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The Orphans’ Friend. MAY 4, 1883. Published every Friday at one dollar per annum, in advance. PEESEKT 0RG4NIZATI0N OF ORPHAN ASYLUM. J. H. MILLS, Miss A. L. LLFMma, leacher of First Form, Girls. Miss MARY SHOLAR, Teacher of First Form, Boys. Miss MARY C. BOLD, leacher of Second Form, Girls. Miss L. NICHOLSON, Teacher of Secmd Form, Boys. MISS E.M. MACK, Teacher of Third Form, Girls. mss LULA MARTIN, Teacher of Third Form, Boys. Mm M. F. JORDAN, n Charge of Boohs, Correspon dence and Vocal Music. Mrs. RIVES, In Charge of Hospital. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ORPHAN ASYLUM FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 2d. IN CASH. Wayne Lod.;e, No. 112, 20 00 John Goss, 25 Mrs. J. P?. Borland, Concord, I 00 John McLaurin, Wilmington, 20 00 M. T. Leach, 2 25 IN KIND. A. Walters, Tally Ho, 1 bush, wheat. S. H. Cary, ^ bushel wheat. W. H, Thompson, 1 bushel wheat. B. B. Beasley, 1 bushe| corn. W. ^ Smith, 1 bushel corn. 'SPECIAL MENTION. Richmond is ex«ited over the daring operations of burglars within its limits. Dr. Milburn, the “blind man eloquent,” is lecturing in Wil mington to the delight of his hearers. Rev. R. H. Marsh preached an excellent sermon in the Chapel of the Asylum last Sunday eve ning. We call special attention to the professional card of Dr. C. D. H. Fort, Surgeon Dentist, See advertiting columns. Our Raleigh exchanges give detailed accounts of certain ghostly manifestations in an old store on Fayetteville street. We gratefully appreciate the kindness of our Masonic breth ren at Palmyra in conveying Miss Smith, canvasser for the Or phans’ Friend, from that place to Tarboro. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the Uni ted States will convene in the First Presbyterian Church of Lexington, Ky., on the 17th inst at 11 o’cloek A. M. Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, will lecture in Raleigh on the 9th inst. for the benefit of the Orphan Asylum. Subject— “Poetry of Mechanism.* *^ Rev. L H. Gibbons has not preached at the Asylum in six months. This is printed on the authority of the Superintendent, who feeling incompetent to do justice in the premises has hired Dick Watkins to give the dere lict preacher such a “cussin” as he deserves. We were shown a few days since, by James A. Crews, jr,, Fsq, an interesting relic in the shape of an ‘ancient shot gun. It has a flint lock, is about eight feet long, and was used in the battle of Guilford G. H. by Mr. C’s grandfather, who was a Con tinental soldier. The convention of the Protes tant Episcopal church in North Carolina will be held in Charlotte this year, commencing on the 23d of May. The rector and vestry of St. Peter^s church in that city request that all clerical and lay delegates throughout the State forward to them at the earliest practicable day the nan:e8 of such persons as are expected to attend the convention. Among others who have great • ly aided Miss Smith in her can vasB for the Friend, we make st:ecial mention of that gallant gentleman, Col. Isaac A. Sugg, of Greenville. By his valuable assistance one hundred and twenty-six cash subscribers were secured in Greenville, where we •had none before. A private note from Col. S. announces his inten tion to increase the number to one hundred and fifty. With hat in hand we make our grate - ful acknowledgements. The Orphans who attend the Baptist Sunday School were very kindly invited to participate in the picnic at Harris’ Chapel last Friday. In the!absence of the[Su- perintendent they could not at tend, but greatly appreciated the good things sent to them. Every time we visit the new Asylum building, occupied by the boys, we find tliat improvements have been made. We note es pecially the trimming up of ihe trees on the adjacent grounds, enclosing the yard with a sub stantial plank fence, levelling the ground within the enclosure, and arranging otherwise for the planting of flowers and vegeta bles. The latest improvement is a neat and substantial spring- house, which the energetic and practical Superintendent has caused to be built of the broken bricks left on hand from the new building. It is near the boy^s cook room, and will prove a de cided convenience. The event of the week at the Asylum was a May-day picnic for the children at the old Can- nady place, two miles from Ox ford . It’was well adapted to the enjoyment of the boys who had the privilege of bathing and fish ing in the creek near by; and also of the girls who played in the large grove and rambled freely through the woods. Mrs. Wilder, Mrs. Buchanan, Mrs. Dickerson, Mrs. Knott, and Mr. George Fleming of Oxford, con tributed to and greatly improved the dinner. Mr, Seat who oc cupies the [)remises, seeing the children so happy was almost persuaded to—well let the fu ture tell! On the way home three boys fell head foremost out of the wagon, but being hard- headed boys no serious damage was done. One day, during an argu ment in court, Roger M. Sher man, the eminent lawyer of Connecticut, had occasion to quote the familiar lines from Butler’s Hudibras: * distinguisli and divide A hair ’twixt south and southwest side,” Judge Dagget, the opposing counsel, as if to mock Mr. Sherman, plucked from his own wig a hair and made be lieve to split it with a pen-» knife. Mr. Sherman turned for a single instant to remark “I did not say a bristle, sir;^’ and continued his argument in triumph. A man by the name ot Dodson was guilty of a most heinous un dertaking last week. Having in - sured his life fbrg5,500, he hired two negro men to kill, another and furnish him the body. This he took and having set fire to the house started tor the West, bO' lieviug that the public would think the charred remains to be his and pay his wife and children the insurance. But the plan re fused to work and he was captur ed and lodged in jail. Shakespeare said, “Brevity’s the soul of wit.” Let us therefore be witty.— Wilmington Star. MISCELLANEOUS. Rev.^ Frank L. Reid, of the “Christian Advocate,” will deliver the annual address at Asheville Female College, June 10th. Every paper from Western North Carolina that comes to us brings news of last week’s floods. The damage must have been nearly a million dollars in this State. Dr. Hepburn, president of Da vidson College, will preach the Baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class of the University of North Carolina, June 6th, A German went to a friend and said: “To-morrow I .owe $20,000. I am ruined. I cannot pay it, and I cannot sbleep a viuk.^’ The creditor said: “Vy didn’t you vait to dejl me to-morrow? Now neith er Can I shleep a viuk.” Ohio has enacted a law making it a punishable offence for any one to sell or give a toy pistol to a person under fifteen years of age; a dealer who violates the law is liable Ifor all damages resulting. This t)hio “idee” is a good one and entirely worthy of general adop • tiou.—Ex. A Boston man who had his nose mashed over his face during a per sonal unpleasantness in a Chicago bar room, was told by the doctor that it was a simple case of mo lecular disintegration. “Thank you,” he said, “I feel better al ready, that sounds so much like home.” The alumni of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy have con demned “the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage in drugstores as a growing evil, tending to de grade the profession of pharmacy and damaging to the morals of the community, and to show that they meant what they said, expelled a member of the Association convic ted of this crime. There is no room for bar-tenders in the profes sion.” ‘Ella is better looking,” remark ed Mrs. Brown, with a smirk, “but Lucy will get married first.” “Yes,” chimed iu her husband, gimme Luci-fer matches every time.” The jury rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide, and Mrs. Browu is looking for a puuless husband. Two great ceremonial events will take place in Virginia this year—the first, the inauguration of Valentine’s recumbent figure of General Robert E. Lee at Lexing ton ou the 24th of June, ou which occasion ex-President Davis will make the address; and the second, the unveiling of the monument the United States Government is erecting to Jefferson, at Moiiti- cello, ou the 4th of July. A French inventor has au ap paratus for curving the tail of a pug dog, so that its mistress can grasp it securely and convey it to ♦he opposite side of a muddy street. When a greatluecessity becomes fully known, the inven tion to meet it is always on hand. A man got drunk and was killed by a Railroad train in Virginia. The friends ot the drunkeii man sued the Railroad Company for damages. A Virginia jury could not see it, and a mistrial was the result. The friends of the drun ken man would come nearer strik ing the cause of their friend’s death, if they brought suit against the man who sold him the liquor, that made him incapable ot keep ing off the railroad track.—Ex. A newspaper correspondent writes the following anecdote of the late Mason L. Wiggins, of Hal ifax: “It was his habit to take a seat on his front porch, and watch the road on Church day. Becom ing impatient on one such occa sion, he bawled out to his steer driver: ‘T say Peter, have you seen anything of the preacher this morning?” “I don’t know, massa, but I seed a little man wid blue ha’’, with both ends sticking in his bead.’ ‘That’s the man. Get your bonnet Betsy, and let’s go to Church.” BRIEF THOUGHTS. Heaven must be very near to us, else how could the angels be so near us, and yet so near to God?— ScJionberg- Cotta Family. There is one perfectly safe rule to follow; it is contained iu the words, “If you must you'd better.” Nothing so injures and even brutalizes a child as to hold him guilty when he is not.—Indepen dent. The grief that swells the Chris tian’s heart is the bud of a new beauty bursting into flower. Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the re ward of faith is to see what we believe. God is love. It is he who hath made every thing; and he loves everything that he has made. The highest duty of every man is to look after the perteotion of his own Christian character. If there be any truer measui e of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. Where we have a tent, God must have au altar; where we have a house,God must have a church iu it. When you give alms there are two that know ail about it—the master of the treasury, and the giver. There is no greater sign of your own perfection, than when you find yourself all love and comp;i8- siou towards them that are very defective and weak. It is possible to speak without believing, but it is poor speaking; it is possible to believe without speaking, bat it is poor believing. —P. S. Senson. One must feel intellectually hc cure before he cau venture to dn^ss shabbily; no one but a genius or a great scholar dares to be dirty. — Irving Time spent la rest is not time wasted; but time spent in labor that ought to be spent in rest, is time Worse than wasted. Christian Index. Young men, learn to wait; if youj uuderstake to set a hen be fore she IS ready you will loose your time and confuse the ben be sides. God hath promised pardou to him that repenteth, but he bath not promised repentance to him that sinneth. True religion gives a happy, cheerful turn to the mind, admits of all true pleasures, and even pro cures them for us. The best comforters in afflictiou are those who like Job’s friend, “sat with him three days and nights, and spoke never a word.” Mr. Spurgeon, in a late sermon, said: “The strength of the Church lies not in thft oratory of the pul pit, but in the oratory of the clos et.’’ 0 holy trust I 0 endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John, To lay his head upon the Saviour’s breast, And thus to journey .nn I Time ought, above all other kinds of property, to be free from invasion; and yet there is no man who does not claim the power of wasting that time which is the right of others.—Johnson. Young man, if you begin at tue top of,the ladder,progress is in one direction only-down. But if you begin ou lower rounds, you will have the satisfaction of.goiug up just as fast’ as your abilities will carry you. A happy wedlock is a long fall ing in love. I know young persons think love belongs only^to browu hair ^and plump, round, crimson cheeks. So it does for its begin ning, just as Mount Washington begins at Boston bay. But the golden marriage is a part of love which the bridal day knows noth ing of. EDUCATIONAL. Master one science or art thor oughly, and the result will be a great man; attempt a score, and inanition, and iinpotency will be t'^eouly reward of all your toil and aspiration. The inventions and discoveries of modern civilization bestow upon us rich advatibages unknown to our forefatliers, yet the pressure of so much upon immature minds has rather dwarfed thau enlarged the delicate texture of the mental faculties, and instead of a race of intellectual giants we have to la ment that our greatest men, with but few exceptions, belong to the past. Call not our grandfathers dul lards and old fogies, for many of them were wiser than the present generation ot selt-styled profes sors and scholars. 'Tis true their learning was less versatile,and did not embrace so tormidable an ar ray of the sciences, but what they undertook was thoroughly master ed, and of good practical utility. The olden mode ot instruction was iu strong contrast to the pres ent system of teaching, and though books have multiplied and sciences are said to be^ simplified, we beg leave to say that in the last in stance the word mystified may be more wisely employed, for we daily hear tyros, parrot-like, spouting out technicalities, of whose true signification they are as ignorant as of the civil constitutions of Sol on, Draco and Lycurgns. ’Tis a sad comment upon our schools that they send out so few original thinkers. Books have been devoured by them to satiety, and they continue to depend upon other minds for all the sustaining pabulum of their own. We demand too much now, and the time is too brief for the mas tery, in consequence of which mis erable sciolists issue forth from our various institutions of learn ing. Our curriculum of the pres ent day includes most of the lan guages of this babbling earth, the modern arts and sciences, history, mathematics,drawing, philosophy, poetry, and all else that can be at tempted and dextrously skimmed over. Every lad now must have in prospect some profession,thou gh we see how few of our professiolial men arrive at any eminence in ihe world. They learn enough to make a living, and In many cases not this when we recognize in such only the vile pretender. Dr. Hay good has $20,000 of the Slaterfnud to distribute. Aid is to be confined to such schools as are best fi^tted to prepare young colored men and women to become useful to their race, and to those institutions which give instruction in trades or other manual ocoujia- tions which will enable colored youth to make a living and to be come useful citizens. A LITTLE STORY WITH A BIG koral. Here is a very old story that has been told time and time again, but will bear tell ing again: A man asked his neighbor why he was so careful to save a certain old horseshoe. The neighbor replied: “I may find the other three shoes.” “And what then ?” “I may then find the horse which cast them.^^ “And what will you do then V' “Why, I will build a stable for him.” “No, you won't. Yoar horse might kick my children, and so I won’t have a stable near my house.” “Yes, you will, if I choose to build one.” “No, I won’t.” “Yes, you wilL’ And then they began to fight like cats and dogs. An old correspondent at Washington, writing of Mr. Randolph, says that daring the debate on tne Missouri question,Mr. Philemon Beech er, a representative from Ohio, one day got. very hungry. When Mr. Randolph, who was speaking, made a some-^ what lengthy pause, Mr. Beecher moved the “previous question.” The Speaker re minded Mr. Beecher that Mr. Randolpii had the floor, and the latter went ou with his ar gument. Soon affer there was a second interruption. Mr. Randolph could stand it no longer, hut said, in a voice as shrill as the cry of a peacock, “Mr. Speaker, in the Nether'- lands, a man of small capacity, with bits of wood and leather, will in a tew moments con-' struct tiiat which, witli the pressure of tlio linger and thumb, will cry, “Cuckoo! cuckoo!” Witii le.ss ingenuity, and with infHrior materials, the people of Ohio have made a toy that will, without much pressure,crj’, “Previous ques tion! previous question!” It is hardly necessary to add that Mr. Beecher did not at tempt to reply, and that Jlr. Randolph was not interrupted again. Itas I Fnai. OXFOliD, N. C. p u DRUGS. All STAND-ARD l’rei)ariition8. PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY COMPOUNDED. ALL NEW ! NO OLD STOCK ON HAND! WARRANTED THE BEST! also; Clover and Orchard Grass Seeds, and Seed Irish Potatoes. A Fresh Lot ofApples and Oranges Candies and Confectioneries* Generally, which are VERY FIME! A large snjiply of School Books, Stationery, &c., on hand. Any article not in stock will be ordered, ^P’Call .ami see us, we KNOW we can please yon, WILLIAMS & FURMAN. Mitchell's old Stand. C. D. H. FORT, M. D. SURGEON DENTIST, OXFORD, X. C. I have permanently located in the town of Oxford, N. and respeottul- ly tender my services to the citizens of the place and surrounding country up- ©n the most reasonable and satisfactory terms. Office over Graiidy & Bro.’s store. Millinery AND Notions. Mrs. R0LFE& BOOTH Over store formerly occupied by Gi'ati- dy Bro., OXFORD. N. C. Mrs. Rolfo iias just returned fioiu Baltimore, where sh,' purcha-seifi aeoni- plete, choice anrl latest styled luie-of lUlLLINKiiV (400l)d>^ NO'&'IONS, to which the attention of the public is invited. Tlie goods an* now being opened, and the ladle.s should call at once to (!xam- in! them. Prices low, and all work executed after the most approved order, 'forms Cash. Mks. roi.fe & booth. 4G>S
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