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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
A Berner Juryman.

A dispatch from ST. 9Louis, NO., avs
l.. A. Phillips, one Of the Jurors who
tried the Berner case in Cincinnati, was
interviewed by a reporter. He SAYS he
came to establish a branch Of his carpet
cleaning works here and will probably
remain. lie say that the jurors be-
i!evet that Berner was forced by threats
to aid IN the murder Il Kirk. and that
they refused to believe the alleged con-
%iession, because they were satisfied it
was obtained by bulldozing and starva-
ton methods. He did no. know the
Berner family at all, but he wanted the
.young mar sent up for life. Seven iu-
rors voted for acqni,tai on the first bal
lot. but lie held out for murder in the
second degree. II was represented that
unless they agreed they could be kept
locked up for thirtv-.hree days, and
their room was small and poorly veuti-
lated, so on Monday morning, SICK him
self and hearing of sickness in lis fam
lily, he weakened and compromised on q
twenty years verdict.
Phillips adds that the murder was not
nearly so bad as lots OF others. but the
newspapers selected Berner as a victim.
and when they failed to hang him in
cited the people 10 lynch the prisoners.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
Life About q Brewery.

A Newton, N. j., brewer has sued a
New Jersey judge for libel. The Judge,
in a temperance speech, is claimed to
have said that he had seen a dead rat in
one of the brewer beer vats. He asked
the brewer if he would not throw the
brewing away. The beer man replied:
ooh, no; my customers will never know
there was a rat in the beer"
1t is also claimed that the Judge stated
that chemicals detrimental to health
were used in manufacturing beer, and
that the men employed at the brewery
washed their feet in the vats.
A BOY found q woman's switch In the
opera house and returned it to her.
"Thank you, my little man." said the
lady; 'you are an honest boy" "Oh,
no, I'm not SO very honest; but I know
what I am" "What are you, then p
"a hair restorer. "-Der Press.
SINCE that big riot the CiScinnati peo-
pie have become so proud that they viii
scarcely speak to q Chicago uan.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
The Chinese Islands.

There has recently been mooted in the
French journals a plan to seize the
Chinese islands of Hainan, Formosa and
Chusan as an indemnity for the expenses
of the wal in Tonquin. The island of
Hainan commands the gulf bearing the
same name. It is a province OF Canton,
and lies partly in the Gulf of Tonkin.
300 miles south-southwest of Canton.
The area of the island is IL, 900 square
miles, the length being 1870 and the
breadth 100 miles. The population OF
the island is $500, 600. The Straits of
Hainan, which separate the island from
the mainland, are only five miles across,
and are navigable only for iunks. Hainan
is n of the least known portions of the
Chinese empire. The mountainous re-
gions in the interior of the island are
unexplored.
At the port of Hollow, which is one
of the open portssof the Celestial En-
pire, the value of the commercial ex-
changes in 1880 amounted to Is, 900, 600
and the maritime movement to $50, OOO
tons. The other ports are not known.
Formosa is a larger island in the China
Sea, lying ninety miles off the province
of Fu-kien, from which it is separated
by the Formosa Channel. It is 237 miles
long, with or average breadth of 70
miles. The number of inhabitants is
5000, 600. Formosa is the part of China
where foreign influence has made itself
most felt. "A telegraph line has been es.
tablished between the two principa1
ports, Tai-wan and Takau, and last yea1
it vas proposed to connect them by
railway.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
Cuba'S Crisis.

Cuba is Ivy nature q land q such mag
a~iiicent possibilities that it is impossible
to view without deep sympathy the
effects of the commercial panic which is
now running what few Cuban merchants
spain has not already taxed into bank
rnptcy. The people Of the United
States have always TO an extent aided
and allotted Cuba in her endcavors to
free herself from Spanish bondage.
Lopez. most gallant among Cuban pa
triots, drew o force Of GOO men from the
United States in 1SlS; and SO great was
American sympathy for Cuba that III this
same year President Polk made Spain an
offer Of 81, Geo, 900 for the island. Ten
years later the Senate discussed the ad-
visibility OF raising the offer to $50. 0O0,-
600. The policy Of seeking additional
territory in the south is not received with
favor in this country: and no thought of
annexation Is now seriously entertained
in any quarter. Meantime the Cubans
have kept their country in a constant
state OF rebellion SO that Spain i'll eight
years sent las, 900 soldiers to. subdue the
island, and yet have been unable to es-
tabiish her control. All this time the
island has been compelled to see her
trade decrease. her manufactures de-
cline, her crops neglected and her peo-
pie deserving to this country and TO Soath
America. Cuba is one Of the few remain
ing countries which are loaded down with
national taxation for the support of a
government other than her own The
dominions Of Spain, Portugal and Tur-
key are about on a par for werkness of
government, burdensome taxation and
the destruction of all native enterprise.
The question is, how long will these bar
rier nations be allowed to stand IN the
path of the advancement Of their colo
MES ?-DetrOit Times.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
New York Newspapers.

The New York Graphic says:-Whcn
the eleven story Potter building at
Beekman street aud Park Row is COM
p!eted the Sun will remove into it. The
first story will contain on the orner tie
finest publication Office in the city, while
the old World press vaults will be ex:
tended and improved to meet the de-
mands Of the new conner. The topmost
story will hold the composing and proof
reading departments, and on the one be-
low viii. be the editorial and reportOrial
rooms, fitted up with every comfort and
convenience. The San has obtained a
lease of these premises which is prac-
t!cally illimitah,e as to the length OF
its duration Immediately upon the
completion of the building, which will
he in about a year, the San will remove to
its new quarters. Then the premises
now occupied by the San will be torn
down and the Tribune building contin-
ned over the site, making one of the great
hlocksof the city and the fines: newspaper
structure on the continent. The 7rib-
mnc Association paid the Sun s375,O 900
for the property. The San bought ii
twenty years g from the Tammanv
Society for $4,000 A few DAYS ago
the FreEeh's Hotel property was sold
under the hammer for s410, 900. It is
understood tia. some time previously
the Sua people offered $500, 900 for it,
bu. the offer was either declined or
could rot, in the then undivided con-
dition Of the heirs interests, he &C
cepted. The Sun then made the lease
OF the Beeknan street premises referred
20.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
HERSELF.
What a Girl Mny do II She Has the Dispe-
aiti0n.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps nas a v1gor-
GUS paper with the above title, on the
subject of self-supporting girls. IN TIE
May 81. Nicholas. Her sentiments on
this topic are forcibly shown by the fol-
lowing extract:
"Girls, first make up your minds that
you will be somethingl All the res
will follow. What you ahall be comes
more easily and clearly in due time.
"a girl of thirteen cannot decide,
with any discretion or any assurance,
whether she will be a sculptor or a wash
woman, a farmer or a poet; but she can
decide distinctly whether it is her wish
or her duty, after leaving school or COL
lege, to remain dependent upon her par
ents or to fit herself for o s~elf-providing
life.
"The education by which you mean
to get your bread and butter, your
gloves and bonnets, is a very different
affair from that which you take upon
yourself as an ornament and an interval
N life. The chemical experiment which
you may some day have to explain to-
pupils of your own is quite another
thing from the lesson that you may never
think Of again. The practice in book
keeping, which may some time regulate
your dealings with live, fesh-and-blood
customers, becomes as interesting as o
oew story. The dull old rules for in
1ection and enunciation fairly turn into
poetry, if you hope to find yourself a
great public reader some coming day.
And the very sawdust Of the French or
Latin grammar becomes ashes of roses to
the stout little fancy that dreams of
brave work and big salary, in some for
eign department at Washington, or tu-
toring girls and boys for college. All
over the terrible ocean, among the law
less sailors, the men with wives and
children to work for are those that lead
the g%entlest and ~cleanest lives. So, on
the great ocean of school-life, the girls
with aims to study for are those whose
labor is the richest and ripest. All
you will never realize till you have tried
it what an immense power owe the life
is the power of possessing distinct aims.
The voice, the dress, the look, the very
motions Of q person define and alter
when he or she begins to live for a rea.
son. I fancy that I can select in 6
crowded street the busy, blessed wome1
who support themselves. They carry
themselves with an dir of conscious self
respect and s~elf-content which a shabby
alpaca cannot hide, nor q Bonnet sill
enhance, nor ever sickness or exhaus.
ton quite drag out" \
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
Some Facts About Tr1chinosis.

Antonio Pisino, the italian laborer,
who is at Bellevue Hospital under treat
ment for trichinosis, is doing well. 1t
has been discovered that the sick man
had an inordinate fondness for raw pork.
Of which he ate large quantities. There
have been five other cases of trichinoeis
in Bellevue Hospital within five years.
OF these only one has resulted fatally.
That was tho case Of a butcher who was
taken to the hospital in 1880. He had
eaten a large quantity of diseased pork
and he died shortly after his admission
to the hospital. The last case wa that
OF o Jew who was admitted about q year
ago. He had eaten a piece of bologna
fansage-the first piece of pork he had
ever tasted. He recovered after a short
illness.
Trichinosis can be contracted only
from raw or underdone pork. A tenn
perature of 155 dogs. Fahrenheit will
kill the trichina. II the meat is thor
oughly picked, and allowed to stay in
the brine, the animalcules will be de-
suoyed. Smoking is not effective mas
much as it reaches only the outside.
Hence bologna sausage or raw ham in
nearly every instance is the means of
conveying the disease. It is only in
cases Of weak constitutions, or when the
patient has eaten immoderately Of the
diseased flesh, that the disease results
fatally. About 25 per cent. of the cases
Of trichinosis prove fatal. There is a case
of a man who had trichinosis, and when
a piece Of his muscular tissue wa exam.
ined, tw%enty-four hours after, live tri.
chime were found in it.-NeW York
Tribune.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
On the Blair Plantation.
A BARREL OF WHISKEY THAT SAVED WASH
INGTON FROM CAPTURE BY CONFEDERATEs.

The Philadelphia Press says: The
story has often been told, but I do not
know that it was ever verified. Mont
gomery Blair told it to me himself a year
or two before he died. We of Washing
ton can never forget the threatening
days in July, 1864. when the city was
defenceless, and a large force of rebels,
under Early and Breckenridge, WAS not
ten miles distance from the capital. No
M denies o that the rebels could have
marched in and taken Washington all
most unimpeded. The Sixth Corps of
the Army of the Potomac was enroute
To defend the city, but it was not quick
enough.
The enemy was halted at Silver
Springs, the country residence Of the
cider Blair, and very near the residence
Of Montgomery Blair. Upon the ap-
rroach of the army the families of both
fled to Washington. The rebel officers
searched the houses and found in the
cellar of Frank P. Blair's house a barrel
Of whiskey. This did the business.
Nearly all the officers became drunk on
this whiskey, and many of the men were
III . like condition. Such an orgie never
was known. The dresses Of the ladies
were taken possession of, and in them
the officers m~asqueraded and held q jolli-
f~ication the whole night long, falling into
ndrUnken slumber in the morning, and
unable to 90 any duty. Early and
Breckenridge, riding up in the morning,
saw the situation, and merely said, ut
is too late and Washington was saved.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
sweet Gum 4 Mullen.

Very few realize that in the exhibition they
see ciinging to the Sweet Gum tree there il q
powerful stimulating expectorant principle,
that Is very healing to the lungs. These two
principles presents in Taylor's Cherokee Rem
edy Of Sweet Gum and Mullen, \ pleasant and
effective cure for Group. Whooping Cough,
Colds and Consumption. Price 25cts and 81. 90.
This with DR.. Biggers' southern Remedy, M
equally efhcacious remedy fo~rCramp-Colic, Di-
srrhna. Dysentery. and children suffering
from the effects OF teething presents . little
MEDICINE CHEST no household should be with.
out. for the speedy relief Of sudden and dan.
gerous attacks Of the lungs and bowels. Ash
your druggist Tor them. Manufactured by
Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga, proprietor Tay.
lor's Premium Cologne.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
DRIFTWWD.

LONDON has $500 cabs and Paris
$500.
There is a strike in the Royersford
Pa, foundries.
KEROSENE oil is solidifed in Russia
and made into candles.
The Oldest peer in Great Britain is the
Earl of Buckinghamshire.
R1cHLY-CARvED dining chairs are up
holstered in alligator skin.
NATURAL gas is to be used for fuel at
the Pittsburg water works.
AT Atlanta, Ga, buildings to the value
of 81, 600, 900 are under way.
Thus far Uncle Sam has received
5000, 900, 600 for public lands.
FIRE destroys an average Of ninety
churches q wear in this country.
THE costs of tue Behaves q
amount to a little over EOS, 00O.
THERE are now 16O miles of shelves
of books in the British Museum.
WITHIN five years Denver has grown
from $4,000 to IS, 900 inhabitants.
Vok MoLrKE is called ''the man who
can be silent in seven languages"
In nineteen private galleries of New
York, are pictures worth Sc, GOO, DOC.
SIX sawmills in Minnesota hope to cut
100, 600, 900 feet Of timber this year.
SIX THOUSAND slaves were liberated in
a single province in Brazil last year.
THE marble quarries around Ellijay,
Ca, are among the finest in the world.
SENATOR MILLER, from California,
owns the finest residence in Washington.
THE Pittsburg green bottle makers
are ct work an the same wages as last
year.
A CHICAGO journal complains that in
temperance is greatly increasing among
women.
A NEW Russian loan of 81, 500, 900
will be devoted to the construction of
railways.
= TIE Soudan is the Ethiopia Of the
Bible, precisely, according toan English
authority.
CALIFORNIA grapes, it is stated, sell in
Paris for so per cent. more than native
production.
THERE are 419 type-setters, besides
apprentices, in the q. 8. Government
printing Office.
THE Fall River Mills strike continues.
The Amalgamated unions have donated
$50, 900 to the men.
On roller skates, Victor W. Clough
covered 100 miles in 9 hours and IS min
utes, at Geneseo, III.
CLEVELAND. O., laundrymen have
combined to drive their Chinese com
kpetitors from the city.
+ The Princess Louise replied to an in
vitation "The Campbells are coming"
and shocked the Queen.
The horses used in the armies OF
Great Britain during the time of peace
number about 10, 200 head.
EIGHT brothers reside in Berks county,
Pa. Their combined height is As feet 2
inches, and weight LAO pounds.
THE Chicago cable roads draw $50
cars, carrying $4,000, 900 passengers
yearly, on twenty miles of railway.
THIS is considered a good year for la.
Dor legislation. Thirteen States have
abolished the contract convict labor sys.
tenn.
THE Broadway Tabernacle pays
81, 23S n year to keep the life of the
pastor insured for $50, 600, in addition te
a salary OF SIG, 0O0.
A DEs MONIES man in a card says
that "as many citizens have failed tt
solicit me to become a candidate for of.
fee, I have concluded to offer my ser
vices to the voters for the office off, etc
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

Sure cure FOX Bind, Bleeding and I.ehink
Pics. one box has cured wors: cases Of %
.esrs standing. No one need safer Eve min
i:e.a:sc- rslng Williams Indian pls Ointment.
Il sDsoFls tuners, al-s.s Itching, acts Is pool
,ioe. gsses saa:3a: relief. Prepared only fox
l.l@s, -scalng 81 private pa-.s- NA.i~d Tor q.
Tr4x3@-, Md Co.. C.ereIAud O.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
4 SAD WALH.-One poor von1r AZ

4 SAD WALK.-One poor woman Ar
rived at Poeahontas, Va. from North
Carolina to see about her husband who
was lost in the mine. She walked all the
.ay-a distance of $50 miles. The re.
lief committee have furnished her With
Means 70 return Goue.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

Skirts Of dresses should be narrow where
there are many founces or superimposed drap-
cries.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

ADVOCATES O. cremation use then facta.
H1,eo dead .-dies ara buried every wear in
the seil around London, or, IN thirty wears.
years to become dust
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
was first prepared IN liquid form only; but now
1t can be sens in dry forms by mail TO points
where no druggist can readily be reached, and
to-day the Compound IN lozengss and pills
finds its way even 20 the foreign chimes o.
Europe and Asia.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

"Samarttan Ne1vinc cured our child's fits.
The doctors failed" Fl. Knee, Verrilla, Tenn.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

"A NATIONAL ruse show Is to be held at
Salisbury, in England. this Z in ths er-
tenslVe and charming grounds Of the bishops
ralaca
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

SIX families wee POS )ne by arsenic In
:ake sold them by a comic :tioner in Louis
willie XIV
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

ASTOUNDING frauds in Gust pms duties arc
reported from WinniI e5. Many Canadian
Indian agents are believed to be peculatoes.
lax others on this side OF the border.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

A MAJORITY OF the cities of Wisconsin
have adopted high license fees, from $500 to
$1,000 for saloons.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

"Paralyzed persons permanently cured"
Guaranteed by propr's Samaritan Nerrinc.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
DruRgfst's Evidcnr,

IT is expected that 1890 head OF cattle
will be driven from Tey as into Colorado this
year, and that :O,oOo more will cone from
other " eSteru States.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

For a cold in the head, there In nothing 20
good as Piso's Remedy Tor Catarrh.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
Another lie .SuyeI.

J. c. Gray. of Dadeville, Ala, writes us:
II nave been using your DR.. VIM. Halls
balsam for the Lungs, and l can say, Of a
TRUTH 1t is far superior to any other lung pre-
paration in the world. My mother was con-
hnedto her bed four weeks with q cough, and
had every attention by a good physician,
but he failed to effect a cure; and when l got
one bottle of your DR.. VIM. Halls Balyam
for the Lungs, she logan to mend right away.
can say in truth that it was the means Of
saving her life. know of five cases that
DR.. VIM. Halls Palsam has cured, and my
mother Is better than she hos been for twenty
years"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
The mRht of tho

The M ght of the Pen.
On, the orators voice is a mighty power,
AS it echoes along the green,
But the fearless pen has more sway DER men
To sound the praises of Carboline.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
The prnTrs. n Init,

Inc FrOfrAt 10 q l utS.
Z Mr.. c. H. draper, of No. rs Main street,
Worcester, Mass, volunteers the 1oiio~-
ing:
Having occasion recently to use a remedy
for kidney disease, | applied to my druggist,
Mr.. D. b. Williams, OF Lincoln Square, this
city, and requested him TO furnish me the
best kidney medicine that he knew OF, and he
handed me a botte If Hunts Remedy, stat
ing that it WAS considered the best because he
had sold many bottles of it to lis customers
in Worcester, and they all speak or It III the
highest terms, and pronaut ce it always relia-
bic. / took the bottle home and commence
taking it, and find that it does the work eff
fectually: and / am pleased t. recommend to
all who have kidney or liver disease the use
of Hunts Remedy, the sure cure.n
April II, 1855.
Mr. Geor,e w Al R. Has to IA. ,e5 Front
street, Worcester, Mass, has just sent US the
following. directly to the point:
Being afflicted with ailments to which all
humanity is subject sooner or later, l read
carefully the advertisement regarding the
remara able curative powers OF Hunts Rem
edy, and as it seemed to apply to my case ex-
actly, l purchased q bottle of the medicine at
Jannery's drug store in this city, and hav-
ing used it with most beneficial results i'll
my own case, my wife and son also COM
menced its use, and it hos most decidedly
improved their health, and we shall centinue
its use IN cur family under Such favorable
results"
Druggf.t's Evidence.
Mr.. George ". Holcomb, druggist, 100 and
13l Congress street, Troy, N. Y, writes
April 7, 1883:
Il am constantly selling Hunts Remedy for
| diseases of the kidneys, liver, bladder, and
urinary organs, to my traie and friends, and
find that it gives general satisfaction to all
! who use it,"
IT is expected that 2JJ.u 90 head OF cattle
will be driven from Teyas into Colorado this
YEAR, and that :O.gOJ more will como from
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

THERE are but fourteen American exhibit
CTS at the Calcutta Worlds Fair, AMI SIX Il
tn Sc are manufacturers of patent medicin 3
and three manufactur,r rs OF ewing machines.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14

To he Consumptive.-Wt ibor's : omr"'T.
very naussasing flavor of The srtic.es a. a"rvio' -
IL endowed b. tho Phe-psa,e OF Lime vi s~
markAhls testimonials Of is efficacy can te - -
By A. d. WILBOR, ChenIst. Roeton. AL ~ aFlts"-