North Carolina Newspapers

LJ 1 n Devoted to the lYotection of Home and the Interests of the County . Vol. II. Gastonia, Gastox County, KC3 Saturday Mouning, November 12, 1881. No. 45. Love and iLeHlliei'. wIhIi I whs ii cobbler, sweet. To iimke your pu a shoo." "Wbymt?" she nuked. "JJocniiHo," lie k1k1'1, "Oh, then I may khw you." "Yom make, his shoe? Why ta wears boots," She thought she had Mm there, '"1 iiii'iin his 1 ti," he Munhed, "for then We two would iHiike u mir." s'()li, yen," Hhe liuiKhed. "that will 1)0 nice. We'll both lie cobblers dott; I'll ifi-t 1410 rltfht boot done mill Bee How you, younir man, Jfct left." Jlut pa, who chanced to hear, came In , And gave the youth n pair Of boots to stjirt the boy, ho suld, Jo business elsewhere. JIN INCIDENT ON THE CARS. Curs stop twonty .PKtjirtea for refresh ments 1' called out Conductor iiichardson, .at Allen's Junction. Then, as the train came to a dead halt, lie jumped down upon the Nation platfoim, run along to the front of the long line of passenger cars, where Mie engine was standing, and, swinging liimstlf up fcito the cab, 'Buid to the engi neer : 'Frank. I wont vou to eome buck wiih me to tie rst us-;erii r car uiid e e a girl that I hardly know what to make of.' The engineer noddtd, without speaking deliberately wiped his oily, smoky hands on i bunch of 'waste,' look a look at his grimy, dusly fuco i i the narrow liule mirror 1 hut hung beside the steam-gauge, pulled ((This short frock, put on a coal, e hanged his little, bluck, gteusy cap for his soft hut taking these 'dress-up' articles from the tender-box, wliere an eogintr slways has something stowed away for any emergency ;and went back to the coach as requested. He entered the coach and made his way to the seat where the kindheai'ted condtic ' lor sat talking to a bright looking little girl, about nine yeais old, oddly dressed in a woman's shawl and bonnet. Several of the passengers were grouped around the sou t evidently much interested .in the child, who wore u sad, prematurely old countenance, but seemed to be neither timid nor confused.. 'Here is the engineer,' paid the conduc t'r, as 1'iank upproached. She held out Iter hand to him, with a winsome miilc bcea-king over her pinched lit lie face, ami said : 'My pupa was an engineer before he be .came sick and went to live on a farm in Montana. lie is dead, and my mamma is dead. She 3ied first, before Susie and Willie. Aly pupa used to tell me that after lie should be dead there would be no one 4,0 take care of me, and thai I mubt get on the cars and bo to hi.-i home in Ver mont. And be id if Hc conductors .would'ut let me ride because 1 budu't any ticket, I Kust ask for the engineer and tell him I was James Kendrick's little girl, and that he used to run on the M und AJ- road.' The pleading blue e;.es were nnw full of ieurs ; but she did not cry after i be mauuer .of children in general. Engineer Fra:k now quickly stooped .down ai d kissed her very tenderly ; and ,4heo, as be brushed the tears away from bis eyes, said : 'Well, my dear, so you are little Bessie Kcndrick? It's my opinion a merciful Providence guided you on board this train., Then, turning around to the group of . passengers, he went on : 'I knew Jim Kendrick, the father of this girl well. He was man out of ten thousand. When I first came to Indiana before I got acclimated I was sick a great . part of the time, so tb.it I could not work, and I got homesick and discouraged. I .couldn't keep my board bill paid up not to mention my doctor's bill and didu't .jnuch care whether I lived or died. 'Oue day when the pay-car cume alocg, -and the men were getting their monthly wages, there wasn't a cent corning to me, or I hadn't beeu free from the ague, nor worked an hour for the lust month. I felt so blue t hut I sat down on a pile of railroad ties and leaned my elbows on my knees, with my head in niy hands, rind jcried like a great boy, out of sheer home sickness and discouragement. 'Pretty soon orie of the ruilroad men came alcpg, and said, in a voice that sounded like swtct music in niy ears, for I badu't found much reu! sympathy out ihcre, .although the boys were all goo.) to me in their way, 'You've been having a rough time of it, and you must let me help you .out.' I look id up, and there stood Jim Keu drick, with his Uintah's pay in his hand. He took out from the roll of bills a twenty dollar note and held it nut to me. '1 knew he had a sickly wife and two or three children, and then he bad a hurd tinietf it himsef to jhiII through (rum jnoulh to month, so I said, l.ulf ashamed o( the tears that were streaming down my face, 'Indeed, I cui.not take the money. . You uctd every ccut yourscll.' 'Indeed you will tako it, mun,' said Jim. You wiil be all right in a few weeks, and then you can pay it back. Now come home to supper with me and see the babies; it will do you good.' I took the bunk-note and accepted the invitatiun, and after that went to his house frequently, until he moved uwuy, and I gradually lost sight of him. I had returned the loan, but it was impossible to repay the good that little net of kindness did me. und I guesB Jim Kendrick's little girl will not.wunt for anything if I can help it.' Then, turning again to the child, whose blue e.es were opened wide enough uow, said to her : 'I'll take you home with me, Bessie, dear, when we get to Wuyne. My wife .will 5 you np," bd we'll write and find out whether those Vermont relations reully want you or not If they do, Mary or 1 shall go on with you. But if they don't care much about having you, you shall stay with us to be our little girl, for we hae none of our own. You look very much like your father ; God bless his memory.' Just then the Eastern train whistled. 'All aboard J' was shouted. Engineer Frauk vanished out of the tar door and went forward to his engine, wiping his eyes will) his coat-sleeve, while the conduc tor and sympathetic pass1, ogers could not suppress the teats this touching episode evoked duringthe twenty minutes stop at Allen's Junction, GM Duijt. - . Another Negro Outrage. He Fi prtrntcs Hi DrvifUli Died l' oii A I.il.le Orphan Child Nine Tun Old. Greenville News. 1'ki.zkh, S. ()., November 4. A litlle orphan girl nine years old, named Bluyton. was outraged several days ago at the Rev. Mr. Mc lice's iu Greenville, near, llsiedy River, under circumstances of peculiar atrpciiy. She was a ward of the It 'V. Mr. Ai uwy, of Williamson, being in Green ville on a visit, and on her return homj her endi ion wiis discovered. ; She then co - leased and detailed the horrible circum stances of toe crime which was committed by Ribert William?, col., in a cotton fi Id, in wheh they were at work together lie had threatened to cut her throat if she told of it, and terrorized her into silence. List night he was arrested, und ihU morning was taken to Williamson and ideniifivd by the child. Ho was then taken from the guurd house at that place by citiz'iisof Anderson and Greenville ai.d brought back, being m.irched through here about eleven o'clock today, attended by probably one hundred men of both colors. He was notified of his impending fate, and acted very coolly, calling a colored man to him. to whom he confessed his crime, und prof fered u request for a preacher which was granted. J ust across the Saluda River jn the woods he was hanged to a tree that inclined over a hill side, being put on a horse, which was driven from under him after the rope had been properly adjusted. He died very easily auj was stolid und un moved to the lust. There was not the least excitement or disturbance, thq whole affair being conducted in a quiet and business style. After Williams was dead the parly dispersed leaving him hanging. Tue coroner was iiJegrunhed for, the hanging occuring at about noon, and trial Justice Hathorne came down from Greenville arriving in the scene tn-night und finding the body hanging stiff and siraight among the trees in the moonlight with the lect almost touching the deu 1 leaves on the ground. The remains were cut down and a Jury einpnnnelled. S. T. Hammond being fort- men. No witnesses wero examiued and after viewing the body a verdict of death by hanging at the hands of unknown parties was rendered. Williams was a dark copper colored negro about twenly-two years old apparently, his face being smooth and bcardlesi. In dea'.h his countenance did not look like that of a bad man, but like the oily smilin.' and Jeeeilful smile of a negro. His dre-s and ge neral appearance i lliut of the ordinary country fi Id hand ile was five feet ten und well built. The features were not all distorted, the neck being probably broken, as a regulation hangman's kr.ot, artistically arranged, was usul. The dead man was formerly a ciiiz-n of Greenville and worked on Leonard Wiliiums' pluce. Litlle is known ot him in this section, but he is said to have a wife aid two children. His people live near Groin's Mill, on Richland Greek. lie re quested to be buriid in the colored burying ground at Greenville. The body now lays ou the hillside near where it fell, the colored people refusing to go near it. A b x is being made ai d while men will bury it where it is. Williams' victim is in a preca rious condition, and physicians are attend ing her. An Ch rat ion was performed on In r this illuming. A."I. W. HIE MAN JN THE NOON. The fuce, or disk, of the moon is brighter in some pluces than at others. The dark spots ure so arranged aa to represent the eyes, nose und mouth of a mun, and the whole disk represents the face of a human being. So the moon appears to us, but people in other countries cluim that they sec other things iu the moon. The 'J'arturs behold a "woodcutter, bearing on his back a huge bundle of wood, and supporting himself with a staff." The Japanese say ihat they Bee a rabbit, in a sitting posture. His long ears stand erect, and before him is u large mortar. Iu his forcpaws he holds u pestle, und is generally busy grinding rice. But the telescope shows that the dark spots are really huge mountain craters, for the surfuce of the moon is about as uneven as that of the earth. A REVOLTING CRIME SWIFTLY AVENGED. A special from Long View, Texas, furnishes particulars of a revolting crime committed near Brcckville. A white man named Sloan, who ' with his family had moved into the neighborhood to pick cot ton for a Mr Hill, had an altercation with a negro named Lum White, and the latter endeavored to punish Sloan's children. Being prevented by the mother and daugh ter, a girl 15 years of age, he succeeded in enticing the latter into a deep ravine, where, with the assistance of his wife, he outrtged her person, and then using his pocket-knife cut her bowels open length wise, and across, deliberately cutting off pieces of the entrals as they protuded and scattering the fragments far and near. Be then cut the girl's throat from ear to ear. At the inquest White's wife confessed' to all the revolting details, when a young man named Hart, incensed at the story of fieuish brutality, shot the nei;ro man dead The wife of Lum and an old negro man. who lived wiih them, were started on their way to . Cirthuse, but a crowd met the escort and took the prisoners out aud shot them. Charles Bell, of Stroudsburg, Pn., has succeeded in niuk'ng a boat from chemical wood liber. This ii Niid to be Iho first of the kind known to have been mae'e. The boat is lourleen feet long, eighteen inches wide, und "rides on the water like a daisy." THE NINTH MASSACHUSETTS INVESTIGATION. Richmond, Ya., October 5. The committee of military officers here from Bjston investigating the charges of mis conduct against the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment, concluded taking evidence in the case last evening. To-day they will visit several pluces where in the course of the investigation it was developed that members of the regiment had damaged property, and committed other wanton nets, and at 5 o'clock wilt leave for home. There is nothing to base an opinion on as to what recommendation the co mm it tee will make in their report, as they have made no statement whatever in regard to the matter. An astonishing amount ol testimony has been luken by the commis sion. The quantily and character are much greater and more damaging than was ever anticipated by previous represen tations. A COW'S CUD. The situation, the structure and the size of the rumen or paunch point in out us the first and general receptacle for the food, which receives in the mouth only sufficient mastication to enable the animal to swal lowed it ; is then received by the rumen, and morsel after morsel is taken until this, the first of the animal's four stomuchs, is com paratively full. A sense of repletion pre cedes rumination, during which ucts the animal generally prefers a recumbent post ure. It is not tJ be supposed that all food taken is nguin ruminated ; it is only the the'bulky or solid -portions that undergo the process. When the rumen is moderately lull it will contract on its contents, and first tqnciz-' out the fluid portion-i, which will pass onward into the thiid or fourth stomachs, while the solid part wi I bu embraced by th? cesophagus or stomach pipe, und returned to ihe mouth. Ity the the term 1 lo.-s of the cud" is meant a ces sation of the chewing of the cud, which occurs as a symptom cf most internal disA-use in cattle. A new pst. fficc bus been established at Garmel Hill, in Chester county. The Mill" will, however, be dropped, and the i fli.-c will be known simply as "Caimel." Mrs. M. A. Worthy h is been Appointed postmistress. THE CLEAN NEWSPAPER. There is a growing feeling in every healthy community against the journals which make it their special object to min ister to perverted taste by seeking out and serving ioto seductive form, disgusting scandals and licentious revelationsr There is good reason to believe thut the clean newspaper is more highly prized to-day than it was four or five yeurs ago. It is also safe to predict that, as people in all ranks of life, who wish to protect their own at least from contamination, become more conscious of the pernicious influence of a certain class of journals, called "en terprising," because they are ambitious to serve up dirty f candles, they will be careful to see that the journals they permit to be read in the family circle are of the class thut never forget the proprieties of life. Already men and women of refinement and healthy morula have bad their atten tion called to the pernicious kfluence of bad literature, and have made commendable eflofts to counteract the same by causing sound literature to be published and sold at popular prices. These efforts are work ing a silent hut Bure revolution. The best authors ure more generally read to day than any previ us time. The sickly sentimental story paper, and wild ranger and pirate story book are slowly yielding the field to worthier claimants. To the praise ot the decent newspaper it may be said, Ihat where it has a place in the family and lias been read for years by voung and old, it has developed such a healthytone and such a discriminating taste, that the literature of ihe slums has no admirers. Fortunately, the number of such families is increasing in the land, and as they in crease, the journal that devotes itself to sickening relations of immorality will be compelled to find its supporters solely among those classes that practice vice or crime, or are ambitions to learn to follow such ways. Boston Herald. Information has reached Richmond that a syndicate has been formed in New York for the purpose of buying a controlling interest In' - the Richmond and Danville Railroad. It is thought if the new syndicate gets control, their plan will be to make the Virginia Midluud the main line, thereby diverting traffic from Richmond and VTest Foint. HP AVIS. . A fully developed spavin had better be left alone, as in such a case nothing can be gained by treatment. When the ailment is discovered early, or treatment is begun be fore any material disorganization has taken place, success may attend the treutment and a stop put to its progress. There is no positive cure for spavin ; that is, the horse can never be made sound again. All that may be accomplished by any method of treatment cousists in a cessation of lame ness ; - but to all intents and purposes the horse remains spavined; lor the unity of the small bones, resulting from the dis ease, can never again be dissolved. Vari ous remedies aie employed for the purpose of alleviuting the condition, among which is the application of blisters, setons and the hot iron. The insertion of one or two tape setons along the inner side of the dis eased hock joint is somcti i cs followed by belter results than either blistering or fir ing. But great cure is necessary iu the ap plication of setons at that place, lest the joint should accidentally be punctured by the se'on needle. If setons are used tluy may remain inserted during a month. Sometimes a repetilion of blisters may be suificient, such as ointment ef Spauish fly, oue part of the powdered Spanish fly mix ed with four parts of bog's lard, and to which is added a little oil of turpentine ; or an ointment made Of one part of binio dide of mercury with twelve parts of hog's lard. I f firing is rcsorlcd to, blisters may be applied simultaneously that is, imme diately iheri'a.'t -r, and should then be ap plied to a large surface. When a blister is applied the tail should be tied up during the day of blistering. Generally the bony enlargement of spavin will Miniu after auy method of Ircatineut, as well as more or lesssliiTuess ol the hoek joiut. in conse quence of ihe permanent unity of two or more of the bones of which 'the joint is composed- Prairie Firmer. The power to do great things generally arises from the willingness to do small things. It is a great misfortune not tj have wit enough to spe.ik well, or judgment to keep silent. No one can have failed to observe the power of a true life upon all wiih whom it comes in contact. o not allow idleness to deceive you, for while you give it lc-day it steals from you luinolloW. A TRAP FOR SHEEP KILLING DOGS. The Lynchburg Virginian describes nn ingenious trap devised by a Virginia far mer to capture sheep-killing dogs. Hav ing suffered severely from the depredation of dogs upon his sheep-fold, be built around a number of sheep that dogs had killed an enclosure of rails twelve feet high and about ten feet square ut the ground, the sides of the trap elopiug in ward until an opening was left abont five feet square. Any dog could easily climb such a sloping fence and enter the pen, but not even a greyhound could jump outol it. In three nights the farmer captured forty six dogs, including fifteen or twenty that hud never been seen before in that neigh borhood. This, after there l.ud been a pub-' lie Bluughter of all dogs suspected of slitep killing, save one, whose master could not be convinced of his guilt. The trap was built for his especial benefit, and it caught him the first night. Scientific American. People's intentions can only be decided from their conduct. The weak sinews become strong by their coi fiict with difficulties. It is not life to live for one's s;:lf alone. Let us help one another. Favors of every kind are doubled when they fire speedily conferred. . A man may live to a good old age and then commit the biggest mistake ol his life. WONDERFUL INVEST IV E FACUL TY. The news of the death abroad recently of Hamilton. E. Towle n calls the bright ca reer and remarkable achievements of a dis tingnished American civil engineer. Mr. Towle was a passenger on the famous Great Kastern during her memorable voy age across the Atlantic when she et coun tered a great storm, which Irokc her steer ing apparatus. Her commander and crew could do nothing in the terrible emergency aud she lav practically helpless at. tbehicr cy of the waves. In this critical moment Mr. .Towle carefully and with wonderful' telf-posscstion examined the broken ma chinery acd rigged np from tie mutt rial at hand an apparatus of his own designing, which proved equal to the urgent r.euls cf the situation. - The. ' improvised rudder brought the great vessel safely in port, and the distinguished American received Irom the grateful pasftneers, who deemed their lives to have been saved by him,, tie gift of a superb gold waleh, ornamented with costly jtwels, and engraved with a riiemo rial inscription commemorating his histori cal feat of engineering. This time-piece he wore with conscious pride during his life time, and he also exhibited at times, with an equally pardonable egotism, a mtdal presented to him by an English humane so ciety in recognition or his achievement. The steamship owners, ol all who profited by his knowhdee of engineering, however, were, it seems, the only ones to dispute the value of his splendid seivices, and be was compelled to biing fuit to recover the sal vage to which be was justly tutitled. At the time of the terrible shipwreck of the ill-fated Atlantic he delivered a lecture in Cooper Institute, asserting boldly accord ing to his knowledge cf navigation, that the disaster was attributable to mtrltv sea manship. From early boyhood he displayed noteworthy ' inveniivc tacult v, and liggtd up all se l ls e f ii.vt nioes toy water-wlic Is and the like. This pi e (use ut d surprising supply rf e'e ver ideas seemed to grow with his years, and the ingenious conceptions with which his active, mature brain teem ed, and many of which bore fiuit iu useful engineering inventions, seemed endless. He designed a eurveying level, which met a long-felt need ; was instrumental in the perfection cf the Towle bell-reg Tiler, adopt ed by the Third avenue surfuce rail nay at the mlvint of the bcll-puuch, and was in terested in a best of o;her inventions, " Of which a machine for type-setting, eell-ir.k ing letter stamps telegraphic instruments, argni d burners, palent washing che micals, theedoliti s, and weighing scales were but a few. In fere his illness he was head of Ihe Towle . Man:ufafturit-g Company, in Cortlardt-street, in this city. The saddest feature ol his death is that it is reporttd to have biin due to the wuk nirg of a brain whese strength and exttrsive creative pow er -made him at times a marel to his Irieids und associate's Stir ')mr. The Mr. liarfield fund uniounts to about SM'.'.UO.l The jail at Ne wton is about full, and the keeper calls for and enlargement e f the institution if more gu.'sts are to fLr. learning makes a man lit company for himself. RELIGIOUS NEWS- PVo.ti Sunday's Raleigh Observer. One hundred and forty four students are now ut AV'uke Forest College. This is more than were present this time last year. The English Old Testament Company have finished their seventy-first session. The second revision ol Isaiah was carried as far as xlv., 11. Messrs. Moody and Sankey have begun their second religious campaign in (J rent Uritain in Newcastle, the seat of the receut Anglican Church Congress. ' Shaw University, colored, which is un dtr the management of the Baptists, has thus far about 125 students. President Tupper expects 175 or ISO before the new year. Rev. H. I'. Northrop who has just been appointed Vicar Apostolic of the State, will be consecrated shortly after Christ mas, and will, we learn, probably take up his residence in Raleigh. Dr. Young J. Allen having been a p. pointed superintendent'' of the Methodist China .Mission, has resigned his position in the employment pi the Imperial Govern ment, arid will give himself wholly to the work of the church. The Baptist Foreign Mission Conven tion of the United Slates, (colored), which is to meet lute in November in Knoxville, Teun., will send three missionaries to Af rica ou its own uccuuut. Ibis indicates that these churches ure growing in sell'-ut-pendetice as weil us iu missionary spiii!.' In many parishes in England bags have been introduced to receive the ofL-nngs of the people, instead of the usual plates. As a couseqiiLUce the amount ol the contribu tions has fallen c 11', a good dial of copper money having taken t..e place ol silver and gold. A Liverpool clergyman pleached a sermon upon tue subject to his congrega tion, taking fur his text the words : "Alex ander, the eojipetciuith, did me much evil." The auuua! meeting of the American MissionaiV Association will he hM in Worcester, Muss., beginning November 1. Tl e annual sermon will be preached by C. Ji. Hailnml't, D. J). Amciig the speakers will be Senator Hour 'and Johu B. Gougb. The receipts, of the society .for the year have been t241,f79. This is an increase of 30 per cent. During the year the Stone fur, d has bfe n drawn on to the extent of 77,131, which makes the total available money $321,710. FatLcr John B. White, who was long in charge of St. John's (Roman Catholic) church here, is new in the city. He has been absent most of the time this year, making (Holts I o raise funds to raise the debt on the new property of the church. So great bus been his energy that he hts nearly extinguished the debt of $9,000, most of tke lunds having been secured North. Father White will be in Raleigh until after Easter, when he will resume his work in aid of the church. AS 1SCREDIBLE TALE OF MUR DER FliOM PES SHY LV ASIA. Rkadino, Pa., November 2. News reached here to-day through private ksources of the murder of an old man in Kpbruta township, Lancaster couuty. The man's life was insured far about 50,000 by difk-re'bt parties! k appears that the tragedy occurred five or six weeks ago, but has j ist h. en reve.!e l by a boy named John Gallagher, who saw the - affair and was. tffered 2 to ket-p quiet. The parties interested in the policy made the man iti ii.it.. u.,,1 ,.ni.M.l I.;... !., , i .r. ... uiuuu auei i.i.ne.v.- unu te a uu-iuii, wuere they had arranged a trap. Here they allowed him to sleep for a while, wheu they suddenly called him. Awaking half dazed, he staggtred upon the trup, fell through and eliud Irom his i Juries within twenty-four 'hews."' The uft'iir is now being investigated by the authorities, who have i-o far declined to give any names. Hog cholera is prevalent in Western Carolina. One la:mcr lost fifty cut of eighty hogs. There are 3t'9 Cermets in the Peniten tiary, of which i umber 75 ure white and 231 colored ; 50 ure females, 2 white and 4S colored. A new tobacco warehouse will be opened in tfta'esville on the Sth.The Ceivmoni. will be inaugurated on the prttvdiiig night by a grand dress ball. l'nzibctli City Economist : Tile damage done to the rice crop is uot more tliau-uuc-lifib as great as e si i mated. All are hopeful it least of living prices. Lahigh, like Greensboro, Winston, SiaUsvule and many other towns, U spreading in tvry iJiieetioo. .. There is a gi Ueral deii.aiid lor house carpeulers.