North Carolina Newspapers

'Vt '1 (Devoted lo l?ie Trotection of Home and the Interests of the .County . Vol. II; Gastoxia, Gastox County, K C, Saturday Morning, June 4tli., 1881. CTP lJ c ON GAZE A THE BURIAL OF MOSES. By Nebo's lonely mountains, On tliis side of Jordan's wave, - Id o vale in the lupd of Moab, There lies a lonely grave j And no man dug that sepulchre, And uu mun saw it e'er; For the angel of (Jod upturned the sod And laid the dead muu there. Tba was the grandest funeral . That ever passed on curtli ; But no nun heard the tramping, ,' Or saw the train go forth. Noiselessly as the daylight Comes when the night is dune, And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek Grows into the great sun. , Noialessly as the spring-time Her crown of verdue weaves, And all the trees on ull the hills Open their thousand leaves So without sound of Music, Or voice of them that wept, Silently down from the mountain's crown The great procession swept. Perhaps the bald old eagle On gray Beth-neoi's height, Out from his rocky eyrie Looked on the wondrous sight ; Perchance the lion, stalking, Still shuns the hallowed spot, For beast and birds have seen and heard That which mun knowetb not. But when the warrior dieth, II s comrnd'8 in the war. With arnn reversed and m ffl.'d drum, Follow the funeral cur ; They show the banners taken, They tell his battles won, And alter him lead h s musierless steed, While peals the minute gun. - Amind the noblest o.the land Men lay the sage of rest, And give the bard an honored pluce, With costly marble du st. In the great minister. transept, Where lights like glory full, And Ibe choir sings and the oran rings Along tbe embluzoued wull. This was the bravest warrior That ever buckled sword ! This the most gifted poet That ever breathed word ; And never earth's philosopher Traced with his golden pen, On the deathless page, truth hulf so sage A a wrote down for men. And bad he not high honor ? The hillside for his pall, To lie in Plate, while angels wait, With stars for tapers tall, And the dark rock-pines, like tosing p'umes OYr hi bier to wave, And God's owg hand, in that lonely lund To lay him in ibe grave I J ii that deep grave, without n Dame, When his uncoffined elny Shull break again (most wondrous thought) Before the judgement duy, Aud stand with glory wrappid around On Ibe hills he never trod, Ad speuk of the strife then won our life With the Incarnate Son of God! 0, lonely tomb in Moab's land ! ,0, dark Beib-peor hill ! Siieuk to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still. God bath His mysteries of grace Ways that we cannot tell, Jle hides them deep, in the secret sleep Of bim He loved so well. BATTLING FOR LIFE. LITTLE CHILDREN IN DEATH AGONY. A Passenger in the Steamer Victoria Glees m Thrilling Description of the Scenes on the Thames. .Carting the Bodies Around 1'romls euously. London, Ont., May 27. The intense gloom over the community here to-d iy was only relieved by the brightness of the un. From an early hour bells have been tolling and funeral processions wending through every street on the way to the sev eral cemeteries. All business places are Closed, and the city wears the aspect of a Sabbath, with a mighty solemnity pervad ing all. No one speaks or thinks of any. thing else than the great calamity, and it has had a parol; zing effect on all olussts of citiscm II. U. Montgomery, a leather merchant of this city, one if the passengers who es caped from the wreck, gives a version of the disaster that differs iu some Important particulars from those already published. Montgomery says the steamer was greatly overloaded. He was on the dt ck ; does not know what may have been going on down on the main deck ; is sure all the people I r saw were thoroughly quiet and orderly. There was no chasing about the boat, nor any pranks of any kind. At toon as the boat started, however, she proved to be deeply listed to the starboard, and passen gers on the promenade deck were r qitsted to move over to the port side. Smne of them did so, but still the steam r did not Straighten up to any txtent. Again pas tengcra were requested to rvnvve to the port side, though large inj rity nf those pn the promenade deck were already over there. At this time he looked down the! eoinpanionway and saw cousidi ruble depth of watet on the main dick, which he then feared accounted for the extraordinary list ing of the steamer to starboard.. At every short turn after this, and only a moment or so before the disaster, the captain passed through the crowd remarking, "If you don't keep over to that, the port side, you will have to swim for it." At this scvera more of the passengers moved over to the port side, and the boat suddenly righted and then listed heavily to the port side, which was not more tban forty feet from the land. Down she went with astonishing rapidity, and to snve themselves those on the promenade deck clutched stanchions that supported the awning overhead, but they snapped like pipe-stems and a moment later the supports f the promenade deck gave way, and th whole wreck slid down to the port or shore aide of the hull Into the water. Montgomery caught hold of an Iron rod or bracket of some kind in the awninr and holding to this managed to keep hia head above water for some seconds after the collapsed promenade deck beneath his feet had gone into the water His position at this time was terrible, Below the deck, which had sunk under him, he knew scores were perishing drowning, like rats in a hole, while the awning to which be was clinging was rapidly sinking ond carrying beneath it men, women and children, whose piteous shrieks rent the air. On every side, mothers with children clinging about their necks would heat the water madly with tbeir bands, and with eyes starting from their sockets utter shriek after shriek till the last half-shot herd cry that ended in a sickening gurgle told they had gone down beneath the floor. But even this was not the most horrible of Montgomery's experience Whilst he still held his head above the water he could feel drowning children, whose little heady swept under the water some seconds before bis own, clutching at his legs in what lie well knew were their dyiug struggle?. Downing mothers grasped him frantically, and piteously im- plortd his help. ' Montgomery asserts that titers was no tetering or rolling of the steamer fxotp side to side. She was listed to the starboard all the way up the river till just at the time of the accident, and then she rolled suddenly to the port, and went to pieces, just as one would sweep a house of cards off a table Montgomery is of the opinion that the upset would not have been attended with half as fatal results bad the steamer been properly constructed Many, or perhaps nearly all, might have been saved, had it not been that tbey were swept down by the sudden collapse o' the flimsy upper works and buried in the wreck, were strong men and prattling children were alike helpless. Captain Kaukin, who had charge of the ill-fated Victoria at the time of the disaster, makes the - following 'statement : "We were on the last trip for the day, having made three trips previously. We had not yery heavy loads going down; as there was plenty of room on board, but when we got to the wharf at Spring Bank, there was a large crowd waiting, and before I could get the passengers offlhe boat the others rushed on the after part, jumping aid c'imbing in every direction. I ordered them down nff the lop of the decks, and threaten ed I would not leave the wharf till midnight if s 'ma of them did not get off. One gen tleman, Mr. Powell; of London East, said to me, .' You ore not going to put m. off, are you ?" And I said,, "You bad better get off." He did so, and is now alive,, Very few paid any attention to my orders, and only about 6 f teen or twenty went off Ibe boat. After we started a number of people on the lower deck begun surging and moving around. Presently, I noticed a slightly different action on the bout, and being unable to leave my post at the wheel sent a boy down to the engineer to ascer tain if there was any danger. J was look ing forward to a sand bar about two hun dred yards ahtad on which I intended to beach the boat. ; That was my desire, be cause I was beginning to get anxious Just then a couple of row boats came along side, the occupants of which were racing, and the crowd rushed to tha side of the boat to see them. t rescutd one man who had been under deck for four mil Dies b fore she went down I did all I could to prevent the people from climbing on it. A great number of tbem had the presence of mind to swim out from und r the deck out side pr end. In this ay they were saved. In a few minutes all thus imprisoned were drowned, and I then swum to the shore and sent to the chy with alls-ed-, The boat was 8 it bottom, scow shaped at both end, and registered to carry 4')0 passengers. I ' dl not think we hud more than 450 on board, bt cause there is not standing roem on the boat fi r that number at eight inches space to each pertoo. The boiler left the deck bi fo-e I left the wheel. The stanchions from the main dock were ihe main supports of the upper deck. She was well stanch ioned, but there were braces and had life saving apparatus for 400 persons. The boat wus going up slowly, and Ihe syphen and poney pump were both woiking. il attribute the disuster to the fact that the vessel leuked, because when I sent the boy down lo the engine be said there wus half an arm's length of water in the hold. I spoke to the yeople on the upper deck 1 3 keep quiet, and they were tolefubly agree uble on the lower deck. The purser, n son of Muo.iger Parish, had the greatest difficulty, lie came up and told one that there were a lot of young fellows below whom it was iiopo-silile to keep quiet. I would have run on shore, only the bunk, was so steep I knew it was useless because she would have turned outwards on striking the bank. The boat was managed by my self, an engineer and fireman, two deck banjls and purser She made two trips on Safcurduy, two ou Monday and three yes terday, previous to the disaster. Shu now lies in the river with her top works all bro ken up. I never was asked to run the boat utbore, as was stated by Parish. The people standing forward of the pilot house was obedient to my orders, but those on the lower deck would not mind what we Said. They were a pretty bad crowd. Mr. Parish, manager of the company, states that the accident was the result of over loading the vessel. He hud not been able to ascertain from the number of tickets sold about the number of passengers who were on board, but be estimated tbem at from 500 to 600. The vessel, which cost about $17,000, is a total wreck, and good for nothing, and as the insurance policy covers the loss by Are only, it is not appli cable in this case. In ti e poorer quarters of the city the authorities have been giving away coffins, aud medical men have nobly responded to ,the calls made upon them by the mayor, ttqd the municipality officers put forth every effort to meet the emergency. As far as money aud friendly aid can mitigate the grief nothing will be lacking. The citizens were shocked at the sight of fair women and tendei children who have been carried through the public streets on drays or in carts, but it was not until the whole sale order had been given by the .mayor that sufficient pine could be found to ench su the remains of the lost ones. Tin re are many strangers on the streets fiom the country ports anil neighboring towns. In several cases, entire families, with one or two exceptions, have been wiped out for instance, that of Mf. James Coughlan, whose children and grandchil dren, numbering five, are lying dead in the bouse of hi daughter. Jennie was married to n young man named Swogzie the day before the accident. The couple were both drowced. -. The family ol W, Hall loses five in one house. Every kind of coffin is in use, and the dead aie being convey&l to the burying places by every class of vehicle. The remains of William McBri.de were' carried iu a light wagon, followed by n procession a mile long. Men can hardly speak to each other without breaking down. The scenes in the afflicted households are terrible and trying to the strongest nerves. The clergymen, who have worked nobly all through, are tired out, and cannot reach the graves fast enough. In ranuy cases the members of different families are put iu one grave. Tne different societies are on hand and doing their ut most to facilitate the burial. Tne long'st procession to day, was th.it attending the remains of Willie Glass and Miss C i per, who were engaged to be married next month, and died together in the water, A couple of hundred well filled vehicles fol lowed the hearses, which passed along side by side. The search for the dead this morning raise! two little gir's clasped tightly in each others arms, as they no doubt had fallen together in the wator. Several cases of robbing Ihe dead are reported. Among the articles reining is a gold w itch and chain, which Mr. Mi II man had worn, and gold necklace of a young lady. The " for hire " wagons were busily engaged, and in some oases to make money and count as much as possible, the corpses were hurried jqto houses in an u icerein iniom m inner, and the driven hurried off for another load. In one instance, a driver brought a bo.ly to a ceituio number, auJ (Tiding1 no person in. and the do r loc'teJ, pitched the body through the wind w and ofl it until the people came home. Toronto Miy 27. The officii papers bearing off the inspection of the steaiwr Victoria, whio"i collapsed a Lwlin. were forwarded to 0:taway to-diy, by Siwly Risky, government steamb tat inspector of this city, I ft looked on her as a safe boat for river truffla. Se was inapected twice last year, first in May, and again in Octo ber. The bodies still unclaim ed are being enclosed in shtlls and removed to Drill's lull, where they will be visited by many anxious friends who are in search of tbeir missing ones. The story of the dia?tcr, as given by competent witnesses who were on board, shows tiat the ill-foted vessel was on her last trip; and that on setting out from Spring Bank, to return to the city, he had nearly all her passengers on the way down, and in addition, a large number were waiting on the wharf to be conveyed home. The number on board on the return trip is estimated at seven hundred. The scene beggars description. Between the wreck and the t bote could be seen scorcB of hu man beings who had become liberated from the debris, and were battling with the eh m nt into whose cruel grasp they were suddenly thrown, and slowly but surely yielding to its power. Many who were so stmimdjjy rV.-crnjh as to be unconscious, sunk without aniffirt. The work of recov eiing bodies was then commenced, and has been continued unremittingly ever since. The steamer Princess Louise came along side in u few minutes. In a short time both her decks and every available inch of space wus tukeij up with dead bodies. Tears Came into the eyes of many a man of iron nervt-8 as lie gazed upon the bodies of boys and girls as they were taken from the riv er, clad in their holiday uttire, and curried in sympathizing arms aboard the Princess Louise. . Meanwhile tidings were conveyed to the city, and crowds of anxious ones flocked to the scene to learn if possible, the fate of some one that was deur to them. Many of the bodies are terribly bruised and mangled from ibe crush of timber whichype. down from the upper deck, and in many cases the leatures have evi dences of the desperate struggle which must have taken place. A LASH FROM THE BENCH. Three seloon keepers in Chicago were found guilty of selling liquor to minors, and the following is the address of the Judge who seatenoed them, as reported in the Chicago Tribune. "By the law you may sell to men and women, if they will buy. You have give your bond and paid your license to sell to them, and no one has a right to molest you in your legal business. No matter what the .consequences njay be, no matter what poverty and destitution are produced by yourselliug according to law, you have paid jour money for this privilege, and you are licensed to pursue your culling-. "So matter what families are distracted and rendered miserable, no matter what wives are treated violently, what children starves or mourn over the degradation of a parent, your business is It gulized and no one may interfere with you in it. Jfo matter what mother may ugonizj over the loss of a eon, or Bister blush for the shame of a brother, you have a right to disregard tbem all and pursue your legal calling ; you are licensed. You may fit up your lawful place of busisness in the most enticing and cap tivating form j you may, furnish it with the m ist costly aud elegant equipment for your lawful trade j you may fill it with the allurmeuts of amusements ; you may use all your arts to induce visitory ; you may skillfully arrange and expose to view your cliolefs winos und captivating beverages ; you may then induce thirst by all contri vances to produce a raging1 appetite for drink, and then you miy supply that upp - tite to the full,' because it is lawful ; you have paid for it ; you have a license. You may uIIjw boys, almost children, to freq ient your saloon i lli 'y may witnesi the.npparant satisfaction with which their seniors quaff the sparkling glass ; you may bo schooling and training them for the period of twenty-one, when tht'y, too, can participate, for . all this is lawful. You may hold the cup to their very lips but you must not let tlu'in drink that is un lawful. But while you have all . these priviliges for the money you pay, this poor privilege of selling to children is denied you. Here parents have the right tos.iy, "Leave my son to me until the law gives you the right to destroy him. P not anticipate that terrible moment when I can assort for him no further right of protection, that will be s oo enough for me, for his m jlher, for bis sifter, for his friends, and for the community to see him lake his road to death. Give him to us iu his childhood at least. L;t us have a few years of his youth, iu which ye may eij y his immense to repay us in some small degree for the care and love we have lavished upon him." 'I' u is is sornething you, who now stand a prisoner at tbe bar, have rjo! piid for ; this is not eiubiaoed in your I icons-'. For thi offense Iha Court sentence you ten days imprisonment iu tbe county j .il, and ibut you py a fine of seveuty-five dollars and C'Nts j and that you stand convinced until tbe fine and costs of thjs prosecaticn are paid." ; ' The net estate of the late Andrew John fon, of Greenville, Teunessee, will aouuut to? 100,000. Nashville is to bave new enterprise pickle works for the mtnufacture of pickle?, catsups, etc. - Bill Arp's Letter. Atlanta Constitution. Working in the field a hot sultry day is no joke. I've tried it. There's nothing funny about it. Its not a hilurious or ex hilarating business, Its not produtive of wit or anecdote. Its nothing but a fact, a solemn fact. I remember reading about some ethereal chap who doubted every thing and wasent certain that he lived, and it occurred to me that the best way in the world to knock the romance out of a man and settle his faith was to put him to hard work in the field hoeing .corn or chop ping cotton. By the lime night comes he will be convinced he is somebody and will be willing to rest and eat and go to bed. I beieve it would prevent suicides and restore the lunatics to their proper senses. The trouble is, most people work too little and think .oo much. The muscles are neg lected aud ihe brain is overtaxed. I like work nevertheless, fact or no fact. The rest that follows it is a positive luxury, and tbe appetite it gives a man m ikes him er j y his vittles and he dont come poking along when the dinner bell rings and look over the table to sec whether it suju him or not in quality or variety, but he coms wkli a willing alarrity and sits down and goes to work. II og uni homing is as good as quail on toast. If I had Marcellus Thornton out here I'd give him an appetite that would run longer than thirty days and make a useful man of him. lie is a good teller and there's gum in him, but his talents have never taken the right direction. He has been overworking his brain, und farming would restore him and develop a fine per former on the hoe and tbe chnp-ax. My boys hinted around last week that tbey were getting behind with the work that there, was thirty ucres of corn to hoe, and the bud worm was doing damage in the bottom, and there was three acres of cotton to chop out, and a patch of new ground to bprout, and the potato slips to plant, and they needed another field-band n ighty bad, and so on, and coldu't get out for love nor money, and so Mrs. Arp she looked at me. and I looked at her and remarked, "Where there is a will there . is a way," and I'll furnish you a good hanl for a week. So I volunteered for tho service myself, and shouldered my hoe like high private. You see I've been sorter bossing around and tendiir' to tbe .garden: and wearing ao officer's epaulettes, working when I felt, like it an! digni fying myself with age and playing patiiaich, but when the pinch comes I can't tand Janek, and I won't. So I've tried it a wetk, and I'm now as stiff and sore as an old horse. When I set down I don't want to get op, and tbe beauty of it is when I get to work I d n't want to q Tit. There's an inertia ubout it that keeps an old man going. I didn't know it b fori', but Cube told me that it was so w;th Jkiin, He dident .want to go to work iu the morning and it most killed him toet ut it, but when he did get fairly sq uired to i' , und the muscles got to moving lik'-a machine hedi ltnt know liow to stop 'tin und was the lust one to q u't the fi 1.1. I've hind corn and citton now for six diys steady, and can cut oitf eitork without skee'rinsj a fly off of a twin one that grew oat from tlia fwe root. Tncre's nothing like getting Uiealight of t,he thing. A sharp, fquare-rded boe and a good eye and a true stroke is all that's wanted. Then you must have good judgment and q iick judgment about what storks to leave and what to cut out. 0.;e cut with the cut worm will come out a,ain, but the bud worm sucks its heart out and you had just us well cut. it np and repknt, When u man gets tired . doting corn let him chop out cotton for a .change, and when he gets tired of that let him spend the shank of the evening in putting out potato slips. We put out a thousand or so every day, and I've seen things I'd rather do, for it's a hard business on an old man's back. If it doo'l cure him of spinal affectiou it will give it to him if he keeps it op regular, and I feel like I have a touch of t now. It wears out flit finger io ?.t,raUh the holes in the ground and press the dirt art und the plant, and there must be left a little cup to pour the water in, und after it is poured in the dry dirt must be pulled over it to keep tie sun from baking it, fur we ar. not having in y rain in these parts now to save ys that trouble. It no ptculiar fuo to straddle a potato ridge und with your feet a yard apart and your back at right audits to 'em waddle along lo the end of it pui'ling in slip, and by the time you are done with Ihe job mik-t any other kind of work wou'd be an agreeble ahange -diguing pest holes w uid be guy and festive. But Hill I like work furm work ; I like its variety ; its something new every duy ; you change your base and theu you see the result of your labors. The coro grows and the long rows look so at night and clean an ornamental Tbe wheat field arc now in all their jloriee butu'jr and the OaU hate caught up and are in the head. It looks like the furm era will work a pretty fair crop of, both rain or no rain and tbert is no sign of rust as yet. Tbe truth is we don't ceed rain except for the oats, for itx is a good eisjn of a good crop to have s dry May. The corn and cotton don't grow off as fust as we would like-it, but the roots are reaching down for moisture and takinf strong bold, and by-and-by when tbe rain , does come it goes off all tbe faster, and if a drought comes it can stand it better than if it grew up rapidly with sap from earjy rains. So take it all in all, everybody is doitjt; pretty well, and Ihe country ought to be happy. Tbe farmers are doing well, and Urady says the money men are doing well, and the mechanicks are doing well, and tbe merchants are doing well and the demo crats are doing well, and now May is almost gone und none of those terrible things that the prophets predicted have come to pass, and everything looks serene and lovely. Our wheat harvest will come of! in two weeks and we are going do reap it with a bran new machine aud have a big frolic. If you want to see it eome op Tell Howelj and Harris we want a couple of binders in follow the reaper, for we swill be short of hands. I'll give 'cm a dollar a .day and board. Howell used to be a good hand, I know, for he told me he could bind asbeat and throw it up and bind another before it comedown. That's the kind of a man I want. "Harris could do It, too, I reckon, jf he could throw tbe first one bo high it wouldn't come down at all. Yours, Bill Arp. SOUTHERN NEWS- . North Carolina has 96,500 .colored voters. New discoveries of coal are being made in T.jcjS. Corn prospects throughout Florida are vt ry fi e. Tennessee's great expectation is a mil. ion dollar fruit,crop. : Louisville, Kentucky, has a public library of 50,000 vo lumee. The Georgia legislature will meet in Atlanta on the 13ih of July. A 250 pound turtle ras caua'ht ,OBr Pensacola beach lasLwtek.. During the year 1830, in 41 counties in Tennessee, 2 274 persons settled. Up to date Sao Antonio, Texas, that. re ceived 1,500,000 pounds of wool. Several counties in Florida are going; into the cultivation of blackberries. Tne army worm is putting in its work in some of the com fields of Florid. There are two century plants in Mob le which will be in full bhoni in a few days An institute for colored trustees will be he!djyp.-Co!iirabia, Sjuth (hrolino, in July. Mr. William Turasher, of Watkinsville, Uj., bus a rocking cbuir one hundred years old. Tuxvs has 2,8II,2')3 sheep, valued at $4219,334, or an average of $150 per head. Mr. A- Arnold, of Nuces Canyon, Tex as, has 400 nanny Angora goats and 600 kids. Last year Bullock connty, Ala bam bought 70 tons of guano; this year she buys 416 ton?. General J. & Johnston will spend the summer at the Warm springs, Bath coun ty, Virginia. J, W. Willis, of Crystal Rive, Florida, has a field of corn that averages between eleven and twelve ftet high and not yet tasseled. The center of population of tbe United States is placed in Rer.ton county, Ken tucky, a mile from the south bank of tbe Ohio river. Ou of sixty-nine democrats who voted for Andrew Jackeou at Versailles, Ky., iu 1824, Dr. B. C. Craig, of thai jcity, is the ouly survivor. The Prohibition L.w I Mailt. Christian Statesman. A most valuable estiminy ha beeu r lurnished to tbe iftieiency ol the prohibitory law in Maine. Toe iilobe, of Toronto, Canada, sent two c rre?(ion leots together through the State to investigate aud te port up iu the opiaiioii of Hie law, Oue Of the c rrep in tents wus, Opposed to the law aud the o her iu favor of it, but their conclusions are eqhstantially in accord. Tbey find that an overwhelming majority of tne cit?fna of the State believa that prohibition is g'3d I'M Maine. Their cor respondence wa projected by the Glob for the p irpoje of a-wistior. public opioioa in Cauii to decide whether or not prohU bilory law would be a good thing fo tha Doraiuioo.