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MONDAY, 886. NO. 82. hi mi urn -1 v. 1 1 1 1 OUR EUROPEAN SETTER.

BUCKLEBERRY. himself, so he kept piling in. After Providenee at 7:30 we arrive inT)ieppe and all there is left of us goes upon A FABULOUS POWER 0 4 of the recent rains, and the quantity of. stagnant matter that stands in all low places. Hog cholera is again raging in many localities.

The loss to our farmers for several past, by this dread dis ease, has been enormous. We heard a most successful say, that he niistioro I i i i- I oy tne use or salt, riis plan is to keep a quantity of salt in some place where the hogs have free access to it. He has done this for several years, and whilst his neighbors have, all lost many hogs, he! himself, has never had sick one. Tis a ample and inex pensive remedy and is worthy of trial. xv muv ao nviiui va.

limit I Officer Carroll, of yourcity, brought and lodged in jail here last week, one W. H. Parker who is charged with obtaining goods under false pretense. lhe way of the transgressor is Capt. Jno.

Divine, Supt. accom panied by Capt. Dunn, C. E. of the A.

C. Line inspected the road-bed of the Clinton and Warsaw road last Monday, by order of the President of the W. W. R. R.

Co. 'Tis hooed this company will accept the proposition made by our I citizens to take and equip the road, and that Clinton may soon have railroad connection with the outer world. Our telegraph line, that has been inoperate for some time, is now under going repairs, It will be a source of great satisfaction to our business men to know the line is again in working order. It will I probably be in good shape by the time the Congressional I vuutcuuuu uicciiSi I Our farmers! now wishing for rain, 'lis greatly needed, and unless we soon have it. still trreater damage to crops may be expected.

A drouth win oe ruinous. Sunday school celebrations seem to be the order of the day. Whether our aspirants for county offices are instru mental in getting them up, this depo- nent Knoweth not: the fact remains, however, the candidate is there, and elude, "what a snlendid Sundav a Iroa his llttlo cnoonh onrl wvn school Sunerintendent he miiKt i Philo. DAMAGE BY STORMS. oHaron, Jnly 129.

bhortly af- A A 1 il 11 A 1 ier ciock mis aiternoon a storm or ram, wind, lightning and nail visited this vicinity which, for violence, has rarely been witnessed here, run trees were blown down, the limbs torn oli and scattered broadcast, while lm- mense fields of grain were almost to- tally destroyed. The streets were covered two incnes oeep witn particles of hail as large as acorns. Thousands of dollars will not make good the dam age to buildings and green-houses alone. accompanied by I 1 A TTTTT TJ T)r T1t OO A Iiaa wind, nassed over this section this af- 7 7 finv's Mill, ui miW Anst Af this ritv. Anm i ii' i mV.

-f1 severe and destroyed a large barn with iiujuer. alio iitrutuiuLT was especially contents, also hay stacked in the fields, and killed several sheep. Williamsport, July 29. A hail-storm of great severity visited the western part or juycoming county, near Jersey Shore, this evening. Hail fell in great profusion, many of the stones being as large as hen's eggs.

Buildings were badly damaged, and corn and other crops in the path of the storm wholly destroyed. The barn or lieorge and nenry onarer was struck by lightning and destroyed, rf-v mm -i 1 with over -uu bushels or wheat and a lot of other grain. The storm did not cover a wide territory. TO THE PEOPLE. LShelby Aurora With feelings of peculiar sadness and yet with an emphatically deter- mined mind 1 realize it a duty to my numerons friends and constituents, who are depending upon my canoioa- cy, to announce totne'puDiicimjr witn- drawal from the field of politics.

1 will never again be a candidate for anv political office. I have but one reason and that a very simple one for adopt ing this resolution. I have determin ed, with the help of God, to live a con scientious and consistent Christian life. I cannot be a successful politi cian and a successful Christian. Know ing my own nature and knowing what I do of politics I have reached this con clusion deliberately and shape my ac- tion accordingly.

With the profound- est gratitude I return my thanks to the people who have so heartily and enthusically given me their support in the past and so eagerly pledged it to me the future. FROM HOOKERTON. A Few! Points' Gathered bv a Hi Correspondent In Passing. Will you please allow us a place in your paper to lay before your readers a few casual remarks about the coun try as observed by a traveler Eastern Carolina, while it may not be imbued with that push and life that the Northern settlers are giving to the West, yet it has many things to boast of. Among them we might mention your own'beautifnl little city with its wide and shaded streets and its beau tiful buildings.

Among the most conspicuous and beautiful is the Bank of New Hanover. Indeed to behold Goldsboro in its present plight fills one that is acquainted with the de structive fire of two years ago, with wonder and admiration, so rapidly has it emerged from the ashes. 1 venture the assertiori that in no towns in North Carolina, is there a more decided manifestation of educa tional push than is evinced by the towns of LaGrange and Kinston. The Davis School building LaGrange is a credit to any county, or even the State. These two towns have adopted Local Option, and we have no doubt that fact alone will tend to advance them as educational centres.

We are informed upon good authority that no effort will be spared to make the pro hibitory law prohibit in these towns. Hookerton, a little village in the lower end of Greene county, situated upon a bluff of the now majestic Con-tentnea, while not a Local Option town in all that phrase means, is nevertheless a pleasant, and might be made a beautiful little town. There is a beautiful and commodious Acad emy here, which is keeping with the educational spirit manifested by her sister towns. It was the writer's pleasure to be present at a social hop given by the young Kdies of Hooker- ton and vicinity at the Academv on the night of the ICth mst. There were many young ladies from Lenoir and Greene, arid for beauty and sweet ness, thev would be hard to excell.

Among those we remember were the Misses Hemon and Edwards, of Snow Hill. Miss Frumps and Miss Dunn, of Kinston. Here we met that clever and hospitable gentleman, Mr. Travis E. Hooker, who presided with his ac customed dignity over the "whirls and turns" of the fair ladies and gay gentlemen on that occasion.

Sheriff Luby Harper, Zell Smith and Heber Coward were there, and a finer trio of gentlemen we challenge anv section to produce. For fine physique, robust healthTarid pleasant and entertairig manners, they take the etike. We could not do justice to Hooker-ton without mentioning that clever young man, Mr. D. V.

Dixon, who, just now, we learn, is a conspicuous candidate for Register of Deeds of his native county. He will no doubt receive the nomination and be elected. We happened to be in Snow Hill on the 17th, when theDemocratic County Convention met. That body was called to order by that most worthy and attractive gentleman, Dr. E.

H. Hornaday. After considerable "bunkum" speaking, and some display of feeling between the friends of Col. Worthington and Col. Sugg, with a victory scored by those of the latter, a delegation was chosen.

A stranger in Snow Hill on such a day would infer that Sam Jones and Local Option had never cast auchor thereabouts. For long dusters, "horns" and "bunkum" speeches we will pit that convention against the nation. Snow Hill is not a beautiful town, but is surrounded by some valuable farming lands, especially across and down the river, and while crops have suffered considerably from excessive wet weather, they present a more hopeful appearance, than in many other sections of country. We were particularly amused while in Snow Hill at two old gentlemen who had just found an acquaintance, and who, in former days, represented the old Whig party, bat because of a name as they said, one was now Re- Eublican, while the other was now a emocrat. Explaining, Mr.

Republican said before the war I was an old line Whig, and I never have been able to tolerate the name of Democrat. Mr. Democrat said, yes, before the war I was a Whig, but 1 never have been able to tolerate the Republican party, or its name. They parted as it happened without the drink. Having paid our respects to Mr.

W. H. Dail, we left Snow Hill behind us, and among the things arid places we have known, we now know Snow Hill. In Pitt our visit was more brief. The County Capital promises us a flourishing little business town in the East ere long.

Much business is now carried on in Greenville. Traveler. SAMPSON JOTTINGS. Paragraphs Caught on the Fly by our Clinton Reporter. From the report of our County Superintendent we learn that, from November 1, 1885, to March 1, 1886, the public schools taught in Sampson numbered 90 54 white, 36 colored.

The public school house in Mingo was destroyed last week by fire. Twas the wonk of an If the perpetrator-of this. outrage is caught, he will, probably have meted out the justice due such scoundrels. Mr. N.

It- Anderson, Principal of the Clinton Male Academy, arrived last 'week. He brings- with him his sister, Miss Lois; who will assist in the primary department next year. Mr. A. has proven himself a most efficient instructor, and with the assistance' of Miss Anderson, who comes with the highest endorsements, we may expect a school of "high grade that every citizen of Clinton should patronize and endeavor to maintain.

IMany case -of fever ate reported froxii different of tjid county The natural consequence we suppose Courses Through Keely's Might- lest Motor, Working Won-ders With It. Philadelphia. Julv 34. John Mnr rell Keeley the motor man. tnvA exhibition to-day, in his work nhnn nt Id.

JrtyVl TnAn -4 k. 1 ireei, or a Dig engine, which has just been complet- eu, aner a year or experiments. Inventor Keely has been giving mysterious entertainments to eanitAlita. scientists and others for the past 12 or 15 years.but none of the former exhibi tions were so mysterious or wonderful as the scientific vocabulary of his own in explaining to bis audience of 30 how the thing was done. The audience.

like former audiences, nodded their heads in approval, and looked wise. Mr. Keely lold those present that it I was the first trial of his newest and biggest engine, and that he was ex perimenting, and didn know whether the engine would run or not. In- ventor Keely has heretofore given his exhibitions with small machines, and the funny-looking copper globe, eight mcues in uiameier, mieo Wltn "rewn- ators" which housed, is about three times larger than any machine he has ever used. He said he could produce 250 horso power with what looked more like a washing machine than anything else.

rium or wonderment ran through his Ilttle wor.k.sll0P. then Keely put iosl op "is nddie bow, turned the tun inc forks on the drum nf ha 'MiKoro v. 0T connected a copper tube six feet men in mameier oveu uim cylinder, ana men connecia anotner copper tube a thirty i i a second or an inch in diameter and ten feet long with the engine, from the seven-pint cylinder. The sound, liberated from the drum of the through the first tube into the 8looe the a8. whlch Keely had vuusou iui uia 11U CI WUU1U TUU LOB machine, he said.

Something did run a. mi i i iHe 'E copper glODe, revolved faster than any fly wheel or bit of machinery ever seen in motion in any-machine shop. The copper globe 4a incnes in diameter, made teven revo- lutions every second, and an indepen- 1 aenr Deit-wneei at one end or the cop- per globe, which, Mr. Keely said, ran- from the sympathy of sound, made 300 revolutions a minute, and its velocity frightened everybody in the room, in- eluding Keely, who danced around the shop and told everybody to keep out the way. The belt wheel and the cop- per giooe WENT AROUND SO FAST that they made a noise like the spinning of a huge top.

The noise sounded too like the rushing howling of a li'SSIA i Til cr rexf rr tha fi a ni r-w neath. Thn hot littln wrorVeVinn arts tii.uuics, nuu men, as Keely, greatly excited, turned the cock of the vibrating tube and made the copper globe calm down to almost a ou.iaeir hats. "Aint that fine, asked Keely, smiling. "Wonderful!" came from dozen mouths, and then Mr. Keely started the copper giooe otr again wiyi all its fury.

It shook the little workshop from cellar to ceiling, and rattled the window-panes. "1 can make the screw of a steam propeller make 0,000 revolutions a minute," shouted Mr. Keely. through the howling of the globe and the belt wheel. "Then we'll be able to go to Europe- in a day or two, before long," remarked a man in the audience.

Mr. Keelv stooned the engine and i cj made the globe revolve in either direc tion, just as he pleased. The bottled sound in tne "iioerator" was just as strong as when he betran. and he said the machine would run all day charging the 'liberator" with a sound from the fiddle-bow over the tuning fork. Several tests were made with the lever, wnich has been described frequently.

i When the exhibition was concluded. L. J. Taylor, the broker, moved a vote or tnanxs be tendered jvir. Keely.

Everybody shouted and a ringing applause followed. illr. Keely will go away, to-morrow. for ten days' rest; then he will return and study out some vibratory sounds, so that he will have the machine more thoroughly under his control. He doesn't know how long it will take him.

or what the next step would be; but he said the public would hear from him very soon. When the visitors had left, ted with his engine, if he built a large one he could run all the machinery in. eyery factory Philadelphia by sim- ply drawing his fiddle bow once every i i.ii morning anu leuing me souna imo the globe. KILLED HIS BOY. Galena, July 27.Conrad Wiseman, a farmer of Hanover, this county, assaulted his son, twelve years old, last Saturday, kicking and pounding, him in a terrible manner.

On Sunday the boy died, as was alleged at the coroner's inquest, from1 the-effects of the brutal treatment he had received." Wiseman was arrested at the instance of the coroner, brought to this city for examination before a justice, and comrqitted by him to on the charge of murder-in the-first degree. For several years I have auflered greatly, from periodical of, Hay Fever. At the suggestion of Covert Cheever. Druggists, I obtained Ely's Cream. Balm and used a portion of lu during a severe attack.

I can checrfullr I testily as to the immediate and continued relief obtained by -lti "use. I heartily. recommend it to those ruffeiing from this or kindred complaints 1 1 (Rev) Us A. 8M1TH, Clinton, Wis ne went borne quung tne nignt ne had the colic and he had tor have a doctor and before he got' well the bill amounted to $30. He says he will never let a Buckleberry man feed him or scare him into eating too much again, and that they may get behind his chair and threaten and persuade, but he has learned one lesson he will not forget.

On one occasion 1 was at Josiah Sutton's and when we sat down to dinner he commenced apologizing for the small turkey he had. I remarked that 1 though he was a very hne one. Me replied that according to the unwrit ten law in Buckleberry, no one ever killed a turkey that weighed less than 30 lbs. and that this one weighed only 27 lbs. Jo is a widower and is ready and willing to make somebody a good, kind and faithful husband and I can cheerfully recommend Tiim.

Hardy Sutton, of whom 1 have had much to say, left several sons, Thomas, Benjamin John Julius and Junius Sutton. Thos. Sutton, the oldest, is more like his father than any of them. He is one of the nicest farmers and makes more money according to his piece of land than any man in the county. Benjamin F.

Sutton is also a thrifty, enterprising farmer. Both of these gentlemen have excellent wives and are among the best places-to visit in the county, for I have been there. They keep up the old fashion of setting out country made brandy and honey before dinner, and yet they are both sober men. I have never visited the three younger brothers, but I intend to do so, for they are chips off of Iho old tree. I must now pay my respects to my good friend, Jere Sutton, for I can't forget him when he treated me so roy ally when there, Recently at his re quest I went to his home to do some legal business for him.

Before din ner he brought out some apple brandy three years old, and some wine eight vears old. made from the little wild black grape, which, by-the-way, makes the best wine in the world. It was made by taking three gallons of the grape juice and one gallon of brandy. Our older people will recollect that in the old times, this was the only way of making I like the old way the best. As I gave my little girl some it was a real treat to see her sip it and smack her lips with all the airs of a Connoisseur, and say "Pap, ain't it good?" 1 certainly agreed with her.

I was puzzled to tell which was best, for they were both so goed that I would sip first one and then the other. Now my prohibition friends must not censure me for giving the little girl some wine and toddy, for bless the dear little creature, I never saw one that did not love it and smack her lips and say it was crood. It is cruel, puritanical and hard hearted not to let the little ones have some, when we grown people will step in at the back door and cet behind screens to take a drink. Horace may sing of the good old mellow wines of (ireece and Rome, but I will smgof the Buck leberry wines made by Jere Sutton for that is good enough tor me I must stop writing about this good wine and brandy, for my mouth is just watering for a drink of it, and my dm ner isnow ready and I will have to content myself with a drink of up- country corn whiskey. Soon dinner was announced and such a quantity of good things one rarely sees on one table.

There was turkey, chicken pie, ham and barbe cue to say nothing of the vegetables and desert, and there were no small quantities either. There were large, old fashioned dishes three feet long, and eyery one was brimming full. venture the assertion that there was enough to feed 50 men on the table After dinner was over, he asked me what was my fee for the work I had done. I told him I was fully paid, that I had eaten dinner enough to last me a week and that I thought that was full compensation. I will put the question to my brethren of the bar, that if they could make enough in one day to support them for a week if they would not think that a good day's work.

Not long ago while returning from this goodly land, this modern Egypt, where the needy and hungry, as in olden times, have to resort to get some thing to eat, 1 passed a gentleman from the piney woods region, standing on the road in tront or John A. but ton's house. He had just eaten dinner with friend Sutton. If he ate as much as he looked like he could hold, I am sorry for the host, for provisions odght to go up at that house. He looked as full and tight as a tick and if anybody had poked him in the side I think there would have been an explosion.

1 was momentarily expecting it to result from spontaneous combustion during the process of digestion, wlen the "notch potch" inside of him began to ferment. Oh! how I do pity my Buckleberry friends when a lean, lank, cadaverous and half starved piney woods man goes among them and sits flown to one of their tables cracking under the heavy toad of good things thereon. These hungry fellows maygo to leberry and give loose rein to their Appetites and try to eat out the "substance of the people" but they can't do it, and these tsucKle berry farmers will just laugh at them, and tell them to help themselves, for there is the greatest abundance in this land of plenty. There is no country that is blessed with a more fruitful soil or a more generous and hospitable people, or fanned by softer breezes or canopied by a purer sky than the goodly land of Buckleberry. 0.

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uastsx a uo. shore. We'have hardly reached the end of the gang plank when a squad of blue jacket fellows swarm around us and commence firing, their French at, us. We are taker rather: unawares, and; before we could get time to converse with them in their own anguage or otherwise our coats were unbuttoned, and our persons and bag gage examined tell the truth. we didn't try to talk mucn and don't have any.

remembrance4 or any of us rymg to gesture 6r there was a lot of men. with red pantSvand long swords thatkott their eyes on us and we didn't care to make any false motions so 'we stood there like i clothier's dummy and let them hare it all their own way. "The ceremony was short and right to the point and we soon learned that they were custom house officers and that they mean no harm. An English hotel had been recommended to us which we soon found, and it was our pleasure to converse in our own language. We are kindly invited to make durseif at home.

We are yet weak, and our landlady re commends some soup for our stomach's sake, so 1 we indulge- moderately and retire. We remain Friday, July 2 la Diep pe, and are very mucn interested in the quaint old city, for sucn it is in the truest sense or the term, ine streets are narrow and the buildings are crumbling with age. The customs and habits of the people are much the same as hundreds pf years ago. That part of the city lying along the coast has been built up during the last century, and is now quite a lasmonaoie summer resort. But we must not tarry too long; at Dieppe, so on Saturday morning we wneei to ward Pans via Roueti and Mantes.

The' weather is quite warm but the scenery is so attractive and the roads so fine that we forget about tne heat. we have not the space to give details of the journey, it was very pleasant throughout and the many funny ex periences we had in trying to make ourselves understood slong the road only made it more romantic. We tound the peasants kind and obliging however and did what they could to help us on our way to Rouen. Our ma chine attracts a good deal of attention, which was worth more to us tnan a letter of intoduction, for we found the acquaintance of several wheelmen, one the President of ar bicycle club, who showedtis the way to an English hotel and did all his power to make it pleasant for us. Rouen is one of the many attractive places of France.

Its history making it of ur-asual interest TTotravelers. We -visited many places of interest and hasten towards Paris, arriving there on Monday, July 5th. We wheel down that magnificent Ayenue de la Grand Armee, near to the Arch of Triumph, and stop at the Hotel du Chateau. WASHINGTON NOTES. Charles D.

Jacobs, of Kentucky, Minister to Colombia, has resigned. He has been in hot water with the Consul-General for some time. The Senate had a lively debate on the House action of yesterday on the River and Harbor bill. There was al most a scene between Edmunds and Conger. The House was soundly be rated.

Finally the Senate insisted on its amendments and appointed the same conferees. The Fortifications bill was debated the remainder of the day. The House spent the day on confer ence reports on the Legislative, and sundry civil bills. The Senators were allowed private clerks. The Leg islative bill is now out of the way The House non-concurred in several amendments to the Deficiency The Senate confirmed an immense list of nominations yesterday.

Among to-day's nominations were the following the promotion of Mr. Graham Adee from 3rd to 2nd assist arit Secretary of State, and the nomi nation of Mr. Warre, of Delaware, to the 3rd assistant. As the Senate Naval Affairs Com mittee has reported a bill for nava construction different from the House bill, a hitch may arise over this ques tion. Messrs.

Henderson and Cowles think it will be the middle or latter part of next week before the Congress wil adjourn. This seems to me to be wiser forecast than that of most other members who say that it will adjourn next Monday. Mai. A. J.

Galloway, of Goldsboro and Mr. Charles M.Busbee, of Raleigh, were here to-day. The latter was re turning home. Another effort on the internal reve nue reform line will be made to-mor row if possible, or some later day in the Session. Mr.

Reid is hopeful of getting several features incorporated into the bill and have it pass the House, i i A Japanese prince is here. He wil be presented to tne rresioent on Thursday. C. W. H.

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A caprice of the moment in nery is that of veiling withV tullevarious parts of the torinet orrounil hat; How the Southern Improvcsitets are The State I-Otteir'UfrhtoJiifr struck on Madison streets Jlemx nls, the last June 15th drawing. Mr. J.tE; Beaalejr and ei-Poetmaater Hon. J. H- Smith, who went lit a dollar a piece together drew $10,000, or $3,000 It? is reported, that they will add it to-.

the fund" for- protecting the Mem his river rront Jtempnu jipjuai June 18th; The Messenger Correspondent Journey to Paris Correspondence Goldsboro Messehgrer. Tuesday morning, June 29th, we strap our baggage on the wheels And move slowly towards the Black Friar Bridge, the streets are alive with vehicles, and it was with some difficulty that we could we readied tne bridge however, cross over and steer for the suburbs, round tne wneei-iner here very rough and slippery, the sprinklers having showeredthe streets I with water. 4 Unr wheels snppea rrom under us once, or. butw.e reached the limits of the city in and take the most direct road to Brighton. The day is beautiful, and as we roll into the rural districts we find the roads drv arid smooth, and for bicy- cling the best that we nave round in England: We turn about to take a farewell view of the great city, but the highest dome ofJLondons out of sight.

We ride on a few miles further and stop to rest for a few minutes in the cool morning shade, tor the sun is growing warm. We make a sketch of the surroundings, and are soon on our way again. We stop several times during morning to make pictures of the scenery along the road. For an American it was quite attrac tive. We arrived at the jittle yillage of Crawley, about 3 o'clock, and put up for the night.

At an early hour in the morning we were up, and on the road. The air was cool, the wheeling the very best, and we spin along at a lively rate, halting now and then to make a sketch. We complete the journey with a five mile coast, and ar- rive in urignton ror. dinner, xms is the erreat wateiiner place of the King dom. It is beautifully and much has been done to maKe it attractive and At present i appears to be dull, but we were in formed that the busy season usually commenced the first of August, and continued until December, and that about one hundred thousand visitors spent the summer there.

After rid mg about the upper part oiBthe city we smn up and down the main which extends for four miles along the seashore. The water seems so invit ing we roll down and bathe briefly, for the water to us seemed very cold, Bedtime arrives and we retire. Thurs dav morning, July 1st, we are out early and on the road to New Haven, ten miles away. Our route is." aloUj the sea shore, and just hilly enoug to make the Star do some climbing, for in some way or other, it took me nror thm nil. vphilA flnlnmhiA and Royal Mail needed much' urging and pushing.

We arrive safely and wheel to tne boat landing, ror in tne arter noon we are to set sail for Dieppe, France. We book our machines, buy our tickets and ascertain that our ves sel will sail promptly at 2 o'clock. Having several hours to wait, we examine ourself and it is our sad mis fortune to realize ihat there is not a drop of French blood in out veins, and not a French word in our minds. We had expected my brother who speaks the language, "to accompany us through France, and disappom tedlv we were left without an inter preter, and all we have in this world that is a least bit Frenchy is a little green covered book containing a few English and French sentences. Well we all sat down, put our heads to gether and took our first French lesson.

On the thirty-fourth page we find "Apportez-moi um biscuit," and the book savs it means me a biscuit." J. M. intimates that it would be a good plan for him to learn to say, but prerers to nave tne last word dis cuit changed to a large loaf of bread, and thinks it a good idea to put a pan of milk in somewhere. We are anx ious to learn French, so we peruse the book. On the forty-eighth page we find that "Du pain" is bread.

We are unable to find anything that means large loaf. We find nothing that means nan. so we suppose I I TM3flt baril," (a small barrel,) and "Du lait" meaning milk, we have "Apportez-noi un cent livres du pain, et un petil baril de du lait" (bring me a hundred weight of bread, and a small barrel of milk.) We inform him that this is what he must say when he desires large bowl of bread and milk. He Makes a stagger at the pronouncia-tion but we find it incorrect, so we nronounce it for him. He then re tires some distance away to say his piece.

Each one tries to become fa miliar with that part of the French language that he thinks he will most need. We soon discover that our wants are prodigious and it is quite evident that we have a big job on our hands. We have no time to lose, so some one suggests that we resort, in case of necessity, in some natural method, or other words, that we gesture it out. In view of the fact that we. collectively and individually.

have a limited idea of what the French language is and believing it expedient to resort to any or ail reasonable means through which it may be possible to make a multitude of wants known. We believe the last sugges tion a good one, and adopt the plan. The whistle blows and we forget our troubles for a short time to make ready for the voyage. At two o'clock precisely our little side-wheel steamer glides out of the harbor at" the rate of sixteen miles per hour. as she steams along the great white cliffs she seems- but speck but she moves, so beautifully that we are more delighted with her than with the great "City of Rome." But as we push further out into the Channel, the sea grows heavier and soon the waves tossj her about like a bobbin to a fish line, And our opinions go down as our dinners go up.

We lose all relish for the French language and the desire to' see France. In fact we lose pretty touch, everything but our' boots. Well, we don't want to laLK aoout it, lungswry short we concluded that it might be possible to make Frerichirien out of us but sailors Itnpossiblert We are riot btiilt that hanka- "to kind Some Interesting Notes From Lienoir County. fCtorrespondence Goldsboro Messenger. LaGrange, N.

July 26.There is a section of country on the north side of Neuse river, in Lenoir county, extending from White Hall to the west bank of Falling creek, a distance of about ten miles, known as Buckle-berry pocbson. From the river to the foot of the hill where the piney woods region begins is from three to four miles wide. This section embraces what may be properly termed the valley of the Neuse, and is sufficiently elevated above the high water mark so as not to be subjected to overflow from freshets in thterivef. The soil is of a brown or snuff color and is very fertile, producing from 300 to 500 pounds lint cotton to the acre, and averaging from to 8 barrels of corn and from 10 to 15 bushels of wheat. It is not what may be called a swamp, but rather a second low grounds that make out from the river.

While the surface soil is rich in vegetable matter or humus, the clay is within five or six inches of the top. So it will be seen that it has elements of fertility in it that is capable of being brought to the highest state of cultivation. The owners of this land think that it is the best land in the world, and that if they had to farm on the hill or upland that they would starve to death. They would as soon think of selling their wives as parting with this land, so attached are they to it. Indeed, I heard one say that he had 40 acres that he would not take $100.

per adre for. -jFifty years ago this region was comparatively unsettled) there not being more than half a dozen families within its borders. The bear, the deer, and wild game of every description roamed undisturbed over this vast wilderness, until population began to pour in, when it became; the paradise of the sportsman. It was first settled by a family by the name of Sutton, and it is now chiefly owned by people of that name or their kindred. The original settlers were a thrifty, prosperous, industri-ousl and honest population The name Sutton is a synonym for the above qualities.

By their prudence and fore sight they accumulated good fortunes and left their posterity comfortable circumstances. Contrary to the gen-eraV rule that one generation makes monev and the next spends it, the present generation of Suttons know how to make and to keep money. Of the older men of that name that I knew, when a boy was Hardy Sutton who was the wealthiest and the leader amoner the Sutton family. With his fine manly figure, erect and stately in his bearing, with a smoothly shayen face and a ruddv frlow to his cheek, with a kind and benevolent expression of countenance, he was a true type of the ideal farmer, and might be termed a handsome man. He was scrupulous ly neat in his dress, and to see him in his plain white shirt and home made coat and pants you would have a fine model for an artist if you wanted one of a true farmer.

He was the perfect embodiment of hospitality. VV hen you went to his house you were greeted with a smile and given a cordial welcome. It was so different from that welcome you receive when you ero to a man's house who does not want vou. His wife was a fit compan ion for such a man. When I kriew her she was setting old and from the traces of former beauty, she must have been in her younger days quite handsome.

She was a fine specimen of a country matron, with a fat, rosy cheek, indicative of generous living and tjood health. My father although not a lawyer, did most of the legal business for the people of that section. His only fee was a big dish of chicken pie. He used to say that, nobody but a Sutton eould make a chicken pie fit to eat. Tf anybody will ever try one of their pies he will come to the same conclusion.

I imagine that some of the legal fraternity who read this will think that he was a cheap worker, but I will wager my Sunday hat that if some of them could go down in Buckleberry and eat a chicken pie made by one of the Suttons, (for the art has been transmitted to this generation) he would think he had received a good and liberal fee. I recollect when I was a boy I went with my father to Hardy Sutton's to attend to some business for the old gentleman. When dinner was announced I went to the table and such a profusion of good eating I never saw before spread on one table. At the foot of the table was a dish at least three or four feet long filled with chicken pie. Mrs.

Sutton took a stand behind my chair kept piling up the pie on my plate, and telling me that 1 was eating nothing and that I must be sick. I was young and small and was afraid not to eat, for from the way thebid lady piled it on my plate I thought she would be mad if I did not eat it. Now I tell yon. that you can't insult me or make me sicli by putting something good to eat on my plate, for nature has blessed me with good "digestive organs. Insisting on people' eating is characteristic of the Sutton family.

A stranger who is not acquainted with this habit of their's is liable to get into trouble, for there is danger of eating too much, especially a man who is not accustomed to such sumptuous fare as they spread before him. Last summer one of the Wayne county men went to a reaping at old man Josiah Sutton's. He went into the dining room and old uncle Josiah, who loves to see people eat when tfiey come to see him, took- a position at the back of his chair arid commenced filling his plate with the good eatin and every time the Wayne county man would slacken in his eating, the old man would tell him he was eating nothing: and that -he must be sick. The gentleman from Wayne says he thought old uncle Josiah knew more about what he was eating than he did I return thanks to my political ene- Keely told the reporter that, by lay-mies for the innumerable benefits I ing little tubes under ground, connec- have reaped from their ill-directed en- and, if nothing else, certainly for the good they have thus done me, I freely forgive them. Brushing aside a tear ror the tading dav-dreams Of mv boyhood and ma- turer hopes of young manhood that L.I were just oiossoming into uoiu realities I subscribe mvself for the last time.

Your obedient servant, Thomas Dixon, Jr. It sometimes pays well to own forests in North Carolina. Walnut trees are sold at large prices, and there are whole forests of them in Western Tm41 nawl.nft nnn. lar is winning its way in New England maferifti for vaai! nnln. out of which water buckets are manu- factured.

Now come3 captain Lenoir with a large orchard of cherry trees, in Mitchell county, on Grandfather mountain, the lumber of which he has sold for $6 per 1,000 feet. There are 2,000 trees, containing over 1,000,000 feet of lumber. Some of the trees are over five feet hv diameter and sixty feet to the first limb. Not unfrequent- ly a poor man our hills wakes up to find himself Estate Mortgages and Deeds for sale at the Messing-SR omce..