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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1888
Page
1
The article explains two aims of composting: balancing manures from different animals to suit crops and speeding decomposition of inert plant materials. It compares horse and cow manures, argues for mixing manures, notes phosphorus needs for seed crops, and stresses timely benefit versus long-term payoff in farming.
Thomas Stevens awards the palm for beauty to Persian ladies, noting their fleeting charms. He claims Oriental beauty peaks in Persia with large black eyes and an oval face, describing harems and conest buds from Iranian rose gardens as part of his view.
A local firm near Albany allegedly produces large quantities of paper treated to resemble genuine cigars. Paper is soaked at a tobacco warehouse, pressed into molds, and sold as premium brands. Reportedly, smokers and experts in New York could not distinguish the imitation from real tobacco.
The wife of General Lew Wallace writes on harems in Constantinople, detailing private rooms, baths, clothing, cosmetics, veils, and daily life. She describes palace architecture, leisure by the Bosphorus, gender roles, and women’s influence in politics and society.
A party plays a word chain proverb game. One member reads a proverb aloud. each answering player must weave the next word into their reply. The list includes common maxims such as A penny saved is a penny earned and Look before you leap, with misprints and garbled lines scattered through the roll call.
A telegraphic roundup from the South notes a new paint clay deposit near McNair Station Mississippi a bank subscription in Petersburg Tennessee and oil warehouse plans in Tallahassee Florida. Reports cover prohibition in Arkansas sales limits in Mississippi Crime in Corinth Mississippi and social oddities from Hot Springs Arkansas to High Point North Carolina.
Notes of Southern Progress report plans for a cotton factory at Asheboro North Carolina a cigarette factory at Danville Virginia a hotel on St Simons Island Georgia and numerous plants from shoe mills to woollen yarns across the South Including R eidsville North Carolina Peters burg Virginia Colum bus Georgia Mossy Creek Tennessee Birmingham and Living ston Alabama and a tragic skating accident near Ennis Texas and a burn injury in Berryhill North Carolina
R M Sloan cashier of the Bank of Reidsville died at his home after a five day pneumonia illness. A well known state bank officer and former employee of the Bank of Greensboro for 28 years he was fifty four. He leaves a wife and six children. His life was insured for 15000.
Senate bill by Mr. Farwell directs the Treasury to apply surplus to US bonds and issue 3 percent fifty year bonds to banks in exchange for existing securities. It also allows purchase and cancellation of bonds offered in open market and raises bank circulation to par value. The American Shipping League Convention re elected Wheeler as president and Hill as secretary.
A Charleston mass meeting of African Americans formed committees to raise funds to defend lynching suspects tied to Waldrop a white man accused of assaulting a fourteen year old girl in Pickens county. Whites plan to join in funding. trials of prisoners proceed this week with separate defenses by a white lawyer.
Mrs Lola McGrady wife of farmer John McGrady living eleven miles from Columbia D C was burned to death while alone with her nine month old child. Her clothing caught fire at the hearth and she ran a short distance before collapsing in flames and dying after persistent agony. A colored woman extinguished the flames with sand and reports say she lingered in agony until after midnight.
Harper Pickens longtime body servant to Governor Pickens died at age ninety after over forty years of dedicated service. He managed the Governor’s planting interests during the latter’s ministerial posting in Russia and was trusted to advise on national matters even while in Congress.
Since January 1 the Charleston recruiting office has shipped over fifty recruits to St. Louis including about thirty five Black and fifteen white enlistees. The office remains crowded as Black applicants seek enlistment in the U S Army.
Editor Burkitt of the Chickasaw Miss Messenger notes his several charming daughters help publish the paper. He is compelled to keep standing a notice that the composing room of the Messenger is not a reception room for young men.
A Sherman League forms in Ohio Republicans amid national tension. Fort Mackinway Wyoming Territory loses provisions worth 100000 with garrison on half rations. Ashland steel works near Baltimore halts as Reading strike tightens coal shortages. Woonsocket Harris Woolen Mills burns, loss 130000. St Paul wholesale grocer losses 300000 in two buildings. Montreal fire destroys 100000 of property. ladders froze to walls. Phillipsburg Delaware rolling mills shut on coal scarcity. 300 workers laid off. A massive bob sled crash on Broadway hill Kansas City leaves 17 injured, three seriously. Edward Cohen, president of City Bank of Richmond, dies suddenly at a meeting.
Reports from Georgia describe a revival in gold mining with a syndicate of English capitalists purchasing 2,000 acres near Gainesville. They plan a 10 mile canal and stamp mills. New Orleans investors buy near Canton for extensive mining ventures now underway.
In the Supreme Court Chamber at noon on Wednesday Lamar was sworn in as Associate Justice of the United States. He recited the oath, then wore a black silk gown, took his seat beside the Chief Justice as routine business began. Attending officials included Attorney General Garland and Secretary Vilas.
The author describes the Siwash pot latch a festival for large sums of money. A host builds a showy house fills it with liquor calico and trinkets invites kin and neighbors to feast. After two days the giver is poor again yet socially ennobled and secure. The custom spans Tsimsheans Hydahs and even Flatheads in Tacoma Washington Territory.
Professor Rh H Harrison of Harvard Veterinary School reports success with a wire connected galvano-farad system to control a fracturing jawed trotting horse once prone to bolting. Under driver cue words two and steady the horse became docile, halting from 2 10 to a walk, even under frightening trials, in tests described by the New York Sun.
California's largest orchard in Suisun Valley owned by A T Hatch of the California Fruit Union covers 200 acres of pears 139 peaches 70 apricots 10 nectarines 210 almonds 40 cherries 100 plums and prunes plus 40 acres of currants and goose berries and lemon and orange trees. This season 300 acres bore 2000 tons earning $100000 and Hatch expects 8000 tons worth $400000 when fully bearing.
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