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The Smithfield Herald.
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VOLUME 5.
SMITHFIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL 30, 1557.
NUMBER 46
"CAROLINA CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER."
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il I remind mj friends that his house is now filled with select stock of
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H. D. BLAKE
Lite of Williamson A Blake,
Smithfield, N. C.
BLAKE BKOTHEt
SUCCESSORS TO
WILLI AMSON AND BLAKE.
ill continue the grocery and provision business at i:he old stand.
Heavy and fancy groceries, hardware, tin ware, crockery, 4c,
meat, meal, flour, lard, sugar, coffee, molwns, star lye, Hors
fords bread preparation, all grades chewing- and smoking
tobaccos, Rail Road Mills, Gail and Ax, Ralph's and
Egerton snuffs, at wholesale or retail.
Shovels, Hatchets, Haines. Traces, Backhands, Hooks, Single Tree,
Cotton Rope and a thousand other things the farmer is bound
to have.
Agents for the Following Reliable Brands of Fertilizers
PIEDMONT "SPECIAL" for Cotton and Corn.
PIEDMONT GUANO, for Tobacco.
POCOMOKE, EDDY STONE, L. A R. ACID 4 L. A R. Amoniated.
WL BRAND.
Supplies will be advanced on crop time where suitable arrange
teata are made. Very Respectfully,
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Enter el in the Tost Office at Smithfield a
Second Class matter
Saturday, April 23, 1887.
COXFIDO ET COSqCIESCO.
AIKLAI1R V rKlHTOR.
Fro; not. poor soul, while douht and fear
Disturb thy breast:
The pitying angels, who can see.
How rain thy wild regret mut he.
Say. Trust and rest."'
Plan not. nor scheni?, but calmly wait;
His choice is best.
While blind and errine ss thy sisht.
His wisdom sees and judges rige:
So trust and rest.
Strive not. nor struggle: thy poor m?ht
Can never wrest
The meanest thing to serve thy will;
All power is His alone: be still
And trust a d rest.
Desire not: selt-love is t-ong
Within thy breast:
And yet. He loves tliee better still.
So let Him do His loving will
And trust and rest.
What dtst thou fear? His wisdom resigns
Supreme confessed;
His power is infinite ; His love
Thy deepest, fondest dreams above
So trust and rest
1 4 TEXIS'S READf PISTOL.
Seven Hea Snot Dead Willi tn
One Month.
Texarkaxa, Tex., April 23.
It is very seldom that the killing
of one, two, or even three men
by an expert pistol practitioner
creates more than a passing com
ment in the land where the long
and short haul of the revolver is
so strikingly illustrated. But
when a man kills seven in a
month, and that man is the weal
thiest and most prominent man
in the county, then he attracts
attention. Such a man is Walter
Ridgely. On the 3rd of March
he killed two men, two weeks
later he killed two more, and last
Friday he completed the exter
mination of a family by killing
three more.
The Ridgely farm is situated
28 miles northwest of here on
the Red River, in Texas, just op
posite the Indian Territory. On
the 3rd of March Mr. Ridgely en
tered Rasseymey's store, at the
Red River ferry, and found two
brothers named Murphy quarrel
ling with a St. Louis drummer,
whose baggage they had appro
priated because he would not pay
them $5 for carrying him across
the river when the legal fee was
but 50 cents. Ridgely interfered,
telling them they ought to be
ashamed of trying to impose upon
a friendless stranger, and that if
they were really serious about
the matter they had better take
his advice as already given, or
they would run the risk of ans
wering to the Grand Jury. At
this both men sprang at Ridgely
and the latter who is a fine speci
men of physical manhood, knock
ed the foremost down. The oth
er halted and reached for his pis
tol, but Ridgely, who saw his in
tention, succeeded in getting his
revolver out first, and fired,
shooting his assailant through
the heart and dropping him dead
in his tracks. The other, Mur
phy, by this time had regained
his feet, and, seeing what had
happened, made a motion as if
to draw his pistol, when he, too,
was mortally wounded by Ridge
ly, and died the next day.
Ridgely immediately gave him
self up to the Sheriff, and upon
preliminary examination was dis
charged on the ground of self
defense. John Murphy, a broth
er of the men killed, and an Un
cle Thomas soon after came into
the neighborhood, and made loud
and repeated threats that they
would kill Ridgely at the first
opportunity. For two weeks
nothing occurred, but the two
Murphys, uncle and brother to
the deceased ferrymen, were fre
quently seen near the Ridgely
farm, heavily armed, and it was
plain that the matter would not
end without further bloodshed.
On March 22 Ridgely found it
necessary to go to a farm of a
neighbor's about two miles dis
tant. He left home about 3
o'clock P. M., but when he had
completed his business it was af
ter sundown and fast growing
dusk. He then mounted his horse
and started for home, riding a
medium gait. When a little more
than half way home, and while
passing through a strip of woods,
suddenly there sounded the re-
s ,i .a v: i? : ,j i
j gely, as the sequel proved, was
I himself unhurt, falling upon the
1 opposite side of his horse from
I that whence the firing occurred.
He did not move or make any
j noise, and the would-be assassins
evidently thinking that they had
killed him, left cover, and star
ted, presumably, to take a view
of the corpse. The corpse, how
ever, proved an exceedingly live
ly one, and when the two men,
who proved to be the two Mur- !
phys, were within eight or ten
m j. . a - - - i
oi it, ine corpse suaaeniy
sprang to its feet with a six
shooter in either hand and began
firing upon them. They were
taken so completely by surprise
that Ridgely thinks they made
no effort, nor even thought of,
returning his fire, and quicker
than it takes to tell it they had
both bitten the dust, and their
spirits departed for the happy
hunting grounds to join the two
ferrymen who had previously
"taken passage" at Ridgely 's
hands.
It was hoped by the people of
the community that this would
be the last of the unfortunate af
fair, and none so desired more
than Ridgely, who had always
expressed horror at the shedding
of human blood. But it was not
to be. Within the next week the
only two surviving brothers of
the two dead ferrymen and the
only remaining uncle had made
their appearance in the neigh
borhood, coming from their home
in the territory, and without
making any ''bones" about it,
proclaimed their intention to
either kill Ridgely or depart this
life by the same route taken by
their four kinsmen. -Ridgely kept
himself confined closely to his
own premises, not going off his
farm on any occasion, and it is
fair to presume that the Murphy
party, growing impatient and
worn out perhaps with the siege,
thought to execute iiieir purpose
by stratagem. With this object
in view, at 2 o'clock Friday morn
ing, they went to Ridgely's barn
and created a disturbance, well
knowing that his great care for his
horses would, in all probability,
cause him to come out in person
to ascertain what was wrong. The
ruse operated exactly as the Mur
phys intended it should act. Mr.
Ridgely was aroused from his
slumbers by the noise in the stable
yard and did just as any other
sensible farmer would do under
like circumstances. He got into
his boots and trowsers as quick
as possible, and taking a pair of
revolvers, the same 44calibre
weapons which he had used on
previous occasions, and which,
obeying the dictates of common
sense, he had kept within con
venient reach ever since his trou
ble with the Murphys began, he
started for the barn. He passed
the door of a room in which a
couple of his hired men were
sleeping, and scarcely had he
taken 10 steps in the yard when
he was fired upon from ambush.
He was shot through the body
and fell, but got up again, and,
returning the fire with both re
volvers, dropped two of his as
sailants dead, and the other ran
about a hundred yards, when he
was captured by a hired man and
taken into the house. He died
in an hour.
Ridgely was shot in three pla
ces, and is now confined to bed,
but his physicians think he will
recover. He is 34 years old, and
formerly a scout with Custer's
cavalry. He was promoted to be
a Colonel, married well, and is
now worth $200,000. John HL
Ridgely, the father of Walter
came from Toms River, N. J., and
Walter was educated ot Princeton
College, from which he was grad
uated early in the '70's.
Times.
N. TA
BRIDGET KNEW THEM
WELL.
Omaha Dame Bridget,
ladies are coming in the
and I wish vou would tell
I am not at home.
Bridget They stopped at the
gate a minute, mum, an ther
change their moinds an' went on
down strhate.
"The idea of that Mrs. Stuckup
and Mrs. De Pride concluding U
postpone their call I Perhaps'
they were afraid of the dog,
Bridget ?"
"The dog's tied, mum. J
guess they saw yez at the windy
mum." Omaha World.
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HE SAYS CLEVELAND ROB
BED HIM OF SIX HUN
DRED DOLLARS,
SO
HE GOBS TO THE GOVERNOR TO
COLLECT THE JtOXEY AND
TELL HIS STORY.
Mr. Waller, the Governor's
retary, was sitting in his office
yesterday morning between 9 and
10 o'clock, when a man came to
the door and asked if Governor
Lee was in. The Governor had
j .
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yet come, and Mr. Waller
told the visitor so. Well, he
would wait, he said. He came
on important business. With
that he sat down demurely, and
for about half an hour did not
say a word or show the slightest
interest in his surroundings.
During this time Mr. Waller
was given a chance to look at
his guest. The man was certain
ly a German ; that his speech
disclosed. He wore his hair stand
ing straight all over his head, his
eyes had a wild expression, and
Mr. Waller finally concluded not
to give him an audience before
his Excellency without finding
out his mission. So he asked
him:
"What do you want to see the
Governor about ?"
"I want to get $600 from him
that the President stole from me
when I went to see him, and I
reckon he has sent it to the Gov
ernor." "The President stole irom
you!" repeated Mr. Waller. "Why
where did you get $600 ?"
"Prince Bismarck gave it to
me before I came over here. I
telegraphed to the President and
assure you he stole it."
He hauled out of his pocket a
little piece of sheet-iron and an
article which resembled a spoon.
Placing the iron on his lap he
rubbed it vigorously with the
spoon for awhile.
"What are you doing ?" asked
Mr. Waller.
"I'm telegraphing to Cleve
land." "Well, what does he say ?"
"He says 'it's so.' He stole
it."
"Can you telegraph to Bismark
about it ?"
"Oh, yes," and rub, rub, rub,
went the spoon.
"What does he say ?"
"He says I came over here with
$600, and he reckons the Presi
dent has stolen it."
"How do you get the electric
ity off when you telegraph that
way?" asked the Governor's sec
retary. "Oh, it runs right down my leg
and goes right out," waving his
arm toward the window.
Mr. Waller by this time had
been sufficiently edified, and so
said, "My friend, don't you know
you are crasy ?"
"Oh, no ; Vm not."
"Where did you come from?"
"Dayton, O."
"Have you any friends out
there T
"Oh, yes."
"Well, suppose you telegraph
out there and ask them what we
had better do with you."
Rub, rub, rub, went the spoon.
"What do they say ?" asked Mr.
Waller, after a pause.
"They say I had better come
home at once."
"I think so, too," said Mr. Wal
ler, and the fellow left. Rich
mond Dispatch.
GOCKRELL AMD EATON.
New York Star, Ad. Organ.J
While Mr. Dornian B. Eaton
wanders about the country
preaching the beauty of civil
service reform as wrought by
the evolution of his system, Sen
ator Cockrell is hard at work
endeavoring to ascertain the
cause of and provide a remedy
for the laziness, incompetency,
favoritism and stupidity which
still seem to find refuge in many
of the public offices at Washing
ton. It is an interesting coinci
dence, also, that whereas Mr.
Eaton's last lecture was deliv
ered to an audience of thirty
three old women in mourning
who seemed to regard the occa
sion as funeral, Senator Cockrell's
work is eagerly watched by
thousands of alert and right
minded poHticians, who rest
upon its outcome the liveliest
and most patriotic hope.
Farnbam, Va., was com
pletely destroyed by fire.
TWO IOl 5IEXVS NEEDLD.
Pickett's Division have deter
mined to erect a monument "to
mark the point where they made
the most gallant charge of any
Confederate command during the
war." Such is the announce
ment as telegraphed from Rich
mond. It is to be of Virginia
granite. It will be placed at the
point where Pickett is supposed
to have pierced the Federal line.
It will have four sides and four
inscriptions. Here is one :
VALOR.
The brigades of Garnett and Armsle.id, of
Pickett' diyision, pierced the Federal lines
and reached this point on their charge of July
3, 180 . Number engaged, 4,700. Losses,
3,o',3. "Charging an army while all the
world wondered,"
We should cause to be erect
ed a monument of North Caro
lina marble or granite at the
point, as indicated in Batchel
der's map of the Battlefield of
Gettysburg, where the ambulance
corps of the Federals found dead
North Carolinians farthest in
farther in than the dead of any
other command. In addition,
the surviving members of Heth's
Division, of Scales's and Lanes's
brigades, commanded by Gen.
Trimble, of Maryland, should
have a meeting and determine
upon a monument to be erected
on the battlefield to tell exactly
the truth of that great fight on
the third day, and to show that
they displayed valor and made
sacrifices equal to those of Pick
ett's men. This ' ought to be
done to vindicate the truth of
history and to do justice to the
memory of the gallant men who
fought at Gettysburg. Govenor !
Scales and General Lane might
unite in working up this matter
to a successful issue. Wilming- i
ton Star. I
THE SOURCE OF THE MISSIS
SIPPI. Wilmington Sta.
African travellers have been
trying to find the source of the
Nile. Burton, Livingstone, Ba
ker, Speke and others spent much
of their life in the wilds of Af
rica, and Baker thought he had
found the true source. But, we
believe, to Captain Speke be
longs the honor of settling the
question. The Nile is a great
and important river for the Af
rican continent, but it is not
half so important as the Amazon
is for South America and the
Mississippi is for North Amer
ica. The Amazon is 4,000 miles
long, and the Mississippi is
claimed now to be 4,200 miles.
To get this length you must
start in the Rocky Mountains
and go to the Gulf of Mexico.
But this is to count the Mis
souri river as a part of the Mis
sissippi. The true source of the
Mississippi is in Minnesota.
Tliis makes that famous river
some 3,200 miles in length.
The Baltimore Sun says of the
true source of the Mississippi
river :
"Lake Itasca, in Northern Minnesota,
discovered by Schoolcraft in 18o2, was
thought by its discoverer to be the ftnin
tain-head of the Mississippi, and has been
so represented in current maps and school
books. But since 1881 a different view
has gained adherents. In the manner of
the year named, Capt. Willard Glazier,
with three companions, explored the region
about Lake Itasca, and found some miles
toward the south another lake which
feeds Lake Itasca, and is better entitled, it
is claimed, to be considered the source of
the Mississippi. The newly discovered
lake, known to the Indians as Pokegama,
but named Lake Glazier by the Captain's
companions, is about a mile and a half in
diameter. It is lad by three small creeks
of from one to three miles in length, and
has a height above the sea of 1,582 feet.
Irs lititude is about 47. The distance to
the Gull of Mexico, foil wing the wind
ings of the Mississippi, is 3,184 uiWen
Lake Glazier is wider and deeper than the
Itasca, and is described as a beautiful sheet
of water with wooded shores."
HIS FEEEI VJS HAH CHAX
GED. First Gentleman (entering the
apartment of socond gentleman)
About a year ago you challeng
ed me to fight a duel.
Second Gentleman (sternly)
I did sir.
First G. And I told you that
I had just been married, and I
did not care to risk my life at
any such hazard '?"
Second G. (haughtily) I re
member, sir.
First G. (bitterly) Well, my
feelings have undergone a change.
Any time you want to fight let
me know. Bon jour. Paris Fiya
ro.
STATE XEtt-S.
Washington has an ice man
ufactory. General Charles Roone, most
worshipful grand master of the
Grand Encampment of Masons of
the United States, is at Asheville.
Mr. John B. Lewis has es
tablished the Phoen ix as a week
ly paper at Rocky Mount. It
"rises from the ashes" of the Tar
liiver Talker
Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems,
pastor of the Church of the
Strangers, New York city, is vis
iting old friends in Wayne conn
tjr. The East Carolina Land and
Railway Company has been duly
organized. Mr. C. E. Foy is pres
ident. The directors are promi
nent men of Craven and Onslow
sections.
Mr. T. C. Bassett, of Rocky
Mount, chief painter of the W.
t W. Railroad, about 30 years
of age, died Monday in that town
from an overdose of Morphine.
Southerner.
There was a primary meet
ing of prohibitionists at the court
house last Friday night at which
matters and measures for the
coming local option campaign
were discussed. Age
The Governor has refused to
pardon W. IL Harrington, of
Pitt county, who was convicted of
assault and batterw in that coun
ty at spring term of court, 1SS7,
and sentenced to four months in
jail.
One of the most discoura
ging signs of the times with most
towns in Western Norh Caroli
na, is the fact that instead of sell
ing corn, wheat, etc., to others
as in days gone by, the bread con
sumed is principally imported
from abroad. Hickory Carolin
ian. A fire is raging in the pine
forests around Manly, on the R.
A A. A. I j. railroad. Fences are
being burned, trees killed, tur
pentine forests destroyed and
several turpentine stills with a
quantity have been burned. The
section is in a dense cloud of
smoke.- News cud Observer,
Rev. Frank L. Reid, a direc
tor of the penitentiary, is a great
believer in the "kind" treatment
of convicts. He says it works
well, and says that the percen
tage of persons who are serving
second terms is less in the peni
tentiary in this State than in the
one at Albany, N. Y., where the
treatment is notoriously harsh.
Rather a curious case begins
this week at Moore court. 1 1 is
a suit for alleghd slander, in which
a white man named Baxter G; in
ter is the plaintiff and the News
and Observer, of Raleigh, the
defendant. The matter grows
out of a publication in regard to
Gunter and the famous, or infa
mous, murder of the Gunter
family in Chatham county s me
years ago.
Perhaps the oldest per-on
living in this county is Tom Bul
lock, colored, who at the age of
106 years is still hale and hearty
at his home near Amis' mill. An
other very old person is Mrs.
Sallie Newman who lives with
Mr. W. C. Ellington, a relation
of hers, on the road betwen
Enterprise and Ridgeway, just
across the line in Warren county.
She is 103 years old. Henderson
Gold Leaf.
Seven convicts made their
escape from the squad at work
on the grading of the Cameron
and Carthage railroad Tuesday
of last week. The convicts are
kept in a stockade, located about
two miles from Cameron, and the
escape was affected by cutting
through the floor of one of the
buildings and making their way
over the stockade in the darkness
while the guards were watching
the doors and windows. New
and Observer.
A cyclone passed through a
portion of Middle Creek Town
ship about noon yesterday, two
miles east of Altord's mills It
seemed to cover a space of about
200 yards in width and moved
from West to East. At Mr. T. A.
Council's farm large trees were
snapped assunder like pipe stems,
and at Mr. H. H. Carroll's farm,
stables and other buildings were
blown down. By the time the
wind reached Mr. John B. Strain's
residence, three miles from Mr.
Carroll's, it had about abated.
! Raleigh Visitor, April 19.