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J. L. T. Snood, Publisher.
CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSING ATTEND HER!"
Subscription OI.DO Por Year.
VOLUME 8.
SMITHFIELD, N. C, JANUARY 25, 1890.
NUMBER 30.
NEWS ITEMS.
GENERAL. INFORMATION OF THS
WORLD.
Happenings
in Tilts Btliat La ad
Ours.
Yc learn that the fanners in
Bertie county arc hiring only
white labor. The colored people
are so demoralized that they
will not hire by the month or by
the Year. Scotland Neck Demo-
m
crat.
Benny Harrison, in his letter
accepting the Republican nomina
tion, said that "fitness not party
service" was to be his guide in
appoinments if elected. Behold,
how his eril practice tallies with
his good promise. Ex.
If the negrots who stand around
on the streets and talk emigra
tion, would go to work, they
would be better off. Dailv thev
are noticed on the streets here
and if they would go to work
ther would feel better satisfied
and would have no desire to I
emigrate. Tarboro Southerner. I
T-t,. t,:!
r t t. " aj f.
Wmncr to TtTernn
r- n- I
n.V irl. "He shonld bnr no
' :. a
solt.honld be. The man who
is unwilling to do honor to the
conviction, the honesty, the
heroism, the fidelity of Jefferson
Davis, ought not to belong to
anv "Southern Societr." Char
lotte Chronicle.
In the South it is different. The
section abandoned by the negroes
is productive, the climate is mild;
and it is not unhealthful, though
it can scarcelr be called invigora-
ting. But cultivation of the soil I In effect the whole idearepresent
ntnnW retiavs toiL not onlv in led is Paean. That which is so
one thin sr. but in manv thin irs. I
There need be the attention to
no special staples, but the culture
- . . 1
ot manv products, or tne pursuits i
of mnnv varied industries. There I
will be "no necessity to paint the I
map of eastern North Carnhna j
red. Ashevilie citizen.
Mr. Noah A. very, of the New
Ditch section, Pamlico county,
was killed on Thursday by a
fallincr tree. He and another
man were clearing land, or "cut
tin cr down frround," as it 13 call
ed. A tree was cut which fell in
the direction of Mr. Avery. His
companion, who cut the .tree,
hollowed "look out!" but Mr.
Avery didn't have time to get
oat of the way, and he was
crushed to death. He leaves a
wfe nnd seven children. Was
about forty-five years of age.
New Berne Journal.
Our Yenerablecountvinan, Jno.
ft llnden- Esn.. informed us a
few days ago that the winter of
mic m -r.-,,lH nH nn-
seasonable as the present one
has been.
He says that
a orcat
ort- wa? moilt. more
deal ot i
.;nlfr nnA that veeta-
Tiia.ll lliia r iiin-i , unu -"" -r
Jrm of nil kinds was very, for-
ward. On the morning ot the
16th of April there was "a heavy
frost and a considerable freeze
that did much damage. The
leaves on all the trees
J
xv-re iriuea. ELua lurucu umn,
M J A. -1 kllr
. w .
onrl hp n-owini? corn was al-
most all destroyed. He remem
bers a field of wheat that was
1 . C V. t rrVi and TvVlloVl
after th. cdTikeilelS
1 - ... .. . -. ..I
of broom sedge. All tne iruit
was killed. We sin erely " hope
:neh will not be our -fate
this year. Pittsboro Record.
The Southern Iron Company
w ill soon kesrin at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, to manufacture, steel
by the open hearth -or basic pro-
cess, exclusively of Southern ores.
Viae TiOTTtrht eifht
Tennessee, one m
Alabama, and Roane Iron Works
at ChattanooEra. It has ample
capital to operate with and
claims to have thoroughly de
monstrated the success of the
process which they propose to
adopt. There are other . iron
companies in the South which
are watching this movemenot,
which thev will adopt if success
ful, and thus the South will be
come a great steel manufacturing
section. Much of the iron found
in North Carolina is peculiarly
suitable for steel making and
considerable quantities of it have
been shipped in years past to
Philadelphea and Pittsburg for
Different Views or Death)
Itis an interesting inquiry why
civilized man has for so long a
time manifested a horror of sud
den death. The Pagans knew no
such feeling, but, on the contrary,
they prayed for the mode of death
which to christians has appear
ed so dreadfuljthat they have
formulated special petitions for
protection against it. This fear
and repugnance are certainly not
grounded in experience or reason,
nor can they be t aid to represent
an altruistic sentiment. For it is
indisputable that, so far as the
subject is concerned, a swift and
painless death isprefcrabltothat
which comes as the close of a lin
gering illness and much physical
suffering. Xcr can there be found
in philosophy any support for in
stantaneous death, for it is clear
such a taking off docs away with
all the fearful looking forward,
the agonizing anticipations, the
morbid and gloomy . thoughts
which beset the sufferer who joar
neys slowlv toward the valley of
the shadow of death
Nor indeed is the common sense
of mankind so -ar astrav on this
subiect as the conventional posi
tion indicates. Speaking in the
freedom of private conversation,
manvnerions are neara to ex
nrrsc trip t n fin f
press ine.iaougui
1. M A- 11 A LI
prefer ths mode of death
to any other for themselves
nously enough, they fail to apply
i what is a natural sentiment with
them to the cases of others, and
when a relative or friend is laid
on a bed of suffering the majority
would think it shockingly inhu
man to wish for their speedy de
liverance. Evidently the funda
mental idea here is that life under
any conditions is better than
death. But upon- what view of
death does this idea depend?
Surely not tip the christian view.
shrunk from is the mo t inateri
al and unspiritual of visions; To
die, from thia point of view, is"to
.. . . . A? 3j .
ne mcoia ODsmicuonanuiu ruL
and all the time to be conscious
of what is going on. Philosophy,
religion, physiology, psycholo
are each and all defied and set at
nausrht bv so crude, confused,
fantastic, and impossible a con
ception. The old O reeks knew
better. Their fine sense of csthet-
icism saved them from the gro
tesque combinations of medieval
1 .... . .. ii t : r
superstition ana uarounuus iguu
rance. which the modern races
have inherited, andto which they
. t " i f
ciinjr witn scarceiv ii susu-iuu
the incongruity of their belief.
Lessing's essay upon the manner
in which the Greeks represented
death is "full of instruction and
suggestion upon the subject. The
grizzly skeleton of the middle
acres was represented among the
Hellenes bv a beautiful boy bear-
in crnn inverted torch. Instead of
symbols of mourning,
SUCil
as i
Have COH1C LU lU.i iu ji un.ij ,
those old Pagans delicate y su:--
rested the passage noiu iimiLCi
to spirit bv the figure of the but-
terflv rising above the rent chr ys-j
alis. Death and love were wita
tneni nexer
"Angd of the Darker Dnn m
their graceiui uu miulic m,
ogy came often as a friend, w .ta
smilincr linsaad welcoming hands
and never as the frowning fiend
our morbid fancv paints them.
there was more unselfishness m
.
that archaic view than m the
modern one. moreover. The an-
nts looked at -dea. ith the
.fa.!,. onH n rf from
eve of the dving, and not from
the position of the survivors.
Tears and grief for these there
must be, but the sorrow which
pictured the departed as a gainer
bv his removal vas less likely to
endure than that which virtully
and despite conventional fictions
Df belief regards the dead as
oniv gone torever from the r
f V..,- c -rtpcr
not
ays
of.the sun. but as relegated to
rrr irnOTIP anil mistv form ot
exis fence be vond comprehension
and realization, and therefore
useless for consolation, stimulus.
oriiope. Old Homestead.
The Use of An Enemy.
1 Always keep an enemy in hand
a brisk hearty, aetive enemy.
Remark the use of an enemy :
1. The having one is proof that
vou are somebody. Wishey-
washy, empty, worthless people
npr hnve enemies. Mtn who
never move never run agains
anvthing; and when a man is
thorousrhlv dead and utterly
fmried. nothinsr ever runs acrainst
of existence and position ; to run
ajrainst something is proof of
motion.
2. An enemy is, to say the least,
not partial to you. He will not
flatter. He will not exaggerate
your virtues. It is very probable
that he will slightly magnify
your faults. The benefit of that
is twofold it permits you to
know that you have faults, and
arc, therefore, not a monster, and
it makes them of such size as to
be visible and manageable. Of
course, if you have a fault you
desire to know it; when you be-
come aware that vou have a
fault you desire to correct it.
Your enemy does for you this
valuable work which your friend
cannot perform.
3. In addition, your enemy
keeps you wide awake. He does
not let you sleep at your post.
There are two that always keep
watch, namelv, the lover and the
hater. Your lover watches that
you may sleep. He keeps off
noises, excludes light, adjusts
surrouudings, that nothing may
disturb vou. Your hater watches
that vou mav not sleep. He
stirs you up when you arc nap
ping. He keeps your faculties on
the alert. Even when he does
nothing he will have put yau in
such a state of mind that you
cannot tell what he will do next,
and this mental quievive must be
worth something.
4. He is a detective among
your friends. You need to know
who your fricnas are, and who
arc not, and who are your
enemies. 1 He last or these three
will discriminate the other two.
When your enemy goes to one
who is neither friend nor enemv,
and assails yon, the indifferent
one will have nothing to say or
chime in, not because it is so
much easier to assert than , to
oppose, and especially than to
refute. But your friends will
take up cudgels for you on the
instant. He will deny every
thing and insist on proof, and
proving is very hard work.
There is scarcely a truthful man
in the world that could afford to
undertake to prove one-tenth of
all his truthful assertions. Your
incuu m can vour enemy to iuc
r i ii T.-r j
prooi, anu ii tne incuiierent per-
son, through carelessness, re-
peats tne assertions oi your
enemy, he is soon made to feel
the inconvenience thereof by the
zeal your frierd manifests. Fol-
low your enemy around and you
will find y or r friends, for he will
have developed them so that
they cannot be mistaken.
The next best thing to having
a hundred real friends is to have
one open enemy. But let us pray
to be delivered from secret foes.
Rev. Dr. Deems.
The Farmers Alliance.
The obiect of the Farmers Al
liance, expressed in one word
is
caUCaUOH. lUC uru USCU III its
sed
j bt, purest, acd broadest sense;
. education tuat win reacn irom
J the cradle to the court, and will
cr'lvc us better homes, better
schools, better politics, better
iegisi-iion, ai
tratiou of tl
and better admims
,e laws; education
, tnat v.-m give us oettcr mcmous
j u tte home, on the farm, in the
store room, in the market places;
education that will do
wil
in
will
trade
al welfare; that will secure reas-
onable compensation for labor
a nd fai r'i irolit s on i ts productions
education that jrives the farmer
even chances with his fellow citi
zens in- every department of life
and work, that will aid him in his
farm work,in his business affairs,
in trade, in politics, in law; edu-
cation briefly, that will build up
agriculture on a high, broad level,
where farmers shall ne m au re
spects with the foremost men of
. i . TT T?
tne time. Jvansas r iti mci .
A Happy "Mcejum.'
Mr. Kindly Well, Uncle Peter,
how does the world serve you
these days?
Uncle Peter Oh, firs' rate, sah,
firs' rate; I ain't sorichezMistah
Yanderbiit , no so po' as Job's
turkey, san out ijess seem
hab truckahappymeejumtween
dem two gemmen sah an 1 se
. . . " . T - ' -L
very wen satisneu.-itro.ux x
Press. ,
acketsjust received at J. M.
nnKre
h every species of gambling I mv(lfflm(m yPS. outwitted bv xi.. a.a
xue prouuas i auui, -- the government itself. Uur crov-n .l4. .r,,P
,t r ii i.4- f" .Z - ' urc uLviiuy -uutu
gixcmc luiics,. emment oretends tovbe t protect- n 0 a wv,:n
- -. I rir tn the tflrTncr "OcS IO Ul" CI-
SAM GREEN.
THE BILL
ARP OF JOHNSTON
COUNTY.
Mr. Editor: Cats, cats! never
saw the like of stray cats in my
life! Mrs. G. declares she will kill
out the whole business and de
stroy therace of cats.
Warm weather and fresh meat
cause to be restless and have bad
dreams at night, and wheu I a-
wake in a -fream-oh, blazes! those
cats! they are fighting, and I al
most think the "old boy" has me
sure enough; but it is only a cat-
fight, that's all. We have all read
what Josu Billings says about
cats so that relieves me from anv
further discussion of the subject.
I wish I had sowed my garden
peaes a month ago, for I don't
believe we are going to have any
cold weather at all, and if we
don't, you. know they would
have been ready by the first of
February. But who knows that
we won't have snows, rain and
hail and all that sort of thingyct?
But if we arem the latitude that
Florida was three years ago, all
this will not come. I amsorter"
like I was the first time I ever
saw the ocean. I knew that I was
going to see a great sight, so I
prepared myself by trying to not
be surprised at anything I saw
or heard. And so I am by these
times and people. 1 hear so much
and read so many strange things
that I try not to be surprised at
anything I see or hear.
This pretty weather finds us all
at work on our farms, trying to
TTts of l.icf Incf TTfT"
We are plowing right along,
i i.: i a a v,o I
litter and trash under and bring
injr the bottom side to the top.
This is a benefit in several ways.
We can run rows differently in
width and direction. It levels up
the land and prevents it from
drowning and washing, besides
it docs land good to break it
thoroughly about every three
vears anv wav.
It is a good time to do fencing
now. Never take down a fence as
jOI1 as YOU can iielp it.Re-set it bv
Tvjttino- in a rail whcre one is
r " ....
nceded Tfa rail will last a vear
never take it from the fence,"
for
zt ...;n iast l0ncrer and do more
oori :n the fence than out of it
n you are bound to take a fence
d0vn to do it up, be sure to
piow tlp the land where the
"WOrm" was and throw it into
the field. This beats guano clean
away and lasts more than one
year.
It's a great pity we haven t
the "no-fence " law. A great pity!
But we haven't and so we must
do the best we can under the old
law.
Plantation paths should be
worked at this season of the year.
We neglect this important duty
as muchasanythinjjon the farm.
nathsthat eo by our houscs,if
we don't live on the road, and
neighborhood paths should be
worked and worked well.
Guano season is coming again
and I wonderhowthetwo giants
will make it this time? In this
one thing alone we see the power
hlch brains and capital have
oyer ignorarice and labor. We far
mers must admit that we are out-
nses about this thing and that
-ilthevsav for a benefit
thinr. all they say for a
benefit
to the farmer. Does he
get it?
Well, I can answer for one, if he
rfnes we don't know it. we don't
"" . 4.4-,1 w-r. -t-i-i a minnn tnpn ann tup , mi . t j . t
see it nor we don't feel it. We are er methods of preserving the dead
like the fellow that went to sleep for an indefinite time, it is inter--rrrUVi
'nnQsnm in his lan and estinc to tiotc that it has been
loke up to fmci his hands and
th creasy and the "tater"
15 lvingaround as if he had
eaten the possum nimseii; out
another fellow who chanced to
pass that wav took in the situa
tion andgratmednisownuungry
appetite bv feasteng upon the
poor man's 'possum, tie then
trreased the mouth and hands of
t'.e sleeping darkey to make mm
think he had eaten it himself,
Some cf us farmers don't even
rrrlmnds and mouths srreasv.
Thev don't take the trouble
-fy us with the belief that we
Palreadv had it but they trv
. , s with promises
. - . . &s Riuch
ci;t nnrl lmnpstv ns that oth
r WlA w treated the ooor darkey.
I They wait just long enough
1 c to eonlc the 'oossum and
ters" and they take them and we
right wide awake. They outwit
us on every side-thc big men and
the government. The only way
to get along with them is to have
nothing to do with them at all.
Don't buy their guano; don't buy
their bacon; don't buy their meal
and flour. Try to raise it at home
if you can, and if you can't why,
just do without till you can raise
it. It is useless and foolish for the
farmers to try to fight the big
men with the hope of gaining any
thing material for themselves.
-Let us acppt the plan that
Grant did when he broke down
the Southern Confcderacj'. When
Lee would attack him he would
fall back and swing around-fall
back and swing around that's
it. It's useless to offer battle to
double-fis ted capital. You will get
whipped every time; you will
weaken vourrclvcs and strength-
i
en vour enemies. .o sir, nave
nothing to do with them more
than is actually necessary-, and
when they attack you fall back
and swing around and flank them
Keep this up and you will wear
them out,or.if you don't you will
cut off therr lines of communica
tion which will soon force them
to terms of peace-a conditional
surrender and the return of the
booty. All this is mighty nice talk
but it's very hard to put to prac
tice, and I hope that some of my
friends will try the plan of living
at home and living there as much
as they can. Not that I think we
can cut loose from them and lire
so at once for this is an other in
stance of disease brought on by
our own folly, and like the drunk
ard who has been on a "spree"
must taper off. This
mean whiskey won t b
evil like
hiskey won't be excused
all at once. But we can improve
upon the past if we will; so let us
begin to draw in our circle of ac
quaintances among the men who
are ready to chop off our heads
by the score to satisfy their own
greed for gold. We have no harm
against the merchants, infact
they arc our best friends at pres
ent, but even they woul.l be glad
if wc would make more of what
we use at home. Wc could then
sell where we have to buy now.
But jemmy! those cats have hitch
ed asrain! jewhilikins how they do
squall and make the fur fly!!
bAil uREEX.
The Whipping Post.
A movement is being made by
the Yirgir.ia Legislature to re-establish
the whippingpost in that
State and there seems to be a
strong sentiment in its favor.
That old time instrument of pun
ishment was always regarded
with terror by evil doers, and
when it existed people didn't
have to lock their chicken coops.
It smacks somewhat of barbarity
and out of this very fact grew
the sentimen: that finally ended
in abolishing it. Ail the same
though, the re-cstab!:s!imeut of
the whipping post for even a few
months in Yireinia, would cause
a r.t am r:?t1e am oil r he Old Do-
minion s rascals and rogues, ana
of course North Carolina would
be the haven for a Qrc it many of
them; so that it would become
necessarv as a matter of self-
defense for our State to follow
suit ana rig up the
A met n crnn
In Marvlaud,
the wmnpm;
Legislat
the law
should be
ned. -Char-
lotte News
Ancient Embalming.
In view of modern progress in
embalming, dessiccation and ot h
estimated that more than 400,
000 human mummies were made
in Egypt from the beginning ot
tne art 01 cmuaiiumg
discontinuance m the beventn
- Century. There were three grades
1 01 emoaiming. rui
I his relative m tne most appro
style tne Egyptian uuu lu
$1225; in the second grade the
operation cost o, iut ti
method was so cheap as to be
"within the reach of all" 'and in-
volved the pickling of the body
to n or some cia's anu men uumu8
in bitumen. These mum:
devoId of hair andeyebr
are black, hear, and
mummies aie
ows, and
hard to
break. -Ex.
-
A large lot ot Misses, Uoy
for Ladies' and
Mens Fine Shoes
ta -
just recieved at T- M. Beaty's.
Self In Work.
PhilUpa I!ro kn
A quantity of consecr;ited
power is indicated by the wings
with which, in the vision of the
seraphim, each seraph covered
his feet, or, indeed, his whole
person. The quality of self
effacemcnt, or self-forgetful ness,
enters into all good work, and,
most of all, into the best. A
great work apparently does it
seli. Some day the humble doer
awakens, and, behold, the work
is done, and he is famous, and
he himself is astonished. He
only knew that there was a great
wiong to resist, and he had no
choice in but to be at it. So
men have conducted themselves
in battle; the fortress must be
taken and the sally made, and it
was done without thougnt of
glory, i ne loss or tins quality
of sclf-foretfulncss spoils a good
work. Tne Governor of a State
is going on nobly with measures
of public beneficence; he holds
the people's confidence until some
day they perceive he is calculat
ing the value of his own policy
for his own political ends. A
friend comes to advise with me,
and I take his admonition as
precious balm, his commenda
tions as proof of his affection
until he ruins all that he said
with one lurid flash of self-consciousness,
showing that he is
thinking chiefly of his own wis
dom and superiority. Efface
yourself if you wo uld have your
own work stand. Do it, as it
only can be done, by standing in
the' presence of God. Yet this
self effacement is also represented
in the vision of wings. Self must
be lost behind the activity of
self. There is no other way to
become unconscious but to lose
one's self in his work. It is not
because men make so much of
their work, but because they
make so little of it, that they
cannot forget themselves in it.
"Yonder is myself without the
inconvenience, of myself." said
Lacordaire, when his brother
monk was elevated o ver his head.
In the sick room where souis aie
learning patience, as well r.3 in
active callings where they arc
learning diligence, is there i: way
opened to forget self in the cr ii
ing of God.
Rum And Ruin.
In Johannesburg, Sou Hi Africa,
a city having 25.000 population,
the number of liccns.es issued at
the present tinie is 33G.
Anew industry at Bay City,
Michigan, is the manufacture of
alcohol out of saw dust, a dry
ish sort of drink, one would im
agine. By actu d .count 6,199 young
men entered the doors of 105 of
the saloons of St Paul in one
hour on a recent Saturday evc-
The age cf the young men
ranjred from 1G to 40
years.
A Milwaukee educator says.
that in the districts in that city
where saloons are most numerous
teachers complain that many of
the scholars are so stupid from
drinking beer that work on them
is almost useless.
Congressman Ere.-kenridge, of
Kentucky, says that tue Ken
tucky distillers promise to send
him to Congress lorcver if he
will promise that the internal
revenue laws concerning liquor
shall not be disturbed.
Carson Parker was found dead
in a saloon in Pueblo, Colorado,
on Sunday. At one time he was
one of the most eminent preachers
of the Methodist Episcspal church
in New York State. He became
a drunkard and outcast and
wandered to Pueblo. He leaves
a family in Indiana.
at a recent lecture, said : "When
T :re n man iroincr home with a
w.- C7 r
o-iillnn of whiskev and half a
pound of meat dat's temperance
lecture enough tor me, and 1 sees
it every day. I know that every-
thins: in his home is on the same
scale gallon of misery to half
,
pound of comfort.
The secretary of the National
Prison Association estimates
that thecensusof 1890 will show
a prison population of nearly one
hundred thousand, an incicascof
about thirtv thousand iii ten
years. Kansas, Iowa and Maine,
the trio of prohibition State.:.,
are the only ones that have sot
contributed to this increa.-s. In
these, crime has steadily decreas
ed, and in many places the jails
s,
1 are empty.
STATE NEWS.
NEWSY GLEANINGS 'FROM OUR
EXCHANGES.
Choic Clippings For Oar Maajr Basy
Readers
Newton Enterprise: From Mr.
W. A. Campbell, who is here at
tending court, we learn that
peach trees in some places in
Haywood county are out in full
bloom. And in Cherokee county
all kinds of fruit trees are re
ported to be in full bloom.
Winston Daily : An average of
thirty thousand dollars a day
for the past two months is the
sum paid out for leaf tobacco in
Vin:,ton. Pretty big figures,
aie'nt they? But that is just
the kind Winston deals in. She
is a whale when it comes to
business.
States ville' Landmark: A
sheriff in one of the counties of
western North Carolina was
recently on his tax rounds, and,
talking to one of his constituents,
made some reference tp the death
of Teff. Davis. The man asked if
Davis was still in prison when
he died. Another man came up
and joined in the conversation,
and asked if Gen. Lee was dead
yet. While the three were talk
ing a fourth joined them and
tendered a broken Mecklenburg
Bankbill inpayment of his taxes.
These would be called by a poker
player "three of a kind."
Raleigh News-Observer : Weat
worth, N. C, Jan. 13, 1889. I
enclose jrou a section of old field
pine limbs which! found this
morning. You will see it is
flushed with pure sugar. I have
noticed for several days in pass
ing through my farm that the
pines glistened as if there was a
small sleet but supposed it was
dew or there had been a small
shower of rain. A neighbor call
ed mv attention to it and said it
was honey dew upon a close
examination and tasting some, I
found it to be true, and after
remaining a day or two it chrys
talizes and becomes pure sugar
as 3 0U will see from the sample I
enclose. I would like for some
of our scientific men to explain
the matter.
Marion Free Lance : Mr. Wm.
Wiseman aged about 70 years,
while rutting logs on the moun
tain side, fell and was run over
and so badly crushed by a big
log he had cut off that he died
after lingering a few hours.
Late Thursday evening as the
hand car was coming up the
railroad, the team of Mr. Teague
not toeing the hand car, started
to cros the track, and on seeing
the o.ir, stopped the mules, but
the vk agon tongue was over the
tracl:. Capt. Henrv Johnson,
Section Foreman, and one of the
b-. - on his whole line, who was
o i the car, in attempting to
uf.'-'e the wneron tomrue was
thrown from the car, which
csr-ed over his body, lie was
probably fatally hurt.
Charlotte News: Passengers
who came in Saturday from the
Western North Caro'ina road
report that United States Mar
shall had a pretty toughc ase in or
two on a train that day. The
prisoner was a 70 year old man
irom Cherokee county. He pass
ed for a doctor, but was arrested
upon the charge of having de
frauded the government through
false pension claims. There is
also a
having
charge against him of
six hring wives. The
marshal took him to Knoxville,
Tcnn. In this train was a car
around which curious crowds-
hung all through the afternoon,
for Sunday was a beautiful day
aml there were plenty of strollers
about the depot. Thecar in ques-
tion was an open cattle car, but
it' was a kind of a Noah's ark ofl
wheels. In the door sat an old
lady m a rocking chair carelessly
eyeing the crowd? and answering
the avabnche of questions, evi
dently thinking that there wa
nothing at all peculiar about her
surroundings. She was a native
of Mississippi and was moving
from that State to Maryland,
and she was making the whola
journey in a freight car, in the
midst of her like stock ao
poultry.
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