North Carolina Newspapers

I MITHFIELD HERALD HE 'CAROLINA CAROLINA. HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER.' , 1 MM , VOLUME 5. NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. choice items taken from our ! What a remarkable man is Jef kxchanoes axd bo i leo dowx ferson Davis, He has lived to fob the hkbai.d headeiw. j witness the deat h, of nearly all of his conte mporaries under the The State Episcopal Conven- j tion will nieet.next year in Salis- ; bury. The Raleigh street railway is to be extended, so we see in an exchange. The State Guard numbers 1,200 members all told, and is a fine body of citizen soldiery. A biddenite gem has been found in Alexander county that, whan cut. will be worth 1600. , . ... A. upon him. His last speech to Charlotte is rejoicm over the the Southern boys was to the ef prospect of a female doctor. Her . fwi tJm4 w now in the name is Annie rowrie MMMtter. Union, and the nxt time it is The contractor for building j broken the aUompt must be th street railway in Wilmington ' made from another quarter. A will begin work in about a week, sentiment which has been crys Tlio Star savs About 7.000 pie witnessed the drill and en-' anf an? mf appear, fampment in Wilmington on the 5 rrUg' 0, i. :af st friends of ihe A merican Union ; 'Ml IIID1N Capt. M. O. Hawkins and a small squad of hands began work on the Taylorsville Railroad on (he 19th inst. The law prohibiting the sale of cigars, soda-water, tobaccos, etc., on Sunday in Durham, is being enforced. The Gold Leaf proposes that i other day, I inquired for the pro the farmers of Vance county ; prietor. A boy about eleven hold a cattle show after their j years old was pointed out to me. crops are laid by. j But i want to see the proptie- The Washington Progress lias j tor," I said. "I am the proprie been enlarged to an eight column ' tor of this store what can I on naner. and is nublished under ! for you?" exclaimed the lad. new management. Now that the enterprise has assumed a solid foundation, Greensboro will also have street ears. The city is on a general boom. Senator Vance's youngest son, Thomas, will soon leave this State for Seattle, Washington Territory, where he intends to reside. Workmen are busily engaged j on the new reservoir at Salem ; it will be connected with the old reservoir and have a capacity of 6,000 gallons. George W. Cable, a Northerner who has written many bitter ar tides about the South and gross ly misrepresented it, is now in this j State lecturing. : Nimrod was a mighty hunter. While hunting crows at his ; H e was probably that way from home near Gold Rock, Mr. W. R. a boy, always hunting He ran Mann's gun exploded, without j away from school to hunt wood , .. Z- ' IT chucks. Put him at work in the hurting him however. He afte- ' T" -, , , wards picked up twenty-two fleld' and' nnless he was nieces of the sxin watched, he would hunt a cool, pieces of the gun. ghady place an(11 ie down When We see in the Enquirer & Ex- he grew up he hunted a wife, we press that a gentleman has said j supposed, and every spring he that if the new railroad taps the j had Hie usual experience in house Carolina Central at Monroe, he hunting. And there has been a will erect a cotton compress there i mighty sight of mighty hunters if it costs $50,000. in that direction ever since Nim- Mr. H. W. Kronheimer has rod's day. withdrawn from the editorial We hear nothing about Mrs. management of the Oxford Torch- Ximrod, but we will bet any thing light and will engage in a more ' er life was not a happy one. W hen paying business. He has labored ! there was house cleaning to do hard for the upbuilding of that Nimrod would shoulder his gun thrifty town j and start off to hunt squirrels. " , , . ; And some day, after she had Sixty thousand dollars worth ; done a bir washing, he would or machinery is now on the ! come home at eleven or twelve ground for the smelting works ! oViock at njg&t and insist upon building at Thomasville by a . her getting up a game dinner for Northern company. The works himself and a lot of brother will cover the largest part of ; Sp0rtsmen that he had brought ten acres. with him, all of. them more or It is now claimed that Walter ! less under the influence of Bingham is in Paris; he is re- . "budge." How tired she must ported as having been seen there have ot too of hearing Nim by persons who knew him in ' rod's big stories About the hunts this State, and who refuse to he had been engaged m. Poor have him arrested on account of , Mrs. Nimrod. Texas Sif tings, respeet for his relatives. j ' Z "T r inding f 'ha roan. Messrs. Strause & Raab, of " ' Hichmond, Va., have bought a! In the May Century are two lot in Henderson, and will soon profusely illustrated articles un build a four story brick tobacco der the above caption describing factory thereon. It will be 40 x the discovery of Pharaoh's tomb 1 25 feet, and will be constructed and picturing its contents. From with an eye to convenience. 1 the first article by Mr. Wilson, , , ' the photographer, we quote this A tremendous rain and hail . . - tl , . storm fell in Asheville on the 20th inst. The Citizen office was so badly damaged that it was impossible for the paper to be issued next day. Ths store oc- cupied by Baird & 2 damaged about $500 worth by it. Two young men, named John Norwood and F. W. Strum, had a difficulty about some cows, near Townsville, Vance Co., Sunday before last, which resulted in the difficulty being settled by Norwood's shooting Strum in the abdomen, from which he died in a few hours. RvnarkR'Me Mass. old government, Mid has seen a J large majority of his traducera he lives on and not only does not lag superfluous on the stage, but retained to a wonderful de gree the brillian t and vigorous intellect that hats characterized his remarkable career. When ever a proper occasion offers he is heard from, anI when he has put in Ills blow he retires grace fully until arto4fcr call is made tal i zed in the southern heart, j to-day are to be 'found found in the Southern States. Register. A You tli flii I Merchant. Some odd facts are occasional ly developed beneath a most commonplace surface. Happen ing in a large hat store and cap establishment vr hole sale the And, sure enough, investigation proved that he was the actual owner of the establishment, and nominally the head of the firm. His father owned the store, but haying other business as well, and not wishing to carry them both in his own name, presented the hat and cap establishment to his eleven year old son, and placed the boy in charge. Of course, the father still exercise general control, but the legal head of the firni siner of check, keeper of the combination of the safe and man of authority is the son undoubtedly the youngest wholesale merchant in Chicago. chinsum Herald. ! r. Klin rod. tomb was located : "In a line of tombs be., ond the Ramesseum lived four sturdy Arabs named Abd-er-Rasoul. They supplied ho de8ired to visit the ruins of TheheSf and sold them genuine and spurious antiquities. When they found a mummy, it being forbidden by law to sell it, the head and hands and feet were wrenched off and sold on the sly, while the torso was kicked about the ruined temples until the jackals cams and carried it i away. I purchased a head and SMITHFIELD, JOHNSTON hand of one of the brothers amid I the dark shadows of the temple at Qnrneh. Earlv in 1881 cir- 1 cnmstaritial evidence pointed .to Ahmed Abd-er-Rasoul as the one who knew more than he would tell. Professor Masoero caused his arrest, and he lay in prison ! at Keneh for some months. He ties lnto the h raser and pass over, j most important part of the year, also suffered the bastinado and j as if on a' living pontoon bridge, j so js the youth the most impor ts browbeating of the women I to tRe opposite bank. The fish tant period of life. Surely, God repeatedly ; he resissted bribes, had heen driven in the stream by has a claim to our first and prin and showed no melting mood tne back-water of the Fraser and cipal attention, and religion de- when threatened with execution. I His lips told no more than the I unfoundtomb and not as much. Finally his brother Mohammed regarded the offer of 'bakshish,' which Professor Maspero deemed wise u mane, as worm more 10 aim man any sum ne might ted a large number of commu hope to realize from future pii- j nications from Presbyteries on I laging, and make a clean breast : of the whole affair. Wow the : four brothers ever discovered the i hidden tomb has remained a 'family secret.' On July the 5th, 1881, the wily Arab eoniducted Herr Emil Brugsch Bey, curator of the Bulaq Museum, to Deir- I on the ground that the difficulty er-Bahari and pointed out the would be with the colored ele-hiding-place so long looked for. ment. They felt that it would A long climb it was, up the slope be dangerous to mingle with the of the western mountain, till, colored children in the schools after scaling a great lime-stone i and churches. cliff, a huge, isolated rock was found. Behind this a spot was reached where the stones appear ed to an expert observer and tomb-searcher to have been ar- ; ranged 'by hand,' rather than ! scattered by some upheaval of nature. 'There,' said he sullen guide ; and 'there' the enterpri- ; sing Emil Brugsch Bey, with more than Egyptian alacrity, soon had a staff of Arabs at work Aiois ting uie loose stones irom a well into which they had been thrown. The shaft had been sunk into the solid limestone to the depth of about forty feet, and was about six feet square. Before going very far, a huge palm-log was thrown across the well and a block-and tackle fas- j tened to it to help bring up the debris. When the bottom of! the shaft was reached a subter ranean passage was found which ran westward some twenty-four I feet and then turned directly TiAFtliWfli tl -ii:tiiiiii nrv into f ha J1U1 UiUttJ U, J UHilllUllit; llltU 111C . ! heart of the mountain straight except where broken for about : two hundred feet by an abrupt ' r stairway. The passage term ina- ted in a mortuary chamber about thirteen by twenty-three feet in ! extent and barely six feet in j height. There was found the I mummy of King Pharoah of iriic vuuiMonn, limit iiciuiv ty others of kings, queens, prin- ces, and priests." iSafler MoOMlllHtc. In the May Century Professor Atwater of Wesleyan University ! begins a series of papers on "The ! filTist.rv of Foods." Froin the chapter on Butter and Oleomar-! Mexico haf decreased, while that ! garine we quote as follows: "In of the other States has remained ! a number of States in which the almost constant. Texas for the dairy interests are large, the ; first time, is added to list of pro ! manufacture and sale of butter ducing States, with a production j substitutes has been prohibited of $200,000 in silver. by legislative action. In other States laws have been enacted to regulate their sale and prevent fraud. An attempt was made in j Congress to check the manufact- ' ure and sale by taxation sufficient ! to bring their cost nearly up to that of butter. In the law as actually passed, however, the tax was very much reduced, so that while it may help toward preventing improper sale of but- ter substitutes and, by obliging sellers to pay high license fees, may considereably interfere with their general use, it will not be as effective in excluding them from the markets as was desired. This is a case where mechanical invention aided by science is en abled to furnish a cheap, whole some, and nutritious food for the ! people. Legislation to provide for official inspection of this, as of other food products, and to in sure that it shall be sold for what it is and not what it is not, ls very desirable. Every reason- able measure to prevent fraud, here as elsewhere, ought to be welcomed. But the attempt to ! curtail or suppress the production ; ron desert, or a thorny wilder- vation that the features of Dr. of a cheap and useful food mate- ness. "I went by the field of the j McFerrin were of the red Indian rial by law, lest the profits i slothful, and by the vineyard of type. The portrait of Black j which a class, the producers of j the man void of understanding, Hawk would have many points butter, have enjoyed from the and lo ! it was all grown over with in common with his rugged,stern, ! manufacture of a costlier article thorns, and nettles had covered ; strong face. And It will be ad may be diminished, is opposed the face thereof, and the stone- mitted that he had the wariness, i to the interest of a large body of j wall thereof was broken down." strategy and rush with the toma ! people, to the spirit of our inst -! When our first parents had sin- 1 hawk of these warriors of the i tntions, and to the plainest die- ned, the ground was cursed for woods. He fought for victory, i tates of justice." I their sake, and God said, "Thorns I and gave no quarter. COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, MAY 28, A Bridge of Living Fifth. A traveler who has recently , returned from a trip through ratten Columbia says mat one ; day last November it was possi- ble to lay boards on top of the j flsn ina small stream which emp-; were pacKea togetner iikg sar- dines in a can. Afraid of Hie Colored Element. St. "Lotus. Ma 20. at to dav's session of the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly there were presen- the subject of organic union with the North Church. The Mission Synod believes that the Church should be non-political and advo- cated the union of the assem blies. Several communications were received opposing the union fntifisuan Election Fraud In diet mentsu Indianapolis, May 20 Fresh interest in the local election fraud ca.ses was revived to-niirht by Uie announcement that the Grand Jury of the Federal Court Jury had returned ten or eleven m dictments. Nothing is authori tatively known as to who the indicted persons are, but it is generally understood that the list comprises the four orignal defendants Coy, Spaan, Bern- j hamer and Counsel and Messrs. Mattler, Sullivan, Budd and Car nahan. All exeept Carnahan are Democrats. No arrests have yet I Wn -,.flfl w u ftmeeted the indicted men will be taken into tody to-morrow, Production of Preeioim I-ta Is. The Director of the Mint, in his annual report estimates the nroduction of the United States x to have been in 1886, gold, 35,- 000,000; silver, 8-3 1,000,000. The production of gold shows a con- - m j t smeraoie increase over xne prior year, namely, S,2OO,OO0. The proauction or silver is sngnuy j uip.-, less than in 1885, but this pro- ! broken down fences and com duction has largely increased I plains of bad seasons. The far ainno iRn The venv's nmfiir:t. iner who is above his business of gold has appropriated the max o J. , imu.n of the last seven years, the product of 1880, which reached ; $36,000,000 against $35,000,000 in 1886. Colorado retains first rank ; as the largest producer of the precious metals in the United i States. California yields second I place to Montana, and the pro- auction oi .Nevaaa ana jew j Tfte ImvortaneFeTl Spent ; Youth. j i As the beauty of summer, the fruitfulness of autumn, and the ; support of winter, depend upon j spring; so the happiness, wisdom I and piety of middle life and old ! age depend upon youth. Youth i is the seed-time of life. If the farmer does plough his land, and commit the precious seed to the I ground in spring, it will be too late afterwards; so if we, while young, neglect to cultivate our hearts and minds, by not sowing the seeds of knowledge and vir tue, our future lives will be ig norant, vicious and wretched. 'The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; he, therefore, shall beg in harvest and have nothing." The soil of the human heart is naturally barren of every good thing, though prolific of evil. If corn, flowers, or trees, , be not planted, and carefully cul I tivated, suttles and brambles will ' spring up; and the mind, if not j cultivated, and stored with use- j f ul knowledge, will become a bar- and also thistles "shall it bring forth;" but this curse is teemed into a blessing by the diligent and industrious, who are never happy when unemployed, who delight in labor and exertion, and receive an ample reward for all their toils. As the spring is the mands the morning of our days and the first season, the spring of our lives: before we are encum bered by cares, distressed by af fliction, or engaged in business, it becomes us to resign our souls God. Perhaps you may live for many years then you will be happy in possessing knowledge, and piety, and be enabled to do good to others; but if, just as youth is showing to buds and blossoms, the flower should be snapped from its stalk by the rude hand of death, oh ! how im portant that it should be trans planted from earth to flourish for ever at the foot of the tree of life, and beside the waters of the river of life in heaven. J. H. II INKS. One Acre ami One Cow. This is the advice of an old man who tilled the soil for forty years : I am an old man, upwards of three score years, during two score of which I have been a til er of the soil. I cannot say that I ain now, but I have been rich and have all that I need, do not owe a dollar, have given my children a good education, and when I am called away will leave enough to keep the wolf from the door. My experience taught me that one acre of land well pre pared and well cultivated pro duces more than two which re ceives only the same amount used on one. One cow, horse, mule, sheep or hog well fed is more profitable than two kept on the same amount necessary to keep one well. One acre of clo ver or irrrss is worth two of cot- j ton where no clover or grass is raised. No farmer who buys oats, corn or wneac, iotuier ana nay, , j i a rule for ten years can keep the sheriff away from his door m ! the end The farmer who never i iiioHo r no nonnrc anoorQ or. hnnlT i - ? farming and improvements al- and entrusts it to another toman- T i A age soon has no business to at- Latterly on Ui . Itl'Ferrin. j He was in his prime and pow- , er before a syond of his brethren, before the great congregation, ; before the people he spoke to the passions and the prejudices. Men wept at his word or roared in laughter at his nasal drol lery. He could melt or make men merry at his will. In the histrionic art the highest excel lence is to stir the blood while i icy yourself. The great Talma could recite a lorin ot words in tones that sent women swooning to the floor and took away the wits of men. And in an under tone would criticise to the actors, near by, the convulsed spectators. McFerrin had similar rare gifts. His eyes were dry when tears flowed in every pew The inois He could ! ture was in the tone start a tumult of loud fun, but no smile smoothed his grim fea tures. He was never ealm,keen eyed, quick to follow up adaan tage. He rode and directed the storm he let loose, but was nev er over mastered by it. He had the instinct of the warrior. The moment his appeal to the tender I feelings or his broad-side of hu- mor begat confusion in the ranks, ie put spurs and charged down ; on his adversaries, seldom failing ! to rout them His readiness at repartee had a certain hair-trigger quickness j and the double sights of the dead- j ly dueling pistol. It was fatal j at the first fire. i it was a matter of usual obser- 1887.; Tlse Trade Dollar. Many inquiries are made whe ther trade dollars can now be used as a circulating medium nmonff 4-Ta via- -ail a YVw-r A 4aa ' ttUAUUg L'AAC CUIU. X JX. VXCLCitJ dollar is as valuable ss the stand- i The Pope threatens to excoin ard dollar for all purposes of t municate Dr. McGlynn if he does trade, and business men will re- ; not oresent himself 1 Urm ceive them, as will banks and other financial institutions, but banks and other financial in stitutions will send them to the Treasury for redemption, and not pay them out again. In short, the trade dollar is now the legal representative of a standard silver dollar, and will continue to be so until the 4th day of September next. It will therefore command the value of a dollar in all the channels of trade during that period, after which it will be only silver bul lion worth a little over 80 cents. Greensboro North State. How to Keep a Town Down. Horace Greely, in the course of his public and journalistic ca reer, said many wise things, but there are none more wise than the following : "If you want to keep a town from thriving don't erect more buildings than you can occupy yourselves. If you shou.'d acci dentally have a building vacant, and any one should wan to rent it, ask three times the value of it. Demand a Shylock price for every foot of ground God has gi ven you stewardship over. Turn a cold shoulder to every business man and merchant who seeks a home with you. Look at every newcomer with a scrowl. Run down the work of every new workman. Go abroad for wares, rather than to those who seek to do business in your midst. Fail to advertise, or in any way support your town newspaper. Hurled Wn.le in a Trance. A horrible case of trance has occurred a Odessa, in Russia, and owing to the position of the per son, has caused considerable sen sation, Major Majuroff, an artil lery office, and aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Odessa, aged 35, died, as was supposed, three weeks, ago somewhat sud denly, and was interred forty hours afterward. His funeral was marked by much military pomp and by the presence of all the civic and military nobles. A few days ago, while the fam ily vault in the necropolis was being renovated for the Russian Fetes des Morts, the coffin lid was noticed to have been forced partly opened. It was immedia tely removed, and the body was dreadfully lacerated, and the flesh gnawed from the hands. The corpse was still bleeding, which confirms the statement of work man that his attention was first attracted by a noise in the coffin and the unfortunate man died only on the instant of the appal ling discovery. London Daily News. Vance. All honor to Zebulon Baird Vance ! We care not what oth ers say of him, we will follow him to the Ultimathule of the political world, if need be. Nor will we denounce him, no matter what others do. We regard him as the great Democratic Moses to lead us out of the wilderness in to which we have been falsely led by a Mugwump President and his lesser dupes. AVe be lieve that the great masses of the people are opposed to all such nonsense. We believe that Z. B. Vance alone can lead the people to victory in our next election. By following the lead of lesser lights and political and editorial fledglings the State was nearly lost last election. We do not say that Vance should be retired from the Sen ate and put at the head of our ticket, but we do say, that North j Carolina must not throw cold j water on her great Senator. Lis- ten to him, ye editors and politi- j cians, follow in his lead. He j hath never made a political mis- take, and the hearts of the peo pie beat in unison with the great and manly heart of Vance. So unite the party at once. Fire hot shot and shell into the ranks of Mugwump ism, for verily if we wish to succeed in 1888, we can only do so by a straight-out manly fight, and not by the at tenuated moonshine of a deluded Democracy Windsor Ledger. NUMBER 50. EANDOM BAKINGS. NEWSY ITKMS WHICH ARE GLEANED PROM MANY VARIOUS SOURCES FOR OUR READERS. It is estimated that one-half of the saloons in Philadelphia will be closed under the new li- cense law. Forest fires are raging in Mich igan and Wisconsin ; several mi ning villages are threatened with destruction. If most women possses as much prudence as they do vanity, wp should find many husbands much happier. Belknap . The Standard Oil Company is the greatest monopoly the world has ever seen. It has $150,000, 000 capital, and its profits ar enormous. The Inter-State Commerce Commission continue to receive petitions for permanent suspen sion of the fourth clause of the inter-State law. Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have in our argu ments. Saoille. Ogdensburg, M. V., has now gone Democratic for the first time in its history and so goes the upsetting of Republican rule all over the country. Edison, who is at Fort Myers, Fla., has got his sea-telephone so it will transmit sounds under the water between two vessels about three miles apart. Incendiary fires at Minneapo lis caused a loss of $150,000; it is believed "fire bugs" are at work and all mills, lumber yards and factories are guarded. Since Professor Proctor has figured out that the sun is 1,200- 000 larger than the earth a great many people now want the sun instead of just the earth. Puck. The street car drives of Indi anapolis are on a strike, and only one car on each line is being run in order to preserve their char ter rights. There is no trouble so far. A horse kicking over a lamp in Hoyt's livery stable at New ton, Mass., started a conflagra tion that destroyed twenty-one building and caused a loss of $60,000. Old Doctor John Burnett died in squallor down on South Fourth street, in Philadelphia, while j piles of greenbacks and silver 1 were found everywhere in his miserable home in that city. The number of i migrants lan ded at Castle Garden amounts to 133,000, or over 40,000 more than for the same period last year, and as a rule are better and more intelligent than usual. Young James H. Yarborough, son of Mr. R. F. Yarborough, of Louisburg, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree in Misrouri. The penalty is impris onment in the penitentiary for life. The people of Nova Scotia continue the agitation of the subject of a separation from the Dominion of Canada. Some of them want independence, but ; others desire annexation to the j United States. It is proposed to erect a mon j ument to Robert Snow, the foun j der of the first Sunday school in J Brooklyn. The estimated cost ! will be about $10,000, to be raised , by subscription from Sunday ; school scholars. Charles Winslow, vice-consul at Guerrero, Mexico, reports a I falling off in the importation into that country of articles of American production. Especially is this true of raw cotton and to bacco. It is expected that in a few years, Mexico, instead of im porting cotton, will be enabled to export it. In Davis county, Ind., last week, William A. Sanderford shot and killed his sixteen-year- old son, whom he mistook for a burglar. The boy was a som nambulist and was walking in his sleep. The father saw him and called to him. The boy did ! not answer him, but in his sleep j said, "Come on, Dick," address ; ing his dog. The father under stood this as a call to a conf eder j ate and fired, killing the boy instantly.