North Carolina Newspapers

1 . - jC- &CS I MK hMITHFIKiuD HKRALD, . -". Woodall, Editor. CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSING ATTEND HER I" Subscription S5I.OO Per Year. VOLUME 12 SMITHF1ELD, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1893. NUMBER 29. KXOWLEDGE Brings comfort nnd improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others ar.i enjiy 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 ref resiling and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipatiou. 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 61 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 Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. "Ye ought not to judge of men as a picture or statue, at the first sight." DIPvECTOHY. COt NT Y OFFICEUS. rt ! Siieri 2 . T. PllintKTI. fin in C'ou ;rior Court tier.. .it- in Court linvisf. I!.. 'i-str of Iels J- -- Oliver, office ia fVTHoir&Vo- ,J,.-.Vron r-i.. I.. . t Surveyor KoiUU-U-i-iim-eri. r t Stfriiuea.leat of liealtti-Dr. K. J. .- ... . . .... .... swiinti sireti. I 1 1 1 1 11.11. - v. TOWN OFFICEUS. Mayor Seta Woodall Cummi ' y'-..V.i'- w'" M. lvers and : T 1 Miil-i-nn .11X1 I.. Fuller Wcon-lVVard: AV ithand lianiel Thomas. Tl.ird V. ard: t J . VM H i a in s . J. U. Davis and J. Li. Hudson, Irourth r J Woodall Clerk A. M. W oodail Treasurer .John E. llood. Tax Collector O. X. IVaoock Policeman J- C. Bingham. Town Constable D. A. Coats. CHURCHES. Methodist C'uan-h on Second stn-et.Rev. W 'II Puckett. Pastor, N-rm-w at 11 o clovk a. in. and 7 o cI.k k p. m. on the sec ond Sunday of each month. anday School everv Sunday morning at --3J o clock. L'r j B Beckwfth Superintendent. 1 raver " . ;nir everv Wednesday evenicpr at . cT.cfe A" are cordially invited to attend Uese eerv ices. Missionary Baptist Church on Second street Rev. F. H. Boston Pastor. Services at ll o clocka- rc. and 7 o'clock p. m on the fourth untay m tnui "", . L" 1 everv Sunday morning at o clock jl M- Beaty. Superintendent. I rare" f M ln everv Thursdayeveuinjrat ; o clock. A.l a4 cordially invited to attend these services. Primitive Baptist Church Elder 4. A. 1. J.fnes. Pastor. Services every tirst Sunday Ind Saturday before at loti o clock ;n each month. All are cordially invited to attend these services. Presbyterian Church. Rev. Jro. A. Mc Mnv: pa tor Services, in the Old Academ y bulldiHs everv Third Sabbath, mori.mir and eVenins! Sabbath school every sabbath at y3 o'clock a m.. SCHOOLS. Turlington Institute Male and female. IraT. Turlington, Ph. B., l X. C.) Princi al J.k Davis. A. (Trinity College) As Bistant. Prof. T. R. Crocker. (Wake For.st) Latin & Greek. Capt. B. L. Creech, Millitary Tactics and E. B- Grantham. Penmanship. J. W. Denning, Telegraphy. T. J. Lassiter teacher in Trimary Department T. Turlington. Music. Mrs. Ira LODGES. Olive Branch Lodge. Xo. 37. I. O. O, F.. v i s.niler! N. ti.. J. n. Spiers, . O., Dr R. J?Sob7e, Sec'y.' Meets in the Mason c Hall every Monday evening at so clock. All Odd Fellows are cordially invited. Fellowship Lodge. No. M. A. F and A M. Hall on Second street. Elias Rose N . M.. i.1 ' c Thain Secretary. Meets the second Taturdaa Fourth Tuesday night.in each month. All Masons are respectfully invited. A. M. E. CHURCH On Hancock Street, Rer. J. B McGec Pas tor Services at 11 o'clock a. m. and at t Vock p. nVTon each Second Sunday cf each month Sundav School every Sun-ay morn montn. Holt Supennten- SDSf -s mating everv Thursday night irJVcToVkTlu1 afetordially itvited to at tend these seryices. Missionary Baptist "Vrvlces W T H. Woodward, A. M. Castor. Scrices aVll "clock a. m. and 8 P m. on t and .k:..i unniiivii in each month. Prayer meet ins on d. m. .u.. .,....---. f h week at w linutoiuii" . u-mimu.iiit niirht of each week at Sunday School every Sunday evening ) o'clock. William G. Sander. Sup t. at 2:30 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 pos itively cures Piles, or no pay re quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money re lunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale bv Hood Bros. Smith field.and J."V. Benson, at Benson, N. C. Board county j i j Yuii-- I - !ulauuliCU -ui:niscs iiiiu jiutugu-; nun l in.lt agamsu inc uig xi iiwuTt"v!"s.hKi.iri works and to-dav rcnean houses which ministers ,vc " rai a 'an Xii. M- J u n son . ' j practicall v e ver vbod v in Chica so j build for themselves. Wealth is tio'n' In!itr,,c" I is fed and employed." i thus not absorbed, and is more I "But probably the greatest j read v for investment in remuner- CHICAGO AFTER THE FAIR. Done What the Past Sis Months Have for th Great City. I Speaking of the influence of the I oriel s I air on mvpstmpnts m . . . . - . Chicago prooertv D. C. Camp - ! bell, of the Campbell Investment company, said to a Herald re- ! porter that he expected the very j best results. I "Though they came pretty j high, aside from their advertise ment value," said Mr. Campbell. "Chicago has this year given some good object lessons as to her resources to the world. Re cently, when the United States Treasury reserve w as depleted to $57,000,000 and the country seemed to be brought lace to face with the suspension of gold payments, and the New York clearirg house resorted to cer tificates, Chicago, inconspicuous eont-iat with New York and the ; East, stood resolutely up to the counter and accommodated her j customers with cash. This is a ' I kind of chicken that conies home to roost, and in conversation j with bankers from that section, j we learn that the West coiitem- j plates transferring its accounts j from New York to Chicago. j "Then, while other countries and cities are still menaced by idle and hungry multitudes. country is wondering how, with such case and ausence ol friction, Chicago disposed ot the army o! unemployed that lately thronged the lake fi ont. Th? simple fact i is that when, as the result prin- Icipally of the silver purchase policy, their ranks, augmented i In reft v nv free ini:irniti nf r!. i uges trom tnose states wlncli are 1Jli, ii .a v. r.:. ..... lot the Sherman law, had swollen ' to 100,000, the city put its hand ' i - - i down into its !ri vate pocket and i advertisement secured uv anv.ative labor, i ne iast reason city, at least of modern times, isj which occurs to the mind of a that cf Chicago, incident to the ! traveler with comparatively lew World's Fair, which has carried 1 opportunities lor forming opin her name to very nook of e-ivi-; ions is equality o! manners in all lization and barbarism. But it 'classes. Rich and poor are alike the securing of the great exposi- j tcurteous. It is not possible to tiou was a gratification to her distinguish employer from Icbor pride, the magnificent manner in erbv their behavior: all are clean, which she has practically carried i all are eas, all are restained. it to a triumphant completion,! The governor lets his c.iild go will have a commercial value to ; to the common school and sit Chicago, in turning the atten- next to the child of the casual la tion ot investors to the city's en-; borer, certain that his child will terprise nd hnaucial resources, j pick up no bad manners and get In the face of the fact that every j contamination in thought or in one of the eight previous world's j person. This equplly enables fairs proved a financial failure, ! rich and poor to meet as friends the hardiest financier might well ! an i gifts can pass without deg have had misgivings about the ; radation. The rich nobles in outcome of the big show. ' prove-d "But Chicago irrit equal to the undertaking, and on Chicago dav, though the enter- prise had cost $30,000,000, the discharging ot the entire in debtedness was an exhibition of stupendous financiering, new to the world. And the astounding success with which it was man aged is not being lost upon busi ness men, with a view to loca tion, who realize how potent such enterprise is in the develop ment of a "Teat citv. The im- mpnsitvof'the attendance has onlv been equaled bv the Paris j and by whom coal was first dis Exposition, although there was 'covered. The earliest record we but a small admission fee and j have of this mineral is in the i--irrt w-nc r 1 n rfrp nrhnTi rionnln- tion to draw from. Abroad, poverty and the lack of railroad facilities would renderimpossible such an attendance as the one here. Indeed, it may well be doubted if such a . result would have been made possible in any other city on this continent than in Chicago, which is the most centrally located as to popula tion and railroads. "This is one of the facts which assure that Chicago's growth will keep pace with the growth of the country and which is bring ing this city, as an objective point, to the attention of mauu fcaturers and other investors who aie visiting the Fair. Pro fessional men are reconnoitering for location here. Capitalists are on the lookout. A gentle men from Berlin tells us he is surprised at the opportunities for investment here; that he would rather have S200.000 here than $500,000 in his citv. Anrl nnA pvtensive manufacturer ( ,r.r Tmsnnex-hihir VJCi..w-J , .--w at the Fair, was in the other day looking for a site. The greatness of Ch cago shares equally with tie white city tic wonder of; ' visitors. Businessmen in gen-j i era! who are in search of a ioca-1 tion, or espect to be, sccin to ! ! !je t-.kmg notes or the city's im "vaicl poss possibilities, and we! ! !!..'. 1,, - i :c ..I rtU!j'' 1 ,JV- fcUt ln ,i!-u 1"-ui:riUdioi his matter torn - vear lhre iho be an influx ol Pi5a,atlou sutn as llcr a,rea"J phenomenal growth has never seen. i lie country every wneic is drawing the onlv logical in - ,n" iercr;cc in regard tins great a.'com- j pas!, men t would warrant; that ! Chic::g: posses s a mar:;ab:e reserve o! vitality. f i-Iln! . -. . . . ?!. i ...... I I.-,.. opportunity business. It is this fact that and renders her future greater. as certain as her Blade. nast." Toledo The Tiiifty Japanese. What is tnc reason that Japan has no poverty problem! O.ic reason is probably to be found in the land system, which lias given to everv worker a holding and encouraged him to sunplv his own labor. Efforts has thrs been developed and wants are limited. A noisier reason lies in the national taste lor country beaut v. Nowhere else are parties formed to visitthe blossom trees. and nowhere else are pilgrimages simply for the sake of national beauty. A country liiehas. there - fore its own interest, and men do not cro wd to the cities for the j sake o! excitement. There is, - too, in lapan, a curious absence of ostentatious luxury, says the Fortnight! v Review. j The habits of living re in an M iccc t.1i t n mo !;p : rich do not outshine the poor nv ! - i i r i " The rich spend their money on curios, which., it costly, are linnt- ed, and most popular agita last the country, just as the universi- ; tv men whom we meet in Tokio, are thus able to give to those whom thev know to be in need, j ar.d friendship b.corncs the chin nel of chantr. The question is will this survive the introduc tion of the industrial system? It is possible that some of it may, and that Japan may teach the West how to deal with the poor. Coal Known Uef ore ths Christian Era. It is not known wh-n, where writings oi Aristotle and ol his pupil Theophrastus, a Greek au thor, who lived about 23S B. C. The latter mentions coal as be ing found in Liguris ar.d in Eiis, on the road to Olympus over the mountaiiiS. There is evidence that coal was used in dand as early as 852, and, according to Bishop Pudsey (11S0), Es comb and Bishopwearmouth were twoof the earliestcoal min ing settlements. Newcastle cove appears to have come in to notice about 1234, in which year Hen ry III granted the inhabitants a charter to dig for it. The Chi nese knew of and used coal in the thirteenth century. The earliest reference to coal in Bel gium is in 1103, when a black smith at Liege is said to have first used it fur fuel, Paris recived its first coal from Newcastle, in England, in 1520. In Scotland coal was worked as earir as the twelfth century. Brooklyn Ea gle. The Herald twelve months foi I one dollar ix advance to tins Ciiv;n,i :c HENRY VV. GRADY. Anecdotes of the Eelovc-d Georgian Told by a Friend. er.rv Gradv u.- ,,t V. 1.4 to :etai . - . j ,va3 a short h:ind U I i,C-t n;;(j ntj as i that time ho did no: .-rirt ai cccrt.t j , Que ,i.IY i:c ,vns; dictating a lit itL - stuli of a well known tie stufi of a w e'd in .-s w:: V it ca :c on Ah. ior Black v. til re-enter hi: li.h, .... profession, in viich Uoil l;r most re-. ,,;vc l!K. jor tj.L. . ;j;c i,as Jua,. God U such reputation in the past.': One night Grady and two or I lire- other fellows were stand ing on the street corn .t waiting for a car. I was eating dried figs. "What's that you arc eating?" he aiked. "Dried figs," 1 replied. ' Give me some," he said. I handed liim the figs and re mai ked : "You had better get into the light. They are not the best. "Xo," he said, as he put a fig into his mouth. 'If I were to see 'em I wouldn't eat 'cm." Grady made it a rule- cf his life never to miss a circus, and used to cairy all the small boj-s for whom he could possibly get tickets. One day he tried to get tickets lor nearly every boy in 1 the Sixth ward, and the show man at last, in desperation, ex claimed : Tell Mr. Grady that we have sent him all the tickets uv can spare lor this perform a nee, but we will give a show to-morrow ( uiuut sor m uiLiui oenenc. i 1. 1 t. : . :. . i i r . One day there was a circus in town and tlie ele. ator boy at the Constitution, ;i3 lie was car- j rying Grady down, said : "Mr. Gradv, I want to go to the show." "Why don't you go, then? ask ed the editor. "Who'll run the elevator?" asked the boy. "Stop it," said Grady. "Then the boy took him at his word, proceeded to the bottom, locked the elevators, and editors, reporters, printers, and every body else climbed up and down six flights while the kid went to the show. Grady loved to tease p.-ople to slip in a little joke sideways. Persons who used to visit the Chatauqua at Lithia Springs will appreciate the following : he night of the opening of the second year's Chatauqua Mr. jrady walked into the beautiful grounds. It was like rail y land. The big light shone from Rose Mount!. The thousands of little lights lined the walks. The stars twinkled overhead. Soft strains of music came to the ears. But the crowd it wasn't there. Grady walked on in silence till he came to Hon. Joseph S.James, who had been one of the leading spirits in the enterprise. He looked at the scene about him; the beggarly rows of empty benches, and then s li 1 medita tively and with mock solemnity: "The same little Chautauqua; the same little crowd; same lit tle band; the same little blue lights, and" breaking into a ringing laugh "the same little Joe James." Before the New England dinner speech which made him famous Mr. Grady would neverallow me to print his speeches. He made many very pretty ones, and I knew they w uld make "ucod reading,' but he would always come to me and sa- : "Don't print what I said. Simply sav I Spoke." And so I would sorrowfully cast my shorthand note away. After the New England speech lie never made any objection to the publication of his speeches. One dav the news came o? the death of " lion. Jefferson Davis Mr. Grady was in the Gite City Guard armory, and asked if the boys were going to the funeral. "Yes, we leave to morrow," said one of the boys, jokingly. "Grady went home. Walter Taylor r? marked : ' "I believe if we go out and see Mr. Gradv he will raise the mon ey to send us to Nev Orleans." The. suggestion was acted on. Mr. Gradv gave $50 and raised the est. The company was at the train that afternoon as he was leaving lor Boston and gave him three rousing cheers the last Atlanta cheers that ever thrilled his noble soul, for when he came home the hand of death was resting upon him. I did not believe that Grady would die. I knew lie was very ill. but it was impossible to thinV of his dying On t hat sad Sunday morr.ing, a b.snt 15 o'clock I got out oi bed and called up the Constitution, ollicc : How is Air. l.rady.' 1 asked, Tiie 'phone woi ked badly, and I cuild hardly make myself under stood. I caught the repl v ; "Mr. Grady is dead." "Surely that cannot be true !" I exclaimed. "I don't know what you say," was the ans.vcr," but Henry Grady ?s dead." osiah Carter in the Atlantic Herald. Ne?r!y Ten Centuries old. Thc largest whale which ever entered this harbor, and one of the largest ever seen on this coast, washed ashore at Toke lund Monday, says the South Ben I Herald. The news was immediately brought back by one of the morniugsteamers, and the afternoon passenger boats were crowded to their greatest capacity by the throngs who were anxious to see the monster. Tiie fish came ia on the high tide, and lies just a little below j Charles Fisher's b.tth houses. It was alive and kicking and did not finally surrender its lease on existence until Tuesday about noon. County Attorney M. D Egbert had taken along a tape line and carefully measured the monster. The line showed an extreme length or i i i- xeet nnu 5 i inches, with a "waist measure" i out on a hot afternoon to stop of 101 feel and G inches. Conn-: hog holes in that li .e ol fence. It tv Surveyor E. C. Yickc-ry ligur- is hardly likely that this is the cd on the weight of the "aniinile" case, however, as all fences in and pronounced this member of this county arc built to turn cat the balacnoidea family to weigh tic and without reference to hogs, forty-seven and one-half tons, There is a litt le railway station and the blubber and whalebone to be worth, at current prices, oil, $9,795; bone, $1,000; mak a net total of $10,975. Attorney L. E. Grinn attempt ed to compute the age of the sub ject under consideration, and concluded, from the transverse lines on the baleen, that this fish had existed for 9SG years, lack ing but fourteen years of having lived the longest term of whale life. The pectoral fins are 1 2 feet long and 7 feet broad; the mouth is 24 feet long, the blow holes IS inches long, and the half hundred bathers in the water at tlie lime it came ashore sav the noise of spouting wes deafening ar.d the spray ejected ot least 50 feet in the air. The thrashing of the tail in the water in th? stiuggle to regain the chnnnel was heard at Mc Gowan's cannery at the mouth o! North River, lour miles away. County School Superintendent L. W. Fanscher furnished some historical facts in regard to the whole. Alfred the great had been dead but six years when his whaleship first began to navi gate the wateis ol the earth. Tlie old boy was 120 years old a-hen William the Conqueror was born, and may have been playing off English shores w hen he was crowned ki.:g. He ras on earth at the time of making the great charter at Ruunymede, he was middle aged when tlie pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, and probably looked upon the wars of Naoolcon. the American Revo - lution and Civi War with many a sad sigh and shake of the head for the ruthless slaughter of humanity. New Game Laws. Book agents may be killed when ripe, which is from Octo ber 1 to September 3!; sowing machine do; Spring poets from March 1 to February 28 (29 in leap year;) the man w ho knows it all may be slaughtered any time between midnight and 11: G0 p. m ; the man who doesn't advertise because it don't pay any time between sunrise and sunset, his lonel est period; but the fellow who stops his pa pet because theeditoi failed to make public the annouccment that his last babv had a new tooth is in violate, he ought to live t rcver for he is too mean to die. There is no et time for insurance and building and loan agents but to est cute them on sight, especially w hen they come around on Tues day. Ex. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOUTEiaf PUKE THE GRRAT PASTURES OF TEX AS. Enormous Alias that ar Undrr the Control of a Single Management Very few people at a distance, in thinking of western Texas, understand that nearly the whole o' it is at present fenced up in mammoth pastures, vet such is the cas' Many of them are larger than ordinary counties, and some of them embrace large parts of three or four counties. Just west of Be-lcherville, Tex.,' come the Silyerstein, the Ikard, and the Worsham pastures. This. latter contains 50.000acres, and has one fence twenty-three miles long. Pastures of about this size continue in almost unbroken succession until we reach Arm strong county. There wc find what is known as the Goodnight ranch, the southern boundary of which is a little siring of fence eighty-three miles long. Charley Goodnight, as the ownei is fa miliarly known, is considered one of the richest men in the Pan handle, but I really leel sorry for his bovs if Me ever send theui called Goodnight, which consists of tlie Goodnight residence and thedepo4-. Mr. Goodnight lives in almost baronial style. His park contains deer, a drove ol elks, and one of the few herds of buffaloes to be found in the Unit ed States. Another fair-sized holding of land h that ot the Espinella Cat tle Company. This contains over 1,500,000 acres, and takes j in parts of Dickens, Crosby, and btnnia counties it the lands j were in the form of a square i: , would he about fifty miles eatb j way. The Mattcrdore is small-; er. but still includes rather morej than l.UUU.UUU acres, inese are both owned by syndicates, with li o i A n ii n r t p ro 1 11 T."nf1rf1 ntnl .... 1 .... .1 ... .... W .. V. . . , .. . 4 . - thev arc only two selected ati" ..u.3 i.nvuu rar Th .out of a iarge number. have their bearing on ... .... State politics. It it were not for the Railroad Commission, the uniform Text Book bill, and (! fili.-fi Pi n-11n"1.-tr ri lie's 1 1 nil . fexas politics would not bc worth shucks. The largest of these alien land holdings belongs to tvhat is call ed the Capitol syndicate. A fe.r years ago the old Capitol at Austin burned down, and it was decided to build another on a magnificent scale. An English syndicate agreed to put it up, and in o?.vmcnt therefor thev re ceive 3,000,000 acres of public lands. Does the reader realize how big 3,000,000 acres of land is? Imagine a slice of land i tweatv fjur miles wide and ex ten ling clear across the State of Missouri at its northern border, Sucu a strip would include the J whole northern tier of counties, jand wou'd be larger than several States of the Union. This would be about the extent of the Capi toj syndicate's pasture. Few people have any idea that there is such a thing a:s a single pas ture, in rnie body anil within one fence, larger than some Mates m the Union, vet such is the fact. More than that, it is ow ned by a foreign syndicate. It takes in half of Deal Smith county and parts of several others. Another large pasture is that of the X. I. T. Cattle Company It begins with tne Colorado line and extends several counties back this way. The Fort Worth and Denver Kailroad runs through it. Some idea of its size tfw fnrt Ill 11 J 1-1.- Hl'ltlVll . -" - tli ((to i-Kmilni- nJrrlif r Ynrrss train enters on the south side of the pasture at 11:05 and after continuous running, leaves it at 3:20 next morning. A pasture which it takes an express train L 11 (. K. LIIV, I V-U1U1 ta W 1 .ViJf l W t 1 LA "IV ft three hours and a quarter to cross wculd be considered lar.'e in some countries. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. S'ATB NEWS. A jewelry firm in Salisbury made an assignment last week." It is reported that quite an ex odus of the people of Randolph ccunty is being made to Indiana. Thirty six persons left that coun ty last week. A negro boy not ten years old stole a horse from a farmer in Greensboro one day bist week. The boy was caught and placed in jail and the horse was return ed to his owner. Winston Sentinel: It is said that William Sharswood, of Stokes, has a method f curing tobacco by electricity. He is en gaged in deve'oping this, and he has also contrived an appliance whereby one may read the ther mometer without opening the door of the tobacco barn. In the Superior court in Wake county last week in the case against the Rale:gh Gas Com pany for $10,000 damages for the killing of Johnny Hayes, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant and no dama ges were allowed. Johnny Hayn es was a small boy and was kill ed by stepping on an electric wire which had been blown down by a storm. Mr. He nry Albright, one ol our oldest citizens, living about three miles southeast of town, Is the owner of a peacock which is between 30 and 40 years old, the oldest one perhaps in the State. When this ancient fowl shullles off, his hide should be stuffed and placed in a museum. Mr. Albright ulso has a half bushel measure 35ycars old, and a o'clock GO years old or mote Alamance Gleaner. TT Morgan ton Herald: Last "VVIl HI HILIIllUilVU Lilt litLl II III I. the Japanese Commissioner at the World's Fair was so much . nnnriiJCiii) Im Iia ianl1.1 nl Uti.l.n "f, ' ,urnfIS"e,u ,)V ol' V ; NJaUon' Morgantori, ; 111 f hoc n f ttwf norrnti'if ioriL . . y"1-"1"'"" ttll.ll 14 IV. V IU DIV.UI 111 Slillll. Wi the cm to be planted in Japan. Besides sending the best display corn to Chicago, Col. VValton furnished one of the largest gold nuggets for North Carolina's display in the Mines Building. The two exhibits mentioned have done much to attraat attention to Burke county. Gastonia Gazette : Little fewett McArver fell seventeen j feet fror.! a second s'ory window oi the Academy and isstillliving. Monday morning he went to school earlv, as his custom is. Belorc school was called he was in the hall up stairs and sat in the window just at the head of j the stairway. The sash was up but the shutters were closed. As he leaned against these they flew open and out lie went backwards. No one saw him fall except Mr. Arnold Tillman who was in the hall with lewett. He rushed down stairs to find the little fellow bathed in blood, limp and apparently lifeless. He had fallen a distance of seventeen leet and struck the steps under the window. A hole was cut clear through his cheek by a tooth, there was another cut near his throat with numerous bleeding bruises. He was taken in charge at once by Prol. Mc Lauchlin, and in a few minutes he regained consciousness and was fble to tell just how tlie ac cident occurcd. He walked home and after netting quiet lapsed into a stupor from which he hiu i not recover for hall a dav. itc. ' A'binis attended him and lotind i ' -- no bone broken at all. Even Mie tooth that cut through the fleshy cheek was not kti'uked out. e vett is not more than ten years old.