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"CAROINA CAROLINA. HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER."
VOLUME 6.
SMITHFIELD, JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 18, 1887.
NUMBER 2.
NOETH CAROLINA NOTES.
CHOICE ITEMS TAKES FROM OUR
EXCHANGES AND ROILED WlffS
FOR THE II ERA LI) READERS.
A nine foot alligator was caught
at Carolina Beach last week.
is proposed to hold a grass
l ! i . .
Many inquiries
North Carolina are
Loudon.
concerning
made from
The North Carolina Dental As
sociation met at Morehead on
the 6th inst.
The iron region around Dan
bury, N. C, is attracting consider
able attention.
A liquor dealer in Wilmington
has been fined 25 for keeping
his bar open on Sunday.
Ti.ivti. rm-pn,,, flifri,.f i,
been abolished and Collector
Dowd will lose his position.
A convict named Hensly, was
shot in Raleigh by the guard
while trying to make his escape.
A larire crowd attended the
closing exercise of the Davis
School at L:igramre on the 8th
inst. !
There is a boy in Mecklenburg
whose heart is on the right side
of his body instead ot his left
side.
There is a canning factory at
Newberne which shipped in one
day this spring 3,500 fifty pound
cases of canned peas.
We see in the Methodist Ad
ranee that the enterprising citi
zens of Goldsboro are having a
furniture factory built.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Jas.
L. Robinson, is critically ill at
his home in Macon county and
is not expected to live many
days.
The Fiyetteville jVeics says ' declined it saying he was only
Col. J. A. Pemberton, the revenue jumping to keep himself in prac
collector of this district, made j tice. To Th e Sl-ar correspondent
a raid upon and captured two il- j who greeted him after his suc
licit distilleries, on last Thursday, j cessful performance "Lorry,,
on the east side of the river. I smilling said:
Onlr fx fiovprnor n,,rl Mipir J "Feel? Why I never felt better
staffs were present at the nation
al drill on Governor's Day ; and
the Governor's Guard was the
only Xorth Carolina company
that participated in the drill.
Two boys named Otho Hughes
and Jas. McPheeters were drown-
ed on the 7th in alnut Creek, j
near Raleigh, while bathing
with some companions who were
too small to render assistance. .
Clinton Caucasian : Eleven j
hundred boxes of beans shipped !
from Clinton Monday night, the j
freight on which was 275.00 and ,
the hauling to Warsaw on which
would have been 110.00. Did j
you ever hear of anbody who;
said Clinton had no use for a !
railroad.
A railroad laborer named Hoi- j
lybock, was killed at Luirinburg, ;
one day the past week, by a fall- ;
intr Diece oi iron, lie was un-
loading a car load of iron, when
a piece of the metal fell and
struck him on the shoulders. He
was knocked down auj fell with
his back across a railroad iron,
receiving an injury that resulted
in his death.
Julian S. Carr, of Durham, at
the late commencement of ; fair sex in eloquent words when
Greensboro Female College, gave a call was made for a vote, and
1,000 to the Lucy McGee fund, the clerk proceeded to call the
His gift was followed by eontri- ; roll. When Steele's name was
butions from Capt. J. M. OdelL ". reached he rose with the dignity
S. A. Odell and J. H. Ferree, : of a Demosthenes and commen
which increases the amount to ced :
1,915.15. Mr. Carr is noted for i "Mr. Speaker, 1 am sorry that
his liberality, having done many1 I cannot support this bill, but "
like worthy "deeds, and is one of At that moment a well dressed
the most charitable men in the j lady was seen to bend over the
State. ! gallery rail. In a loud voice she
The Beaufort Record says that
a marine curiosity Aras captured
last week on the Banks. A waif
from old ocean thrown up on the
sands by the restless surf. The
new visitor is indeed a great
curiosity, and is of the snake
species. He is about seven feet
long, slim and tapering to the
tail, has odd looking feet, the j
tail is of a yellow color, bottle '
long and in color of a dark mot
tied brown ; the head black and
flattened ; the mouth armed with
six rows of formidable teeth,
four in the upper and two in the
lower jow. This reptile is cov
ered with hard fish-like scales,
liis two horo-like appendages
about one-third his length from
the tail, which lie is able to se
crete at will. A portion of this
wonder has been preserved.
I-airy' I--.i;t tils Iiap.
i
DONOVAN", THE NEW YORK BOY,
JUMPS FROM LONDON BRIDGE.
London, June 7th. Lawrence
Donovan, the" New York hoy who
has been in England for several
weeks, was a hero among sports-
A . . , , . -
men that he would jump from
ljimuon unuge, iiuu a great crowu
was present to see him do it.
Early in the afternoon with two
attendants, he was driven upon
the ancient span in a closed car
riage. In the center of the
structure the vehicle was halted
and brave "Larry" alighted. He
was in ordinary attire, but had
carefully prepared himself for
! the plunge by swathing his body
i with heavy strips of flannel,
Cheered by the throng above
j and below the river, he nimbly
; sprang upon the parapet, stood
erect, glanced at the sluggish
Thames sixty-five feet beneath
his feet and stepped off. Down
he went straight as a plummet
and struck the water with a
j mighty splash at an angle of six
ty degrees. For five seconds
ne was invisible, but wnen ins
head appeared above he surface
a flotilla of small boats bore
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ming lustily with a strong over-
hand stroke and apparently need
ed no aid, but was, however
hauled into a 'boat and taken
ashore. He escaped without a
mark. Half an hour later he
was on the street with his friends.
The feat is a novelty here and
was hosly applauded by the mul
titude. Donovan's deeds of dar
ing in America had preeeeded
him here, and Sunday night his
leaps from the Brooklyn bridge
and from the Suspension bridge
into the Nigara . rapids were
eagerly discussed.
A purse of money was offered
I to the brave young man, but he
in mv life. That was only a
! boy's jump, but the crowd seems
! to think it a big matter."
"Do you intend to make other
i leaps from great heights?"
"Certainly I do, but I ain't
going to do it for fun. Money
is what I am lookimr for. This
affilir to-day was really intended
art au advertisement for me. My
lloxt jump ,viU be from the clif
ton bridge at Bristol, which, I
am told, is the tallest structure
over water in England. After
that I may drop from a balloon
into the English Channel." New
York Star.
Wilbur X1I Aye.
Everybody in Dakota knows
Wilbur F. Steele. He was a mem
berof tl.e Legislature form Steele
county. There is an incident in
stecles legislative career that
goes very far to show his charac
teristic regard for his wife. He
lias one fauP, however. He takes
no stock in woman sufferage
except when he is obliged to.
On the occasion in question the
Woman Suffrage bill was before
the House. Maj. Hickley was
championing the cause of
the
exclaimed :
" W-i-l-b-u-r !"
He glanced upward. It was
enough. He turned and said :
! "Mr. Speaker, 1 vote aye.,,
The lady was Steel's wife
Jlinneapolis Journal.
Washing of the Noil.
The washing of the soil by
heavy rains is one of the most
potent causes of the changing of
the surface of uneven or hilly
not to mention the mountainous
lands into gullies or bare and
barren gravel beds or rocks. The
damage thus caused in the South
ern States is enormous. Almost
every farm has its washed and
abandoned fields, ruined in this
way. How to avoid it is one of
the serious problems of Southern
agriculture With some experi
ence in this direction upon a hil
ly Southern farm the writer has
been led to believe that seeding
the most sloping lands to . grass
or clover and deep plowing are
the two best remedies for this
evil. A badly washed fi e 1 d
plowed eight inches deep with a
good hillside plow and sown with
oats and mixed grass has been
subjected to one of the most
sweeping and injurious rain tor
rents known for some years back.
The field escaped practically
without injury, a small part of
it sloping two ways to a shallow
gulch or cove only being at all
washed, and this no more than
in a few small furrows where the
water, which the soil could not
absorb, flowed off to the lower
level. A field on an adjoining
farm, plowed with the common
bull tongue, was bereft of all the
plowed soil, which flowed in tor
rents of mud down the slope. It
is as important to prevent damage
and waste of land as it to im
prove it. iV. Y. Times.
Went Democrat c.
Shenandoah county, Virginia,
which is usually Republican went
Democratic in the recent election
by the help of Senator Riddle
berger, who did not like the way
he was treated by the Mahonites.
Suits fur Damages.
The Boston and Providence
Railway Company stands a fair
chance of. being compelled to
pay a great many times the cost
of a good bridge in damages to
the victims and relatives of vic
tims of the Bussey Bridge dis
aster. Thirty-two suits have
been brought by one attorney
already, with an aggregate claim
of damages of more than $400,
000. Many more suits are talked
of and while it is probable that
the damages finally awarded will
be much les than the amount
asked for the awards are certan
to be large enough to furnish a
very impressive object lesson on
advantages of safe bridges.
Terrible Bxplosioji.
Chester, Pa.. June G. The
boiler of a locomotive attached
to a south-bound freight train on
the Philadelphia .& Baltimore
Railroad (the Baltimore & Ohio)
exploded in front of the passen
ger station in this city at 8 o'clock
this morning- The air was filled
with flying pieces of iron and
timber and scalding water. A
number of persons standing on
the station platform were badly
scalded or cut with flying mis
sies. One man, a carpenter on
the road, residing in Baltimore,
whose name no one knew, was
instantly killed. John Murphy,
a telegraph operator of this city,
was so badly scalded and injured
that his death is momentarily
expected. The fireman was stan
ding on the sand box of the en
gine and was blown many feet
in the air. He was more hurt
by the fall than by the explosion.
The railroad station was wrecked
and a row of buildings on the
opposite side of the street badly
damaged. Portions of the engine
were found three squares away.
Keep the Hotly Erect.
An erect bodily attitude is of
vastly more importance to the
health than most people gener
ally imagine. (Crooked bodily
positions, maintained for any
length of time, are always inju
rious, whether in the sitting,
standing or lying posture, wheth
er sleeping or walking.) To sit
with the bodj leaning forward
on the stomach, or to one with
the heels elevated on a level with
the hands, is not only in bad
taste, but exceedingly detrimen
tal to health. It cramps the
stomach, presses the vital organs,
interrupts the free motion of the
chest, and enfeebles the functions
of the abdominal and thorace
organs, and in fact, unballances
the whole muscular system.
Many children become slightly
humpbacked or severely round
shouldered by sleeping with the
head raised on a high pillow.
When any person finds it easi
er to sit or stand or walk or sleep
in a crooked position than a
straight one, such person may
be sure his muscular system is
badly deranged, and the more
careful he is to preserve a straight
or upright position, and get back
again, the better.-Chieago Health
Journal
"None Will MIsw Thee.9
Few will miss thee, Friend, when thou
For a month in dust hast lain.
Skilful hand and anxious brow,
Tongue of wisdom, busy brain
All thou wert shall be forgot,
And thy place shall know thee not.
Shadows from the bending trees
O'er thy lowly head may pass,
Sighs from every wondering breez?
Stir the long, thick churcbyaid grass
Wilt thou heed them? No; thy sleep
Shall be dreamless, calm and deep.
Some sweet bird may sit and sing
On the marble of thy tomb,
Soon to flit on joyous wing
From that place of dath axd gloom.
On some bow to warble clear ;
tut these eongs thou shalt not htar.
Some kind voise may sing thy praise,
Passing; near thy place of rest,
Fondly talk of "other days"
But no throb within thy breast
Shall respond to words of praise.
Or old thoughts of her days.'-'
Since so fleeting is thy name,
Talent, beauty, power and wit,
It were well that without shame.
Thou in God's great book were writ,
There in golden words to be
Graven for iteiity.
Chamber Journal.
NEXT DOOB NEIGHBORS.
1ST E. A. WATS0X.
When Mrs. Chatterton, a very
pretty young widow, with one lit
tle boy, bought a small cottage at
B , and came there to reside,
she thought it an earthly paradise;
but Satan entered the paradise,
and the very first day that little
Roland Chatterton went out to
play, a great dog jumped the
hedge which divided his mother's
garden from her neighbor's and
barked and growled most terribly
at the small man in petticoats
and red stockings, who at once
flew to his mother with piteous
wails and shrieks of terror.
Mrs. Chatterton caressed her
child, placed him in the middle
of her bed, and rushed out into
the garden, armed with a curtain
pole to expel the intruder. He
was there still, and had frighten
the little servant, in a white cap,
who was called Roland's nurse
maid, to such a degree that she
had climed a vine trellis, and
clung to it half way up, crying
piteously. Meanwhile, a man of
portly habit, and so well dressed,
that but for his disgusting con
duct, Mrs. Chatterton would have
considered him a gentleman,
stood on the other side of the
hedge, laughing.
''All he wants to do is to lick
your hand, young woman," this
masculine individual was saying.
"He's the best tempered fellow.
Come down and be friends with
him."
"I can't sir!" squealed the lit
tle maid. "I'm that afraid, I
shall die, sir ! I had a cousin died
of hydryfoby, sir. O-o-o! Oh!
He's climbing up after me !"
Mrs. Chatterton, though mor
tally afraid of the dog herself,
was determined not to quell be
fore these insolent intruders.
She advanced slowly.
"Call your dog away, sir," she
said. "The brute has already
nearly frightened my son into
convulsions. Now he attacks my
servants. No doubt I shall be
the next victim. Call him off!"
"Here, Leo!" cried the gentle
man. Leo heard and reluctantly
obeyed.
"Come down, child," said Mrs.
Chatterton. "It is most shock
ing that we should have this to
bear. Is that your dog, sir?"
"That is my dearest friend,
Leo," replied the portly gentle
man ; "and allow me to tell you,
madam, that he is worth any ten
men and all the women I ever
had the misfortune to meet. The
young person is quite safe. Why
doesn't she come down ?"
Mrs. Chatterton, conscious that
the dignity of the situation was
not increased by the great exhi
bition of stockings which Sophy
was making, . repeated her com
mands. The maid descended
and rushed into the house, utter
ing a wild shriek ; and Airs. Chat
terton turned to the dog's master.
"Sir," she said, "as I cannot
permit my only son's life to be
continually in danger, I must re
quest you never to allow that
dog to enter my garden again."
"I'll request him not to do so,"
replied the gentleman. "He's
partial to a bit of fun, though.
He's like me in that. It is his
i
sense of the ridiculous, I am sure, j
that brings him nere. i you
will climb trees when he appears,
he may think it too good a joke
to lose. He may insist on com
ing." "A dog who would behave like j
that would prove himself mad,"
replied Mrs. Chatterton. "I'm
quite as averse to hydrophobia
as Sophy is. I shall think it my
duty to shoot him if he tresspas
ses on my grounds again."
Mrs. Chatterton did not own a
pistol, and could not have fired
one if she had, but threat en
raged the stout gentleman.
"Perhaps you would like to
shoot me also ?" he said. "Ob
serve, madam, I am on my own
grounds, not on yours. I have
my own opinion of anyone who
can take a dislike to a noble an
imal like that, who can repulse
his offers of affection. I begin
to doubt thb creature's sagacity.
Generally he makes no mistakes.
Why he should make advances to
a cowardly little milk sop of a
boy and a drivelling idiot of a
maid-servant I am sure I can't
guess. Come, Leo. Madam, I
advise you to take your family
to Dr. Pasteur as soon as possi
ble. Good-morning."
"The insolent wretch !" gasped
Mrs. Chatterton.
"Oh!. ain't he mum?" gasped
Sophy, at the door.
"I'd a mind to souse him with
b'iling water !" called cook from
the kitchen window. "Oh ! but
he's the devil, that's what he is
bad luck to him!"
The individual thus described
was not too far away to overhear,
and he grinned sardonically.
People said of Mr. Sutphen
that he had been jilted in his
youth, and had hated women
ever since. Certainly they were
right about the women. He
could see no good in any of them,
and when they offended him he
behaved most horribly, as in this
present instance.
And this was a nice beginning
for two neighbors ; especially for
Mrs. Chatterton, who had never
before been treated with any dis
courtesy, and who looked upon
men as her natural protectors
and admirers. It gave her a new
sensation and a most unpleasant
one, to be addressed in that fash
ion, to be looked at as Mr. Sut
phen had looked at her.
Then he had called her son,
her baby, yet in petticoats, a cow
ardly milksop ! Considering the
exhibition of stockings she did
not have much sympathy for So
phy ; still he had behaved like a
brute to the girl.
She longed to punish him, and
she could not see her way to it.
However, she had a gate opened
into the other road, that she
might not be obliged to pass his
windows in going out. From this
time the widow and the batchelor
lived in a state of warfare, only
possible to country neighbors.
There was always a cow or a
chicken, a goose or a turkey to
quarrel over.
The batchelor had his washing
and ironing done at home by his
servant, who tied his clothes-line
to the branch of an old tree that
grew on Mrs. Chatterton's side
of the dividing hedge.
: Mr. Chatterton waited until
all the shirts and stockings were
hung up, and then bade Sophy
untie the rope.
Sophy cut it, and all the gar
merits lay upon the ground. Mr.
Sutphen consulted a lawyer, and
Mrs. Chatterton had a bill for
"clothes-line, and damage to gar
ments" presented to ner, which
she paid.
It was only one of a thousand
annoyances, and this went on for
a full year at least ; everybody
in the village knew about it, and
everybody blamed the old batch
eler; but curiously enough, a
great attachment had sprung up
between the original cause of the
quarrel the great Newfound
land dog, Prince Leo, and the
widow's little boy, Roland, who
had now got into knickerbrock
ers, and had his long curls cut.
The heads of opposing armies
should have interfered, but they
did not. They pretended not to
know anything about it.
There was a deep pond, almost
a lake, hard by the little cluster
of cottages of which Mrs, Chat
terton's was one, and Roland
had been forbidden to go near it
alone. Alas ! when his hair was
cropped and his skirts put away
the baby vanished forever. Roly
became a boy. And he not only
went there alone, but went there
to paddle in the water. One day
he was missed.
Sophy had lingered at her glass
awhile in view of the arrival of
the young butcher. A great ter
ror seized upon the mother. She
flew towards the pond.
As he saw her coming, naughty
lloland ran further into the wa
ter and lost his footing. He
was drowning drowning before'
her eyes. She could not swim,
but rushed in after him, shriek
ing loudly.
Instantly a man rushed across
the sand. A dog passed him,
and jumped into the water.
Mr. Sutphen was the man,
Prince Leo the dog. The former
brought out the lady, the latter
the boy.
But for their promptness both
would have been drowned, and
as soon as Mrs. Chatterton felt
sure they were not, she knelt
down ajt Leo's side and kissed
him on liis good brown nose.
"You dear thing, I love you,"
said she ; "and you, sir, my eter
nal gratitude is yours."
After this peace reigned be
tween the cottages. Offerings of
roses from the gentleman, and
of custards from the lady brought
on calls and tea-drinkings -of
course,at Mrs. Chatterton's house.
And one day, while they sat op
posite each other, with Roly be
tween them, and Prince Leo at
his master's feet, Mr. Sutphen
remarked : "This is very nice. I
should like to be so always."
Mrs. Chatterton blushed.
"Should you?" he asked. "I'll
be very good to Roland. I love
him dearly."
"And I'll be very good to
Prince Leo," she said, "and
and to you."
So it was settled.
Book and Paper Farming.
"Why ! he's of no account, for
he is a book farmer." Well, sup
pose he is. His crops are large,
clean and bring good prices ; his
stables and their occupants are
noted far and wide for their gen
eral excellence. His land is up
to the mark in strength of soil
and cultivation. If this is the
result of "book farming," would
it not pay all of our farmers to
become "book farmers" also?
We have no faith in the croakings
of those who have not sufficient
common sense to see the surest
road to success when it is so
plain. Many of the successful
farmers of the day are zealous
advocates and students of agri
cultural books and papers, and
to them, combined Avith good
sense and judgment, owe their
position in life. True, they are
able to seperate the wheat from
the chaff in the mastication of
desired literature, and bring their
common sense to bear on a theory
before they attempt to reduce it
to practice. No one yet failed to
run a farm or garden successfully
by knowledge gleaned from
books and papers, prodded he
brought to the work energy, de
termination and stable judgment.
Country Home.
Wonderful If True.
"Up in Dakota last week," said
a commercial traveler, "I saw
the queerest game of base ball
that was ever played. All the
players blind ; yes, sir, as blind
as eyeless bats. Of course you
don't believe it. I didn't believe
it either, till I saw 'em play.
How did they do it? Just like
any other players, with the ex
ception that they used a ball
specially prepared for the occa
sion. Through this base ball
there was a hole, and in the hole
there was a little concern like
that which you see in a harmon
ica. On the home plate was a
little bell, which the umpire
rang by pulling a string just be
fore the pitcher fired in a ball.
Judging on the position of the
base by the sound of the bell, the
pitcher put the ball right where
it ought to be. As the ball sail
ed toward the batsman the air
rushing through the whole in it
played a little tune, and it was
by this sound that the batsman
made his strike. It was the same
with the fielders. WTherever the
ball went it was singing its lit
tle tune, and this sound was all
the Dlayers had to judge by.
Handle the ball ? Well, I should
say they could. They played a
fine game, and I tell you that
the music of the ball whizzing
and soaring about the field, and
those blind fellows catching and
throwing it just as if they could
see, made a scene never to be
forgotten. The members of these
blind nines were all inmates of
the Dakota Blind Asylum, but
if they can make proper ar
rangements they are going on
the road as an exhibition. They'll
draw immense crowds, too."
Chicago Hail.
RANDOM uAKINGS.
NEWSY ITEMS WHICH ARE GLEANED
FROM MANY VARIOUS SOURCES
FOR OUR READERS.
American oysters are now sold
in London at a shilling (2o cents)
a dozen.
Southern soldiers took all the
prizes for individual excellence
at the national drill recently.
Bishop Key, of Georgia, will
preside at the next N. C, Con
ference at Fayetteville, Nov. 30th.
The London Times continues
its original romance of the al
leged conviction with the dyna
miters. Lannie McAfee, the well known
billiardist, who jumped from a
window of a hotel in Minneapolis,
Minn., Friday night, died Satur
day. Petrified lobsters, clams, tur
tles and the like are found in
great abundance in the Santa
Catalina mountains in Arizona,
at a height ol nearly 10,000 feet
above the level of the sea.
It has been computed that the
death-rate of the globe is sixty
seven a minute, 97,790 a day, and
35,639,835 a year, and the birth
rate seventy a minute, 100,800 a
dayt and 30,792,000 a year.
Colonel Mosby's daughter is
writing up the "Adventures of a
Boy Soldier," the material of
which she procured from a mem
ber of her father's command who
enlisted when only 13 years of
age.
Probably no civil official in the
world has such an immense num
ber of men under his control as
Postmaster General Vilas. He
is at the head of a force which
number between 95,000 and 96,
000 men.
The Princess of Wales has had
her daughters taught the com
plete art of dress-making. The
Princess herself understands
both its theory and practice, and
this is one reason why she is al
ways so perfectly dressed.
A correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch calls attention to
the fact that the grave of A. P.
Hill has no stone to mark it, and
appeals to Virginians and South
erners to erect a monument to
the memory of this great soldier.
So nervous and irritable has
the Czar become the causes of
his troubles must never be men
tioned to him in any way. In
order to obey his wishes in this
respect, the very newspapers he
reads have to be specially pre
pared. He now receives no
other papers but those expressly
for him.
A curious custom prevails
among the cannibal natives of
the South Sea Islands. A man
must not speak to his mother in
law, and if he meets her he is
required to hide his face. If the
rule is broken both parties are
required to commit suicide. An
other rule is that widows mus
not marry again.
A coroner's jury in Philadel
phia has found a man named
Conner responsible for causing
the death of five persons by
drowning, by reckless conduct
while in the boat with them, and
has been committed for trial.
It is in order to bring in a verdict
of guilty of murder against some
one who did not know that a gun
or pistol was loaded.
John Stewart, a young lad
while roaming through the Oke
finokee Swamp, met a panther
face to face. Before the animal
could spring at him the lad drop--ped
to the ground and lay there
as if dead. The beast pawed him
over, but did not harm him, and
then covered his body with
leaves and loose brush. Then
the panther left, and the local
paper says Johnny was not slow
to follow his example.
Last Saturday, 11th inst., the
New York World's balloon start
ed from St. Louis for New York
having four persons on board.
They took with them let
ters to be dropped in each State,
and a lot of carrier pigeous to be
turned loose on the journey. No
doubt the starting will be all
right, for in ballooning it is just
as easy to start from one place
to another, but getting there is
the thing. If the aforesaid four
persons and their balloon ever
get to New York the probability
is that they will travel ninety-nine-one-hundred
ths of the dis
tance in a railroad car.