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WHAT THE WORLD IS DOING.
Ifewsy Items Which Are Gleaned
From Various Sources And Pre
pared For Our Readers.
The President is in the South.
The Irish evictions still pro
gresses. A Roman Cathoiic has been
elected Mayor of London.
Philadelphia is afflicted with a
severe type of typhoid fever.
John Sherman Mays he is not a
candidate for the Presidency.
A Connecticut girl ran away
recently and married a negro.
A large vote for prohibition
was cast in Tennessee last week.
The negro trouble in Texas is
thought to be settled for the pres
ent. England has built a war vessel
that cost $4,500,000. It is 345
feet long.
Rev. Dr. Parker, of London,
will not become Mr. Beecher's
successor.
An important decision was
rendered in the Court of Appeals
of Virginia recently.
Timothy Cunningham was shot
during a dispute in a Boston sa
loon by a colored laborer.
A fire at Chicago destroyed
one hundred and forty-five thou
sand dollars worth of property.
The President has commis
sioned the present incumbents of
all offices which became presi
dential offices.
A big clam-find agitates the
fishermen of Massachusetts Bay,
and they have gone to law over
their respective claims.
Pastor Day, of the Channing
Memorial Church, at Newport,
has resigned his charge in con
sequence of his late marriage
with a divorced woman.
A six thousand ton armored
battle ship, at a cost of $2,376,
000, is to be built at the Norfolk
Navy-Yard ; it will be about
eighteen months before it is com
pleted. President Adams, of Cornell
University, delivered an oration
to the students recently in the
presence of an overflowing gath
ering in the Gymnasium Hall at
Ithaca.
A tramp umbrella-mender is
in jail at Bridgeport, Connecti
cut, and is suspected of being one
of the murderers of the flagman
at Poughkeepsie, New York, a
year ago.
Ex-Senator Norwood, of Geor
gia, has been before the Pacific
Railroad Commission, in New
York, and explained his connec
tion with the Southern Pacific
Company.
A rich rancher o named Juan
Garcia Barreas was lately captur
ed by Mexican bandits, and only
released on the payment by his
son of one thousand and five
hundred dollars ransom.
Civil Service Commissioner
Oberly declines to address the
Illinois Democratic Association
of Department Clerks. He claims
that such organizations are pro
hibited by the present Civil Ser
vice law.
The President pardoned two
men convicted of violating the
internal revenue law in South
Carolina and Georgia, and makes
it the occasion for condemning
the manner in which the laws
a re ad mi n i s tered .
William L. Putnam, of Maine,
and James S. Angell, of Michi
gan, have been invited by the
President la act with the Secre
tary of State in the negotiation
for a settlement of the fishiries
dispute with Great Britain.
The total receipts of the Gov
ernment for the past mouth
amount to $33,215,217 an ex
cess over expenditures of $18,
843,774. This does not, however,
include the bond purchases,
Which, if considered, would make
a deficit instead of a surplus.
William J. Gentry and Mattie
Johnson, who eloped from Rich
mond, Virginia, was arres
ted last week at Newark, New
dersoy. The woman was charg
J1 wlH dealing six hundred dol
Jr" a,,l attempt, murder, and
UOtttry is to !' accessory,
he
EstablishedI188Sl. y
VOLUME 6.
Carlisle on Federal Taxation.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle, who is
likely to be the Speaker of the
next House fJso, presents the
democratic policy in the last
number of the For um. He says:
"The only debatable question
is, in what ma nner shall the rev
enue and taxation be reduced?
Upon this question the two po
litical parties are divided, al
though there are some demo
crats who are inclined to take
the democratic view and some
democrats who favor the repub
lican policy. It is clear that it
is possible to reduce the revenue
without reducing the taxation,
and equally clear that it is pos
sible to reduce taxation to a cer
tain extent without reducing the
revenue."
To reduce both revenue and
taxation at the same time is the
problem now presented, and the
true democratic solution is to
abolish, as far as practicable, the
taxes on the actual necessaries
of life and on the raw materials
used in their production, and to
revise, simplify and in proper
cases reduce- the duties on the
other articles embraced in the
tariff schedules. The prime ob
ject, should be to provide a suf
ficient revenue for the support
of the government at the least
possible expense and inconveni
ence to the people who pay the
taxes, and to impose the heaviest
burdens upon those who are able
to indulge in the use of luxuries
rather than upon those who con
sume only the common necessa
ries of life. The republican so
lution is, to repeal all the inter
nal taxes upon whiskey, beer and
manufactured tobacco, and re
tain a high rate of taxation
on the food and fuel and the
clothing of the people, and on
building materials, implement
of labor, etc."
Dot it C 8 oak
Strange as i t may appear, it is
none the less true that there are
actually now n Portsmouth men
who may justly be called croak
ers ; men win really sec nothing
good in their own home and sec
tion, and whe not only this way,
but actually talk this way to
strangers, to men of means and
enterprise, who come in our
midst to invest their funds and
thus help to improve the city.
The cronic croaker can well be
spared out of this and every oth
er city. They are only a hin
drance, a serious drawback, who
always do more harm than good.
It is the strar gest thing immag
inable, we thi nk, that such a be
ing.as a croaker should exist. Men
who make this place their home
and do business in our midst
should join with us, and with us
put forth every means to invite
capital and capiltists to our sec
tion. Look on the bright side.
Try to find the good in the com
munity, and if you are so blind
ed, as to be unable to see any
good or bright side then, in the
name of reason, try some place
else. Portsmouth don't want any
croakers. We can't afford to have
croakers. We want only those
who see good in everything. We
want men whose eyes are open
to take in the situation and who
have push and pluck enough to
improve it. Old fogies nearly
strangled the life out of this citv
in the earlier and still later his
tory, but most of them have re
tired, but It will be a miserable
exchange if we are to get in their
places the chronical croakers. In
the name of progress and public
spirit, in the name of the good
people of this city TJie Virgin
ian asserts that there is no room
in Portsmouth for even an occa
sional croaker.
Don't r wd Fruit Trees.
A Western New York fruit
grower avers that most orchards
are too much crowded. He de
clares that for the larger-growing
varieties of apple-tree?, 40 feet
apart in botli directions is none
too far. Where trees are 30 feet
apcrt each way, every alternate
row in one direction should be
removed when the tips of the
branches of adjacent trees begin
to interlock This leaves the
remaining trees 30 by 00 feet
apart. A better way, perhaps,
is to take out every alternate
tree in every row, leaving the re
maining one.- 42 feet apart diagonally.
Smithfield Her ald.
"CAROLINA,
THE OLD HERO.
A Noble Tribute Which Should be
Echoed by Every Loyal
Southron.
.( Wilson Mirror.)
The old hero and statesman
Jefferson Davis the noblest Ro
man of them all having accept
ed an invitation to be at the Ma
con Fair in October, the same
old howl has been started and
some timorous people at the
North have been made to quake
over the announcement with ag
onizing fear, for they see in this
iuvitation to the old Confederate
Chieftian another Grecian wood
en horse filled with armed sol
diery, and meanicing again the
coverted gates of eudangered
Troy. And some of our own peo
ple, with shame be it spoken,
are protesting against it, and are
urging him to stay away, and not
participate with his fellow coun
trymen in the enjoymet of their
annual festal scene of social re
union aud intermingling. It is
a shame yea, a crime that this
grand and glorious old man
should have his steps thus track
ed by the cowardly hounds of
spite, malice, hatred, envy and
persecution. It is to be hoped
that as he was so rapidly ap
proaching the Sunset Land of
life that all the storms of madV
ice would end their thunders of
malediction, and leave a calm
aud serene and beautiful sky of
pefect reconciliation to bathe
his closing moments on earth
with its sweet and harmonizing
light. But alas, not so. That
dream will not break in sweet
fruition. Clouds of hatred and
malice will still pass over his
sky even until the end, but they
cannot shut out that brilliant
suushine of admiration and af
fection which will ever bathe
him in effulgent splendor and
comfort. His life has been an
eventful one. It has been check
ered with many a line of vicis
situde. It has seen the warmest
and brightest sunshine, and it
has also groped amid the damp
est and darkest clouds. He has
been electrified with the thrill
of grandest triumphs, and he has
endured the probing of the sharp
est thorns of disappointment and
defeat. He has stood upon the
highest mountains of human glo
ry, and listened to that grand
chorus of admiration which made
every vale resonant with replica
tions of his name and every
breeze laden with his praise. And
he has heard the hiss of the ad
der of calumny, and felt the sting
of the wasp of vituperation. But
he has always been Jefferson
Davis the very mould of hon
or and chivalry and all those
knightly qualities which grace
and adorn a well-developed man
hood. Whether we take him as
soldier on the battle fields of
Mexico, or as a statesman in the
United States Senate, or as the
leader of the confederate cause,
or as a captive in the rock-ribbed
dungeon of his sea-girt pris
on guarded by the waves and
watched by the winds, or as a
private citizen, amid the unruf
fled waters of his blessed haven
of retirement, he has always been
the same Jefferson Davis, and
wearing at all times the richly
jeweled crown of the Kingly
Gentleman.
And despite all the howls that
may emanate from malice-lined
lips and venomous coated throats,
the knightliest figure to-day in
American history will attend the
Macon Fair, and receive the hom
age of his people. Yes, his ene
mies may snarl, they may growl,
they may snap and they may
howl, but as long as the stars
follow the shadows of night, as
long as effulgence follows the
track of the god of the day, as
long as the rivers pay tribute to
the sea, just so long will the vir
tues and the memory of Jeffer
son Davis be nursed in every
bosom where patriotism has
found a shrine, and chivalry a
nursery bed.
The Rioters.
The rioters who stopped the
excursion train and raised such
a row at Elizabeth City in last
August were tried last week.
Three were on trial ; one was
convicted and the others acquit
ted. The one acquitted of sel
ling liquor without license was
afterwards arrested by d e p u t y
TT. S. Marshal Glover, for trial
in the Federal Court.
CAROLINA, HSAV2FS BLESSINGS
SMITHFIELD, N, C, OCTOBER
Deep Plowing.
(Scotland Neck Democrat.)
There is as much danger and
more in breaking ground too deep
as there is in breaking it too
shallow. No man never rained
any land by plowing shallow,
but much land has been killed
dead as Julius Csesar by plowing
too deep. "It depends upon the
nature of the land and the depth
of the top as to how deep or how
shallow land ought to be plow
ed. If it is pete land or made
soil for two or three feet, then
you can plow as deep as you
please, provided your team can
stand it, because such soils can
stand any depth of pulverization.
But if the land is light and the
soil is thin, then you cannot
plow deep, without damage to
the land. It will not pay to
turn "the yellow dirt or clay up
to the sun and the dark top soil
down from the sun and out of
the reach of the roots of vegeta
tation. You can increase the
depth of your soil by turning up
say half an inch of the clay and
yellow earth below every year
and mixing it with the soil to
gether with vegetable matter, or
eonie kind of manure. But be
sure and not turn up much at a
time if you do you will be sure
to damage the land. Sub soiling
is another very dangerous process
of farming'. Some lands may
stand it, but we have never owned
any that would. In fact we think
we can safely say that subsoiling
as a rule ought never to be re
sorted to. Pete land, that is
land that has a top soil of from
one to four feet deep will bear
subsoiling, but does not need it.
The roots that feed plants and
i manure crops never go deep in
the ground. From one to five
inches is as deep as tobacco, po
tatoes, wheat, rye, oats, corn or
cotton roots ever go in the soil,
and if they should penetrate
j deeper, it would be from the life
and nutriment received near the
surface and not from the earth
below the depth we have named.
What you want is asoft, mellow,
pulverized bed for the plant to
feed in, and to hold moisture and
take in and retain the rains as
they fall for future uses. If your
land is hard and compact and
close, the rain water will stand
on the surface and evaporate
from the effect of the sun and
winds If the soil is mellow and
porous, the rain water is taken
in and lodged below the roots of
plants and retained there for the
plants to live on. So you see a
deep mellow soil made open by
vegetable matter will stand much
more wet weather than a close
compact soil ; and also much
longer droughts. In fact if we
could make our top soil about
six or seven inches deep and keep
1 it well in life and nicely pulver
j ized and mellowed, we could
make fine crops with very little
rain. In such a soil a four, six,
or eight weeks drought would
never damage a crop. Nature
has made ample provisions for
us to guard against both wet and
dry weather, if we will only
avail ourselves of her provisions.
But don't kill your land and
team by deep plowing on thin
shallow soils.
Failed to Work.
(Xorfoth Lfdarr.)
Ohio and Kansas are notorious
ly the hot beds of the negro
equality theory, and the former
went so far a 3 to abolish the col
or line in the public schools, by
way of showing the South that
i she could practice what she
preached. But the scheme didn't
work. In localities where there
was a. large negro element there
was trouble,and in some instances
where the schools were not closed
altogether,colored pupils were re-
' jected. In Kansas there is like
ly to be trouble, and a closing
of the schools in some locations
is probable in consequence of
equality judicious legislation.
Colored pupils have been refused
admission into the white schools
of Fort Scott, and the matter
; has been taken into the courts,
which, under the law, must de
i cide for their admission. But
i Ohio and Kansas are eager for
; the obolition of the color line in
the South.
Secretary Fairchild has return-
! to Washington, and resumed con
I trol of the Treasury Department.
ATTEND HER."
8, 1887.
A NEW JOKE ON VANCE.
How Senator Vance Danced For
Sixteen Hours on a Hundred
Dollar Wager.
Gen. J. M. Leaeh spends con
siderable of his time in Washing
ton with his son, J. M. Leach, Jr.,
who is a chief of division in the
Sixth Auditor's office. The Gen
eral is as full of "reminiscences"
and good stories as even Zeb
Vance, and one which I heard
him relate the other evening will
bear repeating. Said he, in effect:
'You know that Zeb Vance
used to be a member of the Na
tional House before the war, and
Sion Rogers represented the Ral
eigh Dist. in Congress. Well, some
friends sent Frank Shober, of
Salisbury, and me a case of very
fine wine one day. Zeb and Sion
found it out, somehow, and they
used to come around to see us
mighty often. In fact they be
came great friends of ours, stick
ing closer than brothers while
the wine lasted.
"One night, after they had re
lieved us of a half dozen bottles,
more or less, they got to feeling
pretty good, and after a while,
Zeb remarked that he believed
he was just about the best dancer
that North Carolina ever sent to
Congress.
"Now, nobody ever heard of
Zeb Vance's virtues as a dancer
before. Every one knows that
he doesn't in the least resemble
a ballet girl. He ain't built
right to dance and I didn't be
lieve he had ever had any expe
rience in that direction before
that night ; but he stuck to his
assertion.
"Well, Zeb kept repeating the
statement until finally Sion says:
'Zeb, I don't count myself any
great shakes as a practical expo
nent of the terpsichorean art,
but I allow I can just dance the
hind legs off of you.'
"Now, Sion Rogers was built
like a bean-pole; he was over
six feet high and as thin as a
wafer, and no living man ever
saw him without a big pair of eye
glasses adjusted to his long nose.
If it was funny to think of Zeb
Vance's dancing, it was simply
ridiculous to consider Sion Rogers
in that connection. But Shober
said he believed Sion could down
Zeb ; I asserted to the contrary,
and Shober bet me $100.
"The room was cleared. Zeb
and Sion pealed off their wearing
apparel until nothing was left
but nocturnal habiliments, and
the two contestants took their
positions on the floor. It was an
ill assorted pair never were two
men more unlike. Shober and I
were to do the patting and Zeb
and Sion were told that the man
who staid on the floor longest
was to have half a dozen bot
tles of our wine. Shober started
the old plantation pat ; the dan
cers' caught step and went at it.
" 'Go it, Sion !' shouted Shober.
" 'Buckle down to it Zeb !' I
exclaimed, and both men began
to rattle off a double shuffle back
step that would have turned any
nigger in North Carolina green
with envy.
"Time passed.
"Midnight came and went ; the
clock on the mantel struck one.
The dancing still went on.
"Daylight appeared. Vance
was beginning to double like a
hunch-back and he was sweating
like a draft horse. Sion seemed
to grow taller every minute ; his
head was thrown back, his arms
stook akimbo, only his toes ap
peared to touch the floor, and
not a drop of perspiration was
visible about him.
"The hotel breakf os t-bell rang.
Shober and I were nearly exhaust
ed although we took turns at
patting; but the dancing still
went on. Zeb's shirt was stick
ing to him like a huge court
plaster, but Sion looked as cool
as a Christmas snow storm. Zeb
was bent over until he had near
ly assumed a sitting posture, his
bow-legs looking as round as a
barrel hoop. Sion continued to
grow taller and his eye glasses
still perserved their equilibrium
on the end of his nose.
"When 12 o'clork came, and
Congress assembled, we sugges
ted a recess. But no ; Sion would
not hear to it. Finally I saw
that Zeb, who now stood only
about 2 feet, 2 inches in his stock,
was about to subside, and I gave
up.
"The artists then once more
regailed themselves witli our
wine, and Zeb went to bed. But
i Subscription $1.50.
NUMBER 18.
Sion didn't. After dancieng 16
hours without a stop, he went t o
the House of Representatives
and made a big speech.
I remember Congressman Rog
ers, although I was a small boy
whe he died. He again repre
sented the Raleigh district in
Congress for one or two terms
just after the war, and a very
able man and a most fluent and
eloquent speaker he was.
But he is dead now and buried
near Raleigh. And there he lies
as you and I, dear reader, will
some day somewhere lie
'A thing,
O'er which the raven flaps his funeral wings.'
Tax. Clothing.
yew York Star.
What a lot of things are now
on the federal statute book which
are an odious relic of that war,
and among them taxes on cloth
ing, which compel an American
workingman to pay 45 per cent,
more for the blankets and cloth
ing for himself, Avife and little
ones than an English working
man need pay for a like quanti
ty and quality ! During the last
fiscal year the internal revenue
system of taxes gave us $119,
136,458, and seaport taxes gave
us $217,403,983: The surplus tax
ation above all expenditure was
$102,864,704 last year, which is
standing proof of bad laws and
bad finance. Down with the sur
plus taxes! Stand not upon the
arder or method, Secretary Fair
child, but send to Congress when
it meets a bill to put them down !
That is expected of you! Don't
fail us !
Onr Southern Towns.
( Danburtf Jirjxnter.)
There seems to be an impres
sion among our Southern towns
(and as to that the country too)
that if we can just get a railroad
and a lot of stores that we will
have a town and a big town, an
everlasting place. This is very
good so far as it goes, but places
built on the hope that many or
few stores can keep them grow
ing have but a poor foun dation
Such places are nearly aiwags of
mushroom growth. Any railroad
station may do well for a while
on stores, proyide it is a good
back county to support it, but no
place, no inland town, can live
and thrive long on stores alone.
If the back country is good lit
tle stores will spring into exis
tence near the consumer until
the very foundations of the hopes
of our town are sapped. Where
is your live, shrewd New Eng
land Yankee that would think
of purchasing property in a place
that depended upon its stores
for an existence ? If he wants
to go into one of our new "store
towns" to do business he will
only rent, so that when his back
country is cut off, he can go to
another place, but tell him the
place has a good backing, that
this man and that one are going
at once into the manufacturing
business, and he wants to buy
property, he knows that the place
is at the bottom and is going up,
he knows that it is a permauent
place. Stores are feeders but
they must be fed from the coun
try around. What we want is
manufactures, anything from a
clay pipe to a stone jug, or an
old fashioned horse shoe nail to
a steam engine. Manufactures
draw their supplies from the
couutry at large, and make their
towns permanent places, where
the day laborer can get something
to pay for his daily bread and
buy the merchants' goods. If
we succeed we must have more
manufacturing towns, and more
manufacturing done in the towns
we have. There are already
enough one-horse cross road
store towns that depend upon
their stores to build them up.
A Passenger Train Wrecked.
Nashville, Te.nx., Sep. 27.
The north bound passenger train
on the Mobile and Ohio road
was wrecked two miles south of
Jackson this morning. There
were thirty passengers on board,
more than half of whom were
more or less hurt. It is feared
two of the injured will die.
Nervous old lady on fifth floor
of hotel "Do you know what
precautions the proprietor of
this hotel has taken against fire1?"
Porter "Yes, mum, he has the
house inshoored for twice wot
it's worth." Baltimore Beer?
Saturday.
JOB PR! N T HO,
We liave one of the most complete piinting
cstit.-lislnneiit.x in this section, and are pre
pared lo exicutc '.in !. o' Hook and Job
l'liuting iii the neatest style siud mm cheap M
good work can Ik? Jonc. We pad ail station
cry in tablet form which makes it more con
venient for office use. Place your orders with
Tsie H 1 1 and we will guarantee to giTe
satisfaction.
ddrcss correspondence to
HERALD PRINTING HOI St. Snitkfleii, K. .
NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.
Choice Items Taken Prom Onr
changes And Boiled Down For
The Herald Readers.
The recent frost did very little
damage throughout the State.
The increase in cotton receipts
at Wilmington over last year is
very heavy.
The different colleges and
schools in the State are being
better patronized this year than
ever before.
Rev. C. A. Gault, a member of
the North Carolina Conference,
died in Mecklenburg county one
day last week.
Billions dysintery is prevailing
in Onslow county. Several have
already died from the effects of
the disease.
It is said that the Odeli Manu
facturing Company of Concord
has declared a semi-annual divi
dend of ten per cent.
There are one hundred and
fifty cases on the criminal dock
et to be tried at the next term of
Durham Superior Court.
An exchange has come to the
conclusion that the man who sits
quietly down and wails for busi
ness to come to him gets left.
One day last week Mr. Xat.
Taylor, an old citizen of Onslow
county, was taken with a fit, fell
in the fire aud burned to deith
before assistance came.
The Governor has appointed
Dr. .1. M. Baker, of Tarboro, as
Assistant Surgeon General of the
North Casolina State Guard. It
is considered an excellent ap
pointment. The Laurinburg Exchange
says that Bishop Northrop re
ceived seven candidates by the
ceremony of confirmation Into
full membership of the Catholic
Church here last Sunday morn
ing. The merchants of Raleigh have
boycotted the Seoboard and Ro
anoke Railroad Company. They
were refused car load rates, hence
the boycott. They are now hav
ing their goods shipped over the
North Carolina Road.
On the 24th inst, says the Char
lotte Chronicle, Matilda Gibson,
wife of W. J. Gibson, living near
Davidson College, eloped with
David Breedlove, alias Walter
Blair. The parties came to Char
lotte and here boarded the train
for Spartanburg.
The State Chronicle says that
the shoe firm of V. H. Wetuiore,
of Raleigh, during ten days, ship
ped over two thousand dollars
worth of shoes with other orders
still on the books. This firm has
built up a very large business du
ring its short business career.
In Raleigh, one day last week,
Mr. Everett Stephens, who lives
near Holly Springs, Wake county,
met with a serious accident at
Mr. R. L. Johnson's stables. Mr.
Stephens was walking around a
mare in the stables, when she
suddenly kicked him, inflicting
a severe blow on his left jaw
bone. Wilson Mirror : A person at
sea is generally in a serious frame
of mind. An engaged Miss
is likely to be miss-taken.
Our young friend, Sam Earl, of
Nash, having tried Arkansas and
Alabama, has come to the con
clusion that there is no place like
the Old Nor tli State, aud we are
glad to annouuee that lie has re
turned to stay. Thi-ee negro
men stopped Mr. William Peel
the other day while he was on
his way home from Wilson, and
robbed him of forty dollars.
They presented pistols, then
knocked him down, and robbed
him of all the money he had.
The New aad Observer says
that Governor Scales refused the
application for pardon of Alfred
Gibson, colored, who was convic
ted for burning a mill at the fall
term of Guilford Superior Court
and senteced to thirty years in
the penitentiary. He also
considered the application for
pardon from Crawford Walters,
who is now in prison for slander
ing an innocent woman. This
is the man who was tried before
Judge Clark at August term of
Columbus county Superior Court
on the above charge, of which
he waft onvicted, and was sen
tenced to twelve months' impris
onment and fined one thousand
dollars.