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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-12-21
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Mrs. z. L. Aycock is prepar-
ing to move to her farm in the
country, some five or six miles
north east of town.
Tue Academy will close for
the Christmas holidays on Fri
day the 22od, and after one week,
work will bs resumed on Monday,
January the 1st, 1900.
Mr.. Floars has the foundation
laid for a Roller M II at the site
of his cotton gin IN Fremont aud
expects to have it completed in
time to grind the next crop Of
wheat,
There has been more work
done on the public roads in this
section Of the county within the
last three months than had been
done in the three years immedl-
ately preceding, and still there
is work that ought to be done.
A few freezes ADD rains would
make the Wyatt Barnes lane i'm
passable.
There was no service at the
Methodist church Sunday night,
the reason assigned being that it
was cold aud there was nc wood
with which to make a fire. A
cold church stove half full of
ashes, with no wood on the prem
isses, is a fit emblem of the
hearts of too many of US who
profess TO love God and who
ought to feel with the Psaimist,
Il was glad when they said un to
me, Let us go up unto the
house of the Lord"
Fremont. Dec. the 18Th.
M.
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Mrs. z. l.. Aycock is prepar-
ing to move to her farm in the
country, some five or six miles
north east of town.
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Looks Like Pritchard.
w ashington Post.

Washington Post.
The resemblance between
Roberts, the polygamist, and
Senator Pritchard. of North
Carolina, is remarkable. They
might be twin brothers. Both
are Of the same build, have the
same cast of features, wear must
aches trimmed alike aud their
curly hair might be duplicate
wigs. Senator Pritchard oc>
cupied a seat on the floor of the
House Monday after the Senate
had adjourned. and if he had
walked up to the Speakers desk
to be sworn in, as Roberts did,
no one would have known the
difference.
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NIL. 1l6uIy w Gil 10 I'll a Oo6AS
ness trip to New York.
Mr.. K. j, Davis, the new u
perintendent Of the Wayne Cotton
Mill, arrived Monday afternoon,
and has assumed charge. The
ARGUS extends to him u cordial
welcome to GoIdsboro and wishes
him preeminent success with the
Wayne Mill.
The Henderson Gold Leaf, one
of the best weekly papers in the
State or the South, has entered its
nineteenth year of usefulness and
cce in the development Of
North Carolina's industrial posi-
bilities and the PRONUNCIATION of
good morals and prosperity among
the people of it's section. Thad.
r Manning, It's we'll equipped
editor, is worthy of every success
that has come to him-and more
He has ever upheld the dignity Of
labor, which is the States best
hope and the bulwark of her fu-
ture greatness, and he writes with
force and fearlessness, and is never
wanting when meE Of courage are
in demand. "May his tribe in
crease" and be "live long and
prosper"
Next Monday will be Christ
mas Day, and during the inter.
vening days. Santa Claus and his
assistants will be busy in their
labor of procuring gifts for low
ed ones. In Goldsboro it prom
ises to be the busiest week eX-
perienced by merchants in many
years. Indeed, it is not improb-
able that the volume of busis
ness will be 5he largest Of any
six days in the history Of the
city. There is great prosperity
in Goldsboro. Everybody is en-
ployed; and workingmen OF al
classes are receiving good wages
The public generally, therefore
have money to spend, and ex-
listing material conditions en-
courage them. Live merchants
are bidding for this money by in
telligent advertising, as TIL
ARGUS columns to-day bear clio
quent witness. Now is the tim,
to advertise.
The sudden death of MI. N. j
Smith o~ccurredMonday night at hi
bone in this city. After he close'
his store at night he went HON
and retired as usual, in seemingl
good health. Soon after he wen
to bed he told his wife he wa
feeling very bad and that his get
ting feshier of late had given hir
much trouble with his heart. Hi
wife felt his pulse, which we
beating very fast. She then pre-
posed to send for a doctor, but b
said ssIt is too late," and in a fe'
moments he was dead. He was
member of the firm of Smith
Scott, was a brave Confederat
soldier and a highly esteemed CT
lien. He was a Mason aud
Knight of Pythias and an exen
plary member of the Method
church. He leaves a wife, sever
children and a wide circle of rel
tives and friends to mourn b
death. His funeral was held fro
S.. Paul's on Tuesday, conduc
ed by Rev. T. d. Swindell and a
tended by the Masons and Knigh
of Pythias. The interment W!
made in Willow Dale Cemeter,
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OUR LOCAL OPTIC.

Mr.. Henry We'll is on a busi-
ness trip to New York.
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LODGE DfREGr TORY

Neuse Lodge No. 6, [. % F.. meets
every Tuesday evening. at 7:3'
o'clock. in id Fellows Hall -
Cordial welcome to visitors.
Wayne Lodge No. 1l2, A r. & A. M.
meets lst and 3rd Monday even
ings, 1880 clock. in Dad Fellows
Hall. Visitiny brothers heartily
welcomed.
Rufin Lodge NJ 6, K of P, meets
every Friday evening 1880 O'Clock
in Odd Fe lows Hall. Knightty
welcome to visitors.
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics. meets every Wednes-
day evening 1870 o'clock, in Odd
Fellows Hail Cordial welcome
to all visiting brethren.
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THE MODERN MOTHER

Has found that her little ones are i'm
proved more by the pleasant Syrup OF
Figs. when in need of the laxative eff
feet of a gentle remedy, than by any
other. Children enjoy it and it benefits
them. The true remedy, Syrup OF
Figs. is manufactured by the C~aliforn a
Fig Syrup Go. only.
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C@s
31tt9
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.h
@e14L
ain. |,
NO G tEe c0C.H:: X
ncT.3 of tE@ .r. nav t .
s. 2,276, ga gam
). o45,359 5.:a a. d. T.
l @v4cag- price
Is has b en-
out ut ~
IN rnuugh 10
Fl d quann Y and
xp from being
e., oY Quantity, but IN
vsue ~', nan for any year
$ 1900 a decrease OF over
1900 600 oales OF cotton retre-
So d money value of nearly S4O,-
900, 900.
Tn u II this decreased ex-
portatlon has oeen a nos res
markable diff renee OF opinion
between the growers ana forelg
buyers of cotton concerning the
siz of this years crop. La This
country cotton growers, cotton
manufacturers q cotton dealers
have agreed generally IN the
opinion that 1t IS not likely TO
exceed $500 OOO or 9,3oO oOo
bales, and tnu~ be from 2'5oo'-
OOO TO l, 5OOO, OOO oaies less than
the crop of last year. Inc hnal
estimate Of The Government
statisticlan, reported to nave
been made with unusal care, is OF
a crop slightly under 9,O'O,o
bales II this IS approximately
accurate, OF course 1t Justlnes
the price at when cotton IS no"
selling and Indicates very GER
6ainly much higher prices IN the
future.
On the other hand, the foreign
buyers OF cotton, who are mostly
in Liverpool, are apparently
plnnlng their faltn TO the relter-
ated assumption OF Mr. henry
Nelll, the well-knoWn New
Orleans cotton expert and agent
of a Liverpool Importing house,
that this years crop would be
over 1000, 600 bales, or, IN
round numbers. about the same
as last years Ii Mr.. NELL IS
right cotton Is undoubtedly mgr
at the prices now ruling and
they will decline. Consequently
the Liverpool brokers and the
Manchester splnners have stead
tasty declined to buy cotton this
year, except in comparatively
small quantities, SO that in Grea1
Britain whittier most Of export
ed cotton goes the entire visible
supply at present is only 727,O O(
bales, as against 1,163, OOO bales
at the some time last year. The
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-09-06

most certain to get the plants too thick
If they come up too thick and are get
ting spindling, take a sickle and snip
off the tops to within two inches of
the ground to make them grow more
stOcky
1t will be six weeks or two months
in an average season before they will
be ready to transplant. If, as they are
being pulled out, some are drawn that
are too small and weak, make deep
holes with a small stick and prick
them out to remain a week or two
longer
TO insure an abundance and a full
succession of plants there ought to be
new bed sown every week or every
two weeks for a month or six weeks.
Better to throw away half ones plants
than to set any which are inferior.
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Frederick the Great.

1t is said that Frederick the Great
was never conquered but once. and
that was by the sparrows. Going into
his cherry orchard one day he found
many sparrOws there and ordered
them all killed or driven out of the
orchard. The result was that the next
summer his cherry trees were covered
with worms and he had no cherries
He ordered the sparrOws to again be
admitted to his orchard, and so the
sparrOws did what the armies Of Eu-
rope could not do-conquered Freder-
lex the Great.-Dumh Animals.
1.-The above is a very pretty story,
with a moral for the birds, but the
author must have been mistaken about
the kind of birds, or the sparrows of
Frederick's time were different from
the sparrows of to-day. Our sparrows
are not the ''early birds. ''-Ed]
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AROUND the SWAMP ,Wluc cuOuSH OuL
to includ all the muck soil and high
enough to exclude from the swamp all
the rainfall except what is precipitated
upon it's own surface. To carry this
off will not be nearly so difficult Il
task as it would be to drain off all the
water that would naturally flow into
the swamp from the surrounding
icatchbasin, which may cover a hun
dred, perhaps, five hundred acres.
Sometimes these bayheads are SIM
ply bowl-shaped cisterns; the wash
ings from the fiatwOods surrounding
have sealed over the bottom and rem
dered them water tight. A well dug
in the center deep enough to reach the
sand below and then tubed or boxed
would serve to drain off the limited
rainfall of the swamp itself.
But care must be taken not to drain
the land too thoroughly, for celery de-
lights in frequent drinks. If surface
bitches are used let them not be any
deeper than thirty inches. Stewart
tells of growing splendid crops of Gel
ery on land where the water stood on
ly two feet below the surface.
Perhaps we did not in the first ar
ticle make perfectly clear the distinc-
ton between peat and muck lands;
we speak of them now with the pras-
ing used by practical men. Peat lands
are such as have been created by the
rotting of aquatic vegetation, grasses,
weeds, ETC., growing right where they
fell and rotted Muck lands, on the
other hand, have ben generally pro-
duced by the decomposition of forest
leaves, specifically deciduous or hard
wood leaves, in distinction from pine
and cypress.
| Muck lands, therefore. are better for
| celery than peat lands. If peat lands
are selected for this crop, especially if
/ they are covered with a growth Of
grass and other vegetation, they should
be cultivated in other crops of a cOars-
er fiber corn, cane or rice, two or
three years before celery is planted.
Good muck lands, however, may be
planted to celery the first year, though
it is better even with these to cult
vate hardy crop one year beforehand
The land should be cleared off more
thoroughly than for common farm
crops; all sticks, roots, chunks, etc,
should be gathered, dried and burned.
Harrow repeatedly with the the spike
tooth harrow or disc harrow, to bring
all such trash to the surface, then fol
low with the the granger or plank
drag, made by laying two-inch planks
eight inches wide, two inches thick
and five feet long. one upon the 9TH
| err, tapping little like a section Of
Notwithstanding Stand on it and ride
if necessary, to make it crush the
Jumps and fill up all the sunken places.
Next SOW broadcast 500 pounds of
refuse salt and fifty bushels of I'M
bleached hardwood ashes to the acre
or, in place of the ashes, from 500 to
l 90 pounds of kainit.
Stewart insists on the application of
stable manure, and says that CONNER
cia1 fertilizers have never produced
for him ou oood ooIoru &c stable ,ooo
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Celery Culture.

CAhS subject anu SO mucn prOHC TO De
made from this delicious vegetable
properly managed, that we have decid-
ed to publish a somewhat extended
series of articles on celery culture,
says the Fruit Grower. They will
be based on the invaluable little work
of III. L. Stewart, of Tecumseh, Mich,
with such changes and additions as
will adapt it to the latitude of Florl-
ola.
PrOfts.-In February, 1883, Mr.
Stewart bought 100 acdes Of land at
$31 an acre, One-half of it being a
swamp. He cleared thirty-four acres
and for three years raised an acre Of
celery each year; the fourth fourteen;
the fifth twenty; then thirty-four
each year thereafter up to 1890. The
last five years, closing with 1850, his
gross receipts were $4,000; his clear
net cash, over all expenses, was $41,-
600. That is he raised in all 1876 acres,
which paid him net, a few cents over
1901 an acre.
B. H. Alden and George Frost, Of
Lawtey used to grow a half-acre or so
apiece and realized the rate of $500
to $500 an acre from it. Stories have
been freely circulated in the Florida
papers to the effect that the Nylands
of Tampa have netted as high as ST.
500 an acre from celery, but these sto-
ries probably need heavy discounting
The celery growers who supply Jack
sOnville generally count on a profit OF
$500 to $500 an acre; they used to
clear much more than that.
Selecting a Site.-The peat, muck,
hammock, fiatwoods lands of this
State are all good for celery;
those that have native for
est growth are better than
thoes covered with grass of any
variety. A clay sub soil is advisable
retainer of water and fertilizer;
but it should be deep enough down so
as not to be torn up by the plow and
mingled with the surface soil, where
IL WOuIu COIIc III WtL1t CHC
plants.
These peat lands CASUALLY called in
discriminatory muck lands in
this State) are the residue OF
decomposed vegetable matter, grass
es, roots, and weeds, all form
ed right there when lake Oc
cupied the spot; consequently it is
we'll charged with nitrogen in latent
condition. Peat is generally under
stood to mean something that will
burn, but muck will burn when thor
Oughly dried. Muck is really about
halfway in the process of decompOsi-
ton between peat and mud. The nov,
ice should be careful not to be de-
ceived and select a piece of black mud
for his experiment, though that is bet
ter: than sand. Take some of TIE soil,
dry it very thoroughly and see if it
will burn Saltwater muck or peat is
better than fresh water muck; this
plant is fond of salt. If the vegetable
matter is so new and coarse as to
show the vegetable fiber plainly, is it
unsuited for celery, and needs to be
stirred up, OxidiZed and rOtted down
two or three years, which may be done
by cultivation in some other crop, rice,
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THOSE IDLE MOODS.

"What is ideal weather?'
''Any kind of weather which makes
you mad because you have to work
for living. Chicago Record.
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per acre are roQulEou OOW IL OH
broadcast, and harrow in well.
Growers of our acquaintance have
grown delicious article of celery by
the use of lot manure from cattle that
were granted, composted with sui
plate of potash and steamed bone or
acid phosphate about 800 pounds of
phosphate and 200 pounds of potash
to the ton of manure. The manure, of
course, should be gathered up daily,
and put under a roof to prevent the
rains from teaching it.
But we have no hesitation in advis-
ing the use of commercial fertilizers
for celery. Northern farmers very sell
dom get the results from them that our
Florida growers do. They have an
abundance of stable and other ma
nures, and they use them and are pre-
JUDGED against the artificial fertilizers.
Their soil is colder than that of Florida
and crops do not burn so readily on
stable manure as they do in Florida.
In some sections of Florida it seems to
be necessary to apply stable manure
once at the outset in order to get
some body to the soil, but this is usu-
ally on very sandy, light soils. On
peat and muck soils we have no fears
as to the results of using commercial
| fertilizers
The growers of our acquaintance in
| this state do not recommend the Gold
Ell -blanching and the White
Plume. They have succeeded we'll in
some sections of Florida, but not gen
orally. The White Plume is the earl
lest variety and sells we'll, but is, not
sure header. The Dwarf -blanch-
ing is good variety. The self-blanch-
| ing varieties are attractive ON account
of their rich yellow color, but they
are defective in flavor and subject to
rot at the heart when ready to sell
The Boston Market is a favOrite with
some growers. Mexican Solid is a
| NCly ouIC HCuuCl, 1'ti 80, oIdANo 1Ouhu
and crisp; remarkable for it's capaci-
ty to withstand heat; not whiting
easily when harvested. Savannah
Market is better adapted for light
sandy lands, but not so high favored
as the above.
The seed ought to be sown now
without delay 1t takes a high degree
OF skill and great care to get a good
stand of celery plants in Florida. The
seeds are very small, the plants are
| tral and the season hot, alternating
with beating rains.
| Sow in a very fine, mellow Seedbed,
made perfectly level and cover by
simply scattering road dust or dry
earth over if not above an eighth of
an inch deep at the outside Put it
down with the head Of the rake or the
palm of the hand, and mOisten it with
spray as fine as mist. 1t is absO-
lutely necessary to keep the earth from
crusting or the tender plants will new
er come through. The most careful
growers sow the seed directly on the
surface and cover it with nothing but
sphagnum moss shredded very fine.
This keeps the seed moist and the
| 1Io1 to- hill
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success outside his experience and train
ing. For that reason the local doctor,
often gives up as hopeless case which
is quite durable when greater skill and
experience are brought to bear.
1t is the sO-called incurable" and
"hopeless" cases, which come in such
numbers to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo,
N. Y, for treatment. Men and women
with weak lungs, obstinate coughs, ena-
ciated bodies and fevered cheeks have
found in DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery the true elixir of life. "The
blood is the life and the " Discovery
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action the digestive and nutritive organs,
places the entire system in condition to
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Mr. Chas Hunwick, of Lenox, Macomb Co.,
Mich writes: :" have never felt better in my
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sleep like school boy. think vii! have to
change my mind about Patent Medicines as
never had much faith in them; but you must
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benefit; 1 think your medicine is the only
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The evening times., 1899-01-09
MISS CLARA EMORY
ADOPTS THE STAGE
TO PLAY THE LAST CHAPTER"
Prominent in Washington Society.
Daughter of the Late General.
Objections Removed

Miss Clara Emory, daughter of the late
Gen. William H. Emory, L. s A.. niece of
Commander w. H. Emory. of the navy,
and a direct descendant of Benjamin
Franklin, has determined upon a stage ca
reer
Miss Emory has already had considerable
experience on the stage, but on account
of family objections she has not hereto
fore allowed it to be known that she had
adopted the theatrical profession
She has had her training under good
masters, having made her first appearance
two years ago as the MILDLY in The
Geisha." which she played all season at
Daly's Theatre. in New York. Her name
on the bills was Miss Emory but il
was not known to the public that she was
Miss Clara Emory, of Washington.
At the beginning of the present season
she had an engagement with Mr.. Richard
Mansfield as an understudy for one of the
minor parts in "Cyrano de Bergerac' -
She gave up this engagement to accept
another in the company which is to pro-
duce Mr.. Broadhursts play, The Last
Chapter" comedy drama, which will
be presented first in Baltimore This is
her first engagement in an important part
Her family have withdrawn their objec-
tionS TO her chosen career.
The evening times., 1899-01-09
ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.

Riggs-T W. Gitchell, New York
Ebbitt-lI. f. Bailey, Virginia; W. A. Paul,
L. S. Y.
La Normandia-Wiliam Elliott wife, and Stepi-
en- Elliott, South Carolina.
st. James-E. II. Zurhorst. Kentucky; Mr. and
Mrs. Curtis, New York; Z. Schela, Brooklyn n.
y.
Williard's-C. N. Demctt, Boston; W c. Booth.
Brooklyn. n Y; ". II. Neidmrgcr, Paris; II. C..
Pitman, New York.
Metropolitan-J. J. Dillon. New York; F..
Ahern, New York; L. d. Klein, New York: NJ
Wolf, New York; p. kraker, New York. p Nc
Carthy, Boston.
Shoreham-J. Hornion, Cincinnati; c. A. Ham,
ilton. New York; William c.. Beer. New York
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. johnson, New York; Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. Z. oppenhemer, New York.
National-G. NJ. Drmy, Pennsylvania; J. II.
Clogetin, Buffalo, n. Y: NJ. Weber New York ;
r. c. Holmes, Philadelphia: T. Snow. Baltimore,
W. r. Seeley. wife, and b. Bonehill New York; j.
West, New York.
Raleigh-G. H. Wadsworth Ohio: J. H. Long,
Ohio; ]. b. Day. New York; II. Z. Mckee, At
lanta; b. +. Wyly, ir., Atlanta; p. Petty, New
York; G. W. Pipper, jr-, Cleveland, Ohio; W. J.
Miller, New York. E. Decker Bos.on; W. H.
Brown, Indianapolis; c. Morris, New York; l. s.
Larnm, Philadelphia.
Arlington-Mr. and Mrs. Kaufherr, New Jersey:
NJ. J. Saunders. New Orleans; Major B. Karrod,
New Orleans; H. w. Brown, Cincinnati; j. A.
Ockerson, st. Louis; T. Smith, Buffalo, New
York; G. Crosby, Omaha; r. Whitmore, St Louis;
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Y. Greene, New York; E.. B.
Weston, Rhode Island; L. S. Bulls, Mississippi
Ii. Crowley, New York. .4.si a.
The evening times., 1899-01-09
623 Thirteenth St. n. w.

vent the introduction Of leprosy into the
United States from the islands.
Its direction in the early stages rs very
difficult. DR.. Carmichael says il is pos
sible for persons with lepro5y undevelop-
ed and for the slighter cases to pass from
one country TO another without detection,
and the fact of its presence in various
parts CT the United States is evidence
that quarantine restrictions do not eX
clude IL He says there is a small colony
of Hawaiians in Salt Lake, Utah, who
were induced to go there by the Mormon
missionaries. Inquiry as to the presence
of leprosy among them would be interest
ing. He recommends that the GoveIn-
ment Of the United States assume con
troll of measures for the suppression Of
leprosy in the Hawaiian and Philippine
Islands and the Island of Cuba, in all q
which leprosy exists to greater or less
extent"