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' SHELBY, N. C, j
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j. W. CLARKE, Proprietor.
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Ht;ius over Mc Braver
IDEAUZINfi.
, ' e yy
Were you a gentleJZephyr, -
And I a Summer Rose,
I would woo you to my bower,
You should kiss no other flower,
And when weary you should rest,
By my fragrant breath caxessed,
Hidden deep within my breast,
Were you a Zephyr, darling,
And I a Summer Rose.
Were you the "Wind of Autumn, '
And I, your love, a Leaf,
From the home tree I would sever
And float with, you forever
Derm the autumn's gpldch tide.
I would never, never chide ;
For your maddest frafcs would be
Summer zephyrs sol t, to me,
Were you the Wind of Autumn,
And I, your love, a Leaf.
If I were Queen of Summer,
And you were Winter's King,
I would gather into posies
All my violets and roses,
All blossoms fresh and sweet,
And lay them at your feet,
At your cold and icy feet,
If I were Queen of Summer,
And you were Winter's King. i
If I were Twilight's Lady,
. And youwere Lord of Day,
We would walk the dewy meadow
And mingle light and shadow ;
You would smooth my dusky hair,
I would kiss your brow so fair,
If I were Twilight's Lady
And you were Lord of Day.
"Were you the Ocean, darling,
And L your love, a Star,
On your bosomT would glisten,
I would bend me down to listen .
To the great throbs of your heart,
Light and wave would never part,
Were you the Ocean, darling,
And I, your love, a Star, f "
X '' : . Pearl River.
HOW JOHHSOr KEPT HOUSE.
"You can go just as well as not, my
dear," said Mr. Johnson, as his wife
L., kw;i: -t. : :u-:i:i.
leaving home to visit her mother, who
had invited her. f ; 1
"But how will von .ra.' along while I
nni.gone ?"
"As if I could not ke?p house as
well uis auv wonmn nit' Mr. John
son, indignantly. "Thar as, if I, had
u mind to. It would-be a litrle strauge
if a lMii tliat ".niihl lmihl h. xteam en-
: .. , t t, (,oot-:oitv. ,n,i Mi. ,
" lQ? W ie elect. icity. -vnd cai ,
4 - ulat tne eclipses for hundrtds of
years to com?, eon Id not boi n.Stato.
and make eoffee i-i a pot "
"Yes. wi I suppose so," said BIrs.
Johnson": "hiit Til M,nf.Wn.,frfv.
'tl.aV T uf ;f ;.. r.t.t i
lefor. T i,vor " i I
being ,t scientific man, the art of Tjei.l:
able to cook well caome along with if.
But no doubt you .nrfe ri-ht and, if
VOU thinic vou. caif 1n:mat' for a fort-1
r '!
. V anaare : t course I c;ui nianaorp. i
And you shall see that I will have as'
ncuXc :v house and as good a table as
you, and not spend all my time put
tering around, as women do, either."
So Mrs. Johnson, relying upon her
husband's capacity as a household
manager, departed for her mother's.
Sir. Johnson bad invited Sanil
Brooks, :i bachelor chum of his, to
come and board at t he house with!
him-duriajr the absence of Mrs. John-!1
sou. He had boasted of his ability to'
manage domestic affairs more- than'
onco before Brooks, and he wantad to:
proe that lie has not been' overrat injrj
bis tajnt. . j !
Brooks had come over the previous
night, to heh) Johnson"start out fair,'';
and. when Mrs. 'Johnson was out of
the bouse, the two tnen began plstt'H
niu: their -vork for tho day. j
"I aim to be at the.oflice ateleven,n
said Johnson, s" and it is "now nine
rr,.' . , ...'!
j.nar gives us two nours to gei ine
dinner cooking, wash tho dishes, and
do the chamberwork. Dinner' will
cook while we are dowsi tqwn, of
course. My wife always sets it goingf
and then she sits down tc her sewing
or fancy-work, till it's time to put it on
the; table. Brooks, did it ever strike
you that women have an aJl-iired easy
time of it j
"Of course, tbej- bave,"said Brook,
with emphasis. "Anybody ;ould se
thaly with half an eye. Yet. they arj?
alw:ys 'complaining' of , Vein over
worked." ' ' !
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"Well, women are natural comi
plaiuers, I suppose." said .lohnsori,
hunting aiound after his wife's apron
and gelling it on up under hln arms,
wroug-side-out. "Now I am uniformed,.
Let us wai-h the dishes antl talk over
what we'll have for diDtier.' ' !
He seized the boiling tearkettle from
the" stove, but dropped it instantane
ously, and the water van into the coal
in the bod, and -nncVar the mat, and
iincler the door int the dining-room'.
'uOu-g-h"!" cried Johnson, blowing
and rubbing his sraJded wrist, "it must
h ive been the. steam. Confound the
thiW ! I didn't think of ihe steant.
(Jood gracious! the water's running
all; over the house. rive' me a rag,
quick! I'll mop it up." j
llo seized the fini. laraask tablS
ddth which Brooks handed him, got
down on his knees anii -tmmenced soj
piug up the'wateri !
Your coa-tail.-a pinhe coal-hod'
cried Brooks. "By" (Jerge ! it's too
bafl, and that delicate gray,' too !"
Johnson got up with a hurried whisk
of the tails aforesaid, and they swept
a five-dollar tureen from the table and
broke it into fragments.
fit never rains bnt it pours," said
Johnson, striving hard to keep his
tejnper, as he surveyed the wet black
streaks on his coat. 4 'We've made
rather a bad beginning-, Sarti ; but we
shall come out all right. And we'll
wadi the dishes in cold water. I'll
wash, because I have gotg.ii aprou on,"
and he piled the dishes into the p.tn
miscellaneously; tin pan and China
altogether,and dashed some cold water
on them. "Where is the dish-cloth, I
wonder!" pokhig aiound under the
sink, and bringing to light a caieo rag,
which had evidently been used to clean
lamps with.
j "What in the dickens is that t hat
smells so strong of kerosene f" : asked
Brooks, sniffing the air suspiciously.
' -I wonder if I've got any ou tuv
clothesT" glancing aronnd behind him,
and examining the skirts of his coat.
"By Jove, Johnson, it's your dish
cloth ! The oil is fairly dropping out of
it." ' .
j Johnson threw it on tho floor with a
gesture of disgust and substituted the
towel they had -just wiped their hands
on. The cold water flew in every
direction, but the grease did not startlture, while Sam, with a courage which
on the dishes. Brook s suggested soap,
which ' slightly mended matters, but
was not entirely satisfactory,
f "Seems to me the dialres don't feel
nor smell just as they do when Anne
washes them," said Johnson, thought
fully; but then perhaps it is imagina
tion. Now, Sam, what shall we hive
for dormer!" '
;"Perhapa it bad better be a simple
one, .till, we' get the hang of thins: a
little more," said Sam, with eautiou.
f'What do you aay to a etiieken-pie,
tenderloin steak, a custard pudding:,
and some light hot biscuit f"
, "Admirable ! Nothing could be bet
ter or simpler. I will go out and order
the chicken and the steak, and. you
shall make the pudding. I gues
Anne would stare if she could see
how nieelv we are doing."
He put on another coat, went out,
?and soon returned with the chicken
and steak. Brooks was making the
Ipu'dding. He had an old cook-book
on the shelf before him, which he
looked at surreptitiously now and then.
uia'int'tin . r
;T r "7" ,
10 so,ne m,lk' dumPed 10 wooPfal of
r sugar, saueuuie cojupuuuu, Kvc u a
I slir aud U down on cha,r wbiie
!he ilod Johnson went to the window, to
see an old man. who has lost his hat,
rui afXer it. The sight was quite m
piritin-. oingtothehigh wind which
as Prevailing, anu, wneu. iue iw
returned tobuinei,they
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w iust in season to see Mr. John -
zotf pot pointer cleaning out with the
mot iicrupulous nicety the dish where
lhe mbryo pudding had been left
We won't say anything about it to
An ne" said Mr. Johnson ; "she might
think we were careless. Now, Sam,
you construct the biscuit, and I'll go
for the pie. I wonder if this chicken
is a hen ? Humph ! it smells rather
old or something ; but, of course, it's
all ready to cook. Now for the crust
flour and water and bakin? powder.
They make all kinds of pastry don't
they!"
"Yes, yes. That is, I think so."
said Sam., a little doubtfully. "That
i, all the newspaper advertisembuts
J say that baking powder .will do any
thing ; and of course it will make pie
crust." Johnson had taken off his cuffs', and
poured a couple of quarts of water into
a pan, which he stirred thoughtfully,
and added several spoonfnlls of baking
powder.
"This amount of water will make
enough won't it, Sam ?''
"I should say so," returned Sam,
manipulating his "light" biscuits, the
dough of which was sadly inclined to
run up his arms, tender his eoatsleeves,
and two big dabs of which were stick
ing, all unnoticed, to tho legs of his
pantaloons. ;
Johnson stirred in the flour rapidly,
putting in a good deal of muscle, and
making the flour fry right and left.
His hair and whiskers and eyebrows
were peppered, antt, when he had
stirred in all the flour in the house,
the mass was still a little thin.
"By Jove !" said "Johnson, eyeing
the result before him, .""there is half a
bushel of it; I never saw so mueh
chickeupie crust before. ,But this is
a- large ehiftken-a fall growu one
adult, in fact, aud a. strong one. too
or rav nose deceives me ; but I ernes
this crust will hold 'aim. Hold it open
in the middle, Sam, while I envelop
the biped in the crust j"
Tfco chicken.with his legs und head
still sMlorning his body, was put mto
the? middl of the dough, and the
coverine pitted down. Jolirwon step
ped back and eyed the contraction of
bis hands critically!
"Sam," said he, "I think yes t am
tain that Ann nerver cooks them
ifh their legs on.'
So they cut off the 1 9gs, thrust the
mass into the oven of the stove, put
some potatoes to boil, opened the
draught of the stove, locked the house,
and went down town.
At three, serenely smiling, our twy
housekeepers ascudd the front steps
of the Johnson mansion. An odor, in
fintely worse thau the atmosphere of
auy soap-boiling establishment, met
them as the door opened. ,
They looked at t ach othr.
"What in thediekens is it ?" they !
cried in chorus, and both made for -the
kitchen.
No wonder there had been a smell.
The chicken pie bad burned fast to the
bottom of the oven and lay there,
with the smoke pouring from it, Ta
blackened mass of cinders ; and Sam's
(light biscuits had burned uitirely up.
and left nothing: but the pan, which
had melted down into u mass of solid
tin and run out on the floor, which it
bad set on fire, aud which was
smouldering away, threatening every
moment to burst iuto flkmes. The only
wonder was that the house had not
been burned down before they re
turned. The tea kettle had boiled dry and
crackud in two, and everything in the
room was' covered with a deposit of the
very blackest soot. The two con
federates exchanged glances. But they
did hot speak. It was no time for
words.
Johnson seized the duster and be
gan to whisk the soot trom the f urni
did him vredit, proceeded to get the
chicken-pie out of the oven, by lite
help of the tongs.
'I declare, Johuson," said he, as lit
"hurried along, with the grease dripping
from bis burden and smearing the
kitchen ' floor from one end to tho
other, "I believe that the reason the
thing smelled so strong was that we
didn't take out the , insides of tlie
eriLer."
'Jerusalem !" said Johnson, "is that
u i Well, if that's the case, it's lucky
for us that it burned up."
The two men set to work to wipe up
the floor, and, while thu engaged, the
door bell rang.
"You go,"said Johnson. "Yon ain't
so smutty as I am."
"No. you go," said Brook. "I am
so hot," I shall take cold."
While they parleyed, the uum'utak
able giggle of young girls broke ou
their ears and consternation seized
them.
"It's Anne's' sister Kate." cried
Johnson,
"And Mary Hartley, too," cried
Brooks. "And I wouldn't have her to
see me fur all I'm fforth, Great Peter!
what shall I dot"
"Kale has got a key. She will come
in in spite of us," cried Johnson, j
"Anne gave it to her, so that she need
not wait at the door. Perdition take
the girls Why couldn't they have
waited till we'd got things straightened
ont t I'm going to run for if"
As he finished, Johnson dove down
the eellar'Staus, while Brooks fol
lowed. Both moil hid behind tho coal-
bin.
Soon the girls' voices were heard in
the kitchen above. Exclamations, peals
of silvery laughter, rattling of dishes,
and a melee of sounds generally. And
then the two culprits in the cellar heard
the girls descending the cellar-stairs.
They are hiding somewhere, of
course," saia Jvaie. -uariey uas
bragged so much how be could cook,
and keep bouse in order, that he'd
rather die than face us. And he
knows I should tell Anne. Good
heavens, w at a mpss!"
The girls -came daintily along, hold
ing up their skirts. Directly, Kate
got a glimpse of Sam's face, smeared,
with smut and hair disordered. She
uttered a piercing seream.
It's a negro,'" she eriod, seizing
Mary and dragging her back, "He's
as black as the ace of spades, And
such a dreadful countenance. I shall
die of fright."
"Two of them," cried Alary, as Sam
and his friend rose from their conceal
ment. "Heaven help us! I'll call
the police." . She started to rush up
the stairs, but Sam Brooks caught her
by the skirts and held her back.
"Do stop, Mary for heaven'e sake,
stop, and don't make an alarm. It's
only Charley and I, and we we that
is, we've been doing a little cooking,
and we ain't just ready to see com
pany " ,
"Oh, Charley, Charley,'- cried Kate,
"what would Anne say if she could
see how you?ve kept house f"
"I was an ass to boast," said Char
ley, frankly, "and I am willing to con
fess it; You may tell Anne so when
you write to her. And Sam aud I will
get our meals at a hotel. I think it
will be cheaper and easier for all con
cerned." "I should think it would," said"
Kate.
Sam and Mary Hartley lingered be
hind, to say that they thought it would,
too ; and to say something vague and
sweet about the housekeeping they
two proposed to set np jointly. . Only
Mary, not Sam, was to be housekeeper.
Charley Johnson is a "sadder" if
'wiser" maii. He never brags any
more about how nicely he can keep
house. PetenoiCt Magazine.
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in THE NEW ERA. Rates reasonable.
a i.i rt; that it i: is i.tui; a movki..
Tit M44b CnraliMiMn who wn Prim ft
The news of the revolution in Ha
noiuiu, ami the deposition of the
l,iie Minister. Walter M.. Gibson.
i,as nwakened eonsideiaole interest in
regard to the fate and history of the
man who, had so great an inrlueneo
over Kinjr Kalakaua.
Walter KL; Gibson was a native ef
South Cafria.j His first, scheme f
any account was in lS52,when he went
into the business of selling fire-arms
to the Venezuelan government, in vio
lation of the.Uniteel States neutrality
laws. He was arrested and tried , de
i'endtd by H. IL Anderson, of New
York, and by some means managed to
escape. He then fitted out a small
schooner and started for the coast of
t :i , j c . . i
I MjieL.n mm n kwui ut- ice. vju reacu-
j ing the place he found that the ice had
all melted, and he had none for sale.
Por some reason never explained, he
sailed foi the Malay Peninsula. On
reacning there lie put himselt in com
munication with some of the chiefs of
the Island of Sumatra, which was sub
ject to the Dutch government.
He sent a communication to one of
the principal chiefs suggesting a re
bellion against the Dutch government,
with the idea of profiting by it. The
letter was captured, l.e was thrown in
to prison, and taken to Java for trial.
He was Iriect, found guilty, and sen
tenced to be hanged. After lying in
prison for eighteen mouths he manag
ed to escape, tnrough the influence, he
claimed, of a beautiful woman. He
put to sea in a small boat, boarded an
American ship, and finally reached
Liverpool. There he presented him
self to the American consul, Nathaniel
HawthroiiM, and represented that he
was looking after his paternal estates
in England, as he believed himself to
be the sou of an English r.obleman.
His great versatility, powers of. con
versation, eultiite, knowledge of 'lan
guage and suave manner completely
fascinated Hawthorne, and in the
author's note-book he devotes three or
four pages to interviews with Gibson,
closing by saying that he borrowed
money to get back to the United States,
which had never been repaid.;
Gibson weEt to Washington ' and
made a claim agaiast the Dutch gov
ernment for $MM),000 for imprisonment.
Congress took it up and Secretary of
State Marcy was much interested. A
formal demand was made upon Hol
land for the amount of the claim; con
siderable correspondence was hai with
August Belmont, then minister to The
Hague, and he was instructed to de
mand the money, with war as an ulti
matum. This w is doue. In the mean
time the Dutch government had se
cured and forwarded to Washington a
copy of the treasonable letter Gibson
had sent to the chief in Sumatra, and
Mr. Marcy filed it in the state archives.
Wishing to refer to it a short time af
ter it was found to be missing, and
Mr. Marcy, in a letter to "Congress,
said that Gibson alone had access to
the archives and intimated that he
had stolen it. The whole affair was
then dropped. ".
Soon after, Gibson put himself in
communication with Brigham Young
aud suggested to him that some of the
islands of tho Pacific would be much
better for a Mormon colony than any
place in the United States. He was
encouraged by Y'oung, and left at
once for Honolulu, On his arrival he
joined a few Mormons who were al
ready settled there, made himself
their leader, and started to build a
lare -church on the Island of Lauai.
Thousands of natives contributed to
ward it and the project was booming.
lie sent nut written documents in
which he declared himself the repre
sentative of Bingham Young, who
held divine flower, Gibson declared
himself to belong to the sacred order
of Melchisediet;,.and that he had been
sent to the ocean islands to convert
the inhabitants to the true faith. Af
ter he had acquired nearly all the land
on Lauiw through the native contribu
tions, he abandoned the church, start
ed a newspaper, and went into politics.
He was bv far the ' ablest writer on
the newspaper, and knew how to use
his writings for his own advancement.
He started the caucus system in the
islands, a thing which had never been
before attempted. lne king was
afraid of him, but found him useful;
and on the resignation of the ministry
in 1832, he placed Gibson in charge of
the cabinet, and found that he had
the only white minister who would
carry out the wishes of the King re
gardless of morality or legality.
On last Saturday evening Mrs. A. S.
Abernethyj accompanied by her child
ren and MrsJ." S. yPropst, were out
driving, andt in descending a very
abrupt declivity in tQe road about a
mile from to Wn, the iug ou the shaft
of the: vehire jbree, and it ran
forward on. Ihe hbrse, causing' him to
start iu a f un down the hill. Mrs.
Propst, who was' driving, drew the
lines with her whefe stnength, in order
to stop the horse. The lines broke and
she was throwi out and dragged some
distance. JTwo of Mrs. Abernethy's
children who were iu the wagon were
considerably bruised. Hiekory Press.
, PAI-Tlf: WITH lSKPr.Att.K.
The AitUliiiie Mpeelnrlp 1 nXifrmnn
i. ConipmijS Snoot inur:
The eompany I saw had had but l't
tle practice, aud were getting " repvt
mamls from half a dozen! .officers
standing beside the Irill -sergeant for
the slowness of their movements, bur,
to a; non-military eye, nothisg could
have been more machine hide. The
repeating rifle differs fiom thi' bidina-
ry rifle in the fact that the stockin
stead of stopping short whjore it is j
grasped by the? left hand, is prolonged j
id wiiijoi mi ipcu ol .lit? .uiiu oi ine
larrel. This constitutes the -reservoir
of cartridges. The firing' cousists of
three movement's the "ready.'Vuring
-which each man gives a sharp turn to
the right to a jlittlo leveabipve. the
lock of his gun, and the familiar "pre
sent" and "tire!" I
The company stood four deep, the
two front ranks firing while! the 'two
rear ranks recharged their magazines.
So rapid were the. movement that the
magazine, holding either ten jor twelve
cartridges, I forget which, was emp
tied, with a preemptible allowance" each
time for rapid aim, in ten j second?.
The thought of what would happen to
any body of men exposed to half A
minute of tiring like this made the
spectacle almost appalling, f A stolid
looking German by my side, who, as I
afterward learned, had been of the
landwehr m the war, expressed his
feelings in one word the most vigor
ous in his native tongue. "Sehauder
haft !" he exclaimed under'bis breath.
It is all very well for a Eiissian gov
ernor to ' issuej ;orders ' to his troops
calling upon them to remember that
battles are won by courage a-nd not by
repeating titles- but the mor.-jjl effect of
the new weapon both upon those
using it and those opposed to it must
be enormous. ! T.o be able to. wait until
the enemy, iu; whatever .form he may
bej is within a few yards ofl you, and
then to deliver your fire liprtn him at
.thji rate of a shot a second, js enough
tojmake "cracks'.' outofevee falstaff's
leyies. forrrxmttenre PiJI Mall
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The hhlt some cows havti' of hold
ing up the milk is a dimciilt one to
overcome. Mt. L. B. Arnold' accounts
for this habit Shy the following expla
nation: It consists in shortening the
time of relaxation .of the Icords con-
trdlling the vaves to the little reser
voirs holding! die milk. Iphese are
distribute! through the ujlder ami
thjere are several circumstances which
tend to make n cow sborteif this re
laxation. Rough treatment, fear,
griief, solicitude, loud noises etc., are
among them.; The ciretiriisanees- in
ducing a prolongation of tlie relaxa
tion are comfort and quivtuele, to
gether with the relief afforded by the
flow of m'lk. j The best way, accord
ing to the authotity quoted -from, is to
aS'Oid all occjision of disturbance and
observe- tliosei which promote pleasure
and quiet fprithe cow, and Co milk as
rapidly as possible, coasisiteut with
comfort, with a view to gettrng- the
milk be forest lie "letting down" ceases.
Milkicg rapidly dies not man jerking
barply or moving with hasty or irre
gular motions in -the presence of the
cow. Such a course would counteract
the very thing aimed at. The motion
of the milkeij should not bej such iis to
ajttract her suspicions. ' They should
bb deliberate, and cool, but when set
down to the milking, let nothing be al
lowed to interrupt or retaVd the work.
This will induce continual letting
down, by giving relief to Jthe udder.
The milker should bear constantly in
mind the fact that the letting down is
short and that every movement should
tie availed of to the' best j advantage,'
"jVheu the tnjlk ceases. t6 flow the milk
ing should stop at Jonce, whether the
milk is all oijit or not. There is no u.se
ih hanging on, after it stops esorningV
as this ! only cultivates aiid confirms
the habit of "holding baclc." To give
A cow the least possible decision for
holding back her milk" is the best way
to prevent her forming ; such a habit,
and the surest, and ireadiest wav to
make hejforget it after it has been
formed. To $ie&k up ; the objection
able habit, let the milking be quick,
but easy and regular. I.
itrnvcH in I !.
j In heaves .the great point is "to cor
rect any faults in feeding, watering
and working. Keep the patient in
a cool, clean.: well aired stable, feed
Sound oats.1 or ground feed morning
and noon, without any hjiy oi straw,
but at night k few pounds of well
cured: timothy, or ; better straw may
be given after the grain ;! do not put
ib work for a,t least an hour after auy
meal, and let exercise be gentle for
the first half hour ; nevpr overdrive ;
if there is any tendency to costiveness
give daily! two or three ounces, of
Glauber salts, more or less, as may be
necessary to keep them ensy. , With
out such careful management, all other
measures will prove -unavailing, and
this care alone may ; be sufficient to
clieck the disease in its early stages.
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I. The Regents of Bnlgaria have resigned,
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I.AKT WKfcK IX TIIK STATU.
IlHiulnjt Naelol, I'ulitienl. Fin mi-t-il
.-iiitl Oihrrwit. .
Street c&rs are now
ham.
running in Dur-
The lAUulmmk says that Statesville
has forty-eight miles of streets.
Hie nsu xan k ou rue top .or imite s
factory in Durham now contains four
pound carp.
The . N. Railroad hn 1....M. ,
sessed at .$5,284,121 per mile iia-lndhi
road bed and rolling stock.
The revenue receipts in tha fourth
district last month were .fij."i,0'K); of
this an o int, $jiiJXW wa-i paid ly Dm1
ham.
President Crowell, of Trinity College,
married the other day and will come
South in time for the opening of the
session, August 22.
- The eighth annual meeting of the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical Asso
ciation will be held in Asheville, 'Au
gust
The Board of Education of Jones
county refuse to grant a teacher's
certificate to any man who has not
paid his poll tax.
The three white lire companies of
Charlotte, owing to a misunderstand
ing with""the city authorities, have
turned all the public pi operty in their
possession over to the "city and liave
disbanded.
Private citizens hav subsciibed a
sufficient amount to build a branch of
the Cape Fear& Yadkin Valley R. R.
from Stocksdale to Madison. Madison
has recently voted against subscribing
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to the same road.
Dr. h. C. Stokes, of Wilkeshoro,
who v'ent to Los Airgeles, Cal.. about
a year agojto be cured of consumption
and was on his way home tvneurcd,
died at Albuquerque, N. M., last Sat
urday a week ngo.
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The Silver VaHey M ine has con
tracted to'furnish the Smelting Works
with 20 tons of ore pe-v day. C. C.
MePhail, of Richmond, Va., is Presi
dent of .this corneal:; , U. MorrU Oreni,
Treasurer, and -lwit llendrix, Secre
tary.
Lt. ZebJB. Vance, Jr., I". S. Army,
is in the city, visiting friends and re
latives. Army life agrees with our
young friend, and Lis commissary de
partment is evidently well supplied.
We were glad to meet him. Aniffille
Git hen..
Gov. Scales has been invited and
has promised to le j! i sei:t in peivon. ;
if possible, if no, to be represented,' j Adjutant Gei.eral Bonhaitiihas ef
and deliver the opening address of j feetually settled the dispute between
welcome on the part of North Carolina i the two militry companies it Elge
at the Liter-Stale Grangers' Encamp- j field C. II. as to the right to tjhc name
inent and Fair, August 8th to 10th, at J "Edgefield liiiles," by issuing an or
3Iount Hollv. j der disbanding both companies. -The
The stockholders aud directors of
the North Carolina railroad ,'met at
Greenboro Wednesday. Col.JT. M. Holt
was re-elected president and 1'. B.
Ruffin secretary. The proceedings of
the directors were not made public.
The stockholders elected four new direc
tor's for the state and four for he pri
vate stockholders. j
The names of the killed iu the blow
up in South Carolina Saturday last,
besides M. L. Agee, are Bill Smitb,
Elias Chapped and Jack Farmer, of
Vir ginia; Cephas Mean's, of Mt. Holly,
N. C; Torn Dogan,bf Lincolntou;
Mil as Berinet, of Lilesville; Jim Jor.es,
of 'Rock" Hill, S. C, and Hcniy Morri
son, of Mecklenburg county.
Mr. Moses Rountive, the leading
merchant and most wealthy citizen of
Wilsou, dropped dead from heart dis
ease last Thursday a week ago. A
public meeting Was held in the Court
House to express the loss the commun
ity had sustained in his death. Every
business house in town was closed and
the meeting was largely attended.
A difficulty occurred at Catawba
Station last Monday, in which Mr.
Jake Trollinger was seriously cut by
Mr. Jake Little. The knife entered
between the 7th and 8th ribs, causing
a painful wound of some depth and
about two inches iii length. Drs.
Campbell and McCorkls went, in ans
wer tto a summons by telegraph, to
dre-ssthe wound which they say is
right serious, but not necessarily fatal.
The difficulty grew out of the cutting
of some watermelon vines belonging to
Mr. Little by Mr. Trollinger's child
ren. Nevton Enterprise.
The Statesville landmark gives rhe
following, organization list of the office
of Collector Craige, of the new fifth-
distritt.
Sterling Ruffin, Chief Deputy. D. C;
M. O. Sherrill, Cashier , D. C;
Gilmer Brenizer, Bonded Acct., D. C;
Jerome Dowd, D. C, in Stamp Room;
G.W.Michal,;D; CV, Bandy & Tobacco;
J. C. Tipton, " ' " "
JJ P. Matheson, Clerk Bonded Acct.;
M. P. Anderson, " . " "
Jn. McRee, Assessment List, D. C;
Thos. Earnhardt, Messenger.
There will be but two special deputy
collectors in the new fifth district and
to these positions Col. A. H. Baird, of
Asheville, and Mr. A. M. Vannoy, of
Statesville, have been appointed. "
SOUTH ( AlllM.A MMVK.
Wlial our McitfhburM in the Pnliueii
Klntf arc ll ti.A IIuiIliM
oT Xta an Mailers
In (leurral.
: The National Bank of Chester h.ts
.declared a semi annual dividend of
four per cent.
A military compauy. -was recent In
formed at Duncan's, with' J, .ii. Wil
liamson as Captain. ' They eurolled
forty-eight line looking men.
liov. J. C. Oh.-dmers, the father ef
Rev. J. T. Chalmdis. of Winnshoro,
died at Ihe home of his son. on Thurs
day, the Till inst., in tin- 77th ycai of
his age. ,. .
'The! Kershaw 'Troop hope soon to
do away with the? red shirt for a uni
form by "having new and attractive
ones made. - Their respective meas
ures were taken one day last week.
During a storm on the 12th instant,
lighting set tire to one of the ware
houses of the Pelzer cotton factory
and 2,000 bales of cotton were con
sumed. The Rock Hill I'otton Factory Com
pany has just purchased two new steel
boilers' for use in the factory building.
These boilers are of greater capacity
than those which they replace.
Theie is a r.egro at work on the '.'
C's road in this county, whe used to
walk and carry n tr weekly jmail in'
Spartanburg county, making a tramp
of forty-two miles in a day three days
iu the week. J.annixttr Isihjer. .
A match gaimr of ba-e ball was
played between 'the Rough and Ready
clui). of Sumter, and the' d C's, of
Camden, on the grounds of tfb- latter
recently, which resulted in a victory
for the 3 C
0.
the score standing 1 1 to
The Chester survivors of j the fith
Regiment decided at a late meeting to
abandon their proposed trip to Peters
burg. They will hold the annual re
union with the Fairfield veterans of
the same Regiment, in WijinsUro.
next hioiitu. , Hon. H. A. Gaillatd will
be the orator of the occasion.
S:'.m Littlejohn, of Pacolef, has a
veritable half dollar pickedj up by
Early Wood, a colored man, on the old
camping ground of Daniel Morgan
near Grjudall Shoals. It is a (Spanish
dollar cut in two pieces for tlu,sake of
change, fie will exhibit itj at the
cne:; tn p m e n t . Sjxirlfiit ,
reason'
isciibed for this action is the
raiiure or
f pilher eoMinauv toi eomtilv
with the full requirements of jthe law
in the organization. . j
Mr. Tilman Dixon, while? seining in
Catawba river, near Chester, last
Monday a week '.ago with a; party of
friends, was drowned. Tie ) was at
tacked with cramp, -and being some -
distance from his" friends; met) an tin- ,.
timely death. A wife and mainy child
ren lament their bitter affliction.
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The Rock Hill Hook and Ladder
Company has reorganized the, com
pany and changed its name tdthe Itock
Hill Steam Fire Company. Mr. A. II.
White was elected president! and Mr.
J. F. Reid foreman.- Mr, J. H. Miller,
the former secretary, was retained.
The-conrpartiy decided to name 1h new
steamer "Marion. Jones," in honor of
Capt. AllenJone's sweet litthrdaaght-r
who died recently. ' .-. i
On Tuesday morning Henry Wilson,
colored, employed on Mr. Ross' rail
road work, 3 miles east of town, was
accidentally shot with a small pistol in
the bauds of Joe Rankin, another rail
road hand. The ball entered the face
on the right side of the nose! and lodg
ed in the back portion of the brain.
Dr. W. G. White was summoned to at
tend the wounded man, and from the
nature of the wound he thinks it may
prov? fatal.' Yorirille Enquirtr.
Mr. Win. N. Flynii, re promising
youngmian eighteen years: old, was
drowned on Sunday the 10th inst., in
Gill's creek, near the Dixie gold mine,
while trying to save a man named
Funderburk, who could not swim.
Mr. Flynn had some of hie elothing on
and was seized bj the other man and
drowned, Funderburk (escaped on a.
plank that was throwf to there .( Flynn
had been on his wajjfo fchurch.
, There was a very small ripple of ex
citement Saturday night because the
Morgan Rifles were ordered to the jail.
Sheriff Jentry had heard in some . way
that there was a paity of lynchers
made up to take .George S. Turner
from jail and deal with him after their
peculiar manner; .The Morgan Rifles
remained there all night and dul not
even see a "solitary horsetxan" on the.
streets, and they went home at the
break ' of day feeling like they hael
been on a "fool's errand-" Spartan.
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