
ished in Egypt 1,600 years B. C. It is
made of ebonv, and is .beautifully carved.
It is now in the British Museum.
In Augusta, Ga the other day a tree
was cut in the forest at 6 o'clock in the
morning and by night it had been turned
into printed papers and the people were
reading in them the news of the day.
A scientist 6ivs: uIf the lind were flat
r
tened out the sea would be two miles deep
all over the world." If any man is caught
flattening out the land; shoot him on the
spot. A great many of tVs can't swim.
The three Euing brother of Law.
renceburg, Ind., were born together fiftv-
four years ago. They are the oldest, larg
est and best looking triplets in the United
States. Their combined weight is 716
pounds, the lightest being 225 pounds, and
the heaviest 248 pounds.
Speaker Carlisle likes the new Tariff
bill and says it is a good one and he thinks
it will pass. He says it is a fair one and
has hcen prrpaed with car. lie says if it
is defeated the Democrats will appeal to
the country upon the issue and ask that a
Congress be chosen that will reduce rev
enue much more than the bill proposes to
STATE NKWS.
FROM TOE DEEP flLUE REA TO TUX
CBAXD OLD HOUXTAIXS.
AnJIonr Pleasantly Hpent Tith O
Xellft-htrnl Exchange.
do,
In the present House of Representa
tives there are 83 Federal soldiers. They
all belong to the Crand Armv of the Re
gublic. There are 14 Democrats, but they
do not wear the button. All the Kansas
delegation were in the Federal army.
Iowa has 8 out of 11. Ohio has 14 of 21.
Indiana has 7 of 13. Pennsylvania has 9
of 27. New York has 8 of 34. '
Money is low in New York. Last
week the average on calls was 2 and for
time 3 per cent. In 1887, the gross returns
on 104 railroads were $726,333,000. Im
provements amounted to 86 millions. For
the first week in February the aggregate
net increase on 73 roads was 10.54 percent.
New York jobbing dry goods trade was
good and steady. Values, firm.
Probably the most expensive opera
cloak worn this winter belongs to Miss
Leiter, who is equally at home fn New
York and Washington, and who is heiress
to $70,000,000, Her cloak is in white
moire plush, brocaded in silver, out-lined
with silver chord, and trimmed with white
goat's fur. Its value does not depends,
however, on the material or make, but on
Salem and Winston are to have street
cars
Shaw University, of Raleigh, for colored,
has 400 students.
Pneumonia has been very prevalent in
the Halifax section.
Wake Forest College Is to have Improved
gas works and water works.
Rev. G. Pearson's first service la
Wilmington will be held on Sunday night
March the iSth.
A State Surday School Convention win
be held in Raleigh, commencing March
2 1 st instn continuing three -days. -
The Young Men's Christian Associa
tion has been permanently organized Ik
Durham with a membership of sixtv-eight.
The Atlantic Hotel, at Mo re head City
has been leased to Mr. Chas. Beerman,
proprietor of the Kimball House, Atlanta,
Georgia.
The Intelligencer says that a car load of
negroes, men and women, left Wades bo ro
for Arkansas a few days ago, and more are
tO follow. i
Miss Julia Minor, aged about 87, an elect
lady and long a Presbyterian, died recent
ly at the residence of Col. James S. Amis
at Oxford.
MissJuliaC. Patton, of North Caroli
na, in the General Land. Office at Wash
ington, has been promoted from a $960 to
a $1,000 position.
The Morganton Land and Improvement
Company have invited Bill Nye to spend
a month In Morganton, the coming sunv
mer as their guest
The Hon. Ridden T Bennett has been
selected to deliver the addre&V ory memo
rial day, Mav loth, .a Raleigh, the subject
being General Juniv.s C- Daniel. - -
The commenccmehtxcrciWsof the Sa.
lem Female . Academy w ill lake place on
5th and 6ih ol June. There are thirty -ont,
joung ladies in the graduation class.
Rev. J. C. Price has declined the ap
pointment tendered him to be minister to
Liberia upon the ground that his race can
not spare him from the great educational
work he is doing for them.
Col. Janes 11. Ruffin, died at his home
at Demopolis Ala., week before last. CoL
Ruffin was a brother of the late Chief Jus
tice Ruffin, of North afolina, and at one
time represented Caswell county in the
Legislature. He was about 90 years old,
The Hon. John Robinson, Commis
sioner of Agriculture, has issued circular
to the farmers of Lenoir county inviting
them to meet with and aid him in the es
tablishment of a Farmers Institute and to
elect a Superintendent of a County Exper
iment Farm atKinston March 13th.
The Henderson News says that during
eighteen days in the month of February,
1888, Cooper, the Napoleon of North Caro
lina Tobacco trade, sold over eighty-four
thousand pounds of tobacco. This too,
when both the roads and the weather
were unfavorable to a great extent. Where
is the market or the house can beat this
within North Carolina's borders?
The action of Wilmington in voting one
hundred thousand dollars to the capital
stock of the Wilmington, Onslow and
East Carolina Railroad Company, togeth
er with the ten thousand voted by Grant
township of Pender county and the sixty
thousand voted by Onslow county insures
the construction, of the road from Wil
mington to New River in Onslow county.
We are requested to announce for the
the jewelled clasps which are ranked at benefit of ex-Confederate soldiers, and
high figures, being in anique gold set with j others who may be interested, that-the price
a large pearl. f Moore's Roster of North Carolina State
The committee of Territories of the . Troops has been reduced and can now be
STBAIfCJE.
It's the strangest thing, methinks,
That a maiden crimps and prinks
Till she wins her beau-ideal of the lads,
And then doesn't care a snap
If he sees herin a wrap f
And a wornout pair of slippers qI her aad a.
House will present a report enabling the
people Dakota, Montana, Washington and
New Mexico to form State governments.
O'Reilly" in the papers, but we never hear j and to be admitted into the union on an
whether John has done it or not J equality with the other States. The Broth-
It has been averred that a lady with a erhood of Engineers Iteld a meeting in
diamond ring will scratch her nose in a , New York on Sunday last, when resolu-
given period four times as often as other
Lwomen.
There is a general feeling of content
ment among the Chinese laundry men over
the trade of 1887. Some ot them have
saved up $75 and are going back to China
to lire In ease and luxury all their Ule.
tions were adopted expressing full sympa
thy for their brethren engaged in the strike
on the Burlington system, and threatening
to extend the strike to all connecting lines
unless the difficulty Is settled within a rea
sonable time upon a lair and reasonable
bast
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at $1.70. All orders must be addressed to
J. C. Birdsong, State Librarian, accompan
ied by, the cash.
When will the average citizen stop
spending his hard earnings on dgars and
tobacco? Give it up? Well, when he
finds he can do without tobacco and dgars,
but not without Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.
Salvation Oil, the greatest pain cure on
earth, is compounded of purest drugs. It
is guaranteed to contain nothing of a pois
onous character. Only 35 cents a bottle.