Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-10-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Eli IVhlAls NVII>tNs
THE New York Times is endeavoring
tn boycott the nickel three cent piece.
which Is SO easily mistaken for the silver
,llne 1t came into existence with three
cent postage, an' MANY people believe
that it should be retired with the same
Ot:T Of 700 specimens Of Frcnch per
fumerv examined at the Paris Chemical
Laboratory. 2O7 were condemned as IN
furious to health. OF 1891 specimens
If wine submitted to analysis, only :''557
were pronounced good.
\ NEW York lumhcr dealer recently
imported from the Pyrcncs mountains,
Il walnut log which is twelve feet long
and nine feet in diane cr and weighs -.
OOO pounds. 1t is estimated to be worth
= 600 ,as it lies, and when it is sawed
into veneeringit will yield sixty thou
sand feet which will he worth 5000.
THERE are tust1 M houses which pay
and others that 10 not. TO the later
class belong the following, talulated
from a recent official report for the fiscal
wear ending June 80: Atlanta. Ga. col
lee ctions, $ol: expenditures, 81 .OfS; St.
Augustine Fla. collections Sl:'3; ex-
rcnditurcs 2,22S; York, Ne. collec
tions, s34: expenditures, $3l2
THE largest cattle rancho i'll the world
is said to be that of Charles Goodnight.
at the head of Red River, Texas. He
began buying land four years ago, secu-
ring 27o, 900 acres at thirty five cents an
acre. Ia the meantime the price has
advanced from 81 to - per acre, but he
i still hnving and controls 200, 600 acres.
To encl,sc- his landed possessions a3O
miles Of fence is required. On the
range he has 4O. 600 cattle.
The official statement of the cotton
crop of the United States for the year en-
| ding August 81, 1888, issued hy the ma
| ii onal cotton exchange, shows a total
crop of 6.949 .736 bales, including re-
ceipts at the shipping ports 3,Co?,612;
and shipments l'v rail routes overland to
northern. spinners direct fromzpr, duccrs.
| GlI sol The report shows that the
southern mills consumed 3l3.311} bales
! The increase in the total crop, compared
with the previous year. was ,433, 1oS.
The taklngs Of the United States spin
ncrs for the Year were 2,073,Oo6 bales.
az increase of 1n3. Jt;l.
\ rARILATEn statement of the receipts
and expenses of the average cost of col
| lecting one dollar of revenue III all of the
custom districts of the United States for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888. has
been prepared at the treasarv depart
ment From this statement it appears
that Solo 80. $50 were collected at cost
If 81. 42o IL The cost of collecting one
dollar ranges in the different district
! York. to fifty and cightv-fuur, cents III
Atlanta, the average cost III all Of the
districts being two cents. nine mills and
a fraction. In twenty-nine ont of the
one hundred and thirty districts the cost
of collecting one dollar was more than a
dollar, and IN thirty Of them II was less
than ten cents.
4 RASCAL. Robinson proved hims, |,
clever amateur actor III a London
hospital. He had been caught picking
pocket, and transferred from prison oil
account of seeming illness. He took to
his bed with accurate limitations If ex-
cruciating agony. He eroaned and
cursed SO terribly that his fellow patients
were Mortified Then he resaineG com
posure. and begged TO So out into the
air. Once IN the yard. he knocked the
attendant senseless. scaled the wall, and
escaped TO this country, with over
Sl5. 900 Of accumulated swag.
LAST RESORT. As last resort
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