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j. M. Morgan, Manager CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S QLBOSiNC ATTEND HER 1" Subscription SI.50 Par Year. VOLUME 8. SMITHFIELD, N. G, JUNE, 14 1890. NUMBER 48. Vpr TFMS I ! -.TnAL INFORMATION OFTHE WORLD r; . l f f a:iJ Gicj.iir.gs from Various ' ?urces. i';,v:nc! r. Oklahoma are re l l(.ud to be in a starving conditio-:. Cattle command a much better price now than they did a year "i here are about 12,000 stu !e::is in the schools of science in tins country. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fel j . ;y: of Missouri have gone on record for prohibition. rtifieial ice can be manufac tured, so it is said, at a retail civit of about $8 per ton, or 40 eei.ts jcr 100 pounds. Jo. Burgess, of the "Georgia Ai-:.-i"ce Quarterly," fries his natter cakes in cotton seed oil. More than two thousand farm ers have applied to the Agricul tural Department at Washington for seeds of the sugar leet. It is estimated that out of every hundred pounds of fresh meat consumed in Kngland the home supply gives seventy-five pounds. The Emperor of China is mak ing a close study of railroad con struction. He is said to have considerable ability as a scientific investigator. Ai the opening of a culinary ex hibition in Paris, some distin guished guests were entertained at a table on which were two hundred different dishes differ ently cooked. Thr American Cotton Seed Oil Trust is now running a mill for making paper from the hulls re maining after all the oil has been squeezed out of the cotton seed. Many famers in southeastern Kansas have planted cotton this spring. They want to test the question of whether it ean be made a paying crop. A little girl in the' Sunday school at Ouincy, Mass., when asked what a missionary was, replied: "A missionary is a man who eoiiic? around to get our money." Henry Warren, who sells news papers on the Derby railroad be tween New Haven and Birming ham, Conn., and who is now in his eight3'-sccond -ear, is cutting his third setof teeth. The farmers Union of Webster Parish, La., favor the creation of a Railroad Commission, and en dorse the Governor in refusing to accept a gift of $100,000 from the Louisiana State Lottery. Members of the Farmers' Al liance in Indiana are refusing to give crop statistics to the asses sors, as they saj' the information is in the interest of speculators. The kicker's name will be present ed to the grand jury. The Tallapocsa county, Ala Alliance recommended a law re quiring all persons before pre curim? license to sell-;Uquors to obtain the consent ot a majority of the free-land and householders ofthebeatin which th? same is to be sold. The Farmers' Alliance appears to be moving on and learning the benefit of hanging together. Four-fifths of the country popu lation of Illinois belong to it. In the Fifth Congressional district of Kansas the Alliance will nomi nate a candidate of its own for Congress. English street cars have seats on top. Fare costs on cent for two miles, and another cent for longer distances. In Paris the same charge is made. In Brussels the rear seats are cushioned and eost more than the bare seats in front. A widow in India was recently, at her own request, burned alive with the remains of her husband. A strange battle is reported to have lately taken place in Tokio, Japan. "A stream runs through the compound of Tobukuji Tem ple at Sugamo, and some hun dieds of bull-frogs gathered on either bank. Then a terrific bat tle ensued, lasting from 9 a. m., to I- p. m., and it is stated that when the combat was finished the brook was blocked to such an extent with the bodies of the slain that the course of the water was almost totally impeded. Large numbers of people visited the place to witness the strange spectacle.". County Commissioners' Proceedings. I The -toliowing accounts were j filed: V ; B. R. Hood, holding inquest j over J. E. Starling ...7..20.GG ! f. D. Morgan, sundrv services .nscl'k B.C.C 31.25 - Edwards ec Broughton, Ree ord book 14.00 J. A.Morgan, eo'rin for Maude Gardner, pauper, 3.00 J. C. Prix, coiIin for John Hedgepeth, pauper, 3.00 G. S. Wilson, boarding paupers in Poor House S8.02 D. T. Iloneycutt, services as County commissioner,. ..35. 20 W. L. Rilev, bparding prison ers in jail....". ...18.00 S. H. Hood, services as co. commissioner 9. GO X. G. B. Stancil, coffin for G. jStancil, pauper 3.00 i Y. D. Pnillips, fees in Ash- jford case, S. F. bill 5.-10 i W. T. Hinton, serving 3ioad I orders 1.S0 Hood Bros, bbl. copperas for jail 5. OS J. T. Ellington sundries and 'and sold for taxes and bought by co 75.79 R. D. Lunceford, services as co. com'r.. 4.00 G. G. Edgerton - G.40 X. T. Cole " 11.20 foe Jones was ordered dis charged from Poor House. Chailey Keen was relieved from poll tax on account of disa bility. Abel Ellis was placed on pau per list and allowed 1.00 per month. Turner Holiomou, placed on pauper lisi. and allowed 1.00 per month. Catharine Capps discharged from Poor House and allowed 3.00 per month. ! G. T. Braswell s resignatmn as jconstable of Boon Hill township was accepted and H. Langlcy ; was appointed in his stead. I S. II. Pittman and I. W. ohn isoa were granted Peddlers' Li jeensc on account of disability. Insolvent list submitted by the sheriff, approved and order ed registered Reports of settlements made with sheriff and tresurer approv ed and ordered registered.. ; The outside pauper list con- taining G8 paupers for the months of March, April and May was approved and ordered paid, amounting to $371.25 The following jurors were drawn for August term: First Week, J. II. Boon, S. E. Smith, G. II. Perrv, W. A. Lassitfr, Isham Woodall.H. D.Hood, J. C. Keen, J. H. Lee, Julius Barefoot, N.J. linnett, J. G. Turlington, Joseph Brown, R. J. P. Baker, T. R. Hood, Josiah Aycock, Burket Brown, L. D. Creech, J. W. Weaver, R. H. Stephenson, J. H. Neighbors, A. T. Johnson John Stevens. C. R. Paughtry, J.W. Rose. I. W. Jones, J. G. Jones, W. M. Pittman, Walter Jernigan James E. Pulley, J. C. Ogburn, A. D. Johnson, j. P. Carroll. J..F. Hall, Rufus Laugdon, W. II. ! Hinton, B. S. Evans. Secoxd Week, Troy Eld ridge, f. W. Godwin, D. A. Reaves, A.J. Southerland, D.J. Wood' Levi Owens. C. B . ... -rr -r-v 1.1 1 Waddell, ti. r. ueraiu, icjt. Smith, S. B. Wall, W. A. Sanders Thos. G. Allen, Nimrod Stephen son, S. G, Austin, J. D. Gulley, J. . Hocutt, Louis Braswell, W. A. Rose. Adjourned. The First American Settlement.- HiHiniore HeraM. Mr. Steuhen B. Weeks, of the John Hopkins University, read an interesting paper on jxaieign Settlements in Yirginia'and their Historical Survival in the 19th Century" at the meeting of the Maryland Historical Sooiety last night. Mr. Weeks said that the first American settlement was at Roanoke Island, N. C, near Cape Hatteras, and not ST. Augustine, Fla., as has so often been alleged. It was settled in 1585. The first American child, a, girl, was born there in 1587. The. inhabitants of the Island were a race of Indians known as Croatans, and were very hospi table people. Their descendants are recognized to-day by the State of North Carolina, or at least they were in 1882. They greatlv despised the negro and refused to intermarry with them. Don't read in street-cars or o ther jolting veh icles. . Jpohnston Count Alliance Directory, Below we publish a list of the names of the officers of Johnston County Farmers' Alliance. Also the names of the Secretaries of the Sub-Alliances with Post Office address : J. J. Young, President, Polenta. A. D. Taylor, Vice President Leachburg. B. W. Young, Treasurer, Leach burg. E. D. Snead, Secretary, Four Oaks. E. N. Booker, Lecturer, Polenta. J. L. Banks, Chaplain, Clayton. Vv. R. Creech, Co B. A., Smith field. N. W. Smith, County Organizer, Glenmore. . SUa ALLIANCES. 399 Earpsboro, W. B. Brown, Earpsboro. 209. Black Creek, V. G. Hollo well, Smithfield. 947. Poplar Creek, T. R. Young blood. Smithfield. 94G. Princeton, J. M. Oliver, Princeton. S4. Clayton. M. G. Gulley, Clay ton. 97. Archer Lodge, C. B. Christ man, Archer Lodge. 803. Kenley, P. H. Holland, Kenley. 639. Excelsior, Isaac Crow, Princeton. 69G. Fork Creek, D. T. Creech, Pine Level. 165G. Swift Creek, T. S. Thaine, Smithfield. G20. Niagara, A. J. Southland, Abells. 153. Mill Branch, J. W. Stephen son, Polenta. 210. Antioch, Nelson Lee, Glen more. 742. Mill Creek, -J. A. Barber, Harpers. 273. Pine Level, W. P. Little, Pine Level. 342. Oak Dale, D. T. Massey, Smithfield. 288. VYathins. J. E. Winston, Earpsboro. G93. Benson, J. A. West, Benson! 346. Rome, Y. B. Smith, Rome. 694. Carters, L. R. Batten, Sehna. 621. Florence, G. T. Boyette, Bagley. 85. Leachburg, G. A. Turner, Leachburg. 743. Benton ville, E. T. West brook, Beittonville. 964. Pleasant Hill, J. P. Canaday, Elevation. 170. Cleveland. A. M. Sanders, Smithfield. 804. Springs, E. Rapcr, Hares Store. Farm Mortgages in the South. Atlant'A Journal. We rejoice in the belief that neither in the amount of farm mortgages, nor in the unprofita bleness of farm labor, are the Southern States as bad off as those of the West. Our chief agricultural product, cotton, brings a fair price, and the com mercial and industrial world must have it, else their own busi ness would go to stagnation and wreck. Scill, the unfortunate condition of other agricultural interest should be a solemn ad monition to- Southern fatmers. They should give no mortgages except such as are unavoidable, make their amounts as low as their pressing necessities will allow, keep close up in the pay ment of interest, and put away something every year to meet the principal when due. I.ife-Saving Don'ts. Don't pick the teeth with pins or any other hard substance. Don't neglect any opportunity to insure a variety of food. Don't eat or drink hot or cold things immediately in succession. Don't pamper the appetite with such variety of food that may lead to excess. Don't read, write, or do airy delicate work unless receiving the light from the left side. Don't direct special mental or physical energies to more than, eight hours' work in cach.day. Don't keep the parlor dark un less 3'ou value your carpet more than your and your children's health. ' ; Don't delude yourself into the belief that you are an exception as for as sleep is concerned', the nominal average of sleep is eight hours. " Don't endeavor to rest the mind by absolute inactivity; let it seek its rest in woik in other channels, nd thus rest the tired part of the brain. ; ' Memory. Methinks long years hare gone by. And I alone am sitting here. Quietly thinking rf the pant. And memories ol friends no dear. - Ah ! the memories of the pact, will forever ebeer my life Until mortal breath has ceased, ... And my heart is free from strife. As the future looms np before me I often recall the loys of days gone by: ' Those days will dwell in my memory Until the day I die. t Rome, N. C. MiltonEth Meba. SAM GREEN. ' " j Mr. Editor : -Everybody i s j pleased, crops are looking well j and the grass nqt . boUarirjg. Pretty, yes, crops are ' looking pretty, and the farmers just go j to town, now- iust to brag on j their crops. I like to see plenty ! of confidence in everybody but don' I believe in smiling to soon there may come something to banish all of our smiles, if the All Wise Providence says we are not worthy and humble enough to merit it. The prospects are better, right at this time than Ihaveever seen them before, for a good crop of both cotton and corn. May it keep so and may the people con tinue to work as they have, and be ready, in the right way to re ceive it when it comes. Now it is not best that we be blessed every time we ask for it, a3 every thing works for our good wheth er we see it or feel it right, or not. 'Tis when we fail to do our duty that we suffer. We never lose anything by a short crop or gain an j-thing by a good one, if other circumstances do not correspond. Is this so or not? . Think for a moment, kind reader,and you will agree with me. .It is not wrong by any means for a man to do right; and for a man to do right he must thiak right. Think about this, and if you are wrong why, get right.' Be right. Ask for success and if you ought to have it for your own, you will be blessed, - Everybody,' I believe, likes something good to eat Why is this? Is it because good things are so scarce, or do we actually enjoy eating? An old man told me once, and he was an old one too, having passed, ninety, that he only lived to eat. He enjoyed eating and wanted to live al ways just to eat always. He was a good old soul and he de stroyed a great' many good things in his time, I reckon. "Do we eat to live, or do we live to eat?" which" is it? I will give it up; I am only one, but for the others I expect there are a great many who hang upon the latter end of this question. I don't en joy eating good victuals much, and there are places I don't en ioy eating, no matter what I have nor how it is served up. While on the other hand there are other places I do enjoy eat ing almost anything no matter how it's fixed up. I suppose it is a womanish notion in me and I have cultivated it until it is al most a second "natur." People are strange and some are very strange. I never thought that I was very .strange, but I will bet if I had some folks' notion concerning myself, I would be one of the strangest men on top side of the ground. It is good we can't think " each other's thoughts, it s good I say, we caia't Suppose the young boys knew exactly whj.t the young girls thought of them? yes, let's suppose the thing. We are ; out now on the line of supposition; we are going to shoot without a rest. Why, don't you know that if Eli knew how good Sallie loved him he could not rest until he broke Sallie's heart by going to see another girl. And if Ma ry Ann knew how well Peter Murphey was thinking of her, she would turn up her nose and cause a stir up in the camp, and if William knew how near Susan came to saying Yes" when he was rejected, he would never quit off as he did. But every thing to its time and every stream in its channel. We move on with little time for reflection and too busy to stop. Sowing two bushels of cotton seed to obtain a peck is a mis take that the farmers have been guilty of all their lives. I say it's a mistake that we' have all been making, a bad-mistake. Why, what are you going to dor how will youplant your cotton? you mayask. We will drop it; save R7iA ner cent, of the seed and plant the whole crop in half the time and save a great deal of time m chopping. Oh! you say it will not come up good and there will be a bad stand and no cotton made. If there does not come up enough, replant , it and if there does not come up enough replant again. .You can drop it and replant it" twice and then save money. This is no idea that I have caught up from some. theoretical farmer writing to a newspaper, but is a practical test that I have tried myself and know what I am talking about. The cotton chopping machine has long been talked of atid ev ery body has longed , to 'sce .it come. Why? Because we saw eight times more cotton than we wanted and had to hire more la bor to have it cut out for us at 50 or 75 cents per day. Cut. it out to one and two stalks, 12 to 18 inches apart. The cotton chopper has never come as we already sec, and we are where we wercfifty years ago, so far as the cotton chopper is concern ed. What arc we to do? 'Tis a mistake to shave the face of the whole earth with a weeding hoe by a hand that we pay 50 cents a day, when he can't shave over an acre for half a dollar. Had you thought about it? Drop your cotton the distance you want it; be particular in . prepar ing your land to insure its coming up, and you do away with the chopping the biggest expense of the crop. Is not this, so? I say dropping . cotton i.s a - success, have tried it and its the thing and the coming thing too. Now of course it has its draw - backs, and you may not be very favor ably impressed with it the first time you try it, but it is on the right tradcyou are on the right way and keep it till you make it a sucess it is bound to come. We want a machine that will drop three seeds to the hill 18 inches apart and put one and three-quarter inches of dirt on them, and we are bound to get a stand "and get it too without planting two bushels to get one twentieth that much and save one dollar per acre on all our cotton land for hoe work. Try a email patch or field and be con vinced. I will write something else on this subject and give my views and ideas on the subject as the season advances. Sam Green. Deaths bj Orippe. Philadelphia Press. ' ' Grippe cost twenty-nine life insurance companies, which re ported at the meeting of the Acturial Society of America, $881,699 increased " losses, and $1,018,460 traceable to the dis ease. . This, at least, was the amount by which the death losses of the first quarter of 1890 exceeded those of the first quarter of 1889. This was an incrase 8 percent, greater in ratio, and 22.8 per cent, greater in amount than the corresponding quarter in the year !efore. The increase in deaths due to influenza alone reached one to every 2000 policy holders, and this woald make the total for all the companies in the United States about 450. The number of deaths in the entire country must, according to this ratio, have reached 19, 800. We pointed out some time ago the reasons which led us to place the mortality from grippe at from 20,000 to 25,000. The insurance returns show that 25 per cent, of their death losses were from grippe, pneumonia and bronchitis, an amazing propor tion; and we do not doubt that one-quarter of the best selected lives lost by the community in the first quarter of 1890 were due to these causes; Few periods of three months m the war had a larger death-roll in battle. If the fiery Col.;Shepard will permit himself to become quiet for a, while he might come down to Ashville, spend the heated term with his brother-in-law and cool off in the soothing zeph yrs that fan the heated brow in. the lofty altitude of Biltmore; He might also derive some san itary benefits from the tonic properties of Asheville's-climate which will be generously shared with him " notwithstanding his hostile antics. With this climate and a reasonable amount of real searching, vigorous liver regula tor, Col. Shepard may be thoi- oughly reformed and .made hap py yet.wil. Star What Men Like in Women. There is a certain something, which, for want of better name, is called woman-liness, and it is that , which makes women at tractive to men. A great many virtues go to make up this one great . possession and they are what men like in women. Men like, - in the first place, amiability in a woman. They like a pleasant appearance. They like .the doinsr ol little things .that are pleasant to them. Tbey like the courtesy of the fireside. Thev lik"Women whose lives and faces are always full of the sunshine of a contented mind and a cheerful disposition . They like an ability to talk well and a knowledge of the silence. They like a mothcrliness big enough to understand the wants of the older, as well as the younger boys. Theylike a disposition to speak good, rather than evil of every human being. They like sympathy which means a willing ear for the tale of sorrow or gladness. They like knowledge of how to dress well, which, by-the-by, doesn't mean conspicuously. Men are most attracted by good material, plain draperies and quiet colors; not by showy colors or designs. They like intelligence, but they prefer that the heart should be stronger than the brain. They like a companion a wo man who has sufficient knowl edge of the world and its ways to talk well with them, who is interested in their lives and their plans and in their hopes; who knows how to give a cheering word, or to listen quietly and by a tender look express the grief which the heart is feeling. They may sometimes say that childrenjare a bore and a nuisance, but a man shrinks from a woman who openly declares her dislike of them. A man expects the maternal instinct in a woman and is disappointed if he does not find it. They like women to be affec tionate there never was a man yet, no matter how stern, no matter how cold, no matter how repressive as far as his own feel ings were concerned, who did not like a loving squeeze of the hand, or a tender kiss from the woman nearest to him. These are some of the things that men like in woman Ladies' Home Journal. Diversified Entertainment. A blue book is sometimes read. A tall man is sometimes very short. A good author is sometimes very poor. A white man issometimis very green. A lawyer is sometimes an hon est man. A tenderloin steak is sometimes very tough. There are nogood liars, though some ot them arc very skillful and talented. Among married folks there's always a difference between ideas of heconomy and sheconomy. It is hard to be grateful to the man who fought your battle for you and got licked. Atchison Globe. Possible Atlas supported the world, but who supported Atlas? His wife probably took in wash- ing. Late. We observe that women more and more stand up for themselves even in 6treet cars. Rochester Union and Advertiser. The Republican- pxirty's hos tility to the people and to their rights and interests; its willing ness "to trample down all the safeguards of popular governr ment to satisfy its lust of power and office, and its utter servility to the great trade monopolies, whose corrupt and corrupting creature it has become, are all ably incarnated in the ample per son of the rotund and reckless Reed. His nomination would make the platform of the Republican party at once super fluous and useless. The issue and the candidate would be one and indivisible. And, that being the case, the Democratic party cannot do better than to give the Reed presidential movement every possible encouragement. Boston Globe. STATE NEWS. NEWSY GLi AlilWGC FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Raleigh will hold a grape show in uly or August. A'knitting factory will be erect ed, at Scotland Neck. Mr. A. B. Matthews will erect a canning fact on at Durham A cotton factory bring built at Washington will cost $100, 000. There arc said to l v GOO to bacco barns withi:; 5 t.iilcs of Wilson. Brownstone of a superior qual ity has been dhcovcicd near Ox ford. A German colony is to be planted on the 10,000 acres of land in Montgomery county. The Durham county Farmers' Alliance will erect a plug tobac co factory at Durham. Valuable discoveries ot iron ore have in the last few days beer, made in Chatham county. Clinton has done a larger bus iness in shipment of strawberries and trucking than ever lu foce. Goldsboro thinks t;hc will have a knitting and cotton factory before the end of the year. Kaleigh lias a post of Grand Army of the Republic. It was organized May 9th and is known as the Phil Sheridan pott. Hickory Manufacturing Com pany ha put up a 1 3,000 gallon tank for the protection of their property against fire. A new rock dam of the Roller del Cotton Mills at" Rockingham has been completed -ind pro nounced a superb structure. High Point has bep.m th erec tion of a large two t tory brick building 50x100 ft. to be used for a chair factory. A valuable iron deposit has been discovered in Buncombe co., one vein is 20 feet "k!t Work has begun and i? finely. A party of capita' North have bougl mi pressing from the quarry and arc arranging to do a whole sale business in granite. The works will be in In-dell county and the headqurirkTs it; Char lotte. - XashviJle Argona had magnificent week and crop splendidly. xi : We have r-i arons this growing While at Richmond the North Carolina troops organized a drum corps and Mr. . T. Davis, of Durham, was elected major and placed in command. Faycttcville Observer: The Fayetteville Bucket Factory, in its immense new buildings, is the focus of life and energy, andMaj. McKcthan's new enterprise has assumed the completeness. Oxford Ledger: 0.x ford is do ing a big tobacco trade. Nine hundred hogs head of tobacco were shipped from oi:ricwn dur ing the month of May. Wc ha e the reputation of getting bigger money for . tobacco than any market in the State. Concord Times: Mr. G. F. Barnhardt, of Mt. Pleasant showed us a bullet Wednesday taken out of a tree. Counting the rings in the tree the bullet had been there 49 years. It was discovered by a. saw striking it at Moser's mill. Goldsboro Dispatch : A knit ting mill employing ;i hundred hands, has indicated willingness to. Oxford, and the Oxford Land, Improvement and Manufactur ing Company has offered it a site and a handsome bonus and ex pect to secure its location on their property. Asheville Citizen: The entire receipts from the sale of the land at the Pearson sale was $117, GG0, which is a net profit of $102,000. This incl udes one private sale amounting to $10, 000. Sixty seven thousand dol lars of this is net profit on lots held only sixty-two days. More than that he has property left wmcn is worm more i.ov than was the entire tract at the start. Greensboro Workman: Our re porter learned from Lr. Hadcy, of LaGrangc, that although about 500 work .hands went from Lenoir county to Mississip pi, there will still be n good crop of cotton, corn and rice made, unless there should be an acci dent between now and harvest. The supply of labor i but little reduced.
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