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The Evening Visitor from Raleigh, North Carolina • Page 1

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THE .1. EVENING VISITOR. VOL. 5 NO. 90.

I Saturday, august 1881. price 2c WANTED, How's yer craps? Hard to keep comfortable. No courts in session to day. Collars on the wilt again. Lots of people ot of town.

Have all the dogs been licensed? The new moon is rushing towards Sixty-one thousand three hundred and seventy tons of was ims ported into North Carolina during the past season. W. H. Lyou has on hand a lot of the finest potatoes we have seen this season! They were raised on the farm of Mr. W.

D. of Johnston county. We call special attention to the advertisement of Messrs. W. H.

R. S. Tucker, who advertise a fine display of hosiery, and other articles too numerous to mention. The return of the election on Thursday, the 4th, were so slim that it was impossible to make an accurate guess as to the result, but from present appearances we can say the-majority will range from 50,000 The following officers of the Cotton and Grocers' Exchange have bee elected for the ensuing year W. H-Dood, President; Oapt.

J.J. Thomas, Vice-President; A. H. Thompson Secretary, and F. O.

Moring, Treasurer. Many people fly to the country at this season because the sanitary con dition of the city is thought to be nonconductive to. healtk How many of them Lave asked a single question as to the sanitary condition of the resort they have chooses? A physician has demonstrated lately that in mattersof drainage, out watering places are very defective. TwentY-five Trunks, Zino and al other kind at cost, at Geo. Slomaa's, on Wilmiagton street.

Call and sea him. mayl9-tf School Notice. Miss Geneva Han, rison will resume her school on Monday, 15th of August 1881. aug l-15t For good Bread call on Fiiel Watermelons at L. c.

Bagwell'. New Goods! Eight Different Style of Hoop Skirts at Reduoed Prices. Extra Long Hoop Skirts, Misses' Hoop-Skirta. A handsome lot wide Ham bnrg Edging, very cheap, Trimming Lace and ail Sejisonablo Goods at M. Kosenbaum'ii.

We ktep up our assert went of Table Towes and Counterpanes at very low price. Made-up Lace Goods owhRwlrReadr made Sun Bonnats, for Indies and children, will be sold at cost front to-day. Corseta, Paraol and Fans and Fancy Goods of all 8ort M. Eosznbaum's, nenr the Capitol, Kaleigh, N. C.

L. C. Bagwell has fresh and cantaloupes everymorning Akother large lot of those Tight Running and popular New Home Sew ing Machines received at J. YOU can be supplied with watermelons at L. C.

Bagwell's. He has from one hundred to two hundred from the country every morning. He was raised in the country and knows what watermelons are. Friefs fine cakes are sold at Em metLevjrs. Au.

Kinds or Repairing on Cotton Gins doue on shore notice by the Raleigh Cotton Gin Company. july 16-tf Friel'S bread and cakes for sale at Emmet Levy's and M. J. Moseley's The Blackest of Villains. Vasily Tcboomak, aged ninety six years has just died in the hospital of the Odestta Prison with the reputation of having in.the course of his vile existence committed alone, or conjunction with others, eighty murders, and also havingjescaped nojfewer than fire times from Siberia.

He was born near Irail about the year 1785, and appears to have been of Kalmuck descent, of herculean portions and of great physical strength. After serving his term as soilder he adopted brigandage as his profession, and with a band of three or four score rough kept the wooded part of Bessarabia and even the country for many miles round Odessa during several years, in such a state of terror that the police rather than arrest him lived on friendly terms with him. Atflast, about the year 1850, a police superintendent named Khorx-hevsky undertook to capture him, and suTOunding a low roadside inn kept by one Keeseeloff and known to be the resort of thieves-nd robbeis, succeeded in doing so after a esper. rate encounter, in which fifteea men altogether on both sides were killed or wounded, for this service Khorz-hevsky received) the Order of St. Vladimir, a distinction not so- often bestowed in tbose days as in these.

The old Russian criminal code being then in Tchoomak remained in prison niae years before being broughtjto trial, la 1859 however, he was condemned to twenty years at bard labor in Siberia and to loe ffioeajBif. Five years lter he escaped PANTS AND COAT MAKERS- APPLY AT HARGETT STREET, EVERYBODY Seed for circulars and prices of the celebrated PEARLESS Toe Cream Freezer whioh is, without a doubt, the Best Freezer Made REFRIGERATORS, WATER COOLERS, CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES. our motto: best goods! lowest prices! 80.uake PEALNol THOS.H.BRIGGS SONS Leaders in Hardware, Stoves and Seasonable Goods, RALEIGH, N. 0. Visitor.

LARGtdT3CrTt Editor. Arrival and Departure of Trains. RALEIGH GASTON BAILROAJX Leave. Arrive. Ealeigh, 8 40 A 7 35 Weldon, 3 15 55 RALEIGH AUGUSTA AIB LINE.

Leave. Arrive. Baleigh, 7 45 I Raleigh-; 8 301. Hamlet, 2 30 a Hamlet, 1 45 a THE MAILS CLOSE. 8 A.

M. (eastern), 1 10 p. A AL (ChattfamJ, 7 10 ft ARRIVE AND OPEN FOR DELIVERY. fc A A (Chatham), 8 western) 2 30 M. (eastern) 4 '30 Je 8 30 UMeteorologiM IWporti- Indications of the thermometer in Raleigh to day at The Visitor office am I 9am I 12 3pm 84 88 96 94 CITY VISITS.

Major Manly is again at his post Mr. David M. Vance is reporter on the Charlotte, Observer. Mr. Charlie Jordan and Willie Fendt are fast recovering.

Hon. Thomas S. Ashe and Prof. D. Grandy are in the oity.

Governor Jarvis is still at More-head City. Blackwell's factory has orders for 2,000,000 cigarettes. Col. McLeod Turner is at More- beat City. Mr.

A. Gudger and Col. T. N. Cooper left yesterday evening for the West.

The latest telegrams are, that the President is fast improving, and wui soon do out oi danger. will officiate at his church tomorrow." Spurious coin that can scarcely be detected is now going the rounds. It is. of the one dollar stamp. Keep an eye Wnene ver vou meet a man, woman or child whb is not well up with the news, "you bet your bottom lar that man, woman or child does not read the Visitor.

sohpolrqastersnsecl to' lather without shaving, is said to be as pain ful an operation a the other. w. woollcoirs. the fulL Comet can't be C-een yet with the naked eye. Burglars are about and doors should be firmly secured.

M. A. Parker and family hare ret turned from Beaufort. John T. 4 Pullen and mother are at Beaufort! Th love feast last night at Edenton Street Church ws quite an enjoy a ble affair.

Mr. A. D. Royster, city tax collector, returned from "Morehead City yesterday. Col.

F. A. Olds, City! Editor of The News and Observer, returned home yesterday evening. "Vfm. Utley, Editor of this paper, arrives to-night, and will be at his post Monday.

Mrs. A. Beasley and Mrs. M. E.

Sloan left the' city this morning for Chatham, on a visit to friends and relatives. August term of Wake Superior Cout convenes in this city Monday next, Judge Graves presiding. Much business expected to be transacted. We were glad to see on our streets this morning Mr. Joseph E.

Hicks, who has been confined to his room for the past two' weeks from sickness. The dwelling house on the plantation of Mr. Lynn Adams, and occus pied by Mr. Woods, his overseer, was burned down on Sunday last. Every city in America has this year had its hottest day in fifteen years.

Faultfinding is a powerful weapon. It is continually denting the tempe of some one. RejoiceJ oh thou heart! of the news paper Irian, for Fashion Magazines say bustles larger than ever are to be worn. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, is all very' well; but if th'e; sluggard" will go to a pic-nic the ant will come to him. All ordinary fruit acids are said to act upon tin, and one Case is reported in which persons were madej violently sick from eating fruit preserved in tin'cans, no foreign substance except tin being found in the'fruit.

'Persons desiring to go to Morehead on Monday, the 8th, on the excursion to -thai reunion of the i Ninth Regiment, fare requested to leave their nanieVwith-V. Banard, at W. C. A. The gutter mud of to day, says a medical writer, with its deadly Beptic organisms, becomes the dust of to morrow, Inspiration is deposited upon the moncous membrane of the respiratory passages of those who breathe it.

The Young ladies at appear on in bathing suits of Valf a 'yard of eloth. Propdsals will be received from proprietors of seaside resorts for inserting the name of a beach' in the above item as an advertisement Mr. George Howard, a deaf mute of this city, has invented a hat fan, which turns on the inside of the hat from the force of the wind striking a neat little contrivance on the top of the hat. It is an ingenious invention, and keeps the head as cool as a cucumber. We were shown by Messrs.

J. Broughton Go. this morning a fine boll of new cotton, fully end beautifully-, opened, whjch, came. Vfroni, the plantation of Mtf. John hear this city.

If this is not the first cotton, it is the first we have heard of. Since the above was in type, another boll, very similar to the above, has been laid on our It is from the farm of Mrs. Julia Fisher, the adjoining plantation, and is said to have been gathered yesterday. Sad Accident. The two interesting little girls of Wiley Perry, near Kelvin Grove, while attempting to fill a kerosene lamp while the lamp wa burning, on the 3d instant, the lamp exploded, buruig the children so badly that the younger of the two, little Minnie, died the same day, while no hopes are" entertained for the recovery of the other.

The mother was out milk, ing, while the father was absent from home. It is truly a sad affliction and the berieved' parents have th full sympathy of the neighborhood. Four vFooted Life Saver. Gunner, the celebrated dog of Monmouth Beach, N. was gored to death by a cow the other day.

His history is peculiar. One morning af ter a great storm, twenty years ago some Monmouth Beaoh fishermen found a water spaniel lying exhausted on the sand. Lashad on his back was a child that had died of exposure Several vessels had been wreck on the coast, jthat. night, audit was never known whence the dog. and child came.

The dog soon recovered, was named Gunner, and until, the day of his, death a favorite with every-bpdj, In the summer time he would lie on the beach or run. up and down the sand during the bathing hours, always ready to dash into the water to the rescue of some weak swimmer who had ventured out too far. He saved a large number of lives. He considered children under his special protection, and was a tavorite play mate for them. jghtning burned the summer residence of T.

H. Sweetzer at Green land N. on Monday evening. James Reed, a private of Battery Fifth United States Artilery was thrown from a wagon and killed at Atlanta, on Thursday. The assassination of James Good, man in Giles county, Tennessee, and the arrest of W.

W. suspicion are announced. The New Home Sewing Machine, it runs so light; it is perfectly delightful to use it; at J. L. Stone's.

Good Gauze Shirts for 50 Cents, at' Yeargan, Petty Co. 's. Yeargan, Petty Co. a su. perior 4-4 Soft Finish Bleaching, 12 yards for $1.00.

A Superior Extra Heavy 4-4 Bleaching, Soft Finish, 9 yards to $1,00. A Soft Finish 4-4 Cambric -branded 120x12012 l-2b. per yard. Raleigh Cotton Gin takes the lead; for it is the and the cheapest. Geo.

L. Tonnovfski, Sea, and Treas, coniectionery storo. Watermelons at Bagwell's, fresh and nice. There is no use talking. L.

Bagwell kneps the finest and freshest watermelons and cantaloupes to be found iu the city. Call and see him when you want iresh melons and ian-taloupes. He has them fresh every morning july20-tf The largest stock of Pianos and Organs in the State, at J. L. Stone's.

Write for circulars. HOSIERY! HOSIERYf 50 dozen pairs of Ladies' White Hose at FIVE CENTS per pair. HANDKERCHIEFS, Handkerchiefs. 50 dozen Ladies' Linen Handkerchiefs, at FIVE CENTS each. TEN DOZEN LADIES' LINEN COLLARS AT FIVE CENTS EACH.

Mosquito Nets and Mosquito Can opies, in Pink and White. W. H. R. S.

TUCKER. Family Bibles. You can buy a Family Bible from Alfred Williams Raleigh, N. FIFTEEN PER CENT. CHEAPER than any agent can sell the same book.

Prices ranging from $2.50 to $15.00, and it will be well for you Not to Buy until you have COMPARED PRICES i ALFRED WILLIAMS RALEIGH, NC, back to Odessa, but was again caught tried and sens into captivity. In 1869 foumd his way back tr Ovlessa, was again caught, and after being kept in prison till 1871, was retried and sent sack to Siberia, but the very same year he managed to get away from there while being tranefered from Irkutsk to and in 1874 was, recaptured at Elza- vetgrad, iu thi Government (Kher son), andjfor the fourth time tried and removed to Siberia. A couple of weeks ago he appeared here again, thus making the filth escape from Siberia, and being caught in attempt ing to steal a horse and wagon and a pair loif horses in one of -She. German colonies in this neighborhood the sturdy colonists, following their uuu al practice of taking; ithe law into their own hands in such cases, after belaboring him and a companion of his, bound their arms and legs with cords brought them to Odessa and handed-them over to the prison authorities. (The two criminals bad been so roughly handled, however as to tiecessite their removal to the prison infirmary, where Tchoomak died two days after, seven of his ribs having been broken.

It is proposed to send his brain to Dr. Benedekt of Vienna for examination, that gentleman be ing reputed to have devoted much at tention togthe brains ot notorious criminals. At Woodburv. Tenn. on Monday one Wilson killed his father in law, and Lewis Bremer killed ohn rage with a butcher knite.

Mosquito Bars. Pink and White. Mosnnito Xattincr. 90 inches wide and 108 inches wide Pink and White, at Yeargan, tJo. The Raleigh Cotton Gin Co.

has in its employ the very best work men in the State. Geo. L. Tonnoffski. See.

and Treas. A Bargin, in a 10 1-4 Sheeting, at Yeargan, Petty (Jo. b. Will repair Sewing Machines at J. L.

Stones, Raleigh, N. C. White Lace Striped Pique, at 7 ftflnts rer vard. worth 15 cents, an sold by other houses at that prioe, at Yeargan, Jf etty uo. Selling at Cost my stock of Sprin and Summer clothing.

Geo. Sloman Just Received, six dozen honey comb and Marseilles counterpanes at HpnroA Hlnmftn's. which he is selliner cheapest everj brought the city. Union Lawns, fast colors, -6 1-4 ctt per yard. I Geo.

Sloman, Agent. A.

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