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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01
TIE HAUNTED . POOL.
BY DAVID. KER.

The sun was setting over the Gnnges
on" bright summer evening III 1871.
HE day had been a hot one even fol
India, and IT was an unspeakablo relic
tocycryone when the scorching sun be
gaA to decline at last, and the )cngthcn-
hg sfadowssof the tall palms along thu
iyr.bank told that night was at hurd
Md now the Hindu inhabitants of tn,
A"4I.horlu& village, who had been lyina
motiouicss all afternoon under the shade
q their reed .thatched roofs, or Of the
vast overarching hanyan trees around
them, came trooping down to the water
in body.
Instantly the whole bank Of the great
rygr-oo lovely and silent all through
IL" long, burning day became all alive
with noise and hustle. Children pad
d,ei II the broad, still pools, or chased
each other III and out Of the tail, feath
cry bamboo c|ump that grew along the
lAk. Women filled their e,,rthen
pitchers from the stream, ..or. washed
t..jr threadhare clothes. Men began
t" scou their brass lotahs drinking
vesS'l~l, or to kindle fires for the cook
ing # their evening meals: while little
farther down the stream, group Of
Young girls, waling out into The shallow
wat"r, fell to splashing each other with
.ht and main. amid shouts OF merry
laughter.
II any one accustomed 10 the ways Of
lodn, 1t would have seemed strange
turIgh 10 see. upon tho wrists and
ankles of nearly all the girls. and many
ui their mothers likewise heavy bangles
OF solid silyrr, which any western lady
might have been proud 10 wear. Hui
the Hindu peasants, IL whom savings
ha'ks are utterly unknowAi, Aave1l" wa,E
oi Keeping their money safe exctp. hy
carryng it about with them in til,
itN'lnn--a suIut what haE,rdou> 4 Ia. ;. J
must he owned, IN . country .sYprmlns
with the NEST eAper; and DARN ( thlers"
II the world.
Suddenly, one Of the gillS, wso ira
N;nred a little farther ont INTO. tE'
-'s III than the rest. disappeared unde
""'er with licrcing shr!cli. ~
dragged ao"a 10y soia,e u.erpcw, rim
t9rce. A few paaa,.. that rbsc snd
Sc. yto the snrf@awere tl,s nlk toke
o' N.r IT.. whl'e her f'NteAl co,r
l,''ar~ fa,tcl and rit,hSl hack r. Ia
shore ~ y rn-s;h.c, >treami.g
: \ crocodile a croc jhsa
S"v"rat day., hal p.l,>5t~ Ndc.a NJ
q the village Won n dared TO approac
'ne -rglte of TINS terrible n,iscl apcc. !
'ras,h. oue bo.det than thc .(t Vel
'1ird IL A4..1u, .A...l-u4A. utA11a. seem
'f' no harm came of her daring. besa
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01
8 The Country Editor. :
iFrom the Atlanta Constitution

tFrom tle Atlanta Constitution
: @The coun4rvpditor has harsl time OF it.
Tle iss.he reprteS bookkeerer, mechan-
ic.al-superintendent, business manager,
collector, maili,1 s-n acline. and solicit
ing agent Of the establishment. His
work is harJ his receipts small and his
creditors numerous. In small town al
editor has to steer his course SO az to
avoid giving offence to different circles
of society, the religious denominations,
the business community. and the rural
population. II all influential old farm
er wants a three-column notice Of his new
barn. it must appear or the editor may
lose hundred subscribers. Patchwork
quilts, big beets and phenomenal eggs
also clamor for space IN the columns of
the country paper. In the course Of
time The rural scribe becomes either 10
cose or morose, but in either frame OF
mind he continues to make friends who
demand free advertising, and enemies
who work against him.
The congtry editor is always getting
ready to abandon journalism for some
thing else. but Ire rarely carries out his
threat. Ho generally dies ii harness.
IN some wild communities editors occs.-
sonally meet with rough treatmeAS
Some times they are driven ont OF tGe
county, and when other methods OF get
, ting rid of the m fail, they are sent TO
the legislature. The city editor gets
good deal of fun ont of the country
| editors work. but the man. who bears
I the burden regards y a> . s,-rion- bust
! ness. Ard II fh,- h--t s.,'f-esls Is s.rl-
/ ous. Tie little local wevkli.,, scattered
All over tile cslltry are IN their Wy lo-
! 't,ntia' factors If clviIization. Thy de-
veIop their localities. hring their re-
sources before the public, aud =. man
ner educats Their readers. They nra aE
WAYS on the s,.e ~ The churches. the
schools. progress and reform. Mea who
live anal die working for such obI"cis
are public lsenei4ctnrs ari de>e!Te a
substantial reward
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01
The Needy.

A novel ,rayaof aiding the needy has
INST been prt IN operation in Baltimore
Il is the "Proyident" wool-ya where
.seu ,vAo arv wiling 10 voEk can saw q
cord or wdolfor fifty cents. AT present
the place star TOO small and arrange
mentA are making TO enlargeit. Strange
to savNlot ono tramp has yet pu. IN ~
appearance for work. The applicants
are ~ residents of that city who have
leen thrown out Of regular emF.os sment.
one ofthe applicants recently was al
Old 81 y aaa ar.d Inan, fully eighty year
# age. He WI, ot.s II tie frs; - tinisll
liz assigned labor, al4l went Of rejoicing
with lila ha,f- doi.ar
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01
HER srORY.

A little girl, travelling abroad. took up
a French humorous paper. and having
~een a gentleman of the party, who
understood the French language, laugh
when his eye reached certain place in
column, she, too, threw back her head
ind laughed dnppreciatiyely..
pot" said her brother, tauntingly,
"you don't know French enough to
understand that paper What are you
laughing at?"
swell, I gness know joke when
see II, "retorted his small sister, prompt
ly, greatly to the amusement OF those
who were listening.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01

Il see." said Mr.. Sparks. well.
1snaf', yod krow there's Government
reward OF Thousand rupees 1880, for
every murderer brought to justice; see
what you can make of the case
The Mahratta's black eyes flashed
tire, for five hundred dollars is more 10
Hllda than five thousand to a white
man, and such chance did not come
to him every day. He went ont without
word, but Mr. Sparks felt satisfied
that there would be news Of the criminal
before long.
Ismail plunged at once into the sur
rounding Jungle, and traversed il at
pace which few men could have kept up
over such ground and in such climate.
TIL he came Ill sight Of Ramgapj. but IL.
stead OF entering the village he struck
down a by-path TO the river. swan
across, went slowly up the opposite side
till he came to two bamboo clumps close
together, and cropping in the water be
side them, pulled up rope.
had his reas ons for what he did. Then
placing the stone in the shallow water
with the sharp side uppermost, and the
rope lying right across it, be vanished
into the thicket.
An hour had passed since his disap-
pearance, and night had already set in
when dark figure came creeping up to
the same spot, and pulled at the half
severed cord, which instantly parted III
his hand.
The man started, and held up the
broken ends to the light Of the rising
moon, but finding them rough and
fraved as II by constant rubbing, and
feeling the sharp-edged stone living just
beneath, he appeared satisfied that it
mus Mve been IN zaecident and knelt
do<nt1 mot the eos1tag3 her.
so-engro4skn ~iet4e, william with his
ffeacherouss work that hessneer lifted
&{spl4 4aeao91ar a4dlh6 hin, HUT even
&a&@ lterxlex naschfl ne would
-seatcele hate heard the1oiseless footfal
Of one who had been tracking the tigel
and the. antelope through their native
j'inglos ever since lie was ten years old
The rogue was still quite unsuspicious
Of harm, when tail, shadowy figure
rose brhin4 hin, as snldeuly as, if it hai
stnted up @tfrroltsal the earth. and
tremendous blow, from a heavy bamboo
club falliyk upof hissbowed head like :
thunderbot, felled him -senseless to tn.
earth.
That very night the crestfallen robbel
was sent off to the nearest British sta
ton, escorted by strong guarl of IA
tive policemen, to be tired and executed
as he deserved, while Ismail received
from the hands of the COMMISSIONS
himself, together with II warm commen
dation of his shrewdness, the thousant
rhpees which he had SO we'll earned. :
Dsrr Continent.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01
AT THE. PHoroa,ArHER's. 's.

Photographer" Chin 0 little higher,
please There, That is better. Look at
that nail"
= Customer-"Which One?"
Phptographer-"T That big nail near
those two little ones. Your head il
Turned again. Press it back against the
support. There, that is better. l am
all ready now. Keep perfectly quiet
and assume cheerful expression"
Customer-'Beg pardon, but forgot
to ask what you are going to charge me
for these photographs.
Pl,utographer-"S Seventeen dollars;
now look pleasant"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01

An Austin attorney, who had many
times sent away an impecuDious client
with equivocal answers regarding his
case, was one day disturbed under
press Of business by the Aforesaid client
walking into his Office.
"You here again, said the lawyer,
impatient,y. u.
Yes" answered the client ''You
told me TO come back another time.
"Vell, then," replied the attorney,
81 didn't mean thi, time, meant some
other time. - Christian at Work
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01
Cp the BOWery.

The Bowery, i'll New York city, is a
street, and nothing more, but what
street! Shops, Saloons restaurants. >.
concert halls, theatres, museums, pawn
brokers, pistol galleries, dives and dens.
all of cheapest shoddy, like the clothing
disrlaved for sale by the Hebrew deal ers
there; galvanized, like the fiashy jewelry
seen in .lne windows and on the people.
It is the Broadway of the rough elias
mcnts Of the city; the Champs Eysees
OF the poor and criminal classes; the
Boulevard des Common place for the
low down of all nations. An hours
valkw carry one through it, and the
faces and costumes met will represent
every cline and country landsmen and
sean,en. hoollum and Chinaman, Indian,
African, Turk and Norseman, bunko-
man. roustabout and tramp. They all
fall into the miscellaneous and con9IOm-
crate society, the tendency Of which is
ever downward. La early times it was
called Bowery lane, but the dlngy lamp
posts now bear the single word by which
il is known and spoken in every tongue
-"Bowerv. IT is sleepiest whea the
light Of day is brightest, and rises ton
wilder wal,efulnrss rs midnight APP
n-oaches. It has It's daily ebbs and
tows. ANA the tide of sin Is highest when
tlle sacred Sabbath is nearest. Then the
discarded Of earth issue into DIM view
under tie shadow III night, N this
] waste basket Of the human family.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01

''Yvs," said yonng Mr.. Tawnus, ]
sl,ai. leave ;o~n. I think Mr. Scaw-
cham ! e'c,ur 10 cs,s me osr. with Sylvia,
aud ): | i,sye ioau / II make !: app-ar
tina. -i... o,4iy ,ook II with ham b-caa-e
COVE. 7 kn6w Low to l-aAe care
u Iay reputation. ro4t,t. Pn~.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01

"a = N 3, =
Low ~ dir-frs tcc.fng. poura
rfS;ss1 II nS1ss tnasr.n:yrrand
In the ears vi sw.It Aurora.
AZ she rises with = bound.
Driven isv = nj ahsnlsrrs iirgins,
On the wreck of rcason versing,
Wildly gazing af dr~und
At the hcys who wake tho horrors that 30 dole
fully arelorn.
In the chambers al tie horn,
Horn horn. horn
In the dark snd lisnal ca verus Of the born'
Hear the l.ootiug q! tie horn.
Nrr,ehes born
How its harsh. dlscort.s,it note awAkcs our hate
and scorni
How It's drtarv monotone
Turns the softsst hr Art 10 ostone
Worse than ANY parrots shrek,
Worsethan any Chinese gong,
Drawing curses from the strong.
Drawing PRAYERS from the weak
As they listen. all amazed,
Nearly crazcd
Eu,hlessly and roughly from their sHec.es.
siumhers torn
vthe footing Of lie horn.
Horn. horn. horn
By the hooting and tibet ooting Of the horn
Hear ,he s,rcechiny ~ fire horn,
Endless kornt
How i.ai.ls holiday make rs all torlorn
How the horn 5 lneessant waihng
l>,tv CIR al once asSaillng.
iVrc,'s victims IL imI,inre
Just > chance 10 do some shooting,
And 10 stop its tre!css footing
Evermore
How the doings Of the antc
Youngsters hossfly drive us frantic.
Sending Us 10 seek relief in julce. Of grape or
From the screcching OF tue horn
Horn. born, horn
tI,a of tyo
horn
i --Ne,c York Sun.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-01
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1MOl,tH : PAPERS

.WWNT WG fIND ~ TuEM ro >,iiLk
OVER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15
NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATS.
Opinion that the 'Old Ticket" Can Lead
Them to Victory.

Opinion that the "Old Ticket" Can Lead
Them to Victory.
TRENTON, May l4.-The Democratic State
convention assembled here to-day Ex-Gover-
nor Bedle presided Delegates to the Chicago
convention were chosen, as follows;
First dstrict-A j. Steelman and Daniel T. Green
Second-H. B. Smith and r. NJ. J. Smith.
Third-Williard Ross and S w Brown.
Fourth-M c. Swartzweller and Senator Carpenter
Fifth-Thos. j. Flynn and Car1nan f. Randolph.
Sixth-Assemblyman Hargan and Gotfried Kruger.
Seventh-Orestes Cleveland and Martin Stelyes.
The platform reaffirms the principles of the
last Democratic convention, charges the Repub-
licau party with corruption, demands reduction
of taxation. and reform In all branches of the
civil service, and affirms:
THAT we believe the election fraud of 1876 and
1877, by which Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A.
Hendricks were cheated out of the offices of
President and president to which
they were fairly elected, was the most
deadly blow ever aimed at our
system of representative government and that
the duty of driving from power the men who
made that fraud triumphant is the most sacred
obligation ever imposed on the consciences of
free men and it is the sentiment of this conven
ton that they who can best lead us to victory
are those wko were elected in 1876, and UNI
justly defrauded out of their rights-Hon.
Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15
THE LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
Points of English Belief Which Even
Mr.. Gladstone Cannot Shake.
Twenty-Five Arabs Killed and Forty Women
Captured by 0sman Digmas FOrees-PrOg
reSs of AguerO's Expedition
ENGLAND IN EGYPT.


G1adstone's Oratory Observation-Disclosures OF
Osman's Recent Attack.
LONDON May 14.-The News says: Churchill
assumed more the tone of leader than North
COTE
The Telegraph says: For the first time in
his record Gladstone's oratory fell dead upon the
House and the public 1t failed to produce even
semblance of conviction. The enchanter waved
his wand in vain. 1t is to be hoped that Mr.
Gladstone is now convinced that there are GER
tain objects of English belief-as reverence
honor and duty-which are so firmly fixed in the
national mind that even the potent spells Of his
eloquence cannot affect them"
In his attack upon the friendly tribes near
Tamanieb Osman Digma and his men
killed twentp-one of the friendly
Arabs, took forty women prison.
ers, and captured many cattle Of the rebels,
only five were killed. The tribes attacked are
able to muster 5000 men, and they are deter
mined to avenge the death of their comrades
and recover the women.
England has forbidden the sending of Egyptian
troops only to Wady Halfa.
The Mudir of Dongola continues to ask rein
forcements. The telegraph line has been cut be-
yond Debbah, short distance south of Dongola.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS.
Willingness to Drop the Tariff-List of
Delegates to Chicago.
Adjourned

OeleSdCSS TO CTlcaSOs
RICHMOND, May 1.-THE Democratic State
convention was called to order by Hon. John S.
Barbour, chairman of the State committee. He
referred to the improved circumstances of the
party and said it had better outlook than when
it assembled last year. Since then the State had
been redeemed by fairer, more open and clean
er fight than was ever made before. Mr. Bar
bour concluded by naming Hon. John T. Harris
for temporary chairman.
Mr. Harris alluded to the federal investigation
into the Danville riot as invasion of the rights
of States and the rights of the people that ought
to be rebuked He regretted, and was astonished
to see, the great Democratic party higgling over
the tariff question, He was shocked to gee
them fighting one another, instead of joining in
the general fight against the common enemy.
If the Republican party is successful in the com
measures would Be passed for the
oppression of the people of the South,
and where, then, would be the liberties of the
peoplei As for himself. he would rather live
ten years under the present tariff than one year
under Malone. He would rather have that tar
If for fifty years than soc the Southern States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15
AGUERO's EXPEDITION.
Did the Cuban Government Offer Him 3d.
900 to Return to the United States?

Did the Cuban Government Offer Him &Ia,-
900 to Return to the United States?
NEW YORK, May IA letter from Havana,
May 8, says the insurgents under Aguero con-
tinue to hold their own, and every day the pa
pers are publishing defeats by troops and civil
guards of other bands in different parts of the
island, of whose existence the public before
knew nothing. AS regards Aguero, people say
that he must be an exceptional person whom the
government does not want to touch for some
reason or er
1t is almost impossible to get any definite facts
with regard to the report that the Cuban govern
ment has offered Aguero $12, 900 to return to
the United States. The government natural
ly denies it Indignantly, and so will
those through whom it may be made. 1t Is,
however, pretty well established that the gov
eminent would rather have Aguero escape again
by some means than thatt should be obliged to
catch him. Gen Castillo is reported to have
said in a talk with a friend some time ago, that
had Aguero remained in New Yc-k lie would
never have asked for his extradition, but when
the bandit went to Key West with the manifest
intention to return to Cuba, Castillo thought
it his duty to call for the delivery of him. No
doubt exists that the government did pay or try
to pay Aguero good sum to leave Cuba before
he went to the United States. The money was
given to the noted chief of the former insur-
rection, who is now filling good position in
Havana; but the part that went to Aguero was
very small At least this is the story in every
hOdY'S month
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15

THE news from New York is not of a
character to cause apprehension for the
future safety of either legitimate banks
or business. Almost without exception
the failures and suspensions of the
past and present have been of banks which
used their deposito1s' money in illegitimate
ways, and of brokers and spectators whose
business has been nothing more than the most
delirious of gambling. No bank pursuing
a safe, cautious and honorable banking bust
ness has closed its doors, neither has a reputa
bic, conservative, sound business house sus-
pended. This fact cannot be controverted,
and it fully explains all there is in the long
columns of dispatches from New York and
other financial and business centers. Banks
which build railroads and which buy up
real estate and erect 'fiats" and pal
aces on the money deposited in
them, must in the nature of
things, break sooner or later; while brokers
who gamble as recklessly in railroad stocks as
Israel Speyer did in gold must go to the
wall whenever the squeeze becomes hard
enough The interviews the journal publishes
this morning with representative local bank
ers and business men should be sufficient to
at home, and prevent any "panicky" feeling;
but at the same time they should give need
ed warning against the spirit of margin gam
bling, from which the people of Indiana and of
indianapolis are not so exempt as they should
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15

deprived of their rights and put back into a ter
ritOrial condition.
Committees credentials, permanent organi-
cation and resolutions were appointed.
The district delegations chose the following
delegates to Chicago:
First District-W. A. Thorn and d. w Walker.
Second District-James b. Barrowhope and j. II.
Bogart
Third District-R. H. Nash and 3. A. Hancock.
Fourth Distrct-P W. Mckinney and =. W. Ven
able
Fifth Dstrict-C. G. Upton and c. G. Holland.
Sixth District-John r. Thurman and Paul Q. Ed
munds
Seventh District-M. Mccormack and s. W. South
all.
Eighth District-Robert Beverly and Chas. E. Stu
art.
Ninth District-D. 9. Pierce and r. A. Ayres.
Tenth District-J. ]. Graham and Tayor Berry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15

Speaking of remarkable cases, said promi-
nent surgeon yesterday ''there was an operation
performed in this city two weeks ago which will,
in time, attract great attention. lady was
brought to the Jefferson College Hospital suffer
ing from tumor in the throat. She could not
swallow, and unless relief were obtained the
DOOR woman would of course starye to death.
But there was surgeon equal to the emer-
goncy He made an incision into the
stomach and inserted tube about the thickness
of lead pencil, but fine at the point as to be
almost needle-like Through this hole food
specially prepared is introduced aud the woman
is kept alive. In the meantime the surgeon
operates upon the throat OF course, it cannot
be held whether the lady will ever recover but
only other case of the kind remember was that
of Alexander st. Martin, many years ago. A
bullet bored hole in his stomach and the doc
tors utilized the opportunity to note the time re-
quired for various articles of food to assimilate