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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1888
Page
1
The text profiles a farmer who favors the Proityisté doctrines and believes excess water harms, citing his habit of low water use for drinking and cooking. Chickens roam the house as his livestock favorites, and he recalls a brief stint at the Pribune with his brother Morace Gayve before returning to pig and poultry farming.
The Chicago Irad cites 1850 as a time with no factory children and warns that by 1860 necessity forced 114000 children from schools into underpaid, overworked lives. It projects 182000 in 1880 and a 1820 ratio implying 200000 factory schoolchildren driven from education, degraded by bosses and labor, exposed to moral contamination.
An historical note outlines the professions of fathers to U S presidents. Grover Cleveland is cited as the only clergyman's son to reach the presidency, though Arthur’s father was a clergyman. Other presidents’ fathers included planters for Washington Jefferson Madison and Monroe. John Tyler’s father a lawyer and statesman. John Adams was a lawyer. Grant’s father a tanner. Hayes’s father a merchant. and the fathers of Garfield Lincoln Pierce Fillmore Polk Van Buren and Jackson all farmers.
The Argonaut notes the London papers once set tone for counties rising with railways, then faltering as electric telegraph spread. Telegraph outpaced railways, letting provincial press lead in news. This sparked rapid growth of focal papers in factories and beyond. The British press stands at advertising and news zenith.
In a Mobile Alabama sermon Rev W. Bee recalls Rev D. C. Brown a circuit preacher sent to a poor North Georgia circuit. He asked church sisters for a hen each to raise funds for missions. Forty five hens laid eggs, produced many chicks, and at frying size the birds were sold to fund the missionary cause.
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy last year bought 34 000 000 feet of pine 23 000 000 feet of oak and 3 000 000 feet of ash plus other lumber for car building maintenance and new construction. The railroad opened vast western settlement by creating 800 new stations and is building over 4000 cars including refrigerators and passenger coaches.
President approves a public building bill for Charleston and Asheville. Col. A. A. Markland and W. L. Bancroft named to railway and mail posts. Cardinal Gibbons and clergy visit the White House. Clevelands plan Oak View summer retreat. Senate and House consider tariff, pensions, and public building appropriations. International notes include France and Panama canal loan, Pope’s encyclical, and European intrigues.
About six thousand people witnessed the corner stone laying of the Confederate monument in Mississippi. Winnie Davis was introduced to the crowd at the State Capitol by Governor Lowry. Col Charles Hooker gave the oration and presented Winnie with a crown for her father. National Guard parade concluded the day.
Excitement rises in upper Union County Washington D C after the brutal murder of sixteen year old Gunnings Byers by a black man named Ben Cunningham. Cunningham allegedly had vowed vengeance against the Byers family after a prior dispute with Byers father and killed Byers with an axe when he found him alone in the woods. A posse pursues Cunningham who may be lynched if captured before trial.
Bonham dispatch reports a cyclone twenty five miles east of Bonham destroying the Methodist Baptist and Congregational churches and eight dwellings. One building was carried across the railroad and crushed killing Amanda Willis colored. Eight fatally injured including the sheriff and county recorder. Damage estimated above 12000 with path three hundred yards wide. A terrible rain hail and lightning followed. Storm began at 11 and lasted about thirty minutes. Business and residence damage may exceed 25000. Over a dozen buildings unroofed and many houses demolished with no further loss of life reported.
A waterspout struck northern Dawesity Nebraska burying five miles of the Fremont Elkhorn and Missouri Valley track carrying away cattle. Bridges on the White and Lone Tree rivers were destroyed and telegraph lines cut. It is feared settlers along the rivers may be lost. The black cloud formed a wheel like motion and appeared thick and large.
A blaze claimed by a stove works plant in Pittsburg area caused about 200000 dollars in damage. The fire consumed buildings and dry goods with the fire department unable to stop the flames. Had wind not favored it, the town could have faced total destruction. Total insurance reported at 178390.42 dollars.
A fragment from a domestic scene shows a mistress chiding a grocer's boy for not choosing better dressed help. The boy retorts that no boy in town compares with him, noting the grocer outfits him boldly and even scolds him. The exchange hints at social tensions and pride.
Anomalous remark suggests kennel club beach shows would require permanent exhibitions if every dog were to have its day, implying long term display needs and stable venues for canine exhibitions.
An old writer notes a wooden ship once belonging to Emperor Trajan raised from Lake Riccia in Italy after about thirteen hundred years. The pine and cypress timbers remained well preserved. The hull used Greek pitch and linen rag sheathing with tiny lead sheets tacked on, similar to modern coppering.
A New York sportsman recalls his first moose hunt in October along the St John River in northwestern Maine near New Brunswick. Guided by Raleigh Wing, they lured the animal with a birch-bark horn call, waited in a barren ridge, and shot the bull at close range. The moose weighed about 800 pounds with four-foot antlers. the hunt highlighted the dangers and shifting views on hunting cruelty.
A collage of curios from 600 dollar Shakespeare chair sales in London to public building spending in the United States. Items cover Dooly County dancing with a water jug on the head, a bee in Portland injuring a boy, and an Arkansas cock fight fatality. Includes notes on mace from nutmeg, apricot origins in China, and a baying wild man near Concord Florida. Also reported: 1812 gold lost at sea, a Mount Pleasant oats sale with hidden bill, and a Tennessee clock carved from walnut by J Wyatt.
A Winged Diver of the Sea details gannet colonies, chiefly on the Scotch coast, with Sula Sgeir near Lewis home to about 300000 birds. It notes annual herring consumption across five stations nearing Scotland’s total fleet take, the gannet’s autumn southward movement, diving behavior, and hazards to fishermen’s nets including instances of up to ninety gannets lifted in a single haul.
A London society report from the Smoke Abatement Institute estimates the city loses about 4.5 million pounds yearly due to smoke and coal waste. The analysis cites 50 tons of smoke and 250 tons of gases, with 42 percent of coal heat wasted and 2.25 million pounds wasted on coal, plus transport and ash costs. Improved chimneys and heaters could prevent most waste.
A Kentucky father secured a statutory change for his son naming him in a birth case tied to Tilden election money. The man, who owed 75,000, received support to travel from Mobile’s streets to address the birth matter.
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