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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
FAILURE OF A BIG CHEESE MAKER.

ELGIN, Ill, March 23.-Charles ".
Gould, OF this city, proprietor of eighteen
cheese factories in Kane and Lake coun-
ties, has made an assignment. The fail
ure has paralyzed the dairy interests of
this section. Gould states that his liza
bilities are between $50, 600 and 500. 900.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
A SOUTHERN SNOW STORMS.
Ten Inches of Snow in the Vicinity of
DanvilIc, Virginia.

DanvilIc, Virginia.
DANVILLE, VA, March 29.-Snow fell
in this section of the State and in the adj
jacent portion of North Carolina yester-
day morning to depth of six inches, and
last night to a depth of four inches. This
morning the mercury stood at "a degrees.
Tobacco plant beds are all under cover
and are not damaged. Fruit trees and
vines are too backward in budding to
have suffered injury. The wheat crop,
which was previously reported as greatly
injured by the unusual and continued
cold of the winter, will be benefited, re-
ports from the country say, by these falls
of snow,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
WAR IN EGYPT.
Gen. Graham's Version of the Recent
Fight Near Suakin.

LONDON, March 24.-Gen. Graham
telegraphs from the advanced ze-
reba that the British position there
is strong and secure against any
number of the enemy. He regrets the
serious British losses in yesterdays
fight, but eXOnerates Gen. Mcneil from
blame, believing that he did the best that
could be done under the circumstances
Gen. Graham prases the gallantry of
all OF the troops, and says the cavalry
would have given the alarm had not the
rugged nature OF the ground prevented
their seeing more than a short distance,
Though the rebels met with temporary
success they received a severe lesson.
The eOrpseS of over 1000 Arabs have
been counted on the field of yesterdays
battle, including the bodies of many noted
chiefs.
Gen. Wolseley has started for Dongola.
INEXCUSABLE NEGLIGENCE CHARGED.
The impression among officers at Cairo
and facts contained in letters received
from OncerS IN the Suakin advance leads
TO the belief that there was in the move
ment of Sunday an entire neglect of the
elementary precautions that should be
taken IN scouting expeditions. The CEN
sorshlp which prevails over the press re-
ports prevents knowledge of the exact
situation reaching England.
All the Arabs wore FL MahdPs uniform.
One of the banners captured from the
rebels was gift from Ell Mahdi. Two
thirds of the camels are dead. Gen. Gra-
nam mas sent the Indian troops back TO
Suakln.
The total British loss during SUNDAYS
battle was officers and 81 priYates killed
and ITO men wounded. The Arabs, it is
estimated, lost 1900 men in the rush made
by Osman Digna's men. They broke
through one corner of the zereba. The
British recovered promptly and killed
eV,ry Arab who had got behind the lines.
A number of heavy guns have been land
ed by the seamen, and will be at once
forwarded to the front.
THE FINANCIAL AGREEMENT.
In the House of Commons this evening
Sir Stafford NorthcOte again demanded
p0stpOnement Of the discussion of the
Egyptian financial agreement.
Premier Gladstone refused to grant the
postpOnement
Sir Stafford then moved an adjournment.
saying that the House was entitled to
leisure time in which TO digest the mass
of papers bearing on the subject.
Premier Gladstone in reply said that it
was the absolute duty OF Parliament to |
discuss the agreement before the Easter |
holidays. The Egyptian finances had |
reached the end of their tether. Early in |
April amounts of money would be due |
Which Egypt would be utterly unable to |
pay. Unless final agreement should be |
previously approved the whole financial |
burden would devolve upon England.
Sir Stafford Nerthcote's motion was |
withdrawn and discussion of the agree |
ment was fixed for Thursday next.
A number of the Conservative members /
OF Parliament have gone to their country |
quarters. and refuse to respond to Sir |
Stafford NOrthcOte's appeal to return and |
vote against the Egyptian convention. |
The government will have a large ma
jOrIty.
KORTI'S EVACUATION
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
COLD IN THE FAR SOUTH,

New ORLEANS, March 23.-The weather
here is cnseasOnably cold. The freezing
weather of last night extended to within
one hundred miles of New Orleans.
AT Port Gibson, Miss, early fruits and
vegetables were destroyed this morning
by heavy frost.
AT jackson, Miss, there was frost last
night, and damage to the fruit crop is
feared. The mercury was below the
freezing point again tonight.
A dispatch from Crystal Springs, Miss,
reports that the thermometer registers
several degrees below the freezing point.
Ice quarter Of an inch in thickness has
been formed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
schoharie's Bank receiver.

WASHINGTON, March 23.-The Comp
troller of the Currency to-day appointed
Charles Holmes, of Cobleskiil, N. Y. to
be receiver of the Schoharie County
National Bank of Schoharie, N. Y. This
action is based on the Recommendation
of the national bank examiner who in.
Yestigated the affairs of the hank
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24

.-I Autnbiogra9hy or Landlord
.r .atIanta-A FOur-MfIe
-.- which Railroad Paid a
ErayelinE Man 81 ,OOO-The
.-.t au Atlanta Burglar.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
FROsT IN TEXAS.

Specials from numerous points in
Northern Texas report heavy frost in
that section last night. In some places
ice formed. Early fruits were destroyed
or badly injured. 1t will be several days
before the extent Of the damage to the
fruit crop is known. The present cold
spell is very severe for the season. No
material injury to grain is reported.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
Poison in kissing.

In an address delivered before the
Utica On. " medical faculty DIR. Q. nj.
Terry said: Lives are daily sacrificed and
diseases are daily communicated by the
promiscuous habit of kissing. AS Gus
tom it should be abandoned among
women in their greetings.
In the sacred precincts of the fl'eslde.
when death has laid it's relentless hands
on one of its members, the common prac-
ticc of kissing is liable to induce septi-
emia, and thus other precious lives be
exposed to the venomous sting OF death.
AS you can more easily see the action OF
a drug when given in a large dose, so you
will see more pointedly the danger arIs-
ing from kissing by giving an illustra-
tion of malignant disease.
There is no longer any doubt in regard
to the inocubility and infectiousness OF
consumption. 1t is not an established
fact that it is not contagious. When you
remember that more die by its insidious
hands than from any other cause, but
few families or relatives of families can
be exempt from it. This being true,
should not persons visiting such unfor-
tunate individuals do away with the ac-
customed mode of greeting by kissing?
A disease which has resisted the treat
ment of the most skilled up to the pres
ent day should be prevented if possible.
Is human life to be sacrificed for the
sake of conforming to custom? Change
the custom; and other ways of greeting
will be equally popular and much more
sensible and safe.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
SCOTLAND NECK HALIFAX THURSDAY MARCH s. 1885,

knows that one of the most serious OBJ
stacles to satisfactory sparkling lies ir
the preternatural vigilance of the mother
OF the period, who possesses an uncom-
Portable habit of entering the parlor at
frequent and unexpected intervals This
habit nccessitates the venerable and still
successful device of an occasional drum.
ming on the piano by the girl, which ap-
pears to have a singularly reassurine
effect upon the mother about making a
reconnaissance from the direction of the
''settin' room"
Mr.. Skinderson's invention is small
box containing set of hammers worked
Av clockwork, and warranted to run for
the duration of the longest Sunday night
call. This machine keeps up titful but
constant tapping on the piano keys, and
conveys the impression to those outside
that the entire evening is being spent in
music. Mr.. S. guarantees in his adver-
tisemcnts that the. most severely proper
OF mothers will pass serenely up to bed
after the first hours operation of his ap-
paratus, remarking: ''Well, there isn't
any hugging going on in there, that's
certainl" and that the most desperate
male fiirt can obtain reputation for
being that mythical kind of mice
young man. so dear to the heart of the
average parent, by carrying one of those
admirable devices around in his coat t-tail
pocket.
We wish we were half rs sure OF going
to heaven as the inventor is of making
million dollars, and meanwhile aid the
march of real progress by thus calling
the attention of young male readers to
the above suitable and suggestive gift
for their ''best'' girls. San Francisco
Post
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
A SWell'S MiShan.

Blakely Hall tells in one of his letters
a sad mishap to a swell young New
Yorker: A young man with blonde
mustache and the base air of a man of
the world strolled into the Russian baths
yesterday and sat down, with a gingerly
air, on the edge of marble slab, while
he rubbed a swo len eye with one hand,
with great tenderness and delicacy.
Both eyes were in mourning, and the
youth moved as one who was full of
aches and pains. The attendant asked
him if he wanted to be scrubbed, and
the bather looked at him a moment and
then said: Scrubbed? No, thank YOU
that is, unless you can scrub me with
something soft, like a spray of cologne
bristles now." whats the matter?"
asked the attendant, sympathetically.
did you meet an accident?" mo, !"
said the young man, g met a bartender.
Some very fresh friends of mine had fun
with me a few nights ago at an up town
hotel / had just come from Montreal,
and was wearing fur coat which cost
me cool $500, when 1 fell against the
boys. Nothing makes the boys
so unhappy nowadays, you know,
as to see a fur overcoat on another mans
back. It's the fad of the season. But
when l put my overcoat on that night
after sitting with my friends for a couple
of hours, went uptown to make a call
on some ladies. They crowded around
me when got in the house, and began
to admire my overcoat, when l discov
cred most astounding smell of cheese.
It was awful Everybody smeIed it, and
was: obliged to get out in the open air
to catch my breath. 1t wasn't until an
hour afterward that | found cheese
wrapped up in napkins in every pocket
of the coat. When 1 got home l found
a letter from the proprietor of the hotel,
asking me to return the napkins, calling
me thief and promising to proceed
against me criminally. 1t was late then,
but 1 put on pea Jacket and went
around to lick the proprietor. | struck
the bartender first" Here the young
man sank abruptly into silence, the at
tendant leaned over sympathetically and
waited for him to speak again. He
waited and waited, but not word was
uttered Finally he said: "Well, sir,
what occurred?" Il don't know" said
the blonde young man, sadly. Il saw
296 bartenders come for me at one fell
swoop, and when l got up out of the
gutter two blocks below the hotel, |
made up my mind that I'd had all l
wanted that Mi ght."
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
How Some Statesmen Write.

Senator Garland, of Arkansas, writes
like copper plate.
John A. Logan's signature takes up q
whole page.
Judge Gresham pens his name in big
black curves.
Senator Hoar's signature is cold and
reserved.
Senator Lamar's signature looks like
the writing of a monk of the middle
ages.
Senator Frye writes his name, State
and date without taking his pen from
the paper.
The hand of David Davis is as heavy
as himself. He uses black ink and pune.
tuates profusely.
Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, usea
more ink than any other man in the Sen.
ate to write his name.
Senator German, of Maryland, writes
a big bold hand. It is the hand of a
man in sound physical condition.
The late Senator Anthony wrote n
hand modelled on the tracks in the mud
of his big turkey farm in little Rhode
Island.
Senator Edmunds has an lille gible sig
nature, which looks more like the sign
on a Chinese tea box than. English script.
-Cleoelaad Leader.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
/" Blame 1t All on Mel"

A grand crash-a shower of splinten
bump! bump! and the coaches settled
back on the rails, and the passengers
picked themselves up and cried out to
each other that there had been a coils
ion.
So there had. Freight No. II was
pulling in on the side track, but the day
express thundered down on her while
the long train was third of it's length
on the main track.
Some one had blundercd. Some ones
watch was off time. Some one must be
held responsible for the accident.
Under the overturned locomotive was
engineer, pinned down to the frozen
earth by one of the drivers, and when he
had been relieved, doctor, who was
among the passengers. knelt beside him
and said:
"Arm broken-Heg broken--foot
crushed to pulp. He cannot live"
Who had blundered2 Who had dis
obeyed orders? The conductors of the
two trains were comparing watches and
orders, when the engineer beckoned
them.
81 alone am to blamer' he whispered.
81 wasn't due here until 10 10, and it was
just 10 :O5 when struck the freight. l
was ahead of time-running on her time"
$50 it was-so it was, whispered the
two conductors.
''This morning when I left home,
continued tie engineer, ''the doctor was
there. Our little Jennie-our five year
old-was sick unto death. In her de
lrium she kept crying out: Don't go,
papa don't leave little Jennie to die
1t was like knife to my heart to leave
her, but go l must. l was leaving the
house when the doctor put his hand on
my shoulder, and said: Tom, my boy,
by 6 o'clock tomorrow morning she'll
either be kead or better.'"
tWhat a long day this was to me
he went on after a bit ''When pulled
out Of the depot tonight, headed for
home and Jennie, 1 wanted to fly. l
kept giving her more steam, and l kept
gaining On my time. We aren't due till
I, YOU know, but 1 wanted to be in at
6-aye! an hour before that When the
thought came to me that Jennie might
be dead when next entered the door |
should have pulled the throttle wide
open if the fireman hadn't grabbed my
arm"
''Poor mani" they whispered as J.
shuddered with pain and seemed to be
exhausted.
eyes, blame it all on me, F." he whisper
ed. "No. 16 had five minutes more to
get in, and she'd have made it all right.
but l stole her time. And now-and
now
He lay so quiet for moment that the
doctor felt for his heart to see if it still
beat.
"And now-that's her-that's Jennie.
She's beckoning-she's calling! Right
down the track-over the high bridge
through the deep cut-Im coming
coming!"
And men wiped tears from their eye
and whispered:
''Hc has found his child in death!"
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
Perfume From the Acacai.

In the manufacture of perfume, the
acacia is the favorite flower with the New
Orleans makers. 1t grows wild. is mex
haustible, costs nothing, and give results
more nearly approaching the delicacy OF
the violet perfume than that created
from any other flower, except, OF course,
the violet itself, which is considerably
more difficult to get in sufficient quanti-
ties, and which is expensive, compare
lively. In extracting or distilling the
scents the flowers are laid in layers of
grease, and it becomes necessary in pro-
ducing the finer perfumes to change
them as often as twenty times, and
twenty-four hours being given to each
installment. The flowers are placed in
the grease in perfectly dry condition,
and gathered after the dew is dried. ).
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
WORDS OF WISDOM.

The advantage to be derived from
virtue is so evident that the wicked prac-
ice it from interested motives.
The more able man is, if he makes i'll
use of his abilities, the more dangerous
will he be to the commonwealth.
The conqueror is regarded with awe;
the wise man commands our esteem; but
it is the benevolent man that wins our
affections.
Let us begin our heaven on earth: and,
being ourselves tempted, let us be pitt
full and considerate and generous in
Judging others.
Avoid raillery; it offends him who is
the object of it: he that indulges this
humor is the scourge of snriety. an6 all
fear and avoid him.
What man knows should find its ex-
preston in what he does. The value of
superior knowledge is chiefly in that it
leads to a performing manhood.
Haste and rashness are storms and
tempests, breaking and wrecking busi-
ness; but nimbleness is full, fair wind,
blowing it with speed to the haven.
Man creeps into childhood, bounds
into youth. sobers into manhood, softcns
into age, totters into second childhood,
and stumbles into the cradle prepared
for us all.
A mans conscience is his sole tribunal :;
and he should care no more for that
phantom ''opinion" than he should fear
meeting ghost. if he crossed church
yard at night.
If, by irstructing child, you a. :
vexed with 1t for the want of adroitness,
try, If you have never tried before, to
write with your left hand, and then re-
member that child is all left hand
Nothing so cements and holds to.
gether in union all the parts of society as
faith or credit; which can never be kept
up, unless men are under some force OF
necessity of honestly paying what they
owe to one another.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
A Late Discovery.

met him on Canal street. New Or
leans, or rather, he came up to me as l
was leaning against door r-post, and
asked:
> "Be you from Illanoy2"
: "No-Michigan."
"That's too bad 1 wanted to find
somebody from lllanoy."
=. 'Broke!'
tsNo, notyet. See here, I'm pizenly
bothered" -.
.sWell?"
"Well, Eye been "a hired man in Illanoy
for the last thirteen years, gettin' about
sixteen dollars a month and board. I've
allus looked upon board as wuth about
q dollar week, but"
"Well?"
Il just kinder filled up back here at
the restaurant-just about half square
meal-just huff to pitch hay or hoe
corn on for an hour, and what dye
'spose the figger was?"
"Oh, about seventy cents"
''Seventy pumpkins! 1t was 81. 80 or
Pm sinner. Say!'
eyes"
"That's $3.50 day for fodder, or
about 500 a month A hundred a month
is twelve hundred year. Thirteen
times that is about $15, ,00O?"
eyes"
"Say, I'll be gosh-baked and forever
stepped on if haven't been one o. these
aristocrats-a bloated bondholder-a
gosh-fired monopolist all these thirteen
years without knowing it! Tucked away
$15, 900 worth of fodder! Woosh! but
want to meet somebody from Illanoy
and pint theifnger of financial independ-
ence at him !"-Detro;t- Free Press.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
Had a Good Trade.

Among the peculiar characteristics of
the great jurist was a passionate fond
ness for martial music, good, bad. or in
different. Another was the extreme sim.
plicity he affected III the matter of wear
ing apparel, often being mistaken when
in his prime for workingman or com
Portable mechanic. Upon one occasion.
while busily engaged upon his great
work, he heard the drum of recruiting
party, which had taken its station in the
old Capitol park, and was beating a
point of war. Leaving his task, and ap-
preaching the scene. that he might hear
the better, he commenced insensiblv to
whistle the reveille, when the recruiting
officer accosted him.
"You are fond of music, my fine fell
low.!" said he.
eyes" was the reply.
''Well, then," said the sergeant, "why
not enlist? Good bed, solid food, and
lots of good company. You needn't
even carry the banner, and are sure of
plenty Of grog. Come, you'll go, won't
you!'
"Well, yes" replied the chancellor.
81 would, if had not one very strong
objection that don't think can be over.
come"
"What is ita" queried the son of
Mars.
81 have good trade" responded the
votary of the Thespian Temple, land I
bate to leave it."
"What is your trade2"
81 am chancellor of the State of New
York"
"Whew! beg pardon, excuse me, y
muttered the crestfallen sergeant.
"Strike up-quick time-forward-
march" !"-Albany Erpress.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
NUMBER Is.
SECRET THOUGHTS,

hold that thoughts are things
-ndowed with being, breath and wings
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results or ill.
That which We call our ''secret thought
Speeds to the earths remotest spot,
And leaves its blessings or it's woes
Like tracks behind it, as it goes
It is Gods law Remember it
In your still chamber as you sit
With thoughts you would not dare have
known,
And yet make comrades, when alone.
These thoughts have life, and they will fly
And leave their impress, by-and-by,
Like some marsh breeze, whose poisoned
breath
Breathes into homes it's fevered death
And, after you have quite forgot
Or all outgrown some vanished thought,
Back to your mind to make its home,
\ dove or raven, it will come.
Then lei Your secret thoughts be fair;
They have vital part AMI share
In shaping worlds and molding fate
Gods system is 50 intricate!
Ella Wheeler lVilcor. in Good Cheer.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
VOLUME ].
THE SEASONS.

When that the jocund Spring is here,
And violets blue meath hedges peer,
When cowslip bold and oxlip pale
Adorn the dell and star tie dale,
Methinks that it's the time of year
Which most of all becomes my dear.
When Summer with her glorious train
OF s,lltry hours, reigns once again:
When heavy hangs each roses head
With languor of much sweetness bred,
Methinks that It's the time of year
W hich most of all becomes my dear.
When Autumn steals DER weald and void,
Bespangling many a copse with gold,
When violets ope their eyes anew,
And sleeping meads are white with dew,
Methinks that tits the time of year
Which most of all becomes my dear.
When Winter, softly passing by,
With snowy plumes wells earth ana sky;
When snowdrops in Gods acre prove
That death is not the end of love,
Methinks that It's the time OF year
Which most of all becomes my dear
ST .Jomes'S Gazette
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
The First Clock.

The first clock which appeared in Eu-
rope was probably that which Eginhard
(the secretary of Charlemagne) describes
as sent to his royal master by Abdallah,
king of Persia. ga horologe of brass,
wonderfully constructed for the course
of twelve hours, answered to the hour
glass with as many little brazen balls,
which drop down on sort of balls un-
derneath, and sounded each other. !"
The Venetians had clocks in S72, and
sent specimen of them that yesr to
Constantinople. -Jfuezers' Oreulsr..
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
=
Naming the Baby.

What shall you name the baby, Ethel
rida2-.A All, that's what's troubling you,
IS it. .dear2 You don't know whether to
call him Jabez. after his rich old uncle,
or wheth6r~ro dover him with something
in the Clarence, or Eustace, Or Ronald
line, chg Well, now, dear child, don't
fret aboHt it. You may sit down with q
catalog1e of the Blankside Library, and
pick out the most ladylike name that the
novel-readers ever reveled in; but it
won't help him out much. For just as
soon as that dear little auburn head gets
high enough from the ground to go to
school and get punched by its fellow
boy, that name question will be settled
by unanimous vote of the whole edu-
cational establishment. and he may be
Sidney Fitzherbert Marmaduke right up
to the handle, but, he will go through
his boyhood as ''Carrots," or ''Redtop" "
or "Straw berry Pete,'' and he will have
to settle down to liking it, too, Ethel
rida.-PucE.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-05
Not the Right Answer.

s'Darling, he said, as he tried to tickle
his wife under the chin. "why am like
the moon?"
''You are not like the moon, John
Henry, in any particular.
"Why, how do you make that out, my
dear?"
because the moon has been full but
twice this month";
He says that isn't the right answer
Neacman Independent.