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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-01
GOLDSBORO. N. c.. THURSDAY JULY 81 1s95
PRODUCTION OF MEERscHAUM
where Some Rich Deposits of the Queer
Substance Are Found,

! Substance Are Found.
| Mr.. Cum berbatch, British consul at
| Angora, in his latest report, SAYS that
| rich deposits of meerschaum are found
| twenty miles to the southeast of Eski
| Shehir, an important station of the
| Anatolian railway. The Belgian con-
sui in Constantinople, who recently
visited the place, states that it would
be difficult to determine the exact
| arena in which the meerschaum is to
be found. Judging from the number
OF pits at considerable distances from
| each other, it must be extensive.
Ihe meerschaum is extracted in the
| same way as coal. Pits from TWENTY
i've to one hundred and twenty feet
deep are dug, and as soon as the vein is
struck horizontal galleries, sometimes
OF considerable length, are made, but
more than two galleries are seldom to
be found in one pit. The stone as ex-
tracted is called cham tash," or rough
block, and is soft enough to be easilv
cut with knife. It is white, with a
yellowish tint, and is covered with n
red, clayey soil of about one inch
thick. In this state the blocks are
purchased by dealers on the spot, not
by weight or measurement, but ac-
cording to approximate quantity,
either per load of three sacks or per cart
load, the price varying from five to thirty
pounds sterling per load, according to
quality. These blocks are dried and
subjected to certain preparations be-
fore being conveyed to Eski Shehir.
Some OF them are as small as a walnut.
while others attain the size of cubic
foot. Those which combine regularity
of surface and size are the best. The
manipulation required before thew are
ready for expectation is long and cost
~. The clayey soil is removed and the
meerschaum dried. In summer ex-
posure for five or six DAYS to the suns
rays sutfices, but in winter a room
heated to the required temperature is
necessary, and the drying process
takes eight or ten days.
When dried the blocks are we'll
cleaned and polished, then they are
sorted into about twelve classes. each
class being packed with great care in
separate cases, and each block being
wrapped in cotton wool The bulk of
the meerschaum is sent to Vienna.
where it is worked, and dispersed all
over the world. Most of the finest
specimens are sent direct to Paris. Ger
tain American dealers have visited Eski
Shehir with the object of obtaining the
raw material direct instead of through
Vienna, thereby saving the higher Gus
tom house duty payable on the worked
meerschaum. The quantity annually
exported is put down at eight thousand
to ten thousand cases. The various
taxes levied by the Turkish government
amount to about thirty-seven per cent.
a1
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What Burns Did.

'It was IN PERTH" traveller writes,
that. puzzling over grimy statue,
was accosted by a barefooted newsboy,
with his raucous cry of 'Hair-r-ald,
Glasgow Hair-r-aldr I'll take one,'
quoth /, if you'll tell me whose statue
that is t"Tis Rabbie Burns replied
he, on the nail, Thank you,' said 1,
taking the paper, And what did he do
to deserve the statueP' My newshoy
scratched his head, Perceiving his en-
barrassment, a party of his friends
down the street called out in stentorian
chorus: 'Ay, it's Rabbie Burns But
what did he do to deserve the statue%
thundered back. They hung their
heads. At last my newsboy recovered
himself; his face frightened. 'Weu,s
said again, what did he do to deserve
this statue?' He deedr answered the
intelligent little man.
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CURFEW IN SELMA.
St. Louis Republi.

This is free country, to be
sure, but there ire signs of a
time coming vaen every law
abiding freeman will be expected
to give up mig ,t-prowling and
house himself s fely within the
bosom of his f; fnily about the
time that curfe' tolls the knell
of parting day.
The first stel in the direc tion
of this n nillennium were made not
long ago by certain progressive
towns in the Northwest, where
miners are required by ordinance
to be at home, if not in bed, by 9
O'Clock every night. Any young
ster caught abroad after that
hour without a pass from parent
or guardian is severely dealt
with by the town beadle.
This harsh depression Of juv-
emile liberties is very plausibly
justified by the maxim which ass
serts as dogma that ''early to
bed, early to rise, makes a man
healthy. wealthy and wise"
Perish the though that this an
cient saw is not quoted in all
sincerity! But there is just a
shade Of suspicion that in the
towns aforesaid Young America
was becoming somewhat too OBJ
servant of the nocturnal diver
sions of his elders and betters.
Possibly pardonable curiosity
led him to peer behind saloon
screens or to sample the soda
water sold to respectable citi-
zens afflicted with an unControll-
able spasm Of the left evelid.
The city fathers of Selma, Ala.
in enacting the 9-o'clock ordin-
ance have purged themselves of
any and all such injurious sus-
plclons. They make the law ap-
ply to married men as we'll as to
miners. Hereafter any married
man caught out too long after
dark without a permit from his
wife will be run IN. The lodge
meeting" and the pressing
business engagement" are no
longer valid excuses for late
hours in Selma.
Welcome as the new dispensa-
ton will be to women with truant
husbands, it is not altogether
without its disadvantages. The
tyranny of the new woman is
not tamely submitted to in the
South and a restive husband who
is compelled to come home with
the COWS is liable to become so
fractions before morning that
any sensible woman would with
him in Halifax.
But suppose the most docile
husband in all Selma rushes out
at midnight to fetch the doctor
to his wife who is too i'll to write
him a pass. good a-going and a.
coming, what would the town
patrol of Selma be expected to
do in an emergency like thate
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Called Meeting.

At the citizens meeting, held a
little while back, for the purpose
of encouraging the Southern
Lumber Syndicate to locate
their plant in our city, it was
resolved that the Mayor should
call the citizens together again,
when he thought it advisable:
In accordance with that reso-
luton, [ now therefore, call a
meeting for Monday night, at
$50 o'clock. I urgently ask all
who contributed to, the fund for
purchasing the site and all others
who feel an interest in the well
fare of Goldsboro, to attend.
We have a grand oppo1 tunity
within our reach, let US not
loose it by inaction. Show your
appreciation and desire to grasp
it, at least by your presence at
this meeting. With our should
ers all to the wheel, and pull
altogether, it will surely move.
JNO. Fl, HILL,
Mayor.
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THE VALUE OF HOT WATER.
II used Freely, Its Beneficial Results Are


Surprising.
Advice on the use of water is alwavs
timely. So many general recommends
t1ons are offered to boil water. and so
few people are found to follow them.
1T seems hardly wise to continue with
we'll meant platitudes which no one
heeds.
Boiled water is always fat and in
slpid, and few. if any, ever enjoy water
SO treated, as general beverage. In
cities reasonable care is taken to
have good water, and, if it is
to be used plain, it had better be
fresh drawn and not boiled or filtered.
unless the fi1tering medium is replaced
often or returned. AS very few per-
sons take the precaution to recha roe
filters, the only safe thing is to do with
out one. While it is perfectly true that
filtered water will show brighter than
unf1ltered water, it is also true that in
passing through a filter which has
been used for two or three months, the
water will take up inperce ptible germs
far more deadly n their results than
the matters removed
If water must be boiled, it had bet
ter be used as hot as it can be drank.
or If drank when cooled, be favored
with small quantity of some mild acid
to render 1t palatable.
visitors to summer resorts are natur-
ally concerned about the quality of
water they are to drink there Per-
haps 1T is not too much to say that next
TO the lovely scenery OF the Green and
White mountains of Vermont and New
hampshire the water supply is the
strongest attraction. With the mount
ain scenery and the strong air one finds
good water is nearly always associated.
This double advantage is known to
produce the best type of physique in
man, and to yield results of equal value
IN domestic animals kept for profit.
The solvent power of water makes or
mars the health and happiness of
community. This solvent action ex-
plains the extraordinary effects pro-
duced by the use of well-known popu-
lar spring and well waters having
their sources in the New England
states,
When we remember the enormous
quantities of earth matter absorbed in
our ordinary food, which can not be
avoided, it becomes a matter of su-
preme moment that we wash out the
a
systematic use of the best of water.
The quantity of earth matter stored
up in the body determines in marked
way the degree of health and disease
one may suffer from.
Gout, rheuma tism, gravel and slug
gish circulation are due in no small
degree to the quality Of water used.
Few can estimate the value of the in
creaslng practice of hot water drink
ing before meals. It's beneficent ac-
ton, soothes the stomach, promotes
active excretions and tones up oil the
processes The use of
pure waters in substitution for much
of the coffee and tea now consumed
will add greatly to the health of the
community and the total of human
happiness. Old age is but another ex-
preston for stiffness of joints, pro-
duced too often by an undue aecumu-
lation of mineral water in the hodv,--I
Baltimore American,
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PARENT, NOT CHILD, GUILTY
Responsibility for Chfldren,s M;s.b,+


Where it Belongs. ,sss
In one of her Talks with Parents"
Mrs. Hughes discussed the case of
mother Who had severely punished her
four~year-oId boy for drawing a char
coal picture on the parlor wall The
child being mere baby, was innocent
OF all evil intent. unconscious indeed
that he had done any wrong. Mrs.
hughes says; "Give your boy material
OF his own with which to work out his
ideas, and treat him as if he were
gift to you from the center of all love
and good, and not a representative of
evil If your boy had been supplied
properly with lead pencils, black and
colored, and with plenty of paper, in
sheets and in book form, he would not
have marked your wall. Printing
paper is best Tor him, and its
cost is triling. The cost of a cigar
Will supply him with paper for
month. The paper from the grocer
makes excellent drawing paper and
costs nothing-supply him with plenty
OF sand and clay and paper, white and
in colors, for drawing, painting, cut
ting, folding and pasting; and wood for
cutting as he pleases; and blocks for
building; and old paper boxes and
wooden boxes to form cities and mills
and cars and engines; and spools and
little wheels that have come from bro
ken machines (the works of an old
clock may be worth millions to him);
and at least good small saw, and
hammer, and pair OF pincers and
some small wire nails Girls should
have most of this material. too, with a
slight variation, chiefly the substitu-
ton OF cloth for wood The material
for constructive occupation costs far
less than the material for destructive
occupation. .'-Jenness-M Miller Month
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Secretary Hoke, Smith Opens His
Cleveland Campaign.

Gainesville, Ca, July 23-
Northeast Georgia gave Scores
tary Hoke Smith a splendid re-
ception this morning. The pres
ence of hundreds of covered
wagons surrounding the public
square denoted the interest that
the farmers feel in the financial
discussion now going on. EARLY
it became apparent that the
large county court house which
seats more than 1000 would be
unable to hold all the country
people who had come from a
distance, The committee requests
ed, ia view of this fact, that the
ladies and city people would not
attend. The building was crowd
ed to suffocate, many being un-.
able to obtain admission.
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CONDITION OF TRADE.

| New York, July 26.-Brad
streets tomorrow will say:
The most striking features OF
the business week are the in
fuences Of important crop pros
poets, and the continued large
demands for iron and steel, with
one of the largest makers in the
market as buyer of Bessinger
pig. Most of the commercial
and industrial features Of the
preceding week are retained.
The volume of trade has not
varied materially, but in in
stances is larger than at cor
responding period last year.
Trade in almost all lines is
fairly active for the season and
the general tendency of mercan-
tile collections is toward greater
ease. Commercial travellers are
being sent out in all leading
lines and reports from those
now on the road appear to meet
expectations.
Among larger Eastern cities
no striking changes in the con-
dition of trade are reported with
the exception Of an improve
ment in industrial lines, and in
the lake trade at Buffalo, and a
rather smaller volume of busi<
ness reported from Baltimore.
Pittsburg iron furnaces are sold
months ahead, and at Philadel-
phia the strike among the textile
workers remains unsettled.
Central Western cities, among
them Cleveland, Detroit, Gin
cinnati and Louisville, report the
usual volume of midsummer
business, with perhaps more ac-
tivity relatively at Louisville.
where the question of suspend
ing the production of whiskey is
being discussed.
Fair orders are being received
by jobbers and merchants at
both Chicago and St. Louis, but
no pronounced revival in the de-
mand for Fall delivery is ex-
pected there until after August
1st, country merchants PREFER
ing to await corn crop prospects
at that time before giving out
orders. Iron and steel indus
tries there are refusing orders
except at full prices.
At Northwestern cities, Mil
waukee. Duluth, Minneapolis,
St. Paul and Sioux Falls, there
is the customary volume of mid
summer business, with pros~
poets for greatly improved
Fall trade.
The feature of the week at the
South is more satisfactory, and
reports from Memphis, Chatta-
nooga, Augusta and Galveston,
where orders have been re-
ceived in some Instances in ex-
cess of expectations, and the vol
ume of business is larger than at
the corresponding period last
year. At such points as Char
lesion, Savannah and New Or
leans, no material change is re-
ported as compared with a week
ago, and the like is true at Bir-
mingham. Atlanta reports
rather less doing in dry goods,
notions and groceries. but that
the outlook for trade this fall is
good. The volume of business
has fallen off at Jacksonville.
The most disturbing influence in
louisiana is the withholding of
payments of the sugar bounty.
Total number of business fail
ures in the United States this
week as reported to Bradstreet's
is 237.
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caused the arsenal to be opened
up. We want to be light on them
this time. Tomorrow they will
all write home, or at least, we
think SO, because they asked us
if we had any postage stamps.
They are all well and send re-
CARDS to friends. They received
lots of mail to-day, and from the
broad smiles that hover DER their
faces it's good news from home.
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The British steamer Strathgyle
cleared from Scranton. Miss.
yesterday with 3,203, 600 super
fetal feet of lumber for Rotter>
dam, the largest cargo of lumber
ever carried out of any port in
the United States,
The Federal Government will
not interfere to prevent the pro-
posed exhibition of bull-fighting
at the Atlanta Exposition.
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When in need of job printing
of any description, remember
that you can get your work done
at this office for the next few
days at cut rates.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-01

Newbern Journal: A sad acci.
dent occurred at Bay Creek,
Mesic P. o., five miles below
V andemere, late Thursday eve.
ming by which a good citizen lost
his life.
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utiliz,nr the C,naa-s

Use has been found for the top cfnder
made in iron forges, which has hither-
to been wasted, and large prices are
paid for It, 1t is needed In the manu-
facture of basic steel.
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Surrendered Himself.

Suffolk, Va, July 25.-Wil-
liam j. Urquhart, accused of
numbering John E. Gay on No
vember 8th, 1870, and who has
been a fugatiye from iustic since
that time, to-day Voluntarily sur
rendered to the authorities and
had a preliminary hearing before
Mayor Brewer. The mayor after
hearing evidence and strong
pleas by counsel, sent Urquhart
on to the grand jury and com
mitted him without bail.
Gay was found murdered near
his home on the above date,
with pistol shot wound in his
breast, Urquhart Immediately
left the community, and not
withstanding the efforts of the
detectives towards his capture
he always eluded them, and after
wandering for nearly a quarter
of a century he voluntarily re-
turned and asked for trial. He
claims self-defence. The alleged
murdered man is well con
nected.
The accused is sc years of age.
His form is bent with travel and
hardships, and his beard is long
and white.
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Charles Wood, attorney, of
Martin, Tenn, was shot and
fatally wounded by r. j. Harri-
son. The men had had trouble
concerning a law suit. Harrison
was arrested.
The New York firm of Massia-
gee, Colgate & Co., was dissolv-
ed yesterday. The firm has come
into prominence lately as an ex-
porter of gold. The house was in
business at 29 Wall street.
d, I. Whidden and Crocket
Whidden were assassinated at
their cedar camp near Booksville,
Fla. by band of masked men.
What induced the killing is not
known. 1t is thought to be an.
other chapter of the old Whidden
Whitehurst feud.
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This is New.

It looks as if 1ong-fe1t want has
been supplied. The world of toast
lovers, and it is a large world, has
sighed for method to keep toast both
crisp and hot The old-fashioned toast
rack conserved it's crispiness but pro-
vided excellent facilities for the escape
of it's heat, while to serve it wrapped
in a napkin keeps it warm, indeed, but
keeps it moist as well. An inventive
genius has solved the problem, and in
the production of a toast crisper''
made life again worth living. The
''crisper'' is not unlike ehafng dish
in appearance and scheme, There is a
covered pan, and a. lamps the toast goes
into the pan, the lamp is lighted, and
crispiness begins to last until the de-
mand is satisfed.-N. Y. Mail and Ex-
press.
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one Thiag Settled.

Sammy-Here's my new cart. Amt
she beauty.
Tommy-You mustn't say she. A
carts it.
'''Tain't It's she.''
'tfll leave it to Dick"
Dick Gnspecting it)-'Tain't either
one. It's he. It's mail cart.-Chica,
go Tribune.
The herald., 1895-05-31

The trial of the Corean prince, Vi
Chung, favorite grandson OF the Tai Won
Kun. on charges of treason and murder,
came to an end on May 1lth. He was
condemned to death, but hIs sentence
was not put on record. The Tai Won
Kun. who had never left the fruit shop
of which he mad taken possession when
the prince WAS first confined, in order 10
be near the conrt house. rushed from his
temporary quarters as soon as the penalty
was announced. burst into the palace of
his son, the king. who was to have been
the principal victim OF the plot, and
franticalIy besought mercy for the con-
victed assassin. The teeble-minded
monarch gave way and the sentence was
commuted to punishment for life. Even
this token of grace was insu f1icient for
the aged Tai Won Kun. whr at length
exto tied the promise that the term of ex-
patriation should be reduced to ten years.
This Judgment WAS proclaimed May 18th
and the Tai Won Kun then consented TO
be led back to his own residence, where he
will doubtless occupy his leisure in weav
ing fresh plans Tor the deposition or
deaf of the reigning sovereign.
American and European residents OF
Formosa are in great alarm owing TO the
threatening attitude OF the Chinese
soldierv on the island. The Chinese aus
tbrities lost all cont rol and when the Jap
anese take possession it is feared that
foreigners may be IN danger. Admiral
kabayama. the newly appointed govef-
nor-general of Formosa, can not assume
control until the Chinese government
sends commissioners to arrange the trans
fer cf authority, and no announcement as
to the time when it will do this has az
yet beensgiven.
Viscount Mutsu has returned to Toxic
and is resting from his lapors at his
country seat in the suburbs. He is slow
ly regaining strength.
The Russian government gave notfica-
ton that it is prepared to execute the
revised treaty with Japan at once.
VICTORIA, b. c., May 30.-Very en-
couraging news has been received from
the sealing scLooners operating on the
Japanese coast. Ten Victoria schoo neIs
reported up to May 18th had 6410 skins.
There are twelve other schooners over
there which should do equally as well, so
chat the catch should be big one, as
they have all summer before them.
Reports received from twenty-one
American schooners placed their total
catch at 7743. The av erage of Cana dian
schooners is much better than American.
The herald., 1895-05-31
MEMORANDA

The most wonderful discovery of the age.
Something to take the place of oil
paints. Old or young who have never
painted can learn to do the most exquis-
these colors at LichtenbergeI' art stores,
107 North Main street, or 125 South Spring
street.
We have large assortment OF whit
and gold easels feet, 5la feet and feet,
ranging in price from $1.25 up; also
large line OF wood and brass easels at
moderate prices. Sanborn, Vail d Co.,
l33 South Spring street.
DR.. Rebecca Lee Dorsey. Stmson block.
first floor. rooms 129. 130. 131. Special at
tention given to obstetrical cases and all
diseases of women and children. Electric
ity scientifically used. Consultation
hours, 1 to 3. Tel. 1927.
S. Conradi. jeweler and matchmaker 113
South Spring street, makes a speciality of
fine watch and iewelry repairing and
diamond setting; an elegant line of opti-
cal goods. A fine stock OF watches and
jcwelry always on hand.
Sanborn, Vail e. Co. IS is the place to
buy architectural supplies, instruments.
paper, inks, etc. We make speciality of
blue pint paper, always fresh, best in the
market. l33 South Spring street.
Adams Bros, dentists. 239ls South
Spring street. Painless filling and ex-
tracting. Best sets of teeth from S6 to
$40. Hours, to 3; Sundays 10 to II.
Crepe and plain tissue paper in ths
stationery department at Sanborn, Vail Il
Co. s. All kinds of tissue paper work
made to order. 1873 South Spring street
The sweet toned Briggs pianos can be
had at A. G. Gardncr's piano house. l1S
Winston street, also the Mathushek,
Swick aud Apollo.
Insure in the Phoenix Assurance COM
nany. A. G.. Golsh, agent, 147 South
Broadway. Tel. 800
Best security at cut rates. Sewing
machines, i'll good working order for S.
each. 12S South Main street.
+ Mrs. Joseph Moffatt, millinery latest
styles. lowest prices; 1928 North Main
street.
The Advanced Davis sewing Machine is
the best. Office. 12S South Main street.
Il. r. Cunningham. dentist, removed
to Stimson block corner Third and Spring.
Tel. 45.
Sharp & Samson, funeral directors Tin
dependent), $50 South Spring street. Tel.
1920.
All kinds OF sewing machines to rent;
lbs South Main street.
Rooms 81 u week and up. u. S. Hotel.