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E SMITH CLUBBING RATES: ELD ERALD. V IPS g ADVERTISING RATES : ()ne Inch, One Yenr Jij Two Inches, One Yenr !i Four Inchon, Cnc Year g Quarter Column, One Year 4,rj Half Colnuii, One Year b One Column, One Year a tu b Her air snu -om .nowrH V.. One Year, Sl.50 in Advaow. g J7 Th Year. Sl.-"0 in AJvancc. EJ "CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER." $ Tn j One k ami imorri .vry.mme ire Year, SLOO in Advance. J VOLUME 6. SMITHFIELD, N, C, FEBRUARY 24, 1888. NUMBER 35. JL JTll Hi. J 4 j. ,,- II NORTH CAB0L1XA JEWS BUDGET. WHAT HAPPENS WORTH MEN TIONING. (EflU C ITEMS TAKEN FROM OVU EXCHANGES AND BOILED DOWN FU THE HER. ALB READERS. Charlotte and Raleigh have . newspaper thieves. Holly Springs, Wake Coun ty, is to have a newspaper soon. Federal Court will meet in Charlotte the first Monday in March. Kings Mountain is to have a cotton factory. The sum of $33,000 has been subscribed for the purpose. The Western North Carolina Railroad lias been extended to Red Marble Gap, within twenty six miles of Murphy. Several Northern men have recently purchased stock in the Ada Manufacturing Company, of Mecklenburg County. Senator Ransom will deliver the Literary Address at Oak Ridge Institute at the approach ing commencement exercises. Rev. Mr. Harding lias tender ed his resignation as assistant Rector of Trinity Church, in Ashville, to take effect in June. Trinity College has enrolled 150 students so far this session, which is almost double the best record it has made in twenty years. Thirty thousand dollars have been subscribed in Fayetteville to build a cotton factory and work wil' be commenced next month. The Colored Insane Asylum at Goldsboro is a blessing to the colored people of the State. The daily average of patients for the year was 179. A largo crop of tobacco will be planted around Asheille this season. If the farmers neg lect grain, grass, and vegetables they will regret it. Colonel James II. Rufiin, of Demopolis, Ala.,brotherof Chief Justice Rufiin and Uncle of Judge Thomas Rnffin, died at his home recently in-the nintieih year of his age. Blackwell's Durham Co-operative Company has produced since 1883 moie than 17,000,000 pounds of smoking tobacco, paid 1,500,000 internal revenue tax, and consumed about 2-3,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco. The High Point Enterprise says the new arrangement of Trinity College library is ex cellent, and the library is in fine condition. The reading room is better and more sensibly sup plied than ever before. Between 500 and 1,000 natives of Anson County have left there since the war and are living in other States. There is some sort of idea among people who are not in properous circumstances that they would do better some where else. From the best information we have, says the Hillsboro Jiecorder, we can state that it is pretty certain that a cotton mill will be erected at no dis tant day in Hillsboro. We hope to be able soon to announce that the foundation is dug and brick and mortar are beiug laid. The Mocksville Times says that one of its citizens came to town on Friday last, and found tiie roads so bad that he con cluded when he started home to try another road. He did so, and the last time we heard from him, he had left his buggv and was on his feet and hands on the horse's back. We learn from the Pittsboro Home, that Mr. John H. Bnrke killed a genuine bald eagle, last week, at his home near Pedlar's llillih that county. Mr. Furke on going to feed his sheep one evening, found that this im mense bird was there for another purpose. He watched it till it settled for the night in a pine tree. He shot the bird that night. It measured seven feet and four inches from tip to tip, and weighed eleven pounds and four ounces. Mrs. Burke, being something of a taxidermist, haj now a fine specimen of the Bird of America, to show her friends. MR. MILLS' ANNOUNCEMENT. Xer York St,tr.) The interview with the chair man of the Committee on Ways and Means, given to the public recently, appears to constitute one of the most important events of this session of Congress. The declaration that the Tax Reform bill is to be submitted to a Democratic caucus will be received with gratification by faithful Democrats throughout the country. The reduction of taxation and the emancipation of industry are the party issues of the day, and it is eminently -k a a a -v pproper ana necessary tnai tiie force of party dlsciplinejshould be invoked to sustain them. Mr. Mills' statement that "we are going before the country with an issue," and that "there will be no straddle in the tariff plank of the Democratic plat form this year," is sound and manly, and thoroughly express ive of the sentimeuts of the Democracy of the United States. His opinions as to the stress of circumstances that will bring Cleveland once more before ths voters are confident and well put, and, while they lack that authority which only one oice could impact to them, they will be a source of confidence and encouragement to all friends of good government. We will not conceal our sur prise that Mr. Mills should con sider it neccessary to make so long delay in preparing the re port of his committee. We have expressed our convictions on this snbjest without reserve, and we think that, if the chair man of the Committee on Ways and means will carefully con sider the present financial and industrial situation of the coun try, he wilJ omit no possible effort to shorten the interval preceding the final action of the body over which he presides. We believe that time of trial and probation should be made shorter than he contemplates, and we earnestly hope that this will be done. We do not care to contemplate the possible course of the party in the event of the failure of Congress to enact revenue re form. We do not believe that there need be any such failure, nor that there is reasonable ground to expect it. Prompt, firm and considerate action will bring success, and the National Democratic Con vention will be called on to nominate a President, not on a plea for more time to carry out pledges yet unfulfilled, but on the record of promises faithfully kept, and reforms already spreading their beneficent in fluence over the land. Tariff and Vage3. If the tariff had a governing effect on the price of wages, as the high tariff men say, then, as we have a common country, it would follow that wages should be uniform in the United State. The same tariff influence is, o. should be, powerful in New York that is felt in Chicago, but facts show that wages are from 20 to 25 per cent, lower in the first than in the latter city. To carry the illustration further, wages on the Pacific coasts are higher than in the East and lower in the Southern cities of Charles ton and Savannah, than in the Northern cities of New York and Philadelphia. If the tariff controlled the prices the dispar ity could not exist. The field and demand for labor governs the price largely, always lies and always will. Curious Thiag3 in his Stomach. (Ua'timorr Stn.) A remarkable operation was performed on the little son of Joseph Do ward, proprietor of the Salisbury Marble works, by Dr. G. H. Cantwell of Wilming ton, Del., one day last week. For some time past the boy had been troubled with a restless ness which could not be ac counted for, and at night he would awake his parents by the most fearful shrieks. Medicine was given for the removal of tape worms, and the 'boy was relieved of a tape worm measur ing eighteen feet. Still his restlessness did not cease, and he was taken to Wilmington where the surgeon took from the boy's stomach seven reptiles resembling scorpans. Some of them were dead and some alive, the others having been killed by the use of electricity. The reptiles are about as large as the end of the thumb of a man and about an inch long. They are perfectly formed and have the usual iiead and tail of the scor pion. When taken they were fastened on to a huge tape-worm. Physicians say there is no such case on record. The largest of the reptiles is on exhibition at a drug store in Wilmington. The boy seems much improved and is bright and lively as ever. The doctors cannot account for the appearance of the reptiles in the boy's stomach except on the hypothesis that he drank the eggs while drinking from a stream. It is thought by some that the so-called scorpions may be what are commonly known as '-spring-cleaners, a little reptile resembling a scorpion, seen in almost any spring. A Cranky Connecticut Millionaire. There is a millionaire in Con necticut who has made his own coffin and has arranged all the details of his funeral. He is a good business man, and has in creased a fortune which his fath er left him. He is a crank on the subject of elm timber for coffins, and it is now forty years since he sent to England for an elm sapling. When it was gro wi ng he told his friends that he in tended to be finally buried within if snd that lie hoped to have enough wood from it fur nish coffins for all his friends. A few years ago the tree, then over thirty years old, was cut down aud enough material got out of it to make three coffins. lie pacJvea one or tnese away in his garrot for himself, burn ing his name into the top and sides with iron, lie said that an engraved plate would be too ex pensive, and his directions for his funeral provide that the simplest ceremony shall boused. Blaine Viewed with Suspicion. (Pkiladrlj.hia RrrorJ.) Read between the lines Mr. Blaine's message from Florence is a curious though eminently characteristic performance. While declining to be the Re publican candidate for the Pres idency, Mr. Blaine takes pains to impress the adherents of that party with his great political strength and to persuade them of the folly they would commit should they nominate any one but himself for the leading place on their national ticket of 1888. He juggles with election returns to show the immense Repblican loses between 1880 and his cam paign of 1884, and modestly claims that in that contest he won back many Northern States from the Democrats. In making this claim he intimates that he would have an easy task to beat Cleveland in 1888. In effect Mr. Blain says : "If notwith standing this latter, you make me your candidate, I will see to it that you carry every Northern State but one." The Robbers Fully Identified. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 17. To day Messrs. William J. Maxwell, T. M. Arrington and Tomas Troy, postoffice inspectors, con nected with the department at Washington, arrived here to take the postoffice robbers to Baltimore the nearest point to Salisbury in that district at which a United States Com missioner can be found. The prisioners at first refused to go, and the necessary documents were telegraphed for, but later they consented and to-night were carried on the Bay Line to Baltimore. Detectives Wilbern and Prince, who made the ar rests, went along as witnesses. Postmaster G. R. Rider arriv ed here last night from Salis bury and identified the most of the money and valuables found in possission of the thieves. He thinks after the crackmen broke into the postoffice they found the safe open, as it appears not to be injured in any way. The The prisoners refuse to talk on" the subject except to deny everything. THE NATIONAL CAPITOL GOSSIP, WASHINGTON TOPICS REPORTED WEEKLY. Or a CORRESPONDENT WHITES ABOUT flTT WHO ASK THESE A5D WHAT T0.ST ASS DOING. THE The difficulties of the Treasury watcmnen. unaer tne numerous rules adopted have never been told. The laws were supposed at first to be without any exception, but it was soon learned that"dis cretion" was to be used. Nowhere was the rM One day a poor fellow would be censured for not using a wi-e "discretion," and the next day he would be lectured for lettings ome one in who had a big title, but who proved to be a great bore. One watchman was, for instance, resolute in his refusal of a gen tleman on the 5th of "March, who the day before as a mem ber of Congress had unquestion ed entered the Department at any hour of the day he chose. Complaint being made, it was determined to put on the favor ed list ex-members of Congress. Then applied late in the after noon an ex-Governor of one of our States. The watchman hes itated, consulted his"discretion" anddeclinedtoadmithim. The ex-Governor, irate, swore that he would get in or be refused ad mittance at every door of the building. The case was report ed to the Captain of the Watch, who approved the course taken by the watchman, and who be gan to paTroi tne ireasury to punish any one who would ad mit the person in question. The ex-Governor overawed the very next doorkeeper to whom he applied. The overawed door keeper was well lectured by the Captain for breaking the rules, and w.is severely told that au- other such onence would cause him to be placed on the dread ed "midnight watch." The very next day this poor fellow had to refuse admission to a distin guished gentleman who claimed to have urgent business with the Secretary. Fearing, how ever, that it might be a case of discretion, he inquired if the visitor had any office whether he was a member of Congress or anything like that. No, he was not a member, but, bright ening, he was United States Minister to France, and he must see the Secretary. The watch man, was troubled, but -as obliged to reply that he had never heard of -'Ministers" be ing allowed to come in, and feebly inquired whether the Minister was not even an ex Congressman. "No," was the reply, "but I am ex-Governor of Maryland," "Oh," exclaimed the watchman, as he turned from the bars of the door, "that ends it. Ex-Governors," he added, as the -'midnight-watch" threat still sounded in his ears, "can't get here after 2 o'clock." In the room of the Senate committee on private land claims there is a handsom side board which not many years ago was provided with all the accompaniament and appurte nances of such a piece of furni ture decanters, glasses of dif ferent shades and sizes. It was placed in the room when Sena tor Bayard was cliairman of the committee. The Delaware Sen ator, now chief of the cabinet, dispensed a hospitality that was often gladly accepted by Sena tors of both siaes or tne cham ber. The decanters were set aside or only used for ornament al purposes, but there were al ways black .bottles within the recesses of that sideboard which never seemed to run dry. Sena tor Bayard's invitation to par take of the refreshments of his committee room was invariably, "Won't you join me in a glass of whiskey ?" As the leader of the minority of the Senate for some time Senator Bayard was called upon to bestow hospitable attentions upon all prominent party leaders wiio visited the Senate and that little coramitte room has echoed, amid the tink ling of meeting glasses, the voices of many of the great men of the country. The reception at the home of the Secretary of the Navy, on last Friday evening, was more than usually thronged and brilliant,- .Mr. JVhitney stood by his wife's sideaS -slie.greeted !iAf criiAsfjq n.n1 t.hft frnn irr-fjd unaffected cordiality of both host and hostness was one of the principal charms of this en tirely delightful reunion. As I pointed out the notable men and women I knew, perhaps only by sight, to a member of one of the Spanish-American legations, he expressed great surprise at finding such a happy -intermin gling or lately bitter political opponents-Senator Eugene Hale in amiable converstion with two of his Southern and ex-rebel colleagues; Mr. Robert. R. Hitt seated by the side of the wife of a Texas Representative, and Mr. Walter Phelps, the strongest champion of the "Plumed Knight," promenading the salon arm and. arm with Mr. Whitney, one of the chief stays of his successful rival. . Lkxox. A Well-F o unded Superstition. (Omaha World) Omaha Boy "It's all non- mm sense about Jbriaay oeing an unlucky day, isn't it, pa?" Father "Who says so!" "This paper mentions a lot of things that happened on Friday. George Washington was born on Friday " "He wa.) killed by the doc tors." "Napolean was born on Fri day" "He died a prisoner at St. Helena." Victoria was married on Fri day" "Her eldest son hasen't sense enough to come in when it rains." "Sha,kespear was born on Fri day" "And is now branded as a literary thief, while his" fair fame is given to a professional boodler who ought to have been in the penitentiary." "Bunker Hill wa fought on Friday" "And. lost by the.VJKricans.' "America was discovered on Friday" "The people on this part of it are dying of consumption for want of free wool." "The Mayflower landed on Friday" "And the American who cherishes a family Bible which came over in it laughed at." "The Declaration of Indepen dence was signed on Friday "And the people it made in dependent have become the helpless serfs of a pack of par tisan wire pullers, jobbers and demagogues.' Marking the Cards. ( Clu'caio Herald. )i We do in the same way the blind man reads by the sense of the feeling. But before we can read these cards they must i 4. : i with a ring which is worn on the most convenient finger. On the inside of the ring I mean the part under the finger is a little steel spur not sharp enough to penetrate the cards and make hole which would be detected but aslight indentation, resembling a pimple on the back of the card, but so small that with close observation it would not be noticed. This we cannot see, but we can feel it, and location is the cipher to the denomination of the card. Of course, we have to see and handle the cards before they can be "marked," but as we can handle from five to ten cards each deal, it does not take long to have all important cards pun ctured. Reading cards marked in this way is easy to me. I have one system as to the location of marks, and it is just as simple as telling the time by the loca tion af the hands of a clock in the absence-of the regular dial figures. Sharp players make their puctnres so slight that they cannot be detected by the ordinary sense of feeling. The reading is then done with the ball of the thumb from which the outer cuticle has been re moved by acid. The nether skin is very tender, and readily responds, when it comes in con tact with the "mark." Greeks of this class can be detected by watching the thumb of the right hand in dealing. If it has a sliding motion up aud down the cards then you can bet two to one that the dealer has got a book for the blind to read. CONCERNING CONSUMPTION. (Globe-Democrat) I maintain that consumption can be cured, but it is still greatly- beyond our control. There are numerous cases on record where a dissected lung has been found covered with scars, which proved that the person once- was afflicted with consumption but had been cured. A hemorrhage does not always indicate consumption, as there is more than one kind of disease of the lungs which will cause them to bleed. Con sumption is hereditary in a greet degree, but many people whose bodies contain the germ j of the disease will die of other causes simply becauso they commit no act of indiscretion that will cause the malady to manifest itself. The seeds of consumption lurk hidden away in many an apparently sound body. It is a strange fact that many prize fighters and athletes die of consumption, but in not a few of these cases it is due to the tremendous strains and exertions put forth in contests. also to the various exposures and exercises for which athletes and bruisers are noted. Place three men ont in a rain and let them get thoroughly drenched; as a result one will contract rheumatism, 'another will suffer no inconvenience, but the third will take a severe cold which will start him on the road to death. So it is every man's duty to guard against colds, and cure them as soon as possible. Many women have defective lungs as a result of tight lacing. There are hundreds of cases where certain portions of women's lungs are practically dead and useless, caused by tight lacing, but the majority of them die of some thing other than lung troubles. Again, it is a wrong id?a to think that s t o o p h o u 1 ri e r e d people are apt to have weak lungs. In Tennessee there are counties where the men are all tall, gaunt and very stoop-shouldered, but consumption among them is a rare thing indeed, but that may be owing to the pure mountain they breathe. The best thing for consumptives ispureairand changeof climate. Tracing a Burglar. Now, take acase of our house. Usually there is little or no trace left behind. Well, we look over the people who are in that line. We know that Job si Smith is in prison in Massachusetts, that George Jones is in Chicago, and so on. With perseverence the thing is brought down to per haps half a dozen people; we aoff la if tfiflintif 1riiKf tliat rtrwi of them committed the offense, f i, I men we must fix on tiie right person. It takes persistence, downright work and ingenuity after you are certain of the man, to get sufficient evidence against him. But all the way through it is our knowledge of thieves, their liaunts, ways and companions that helps us out. We don't trust to marvelous in tuition; it requires, first of all, knowledge of the people you're dealing with, then patience, thoroughness partinacity and intelligence. The Presidential Party. Watiuxotox, Feb. 17. The Presidential party will start for Florida about 12 o'clock Tues day, They will go on a special train of one car and baggage car. The party will consist of the President and Mrs. Cleve land, Secretary and Mrs. Whit- j ney, and Col. and Mrs. Lament. In consideration of the wishes of the President, there will be no committee or any one else on this train. They will make no stop until they reach Savannah at 7:30 on Wednesday morning. They will devote an hour to driving about that city and will then proceed to Jacksonville, Florida, arriving at 1:00. They will visit exposition and hold a reception in the evening. At 10 o'clock Thursday they will start for St. Augustine, and will leave there for home Friday inorning. Senators, Represen tatives and others going to Jack sonville, under the same invita- tion will go on the regular train that starts an hour earlier than that which dent. carries the Presi- WHAT THE WOilL!) DOES WEEKLY. INTERESTING ITEMS RELATED BRIEFLY. KViX X0TEJ WHICH ARK CLEANED FKOM VAKI018 HOI BCEM AND PKEPAREU FUK Or It KKA0KKS. Total visible supply of cotton for the world 2,900,887 bales; crop in sight C,0.j9,1)82 bales. Much uneasiness prevails in English political circles, and in dications are that a crisis is im minent. The solid South answers the Northern Bourbons by securing cheap rates thither for North ern immigrants. A very unfavorable report comes from San Remo relative to the Crown Prince ; his throat does not heal, and his case has assumed a serious aspect. The New York legislature unanimously passed a resolution requesting Senators Evarts and lliscock to oppose the proposed extradition treaty with Great Jintaiu. A Chicago grain warehou.se was partially burned last Satur- day, causing a loss of from 7.1,- UUU to 100,000 and a destruct ive fire is reported from Massa chusetts. The Inter-State Commerce Commission has issued a circu lar to railroads located wholly in one State or Territory, rela tive tr their rates with connect ing U::es. An Arkansas sheriff attempt ed to arrest a man in Chadwick, Mo., when one of his party was killed and another seriously wounded; the man he wanted made good his escape. At a meeting of Indiana Re publican editor which was lipid at Indianapolis la.-a veek, th general sentiment favored mak ing the campaign in favor of protection, a free ballot and a fair count. Herbert Johnson, a supposed prosperous business man at Ei mira, N. Y., has disappeared, and is reported in Canada, lie is said to have misappropriated $40,000 or more, some of which he took with him. Detectives have unearthed a nest of burglars at Charleston that has been terrorizing the city for six months, in which time seventy five burglaries have occurred. Two of the gang, An drew Gibbs snd James Johnson, have been arrested. The order of the British Cab inet instructing the IrLsli exec utive to refrain from prosecuting newspapers for publishing pro ceedings of Leigite meetings shows that the Tory Ministry is beginning to feel the force of adverse public sentiment. The labor organizations of Louisville, Ky., are demanding that the Democratic Executive Committee of that District shall interpose to effect a settlement of the differences between the Courier-Journal and TentcsnnA the Printers' Union; they threat en to make a party matter of it. The Virginia House of Dele gates has ordered tn its engross ment the State commercial bill. Among other things it absolu tely prohibits the issue of free possess by transportation lines to any one but employees or persons who are objects of cliarHy. A frightened Mexican hare lias been observed by Mr. R. V. Shufeltd to make three success ive leaps of twelve, twelve and thirteen feet; and a medium sized rabbit to jump seven feet. The ordinary progress of these animals rarely execeeds four feet and two feet respectively at any single leap. Ex-Senator Fair has offered $10,000 for the Baldwin theatre, San Francisco, for one evening during the Booth-Iiarrelt en gagement in order that he may have an exclusive theatre party. When Mr. Fair was in the Sen ate he gave a "rosebud party" to twenty young ladies at a cost of 1,000. The next morning he quarreled with a hnckman who wanted to charge him fifty cents for a ride to the capitol.
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