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7y THE HERALD: 0FFU1U PAFKR OF JOHNSTON (OlMI. rReniprioN katks: One Year. Cuh t: Adrtincr, 1.50. Six Months. " 73. Advertising Kates made known on application While we are always glad to iceeive bright, nowsv Utters from diTerent sections- of the count, v, we icuest co .tributors tn write legibir and on one side of paper only. The name of writer must accompany all articles. Address correspondence to 'TllK II KHALI V Smitlifield, X. C. NOSTil CAROLINA NOTES. Choico Items Taken From Our Ex changes And Boiled Down For The Ilerald Readers. Alamance county has fourteen cotton factories. A canning' factory lias been started at Newton. The telegraph line between Wilmington and Southport was blown down on the 3d inst. Dr. B. L. Cook, twice a Repub lican candidate of Congress in the Wilkes district, is now a Mormon preacher in Utah. Cumberland county farm e rs have about laid by their corn. Some have lost their corn crop by bugs and worms. Dr G. A. Foote, of Warrenton, reports a lot of clover that is 5 feet II inches high, and it is es timated will yield at least 12,000 pounds to the acre. North Carol inn. farmers spend annually, about :,:?2-,000 for commercial fertilizers, and the cotton States, at least S20,KX, 000 per an num. This is why there are so many mortgaged farms in this State. Th store of M. F. Smith, of Trenton, was entered by a bur glar and robbed of dry goods, groceries, and a small amount of j . o TAf money, au auger was iouuu at the window 'where the entrance was made by boreing and re moving the fastenings. Dr. C. W. lXibney has secured sufficient funds for the weather signal service to establish 100 signal stations in the State. This lie proposes to do before the early frosts, so as to give the farmers the benefit of its work. Reports of the weather will be sent to each station daily. The central station will be at Raleigh. The Henderson (roM Leaf' very truthfully says that the home paper is a photograph of the town where it is printed, and is the only evidence its foreign readers have of the town's pros perity. Every business firm should be represented by a stand ing advertisement, be it large or small, that strangers will get a good impression of the business interests of the plaee. Hon. P. R. Waring, the present superintendent in charge of the assay office at Charlotte, has re cently had a lot of ereenings of gold ore cleaned up, and the re sult has been a clear gain of Oom v- ..-.1.1 ; .in flu- government. Superintendent I Waring gets nothing for the work and his action only proves that t the government has an efficient ! officer in charge of the assay of -fie. Early on the morning of the 3d inst., Mr. Win. Everslield, who was riding a mule and fol lowing Mr. Moses Woodard, who was riding in a biitrgy; met with a painful and serious accident. When just beyond Rocky Branch, about a mile from Raleigh, the mule suddenly shied and threw Mr. Everslield into a very deep ditch right near the road. He i was badly hurt on the back and shoulder and his skull was bad ly crushed. The Grangers' E neampment and Farmers' Institute to be held at Mi. Holly, Gaston county, Argat the 10th to 13th, prom ises to be quite a success. Some of the most prominent and prac tical speakers will deliver ad dressee on the occasion and on subjects that are of great inter est not only to the farmers but to the people of the State gen- j eraily. Maj. S. M. Finger, su perintendent of Public Instruc tion, will deliver an address on the conditions of public educa tional advances to the farmers of North Carolini. A small force of convicts are now employed moving the stock ades on the Carthage R. R., from where they were first located near Cameron, to a point about two miles from Carthage. As soon as they are refitted up, a force of hands will again be put to grading, and as the remainder of the line is over sandy, loose soil, it is thought that the grad ing will soon be completed. We also learn that the cross-ties are being placed along the line and that the work of laying track Avill 1-e commenced at an early dav. 1 IE EstaMislicd 1SS2. VOLUME 6. A Carolinian in California. Editor Hkuald; It may not le entirely without interest to some of your readers to read a line from one of the native sons of old Johnston, written at the sunset, and I will pen a few for Tin: Herald, not that I am gift ed with the art of letter Avriting, nor the pen of a ready writer, but in my own common sense way of telling of things as I go along. Many of your readers will re member my father, Thomas To ler, who lived near Bentonville, in the lower part of the county, and I having left there in 18G4, perhaps there are but few who will remember me when reading this letter. Rut notwithstanding the length of years I have been away from there, my heart warm ly turns towards the home of my youth and the native friends that roamed with me there, and the varied scenes of my boyhood come fresh from the grave of Memory and eestaey seizes my soul. Those boyhood scenes are indelibly engraved upon my heart ; and, time, distance, and the force of circumstances, can never obliterate them from my memory, and they will be there until the groves and streams of earth are silent to me. After living in Wayne county for a gieat portion of that time, be lieving there was no other spot of earth no other people so good, and I Aras so attached to home and its surrounding that I felt as thought I would rather live there where I was raised on a hard earned living, than to live in any other land, though the chances might be greatly in fa vor of an easier living in the then far off West. Rut as I learned more of the West a change caint over my dreams, and on the 17th of March, 1851, I left Goldsboro to go out in the world to fight the great battle of life in a strange land, and among strangers. It was a severe task to leave the home of my youth and the friends I loved so well. Never before did home seem so dear to me until the severance of its ties became inevitable, and inevibility reconciled me to that which I thought the hardest task I ever had to perform upto that period of my life, and had I been told then that my road lav across a wonderful continent and that I would be to-day writing to vqu from where the sun sets, I should have regarded the prediction with incredulous amazement, but how little did I know then what I was; and much less what, and where 1 might be to-day. I can never look back to that time but with melancholy recollec tions. In those days there were but few railroads, no telegraph or telephone lines, no electric road; but by means of the rough est transportation I found my way to Texas and Arkansas, where I lived until I found my way to Tennessee, and in December lS5i was married to Miss Sallie II. Edward, at Island No. 10, on the Mississippi river, and came in possession of that plantation which in 18012 proved to be the historic battle ground of Island Xo 10. Then the tocsin of war was heard to sound upon every breeze, and I organized a company of our own tenants for the heavy artillery service, and received or ders to report at Xew Madrid, Mo.. Leaving a large force of negroes to sow the crop and take care of the folks, I went to Fort Thompson, one mile below the town of Xew Madrid, Mo., and on that memorable 13th of March, 1SG2, General Pope surrounded our little army of 2,200 men with 30,000 "Yanks." I had the po sition of gunner, and among the incidents of that terrible fight, they sent a shell at me that struck the embankment and did not burst. I had it prepared and sent it back, striking the gun that sent it in the mouth, and exploding in it, made a total wreck, and killed 19 "Yanks." Late in the fight, General Stuart saw what had been done, came and congratulated me on my narrow escape and success of the day and promoted me major on his staff, amid the deafening cheers of the whole army. But as you may have seen the whole account in the Chicago Inter Ocean as given by Dr. Nixon, its editor, who was a member of Pope's staff and who saw the whole affair arid so slated in his rm V "C1ROLINA, CAROLIA, nEAYEiS OLESSINGS account of it. But as I only in tended to speak of that matter as an extraordinary incident of the war, I will not attempt further history. But the wTar rolled on, and I found. 113 ne groes freed and my plantation robbed of the work of years. But leaving these things with the past, I came to this country in 1875, and, leaving my business unsettled at our home on Island No. 10, have made twenty-five trips across the continent from shore to shore have seen all the country between the Eastern and Western shores and none to com pare with this. But let me tell you that I met Mr. Phillips, who was a deputy assessor or assessor in Johnston county and left there in 18G5 for Illinois, here at my corner 25th, who had just purchased 30 acres of land at Dancey City twelve miles from Los Angeles for 200 per acre. Returning to Texas to wind up and move here this fall. I asked him how he liked and he said words could not find lan guage to express himself. Now, reader, if you have been interest ed in my long journey to this coast and feel like hearing more of this earthly paradise, I will write you again and give you a short description of the finest spot on earth, and until then, I am very truly yours, W. II. Toler. Lot A,-:;-:-, C!.. J:vie 1V. 1-SS7. A Right Step. The better element of society in Rowan county, Kentucky, have combined at last to main tain law and protect the lives and property of its citizens. When five hundred resolute men enter into an agreement of this kind it means a great deal and the cut-throats and rowdies would be wise to take heed and govern themselves accordingly. Crime and violence have long had full swav in Rowan countv. B.r. Was Labelled. "Dear me !" exclaimed a city girl who visited a dairy for the first time, "what queer looking stuff this is ! It looks just like yellow paint. What is it?" "Why, that's cream on top of the milk, sis," said the dairy man. "Is that so?" she asked in attonishment. "Why, the cream I use always comes in boxes and has a label, so we -can tell what it is." The farmer sat right down on the stone floor and fanned himself with a milk pan. Just to Amuse tltc lialy. A few days ago two ladies, one of whom carried a baby, entered a Boston carpet store and signified their desire to look at some car pet?. It was a very warm day, but the salesman cheerfully showed roll after roll, until the perspiration literally streamed from every pore of 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 compan ion, and then in an undertone she added : "Baby likes to see him roll them out, and it is not time to take the train." Gov. Lee in Xew York. In an address on the fourth of July, in Tammany, Hall, before an immense croud. Among other things, Gov Lee of Va. said : "I regret that the grand sach em of Tammany Hall, John Kelly is not here to-day that his eyes might look upon this scene and see the two sections of the country coining closer and closer together in a fraternal greeting. Methinks I hear the great sol dier, who sleeps in Riverside Park saying from his death-bed that he feels that the great era is approaching. Virginia is not sulking in a corner. The bars on her mountain sides are down, and trains laden -witli her pro ducts, she is sending to the sea. She is prosperous and joins with other States, North and South, in saying : "The Union one and indivisible." Gov. Lee's remarks were re ceived with tumultous applause, and as he sat down the band broke out with "Bonnie Bine Flag." II FIELD SMITHFIELD, N. C, JULY 16,-1887. It Is Well. We each have bad some early life-romance, Tinging all future time with memories sweet. Such flings wax fainter as the years advance, Cooling the pulses down from fever heat. But yet athwart the disc of longing soul A shadow flits throughout the changing years. We stretch out hands, impatient of the goal. To grasp the far-off interest of tears. When we have mingled in the eager strife Of varied passion after fate lia3 wove More than one broken threaS into our life, And filled with care its deep'ning groove. We cast about us, in a vague unrest, Fearing the years that threaten dearth of lev,;, ; And tako unto our hearts perhaps 'tis best One wLo shall their stcr a prophecy disprove. Then, as the days go on, a peace shall come, A recompense for that last, tender drcm, As wile and children nestle in our home And life no longer sad aud bleak shall seem. ; And ss a calm content succeeds the ' might have been ' . That dear sweet hope berond recall Which we may sometimes thiuk of without sin. ; Yes, it is better thus ; God judges us all. II. E. Shipley. THE ENVY OF ALL. "Shall I tell you the latest news, girls ?" asked pretty Myra Willard, as she entered the par lor, where was "gathered a group of charming girls. They were summer guest at Maple wood, as Mrs. Wallard, who was Myra's aunt, fancifully call ed her beautiful summer resi dence. There were Fannie and Minnie Kelton, twin sisters, and fair as lilies, with golden hair and eyes of azure blue ; Maud Greshain, a tall, graceful girl, her proud-poised head crowned with braids of nut-brown hair, and with a patricanface ; Isabel Clif ton, a bright-eyed Southern beau ty ; and Edith and Effie Raymond, both cousins of Myra Willard. The group might have -been compared, not inaptly, to a bo quet of lovely flowers, so bright, were they in their delicately-tinted morning costumes ; and their animated faces were' raised expectantly- astlreyp4nid,sdto Myra's question. "You remember Laura Pres cott, the banker's daughter ?" Myra continued. "Yes, indeed !" chimed the chorus of -voices. "Why, she was one of our set, you know," said Maud Greshain, "only two years ago. Her fath er failed, and then, of course, she left society, and we had to to drop her from our list. She was highly accomblished and tal ented, and it was such a pity," Maud added, refletively. "She is to be married soon to Edward Hartley- and Myra look ed gleeful at the effect of lier information, as they one and all uttered exclamations of asonish ment. "Too true," said Myra, in a seri-comic tone, "and we have lost the prize." "Prize, indeed ! I am not so sure about that." And Isabel Clifton, who Avas known to have angled unsuccessfully for the gentleman just mentioned, tossed her proud head disdainfully. "Sour grapes, Bel," remarked Myra, good-naturedly ; "though, no doubt, we have all made a lucky escape. But for Laura's sake I am glad, as she will again take the place in society that she is well fitted to grace' Several of the group, however, protested against receiving her with open arms. They would be courteous, yet they would let her know that there had been a vast social distinction in their positions ; for the young ladies were alL members of affluent families, and prided themselves not a little on their ancestrial be longings. Myra Willard, who was the petted niece of Mrs. Willard, and also and heiress, was an excep tion. She was thoroughly inde pendent in her views, and sure of the position which wealth gives. She dared venture out of the conventional track, and did things sometimes that dreadfully shocked the sense of fitness and propriety of her friends ; and in this instance she carried out her principles, for immediately after her return to the city she called upon Laura Prescott, and offered her congratulations. She did it, too, in such a frank way that Laura could not help feeling that she was sincere ;and the sensitive girl, who had felt keenly the cold indifference of her former friends, appreciated Myra's friendliness. In the tender love of Edward Hartley Laura Prescott felt a HERA ATTEND HER." happy confidence, for she believ ed him to be a prince among men though she withstood his per suasions long before she consen ted to become his wife. Even since their engagement she had felt misgivings, for she knew that the fashionable world would regard her motives as wholy mercenary, but Myra's timely call did much towards soothing her uneasiness. After the failure of her father and his subsequent death. Laura Prescott had supported her inva lid mother and herself by doing fancy needlework; and an art, acquired merely for a pastime, became the means of furnishing them with subsistence. Laura Prescott's work was ex quisite of its kind, and a piece in the shape of the covering for a sofa pillow found its way into the splendid residence of Mrs. Hartley. The lady was in ecstacies. She had seen nothing so perfect, and she must have more work execu ted by the same person. So she commissioned her son to learn from the proprietor of the shop the address of the designer. Then he had to go and deliver the or der, that there should be no mis take. The old lady was very fastidious in her fancies, and she had almost a mania for embroid ery. Edward Hartley obtained the address, and after a long search he rang the bell of a small and un pretentious house in a remote part of the city, and Laura Pres cott answered the summons to find, standing at the door, one of her former admirers. For a single moment Edward Hartley forgot his errand as he greeted Laura with the warm friendship of other days. She did not forget herself, however, and when he had final ly explained the errand that had brought him there, she led the way to their humble sitting-room and with quiet dignity listened to the message regarding the work. With a business-like air Laura Prescott noted down the direc tions, and he went away ; but when his mother happened to in quire the name of the young person who did such beautilul embroidery, Edward Hartley fumbled in his pocket quite un successfully for the address. But if he had lost the address he found the number several times while the work was in progress ;.and though Laura tried to be cold and reserved, tried to remember the social gulf between their relative positions in life, the delicate flush in hei cheek, her downcast eyes when he was near, proclaimed her secret quite as eloquently as words could have done, and Edward Hartley was not slow" to read. But when lie lingered longer than usual in the dingy little sitting room of the Prescotts one night, to tell the old story that was ever new, though Laura listened to his passionate avowal with a heart thrilling with emotion, she refused his offer, for she thought of the opposition which would doubtless be made by his aristo cratic mother. But, although Mrs., Hartley was at first much opposed to her son's union with a portionless girl, she finally gave her consent, for she well knew that Laura was eminently fitted to adorn any station in life. A short engagement was fol lowed by a grand wedding, which took place in the early winter ; and among the invited guest were included the young ladies who had so freely expressed their opinion in Mrs. Willard 's parlor. But of them all only Myra Willard was present. The others sent their regrets. Yet, when after a prolonged bridal tour the happy couple returned and gave a splendid reception to their friends, it was not in womanly nature to resist a second invita tion, and they went, concealing with admirable tact their feel ings of envy under a charming garb of apparent friendliness. Of the talents and accomplish ments of her son's wife Mrs. Hartley wras extremely proud, and in time she became warmly attached to her ; but it was long before she knew that to Laura's skillful fingers she was indebted for the exquisite embroidery upon her sofa pillows. aD Subscription $1.50 NUMBER 6. A Story of Raymond. One day in Chicago the come dian chanced to pass a new, large, and very pretentious hardware store, and among the clerks no ticed a very green-looking youth, apparently just from the prairie. Intent on fun at any one's ex pense save his own. Raymond entered the establishment, and, taking the youth aside, asked him in his dry, serious, way if he had for sale a copy of "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress." The aston ished clerk gasped. ' ".Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress!" I-a-you're sure you're in the right store ?" glancing wildly at the hammers, saws, and metallic implements around him. "Yes, says Raymond, "I was directed here. I want the edition of 1704, with the original pi ates by Hogarth." "Why this is a hardware store," replied the astonished youth. "I don't care for the price," remarked the comedian ; "get me the book quickly." "I I'll go and see the propri etor. I I hardly understand ?" With this the juvenile hardware man hurries lo the back office, and in a minute the proprietor comes to Mr. Rayinand and asks him what he wants. "I want some No. G augers ; but your clerk hardly seems to understand me," innocently says John T. R. "No. G augers, certainly," re plies the proprietor, and he shouts in a savage voice to the clerk modestly standing in the ' back ground : "Get what this gentle man wishes at once !" and goes back to his ledger, angry at be ing interrupted for No. 6 augers. In a dazed way the youth ap proaches the comedian. "Well, why don't you get that "Bunyan's Pilgram's Progress ?" says Raymond ; "didn't you hear what your boss said ?" "Yes but T I think the boss must be drunk. This is no book store." "But your master says to get it. The edition of 1704 Ho garth's plates. I'm here for that book and I mean to have it !" "I'll I'll go and ask him again. Perhaps he wants me to send out for the cursed book," gasps the clerk, and disappears once more into the private office. After a moment the proprietor comes out and is about to speak, but Raymond suggests: "Isn't he getting them yet ? If you have no No. G augers I'll try another store." "We've got all the No. G augers in the country !" cries the hard ware merchant with Chicago bus iness modesty. That boy must be out of his head !" "Yes, he does seem a little queer, replied Raymond. "Curse him, he's drunk!" says the proprietor, and he yells at the clerk : "If you don't fill this gentleman's order in thirty onds I'll discharge you!" sec and bolts into his private office. The country clerk is now in appearance a jibbering idiot, as the comedian mildly remarks to him: "You had better do what your boss tells you, sonny, and get me that 'Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.' " "This is the devil !" gasps the victim, the perspiration standing on his forehead. "The boss must be crazy. He can't have heard you ril " Here the proprietor pokes his head out of the private office, and ejaculates, in a voice of thunder, "What are you gaping there for, you drunken fool. Get that gentleman the No. 6 augers he wants, or I'll bore a hole in your salary !" "No. G augers ! Why, you asked me for 'Bunyan's Pilgrim's Prog ress.' I'll wipe the floor with you," yells the clerk, turning upon Raymond, but that genial comedian is already, upon the sidewalk bowing a polite and hurried adieu from the other side of the large plate glass front door. New Yrork Tribune. Progressing. It is estimated that the manu facture of tobacco in this State in the past ten years. There are about three hundred square miles of coal and at least thirty coun ties has workable iron ores. Ful ly half ths State is said to be virgin forest. A very rich mine of magnetic iron ore is reported from Ashe county. "JOB "PRINT I HG. PROMPT ATTENTION PAID TO ORDERS. We have one of the most complete printing establishments in this section, and are pre pared to execute all kinds ol Hook and Job Printing in the neatest stvle and as cheap as good work can bo done. We pad all station ery ia tablet form which makes it more con venient for office use. Tlacc jour orders with The II eu a i.d and we will guarantee to give satisfaction. Address correspondence to HERALD PRINTING EUISK, Smitlifield, X. f. RANDOM BAKINGS. Newsy Items Which Are Gleaned From Various Sources And Pre pared For Our Readers. President Cleveland will visit Atlanta on the loth of October. A fire on Broadway, NewY'ork, caused a loss of 200,000 ; two men were burned to death. The almost unanimous opin ion seems to be that the whip ping post should again be set up. A crank named Kreb, has been arrested in Washington ; he says he wants to kill President Cleve land. At Annapolis, Md., a murder ous burglar gashed a police officer in the neck in trying to escape. A very large meteor hit Iowa the other day, and Ave regret to announce that General Puttie escaped. At Laurens, S. C, on the 5th inst., John D. Shearin shot Ru- fus L. Bishop, killing him in stantly. Bishop had called Sheridan a thief. Francis Petterson, alias "Blind Paterson," of Elmira, N. Y, has been arrested, in Gordonville, Va., charged with swindling the government out of $13,000. A silver maple sixteen feet in circumference, in Middletown, 111., was grown from a twig which a traveller struck in the ground while passing through in 1840. A Mercie, the Paris sculptor, has been awarded the contract for the equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, to be erected in Richmond. Mercie ranks as one of the greatest living sculpors. The peace of Europe is tempo rally assured at last, Bismarck being now engaged at Kissengen, nursing tne rneumatic liniDS. There will be no fuss untill the "old man" recovers and gets on the war-path. But for the large bustle worn by Miss Annie Jordan, of Youngs town, O., she would have been killed by a train that hurled her over the fence. Hereafter let no one abuse the big bustle. Old papers for sale cheap at this office. A man in Cambric county, Permsylvnia, last week persua ded his wife to have her hair cut short, telling her it was now all the fashion. He then took the shorn locks to a neighboring store and traded them off for whiskey. It is said that at least eight million bushels of wheat have been taken from the Chicago elevators since the big collapse in the wheat corner. When it is remembered that all of it might have been exported but for the rescality of speculators, the enor mity of their offence -can be but faintly estimated. They have, however, had their reward. The grand jury in their report last week brought in a true bill against J. S. Hamilton and L. W. Eubanks for the murder of R. D. Gambrill on May 5th at Jackson, Miss. The case of A. L. Beck, who was placed under bonds in the same connection is now under consideration. Very probably if the case is tried this term a change of venue will be obtained. The usual crop of Fourth of July casualties are reported. A town in the oil regions of Penn sylvania, called Clarendon, was swept iway by fire ; started by the careless use of fireworks. One man was caught by a burst ing oil tank and conusumed in stantly. It was feared many more perished in a similar man ner. No estimate can be placed upon the loss, but there are rea sons to believe it will reach a half million dollars. ' On the night of the 4th the summit of Mt. Hood, the tallest snow covered peak in Oregon, 12,729 feet high, was illuminated the light being plainly seen a distance of seventy-five miles. Ordinary red light was used for illuminating. To make the as sent of the mountain required strength and nerve. Some of the distance it was necessary to cut foot holes in the ice, and to remain all night, which is said to be the first time a human be ing ever spent the night m the summit.
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