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4 ft ESTABLISHED IN 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1891. NEW SERIES-VOL. X. NO. 29. 3 will sf tile their N c w 1 1 u ! mi -1 d i - pu t e by arbitration, .tin :uiDth"r war Morv i ooi cd. The fur.d of SV00.000, v.hieh Mr. Pfc.ibody, Ih'1 Anglican philanthropist, If ft for the poor of Lcnuon. !) w amounts X) over n'iO,00. The 3 in vr in- York Ilwtll. in u ( o'limn on !' of t Ii -ct of New York ti 1UT have 'J.V.t. "0 in .1! . It In proposed in Paris to do away, a? f ir as possible, with lunatic aslum3,and lo place insane person? who are not prone to violence in the homes of coun try people, who will Le suitably re munerate 1 bv the State. ( The bu-.inod lyen of Puwtuciret, I. I., ippeul to textiiev muimfuclurera of the 1 'iiited .States to contribute to :t fund for the erection of a memorial to Samuel Slater, l,the Father of American Cotton Manufacturer." J" view of the fuct that Mr. Slater uas a pioneer in tbe Sunday-school work of America, Sunday schools are also requested to contributed. ' A man undergoing a sentence of twenty-five years in the Iowa-Penitentiary lm expressed his willingness to change and enlist in the United States Navy for three years, if it will be any special lavor to the -Secretary, who complains of ; 5-carcity of men. Thi-, asserts the De troit Fret I'm,, shows that good men ifUn get into prison. The Atlanta Constitution five thes? oiiiinous fuels: Italy has ten ironclads, live steel warship?, and two woulen war-f-hip-1, all of tin- lir.it -class; tvventy-one war vessels of the xceond-elas6, twenty seven of third-class, lifty ocean torpedo Misels, fdxty torpedo boats of various (lU-ifs, twenty-three ironclads for coast ilt-ffiise iu all a navy of .S vessels, cirrving 58I1 guns and manned by 1U,-7-0 mm. ' A proionrid "sensation has been created in Italy by the report that a French house -':i t lio.o to l niiiirbci cartridges to King Mih !ek of Abyssinia, by way of" O! As Italy considers- Moueiek to 1-e ltudei Kalian protection, this is re funded as mi interference with Italian fcdiN, and has not served to hasten the revival f frimdiy relation- between I'lanee !i!id Italy. A food share of the J'.ali:.iis however, would like to give up African adventures altogether, one of the Uoniau nev. -papers saying that wheu the whole truth h known, the necessity in :il'aiuhniiw (be entire enterprise will be seen, and there vill be only one more le-'aiclt necessary, namely, to tind some ie yet, more f:i)lis!i than our-elvcs who wdl take the len-- uvwi their shoul ii'i," in one ririp'cl, ns-ercj me onicao brightest lltnrtl, Ireland reeeivs her reeofuition in (.'hili. The- ne -vet iron ( lad is the Cantaia Prat,' another beintr tl-.e O'lli-hii ;ia,i .-.not her the Amirauto Lynch. The oTwfgias is named after liernardo O'llifyiu--, wko-e father, born in a laborer'.;! cot'. age iu tlie County Westnieuta, emigrated t outh America in the early pari of the last century and ri se to distinction in different parts of that continent. I father, Ambrose, 'as one ot the ia-i Spanish iccroysof -'ru, and the sun, llernardj, was the tuit director ot the llepublii- cf Chili. 1'cmardo O'lligins is the 'ushingtou d his country. He it was vho wis tauialy instrumental in winning the inde- 'tuuence of Chili at the beginning of this century, au I the grateful country Las given his name to a proviice and a war-ship and has erected a statue in hi honor ia its capital. ? The New York Sex remarks: While tbe great ov.n beds of the Chesapeake V.--'W remarkable exhaustion, the supply of tke oyster there iiuviug been reduced iV ;.i 10.0(0,UU'J bushels ia 1S75 to 3."'jU, ,K'D bushels in liM, rti.dmany of t ".'e.it Packers haVUC ill -inednninrfl rtitiovod their establishments from Halti-u:-ie tj other localities, our own areas of b-d ;: the waters of Connecticut and New a aie being gradually extended meet the increasing annual demand. , I ue p'ai-tiug a;rt production of oysters 'e strt-nuou-ly guarded by State laws, a:.d we have little reason to lomplain of in eilh-r tjuantity or qual.ty. True, .c-a--mnntion is eu'.-rmous and grow-J-g. "M Iwtween the efforts of the sci- atio tie p:ae iica cx'ieriiuce of- ;V o i;ur laeichant-i. there is not '' ' tluV. We Shidl kteii p-ce wita Enuhtid r.nd Franc e SPRING SONG. Ko many ways to wander in, Ro many lands to see' " The west wind blows through the orchard doss. And tbe white cluuds wander free; , TLe wild birds .sing in the heart of spring, And the green loughs beckon me. And it's oh, for the wide world, far away, !Tis there I fain would be. For it calls me, clajun ine. the livelong day, Sweet with the souiid.s and the scents f " May. Aiul the wind in the linden-tree; The wild birds sing in the heart of spring, Ami the gretn boughs becKon me. ' Far and far, iu the distance dim. Thy fortuue waiteth thee" 1 know not where, but the world is fair With many arrange couotrie, Tl. wild birds sing in the heart of spring, J And the green boughs beckon me. j 6 j many ways I may never win. I Skiesi 1 may never see! Ob, 'wood-ways sweet for the vagrant feet, What may not corue to be? What do they iug in the heart of spring? And where do they beckon me Farewell, farewell, to my father's house ! Farewell, true love, to thee! I)thi and dear, are the kind hearts here, Ai.d dear mine own roof-tree iw. i he wild birds siug in the heart of s-pnug, An 1 t!ie green boughs beckon me. O'ra ham R. omnon, in Scribner. The Long-ExDected - Letter. EY HELEN FORREStrvGRA.VE3. The yellow narcissus was all in blos som in the little yard that fronted the village p'ostoflice; the maple trees had dropped their red stars long ago, and here and there one found pink clus ters of hoqey-sweet trailing arbutus in the woods. ' Label Llay had a bunch'in . the front of her jacket as she sauntered up to see it' there were atiy letters; but they were no pinker than her cheeks. A little group of men and women had assembled there for the .same purpose. The women eyed Isabella, and wondered how it was that her dresses always "set o stylishly;" the men looked admir ingly at her big Line eyes and rosy com plexion. Two or three other mill girls joined her ; they laughed and talked gaily as the spectacled old postmaster sorted the mails. At last the unpainted pine partition slid back, the spectacles appeared iu the aperture and the postmaster cried, briskly: "Naow, then! Who wants their maiU" Isabella stepped briskly forward. "Anything for me, Mr. Rider?" said she. "Llay, Miss T. Isabel Islay. Miss "Label Islayl'" read out the old man. "Three for you. AVhn next?" "Label gets all the letters!" giggled thy mill girL, as Isabella received her treasures. "She might divide with us! Hear comes Miss' Seaman. Now fot some fun!", A pallid, pinched, old-young lady here advanced with a smirk on her coun tenance, and a faded shawl, whose folds scarcely covered the flat basket that she carried. "Anything for me, Mr. Postmaster?" she demanded, with ill-simulated indif ference. "No, mum'." carelessly answered thi oliietal. ; "Are you sure;"' "Yeshnl" "Oh!" A blank expression crepl across her lace. "But it really don't signify. I just thought I'd inquire, as I chanced to be passing." And j-he withdrew, amid the rerj audible titters of the mill irls. " There ain't a mail comes in," said th postmaster, oracularly, "but Miss Genny Seaman's here a-watchin' for it. And she never gits a letter not so much a.' a postal card. I should think she'd gil tired o' runnin'." "Miss Genevieve Seaman?" said the careworn woman of the house where tht mill girls boarded. ,l0h, that all hap pened ears ago! She had a beau, oj stithin. and he went away nobody jes! kaew'whar. Jieckou she didn't kivm herself. And it sort of upsot her brain, ami she hain't fairlv been herself seuce. - - She's a very good dressmaker, aud sht trims a bonnet quite scrumptiously, and so she earns a -decent livin'. Hut she's In en expectin' a letter this twenty-odd year, an' it's never come." (Jirls, ' said Isabel Islay, as they sat at the round table that eveniug, laughing are I talking, "it's near the tirst ol April' Let's vv rite a Liter to that pool u':d thintr from Lsi lover in the East." "Well, from the man she imagined to be her lover. Let's mak it fervent as fire and sweet as sugar. Let's lay it on thick." "In short, let's make an April Fool of Miss Genny Seaman," said Mary Crane, who was retriming an old hat with lilac ribbons and a bunch cf violets. "Just that," said Isabel. "But you don't even know the fellow's name." "L can find that cut. Mis. Webb knows, and I can easily coax it out of ber. It will be such fun!" It was the morning of the first of April a blue-skied, breezy day, -with the air full of growing scents and -bluebird whistles and soon after the cumbrous old four-horse stage had crashed through the village, the usual crowd begau to assemble in the little postorlice. Isabel Islay was there, and Lucy Felton, and black-eyed Mary Crane ; and present ly Miss Genevieve Seaman ct'.me trip ping ia with tne peculiar gait whicn. trie irreverent village children compared to a cat walking upon walnut shells. "Two for Miss Islay," said the old man, scrutinizing each letter with pro voking slowness. "One for Squire Zurab bable Jenkins ; one for W'idder Hopper, and one for Miss Genevieve 9ea- f raau : Isabel flashed a merry glance at her companions as the poor little dressmaker tiptoed up to the counter, her color changing from saflorn to scarlet, her faded blue eyes full of intent rapture. "Is it truef" said she. "A letter for me? And I've waited for it alt these years? all these years?" She hid it under her shawl, cast "a de- fiant look around at the neighbors' faces and hurried away, like a startled wild animal to its cover. She could not open that letter with other eyes upon her. She felt that she must treasure it to herself, like one who j has discovered a precious jewel. Isabel Islay stopped ai the little house whercthe tin sign, "Millinery "and Dressmaking," swung creeping iu the wind that, evening, on her way home from the mill. The'vwindow blinds were fastened V. back, the parlor was opened and dusted. Miss Genevieve was moving through and fro, in her best India silk gown, with a flower pinned fantastically in her lustreless hair. A round, red spot glowed on each cheek; her bony lingers trembled with excitement as she laid' down her specta cles. "Can you press over my Leghorn flat, MLss Seaman?" asked the beauty. "Oh, my dear, I'm afraid not!" said the. little woman, with a hysterical laugh. "Naven't you heard i I I'm to be mar ried very soon ! Captain Edward Glea son you may perhaps have:heard of him he used to be a resident of plilltown he has made his fortune itSeems, in New Y'ork, and he's coming. back almost directly to to claim an old promise I made him twenty years ago. My dear, he has loved rne twent y ears!" Her eyes shone, her voice faltered with the ecstasy of her soul. "And to-morrow he is coming back to me. Oh, Miss Islay, it seems almost like a dream!" She laughed agaiu, but her eyes wefe full of tears. Isabel moved uueasily; she wisalmo-t fricrbtened at what she had dune. The -a joke did not seem half so jocose as it. had at first, since poor Miss Genevieve ac cepted it iu such dead earnest. She took advantage of the entrance o a customer to slip out of the little shop - "Girls," "aid he t j her co-couspira- i tors, "we must tell her tnat tuat it H only au April Fool '." "Tell her!" echoed Lucy Felton "What for? She'd find it out goon enough) She need'nt have been uch a silly, anyhow!" "It wiil kill her:" pleaded Isabel. "No, it won't. People don't die so t aiii, laugu'. vi i.m . j "Heard thf1 news about Miss Gnny Seaman ?" said '.Mrs. Webb, at the boarding-house breakfast table the uest morn ing, as she poured the coffee and helped the e2"S and bacon ar jund. Isabel looked guiltily up. "No," said she. "Wliat is it?'.' "Found dead in her cheer," said Mr. Webb. : "A-smilia ?.s happy as a child. Some heart trouble, the doctor says." Isabel drew a long breath. she had died, aud never known how crawly she had been deceived. She drew" Mai y Crane and Miss Felton the secret die with this poor little wo man. "Butfche died happy at last," said Mary, with the tears running down Her cheeks. Believing that her old awet. heart wasicoming back to her." "Yes, but that don't justify our heart -lessness," wiispered Isabel. And then,and there the three girls en tered into acompact secrecy. "r: : i. : 1 1 i xi wcucwicvc uuncvx xu a snaay corner of the milage cemetery, and on the very day of the.funeral Isabel .Islay met a tall, bearded stranger walking along the street, scanning.thhouses with keen, troubled eyes. 'Can voudell me," said he, "where juss seaman uvea ansa ueneviere &ea- .co ....... i : n n I raanf - Isabel started. "Miss eam:ai was. buried this morn- ing," said .she. "OlaaJ am so sorry I Was she a friend of youra?" They had stopped opposite the little rr rr I gate where the whael-track3 of the. hearse " wereivet visible. The sign "Milliner wind, the red sun was sinking behind ' the low eaves, and Miss Genny's cat rub. bed itself against the doorsill as if bee- ging to beUet in. "A frieod!?' repeated the stranger, as he drew an old-fashioned miniature from his pocket. a'See, here is her picture! I ve waited all' tuese years to make a home for, and.now sbe is dead !' Itabel looked at thejpicture. Good heavens! had Genevieve Seaman ever loked as fair and dimpled and smi in i as that? And the thought flashed across her mind that it was well that this Captain Gleason had not been undeceived. "Yes," she repeated, softly, "she is dead." "And you were her friend?" "Yes, I was her friend -at least a3 much any one here," falteringly owned Isabel, feeling like an impostor. "Then perhaps you can tell me some thing of her. I waited to surprise her and now " His voice was choked; he turned his face away. Isabella told him, in a low, soft voice, all that she could all that was good and cheering and hopeful and Captain Glea son went back to the village hotel, walk ing slowly, with his hands behind his hack, and his head drooping on his breast. . For the time he truly mourned the sweetheart of his youth, but no one can grieve forever. Moss grows cjttr the fallen tree; vio lets bloom above the jiew-made grave. Poor Miss Genevieve was dead and buried, and when the nest April blossomed over tbe land, Captain Gleason was married to Isabel Islay. "If death was really so near her, I'm lad I wrote the letter that made her happy," thought Isabel "And Edward will always think of her as young and beautiful I But I never, never will plaj another practical joke!" Saturday Rigid. The Noises ef a Hi; City. - "I cannot understand the outcry some people make against the noise iu the streets," said the man. Just stand here in the City Hall Park, close your eyes, and listen. It is a bright day, and it is the time when the tide of city life is at the flood. That dull, heavy boom, like the roar of the sea, is the thousand wagons, which, when heard one at a time, rattle aud jar so. But the thousand are like a multitude of bass viois blending iu a monotonous, musical note. Above it rise the higher, shriller notes, the tinkling ut a score of car-bells, the shouts of drivers, the high-pitched voices of women and children, the sounds of laughter, the faint murmur of distant church or clock bejls. Soaae tfnes this rises to a, shrill falsetto, then dies, until it is scarcely to be distin guished from the bass roar of the wagons on the granite. You are hearing the tremendous orchestra of city life vio lins, flutes, cellos. cymbal", drums. It could be set down ia notes. It is Set discordant, it is soothing, and the city man, who hears it uac on?cjouly day after day, learns to love it unconsciously, and haunts him with its melody in country places so that h- mu,t come back tc it. lYe-rf IVI Tt has been decided by a New York iude that an editor is uot legally bound, unkss by his own specific agree ment, to return any unsolicited mau- cript that is left with t eat to him. iar;5i"i.n ia'lle tire wearing drcf sktrta CONFLAGRATIONS. THE GREATEST FIRES OF AN. CIENT AND MODKHX TIMES, Destruction or Big Libraries in Alex andria How Constantinople and Aiicieut Home Suffered Amer ica's 'oted HurningK Amoru? the ureal lire of Insert un Joubtedly the burning of the SeYapa-uux Ubrary at Alexandria; in the year 640. by the Caliph Umar l f is most widd; mourned. s the destruction of 5UU,000 volumes cut ofItmuch of tbe record of, human knowledge at that time. The general impression of the importance and significance of this tire is, no doubt, augmented iu great measure by the alleged answer of this Saracenconqueror, who applied to the protest against the burning with: "If these books are .rril,cf .... , . acraiust the Koran. tlit-V aie nprniciniu inil , , , , . and must be destroyed. If thev arrec u T- . i with the Koran, thev are redundant and neeu not ue preserved; ana it is not , , T . . ?eneraltv remembereil that .Tuhun C.-pcur buraedx lar librarv of 700 0"00 . , . , , volumes at Alexandria, known as the tw; mir-r. n n 48 n0uwK fore the burning of the Heran-eum library by Omar I. At times of sack and uilbce .Jerusalem Deen burned time and agam: me most noted instance- beiug at the si e by the Romans under Titus, during the year 70, when f faction called the Slcarii set the citym fire iu many places, and eventually 1,100.000 of the in habitants perished by lire and the sword. Constantinople has, like all Oriental cities, suffered severely from tires, a large part of such losses being undoubtedly due to the fatalism of the Mohammedans, who bow to their kismet. Said a Sultan: "If it be the will of Allah that my favor ite city burn, it is the will of Allah." A great lire at Rome, 12 B. C, caused the Emperor Augustus to take measures for increasing the defense against fire, which had been hitherto in the hands of bodies of police, numbering twenty or thirty, stationed iu various parts of the city, and re-enforced at times of fires by companies of volunteers. He appointed new officers with the rank. of magistrates, who were entitled to wear magisterial robes. Each was attended by two lie- tors, and provided with a fire organiza tion of C00 slaves. It is probable that this was not entirely satisfactory in its operation, because six years later gnothcr fire caused him to undertake further re forms on a scale fully characteristic of him who "fouud the city built of brick and left it with palaces of marble." He increased the tire department to a scale commensurate w ith the needs of the city. Seven thousand lrccmeu were organized into seven battalion0, and one battalion was tjuartered in everr alternate ward of the city. These men made careful ..in spections of the kitchens, of the heating apparatus and of the water supply in tl houses, and every lir- was the subject o! judicial examination. The cost of tht organization - was maintained bv a tax of o twenty-live per cent, an the sale o: slaves. Two notable examples of contagion! 'stopped by conflagrations are the burn ing of Moscow by the besieging Tartars in July,, 1570, wheu the plague w& stopped, and secondly the fire iu Lon don, September ", 10C0, which ai.-w stopped the plriguf, and it has been un known there since. This London 11 r is properly called there the great fire u modern history, because th reform, which were started in conieuence of i are living issues in the municipal .affair, of to-day. The fire was caused b; an overheated baker's even , and in th course of four days it wept over I'M acres, burning 1 ',-). ho'-isea, t'c churches and St. Paul's Cathedra", eras ing a damage estimated to be il,710. 000, say $53,500,000. l.'nder th .li rection of Pepys the tire w.xs stoppe I b blowing up buildings, which wa. at th time, the only method of reducing a fin that had grown beyond the capacity o the small fire engine?. The- wer4 or large tubs, and threw a Mrata of watei directly on th fir -. a Lose was not in vented until ten years later (lC72j b; Van der Heide. TLe Un. devatitiag hr iu America was probably th one oc-umng at I Jo ton, March 2.i, 170c. w!i lings and store wef burnt lo-. of .o' .i vn d.Mi ' cau-.mg Philadelphia has bteu rcmarka.olv fret ,frQS tc 2jrr:ioai iu ccioparwoa wjti hare been visited by a great fire untv July 9, 1S50, when a lire along the Dela ware River front, at Vine street, extend ing over eighteen acres, caused a loss of life estimated as high as thirty-three, ic addition to 120 wounded, and a pecuni ary loss of $1,500,000. New York was visited by a severe con flagration in the southern part of the city on Itece'fnber 1C, 1S35, which ex tended over an area of forty 'acres, de stroyed 674 houses, and causing a loss which has been estimated as high $30,G00,O0O, ou which there was only $S,000,QU0 insurance an amount which ruined several in surance companies. One of the first of the more recent con flagrations was the burning of Portland, Me., July 4, lSt6. The lire was caused by a boy throwing a firecracker into a cooper's shop for the avowed purpose of ecaring the workmeu. In this respect the act was au unparalleled success, the damage being about $10,000,000. The Chicago fire. Oc tober 9, 1871, was jueof the largest in all history, devastat ing an area ol three and a half square miles, and causing a loss of about $190, 000,000, on which insurance was paid to the amount of $100,000,000. Two -hundred and fifty lives were reported lost in thii fire. Thirteen months later to a day, Boston was visited by a fire which extended over an area of sixty-five acre3, bufning the best mercantile buildings in the city, and causing a damage of $75,000,000, on which there was an insurance to over $05,000,000., Scientific American. This year has seen a large increase in olive-planting in Santa Barbara, CaL, one rancher in Mission Canyon setting out 1000 trees. The olive oil mill at Elwood was uuable to crush all the fruit grown on the mountains, and 40,000 pounds were wasted this year because of lack ot facilities. A new olive mill will be erected in Menecito. 1 EXCURSION RATES 4 s 4 1: Ticket Good for 3 Five Days. KEEP YOUR EYE OH n MA ffi. ia t wi mi, "THE CITY OF AYEHDES." A Suburban Town Site of 450 Acres, forming the South ern Corporate Limits CHARLOTTE, N. C. The Queen City of the State. A Boulevard 100 -feet ivide, givs a 3 mile drive around DILWOHTH, and its avenues, running, at right angles, are CO feet vide, constructed with a view to sanitary advantage, for scweraye vrith icater facilities. Over one hundred tturusand dollars fias already been spenton this pro pert y and many more tluusartsls will be expended in the near futu re: The property contain tfie beautiful LATTA Park of W acres, a lovely feature of v:hich is Forsyth lake,, nearly 1200 feet long. Taken alto getter, this is tlie prettiest resort of its ciiaracterinth" Dixie" country. At LATTA Park there are now in course of construction and ivill be completed by Awny&t 1 , 1891. a pa vilion designed uy the celebrated Norrman, 'the architect of bea uti -fidxlesigns," togtiherwffh a keepers lodge, urfyue in ' CfumutfeT and a . conservatory after tne.. tern. at.acosLfor'trLB, furnishings of over ; to&tfier tenth oilier attractive Teatifreasnovo being arranged for by the Charlotte Consolidated Cons. Co. The company will offer at public sale on t fie premises on MAY XO, '41, 22, 1891, a number of valuable bwidima lots, in the immediate vicinity of tne pic turesque places above described. Terms of sale : One-fourth cash, bal ance in 1, 2, and 3 years. Th visi tor to Cluirlotte on tf vat day, tmU be present alsj at tlie regular annual celebration of Miliinn D3c!intii2 cf lilepeHsise. Tki FIT day ti ft ftar ef X9rtfc Carotica'a luco City, asd li well worth ha trip froa tfc unottit tf-tumclottr3rTtirirXtUteeottatry. Tfr srOuti vi a ki, t lon, win b r4 uk Us retorsiLf ttcot cfeii tt to th til. It rpeUTe biat, t& (Itusiti ft it will ampiy rej-y U far the oa'.Uy. Ctlfcrt4 tniiic wiU t b'j haA t-i tLlifee tb party. Acs- acvtto4atuc f-rr iiura. ttiruab fBf oti xad a large nusUr of bcr4itf hQc. A Caely eaippea iirvc city railway to carry jverxcr over CjxarP.t ul her B:ro5, now ceooraiea ia tbtr baat!lsl SpriEff attire. rn&Uaii!cof it, to Ult DI L. tsngltsn jpat- tntAlrLrrn. asm WOKTII antM IS AICLOrTl Tlr 'JO, 21 and32,ll. CiC For farther t&tcTsjatiCh titittt tHaWME!CWiJUlif0.fllSJ.-W. :bi uriu.trr. fee for bvgri" nii ltd fgbra clciily g cott siktr m 9& toff ii lie Grift- - I