North Carolina Newspapers

IU1 OM1A" ni Devoted to the Protection of JTome find the Interests of the County. Vol. II. Gastonia, Gaston County, N. C, Saturday Morning, August 6, 1881. No. 3K GAZE Thy Mother. (Lead thjr mother tenderly Down life's Btcp decline. Once her arm was thy support, Now she leant on thine, flee upon her loving face Theee deep lines of care; Think it was her toil for thee Iieft that record there. lfe'er forget her tireless watch. Kept by day and night, Taking from her step the grace, And from her eyes the sight. Cherish well her faithful heart, Which through weary years Echoed with its sympathies All thy smiles and tears. Thank Ood for thy mother's love. Guard the priceless boon ; For to bitter parting hour Cometh ail too soon. When thy grateful tenderness Looses power to save, Sarth will hold no dearer spot i thy mother's grave. Blchmond Dispatch. BILL ARPS LETTER. Kn Which JT IHet MaUer ' Atlanta Constitution. If the rain if to fall upon Hie just and the unjust there is something wrong with os at my boose, for it don't come M be ft don't pray enough, or tliere is a Jonas in the ship, or something, I don't know what. I met a preacher yesterday and he aid they had beeo mighty dry up in his niborhooJ, and the brethren were alurmed and discouraged, and last Sui.duy they avkeJ, bim to pray for rain, d he did so with faith ami importunity, and while he eras preaching ihe clouds gathered, and the thunder pealed, and the rain come down, and he closed his sermon and thought it the best tine in the world to send round the hat, for the brethren were feeling good and tiiaokful, and the bat come back with only three dollars in it, and the rain quit all of a sudden before they bud half enough, and lie didant wonder at it for he thought si rely they weald hare raised fifty, and to after diaier they held a church court and turned out three of ibefanetbero for coi jugal looseness and three more for habitual tightness and several for lying and cheating and about Ihe time they got through the rain begun again and they hud a splendid jeason.' Nevertheless we will make a little ev at my house and a power of lod'lcr il wecan safe k, and we are going to press it and bale it at fast as it is cored and store it away. in ibe burn for bard times, which I reckon are shore to come. The time is . coming when every farmer must bale his forage in the field, and if he can't buy a DeadrKk prest he must j in in si(h two or three oabon and get one, and then he can pack it away in a tmall compass and can baul it to town aud ship it tnywhere where the price suits bias. We've gotten through the board business at lust, and cbey art all piled op and weighted doun, nd I feel like me' and the boys ought to have a diploma or a medal or a degree ol some tort like they give to these college Jnji when tbey make em master of trie before tbey know an art at all. I'm not much oo epi'aphs, but then I would just s teave have mine to be Wm Arp.tue board fitter as to have a double L. P. that waseot deserved. Mr. Lincoln was a rail splitter and Joe Brown plowed a male oxen to it hfiir credit and jd. Grunt broke hides in a tao yard, which was fconarable to him nd I bare thought thst if he bad kept at it it would bave beeo better for the country, and for bin too, wouMent itT If a man is going to mo a larm be most have expeii eoc3 io every oranch of busii ess and work with bis hands as weU as hi bead. Labor is not only banert btjt is healthy. The aaol and wedge it a better Medicine than Simmons'! liver regulator. Its the test appe tiier, and the belt digester and the feest aperient io the world, and, these patent medicines would toon perish out if they bad to depend upon the laboring men (or fatrooage. iodge Henderson asked me how many rails I could cut and split, in a day, tod I told bim about 200 in fair timber and be mid it waseot 10 much in strength or to tbejynd qf timber, but io the slight, f ba&d, for be koowd a man whoeut tdiree rail coll off of a big blackgum ard stuck 4is wedge io the small end of the upper eat and with one lick of the maul tent the wedge thiougb all three of em and stock it Io tbe stump. Well, that beat me, for 1 kave split blackgums roasays but I ver could split em lengthways in my life. But I hope tbe lime it at baoi wbeo splitting rails will be one of the lost arts for timber it getting too scarce io this country to pile it op in fences to rot down gaio. Xht United Statet it payiog a re miom to settlers io tbe west tor every sre llaoted out io timber while, our people are catting it dowo and wasting it like it wat public nuisance. The 'lock lay force itself upoo or people fccfocs Jang (at it it. boond to come. W can aford to iVace io ur owe cattle, bit can't aff ri to fence out everybody else. I htid a gnod talk with Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe, the chuirmun of iheeosumittee on agriculture, lie is a farmer, he is, and u mon of fev.ee and judgment, and lie told me ihey would recommend a law that would let us take a vote on it twice a yer if we want to. and nobody was to vote but One holders, and if a militia d'Stih't wauled no Avices tiny could have it so in that district, Hiid wlien once started it wnold ktep apwading and would eventually embrace the state. Our people would hove to plant lew cotton then, for they would Invn to rah vrass for pas turn and tiny would find it axi profitable they would rai-e it for market. I met Cube the other dcy and be told me he was raising cotton again, wh'ch he hud sworn iff from last vear, but the poor fellow suid he just couldent help it for he was a poor man. and was always one yeur behind with his merchant, and hie merchant told bim if he dident raise eoiton lie couldent advance to him any more. That's what's the nutter, and so the poor farmer and the merchant are gelling deeper and deeper io the mire. and Cobe't cotton wont pay out, and nex year he will hare to hire out for a living. Well, this thing will cure itself alter while I reckon. Now we want railroads to take the place of dirt roads everywhere, for they can haul goods ard produce cheaper than we ean, and we lurmers won t have 10 ktep so many mules to eat np what we make. One pair of good mules will do all the work on i grass larm of a huidrcd acres and make the furmur more money than three pair raising cotton, and I cun prove it. Give Mr. Cole his charter, and anybody else a charter. In fact I would puss a general law on the subject like Ihey have in Ten oesr.ee, and let anybody build a railroad anywhere if they would pay for the ri.iit of way and conlorm to our laws and the reputations of the commission. Our only salvation and protection from monopoly is a healthy competition. Governor Colquitt told me that Mr. Cole intended his engineer to make eptcial note of the water cours along the line and di fleet his survey in their favor, for he wanted to 8e hundred? ol fac tories located along our descending streams for they would make .business for hi road and the time had come when northern capital und English capital was going to pour into this sunny laud for invislnient, and our wa'er powers would be sought for and paid for, aud our timber would become valuable, and our young men would find profitable employment, and if we showed a lib- rul investing spirit.the taxable prnpert , of this Mate wnuld be doubled in five years. and so hope our law-mukers will consider the matter wisely aud say, gentlemen "come along with your money, we greet you." Bill Ahp. P g. Weeountry folks tender our syni' pathiea to your city folks about yixjr wash ing and hope y u wiil be able to no decently clian. We have had li' tie troubles of or own io that line and have found out two ways to gel the washing done, strike or no strike. Me and the boys had to change garments so often this hoi weather and use so many towels aud things thut our washer women rel. Hed and dident come after the clothes. When I enterviewed her he said she was Jes word nut -a rubiiin and a actv bin, that she had washed chut ay de d t -n and by de hundred, but she had neber washed ran by do thousand before and she wasent gwioe to do it. bo I -turned her ff and hired her over again at a higher price, and everything got 8 on smoothly now. The other way is to do it yourself. J?, A. 'In other night when Bickles went home, he found his wife particularly retrospect ire. She talked of line pufit with u tear, and looted to the future with a sigh. 'Oh, by the way,' snk) Bkfeles, as he ;atoo'tbe side of the bed pulling ofThis boots. I saw a gentleman down Iowa to-day who would give a fl ,000 to see you.' ' Who wm It J Does l.e live in Little Rock?' ' t don't ioow hie name.' ' I'll warrant that it wus Oliver Gregg.' No.' Then he most be George Weatherton.' Guen again, I might know his uaaie if f were to hear it.' 'Xh, I do whji I Anew 1' raid the lady, exhibiting excittment. 'Was il 0car Peoples J' ' Guest agaiin. f neaifmbrr hit name now.' Harvey Gletkins.' No j his nume is Lucas Wenlwkig. ' I doit know a man by that nsmr. Why would be give a 91,000 to se raeT' ' Because he's blind.' la Walker county, Alabama, is a natural bridge which rivals the one io Virginia. It Js of sandstone, spaas 1 20 feet, and is 70 ffti high. CIIlLbtlEN BURNED DEATH. TO Newton Enterprise. A moit shocking accident occurred in this county lust Sulurd y evening. On Fri day nitfht, Adolphtis Sivntun, who lives about four miles east of. Newt' n, returned from the head of the Western North Caro linu Railroad, where he has tv-en employed on the trestle building.. Saturday evening about 7 o'clock he took from his vwlice a pper of bh st in? powder, which his wife described us biiog about a wash-pan fu I, and a pit'eeof I use. Silting near the door, he opened the paper and placed it on the floor beside him. He took the fuse from the package and told his wife to bring him a co 1 of fire so that he could show his two little daughters, aged two and four years, who were standing- neur the powder, the working of the fuse, said he would light it and throw it in the yard. The fire was bi ought, and immediately on touching the fuse a spark fell into the powder and a (earful explosion immediately followed. Tbe father was blown into the yard, and the two children were burned into a perfect crisp from head to loot. Joe Wilson, colored who lives about a quarter of a mile from Soman's, heard Ihe report, followed fearful scrtams and cries for help. He am: his wife ran to the place as quick as possi ble and found the father and mother in the yard extinguishing the clothes of the clii dicn which were almost consumed, while iu the house, the beds and other most in flimuble articles of furniture were just be ginning to burn. These were extinguished without very serious damage. Dr. MeNu wus Sent lor but could give but little relit to the suffering children. The younger diet: about 12 o'clock at night and the older at daylight the next morning, and were buried on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Sigmun were both severely burned, but neither se riously. Comment is unnecessary. U lata accidents from the c.ireless use of powde this is one of the 'sad est which we have ever known. THE TRADE IN FERTILIZERS. The trade iu 'ertiliz-rs in this State is enormous. I his erason it wou.d hare hem vustly eiea'er than it was but for the nubility of the rnilro ida and sluiinshiri lines to furnish transportation During the winter und ep.'ing, it will be remembered there was much trouble o i this account So great wus Ihe pressure f freights, owing to the increase and development of business that railways hal not sufficient rolling stock to transport the freights. The amount of feniliz rs. despite these drawbacks, reached ihe (ust season the enormous figures of 61.3701 tons. This liives an idea of ihe extent of tho business. we may saieiy say mat one-tiiird more wuuUI have v en sei.t but for the troublis about fr ighiHge. - It should be understood thut this amount of fertilizes was gathered from the figures given by the railroudi. It i fair to pre- some lhat tne tier oi tohacco growing counties, on the northern border of the Slute, and the souMiern tier of cotton rais- inj counties, purchased from points in Virttinia and South Carolina us much as 101(10 tons, which was transported over railwavs entirely within tbe iftates, und from which, of course, no reports were re ceived. The reporters by the officers of toe Div purtni lit of Agriculture gare besiihs this statement as to the sale of fertilizers many other interesting facts. . Tliere were made by (he State Chemist 120 detailed analyses of fertilizers alone. Of chemieaU aud other fertilizing materials 20 analyses were made ; of marls 20 ana lyses were made ; of drinking waters there were 45, and of mineral waters 12 analyses Besides this work a large number of analy ses ofsoilp, coDiiots, ete., were made. Raleigh Observer. A FAMILY OF TWO HUNDRED CHILDREN. Mrs juiia aoo .tstep. mwing in Forestville. Vu., ia now iu her 01 9t year, ard has enjoyed good health until recently. She is the oother of twelve chjldien nine aonsaud ttree daughters; the grandmother of eighty-six children ; the great-grandmother f H6 children; the grral-great-g randmoUaV of ten children 2-4 souls io all. One son has only ooe child, and another son only two children ; so Jie other ten children of Mrs. Estep htve eixuty-thrve m tr l a n sens tod daughters, an average ct orer eijht to eaeb' "More ihe merrier," it is said, and happiness g really abounds io this household Shenandoah Valley. Jack son, Tennessee, will have a cotton factory. Twenty-seven bushels of wheat per acre harvested fl" of Strong Bros' 2 000 acre farm io Eoox county, Tennessee. TWO WOMEN IN WIND. A WHIRL Americus (Gu.) Republican. Mr Z. T. H,iicderi gives us the following storv id a whirlwind thtt visited his place about 12 o'clock on Monday, scaring all hid hands and some visitors very badly. A whirl wiiii occurred in a twelve atre corn field thut was about four feet in diameter and sometim s a hundred feet high. The body of it was perfectly black, with fire in the ciitre and emitted a strong sulphurous vapor that cmU be smelt three hundred yarns from il. The whirlwind. would divide into l!ir.-e.and move rapidly over tbe field, twisting up the corn stalks by live roots and carrying them up. These three minor whirUinds would then come together with a loud crush, cracking and burning and shoot high up into tbt heavens. Three young ladies who were visiting Mrs. Baisden went in ubout 150 feet to obferve it, but received such a shower cf burning sand upon their face and necks that they run affrighted to the house. Mr. Baisden says ihal he cannot account for this strange phenomenon, and it certainly frightened all who saw it. The strange purt was thut it contained Gre, yet did not appear to burn the euro that it did not tear up, and its sulphurou3 vapor sickened and burnt all who got close cm ugh to get a full bieutb of it. SELF CONTROL. In some people pass-ion and emotion are never clucked, but allowed to burst out in a b'uze whenever they come. Others sup- press them by main lorce, and preserve a callous ixtiiior when there are raging fires within. Others are never excited over anything. Some govern themselves on some fuhj cts but not on others. Very much can be done by culture to give the will control over the feelings. One of the very best means of culture is the peisiUrnt withdrawing of the mind from the subject which products the emotion, concentrating it elsiwhire. The man or woman who persistent ly permits the mind to dwell on disagreeable themes only spites him or herBcll. Childreii.of course hove less control, snd .- iirtciit and u-aclieM must help them to turn their attention from that which excites (In in to soinething else; but adults, when they uot like children, ought to be as-humed of thdnselvcs. The value of self control as a hygienic agent is very great. It prevents the great waste of vitality in feeling, emotion and pulsion. It helps to ite one a mastery over pain and distress, rather than it a m.istery over us. SLEEP. There is no fact more clearly established in ihe phytdolcLy of man than this, that tbe brain exp nds it. energies and itself during ihe hours of wukefuluijs, and 'hat these ure ricnpi ruted durug gkep ; if Ihe re CuperuMon dots not iqoal ihe expenditure the. brain w it In rs ; this is insuniiy. Thus it is that in larly English history persons who wrrecoi.d r. tad to death by being pre vented Irom sleepii g uiwuys i it d raving inanities; thus i is ho thut those who are curved to death become insane; the brain is not nourished und they cannot sleej)jThe practical references are three; ist. (hose who think most who do most bruin woi k, r quire more sleep. 2d. That time "suved" Irom necessary sleep is infallibly destructive to mind, body, ..... and estate. 3d. Give yourself, your children, your servants give all who are under you the fullest amount of sleep they will take, by compelling them (o go to bed at some ngulur hour, and to rise in the morning Ihe moment they awake of themselves, and within a fortnight nature. wKh almost the regularity of the riting sun, will unloose the buuds of sleep the moment enough repose has been aecurtd for the wunts of he system. This is the only safe and sufficient rule, and us to Mie question how much sleep any one requires, each must be a rule for himsell; great nature will never fail to write it out te Hie observer, under the regulations just given. Hall's Jonrnal vf Health. Child Born Withoct Eyes. Anothtr oexplieahle freak of nature living curiosi ty, a chi d born without eyes has cuustd a uood dtul of wi ndering ard comment in the Twelvih district of this coui ty. It is now nearly a month old, the legitimate iff-pring f the parents, Green and June Vo inline U'heiv the fts aliould be t! ere an two small aptrtuni, but no sijjn of the eye-bull cau be seen within. Some of our phvsiclan are of ihe opinion that he rye-balls really exist in their proper place, but have be. n overgrown, A surgical operation will be made to ascertaiu the facts. Xexrport Tenn.) Sentinel. The orange crop of Louisiana tins year is a failure. YOUNG RELIGIOUS NEWS. From Sunday's Baleigh Observer. Atari cent missionary meeting of the Protestant Episcopal clergymen, it was stated that two years ago the income of their missionary societies was $0,500,000, of which $3,500,000 was given in Enulund, 81,750 00C in America, and $1,250,000 in Germany. Four generations were represented at n baptism in Trinity church, Alabany, N Y., on a Sunday recently, the child living at tended by its mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, all of whom were pre sented to ihe bishop for confirmation and were received to their confirmation by the present rector. Bishop Liltlejohn, who is now in Eu rope, is credited with the remark that "'the Church of England is -farther than ever from disestablishment," and that it has spent 200,000,000 during the last thirty yeurs in building and repairing cathedrals and churches, and 30,000,000 in church schools. The Baptist churches rf central and eastern Europe have formed a union, em bracing Germeny, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, Russia, Turkey and Poland, and extending even into Africa In the last thirty years the membership of the B.iptist churches in thut region has iucreused from a few hundred to '30,000. The consecration of St. Philip's Episco pal chuich at Durham, on Sunday last. was a very interesting ceremony. Bishop T.eman nreuchpd a muRtprlv sprmnn frnm 26th 8lh verge. aitti(1Q wa8 perfect and delivery very eloquent and im pressive. Alter which Ihe sacrann-ni of the Lord's Supper was administt red. At night R r. Mr. Bynum, of Wiusion, preached a very able s- rrnnn. The report of the twenh -fourth inter national convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations a(.d the Yeur B ak for 1881-82, have been published in one volume, und contain nvich that is inter -esting in reg-ard to the ork of the associa tions all over the world. It is stated that the associations now own buildings free of debt valued at $2,n92.3."U amJ building lunds and other property am mnting in valuo to $653,409. There are now 210 sec retaries and assistants employed, an in crease of 32. In Jackson a shot-gun belonging to Mr. Willium Giiffith was loaded and hanging in a rack over the door, and during a heavy flush of lightning both barrels went offof their own accord. A Prosperous Man. Grant's income cannot be far from $50,( 00 a year. He has an uclive interest in a New York business house which has been very successful. He getn perhaps $25 000 a year from the rail road company, and the two funds raised by Jones and the IVcxels for him amount to 6330,000. It is not true that be has sold his St. Louis farm Cincinnati Enquirer. Is Bkd with a Ratti.es.nmke. Burling ton, Iowu, "Ju'y 20. Mr?. Howard, now visilin? ut 426 South Oak street, was awakened last night by a strange sensation about her ankles, as if something was twisting around and binding them. Making a sudden spring from bed and crying for help, she discovert d that she bad thrown a large rattlesnake co the floor. It was killed with much difficulty, and measured, when stretched cut at lu l length, 3J feet. A Child Foisonkd. Ntw Oi'ea s, July 26. Five children of Tho?. Kulm, uged one, three, six, eight atd ten yeuis, were poisoned by a colored servant nujied Eliza Barlly. who put fat poison in their soup yesterday. The irl was arrested and confessed tie crime. She 8;ijs the put poison in the soup to make Ihe children sick out of revenge, they having thrown rocks at her and called her a "nigger," and Mis. Killen was about to discharge her. The little girl aged three died yesterday afternoon, and it is hoped the child ro wiil recover. It is said soon after the train passed Walker Stulion, near Arlii.gton, a deer juiiipod U- near '!x railroad tiack und in its fright run right through ihe train, jump ping from one side t ( tluj Umk to the oiher through tin? baggage car, both doors of which were wide p n. In its fl g!it through the or, the dter was struck al out the root of the tail by the t-harp edge 3 the door on the opposite ide trmn which he sprang, leaving his tail and a hai.dlul hair behind him. Bal.iinore has four tvautiful parks for the benefit of its citizens. Deuid hill park has 700 acres ; Patters u park has hi tu-rea highly improved ; Ilivemde purk has 17 acres handsomely enib-lli-he.! and improv ed, and Federal hill park with itslg' acres. Tbey all (LrJ delightful attractions. - 8aya Reuben Knott unto bis fair, In language turning hot, "Matilda, do you love me, dear ?" Says she, "I love you, Knott." 'Oh, say not so I" again he cried, "Oh, share with me my lot I Oh, nay that you will be my bride !" Suya she, "I'll wed you, Knott." "Oh, cruel fair, to serve me so ! I love you well, you wot I" "I could not wed you, Reub," says she, "For then I should be Knott." A light breaks In on Reuben's mind. And in bis arms she got. She looks demurely In his face. And says, "Pray kiss me, Knott." Boston Transcript. fk.rr to his fond father, who has askeA him where he is in his class now': 'Oh, pa, I've got n much better place than I had last quarter.' ' Indeed T Well, where are you ?' 'I'm fourteenth.' 'Fourteenth, jou little lazy bones! Yon were eighth last term. Do you call that a better place ?' lfes, sir, it's nearer the stove.' ' The mountains of South Carolina are full of visitors. The cotton worms are at work in sections of Louisiana. The State dental association, of North Carolina, meets io Asheville this week. The Mormon excitement keeps up is Coosa, Alabama, and new converts are being added. Virginia, the Erst cultivator of tobacco, and which has raised this crop as its staple for a century and a half is growing dis eusted with it.' Cotton is replucing it. Nearly every county b southern Virginia is growing cotton, and the crop has crawled up from nothing to several thousand bales. The farmers hope it will soon rank among the cotton growing states of the union. Tae school fund of Texas will aso dis tant day be enormous. Thut state has yet unsold 40,000,000 acres of school land, which will probably bring to her public school fund 100,000,000, a emu equal to the combined school lunds of all the other states of the union. The university of TuM.-Kioo to ha established has more than $500,000 with which to eiect buildings, and a permunent endowment ol betweec $2,000,600 and $3,000,000. Yet at pres ent, education is at a very low ebb iu the lone star at Ate. IMPORTANT OF THOROUGHNESS. One of tte most useful lessons a boy can learn, whether on the farm or elsewhere, is to do well whatever he undertakes. There is a growing tendency in all departments of labor to slight the work, to get along with as little manual labor as possible. Every progressive person welcomes the substitution of ihe use of machinery whenever it is possible for human labor, but . whenever manual labor must be employed we would insist upon its being well done. We would also insist upon any machine used to facilitate work being so adjusted as to be the best of its kind, and capable of being run with the smallest possible expenditure of power. Aids in farm work a'e seldom fu torn t tic; tbe use of animal?, or of machinery, denuuds individual thought, skill and careful atten tion to detail. Even in the employment of a horse or an ox it is important that the teamster or plowman should so drive the team or attach it to the plow that the power shall be economized to tbe best ad vantage. Careless indifference is an offset to tie best mechanical appliance. The iconomic value of cart or wagon may be lessened materially by neglect in oiling the axles. In a hundred ways may carefiil thought und study uJJ. to the power of team or machine. It i. never too early in the life of a boy to form habits of care-taking and thorough ness!. There is an enormous surplus power stored in Ihe strong, active, healthy boy, and if directed in proper channels it is Capable of becoming an (fficient force 00 the farm, A reckless boy will almost ccr taiuly become a reckless mm. Caution und thoughtful consideration of matters in hand increase by cultivation, hence lbs import nice of ioculcating ewrrtct principles in the youthful mind. The pract ie al education of a boy were better confined to a few euhjects.thoroughly mastered, than a superficial knowledge of a multitude oi fac's. io ao a lew tnings well is of Hiore imperial ce to youth or Hun than to erlorm all work slightingly. Proper attention to little things, a place for everything aud everything in its place, re important item in larm economy Many boys and hired men have a provoking way of care!easly throwing down tools and implements where lusi used, and when subqiently wau'ed not knowing or renieiiiO-rii.ir where to look lor them. Beside Ihe damage to Ihe tools from rxpo uie, the iot-s ol tiros iu buoliug tbemup if very considerable.