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SMIT A. M. Woodall, Editor. CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSING ATTEND HER !" Subscrlotlon $I.OO Per Yoar. VOLUME 12 SMITHFIELD, N. C, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1893. NUMBER 20. HFTFI.B HERALD. M V Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. pi DIRECTORY. CO i: STY OFFICERS. SberiB J.T. Ellington, oflW-e la Court Surior Con rt Clerk W. S. Steven, of Bc lu Court House. lUulnter ol J. U. Olircr. office In Court lluune. ... Ttvurvr E. J. Holt, office In the etore wt K. J. Holt Co. Corvn r U. I- Sir- HurTeyor Himu.nUmlrt. SiiirrintMitint of Health Dr. R. J. Noble, office on Scoiul utreet. Board Countr Commissioner D. T. Ilonevcutt. Chairman, Jo. J. Ynunjr. I. W. Hocutt.W. S. ElJrile and l. P. Creech. County Hord of Education J. 11. Hardee, W K. Jeraid nd II. M. Johnnon. County Sup?rint?nant of Publie. I mt ruc tion. Prof. Ira T. Turllnuton. TOWS OFFICERS. Mayor Seth Woodall I'ommliwlonew J . A. Morgan an:'l ST'u lond Wardl A. W. SmiTh and DanU-l Thon.a-. Third Ward: F. ' ,V ii'Vi' i J. U. Da Tin and J. V. Hudson. ourth W ard Clerk A. M. Woodall- Treasurer John E. Hood. Tax Collector i. S. Peacock Policeman J" C. Bingham. Town Cotwtable D. A. Coat. CHURCHES. Mlr.hu o clock a: m. .ndTok p r the .jc- ,ud Sundar of each month. Minuay st n.uc momfiisr at S-oO o clock. lr. J R Beckwtth Superintendent. Prayer m'eetinic every Wednesday evening at t "cToik All are cordially Invited to attend theee ervicet. Miionarr Baptist Church on treet. Uev. F. H. Ponton lator. Servke ZVV :. n.l 7 o'clock P. ni. on the fourth Sunday in eaoh month. Sunday School every Sumla v morning at y-;JO o clt J M. Beatv. Superintendent. Prayer me In every T hursdayeveninffat 7 o clock. meet- : All are cordiallv invited to attend th.ne service. Primitive Baptist Church Elder J. A. 1. Jones. Pastor. Services every first Sundav and Saturdav before at ltu o clock In each month. All are cordially Invited to attend these services. Presbvterian Church. Rct. Jno. A. Me Uurrar! partor Services, in the Old Academy k..u,iin wrT Thin) Sabbath, nioriiinjr anu Truing. Sabbath school every V-30 o'clock a m.. Sabbath at SCHOOLS, r- it . t . i . . a f aim and famale. ritngton. Ph. b., (U. s.c.) r-rioci- J. L- Davis. A. M.. (Trinity College) As sistant. Prof. T. R. Crocker. (Wake Fimnt) Latin Jk Greek. Capt. B. 1. Creet h, Miilitary Tactics and E. B. Grantham. Tenmanshlp. J. W. DeDnlnir. TelesraphT. T. J. Laswlter teacher In Primary iH'pnrtnnnt. Mrs. Ira T. Tnrlinjrton. Muxic. LODGES. Olive Branch Lodare. So. 37. I. O. O. F.. K. San.lers. S. G., J. D. Spiers. . G.. Dr. K. J. Sobie. Sec'y. Meets In the Masonic Hall every Monday evening at 8 o'clock. All Odd Fellows are cordially invited. Fello jvship LodKe. No. . A. 1 . and A M. Hall on Second street. Elian Rose. . 41., Thos. S. Thaln. Secretary. Meets the second Saturday and Fourth Tuesday night in each month. All Maaons are respectfully invited. COCSTY FARMERS' ALLIANCE. OFFICERS: W R Creech. President; Joa. Fuller Vice President: E. I. Snead. Secretary: B. A. Wei loos. Treasurer; D. K Stafford. Chaplain; in Klchardson. Lecturer. Regular time of meet ing, the second Thursday in January, April July and October. A. M. E. CHURCH On Hancock Street, Rev. J. B McGee Pas tor. Services at 11 o'clock a. m. and at 8 o'clock p. m. on each Second Sunday of each month. Sunday School every Sunuay morn Ins; at 0:3O o'clock, W. It. Holt Superinten dent. Class meeting every Thursday night at 8 o'clock. All are cordially itvited to at tend these services. Missionary Baptist Church (colored,) Rer W. T. H, Woodward, A. M. Pastor. Services at 11 o'clock a. m. and 8 p. m. on first and third Sundays in each month. Prayer meet ing on Wednesday night of each week at 8 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday evening at 2:30 o'clock. William O. Sanders. Sup't. Send us Your Subscription. We are fiequently asked by busy men what periodical will best give them the news of the day, boiled down so that, with the limited time at their com mand, they can keep abreast of the thought and progress of the day. There is but one such The Review of Reviews. This magazine fills the bill exactly. Its illustrations alone, especially its portraits of promi nent persons, are worth many times its subscription price of $2.50 per year. We will furnish The Review of Reviews and The Smithfield Herald for $3.00. This is a model combination of reading matter for any family. Address Tiie Herald, Smithfield, N. C. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Tetters, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Chaped Hands, Chilblains Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and oos itiyely cures Piles, or no pay" re quired. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money re funded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hood Bros. Smith field.andj. W. Benson, at Benson, N. C. A SIAMESE EXECUTION. A Siamese named Al Young, who murdered his wife because she had foisaken him for a lover, was executed by decapitation, the method bearing a close re semblance to the Chinese and the spectators showing the same haste in quitting the scene of blood the moment the victim's head was looped off. Al Young was a young Siam ese, who lived near Phratoon with his wife. About four months ago she suddenly de camped with a handsomer man. The husband tracked the pair ! like a bloodhouud, never leaving j their trail till he ran them down j in a house where they were hid . ing. The lover escaped, but the ! woman was overhauled as she ! fleed and was horriblv slashed ! with a sharo knife, no lesi than made bv the maddened husband. He was caught red-handed and convict ed. He never showed any fear when sentenced, but he refused to sec his mother because he said the sight of her grief would un nerve him. The execution was for 9 in the mornine:. As early as 5 o'clock the prisoner was led out, heavy manacled. He formed the cen tral figure in an imposing proces sion of officials of the depart ment dressed in their richest robes. The whole partv took boats and went up the river to the execution grounds. The con- demned man was among the coolest in the crowd, chewing betel and apparently enjoyiug the early morning boat ride. Oa the grounds a temporary altar had been erected, and be fore this the seven superbly bui.'t executioners, with drawn swoid, made offerings of boars' heads, fo'svls, rice, etc., and light ed large tapers. Then the swords were anointed. The condemned man meanwhile remained on the funeral barge, where Buddhist priest gave him the last rites. He smoked and chatted after the ceremony and never showed any sign of weakness. At last he was brought out in front of the altar and placed on freshly cut plantain leaves. The executioner asked his paidon for killing him. after they had wound red sashes atound their bodies and placed red handker chiefs about their heads. A snow white cloth was wound around the condemned man's loin's, his ears were stopped with clay so that he should not hear the headman's footsteps as he came behind him. His neck chain and handcuffs were moved and his elbews were secured to a bamlioo post, while he was marked on his neck as a guide to the swordsman. The executioner, a lusty young Sampson, now approached from behind, advancing with many fancy steps and moving his sword like the baton of a band master. His six associates form ed an attentive group, and watched every movement. For a moment the sword gleamed in the air. Then it descended exact ly upon the white line. The bodv fell slightlv to one side, the head drooped but huner bv a bit of skin, and the man's life blood leaped forth upon the sand. One of the attendants severed the head completely, and another neatlv placed it on a pole and ex posed it to a crowd of Siamese and Chinese that tilled the enclos ure. Then the body was hurried to the unmarked grave near at hand, and before five minutes all the large crowd had vanished, and only the erisly head and blood stained sand remained to mark t!ie tragedy. N. Y. Sun A little girl was burned to death in Newbern last week by the explosion of an oil can while . . . - attempting to start a ure m stove. THE PUBLIC PRINTER. He has to do a Good Deal of Work for Small Pay. "I presume that there comes a time in the life of every lawyer when he entertains an ambition to be a judge," says ex-Senator Moody, of South Dakota. It may probably also be truthfully said that there comes a time in the life of every printer in this country when he entertains a desire or an ambition to secure employ men t in the government printing office at the national capital. The public printer is at the head of a great institution which employs over three thousand men and women. The govern ment printing office is a hive of industry, and, because of the fact that the employes in Ihis great printing house are not under the protection of the civil servic law, thre are applicants for employ ment on hand in person every day either accompanied by their representatives or senators, or bearing letters from men of standing and influence. The of ficer of the public printer, which is upon the second floor of the building, is the most attractive camping ground in the city for the unemployed. It costs nearly $4,000,000 tt pay the j-early expenses of this institution. Over $2,000,000 are paid out annually to the em ployes in wages, while the quan tities of materials consumed by the government printing office are almost staggering in their volume. Last year 223 printers' reams of paper were used, cost ing over $600,000. There were also ten tons of printers' ink, twelve tons of glue, six tons of twine, two tons of glycerine, two tons of antimony, one ton of bar tin, one-half ton of plum bago, 800 pounds of pumice stone and 720 pounds of bees wax consumed in the regular business of the government printing office ; and there were also 6,000 gallon 5 of oil, 4,500 gallons of benzine, 140 gallons of alcohol, 3,600 packs of gold leaf, 4,000 pieces of book cloth, 3,000 dozen Turkey morocco skins, 230 square feet of calfskin, 4,000 yards of crash, 4.000 doz en sheepskins and 40,000 feet of Russia leather consumed in the regular business. It is claimed by many that the government printing office in Washington is the biggest on the face of the earth. From the expense ac count epitomized above one would judge that there is some ground for that claim. It is not generally known, but it is a fact that the big building at the corner of North Capitol and H streets, in which over 3,000 men and women are employed, is a veritable fire trap and a gigantic tinder-box. If a fire should occur in any part of the building a fearful holocaust would result. Three years ago congress appropriated $250,000 for the purchase of a site and creation of a new building for the government printing office; but real estate dealers in this city have managed, by active and energetic competition, thus far to prevent the selection oi any site, and the old death-trap continues in use. In the base ment of the building are 75 huge printing presses, while on the floor above there is an immense complement of binding ma chinery, appliances and fixtures capable of turning out in phenom enally short time, the greatest jobs ot printing that can pos sibly be projected. In the base ment and on the ground floor are the press rooms, paper ware rooms safetv vaults and ma chine shops. On the second floor are the administrative officers, the main composition room, the job rooms, the stereotyping and electrotyping departments and proof rooms. Un the tniro noor is the bindery and its warerooms. The fourth story is devoted to the publication of the Congres sional Record. patent office w A specifications, and to the neces sarv warerooms. In addition to the numerous force of printers, compositors, pressmen, stereo tvoers and book-binders, there are whole battalions of feeders ccmputers, helpers, assistants machinists, engineei s, messen gers, watchmen and laborers Most of the computers, feeders a. and assistants are women and girls, numbering about 1,000 in all, who earn a competence by their labor. In addition to this great central printing office there are five branches under the su pervision of the public printer, and they are located lor con venience in the treasury, interior, navy, state and war departments for work requiring special se crecy and discretion in those de partments. During the last session of con gress a joint comtniete of both houses undertook to cut down the expenses of the government printing office by recommending the discontinuance of certain publications, but the congress did not act favorably upon the reports of the committee. As a matter of fact the congress is exceedingly extravagant in its orders for printing. One hun dred copies of every bill intro duced in either house of con gress are printed and sent to the secretary and clerk of the senate and house to be placed upon their files. As a matter of fact ten copies would be ample for official use. Thousands of copies of reports of committees are printed from day to day during sessions of congress which should never be put into type. The committees of the senate and house having before them bills for consideration very fre quently make reports favorable or unfavorable for the purpose of satisfying the demands of claim ants and lebbvists who make daily personal appeals for action upon their bills. As a matter of act no reports should be made in any cases unless action can be lad by both houses of congress. Then there are thousands of re- orts of the executive depart ment printed which might as well remain upon the archives of the departments in type-written orm, because their publications serve no public good. During the closing day of the last ses sion of congress Representative Stockdale. of Mississippi, advo cated the increase of the number of copies of the Congressional Record donated to ecch repre sentative from twenty-two to brty-four daily. It was shown oy tne chairman ot the com mittee on printing thattheadop tion of the proposition would carry with it a $95,000 increase, and the debate upon the subject :v very warm. The prop osition, however, was hnaily re- ected. If carried it would have resulted in the practical waste of $95,000 per annum. The common people of the country are not interested in the excessive publication of the Con- gressible Record. It is a very fine thing to have, bound and in dexed at the public expense for the use of statesman and newspa per men, and it makes a hand some addition to the library of a gentleman. But if five copies were daily given to-each member of congress, instead of twentv- two, it would be sufficient for the statesmen; and if they needed more to send to the various peo ple in thefr districts they could purchase and pay for them out of their own pockets. The present government print ing office was not founded until 1861 when Mr. John D. Detrees, of Indianna. was appointed the public printer by President Lin coln, after congress had worried along with other less conven ient and satisfactory systems since the government was estab hshed in 1789. r or many years the public printing was done on a small scale, the house and senate each paying for their own work out of their "appropria tions IOr couiiugciiu ciuciiscs For about twenty years prior to 1846 the senate and house elected public printers who were salaried officials. Ihe duties oi these officers were to make eco nomical contracts and audit ac counts for such printing only as was absolutely necessary. In that year, 1846, when the annu al expense of congressional print ing reached t. e enormous sum of $65,000, it was decided to re turn to the original contract svs tern. But in 1851 the public printing cost $500,000. and the othce ot "superintendent ot puD lie printing" was created bv act of congress, witn a salary o $3,000 per annum. Strange as it mav now appear, Horace Greelev was an applicant for the position, and so was Henry J Reymond; both of them destined to become the leading journalists of their day and one of them a candidate for the presidency of the republic. The law of 1861, creating the office of public printer, is still in force, and under the system then commenced the government printing office has grown to the piesent proportions. The sala ry, which is $4,500, is very small, and no superior man could be in duced to accept the office but for the honor of the position. The public printer gives bond in the sum of $100,000 and is obliged to abstain from any connection with or interest in any printing, binding, lithographing or en graving establishment; so that the entire time, attention, abili ty and energy of the public print er must be given to the govern ment for $4,500 per annum. And yet, the duties and responsibili ties of the place require the ser vices of a man who is possessed of as much executive ability as would be required of the incum bent of a cabinet position. The public printer must be a man of absolute incorruptibility and sterling integrity. If he is not, he is always in danger of misdirection; for the temptations of the position are yerygreat. The following story is illustrative: "I do not like that man," said Capt. Meredith, chief of the bu reau of engraving and printing three years ago, as we passed a prominent character on the av enue. "It was supposed early in '89 that I would be appointed public printer. That man came to me and asked to be appointed chief clerk of the government printing office, saying he would make me rich if I gave him that position. When I asked how he cculd do it, he said that, as chief clerk, he would make all con tracts for materials for the office, and that he would occasionally hand me an envelope with a thousand dollars in it; and that I need not ask any questions. He fid been introduced to me only a week before bv an ex-member of a cabinet, and I had presumed that he was a gentLmrin. I lave never pei minted him to speak to me since that day." The above is a true story. It llustrates pointedly and practi cally the dangers of the pos tion, unless a man is armed so strong n honesty that he is absolutely ncorruptib'e. Smith D. Fry, or The A. N. Kellogg Newspa per Co. Wealthy Indians. The Coeur d'Alencs are the wealthiest Indian tribe in the northwest. Many of the Indians have from $1,000 to $5,000 on deposite in the local banks, with the merchants or in bpokaue. Thev all own good farms, most of which are fenced and being rapidly placed in cultivation. They have good houses, and manv are setting out nice or chards, which will be bearing fruit in a few years. They are very careful with their money, buying but few things they do not need and paying cash for each article as it is purchased, tbus allowing no chance for cheating in figuring up a bill. They understand makmgehange, but cannot compute figures. Manv of them, esperally the children, can read and write, and the latter can be heard read ing the signs aloud as they walk along the streets. Portland Oregcnian. Baby's Dimensions. From measurements of 100 infants born in the Royal Ma ternity Hospital of Edinburg, averages have been obtained They are practically the same for American children, and are as follows: Average weight of male infant at birth, 7.55 pounds. Average weight of female in fant at birth, 7.23 pounds. Average height of female in fantatbiith, 18.98 inches. Each inch of the male infant corresponds to 2.56 pounds. Each inch of the lemale mtant cor rpsnonds to 2.62 pounds. The range between the shortest and tallest male infants was ten inches; between the shortest and tallest female intants, eignt men es.St. Louis Republic. Pensioners of the Revolution. Upon the death of Mrs. Anna Maria Young, which occurred at Easton, Pa., on Wednesday, the last Revolutionary widow wha drew a pension in this district was stricken from the list. Mich ael Fritz, the last survivor of the war of 1812 in this district, died about a -ear ago at his home near Reading. There are still seyerai widows ot the survivors of the war of 1812 drawing pen sions from the Philadelphia of fice, and quite a number of the surviyors of the Mexican war. The theory that pensions pro long life bv the removal of the constant worry to which aged persons of the poorer classes are subject is borne out by the remarkable vi tality of the vast army of pen sioners. There are still 15 wid ows of Revolutionary soldiers drawing pensions throughout the country. Mrs. Young, who died on Wednesday, was the old est, having been but a few months less than 100. She was the widow of the late Captain Jacob Young, whom she married when she was 22. Despite her tender age. Captain Young was her third husband. The gallant captain survived six months of married life. Mrs. Young leaves 30 great-grandchildren and a large number of great-great grandchildren, all by her first and second husbands. When one considers the great disparity in tre ages of the sur viving Revolutionary widows and their late husbands, it looks very much as though some of the marriages had been purely com mercial transaction?. The Rev olutionary war was over in 1783. Take the case of one of these dames who is now 75 and who married her husband when she was 25 years old. He could scarcely have been less than 20 when the war was over. This would make the marriage take place in 1843. On the theory that he was 20 when the war was over, and she married him, he must have been 80 at that in teresting period of his life. Then, when he died shortly after, she merely exchanged a husband for a snug pension. Philadelphia Record. Timing the Speed of a Moving train. "There are 33 telegraph poles to the mile on the railroad lines," said T. F. Vansant of New York at the Li.ideil. "and from this basis it is very easy to determine how fast a train ofcars is travel ing. Time the passing of 33 poles and subtract the number of seconds it takes from 120, and the difference will be the number of miles per hour the train is traveling. If it takes 45 seconds lor the pole to pass, the train is going 120 less 45, or 75 miles per hour. This method is as infailible as counting the clicks made by the car in passing over the joints in the track. The number of clicks heard in 20 seconds is the number of miles per hour the train is making. The length of the railroad rail is uniform everywhere. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Relic of 1776. Captain G. W. Bullene. United States inspector of boilers, has a pocket piece which he prizes higmv. it is a copper token or souvenir lust the size ol a silver dollar, issuet1 by authority ol the Fit st congress and bearing the date "1776." Un one side is the laminar re lief of the Goddess of Liberty, be neath her the date, and over her head a group of 13 stars with spreading rays bt neath them a Aiound these is the inscription containing the first of the sell evident truths of the Declaration ol Independence, viz, "These unit ed colouies arc and of right ought to be free and independent states." The inverse side is so worn that all the lettering can not be read. Around the mar gin are the words, "By authoii ity of the congress of the United States." Inside o f this is a wreath forming a full circle, in the lower part of which appear the words, "American indepen pence." Above these words the surface iy worn, and only the letters "ion" can be made our. Seattle Post. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fere re ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on 'the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Fige, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if ofiered. STATE NEWS. The Stale University opene last Thursday with three hun dred students. Egecombe and Jones counties have a law which prohibits fast driving across public bridges. Raltigh bought 24.8S0 bales of cotton during the year ending August 31st, a decrease of 3,030 bales of the rear previous. The State Board of Health has issued a bulletin in which it es timates that one thousand peo ple die of typhoid fever every year in North Carolina. It seems that there is danger even in "cyclone pits." Mr. Jack Holmes, who lives about 2Vj miles fom Louisburg, took his family into one of these pits last week (just as the storm of Mon day was rising) and one of his children was bitten by a mocca si.i while therein If people will have pits it i vtry important to La re also a guard at the open ing to keep away the serpents. rranklin 1 imes. A man living in a certain sec tion of western Mecklenburg has m . a sorrel horse that has a good deal of common sense. There is a distillery just across the Ca tawba in Gaston county, and when anv of the "stuff" is want ed they just tie a jug on this sor rel horse, lead him down to the river and motion him to the oth er side. The animal plunges in. swims across the river and goes over to the still, at which place h?s errand is readily understood and his jug filled. Then the horse walks backs, swims the river and arrives at his Mecklenburg home, with a jug of whiskey, but "so ber as a Judge'Charlotte News. In digging a well on his farm North of Clinton, last week. Mr. Alvin Royal encountered a rich marl bed about twenty feet be low the surface of the earth. Numerous shark's teeth and oth er fossil remains were taken out all in excellent preservation. Besides, quantities of petrified wood were found. This makes the fourth or fifth marl bed found in Sampson county with in the past few years. In re sponse to our recent enquiry re garding Gov. Gabriel Holmes of this county, and his burial place, a gentleman tells us that Gov. Holmes grave is in an old burial ground near the old Williams mill, one mile West of Clinton. This information was had from Mr. Peyton Rackley, perhaps the oldest citizen now living in Sampson county. Mr. Kackley is 92 years of age, and says he was called upon to mnke Gov. Holmes' coffin, but not thinking himself able to do the w ork as nicely as he thought1 it should be done, he declined, lie distinctly remembers the Governor's death and burial and has no doubt ms to the place w hre the f cnwiina i f Sampson's illustrious son w v' laid to rist Sampson IVmio-'rat. r
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