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The Orphans’ Friend. SVEDNESDAY. FEBE^ARY - 21, 1883. Published every Wednesday at one dollar annum, invariably in advance i^RKSENT ORG4NIZATION OF ORPHAN ASYLUM. H. MILLS, Hiss GAThAniNE McBOUG- ALL, leacher of First Form, Girls. Miss MAEY SSOLAR, Teacher of First Form, Boys. Miss MALT G. LOLL, Teacher of Second Form, Girls. Miss i- NIGHOLSON, Teach er of Second Form, Boys. JlIISS E. M MAGE, Teach er of Third Form, Girls. Miss LULA MAMTIN, Teach'> er of Third Form, Boys. Miss ALIGE L. FLEMING, In Charge' of Hospital. CONTRIBUTIONS iTHE OliPIIAN ASYLUM FOR THE WEEK ENDINa FEBRUARY 19TII. UT CASn. Eev. Geo, C. Lorimer, D. U., of Ci icago, has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual address before the literary societies of Wake For est at next commencement. J. II. Ennis & Son, of the North Carolina Farmer, have made the Or phan Asylum a liberal donation of garden seeds. Pescud, Lee & Co,, sent medicines and garden seeds. Some of these seeds are already in the ground. Others will be in a few days. Last week a little boy wrote to his mother and complained of his fare at the Orphan Asylum. Well, it is true that pies and cakes are rarely seen, but we have a respecta ble supply of meal, flour, peas, mo* lasSes, krout, turnip salad, sides, hams and shoulders. Also cottee and sugar. Occasionally we add milk, potatoes and onions. At the banquet given to the Grand Lodge K. of P. last week at the Purcell House, Wilmington, the following V as among the toasts ; « The Masonic Fraternity—the mother of all secret societies. We respect and honor it as such.” ’'•'ashington Fresbyterin Church, J.'Scpli Lunsford, r.irdis Presbyterian Church, it'oyal Wliite Hart Lodge No. 2, .'.it. Vernon Lodge No. 319, Forwarded from “a friend” by Miss A. A. Camerom, ]' liieville Circuit, Rev. L. Shell, P. C. ji]. E. Coley, Knap of Reeds, L N. Lyon, ■•■'i, E. Lyon, F'lat River Sunday School, .i'i!)enezcr Church, Camden County, Rev. R. R. Overby, pastor, 'V. A. Dunn, 'At. Mourne Lodge No. 347, IN KIND. $30 00 5 00 .5 95 10 47 2 39 5 00 5 60 1 00 1 00 1 00 25 7 26 7.35 1 25 H. Bryan, Jr., one load straw. '5;onnie Peyton, Greensboro, two aprons. C. Carroll, two barrels potatoes. A friend, Greenville, one box bed covers, ii.ox from Elkin, with contributions from; 'uadies of JonesviJle, one quilt; Mrs. R. G. Kirkmau, one pr. socks; a friend, thi'ee prs. stockings, two prs. socks ; Claywell ••.i Benbow, 43J yards plaids; J. S Bell, two boy’s coats; Gwvu & Chatham, one bolt jeans; Mj-s. A. B. Galloway, 45 yds. prints, 11 yds. worsted; H. F. Gray, one pair shoes; J. II. Richardson, 10 yards (Milico; R. R. Gwyn, 6 lbs. knitting cotton SPECIAL MENTION. llichard Wagner, the great cem : user of music, died at Venice on (lie 13th inst. The papers continue to give do- :,r’il8 of disastrous floods in the West. The Ohio river was higher last ,veek than ever before in its known iustory. The box from Elkin which is ac- icnowledged in our list of contribu tions this week is an exceptionally ^lood one. In the contested election case of loore vs. Williams from this coun- ; y, the House adopted by a majority f one, the minority report, seating = iapt. Williams. The first Quarterly meeting for the Oxford Circuit will be held in the Methodist church in this town next Saturday and Sunday. The Pre siding Elder of the Haleigh Hist .,Rev S. H, Adams will conduct the ser vices. It will be an occasion of in terest to the community generally, and especially so to our Methodist citizens. MISCELLANEOUS. Good for the Bermudians! They were suddenly informed that the Princess would arrive at Hamilton on Monday. They proceeded to erect ar ches and make great preparations to do her honor. Sunday inlervened. All labor was suspended until 12 o'clock at midnight, when a hundred men were set at work and the arches, etc., were completed. Voltaire, one hundred ana twenty years 'ago, said that “before the begin ning of the nineteenth century, Chris tianity will have disappeared from the earth.” In 1800, the date appointed for the extermination of Christiaaity, there were 24,000,000 English speak ing people, and of these 14,000,000 were Protestants, 5,500,000 Roman ists and 4,500,000 professed no reli gious belief. In 1881 there were 59,- 000,000 Protestants, 13;500,000 Ro manists, and 18,500,000 non-religious among the English -speaking iicople. —Gospel in All Lands. We have received a copy of Greenes Hints on Fruit Culture. It describes the valuable new fruits,and tells how to plant and cultivate tliem. Sent free on application to Chas. A. Green, Rochester, N. Y., together with a’” sample copy of Green’s Fruit Grower. We have received a copy of the minutes of the last session of the North Carolina Annual Conference M. E. Church, South. It is edited by the Secretary, Rev. A. W. Man- gum, D.D., and printed by Bab- ington & Roberts, Shelby, N. C. It shows that there are 180 traveling preachers in full connection and 25 on trial, in the Conference; 245 Lo cal preachers, 70,130 white members, 215 colored members; 2,185 infants baptized during the year, and 2,406 adults; 762 Sunday Schools, 42,196 Sunday School Scholars; contributed for missions $18,271.59 Those whoindulgein indiscriminate criticism upon the wealthier classes, as if they either hoard their money or lived in luxurious indulgence, little know the great amount which they constantly devote to unobtrusive charity and works of benevolence. Mrs. Emma B. Drcxel,of Philadelphia, who died last week, regularly paid the rent of more that 150 families and distributed among the poor over $20,- 000 a year. She employed a woman to institute inquiry into the merits of each applicant, and once every week dispensed groceries, clothing, and money to the poor, who gathered ev ery Tuesday at an appointed place to receiv e her gifts. BEIEP THOUCt.HTS* Any—every systen of theology or morals, which leaves the heart un changed is a failure, a fraud,, a snare. —Bishop Pierce, 1 believe in the Christian religion as the wisdom and the power of God— the great salvation provided for all people. I believe in prayer and effort, faith and works. I believe a great revival of pure and undefiled religion is according to the will of God as re vealed in the Scriptures, and that God will respond in power to the cry of faith and the agony of prayer. EDUCATIONAL. Longfellow once said to me that DDiost young men left college about the ti.me they ought to enter, and I have found this even more true of young ladies than of the other sex. From what varied sources man has chosen his playthings, his objects of vanity, since this world began. In one generation, vain of his nose, in another of his wig, later of bis appe tite or iiis weight. One is proud of his wife, another of his indolence, one of his wit, another of his stupidity, of the beard upon bis chin, the cravat about bis neck, or the hump upon his back. It is right difficult to make the world believe that there is a reality in religion, as long as so many men wlio profess to have it cheat, defraud, take short cuts,go into bar-rooms and drink, use profanity and refuse to pay their honest debts. Such things are in compatible with religion and those members of the Church who do such things are only the counterfeits of the genuine coin.—Haleigh Christian Ad vocate. We have received and read with t ieasure the “University Monthly” !.'dA the “Wake Forest Student.” They are both interesting periodi- • als and worthily represent their 1 sspective instiutions. We were glad the past week to make the acquaintance in our oflice of Mr. Rolfe, who was viating our town in the interest of the Orphans’ .ffRiEND. He finds the ground in Goldsboro pretty well occupied by the Friend Q\Yea.diy.—Metk.Advance. The ‘ Commissioners of Onslow (’ounty recently passed an order di- 1 .".cting the Cl«5rk to apply for ad mission for Jesse Horne, who had l.'oen adjudged a lunatic, into tlie Insane Asylum at Oxford* Moral— Circulate the Orphans’Friend, I’he North American Review for March is on our table. It is a valua ble number of this able monthly, lontenta; Money in Elections, by .Henry George; Subjugation of the Mississippi, by Robert S. lay lor; (lladstonc, by Moncare D Conway; i Jailway Influence in the Land offieo, by Geo W. Julian; Pyramid of Cheops, by Rich’d. A. Proctor; Ih'o- toctive Taxes and Wages, by -l-Pof. G. Sumner; Some Aspects of Life Insurance, by Elizur Wright; {'Educational Needs, a symposium by • :veral teachers. Geouraphy of the Orphan Asy lum.—A visitor to the Orphan Asy lum should go first to Oak Grove and see the buildings occupied by the girls, and make a general survey of the premises. Next visit the Hos pital and the Hotel. Then going by BeiTy’s Spring and the Hotel Spring down Berry’s Branch to Rock Qua- ry, visit Cedar Park, in which are located the buildings occupied by the boys. Then going by Cedar Rock Spring, across Celar Park Branch, Stony Hill and Cemetery Branch, visit Cemetery Hill and the graves of the orphans who have gone to their Father. Thence return by Red Oak Hill. This route furnishes a pleasant walk a little more than a mile in leqgth. The Grand Lodge Knights of Py thias, met in Wilmington last week Oxford Lodge was represented by W. A. Bobbitt. The following of ficers were elected for the ensuing year. J. L. H Missillier, of Hen derson, P. G. C.; E. G. Harrell, of Raleigh, G. C.; W. T. Hollowell, of Goldsboro, G. V. C.; J. W. Moore, of New Berne, G. I\; R. T. Scanlin, of Fayetteville,G. M. E.; J. L. Dud ley, of Wilmingion, G. K. R. & S.; J. C. Brewster, of Raleigh, G. M.A.; M, E. Byrd, Averasboro, GIG; I E Underwood, of Newton Grove, G 0 G; J A Bouitz, of Goldsbore, Supreme Representative. The South has never been so pros perous aa it is now ; a prosperity which is firmly founded upon the in dustry of her people. Her rich re sources are being rapidly developed, and she is beginning to export food products to the North; factories are springing up with marvelous rapidity; and everywhere we see the fruits of agricultural and industrial labors—a glad awakening of the energy and en terprise so long dormant. As a nation she can no longer be called visionary, indolent, or non* practical. She claims the compassion of none. Her horizon has brightened, but only with the purpling colors of the dawn, the splendor of morning and the fulness of iiooii are yet before iier. Preventing bank failures.—A law to prevent bank failures is a great want of the day, and tlie Times re verts to China for aid. It says that seven hundred years ago in China, Li Tuk-Ho, the able Prime Minister of the renowned Emperor Wan-Lung, devised a law so simple and yet bind ing, that since its adoption, no Chi nese bank has been known to fail. It provides that upon a bank suspend ing payment, the heads of the presi dent, cashier, and directors should be neatly lopped off, and piled up in one corner with the assets. This gave great satisfaction to the creditors of several banks, which, unluckily, hap pened to fail just as the law went into effect, blit Irom that time to the pres ent day no Chinese depositor has ev er had cause to regret his confidence. At the recent meeting of the Amer ican Board in this city, when men of weahh were pledging thousands to meet the increasing needs of the Board, a venerable man rose in the audience and said “he had no mon ey to give, and so he couldn’t double Statistics of students.—The la test report of the Bureau of Ednca- tion, published in 1882, places thenum- ber of students in American college.s and universities at 01 740, of whom 42,338 are males, and 19,402 females. The number in preparatory schools of all grades is given as 30,297. In the 142 schools of theology the number of students reported is 6,093; in schools of law 3,134; in schools of science, 5,100; in meilical schools, 9,876. The grand total of students reported in the advanced schools ef the country is, therefore, 115,240. The number enrolled as pu pils in the public schools is given at 9,781,521, with an average daily at tendance ot 5,805,3 12. Ttie whole num ber of persons receiving Instruction in all the various schools ot the United States is not far from 10,000,000. Tliis includes freed -men and Indians—all classes for whom provision for instrm; tiou is in ado. We are now in a crisis, socially and politically, where nothing but the power of God embodied and manifes ted in a general revival ot religion can control and eliminate the elements of evil. The moral atmosphere is full of malaria. We need a pentecostal revival—mighty, rushing to purify it. Mere human ageuces may modify, abate the trouble and thus postpone ihe disastrous issue, but they cannot reform and redeem the nation. The catastrophe will come. Neither edu. cation, nor legislation, nor adminis tration can do the needed work. They can help, co-operate, but they cannot rule the sea and stay its tidal waves. We must have the power from on high. If there is one thing a woman may be excused for doing, it seems that she may be excused for trying to get the dram-shops closed; for dram-shops have wrought woe among women. Wives, mothers, daughters, they are the chief sufferers. A woman has small chance when a busbaud, a soil, a father, comes home drunk, and be gins to play the brute and the devil among the womeu-folks of his house. Theirs is the beating, the kicking, the starving, the shame, and the heart-breaking anguish. We men, consider.ug how little we have done, might excuse women for trying to do a little to save themselves and their little ones from the desolations of strong drink.—Haygood. Education and crime.—We arc in the habit of proving by statistics in this country that education tends to promote morality and repress crime. In France they produce re cords of courts to show: 1st. That 25,000 persons ot the class wholly illiterate furnish five criminals. 2d.'That 25,000 of the class able to reatl and write fnrnisb six criminals. 3d. That 25,000 of the class of su perior instruction furnish mote than fifteen criminals. 4th. That the degree of perversity in crime is in direct ratio with the amount of instruction received. 6th. That in the department in which instrnction is most dissemina ted, crime is greatly more jirevalent— ill other words, tliat morality i.s in inverse ratio with instruction. 6th. That relapse into crime is much greater among the iiistrneted the non-iustriicted portion community. than of the LAND SALE. By virtue of an order of the Probate Court for Granville County, the undersign ed commissioners appointed for the pur. pose, will,on Monday the utli day of Mivrch, 1883, at twelve o’clock, m. sell at tlie Court House door, in Oxford, for one third cash and the balance on six months credit with interest from day of sale at 8 per cent, the tract of land lately belonging to Booker A. Michell deceased, and assigned to liis wid ow for Dower, containing about 156 acres. Said land is in brasslields Township, ad joining Wm. A. Boblntt deceased, Uicksy White and others, and issold'for partition. A. S. PEACE, 1 * J. 8. AMIS, January 26tl!, 1883. k OXFORD, N. C. PURE DRUGS. on ihat; ami he had no more children to give, for he had already given them all; but he would -promise^ to double his prayers.”—Exchange. A boy astonished bis Christian mother by asking for a dollar to buy a share in a raflle for a silver watch that w^as to be raffled off in a beer saloon. His mother was horrified, and rebuked him. ‘‘But,” he said, “moth er, did you not bake a cake with a ring in it, to be raffled off in the Sun day-school fairl” “Oh, my son,” said she, ‘‘that was for the Church.” “But if it was wrong,” said the boy, “would doing it for the Church make it right? Would it be right for me to steal mon ey to put iu the collection? And if it i.s right for the Church, is it not right for me to get this watch if I can?” The good woman was speechless, and no person can answer the boy's argu- meiit. The practices are both wrong or they are both right. There is nothing that will cultivate communism iu a country more certain ly or rapidly than the certain punish ment of small offenders, in the hum ble walks of life, while the large of fenders iu the higher walks of life go free. If the man who steals a pair of half-soles is manacled with chains and put in the peniientiary, while the man who steals half a million is treated like a prince, the logic of the common people will draw conclusions from it, hurtful to them and ruinous to the country. STANDARD Preparations. PEESCRIPTIONS ACCUIIATEL7 ;C0MP0UNDED. ALL NEW ! NO OLD STOCK ON HAND! WARRANTED THE BEST! Work promotes happiness. Men's souls are like a stream of water,which sparkles when it runs, and gleams iu the sunlight when it turns the mill wheel, but stagnates when it lies still ill a pool, and is covered with green scum, which breeds disease and cor ruption. The poor man is far happier while hard at work than the rich man lounging about in idleness. Man is made to work, and the world is so ar ranged as to require it. Food, rai ment, shelter, compeiency, must all be secured by work. The necessity of labor is one of the beatitudes of mortal life.—Raleigh Christian Advocate. A Fresh Lot of Apples and Oranges. Candies and Confectioneries Generally, which are VERY FINE! A large supjily of School Books, Stationery &c., on hand. Any article not in stock will be ordered. I^Oall and see us, we KNOW we can please you. WILLIAMS &FyilMA!ll. Mitchell’s old Stand.
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