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THE HERALD, SfBSCEII'TIOX KATES: One Year, in Adranre ?l.-0 Six Mi-nihs. T5. Adveitiin K;iios made known on application While we are always glad to lcceive "bright, newsj letters from di'Terent sections of the ount y, we rcqr.est contributors to write legibly ami on one side of paper only. The name of writer must accompany all articles. Address correspondence to "THE ilEKALD," Sniithfield, X. C. NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. Choice Items Taken Prom Our Ex changes And Boiled Down For The Herald Readers. Bingham school opned the fall session with one hundred and ten students. Norfolk Virginia : North Carolina is rich in great men, pretty women, agricultural pro ducts and wonderful mines. It is stated that a gold mine in Row an county is 770 feet deep, and has a record of over 300,000,000 si luce 1824. Revivals reported in Goldsboro Advance: Morehead, 17 profes sions ; Mt. Olive, 25 accessions ; Newport, G additions ; Clinton ct., 25 additions; Newton Grove ct., 29 additions ; Clayton ct., 31 ad ditions ; Duplin ct., 15 additions; Mt. Gilead ct., 40 professions. Kernersville News & Farm : Mr. R. D. Fulton, of this place, had a barn of tobacco which had just been cured, to burn down last Friday, causing a heavy loss. Every year Ave chronicle cases of this kind, which shows that additional care is necessary. In the four adjourning coun ties of Alamance, Randolph, Montgomery and Davidson there is not a single license to soil liquor. The same state of things, also exist in Yancey, Mitchell, Green and Dare eight counties in all. There may possibly be others. Ex. A remarkable freak of nature can be seen in the garden of Rev. Mr. White on Sewell street, Au gusta, Me. A squash vine crawl ed up a tree as it grew, and upon one of the limbs bore a squash. Strange to relate, a miniature vine issued from the stem of the squash, passing completely around it, and to the limb again, furnishing a substantial support for the fruit. Hillsboro Recorder : We are sorry to hear that Mr. David "White of Mebanes, while out driving a Texas pony last Wed nesday a wheel came off his dog cart and the pony took fright and run away. Mr. White's foot became entangled in the foot board and was dragged near a quarter of a mile. We are glad to state though badly bruised Mr. White is not seriously hurt. McDowell Bugle : We are grat ified to learn, as every citizen- of the county mast be, that a vein of apparently inexhaustible mag netic iron ore has been found in the North Cove, McDowell coun ty. The vein was discovered in the deep gap on Honeycutt Moun tain and runs diagonally north east across the mountain. It is observed to be about forty feet wide and exposed about a quar ter of a mile. News and Observer : Wash ington Kenan, a worthy colored man, died on South Fayetteville street yesterday of consumption. He was a faithful body servant and attended on Col. Thomas S. Kenan during the war and was a general favorite with the men of the regiment on account of his fidelity and good nature. He had been very sick for a month past, during which time he was well cared for by Col. Kenan, who provided food and medicine of every necessary quantity and quality. The expenses of a very nice bujial were also borne by Col. Kenan, whose large heart never permits him to let any thing or person of the least mer it to go unnoticed or unrewarded when it is in his power to make reward! Wilson Mirror : Maggie Sims, a negro girl of this place, was born deaf and dumb about seven teen years ago. At -an early age she was sent to an institution for the deaf and dumb where she learned to read and write, where she also learned a faith in the efficacy of prayer. She pray ed day and night that her tongue might be recalled from its long banishment and that her ears might be opened to the music of human voice and song. On Fri A a , - me cnanneis oi ner ears were opened and the fetters of silence fell from the captive tongue. Yes. it is a fact that Maggie Sims was given the pow er to speak and hear for the first time in her life, and she declares that it is but the long deferred answer of God to her ceaseless strea.ni of wordless prayer. i.HE EstaUished:l8S2. VOLUME 6. Sentenced to be IFanscd Three Times nut Won't Hans. (Seir and Observer.) The Governor yesterday par doned Albert Starnes (colored), of Union county, who was in jail uuder sentence of death. Starnes has been sentenced to be lianged three time within the last two years, but escaped the halter every times. Hcj was first tried for criminal assault in 1885 and sentenced to death. He appealed to the Supreme Court and some time elapsed before the case could be heard. When it came up the sentence of the lower court was confirmed. Under a new law which was passed by the legislature of 1887, it was the Governor's duty to re-sentence the prisoner, the new law providing that upon the con firmation of a sentence of the lower court by the Supreme Court, the Governor shall certify the same to the county authorities and direct when the execution of the sentence shall be made. The Governor therefore appoint ed a day for execution, but afterwards decided that the new law was an ex -post facto law as applied to Starnes' case and re voked his order. The case as confirmed by the Supreme Court, then had to be returned the court below under the old regime and sentence again pronounced, which was done. A new trial was then appealed for and some new evidence brought out, which being merely cumulative in its eharacter, did not, in the opinion of Judge Graves, entitle te prisoner to a new trial, but it was thought that this new evi dence would have changed the verdict of the jury had it been given before them. On these grounds Judge Graves, Judge, Davis, the Attorney General and Mr. E. C. Smith who prosecuted the prisoner for the State rec ommended his pardon which was granted on yesterday. Charged With Murder. Churl'yttt Chronicle.) Sam Deberry, colored, was yes terday lodged in jail charged with the murder of Jules Robin son, also colored. It was report ed that while Jules was sitting on a pallet fooling with an old pistol the weapon exploded, the ball entering his head and caus ing his death. After Jule's body was buried rumors of foul play were heard, and, Coroner Cathey being summoned, the body was exhumed and an investigaeion was made. Several witnesses, including Deberry, testified in support of the accidential theory. There was no conflict in the testimony until a colored man named Rufus Walker was called to the stand, and upon the strength of Walker's testimony, Deberry was arrested upon the charge of murder. Walker swore that he was lying on a pallet in the room and heard Jules say to Sam : "Don't hit me over the head again, Sam." Sam got up and secured the pistol, when Jules threw his hands to his face and exclaimed : "Don't shoot me." Almost immediately Sam pulled the trigger and Jules fell over with a bullit in his head. Sam threw the pistol out of the window and then asked those in the room not to tell what he had done. Another negro testified that in the cotton field next day, Henry Walker told him that Sam Deberry had killed Jules Robin son. A Case of ill i gamy. (Hillskrro Pecos Jer.) A young man by the name of W. Thoines Waite, hailing from Society "Hill, S. C. who had been living in and near Hillsboro for nearly a year and was part of the time engaged in riding the mail, was, on last Thursday night, married to a very worthy and respectable young girl of our town. A few days before the intended marriage a friend of the bride wrote to a prominent gentleman at Society Hill, ma king inquiries as to Waite. Im mediately this gentleman wired to stop all proceedings until his letter came ; but the bride-elect, not heeding the warning of the telegram, was married on Thurs day night, and on the same night the letter came informing" her friend that Waite Ava3 a bad fellow and had a living wife then residing in the neighbor hood of Society Hill. On Satur day Waite was arrested. rm "CAROLINA, GUERRILLA QUANTRELL. A Short Sketch of Thi3 Noted Ban ditHow His Old Mother is Stili Waiting For His Return. (Philadelphia Press ) In an humble cottage on a side street of the old-fashioned Ohio village of Canal Dover lives a widow who is waiting with weary eyes and an aching heart for the return of her long lost-son. She has not seen him since 1857, nor has she read a letter from his hand since early in 1860, but de spite all disouragements this old widow is sustained day by day with the hope that her son will yet return and clear himself of the crimes which have been im puted to him. This faithful and loving woman is the mother of William Clark Quantrell, whose fame as a guerrilla and a border Jjandit equals in horror the tales of atrocity related of the James and Younger brothers. Qnantrell's career became a part of American history, especi ally of the history which refers to the early troubles on the Kan sas frontier. There has always been a mystery about his identi tity. He has been confused with one of his relatives, who figured more as a villian in social life than as a desperado in the wild west. It is difficult to believe that the young Quantrell who lived in Canal Dover thirty years ago a smooth-face, light-haired boy could be guilty of the crimes and atrocities charged to Quantrell, the guerilla, after he organized his band of border bandits on the western prairies. There is no career in American history, nor in the fiction of the world, which has about it so much that is striking in compar ison, or so vivid or thrilling in interest. To curious visitors who call upon the mother in her lit tle cottage she shows the old fam ily Bible, which records that her son was born in that village July 31, 1837, and as the mother tells it, the youth was devoid of any particular interest, and especial ly barren of any incidents which would indicate such a future ca reer of crime and desperation. His father was a tinner at 1 lagers town, Maryland. He belonged to the large family of Quantrells which branched out from that old town, and some members of which have been described as the original guerrilla. The elder Quantrell married a Miss Clarke", and removed to Do ver, where he followed his trade for a time, but soon found that in this western country his edu cation fitted him for something higher. He became a teacher in the public schools and superin tendent, in which position lie died in 1854. The son had grown up, inheriting his father's apti tude for learning, and so marked was his success as a pupil that at the age ef 16 he was appointed a teacher in one of the lower de partments. After his father's death young Quantrell went west, joining in the epidemic of emi- emigration so prevalent at that time. In 1857 he joined some Canal Dover business men on a large Kansas farm, and settled down to agriculture. Later on Quantrell became a school teach er, but not until he had made a trip to the gold region, and had come back from Utah almost the sole survivor of a large party, the most of whom had either been starved, frozen to death or killed, fie became a teacher near Olathe, Kan., and this seems to have been the most tranquil season of his life. In his letters home he constantly regretted the mistake he had made in leading a roving, reckless life,, and prom ised to settle down. He main tained throughout his career a remarkable regard for his moth er, and his letters to her, which she has preserved faithfully through these many veajs, indi cate a remarkable depth of po etic feeling, which seems incom patible with his subsequent ca reer as a robber and slayer of in nocent men. These letters were written a year before Quantrell became the scourage of the west ern plains. He seemed to have a presentment of what his future would be, yet there is no indica tion in his letters that he expect ed to lead such a life of crime in fact, all his latter letters home contained the oft repeated prom ise to sow his wild oats and set tie down as a good citizen ; but 1 the most notable instance of the W It I 1 I ST J) CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS SMITHFIELD, fl C, OCTOBER presentment referred to, is in his last letter to his mother, in which he says : "There is no news here but hard times, and harder still conjdng for I see their shad ows, and coming events cast their shadowbefore is an old proverb, but I do not feel that my destiny is fixed in this country, nor do I wish to stay in it longer than possible, for the devil has got il-. lim table sway over this territory, and will hold it until we have a better set of men and society generally." This is the last news of her son which the old lady ever re ceived directly. Years and years passed by years full of momen tous and terrible deeds of the war, but no word came to the lit tle home in Canal Dover from the missing son, and the mother mourned hm as one who had given up his life for his country. She would not believe as the pa pers often repeated that he had joined the confederacy, because as a young man at home and an early settler in Kansas he had been an advocate of the union and a devoted hater Of human slavery. Shortly after the writ ing of this letter, Quantrell com menced his career of crime. He seefns to have been caught up in a whirlwind qf excited political feeling which swept over Kansas in the early days of the war, and because of his education, his dar ing, and his great natural intel ligence he at once became a lead er. In the spring of 1860 he be came identified with a conspira cy in which, with three compan ions, he planned to rob a rich farmer named Morgan Walker living near Independence, Mo. Quantrell sent word to Walker of the proposed attack, and gave instructions as to the defense. .s a result Walker turned his house into a fort, and when the party came up all but Quantrell was shot dead ian their horses. This was glaring treachery, but Quantrell defended his conduct with the claim that he was do ing the public service, which was undoubtedly true. When the war broke out Quan trell offered his services to Gov ernor Price, and was elected captain of a guerilla squad, comprising one hundred men, among them the James and young er brothers. Then began the ca reer of Quantrell, as he is best known to American history. He burned aud sacked the young villages of Kansas, and spared neither men, women nor child ren, unless to gratify his whim. The massacree of 180 people at Laurence, Kansas, was the most fiendish act ot the war. He took the town by surprise and mur dered every man he could find in it save a party of strangers who were stopping at. the hotel. And ! these were saved only by the intercession of R. A. Stevens, J then a Kansas lawyer, later a congressman from Attica, N. Y. Stevens had been Quantrell's lawyer and friend, and his re quest for protection was granted. In defense of this terrible out rage Quantrell said to a south ern woman : "I wanted to kill Jim Lane, who lived there, and as I hadn't the honor of his acquaintance I killed every man I could see to shoot at !" Well, Quantrell met his fate. He was on his way to join the army of Lee in Virginia, and in the latter days of the war was surprised by Captain Clark and a band of union soldiers in Ken tucky, south of Louisville. He was in a barn with his band of raiders, and refusing to surrend er, was shot and fatally wound ed. He died in the Louisville hospital, and is buried in the cemetery near it. But for all this, this good woman living in Canal Dover believes that he, the famous Quantrell, was not her son, but another of the same name. 'Some day," she says, "William will come back. He was. not a bad boy. I shall see him yet, and close my eyes in peace. Sunday-Sehool Convention. The fifth annual convention of the Frewill Baptist Sunday school was held at New Hope church on Saturday, October 1st, 1887. At about 10:30 o'clock, a. in., the meetidg was called to order by Mr. M. Bell, who, in a few words, most appropriately stated the object of the meeting, and Hi it, iiiTi ERA ATTEND HER.' 15, 1887. geve them an outline of what was to do, and told them how to do it. Then Mr. M. Bell was elected to serve as moderator du ring the organization. Mr. Bell then called Henderou Cole to act as Secretary. The meeting was then declared ready for bus iness, and the following were the officers elected to serve du ring the meeting : Rev. J. T. W.. Edwards was elected permanent moderator, but not being ac quainted with the business, de clined, and Mr. Bell was made permanent moderator, and Hen derson Cole Secretary. A call was then made ,for all schools represented to report which was responded to by the following Sunday schools : New Hope, by Mr. J. A. Massngill, of Smithfield; Johnston school house, by Mr. Nathan . Johnson, and McKoy, led by C. B. Bare foot. It was then decided by the convention that it should hold its next .meeting at Bethesda church, on the first Saturday in October 1888. A programme was then arranged, and the classes seated outside the house ready for singing, and the following programme was carried out : 1. Jesus Lover of my Soul sung in union by all the classes, led by Mr. J. G. Raynor. Prayer by R e v. Robert Strickland, 3. Two pieces of music by New Hope class, led by Mr. J. A. Mas sengill. 4. Two pieces of music by Mc Koy class, led by Mr. E. B. Bare foot. 5. A lecture by Rev. Robert Strickland, theme The Good of Sabbath schools. The conven tion then adjourned for one hour. Af ternoon Session two rounds were sung by each class and two pieces of music to the round, af ter which Mr" M. Bell, a talented young man, fluedtly addess ed the audience, his subject What Sunday schools have done Who shall attend them. After Mr. Bell's address there were several rounds sung by each class. Rev. J. T. W. Edwards then ad dressed the audience. Subject Sunday Schools. The music was most exquisite, and each class and each leader deserves much credit for their work. Such harmonious strains of rapturous melody can be equal ed only by angel bands which, with harp in hand, throng the streets of the celestial city. C A Huge Affair. I Wtlxon Advance,) While at Fayetteville a few days agoit was our pleasure to take a stroll through an estab lishment of which Fayetteville is justly proud. In fact it is not only a credit to the town, but an honor to the State." We allude to Frank Thornton's mammoth dry good store. One of his large minded customers dubbed it "Jumbo," another more poet ically inclined, christened it " a daisy trimmed with pansies." It merits both, as it is immense and beautiful. Every modern improvement is utilized, and everything you see conforms to the size of the establishment on a big scale. Piles upon piles of dry goods of every description loom up before you, behind you and upon either side of you as you enter the first, second, third floors of this building, until the eye is almost wearied by the dis play. A description of each de partment would consume more time and space than we can allow, but for the benefit of our lady readers we must mention an es pecially attractive department which consists solely of ladies wraps! In profusion you find here seal skin wraps and seal nlush wraps, both long and short, beautifully made and lined with elegant silk q,nd quilted satin. Cosy looking seal plush jackets, "The Genesta" seal skin short wrap, and skin long "The Langtry" seal wrap. Seal piusn wraDS elaborately trimmed in jet, with jet epulettes. Seal plush wraDS trimmed with beautiful fur collars, and seal plush wraps bnndsomelv trimmed with all fringe of seal. The gentlemanly salesmam in charge of this de partment informed us that the prices raged all the way from $7 to $50, and that they did a con siderable business in wraps V.-nrrTi f1o mprltniTi nf t.hfi"irin.le uiiLuuf," " . I and express. To responsible par- iD Subscription $1.53. NUMBER 18. ties they will send one or more for inspection, the house paying ex press charges one . way, and he added that they rarely missed a sale. See the handsome estab lishment when you visit Fayette ville. It requires some time to take it all in, but you will be repaid. Advice to a Young Man. And then, remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ring ing an auction bell or writing funny things you must work. If you look around you, son, will see that the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who worked the hardest. Don't be afraid of killing yourself with work, son-, It is beyond your power to do that. Men can not work so hard as that on tiie sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but it's because they quit work at 6 p. m., and don't get home until 2 a. m. It's the intervel that kills. Work gives you an appetite for meals ; It lends solidity to your slumbers ; it gives appreciation of a holiday. There are young men that do not work, my son ; but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even ; it simply speaks of them as old so-and-so's boys. Nobody likes thein. nobody hates them ; the great busy world doesn't even know that they are there. So find out what you waut to do, son, and take off your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are, the less deviltry you will be apt to get into, the sweet er will be your sleep, the bright er and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you. Ex. Ularried Against His Will. ( Wilm'n'jltm Star.) An interesting case was tried in the Superior Court yesterday : John D. Southerland suing for divorce from Melissa Souther land. The plaintiff in the case is quite a young man. He came to this county, where he became acquainted with Miss Melissa Turley. Young Southerland "kept company" with Miss Melissa for some months. Although he might have contemplated matrimony, he was rather dilatory about coming to the point, and Miss Turley's father thought it was advisable to hurry up matters. It was alleged by the plaintiff that he was waylaid in the woods and captured, and with a pistol pointed at his head by the fath er of the young lady, was told that he must "marry or die." Seeing that there was no escape, Southerland reluctantly submit ted, and was then and there join ed in wedlock with the young lady by a j ustice of the peace, who was with the party that made the capture. Southerland, the re luctant groom, said that he ac companied his bride to her pa rent's home but left soon after wards, and has ever since refused to live with her. The iurv rendered a -verdict for the plaintiff, finding that he was forced violently and against his will to marry the dafendant. President Cleveland's Speeches. Troy Pre xx. When Mr. Blaine travels around the country he talks politics. So does Senator Sher man. That is all right; they are candidates for the Presidency. Mr. Cleveland may be a candi date for aught we know, but just at rresent he is something else and something more. He is now President of all the people, and he wisely and digmfiedly re strains from alluding to politics. And when he is talking of the beauties and the prosperity of Terre Haute or Indianapolis, he is not talking politics, as plucky old Andy Johnson did when he swum? around the cicrle. If the President did get his facts from t.hA American CvclODedia he clothed them in hi3 own words, and the Suits labor in collating his remarks with extracts from the Cyclopedia amounts to Utile except an exhibition of spite and narrowness. There were several earthquake shocks Friday on the shores of the Gulf of Corinth, and the inhab itants are deserting their homes. a o-a- JOB PRINTIHG. We li.-ivc one of the most complete printing 3t I'.lislmu'iJs in this .-eii.m, ami arc pre paid to cxei-itte all ils o Hook and Job Priming in the neatest stvle and us cheap u good work can be done. We pad all station ery ia tablet form which nakes it more con venient for office u.e. Vlace jour orders with The IIeraid and we will guarantee to give satisfaction. Address correspondence to BEKALD FRIMINK BCfSE. Sitkfttti. K. C. Newsy Items Which Aro GisstsssS From Various Sources And pared For Our Readers. Yellow fever has brt&sa mt at Tampa, Fla.v Ex-President Davis will attend the Con federate reunionst Macon, Ga. The Sultan of Morocco is & and is succeeded by liia sixt year old son. Mr. Gladstone objects a ily word "Gladstonian" as a fts- onym for liberal. Everything betokens a prosper ous year for the educational in stitutes of the country. a The Western Union Telegraph Company have taken formal po- session of the Baltimore & Ohio system.. Gen. F. C. Latrobe lias been unanimously nominated by the Democrats for mayor of Balti more. The recent Indian outbreak ia attributed, to some extent, to a speech made by Sitting Bull on the Custer battle ground. The Minister of Public In struction in Russia has been re moved from office, owing to his vigorous exercise of authority. Mr. O'Brien offers to prove that a cipher telegram was sent by the Solicitor-General to the crown officers in Mitehellstown. The report of the general sec retary Knights of Labor, at the meeting of the General Assembly shows a balance on hand of $508, 647. Ex- Senator Thurman has consented to uake two speeches in the Ohio camp-sign. The first on the 22h inst., and the other later. The record in the Anarchist case, for use in the U. S. Supreme Court, contains eight thousand pages, and will make about twenty vol nines. Aleck Morris, a negro, killed Dan. Locke tt, his father-in-law ; cut Locke tt's wife's throat and stabbed his own wife, Mary, at Madison, Georgia. Foraker's story about being snubbed by Mrs. Cleveland has disgusted even tho Republican papers. They declare that they have had enough of it. The President made a most fa- vorable impression all along tho line of his western trip, and it is safe to predict that the west ern delegation will be solid for his renomination in 1888. The annual meeting of the Peabody Educational Fund met in Xew York Wednesday. The fund amounts to $2,000,000 and the income to $70,000, which is distributed among ten States. In the 11. S. Circuit Court, last Friday, in Richmond,. Judge Bond delivered a decision in the celebrated coupon cuses, which is considered the most important ever emanating from that source. The "Volunteer arrived at Marblehead Friday of last week. She was detained by light winds, and considerable uneasiness was felt for her safety previous to her arrival. The New York World inter viewed the delegates to the recent New York Democratic State convention at Saratoga, and out of 207 men who were willing to be put on record 160 were for Cleveland. It is very queer to hear Rt publicans' denounce Democrats as free traders, while at thesime time the Republicans aforesaid are helping with ail their might the George combine that is opposed to all tariff duties. Jay Gould and Xorviu Green says that the Western Union has bought the B & O telegraph for 5,000,000 in Western Union stock. They have elected the present B. & O. officers to contin ue in their places for the pres ent. The first iron for the Lynch bury & Durham railroad was received at Lynchburg. It will be used as a temporary track in the construction of the road. There are now five hundred hands at work on the first ten mile section. President Otey state that he expects to begin work at the Durham end of the line in a few days.
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