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THE HERALD. triKlU :APKK F JOHST) f'UATl. sv bsck i rrws rates: One Year, Cah in Ah-tucr 5'-50 Six Months. - Advertiina Rate Mad known on application While vo aro always gl.ul to teccive bright, newsv letters from iiiTerer.t sections of the count v. we request coctrirmtors to write 1 legihtv aad on one side of paper only. The mm of writer must accompany all articles, j Address correspondence to "THE HERALD," Smithfield. K. C. ; NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. Choice Items Taken From Our Ex changes And Boiled Down For The Herald Readers. Durham county is building a new court house. The Observer wants a furniture factory for Fayetteville. Street cars running in Durham, and are well patronized. Statesville has shipped this season half million pounds black berries. The State University opened last week with one hundred and fifty students. Rev. H. A. Brown, pastor of the Baptist church at Winston, declines a call to the church at Scotland Neck. Mr. Paul Bonn, a promising young man of Wilson, has taken a position on the editorial staff of the Ad ranee of Wilson. The Southerner says the total value of all kinds of property in Tar 2 oro is 11,294,054, an increase over Last year of $135,221, over 10 :er cent. Elizabeth City falcon: A ne wro church meeting at Mauteo last Sunday night, ended in a big row, and one man was severe ly cut with a knife. Fleming Xorris, colored, has been committed to Wake county jail, charged with rape upon a ten year old colored girl. He was not allowed bail. The farmers of Mark Creek Township, Wake county, had a pic-uic at Uepzibah church Thursday of last week. Col. L. L. polk and Hon. C. M. Cook spoke. Raleigh has a colored physici an, a graduate of the medical de partment of Shaw University. He is said to be a man of marked ability and is already securing a good practice. 7.r. Warrenton Gazette : Slight earthquake tremors were felt here and at other places in the State Last Tuesday night. The big shake appeared on the night of the 31st of August last. Weldon News : At the fourth Quarterly Conference of Weldon a n rl Halifax station. M. E. Church, held at this place Sun day and Monday, Mr. P. N. Stain back was licensed to preach as a Local preacher. Dr. E. W. Pugh has assumed charge of the political and liter ary departments of the Windsor Public Ledger. Dr. Pugh is a fluent writer and fearless in the expression of his opinions. We welcome him to the tripod, which he will handsomely adorn. Wel don News. The Milton Advertiser says that Bush, a practical German gardner, has located at that place with a view to starting a flower seed garden on the Cascade prop erty. He will begin immediate ly to build a hot-house and oth er necessary buildings for suc cessfully carrying on his busi ness. Speaking of educated pigs, a gentleman of undoubted veracity informed ye local that he saw a hog unhook a gate, go out on the street, pick up some apples that had fallen from a farmer's wagon, and then return to the Kate, take the hook in his mouth, back him felf into the lot and fasten the gate. Durham Plant. The grading on the C. F. & Y. V. is now reduced to eight miles between Dal ton and Mt. Airy, says the Fayetteville Observer. There is a force of five hundred hands at work who will soon complete this, and then the track laying will go on in earnest. By January, or February at the la test, if the weather permits, the road will be completed to Mount Airy, and then it will make ar rangements to connect with the Norfolk & Western. New Berne Journal : The fish commissioners held their third meeting at Nags Head on August 27th. to hear protests to the des ignation of public oyster grounds of Dare county. No protests were filed. The public grounds were therefore declared in accor dance with law and will be open for entry on the loth of October. There are sixty-one public grounds in the waters of Dare coveriug fear thousand acres. 1 here are also' two thousand acres, of natural beds. The Established 1882. VOLUME 6. Stripped or Ills ask. . (State Chronicle.) If John Nichols should be found guiltv of peculations when Principal of the Instution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, as charged by the Board of Direc tors, it is not tlie worst crime he has committed. It is bad enough, if the charge is sustained, to feed oite's family out of the State larder ; it is worse to de fraud a poor deaf fellow officer. When Nichols was Principal of the D. D. and B. Institution, re ceiving a salary of 1,800 a year, he borrowed money about two houndred dollars, as we have been informed by a relative of the deceased Mr. J. Q. Holt, a deaf and dumb man, who held a position in the Institution and received a salary of 25,00 a month. Has Nichols paid that money ? It will not do to say that he has not ben able to pay it, because that would not be the truth. If he had desired to treat the poor unfortunate man fairly he might have paid it from his salary in the revenue service in Durham ; from his large salary (not less tlian $2,500 a year) as post master at Raleigh, or from his salary as Secretary of the Fair. We have it upon the best authority that, next to leav ing his wife and children, nothing troubled Mr. Holt on liis death bed so much (lie died last August as Nichols, swindling him (as he called it) out of his hard earned money. In signs, such as dumb men have to use, he talked of it on his death bed and said if Nichols ha 1 not kept him out of his money, he could have something to leave to his depen dent family doubly helpless by reason of the fad, that his wife, soon to be a widow, was, like himself, deaf and dumb. No man who will refuse to be per fectly honest, and prompt in set tlement, in all dealings with the deaf and dumb, afflicted of God, is fit to be trusted to represent honest men. Nichols borrowed the small accumulitions of a poor deaf man who could neither speak nor hear and who was an under officer when lie was Princi pal, and refused, up to the time of his death, to pay him. There may be worse crimes, but this writer had rather be any sort of a criminal than a defrauder of the poor and helpless. And, in the face of this transaction Nich ols proclaims himself the especi al champion of the poor ! God pity any poor or helpless or un fortunate man or woman who falls into his hands, or depends upon him for help. P. S. Since the above was in type it has come to our knowl edge that recently Nichols has paid a small part of the amount borrowed from Holt to his wid ow. We state this because we would not do him the least in justice. But that doesnt alter the case against him. He ought to have paid it long before he was a can didate for office and relieved the dying man's mind. The Tramp ami tiie Woman. (Dakota Bell) "Madam," said a tramp, as he called at the back door of a Sioux Falls residence, "gimme a bite ?" "No, sir, can't do it." "Why not, madam ?" "You're able to work, sir. I don't believe in encouaging va grancy. Go on away now or j shall scream for help." "All right, madam ; don't hol ler. But I called on the woman next door last evening, and she have me a very different answer, madam." "She was just fool enough to go and give you something, I suppose?" "Oh, no, madam, she didn't give me no thin' neither, but she give a much different reason. Good by, madam." "Hold on just a minute. What did she say ?" "She come to the door all dress ed up in a new jailer dress, an' seemed very much excited, mad am, an' when she opens the door 1 looks in an' sees a man in there sittin' in a cheer, madam." "Mercy, has it come to this with her I wouldn't hardly be lieve it. Here, don't go away take this, my go 3d man." "Thankee, madam ! Baker's Smithfield HeraiLd. "CABQLINA, SMITHFIELD, N. C, SEPTEMBER bread ? Yes, I gen'rally prefers it to ho'-made bread, 'specially where they ain't none too good cooks. The butter is jes' a little tainted, madam. Haint got no jam to put on it, I s'pose ? Oh, you have, all right, jell improves it powe'fully. No, thankee, I don't keer 'bout any fruit cake better throw it in the slop pail where the children won't get it, madam. Any pie ? Ah, yes, correct, that cream pie is good, but this apple rather lays over it. I'll put this cold chicken in my pocket. That'll do, madam, this is 'bout all I can carry." "But what was it the woman said to you ?" "Why, she seemed excited like, 'sif she was goin' some place, an, she says: Please go 'way, sir, we haint got notliin' in the house to eat.' " "A pretty excuse to get you away. But that strange man " "He proved to be her husband, madam. He come out an' kick ed me through the top a of shade tree an' then chased me two blocks. He's pizeu on tramps, madam. Good-by put 'jes a little more cream in yer pie crust an' it'll improve it. Foraker and his Crowd Re link eel. Erie, Pa., August 30. Robert Wainwright Scott Post, No. 364, G. A. K., last night adopted a resolution with reference to the reported slight to President Cleveland at Wheeling last Fri day, as follows : "Be if resolved, That such ac tion meets with the unqualified disapproval aud disapprobation of this post, aud that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the department commander of Pennsylvania." Cotton af The Soutli. Reports both from govern ment and private sources indi cate a slight falling off in this years cotton crop as against the figures of 188G-'87. It well per haps be less than present esti mates. Cotton has a way of looking badly at this time, as a result of the midsummer drought, but it nearly always freshens up under the impulse of warm rains and hot suns in early September, so that the "top crop" bolls fill out while the farmers are gath ering the bottom and middle crops. The total yield will, in all probability, exceed six mill ions of bales, aggregating be tween 250,000,000 and 300,000, 000 pounds of lint cotton and about 600,000,000 of seed. Since our Southern friends have put so vast an acreage into cotton for a crop of this size represents a planted area of 24, 000,000 or more acres we trust their expectations may be real ized. There is little enough profit in planting cotton at best and those who devote their time and energies to that pursuit can ill afford to lose even the small est fraction of the possible rec ompense. We are glad to be lieve, therefore, that the present outlook is favorable, and that the cotton growers will realize practically all that they had a right to expect. But how much better it would be for the South if at least one half of the tremendous area now momopolized by cotton were di verted to other agricultural uses ! How much better if the southern farmer would set about raising his own supplies, his own meat and bread, fruits, dairy and garden products, thus making himself thoroughly independent as regards the necessities of life and using cotton merely as a sur plus article ! Under such a pol icy the South would soon grow rich and prosperous and popu lous, immeasurably beyond any possibility of the existing sys tem. The Annual Snake Tarn. From a gentleman who came from Natahala last week, we learn that Mr. Crews, while out bee-hunting on Natahala moun tain, a few days ago, saw a snake's head under a large rock, and upon examination concluded there must be a regular den of snakes beneath the stone. He called in a number of men near by, and they turned the stone over, when fourteen rattlesnakes and eighteen pilots were found and killed. Two of the rattle snakes each. Ex. CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS DARWIN'S MISSING LINK. Two Strange Animals in a Park Bow Store They Look lake Monkeys But Have Human Ways. vNew York Star.) Professor Darwin would have leaped with joy if he could have seen the two highly comical spec imens of what must have been his long sought "missing link," now lodged at No. 95 Park row, in the exclusive care of a colored woman. They are hairy and particolored youngsters of the male sex, and for want of reli able information as to their posi tion in the animal world, their owner alludes to -them as "die kinder," or the "babies." He distinguishes one from the other by tSieir names, "He" and "It." The creatures arrived from London on Thursday by the steamer Wieland, and were in charge of Mr. Herman Reiche, who brought them from London. The fact of their presence here became public property after the appearance of the following advertisement : Wanted, a good, reliable colored woman, experienced in the care and hrinring up of b.ibies, a? nurse for two wild children from Africa : must be tidy, clean and of kind die position. Cimui Kkiciik & Oro.. 05 Park row. Mrs. Minerva Sparrow of No. 356 Gold street, Brooklyn, who said she had lost six childreen of her own, and that her heart yearned after the babble of chil dren and the touch of their tiny hands called on Mr. Reiche and applied for the position of nurse to the little ones. She was shown upstairs to a back room on the third story, till Mr. Reiche halted in front of a roomy wooden cage and said : "Here are the babies." "Mercy on us," exclaimed Mrs. Sparrow, throwing up her hands. "What may they be, sir?" "He" and It" were amusing themselves " climbing up and down the bars of their dining room, but they came down to the front of the cage and crowded up to each other with a wistful expression on their funny faces. The babies stand about two feet high, and have long arms like those of a monkey. Their faces arc of a slaty gray color, but their bodies are of a much ligh ter tint, often approaching a pink flesh color. Reddish brown hair grows thinly on their bodies and limbs. A superficial observer might class them as monkeys, but a closer examination shows tliat they present as many points of divergence from the money as from the human type. Their heads are round and high aud they have foeheads which do not recede in the least. Their ears are aristocratically small and delicately formed, and they have big brown, human looking eyes of which a woman might be proud. Their mouths are large and ugly, but this defect is redeemed by rows of white and perfectly formed teeth. They have hands and fingers as slender and shapely as a fine lady's, but the skin on the back of the hands is of a dark slate color. The nails are thin, al mond shaped and finely pol ished, not in the least like an animal's claws. They have no tails. They have big paunches which make their bodies look like distended rubber bags and se riously interfere with their locomotion. The door of the cage was opened by Mr. Reiche and "He" was brought out for Mrs. Spar row's inspection. He seemed to experience boundless delight at being temporarily at liberty. Closely he pressed his little round head against the colored woman's dress and wound his L long arms around her waist. An unmistakable smile crept across his big mouth and lost itself in the cavity which is his apology for a' nose. Mrs. Sparrow was evidently his first choice for the position of nurse. He clung to her like a barnacle to the bottom of a ship, and he had to be put back into his cage in sections one limb at a time. A similar scene occurred when a Star reporter called. Both babies seem to have an inordinate fondness for human society, and I shed actual tears when left alone . after an interview. They are j very mild in their behavior, and ATTEND HEB." 10. 1887. kept themselves spotlessly clean. "What are they ?" the reporter asked of Mr. Herman Reiche, who is an experienced naturalist. "I really can't tell you. They are a mystery to me and to my brother. I have made an ex haustive search through all the books of natural history, but can find no mention of these. Tliey certainly are not monkeys." Concerning the origin of the strangers Mr. Reich can only re peat the account give him by the man who sold them in Lon don, known as Hunter Wilhelm. The latter makes periodical trips to southern Africa with guns and cloth, which he carries into the interior and barter to the natives for gold and ivory. About eight months ago he was in the Zambezi River country 100 miles beyond the Victoria Falls. A white man's foot is rarely seen there, but the natives treated him kindly, and he tar ried with them several weeks. They told hi in that about 100 miles further inland there was a tribe of hairy men who every now and then invaded the villa- ges of their peaceiui neign Dors and captured the women whom they took back to their own country. Hunter Wilhelm set this down as an idle tale, but one day a wild looking woman arrived in he village, and was recognized as one who had been kidnapped by the hairy tribe many years ago. She had with her three nondescript looking creatures, two males and one female, whom she said were her children. The people of her tribe were too superstitious to have any thing to do with the little things, but the hunter was glad to re ceive them in excliange for his stock of goods. It took him four months to carry them to England, and Mr. Reiche, hear ing the story in London, bought the animals. The female, called "She," was taller and finer-looking than the others, but she sickened and died two months after her arriv al in England. They are now fed on milk, boiled rice, soup, eggs and ba nanas, with a daily dose of cod liver oil to keep them in condi tion. Whenever they want to sleep they cover themselves with blankets and retire to a corner of their cage. Mrs. Sparrow has instructions to be very gentle with the little creatures and attend as carefully to their wants as if they were really babies. Mr. Reiche thinks that they may be taught to walk, eat, dress, and, talk and sing. possibly, even Found Out. (Youth's (Companion.) Silence is not always a proof of wisdom, though often it is a sign of it. Here is a story that a gentleman who had a son who was not particularly bright al ways admonished the young man to be silent, and to conceal his folly. One day the two were invited to a large dinner, and as seats were not plentiful, the father and son were separated. During the meal, two gentlemen who sat opposite the man differed on a subject they were discussing, and rather than have a serious dispute, they agreed to leave it to the gentleman opposite them to decide. They stated the case to him, and asked his opinion. The son was silent. They waited a lit tle while supposing that he was meditating, and asked him to de cide. Still he kept silent. This led the gentlemen to look steadily at him, both exclaimed at once : "Why, the fellow is a fool !" "Father! father!" the son called ; they have found me out. The Difference. "My Darling, you do not be stow upon me so much affection as you did before we were mar ried" observed a little wife to a husband. "Don't I?" oberved the mon ster. "No, Johnnie, you do not ; you pay very little attention to me now, said she. "Well' mv dear. I will be a lit- tie more considerate of your feelings in the future, but did you ever know a man to run af- ter a horse-car after he had caught it?" Ex. Subscription $1.50, NUMBER 14. An United States Counsii Insult ed by a Native Judge. El Paso, Tex., September 1. An episode that may result in another international dispute occurred a Paso del Norte, Mex ico, a few days ago, involving United States Counsul Brigham j and Judge Zubia, a resident mag istrate. The following letter ex plains the difficulty : "Paso Del Norte, August 30. "To J. M. Porter, Assistat Secre tary of State, Washingtnn, D. C: "Myself and Colonel Co wart, of the Mescalerez agency, of New Mexico, have been several days, trying to recover some horses stolen from the agency and brought and held at this place. We have all the proofs necessary to identify the horses, and after many days waiting Judge Zubia appointed the day to try the case. At 4 o'clock Cowart and myself called at the court room, and, af- ' ter remaining there until after 5, ! we went to his residence to see j why he did not take up the case, j Nothing occured there of an in- i suiting naiure, as jl can prove When we leit Judge zaibia ran some ten or twelve feet out into the street and struck me from behind over the head. I then ran into a house and told him he would hear from me again. Thus the matter stands. Judge Zubia insulted a United States agent and myself in the discharge of our duty B Rion a m, Co nsul. ' ' THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT INTER FERE AS YET. Washington, D. C, September 1. Consul Brigham, at El Paso Del Norte, has informed the De partment of State of his trouble with Judge Zubia, the Mexican magistrate. Indian Agent Cow art, who was with him at the time the alleged insult was in flicted, fully corroborates Consul Brigham's story in a dispatch to the Commissioners of Indian Af fairs. The matter, however, is looked upon at the State Depart ment as a purely personal affair, and one not likely to lean to in ternational complications with the sister republic, and no action is likely to be taken until, at least, the Mexican side of the story is heard. Poisonous Baby Carriages. "Poisonous Preambulators," says the British Medical Jour nal, "are probably one of the least suspected dangers, y e t, nevertheless, one which experi- ence has shown to exist, and, therefore one against which the parents of a family would do well to be on their guard. A case is recorded this week of a child, aged four months, who, on its return after being out under a hot sun, was seized with sick ness aud vomiting, matter being of a green colored fluid. From inquires made by medical men it was elicited that the child had been seen to suck a green strap of the preainbulator, and the true cause of the mischief was at once suspected, namely arsenic poison ing. An analytical examination of the strap confirmed this view, ar senic being found to be present in great abundance. In spite of all that medical aid could effect the child gradually sank from exhaustion." Catch! pr Bats at Rlidaiffhl. (Chicago National.) A reporter, browsing about be tween midnight and 1 o'clock the other morning, saw a man stan ding near one of the electric ! light posts on Washiggton street waving a long horsewhip back and forth high above his head. He had a fishhook on the end of the whip, to which was attached a moth miller, and he explained that with this bait he captured the bats that were foraging among the insects around the electric light. He said he got half a dol- j lar apiece for them, and that he i had already caught seven that ; night. He sold them to the tax- idermists, and said that he could ; get more for them in Boston, i He spoke of hiring a man to help him, as he could catch I enough then to pay him for ship- ping them to Boston He caught j two while the reporter remained j to watch the operation, and he j picked them off the hook aud ) put them in a bag that he carried j slung across his shoulder. JOB PRINTIHG. PCS! KPT ATTKXl'ItiS PUD TO CRCFn S. Wo liave-oiif of the moM omnplete printing est ii)lis!uiicnts in liiis p.-ctioR, .-mil arc pre pared to oxreulv nil .twin o' Uoiik and Job 1'iinting in tlie neatest style and ns cheap as good work can be done. c pad all station ery in tablet form which makes it more con venient for office use. Place jour orders with Thk Herald and wc will guarantee to give satisfaction. Address correspondence to HERALD PRINTING HOI SK, Smlthfleld, N. C WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING. Newsy Items Which Are Gleaned Prom Various Sources And Pre pared Far Our Readers. A sixty thousand dollar fire oc curred at Richmond, Ky., last week. The New York State Democrat ic Convention is called to meet at Saratoga, September 17th. The Treasurer of Anglaise county, Ohio, is missing. He is short in his accounts $31. 000. Charles Sims, a colored burglar, has been captured and carried to Wilson, where he is to be tried. The car wheel works of St. Louis, Missouri, have been de stroyed by fire. Loss $100,000. Neal Dow is to open the Pro hibition campaign in New York by a speech at the Cooper Union, September 25th. The Unite States Express Com pany has purchased the business of the Baltimore and Ohio Com pany for $2,500,000. The London Times protests against the treatment of British vessels by the American authori ties in the Behrfngs sea. John Swinton is prominently mentioned as the Socialistic La bor party's candidate for Secreta ry of State in New York. Leroy Stout, no doubt the lar gest youth in the United States. He is fourteen years old and weighs overfour hundred pounds. A band of horse-thieves are giving the authorities of Texas a great deal of trouble, and it is feared a serious conflict will oc cur. The evictions in Ireland con tinue and some heartless work is being done. Old and helpless women are being thrown out on the roadsides to die- JrL-x-tjrovenor Uhamberlam is out in a. letter defending Presi dent Cleveland's administration gainst the charges of not being a civil service administration. A riot occurred between negro gamblers and raftmen on a steamer at Apalachicola, Fla., last week, the militia was order dered out and several arrests were made. It is announced that T. V. Powderly, General Master Work man of the Knights of Labor, will proceed to Ireland at an ear ly date to take an active pari in the National inoviuerit. The followinging tikot ha been nomninated by the Demo crats of Pennsylvaina : J." Ross Thompson, of Erie, for Supreme Judge; B. S. McGrahn, of Lan caster, for State Treasurer. The President has appointed S. S. Carlisle, of Louisiana,, tobe Minister Resident and Consul General to Bolivia, and James C. Quiggle, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul of the United States at Port Stauley and St. Thomas. Ontario. Much excitement exists in Southwestern Missouri, in conse quence of the people taking po session, under an opinion ren dered by President Cleveland, of thousands of acres of fertile lands which have heretofore been wrongfully held by railroad cor porations. Treasury Department officials estimate that the reduction in the public debt during the pres ent month will be about $5,500, 000. This comparatively light monthly reduction is recounted for by the unusually heavy pen sion draft for August, which amounted to fully $10,000,000. A case of unparelled brutali ty occurred near Smiley, Indiana the 29th inst. A step-father beat and maimed a child, leaving it alone for hours, tied to a bed stead. After it became necessa ry to amputate two of the child's limbs, death relieved the little sufferer from further torture. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 25.- John Merick, colored, was lynch ed in Henry county, Ala., last night by one hundred people of his own race. Last week he out raged a white lady, Mrs. Basmore. The parties scoured the woods for him and a crowd of colored men found him and hung him up to a tree and riddled his body with bullets. 4