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I .. . o-t---y THE HERALD. Phe Smithfield HeralS. JOB PRINTING. OKKHUL PAPKR US JOHNSTON HUNTY. PSCMPT ATTEXT10N PAIU TO ORBKRs. MBSCWMTIOS i:TK.s: One ear. Gnl M Wnww Six MoikUn, M si. Mi To. We have one of the riio.t complete prutiag estiDlishments in t his section, ami are pre pared to execute all kimis o' 15ook ami .lob Printing in the ne.i'.est stvle and as cheap as good work can ho June. We pad all station ery in tablet form which makes it more coa venient for office vine. I'lace jour orders with The Hkkai.d ami we will guarantee to give satisfaction. Address correspondence to HKRAID rSDrnXS MISS, Saillfcttrld. . C Ailvct-issiug Haims made kaowa m application While we .ho always glad to teceive bright, j mmay irtlera rrow '.li'feront sections of the Established 1882, count v. wo rcqneal contributors to write ; Icmblv ami on one side of paper only. The "CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER." i Subscription $1.50. Bane of writer must accompany all articles. ddress correspondence to THE HERALD," Smithfield, N. C. VOLUME 6. SMITHFIELD, N. C, SEPTEMBER 17, 1887. NUMBER 15. NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. Choice Items Taken From Our Ex changes And Boiled Down For The Herald Readers. Burglars arc at work in many parts of the State. Hamlet is to have a new hotel built at an early day. Trinity College has over one hundred! students enrolled. The Roanoke New predicts j that the Weldon Fair will be a I bi" success. j 11. s. Royster, Esq., of Oxford, Jlilr- Ufl.ll ri RV till GO V UJVl l j . ., x- i- r I shall of the Weldon lair for 1887. Only three deaths occurred in Goldsboro during the past thirty four days. The Mayor of Groldsboro last month added S-05 in fines to the city treasury. Fifty-three cases were disposed of. Within the last two weeks, the shoe factory of W. II. Wet more & Co., of Kaleigh, has received forty wholesale orders for shoes aggregating nearly $3,000. Rev. N. H. D. Wilson, P. P., presiding elder of the Raleigh district, has been quite sick at the residence of Rev. W. C. Nor man, that city. He is improving. Mr. J. S. Carr has sent four : colored boys to the Kittreil Nor- ' mal school to be educated at his j expense. This school is rapidly ! becoming one of the best in the South. Southern Tobacco Journal: Maj. W. W. Rollins, of Marshall, N. C, has 100 acres in tobacco this year, and the Major claims that the crop will bring him 930,000. Fayetteville News : The C. F. & V. V. R'y will shortly com mence running a daily freight A train north, leaving here in time to make close connection an San ford for Raleigh. The Clinton Caucasian says the farmers of Sampson are much disappointed in their crops. Large stalks of corn have small ears, and the foliage of 'cotton is fine but the bools are few and small. There will be nothing like an average crop. Spirit of the Age : "Our peo ple have been very uneasy about the Diptheria in their midst of I which there have been some very bad cases and two or three deaths. But, from the best in formation Ave can get the disease is not spreading to any very alarm ing extent and our physicians do not think it will assume an epi demic phase. Mr. Thomas C. Dixon, of Al bright Township, has presented the Record with the largest lem on that we have ever seen. It weighs 14 ounces and measures around 1 1 inches one way and l'Uinches the other way. It was grown on a tree in Mr. Dixon's yard, and he says that there are a dozen more lemons on it nearly as large as this one. Chatham Mecord. Mr. John T. Patrick, State Com missioner of Imigration, has es tablished The North Carolina Land and Immigration Bureau at 22 Dey St., N. Y. City., under the supervision of Mr. F. E. Me- Allister, with Mr. Nick W. j Schenck, late of Wilmington, N. C, as Manager. This bureau pro poses to act as a general business agency for our people, and can be made of great advantage to them if properly conducted, as doubtless it will sire farmer. oe. I'rogres- The assessment of Harnet county for 1887, is : 1,323, white polls, 477 colored polls : increase of 124. 310,337 of land, valued atS7"s.2T3 : 33G town lots, val ued at 21,831 ; 76G horses, val ued at 44,417 . 79o mules, valued at $34,335 ; 4 jennets, valueel at o92 ; 1 ,417 goats, valued at 1,184 ; 6,052 cattle, valued at 34,939 ; 16,395 hogs, valued at $15,537 ; 4,04S sheep, valued at 3,92G ; value of property without spec tfyingj 891,3G2; money on hand, 7,120 : solvent credits, 52,044 : aue or snares. s-22o : value of all other property, ;14,G05 ; val- uui raiiroaairanciuse.X3o.277. Total value of real and personal ' - ' property, l,lii3.841 ; Increase over last year, 132,675. Dunn Stg aboard. I Mantilla. WONDERFUL SHOWING FOR THE VEGETABLE INDUSTRY. It lias been some time since our quiet little town lias had the offered space in your columns, and I hope a few lines from us will not be out of order. It is true that there are some dissatisfied people in Florida, if it was different we would have another world's wonder to put into history. No country, no state, no country, no town is ex empt from this class, we might add to that this trouble is found . 11 1 in all fannies more or less, so we . A , , ' , will just cover the whole ground and say that wherever we go we will find someone who cannot sav, "Let the wild, wild, world I waggle as 'twill, I'll be gay and j happy still." But I believe the j class of people who have settled around Umatilla are as well sat-1 isfied and contented a people as there is to be found in Florida or any other new country. A great many things might be euu- ! merated to cause a person to be ! really satisfied, but I think three j conditions might be put down as ! the foundation stones for this ! "satisfaction" as at least there j would of necessity be three to , bring about the other's. My first would be a healthy location, the i second a productive country, and I mean by this, one that will produce a crop that will pay you well for your labor and trouble ; for the third good neighbors. With these three condition any place will prosper ; prosperity will bring schools, churches, home comforts, and these a sat isfied people if they can be made so. 1 believe Umatilla has these three conditions. I know vre have the first and third from ex perience. As for the second I propose to give names and fig ures, for we are told "A tree is known by its fruits." Rev. Jno. Traub who came here two years ago this month and bought wild pine land, had not exceeding one tiiird of an acre in strawberries, from this he sold 2,500 quarts of fruit that netted him 12i cent per quart, and sold most of them here and in neighboring village He had in 1 acres in tomatoes that netted him $448. Mr. M. H. McGuire from West Yirginia, bought last summer 5 acres of unimproved pine land, cleared one acre, set it in toma- toes and realized enough topay for his 5 acre purchase, cultiva tion of crop, and the clearing of the one acre. I had in a small lot near the d?pot(l acres) at the commencement of the ship ping season, I was offered $133 for the crop, accepted the offer, and the purchaser received over $000 for the crop. Messrs. De vault (D. J. ) & Panielson receiv ed over $1,461 from 3 acres in cabbages. Mr. Geo. V. Devault received $7-38 from 21 acres in cabbages, used $28 worth of Wilcox & Gibbs fertilizer, paid out not exceeding 30 for labor, done balance of work himself and is now enjoying himself with his girl in East Tennesse. Mr. D. B. Wilder received from G acres in toma:oes, and from 1 J acres in other vegetables in all 71 acres, 1,400 and has 185 crates to hear f rom. While these are among the best yields I know they are not all, for a good many i others have mt.de monev. The names and amounts can be had, I only mention these to show that Umatilla is surrounded by the three conditions that go to make a happy prosperous and contented people, and with the prospect we have of getting the new A. F. & A. R. R., near us and the court house too, the fu ture of Umatilia is full of bright promises. Mr. Wm. Ba n of Hyde Park, Mass., is with us. Jno. AMitchexer. Mr. Porter will Resign. Washisotom, D. C, Sept. 7. Assistant Secretary Porter to day said that he will tender his resignation in a few days. He leaves the De partment of State with the best feelings for all of its officials, and is only influen- ced to adoDt this course bv rea- ! Q ,,e t d and other reasons ourely person- i w, n-i " tii.il UUYillt. XJ.t; 111 CT7MIXU to his home in Tennessee upon 1 purchased by me in open mar -the relinquishment of his office. kefc ilt the lowest possible price. j "Let me relate right here an Subscribe for The Herald ! incident which.greatly impress- ONE HAN'S NOBLE WORK. ; How Savannah Received Provisions ; After The Surrender. The Man Who Saved The City. ; Atlanta Constitution.) Among the delegates to the in terstate convention of farmers was one to whom the people of Georgia, and " particularly those of Savannah, owe a great big debt of gratitude. And the debt is cheerfully acknowledged. The delegate in question was Colonel Julius Aliens, now a farmer living near Statesville, N. C., but formerly of New York city. Colonel Allen's first sight of Georgia was in 1864, when, as colonel of the Thirty-first New : 1 . L. 1 ft T rK ne came wun onerman. He is a native of one of the provinces of Germany. The son wealthy parents in the old country, the desire to see the new world induced him to leave lieu Orleans with just one copper cent in his pocket. But he found friends, and from them his life is the old story of the success which is bound to crown the efforts of able and honest men. At the outbreak of the war Colonel Allen, was one of the most prominent tobacco merchants of New York citv. He enlisted with the Thirty-first New York Regiment, and the latter part of December of 1864 found him at the head of the j regiment in Savannah. i , , , hen Sherman's army entered , Savannah there was no provis- ions m the city, with the single exception of 60,000 tierces of rice. The people of the city j held a mass meeting, with Dr. Arnold as chairman, at which a resolution was adopted request ing Genearl Sherman to send the rice North and exchange it for provisions. "This would have involved." said Colonel Aliens in the course of a conversation with a Consti tution representative, "a delay of fully three weeks. Realizing this I went to the citizens and offered them my services, first stipulating that there should be no commissions, no brokerage or anything of the sort. I propo- sed to advance them 50,000 on the rice, thus enabling them to suppdy their wants at once. They offered me the bond of the city for the amount. This I refused, but they urged it upon me and I accepted it. "This was the last day of 18 G4. After thinking over the matter I came to the conclusion that I had a better plan. I went to General Sherman and proposed that he give me a commisson and the necessary authority and I would go North and would re ceive donations for the sufferers in Savannah. I knew that my visit would be successful, and the only thing I stipulated was that the people of Savannah should know nothing about the object of my visit. "I went, and was the first man from Sherman's army to reach New York. My arrival created quite a sensation. I was given 7. , , . , , , the benefit of big headlines in all the papers. "Allen from Sherman' was the way I was heralded, 'with a commission in behalf of the poor people of Savannah.' Mass meetings were held, and upon every occasion I addressed the people' telling them of the con dition of affairs. In less than four days 37,000 was raised. Hie government placed at my disposal two steamers. In a week these were filled with pro- visions given by the good peo- pie of New York, Boston and Philadelphia, at all of which places I addressed large meet ings. I never had anything af fect me as much as this sponta neous uprising on the part of the citizens of these northern citi- zens in behalf of their southern brethren. It was spontaneous from the heart. When I told them of the conditon of the peo- pie in Savannah they asked no questions but gave, and gave liberally. I spoke in Philadel- Dhia and Boston, and noon everv occasion stated most emphatical- j ly that the people had not asked ! me to ask for urovisions for ttwuzn ! "The provisions were duly cinn,i i -o nm h, oil ' "'"t'l" " &x 'Jy j x u ii a.ii ed me ; one that occurred at Bos- ton. I went to Boston at the so- licitation of Mr. Edward Ever- ett, one of the best friends the South ever had. I reached there j on Sunday evening Jan., 7. Mr. j Everett had been very sick, and I the doctor had said lie must not , leave his house. He had arranged i a meeting at Faneuil for the next morning, and attend Le would go, despite the protestations of phy ; sicians and friends. 'If you go, it will be at the risk of your j life,' they said. 'I couldn't risk i it in a better cause,' was his only reply. "After the speaking he excused himself on account of his illness ; and went home. In three days afterwards I attended his funer al, having been select by his friends to represent the city of Savanah. "On my way back to Savan nah," continued Colonel Allen, j "I stopped in Washington and j called on President Lincoln. He ! complimented me kindly for my I work, and said : 'You fight with i love and humanity as your wea i pons the noblest possible fight, i Tell the people of Savannah that, ! while armies take to themselves powers which do not belong to tliem, all will be right in a short ! time.' In less than three months ! he was assassinated. "When I reached Savannah I I found that the provisions had ar- i Knt tIicit tVio riani 1 r rlirl ti fir mjUt rl arranged for the distributin them. A .., . 1 store with four entrances, in the center of fche 'obUm ed M ft di J station, and I -, . the army commissary depart- j ment to secure the proper dis- tribution In a short time every thing was properly organized and the people had provisions in plenty. "Wood was 20 a cord, and the people had no money with which to purchase it. We next turned our attention to fuel, and organ ized a fuel supply committee, consisting, as I remember it, of 1 the Mayor-of the city, Dr. Ar- nold, Mr. Octavus Cohen, Mr. elf. We obtained passes for men with axes and a guard, and in one week had 600 cords of wood i n the cit ivil it to a1 wLo were unable ts purchase and sel ling it to others at 4 a cord. "After this work had been ac complished I resignedand went North. When I left there was in the city 93 tons of coal, over 1,000 cords of wood and consid erable money in the city treasu ry. "I have never been back there since. I had hoped to meet some j Savimah people in this conven- tion, but I have been disappoint j ed in that. I should like to meet j some of the men who were there I at the time." Colonel Aliens was one of the striking figures in the framers' I convention. He is a man of de cided ability and full of good, common sense, which cropped out whenever he spoke upon any j subject. It is needless to add that he made many inends i . K. fii,njninir.,n . , among his lellowdelegates Ilard Sense. (Vfjr Berne Journal,) Our farmers are working hard, living hard, and getting worse off every year, so much so that rep resentative farmers are meeting in conventions to ascertain the cause. We don't see the need of , going to Atlanta to ena tne cause, ; Whoever saw a man prosper when j he pays out more money tnan ne makes. Just so with our farmers, they are paying out more for sup plies than they are making. Were our farmers to plant grain they could after they had harvested it plant the same land in peas and raise a sufficiency to ! fatten their meat. Plant plenty i of Irish potatoes for your hogs, and after digging plant the same : land in sweet potatoes, which ; with your peas will be -sufficient for your hogs. I am under the impression if the farmers would adopt this system they would '. not be hurrying to the wharf at Trenton wnen tne steamer diows her whistle to get a little Cincin nati bacon. Paymaster Markham, of the British Navy, has been extradi ated for forgery and will be tried at Hong Kong HISTORICAL OLD BO0NSB0RO. The Old Pioneer Town and The First White Woman in Kentucky. ( Ch icago Tim n . ) The first white women who ever put foot in this State were domiciled in the old block house here, and, if my memory is not at fault, the first white child born in the State was born here. It was the rallying point for the early setlers, and withstood nu merous assaults and sieges, but was never captured, either by force or stategy. Had it been overthrown at any time the "dark and bloody ground" would have been for many years the habitation of the savage and the breeding place of wild beasts. Boone began building his block house here on the 1st day of April, 1775. One would think it a fit day for the beginning of such a folly, as it must have ap peared then to all but the build er. Yet in a little over a month from its completion Boone's wife and daughter were with him, and in the fall of that year the wife and daughter of Colonel Calloway had joined the little colony. As these ladies had to come hundreds of miles across the Allegnany Mountains and through the unbroken forest, it may be well understood that they had come tc stay and brought their knitting with them. And truly they did stay, and others of their desirable sex came, and the descendants of these good Games occupy and enjoy the land to this da y. The old pio neer chose wisely his location, and, with an eye only to its util ity, chose also one of the loveli est spots in the State. I don't suppose he had much time to go, like Dr. Syntax, in search of the pictuesque, but it happened in this instance that he found it without seeking. You can plain ly see to this day the marks of the old block house on the ground, and a little digging in the soft earth with a cane will bring up ashes and bits of old pottery from the spots where the old fireplaces were. So there is no obscurity about the matter. You may stand, if you wish, on the veritable Nebo from which bid Boon eviewed his promised land, and you may be sure your foot is placed on the very soil trodden by the brave men and braver women who founded this famous commonwealth more than 100 years ago. Of course, the chief things considered by those who built block houses were the conven iences of water, fuel and provi sions, and also an unobstructed view on all sides. Standing here on the site of the fort you can see at a glance how all these advantages are combinded in this location. You stand, per haps, 100 yards from the wave of the Kentucky River, and, per haps, forty feet above the water's edge, for the bank slopes up from the swift flowing stream to the very walls ot the fort. To the east and south the land is level, with not a gully or bank in it large enough to conceal a man for half a mile in both di rections. In this fertile river bottom Boone had his corn-field, and raised his bread at the very door of his castle. On the west the ground slopes slowly down to the unfailling spring, whence the garrison usually got their supply of water. A well sunk inside the fort to the level of this spring, say twenty feet in depth, would, and I believe did, furnish a bountiful cjuantity of water when besiegers rendered access to the spring impossible. All around are high hills like the rim of a deep plate, but none of them near enough to permit the guns used in former days to send a bullet into the fort. No foe can approach" except by com ing over the rising ground, where he can be easily seen from the upper windows of the block house. Just across the river risers the nearest " knob," about 400 ! feet above the water, and per i haps as many from the fort in a ' straight line. A man on the top of it would be outlined againt I the sky like a silhoutte, for the ; sun rises over it in the morning j and sets against it in the eveing. Altogether this location is just such as you would expect a man of Boone's great good sense to se lect. It gives him every advant age and puts his assailants at the mercy of the garrison. It is related that once the Indians at tempted to udermine the fort by digging a tunnel from the steep offset of the river bank; but the dirt wThich they were compelled to throw into the river discolor ed the water, and so betrayed their designs. No trick nor de sign could be sucessf ully used againt people in the fort, for the vantage ground. They tell how ever, of one trick which proved successful for a time. Near the spring, but just out of rifle range from the fort, is an immense sycamore tree, hollow in the cen ter, and with a large kuot hole about thirty feet from the ground. A young Indian buck would gain a position in this tree during the night, and, putting his rifle thrpngh the knot hole, would shoot the first man who came to the spring in the morning. Then he would quietly slip down and make his escape, keeping the trunk of the tree between him and the fort. For a time this succeeded well, and the whites could not tell whence the shots came. But Boone finally sus pected the knothole, and, getting a good position himself during the darkness he waited for day to break. When U grew light, and about the time the water bringer started for the spring, the old hunter fired into the knot holde he knew the Indian would be peeping and the young brave fell dead at the bottom of the tree with a bullet in his brain. Those who tell the story say that Boone shot him in the eye, but I cannot vouch for the story in either form. I only know that the tree is here yet, and such a thing might have happened. I saw a curious little thing the other day. One of the large sycamores has a limb branching off about forty feet abo the ground, and rising at an angle of 45 degrees from the stem. On the under side of this I saw some initials cut in the smooth rind of the tree, and I could not conceive how they came there. But a young fellow with me told me that he sat in a boat during the great freshet of 1883 and cut them with his knife. As there was no other feasible plan which I could suggest, I was bound to believe him. In these modern days, when timber has been so wastefully destroyed on the head waters of all the mountain streams, floods rise much higher than did in the days of Boone. In late years water has covered the site of the old fort, and old people love to tell of the great freshet back in the '40s, when the Boonsboro celebration was held, and it is said 30,000 people were camping on the ground. The greatest rain known to the oldest inhabitants came, the riv er rose out of its banks and the tenters had to escape to the high grounds to avoid drowning. It is an era in traditional history hereabouts. But to day every thing is peaceful and serene. The range of hills all around stand up distinctly - in the sun light, with just a faint blue haze about their summits, and the same light mist shows the wind ing course of the river through the deep gorges to the west. A. Real Sensation. ( Chattanooija Time -.) Several years ago Marsh T. Polk robbed the State Treasury of Tennessee of several hundred thousand dollars while serving as State Treasurer. He fled, but was subsequently arrested and returned to Nashville. In due time he was reported to have sickened and died. His body was shipped from Nashville to Bolivar, Teim., where he was buried. Now news comes that one Gamble, a prominent citizen of Anniston, Ala., has just re turned home from an extended ! visit to the City of Mexico, and street and talked with him. He made further investigations and I found Pol in business in that ! city. The affair has created no i little excitement in this part of the State. Gamble was well ac : quainted with Polk while he was Treasurer of this State. 1 and Arsenic Spring in Ashe coun ty, has netted $25,000 this sea son on the water shipped. But : this is probably a fish story. Ex General Bui ler has resigned j his position in Ireland. WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING. Newsy Items Which Are Gleaned From Various Sources And Pre pared For Our Headers. The President has appointed S. S. Carlisle, of Louisiana, min ister to Bolivia. Lord Lovat dropped dead while shooting on the moors of Inverness, Scottland. The President will attend the Constitutional centennial at Phil adelphia on next Saturday. A new steel making concern, with a capital of $3,000,000, is soon to be established in East St. Louis. Many wrecks, with large loss of life, are reported as the effect of the recent cyclone on the Newfoundlan coast. The Chinese Government has bought G,000 tons of steel rails, and the Indian Government has just ordered 18,000 tons. The report of the trial-trip of the new cruiser Boston was made the 8h, which shows her to be eminently satisfactory. Two destructive fires occurred in Rushville, Ind., on the 7th, inst. The loss is estimated at nearly one hundred thousand dollars. A New Mexican Sheriff, at tempting to arrest ft.ur despera does, was resisted and fired upon. He, returning the Are, killed two and wounded the others, one fa tally. The proposed evictions on the Ponsonby estates, Ireland, have been abandoned. Under the pro visions of the land act twenty six of the Ponsonby tenants are protected and cannot be evicted. Bishop Hannon, of Salt Lake, is the latest victims to the Ed muns law. He is called to ac count for having five wives, and stands a chance of being con signed to one of the Utah prisons. Jay Gould continues to insist that he has made no telegraphic deal with the Morgan syndicate, thought his friends add that he can take the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph system at his own price. Charleston is now rebuilt, over $4,000,000 having been ex pended in building in twelve months, and a very cheerful feel ing now prevails. The prospects of the crop are splendid and everything indicates a big busi ness boom. Hon. William E. Gladstone has declined, in a characteristic let ter, the invitation to be present at the celebration of the Consti tutional Centennial at Philadel hia. His declining strength and important work at home prevent his attendance. The Eagle and Phoenix Cotton Mills Company, of Columbus, Da., sold during the year ended August 31, $1,500,000 worth of the product of their mills at prices which returned a very handsome dividend. The other mills of Columbus are also boom ing, and all are largely increas ing capacity. Great distress from drought is reported to exist in Frio county. The people in the rural districts have been reduced to a state of absolute poverty bordering on starvation. So pressing is the need for help that the Farmers' Alliance have issued an appeal asking for contributions of corn and breadstuffs for distribution to the sufferers. H. It. Williams, a carpenter living on Buffalo street and Mrs. Jane 11. lilliams a widow, by the settlement of and estate in Wales, find themselves raised from a hand-to-mouth existence to one of wealth. Each receives $100,000 from the estate. The property had been in Litigation for some time past. Norfolk Virginian. Nieuwenhaus, the socialist ag itator, was tendered a reception on the 7th inst. by the socialists of Rotterdam. A crowd stoned the building in which the recep tion was held and tore down and burned the socialist flag. Several men forced an entrance in the house and smashed the socialist emblems and made a general wreck of the furniture. The so cialists fled through the back door. The police charged the mob and succeeding in dispersing it. Quiet was not restored until midnight.
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