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The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-04
VOL. XIX.
BREEDING LYNCHING.
[Lenoir Topic.1

[Lenoir Topic.l
''Banishing" a man for committing
rape is novel punishment to be inflicted
by a justice of the peace. Such legal
travesty, such an outrage of Justice in her
own temple as, believing the published
report, we must consider the foolish and
criminal magistrate at Marion guilty of
when he turned Shuford loose, are the
causes that have lynchings for effects. To
denounce lynching one week and to be
confronted by such case as this the next
is extremely trying.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-04

what Has Happened in the Good Old
State Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
lPosTAL CARD NEws.-The friends of the
CHRONICLE in every section of the state
are requested to aid us in making this de
partment an accurate record, in brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
US postal card whenever anything of
public interest transpires in your nei gh-
borhood or section of country You will
aid us and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-04

THE Farmers Exchange is the name of
a new and bright paper started at Fay
etteville by J l. o. EVANS 1t will be ''a
weekly agricultural paper, devoted to the
interest of every industry in Cumberland
county, and especially to the upbui!ding
of the Farmers Alliance, and the promo
ton of the Cumberland Fair" 1t starts
off well and we wish it much success
WE DIDN'T GO TO Europe this year with
the teachers, but We'll wager We saw as
much Of the sights as most of them did
We saw the sights, not by means of our
natural eyes, but through the interesting
and charming letters written for his pa
per daily by CAPT. 7. ". PATTON, editor
OF the Asheville Citizen We are glad that
he is back, but We shall miss his bright,
original European letters.
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He died At his residence.
He did eat his residence.

''In this way was able to show her that
by the letter se' slipping out of the word
died and taking its place before the next
word, at the trouble had been done. She
was satisfied at last that the statement
had not been made Intentionally, but in
sisted on a correction. thought Q correc-
tion would only serve TO attract public at
tention to the distressing matter, but she
was firm and declared she would have a
correction or blood would how. AS she left
the ofice she turned upon me with Q glare
in her eyes and said:
"'You git right down on your marrow.
bones, old Huckleberry, and say yer news.
paper lied or you'll hear from me aginr'
/ saw that q correction Il had to be. and
IN the next issue of the Parker's Landing
Battle-Axe said, in effect, that in justice
to the family Of the late Mr. Mayapple, and
especially to his charming but bereaved
widow, we wished to correct . misstate-
ment which appeared In our last issue. II
was therein stated, we went on to say, that
she late Mr.. Mayapple did eat his resi-.
dence on Wednesday, We had found, on
investigation, that this was not true, and
while 1t was not apparent on its face. yet
the statement was very damaging one to
the bereaved widow. As the statement is
printed it leaves the said bereaved widow
without house to live in, without roof
between her bewitching head and the pelt-
ing storms Of heaven-a statement which,
il uncorrected, would have tendency to
interfere with her chances for second, third
or fourth marriage, as the case might De.
While there arc plenty of men iu town who
would be glad to take this charming widow
without q mousse or home, without one cent
to rub against another-aye, without a
stitch to her back-yet the statement OF the
lossof her residence is untrue. and hereby
stands corrected. We said further that It
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was foolish statement to make In the first
place, and a moments thought. had he been
capable Of such mental effort, should have
convinced our reporter of his error.
Mr.. Mayapple had been i'll for O
long time and could not have eaten
his residence, even had he so desired. We
find it was as much as he could do, with his
impaired digestion, to eat the delicious pies
and cakes with which his now bereaved but
charming widow smoothed his pathway to
the tomb. Besides his dyspepsia, the late
Mr.. Mayapple was troubled with bad teeth,
and any statement that he ate his residence
was absurd in the extreme. 1t is true that
the left wing of the house is gone and the
portico missing, but these were blown away
by the late cyclone. In this connection it is
well enough to say that the rumor did not
arise from story cruelty bruited about the
streets some time ago that Mr.. Maypole
was gradually drinking up his house and
lot Then we explained just how the error
had occurred. That Mr.. Mayapple had died
at his residence on Wednesday, and a typo
graphical error made us say that he did eat
his residence on that fatal day. The corpse
had been buried, but the bereaved but
charming widow could be found at her hus-
bands late residence Her fearful eyes
and widows weeds would prove the state
ment of her husbands death, and the resi-
dence itself would disprove the other state
ment that the same had been devoured by
the late Mr.. Mayapple.
s'I made the correction as specific as pos
sible," concluded Mr. Bowersox, sand the
next time I met the widow she smiled
sweetly but sadly. and, remarking that it
was the incest article she had seen in
newspaper in long time, invited me to call
and ace heru
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
DOWN IN vIRGINNX.
Some OF the Quaint Customs Observe
In the Old Dominion.

Some OF the Quaint Customs Observed
In the Old Dominion.
az found Q peculiar custom up at Shep-
herdstown, W. Va, whereI spent my vaca-
tion,n said Fred Ernst to Washington
Post man, (which was q novelty. The peo-
pie have what they call soups A soup is
q sort Of outdoor picnic. Each person in
vited brings dressed chicken. The host
provides the vegetables. The chickens and
vegetables are put into huge kettles holding
ten TO twenty gallons and cooked over open
fires for several hours until the combina-
ton is reduced almost to q jelly. Pepper
and other seasopings are introduced. The
young folks stir the soup with long
handled iron spoons, walking around the
kettle as they stir. When q girls spoon
clinks against the spoon of a young man he
is bound to catch and kiss her. As you can
imagine, there are good many lively
scrimmRges around the kettle. When the
SOUP is done it is ladled out into plates and
eaten, and it is delicious.
ssThe custom is an old one, and was un-
able to find its origin. A company of Stone
wall Jackson's command was recruited
around Shepherdstown, and it still keeps
up the organization. It has a reunion
every year and celebrates the occasion with
grand soup A soup of that company
to be properly gotten up should be made Of
stolen chickens, but the veterans have had
to give up foraging since the war, and now
make compromise with necessity by go
ing around in squads and robbing each
others hen-roosts by a prearranged un-
derstandiDg
sColonel W. A Morgan is the directing
spirit in an agricultural fair which is held
annually in Morgan's grove near Shep-
herdstown- A feature of the fair is a
speech by some prominent man. This year
General Rosser was the orator
IS Now, see here, General said Colonel
Morgan, there are as many Union men
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oIazlng away against the North ana onend-
ing these people,
"'But have my speech all written OUT
exclaimed General Rosser.
"'Can't helpit. Just talk about agricult-
ure, il you please
$50 the hero of the Shenandoah had to
bottle his hurrah speech, though he couldn't
help letting a little of it out.
''There was travelling photographer up
there" continued Mr.. Ernst, s''who came
over to take a picture of Colonel Morgan's
guests. We arranged ourselves on the front
steps, General Rosser took his position on
the porch. A couple of colored boys came
out and stood on each side of the General.
"'Get out of this' he shouted; 4 don't
want any darkies in a picture with mer
THE boys shot on into the house and
sneaked around into the parlor, where they
stood In the windows. When the pictures
were finished there was General Rosser as
natural as life with grinning colored boy
in each window at his back"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
eowERsox AS AN EDITOR.
Plunged in an Awful Dilemma By . Typo.
GRAPHICAL Blundor.

-
GRAPHICAL Blundor.
"Speaklng of misprints in newspaper
said Uncle Silas Bowersox to New York
World man, ''reminds me ola curious ex-
perience l had in that line when was run
ming a country weekly at Parker's Landing,
before quit the business and went to farm
ing. In announcing the death of Mr.. May
apple, one Of our citizens, / wrote that he
died at his residence on Wednesday, To
my awful dismay it appeared in the paper
that Mr.. Mayapple did eat his residence on
Wednesday, AS soon as discovered the
fearful error ! grabbed my hat and coat
with the intention of leaving town for q
few months, but before could get out
Of the ONCE the widow, fearful and tempest
uous, came In upon me with Q copy Of the
paper in her hand. She sat down on an up
holstered nailkeg, and, although . good
deal out Of breath, said, with much asperity:
"'See here, what In thunder do you mean
by printin' in your paper that my husband eat
his residence on Wednesday, You knowed
you was utterin' Q willful, malicious state
ment when you penned that audscious lie.
My husband is dead, sir, but / don't propose
to let any lop-eared newspaper poke fun at
him or me. Come up and see for yourself
that his residence Is standin' just as good
as IL ever was and hasn't been eat any moro
than you have, you low-lived leperi For .
cent would wipe the everlastin' earth with
you and yer whole blamed printin' shop
''As soon as l could" continued Mr..
Bowersox, 81 explained to the bereaved
widow that 1t was q grievous misprint
explained to her at length how editors were
annoyed by typographical errors, and how
impossible it was to keep them from creep
ing into the paper, even as little boys creep
under the circus tent. She was angry and
ugly, and had to write the two sentences
together and show her that the simple
change of place of one letter had made tha
whole dreadful error. wrote the sentence
out for her thus;
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ORIGIN OF WORDS.
The Etymology Of Expressions That A
in Every Body's Mouth.


in EVory Body's Mouth.
Etymology, though an exact and pains
taking science, is absorbing and, contrary
to general theories, very much alive. Some
of what may be called its popular deter
limitations the School Journal has recently
published:
There was an old practice, in the years
egone, that woman should never be mar
ried until she had herself spun set Of
body, table and bed linen. 1t is not difficult
to see how easily the term became applic-
able to all unmarried women, and finally be-
came law term and became fixed as
spinster
The word "teetotal' had its origin through
suffering temperance orator, who urged
his hearers that nothing less than "te-te-
totar' abstinence would satisfy temperance
reformers.
The first vessel Of schooner rig is said to
have been built in Gloucester about the year
1713. When she went of the stocks into
the water q bystander cried out: "Oh, how
she scOoEsin The builder instantly replied
IA schooner let her be,' and from that time
vessels thus rugged have gone by that name.
The word scoon is popularity used in some
parts of New England TO denote the act of
making stones skip along the surface Of the
water.
It is said by the author of the Queens
English that the people OF Carnwood
Forest, Leicestershire, when they desire TO
hail person at q distance call out not
"halloo'' but "halloupp This he imagines
Is q survival Of times when one cried to
another: "a loupl q loup" or, as we
would now say: "Wolf! wolff"
"Hurrah" is derived from the Slavonic
hura, ITO Paradise" which signifies tha,
all soldiers who fell fighting vallantly wen,
straight to Heaven "Prithee" is obviously
q corruption Of ~ pray thee" while
''marry' was originally method Of swear
Ing by the Virgin Mary.
The aristocracy Of SPAN was held to con
sist Of those who traced their lineage bach
TO the time before the Moorish conquest
These people were whittier than those WIN,
had been mixed with Moorish blood; tn,
| veins upon their white hands were blue
while the blood of the masses, contami
mated by the Moorish infusion, Shove.
| black upon their hands and faces So tn
| white Spaniards of the old race came Il
| declare that their blood was ''blue," Will,
that Of the common people was black. tn
| phrase passed to France, where it had n
such significance, and was. in fact, quit
an arbitrary term, and SO to England ant
, America.
| General Jackson, when judge, indorset
20. Rn on many papers, meaning 'sorde
recorded" Major "Jack Downing" (Seb
SMITH saw papers thus indorsed. but tool
| the initials to be 80. X" which he de
| clared in fun was meant by General Jack
| son for "Oll Korrect" This took with tn
| people, and is used still.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

Dry, loose sand, wherever it occurs, il
constantly beng shifted by the wind, and
often buries cultivated lands, buildings and
forests On the shores of Lake Michigan
are drifts 100 feet deep. and those of Corn
wall will reach 800 feet in depth, while the
drifts of the Cobb desert are 40 miles long
and 900 feet high in places On the shores
of the Bay Of Biscay the drifting sand tray-
els inland 10 feet year, in parts Of Den
mark "a feet and in Southern India IL yards.
In some places walls and barriers Of vege-
tation have been created to stop the de-
stroying drifts. Fine sand is taken up to q
great height in the air and deposited many
miles away. In 1882 Iceland was visited by
q remarkable sand-storm, lasting two
weeks, which hid the sun and objects few
yards on like dense fog, and caused the
death Of thousands Of sheep and horses.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

ground. Tnere also the heaviest drapery
prevails In England, Germany and Russia
the funeral of the dead is carried on by pri-
yate individuals, with the exception that in
Russia the work of the embalmer is in the
hands of the government. There, as gen.
orally throughout Europe, it costs $500 to
embalm body, the process being, as is
supposed, that of the Egyptians and is held
a secret -
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
CLEvERLY TAKEN IN.
Hoy . Book-Agent Conquered ChoIerI
Old Gentleman.

Hoy Book-Agent Conquered . CholorIo
Old Gentleman.
Az extremely stout, choleric old gentle
man sat in his Office on Friday fuming over
lot Of papers and swearing TO himself,
says the New York Sun. He was in q
beastly temper, for things had gone wrong
ever since morning, and now and then he
cast his eyes about as IL in search of some
thing TO kick rs an outlet for his tempestu-
Gus state Of mind.
"That book-agent n out here, sir" said q
clerk, thrusting his head through the door,
''Show him in" yelled the old gentleman,
greedily, "and I'll kick the everlasting
stufing out Of him.
A minute later pretty little girl came
demurely In, and drawing chair up to the
old gentleman's desk smiled sweetly.
"Just excuse me minute" said the old
fellow. "There's nasty book-agent com.
ing"
~ am the book-agent, sir" said the little
girl, and she thrust q hand away down
through hole IN her dress and brought up
volume.
Cant I sell you q copy, siri'' she said,
cheerfully, rushing through the leaves "It
Is only five dollars, and is profusely Illus.
trated, and 50 needful that no home is COM
plete without one. Buy copy, please, and
shall forget that you called me nasty"
"I didn't" pufed the old gentleman, ex-
citedly. 81 swear never said any thing Of
the kind. Leave the book"
Then the old man yelled: "John, give
this young lady FIVE dollars"
When the old gentleman picked up his
book to carry it home he discovered that
1t was collection Of love songs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

When Andrew Clark entered the London
Hospital as an assistant he was in poor
health "Poor Scotch beggar, +" said one Of
the faculty, "let hiIa have q place; he can
not possibly live more than six months. .
He Is now. after these many years OF emf
nent service. Sir Andrew Clark. perhap
the most famous physicisn IN England
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

East Lynne Eight Years Wanderings in Ceylon Eotts
Poems Evenings at Home Green Pastures and Pccadly
Florida Hyperion mgeows Poems, Life of Franklin, Maid
of Athens Mtons Poems New Magdaen Mysterious Is
land Nicholas Ncholby, Old Curiosity Shop Pickwick Pa
pers Ramola 10000 Leagues Under the Sea, &c. &c. &C.
have these hand that customers may what
they get before they make herpurchase This
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
CHURCHES.

DAPTIST.-Preachlng each sunday at II a..
DIN. and at : 80 p. m, at the courthouse. Sun
day school alto O'Clock, a m. Prayer meeting
wednesday evening OF each week. Rev. w. A
Cain, Pastor. Residence on Cor Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry Streets.
OtHRIsTIAN.-Prea every Sunday at
~ IL o'clock, n. m, and $50 p. IN, by Elder
David Nation. Prayer meeting every We'd
nesday night. Sunday school mt 10 o clock a. m.
every Sunday.
METHODIST EPISCOPAB.-Services every
xN4 Sunday at IL 100 a. m. and go p IN. sun
day school every Sunday mt 10 a. m. Prayer
meetinA every Wednesday evening at $3.50.
Strangers invited. X. SANDERSON, Pastor.
DRESBYTERIAN.-Se every sunday at
Z IL q. III. and Z 80 p. IN. Sunday School at
IOa J. Ii. NORTH, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH Services on End
Sunday OF every month at Sherlock's hall, al
1000 A. M REV. BITTER Pastor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-Hold reg
" ular services at Mingona, Barber county,
the second and fourth Sundays in each month.
At Forrest school house on the second Sunday
Cedar Creek school house on the third Sunday
BY Elders Shamberger. Smith and Neher.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
-ne UnIId'c SenoE;c.

While loading sugar On our boat on Sunday
recently at Louisiana plantation, says a
writer in the Cincinnati Commerciai-Ga-
zette, some of the passengers strolled back
toward the settlement and went into q
church just as q couple had taken their
child in for baptism. The old colored
preacher, noticing the large crowd Of white
visitors, extended them cordial welcome
and asked all to be seated; then, turning to
the couple before him, asked:
s'Ob what denomination am dis chilei"
"Sahf" said the young father, evidently
perplexed by the word denomination.
81 axed yo' OBJ what denomination de
chile war;" repeated the minister, a little
severely.
The parents looked at each other in evil
dent confusion for moment; then the
father stammered out: "I-we-doesn't
know what yo' means by denomination,
sah"
'Huhi yo' don'tp' replied the preacher,
scornfully; ''well, den, III simplify it
'cordin' to yo' ign'ance, SO yo' kin under
stand It; am de chile boy or gal chileia
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
Prices were never so Low for Hone
PRETTY GIFTS !SUITABLE GIFTS

Ladies' vest chains and fobs, rolled plate, 6,
year guarantee, SZOO 10 S6'OO
Ladies' and Cents charms 25c to $500
Society charms and pins, rolled plate and
gold SIPS to $4.O0
Ladies', Misses. Child's bracelets, 4Oc. to $S
Child's pins with bangle, lOc.
Ladies' and Gents gold and rolled plate
Dins. 25c to S5 90
Ladies' and Gents cuff buttons, 25c. to $7.OO
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04
ABOUT SHOOTING IRONS.

Fashions Have Changed Considerably
Since Flint-LOck Times.
"If you arc interested in shooting irons, I"
said gun dealer in Lower Broadway not
long ago to New York Sun reporter, '1et
me show you some pistols. They will indi-
cate how fashions have changed among
shooting men during the last forty years" !"
In a neat mahogany case which the dealer
placed on the counter lay two single bar
relied pistols. The barrels were foot long.
The bore was half inch in diameter. Bar
rels. locks and stocks were elaborately and
tastefully engraved by hand. The stocks
were peculiar in shape in that horn pro-
jected so as to fit between the thumb and
the rest of the hand and keep the weapon
from jumping up when fred. There was o
circle of steel in the case that was for cut
ting patches for the round ball used in load
ing the pistol Bullet moldS were also in
place, and a powder flask and cap box as
well. 1t was first-class dueling outfit.
''They are for sale," said the dealer, "be-
cause dueling is out of fashion. They cost
lot of money when new, and it will take
SOS now to buy the outfit. Forty years ago
no other sort of weapon was used in the
shooting galleries. The gallery man loaded
the weapons and gave the word as if duel
was in progress, and the would-be expert
HE6u AZ Tue OUT Inc OF B man placed Twelve
PAGES away. Although revolvers were In
vented before the date speak OF, the duel
ing pistol held its own in the shooting gal
leries until after the war.
"While shooting men clung to the duel
ing pistol for gallery practice in anticipation
OF needing knowledge of It some time,
they could not carry such a weapon around
with them The derringer was accordingly
brought out as a pocket pistol. 1t was a
short weapon, the barrel being but two and
half inches long, but in the hands Of the
old-time gamblers on the Mississippi steam
boats it was deadly weapon. They often
fought duels with derringers, while in
hand-to-hand conflicts derringers were in
variably used if any weapon besides bowie
knife were drawn.
"Of course the fact that the derringel
had but one charge was noted. To make VI
for this two were carried. Then double
barreled derringers were introduced, one
barrel lying beside the other, as in a shot
gun. Conlin has double barreled, flint
lock derringer In his Broadway gallery
The flash pans were on top Of the barrels
1t was elaborately engraved, but it wal
about Is unhandy weapon TO get out Of I
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-04

lottery, but SURE ENOUGH present.
Remember that customer who purchases $500,
upwards worth of goods of at time and pays cash
for same during this month will take their choice of of
these Elegant Books.
Even Santa Claus astonished at offer and beautiful
display of Christmas Gifts in