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The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24

NOMINATIONS by THE PREsI-
DENT.-The President has decided
to Appoint George NJ. Dusken as
District Attorney for North
Caroline.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24

SENTENCED FOR LIFE.--In the
Circuit Court at Lexington, Ky,
on the 10Th inst. NJ. Taylor
was sentenced to the penitentiary
for life for stealing q colt. This
was his third sentence for grand
larceny ,and the Stare law provides
the sentence must be for life.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24

WHERE EDGAR A. Poe DIED.
DIR. j. j. Moran, of Falls
Church, has been investigating
the archives in the Baltimore
Custom House, in search of some
papers to prove that Edgar Allan
Poe died at the old Washington
Hospital in that city, and not in
Richmond, Va, as some Virginia
papers msintain. DR.. Moran,
who was in charge of the hospi-
tai in 1S4S-49, knew Poe we'll
and was present at his death.
The gifted author was, according
to tho Doctor, picked up IN a
comatose coalition from the gut.
ter, and carried 10 the hospital, q
private Institution formerly under
the charge of DR.. MoraD's father.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24

Mr.. Blaine has been chosen to
deliver the eulogy at the national
obsequies of the late President
Garfield in the hall Of the House
Representatives.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24

President Arthur, it IS under
stood, will reinstata Cadet Wbita.
ker at West Point after the holi-
days.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24
FOR ALL MEN REGARDLESS
OF COLOR.

The advocate OF LOCAL SELF
GOVERNMENT. In favor Of a FREE
BALLOT and FAIR COUNT. 1t
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24
Opposes Monopolies.

Believing 1t to be the duty of the United
States Government to SEE THAT the
children of the whole country are
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24

Master William Fonville is the
authorized devil of the STAR, and
newsboy generally.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24
THE POST.
WILMINGTON, N. Q.

The advocate Of EQUAL RIGHTS be.
fore the Law, at the BALLOT BOX, and
in the patronage Of the Government
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24

A Philadelphia Press reporter
interviewed the prize tat woman,
whose weight is 700 pounds.
When asked, "Do you still
claim to be the largest woman
in the world T. she frigidly
replied: excuse me, sir, but
l do pot recognize the title. 1
am said to be the largest large
lady on exhibition"
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24

Hon. o. Hubbp, Cd District of
North Oaroliua, Hon. j F. Dezen-
dorf, of Virginia, are the only
Republican representatives South,
who voted for Joseph II. Raney,
the colored candidate for the
CLERK of the House. This speaks
volumes for these noble and pa
triotic stateemen.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24
tn OROUGHLY EDUCATED

therefore the POST will aivdyoeate q
NATIONAL
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-12-24
The POST viii be
INDEPENDENT AS TO MEN,

but will always stand by the principle
Of the
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07
Poetry on the Barn.

Puck.
 The Barn is large building in the rear of the farmhouse. It is painted either red or brown, those being cheaI colors. It has e big double door, or which the skins of predatory animals are nailed. Inside are large rafters, support ing a hayloft. In one corner is a hay cutter, in another a Buckeye mower likewise bag of crushed oyster-shells for the use of hens who have tendency to lay eggs whereof the shells lack the necessary proportion of lime. Then there is a COW tied up in the Barn, and it is dark, and the fine hay-waste gets into your bronchial tubes, and makes you cough; and there is smell made ur of COW and hay and the most recent oi the wood-chuck skins on the other DOT. tai.
 That's enough to begin on:
 This is the Barn, building broad,
 Back near the winding orchard road This is no ryme; but Mir. Whittier doesn't mind little thing like that
 A building bright in reddest paint
 As butchers meat without taint
 Upon the mighty double doors
 Awoodchuck sskin, with outstretched elawrs
 Is nailed with many tenp'ny nail
 To make all other woodchucks quail.
 Within the woods near by he dwelt;
 His den our faithful Fido smelt
 Our younger brothers dug him out
 With fathers spade and joyful shout.
 Our father decked the portals wide
 With the poor captiyes striped hide;
 And then he hided Sam and Jim
 With sections of hickory limb
 He hided them because they did
 Not hoe the corn as they were bid
 This is good deal of poetry to get out of one woodchuck; but it is nothing to what Mir Whittier can do when he tries.
 Behold within a cave of gloom;
 Like the old geniis fabled tomb
 Mr. Whittier is frightfully reckless about his figures of speech. He thinks that so long as he heaves IT a hint of oriental magnifcence, to give contrast with the occidental simplicity, he is all right, whether it makes sense or not.
 We enter through the open door,
 And walk upon the wooden floor,
 And through the window a stream
 Of sunlight gild each rafter-beam; And through the dusky radiance soft,
 When we have sneezed and even coughed
 We gaze upon the high hayloft. How strange The horses feed on hay, And there the hens delight to lay; Why mourns the hen upon one leg? The horse has eaten up her eggi Yon beam upholds my sisters seup;
 Here stands the old COW tethered up. When wintry winds on earth are loosed,
 Upon her back the chickens roost.
 And here the Buckeye Mower stands,
 Steel cannbal of legs and hands,
 Ragged oyster-shells just here occur;
 Here stands the pensive ay-chopper,
 Among whose spiral knives there fingers
 remnant of the farm-hands fingers.
 And smells of desiccated grass
 And COW before our nostrals pass,
 With hints of woodchuck on the door
 Most delicately sicklied OCT.
 will close this lecture here. If you will sit down and copy this sample imi- tation out, you will find that, before you get to the end of il, your brain will suffer from kind of poetical palsy, and your pen will go right on, reeling off verse of that style till the barn is inventoried right through.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07

escape, he ordered the entire party on watch to be put under arrest, but I re- member that smile of satisfaction seem. ed to play around his lips, and there is no doubt in my mind that he secretly re- ioiced at what had occurred.
 Not so the captain. When the news was broken to him he exclaimed, I am ruined foreverr and sent off a regiment of cavalry in pursuit of Surratt They arrived at the frontier to be told by an old woman that the American was wash ing himself at brook half a mile dis tant-but on Victor Emanuel's territory The captains anger then only increased and all twelve of us were put in irons and imprisoned on bread and water for an entire month.
 What became of Surratt? Well, as far as l heard, he was arrested again at the American minister's instance at Pied mont, but succeeded in escaping from a hospital there-where he lay sick-in woman's disguise. He was finally cap tured, believe, while boarding a vessel in Constantinople and then brought to this country. The most curious part of the story is, that when attended lec- ture he gave in this city in 1870, he singled me cut among the audience and embraced me with gratitude.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07
Longevity of Authors.
New York Times.


 The longevity of authors has been fre- quently cited to show that intellectual pursuits, exausting as they are no doubt to most men, do not always shorten human life, but seem rather to prolong and preserve it. Something, in explain ing this, must be placed to the credit of that piece of mind, as regards mere worldly honors, which has come to au- thors who are endowed with firm and lofty spirit. It is not so much work that kills as worry; friction and not mere ac- tivity, which is normal to all healthy minds, being the chief source of destruc- ton and decay. The death last week of M. Alexis Paulin Paris. the French writer and antiquary, in his eighty toiled heavily all his life in intellectual fields. Few such lives are needed to span the history of modern literature. Born when Lord Byron was boy of 12, one of Paris first literary undertaking was translation of "Don Juan," fol- lowed by a French edition of all the poets works, including the memoir by Thomas Moore. Indeed, to the younger generation of this time such life has a deeper meaning than the careless ob- oNi NNA " III EiNt NO lis it 10 half century since Byron died, but here is recorded the death of one who was his contemporary, and who, it is not impos- sible, saw and conversed with him. The life of one other author so old as this, Dr. Franklin-except that he had been dead ten years when Paris was born carries the world back to the death of Peter Boyle, and to within six years of Dryden's taking of, To reach from Boyle to Michael Angelo only two more lives of this length would be required. As Michael Angelo died at ninety, the birth of the great artist Q474), who was also an author-as he was almost every thing else that was possible in his time takes us to period when English lltera- tare comprised little that now has fame beyond the works of Chaucer and Cover In France Rabelais and Montaige were then unborn, and in England almost a century was to elapse before Shakespeare should see the light, These five lives would not only span the greater part oi modern literature, but our chief wonders in other departments of human en- deavor By utilizing steam and electric. ity man has taught himself that the civ, ilized world is not wide. Lives as long as M. Paris'-and surely they are not rare-teach him that it is not old.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07
Johnny skae's Big Chance
Carson City Appeal.


 A little more than two years since Johnny Skae, whom everybody knows, would visit Carson several times a month, and as he passed down the street from the railroad depot, with an independent swagger, and more independent look in his eye, men would enviously gaze after him and express their convictions that he would soon outstrip any single member in the Bonanza firm in the pos session of millions. This was when Sierre Nevada and Union were selling at $250 to $500 per share and Skae was supposed to hold 50000 shares of the stock of those two mines. At that per iod he would have no difficulty in realiZ- ing $l0,000,000 in cool gold coin for his stock; but no, he was ambitious, and de- sired no longer to play SC ;ond fiddlee even to such colossal financial power as the Bonanza firm. He fancied that the pro spective dividends of the Sierra Nevada and Union consolidated mines would be greater by tenfod than those paid by the California and Consolidated Virginia mines. Johnny was oversanguine; he imagined himself a l00 millionaire, whose millions were safely deposited in the bowels of the earth. Of that he felt certain.
 In the meantime he entertained his friends in regal style. He invited them from San Francisco to participate in princely fish and champagne banquets, which were spread near the reservoir of the Virginia and Gold Hill swater-works, from which the luscious trout were taken,and in various other ways extend ed his hospitality to friends in such a manner that they privately called him "Prince John" In the midst of this, however, he did one prudent thing, and that was in settling $25000O in bonds upon his wife. Believing that the stock of the mines of which he was so heavy a holder was sure to reac h at least Sl ,OO0 per share, he hypothecated the same to 1 the Nevada bank, and purchased several ! thousand shares on a margin. Soon thereafter the market crashed, and it | was not long before his stocks were quoted at $50 and $50 per share. Oi course that nearly ruined Skae; but be- 1 ing a man of nerve and desirous of re- l trieving his lost opportunity, he kept on ! dabbling in stocks which at one time might have placed him in an enviably ! independent position, until he lost all ! that he had saved from the first blow and it is even said that the S2000Ot which he settled upon his wife went the way of the rest Now Johnny Skae is in 1 Arizona, in place of living in luxury and superlative elegance, seeking bonanza which he probably will never find, Il is only once in lifetime that one mar in million is so enchantingly smiled upon by fortune as Johnny Skae wa; two and half years ago.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07
R. J. WILSON, STAPLE and FANCY DRY GOODS,

Notions Genucnen Clothing
 
 Quenswae, Cutlery Nails, Iron, Flows, &c Our GROCERIES Coffee, Flour, Mea, O
 sold reasonable Cash. HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAD FOR COTTON AND OTHER COUNTRY ?es Call and and Give m q Trial.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07
Over q Cataract.
Portland toregonl slandard.


 On Tuesday last Henry Thielson, As- sistant Engineer of the railroad division of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, with party of four men, left the mouth of John Days River for the purpose of going down to Cello. Shortly after starting dense fog appeared on the river, which rendered it impossible for the men in the boat to distinguish the short line, and the increased swift ness of the current of the river carried the boat along at speed not realized by the occupants until the harsh, dull roar of the water as it dashed over the head of the cascades below Cello was heard, and an awful fate seemed inevitable. 1t was useless to endeavor to bring the boat out of the whirling eddies that now encircled it, and the rushing waters seemed to be but playing with the frail bark, as every moment 1t was drawn nearer to an almost certain doom, while the wild roaring of the waters as they dashed down into the eseethinga abyss below seemed to hiss and sputter and laugh in pleasure as the terrified inmates of the boat approached the fatal spot
 Like flash the boat suddenly darted pib VI tiiS Suby bO tiiC OlIS minute and the boat would be dashed to pieces, but as if guided by the hands of Providence, the boat caught on sunken rock just on the verge of the fall, and lying there swinging with the motion oi the water, but leaving the men power less, facing death, and while saved from it, still unable to escape. It was at this moment that new danger, and one that made the certainty of being carried over the falls inevitable, now presented itself. Coming down the river and almost on top of the boat was discovered an inn mense flow of ice. The almost certainty of death, either by being carried over the rocks or else crushed to pieces in the ice, was only lett to choose, and before the engineer and his party could realize it the ice was upon them, and one inn mense cake had shot under the boat, lifted it over the sunken rock, and ice, boat and men were carried over the falls down into the basin below and not soul injured. It was fearful experience, an event that not one of the party will ever forget, though they live to be numbered with the centenaries of future years Once in the basin below, theaparty went to the shore and reached their destina- ton by overland route.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07

JOHNNY BOUQUET" writes in the New York Tribune; At one of the hotels in this city family of two persons is said to pay S20,000 year for preferred suite of rooms and separate table and exclusive joints of meat. know of sev- eral cases were furnished houses rent for S6,000 apiece, and in one instance the tenant pays one dollar pound for all his beefsteaks, requiring them to be choice. Prohigacy and social disease must be the result of such inequality, and the problem for both philanthrophy and capital is to widen the island of New York by taxing in the remaining shore"
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07
Behold within a cave of gloom;
 Like the old genii's fabled tomb

Mr. Whittier is frightfully reckless about his figures of speech. He thinks that so long as he heaves IT hint of oriental magnificence, to give a contrast with the occidental simplicity, he is all right. whether it makes sense or not.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07
That's enough to begin on:
This is no ryme; but MT. White doesn't mind little thing like that

This is the Barn, building broad
 Back near the winding orchard road-
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07
Ia IL PnssIhla

That remedy made of such common, sim pie plants as Hop Buchu, Mandrake, Dam delion, etc., make so many and such mar vicious and wonderful cures as Hop Bltters do9 It must be, for when old and young, rich and poor, Pastor and Doctor, Lawyer and Editor, all testify to having been cured by them, we must believe and donbt no longer. See aoher column. FDa.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07

THE New York Express remarks that Mir. Vanderbilt ought now to import a few fellahs to nope about the monolith and cry "backsheesh," just to create the semblance of an illusion. But it forgets that the obelisk can never get it's deserts again.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07

ABSENCE of mind: A physician in Bos- ton some time since gave one of his pa- tients piece of brown paper, and threw the medicine into the fire. He did not discover his mistake until the sick man began to recovor from his illness.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07

EnIsoS will not be satisfied until he has discovered better remedy for Coughs and Colds than Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup. We say he will never succeed
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07

It takes a good deal to move some andlords.-Free Press. It takes good deal more to move some tenants.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-19

DY virtue Of a deed Of trust executed TO me
ID nv j A Anderson the I'd day # May, 1876,
70 secure certain indebtedness therein men
toned default in payment having been made,
al the request Of the beneficiary, will or
Monday, August lst, 1881,
sell on the southwest corner Main and Madi
son streets, at eleven Old o'clock, for cash, TO
the highegt bidder, the properly described IN
OF Main street and Broadway, whore the east
fine of Main street interseetB with the north
line Of Broadway; thence north with Main
street City l50l feet TO a stake; thence east
with north line Of Broadway enc hundr aud
thence south fifty $50 feet 10 the corner Of
Ninth and Broadway; thence with the north
line Of Broadway one hundred and fifty feet
TO the beginning. Title believed 70 be good,
but convey as trustee only.
lO51S2 1T PETIT, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-19
cial 10 the Cineinnati Commercisl. }

Special to the Cincinnati Commercially
WASHINGTON, July l5.-The gov
eminent is now practically engaged in
an extensive exchange business which
has grown up to vast proportions
through inducements offered to bank
ers and others to secure the circula-
ton of silver dollars. The currency
balances of Southern and Western
banks, especially the former, are con
stantly accommodating In New York,
and at intervals shipments by express
have to be made in order to take it
back. This amounts to large per
centage on the money when frequently
repeated. and various devices have
been resorted to from time to time to
induce the Secretary Of the Treasury
to relieve the stringency, especially in
the southwest. by sending greenbacks
or silver certificates to the money cen
tiers in the vicinity. Great pressure
was brought to bear upon Secretary
Sherman to induce him to relieve the
currency ofthe southwestern banks at
the New York sub treasury, and allow
them to draw an equal amount from
the New Orleans mint, where it was
said that a large amount of money was
stored This the Secretary refused to
do, on the ground that there was no
more money than was needed, and if he
allowed it to be drawn out to accom-
modate local banks he would have to
restore it by shipment OF other funds
at the government expense, and he
did not think the government should
bear such an outlay for the benefit Of
private parties. Then this was a
transaction that would practically re-
suit in entering on general exchange
business that was not regarded a
proper thing for the department to
do. The bankers have found out a
way at last, however, to secure a re-
turn Of their money from their New
York correspondents at government
expense, OF so much of it as they can
use in silver dollars. The plan
adopted now is as follows: A bank at
Austin. Texas, for instance, having
funds accumulated in New York, its
correspondent is telegraphed to de-
post the amount at the sub-treasury
as soon as it is received. Assistant
Treasurer Hillhouse telegraphs Treas
urer Gillian that he has received
such an amount placed to the credit
of the Austin bank and they want
the money sent on ct osec. NJ MF Gil 9 Il
fllan at once telegraphs to the New
Orleans mint to ship the silver dollai
TO the Austin bank, and they a-c
started out the same afternoon. the
certificate of deposit comes on from
New York to the treasurer the next
and in the meantime the dollars arr
en- route at the governments expense
because the Treasury Department
offers to send at its expense silver dol
lars to any point in the county wher,
they are wanted, when ain equa
amount Of lawful money has been de
posted at any national depository o.
sub treasury. In this way the bank
not only save three days time, bu
have the government pay their cost q
shipping their funds.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-19
WednesdaY. IulY 2O. IaaI.

at IL o'clock a. m. OF said day, at the south
west corner Of Main and Madison streets, in
Memphis, the Taxing District Of Shelby coun-
~, Tennessee, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, that certain lot Of
land in said Taxing District known and de-
scibed as lot No. Of Harbin's sub division
Of lots and 3 OF Anderson's subdivision Of
country lot sos. bounded as follows: Begin
ning at a point on the south or east side Of
johnson avenue 621z feet, more or less, north
east from the intersection Of said avenue with
Alabama street; thence ENTHUSIASTICALLY with
said avenue 81 4l-l0O feet; thence south sg15s
east 81 feet, more OF less, to the southeast cor
ner Of said lot No 3; thence southwest q feet
10 the southwest corner Of said lot, thence
northwsstwerdly 500 feet to beginning on
johnson avenue, being the zane lot decreed
TO said Tim McMahsn w decree Of Chaneery
Court Of said county, recorded in book "a,
page $50 OF the Registers Office. frame
house and other improvements thereon. All
right Of redemption waived. Tide believed
to 10 good. but / sell and convey as trustee
only AMOS WOODRUFF, Trustee.
wv Hampton, Attorney IS l2l