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ORPHANS’ FRIEND.
Wednesday, May 16. 187?.
bepokts by pise teaciieks.
The orphans are divided into
Four Graded Forms, each in
charge of a teacher, whose report
is printed every fourth week
The highest number is 10; the
lowest is 1. When the average
is below 5, the orphan is liable to
be discharged as not “piwnising,”
and therefore excluded by tiie
regulations. This paper contains
the report made by the teacher
of the
SECOND FORM.
Spelling.—CcWii Sellers, .tames Strickland,
John Woodell, John Chamiiiig, Lolia Butler,
Sarah Wc.Cullough and Missouri Slade, 9.
Arabella Marshall, Susan' Phillips and
Florence Tilghman, 8.
Kate Homer, Kate Liverman, Mary Sorsby,
Kate I'arUinton and Ardell Williams, 7.
Martha lioueycutt and William i\Iay,6.
Fannie Bradshaw, Susan Bradshaw, Thom
as l^isher and John Taylor, 5.
Eeading.—CeVni Sellers, Susan Phillips,
Kate Tarkinton, Florence Tilghman, Lolia
Butler, Sarah McCullough, Arabella Marshall
aui Miosouri Slade, 4.
Fannie Bradshaw, Susan Bradshaw, John
Channiug, Martha Houeycutt, Kate Liverman
and Mary Sorsby, 8,
Kate Homer, James Strickland, Ardell
Williams and John Woodell, 2.
Thomas Fisher, William May aild John
Taylor, 1.
Writhig.—Fannie Brashaw, Susan Brad
shaw, Celia Sellers, Missouri Slade and Kate
Tarkinton, 4.
Lelia Butler Sarah McCullough and Mar
tha Honeycutt, 8.
Jt.hu Cluiuning, Kate Homer, Kate Liv-
(trinan, Florence Tilglunau, Mary Sorsby,
William May, Arabella Marshall, Susan
Phillips, James Strickland and Ardell \Vil-
Thomas Fisher, John Woodell aud John
Taylor, 1.
Arithmetic.-~-JjQ\iPi Butler, Celia Sellers,
Mi.ssouri Slade ami Susan Phillips, 0.
James Stricklatul, William May, 'Martha
Honeycutt, Arabella Marshall. FJoreuce
Tilitlmian aud Sarah MtjCulhmgh, 8.
Mary Sorsby and Kate Tarkiutou, 7,
Fannie Brailshaw, Sas:in Bradshaw, Kate
Homer, Joliu Cluiuning aud Kale Liverman,
().
Aidi'Il Williams, John Woodell, Thomas
Fisher and John 'Paylor, 4.
l^unctmUtg.-VAuuw Brandshaw, Susan
Bradshaw, John Cluuining, Mary Sorsby,
Sarah McCullough and Martha lium-ycutt, 10.
.Lelia Butler. MisS^und Slade, Kate Tar-
kinton and Fbironce 'I'ilirhiiuni, 9.
Arabella Marshall, Susan -Pliillips, Celia
Seilers and Ardell Williams, 8. ^
Kate Liveruiam and Kate iloiuer, 7.
Jrdin 'Pavlor. b.
Wiliiam'.May and James Strickland, 5.
Thomas Fisher and John M oodell, 4.
Deportnicnt.—Sarah McCullough, Ardell
Williams, 8.
John Chaiining, 7.
Lelia Butler, 'Forence Tilghman, Susan
IHiillips, Celia Sellers and Missouri Slade, 0.
F'annie Bra.dshaw, Susan Bradshaw, Mar
tha IPmeyeaitt, Mary Sorsby and Arabella
Marshall. 5.
Kate Homer, Kate Liverman and Kate
Tarkinton. 4.
. John Taylor, James Stricldaud, Thomas
Fisher and William May, 2.
]L-adsluiw, John Channing,
Sarah McCullough and Missoiiti Slade, 10.
Susan Bradsiuiw, Martha Houeycutt aud
I'Toixnico Tilghman, 9.
Ardell ^Villiams, 8.
Lelia Butler, Mary Sorsby, Celia Sellers,
Arabella Marshall aud Susan Phillips, 7.
John Taylor, William May, Kate Homer
and Kate Tarkiuton, (i.
John Woodell, 5.
Kate Liverman and JamesStricklaud, 4.
Thomas Ifishor, 3.
The Annual Commencement of
Wake Forest College i.s June 12, 13
anil 14. Of Yailkiii College May 31st.
We return thanks for liimdsoinely
printed invitations to both.
Mrs. Francis 13. Landis died on
Saturday last at her residence in this
place after a long and severe illness.
A good deal of sickness in this
place but the orphans have fortunately
escaped.
The kdies of Oxford will give
an entertainment in the Chapel of the
Orphan Asylum this (Wednesday)
evening.
There arc many entering upo7i the
iiuportaiit work of the .school-room
without any love for it. What a pity!
This is something to make angels
weep over. The teacher must love to
do his tasks, tasks though they poor-
paid for as they are, and little
honojgd as they are. If he sees noth
in
— b^-^ctive but the dollars, woe be
school—and by and by, woe
be that teacher.—&.'Aool Journal.
CIII.NA’S BEEiUlON.
In E, D. G. Prime’s ‘‘ Around
the World ” ai e the following ob
servations on the reliffious char
acteristics of the people now rep
resented in this country by the
Buddhist missionary, Wong Clung
Foo i
“ The prevailing forms of reli
gion in China are Confucianism,
Buddhism, and Tauism. The
former, which is the faith of the
educated and influential classes,
is more a S3’stem of philosophy'
and of morals than a religion. It
is founded on the teachings of the
great Chinese sage who flourished
about five centuries before the
Christian era, whose reputed
writings contain a vast amount of
practical wisdom and of pure
morality. The Chinese owe much
to Confucius, and they would be
a much better people if they fol
lowed his precepts more closely.
Buddhism is an importation from
India, where it had its rise, and
from which it passed over Eastern
Asia and to the adjacent islands.
It is now declining, and the tem
ples devoted to its worship are in
many places going to decay'.
Tauism lay'S claim rather to the
vulgar and uneducated classes.
It is a mj'stio sort of religion,
deals in incantations and astrolo-
g}-, and, like spiritualism, pre
tends to intercourse with the de
parted dead as well as with .ac
knowledged evil spirits. The
priests are generally ignorant
men, and, through mj'stlc art and
by play'ing upon the superstition
of the people, maintain their as
cendency over them.
There is no more striking or
more universal trait of Chinese
character tlian its intense super
stition. The religious element
appears to be wanting; they are
simply' superstitious, and no na
tion is more so. 'Phe spirits of
the air, tlie earth and the sea are
a constant terror to them, and
their acts of worship are designed
to ward off such influences rather
than to paj' homage to any ex
alted being. They u.se all sorts
of charms to keep off from their
persons and houses and farms the
world of evil .spirits which in their
belief are going hither and thither.
Ancestral yvorship is universal.
No matter in \vhat part of the
world they live, the Chinese wish
to be brought home when they
die, and buried with the genera
tions that preceded them; and
while they live they pay great
respect, a reverence amounting
to yvorship, to their departed an
cestors, making pilgi-images to
their graves, adorning their tombs,
erecting tables to their memory
in costly ancestral halls, burning
incense, joss-sticks, and caudles
and presenting offerings. They
reverence their dead g-randfathers
more than their gods.
One of tlio most common offer
ing that the Chinese make in their
yvorship is exceedingly character
istic—a sort of counterfeit money,
pasteboard dollars covered yvith
tin-loil, resembling silver dollars,
and marked accordingly. This
is sometimes offered to a large
amount, counting it at its nominal
value, and a Chinaman yvill not
only pride himself on making an
offering to his god or his ancestor
of several thousand dollars, which
cost him only a trifle, but he yvill
fairly chuckle over the thought
that his stupid god or his dead
ancestor, not knoyving the differ
ence betyreeu the counterfeit and
the genuine, yvill give him credit
for the full amount in good money.
They have numberless inferior
gods—the God of the Earth, the
God of the Sea, the God of
Wealth, the God of Letters, the
God of Tlmnder, the God of War,
the Kitchen God, etc., etc., yvhich
are represented by grotesque
images or pictures. The thieves
and the gamblers each have their
god. They make their appeals
to the gods by the use of the lot,
every temple being provided with
box of sticks or straws lor the
purpose. This superstitious dis
position to rely upon the lot is
carried in all the affairs of life.
The Chinese are all gamblers,
gambling everyyvhere and for
everything. Even the little bo3's,
as I have often seen, in going up
to a fruit-stand, almost invariably
cast the die to determine yvhether
they shall have double or nothing
for their mono}'.—-N. Y. Observer,
CAPITAE AND EABOK.
You want arbitration commit-
tee.s ; 3’ou yvant fair consultations
betyveen capital and labor ? Bring
your yvhole population together
once a week in the church, yvhei'e
all class yvalls are, or ought to be,
broken doyvn. I am not speaking
of all the churches, for God has
not granted to’all men the capac-
ty to burst asunder the silken
bonds of luxurj'; he has to
some men, and to some who are
very yvealth3'. But the most of
our churches in Neyv England
yvere built by the people, and
come from the hearts of the
ay'erage population; and it is
absolutely suicidal for the yvork-
ing man to let his children groyv
up yvithout the religious culture
of the Church. Have you ever
heard that the Sunday-schools
have been greatl}’ improved in
the last fift}' 3'ears f There is a
liberal denomination yvhich lately
has been issuing Sunday-school
voliunns yvith questions about the
relations betyveen religion and
science. I tliank God for that
step in advance. Let it be un
derstood that the Sunday-school
is noyv a better thing than it used
to be, and that you cannot let
3'our children sta}' out of it yvith
out putting them behind other
children. Ho v'ou wish to have
that spirit of good sense pervade
the community yvhich 3'ou yvould
like to find in the arbitration
board? You will never have it
unless 3'ou take jjossession of the
Church and of the ministr}'. The
latter are rather a numerous and
yvell-educated class, aud they have
much opportunity to study i)ub
lie questions. Wh}- cannot 3'OU
yvin them to 3'our side I There
is a strategic act for working-men
to do on the Merrimac !—Eev.
Joseph Cook.
Captain Tuckey’s- ship seemed to
sail through milk ; a phenomenon
yvhich yy’as oyving to the immense
number of little white animals
syvimming on the surface. The
peculiar coloring of tlie Rod Sea,
yvhence its name, is derived from
the presence of a microscopic alga,
or sea-weed, less remarkable even
for its beautiful red color than
for its prodigious fecundity. In
many more instances, from like
causes, the deep blue is varied
yvith stripes of yvhite, yelloyv,
green, brown, orange, or red.
Small 3’ellowish Medusm are the
principal agents in changing the
pure ultramarine of the Arctic
Ocean, into a muddy green. Of
those,it is computed a cubic inch
must contain sixt3'-four; a cubic
foot, One hundred and ten thou
sand five hundred and ninety two.
It is here that the giant whale of
the north finds his richest pas
ture-grounds.—Ac/eiisc?.
Shoe Heel, JT.O., April ITtli, 1877.
J. H. .Ifii/s, Snpt. Orphan Asylum—
Dear SirEnclo.seil find fifty dollars
amount raised at a concert gotten up
by Lock Lomond in 170 242 assisted by
our friends in tkis place. aud vicinitj'.
I’lea.se, acknoyvlcdgo receipt of aboyo
amount.
Eo.spectfully,
J. 0. McCaskill, 7
J. yv. rLtlM-MBE, > Com.
A. M. MoIjEAN. )
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E F E ’ S
w.
MARBLE AND STONE WORKS,
Fayetteville St. uoxt door to old Stand
ard Building, denier in
HEADSTONPIS, MONUMENTS, GllAVE-
YAKD CUBBING, BOOB SILLS,;
WINDOW SILLS, OF
Granite or any other stone.
Handsome Brown Stone for Front Yanis,
Flower Gardens and Cemetaries, at $12.50
per pair. Call aud see them.
Also manufacturer of the
STONE BURIAL VAULT.
For large size, $35 each.
MARBLE AND MARBLEIZED SLATE
MANTLES a specialty. Latest styles and
designs constantly on hand. Address all
communications to
W. O. WOEFE, .
RALEIGH, N. C.
•WILMINGTON AtVELDON RAIL ROAD
Shiloh, N. C., May 3rd 1877.
Mr. J. H. Mills,—Sir:—Inclosed you
yvill find $20.00, appropriated by tke
■\Vidoyvs’ Son c3 No 75, for tke benefit
of Oxford Orplian Asjmlin. You yvill
please fonvard me a receipt as soon as
j'ou get tliis.
Y'ours Bospectfiilly,
N. Perkins, Tres.
. MAIB. TRAINS.
Le.ave Union Depot daily (Sun
days excepted) at 7.35 a m.
Arrive at Goldsboro 11.50 a m
“ Roclty Mount. 2.00 p ra
“ tVcldou 3..50 p m.
Leave IVeldou daily at 9..50 a m.
Arrive at lloolty Mount 11.35 a m.
“ Goldsboro 1.87 p m.
“ Union Depot 6.05 p w.
EXPRESS TRAIN AND THROUGH
FREIGHT TRAlf}8.
Le.ave Union Depot daily at 5. p m.
Arrive at Goldsboro 11.4 a in*.
“ Koc.lty Mount 2.0 k ni.’
‘ Weldon 6.00 a ra.
Leave Weldon daily .... 7.00 p. m.
Arrive at Rooky Jloimt 9.00 p. in!
“ Goldsboro |2.50 a. m.
,, „ V'”"" 6.30 a. m.
Mail Trains make close connection .at Wel
don for all points North via Bay Lino and
Acquia Creek routes.
E.xprcss Trains connect only with Acquia
Creek rente. lyPullman’s Palace Sleeping
Cars on this 'Prain.
1 reight 1 rains will leay'O Wilmington tri
weekly at 5.00 a. m., and arrive at 1.40 p. m,
JOHN DIVINE,
General Superintendent*
21.00,
25.00,
COEOKS OF 'I'HE OCEAN.
Tho ocean has naturally a pure
bluish tint. All profound aud
clear seas aie more or loss of a
blue ; yyhile, according to seamen,
a green color indicates soundings.
The bright blue of the Mcditer-
ranoan, so often vaunted by poets
is found all over tho deep pure
ocean, not only in the tropical
aud temperate zones, but also in
the regions of eternal frost. The
North Sea is green, partly from
the reflection of its sandy bottom
mixing with tlie essentially blue
tint of the water. In the bay of
Loango the sea has the color of
blood, yvhich results from the re
flection of the red ground-soil.
But the hue is much more fre-
quetly changed over large spaces
by means of enormous masses of
minute algm, and countless hosts
of small sea-yvoruis, floating or
syvimming on the surface. Near
Callao, the Pacific has an olive-
green color, oyving to a greenish
matter found at a depth of eiglit
hundred feet. Near Gape Pal
mas, on the coast of Guinea,
For tlic wcclt ending May 13tli.
IN CASH.
Paid $.50.00, Lock Lomond a No 242.
“ 28.00, Orpkans’ Friend.
Collection at Taylorsville.
Proceeds of a musical
entertainment gh'en in
Hamilton by Willie Orof-
ton, Lonnie Gardner, Sal-
lie AVatt.s, Jodie Waldo,
Korma Waldo, Mary Wal
do and Miss Maggie
Ward.
20.00, Widows’ Sous Lodge No.
11.00, Citizens of Kaleigb,
througli Jno. S. Pescud.
5.15, Colleotiou in Rockford.
5.00, Charity □ No 5.
4.50, Eureka □ No 317.
“ 4.40, Hear Creek ckurcli, Ckat-
am Co.
“ 2.50, Amos N Johnson of Clin
ton.
“ 2.00, J M Burton,
“ 1.40, Lystra Bap. ch.. Chapel
Hill.
“ 80 cts. Feed my Lambs for
April.
“ 35. each, Thos Boll, Tho.s M
Lee, of Clinton.
IN KIND.
kliss Matilda Peoiiles, 4 prs. socks.
Mrs S W Perry, 1 pr. socks.
Friend at Farmington, 1 bolt cloth.
u
RALEIGH & GASTON RAILROAD.
MAIL TRAIN.
Leaves Raleigb 9.30 «. m.
Arrives at Weldon .3.00 p.in.
Leaves Weldon J2.40 p. m*
Arrives at Baleigh - . 5.40 p.m.
THROUGH FREIGHT.
Leaves Raleigh - . * 5,^ m.
jVrrives at Weldon - - , 5.25 p.m.
Leaves WcU-ra - . . 6.00 a ni
Arrives at Raleigb - . 5 15pm
RALEIGH & AUGUSTA AIR-LINE.
Change of Schoihilc to take effect 6.00 a m
Momiiiy, October 30th, 1876:
Train Movino South.
6 30 a m
12 7 p m
Train Moving North.
Train leaves Cameron - . 1 00 p m
Arrives at Raleigh - . - 6 40 a m
All trains will approach and pass R. & D.
R. R. N. C. Division crossing at Cary with
20 minutes for breakfast .at Cary.
JNO. C. WINDER,
Superintendent-
'rr.ain leaves Raleigh
Arrives at Cameron
caution.
SEABOARD & ROANOKE RAIL ROAD.
Portsmouth, Va., Jan. 1 1875.
On and after tliis date, trains of this Road
will leave Weldon daily, Sundays excepted as
follows:
Mail train at 4 p. m.
^ 1 Frefght train at '
The folloyving persons have
one year:
Hr. A. Carson, .Jimmie McIntosh,
B A Spiuiihour, Mi.s.s Pedie Pool, N P
Alexander, Hev T G Thurston, Col. 0.
A Gilley, J F Ferguson, H Curtis, E
1> Bryan, Cliarlie Wood, J L Clayyvell,
H E Shaw, C II Teiiteberg, Jamo.s
Webb, G Eo.sentlia], W W Brown,
Gbarlie Stanford, Jliss Sue Bettie
Williams, Mamie Brown, Key' J C
Hartsell, Mr Dorsay L Hagan, Carrol
Clapp, A A Spraugli, Virgil E Syvain,
Y'alter llorii, Mary J Parker.
No. 2 Freight train at 8 a. mj
Tuesdays aud Fridays at at 8 a. m.
ARRIVE A r PORTSMOUTH.
Mail train at 7,15 p. m.
No. 1 Freight train at 12, Noon.
No. 2 Freight train..: at 4 p. m-
Freigbt trains have passenger car attached.
Steamer for Edentou, Plymouth aud landings
on Black water and Chowan Rivers leaves
Franldin at 7,40 a. m., on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
E. G. GHIO.
Supt. of Transportation.
gERKSHIRE PIGS,
OP PURE BLOOD, AND THE BEST
FAMILIES EVER LVIPORTED
TO THE UNITED STATES.
Entitled to entry in the American Berkshire
paid for the Orphans Friend for f; Expressf
Beliable pedigrees lurnished.
T. W. HABRIS,
l-6m p.. Pittsboro, N. C.
E. W. O W E N ,
DENTAL SURGEON,
OXFORD, X. C.
OFFICE AT HIS RESIDENCE
Special attention given to replacing full and
partiiil setts of teeth on gold, silver or rub-
aug Ot-h 1875—1..33H
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