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CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1890.
VOLUME XXXVIII. NUMBER 1976
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THE
CHARLOTTE DEMOCRAT,
I PUIitlSHBD EVEEY FKIDAY BY
1 J. P. STRONG.
Terms One Doller and Ffty Cents in advance
i; for 1 ytar Two Dollars on time.
: Entered at the Poet Office in Charlotte, N. C,
as second class matter, according to the rules of
the P. O. Department.
J. P. McCOMBS, M. D.,
Oflers bis professional services to the citizens of
Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls,
both night and day, promptly attended to.
Office in Brown's building, np stairs, opposite
Charlotte Hotel.
! Jan. 1, 1S90
DR. M. A. BLAND.
Dentist,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
No. 21 Tryon Street.
Jan. 3, 1890.
I. BUR WELL.
F D. "WALKER.
BURWELL & WALKER, .
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts.
t3f Office in Law Building.
Jan. 1, 1890.
r. I. O8E0RNK. W. C. MAXWELL-
OSBORNE & MAXWELL,
Attorneys at Law.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts
W Offices 1 and 3 Law Building.
July 3, 1890. y
HAMILTON C. JONES CHARLES W. TILLKTT.
JONES & TILLETT.
Attorneys at Law.
Charlotte, N. C.
Practice in the Courts of this District and in
Richmond county. Also, in the Federal Courts
of the Western District.
Aug. 12. 1890.
aHRlOT CLARKSON. CHAS. H. DULB.
CLARKSON & DULS,
Attorneys at Law,
Charlotte, N. C.
Prompt attention given to all business in
trusted. Will practice in all Courts of the
State.
CirOffice No. 12 Law Building.
Oct. 7. 1889.
G. F. BASON. O. N. BROWN.
BASON & BROWN.
Attorneys at Law,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
IW Will prtfctice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office Nos. 14 and 16, Law Building.
Jan. 17. 1890. y
JOHN PARRIOR,
NO. 3 NORTH TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
DEALER IN
Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil
ver and Silver Plated Ware.
tST" Special attention given to Fine Watch
Repairing.
March 28, 1890.
HUGH W. HARRIS.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Chaelottb, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts.
Office, first door west of Court House.
Jan. 4, 1890.
JAS. ARDREY BELL,
Attorney-at-Law.
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
Cartful attention given to all legal business.
Office Law Building, No. 6.
Jan. 10, 1890.
DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Praotioe Limited to the
EYE, EAR AND THROAT.
Jan. 1.1890.
HOFFMAN & WHITE,
Surgeon Dentists,
Charlotte, N. C.
Office over Burwell & Dunn's Drug Store.
Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Sept. 5, 1890.
W. K. EURWBLL. R. a. DUNN
BURWELL & DUNN,
Wholesale and Retail Druggists,
OSer all Goods in their line at lowest Market
prices.
We have a large and well selected Stock, and
Trade caretul attention to the Retail
BURWELL & DUNN,
opposite Central Hotel
Bept. 7. 1889.
THE STAR MILLS.
Charlotte, N. C,
Manufactures best Corn Meal and Mill Feed
and deals in all kinds of Grain. '
The Mill is situated near the Railroad crossing
"ov i raae street.
Nov." 11,1889.
W. M. CROWELL.
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HUGHES'
Quinine Hair Tonic.
The best preparation made for the Hair. It im
arts Visror to the ri : v,.
- j vicauBcs jb nuu mist-
oughly eradicates Dandruff, and stops the Hair
fnl int. Pvinn K .1 f n ' ...
.....ug. jic uu ou cents, prepared oy
R. H. JORDAN A rn
o P8' Corner, Charlotte, N. C
iusiuu o, low.
A Duty to Yourself.
It is surprising that people will use a common,
ordinary pill when they can secure a valuable
i-nglish one for the same money. Dr Acker's
English pills are a positive cure for sick-headache
and all liver troubles. They are small,
sweet, easily take and do not gripe.
Sept. 6, '89. R. h. JORDAN & CO.
" Georgia's Sinking Mountain. The
famous "Sinking Mountain" on the
Chattanooga River mokes a first class
earthquake barometer. Although gradu
ally sinking all the time, its periods of
greatest disquiets are when earthquakes
are rackings 'some remote part of the
globe. When the great earthquake oc
curred in Java a few years ago Sinking
Mountain was instantly lowered ten feet.
St. Louis Republic.
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust made to me by
J. C. Clark, dated Oct. 1st, 1888, and duly re
corded in the office of the Register of Deeds for
Mecklenburg county. Book 62, page 456, &c , I
wfll sell at public auction for Cash, at the Court
House door in Charlotte, N. C, at 12 o'clock M.,
Oct. 11th, 1890, all that Lot therein described,
known as " Bob Wall Lot," being 49 feet on
5th Street and extending back 200 feet.
R E. COCHRANE.
Sept. 12, 1890. 4w Trustee.
North Carolina Meckleiburg County.
Superior Court Special Proceedings.
Summons.
H. W. Harris, Adm'r. of Jane E. Grey, deceased,
plaintiff, against H. A. Grey, T. E. Grey,
Clarence Grey, Rush Grey, Walter W. Mor
rison, Richard C. Morrison, Wm. Grey, Sarah
A. Ezzell and J. A Ezzell, defendants.
The defendants Sarah A. Ezzbll and J. A.
Ezzell, being non-residents of this State, will
take notice that an action has been commenced
in this Court with the title as above stated, the
purpose of which is to sell certain Real Estate
in said county for assets to pay the debts of Jane
E. Grey, deceased, and said defendants are
hereby required to appear at my office in Char
lotte on or before the 20th day of October, 1890,
and answer or demur to plaintiS's petition
herein, or judgment will be given for the relief
demanded in said petition. Issued September
3d, 1890.
J. M. MORROW,
Clerk Superior Court of Mecklenburg county.
Sept. 5, 1890. 6w
Administrator's Notice.
All persons having claims against the estate of
Susan R. Henderson, deceased, are hereby noti
fied to present them to me, properly attested, on
or before the 8th day of August, 1891. All
persons indebted to said estate are notified to
make payment to me, without delay.
This 8tn day of August, 1890.
HUGH W. HARRIS.
Adm's of Estate of Susan R. Henderson, dee'd.
Aug. 8, 1890. 6w.
Administrator's Notice.
All persons having claims against the estate of
M. W. Caldwell, deceased, are hereby notified to
present them to me, properly attested, on or be
fore the utb day of August, loal. All persons
indebted to said estate are notified to-make pay
ment to me. without delay.
This 8th day of August, 1890.
HUGH W. HARRIS.
Adm'r of Estate of M. W. Caldwell, dee'd.
Aug. 8, 1890. 6w.
Administrator's Notice.
All persons having claims against the estate of
Forrester Crane, deceased, are hereby notified to
present them to me, properly attested, on or
before the 8th day of August, 1691. All persons
indebted to said estate are notified to make pay
ment to me, without delay.
This 8tk day or August, 1890.
HUGH W. HARRIS.
Adm'r (with Will annexed) of Forrester Crane,
deceased.
Aug. 8, 1890. 6w.
Administrator's Notice.
AU persons having claims against the estate of
Dora Strunkes, deceased, are hereby notified to
present them tome, properly attested, on or be
fore the 8th day August, 1891. All persons
indebted to said estate are notified to make nav-
laent to me, without delay. -
This 8th day of August, 1890.
HUGH W.HARRIS,
Adm'r of Estate of Dora Strunkes, dee'd.
Aug. 8, 1890. 6w.
E. M. ANDREWS.
Furniture, Piano and Organ
Dealer.
PIANOS Chickering, Mathushek and Ster
ling Pianos are too well known to the people to
require any introduction from me Every one
of them are guaranteed: if they do not please
you, you need not keep them. There are no
lower prices, nor easier terms ollered by any one
than thoEe offered by me.
ORGANS What are you going to do about
that Organ you promised your wife and daugh
ter ? Buy nothing but the celebrated Mason and
Hamlin or Sterling Organ, and you are not
always having them repaired. Sterling Organs
for only $50 and Mason & Hamlin's for only
$93. write me ror descriptive price list.
FURNITURE Never before since I have
been in business was my stock of Furniture so
large and complete in every line as it is to-day,
and prices were never lower. I keep right up
with the styles, and represent every thing just as
it is. If you buy anything from me and it is not
as represented return it and I will pay y ur
money back. W ho could do more r Who could
ask more ? Write for my prices.
MOSQUITO CANOPIES I sell 90-inch re
versible frame Mosquito Canopies with all the
fixtures for hanging lor only $3.
E M. ANDREWS,
16 and 18 West Trade Street, Charlotte, N. 0.
July 4, 1890.
CANE MATTINGS.
DRESS GOODS.
There was a stir among the Cane Matting
buyers yesterday, and we were very much grati
fied to see them start on so well. Tneseason
for them is here, and many wish to fixTip the
home before the visitors arrive in the city. It's
to be a gay and lively summer, so buy your Mat
ting now and thus secure the first pick and then
you will have a cool and comfortable home dur
ing the hot summer months. Rugs of China
Matting mat are three feet wide by six feet long.
Dress Goods.
No let up here Buyers from all parts of the
State are securing their Spring Costumes of
Seigle. Picking is richer here than elsewhere.
Henriettas in twenty shades, quality the best,
i . r i f . i
prices luc iuwcti. jiittiguania juuuaim id luree
qualities 25 cents, 50 cents and 87 cents.
Full line of 8hades in each color. Fine im-
oorted Dress Robes that vou'd do well to see.
Every fold speaks to you of La Belle France,
and every tint hints of the gay capital. Dress
Trimmings in every size Vandyke and color.
Silk Ornaments in all sizes of Vandyke. Gold
and Silver Vandykes and Gimps.
T. L. SEIGLE & CO.
April 25, 1890.
SPARKLING CATAWBA SPRINGS,
CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C.
DR. E. O. ELLIOTT & SON,
Proprietors.
This well known resort is seven miles from
Hickory, over a beautiful road.
Capacity 500 guests, with superior Medicinal
Mineral Waters for the Liver, Dyspepsia, Kheu
matism. Kidney Diseases, Debility and Nervous
Prostration.
A fine dry climate, a delightful home, the very
place to restore the invalid to health and enjoy
ment oi me. ' in snaae oi the u me tuage.
For Catalogue address the Proprietors.
June 20, 189a
The Mother's Prayer.
Starting forth on life's rough -way, -
Father, guide them ;
Oh ! we know not what of harm
May betide them i
'Neath the shadow of Tby wing.
Father, hide them ;
Waking, sleeping, Lord, we pray,
Go beside them.
When in prayer they cry to Thee,
Do Thou hear them ;
From the stains of sin and shame
Do Thou clear them ;
'Mid the quicksands and the rocks,
Do thou steer them ;
In temptation, 4rial, grief,
Be Thou near them.
Unto Thee we give them up,
Lord, receive them ;
In the world we know must be
Much to grieve them .
Many striving oft and strong
To deceive them ;
Trustful, in Thy hands of love - .
We must leave them.
William Cutten Bryant.
t3F Of tate, a medical journal says
that it is not equally distributed over the
whole surface of the tongue. There are
three distinct regions or tracts, each - of
which has to perform its own special
office or function. The tip of the tongue
is concerned mainly with pungent and
acid tastes ; the middle portion is sensi
tive chiefly to sweets or bitters, while the
back or lower portion confines itself
entirely to the flavors of rich, fatty sub
stances. This subdivision of faculties in
the tongue makes each piece of food
undergo three separate examinations,
which must be successively before it is
admitted into full participation in the hu
man economy.
Do you of the russet shoes know
how to clean the leather and restoro it to
its first estate ? Of course you have tried
the varnishes and washes and found them
altogether vexatious of spirit And the
real thing is so easy when you know
about it. Just squeeze the juice of a lem
on on a bit of soft cloth, give the leather
a thorough treatment with this and see if
your shoes don't look as well as they did
when you bought them.
S&T Women are coming to the front in
business life. There are nearly 15,000 of
them engaged as commercial travelers in
the United States. The demand for
women to do clerical and office work
increases all the while, and they are
better paid for their work now than ever
before.
PHAEE & LONG,
ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS.
HATTERS AND
GENETS' - FURNISHERS.
Our $7.50 Counter is now full of Choice Sum
mer Suits. Bargaius in every one.
Our $10 Counter is now overstocked with
remnants and odds and ends from our $12.50
and $15 Counters, and now is your time to buy
the best Suit for $10 that has ever been offered
in this market.
Don't fail to get one of our Cool Summer
Coats at 25 cents.
PHARR & LONG.
June 6, 1890.
WATCHES ! WATCHES !
You will find at Hales's Jewelry Store a fine
assortment of
Gold and Silver Watches
At very low figures.
Fine Watch Repairing a specality. All work
warranted
Sept. 5. 1890.
A. HALES.
SMITH'S
COTTON GINS,
FEEDERS AND CONDENSERS.
The Best Ginning Outfit Now Built. Light
Draught Speed in doing the VY orK. uieamng
Seed Close. Making Good Samples.
WARRANTED TO BE AS REPRESENTED,
FIRST CLASS.
Should you want or expect, to buy a new Gin,
Feeder and Condenser, this season or in the near
future, be sure to write me for catalogue, prices,
&c, stating your wants, and you shall be treated
right. Address,
8. F. HOUSTON,
General Sales Agent, Charlotte, N . C.
Aug. 29, 1890.
TURNIP SEED.
The celebrated Southern Prise Turnip, es-
Deciallv zood for Winter use, and for Greens.
Send ten cents in silver or stamps to the Or
phans, and get 1 - full ounce, or 3 ounces for 25
cents, uuarameea genuine, tveier w j. o,
Myers, S- B. Alexander and McD. Watkins. 4
For sale at Long & Bros., L. J Walker & Co.,
Bonney & Co., o. u. Alexander &i Co., ana lxmg
Mill, for five cents an ounce, unless mailed.
REV. E. A. OSBORNE,
Thompson Orphanage,
807 North Graham Street, Charlotte, N. C.
June 6, 1890.
Read the Following.
Before you send your Pictures to parties who
enlarge them for nothing (?) call and see how
much better you can have them done for the
same money by VAN NESS.
21 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte.
Frames A fresh stock of Mouldings just
received.
Aug. 15,1890. '
LANDRETH'S
TURNIP SEED.
We have just received a full line of these SEED
which we offer, at
WHOLESALE AND RETADj.
BURWELL & DUNN,
July 11, 1890. Druggists.
Weaver Birds. . ;
The weaver birds of Bengal possess
most surprising power as builders. Their
nests are hung from the branches of high
trees, and generally , out over streams
where they are secure from reptiles and
birds of prey. The opening of the nest
is at the bottom, and from the side of the
general tube the nest proper is extended
outward and downward as a pouch.
There is a series of these pouches, from
two to five in number, each designed for
a female bird. The nests of the males
are attached to the same general stem or
tube, but are like an inverted cup. The
nests are woven of the same color of
grass, and it is said, that one new pouch
is added to the general nest each year,
but the point ot junction cannot be de
termined by most skillful examination.
A singular fact is the presence of a glow
worm in the nests of the female. A ball
of clay is affixed to the wall of the nest
and the glow worm in attached to the
ball. They are, it is claimed, intended
as torches for tho nest. When dead they
are succeeded by others, and may then
become food for the bird. A wonderful
providence is manifest in the instinctive
skill of these birds. Nashville Advocate.
Reed Birds and Woodcocks. Reed
birds on a skewer wjll not be a popular
delicacy among Pennsylvania gourmets
this season if due regard is had for the
game law of that State.' ; At - the: last
session of tho Legislature a law was
passed forbidding the killing of bobolinks
or having the bird aforesaid in one's pos
session. It has iust come to the knowl
edge of the law makers that the bobolink,
the reed bird, the rice bird, and the
butter bd are all one and the same bird,
or belonging to .the same family. The
male bobolink dons a showy garb of
black, white, and yellow feathers in the
springtime, and is known as the bobolink,
but in early fall he wears a more sober
livery, and then he is known as the reed
bird or butter bird. .Later in the autumn
he descends on the rice fields of the
South, and he is known as the rice bird.
It will be well for the Pennsylvania legis
lators to study up on ornithology before
they tackle the game laws again. Boston
Herald.
23ir The largest grain elevator in the
world was built at Minneapolis Junction
in 1886. The building: is 336 feet long.
92 feet wide and 175 feet high. It has
storage capacity for 2,000,000 bushels of
grain within its walls. During its con
struction the carpenters and joiners used
over 6,500,000 feet of lumber of all kinds,
besides thirty two car loads of nails,
which, if packed, would make the enor
mous amount of 10,000 common kegs; the
best calculators say that the actual num
ber of nails used in the mighty building
will fall but few, if any, under 20,000,000.
The engine used is capable of handling
175,000 to 200,000 bushels of grain per
day, or enough during the year to equal
the combined product of the State of Min
nesota and the two Dakotas. Two hun
dred and fifty cars have often - been
loaded at this elevator in ten hours.
HF" Prof. Asaph Hall, who has used
the big telescope at - the United States
observatory in Washington for measure
ments of baturn during the last fourteen
years, finds the time of rotation of the
planet to be about 10 hours, 14 minutes,
24 seconds. This is nearly fifteen minutes
less than the period slated in most of the
astronomical text books published in the
latter half of the present century, but is
remarkable as being only one hundred
seconds less than the period assigned to
it by Sir Wm. Herschcl. That astrono
mer ot a century ago obtained his results
in this particular by the aid of an instru
ment far interior to many ot the so called
smaller telescopes of today, and the fact
is testimony to the wonderful ability of
the man whose name was for years given
to the planet to be discovered, now gen
erally called Uranus.
.
Mosquitoes Don't Like Peteoledk.
" Wherever you find petroleum you won't
find mosquitoes." said an oil country
man. "The infernal insects can't stand
the smell of the grease, and wherever oil
wells are -plenty there is no call for
mosquito bars. Over and over again I've
seen mosquitoes leave a new oil field as
soon as a well flows. Whether petroleum
applied to the face and hands will drive
off mosquitoes I don't know. But one of
the few compensations of the driller is
that he s seldom troubled by mosquitoes.
Chicago Herald.
A little boy, carrying home some
eggs from the grocery, dropped them.
" Did you break any ?" asked his mother.
when he told her of it. "No," said the
little fellow, " but the shells came off
some of em."
New York's water supply is
graphically described as a stream equal
to a river fifty feet wide, ten leet deep,
and flowing six miles an hour, pure and
cold out of the hills.
SUPPLIES FOR THE FALL
TRADE.
I have purchased for the FALL TRADE an
unusually large Stock of -
Heavy and Fancy Groceries,
Farm Supplies,
Fertilizers for Wheat,
Bagging and Ties, and
Seeds of all Kinds.
t invite my friends and customers to get MY
PRICES before buying elsewhere
I have bought LARGELY, and for Cash, and
am prepared to figure as low AS ANYONE
and it will be to YOUK INTEREST to give
me a showing. Respectfully,
. K B. SPRINGS.
Aug. 29, 1890.
' Warping of Wood, -' - ;-
As lumber is now sawn, every board
but one will warp and curl up in the pro
cess of seasoning. The reason for this is
plain. If the boards be sawn from the
side of a log, the grain rings of the wood
lies in ; circles? which have a greater
length on one than upon the other side
of 'the board. A board cut from the, very
centre of the log has grain circles of equal
length upon each side, and will lie per
fectly flat when seasoned. ' . -f .
When selecting the lumber for, a tool
chest or some other fine job, pick out
boards which show that they came, as
near as possible, from the centre of the
log. A method is in use which compen
sate for this tendency to curl in season
ing. This is known as ' quarter sawing,
and quartered oak, of which so much
is said at present, if sawn by this pro
cess. --;--
' It consists in cutting out boards radial
ly from the center to the outside of the
log. Suppose a log to be split into four
pieces, each of these pieces is sawn,
diagonally so that the grain, rings run
through, instead of the circles running
into, part way through and out upon the
same side of the board.
Quarter sawn lumber will not warp in
drying, neither will it yield so readily to
changes of weather. It has the disad
vantage of being more expensive, as in
sawing each quarter a narrow board is
first taken off, then one a little wider.
The boards increase in width until the
middle of the quarter is reached, making
the widest board equal to half the
diameter of the tree. The narrow boards
may be glued up into wide strips, but
that shows considerable sap, and they
cannot be used in some kinds of work.
To prove that the circles or sap rings
cause curling during the seasoning pro
cess, ii is oniy necessary to take suon
curled boards and wet the concave' side,
or apply heat to . the convex side. If
each or both be done, the boards will
straighten out forthwith. This method
is often taken advantage of by carpenters
in working twisted or- warped boards.
The seasoning process is also controlled
by frequently turning boards over so that
each side may receive just enough heat
and air to keep the boards flat Wood.
worker.
A Matter oi? Politics. The census
returns from Idaho show why the Re
publican leaders in Congress were so
anxious to force the Admission bill
through without waiting for a count.
The population of Idaho is 84,229, or less
than half the number that will be requir
ed to elect a single Representative under
the new apportionment. Idaho is now a
State, with the right of electing two
Senators and a Representative, while
New Mexico, with over 150,000 Inhabi
tants, is still a Territory, with no vote in
either House. New Mexico has the bad
judgment to give a Democratic majority,
and will, therefore, have to stay out in
the cold until a Democratic Congress
takes charge of affairs at Washington.
San Jfrancisco Examiner.
jJ-Sr" Regularly every six months the
Treasury Department receives either a
$20 or $50 bill which, from all appear-
ance, instead of being made from a plate,
is executed entirely with a pen. The
work is ot a very high order, and several
times these bills have defied detection
and passed on their tour of circulation
unhindered. The counterfeiter seems to
be a genius who yearns for notoriety, as
he could make his living by his penman
ship. The culprit has not yet been
captured, although efforts have been
made to find him, and it is believed that
he has had the pleasure of viewing his
handiwork in a little frame which hangs
on the walls of the Treasury building.
K& Not many years ago the cotton-
wood tree was considered useless for the
purpose of lumber. Today it is crowding
white pine tor certain uses, -and large
fortunes are being made along the Mis
sissippi river out of this wood which was
once so despised. Every cracker box in
use in bt. -Louis today is made of cotton-
wood, and a quantity goes in ceiling
barges, as the grain, it is said, cannot
sweat in it. Along the lower Mississippi
there are men who are rich because they
own tracts covered with cottonwood, who
five years ago would have traded it off for
a yellow dog. Woodworker.
Not too Drunk to Tell the Truth.
It happened on a crowded horse car. A
seedy-looking man, very much the worse
for liquor, rose to give his seat to a lady
when a robust man slipped into the
vacant seat, leaving the ' lady still stand
ing.
" Sa a-y, you-you fellow you," said the
boozy but chivalrous individual, as he
swayed to an fro hanging to a strap, ."i
I'm drunk, I know, but 1111 get over it,
I will ; but yof-you're a hog, and you'll
never get over it m-in thiB world-no, sir,
never 1 And the other passengers
agreed with him.
fSgr Many people have puzzled their
heads to define faith, but it is a very aim.
pie thing after all. One of George Mac
donald's characters explains it by (tying:
" Whan God tells ye to gang into the
mirk, lassie gang 1" A Christian sailor,
when asked why he remained so calm in
a fearful storm, replied : " I am not sure
that I can swim, but if I sink I shall
only drop into the hollow of my Father's
hand, for he holds all these waters there."
A little Sunday-school girl gave as her
definition of faith: "It is doing-as God
tells you, and asking no questions."
EST A correspondent of the .Tribune
makes a good suggestion as the new de
sign for the American flag. He says to
make a big central star' out of thirteen
stars and have small stars representing
the other States dotted over the field.
New stars could afterwards be added
without spoiling the effect of the design.
During a trial the judge called a
witness. No one answered, and an elderly
man arose and solemnly said: "He is
gone." , Where has. he gone?" asked the
judge, in no tender tone. "I don't know,
but he is dead," was the guarded answer.
Rich without Money. ;,;V'
Many a man is rich without money.
Thousands of men without nothing in
their pockets, and thousands without
even a pocket, are rich. A man born
with a good, sound constitution,, a good
stomach, a good heart, and . good limbs
and a pretty good headpiece, : is . rich.
Good bones are better than gold; tough
muscles better than silver ; . and. nerves
that flash fire and carry energy to every
function are better than houses and land.
It is better than a landed estate to have
the right kind of a father ; and mother.
Good breeds and bad breeds exist among
men as really as among herds and horses.
Education may do much to check evil
tendencies or to develop good one ; but it
is a great thing to inherit the right pro
portion of faculties to start with. The
man is rich who has a good disposition,
who is naturally kind, patient, cheerful.
hopeful, and who has a flavor of wit and
fun in his composition. , v..
The hardest thing to get on with in this
life is a man's own self. A cross, , selfish
fellow, a desponding and complaining
fellow, a timid and care-burdened man-
these are all born deformed on the inside.
They do not limp, but their thoughts
sometimes do. Clay Manufacturers' En
gineer. : . , j; ,.
A ClTT FROM NORFOLB TO BRISTOL.
TheTorfolk and Western Railroad was
in Court at Lynchburg the other day on
the charge of violating a statute requir
ing the trains to be run at a speed of not
more than four miles an hour inside the
corporation. The attorney for the com
pany in addressing tho jury said in sub
stance: "Gentlemen, this may be the
law, but it will never do it must be
changed. If trains are not to be allowed
to make more than four miles an hour
through the towns and cities along this
line, the wheels of commerce and pro
gress will stop. How could a train ever
get from Norfolk to Bristol with a con
tinuous city all the way there are streets
and avenues now in sight along the
entire distance, almost."
That was a telling speech. Norfolk
landmark. t. ; . ..
Value of the Feathers. There is a
market for nice clean chick, duck, geese
and turkey feathers. Do not throw them
away. An authority on such subjects
say 8 the quantities of poultry feathers
bandied by the millinery bouses of JNew
York City is surprising, and the prices
they bring make it possible to have the
offal of even a fair-priced market bird
worth more than its flesh. , The prima
ries, secondaries, tail feathers, sickels,
hackle and - saddle .feathers are dyed and
used entire. Other and smaller feathers
are made into dusters or sold for bedding.
Sorts of all kinds, and those where the
quill is more valuable for other purposes,
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nave me weo strippea ana woven into a
kind of cloth. Dixie Farmer,
Of novel aoDlications of electri
city there is no end. Bakers are now
using the electric moter as a bread mixer,
and are thus enabled to do in four or
five minutes an amount of work that
would otherwise require hours of hand
labor. A writer in a medical paper says
he has frequently obtained much relief
from facial neuralgia by applying an in-
candescent light to the part affected. He
suggests , the lamp could also be used in
poulticing advantageously. It could be
laid over a flaxseed . or other form of
poultice, and constant heat could bo thus
secured. ; .
Crossid Niagara , on a Tight Rope.
Samuel John Dixon, a photographer of
Toronto, Canada, aged 38 years, on Sat
urday walked across a cable seven-eights
of an inch in diameter stretched across
the Niagara Falls, between the cantilever
and the suspension bridges, ne used a
balance pole weighing thirty pounds, and
twenty-two feet six inches long. He ex
ecuted a number of maneuvers. At the
centre he stretched himself at full length
on his back on the wire, crossing his feet
and folding his arms. Eight thousand
people saw him do it.
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16? Many owners and drivers of horses
will confess that their animals work bet
ter and do better when allowed to carry
the head in a natural position, but they
check them for looks, w hat a mistaken
idea! exclaims The Ploughman. All
men admire high style if it is natural,
but when a horse's head is pulled higher
than his : formation 'justifies, he shows it
in every movement : and instead ot ad
ding to his beauty, it greatly detracts
from it in the eyes of every man who is a
judge of form.
According to the English Leather
Trades' Circular, the trade in rabbit
skins in Australia and New Zealand has
developed enormously since rabbits have
become such a plague in those colonies.
.New Zealand has already exported 70,
000,000 skins, valued at nearly $350,000,
and during tho last ten years the colony
of Victoria has sent into the market zv,
000,000 skins.
People'have no idea of the fata!
speed of express trains. It is a common
thing to see their buffers bespattered
with blood after a long and . quick, run.
The noise of their approach disturbs the
small birds from the hedge-rows, and as
they fly across the line : along comes the
thunderer at a speed of which . the have
no conception and dashes them to pieces.
An artesian well in North City, a
suburb of SL" Augustine, Fla. is said to
have the largest now of any artesian well
in the world. It ia an . eight inoh well,
and its flow exceeds , 8,000 gallons per
minute, or over 11,500,000 gallons every
twenty-four hours.
tfi? John Bruner. who died recenely
hear Morganton, Pa, lived on the dividing
line between Berk and Chester counties,
the line running through his bed cham
ber, and it was his boast that he always
slept with his head in one county and nis
leet in anotner. .
fr We shall not know each other
there if we are to identify our neighbor
by what is said on his tombstone.
. A Light House off Hatteras. ;
All who " go down to the sea in ships"
will read with profound interest of the
attempt that is to be made to build a'great
lighthouse on the Outer Diamond shoal
off Hatteras, eight miles at sea. Nothing
so desperate has ever been attempted by
any government. ,Of this dangerous part
of the North Carolina coast tne Boston
Journal says: ' '." ' ' " -
Hatteras is a name of sinister Imports
to mariners. Within the last centuryjt is
supposed that there have been . more
wrecks in this bleak and treacherous
ocality than at any other point fh the
world. When the mountoinaus waves
and fierce currents seize a ship off Hat
teras, it is usually beyond human power
to render any aid. From the . twenty
seven vessels lost there in the past sixteen
months it is stated that only one single
ue was saved. There is a light on the'
and at Hatteras, but mariners bound
homeward or up and down the coast, run
ning in to sight this light and get their
bearings, are in clanger ot being caught,
by current or tempest and - hurled ,upon
that deadly shore. ; The: government,
therefore, has determined to place a great.
lghthouse eight miles out at sea, to give
sailors timely warning of their danger.
The contractors who will attempt to
build this lighthouse must be brave men
indeed, for the risks they have determine
ed to are "many and tremendous. The1
quicksands of this shoal are continually .
changing with the ceaseless, ever-vary
ing currents. There is no certcia depth.
of water, for its frequent fluctuations,
range from forty to sixty, feet. The
quicksands, the mighty waves" and cur
rents, the violent winds, make anchorage 1
an impossibility. Hence, when the con '
tractors begin their work on the shoal,"
they and their workmen will : risk their ' : ...
lves. The plan proposed is to i build at
Norfolk a steel and iron caisson of great
size that, when finished, can be towed to
the shoal by a dozen powerful steamers,
a time being selected when all weather
indications are ' favorable. ' As soon as
the place is reached and the caisson lo-' .
cated, all the steamers will hasten from
the dangerous spot, leaving it and its'
workmen inside of it with their provis
ions, tools and materials to the mercy of
heaven. The first attempt will be to
anchor it to the bottom. It" may - be
necessary to sink it .125 feet below the ,
water line before a solid foundation is
secured. That once - accomplished the '
cylinder will be built 35 feet above - the
water line and filled with cement from the
bottom up. On this foundation the light-
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when finished, will tower 100 feet ' above . ,
the water level. It is estimated that the ....
construction of the mariner's safety light -will
consume 2,500,000 pounds of steel
and iron. Seafearing men consider the ' ' v.
undertaking foolhardy and impossible,' '
but not so with some of the most eminent ' "
American civil engineers who "1 have
studied every phase of; the. problem. -
Three very wealthy nrms . nave put in .
bids for the work, although the govern-
ment made the stipulation that nb money
should be advanced during its progress, '
ana that no part ot the bill should bo
paid until the structure had stood the' v
storms of a twelvemonths. J The cost to' ' :
the country, if the contract is completed,
will be $500,000. Should it bo a success,
it would be a cheap accomplishment at '
any price, for there is no other place on
the eeacoast of the United States, where
so many noble ships have been lost, so'
many valuable cargoes destroyed, and so' .
many human beings swept into eternity "
as in the raging waters or Outer Diamond '.
shoals. Should the enterprise prove snc- .
cessful, all maritime men of every nation
and all our countrymen will owe a debt ,
ot profound gratitude to Senator .Hansom,
of North Carolina,, who, placing implicit ,
confidence in the statements made by '
eminent engineers that the work could,
be accomplished,' and knowing ' the -inestimable
boon it would be to humanity
and to commerce, employed. Jiis great
popularity with the older members ox
both houses of Congress to induce them
to pass a bill authorizing this stupendous .
undertaking, national in design and pur
poses, but international in its prospective
benefits. Manufacturer's Record. . tHi .
An Odd Spectacli. -A liorse with '
oggles was one of the attractions, of the
iintpn square market-place Saturday
afternoon. The Manlins .farmer ! ' who
owned him said he discovered recently
that the animal was very near sighted,'
and an oculist took the necessary raeas
urements, and, sending to New "York,
had a pair of concave spectacles made
expressly for Dobbin. When the farmer
tried them for the first time the horso -
appeared to be Btartled, but recovering
from his surprise manifested every symp-'
torn or pleasure. T hey are made so as
to be firmly fastened in the headstall, and
cannot be worn without that; piece of
harness. " When I turn him but to pas
ture," said the farmer,' "he feels uneasy
and uncomfortable without his goggles,
and last Sunday he hung around the
barn and whinnied so plaintive-like that '
I took out the bit and put ; the headstall
and goggles on him,1 and he was so glad
that he rubbed my shoulder with his
nose. Then he kicked up his heels and
danced down tJ the pasture. ! You ought
to have seen him. I hate to let -him-wear
specs all the time though, for fear
he wiir break them? Bridgeport Stand
ard.1
17 Interest on a note takes ho holi
days. ! While yout are Binging hymns ror
dozing in your pew on Sunday, that debt,
?ou were so foolish as to incur is growing,
ay out, and keep out of debt This Tviil
strengthen your piety and self-respect -and
keep . you from getting t odf before
your time. .
J The Falls of Niagara carry down
10,000,000 cubic feet of water per minute,
equal to about 3,000,000 horse power.
From these figures ' it will be 'apparent
that the proposed scheme to utilize this',
water power will -be successful byja great
money-eanung scneme.
? S& Man is of ten fonder' of .his." dogs
than he is of his kin;, bat then, a do0
will never contest his -wVlr-FuekU