The
Smithfield Herald.
VOLUME 5.
SMITHFIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 19, 1887.
NUMBER 40.
'CAROLINA CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
FRANK THORNTON
A CKAuemAKivtU-DQWN SALE I
amounting to more thanaQuarerofaMihmDom s 1
r
ti,r. priw -"-"v
-i-.ii.in -. v l MCWl. 1 Iff 3! 111 pi!VS It it been de.
k ; until now.
COMMENCING
Till O fieri 11$
UNTIL FEBRUARY i, 1887.
r .f this rel'.o:i- u hi pru-es i
This Mil be camUarail fca
jiot t
that it inohidcs HSSLSR BROS"
never before been offered at
t . ; I nttk the follows;) prices in
BLACK DRESS SILKS.
pieces at 4V ceuts per yanl. former price 7-3,
9 piaoas at SSU cents pr yanl. former prlee Ms
fl piactti at 82 cents per yanl. formor pri.e '.
y pieces at (1 .OS per rd. former price (IJ&.
2$ pieces Black Silk KUadamc reduced from $1.40 to $1.10.
pieces Black Silk TYteatlM reducetl frouil T" to Sl -o.
3 pieces Bleak Satin Piuhess radhaet frai Sl." to if 1.43.
jt? Tbcse coods were a',; geei value at the original prices.
COLORED DRES3 SILKS.
hi these gvHds I show a full line in SUM Celees, Stripevl. Checked a id BraeadhM, and
w sell them at a price that vou will be wiling to pav. Call and s, them.
ALL-WOOL DRESS GOODS.
:: ; !-' art;in tit it will be impossible to '. prices of anything like tht ektire stock, but
. vou an flea oT ii W ae3 l am otiertti.r
j " Wi In i'l cents re i! vr riea 60 cent
. ... . s .h.
; ; . r -e pi i rieniai . i. b. ihii am
.... .. - . k. ?
a'" the voar round.
nth a ' cent;
i c-msi der :t only naann HiJ 'o say that the
ra. Silk Wan Baariatta datto, CaaMla
11
ftaaa
ik m 1 all the low priced Dtaaa Qaadh
th-se I have mentioned.
- us Whito Flannel from
S at Me licated Twilled. l
p vrtiiHtty of supplvm-' y.
cents to the bast, 133 pieces Red
aiecaa Gray Twille i 1 lannel. Vou
irselt with these g-.Hs.
-the iaraes! assort mem ever shown iu tiie
iave marked them dow n to aareaspea
er? line a! over pieces :n ail gra
ides.
LADIES, WRAPS.
- d tSS rtniein af New Markets Siuui Wfajfl and Jacket with the price taken off,
UNDERWEAR
kh rt BMMl in tv-xh .ptaMty an 1 sties baa
I M I t can supply any deman 1 and at
P
ls.
HAMBURG EDGING AND LACES.
-a re f these Is than I wan . t ome an -elect what you want nd I will make a
i tu-upiete line of the hest C
!iset
in but V i
Hoisery.
B department the
: i It v.. Prices low.
4ock ;
s complete in all
Ralv-3Ialo C'lotliiiKU
. . v....i r re.luctiott in i tees takes in my
CELEBRATED PEARL SHURTa
SOTHINO IS EXCEPTED. THE WHOLE STOCK GOES.
SAMPLES AND ORDERS.
, -a this line of dealing are unsurpassed. Orders y mall and re
it att -ntnu the same dav they are recetve.1 ami we solicit notn.
FRANK THORNTON,
FAYETTE VILLE, N. C
WHURE TO BUY
T. R. HOOD,
3z
mi
3 L D B S T BR US 399931 IN SMITHFIELD!
dd remind my friends that his house is now filled with a select stock of
ire i)TcvTcnin mT
i n. m i
lOiLET A&TICLK8, BOOKS, CIOARd AND TOB ACCO,
ICEU0LDS0DA ANDVARIOUS M1XERAWAT1SRS,
1 11 AVE THE AGENCY FOU TIIE CELEBRATED
B. SEELEY RUBBER TRUSSES I
I t;rARATEE A PERFECT FIT IN THESE GOODS.
VOl- ARE TIUNKIN; Or-PAiNTlNG SOON, CALL AT MY STORE
AND GET A COLOR SHEET AND EXAMINE MY LARCH SiOCK OF
WHITE LEA D, OILS AND COLORS,
MEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
I
i" wesiner ami other reason, the
w9 m 9
o
will Continue
MtorU ?F tU gaoi, ImI siuip'.y to reduce
SHOES aad other l.nes of goods that have
loss than regular prices.
iesi jogua i wiu meuiiia ; .iii-nwi 1 1 it uh j
All-wool Tric:s. 4 inches vi St cents : !
2 . . ,11 . l . t
u. i v oj.i. . i i "jvi i i tau
.l.r.. ...... ... 1 . : . ). . . ..... . n
entire si ck of hies- Quaa incl iding Black
Hair t'loth. hiaronals. S.atin Berber. Serges,
will W aaU at paieaa rcakaead in proportion to
Raaiaat, including the
na- a -ver have another
State, and while these good? are worth a p!
in price with the balance of the stock.
price:
re iueed to figure?
that wilt astonish you.
boon kept hp through the caaa in this de- :
the same reduction in prices as in other lines .
frm
j
Pitaaa reduced i
aat i taa and French makes
r.nes.
l.a lics , Misses'. hildren's, Men's
entire siock oi it.J!
Haa I v -Male
and
requests for
:
YOUR DRUGS
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file imithfield lerald.
F. T. BOOKER, Proprietor.
One Dollar & Fifty Cents oar vear.
JZTSZSr offics ,u "u,i,1,fic,d
Saturday, March 19, 1887.
4PPOI1TED H.O ME.
(The following rigorous lines, from an un-
i known author, will commend themselves to
! erery thoughtful reader. They bring home
, with great force to each of 119 the solemn
I thought It is appointed unto me to die.
: Ami I riUM die .' Tremendous thought ! This
fraitic.
So costly in its workmanship, and stranger.
Will not last always ; but is doomed to break
.And fall in pieces, like a common vsise
; Of perishable clay. Heaven's balmy liglr,
' Saa all the sniilng ceuerv of earth.
The grand, the bright, the beaut:ful, alikf.
Will perfect from IWm eves.
These ears will j
I
-
Unconscious f a sirnrle sound that stirs !
1 in ... . . .
i inrougii tne wiue range ot mm
And these ;
limbs.
So active now aud full of strength, will He,
, As withered branches by the fallen trunk
: On which they grew, sapless and dead. The
blood.
That urge now its salutary stream
Through taa whole man. will staui in its
mm,
And with it all the play of life will stop
In univet sal death. The tired iiimrs wilt res!
j And thotu-iit will perish from the slumbering i
And then the grave will do its work, remote
From numan eyes : by dissolution foul
Breaking the uusightly mass, anil turning al1
Buck to its own dus'.
:imd I ..4f.' .' O. inn that word be true? t
i The hour is coming when t be voice .f death Altri'Or, that there IS a UlOVe
! Shall call for me.' 1 have stood when others . mont rn frti in Mof liorl if fiTVlie
died.
A sorrowful spectator, and have watched.
As. one bv oue
life's crumbling k.-ops spva
1V.
! "Till all were gon and the fair fabric fell ;
And it was tearful then, and shook tbe soul.
Only to sm how death did do hi work.
But t ere will be a uagedv like this.
b ... i. .1...
h nuv. uir him vh ihc ujmg xxus
Will all be mix thhers perhaps mav wail
Hani by the spot to tell their sympathv
; By lcols of woe. and stifled sols. and si;rhs
: That break forth from the troubled deep within j
But thry will be spectators only ; mine
ill ba the actor s part. The darkened room, j
The couch of pain, the haggard, out-stretched 1
The otntgriiKg conflict then, will all bo mine. '
And whm ! he last . invuuivo gasp is drawn,
And the eboins of life's stieam dies in the
vt Ulli
it wiu be said that ieth baa come on
i Ami I xftal! .' Mv veai-s shall have an end:
; Vud I shall pass away from the world's eye. :
; And perish from the thought? of living men !
lake the state of those who lived before the t
My being will be swallowed up a tiuug !
IVr.iten on the earth as ba light plunge j
i- .i.., i - -- i,k.
Karth will roll on : the sun will still look
down,
1 And all th stars will shine us they do now
Oti the broad concavcuf nig ii- The year will
change
( And times will bald their ancient order .-till.
:. Spring
Summer, Autumn, Winter, in their
" l!1
turn.
come and
nights
Mid months, days and
i Wiltbc as now.
And meu will crowd life's '
!
j stage,
' As they do crowd it now ; and iu
like style
Will play their soveial parts, eaoh
IU illS
plate.
I Cities will have their commerce, aud the plow
i ihe pride of life-the s h -iS;ie to be rich- '
Will ilr.rn itw ti i i. vtr llip.m.r'n tlin vnvol wloho- i
The rush for power the restless rage of souls,
t
stream
The war of passion, and the cry of wrath
All will go on. But I shall have no part ,
In aught transacted on the mighty nloba
Like some light shadow hurrjedu'or the plain,
I shall have passed awry forever.
Mr, Fred J. Clarke, a draughts
I man at the Union Pacific shops,
1 dreamed one night not long ago
; that he had deposited a small
suin in tne bans at L narleston,
Mass., many years ago, and that
! it had never been drawn out. The
; impression of the djeam w-as re
' tained in li4a mind until morn
, ing, an0 as he could remember
i that he had at one time a small
I sum on deposit in the bank, Mr.
1 Clarke wrote to a friend in Bos-
, " . . T. 7
ton, asking him to investigate
the matter. It was found that
the dream had been true, and the
money, left at interest for twen-
1 ftX ri..
aooiu ne neuestry pfc
i liminaries vere gon thwmgn
:v. .i t nuA,, i.oa
.
, l JUl tltlVI J4-. V- tHAf 44kO JUOl lO- l
! ceived the amount named above,
i which stood to his credit there all
! that time.
We fail to see wisdom in sen
ding to foreign markets to
purchase anything that can be
made at home for one-half the
tnonpv. Still tin farmers do
business on just this plan. They
purchase provisions and snppUes
abroad when all such articles
should be purchase at home on !
f r f-trm Ts it anv wonder that
f the cry of hard times is raised
when such a system is practiced?
i Greenville Reflector.
The Richmond State thinks j section through which it runs
Virginia will lose $50,000 from great good. The beneficient ef
her revenue by the decision in fects are already felt to no liniit
the drummer's tax case. ! ed extent. Advance.
STATE 2iEWS.
The Salvationists draw large
crowds in Newberne.
Mr. J. M. Broughton, of Ral
eigh, has been appointed clerk to
the commissioner of labor statis
tics. Mr. Isaac T. Wilson, Clerk
of Superior Court of Jones coun
ty, died Monday evening at 4 i
o'clock.
Rev. Dr. J. W. Ford of La
Orange, Ga., has declined the j
call extended him by the second !
Baptist church of Raleigh.
The Wilmington Star says
the farmers in that section feed
their families on cabbage raised
in Sweden 4,000 miles distant.
An attempt was made on the
9th inst., by a daring incendiary
t'Ul
9
to bwrn the Colored public School
at Y llmington.
Kerosene was
used.
The total number of bills
i passed by the Legislature was
! 598 and of resolutions 44. This
; exceeds the usual number consid-
erably.
The voters of Raleigh will
'. vote in June whether they will
i continue to sail under local op
: tion. The contest promises to
j be a lively one.
We learn from the Wilson
to erect a monument over the
cmvfi of Dr. Closs.
i
I
negro j
Stark Simpson,
the
who was concerned in the mur-
der of Alonzo Owens in Wash
I ington county, is under sentence
to be hanged May 31st. He is in
jail, and appears to be entirely
vt n COll Cfm P1 JIS to llis fa tp
The next meeting Of the
1Stmat rbwJiM TaaHiMw AAm
Dly Will De nelO at AlOrelieaO City
j June 14 to the 29. This is the
:A a- , . . . . .
j first meeting of the Association
i held in the East and the Western
i teachers will take this opportu- j
: nity of visiting our seaside, we j
i are sure.
The anti-p rohibitionistsiall denominations have received
having secured one-fourth of the
qualified VOteTS of KinstOn town-
j ship, handed in their petition
j asking an election June 1 . The
! board of commissioners saw fit
! to defer action upon it till their
' meeting in April. Newberne
Journal.
I Col. Paul B. Means, ex-mem-
ship, handed in their
i ber of the State legislature and a
prominent politician, entered th
Tims T)rintinfir office at Concord
mfl. iwiaf ol lo ;iiffi
4. iiv i v i n luci., niiu imu ca uiiu-
culty with John B. herrill, edi
tor. The difficulty irew out of
publications with regard to souie
local matter.
.nun. v, tiuueii luin uu-
cepted an invitation to deliver
1;, nAA.., T.r- fv
ford Female College, in June
next. He excels in efforts of the
kind. He has also accepted an
invitation to address the Teach
ers' Assembly next summer.
Wilmington Star.
Governor Scales has received
a matmincent, maroie dust, oi
the late Gov. Ellis, who was the
executive of North Carolina in
IHaSWtil. It was presented by
the wife and daughters of the
Governor, it lias been piacea
among tne portraits oi tne t.xov
ernors of Xorth Carolina in the
I executive department, and will
be transferred to the state libr-
; ary on completion oi
building.-iY
.,..
completion oi tne new
ews Ob
server
The cotton factory last week
shinned 33,636 yards of cham
ibrava and 17.22 1 vards of baei
- r v.alvww.1M.ik
, ' . .ulu ibtIid iW. in
anonn i nn pnyittpftrs wink
! aneao
t
The engineers will
! complete the survey of the Lyuch-I
buri? and Durham road in a few
days, and steps looking to thei
early construction of this road
will be speedily taken. Capt. O.
R. Smith, who was in Lynchburg
last week, reports that "every
thing as lovely." Plant.
The new stations and future
j towns along the line of the Wil-
son anort jut are ouiiaing up
rapidly. At Dunns, Kenly, Kir
by's Crossing, (now Silverboro)
. tne worK. oi uuiitutig is gum yii
! rapidly, while at Smithfield and
j Selma the sound of the hammer
and the saw is by no means a
! rare thing. The road will do the
GENERAL AWS.
c,eaned From ur Exchange
uiuki cui ncviiuns III
I lie ajountrv.
Gen. B. F. Butlerhas invest
ed $100,000 in Chicago real es
tate. The woman of Kansas are
soon to vote in municipal elec
tions. Ex-Governor Hoadly, of
Ohio, in a speech at Cincinnati
came out in favor of President
Cleveland.
The woman's Suffrage bill
was defeated yesterday in the
New York Assembly by a vote of
' 48 yeas to 68 nays.
The New York City Woman's
Suffrage league held a meeting
and said hard things about Gov
ernor Hill for letting Mrs. Druse
be hanged.
In a suit againt the South
Pennsylvania railroad, Mr. Van
derbilt and his brother in law
settled the case rather than show
the books.
The democrats elected their
canidates for mayor at Utica and
Elmira and the Republicans car
ried Auburn in Municipal elec
tions. The work of rescuing persons
buried beneath the ruins of the
earthquake destroyed towns of
southern Europe continues. Ter
rible distress exists.
Minister George H. Pendle-
ton sailed from New York for
Berlin on the steam-ship Allen,
txK iurrfiwtw at p wn nio
a passenger on the same vessel.
Authorities of the Postoffice
Department state that the postal
receipts this year will be greater
than those of any previous year
in the history of the govern
ment. It is officially announced in
London that the war office has
recommended the Lee-Burton
and Lee magazine rifles for trial.
Both weapons are of American
invention.
The Charleston churches of
large additions to their member
ship since the earthquakes, the
Presbyterians alone having ad
mitted over one thousand new
members.
Democratic members of Con
gress, and others who have ac
cess to the President and who
have talked to him about the
matter, say there is no possibility
of an extra session of Congress
this spring.
Senator Sherman appears to
be growing in favor as a Repub
lican candidate for President. He
wants the nomination, too, and
is working for it. He is shortly
to be in Tennesee and has agreed
to make a speech.
It is estimated that not less
than 200,000 palmetto branches
are gathered in the Sea islands of
South Carolina and shipped from
Charleston every spring for use
in the Catholic churches of the
north on Palm Sunday.
The north bound passenger
train of the Missouri Pacific rail
road was thrown down a fifteen
foot embankment on the 9th inst.
By a miricle none of the fifty
oassentrers were killed. The list
0f slightly injured is large
A. J
Anarchists Braunschweig
and Schenck, just released from
nine months' imprisonment at
Blackwell's island, addressed a
mass meeting of sympathizers at
New York. Their speeches were
brimful of incendiary remarks.
If the sale of the Baltimore
& Ohio road to the Sully syndi-
cate has reallv been
consumated
transaction of
the kind ever made in America.
&
The Baltimore American, how
ever, says "such a sale is not only
improbable but impossible."
At Louisa, Kentncky, on the
9th inst., Sam. Smith, a sixteen
year old boy, living on Cates
Fork, this county, had a slight
misunderstanding with a neigh
bor named Steve Hammond, and
shot him dead. Smith then went
to Hammond's house with a de
termination to kill the entire
family. He fired three shots at
Mrs. Hammond, all of them
taking effect and infliction mor
tal injuries. The shooting was
kept up until the son and daugh
ter fell dangerously wounded
and it is doubtful if they recover
Smith then fled, and has not yet
been captured.
TO THE FARMERS.
W"e hope each farmer in this
county will preprre from two to
twenty acres of land according to
the size of the farm to plant in
grasses. Nothing that we plant
can pay so well as grass. If you
will not sow clover or orchard,
then make the lot rich, plow,
harrow and roll and leave it
alone and you will have such a
crop of crab grass as will make
your heart glad and your soul re
joice with great joy at a time
when you will need joy, comfort
and consolation most. One acre
made rich will produce you more
than one hundred dollars worth
of crab grass.
Don't forget now and plant
the whole of your land in cotton.
Be sure and plant much less than
last season, manure much better
and make much more cotton on
mnch less land. Tliis is beyond
all doubt the true and successful
method of farming. Why not
adopt it ? Dispense with a part
of your team, a part of your la
bor, and a part of your expenses
and make larger crops. This
can and will be done in the near
future. Why not begin now?
Make all home supplies at home
and let the cotton be the surplus
crop. We have got to come to
this mode of farming sooner or
later, or live in a poor home all
our days. Let's farm on busi
ness principles. Why be fools
all our lives ? Why do as daddy
did, when we know daddy did
rong? Why follow the foot
steps of the blind ? Why march
to ruin and destruction with both
eyes open 7 Are we mad : Are
we fools 1 Can we not, will we
not learn bv sad experience?
Fools sometimes learn in this
school, why can't we ? Don't
you know that if you let half
your land rest this year, it will
vield you next year tenfold?
You rest, why not rest your
land ?
Now don't fail to sow oats this
spring, now is the time. Don't
wait longer. Sow at least two
bushels, three is better to the
acre. It is a great mistake to sow
one bushel, or one bushel and a
half per acre. We know you will
need oats this summer, plant
now. Hon t tail to plant corn
enough to make what you need
on the farm. It is a mistake,
you can't buy it cheaper than you
can make it. You can make it
cheaper than you can buy it.
And besides you will not have
the money to buy it when you
want it, and then you will be
forced to urive two prices. e
came so near starving last year,
because we made nothing to eat
on the farm that we must be ex
cused for begging the farmer to
produce his home supplies, :ind
to work more and spend less
money. W. H. Kitchen, Scot
land !Sec7c Democrat.
KLOIVIHO HOT tKD COLi).
Owing to the condition in
which the Legislature has left
the penitentiary there is great
difficulty in seeing just what is
to be done. The sum of 150,-
000 was asked for this year.
Only 100,000 was granted. The
number of convicts allowed to
the Board of Education is ")25,
and to the Cape-Fear and Yadkin-Valley
railway 250. All
these are to be maintained by
the State that is their expenses
will be chargeable directly to the
penitentiary. Then fifty more
convicts were granted on the
same terms to the county of
Madison for the construction of
a turnpike. The warden of the
penitentiary, a very prudent sen
sible, man, said to your corre
spondent to-day that he really
didn't see how matters could be
fixed. The penitentiary authori
ties are taken at a shameful dis
advantage by the Legislature.
In one breath that body said that
625 convicts must be furnished
free of cost ; in the next it said
that the convicts in the peniten
tiary must be so placed as to
make that institution as nearly
self-sustaining as possible. Now
that was blowing hot and cold,
with a vengeance. Correspon
dent Richmond Dispatch.
The northern preachers say they
cannot accept Beecher's theology,
but admire his greatness. Who
knows what was his theology ?
He had swung very far off from
that held by his father, old Lyman.
Henry Blount's Column.
A Kim.
A kiss is the visible sign and
token of an inner sentiment
which no words can express.
The eyes and the tongue do a
good deal of appreciable work of
love-making, but the meeting of
the lips is the sign and seal, the
chrism, so to speak, winch trans
form the earthly into the divine.
Love without a kiss would be
like the harp without the hand,
the rainbow without its hue;
the brook Avithout its babble;
the landscape without its colors ;
the tube rose sweetest flower
for scent that blows without its
odor ; the borealis without its
variations ; poetry without
rhyme ; Spring without sunlight,
a garden without foliage or mar
riage without love. The young
women whose ideas teach her to
recoil from a kiss cheats the lover
of the joys of loving, and those
good old hours of wooing and
cooing would be robbed of that
exquisite delight which makes
earth wear for a time the glorious
semblance of Heaven, and which
make mortals dream of the rap
tures of Paradise regained.
A Picture.
They had been taking a stroll
together a stroll in which all
that is tender and touching and
inspiring in human nature had
been drawn out by the inspira
tion of the circumstances, and
made resonant with the throb
bings of deeper and sweeter and
holier feeling. And now they
were seated on the velveted soft
ness of a mossy seat she was
looking out dreamily upon the
glories of sunset, and noticing
the clouds as they changed from
one color exquisitely gorgeous to
another equally so, and he was
looking with fond, passionate
and pleading entreaties up into
her marvelously beautiful and
gloriously blooming face, a face
in which loveliness had left its
richest tints to feed the spell of
rapturous admiration. Intoxica
ted with such fine rapture, they
were lost in the wild delirum of
that blest enchantment distilled
in the witchery world of love,
while every pulse was thrilled
with the quaverings of life's pu
rest and sweetest music. And
thus they sat and dreamed of
the glorious future in the beau
tiful realm of Marriage-Land.
Every utterance met and min
gled in harmonious union. Oh,
idle dreamings. Ah, little do
you dream now that these hon
eyed notes of affection's endear
ing and soothing lullabies will
give place to the anger-crested
vehemence of stormy argument
when deciding on cold winter
mornings as to which one shall
go shivering across the bare floor
to kindle the morning fire. Ah,
young dreamers, life hath its re
alities as well as its dreams, and
wise are they who keep an eye
to both.
a Comforting Reflection.
Death is the great leveler. The
rich and the poor, the high and
the low, the great and the small
are treated alike, and when its
cold clammy clasp is laid upon
the brow the same inexorable law
is executed for all without one
particle of distinction, and the
beggar and the tramp and the
forsaken sleep in the same sweet
hush of repose which bless the
everlasting slumbers of the rich
and great. Upon the humble
graves the myrtle and daisy will
grow as beautifully, the stars
will drop a radiance as bright and
as cheering, the zephyrs will
breathe a requiem as sweet and
as lulling, Spring time will scat
ter her fragrant wealth as lavish
and as generously, and the icy
peltings of wintry storms, will
beat as hard, and the chilly winds
of borean climes will sweep all
graves alike and stop not to count
the wealth, measure the purse or
estimate the influence of the pale
ouiet sleepers beneath. And in
that Grand Assize, when the re
cords made hera on earth shall be
inspected by the Judge eternal
the same sweet gentle loving
Jesus, who was Himself a tramp,
and had not where to lay his head,
and who did hunger and thirst
and suffer will view all with the
same compassionate thenderness
and clasp a beggar as he would a
king.