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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1888
Page
1
A humorous poem from Harper's Monthly echoes four seasons as love blooms. Images of hawthorn, gold apple boughs, fiery poppy cups, dandelion balls, and winging birds convey romantic rapture across spring to winter. The speaker extols enduring love beyond seasonal change.
A red granite monument in Atchison Kansas public cemetery recalls a grim history to locals. The shaft, broad at the base and tapering upward, features a carved image of a snake-like figure entwined around it from base to apex and bears a bold inscription on all four pedestal faces.
Richard Harris died February 13 1877 of delirium tremens and his widow Loretta Hullett Harris had a monument placed at his grave designed by herself. The couple secretly wed in 1858 amid family opposition and social ostracism. Harris later drank away his practice and died in poverty as the family endured scandal.
A Pelaware street artist reports a passerby rubbed his eye and touched his ear upon seeing a tin sign reading Eye and Ear. The observer argues people reveal ailments unconsciously when confronted with such a sign, a phenomenon he calls a freak of nature.
The story recounts George A. Carden, then Signal Service Observer at Poplar River Montana, recording 62.1 degrees below zero on New Year’s morning 1885 as the coldest observed in civilization. He describes extreme cold, heavy coverings, and attempts to keep warm while awaiting a telegraph update to Chicago.
A short twenty mile rail line from Niagara Falls to Lockport used wooden track and strap iron. A widow killed by a hog on the road sued for compensation after lard spread on the rails to aid a grade, forcing the railway to pay. The tale reflects early railway struggles and engineering limits.
A street scene joke from the New York Sun features a boy asking for 10 cents to buy eggs after a fall. A passing gentleman remarks the eggs are badly broken up, and the boy gets the money and eggs.
Telegraphic item notes hog cholera devastating Jones county while R G Pearson opens a large revival at Newbern. Deaths from a fast mail crash near Whitaker’s. Raleigh to double cotton seed oil mill capacity to 150 tons daily. Fortunes rise and fall with failures in Pitt and Durham counties as grand juries consider murder in Guilford and indictments in Durham. Rail and bridge accidents haunt the state amid public works and new mill plans in Salisbury and Athens.
During the first six months of its existence the bank of Cheraw has made 6 per cent above all expenses. Mr. Epp Griffin of Abbeville County last year made eighteen bales of cotton with one horse. The State Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be held in Florence from March 29 to April 1.
The sheet mill of the Reading Patron works has suspended, throwing 275 men out of employment. Smallpox is reported as raging in Havana with two thousand deaths between May last and January 88s. Rumor at Washington links General John Newton to the coast survey post. Gunboat Yorkton and a dynamite cruiser at Cramp's ship yard near launch within a month. Eighteen injured by dynamite explosion in a Duluth rock cut.
In Jackson township Nash County North Carolina Noel Eatman and Noah Eatman clashed over land sale. John Battoms confronted the house firing, wounding Noel and Noah who returned fire. A seven year old child was fatally shot. Both men are described as desperadoes with deputies seeking them.
In a salon scene Miss Clara questions Mr Sampsons view of Mr Browns character. He grows pale and stammers before confessing he believes Brown is a gentleman though unsure. She reveals her concern that Brown may pursue a close friend, adding blush and the dramatic tone of Epoch society pages.
Citizens and visitors line the streets as Chief of the Nation and Mrs. Cleveland arrive in Jacksonville. A 21 gun salute greets the party at the Exposition building, escorted by the state military and a reception committee, with Mayor Burbridge aboard. A two hour public reception at the St James Hotel draws thousands, while Charleston marks another jubilant stop with similar honors. The civil service announces sharp exams in southern cities, and Chattanooga's 75,600 addition to its public building budget moves forward in committee.
A Sydney era report discusses Pasteur proposing rabbit control in Australia using chicken cholera inoculation. It notes Dr. Siebert in New York calls pneumonia a house disease but not contagious and highlights relief via fresh air. It surveys electric car propulsion, waterproof footwear, bullet photography, red wood burl use, and a Chinese steel cable feat.
A Chicago Herald poem praises Elizabeth Jane with playful imagery of her snore. The verse extols the snore’s ascent and descent like a bee and a rising flute, describing its spread from chin to feet and its effect on the bedchamber.
Guests are seated on mats and served across three small tables holding seven bowls, five bowls, and three bowls. Use the right hand to lift chopsticks and bowls, move the rice bowl to the left, eat rice between bites, and drink from the soup bowl.
The Current notes a sharp fall in prices since the industrial era, boosting purchasing power. A table illustrates the reduction in cost of a common daily necessity from 1820 through 1860.
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