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ORPHANS’ FRIEND.
Wednesday, April 11. 1817.
BEPOKTS BE THE TEACllEBS.
The orphfins are divided into
Four Graded Forms, each in
charge of a teacher, whose report
is printed every fourth week
The liighest number is 10; the
lowest is 1. When the average
is below 5, the orplian is liable to
be discharged as not “promising,"
and therefore excluded by the
regulations. This paper contains
the report made by the teacher
of the
THIRD FORM.
Spelling.—Louisa Haywood, Matilda. Now-
bold, De Witt Parker, Ton pc P .go, .’ame
Pittman,Mary Wicker and Auuie, VVilliauis. ’J.
Theresa Livingston, Janies Huliu. Galena
Gilliam, Rebekah Parker. Daniel Parker,
Julia Parker, Marsiiail Parker and Lina
liobertson, 8.
Maxey Elvington, Mary Cherry, William
Lipscomb. Willie Nichols, Charles Styron
and Winnie Williams, 7.
Beading.—Galena Gilliam, Louisa Hay
wood, James Huliu, Theresa Livingston,
Matilda Newb6ld. De Witt Parker, Tempo
Page, Lina lltibertson, Annie Williati.s and
Winnie Williams. 7.
llebekali Parker, Daniel Parker, James
Pittman, Julia Parker apd Mary Wicker, 6
William Lipscomb. Willie Nichuls, Mar
shall I’arker, Charles Styron and Mary
Cherry, 5.
Maxcv Elvington and William Newman,4.
Arithmetic.—Galena Gilliam, Louisa Hay
wood, James Huliii, William Lip.'^cotnb,
Matilda Newboid, Do Witt Parker, Teinpe
Piige, James Pittman.Lina Robertson, Annie
William.s and Mary WicluT, U.
Dauiel Parker, lii-bekah Parker, Juli.'i
Parker, M.irshall Paracr, Maxey Elvington
and Winnie William®. 8.
Theresa Livingston, Mary Choary, Willie
Nitdiols and Charles Sryrou, 7.
William Nuwman. 5.
Geiygr'iphg.—Ti"Uisa Haywood, Matilda
Nt'wbold, IX- Witt Parker 'reinpe Page,
Jauu-.’* t'H.rni.tn .i..-it.-..-u, Annie Wil
liams and Marv Wicker, 10.
I'lH-re.-.a ib-l>(*kah Parker,
D.iuiel Parker, ClKlrle^ Styron and William
i.ii.scomi). ',>.
James Haihi, Willie Niclmls, Julia Parker,
M.u'stiall Ikiraer, vjiak-ua o liliam and Winnie
Wiliuuus. d'.
.MaNey klvi :gtou, Mary Ciierry and Wil-
lia-ti ISeWiiiaii, 7.
i'/G/yry. ~L'-uisa Haywood, James Iluliii,
Jaim-s I'.ttmaii, Ik-iiipe Ihige, .MatiilaNuw-
buld, De W'lU Parker, Annie Wiliiams and
Ma'ry Wi.-krn-, 8.
Galena Gilliam, Louisa Hay
wood, ikieresa Livingston, Matilda Ncwboid,
M'iiiiani Newman. 'I'empe i'age, Mary
Wicker and Annie Williams, 8.
Do Witt Parker, James Pittman. Danii-l
Parker, Julia P.irker, R.-bokah Parker, Lina
Robertson and Wiuuie Williams, 7.
• Maxey Elvington, Mary Clmrry, Willie
Nichols, Marsliall Parker, James Huliu and
Ciiartes Styroii, 0.
* BunctualiLg.—'Slury Cherry, Galena Gil
liam, L.misa Haywoi.d, James Huliu. Ther
esa Liviugsto!!, Matilda Newboid, Rtbekali
Parker, Daniel Parker, De Witt Parker,
Julia Parker, James iMttman, Lina Robert
son, Annie \Villiams and Winnie Williams,
10.
Maxey Elvington, William Lipscomb,
Willie Nichols, William Newman, Cliarles
Styron and M.iry Wheker, 9.
Deportment. — Louisa Haywood, Daniel
Parker. Teinpe Page. Lina Robertson, Annie
Wibiams and .Mary Wiciter, 8.
Galena Giiiia-n, Theresa'Livingston, Ma-
tikla Newboid, \Villiam Newman. Rebekali
Ikirkeraud Wiuuie WMl'nitns, 7.
Julia Parker, Marshall Parker, William
Lipsctimb, Willie Nichols and Charles Sty-
ruu, 0.
Maxey Elvington, Mary Cherry, James
Hulin and James Pittman, 5.
Attention to WorZ:.—Mary Cherry, Galena
Gilliam, Louisa Haywood,- James Hulin,
William Lipscomb, 'Theresa Livingston,
Matilda Newboid, William Newman,Rebekah
Parker, Daniel Parlcer, James Pittman,
Tenipe Page, lie Witt Parker, Jiilh^P.irker,
Lina Robertson, Annie Williams, Winnie
Williams and Mary Wicker, JO.
Maxey Elvington, Willie Nic.hoK®, Marshall
l^arkor and Charles Styrou, 7..
THE OL4> HlPl'Cil EELJL.
BY REV. FREDERICK G. CLARK, D. D.
One hundred and forty-six
years ago, at a foundry in Am
sterdam, Holland, some good
people stood by as a church bell
was taken from the molten metal.
The bell was the gift of a devout
man who had left a legacy for
the purpose. The mission ot the
hell was to ring out the Sabbath
joy from the Hutch steeple iii
Nassau street. New York. It
served its purpose there, and af
terwards rang the same tones
from the Dutch church on Ninth
street, and still later from the
spire of the church on LaFayette
Place. And now it hangs in the
bell-tower of the mangnificent
church, corner of Fifth avenue
and Forty-eighth street, where,
last Sabbatli, it rang out the same
notes which were heard by five
generations.
As the glowing fluid was en
tering its mold, tlie by-standers
thought of the lioly service for
which it w'as destined beyond the
sea, and, to eiiricli and sweeten
the notes, they cast unknown
quantities of silver coin into the
mass. We have no list of those
coins ; we know not their num
ber ; the names of those donors
are unrecorded. And as w-e hear
that bell, we have no power to
catch and separate the silvery
element of sound from the ring
of baser metal. These things,
one and all, are known only to
God. And so the world lias.been
hearing for a century and a half
the glad sound of grace whose
sweetest element is measureless
and nameless.
But the old Dutch bell is but
one of a million things which are
sweet and inspiring to us to-day,
while we know not the sources
of their influence. Voices are
falling on our ears ; great impul
ses fill our souls ; lofty ambitions
beckon us on; restraints tend
round us, strong and towering ;
but these influences have an
analysis which only divine cliem-
istiy can prove. The real powers
which grasp and hold society are
nameless. The silver coin which
has mingled in tlie mass of social
force was dropped in so quietly,
and it melted so quickly out of
sight, that no man can search it
out.
It is a grand idea wlilch comes
to us as we hear that bell, tliatthe
sweetest and most lasting tilings
in human life have no earthly
register. That upright judge
wins our applause, but God kiioivs
that the honest ring of his judire-
ment is only the silver ciiiii which
Ills godly mother cast into his
chlld-iife.
That statesman who lias power
to rise in simple majesty above
the politician, may not be fully
conscious that the blood of a
noble ancestry is tlirilling in his
nil...- ‘rii.
veins. That Cliristian missiona
ry who worked his day out on
which man can never see, will all
be viewed by celestial witnesses.
Go on, weary and worn-out toil-
er.s; no matter where you are or
what you do; no matter if your
services win no notice and no
approval; no matter if even you
yourselves cannot think it worthy
of regard ; go on working, wait
ing, sutfering; and be sure that
all the silver you cast into hu
man life will ring clear, sweet
and loud in the ears of the Om
niscient God.
ROW THEY UERED THE
TUTOR.
the coast of Africa and then died
in obscurit3% was proving
what wealth—bej-ond silver and
gold—of God-like pity had sunk
down into his nature.
And so it is, that as the mol
ten mass of character is running
into form', there are standing over
it those who cast in their treas
ures of Iioly example, sweetening
and sanctlf3-ing human life. God
sits in silent patience, “ a refiner
of silvei,” watching the processes
which make up life and character
and power. He writes down the
names of quiet women, who,
nameless on earth, are poui-iug-
the wealtli of their life into those
who shall live after them. He
makes note ot all those humble,
honest services, meant only for
Ills eye, which are the real and
onl3 lasting glory of our life.
He saw the sculptor chiseling
the back part of the statue which
was to stand in the cathedral,
where only the front could be
seen, and He heard that sublime
reason : “ I made it perfect be
hind, because I knew that God
would see it!”
Go on, holy men and women;
cast in 3'our coin ; God will see
the act, and he will detect the
silver tone which 3'our piety se
cures. Go on, 3’e sculptors of
eterult3'; God will watch ever3-
stroke of your chisel, and those
careful finishings of your work
lie was tlie jiiuk of ijorfection. If
tlie cream of human excellence was to
be clmrned the butter would lump up
in the shape of Professor Porteous
Prye, tutor. He had contracted the
habit of stealing up stairs in his stock
ing feet to see if the lights were out at
ten. It is hard teaching old dogs new
tricks, but boys sometimes succeed
better with old professors.
Tommy Tayre is a cadaverous youth,
with a sulphur-colored mustache, but
the iron hal entered his soul, and he
said he must do what he could. So he
brought three papers of carpet tacks
one night, and stood the innocent little
nails, business ends up, all up and down
the stairs and retired with his faithful
followers to the wood closet above to
await results. Promptly the chapel
bell struck ten, then a season of wait
ing and whispering followed. Pres
ently came a funy, creeping sound
like woolen stockings feeling their way
over rough boards. Tommy tucked
his hat in his moutli—his mouth runs
clear around, except a small isthmus
which connects the top of his head
with the nape of his neck—and held
his nose till the first burst of glee had
subsided.
How came a suj)i)ressed scream, one
foot on the stairs ; then another foot
down, tlieu a scream that wasn’t sup
pressed ; the a howl; he had struck
the second stair; the ho sat down on
the next step, but lie got up again,
and a groan, with exriamation points
after it, came tearing up to the wood
closet. The boys stood back to give
Tommy room to kick; then came a
scrambling and shouting of heavy
words, and distinct mention of the
‘father of iniquity,’ and Tom promptly
appeared and asked, in a voice fresh
from the valley of Nod, ‘What seems
to be the matter V ‘Matter?’ ‘The boys;’
‘the demons ;’ -confound it;’ ‘see here!
and he shifted about and hung to the
railing, and tried to stand on his
knees.
Tom brought a light and the boys
earned the wounded man to his room,
and offered sympathy; got a claw
hammer and drew out the taeks. The
professor wears slippers and sits
on a cushion. Tom sits on nettles, for
seventeen boys know the secret, and
it is spreading like small-pox in an
ludiau camp.—Detroit Free Press.
When Daniel Webster first
visited England, an English gen
tleman took him one day to see
Lord Brougham. That eminent
Briton received Daniel with such
coolness that he was glad to get
away and back to his rooms.
The friend who had taken him at
once returned in haste and anger
to the Lord Brougham. ‘Mj' lord,
how could you behave with such
unseemly rudeness and discourt
esy to so great a law3’er and
statesman I It was insulting him,
and has filled me with mortifica
tion.’ ‘Wh3r, what on earth have
I done, and whom have I been
rude to‘To Daniel Webster,
of the Senate of the United State.’
‘Great Jupiter, what a blunder?
I thought it was that fellow
Webster who made a dictionary
and nearl3’ ruined the English
language.’ And then the great
Chancellor quickly hunted np the
American senator, and, having
other tastes in common besides
law and politics, they made a
royal night of it.
Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh,
though a vei}' clever man, once
met with his match. When ex
amining the student as to the
classes he had attended, ho said :
“And vou attended the class for
mathematics?” “Yes.” “How
man3' sides has a circle ?” ‘Two,’
said the student. ‘What are
the\’ ?’ What a laugh in the court
tlie student’s answer produced
when he said, ‘An inside and an
outside.’ The doctornext inquired;
‘And 3-011 attended the moral phil
osophy class also ?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Well,
3'ou would hear lectures on vari
ous subjects. Did you ever hear
one on cause and effect ?’ ‘Yes.’
‘Does an effect ever go before a
cause 1’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Give me an
instance.’ ‘A man wheeling a
wheelbarrow.’ The doctor sat
down and proposed no more ques
tions.
Deacon Brown took occasion
to administer a reproof to old’Joe
for swearing. Joe listened atten
tively to his words, seemed to
appreciate the exhortation, and
wlien he had concluded, replied as
follows; “The fact is, deacon,
that I swear a great deal, and
\-ou pra3' a great deal, hut neither
of us mean an3-thing by it.” The
deacon alluded to Joe as an in
stance of total depravity.
jfe;portof
)Con^tio,g
Fuji- Uli: week etiuiaay; Api-il Xtillli,
1877.
IX CA.SII.
Paid 1.00, Peed my Lambs of Newton.
“ 6.25, Eureka □ No 317.
“ 1.00, Mattamusxeet □ 338.
“ 2.00, Box oil counter Citizens’
National Bank Kaleigli.
‘‘ 5.50, Orplian.s’ Prieiid.
“ 8.50, Orr Ijodge, No. 101.
“ 25.00, Hon. B. E. Moore.
“ 2.00, Kev. A. F. Piirefoy.
“ 2.00, F. M. Lindsay.
“ 3.00, Miss B. .Siielly Cool.y.
“ 2.92, Moclvsville Lodge, No. 131.
“ 3.30, AV'ayiie Lodge, No. 112, iier
J. Y. Hobson.
“ LOO, Miss A. B. Taylor.
“ 60 cts eacli. Miss Lulu Costen,
Kutli Costen.
“ 5.50, Betliel Sunday School, near
Cliapel Hill.
IN KIND.
IJnkno wn Friend in Eolesville, 6 pr
socks, 2 pr stockings, 2 aprons, 1
■wliite waist.
W. H. Green. 2 bn. meal.
The following peisons have
paid for the Orphans’ Friend for
one 3’ear:
Ernest F. Nadal, Laura F. Eoberson,
Miss A. B. Taylor, N. H. Havis, Mrs.
S. IT. Koyail.
For 0 months :—W. H. Green.
WILMINGTON & WELDON HAIL ROAD
MAII. TRAINS.
Leave XJuiou Depot daily (8uu-
days excepted) at 7.35 a in.
Arrive at Goldsboro 11.50 a in
“ Rocky Mount 2.00 p ni
“ AVeldon 3..50 p in
Leave Weldon daily at 9.50 a m.
Arrive atRocky Mount 11.35 a m.
“ Goldsboro 1.37p m.
“ Union Depot 6.05 p m.
EXPRESS TRAIN AND THROUGH
FREIGHT TRAINS.
Leave Union Depot daily at 5. p m.
Arrive at Goldsboro 11.4 a in.
“ Rocky Mount 2.0 a m.
“ Weldon (i.OOa m.
Leave Weldon daily 7.00 p. in.
Arrive at Rocky Mount 9.00 p. m.
“ Goldsboro 12.50 a. ni.
“ Union Depot 6.30 a. ni.
Mali Trains make close connection at Wel
don for all })oints North via Bay Line and
Acquia Creek routes.
Express Train? connect only with Aeqnia
Creek route. t^Pullinan’s Palace Sleeping
Cars on this Train.
Freight Ti-ains will leave Wilmington tri
weekly at 5.00 a. m., ani arrive at 1.40 p. m.
JOHN DIVINE,
General Superimoudeut*
NOTICE.. ,
U. S. INTERNAL KKVKNCE SPECIAL
TAXES MAY ], 1877, TO APKIL31), 1878.
The Revised Statutes of the U. S.. Sections
3232, 3237, 3238, ami 3239, require every
person engaged in any business, avocation, or
employment which rendi'rs him liable to a
Sjiecial 'J'ax, to procure and jiliiee conspicu-
(Hisiy in Ills establishment or place of business
a stiiiiip denoting tlie jiayinent of said Special
Tax for the Special-Tax year beginning Jlay
1, 1877, before commencing or coutinning
business after Aiiril 30, 1877. A retui-n, as
prescrilied on Form 11, is also V(‘quired by
law of every person liable to Special 'fax as
above.
The taxes embraced within the provisions
of the law above quoted are the following ;
Rectifiers, - - $200 00
Dealers, retail liquor, - 25 00
Dealers, wholesale liquor, - 100 00
Dealers in mall liquors, wholesale, - 50 00
Dealers in malt liquors, retail, - 20 00
Dealers in leaf tobacco, - - 25 00
Retail dealers in leaf tobacco, - 500 00
And on sales of over $1,000, fifty
cents for every dollar in excess of
$1,000.
Dealers in manufactured tobacco, - 5 00
Manufacturers of stills, - - 50 00
And for each still manufactured, 20 00
And for oacli worm manufactured, 20 00
Manufacturers of tobacco, - 10 00
Manufacturers of cigars, - • 10 00
Peddlers of tobacco, first class—more
than two liorscs or oilier animals, 50 00
Peddlers of tobacco, second class—two
burses or other animals, - - 25 00
Peddlers of tobacco, tliird class—one
horse or other animal, - - - 35 00
Peddlers of tobacco, fourth class—on
foot or public conveyance, - - 10 00
Brewers of less than 500 barrels, - ,50 00
BreM-ers of 500 barrels or more, - 100 00
Any person, so liable, who shall fail to
comply with the foregoing requirements will
be subject to severe penalties.
Persons or Firms liable to pay any of the
Spr-cial '['axes named abuve must apply to
ISAAC J. Y^OUNG. Collector of Internal
Revenue at Raleigli, Nortli (kirulina, and pay
for and ju'oeure the Special-'rax Stamp or
Stamps they need, prior to May 1, 1877, and
without further notice.
Special-tax Stamps will lie transmitted by
mail only on receipt, from the person or firm
ordcH’jug tlie same, of specific directions so to
dojttigdhcrAi ith the necessary postage stamjis
or the amount required to pay the jiostagc.
'Fhe postage on one stain}) i.s three cents and
on two stamps six cents. If it is desired that
they be transmitted by registered mail ten
cents additional should accompany the appli
cation. GREEN B. RAUM.
Commissioner of Internal Bevenue,
Office OF Internal Revenue, }
Washington, D. C., Jan. 23, 1877, ^
RALEIGH & GASTON RAILROAD.
MAIL TRAIN. •
Leaves Raleigh 9.30 a. m.
Arrives at Weldon 3.GO j ni..
Leaves Weldon 12.40 p. m
Arrives at Raleigh - - 5.40 p.m.
THROUGH FREIGHT.
Leaves Raleigh - - - 5.00 a. m.
Arrives at Weldon - - - 5 05 p
Leaves Weldon - - - ,5.00 am
Arrives at Raleigh - - 5 15 p ra
RALEIGH & AUGUSTA AIR-LINE.
Change of Schedule to take effect 6.00 a m
Monday, October 3()th, 1876:
Train Moving South.
Train leaves Raleigh - - 6 30 a m
Arrives at Cameron - - 12 7 p m
Train Moving North.
Train leaves Cameron - - 3 00 p in
Arrives at Raleigh - , . 6 40 a m
All trains will approach and pass li. & D.
R. R. N. C. Division crossing at Cary with
caution. 20 minutes for breakfast at Cary.
JNO. C. WINDER,
Superintendent.
SEABOARD & ROANOKE RAIL ROAD.
Portsmouth, Va., Jan. 1 1875.
On and after this date, trains of this Road
will leave Weldon daily, Sundays excepted as
follows:
Mail train at 4 p. m.
No. 1 Freight train at 4 a. m.
No. 2 Freight train at 8 a. in
Tuesdays and Fridays at at 8 a. m.
ARRIVE AT PORTSMOUTH.
Mail train at 7,15 p. m.
No. 1 Freight train at 12, Noon.
No._^ 2 Freight train at 4 p. m.
^ Freight trains have passenger ear attached.
Steamer for Edentou, Plymouth and landings
on Black water and Chowan Rivers leaves
Franklin at 7,40 a. m., on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
E. G. GHIO.
Supt. of Transportation.
g E R K S n I R E PIGS,
OF PURE BLOOD, AND THE BEST
FAMILIES EVER IMPORTED
TO THE UNITED STATES.
Entitled to entry in the American Berkshire
Record. Constantly for sale. Prices at 10
weeks old, delivered to Express, $10 each
Reliable pedigrees furnished.
T. W. HARRIS,
I'Cm p. Pitt.sboro, N. C.
E. W. O W E N ,
DENTAL SDRGEON,
©XFOKB, IV. C.
OFFICE AT HIS KESIDENCE
Special attention given to reitlacing lull and
partial setts of teeth on gold, silver or riiii-
I'er. aug 0th W76—1 .-aijtl