The Greensboro patriot [August 30, 1883]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
ESTABLISHED IX 1825. GREENSBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST'SO, 1883.
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JOHN B. HU8SEY.
Editor and Proprietor.
\SBORO. X. C, At'OFS]
North Carolina will have
thousand different articles on
liition at the forthcoming Bos-'
-. t .«>:•-
The Sew York Ural Entitle i
■ i>.■ sacs an "piiiion, based
upon actual statistics, that more
ill be constiucted daring
nl year than in any pre-
.' innntliM in the history of
till' I'Olllltl v -
Phe ' 'harleston (S. ('. V. KM
unit Vimrirr publishes reports show-]
i injury to cotton by the
li, and stating that greater
threatened. The upland
top is estimated at time fourths
i\erage crop and the Sea
Maud clop ;it less.
till III MM>- KITI \lll>\.
neial business situation
- mnch better than it has for
weeks, if not months, past. The
,ii disturbances in New York
in ilie week broke the stock
to 111«- lowest point touch
: ,i ■. 11■ ■ 11■•-1 nt years. That
unices should only t mil -
It- down prices, and merely wipe
ii gins ofequities in prop-j
In-Ill 1 ■ \ stock operators, and
..«!:;--■- a panic, ;is was feared,
n duly a most hopeful sign.
I'lie special clearing house reports
• i ly thai the volume of le-gitimate
business throughout the
•: i is becoming rapidly enlarg-ed
in face of the great lulling off
In the prices of most commodities.
Tin- crop prospects in Uie northwest
sud west n1'the Mississippi river
are particularly bright, and uutli-itands
in the «ay of an an-tiiniu's
bnsiuess bul the completion
of harvesting New wheat has lie-gnu
to move and already Chicago
uthei western banks report de-mand*
upon them for currency for
the interior. The prospects for
large railroad earnings and a good
and early fall trade all around ap-pear
most favorable.
NORTH ( MIHI.IN \ Mil.Ml.
North Carolina baa 3,802 facto-ries,
working 17,109 hands, with a
capital invested of 113,045,639,
paying annually in wages $2,740,-
70K, yielding annually in products
120,093,037.
Alabama has 2,118 factories,
working 8,248 hands, with a eapital
ited of $5,715,032, paying an-illj
in wages $2,227,968, and
yielding annually in products $13,-
n pi..; | |.
Mississippi has |,73l factories,
working5,941 hands, with a capi
nvested of $4,501,714, paying
annually in wages $9,579,428, and
ding annually in products $8,
154,;
.•South i ai.iiin . has 1,584 facto-working
8,1 II bands, with a
capital invested ol $5,400,418, pay-ing
annually in wages, $1,543,715,
nnd yielding annually in products
$9,858 081.
Louisiana has 2,557 factories,
king 30,071 band-, with a capi-tal
invested uf $18,313,974, paying
tally in wages $4,594,407, and
ling annually in products $24,-
101,8
According to these Hgures, taken
from the tenth census report, N'orth
Carolina leads foni ol the principal
Southern States i echanical and
manufacturing industries.
HUH II I .Hi tell « i-.ulit-r.
I. When the temperature falls
suddenly then- i- a storm forming
Sollth i't V oil.
When the tein|icrature rises
suddenly there is a storm forming
N'n lb of you.
;. I'lir wind always blows from a
'• » In i r II storm is forming.
I. Cirrus clouds always move
from .i region "ben- a storm is in
to -i regi f fair weath-er.
i 'nmnliis clouds always move
from a region «here a i torni is
forming.
A i. .MM a- clouds are mov
i apidly from the north ornorth-
■ there will be tain inside of
twenty boms, no matter bow cold
it is.
7. When cirrus clouds are mov
iug rapidly from the south or south-east
there will i»- a cold rain storm
mi the morrow, if u be m summer,
and if it be in winter, tin re will be
storm.
Wind always blows in a circle
m, and when it blows
; lie north, the heavies! rain is
• it blows from tiie
tb, the heaviest rain is west of
blows from the east, the
heaviest rain is south; if it blows
from the "•-!. the heaviest rain is
i
i never blows unless
.am 01 Mow i- falling within 1,000
a»ii«a at J VII.
v\u«iievri heavy, white frost
'UMIU*. • MoiiN is forming within
1,00 aides north or northwest of
Till', FRUIT FAIR.
All lAi i Hi III EMaplaj j.id
tf.iiln.iri-.
l-"alr At-loaded
with apples, peaches, sever-al
varieties of pears, luscious in
appearance and mammoth in size,
and several kinds of grapes, ex
l!(vic»! hibited by Mr. William Mnrdock,
The first pomologicul fair ever of Rowan county. It was a very
hehl in the city of Wilmington was tine display. Aside from these the
formally opened at the City Hall table contained a sample of -rapes
NEW SERIES. NO. 871.
this morning under the auspices
of the Fruit Growers' Association
of North Carolina. Prom the mo
Dient that it was understood that
there was a probability that the
annual fair of 1883, of this organi-zation,
would be held lure unceas-ing
efforts have been made by
many of our most prominent and
public spirited citizens to bring it
here and make it in every particu-lar
a complete suec • s—a triumph
—one that should ec'.ipse all other
exhibitions of like character in the
State. When the doors were thrown
open to the public it was the uni-versal
sentiment that all that bad
been desired bad been accomplish-ed.
For many days men and wo
men of our city have been busy in
the task of preparation. -Men have
devoted valuable time and fair
lair ladies have contributed of their
skill and taste in design, llich.rare
and lucious fruits loaded the sev-eral
tables; beautiful flowers and
evergreens, wrought by fair bands
into many a fanciful and unique
design, were interspersed through
out the hall, a cool and sparkling
fountain sent its gushing waters
to purify the atmosphere and en-hance
the beauty of the scene; the
works of art commingled with the
rich products of nature, gay flags,
banners and festoons of evergreen
adorned the walls and the space
over the tables and stamlss, until
the entire hall seemed an enchant
in;; kaleidoscopic picture, present
ing new beauties with every change
of the position of the beholder.
There was but one sentiment—one
expression, and that was of pleased
-in prise at the magnitude and ele
gance of the exhibition. There had
been grave fears among a good
many that the fruit would not be
forthcoming, and we bad been re-peatedly
asked within the past
few days, ••Where is it coming
from '." But it was then- this
ruing, and in abundance. Ap-ples,
pears, peaches, grapes and
other fruits were there in profusion
and of the finest variety and rich-est
quality, Long before the exhi-bition
was opened it became ap-parent
that the room would not be
sufficient for the articles contrib-uted,
while busy hands were still
engaged in arranging those which
continued to arrive on every train,
as well as by carriage and other
means of conveyance. For an
hour before the time appointed I exhibition of Mr.
for the formal opening, the people i for which there w
began to dock to the ball and
fairly thronged about the ticket
office waiting for the time to arrive
when they could gain admission.
There were people from Alamauce,
Guilford, Rowan, Wake. Sampson.
Wayne, Dnplin, l'cnder, t'olumbus.
Onslow, Brunswick, Bladen, Cum
berland and other counties, be-sides
a large representation from
our own county of New Hanover.
At about 10:30 a. m. the officers
of the association and invited
guests arrived at the hall,preceded
by the Wlimington Cornet Concert
Club, who kindly turned out for
the occasion. Aftet the procession
bad filed into the building and en-tered
the Mayor's office the gates
were thrown opeu aud the eager
throng pressed up the stairwaw to
the exhibition room. At 11 o'clock
the officers entered the hall, and
after a few moments a voluntary
was played by the band, followed
by a short, impressive and appro-priate
prayer by Rev. CM. l'avne
of the Second l'resbyterian church.
This was followed by another vol-untary
by the band, after which
the address of welcome was deliv-ered
by Mayor Hall. Mr. (). \l.
Wilson, secretary of the associa-tion,
was then introduced by Cant.
Ii. I'. l'addison and responded
gracefully to Mayor Hall; Col. F.
W. Ken-hner then made an apol-ogy
to those present for the ab-sence
of the expected orator of the
occasion, after which the popular
State ait of ••Carolina! Carolina!
Heaven's Blessings Attend Her!"
was rendered by the band. This
being performed aud received with
cheers. Mayor Hall arose and de-clared
the exhibition duly open.
There were sixteen tables in the
hall which were numbered and
occupied as follows :
Table No. 1—Apples raised in
New Hanover county, and sent to
the association. The}' were fair,
and nice looking, but we wish that i were of the
this portion of the exhibit had . ricty and
been better and more in keeping
With the excellence of the remain-der.
Table No. L'—S. W. Nobles, of
New Hanover county, exhibitor.
This table was profusely laden
with apples, peaches and grapes of
of a fine quality and was much
commended (as it ought to be) by
the visitors. It was a very credit-able
display and in some of its
features it was excellent.
Table No. 3—Capt. I!. P. I'aildi
son, ol 1'eiuler county and presi-dent
of the Association, exhibitor.
This table contained apples, grapes
and canned fruits and vegetables,
all of which were very tine.
Table No. 4—Messrs. .1. It. Pad
dison, of l'cnder.. and T. F. 1'iigh,
Of Sampson county, exhibitors.
This table contained a remarkably
nice and tasteful display of apples,
grapes, pickles and jellies, and
showed, as iliil table No. 3, the
skill of the housewife as well as
the products of the soil.
Table No. .">—Elegant and mam
moth specimens of pears,exhibited
bj Capt. W. A. Ciiiniiiing. of this
city, and raised at bis place on the
Sound, together with several vari-eties
of peaches sent here from
Baltimore and exhibited by Col. F.
W. Kercl.ncr.
Table No. li—Several varieties of
apples. New York city exhibitor.
A tine display.
Table No." 7—This table was
exhibited by Mr. II. E. N'ewbiiry,
of Magnolia, Dnplin county, to
gather with a bottle of sweet wine
of his manufacture, and both ex-hibited
by him.
Table No. s—Apples, grapes
and flowers, exhibited by Mr. E.
I). Pearsall, of Dnplin county.
Tables Nos. !>, 10 and 11—Spec-ial
3iis of dried fruits and stuffed
birds and animals, exhibited by
Mr. M. T. Hughes, of Guilford
county. This exhibit deserves much
more than a passing notice, as it is
one ol the finest in the ball. There
were dried apples, peaches, toma-toes,
grapes, pears, com and other
vegetables, all neatly arranged in
cases and properly labeled, and
they probably excited as much cu-riosity
and provoked as much com
ment as anything on exhibition.
The fruits were dried by the ordi-nary
process of evaporation, and
tlie work was certainly attended
to by those who knew their busi-ness.
We are glad to know that
Mr. Hughes will take this display-to
Boston for exhibition at the
Manufactures' and .Mechanics' Pair,
which is to be held there in IK tu-ber
next.
Table No. 12— Apples, grapes
and peaches of a very superior
quality and of several varieties,
exhibited by Messrs. I.ineback
Bros., of l'orsyth county.
Table No. 13—Apples, pears,
peaches, plums and grapes, exhib-ited
by Messrs.1.8. Ltagsdale&• Bro.
oi Guilford county. This is a re-markably
fine display.
Tables Nos. 14, 15 and 16—Ap-ples,
crab apples (several varieties),
pears, peaches and grapes, exhibit-ed
by Mr. .1. Van l.iudley, of Guil-ford
county. This was a most re-markably
tine display and on the
most extensive scale of any in the
hall. Mr. Van I.iiulley is one of
the vice presidents of the Associa-tion,
an ardent and enthusiastic
pomologist, and has been very suc-cessful
in his efforts to improve the
cultivation of fruits in bis section.
The above comprises the exbibi
tors on the numbered tables, and
now we come to stands arrayed
against the walls, beginning by
turning to the right as we enter
the door of the ball. The first is a
very large and line display of to-bacco
exhibited by the Cape Fear
Tobacco Works. The next is a
stand which contains a part of the
J. Van Lindley,
is no room on the
tables. The next stand wasoccupi-ed
by Messrs.). S. 1,'agsdale & Bio..
for the remainder of their exhibit,
and Mr. A. C liege, of Lexington,
Davidson county, who made a line
and varied display of apples and
grapes. The next stand contained
a modelof the peach packing shed
of Messrs. I.ineback Bros., of Sa-lem,
which they have presented to
North Carolina Fruit Growers' As-sociation.
It was a marvel of
neatness andcouvenicucccombined
and was a most cunning piece of
workmanship. The same stand
was also laden with samples ol
sun dried fruits and plums and sev-eral
bottles of sweet wine by the
same exhibitors, and with a display
of Bartlett pears of very tine ap-pearance,
exhibited by Mr. George
Langhton, Mbrehead city. The
next and last table on the front
side of the building was occupied
by a very line display of dried
fruits, exhibited by Messrs. A. C.
& W. s. Worth, of No. 843 Green-wich
St., New York, and by a sam-ple
of mammoth green peppers ex-hibited
by Mr. John <i. Marshall.
Of New Hanover county.
Commencing now in the south-east
corner of the hall we have a
very line, elaborate and tasteful
display of wax flowers, exhibited
by Mrs. W. J.Guy, of Charleston,
S. C. who is a teacher in the art of
their manufacture. The next is a
tine display of pickles, catsups &c,
from the store of Messrs 1' I, llridg
ers & Co. Immediately North of
Ibis is a little map prepared by
Maj. W. I.. Young, showing the su-gar
producing bell of North Caro-lina,
while the stands for a consid-erable
distance are laden with va-rious
kinds of fruits, dried fruits
&C, among which were some mam
moth apples exhibited by Mr. W.
M. Hand, of l'cnder county. The
next was an exhibition of grapes
by Mr. II. W. Realty. Jr. They
Hopkins Seedling va-were
remarkably line,
nice and large. The next was a
line exhibition of dried fruits, dis-played
by Messrs. Hall Rros., of
Hickory. N. C. The next was a
display ol two enormous pears ex-hibited
by Mr. Vollers. of l't.
Caswell, l'cnder county.
In the centre ol the hall, at the
southern end, was a display of as-sorted
grasses, exhibited b.v Miss
Victoria Gore, of this city." Tin-ther
down and near the 'centre of
the ball, was a boquef of flowers,
prepared and exhibited by Mrs. II.
Webb, of this city. Next to this
was a gotbic arbor, a portion of
which was occupied by Mr. N. W.
Craft, of Yadkin county, in a dis-play
ol apples, pears, peaches,
grapes and wine, while the other
portion was used for the same pur-pose
by Mr. (i. K. Faust, of Ala-mauce
county. The display upon
this table was very line. Next in
order was a fine display ol wines.
liquors, cordials, and cigars, ex
hibited by Messrs. II. Brunhild &
Bros., while at the end of the hall
was an extensive display of con
lectio! erics, exhibited by Mrs.
Warren. usd another equally as
line exhibited by Messrs. E. J.
Moore & Co., boil: of this city.
The last which we L:ive time to
notice now is the exhibit i/ machi-nery
for making fruit cans with
workmen engaged in making them,
exhibited by Messrs. Harding,
Johnson »\ Co.. of this city.
-II.Ikc- Hunting in »n .in -i \.
! Philadelphia Time..:
In times of general prosperity
Jersey snakes arc greatly in de
inand among showmen and keepers
of dime museums. A Jersey snake
is especially valuable from the fact
that it is comparatively harmless,
and by skillful manipulation may
easily be changed into a rattle
snake, a cobra, or almost any kind
of venomous reptile. Two* years
ago William Howe, a saloon keeper
at Fifth and Arch streets, Camdeu,
did something of a business in
show snakes. Since then he lias
moved his saloon and has given np
snakes entirely. He has bad very
little to do with any kind of snakes
since a vicious copperhead nearly
killed Henry Wilson, his barkeeper,
some time ago. Howe's mantle in
snake trading has now fallen upon
Jerry Martin, of Uanimontoii, and
Howe contents himself with snap
ping turtles and marine curiosities
from the lower bay. I visited Jer-ry
at his llaiiiiinmtiiii home one hot
day recently, and expressed my
wish to go snake hunting with
him.
"Snake liuntin', is it V he ex-claimed,
in something like an as-tonishment.
"Want to go snake
liuntin' ! Well, 1 never ! Fine
gents from the city never hunts
snakes,'as I knows"on. (Join' to
start a circus f Museum business,
maybe * No ! Well, I never. Jest
want to hunt snakes ! Maria!"' he
shouted, in a voice that might have
been mistaken for a steam whistle.
A nervous looking little woman
stepped out from behind a chicken
coop.
"Ye needn't yell so, Jerry: I
ain't deaf."
'•Here's a gentleman from the
city as wants to go snake liuntin'."
Jerry waited to note the effect of
his words. Not a muscle moved in
the careworn face under the sun
bonnet.
"Well," she said, a moment after-ward,
"why don't you take him !"'
"I'll do i't—for half a dollar."'
In a few minutes Jerry and I
were again jolting over the un-broken
field in the direction of a
forest of scrub pines.
•'Snakes is scarce around these
parts this year. Fire over to Ilam-montou
drove 'em off last summer.
The big 'u:is took to the pine
swamp 'bout quarter of a mile be-low
the clearin' in the piuey woods
Over to the right of us and the lit-tle
ones was burned up It's hard-er
for me to git snakes now, but
when I finds one he's sure to be a
whopper an' big enough to send to
a circus. The little ones I send to
saloons an' restaurants lor show
windows. Billy Howe, in Camdeii.
he used to sell 'em for me. bill lie's
gone out of the business and I have
to ketch 'em and sell 'em myself.
I was up to the Zoooligical gar-den
in the city last week to see
about selling a big piney snake,
but Mr. Brown, the superintendent,
was away an' the duller at the gate
wouldn't let me in. Mebbe I'll go
up next week. I ain't seen the big
snake for three weeks, an' if he
ain't pulled up stakes an' gone on
a vacation, he's biding in the
swamp. Can't stand hot sun. d'ye
see. and only comes out for any
length of time on cloudy days. Not
much chance for "ini to day."
At the edge of the woods the
horse was uiiroped from the wagon
and turned loose. A covered bas-ket,
a pronged stick, a bottle of
chloroform, and a small sponge
were taken from a box in the
wagon. In the basket was an imi
tatiou mouse fastened to the end of
a stout stick, and wound around
the end of the stick was a small
ball of twine. An old cloth apron
completed what Jerry called the
"outfit."
Down to the edge of the big
swamp, where the weeds and bush-es
grew thick and high. Jerry
walked softly, and, alter live min-utes
of slow creeping, sat down up-on
a log.
•■Kee|) quiet, now," be cautioned,
'•there's lots of snake boles around
here. Here's where 1 saw the big
'mi three weeks ago. Now, you
hold the end of the string while I
fasten the mouse in the clear spot
over there."
The stick upon which the imita-tion
mouse was lasleiied was forced
into the ground so that the mouse
rested in an upright position about
an inch above the sand. The string
reached from the mouse to the log.
■We lay down, side by side, behind
the log, with our heads upraised so
that we could see a semi-circle thir-ty
or forty feel iii diameter.
We waited live minutes in utter
silence. Then Jerry's arm moved
backward quickly, and the string
fluttered an instant in the sand.
Squeak ! The imitation mouse
cried out as if caught in a trap A
bird slopped chirping overheard.
Squeak ! squeak! The bird Hew
away. At irregular intervals tor
ten minutes the mouse shrieked in
anguish, but only the flitting
shadow of the swaying string dis
turbetl the dull gray surface of the
sand. Through an opening in the
trees the sun blazed ..own in sullen
fury. Out in a cleared Held the
heat throbbed upward like waves
from a furnace. The narrow hori-zon
beyond the trees waved like a
banner, and the branches of the
bushes hung motionless in the
stifling air.
Squeak—squeak—squeak '. The
mouse was becoming furious. Over
at the base of the stum], something
moved. A streak of yellow gray
sand seemed to start into life. Jer-ry
nudged me softly.
••A snake." It was but a whis-per,
but the snake heard it and
stopped, With head upraised and
tongue darting back and forth like
the flame of a spirit lamp. The
mouse became frantic at its danger.
Jerry seized the crotched stick,
and the chloroform, and the sponge,
and was making ready for a spring,
when I saw by a sudden pallor in
his titCf that something had hap
pened. I lea.ied toward him and
he put his lips close to my ear.
"There's a snake crawling over
my legs," be whispered. "Don't
move a muscle !"
Jerry bowed his head upon the
log nnd became as marble. In a
moment something touched my leg
twice. A Chill ran through *me;
my veins ceased throbbing and my
lungs refused to do their work. The
snake was feeling his way across
me. A second lengthened into a
minute, the minute into an hour,
seemingly, and still the snake
dragged his heavy length across
my legs. In that second of horror
aud disgust the reptile was as long
as a ship's cable and as heavy- as a
tree. When I felt myself free of
the weight I turned my head. Jer
ry had risen, and with stick in
hand was stepping over me. He
made a lunge at something, and
when I jumped to my feet I found
him holding the stick upon the
snake's neck.
"Wet the sponge witli chloroform
and hold it down upon his nose."
While I was doing this the rep
tile wound himself about the stick
and about Jerry's leg twice, but in
a moment the folds relaxed and the
snake was as limp as a rope.
"That's the way I ketch'em,"
said Jerry, as he wrapped the
snake in the apron and crowded it
into the basket. "No trouble about
that, is there! To-morrow that
piney snake will stretch his six
feet o' length in a box that I've got
up to the house, an' next week he'll
go to New York or to the new mil
seum on Arch street, Philadelphia.
That mouse does the business every
time. That lirst snake skipped
back into his hole when the mouse
stopped squeakin'. No use tryin'
for 'ini to day more. Wouldn't
come out for a drove of mice.
They're mighty sharp, snakes is."
Helping Poor I'nrle Sam.
WASHINGTON. August 21.—J. R.
Gardner, a wealthy citizen of Ros-ton,
recently deceased, provided
by will that a large sum of money,
bonds and other securities, aggrc
gating in value $931,600, should be
turned over to the United States
Treasury, to be used ill helping to
pay the national debt. The be-quest
has been received at the
Treasury Department, and by dir-ection
of the register was today
placed to the credit of •'patriotic
donations."
t'ar|i BuoUffll for III.
At the Stale fish ponds there are
thousands of carp, enough. Com-missioner
Worth thinks, to supply
all demands. When cold weather
comes the ponds will be drawn off
and the fish taken for shipment to
all pails of the Slate. The desire
to have carp ponds docs not abate,
but on the contrary increases.
There arc now over 1,200 such
ponds in the Stale, and the number
grows greater each month. Out of
the fish hatchery, which is but lit-tle
over a mile from Raleigh, may
be seen carp, white fish, Japan
fish, etc.
Hunting l.i- Father M HI. a I'i-i.ii.
POBTSJCOVTH, VA.. Aug. 21.—A
few minutes before the departure
of the 7 o'clock Raleigh. N. C. ex
press train, and while a large nuin
lier of negro excursionists were
gathered at the depot here, a young
man pushed bis way through the
crowd, flourishing a revolver, and
in an excited manner cried out to
the people to get out of his way;
that he would kill the lirst man
who interfered with him; that his
father was on the train and that he
mean: to kill him. lie searched
the train and found his father
standing on the platform of one
of the cars and began firing at
him, striking him in the thigh in
two places, one near tht hip and
the other just above the knee. He
was arrested, nnd when questioned
said that his name was A. M-Tykes.
that be lived in l'hiladel.
piiia, and thai he had sworn lo kill
his father, D Sykes, for deserting
and slandering his mother. He
said that he had followed his
father to new York and thence to
Norfolk. The lather says the
trouble grew out of the dissipated
habits of his son and his ui.satis-fied
demands for money. The
wounded man is dangerously buf
not necessarily fatally hurt
KoMaton Crusoe's Islai.tl.
The island is about seven Span-ish
leagues in circumference, or a
trifle over 20 English miles. It
belongs to Chili, and for a num-ber
of years the Coven.mcut used
it as a place for transporting con
victs. till one night all the prison-ers
■ rose in their power, killed
their keepers, and taking the only
boats on the island sailed away,
and never heard of more. Of late
years the Government has leased
the island to one man, who pays
something like $2,000 a year for
its use. This man has a small
colony of workmen whom he em-ployes
in cutting timber. .Irving
fish" and goat skins and sending
them every few months in large
quantities to the markets of Val-paraiso
There are to be found in
the laters about the island lob
store of a peculiar kind and enor-mous
size. So if these n.ea-ure
from two to four feet ill length.
Every variety of fish in gnat
abundance seems to swarm about
this lone island. It is a great re
sort for whalers, who put in here
for a few days to supply them
selves with fresh water and with
fish, poultry aud game, which they
obtain at marvellously low prices
from the sovereign ruler of the
island. Many years ago two lone,
lorn goats were brought t» the
island, and .heir families and cbil
dren have increased so rapidly that
today thousands and tens of thou
sands of these are now to be found
in every part of the island. Large
numbers of them are shot each
year, and their dried skins sold ill
Valparaiso are a source of large
I income to the lessee of the land.
Hunan Ohesll>.
l.i-Him Tmu-.-.
We recorded Saturday the death
of the "fattest woman in the
world," a member and special cu-riosity
of Nathan's Cleveland cir-cus
in America, who appears to
have smothered in her bed. Miss
Conley, though the most enormous
of her sex, weighing as she did
107 pounds, fell far short of that
prodigy of human bulk, the lamous
Daniel Lambert, died in 1808, dur-ing
Stamford fair, at the age of 40.
Lambert weighed uo less than 52
stone 11 pounds, that is 738 pounds
or close upon halt as much again
as the American lady. Daniel
Lambert's coffin with his body
could not be brought down the
stairs ol the house in which he
died, and the wall at the sides ot
the window had to be broken away
to provide an exit. He was live feet
eleven inches in height, measured
nine feet four inches round the
body and three feet one inch round
the leg. He never drank any bev-erage
but water, and slept less
than eight hours per day. The
Claimant at his stoutest weighed
twenty-six stone, or less than half
the weight of Daniel Lambert.
Slum-wall JarkMi.r. old Mar lli.r.r.
^Charlotte observer.!
Col. John E. Brown yesterday
had Stonewall Jackson's historical
war horse, "Old Fancy," in his sta-bles
in this city, and to-day the old
horse is on his way to the Virginia
Mili ary Institute at Lexington.
"Old Fancy" has been in the keep,
ing of Dr. .Morrison, lien. Jackson's
father-in law, on the Doctor's larm
in Lincoln county, ever since the
war. Mrs. Gen. Jackson, having
presented the horse to Gen. Smith,
of the Virginia Military Institute,
Dr. Morrison sent him to Col.
Brown last Monday, and the Col-onel
forwarded him to Lexington
to-day. over the Richmond <\ Dan
ville Railroad. 'Old Fancy" is now
about JO years old, and has lost a
great deal of his former beauty.
He is a line sorrel, ami though his
eyesight is still good, his joints are
becoming stiffened and his gait is
broken. Dr. Morrison has taken
remarkably good care of the famous
old animal and would only drive
or ride him enough lo give him the
necessary exercise. I'p to a short
time ago. Dr. Morrison would ride
"Old Fancy" about the country
regularly, but as the Doctor is now
in bis .S."ith year and too old to ride
horseback at all. he retired '•Old
Fancy" as well as himself from this
exercise.
Gen. Jackson was at one time a
professor in the Institute and it
was on this account that Mrs.
Jackson presented the horse to
Cen. Smith. It is the purpose of
Gen. Smith to care for "Old Fancy"
as long as the animal lives, and
when the old war horse finally
yields up his burden of life, to turn
him over to a taxidermist, who will
stnII' his skin and mount it for pie
servation in the museum of the In-stitute.
A White t;lrl VIMIUI i.-.i b> a Nagra,
[Charlotm OanmrJ
The people of Matthews' Station
were considerably exercised yester-day
over the arrival in that town
of a well dressed, coal black negro
man, accompanied by a young and
handsome white girl. The two got
oil the train on its arrival at .Mat-thews'
from Hamlet, and made
their way to a negro cabin near by.
Such an occurrence as this natur-ally
excited the suspicions of the
citizens of the town, and when, a
short while afterwards, the negro
appeared in the stores making pur-chases
and exhibiting an unusual
I amount of money, they decided to
investigate the ease, as they felt
i satisfied the girl had run away
j from her home, wherever that
might be. with the negro. While
i they were discussing the ndvisa
bilily of arresting the parties, the
negro went to the house where he
had left the girl and packing up
two valises started out on the dirt
road in the direction of Charlotte.
The girl was seen to go out oil the
railroad, -v party of citizens at
once followed the girl, and saw the
negro join her on the railroad some
distance ahead. Seeing the citizens
coming the negro picked up his
' valises and Hed. leaving the girl mi
: the track. She was soon overtaken
and given into the charge of Mr.
Joe Duncan, ihe town marshal.
The girl was weeping bittel ij", and
for some time would not answer a
question, but finally she told them
thai she had been over persuaded,
and had run away from her father's
bouse in Moore county the night
previous with the negro. Her lath-
' er's I.a she said, was Eli Mc
Lend. A telegram was sent to
him, and an answer was shortly re
ceived requesting them to hold the
girl, who was really bis daughter,
ami who had run away With the
negro. Mr. Mcl.eoii had been hunt-ing
for her. and he telegraphed
that be would reach Matthews' on
■ the first train. Capt. D. K. F.
Everitt, conductor on Hie Carolina
Central train, says that the couple
boarded his tram at Hamlet, and
be noticed their queer actions and
surmised that something was
wrung. The girl is only sixteen
years old, and is said to be fine
looking. When she arrived at
Hamlet she wore a shabby dress,
but shortly afterwards came out in
fine Sunday clothes, weiring.
ai g other jewelry, a gold neck-
•hue. and was otherwise stylishly
dressed. Though every means of
persuasion were used, she stub
bornly refused to relate any ol the
details of her abduction, only re-peating
that she had been •'over-persuaded."
and had run away the
previous night with the negro.
From an envelope found in the
girl's possession it was discovered
that the negro's name, is Frank
Hallmaii. He is very black, low.
I thick set, wears a line suit of
I clothes, Derby hat and gold watch
chain.
The negro was arrested near
Charlotte vesterday evening.
HUH to Kee-p Cool.
—A barrel of money makes a hog
set in society.
—The pen is mightier than the
sword, but it can never hope to
! compete with the toy pistol.
—Carlisle spoke With clear in
sight when he said that some must
do without happiness and find
blessedness instead.
—Last week a Pennsylvania wo-man
eloped with her husband's
father. She probably tlioughC.-hc
could go father and fare worse."
—"Don't be going to the funerals
of your patients," said a physician's
wife to her husband ; "it looks like
a tailor carrying home his own
work."
—A Rostou housemaid, who,
about to leave unexpectedly, was
urged to give a reason for it, sun
ply said : "I can't stay : the young
ladies speak such bad grammar.'1
—"Why do most people marry
under the age of 23 '." asks a relig-ious
exchange. Most people under
the age of !'.'{ marry for love : be-yond
that age they marry for
money.
\ W.I.-|I wi-nt ImiziiiK tn Ui-work.
An.l variuu- ilium- did uwUe:
II;- -nnifc- a L'y iiml lln-n ■ doff,
1 li,-u iiin.li- ;i ri'i-l.-r raikl*
At last upiin a ilrmiiiuor'- , ln*<-k
lie scttli-a down in ilrill:
IK- PP-liliM lli.-r,- for hall an hour.
Aiiilili.-n be broke Iii.* bill.
—"Mamma," cried a little four
j year-old girl, after coming from
walking with her next oldest sister,
••Mamie shoved against me anil
pushed me down right before some
gentlemen, and hurt me, too."
"Well, it doesn't bint you now.
doesitl Then why do you cry 1"
"Cause I didn't cry any when she
pushed me down."
The l':.ui|ialgn Against Din.
The North Carolina Hoard ol
Health has started "a Campaign
Against Dirt"—for the prevention
ol diseases. The time to baffle dis-ease,
says the author, is mil in the
midst of an epidemic.
"All the science of all the besl
skilled sanitarians of the land can
not avert the pestilence by any
lalisinai.ic act. The only reasons
ble way to meet an epidemic with
any expectation of success is to lie
always ready. To organize a cam
paign by appointing good officers,
by drilling men, by carefully in-structing
them in all the essentials
of cleanliness, by being constantly
on guard in Hie quiet time when
I here is no sound of alarm, faithful
ly working as though the enemy
were daily expected, this is the on-ly
rational way to be prepared for
an epidemic."
Ttir Age ot Tie.-..
The popular belief that the con-1
centric rings in the cross section
Of a tree show its age need not be
s taken by a recent argument lo
the contrary, according to an Ohio
lawyer's leller on the subject. "Ill
Hie trial of a large number of laud
grant cases," he says, "it very fre '
quently became important to show
the dale oi the survey. This was:
shown by the endorsement on the
document, and corrobeiatcd bv an
examination of the hacks oil the
line and corner trees of the survey.
These hacks invariably bit a sear,
which, to the. practical surveyor,
was readily detected, even alter
the lapse of GO years. By 'block-ing1
the tree and counting from the
hack made by the surveyor to the
outside of the tree, it invariably
corresponded with the dates as
they appeared upon the ret urns
made by the surveyor."
A Curious llralli Si-i-iu-.
A woman named Messick, who
kept house for her brother,
living near Marsii Hope. Kent
COnnty, Del., has been ill lor some
time pas:. Oil Wednesday last a
neighbor, followed by a dog, came
in visit the sick woman and the
dog accompanied Hie visitor into
the sick room. There, before any
one could interfere, the strange an-imal
and a dog belonging lo the
house engaged in a savage light
and finally to the horror of all
present and the terror of the in
valid, the brutes lea|xtl upon her
bed and continued I lie light in
spite of all efforts In part Ihem.
The whole affair was loo much for
the sick won.all's nvri-l ..lined
nerves, ami. \> ill. the sound of the
savage crealure.s'gniwiin^s ill her
ears and their writhing bodies still
upon her bed. she shrieked, fixed
her eyes in a deathly stare and
tut lied over and died.
l.lOiil Wamai llr..\i:ii; ilu- 1. O' live.
-.in..
'•Well, sir," said an engineer, as
he look II iloughl.nl, "all these ac
cidents occur jnsl by people trying
to be smart, i have seen In.ndices
of farmers who would stop their
teams far enough away from II
train, so there would be no danger,
but about one in ten acts as though
he owned the e.rtli, and it he gets
the hind end uf bis wagon over, he
thinks he has achieved something
remarkable. I expect '" kill a wo-man
out here abonl lisi miles one
'of these days. She drives an old
black mare and 1 think shu lays for
a train. She sees the train coming
ami slaps the old mare will, the
lines and hurries on the track, and
the old mare stops as though -In
was going to eat grass, and then
the old lady looks at me in the cab
window, through her spectacles.
slaps the old mare sonic more, and
she meanders oil'the track.just be-fore
I hit her. and the old la J
looks back at me just as the engine
whirls past, and my heart i- in m\
mouth, and she looks just as
though she thought I was r.inning
that way for fun, aud that I am an
impolite' thing, because I don't
slack up for Ini. So lay the
marsh out tin re is going to have a
shower of black mare and buggy
wheels and spectacles, and there
will be crape oil the old lady's door,
and instead of a verdict ol suicide
the coroners jury will blame the
engineer, and her relatives will sue
the company for damages."
The Nrii Uaro.
I'mtho \
' Bob* -• Ihiyuy !
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luxiaod, t tliouxh
^n..t nil. ..I then I km-., w
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for J-'... when
they -aiil
I wa- a "l..\. ' I w.i.intT,.
da --li in.!.-,.- - Hjdeadi I i
ti.v |,.i Must beUuttoldouforwfa
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o.ininj .1, T ,i■ r.-. —. Muring I haveir".
In- DOM. Well. it'., re-lhkel.l-irue
room be like, the bottle, t-... I
ju-t fUre at him when he wuul.l be
.MZ.ill.y me. It heV n.-li perlMUjw
a a ii..i r
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where here I li.-ne l.-ann-l 1.. yell With
four "Sin i iroDHui .'in.- fin -i-
- Hi tile liemill. 1 .
UHVB Meh ITIMI:, .-ne
me.i.Mih. Then (hey
mike holier* utall ■■!'
in. null! np bowr I m
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Ilia. I .
tnlli UMM -leak lu ik.- in. -. .
They nin-l l-e wr.ik Vn\li.w I
like in, mil. tru.iiKh -.nieli.i».
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MM boon ■ km bamM hi ■ while I
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falls DM .lirm .
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V* hat a l-'aruu-r Mailr til. W aliiu. I i . . .
M loo Chi
Hob Wilson and /eke Slade. of
this county, have jus) returned
from an excursion to Asheville.
and from there they took the Duck
town road and went up IMgeon
river. They stopped at a farmer's
who lived in a little old shackleU
house, as Bob remarked to Flem-ing
Terry, "I believe, Klein, you
and myself could turn it over,'.
and yet thai farmer owned six
thousand acres of laud ami had
just sold 1.IMHI walnut tree- fol
$10,000. A true bill.
I Rival ui (liiiuiiie l)Ui-<i,t-rt-it.
I.i-ll iell Till .-. \
German medical journals discuss
a new medical agent lately dis,-,i\
ered by Professor Fischer of Mu
liich. In the course of a long se
rics oi investigations concerning
Hie nature and action of quinine,
he found that by a succession ol
chemical transformations a sub
stance can be obtained, in the form
of a white eryslalline powder, from
coal tar, which greatly resembles
quinine in its action on the human
organism. Fischer has given u
the name of -kairin." The chief
effect produced by it as yet obsen
ed is the rapid diminution oi fever
heat, and its efficiency in this re-spect
is described n> remarkable,
It is believed that it will render
the use of ice li lever eases 111.nee
essary, and thai its skilful employ
ment will enable the physician to
moderate the temperature of the
patient.
Kairin is ulso re|H>rted lo have
less iucoilveiiieiici lor the stomach
than quinine. lint observation
docs not show—us yet, at least—
that it possesses th.it tonic and
restorative iiilliieneii for which qui
nine is so frequently administered
I'ei bans, i rum a chemical aud phys
ioliigiralpni.il of view, the most
valuable thing about the IICM dis
covery is that it seems to bring u*
nearer to Hading mil the chemical
nature of quinine itself and the
Irne character of its agency. The
discovery lets ix.cn patented, and a
manufactory of kairin established,
in..lei the direction of I'ml'. I... u
belllieill.el . of I ilesseli. Hill. .1-11
Is -.11(1 t III.I I he i-iisl (|| |i| nillnt:
kilogram about |.">j ox.) of the new
agellt is GI5, il "ill be si,;ne time
before its patrons mill hope lo see
it take the place of quinine in prac
tical pharmacy.
Ilroiiii-r Gardner on .In- MealNrr.
••Scti'ral members ol. ills club."
said the president, us the bars were
let down ami the meeting driven
ill, •'have ;l\ol me li liii.et a
summer drink lur de use of culluij
people, an' likewise lo wild
set of rules, regidashiius an* meili
eal hints to lu- in lowed iliMtrin' ih
heated se/.llll.
••(ieni'len. il v mi v. sol siintl.iii
In melt in your a.out b—ifyou waul
your soul electriUcd an' your led
lilted up—if you want suuthiii* to
make voi. feel dill dis cold world
am l vv HI- too good a place lur such
men »Kyou— take a gallon of water.
aipi.it ul molasses, in nro- ul
siissaparilly, one ounce of gmge..
on- gill ■■! brandy, de yolks of four
•;J:;S. all' ...i\ 'en. logedei vv id a
sassafras stick an' sol de liquid
awav underlie house uhai de dog
ean'l find it. lien, when occasion
requires, lei it assuage your third
and enliven your soul. As to sum
iner nibs. I have dashed off de fol
low in':
I. ••Iloan w'arobcrcoats mu ohei
shoes nor cai mulls iloo.ii.'.Iulv an"
August.
•_'. "Hire a cheap ban' to cl'ar ile
snow off yer sidewalks, sons nut lo
uliell.eat ye. Iilnmi.
3. "Lei .!•• ole woman splil de
wood an' de cbill'eu hoe de garden,
mi'doau'let nobody '.eat yei in a
loot race tin a pi ize of fifteen
cents.
1. ••Hang nut late at night-, lav
abed late in de mav.niu*, pick n|t
yer meals at l.eei saloons, an
IIII ff polytiCI -- to keep lie blood in
cu latin'.
.">. "Slrllill' down lull, skill
sliilin' an' snow haw In.'am dill,'
in.a- to health IU mid siimni. i
•hat s about all de .nl\ H '
lu gin von. an' we will uov >
to bizuess.'
Samuel Shin at once .in—
inquired if the chair ineaiil :
licet on him by advising !■> !• -t
old woman split the wood. I.
would explain that he had had ..
lame shoulder for several years
past, and had been obliged to pass
the axe to bis better hall. As an
offset he had lei her wear his best
hat to the ei.ii.s nnd several pie
nics. and upon several occasions
had run in debt fol weal iug appill
el I'm her as late ,t» HI o'clock at
night.
••Sot down. Brudder Shin—sot
down!" replied the presidi nl
••l»is club .loan' meddle wid a
member's domestick affairs onless
dej Income pulilick property, ai.'
den wr allus gin him a chance to
lesion or commit suicide."