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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1888
Page
1
A reflection on Charles M. Harger as a master poet guiding through spring summer autumn and winter. The Bard’s monarch title frames nature as a grand singer, with seasonal cycles inspiring joy, growth, harvest, and storm. The piece honors Harger’s eloquence in the Journalist.
The London World notes the Queen often leaves a drawing-room early as she cannot stand long. She actually sits on a crimson and gold stool arranged to appear as if she is standing to those who pass by.
In Philadelphia the New York Graphic notes dissatisfaction with a public park statue titled A Lioness Carrying a Wild Boar to Her Young. Critics call it too sanguinary and harmful to children for a park setting. One says better to honor early national figures rather than uniform horsemen.
Large numbers of counterfeit five dollar silver notes circulated in Chicago. The forgeries are well executed but show flaws: crude scroll-work around the V, abrupt ruling on stamped paper, and a lifeless portrait. The seal key notch is a straight I instead of a T in genuine bills.
The New York Graphic warns of a “Bohemian of swindle” evolving into a hay-fork game. A farmer is lured to store forks for a commission of 30 to 75 percent, signs a form receipt, then loses it to others who claim rights to pay four prices for the forks. Farmers tend to pay rather than contest the scheme.
The late United States Attorney General Brewster is remembered for weathering cruel remarks about his disfigured face. He spoke simply of a faithful nurse who dozed while caring for a child, causing his own burns when the child was saved.
A Florida paper reports New York capitalists intend to establish a silk farm near Jacksonville. They will plant 300 acres immediately with the pis multivault mulberry to feed the silkworms, noting rapid tree growth and superior leaf quality. A reeling, spinning and weaving factory will be built in Jacksonville to handle raw silk.
A Contemporary Review analysis compares France and England’s public debt and military outlays totaling about 820 million dollars with 25 percent more population to the United States. It notes U S annual army navy and debt costs around 150 million dollars, yielding a 670 million dollar annual advantage for the United States and forecasts dominance in world affairs.
Adelaide narrates a bright morning as Robert Shafter arrives seeking lodging for the season. Aunt Jane, stern and organized, accepts him after learning he is a cornet player with the Bluff Point band. He moves into the southwest chamber for three dollars weekly, and a week later he and Adelaide become close friends.
A nineteen year old narrator recounts a summer with a charming lodger Robert Shafter Reede, a cornetist. She resists his marriage proposal, yet saves his life during a cramp and later learns his full name. His romance with Miss Bradford and looming October wedding drive a rift, leaving her jealous, prideful, and resolved to appear indifferent.
In a moonlit scene Addie Bradford and Bobby Shafto exchange a tense, romantic moment on a piazza. He reveals Miss Bradford is his half sister engaged to a Boston merchant and that jealousy may win her heart, then kisses Addie and proclaims true love.
The London Globe reports a growing danger of drinking eau de cologne as a stimulant among women and others. Readily available, non public, and secretly consumed, the habit often starts with a few drops on sugar then progresses to intoxication and decline.
Two men, Berard and Fourcade, received six and twelve months respectively for a series of clever schemes targeting Paris pubkeepers. They offered barrels of cheap wine, had tastings with high quality wine, then replaced most of the barrel with water while hiding the ruse. The pair confessed after conviction.
Hardy Delong and his son Reuben found a mud-splattered bald eagle with a bleeding head on a fence eight miles from Ogdensburg New York. They captured it and discovered a second dead eagle nearby, both showing signs of a deadly encounter. The living bird recovered after being fed at Mr Delong's home.
The Department of Agriculture reports cold, dry, and frosty conditions reducing winter wheat in central states while Atlantic coast districts hold near, Pacific coast shows medium development. State by state, declines range from 2 to 16 points, with general average down to 73 from 82. Spring ploughing lags in northern regions and cotton planting faces moisture and temperature delays. Labor wage rates show little change since May 1885. Winter rye holds near April levels. winter barley at 88.3 promising a medium crop.
A dawn fire swept through brick stores and warehouses south of Georgetown market, destroying multiple properties including Ehrich and Baum holdings. Incendiary suspected. halted by local hand engines and Salamander company. losses likely over $30,000 with insurance gaps for Dozier and Ehrich. Rain aided containment. steam engine unavailable. aid requests to Florence and Charleston were prepared but withdrawn.
Archbishop Lynch died in Toronto. Pratt Kansas saw a bank burglary with a $4,016 loss. Hot Springs Arkansas recorded a $100,000 fire loss over two blocks. Quincy Illinois reports the Mississippi River ten miles wide with many farms submerged. A Northern Indiana cyclone caused widespread telegraph ruin. New York assay office gold on hand totals $89,000,000, with $13,000,000 in coin.
A brief humorous exchange features Grimesby and Brown with a jokey line about lending a hundred dollars. Brown laughs at the notion, noting Grimesby’s humor and joking fashion. The snippet captures a moment in a lighthearted streetwise tone from the New York Sun.
At Fountain Colorado Train No. 7 Thunder bolt arrived around 2 41 am Sunday. A caboose and cars with loose brakes struck the train triggering naptha fire and a huge explosion that wrecked the depot and several buildings. Three dead, twelve to fifteen injured, several cars burned and a 30 by 12 foot crater reported. Authorities suspect slipping brakes by tramps caused the accident.
The State Department of Agriculture releases a 244 county report, excluding Georgetown, detailing crop conditions at April's end. Cotton area up with 47 percent condition. corn area up with 92 percent. rice area down with 94 percent. tobacco planted as experiments. wheat 94 percent, eats 92 percent, both below last year. Farm labor wage averages $8.30 monthly with board, up forty-two cents. Increased farmer interest and demand for information noted.
A massive oil spill in Oil City Pennsylvania Monday sent flaming oil barges and islands drifting down the creek. The blaze destroyed several dwellings and the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad bridge two miles away and a large barrel factory. Loss estimated at $250000. Residents kept vigil through the night fearing total destruction.
The Gate City traveling from Boston to Savannah collided with an unknown vessel in dense fog 200 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras at 2 am Saturday. The other ship vanished after bowsprit tore into Gate City's forward deck. Gate City waited six hours then continued to Savannah. passengers panicked but no injuries reported.
Pickens Pendergrass of Davisville Alabama was shot and killed near Heflin by Summer Little a Black man. Alfred Newell the victim’s father-in-law is implicated and in Edwardsville jail. Little remains at large as about forty armed citizens scour the area seeking lynching. Pendergrass buried at White Plains.
Charles H. Jones, recently of the Times-Democrat in Jacksonville Florida, has purchased a large interest in the St Louis Republican and was elected vice president of the publishing company. He will head the editorial department and the paper will soon appear in a new dress of type with altered reading matter and forthcoming announcements likely to cause discussion in journalistic circles.
A Thursday or Monday evening fire reported just before seven o'clock consumed the West & Edwards building at Pryor street and Line in Atlanta. The roof and second story were quickly engulfed with losses estimated at 60 000 dollars offset by 46 000 dollars in insurance.
A reflective poem contrasts earthly graves with a deeper, invisible grave within the heart. The piece juxtaposes fields and seas with a silent, lasting memory that outlives physical markers.
A breakfast of puns and witticisms sourced from several papers including Philadelphia Call Burling ton Free Press and New York Sun. Items poke fun at corns elevators bridges and courtship with brief quips and anecdotes featuring unnamed readers and public figures.
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