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SMITH FIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, MAY 14, 1887.
NUMBER 4
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IF YOU WANT TO SAVE
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faints. Oil. School Books. Fancy Goods,
Cigars, Tobacco. Snuff. Confectioneries,
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Heavy and fancy groceries, hardware, tin ware, crockery, Ac,
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fords bread preparation, aU grades chewing and smoking
tobaccos, Rail Road Mills. Gail and Ax, Ralph's and
Egerton snuffs, at wholesale or retail.
Novels, Hatchets, Hames, Traces, Backhands, Hooks, Single Trees,
1 tton Mope and a thousand other things the fanner is bound
to have.
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HEDMONT GUANO, for Tobacco.
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U a, i : ' WOOD OI 12.
(Reported W in Regain Can pu J jai )
One of the rurious things that
may be seen in this section is a
stately biped of the gander per
suasion, leading forth a numer
ous flock of young gabblers to the
nearest pond.
There is still some of the milk
of human kindness left in man,
for one young farmer near here
has built a fence round a small
tract of land which is so sterile
and worthless that cattle would
starve to death if allowed to pas
ture on the land ; so, it is sup
posed that the farmer in ques
tion had pity on the brute crea
tioil and made provision for their
protection.
The melancholy days have
come for the young men here
abouts ; for school is out, and no
more may meet those mutual
eyes who can guess if ever again
all shall meet ; sad. sad thought !
hov it presses the life from out
young hearts and wrings the ten
derest affection ! But "don't take
on about it, Aggy," you may
meet again and be happy, oh, so
happy ! "So mote it be!"
One gentleman, in our section,
was so much pressed for time
during the closing days of our
school that he did not even have
an opportunity to disrobe when
he slept he failed to tell wheth
er he iuet with the same fate as
old "Leather Breeches with but
tons on," who was so summarily
kicked" out of bed for wearing
his pants when sleeping with his
"better half."
An immense crowd attended
the closing exercises of Glenwood
school. The .States of Virginia,
Florida, Maryland, and Xew
Y'ork were represented. Every
body went away well pleased
with the community and school.
The evening exercises were quite
interesting, and all the young
people did well in their respect
ive parts. Miss Carver's music
pupils showed much proficiency
in the pieces rendered, and re
flected credit upon the excellent
training- winch they have re
ceived. ,
Rev. F. U. tnderwood, of Ya.;
is visiting relatives and friends
in this section. His genial and
courtly beaTing makes him a
friend to all who have not before-
known him.
A large number of friends from
Smith field "attended the closing
exercises of our school, and we
noticed some very pretty young
ladies and some handsome young
men.
a very considerable amount
of "spooking" was done here
abouts last week, especially dur
ing the late, hours of Wednesday
night. But we" must tell you
what is meant by "spooking,"
for we see (in our mind) that we
have raised the curiosity of
some. Well, my friends, it is
this way :
Two vt i.u j:.i'.-;,U'. ;i yoiuh :irnl ui:iilen.
"Two Minds with l'it : single thought,
Two lio.itt thai Wat :ts om"
any age you please "sweet six
teen" or coy forty will do to il
lustrate: for they all loye it
meander out into the lonesome
moonlight world, , and, having
found a vacant buggy sit very
close together - ( to keep off any
feeling of loneliness, we suppose),
and whisper all' sorts of rubbish.
Sometimes the young (or old
they all complain.) lady com
plains that he forgot to bring
anything to put around her, and
would you believe it? the ob
tuse mind of her "spook" jumps
to the proper conclusion, and he
proceeds to put "something
around her" to protect her from
the chilly night air as if there
were any heat in the arm of a
"sipider legged dude!" And so
goes
T"o spook or not to spook
Twit's t lie 'jiiesiion :
whether 'tis nobler in the mind
to take it as "our daddies" did,
in the good old-fashioned way,
or, a la dude, go "spooking" in
by the light of the pale, pale
moon. There are some advant
ages and some disadvantages
either way "spooks" have quite
a good deal of walking in their
experience, and, in hot weather,
this is an objectionable feature
to be sure, but the thought of
something better makes the dude
forget the trouble and discom
fort of the present, and he strings
himself out along the lone road,
rushing at times, till he reaches
his destination.
Hon. S. M. Finger gave us a
fine educational address. He is
a man that reaches the bottom
of a subject, and pours a flood
of light upon the dark places of
a controversy. Maj. Finger is
one of the most progressive
thinkers of our State ; he knows
the need of our educationl sys
tem ; he sues the means to meet
the requirements of the case, and
he is just the man to make our
public school system an efficient
power in educating our people.
Messrs. D. R. Kennedy and J.
F. Grantham, two students of
Glenwood school, will remain
in the community during vaca
tion and follow a systematic
course of reading and study till
the fall session opens. An ex
cellent example.
An able sermon was preached
last Sunday morning at the Acad
emy building by Rev. F. R.
Underwood, of Va., from the
text, "If I be lifted up, I will
draw all men unto me."
Mr. and Mr. G. W. Lawrence,
of Fayetteville, spent several
days at Glenwood last week.
Mr. Ernie LTnderwood, who lias
been travelling for some months
in Florida, has returned home.
Let us congratulate you, Dr.
(Aside it is the fine boy, the
image of its father1, in minature,
though! ) E.
Dt?lS: COLLEGE SEMl-
KVTKXM 4 E CELEBRATION.
Mr. Editor: This year David
son College celebrates her semi
centennial. The coming com
mencement will be the occasion
of much rejoicing among David
son's Alumni. Davidson has rep
resentatives in almost every State
in the Union, and this year t here
will be a general reunion of all
her sons. Men from the North,
South, East and West will assemb
le in the halls of their Alma Mat r
and renew old friendships anl
talk over old pleasures. Oon1
mencement extends "over is t
days June 15th and 16th. The
commencement exercises will be
different from what they usually
are, in that there will be no or
ator chosen by the Literary So
ciety, but in his place Wednes
day of commencement will be
taken up with the speechs by
some of Davidson's most distin
guished sons. On Sunday morn
in.iT before the commencement
the Baccalaureate Sermon be
preached by Dr. Miller, of Char
lotte, and on Sunday night the
Missionary Sermon before the
Young Men's Christian Associa
tion will be preached by Rev.
Y. T. Hall, D. D., of Lynchburg,
Ya. No effort will be spared by
the citizens of our village for the
entertainment of strangers. Pro
vision is being made for the en
enrtainment of a larger number
of visitors than usual. Every
one is cordially invited to attend
the celebration of Davidson's Fif
tieth Anniversary. J.
PENXY ITEMS.
The farmers of this vicinity
are planting.
Mr. J. Milton lianks has re
turned to Raleigh employed by
Mr. J. Cr Edwards, one of our
most honorable merchants.
Miss Winnie B. Whitaker, one
Wake's most charming young
ladys, is visiting Penny, guests
of Miss Sudie and Eaura Penny.
Mrs. W. R. Eong is visiting
friends and relatives at Wilson.
The closing exercises of the
school taught by Mr. Henderson
Cole at Penny's Academy took
place Friday, April 29th. It was
quite a windy day, but there was
a good little crowd to see and
hear the little students as they
came forward with almost un
sxeakable bravery, and did cred
it to themselves and honor to
their teacher. Exercises began
at 8 o'clock p. m., with an inter
esting programme which we
omit for want of space. Music
very grand indeed. Mr. Cole,
the honorable teacher, delivered
an elegant address which was
enjoyed by all that heard it.
Next Mr. Willis (his brother) with
an educational address that
aroused the old farmers to a full
sense of duty in regard to a mod
ern education. School was then
dismissed in a tender manner;
and oh! for the shouts from the
little ones. "The best part is
to come yet," but if I had any
thing to say I would call it the
sticky part. All with hurried
; footsteps made for the dining
room, where we found several
I dishes of sugar candy wait-
ing for the hands of the gay.
I The young people pretty soon
was engaged in working it, which
! was grand, but as I remarked
' bef re a "sticky time."
j VlRRIF.T..
HOW TICK V CARE FOR THEIR
WIVES.
Somebody has made a mistake
in declaring that the men of
Brazil are cruel to their wives,
for it now seems that they take
excellent care of them. If a man
has occasion to leave home, he
locks up his house and puts his
wife in a convent until he re
turns. Washington Post.
RUSE FLOWERS.
Raise flowers ; if only a pot of
Mignonette in the window, well
atte led, it will prove a comfort
in lonely hours a solace in sad
ones a source of interest always.
Flowers by their sublime
witchery, call one away from
earth and its cares, their fragrance
seems the very breath of the
angels, and their- growth speaks
of God. The care of them is
alike a physical, a mental and a
spiritual benefit a ye, even
means of grace, and so, I say
again, cultivate flowers. Vic&'s
Magazine for May.
Nemesis did come, and its fear
ful work at last was done. And so,
we announce that, that brute in
human form, who followed tha
prompting of his beastly pas
sions and fiendish nature, and
seized that tender, young, and
pure little maiden, while on her
way from school two weeks ago
near Tarboro, and tried to dese
crate the precious sancitity of
her hallowed person, has paid
the penalty for that awful, terri
ble, shocking and revolting deed,
and his soul is now at the Bar of
the Eternal Judge.
On Saturday night a large body
of armed men seized an enfine
on the W. A W. Railroad at Rocky
Mount, and forced the frightened
engineer to take them to Wil
liamston, to which point the
negro had been removed for safe
keeping. The jail was entered,
the prisoner was seized and
brought back near the scene of
the atrocious deed, .and there,
under the mellow and placid and
tranquil beamings of the lovliest
and st eetest and the mellowest
moonlight nigh t whose chastened
streams of stainless lustre were
so eloquetly and strikingly typi
cal of maidenly chastity, and
in vindication of which a terrible
scene of retribution must needs
be enacted amid all the awful
pathos and sombre drapery of
the fiercest human tragedy, the
body of the fiendish negro was
hung up between earth and sky,
and another righteous verdict
was entered in the record of Judge
Eynch, and from whose awful
and terrible arbitrament there is
no earthly appeal. Wilson Mir
ror. CLEVELAND AN1 THE AD
MINISTRATION. If the President has made up
his mi nd not to continue in pub
lic life after his present term ex
pires he has had a splendid op
portunity to say so. He has held
his peace, and it is fair to con
clude, therefore, that the stories
published a week or so ago of
his determination to be satisfied
with one term had a very slen
der, if any, foundation. In all
parts of the country there are ex
pressions of satisfaction with his
adminis tration.-a van n ah News
Dem.
Kentucky has fired the first gun
for Cleveland for the campaign of
j 1888. It was loaded by Beck,
j Carlisle, Blackburn, Watterson
i and others, and went off with a
j boom that shook the whole con
j yention. These gentleman rep
! resent and can speak for one
wing of the Democratic party.
Richmond Whig, Protection.
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Typhoid", Scarlet and Yellow
Fever, Meases, Diphtheria,
Small-pox, Cholera etc.
Darby l'ropholactic Fluid will destroy
j lie infection oi all fevers and all contagious
I and infectious diseases. Yril! keep the at
mosphere of any sick-room pure and
wholesome, abeording and destroying un
healthy effluvia and contagion. Will
1 neutralize any bad smell whatever, not by
disguising it, but by destroying it. Use
Darbys Prophylactic Fluid in every sick-
! room.
THE RED FLAG.
In a Meeting of Irishmen at
Chicago.
HUSTLED OUT AND REJOICING DC
THE TITLE OF DYNAMITE.
Chicago, III., May 10. There
was a sensational incident at the
D hall last night. A few minutes
before 9 o'clock a man was seen
pushing his way toward the plat
form. He was busily engaged
in distributing flaming red cir
culars. The word went round
that the man was an intruder
and one of the committee of
arrangements was sent to know
his business there and how he
came to be disturbing the meet
ing. One glance at the circular
settled it, and the peddler of the
red paper was incontinently hus-
tied toward the door. He resis
ted and fought with the tenacity
and courage of a bull dog. Two I
or three stalwart policemen were
called to the scene and the intru
der was dragged outside of the '
building. His pockets were stuff -
ea wub circulars, aim as me om-
cers snook Jinn into submission
a shower of red hand bills fell
from every fold in his clothes.
These circulars red as follows :
"By Irishmen Ireland will be
freed. Xo Home Rule. Total
separation ; nothing else. Dyna
mite an indigestible pill for John
Bull. United resolutions. L C. Y"
No one knew what the last three
letters represented and the dyna
miter was asked to explain. He
Avould not offer any explanation
and the patrol took him to the
armory. To a reporter he said
his name was Wm. E. Fitzpatrick
and that lie was a painter by trade.
"Yes, I,m a dynamiter," said he,
"and I've been a Fenian all my
1ifV T T-tl"fi7f in frmftnitA MS t.hft
v., " -, -aitnougn in localities tnatJiave
only power for Ireland. OhlL. . .w-Jg-
won't England rejoice when it
reaches that country that an
Irishman was locked up in Chica
go for preaching dynamite !"
W. E. Fitzparick, the man who
was arresieu ma auuu
dynamite circulars at the anti -
coercion mass-meeting last night,
was arrainged in a police court
this morning. The court fixed
his fine at 5, which was after
wards suspended, it being repre-
sented tnat the prisoner
unsteady intellect.
was of
1IIE tIOEX'5 SOI.4CK.
Itri'f Chapter of Inlei eating;
Facts Concerning Spruce
Bangor, May 5. The season's
logging operations on the Penob
scot are over now ; and ax swin
gers are out of the woods and the
bar-rooms of Bangor have reaped
their usual harvest, while the
supply of spruce gum is liberally
replenished, and every school
girl in town can chew to her
heart's content.
A lump of clear, genuine spruce
gum fresh and fragrant from its
native forest, is not to be despis
ed as a chewing substance, and
if everybody could get the real
article, instead of cheap, adulter
ated stuff, the army of chewers
would be vastly augmented. The
natural gum is said by physi
cians to be beneficial to the teeth, ! In considering Mr. Jefferson
and it is certainly a great im- ! Davis's criticism upon Lord Wol
provement on tobacco. The seley's eulogy of General Robert
woodsman bring out considerable j E. Lee many allowances should
quantities of gum, sometimes be made. The two men natural
packed in pretty minature bar- ; ly view the career of the great
rels, which they whittle and carve j Southern General from different
fiwm 11 ks of white nine or ce- i standpoints. Mr. Davis, as the
dar during the idle hours by the
camp fire, as presents for their
friends, but there are people who
make a business of gathering gum
and in certain sections of the
spruce country it pays well.
Most of the spruce gum han
dled by the dealers comes from
Canada and Northern Maine,
while Vermont and Xew Hap
shire contribute a modern quan
tity to the total yield. The best
gum comes from no particular
sections, but always from the
biggest spruce trees, and it be-
gins to run in July or August,
when, in these high latitudes,
the sun becomes so hot as to crack
the bark. On the limbs, in the
crotches, and even in the trunk
of the spruce, the molten gum
forms during the heat of summer
in all sorts of fantastic shapes,
j v
and when cold weather sets in
it becomes hard. The first year
after its run the gum is white
and pitchy, then it begins to turn
amber and red, and the second
year it is fit to "pick" for the
market, although it is better if
allowed to remain on the trees
until the third year. After the
third season the gum remains in
the same state for several years,
and then begins to "turn old," as
the pickers say, and the consum
er complains that it"chewshard,"
; ano crumbles up
little more
age makes it dark-colored and
bitter, and then its value is gone.
Up in'Canada much of the gum
is picked in autumn, beginning
as early as October, but there, as
in Maine, the best time for the
work is during the deep snows of
winter when snowshoesare used,
or in the early spring, when a
man can travel along at a lively
rate on the heavy crust above the
underbrush. The pickers are pro
vided with long poles, on the end
i of which is fastened a sham rhis
; el and underneath that a cup to
receive the gum as it is chipped
oft. lhe cup holds from a pint
to a quart, and when full.it is
emptied into a long bag which
the packer carries slung to his
back like a knapsack. These
j harvesters erects huts in the
wooas when far distant from
a
j settlement or a logging camp
and stay from two days to a week
on the trip. When they have
j secured as much as they can"tote"
i they come out, and then the wo-
men and children have the tedi
l ous job of scrap in e each and
every lump free from bark and
moss. The clean, bright article
offered for sale in the shops looks
very much different from the
brown nuggets in the picker's
bag, although occasionally a clear
j shiny piece is found on the lump
of a large tree. " -
It is the cleaning of the giti
that makes a first-class article
expensive. An ordinary picker
usually earns fair day's wj
, ... . . . ....
"strikes it rich." I have known
a man to gather $"30 worth of gum
in one day.
There are two or three firms
in Maiue which buy large quan-
j titles of gum from lumbermen
- fl s k -
refining it, as they say. But, as
a general rule, the refining con-
i sists of adulteration with rosin.
i
They throw the gum into a big
vat, bark, moss and all, and boil
i it to about the consistency of
molasses, skimming off the im
; purities as they rise to the sur
i face. Then, if the purpose be
' to adulterate, some lard or grease
i and a lot of rosin is thrown in,
1 with sometimes a little sugar.
; The mixture is stirred until thick
; and then poured out on a slab,
where, while it is yet hot, it is
rolled out in a sheet about a
: quarter of an inch thick, and af
terward cut with a steel die into
i pieces half an inch wide and
: three-quarters of an inch long.
These pieces are wrapped in col
; ored tissue paper and packed in
I wooden boxes two hundred
' pieces to a box. This is a so
i called "patent" gum. Tons of it
! are sold south and west of us,
but here on the verge of the pri
meval forest it is a drug in the
market. New York Sun.
DAVIS t.B WOESEEEY.
Chief Executive under whom
Lee served, became familiar with
many details of administration
which were not open to the in
vestigation of the distinguished
English reviewer. Lord Wolse
ley wrote with the pen of a
military critic and student,
strongly predisposed by an affec
tionate regard for the subject of
his sketch. We do not believe
that anything that can now be
said will alter General Lee's
standing among the soldiers of
j the world, and it does not seem
i to us that the facts recalled by
j Mr. Davis are irreconcilable with
j the general conclusions of the
j English critic. Neither ate we
j disposed to accept the theory
I that the victor of Ashantee and
j Egypt is ignorant of the war.
I New York Star, Dem.
Base Balls ! Base Balls, from 5c
up
to 1.50 each at B. It
I J ood's Drug Store.
Base Ball Bat, all
Hood's Drug Store.
prices.
At B. R