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he FOUND HIS FINGER
Sammons Discovers 1t After Laps
OF Nearly IhirtY-TWO Years.

Sammons Discovers 1t After Lapse
OF Nearly Thirty-Two Years.
John Sammons Is responsible man, a
good farmer, who stands high among his
neighbors and whose reliability has never
been brought into question. he was a
brave soldier of The Confederate army,
and was one of those who participated i'll
that bloody tragedy on the banks OF the
ChIckamauga Creek, on Septem Der Is.
1863. During the hottest OF the engage
ment Sammons found himself in an ex-
posed position, with shot and shell play
ing nigh revel around him. and he sought
such shelter as was afforded by large
oak tree which was in direct line of fire.
While handling his piece bullet struck
his gunstock and cut Oft the two first
joinls OF the forefinger of his right hand
as clean as knife would have done IT,.
The dismein bered finger dropped among
the leaves, and as he was more particular
about saving the balance of his body than
about rescuing as little thing as miss
ing finger, he made the best of his way
out OF the fight stanching his bleeding
hand as best he could.
The war WAS fought TO finish and
Sammons came back home and went to
work, charging up his manned hand to
the losses of the Confederacy. Some
time ago he decided to revisit the battle
field which he had not seen in thirty
two years nearly, and SO ne betOOk him
self to Cnichamauga and started TO stroll
over the battlefield. The tree where he
stood when wounded occupied such a
conspicuous position that he found little
difficulty in locating IL with all The scars
aud knots III its rugged trunk caused by
the flying missiles of death Having
found the tree he put himself in the same
position in which he was standing when
wounded. and then 1t occurred to him to
look for the bones OF his missing nnger.
Scratching around among the leaves,
much TO his asLonishment he found the
bones where the finger had fallen. and
they corresponded exactly with the i'm
ger ne had lost. They had lain there un-
disturbed ever since THAI dread day, aud
il was with d strange feeling that he took
them, and after establishing their iden-
THY 10 his perfect satisfaction wrapped
them up and took them away with him
as a strange souvenir OF his wartime eX-
periences. Mr.. Sanmons has them in
his possession now and Will preserve
them as an evidence OF the TACT that he
found them on tie battlefield alter the
lapse OF SO many years. Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
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Hall and SIeet.

We are apt to speak of hail and sleet as
being very singular phenomena. bus, in
fact, they are widely different. True
centric layers of hard opaque and trans
parent ice. In tho latitude of Missouri
hail seldom falls except in summer.
Sleet, on the contrary, always falls in
winter or late fall or early spring, and is
composed of minute particles Of trans
parent ice. 1t is caused by rain falling
from high, warm cloud, which has q
stratum OF cold air lying directly beneath
as rule, but this cold air stratum may
lie Immediately above the earth's sur
face. In this event it will be noticed that
there is a mixture of rain and ice par
tlcles which fall and give everything an
icy coating.
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REASSURBD.
Not Exactly Sure at First That He
Could Believe His Eyes.

Not Exactly Sure at First That He
Could Believe His Eyes.
A dilapidated specimen OF manhood
who was leaning hard against tele-
graph p.;le in the neighbOrhood Of the
stock yards yesterday morning with his
ewes tightly shut called out 10 man
whose footsteps ne heard approaching:
''Sayw
"W j." said tho other.
Have you got minute or two to
spare!"
Il reckon"
"W ould you mind just looking inside
the fence right there where that boards
broken of and telling me il you SEQ any
thing on the ground?"
mo objection al all, sir. L see Two
dead rats"
Anything peculiar about them ?"
Nothing except that they arc whop-
pers. They are TWO OF the biggest rats L
ever saw"
Anything else near them ?''
"No-yes. there's queer-looking
snake"
us il alive?''
"It's all dead but It's tail. That still
wiggles."
rs it a green snake that looks as if it
had swallowed a baseball?"
Yes"
Got queer-looking stripe down its
back?''
"Yes.n
Then it's all right" rejoined the dilap-
ldated citizen, Strengthening himself up
opening his eyes and waking on. lyon
have done me great kindness, mister
| was afraid I'd got 'em again. .''-Tracy
Tribune.
Wvomino was at her iaSt cansuo ,,o,,h
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A Denreciated Moon.

young man." said the Colorado ed
itor you're good poet, but you can't
write for this paper"
why not?"
''You lack judgment. At the threshold
of an opportunity your discretion deserts
you"
Il must confess I don't quite follow
you"
I'm this poem you refer to the glories
OF the golden moon."
Yes"
Hou could jus. as easily have made it
silver moon II wouldn't have Injured
the sense or the meter in the slightest.
And-you-didn't- t-do-it." t."-Washington
Star.
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through the rooms. In this way the
spread of the disease may be stopped.
Sulphur makes one OF the best treat
ments, both externally and internally for
skin diseases, particularly where itching
is a symptom.
For sweetish or bitter pasty taste in
the mouth try few doses of sulphur.
Sulphur is good for chronic diarrhea.
For constipation, sulphur will often give
speedy relief.-Good Housekeeping.
The record-union., 1895-09-12
Broke His Ankle.

Yesterday afternoon young man
named Allen, in the employ of c. T.
Barton, while hurryiDg down one of the
stairways in the Pavilion slipped and
The record-union., 1895-09-12

II is claimed that Lake Erie produces
more fish 10 the square mile than any
other known body oil water.
The record-union., 1895-09-12
THOROUGHLY ADVERTISE
Stockton Record.

Taken as whole the sacramento cele-
bration was of such a nature that not
only highly pleased and entertained the
myriads OF visitors, but also so thorough
ly advertised the Capital City that it must
be productive of much good ia the future.
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broke one of his legs near the ankle. He
was taken to his home on o street, be-
tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty fifth.
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HENRY OF NAVARRO WON.
Defeats Domino and Rey Ell Santa
Anita at Sheepshead Bay.
RUNS THE MILE AND A FURLONG
IN GOOD TIME.

Baidwfn's Representative Bad Last,
Although Well Backed by the Pa
ciflc Coast Contingent-NankIp
Wins the September Stakes After a
Severe Drive on the Same Track
Results on Other Eastern Race
COura0S.
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ROYAL BAKINu POWDER.

are almost impossible. This shows how
much better work is done for private
corporation than for the public. If a
road supervisor was subject to instant
dismissal for neglect the public would re-
ceive as good services as toll-road cor
poration would get. 1t is the neglect OF
roads that wastes public money and al
lows roads that are well made to fall into
ruin.
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The electric carnival and Admission
Day celebration at Sacramento was all
that could be desired by the enterprising
citizens who made so grand a demonstra-
ton possible. The rain began TO fall be-
tween II and II O'Clock Monday night
late enough not TO interfere with the
illumination or the enthusiasm attending
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MUST NOT END IN TALK.
IRutta Couptv papduluo,

Butte County Pendulum.
The placing of the power of the Ameri-
can River at Folsom into the City OF Sac
ramento by means OF the wire, is more
talked about than was the big railroad
strike of year ago. We hope our Cap
ital City Will get move on now and not
let it all end in talk. The power is good
thing, but without manufactures to use
II II will be q white elephant. This year
and the following year will tell in Sacra-
mento more than all the wears gone by.
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Wyoming was at her last census worth
Sl3. 62l. $50.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
SBORO. N. c.. THURSDAY. AUG l6,
A Sensational Murder.

Jackson, Miss. Aug 9-Hon. J.
Dabney Marshall, nominee for
Senator from Warren and Kinds
counties, shot and killed r. T.
Dinkins, Of Jackson, at Branden
this morning. Marshall and three
friends, S. H. Coleman. R. P.
Fox and W. P. Vollens, kinsmen
and partners Of Marshall, drove
to Branden in a hack and met
Dinkins at the depot as he
/ turned corner of the building,
opening fire on him at once and
killed him instantly, shooting
fifteen times Dinkins was un-
armed, but grappled Marshall's
pistol from him as he fred the
first shot. The shooting was
caused by a sensational report
circulated by Dinkins. Two
weeks ago Dinkins aud Marshall
roomed together, but in two beds,
at hotel at Raymond, this
county. Next morning Dinkins
spread the report that Marshall
had attempted an unmentionable
crime upon him. This report was
damaging, of course, and there
was a clamor that Marshall be
taken off the tickets for State
Senator. Marshall denounced the
report as allie. and Dinkins stuck
to it and everybody looked for a
killing sooner or later. Marshall
is a little fellow who weighs
about seventy-fve pounds, is
highly educated, a lawyer, and a
man of letters, whose family is
one Of the most prominent in the
State and has a host Of friends at
home and elsewhere. He has
served term in the Legislature
and was the nominee for Senator
from Warren and Kinds. Dinkins'
family is equally as good. He is
brother Of W. L. Dinkins, of
Madison, Cleveland's United
States marshal during his first
term and is closely related to
many prominent men in the State
being a cousin of Bishop Chas,
B. Galloway of this city, Mar
shall and his companions are un-
der arrest at Branden. The affair
is deeply regretted here, where
both men are we'll known and
highly respected. The body of
Dinkins was brought to Jackson
to-day.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Old People.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels, adding strength
the true remedy in Electric Bitters,
rms remedy does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey nor intoxicant.
but acts as tonic and Alternative. II
acts mildly on the stomach and bowels.
thereby aiding Nature in the perform
ance of the functions. Electric Bitters
Is an excellent appetizer and aids di-
gestlon. Old people find it exactly
what they need. Price scots bottle
at j. II. Hill & Sons, drug store.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Singular Suicide. +.

Raleigh. N. c., Aug. 8.-James
W. Jones, aged 30, hailing from
Richmond, Va, and a cigar
maker by trade, committed sui
eide in a bar room at Durham in
a singular manner. He was on a
spree and was refused liquor. He
declared nothing but death would
satisfy him as he wanted to be
with his wife and child who died
recently. Pulling off his coat, he
cried out: Boys, here's a new
way to skate" and threw himself
head foremost against the corner
of post. He fell back as if dead,
but.ralled sufficiently to call for a
Catholic priest. He died in a
short while.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
TWO Lives Saved.

Mrs Phoebe Thomas, of Junction
City, ILL.,, was told by her doctors s6e
mad conpumption and that there was
no no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr..
cured her and she saws it saved her
life. Mr.. Thos. Eggers 139, Florida
ST., SanFrancisco, suffered from a
cold, approaching consumption. tried
without result everything else then
bought one bottle of DIR. Kings New
discovery and in two weeks was cured.
He Is naturally thankful. It is such
results, of which these are samples,
all prove the wonderful efficacy of this
medicine in coughs and colds Free
samples BOTTLES at J. III. Hill & Sons.
orug store. Regular size so G. and lS
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
SALE OF THE ARGUS.

The sale of The ARGUS took
place to-day and was bid off by
Mr.. W. H. Smith, who will con
tinue it's publication until other
arrangements are made, and it is
gratifying to the public-spirited
people of Goldsboro to know
that someone has come to the
rescue of The ARGUS and
they have not forgotten it's pas
service. Nor are they blind to
the great and innumerable ad-
vantages derived from it's pages.
It is to be hoped that whatever
arrangements may be made that
each and every person in Colds
boro will promptly and
willingly exert their influence
for the welfare of The AR
gus as it's prosperity will surely
denote that OF the town.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Railroad Accident

Manchester, N. H, Aug. 8.-A
special to the Manchester Union,
from Plymouth, NH. says: The
Cannon Ball Express train
smashed into a SPECIAL freight
just below Plymouth village
about 6 o'clock this morning,
with frightful results. Engineer
Frank Stevens and Fireman Geo.
S. Merrill and VIII. Glines were
killed instantly. The second
engineer, name at present un-
known, jumped and escaped.
Several passengers were serious
ly injured, and fourteen new
freight cars, just from the shops,
were stove into pieces, as were
the lOcomOtil eS.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Boilor ExpIo9ion

Raleigh, N. c., August 9.-By
the explosion of boiler at Dick
Parham's saw mill, near Aliens
vile, Person county, George Par
ham, abont 18 years old, was
killed. His skull was crushed and
both legs were broken, His skull
broken. Three other persons
were wounded. William Parham,
head fractured, seriously hurt;
John Parham, seriously wounded,
and one man scalded, uot seri-
ously. The water in the Loiler
was allow to get too low. The
fireman attempted to fill it, caus.
ing terrific explosion, blowing
the boilor, engine and she'd one
hundred yards.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Race Trouble in Illinois

Spring Valley, Ill, Aug. g.
Representative John @. Buckner
of the Fifth district, Chicago,
who has been in consultation with
the expelled negrosy at Seaton-
vile, sent a telegram to theGoy-
ernor this morning calling for
troops. The Mayor swore in
one hundred special policemen
at z o'clock this morning, and is
sued a proclamation calling on
all persons to abstain from yio-
lence and preserve law and or.
der.
The negroes will not venture
inside the lines unless they are
provided with protection in the
shape of Winchesters. The
Spring Valley Coal Company
joins Representative Buckner in
the call for troops.
Princeton, ILL.,, Aug. 8.-The
peace agreement entered on last
night at Spring Valley has been
broken and the town is under
mob law to-day. The whistles
of coal shafts sounded the signals
last night for resumption of
work, but this morning mobs of
Italians refused to allow the
campany to operate their plant
or the negroes to re-enter the
city as was agreed upon last
night. The main business streets
of the city are thronged with
mobs.
Magyar Delamargo has sent
word to Sheriff Clark to go to
Spring Valley with forty five
Winchesters and take charge of
the city special police. The
sheriff replied that he would do
nothing of the kind, and no
county would be distributed
among citizens of Spring Val
ley.
The miners called a mass meet
ing at the public square at 3
o'clock for the same purpose as
yesterdays peace meeting. The
sheriff says that unless some
thing definite is done at that
time looking to the restoration
of order he will organize an arm
ed force and move to Spring Val
ley at once and take the control
of the city in his own hands.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Mississippi Democrats.

Jackson, Miss. August g.
The Democratic State Conven-
ton, which balloted for Railroad
Commissioner until 2 o'clock and
then adjourned till 9 o'clock this
morning is still in deadlock on
the Com missioner from the First
District, and there is no proba-
bility of a break. On the 22nd
ballot, Ben EXum of Yazoo. re-
ceived So votes: Walter Tackett,
of Homer, 68; Mack Lawrence,
cf Warren, A; J. McInnes. OF
Lauderdale, 81; all of which are
about the same as on the first
ballot taken last evening All
sorts and kinds of resolutions OF
serio-comic nature have been
firen at the chairman looking to
adjournment or reversal Of regu-
lar order, but they are voted
down.
The Convention adopted a
resolution yesterday to elect com
misSioners one at a time and nu-
merous motions to reconsider
and eleat all three at once, have
been tabled with vengeance.
Such trading and swapping
Of delegates was never before
witnessed in Mississippi.
The twenty-four-h hour dead.
lock was broken at 4 o'clock by
voting for all three at once, as
far as the Second and Third dis
tricts are concerned.
Lieut.. Gov. M, M. Evans, OF
Jackson county, and J. J. Evans,
present State Treasurer, were
the nominees Of these districts,
but the deadlock continued as to
the first, and balloting continued
amid great excitement.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Horrible Suicide.

Zanesville, O., August o.
Jacob Gigax, a retired banker,
who has been suffering for a
long time. and was so weak he
could hardly walk, tottered to
the depot of the Cincinnati &
Muskingum Railway this morn
ing. Horrified spectators saw
him get down on his knees be-
side the track before the train
started and placed his head on
the rail. Before anyone could
reach him the wheels had passed
over his head, crushing it and
severing it from the body. Gigax
was seventy-six years old and a
native Of Switzerland.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
TRUMPET CALLS.
Rams Horn Sounds a Warning Note to the
Unredeemed.

RAMS Horn Sounds a Warning n ote to the
Unredeemed.
Don't pattern after men, when
you would please God.
God is still calling to some
people TO do small things.
To say Thy will be done,"
means to say good bye to self.
GOODS warriors are always
chosen from his worshippers.
The only things we really
know, are those God tell u.s.
When you shut your closet
door, lock it with promise,
Whatever is lost in Sodom
must be lost with Sodom.
The rod never does good un-
less the hand Of love holds it.
Let US do right, and God will
see to it that we come out right.
The devil is most like a lion
when he looks most like a sheep.
It is the wolf in sleeps cloth
ing that has the sharpest teeth.
1t is never hard to believe when
we get on believing ground.
We can only walk with God
when we are willing to go his
way.
Our mission of sorrow in this
life is to show US our need Of
God.
To make those around US want
religion, we must show them
what it is.
Give thorns a right to live,
and you make a law against kill
ing snakes,
Praying is sometimes done,
when God wants US to first do
something else.
Some men whom God calls to
preach misunderstood him, and
write essays.
The devil has to work hard for
all he gets in the house of a pray
ing mother.
The old serpent hasn't grown
an inch since he crept into the
garden of Eden.
When the the devil goes about
as roaring lion he is careful not
to show his teeth.
1t is a long step toward heaven
to be born in home where the
Bible is loved.
1t is doubtful if the man who
makes long prayer ever expects
quick answer.
There is something wrong
with the preaching that won't
hit a sinner somewhere.
The man who enters the
straight gate has to leave be-
hind him all that is crooked.
Whatever we undertake in the
name Of the Lord, is sure to have
Gods help behind it.
We must do the thing that God
tells US to do. before any other
good work will count.
The prayer that opens win
dow in heaven, can only be Of
fered when God is worshipped.
The Bible will not long re-
main a closed book against the
one who opens it to look for
Christ.
Only the wise profit by the ex-
perience Of others. A fool has
to find out by himself that the
fire is hot.
The world is sadly in need of
an invention that will warn peo
pie when they have talked
enough.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Trial OF Arthur Tuttle.

Winston, N. c., August g.
The trial of Arthur Tuttle for
the murder of Policeman Wick
ers, last May, opened here to-
day. Congressman Settle is one
of three lawyers representing
the defendant and District At
torney Glenn appears of the
State. Twenty witnesses will
be examined for the State. -Four
were introduced this afternoon
and the evidence of each was
damaging to the prisoner.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Light Heavy" Weight.

New York, Aug. 9.-Jim Hall
and Joe Choynski have again
been matched for a glove fight
to a finish for the largest purse
offered by any club and d side bet
of 50, 500 each. The articles of
agreement which were signed
yesterday by ''Parson" Davies
for Choynski and mailed to Hall
at Mount Clemens. Mich, for his
signature, state the contest is to
be for the light heavy" weight
championship of the world, and
is to take place between October
Goth and November 5th.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Cure for Headache.

AS remedy for all forms of head
ache Electric Bitters has proved to be
the very best. 1t effects a permanent
cure and the most dreaded habitual
sick headaches yield to its influence,
We urge upon all who are afflicted
to procure bottle and give this re ~
edy fair trial. In cases of habitual
constipation Electric Bitters cures by
giving the needed tone to the bowels,
and few cases long resist the use OF
this medicine. Try it once. Large
bottles only fifty cents at Hill & Sons
drug store.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
Notice.
Notice.
A. & n. G. r. r. Company,
Superintendent's Office,
Newbern, Aug. z, 1895

Superintendent's Office,
Newbern, Aug. z, 1895.
To Stockholders Of the Il. DE- N. c.
r. r. Go.
By directions of the Company
the undersigned will issue round
trip passes over this road to
stockholders of record of the
same for themselves and imme-
diaue families good for five days
upon application between the
1st day Of August and the 1st
day of Sept. 1895. The passes
are to be good only for tin
uous passage in each directiod.
A blank form of application will
be furnished the stockholders
and issued to them upon applica-
ton to this Office: Only one ap-
plication from eacha stockholder
is necessary as it is understood
that each family will travel to.
gether and at the same time.
S. L. Dill,
Supt.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15

COMPTROLLER Bowler is hear
ing arguments on the constitu-
tionality of the sugar bounty
law. We salute Comptoller Bow
Ter as man whose nerve is al
ways with him. even when he
sits in judicial session.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15

WE can understand the muz-
zling of the press by the Span
ish authorities in Cuba only on
the theory that the Spaniards do
no want the world to know the
real extent of the slaughter they
are infiicting upon the Cubans.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-15
A. A. MILLER

Like Great Railway,
With its branches running in every
direction are the arteries and veins
which convey the blood to every direc-
tlOn OF the system. A cold, sudden
changes or exposure. may cause pois.
lnous acids to clog the circulation and
then comes rheumatism. If life is worth
it, do not hesitate, but get Drummond's
Lightning Remedy. Send So to the
Drummond Medicine Co.. 48 Maiden
Lane, New York and they will send
month IS treatment by first express. It
is not as quick as electricity, but it will
save your life if you take it in time,
Agents Wanted.