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Smithfield Herald "CAROLINA CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BJLESSINOS ATTEND HER.' VOLUME 6. SMITHFIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA JUNE 11, 1557. NUMBER 1. NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. rtfoft'K irr.M TAKES prom ouh KXCIIAXOKs AM noil. CO DOWN Koi: THE MKHAl.n READERS. Nash County wants to have a grand celebration on the 4th of July. Charlotte now has a free mail delivery. It went into effect on the 1st instant. Commencements ami school closings are the order of the day throughout the State. The Phosphate Mills at Raleigh were struck by lightning on the 1st inst.: nobody was killed. The Collections for the iUi !? ternal Revenue District amounts to $60,97d.42 for List month. The farmers of the State are greatly encouraged over gotKl prospects for a hue wheat crop. Petitions are in circulation at Wilmington for subscription of of $100,00(1 for the Onslow Kail road. The Governor lias appointed Pr. John H. Tucker, of Hender son Mtneinber of the state Hoard of Health. A colored boy was arrested in Kaleigh recently for robbing the mails of a letter containing a postal order. An excursion from Raleigh to Norfolk and Portsmouth will be run on the 13th inst. The round trip is 2.50. Lem Rackley is to be tried at Wilson this week, for the mur der of Wright Ilatchelor at Nash ville some time ago. The Progress is the name of a republican paper just started at Enfield by Jas. E. OHara, the well-known colored politician. The Governor has offered a re wan! of $500 for Cesar Wooten for the murder of Minnie Strick land at Wilson on the 23d nit. The Teachers Assembly will go to Washington City on the .Oth inst. The round trip fare from Goldsboro will be about $5. An interest in the Goldsboro Argus has been purchased by Messrs. W. C. Monroe and C. B. Aycock. The paper has a strong team at its back. The early closing of stores at night during the summer months is a good movement and is con siderably encouraged in many towns in the State. Compa n y "A." third North Car olina Regiment of State Troops held a reunion at Snow Hill on the 1st inst. Speeches were made by Swift Galloway and others. The many friends of that vet emu journalist. Maj. P. M. Hale, will be sorry to hear he is hour ly expeeted to die from that dread malady, cancer of the tongue. The President his appointed Mr. Edward J. Hill. ex-State Sen ator from Duplin County, as consul at Montevideo, to fill the vacancy causer) by the resigna tion of Preston L. Rridgers, of Wilmington. It is said that Montgomery hasa man with feet larger than any one in the State. A Northern firm refused his order for a pair of shoes recently on account of their immense sie. Jo.m L. Jacobs, of Cullasaja, X. ('.. in the Franklin Press says that in 1883 he made a list of ail persons in Macon county over To years old. There were 134. There were ten ladies who average 12-4-10 years, and ten men who avenged 87-6-10 years. The Evans counterfeiting case from Green County was up be fore the United States Commis sioner in Goldsboro last week for hearing, and in default of hale the defendant was commit ted to jail to await the next ses sion of the United States District Court. The New Berne Journal says :i most ferocious looking animal, pronounced a tiger wildcat, was brought to the city yesterday from Grantsboro by Mr. W. H. Pawls, who shot him near his house Sunday morning. The body of the animal is dark brown, with black and white stripes on the neck and small spots on the ears. He was three feet long and the size of an ordi nary dojr. Tin- Vn'.nr of a 4;iO(l t'tmraetrr. A reputation for integrity and reliability is invaluable to the merchant, whether he is newly established or of long experience In trade. It takes the place in a great degree of capital that is, cash capital as credid can be more easily obtained with a small capital and a good reputation than rice oersa. In business crises, when the strongest con cerns grow shaky and totter, the merchant's reputation is often the chief factor in determining whether he shall sink or swim. To the retail merchant a good character is as important as to the wholesaler. The merchant who (iijys a re potation for iiu giving of full weight; good goods and honest value generally, and does not seek to take unfair ad vantage of his customers, will hud little difficulty in building up a large and pr ft table business. There are many dealers who are careless in this respect, acting on the belief that if they don't skin" the public, the public will skin" thorn. Such men need wide fields to locate in, as the require a large population to recruit new customers from, to take the places of those aliented by want of common honesty. It is this class of dealers that peo ple say : "Don't send your chil dren to So-and-so's store, but go yourself If you need anything," the experience evidently having been that inferior or damaged goods were apt to be delivered to the youthful messengers. A rep utation of this kind is fatal to any hope of sue -ess in perman ently catering for the public. Every merchant or intending merchant should mike at least one resolve a resolution to ac quire and maintain a good repu tation. Pure and .nan I. v. Gen. Robt E. Lee was a thought ful boy. for his n other had taught him to practice self-denial and self-control, and to be economi cal in expending money. His father's death, when the boy was but eleven years of age, made him a "little man." Ho did the marketing, managed outdoor af fairs, and looks 1 after the com fort of his invalid mother. As soon a school closed for the noon recess he rushed away from the frolicsome boys. and hurried" home to arrange for Ms mother's daily ride. Young as he was, he car ried her to the carriage, arranged the cushions, end seating himself by her side, tried to entertain her. gravely reminding her that the ride would Tail to benefit her unless she was cheerful. 'Robert is both a son and a daughter to me,' the mother used to say. He was the most methodical of managers, and the neatest of housekeepers. I nlike many boys he did not thin v it beneath him to attend to details, or to do lit tle things with as much careful ness as if they were large. While studying conic sections, he drew diagrams ona slate. Though he knew the one he was drawing would be rubbed out to make room for another, he drew it with as much accuracy and neatness as if it were to be engraved. After his return from the Mexi can war, his wife on opening his trunk found every article of cloth he had taken with him, and a bottle of brandy, which had been put in for medical use, unopen ed. He never drank brandy or whisky, and rarely a glass of wine, and he never used tobacco. To apprehend the meaning of this fact, and its powerful illus tration of the lad's self-control, one must recall the rollicking life and drinking customs of Vir ginia during Gen. Lee's boyhood and youth. During a school vacation, he was a guest in a country house, where the host, a fascinating gen tleman of culture, lived a gay wild life. Young Robert, who had been trained to self-control, and self-denial, was shocked. He made no comment on what he saw, but he refused to join in the revels. The unspoken rebuke brought to his bedside, the "night before his departure, the penitent host. The youth's abstinence had sham ed him, and he, a man of the world, came to confess to his youthful guest sorrow for the wild life he was leading. Exrnestly he warned him to beware of acquiring drinking habits, and urged him to persist in his temperate course of life. On leaving him, the host prom ised he would try to reform. Yet this methodical, self-controlled, affectionate, serviceable boy was no "goody." He was the son of "flight Horse Harry" of the Revolution, and inherited his father's martial spirit. He chose the army for his profession, and friends and relatives approv ed his choice. He entered West Point at the age of eighteen, graduated second in his class, and during four years of cadet life lie did not re ceive a demerit mark for any breach of rules or neglect of duty. He avoided tobacco and intoxi cating liquors, never uttered a word to which a woman might not have listened, and never did a deed which his mother could not have approved. Lads who think it effeminate to be good, and manly to be bad are asked to harmonize their no tions with the pure, noble boy hood of Gen. Robert E. Lee. o The M Louis sirili!' Sicr. Trot, May '1 The Troy stove manufacturers who belong to the national defense association to day received official notice that they could open their foundries at once, it is probable that the Troy foundries will start Mon day. fc KeaMftllOB Ihmis tli? IMirki"!, Wilmington, (X. C.) Star 29th. Colored circles in the southern part of the city are very much agitated over a singular occurance that took place Friday last, on Castle street, near Ninth, regard ed by many person as a direct manifestation of Divine displeas ure and warning. On the day mentioned, as the story goes, Anna Granger, a colored woman, was ridiculing and mocking an other woman who was singing a hymn. Suddenly she felt a burn ing sensation in the palm of her left hand, and on examination found a singular discoloration that gave her no little uneasiness and alarm. The words, 'The Church of God,' in blood red capital letters, appeared plainly in a half circle on the lower part of the palm. The woman scream ed and carried on at such a rate that the whole neighborhood soon gathered, and from that time on the excitement increased rapidly. Friday night there were great crowds of people at the house and vicinity until a late hour, and all day yesterday persons thronged the place, anx ious to see the phenomenon. Everybody was permitted to look at the womon's hand, and tne greater number of those who in spected it were greatly impressed, few persons being willing to ad mit that the whole thing is prob ably a humbug. A l.ottt Opportunity Mr. George Washington Cole, of Chicago, didn't come home one evening at the usual time, nor the next day, and Mrs. Cole, becoming alarmed, began to search for him. She was not suc cessful, and after several days, as a hist resort, visited the morgue. The keeper listened to her de scription, and then said he thought he had a subject that answered to it. The wife desi red to look at the body, and she was shown into the dead-liouse. After viewing the subject pointed tint to her very intently for several minutes, Mrs. Cole burst into tears and declared that the body was that of her late husband. Rut in order to assure herself that she had made no mistake, she requested the keep er of the morgue to turn the body over, and see if there was a hirge scar on the back of the neck. As he proceeded to do so, a set of false teeth fell out of the mouth of the corpse upon the marble slab. "Stop !" exclaimed Mrs. Cole, wiping away her tears ; "George never wore false teeth." "You blamed fool!" growled the keeper of the morgue, address ing the corpse, as lie roughly threw it back in place and pick ed up the false teeth ; "if you had only kept your mouth shut you might had a decent burial." From the "Portfolio" of The American Jfafaiinc. Some lotlier' Child. Xo ni sitter how far from the right she has strayed : No matter what inroads dishonor has made ; No matter what elements cankered the pearl . Though tarnished and sullied she is acme iii"thers" s fift. No matter how waywmd his 'ootstcps have been : No matter how deep he lias sunken in sin ; N matter how low is his standard ef joy I Though guilty and Intliconic. he is some mother's boy. That head hath hern pillowed on omc Sender breast ; That form hath been wept o'er, thoe lips have been prt-sscd : That soul liath been :r.-iyl for, in tones sweet and mild : For her sake deal gent".' with some mother; child. Fxehnngf . WHALE ?ZWEB??, A whale-ship leaves home pre pared for a long cruise. When she sails away many empty oil barrels are stowed in her hold. These must be filled before her return. If they are fortunate, they may get back in a few months. If not, they are some- j times gone three years. As the business is a dangerous one, some of the poor whalers never see their homes again. The Greenland whale is timid and usually avoids an encounter with man. It is very affection ate, and will not leave its baby, if that is in danger. Whalers take advantage of this and some times attack a baby whale so as to secure its mother. When enraged by its wounds or when defending its offspring, it becomes very dangerous, often with its powerful tail shattering a boat to pieces. The sperm whale is generally found in schools. The females together, led by two or three old males called the schoolmasters, and not far from these a line of young males. The sperm whales are also affectionate animals, es pecially the females. If one of their number is wounded, the others swim sorrowfully about her until she dies. For this reason the sailors can sometimes ca pt ure whole schools. If a young male is wounded, the other males ungenerously make off as fast as possible, and leave him to look out for himself. An old male, when enraged, is still more dan gerous than a Greenland whale. He can crush the planks of a boat in his powerful jaws, and can with his huge head stave in tin side of the ship itself and cause it to sink in a few minutes. The sailors have a share in the profits of the trip, so are anxious to catch as many whales as pos sible in the shortest length of time. When the ship reaches the whaling grounds, one of the men is posted at the mast-head to watch for the prey. We have found that the whale has lungs. When it comes up to the surface to breathe, if it is in a cool or cold latitudes, the moisture in its breath becomes cooled and can be seen just as the moisture in a man's breath can be seen on a very cold dfiy. The sailors call this breathing, spouting. They used to suppose that the animal was throwing water through its nostrils. They did not understand that the moisture they could see was simply the vapor of its breath. This spout ing can not only be seen,' it can also be heard several miles, so it is not difficult to discover whales when there are any whales about. As soon as the man on the look out espies one, the boats are low ered and manned with men who make with all speed for the un fortunate animal. Fach boat tries to reach it first. As soon as a boat is near enough the harpoon er throws, with all liis force, a harpoon into the creature's body. Wounded, he dives into the ocean with great rapidity and some times escapes. Now and then, one drags the men and boat over the waters for hours. The har poon is attached to a strong rope wound around a reel. This rope unwinds so fast that the men have to pour water upon it to prevent its taking fire. When wounded, a Greenland whale stays under the water about half an hour, a sperm whale about t wice as long. The whalers can tell by the direction of the rope in the water, where the whale is likely to come up again to breathe. Boats are stationed near this place with men ready to send another harpoon or lance into the victim's body. This opera tion is repeated until it is ex I hausted and dies, when on ac- count of the blubber which make6? the animal light, its huge carcas floats upon the surface of the water. Sometimes the harpoon is shot from a gun prepared for that purpose. In such harpoons the flukes rest i against the stem of the weapon ! until it has penetrated the flesh, j Then, as soon as the whale starts ' so as to pull up the line, the i flukes expand and make it im possible to pull the instrument out. Besides this, concealed in it is a substance which soon ex plodes and causes instant death. When the wrhale is dead it is towed to the ship and its head is cut off. If it is a whalebone whale, some of the men busy themselves in taking out the plates and stowing them away. If a sperm whale, a large hole is cut in the head and some of the men begin to dip out with buck ets the oil and spermaceti and put them into barrels. The jaw bones are full of oil, so are sus pended to permit it to drip from them. The tongue is very fat and furnishes five or six barrels of oil. Other men have been at work on the body of the whale 1 which is floating in the water alongside the ship. To a mast on the side of the deck next to the carcas, they attach large ropes which run upon pulleys and to which great hooks are fastened. Loosening a piece of the blubber near the neck, they stick the hooks into it, and be gin to tear it from the body. They may be said to unwind the blubber, for they pull it off in strips from the neck to the tail. The body rolls over and over during the operation, and when finally stripped, sinks quickly into the deep waters, as it is no longer made light by its envelop of fat. The men now cut the blubber up and put it into great caldrons to boil out the oil. Af ter a little time the scraps are used to keep the fires burning, so the whalers do not have to transport coal for this purpose. J Hiring the last tnirty years. wh;i.le-fishinr has irreatlv dimiu- ished. First, because the animal has been hunted so much that it has become scarce. In the sec ond place, because gas and kero sene have come to be generally used for lighting our houses, and steel is employed for many pur poses in place of whalebone. In the United States only about one-sixth as much shipping is now engaged in this business as was engaged in it thirty years ago. As the demand for the products of the whale has de creased, the industry will proba bly never revive. 32,000 Pound of Roast Beef. sheep Fifty beeves and 100 were roasted at uneiteniiaiu j -1 J '(I. .11 1 Beach for the the National tion. Full barbecue held by Butchers' Assoeia 32,000 pounds of meat were roasted, and six pits each forty feet long and six feet deep, were required for the fires. All the butchers attending the convention here went to the bar becue and also nearly all the butchers in the city. Just to Avne (lie llabv. A few days ago two ladies, one of whom carried a baby, entered a Boston carpet store and signi fied their desire to look at some carpets. It was a very warm day, but the salesman cheerfully showed roll after roll, until the perspiration was literally stream ing from every pore in his body. Finally one of the ladies asked the other if she did not think it was time to go. "Not quite," was the answer of her companion, and then, in an undertone she added : "Baby likes to see him roll them out, and it is not time to take the train." The Pitcher on the Post. More than thirty years ago a young girl was in the act of plac ing a pitcher on a post which, stands near the South Carolina ra.il vra.v. five miles' from Aiken. when she was struck dead by light nintf. r.ver since tins tragic occur- rence the pitcher lias remained on ' the post,saf e by superstition from the touch of negroes, who believe that the arm which touches it will be paralyzed. Storms and cyclones and earthquakes have not displaced it, although the Dost which holds it is fast crum- bling with decay. Chicago Times. The Mustache Must Slay. Some blushing iconoclast in XeAV York says that, in the in terest of manly beauty, the mus tache must "go." But it will nl Qepart. he hand that rocks tne cradle is the hand that rules tne world, and that Land has a firm &riP on man on this subject, Woman, lovely, expensive wo- ; man, oeneves m tne old spams li saying : "A kiss without a mus I tache is like an egg without salt." As the adorable sex enjoy their caresses like their food, well seasoned, and as a man lives to please them, the mustache will remain to perform that work for which God designed it, and which woman has so earnestly and 7xal ously approved. Omaha Bee. fit Too Ilig u Harry. A veteran Boston fireman, in his anxiety to make a record the other night, mounted his carriage upon hearing an alarm and drove to the fire, utterly ignorant of the fact that in his haste he had forgotton to put on either panta loons or boots. As his carriage flew along the street a wag shouted: "Save me mother, the Indians are after me." but still he drove on. Upon arriving at the fire says The Herald, it was laughable to see the way he clung to his carriage, wrapped in his blanket, and it will be a long while before he hears the last of it from his fellow firemen. Chicago Times. imtho's ISravc Girl. A year ago a wonderful story of the gallant fight of Theresa Tallert with mountain lions while defending her flock of An gora goats on the Little Lost River, was circulated far and wide in American and even French papers. The story set forth how, late one evening in her cabin in the foothills of Eas tern Idaho, she was awakened by animals around the stockade ad- i joining; now sue rose, ana wii'i , i nana axe ana ner aog iaager, i -i a n. t n she stole out in the moonlight to find the 5 ions in pursuit of her goats; how, nothing daunted, she attacked them and cut one to ! the bone with her axe, injuring ' others, and causing the whole, ; some six in all to, flee over the ; stockade wall. But the next 1 morning the brave girl disepv ' ered that the throats of many of her herd had been cut, for fifty i of them lay dead on the ground, j Well, our girl's been making a ' another record, said A. J. Brunei, i of Houston. Idaho, to an Exam ! iner man yesterday, and she got I in her work in fine style, the j usual way with her. She never ieB Up on a until it's com- j pleted artistically. What's she been doing, now ? Had another fight, with moun : tain lions. You see, a year ago, 1 after Theresa's fight with them, j D. B. Hawlew and other raisers I of Angora goats, those who had , suffered losses, put their heads ' together and organized a posse to kill them off. They killed a great many and pretty well clean -I ed them out, it was thought. For ! some months thereafter there ; were very few of them around, these were very wary. Lately, ! however, the lions have come to ; the front. The foothills have seemed to be swarming with j them. They again invaded the stockades and sucked the blood ! of the goats whose throats they i cut. Miss Tallert, who had lost i some more of flock, and knew 1 that the lions came around there ' quite often at night, got a couple S of Winchesters and loaded them i with buckshot a few nights ago. Then she dug out the chinking between the logs on the side of her cabin next to the stockade, and from this port hole she took up her station. Well, in five ! nights in this way she killed thirteen mountain lions, and she says she is not through with them yet. Her herd of goats comprises some five hundred in all, and perhaps thirty or fifty of ; these have been killed in the last iiioiitxi uj. Miss Tallert is a German girl who 1ms been ranching on the Little Lost river for three or four years. The country around here is good for Angora goats, , and she got her start by working I first for wages for A. J. Brunner, 1 who is the biggest grower in that region iner. -San Francisco Exam- RANSOM BAKINGS. NBWSY ITEMS WHK'II ABE GLA'ED FROM MANY VARIOUS SOURCES FOR OUR READERS. Natural gas has been found at a depth of 500 feet, a short dis tance from Nashville. An Englishman has sent Moody a check for $25,000 urging him to use it in an evangelizing tour in India. The mainspring of a Waterbu ry watch is 24 feet long. The spring of an ordinary watch is 2G inches. Major Ben Perley Poore, the veteran journalist and newspaper correspondent died at Washing ton last week. The bodies of six hundred Chinese will be disinterred next week and shipped to China from San Francisco. The first sheet of tin plate ever made in this country was suc cessfully manufactured at Youngstown, ()., recently. Prince Bismark will, it announ ced, be prevented by the muscu lar rhematism, from which he is suffering, from going to Fredrich sruhe as usual. A boiler explosion occurred at the Etawan Phosphate works. near Charleston, S. C, recently. r lve men were scalded, two seri ously, one fatally perhaps. The proposed universal strike in Belgnni has been postponed, but it seems to be the general belief that a hundred uphevels is only awaiting a propitious mo ment. A South Carol na wren built a nest under the eaves of an ex press car on the Abberville branch railroad, and built it so well that the car makes four trips a day without injuring it. Albuquerque, New Mexico, is having a great boom, and the ex pectation now is it is going to be one of the big interior cities of the country, certainly the metro polis of New Mexico. The central crater of Mount .Etna began operations on the 31st of last month. The flow confines and is increasing in vol ume. Heavy clouds of smoke and masses of stones and cinders are issuing from the crater. A negro woman, who was the daughter of a king, saw Wash ington at Albany, X. Y., in 1791 ; j was heir to a large estate ; weigh ed 40") pounds, and had begun to turn white in patches, died in Buffalo the other day at the of 104. age Mrs. Ruby Mantal of Keeler, Van Buren county, Mich., sick for two years and eighteen months confined to her bod, says that May 4th she prayed the good Lord to lieal her body. Instant ly she felt a change, rose and dressed herself, and hasn't felt any discomfort nince. A farmer living near Rock Creek, was watching a number of wild geefe flying slowly over his kitchen garden. Suddenly there came a vivid flash of light ning which seemed to pass right through the flock and the next moment six plump, fat birds fell to the ground without a mark to show where the lightning had struck them. The farmer feasted on roast goose for the rest of the week. We don't vouch for the above. Twelve hundred coal miners at Bachmut, Russia, who are out on a strike, attempted to rob a brew- j ery owned by a firm of English I men. Fifty Englishmen work ; men attached to the brewery i mounted horses and resisted the attack of the strikers. During the fight which occurred three of i the workmen were killed. Many of the strikers, who were 'all ! Russians, have been arrested. The ; conflict was ended before milita- ry aid arrived. j Mr. Valentine, the Virginia i sculptor, has on exhibition in his studio at Richmond, Va., the ; statue of John C. Breckinridge, which has just been completed 1 in clay. Senator Beck, of Ken i tucky, who saw it recently and critically viewed it, pronounced the statue without improvement, and simply magnificent. Senator Beck fras Beckinridg's law par ner. The clay model will soon be turned over to those who will take the plaster cast.