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DR. BLACKNALL DEAD.
A MAN WHOSE DEATH WILL BE RE
GRETTED THOUGHOUT THE STATE.
One of the Most Hospitable and Hu
morous Sons the State Has Ever
Produced Had a Kind Word For
Everybody, and His Presence Will
Be Sadly Missed For flany Years
Famous as a Hotelist.
(Raleigh Times, November loth.)
Dr. lilacknalt is dead!
The death of this well known and
generous citizen occurred this morning
about five o'clock, and his demise will
be heard with regret by the people
generally throughout the State and
even beyond it, tor during his long ca
reer he has made a host of friends.
He was one of the most hospitable
and humorous sons that the State has
ever produced. He possessed a mag
netism that drew men to him, and
his bright bits of humor and strong
common sense are proverbial wherever
he is known.
In the death of Dr. Biacknall, a
noble and kind hearted spirit has gone
to meet its Clod.
His long life has been one of useful
ness to his fellowman. It is filled
with deeds of charity for the friendless
and destitute, and there are many liv
ing to-day who have been the recipient
of his benefactions.
He had a kind word for everyone,
and his presence and cheer will be
sadly missed in our community and
State.
Dr. Dlackndl was born near Kit
trell, in Granville county, April 29th,
1S29. He studied medicine, and
was graduated from Jefferson College,
Philadelphia. He practiced his pro
fession three years at the Immigrant's
Hospital, Ward's Island. He then re
turned to his native State, and located
at Henderson, practicing there and in
viciniiy for sixteen years with ability.
He then took charge of the hotel at
Kittrell and conducted that hostelry
with marked success. In the year
1869 he came to Raleigh and took
charge of the Yarboro House, and was
its proprietor for 14 years, and under
his management it drew a patronage
that has made the name of Yarboro
famous throughout many States of the
Union. When the New Atlantic
Hotel was built at Morehead City he
was its first proprietor. He conducted
it during the season just closed.
For the past four years he has held
a responsible position in the Revenue
service in this district. He also
served four years under Cleveland's
first administration.
December 11, i86i,he was mar
ried to Miss Mary L. Taylor, of
Washington, this State.
Mrs. Biacknall, two sons George
and John one daughter, Mrs. Ran
dolph Clowes, survive him.
TRUMPET CALLS.
Rani's Horn Sounds a Warning Note
to the Unredeemed.
Truthfulness is the diamonds of
character.
Hypocrisy is a cloak that is ragged
in the black.
A twenty-dollar coat often covers a
five-cent soul.
A heart without love is like a violin
without strings.
The man who talks most about him
self says the least.
A pious face is not infallible proof
of a devout spirit.
Smiling lengthens the mouth and
the life in about equal proportions.
All things were made for the good
and some day they will have them.
What if you have lost your ring?
Be thankful that you still have your
finger.
Any fool can make money, but it
takes wisdom- to know how to spend it
well.
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If the Democratic party enters
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thing he is more than likely to do.
If the party of good government can
not win without an alliance with the
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THE TOWN OF NOGOOD.
(William Edward Fenny, in the
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My friend, have you heard of the town of
Nogood,
On the ba.iks of the River Slow,
Where blooms the Waitawh'tle flower fair,
Wt ere the Sometirnyorother scents the air,
And the soft (ioeasy grow?
It lies in the valley of What'stheuse,
In the province of Leterslide;
Thattiredfeeling is native there,
It's the home of the reckless Idontcare,
Where the (iiveitups abide.
The town is as old as the human race,
And it grows with the flight of years,
It is wrapped in the fcr of idler's dreams,
Its streets are paved with discarded themes
Ami sprinkled with useless tears.
The Collegebredfool and the Ifichman's
heir
Are plentiful there, no doubt;
The rest of its crowd are a motley crew
With every class except one in view
The Foolkiller is barred out.
The town of Nogood is all hedged about
By the Mountains of Despair,
No sentinel stands on its gloomy walls,
No trumpet to battle and triumph calls.
For cowards alone are there.
My friend from the dead-alive town No-
good,
If you would keep far-away.
Just follow your duty through good and
ill,
lake this for your motto, 'lean. I will."
And live up to it each day.
Words of Wisdom.
(The .South- West.)
Truth is a rock large enough for all
to stai.d upon.
A reasonable woman is one who is
not always unreasonable.
If some men were to lose their rep
utation they would be lucky.
The only real happy animal is the
goat. He can eat anything.
Children cry for the moon and
when they grow up they want the
earth.
Open the door of your mind to good
thoughts and the evil ones will be
driven out.
There are several things worse than
disappointment in love, rheumatism is
one.
The scientific study of man is the
most difficult of all branches of knowl
edge. A person is always startled when he
hears himself called old for the first
time.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise
men in the same way, and the fools
know it.
Little minds repice over the errors
of men of genius as the owl rtjoices at
an eclipse.
Even a man doesn't like to have
the preacher call when the house is all
topsy-turvy.
People get wisdom by experience.
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh.
Neatness, when moderate, is a vir
tue; but when carried to an extreme it
narrows the mind.
Life in a circus in which everyone
takes the part of the clown some time
during his sojourn.
Let it run. and your cough may end in
something serious. It's pretty sure to if
your blood is poor. That is just the time
and condition that invites consumption.
The seeds are sown and it has fastened its
hold upon you before you know that it is
near. It won't do to trifle and delay, when
the remedy is at hand. Every disorder
can be reached through the blood yields
to Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
For severe coughs, bronchitis, throat and
lung diseases, asthma, scrofula in every
form, and even scrofulous affections ofjthe
lungs that's called consumption, in all its
earlier stages, it is a positive and com
plete cure.
Original Obsrvations.
(Orange (Va.) Observer.)
"The tooth of time" is the one ex
tracted on credit.
If ignorance is bliss, more ignor
ance is blister.
As the evenings grow longer the oil
bill grows stronger.
The cowboy supplies the fuel that
warms the cattle range.
Lawsuits are too expensive for most
people to go courting in.
A girl certainly waists her energy
when she hugs another girl.
Many young ladies have students
instead of pupils in their eyes.
Uneasy rests the number seven foot
which wears a number five shoe.
When office goes out to seek the
man he is generylly within hailing dis
tence. And now the pop-corn evenings
have arrived, but Orange girls prefer
pop-the-question evenings.
If the hair has been made to grow a nat
ural color on bald heads in thousands of
cases, by using Hall's Hair Kenewer, why
will it not in your case?
Briefs From Biilv ille.
(Atlanta Constitution,)
These autumn days are so still that
i you can hear a bill collector's foot
steps a quarter of a mile away.
It seems that the yellow fever not
only covers the ground, but fills the
doctor's bill.
Only one suspicious case in Billvdle
and he was caught before he got away
I with the bank's funds.
Biilville has quarantined against
Montgomery. It's a godsend to our
merchants because thev owe big bills
there.
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OTTO MERGENTHALER,
INVENTOR OF THE LINOTYPE, SLOWLY
DYING IN NEW MEXICO.
Wasting Away With Consumption
Yet Busily at Work On Another
Great Labor Saving Invention
Which Will Probably Be Given to
the World Within a Year Story of
a Remarkable Career.
De.mixg, N. M. Otto Mergentha
ler, the inventor of the linotype, is
here passing the winter and, sad as
the intelligence is, perhaps its last
days. Consumption has laid his hands
upon him, and I was told by a friend
of one of the physicians that the man
of medicine believes that his patient's
end is within the ken of mortal. De
spite this menace, however, he is cheer
ful and does much work each day.
He is counting upon giving to the
world another invention within a
year.
I called upon him in his beautiful
Deming home on the outskirts of the
town. No one in the east would ex
pect to find such a house equipped
with such surroundit gs away out here
on the great desert. It is a large
square brick structure. Through the
centre is a wide hall, large enough to
accommodate a billiard table that is
much enjoyed by the friends he has
gathered around him and the members
of his family. Wide lawns, kept green
by liberal sprinkling, are the play
grounds of the children. From this
point his eyes may range over a mag
nificent vista. Looking to the south
are the great Tres Her Manos (Three
Sisters) mountains, that twenty-five
miles away stand on the bonier of the
sister republic, and lift their heads into
the ever-blue sky.
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Nerer and a little to the east are
the Florida mountains, that at a dis- ;
tance remind one of the legends of !
ancient feudal castles. Ihey are ex
tremely precipitous, and their peaks
are serrated and fashioned tore semble
those turrets from which the tocsin
sounded the alarms. Further east are
the Organs, and north is the great
Cook's Peak.
When Mrs. Mergenthaler showed
me to her husband's library the inven
tor sat working at some mechanical
problem at his desk. He is pale and
thinner than when the people of the J
East last saw him, and his cough an
noys him frequently. The linotype
that machine that is to newspaper
making what the telephone and tele
graph are to commercial life was, of
course, the first topic of conversation.
Referring to his invention, he said he
never expects to see any typetnaking
device cheap enough to be within
reach of the smaller class of county
papers.
"Do you expect to give to the world
any new labor-saving device?' I asked
him.
"No," he answered slowly, "no, not
right away, but probably within a
year."
"What will it be?"
"I cannot tell you. No one knows
what it is. The world must wait and
see. I remember a time," he contin
ued reflectively, "when I was a boy in
the old country that I saw the need
of an improved 'chuck' for lathes. I
worked on it diligently, and when I
thought I had it completed took it to
a neighbor, machinest, and showed it
to him. He gave it such a careless
glance that it injured me, and without
saying a word reached under his bench
and brought out identically the same
thing. So, you see it is not best to
tell what you intend to do until you
have accomplished it."
Then he gave me the story of his
: life.
At the age of iS jears he arrived in
! America penniless, and with 'nothing
else but his brief experience in me
chanics. He went to Washington,
and during the succeeding four years
worked on the mechanism of electric
clocks and bells and signal serrice ap
paratus for the government. In the
last named he made many improve
ments invening several new ones. At
the end of these four cars he went to
Baltimore, where he saw a wider field
for his talents. He has made that
city his home until more than a year
year ago, when he came to the South
west to seek health.
It was in 1S76, soon after he 1 cated
in the Monumental city, that the his
tory of the linotype begin?. From
then until 1880 four years he gave
his every thought to the creation of this
machine. He took little rest. Night
and day he toiled and gradually put
into his work the gold of his brain and
the brawn of his body. Only such
men as Morse, Field, Gray, Bell or
Edison could teil what such toil and
application means.
Finally, at the end of these four
years of struggle, he had a machine
that would, by action of a keyboard
something like a typewriter, set a line
of key dies or types, justify them to
the exact width of a column of any re
quired measure and cast it into a solid
line of lead or type metal. Yet his
work was not done, for after he had
accomplished all this, and had secured
his patents, another obstacle seemed to
bafile him. Men of money discredited
his machine, even after they had seen
it work, publishers said it was imprac
ticable. They were willing to try"
his device if he could show that it
would do the work of five or six men
setting type from the case, but not
until then did they care to take any
risks. By constant pleadings, how
ever, he at last succeeded in organ
izing a company with small capital,
a m
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which in the next three years was con
sumed in the efforts to place the lino
type in the composing room of some
daily newspaper.
With money all gone, the machine
turned down, the despair of failure,
of seven years of wasted toil of death,
almost was upon, him. Moreover, his
physical system was shattered, and he
passed the next three years in a strug
gle to live. But the day dawned for
him at last. In 1886, Whitelaw Reid,
of the New York Tribune, agreed to
try a machine. It proved a success,
snd he equipped his office with them.
Then the Louisville Courier-Journal,
through the foresight of Mr. Haider
man oue of its owners took them up,
and from that time fame and a gol
den reward were his. Since 18S6,
3.500 machines, that represent a
value of $10, 500, 000, have been sold
or leased.
He is able to enjoy the dry and as
ceptic atmosphere of this region as he
wills, but a part of his time is given
to the work of writing a history of the
inception, development and comple
tion of his invention in connection
with some of his personal experiences.
His four children, the eldest a boy of
14, and his wife are with him, and
for the children he has a tutor.
It is Mr. Mergenthaler's intention
to give his children all they can re
ceive. Mr. Mergenthaler first came west a
year ago last June to henefu his health,
and went to Prescott, A. T., where he
roughed it for four months. Cool
tempature caused him to go to Phoe
nix, where, after a short stay, he left
for El Paso. While there he seemed
to grow weaker, and last December
came to Deming. He says that the cli
mate here agrees with him better than
any place he has yet been.
You mav eat chean food and not bo se
riously nurt by it; but yo 1 cannot take
cheap medicine without positive injury.
If you use auv substitute tor Ayer s fcar
. cinlril I 1 m-j-n An - at t lit Ikrll fif VVI r
j health, pei haps your life. Inshton having
' Ayer's and no other.
LEE'S GENTLE NATURE.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE GREAT CON
FEDERATE LEADER.
One Who Knew Him as a Little Child
Tells How He Impressed Her By His
Gentle Manner and Sympathetic
Nature Interesting Reminiscences
of War Times Around Petersburg
Kindness of Federal Officers, &c.
(New York Post.)
In the life of General Lee, written
by his nephew, Fitzhugh Lee, may be
found the following extract from a
letter of Gen. Lee to Mrs. Lee, written
from his headquarters near Petersburg,
Jan. 10, 1865:
"Yesterday afternoon three little
girls walked into my room, each with
a small basket. The eldest carried
some fresh eggs laid by her own hens,
the second, some pickles made by her
mother; the third, some popcorn which
had grown in her garden. They were
the daughters of a Mrs. N., a refugee
from Northampton county, who lived
near Eastville, not far from old Ar
lington. The eldest of the girls
whose age did not exceed 8 years, had
a small wheel on which she spun for
her mother, who wove all the cloth
for her two brothers boys of 12 and
14 years. I have not had so pleasant
a visit for a long lime. I fortunately
was able to fill their basket with apples,
which distressed poor Bryan (his stew
ard), and I begged them to bring me
nothing but kisses, and 'to keep the
eggs, corn, etc., for themselves."
When I read the letter how vividly
the whole scene came up before me!
the many intervening years were blot
ted out, and I was again the tiny 4-year-old
girl seated very much at ease
on the great general's knee, listening
with deep interest to his conversation
with my oldest sister. The second
little girl, being very shy, subsided
into a seat, and employed herself
chewing her glove-fingers, much to the
mortification of the nurse who accom
panied us, and who was deeply im
pressed with the importance of the oc
casion. Our farm was divided only by a
fence from the Turnbull farm, where
General Lee had his headquarters, and
the two houses were only a few hun
dred yards apart, and very soon after
our visit he called on my mother. He
had completely won our little hearts,
and we were all eagerness to go in
and see him, and after a time of wait
ing which seemed very long to us, and
much washing of faces and curling of
hair, we were sent in, with the admo
nition from the nurse to "mind our
manners." But when General Lee
took me up, looking at my hand,
asked: "And how did these little fin
gers get burned?" I forgot all pre
vious exhortations also all lessons in
grammar and promptly replied, "Me
and Althea were pulling roast 'laters
out of the fire." General Lee seemed
much amused anil I proceeded further
to rnbghten him as to various pieces
of mischief in which "me and Althea"
had been chief actors. I do not re
member how my dismayed elders
checked my unusual fl w of confidence.
Ordinarily I as shrinkingly sensitive
and quiet, so th.it my outburst of can
dor was a tribute to lie charm of Gen
eral Lee's maimer. The "Althea" to
to whom 1 referred was a colored child
of my own age, and my constant com
panion and deaily loved playmate.
During those latt months of the
war we saw a great deal of Gertral
Lee, and if he ever wearied of our at
tentions we were never allowed to see
it, and we always kissed him at part
ing with the feeling that we had given
him a great deal of pleasure. Cer
tainly we rever failed to ci j y our
selves. We never felt any awe in his
presence, but always chatted like mag
pies about all our hopes and plans. It
was during one of our visits that he
gave me a little tobacco-bag, filling it
with tiny cakes and telling me it was
a present to him from "little May
Mosby, Colonel Mosby's little daugh
ter." It lies on the table before me, a
quaint little bag, made of the red uni
form cloth, with seams covered with
yellow worsted and "M" worked on
one side in a child's uneven stiches.
I had the honor of a ride once seated
before the General on the historic
"Traveller." The pink challie frock
which I wore on the occasion was af
terwards regarded as a sacred garment,
only to be worn on the highest of high
days.
Times were growing harder every
day, and economics becoming more j
rigid. My mother sent General Lee a j
bowl ofsoup one day and in his mes- j
sage of thanks he told her that "never
was riish more timely; I had three !
generals to dine with me to-day, and ;
only baked beans to set before them." j
We lived surrounded by the sights ,
and sounds of war, and we drilled as I
soldiers and marie miniature fortifica-1
tions. Every day the end was draw
ing nearer, though at last it came sud
denly, and found us quite unprepared.
Had we foreseen, much could have
been saved, but no one thought of per
sonal danger and of our being forced
to leave the house. A jar of silver
and family miniatures was buried in a
wood-shed and a box of china and
glass was concealed beneath the roof
of the porch, because it was thought
possible that these things might attract
the attention of "raiders." After the
battle, when stragglers, searching far
hidden treasure, sounded every foot of
land around our house and outbuild
ing?, the ju escaped owing to General
Custer having used the shed for a
stable.
On that memorable 2d of April Mr.
Turnbull came down about sunrise
with intelligence that "General Ie
had gone to the front, and there would
be heavy fighting." L-ter my father
walked over to headquarters, and while
th ere General A. P. Hill rode up and
engaged in earnest conversation with
General Lee. Then he rode off and
in less than an hour we heard he had
been killed. There has always seemed
a peculiar pathos about Hill's death,
he had braved so many dangtrs suc
cessfully only to fall a victim at the
close. My father had never seen the
general in his full uniform before, but
that day he was fully equipped with
sash and sword. They shook hands
and father asked:
"General, do you think reinforce
ments will be here from Richmond in
time to restore the lines?"
"No, sir," ami he added: "Give
my kind regards to Mrs. N. and the
little girls."
There was a strange atmosphere
about that Sunday. The usual Sab
bath routine was observed the table
laid for the dinner we were not des
lined to eat, and we little ones looked
on with interest as the cook placed
the plump fowl on the dairy shell
ready for cooking when the proper
lime arrived. But beneath the surfjee
calm a quivering dread was concealed.
The inner fortifications were only
about half a mile from our house, and
as morning advanced the firing grew
louder and nearer, and it lecame ap
parent that we would probably need
some safe place for retreat. After a
hasty discussion, the potato cellar was
prepared and stored with food and
other necessities, we children toiling
up and down the steep stairway with
our especial treasures, the most prec
ious of all being a basket of kittens.
But we were interrupted by several
Confederate officers, who rode up and
told my mother we must leave the
house at once. When she objected,
saying she would remain while the
roof was left standing, ihcy replied
that the children must go anyway,
and that there was not a moment to
lose. "Take those children," they or
dered the nurse, and she obeyed in
such haste that she let us go bonnetless.
A few minutes before my father had
sent my younger brother with a wagon
and horses to cross the river into
Chesterfield. He was arrested, and
for several days we were uncertain as
to his fate, and Ut thought we hid
been killed. But we were guarded by
the shield of Providence that day,
else had we been "killed twenty
times," for in crossing the open field
we were targets fjr friends and foes.
It all seemed like a dream, the
bursting shells and whizzing bullets.
One shell fell at my sister's feet but
did not burst. Mother had followed
us, first, with a ousekeeper's instinct
seizing her key basket, in her excite
ment not realizing that in a few hours
nothing would remain neither locks
nor anything to be locked. We
reached the pontoon bridge juit as it
was being taken up, and were the last
persons who were allowed to cross, (me
of the soldiers carrying me across in h:s
arms. He is still living, and sent me
a message some time since that he dis
tinctly recalled the occasion. The
day was spent in the deserted soldiers'
camp in Chesterfield, and at sunset we
recrosscd the river on Campbell's
bridge, and spent the night in Peters
burg. War develops nerve and endu
rance. Not a child dreamed of com
plaining, though our shoes had been
cut to pieces in the scramble through
briars and over stones, and our feet
were covered with blood and bruises.
0i Monday morning we started for
home and were just in sight of our
house when the flames burst from the
Turnbull house. My father hastened
on in advance a d found several Fed
eral officers standing on our porch in
the act of leaving. He appealed to
the one who seemed in command,"ask
ing him to protect the house, saying
that we had been driven away by the
battle the day before and had no
other shelter. "Certainly, sir," wa
the reply, "your house shall not be
burned while we are here; but we have
to leave at once and the Lord only
knows what will become of you then."
We always found the Federal officers
extremely courteous, and in some in
stances, kindness itself; the outrages
and pillages were the work of the
straggling sotdiersand camp followers.
A few days later one of the strag
glers was discovered in the act of firing
the house, and was driven off "by a Fed
eral officer who most opportunely rode
upjusi in time. ve louna uesoiauon
utter and complete within and without. ;
Cannons had been planted at the par- ;
lor windows, and near the door were
new made graves where the dead !
had been hastily buried. The house
had been used for a hospital and the
fixirs were slippery with blood and !
grease. Not a vestige of clothes re-
raained, or rather only unusable mor
sels and fragments were left, lv.ery -
thing movable had been carn.-d off,
and the heavy furniture broken. We
pulled open a bureau drawer and there
lay our beloved kittens with their ;
throats cuts; even now I can feel the
bitterness of that moment. Remnants 1
j of the pink challie were found in the j
ice house. We lived on the hardtack)
picked up on the battlefield until Cap- j
tain Langdon, commander of a brig- j
ade of artillery, on his way from Ap
pomattox Court House, made our
house his headquarters, and not only
supplied our necessities at the time but
repeatedly sent us assistance afterward?.
My sister was ill from the nervous
shock, and a Federal surgeon, Dr.
lirowne, of Philadelphia, prescribed
for her and gave us a supply of various
needed medicines, and sent a large
box filled with every delicacy neces
sary for an invalid. General Custer,
who was at our house fr several days,
treated my parents with great cour:esv,
even checking any ronvcrsition be-
' tweeu the attendant officers that
j turned upn m'jerts unpleasmt to
j S Mithern c.irs.
j For some monihs if-cr the close of
j the war a coireopor-.der.re was nu:n
j tamed between my mother and Mrs.
, Lee, ami we had letters from ihe Gen
I eral also. Unfortunately lhee letters
' were accidentally destroyed a few years
1 ago, but n .thing can destroy our lov
! ing memories o! ihe man.
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