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SMITH FIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL 9, 1887.
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'CAKOLTXA CAHOLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS
An Old Soldier in tlie Atlanta.
': .t$i-.i!isn.
I see many sketches and in
cidents of the war published
in your valuable paper and have
derived much pleasure from
reading them.
In order to contribute my mite
towards that department of your
great paper,- I send you the fol
lowing' incident of prison life
during the winter of '(J4 and '65,
at Camp Chase, Ohio. It is not
my intention to speak of thesuf
fering we endured, as that is past
and could in no way be mitiga
ted. But to prceed. Colonel W.
8. Hawkins, of Tennesee, during
the early winter of 'G4 and '65
was the most widely known and
beloved man among the prisoners
at Camp Chase, Ohio, and al
though not a regular minister of
the gospel, he was the most el
oquent and interesting exponent
of the Holy Scriptures that I have
ever listened to. If these few
lines should happen to catch the
eye of a confederate whose mis
fortune it was to have been loca
ted at Camp Chase in the winter
of '0-1 and '05, he will remember
how eagerly we would rush from
our barracks whenever it was an
nounced that Colonel Hawkins
had come over from prison to see
us, and -when he would mount
the barrack steps and begin to
speak or preach he could hold us
spell bound for hours with his
eloquence.
He was our oracle in everything
connected with o:ir welfare, both
spiritual and temporal, but his
greatest work was done at the
couches of the sick and d ing,
and if he is living today and has
not been prosperous in temporal
affairs, he can have the grand
consolation of being entitled to
spiritual prosperity, which can
not be taken from him.
Colonel Hawkins in his daily
rounds among the sick and dying
had found a young soldier who
realized he was not long for this
world. He was engaged to be
married to' a-lady nnd was anx
iously looking for a letter from
her, that lie might once more
read her loving words before he
should die, but the letter came
not. until after his death, which
was fortunate for the poor fellow
for iu-tead of loving promises,
she had written to break off the
engagement. Colonel Hawkins
answered the young lady's letter
to the dead soldier in the lines
which 1 have enclosed for pub
lication, provided you should
think them of sufficient interest
and have not already been pub
lished in your most excellent
paper. 1. G. Waticixs,
Member of Kemper's battery,
Xorthorn army Virginia,
Clarksburg, W. A'a.,
MV l-:iKXi.
Your 1'thT cmim". lut c.iiiu' too late,
pur Ifiv.vi'u 1' hi i laiisi d its own.
Ali ! f-uTi-Mi 1 1 ;t ii lt'. fnm prison bars
In;o tlio izreit wlii'c llironf.
An l yet T t'aink ln wnuM lmve staved
Fcr .nc ni'iiv day of pdn.
(Am d In- l;:!v di - tnrly words
Which you luivo s.'ut in vain.
YVTiv diil V' ti wait, fair lady.
Tlm;irli so many a 'veary hour?
Ihid von ot!i r lovors with vu.
Tn that silk' n dainty hrv.rer?
Ji'.d others h v.v hi -fori! your charms
And twine hdidit ;rlands tlire ?
Anl T Wi'"n in all that thron-'
:iH s j i if h id no poir.
1 wi! that you wrre hy ;n row,
As draw the sheet a-ide.
To so'! iiow pure th(! look ho wr ro
Awl.ib hefn-e 1,r: died.
Yet fin; sorro..' that you nave him
S'ii! has !-ft. its weary trace,
Atel a tn.M'k and saintly sadness
Dwells upon tint pallid face.
'Tier love, h.' said "eonld cdianc Tor me
The winter's cold t. spring"
Ah! irut of th uiihth'ss maiden's love
Tli-iti art a hi; ter thine
F-r when I lies.? valleys Fair in Mav
On e m--;re wish ldoom shall wave,
The in if lu-rn violets sb.dl wave.
Above his humble 'jrave.
Your dole ,,' se iii' v w..rds had bot-n
lit: one : i re pan to hear;
Th mih t i the !;-.st, he kissed with love
This tres oi your soft hair.
I did not put it whi re he said.
For when the atii;.' is come,
I wjinl-i riot have th t:i find die sign
Or fa's; hood in iho tomb.
I've i ad )rnr letter and I know
Ti:e uii -s that you i.a.e wrought,
To "in that noble lit art of his
Aed Liaiu.-d ir, hirJul thought !
Y at lavish tvtalih men sonieticiS give
For : ttil! j. iiz'.t a id -mali.
W ;a! i:ia:dy foitiis one often held
In lolly's f;iiui?v thrall. "
You si all not pity him, fur now
He's past your hope nnd fear ;
Although I wish that you could stand
With me beside his bier.
Still I forgive you. Heaven knows,
For mercy you hav need,
Since God His awlul jatigmcjt sends
On each unworthy Seed.
Tonight the cold winds whistle, by
As I my vigils Kee",
Within the prison dead house, where
Few mourners come to w.-ep.
A rude plank coffin holds him now,
Yet death gives always grace,
Ami T had rather see hi in thus
Than clasped in your embrace.
Tonight your rooms perhaps are gay
"With wit, and wine, and song,
And you are smiling ju-t as it
You never did a wrung.
Your hand so fair th,t none would think
It penned theso W( rds of p.'dn,
Y,uir .-ki:i so white would (iod, your soul
Were half so free from stain.
d rather be this de;r, dear friend
Than you i;i all jour glee,
For you are held 1:1 grevms bonds
While he's forever free.
Whom serve we in this life, we serve
In that which is to come.
Fie chose his way, you yours : let God
Fronouneo the fitdnii doom.
THE OCCUPATIONS OF
CHEAT MES.
The Medical Age lias been
investigating this subject, and
savs that the father ofDem
osthenes was a blacksmith ; of
Euripides, a dealer in vegetables ;
of Socrates, a mediocre sculptor ;
of Epicurus, a shepherd ; of Virgil
an innkeeper, Columbus was
the son of a wool carder ; Shake
speare, or a butcher ; Euther, of
a minor ; Cromwell, of a brewer;
Sixtus V., of a swineherd ; FJii
ntcus, of a poor country minister;
Franklin, of a soap boiler; Kous
seau, of a watch-maker ; and
Murat, of an innkeeper. The
writer concludes that the mothers
of some of these men may have
the source from which their
genius was derived, and, indeed,
it is known that some of them
were women of more than or
dinarv excellence.
Modern facilities of transpor
tation begin to tell severely upon
land cultivators. In the newly
opened and remote regions, these
improvements are an unmixed
blessing. Hut in the older coun
tries they are creating a sort of
revolution. A London paper,
discussing this subject, says that
one result of modern transport
improvement will be that "agri
cultural land in Great Uriton and
Ireland will, unless exceptionally
situated, soon be worth- rather
less than on a western prairie."
A French writer on the same
topic begs his farming country
men not to trust in protective
measure for keeping up tlie prices
of home produce, but to ziccept
the new situation intelligently.
Why should they expect, he asks,
when machinery has brought
manufactured articles to so low
a price, to the great advantage of
the farmer, that barn products
should not in their turn follow
the same law? He urges upon
cultivators the policy of scientific
methods, and proceeds to illus
trate the value of this advice by
statistics.
He first quotes the experience
of progressive farmers in the
northwest and south of France,
wiio, by scientific culture, careful
selection of seed, and the use of
articles fertilizers, especially
phospate of lime and nitrate of
soda, have more than doubled,
and in some cases nearly trebled,
the wheat product to the acre, to
say nothing of the additional
straw. Then referring to fall
sowing he epiotes the experiment
of Major Hallett in England.
This gentleman found that, using
the horse drill, it needed two
fifths of a bushel of seed per acre
in September, one-half more in
October, doubled in November,
quabrnple in December. A
French experimenter gives simi
lar figures showing that to
produce the same crop requires
over doubled the seed in Novem
ber and December that sufficed
in September. The practical
comment is that 37,000,000 of
people could support life for 15
days on the seed thus saved by
early sowing on the nearly 20,
000,000 acres of wheat land in
France. Another important ad
vantage of early sowing was
shown by Major Hallett's ex
periments. That is, by scattering
a smaller number of grains on a
(riven s.iirf;if :i.rli seed lm.st :i
better change of vigorous vegeta-
ATTEND JrlEIi.
tion, of forming larger heads and
developing more nutritious grain.
Major Hallett found his wheat
thus sown producing several,
steins, each with an ear, whereas
in the average practice the num
ber of ears does not equal that of
seeds planted. &'Crain sown by
the drill has this great advantage
of free elbow-room, caused by its
regular distribution. This tends
to increase the
During Major
size of . the . ears.
Hallett'sj four
years' experiments, by; pursuing
the above policy, and itjy care
fully selecting his seed from the
large heads, he increasedthe size
of the wheat ears from;-4:inctics
with 47 seeds, to something. oyer
8, with 123 grains.;. aiTmber
of heads on a plautjimi lip
from 10 to 80 h:i-:::
To be sure these, experirne tits
were on choice land, conducted
by a wealthy land-liir; Biit
they point to , : a n'i davr,
under which the practfgil&i'uier
can work. AI. Mill6n,aFreiieu
practical farmer, . pursued 3(m
ilar course, and has raised r is
wheat product to 42 bushels5 an
acre, with the expectation. of sur
passing those figures. .
wj'oi-i: s a e . s; s e i ct 32 s; x t.
Violation of the Loral
tioss Ei,m .
I News ami Observer rril 2rid 1 St-7. i j
Yesterday was a day of more j
excitement in the city and more j
consternation among a number j
of citizens than there has been !
since the Lizzie Turlington mur- j
der. The commotion was brought I
about by a wholesale indictment
of parties charged with viola
ting the local option law. Several
parties who thought that they
had been dealing out "spirits"
in a manner that was not a vio
lation of the law were "swooped"
in. At the'begiuuing of the session
of the court the grand jury asked
for special instructions as to their
duty with regard to violations of j
the local option law. j
The Judge in substance said : j
"In tt district where local option j
obtains, no license to sell liquor j
can be granted; therefore, to sell j
at all is a violation of the law, I
and every attempt to evade the !
law is indictable, ii a pnysician,
for instance, gives a prescription
to a person to purchase liquor he
is indictable, unless that person
absolutely needs the liquor as a
medicine." The jude further said
that any sale of liquor, by whom
soever made, within the local op-j
tion district, would be a violation j
of the law. "A man," said he, j
"may put his money into the
hands of his clerk or his servant
and send that clerk or servant
outside the local option district !
and buy liquor, and such trans
act km would not be a violation
of the law; but, if he put his
money into the hands of one who
acts as agent of the liquor seller,
or one who makes it a business
to take orders for supplying peo
ple with liquor, then the law
would bo violated and the parties
should be indicted." . -
The Judge concluded by repeat
ing : "Any attempt to evade the
law, in any way, is indictable."
Acting on these instructions
the grand jury commenced to
work up matters, and yesterday
nearly one hundred presentments
were made, including some drug
gists and physicians as well as
others. The grand jury were
materially aided in fact the
greater part of the work of ferret
ing out the parties was done by a
secret detective service which has
for some time past been in the
employ of the "enforcement com
mittee" ef the prohibitionists,
and which service will be con
tinued here. The matter has
brought about something like a
picnic for the attorneys, and yes
terday they could be seen in
many places listening', while the
clients stated the case.
Hon. John M. Allen, the witty
member from Mississippi, again
increased his popularity in the
House by his speech on the dip
lomatic and consular bill. During
his speech Perry Belmont asked
the gentleman if he " would yield
to a question?"
"No," said Mr. Allen
not yield to anything
plause."
"1 can
Lut at
It looks as if " Gladstone, the
grand old man, will yet live to
trump Salisbury's coercion ace
with the little "two-spot" of
Home Rule. All things ccme
around to him who will but wait.
Baltimore Herald.
STATE NEWS.
The Supreme Court is now
at work on cases from the Eighth !
judicial district.
John J, Fowler, a sterling j
Democrat of ' Wilmington, has !
been elected. Mayor of YY'ilming
ton. ' -
Tlie first planting in the
aged. one-half by the recent cold
snap.--5- -
Lightning struck the cotton
gin of B. C. Clowman. Three
negro as were rendered insensible
by the shock.
The Methodist S u ml a y
schools of the -Fayetteville dis
trict will hold a conference at
Fayetteville next month. - : .
' -i-The "jail of Greene county, at
Snow Hill, was burned Thursday,
night of last week. It was set
on. fire by a negro woman who
was a prisoner.
I The Fayetteville . Observer
says' the C..F. & Y. V. It. -R. will
"shortly build a new passenger
depot place of the old one at that
place;. this is good news to all.
The Asheville CiiizeitmLya that
there are seven bridges on the
Carolina Central Railroad be
tweeirShelby and ilutherfordton,
and every one of them is built of
iron and upon the latest plans.
John Jones (negro), convic
ted of burglary at Wilmington,
is to be . hanged. He was con
victed and sentenced to death,
but appealed-to the Supreme
Court. That court has confirmed
the decision of the lower court.
David Presley, a miner in
Mitchell county, was burned to
death in his house recently, near
Bakersville, while he was asleep.
The house caught fire. He at
tempted to escape, but was suf
foaated. His body was found by
his wife.
Another fatal disaster is re
ported in Alexander county. As
a little child of Boyden Welborn
lay in its cradle another child
placed a broom in the fire, and
when it blazed, threw it in the
cradle. It fall upon the infant,
which was roasted alive before
its parents could save it.
Progressive Farmer : A far
mer from Stokes county brought
1,100 pounds of tobacco to mar
ket last week (all he raised) and
sold. He tii en went to pay his
gu tno bill ; lie paid all he got for
his tobacco, five dollars more,
and still owes $1.30. Low priced
tobacco and high priced guano
don't work well together.
Greensboro "Workman : The
Asheboro Courier describes how
a powerful force of revenue men
made a descent on a-distillery in
that county recently, .making a
complete capture of t he-place
the operatives and all their sub
stance. It was a grand victory,
or would have been, had it not
turned out to be a sassafras oil
distilierv.
Eastern Rejleeior : Mr. W.
F. Hart tells us a good one on a
neighbor: He says that last year
he sewed some cabbage seed.
Some doves rendered themselves
very annoying by scratching up
the seed and eating them. He
takes his gun and shoots the
doves then removes the seed from
the birds' craws, sows them the
second time and raises a fine crop
of cabbage.
The Governor has pardoned
out of the penitentiary Solomon
Bullock, colored. Bullock was
tried several years ago in Edge
combe Superior Court and con
victed of throwing rocks at a
moving passenger train and sen
tenced to seven years in the peni
tentiary. He had served three
and a half years, when the par
don was granted at the solicita
tion of the judge, solicitor, pros
ecuting attorney and others.
Rockingham Rocket: We
hear the rumor that Asbury Cha
vis, the negro who several years
ago so brutally murdered old Jei
rv Everett in the Boney Cole
lane, is now in jail at Smithville,
N. C, for a murder recently com
mitted in Brunswick county. It
will be remembered that Chavis'
trial for the murder of Everett
was moved from this county to
Stanly, where he was convicted
and sentenced to bo hanged, but
escaped before the sentence was
executed and has since eluded
arrest.
GENERAL NEWS.
C;ca:ied From Our Exchanges
i .Different Sections
lI:o Country.
o:
Judge Cooley is chairman "of
the Inter State Commerce bill.
The Legislature" of Virginia
is tackling tlie State debt ques
tion with a. vim.
Mr. Gladstone declares that
the coercion bill shall not pass,
and both .he and Parnell are con
fident that they can defeat it.
" "The sun': do move." Little
Rhode Island -has half way
agreed to abolish the property
qualification and registry tax.
i --The high-license bill, kuown
as. the Crosby bill, has passed,
both houses of the. Xew York
assembly and is now in the hinds
of the Governor.
Hon. Daniel Manning-, who
is now at Bournemouth, is not
seriously ill. He is suffering from
a heart complaint, but his mala
dy is not serious enough to .pre
vent his driving out daily.
Two freight trains on. the
Michigan Central railroad colli
ded near Springfield, Ont., , 2nd
inst. Two brakemen. were, kil
led and twenty-six cars and two
engines demolished. The loss
was very heavy.
Two violations of the liquor
law, in Providence, Rhode Is
land, were sentenced to thirty
days in jail and to pay 100 fine
and costs. Others will soon fol
low, and the men for whom cap
iases have been issued are re
ported to be fleeing from the
city right and left.
The total visible supply of cot
ton for the world is 2,7oG,S3S
bales, of which 2,163,838 bales
are American, against 2,758,859
bales and 2,209,759 bales respect
ively last year; receipts at inte
rior towns,. 29,299 bales ; receipts
at plantations, 3,437 bales ; crop
in sight, 0,009,221 bales.
Three persons concerned in
the attempt to assassinate the
Czar by means of bombs in St.
Petersburg, on March 13th, were
hanged Thursday m orni n g.
Twenty more officers in various
j brandies of the service have
been arrested in connection with
the attempt made against the
. j life of the Czar in the park of
the Gatschina Palace.
Washington, April 1. Mr.
Fairchild took the oath of office
as Secretary of the Treasury at
11 o'clock this morning, and at
noon took posession of the Sec
retary's office in the Treasury
Building as the successor of Mr.
Manning. This appointment, as
well as that of Judge Maynard
as Assistant Secretary, had been
expected for a long time past,
and they were the subject of
much complimentary comment
on the streets and in the hotels
and public buildings this morn
ing. The almost universal ver
dict is that the President has
adopted the best possible course
in the matter, and that the fi nan
dial interests of the administra
tion and of the country will be
well managed by the new combi
nation. The Hotel de Mont at Mon
terry, Cal., was discovered to be
on fin; shortly before midnight
April 2nd and everything was
done to save it but without suc
cess. The magnificent building
and its contents are a total wreck ;
no lives lost. There were nearly
300 guests in the hotel, mostly
eastern people. Fire was discov
ered quick enough to give all an
opportunity to escape. Most of
the guest lost their trunks and
clothing. Those who were not
overcome by fright saved their
jewelry and money. They were
all huddled together on the
ground where they had to shiver
all night, many of them having
on nothing more than their night
clothes. The heat from the flames
of the burning building kept
'them warm for some time, but as
tlie flames died out many ladies
suffered severely from the cold.
All who could sought refuge in
local hotels and arrangements
have been made by the railroad
companies to take them to San
Francisco as early as possible.
The hotel belonged to the South
ern Pacific Railway Company
and was considered the handsom
est watering place hotel in
America. It cost $350,000 and
wa"3 not insured. -