Pay: ey sds WHICHARD, Bator and’ Owner, _ TROT IN PRRFERBNOE To FICTION. Saas | GREENVILLE, N. C., , WEDNESDAY, way a. 1800, us a viriving to. better eilons and improve fa- Nothing that will 5 this a better store is o mach trouble or too reat an expense. We are | pushing shead to win new praies. We have just re- ceived a beautifnl addition to our already complete stock wf the following FOR THE LADIES: Silk Finished Henrietta, - Batin Duchess, Cheviot, Creponeites, Imperial Serge Brocade Mohair, Brilliantine, Drop d’Alma, Dimities, SilkLandown, Duck Suititig, Sateen, Lindn Batiste, French Organdiés, Ginghams, Percales, Swisses, Mulls, &e. Ve weask is an inspection and the prices will astonish you. FOR THE GENTLEMEN: all-wool plaid suits, blue cheviots, black cheviots, all.wool brown mixed — suits, | brown: plaid. suite, black serge suits, imported: clay. worsted, ‘ all-wool covert. cloth, all-wool Thibet al spuitete : say ae ther | eit suit you! in eee ao quality. “POP LOWOL A tate if Payreperer iieeinermaeet -|done,. When this market first started a vh ; ik. wit a a bend i ET hanr-uitaaaeied ee Wale Since we have been alent with | OX: a the tobacco trade we have wweidten jonly: » from information and we have tried to as Gathered from the Farmers— A Great Many Reports sent Out from this Section Damaging and Mis- leading. “ert Seema BY 0. L. JOYNER, We have read with a great deal of interest'a good many conjecture as to the tobacco acreage in Eastern North Carolina and it is really amusing to see the capers of these reporters. ‘They |’ all seem to vie with one another to see who can teil the biggest yarn about the increased acreage, ‘These reports are misleading and damaging, not only to the farmer but to the dealer and manu- facturer as well. There are three well established markets in Eastern North Carolina and there are others coming on which will in time become impor- tant factors among the tobacco markets of the State. But in their own zeal to impress the outside world with their su- perior advantages and the quantity of tobacco raised tributary to their parti¢- ular market, a great many times seri- ous injury is done the tobacco interests everyv;here. In South Carolina, for lieve that the whole face of the earth would be planted in tobacco this year. Tobacco journals everywhere have been fullof reports of new markets and increased acreage, until the. world is prepared to think that South Carolina alone would grow tobacco enough this year to supply the trade. It now turns out that there will not be much more than half the tobacco planted in South Carolina that has been predicted up to now, and this information comes direct from the fields of South Carolina, and not from some one in town who, has. ap interest § in some warehouse and who by|. those reports expects to get somebody to go there to buy tobacco. Here in Eastern North Carolina, in a great). part of it at least, the writer, has posi- tive information from personal observa- tion that the tobacco acreage has been very much exaggerated. A few days ago we took a trip of fitty miles through the leading tobacco belt of Greene and Lenoir counties and a portion of Pitt; and we know that in this séction the acreage will not be in- creased. In some sections the farm- ers had planted the land they prepared for tobacco in cotton and on one farm we noticed especially where last year there were forty acres of tobacco, this year there are only twelve. There is no need “f disguising facts in order to deceive the public, for while they may be fooled for awhile, yet after all the facts will be learned and then it is too late to appease the injury that is very prominent. tobaceonist who had moved trom a distant State and located ‘on one of the eastern markets, said one bad in talking with a number of tarm~ ers, that O. L. Joyner was _ doing the eastern markets brat Bunt that, ty other man in Ea | ry ‘asked him why and how it was. 1 he ved, instead of peg the eastern ere, i all ary can to make fated “tha that the “LV prenge will ae. oprese and i the markets are not selling as ne to- gay stick squarely tq the troth without, dis— se dike progpee " — aed. ty instance, the world has been led to be-| | guising facts or figures and we are yet)! SOT I yrprcera cet) elit ellie ane "| fits the. trade to hiselligentiy-xke. hold of the crop. ..A great many hold their | orders off thinking that tobacco’ will go| down under the pressure of a large erop until, before they realize what they have done the crop has been sold, . and their man has’nt filled his orders. He} has been kept off the market and the | farmer has suffered for the lack of com-| | petition to the extent of what his "} purchases would have been. Again when the crop is over estimated, and there are flattering prospects tor a crop of good tobacco, a great many buyers hold off thinking that they will wait until the good tobacco begins coming in, when also before they know it the crop has been sold and the good to bacco has not yet turned un, The trade suffers of course. There should be a way of artiving at an intelligent estimate of the tobacco crop for under present circumstances there are so many false and misleading statements sent out by parties, who «by altering the facts to suit themselves, think to better.their own interes:, that there is no means of telling anything about the crop until it begins coming in, and then you have to take it just as it comes. A GOOD MAN FOR SHERIFF. Evrror. Rercector ;—In casting about for thé most available man tor sheriff in the comitig nominating con- vention every effort should be made to lay aside personal preferences and go for the man that can hold the banner highest and Jongest and poll the most votes. There isa man in my minds’ eye who has since his first vote ever stood in the front rank and fought where the battle was hardest. Under |. all circumstances and at all times he has stood the test and at no time has he been found wanting. That man is O. W. Harrington and if nominated he will carry the banner. through and place it upon the ramparts of radical. ism drive out the enemy im a solid line and perch victory upon the ruins there- of. Nominate O. W. Harrington and Democracy is victorious in old Pitt once more. T. f. Live Newspapers. “The best advertisement for any pro- gressive town is the support it gives to its local newspapers.” Thus spoke the editor of the St. Louis Republic lately. In the newspaper as*a “public institu- tion by which a town’s, enterprise and energy may be properly gauged, he ut- tered sound common sense. Just ag a town is to be judged by its public more 80, is it to be judged by its news- papers. An alert town won't tolerate a slow newspaper. “A live newspaper can’t keep alive in a dead town.—Ash- land Telegraph. | Mre. Nancy Hollie, who lives near | Bllenbaro, in this county, is the oldest | * person in the. State, if not in the world. | Her age. is 15, years. She is bright, cheerful and talkative. Some two. or} three years ago she fell and ‘injured | her hip, a ane since that time has been} confined toh her bed. er health i is goed | i ir hg: iia ian tt ‘ good iw PMI »Moday Miri, B. By ak, Rab. tor egies Ler egranane] i, Lal Madre buildings, its streets, its manufactures | and its shops, so, and indeed much, “J One Hundred And Fifteen Years old. : ie ve a i pare Vitus tit CaF iy a to t Complete 23th Neat 5 a dk St aa Swim eae “te cae Say, do you get warm these days? Well, if you do. go to Frank Wilson’s and get youre self Nainsook Drawers, Negligee Shirts, a nob- by Straw Hat, a Serge Alpaca, Secilian or Crash Suits of Clothes and ‘cool off. These will. ‘con serve your energy and strength, and are not expensive. Stépinand look, = Jaconet i Dodees ‘Corded Stniss Mulls, Cordele. Marquise, Printed India. ‘Dimities, J aconetie . D’Alsace, Persian India Linen, The stock is rich and replete with all the ele Novelties arriving by almost avers tral : ereal Stuffsin profusion. We are alae’ ofthis gathering than of a any. Others hike the facta so: We can n pl ASK ——both. - Our: Btaok obser: 3 is more Shak slete ' | ini , In fact we allow our Dock to run hee to a. fe emmni We are constantly receiving new | fitst biker uted aly fo @ fashio e lne rey VW Sor - PL he that} 4 i se it inl any ot aid it une! ee ot ayy" ween +| viee, for the seek ’ I coding: a8 second-class mail matter. ° " SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ‘Dae oath, * at Cah * * wt om o* - : gi rates are liberal and can be pad on wae py to the oak prdss ian ote. : {the southeastern and eoustregion. The J We desire a KVe@ co toffice, in the in each neighborhood. Write viakaly and only on ‘one side of the peper. ue Liberal Commission ~ Son. rere a tion rates paid to agents. lili sod ~~ a ‘ ew: ~ ba ai * pet {4 nla un mall ile Marana, May 277, 1896. The cofnitte appuinted by Sceerpr Carr to select the testimonial to be pre- sented by this State to the U. S. cruiser “Raleigh, have decided that it shall'be a ‘massive panch bowl. The bowl is of =| May 23rd, 1896, indicate a very abe | able change nearly everywhere. The first part of the week _ continued, Fey, warm and dry, | but commencing the| $3.00 One wee = 10) Delivered in town by,eatriers without 19th favorable rains occurred nearly. 93 | every day over large portions of the State. The drought, however, con- tinues to prevail in bois of the western counties, in southern portions of the Central wistrict, and: especially over temperature was above normal every | day during the week, ‘and where suffi- | cient tain fell crops made rapid growth. EASTERN DISTRICT. - The drow ht has, been’ ‘broken in this District-by rains from the*19th to the 28d, except in the southern portion _ | and along.the eoast,-coydring ‘the coun- 4 ties of Columbus, New Hanover, Bruns- | wick, Onslow, Pamlico, Craven, Jones, Hyde, ‘Tyrell and portions of Pender and Duplin, where : dronghit continues to prevail with very injurious "effect on all crops. On the other hand, in the north some excessiye rains have washed lands badly and interrapted farm work, except on light lands. Hail , was re~ saa border ln of mathematic into the for:| it aks thai a iat ie a Ne England school ones mtd ‘to her ue pin mental arithmetic: - eS ions to ask. ‘Yes. “And if Fines were chopped | in two?” “Sixteenths |” teenths were cut in halt, what would they be?” . The answers had been growing fewer and fewer, but one boy meditated. a moment, and answered : “Thirty-seconds !”’ “Very good,” said the teacher. sterling’ silver . and will weigh 300 | ported in eight counties, with how-| “And now we will chop those thirty- ounces. It measures 12 inches i in height ever, but little damage, and a cloud- | seconds in half. ; and 21 inches Across, and has a capaci— of six gallons, The design chosen is a } very beautiful one, handsomely engrav- ed, and will bear the inscription. “The \burst occarred in Gazes. ‘ Generally great improvement is reported in the growth of crops.’ Corn and cotton are ia goad condition ; largest portion. ot cotton ctop ‘has been chopped, and work Can any boy tell what we have now ! f There was silence in the lem, but presently a little’ boy at the foot put up his hand, “Do: you He) Johnny?’ ‘Well, you , State of North Carolina to the United goes on in the, north. Much progress may tell me.’ States Cruiser Raleigh, 1896.” ‘The was made i 1 transplanting tobacco and “Hash !” answeret Jolmny, confi- dunds to purchase this testimonial oa ‘setting out sweet, potato. slips, except dently-sand truly: : ~ raised through the efforts of Mr. C. Stevens, editor 'ot the Southport has ‘hi prefentatifn will ‘take placé, Southport about the middle of J uly. shed ah nai ianis The cost ; of he, testimonial i is $680. at The Pitt conte Democrats métion} the 20th inst. at Greenville and adopt- ed a jong, ringing, clear-cut platform. of principles. ‘The sentiment favorable to silver was unanimous.. It instructed the delegates in District, State, and “National Conventions to stand for “free cuinage at a ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting a single day for the consent or «o-operation © of a single’ nation | Gn _ earth.” The resolutions that appear 4h the Greenville Rerzzctor fails to ~ gay anything as to the tariff, but -fa~ vored the abolition of the 10 per cent. tax on State banks ana favored an in- -pome tax.— Wilmington Messenger. , Beg your pardon, but. if you will : turn back and again read the resolu- tions ‘with amendments you will” gee that one plank said’ very plainly ‘that we favor a tariff for revenue only.” Iti is foolish to say that we can beat Russell easily, for we can do no such thing, It’s no.use.to hurrah..and. say |. his own da woes “— _ for it | delelected. “The thing to do is to - swear that he shall not + and to see to it that he is. not.—Stafesville’ Land- k. Z tiem : f ~ These are wise’ words.’ Though’ he obtained it by: fraud, Russell now stands. a hig Ree ak man rel is or how much he has accused the bulk of his sig of sho: — lsh i. this State it matters: not, what man they are voting for just 80 “they vis te the ticket as directed by their Tt goes, without saying, thatit ig & fy majority | indicate hi | ers ocourred this week, ‘ebiclly: & Republican nominee for Goy- low dog wae on the ticket {and the 80. ‘directed it would be voted “readily as with Russell at its head. “Bo no stress need be laid on the epor | that his party will not support it tnt the thing to do, as the Land- kc suggests, ié to see) that as file a dell a pot elected’ Governor | egal aan xes in counties where drought continues. A slight: improvement occurred in wheat and oatgand much unprovement | in gardens, Crops were well cultivated und in good condition to receive rain, but grass is making headway now. CEN TRAL DIsTHICT. With the exceptioa of local areas in Montgomery, Anson, Stanley and recdived copious rains this week from the 19th to the 23rd; the rains were quite heavy and washed lands at a, few points, hail was reported in nine counties with some damage to crops, necessitating some replanting, but less than miglit have betn, expected.” A very favorable change iesults from the timely breaking of ‘the drought, and crops are. now making splendid growth. Setting sweet potato slips made much 4 bacco is approaching completion, -Seme corn was planted to replace failed crops, and some cotton was damaged by hail. Early and well worked cotton, is . quite large: for the season, Irish potatoes and vegetables now doing well. Rains came too late to help wheat much, it is {beginning to ripen, apparently with good heads, though short ; oats. prac tically a failure. Water-melons .. doing extra a wei “WESTERN DISTRICT. Orres ondents eport,. the ht atill unbroken, but a less than ‘in other portions of the State, greatly benefitted all crops. The most serious injury by drought occurred to wheat and oats. These crops are head- ing very low, Where rain occured corn, cotton, potatoes and ‘gardens are d ing finely, It is still too dry in some sections for transplanting tobacto. | The weather was tavorable for farm ‘work and crops ip clean and-well ‘oak jhe ae | Proady Cant by Henry Ran An immense fissure in thé earth has} made its appearance on the top of Iro Mountain, between North Carolina an id Tennessee, on ‘the. Bakersville ead! Forsyth counties, the entire District |“ headway, and the trausplanting of ‘10-| . Engin. Naa Five Pa cen a _ leaiereectionieermned The Millennium Will Dawn. etna die When everything in goes to please | everybody. When every kind of business is con- ducted to suit the notions of’ everybody When everyone pays their, debts without being hunted down and _-har- rassed. When nobody will tell a lie and nobody swear they believe it is 80. When everybody’s ‘premises are cleaned up and kept just ‘as everybody else would do it who have none of their own to attend to. When everybody has some business and attends strictly to it, without ut- tending to other people’s. When it gets into the head of every- body to live and let live. When everybody loves the Lord and their neighbor and does not try to dead beat either one or the ether, ama Wanted—A Lean and Hungry Man. If it be wise in a political convention ,| to congider other recommendations for a candidate than the old democratic qualities of honesty, capability and fi- delity to the constitution, would it not be well for the State Democratic conven- tion, in selecting a candidate for gov- ernor, to consider the physical qualities, and pick aman who is thin in flesh, Tank and long-winded.” Russell is a prize hog, and would ‘blow like’ a por thinks much” and does not sleép at I nights. Fry the fa out of Rassell’ and make him blow like « bellows. —Eliza~ beth eo Heonomist. | This opening is six to twelve fect wide, Ice and bie sopleon ds on the ‘summit for the] well “Now, boys, I sie a few pease io1 “Suppose I ‘have a piece of beefsteak, and cut it into two|+ ‘pieces. What would chone pieces be! called?” - “Halves !” shouted the class.’ 2 ‘Right. And if I cut each half ‘into two pieces?” “Quarters ! ag 1 hat is correct. And if the quart- ers were each, cut in half ?” “Fights |” “Very good. And when the six- f i poise in a July’stump tussle. Give] him a man fora conipetitor like’ Cas. | sius, lean and hungry-looking, that . Flooring, Ceiling, 0 OE CD ve, "GREENVILLE, N. C. ted and obliging banking house. ‘ lowest rat« 8. Ly ESTABLISHED 1875. SAM. M. SCHULTZ, PORK SIDES&SHOMLDERS JARMERS AND MEKUHANTS BUY ing their year’s od ae will find their interest to get our prices befere pui chasing elsewhere, Ourstock is complete n allits branches, FLOUR, COFFRE, SUGAK RICH, THA, ‘&e. always utLowgsT Marker Cate: TOBACEO SNUFF &ICIGARS we buy direct from Manufacturers, ena bling youto buy at one protit. A com plete stock of FURNITURE always onhand and sold at o ices tusul thet imés. ur goods areal! bought and sold for CASH therefore, having no risk to run,we sell at a close margin. S. M. SCHUL'?2 Greenville. N C , are what you wapt in MILLINERY. Becaurve an old style hat never shows the wearer to be up to date. NY SPRING STOCK is in and embraces the very latest ag, Rell at Hats. L also have a lovely display of Shirt Waists, Stamped Linens, | Embroidery Silks, Ribbon Collars and other new goods. My entire stock is prettier than ever before. , WAS, LORIN PERG S.8.DUNN. —DEALER IN— j henley Sa and Mouldin g. Ww rite for Drives to S$. Fe DUNN, LAND bind R oO ’ With every facility for transacting + Banking Business, This Bank solicits: the accounts fr saepoasible farmers and Collections remitted pay and at the business of ie le persons and firms. Ten:lering all the courtesies that are usually exten 4 by. a well conduc- Paper! bee's, on Dickerson avenue, Greenville Market. Corrected by 8, M. Schultz. Bntter, per lb 16 to 25 Western Sides 6 to 7 Sugar cured Hams 10 to 12} ‘| Corn 40 to 60 Corn Meal: 50 to 66 -. Flour, Family 4. 4 to 6,00 ° Lard oy i 10: Oats to 40 Sugar i, to 6: Coffee 16't0 25- Salt per Sack 5 80 to 178 Chickens 10 te 26 | Eggs: per doz 10 to 11 Beeswax. per =: ' Cotton ané Peanut, Below are Norfolk prices of cotton and peanuts f{6r.yesterday, us furnished by Cobb Bros. & Commission Mer- chants of Norfok : COTTON. Good Middling 8 1-16: Middling 7 13-16 Low Middling 7 7-16 Good Ordinary 6h ‘Tone—dall, . e PEANUTS. Prime Extra Prime eds a ancy 3}: Spanish , 81.10 by : Tone—firm.' | GREENVILLE TOBACCO MARKET REPORT. styles and shapes of new Pattern “| A first class Shave mene |) Cut guaranteed. Trimming we ao ore eee w. PARK foe see “| bes BY O. L. JOYNER. amare Tops.—Green.... ....++++1 to 2p «Brights '/...../4 to 8! “ Red........55 - «tod, Luas—Common!..... :..4:t0 6 * — Good.....:.0- «5. Tto 0 | a4 Pine, J. sc05s'... 491018 Cutters —Common,..:;...6 to-1# “Good... ....124 to 26 _Fine,...,.4-) 15 to 214 6é 66 Professional Cards. ) HENRY SukvPARD, dai, REAL ESTATE "AGEN 2% Greenville, N. C. @ Valuable Properties for’ sate or Rents. Correspondence solicited, Re- fers to Mercantile aud Banking Houses of said iit Office on main street. = lee on at ot. peony 0k wy Sade ge HARRY SKINNER #. W. WHEDBEEF. Qin SNtin & WHEDBEE, kh)? Successors to Latham & Skinnner, Ac LUNA DLESA « vet Bibs” N. O. Mea Wy le John E. Woodard, ae - harang, » Wilson, N.U.. “Lreewville, N.G, OODAKD & UAKUING, ATTUKNHYS-AT-La \, Greenville, N. Special attention given to collections and settlemenc of claims. ‘ ponerse | ‘Barbers. ter AMES A. SMITH, TONSORIAL ARTIST. GREENVILLE, N. O.: Patronage solicited. Cleaning, Dyeing and Pressing Gents Clothes a specialty 4 SRBERT EDMUNDS. FASHIONABLE BAREER. Special. atteution given to cleaning Gentlemens C Citing A.* “i t4 ‘es an} Chuo PENDER, TONSOR p| Has anni or Hair Ladies OTL NIGHOLSON, * Bur This Hotel has been thoroughly eings several new rooms add ever shown in Greenville. Be. ‘ sure to see my samples. Allnew styles, not av old piece in the lot.. _ Will take pleasore in bringing | samples to your home if you will. : notify’ me at my shop near Ae * ae > =" ae Sabai sep uuaseseie Re sab ssatecstien 0 a Ateneenenneeinc te Be PR i RGN ET I I Ri E>) . pane : Gkingl te apriiamn (22 |e9| 3% 1H. RRR a ee JA. MIPM. A, M Leave Weldon | 11 55] 9 44 a Ate Roovk Mo) 1°00)1039 | Ly Tarboro | 12 12 3 - cone, | eens SPT corememeeemei Ly Rocky Mt | 1 00/10 “| 6 45 Ly Wilson 9 ORI 6 20 Lv Selma 2 63 A Ly Fay’ tteville “+ 38I : Florence 7 28:3 -. ‘ om air }4a se “TP, Ms Lae A.M Ly Wilson 2 08 6 20 4 Gekiavoro $ 10 7 05 ve nolia 4 16 8 10 4 Wilmington| 6 45 9 45 ei P, M. A.M : TRAINA GOING NOTRH. Dated emia Sy April iA oats om 1896. | wal 2 Ad eoranams v 0% compete | mace ntate soni \ siameeasinms | mmo} A. MIP. M. Ly Fintstie: 8 40) 7 49 Ly Fayetteville} 11 10) 9 40 v Selma 12 37 Ar Wilsn | 1 20111 35 3s fe ‘oo ss Trains, in Nashville” ranch ison Rocky Rouyt at 4.30 Far arrive Naehivitle 5.05 p. ui, Sp Hope 8. ‘Retormug ledve ig op ring Hope m. $20.0. m., Naehvillé 83) ain; wee at is, a Aount sla a m@, daily. eben Thence on See Shetty Wecuiens. R d., leave Lata 6.40 p m, airive Dunbar iv Cho ioe ip mi. Returnin othe: or 6.30 : i ae Latta 7.50 4 m, déily except Sun-| day. \ rain _foeclguad Branch leayes War- at Weldon heat pe is dally, all tail via}. Norfolrn alse at Rovks Is ets o. Hgrawey ll y Mount ‘with sk we Rf V Gemma Supt. M, EMERSON, Traffie Manag °r. *, K nk NLY, Gen) Manager. ‘was more appropriately ‘erhihilate the animal and rider. One /(} mind. “Phe story was. given enough 15] a chill to ramble up and down his spinal | seen spooks, had been, beyond the creek | rake awhich he was astride, to find: the tan L bac ,, | the bits and.was gratified to. see the * oriolk. ing Cold Uhills and Thrills _ of Terror, — ant RO Three miles west of New Albany the Rocky ford road crosses: a creek which was originally named Big creek, but named Hell creek by persons who haye been com- pelled to cross the adjacent bottom in reeent years. Just beyond this is an- other run called Mud, creek, which stream is grown up with thick and heavy underbrush, and on cloudy nights the’ blackness that surrounds the trav- eler could be sliced into chunks and sold for ink. The bottom or lowland adjacent to the stream is of unusual width for one so small, and at the best: is exceedingly uninviting. | Some, years ago’a gentipmati passing through the bottom at night was al- most thrown by his horse shying to one side; aud when: he looked ahead was confronted by a monster goat of white color rearing upon his hind feet as it to look was sufficient, and, making 4 sud- den turn, he galloped out of the bottom, at the risk of his life, swearing that he would drink no.more New Albany blind tiger liquor. Not wishing to put him- self up as a target for the jeers of a sus- picious public, he held his eounsel and heard or saw nothing more of the weird appartition for some time. About a year later his goatship was again on the warpath and confronted a gentleman of known sobriety, who, not daunted, urged his animal forward de- spite the warlike attitude of the ghostly | § visitor. The goat kept in the middle of the road, and when the small bridge was reached disappeared as mysterious- ly as cae a jeppeared.. The gentleman ; related experience, which beevine4 noised abroad and gave courage to the man who had first sighted the vapory animal to relate his experience, and the two coincided so well that.the people be- ran to give them credit for having seen soinething ‘to disturb’ their: piece of credence to cause an uneasy feeling to enter the mind of the traveler who crossed the bottom at night, and cause column as he passed the spot where the ‘ghost had been seen. Last year “Mr. ——, who is not a be- lievér in things uneanny at all, and has a supreme contempt for a man who has harvesting hay, and was detained until after nightfall on his return home. The night was intensely dark and a slight rain ‘was falling:’ As he drove through the impenetrable gloom, trusting to the instinet’ of the: mules that-drew: the road, the misty, and uncertain form of the giant goat suddenly appeared ip the road ahead of him. The mules reared and plunged, very nearly upsetting the frake. Leaping to the ground to grasped “phantom recede-ds thé‘tehim moved for- _ward., The mules, trembling in every bridge was reached he disappeared as on formey otdasions, much to the re- lief of the geftieman who did not be- lieve in spirite or-- unnatural appari- tions. Since that time a wutiber of thorough- ly reliable witgiesses have been placed in positions: to youeh for ness of the ‘existence of the pharitom goat. Persotis who travel thatroad to and from town make their arrange- ments to pass that.spot before nightfall, and very few ‘have the temerity to in- vade the terriiory of his goatship after darkness has, fallen. — New Albany (Miss.) Gazette. ‘THES POWER’ OF ICE. . A Thickness of Eight Inches Will Sustain a Battery. The army rules are that 2-inch ice will sustain) aman or properly spaced in- horseback, or cavalry. of light guns; | 6-inch iec, heavy field guns, such as 8?- over 1,000 ‘pounds per sqnare foot on sledges, acd i ineh, sustal Hs aD army or an innutertale multitude, On 15ineh: 9 railroads creoften laid and operated mont sin dices 2 feetethick -with- ood. thé. Was ofa loaded pa car after a 60-foot fall (or, perhaps, 1,500 foot tons), but broke tinder that of the ocomotive a foot tons). gives the cru ing strength ‘of firm’ ice as 167 to 250 pounds per square inch, Col. Ludlow, in his experimepts in 1831, on 6. 12-ingh cubes, found 202 te sad for pire hard ive and 222° uy rh pounds for ins ferior grades, And on the Delam re river 700 pounds for clear fee and 4b pounds or less for ice near the mouthawhere it is more or less disintegrated by the ot ms of ‘salt water, ete, Experiments |‘ fave 208 pounds, ‘The ten ‘ ‘Vineh. The average specific gravity of | icei8' 02. Thi freezing wiiter increases sageceonnmt sages, Him ar- ‘n ieee m né. Sainmers sa was found by German ex- ) 149 to 295 pounds per The shearing strength is ven at 15 to 119 pounds per square ng, 1. : e Mechdn BH Mf erebset ale { PLAGUE. OF RATS ‘AND MICE. plague of rats and mice. It has caused some instances, endangered. the lives of the people. the increase of the attention, to the rodents. The govern- nerve, carried him along; and when the, of the truthful- | | Meal, fantry; 4-ineh; ice, will carry 4 man on} , oo} pounders; s-inth ice, 2 bat yty ofinrtiey m. | tery, with CART igeey and horses; “put not | t " tenglep (or, aio ea tf rautwihe cme pees we my a 8 ee a ceson Does: Such a plague as civilized man never experienced has, during the past two years and a. half, afflicted the people of certain provinces of Russia. It is a tremendous to property, and, in So abnormal has been pestiferous rodents - in certain localities in the agricultural districts that the ,afflicted provinces have literally been swept clean of grain in both field and granary. Having de- stroyed the crops, the little animals have invaded dwelling houses, and, in scores of cases, ruined them as places of abode. Heroic measures wereadopted by the inhabitants to rid themeslves of: the plague, Colonies of cats and terrier dogs were imported into the districts... but after a little while neither the cats: uor the dogs. would pay the slightest. tent was then appealed to by the suf- fering people and recourse was had to, scientific means of ridding the country of the mice. Eminent pacteriologists | were employed by the government tode- vise plans to inoculate the rodents w ith infectious disease, and so suecessful were they that the rats and mice died - by the million. By this means the plague was practically stamped out! early last summer. The numerous stories related by Con- sul Heenan of how and why, in the opinion of the people, the army of ro- dents swarmed over. the fields, country houses and village dwellings, the in- difference to their presence shown by both cats and dogs, and the absolute re- fusal of the cats and dogs to molest the. rodents, would form a chapter more sentimental perhaps than instructive, The peasantry believe that the mice un- dertake extensive migrations én masse under foreboding of impending failure of erops in those localities where the mice originated. Consul Heenan says that millions of the animals were drowned in the wells and rivers, and that,-therefore, the pop- ulation of the afflicted localities was obliged to discontinue the use of water from the wells and to abstain from fish, particularly pike, as food, because it was discovered that they contained mice.—Cleveland Leader. Uses of Emery. For many years-most of the emery has been brought from Turkey and the Greek islands. Its value for cutting and polishing has been known since the be-. ginning of history. Very crude methods are in use for obtaining this substance for market. Enormous fires are built on or against the rocks, which are then broken or cracked by throwing jets of cold. water against them. Emery has many uses, among which are its em- ployment i in polishing and cutting. Be- ing so unmanagable, it fora long time defied the efforts of man to put it into available shape, but at length it was -eemented into usable forms, and it was molded into wheels. Emery millstones are a later-day improvement. They are the most. ractieal of all stones, beea use they are not affected by heat, and the face is always sharp. As cutting and polishing powder, emery is of great value, and emery sandpaper is an im- portant article of manufacture. 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