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The Orphans’ Friend.
WEDNESDAY, JANUAEY - - 17, 1883,
Published every Wednesday at one
dollar per annum, invariably in advance
PRESENT ORGA.NTZATION OF
ORPHAN ASYLUM.
J, S. MILLS,
Miss CATliABINL McDOUG^
ALDf Teacher of First Form,
Girls.
Miss MARY SHOLAB, Teacher
of First Form, Boys.
Miss MALY G. BOLD, Teacher
of Second Form, Girls.
Miss ALICE FLEMING, Teach
er ofSecmd Form, Boys.
Miss S. B. BUBWELL, Teacher
of Third Form, Gi/rls.
Mrs. ANNA SABBISON,
TeaFher of Third Form, Boys.
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO THE ORPHAN ASYLUM FROM JANUARY
8th to JANUARY loTH, 1883.
Bear Creek Sunday School; Chath
am county, $ 4 00
Hickory Lodge, No. 343, 8 00
New Hope, Iredell, 2 00
Sunday School at Carr’s School
House, 36 20
Sawyer’s Creek '.'huroh, 39 46
Additional from Students at the
University, 5 00
Morganton Presbyterian Church, 3 45
Wadesboro Lodge No.l791,K.of H. 20 35
Unknown friend in Goldsboro, 2 25
Prof. W. C. Kerr, 5 00
Mr. Stevens, 1 50
Dr. F. M. Garrett, All Healing
Springs, 5 00
SPECIAL MENTION.
A bill has passed its third readiog,
authorizing the commissioners of
Granville to levy a special tax.
Kev. J. S. Hardiway, of Virginia,
has accepted the call as pastor of the
Baptist church at Oxford, and
preached his first sermon last Sunday
night.
Bead the announcement of Messrs
Edwards & Rogers, in another col
umn . The Friend has superior mer
its as advertising medium.
In the death of E J. Hale, North
Carolina loses a son who was univer
sally beloved, a man whose history
is linked with that of his State.
The North Carolina Tobacco Fair
Association, to be held at Durham
next May, is regarded as a success.
17 ,000 has been subscribed for build
ing purposes, and the erection of the
buildings will be begun at once.
In the House last Saturday, a bill
passed its second reading, authorizing
our representatives in Congress to
endeavor to have the surplus money
now in the United States Treasury
distributed among the States for ed
ucational purposes.
A Widows’ and Orphans’ Home
has recently been established at
Louisville, Ky., by the Louisville and
Kentucky Conferences (Methodist),
and Mrs. Sallie .Burton, of Glasgow,
Ky., is Superintendent. "We wish
the enterprise success.
Last Satuday, while the editor of
the Friend was conducting the fu
neral services of Mrs. Sears, a very
aged lady, near Salem church, about
four miles from Oxford, he received
a telegram announcing the death of
his sister, and requesting his imme
diate presence This accounts for
the scarcity of original matter this
week.
Mr. Patrick H, Winston delivered
an address at the Opera House in
Winston, N. 0., December 27th, by
invitation of the Masonic Lodge, of
that place. Subject: "Humanity.^’
The Winston people speak in high
terms of Mr. W^s effort. A volun
tary collection was taken up,
amounting to $58.00, for the Or
phan Asylum. Thanks.
Gen. Albert Pike takes ten copies
of the Orphans’ Friend. In this he
displays both liberality and wisdom.
Not only is the orph^ cause beue-
fitted, but ten homes may receive
the blessings of a weekly visit from
a paper filled with edifying and in
structive literature. We commend
his example to others.
Mr. W T Blackwell has closed out
his entire interest in the Durham bull
brand of smoking tobacco, in the fac
tory and factory brands, Mr. Julian
S. Carr is the purchaser at $250,000.
Mr B retains a royalty upon the
brand.—News and Observer.
It is an incalculable blessing to the
young to have access to good books.
The liabrary at the Orphan Asylum
has many school books and a feu
good books of a general character.
In the libraries of many of our read
ers there are books of little value to
them, which might do much good at
the Asylum, and would be accepta
ble as donations to our library. Who
will respond ?
Rev. Dr. C. B. Riddick, formerly
of North Carolina, and at one time
a resident of Oxford, has for years
had charge of a church at Denver,
Colorada, where he took high rank
as a preacher. He has recently been
appointed Presiding Elder of the
Los Angelos District.
Mr. R. D. Wilson, of McDowell
county, committed suicide in Raleigh
last Saturday by shooting a pistol
ball through his brains. He was a
great sufferer from neuralgia, and
was in Raleigh under medical treat
ment . His suffering had been so in
tense as to cause one of his eyes to
burst from his head. Despairing of
relief, he took his own life. He was
a lawyer, and much respected.
Oapt. Williams, representative
from Granville, has introduced a bill
in the House allowing the Sheriffs of
tobacco growing counties till the Ist
of May to settle with the State
Treasurer. This is intended as a re
lief to the farmer, who often finds it
difficult to market his tobacco by the
first of the year.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Greensboro is soon to have a Busi
ness College.
Prof. Kerr has tendered his resigna
tion as State Geologist.
The number of students at the Uni
versity has reached two hundred.
William and Mary College, Va., has
entirely gone down. Last year there
was only one student—this year none.
Prof. Kerr’s map ot| North Car
olina is out and is said to be much
more accurate than any map previous
ly published.
Threef burials from one church in
Greensboro in twenty-four hours. On
one occasion as one procession went
out of the church another went in.
The announcement is made in the
last issue of the College Herald, pub
lished at Trinity, that it will hereafter
appear in magazine form once a month
throughout the collegiate year.
The present endowment of Wake
Forest College is $54,000. Prof. Tay
lor is in the field laboring to increase
it to $100,000. In a letter to the Bib
lical Recorder he states that more than
half the ainount necessary has been
pledged on condition that the whole
be raised.
The now famous Johus " Hopkins
University has forty-three/professors
and but one hundred and seventy-five
students. North Carolina is entitled,
under the will of the munificent foun
der, to a share iu the scholarships.-
Ex,
Gen. Butler, inhis inangural address
as Governor of Massachusetts, says
that there is too much ‘‘ physiology,
physics, botany, zoology, geology, as
tronomy, chemistry and psychology”
taught in the schools and not enough
of the spelling book. About right.
The original luanucript of “Home
Sweet Home,” as written by John
Howard Payne, is the property of an
old lady in Atlanta, Ga., and no mon
ey will induce her to part with it
Mayor Grace, who has just retired
from the mayoralty of New York, re
fused to permit the Passion Play in-
acted in that city. Mr. Grace is a
Catholic. Mayor Edson,a Protestajit,
takes the same position.
Mrs. John Jacob Aster has sent
West to good homes in all more than
a thousand boys and girls picked up
in the New York streets. The lasf*
instalment, thus far, left the city last
week.
Bishop Asbury’s watch is in posses
sion of Mr. H. M. Asbury, a promi
nent merchant of Marion, who receiv
ed it from his grandfather, to whom it
had been given by 'the Bishop, ft is
a heavy silver watch and has faith
fully kept the time for one hundred
years.—Cor. Ral. Chris. Adv.
The First Presbyterian Church, Wil
mington, raised for all purposes last
year $6,045.25. The total amount
raised by the Second Presbyteriau
Church in the same city is $3,064.00.
Iu this congregation some of the mem
bers conscientiously devote one-tenth
or over of their income to the Lord’s
service.—Presbyterian.
The decadence of old time Southern
chivalric courtesy is exhibited by the
fact that young ladies have been heard
to express surprise that a strange gen
tlemau should raise his hat to them,
in meeting them on a narrow footpath.
They did not seem to even be aware
of the fact that a Southern gentleman
is polite to women whether he knows
them or not.—Mechanic.
Two sad cases of crime have recent
ly appeared in the papers—that of
Col. Polk, Treasurer of the State of
Tennessee, a nephew of the late Presi
dent Polk,who is said to be a default
er to the amount of $400,000; and
that of the son of Gen. Kavanagh, the
hero of Lucknow, who was arrested
the other day in Quebec for robery.
How earnestly ought men to pray to
be delivered from temptatios!-i-Oftar-
Totte Journal.
“The coming metal,’’ as aluminum
is called, would almost drive iron out
of the market could it be produced at
the same cost. The greatest interest
is felt iu the cable report of a discov -
ery of a new way to seperate it from
the mass of common clay, iu which it
exists in unlimited quantity, and if its
production is madecomparatively inex
pensive,its in troduction willjeffect mar
velous uidustrial changes. Its light
ness and freedom {from rust make it
vastly superior to iron for many pur
poses. Attention has recently been
called to the fact that it is a much
better conductor of electricity than
iron, and were it to replace the pres .
ent telegraph wires the battery power
could be reduced to one seveuth of
that now required. Its value in con
ducting electric currents for purposes
of illumination has not been sugges
ted, we think. It, will 'aid iu the so
lution of the p'^oblem of electric light.
When Bertali, the caricaturist,
whose death was recently an-
nounced, was engaged iu the
work of illustrating Balzac’s nov
els, he once upon a time came up
on a difficult and involved pas**
sage, so abtrusethat betook it to
the author, with the humble re
mark, “I don’t exactly catch the
sens© Jof jthis.” “Let’s see it,'’
said the novelist. “Oh, there’s
no meaning to it at all! That’s
why T put it in.” “Why you put
it iuf’ “Exactly. Yousee, fer
the average reader all that is clear
seems easy; and if from lime to
time^I didn’t give him a complcai-
ted and empty sentence, ho would
think that h© knew as much as I
did. Consequently every now
and then I tip him something
heartbreaking, and he puzzles
over it and re-reads it, and takes
bis head between his hands and
glares at it; and then, when he
can make neither head nor tail of
it he is perfectly happy, and says,
“Grreat man, that Balzac, he
knows more than I do!”
WHICH IS THE WEAKER SEX?
Females are called the weaker
8?x, but why ? If they are not
strong, who is? When men must
wrap themselv#s iu thick gar^
ments, and increase the whole in
a stout overcoat to shut out tiie
cold, women, in thin silk dresses,
with neck and shoulders bare, or
nearly so, say they are per.jectly
comfortable ! When meu wear
waterterproof boots over woollen
hose, and incase the whole in In
dia-rubber lo keep them from
freezing, women wear thin silk
hose and cloth shoes, and pretend
not to feel the cold! When men
cover their heads with furs, and
then complain of the severity of
the weather, women half cover
their heads with straw bonnets,
and ride twenty miles in an open
sleigh, facing a cold north-wes
ter, and pretend not to suffer at
all! They can sit, too, by men ,
who smell of rum and tobacco-
smoke sufficient to poison the
whole house, and not appear
more annoyed than though they
were a bundle of roses. Year af
ter year they can bear abuses of
all kinds from drunken husbands,
as though, their strength was
made of iron. And then is not
woman’s mental strength greater
than man’s? Can she not endure
suffering that would bow the
Stoutest man to the earth?
Gall not woman tiie weaker
vesse; for had she not
been stronger than man, the race
would have long since been ex
tinct. Hers is a state of endu
rance that man could never beai'.
THEIR REWARD.
In Matthew they are promised
thrones of judgment over the
tribes of Isreal, as in Samuel’s
time. The promise here refers
to that broadening and enriching
ot the soul which redeems life
from barrenness, and sees fresliN
ness, beauty and fullness of joy
everywhere. Life is as the henr’^
recons it, and with but this day’s
bread it may be rich and copious.
Planted in a hostile world (with
persecutions), the believer lives
under the* patronage o! a king.
The finality, where = there are
pleasures forevermore, eye hath
not seen nor ear heard. Only
some gleaming fore-splenders
have come to the heart of man,
revealed by the Holy Grhost.
This planet would be a strange
world wishout noise. Life owes
much of its variety to the bab
blings.of sc ence, the vaporings
of politicians,tlio shouts ol the rab
ble-rout, the ro'iring of the ‘loom
of time,’ the hum of industry.
Fancy n house going up like Sol
omon’s temple with no sound of
the rasp of the saw, the whistling
of the plane and the rap of the
hammer! Imagine people walk
ing about on tip toe in stockings
feet and conversing by signs and
and in whispers! In the higher
latitudes, it is said, such an awful
stillness prevails for days at a
time that one doubts bis identity
and is petrified as if by the stony
star of a Medusa. We would
not abolish noise if we could, or
impose a fine upon people for
talking. Yet we could dis
pense with a great deaf of noise—
with the gabble of gossips, the
drivel of idiots and bores, the
rant of atheists, the tawdry rliet-
oric of stump-speaches, the oaths
and coarse wit of stables and bar-*
FINE HARNESS.
When you need a neat and substantial
HAND-MADE HARNESS
—FOB—
BlTGOVyCABBlAGEorTEAin USK
send your order to
P. H. STEWARD, retersboig, Va
COMMITTEES OF THE LOl) l-MS
ON THE ORPHAN ASYLUJ .
By reference to the procoedli gsot
the Grand Lodge it will bo f 'in il lo
be the duty of oachsubordina! ei. odge
to appoint a standing commit toe to
raise and report funds, for the Asy
lum monthly. It is further mad ^ t lie
duty of every Secretary of a h >dgo
to send the names of sucii con niit-
tees to the Orphans’ Frieni lor
publication, in order th.at po sons
wishing to employ orphans may I now
the steps to be taken.
We give the committeesboloi so
far as the Secretaries have repoi uL
Jil. Vernon Lodge, No. 351.' -- ii-t.
M. Lane,' F. L. MeUiees, \V. W,
Richardson.
St. John’s Lodge, No. 3 -ij, vV,
Hancosk, chairman.
Watauga Lodge, No. 273 -- W
Coffey.
Roanoke Lodge, No. 203—2 T,
Evans, Wm. ilfoody, J. B. iUottey.
St. John’s Lodgo,No. 1, Wiliin ug-
ton—W. M. Poisson, W. W. Al'on,
J. W. Perdew,
Cloavelaud Lodge, No. 202- - I .
dfcBrayer, J. W. Rudasiii, J u
Webb.
Joseph Warren Lodge, iNo. I- 2--
H. J. Sauls, J. K. Peacock, F. .SI
Jfoye.
Wilmington Lodge, No 319— W»
P. Oldham, John 11. Hanby, John
Cantwell.
ilft. Pleasant Lodge, No. 157—W
A. Jones, T. B. Rarely, J. i
ols, B. L. Lawrence, L. W^oodiief.
Wayne Lodge, No. 1J.2.—il. A.
Wright, Augustus Edwards, E. VV ■)
Cox.
Sale
OP A VAOUABL'i! VA'JPS OOniTrV
PLANTATiOi'T.
As Oommissioiiw of tho Superioi’ Coift of
Yance Coiiuty, I will stjli to ,tli« highest hi(i(isr
oil Monday, February 5th, 1853, at IC o’elook,
front of theSuperioi! Court Clerk'? ofTiee;
in Henderson, that valuable traot of land, of llie
estate of Mrs. Lucy E. Love, decease 1. on ihe
waters of Nut BushCreek, in Vance county, ad
joining the lauds of W. H. Boyd, Li. B. I b-u Isr-
son and others, and is tbe tract upon whh-li the
late Richard Owen lived, coutaiiiifig four hnu.lred
and forty-two (442) acres. Said tract contains,
among other improvemeuLs, a large dwelling
house, and all necesstfsy out-houses—all in splen
did repair The land is in good condition, and
produces well corn, wheat, line tohaeoo and all
the grasses. Tenns made known oiidayofsale.
A. R. WORT.**! AM, Commissioner.
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Tbese Goods are sold under an
Absolute Guarantee
That they are tlie Finest and PUREST
goods upon the market;
They ARE FREE from DRUGS and
CHEMICALS of any kind;
They consist of the Finest Tobacco and
Purest Rice-Paper made.
ODR SALES EXCEED.k.p„.„c«
of ALL leading manufactories combined.
None Genuine without the trade-mark
of the BULL. Take no other.
I.T. BLACKWELLS CO.
Sole Manuiacturers. Durham, N. C*
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