f Tbe Orphans’ Friend.
iaUDAT. NOVEMBER 2, 1883.
. Publisbed every Friday at .'ne dollar
per annum, in advance.
COM X'KtB UTIO
TO THK OriniiN ASYLUM FOR THK
WEFK ENDING OCTCBER 31ST.
CABII.
Mingo Lodge No. 236 $5.76
Grove Chuich, Sampson, Co 1 25
Gruber family in Dallas 2.50
A Friend •. 85
Royal \^ llite Hart Lodge No. 2 19.80
Frankline Lodge No. 109 P
T. L. Howell & Bro. 20 yds. calico, 2
pr slippers^ 3 pr gloves, 1 doz. cakes
soap. 1 corset, J doz spools cotton.
Wm. Harris, Henderson 10 pr socks.
SPECIAL MBNTIOl^.
The North Carolina Agricultur
al Society has made an assign
ment.
The President lias set apart
Thursday Nov. 29th as, a day of
general thanksgiving.
The News and Observer Confed
erate Homo Fund has reached tbe
sum of $3,400.
JDr. W. H. Milburu “the blind
man eloquent,” is lecturing to de
lighted audiences in Raleigh.
Maud P. Mitchell the youngest
son of Col. 11. J. Mitchell ot this
town, died last Tuesday, aged
about 14 years.
At the approaching session of
the North Carolina Conference at
Statesville, the Landmarlc is to bo
issued daily, at 25 cents for the
sessiou.
Mrs. iiives, the efficient matron
of the Asylum Hospital, is on a
visit to tbe Turboro Fair.
ment fund has bad but a slight in
crease because of the demands for
building purpose.-^. But a call U
made for contributions towards
endowment next ye ir. It is ex
pected that at least $1,000 will be
raised for this purpose by Sunday
schools alone. It is proposed to
raise an endowment of $25,000.
'Ve wish the enterprise groat
Religious services , f a very iii-
torcsting character are being coii
ducted in tbe Baptist church here
this week, by the Rev. Mr. Hut
son. Quite an interest has been
awikeued, and large au
diences attend nightly. We trust,
that tbe cause of religion in this
cominunity may be greatly ad
vanced by these meetiugs.
Miss M. E. McPbeeters has ar
rived at tbeAsylum and has taken
charge of the domestic department
Superinteudeut. Mills likes to
have things done right, ^Ve
found hirn yesterday superintend
ing the re-building ot a wire fencr*
by a squad of orphans—a fence
that some workman had built
wrong.
Bishop Lyman has issued a call
to the Clergy and Laity with
in the limits of the new Diocese
of North Carolina, to assemble in
conveutiou, in Newhern on the
12th of December for the purpose
of organizing the hew diocese and
electing a Bishop for the same.
The Raleigh Christian Advocate,
came to us last week in a new
dress and with an enlarged form.
We congratulate the editors upon
this manifestation of enterprising
aed successful jourualism.
About one of the nicest things
for one of our farmer friends to do
would be to send our Orphans a
sack of flour or a barrel of corn.
God has not given us bountiful
crops this year; but let us not for
get His little ones.
We learn that a colored man
was killed at BlueWing last Wed
nesday. No particulars yet, but
the matter is under iuvestig.ition.
Miss Morris, sister of Mr. J. H.
Morris, six miles from Oxford, was
fatally burned last week. Mr. iM
received some painful iujuries
while attempting to save hissister.
The sad occurrence was caused by
the clot^iin^.qf the youug lady ta
king'fire, while she was recliuiog-
in trout of the fire.place.
We bad th^ pleasure ot meeting
n town this week oiir young friend
■’.barley Clayton, of Roxboro, who
ivas here-in the" .interest'of tin*.
IPerson County News. He repre-
lents the News as prospering un
ier the new manageinehk
• Wt) have received n copy of the
ightb Annual report of the
}horn veil Orphanage, located at
lliuton, S. C. This ia a Presby-
erian institution for the maiiite-
lauce and education of orphan
hildreu. are pleased to see
hat it is doing good work and is
a a prosperous condition. A tO'^
al of $4 410 80 ha^ been expended
a building the Orphan’s Seminary
or school purposes. The endovr-
The average citizen is usually
so pressed by the necessities of
the day that he does not look
very far into the future. Aud yet
the parents of every household
will in time come to bo grand
parents, aud in their old age their
grandchildren will become objects
of peculiar interest to them. It is
well,theu, for each parent to look
into the future aud see what will
be lor the interest of his own
household. Fifty years ago t ie
grandparents of the present gen
eration were in their prime; they
could not have foreseen the pres
ent condition of affairs iu North
Carolina, while we cannot foretell
with accuracy what the future has
in store forNortbCarolina.yet there
are some things we can app"oxi
mate according to the logic of cir
cumstances, and they are wcithy
of thought. Certainly there will
be marrying and giving in mar-
riage as in the past, and the rate
of uatural increase in popnladoii
will be maintained. Without cou
sideri ig any probable influx, we
may count on there being iu North
Carolina in 1890 1,165,000 whites
and 1,000,000 blacks; in 19 LO
i',000,000 whites aud 1,250,0 )0
l)Iack8;'iu 1920 2,750,000 whites
and 1,600,000 blacks; aud in 1930
—at tbe end of fifty years 3,600,
000 whites aud 2250,000 blacks,
making a total popalatiouof 5,850,
000. That is soinewhereaboutthe
figure—five millions of people in
North Carolina at the expiration
of fifty years. In our judgment
lljti jiopulatiOLi will be in excess of
this because sooner or later there
will be a very considerable iuflux
of population to this State. What
effect will this increased popula
tion have upon the peoplb who are
here? The obvious result will be
to greatly increase the value of
our lands, aud particularly of our
forest and woodland. Aud this
brings us to the point we wish to
present. In Europe where popu-
latiou is redundant the people are
“land hungry.” That will be our
condition fifty years henc3. The
people will long for land—and will
have need for every acre of wood
laud that can be preserved.
We would like to see every
head of a family in North Carolina
to day a land-holder—not the
owner of a vast plantation, but of
a snug farm, of say three hundred
acres with its due proportion of
oodland. Those men who make
their purchasses uow and become
possessed ot a homestead \ill
doubtless transmit it to their.chil
dren, aud thus laythe foundations
for a snug and desirable property
iu years to come. And woodland
will be of peculiar value--every
acre should be preserved, carefully
attended to and protected. Such
should be the general policy of our
people.—News and Observer.
The Jackson Orphan Asylum An
nual Sunday Service.
Ciirlat’s Church was literally jammed
on Sunday night, on the occasion of
the annual service held in the interests
of the Jackson Orphan Asylum. . The
Rev. Di-. Barten, the rector of Christ
Churcli; the Rev. Beverly D. Tucker,
rector of St. Paul’s; the Rev. John B.
Newton, rector of St. Luke’s, and the
Rev J. D. Powell of Portsmouth, offi
ciated in the sei vices. The musical
programme consisted of selections of a
high order of artistic merit, and was
rendered with splendid effect by the
combined choirs of Christs’s St-
Paul’s and St Luke’s. Pro
fessor Masi, aided by .Professor Ains
worth, presided at the organ, aud the
two contributed in no small degree t6
the pleasure of the occasion. So great
was the attendance at the service that
many people were unable to get iu and
had to leave,—Norfolk Virginian,.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Write down the advice of him
who loves you, though you like it not
at present.
Happiness is the coiigruity be
tween a creature’s nature aud its cir
cumstances.
No one is so entirely surrounded
by labor but that he can talk with God
at the same time in his heart.
Dark seasons are never pleasant
to us, but they are always good for us.
A cloudless sky could never produces a
rich and abundant harvest.
“I have had six children, and T
bless God for his free grace that they
are all with Christ, or in Christ, and
my mind is now at est concerning
them. My desire was that they should
have served Christ on earth, but if God
will choose to have them rather serve
him in heaven, I have nothing to mur
mur at; his will be .done.”.
Fftytwo thousand two hundred
and eiglity white voters in North Cai--
olina cannot read the ballot they de
posit ill the box.—J. C. Scarboro,
From the Star we learn that the
third shipment of cotton by a British
steamer was made from Wilmington
on the 25th, carrying 4,575 bales val
ued at $219,802. The three shipments
aggregated 13.255 bales.
The Republicans of the First
Congiessional District have nominated
.Tud.;e Chas. C. Pool, of Pasquotank,
as their candidate for Congress.
Judge Pool is a brother of the late Con
gressman elect, W. F, Prol.
Some of the pupils of the late
Mr. J. M. Lovejoy have hold a meet
ing and agreed to erect a monu
ment to the memory of their honored
teacher by the contribution of $1 from
each pupil. A committee was appoin
ted to obtain funds for the object con
templated.
Col. C. 'W. D. Hutchings,an aged
citizen of Raleigh, died in House’s
Creek Township at the residence of
Mrs. Scott Tucker, his daughter, on
Tuesday night, 23rd inst. Some years
ago he filled for consecutive terms the
position of Grand Treasurer of the
Grand Lodge of .\Iasons of this State.—
Biblical Recorder.
If a youug man loves a girl as he
should love her to marry her, a look of
disapprobation from her, at any act of
his, will be enough to break him ofany
habit that she does not like. If tlie
woids, “Please don’t drink, Charley,”
from the lips of Charley’s girl is not
enough to.spoil his appetite for ben-
ziiie, “Farewell, Charley, forever,”
should be the next and last remark she
should ever make to him. Marrying
men to reform them has nev
er been a successful enterprise on the
part of women-
The miiltiplicatian of soci
eties nnd their rapid growth
within the lastfew years seems
to have acted as a stimulus
which has created among Ma
sons even a desire for more
degrees and for additional or
ganizations. A survey of these
may reasonably be indulged,
and the information gained
may be helpful; it eanuut be
possible that from them noth
ing good may be evolved;
but it is possible that the
credulous brother m ly become
over-zealous,and so hurtful to
Masonry; opinions may be
formed as much from desire
as irom knowledge, and thus
the wish becomes father to
the thought, but the thought
wiiich leads direct to the door
of truth reaches a far higher
place than can be bought in
degrees or purchased without
knowledge.— Chronicle-Herald
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•‘The pen is the only scepter whicli is
never broken. The only real master is lie
who controls the thoughts of men. The
maker ofwords is master ofthe thinker who
only uses them, In this domain he has no
rival. He stands at the fountain head of
thought, science, civilization. He is con
troller of all minds—to him all who talk,
think, write or print, pay ceaseless and ih-
voIut;tary tribute. In this sense, Noah
Webster is the all-shaping, ail-controlling
mind of this hemisphere. Hegrewupwith
his country, and largely by his Spelling
Book and Dictionaries, he molded the in
tellectual character of her people. Not a
man has sprung from her soil, on whom ho
has not laid his all-forming hand. His
principles of language have tinged every
sentence that is now, or will ever be uttered
by au American tongue. His genius has
presided over the language of the whole na
tion. It is universal, omnipotent, omni
present. No man can breathe the air of the
continent and escape it. The scepter which
the great lexicographer wields so unques
tionably, was most worthily won. It was
not inherited, it was achieved. It cost a
life-struggle for au honest, brave, unfalter
ing—a (Hear, serene intellect. No propi
tious accident favored his progress. _ The
victory was won after a steady trial of
sixty years.”
R A T.Th]
9f Personal Property.
On Friday the 9th day of November,
1883, at the late residence of Abram
Slaughter, deceased, I will sell to the
highest bidder, for cash, twentv-live
barrels of corn, a lot of fodder and
shucks, one good horse, a good cow,
tobacco flues, potatoes, wagon and har
ness &c., and about 2,500 sticks of flue-
cured tobacco. Will also rent, for
money, 105 acres of fine tobacco land.
, B. D. Howard,
Ex. of Abram Slaughter dee’d.
R. W. Winston, Aty.
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Window Shades,
Lace Curtains,
For twenty years we have stood at
the head of our business, and this sea
son onr assortment exceeds in volume
and variety any former display.
ur immense warerooms contain
an area of over 30,000 square feet.“^
We import and buy from FIRST
HANDS, and for CASH DOWN. No
concern in this country possesses su
perior facilities to ourselves, and we
guarantee to sell as low as any honse
in the North. *
Our assortment of PIANOS pAND
ORGANS is the
LARGEST BN THE SOUTH,
and we sell at
Lowest Factory Prices
Our Agency embraces the very lincst
aud best Pianos manufactured. We
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. Don’t fail fo come and see us or write
to us if needing anything in our line..
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BEV. F. S. STABBETTE,
Lately in charge of Richmond Acad
emy, at Rockingham, has bought out
Branson’s Book Si ore, and become the
successor of Rev. L. Branson in the
Book Business. Special attention given
to all orders for books or news. A full
supply of sheet music. Polite Clerks—
Tommie Williams aud Charlie Alexan
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In Sheep, Russia and Turkey Bindings.
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Webster—it has 118,000 Words,
vrfi A 3000 Ungravings, and a New
XSio^apiiical Dictionary,
Standard in Gov’t Printine Office.
& 32,000 copies in Public Schools.
' 3 20 to 1 of any other series.
® rjV aid to make a Family intelligent.
A 52.®? SCHOTvAKS,
TEACDl&S and SCHOOLsT'
Webster is Standard Authority with theU. S.
Supreme Court. Eeeommended by tlie State
Sup’ts of Schools in SO States*
“A LIBRARY IN ITSELF.”
The latest edition, in tho quantity of matter it
contains, is believed to bo tho largest volume
published.
It has SOOOmore Words and nearly three times
the number of Engravings in any other Ameri
can Dictionary.
Itis ail ever-present uiid reliable school
master to the whole family.— S. S. Neraid.
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The Unabridged ia now supplied, at a smcdl ad
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“The greatest improvement in book-matiing
wat has Been made in a humlred years.”
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Committees on Orphan Asylum
Lily Vnllc}’ Lodge, No. 252—John
E. Hill, William H. Kiddiok, Eras-
tus Bs-floy.
Eureka Lodge, No. 283—G, A. 5.
Sooliler, S. G. Patterson, Charles W'.
Alexander.
Fulton Lodge, No. 99—\. ParkT,
vV. W, Taylor, J. Samuel MoCuh
bins.
Mount Energy Lodge, No. 140—
Henry Haley, Job a Knight, H. F,
Parrett.
Hiram Lodge, No, 40—George M.
Smedes, Theodore Joseph, John
Nichols.
Evergreen Lodge, No. 303—M,
Morrison, H. P. Harman, L. .’^loN.
McDonald.
Fellowship' Lodge, No. 84.—
sepli Parker, C. S. Powell, John T.
Cobb.
Wayne Lodge, No. 112.—E. A,
Wright, Augustus lulward, h),
Cox.
Cunilierland Lo Ige, 364—Ecv. A.-
R. Pittman,
Salem Lodge, N >. ^289—J. W
iiimter, C. A. Foirlo, Chas. Hauser.
Ooliarie Lodge, No. 379—-V. J.
Hutlcr, J. I). 0. Culbretli and R. W .
\-.oward.
Winston Lodge, No. 167—J. Q.
A. Har'-am, W. H. Miller, 3L 13.
Wliitscll.
Berea Lodge, No. 204.—Dr. J.W.
B'jotli, A. S. Carrington, John
Mitcliell, J. J. Meadows.
St. John’s Lodge, No. 1.—Wil
liam M. I’oison, John \Y. Perdew,
Z. E. Munell.
GRAND LECTURER—Dr. O.
D. Rice, Raleigh, N C.
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SWINE—Herd Record erksijire,
also Poland China aud the Jersey Red
breeds.
POULTRY—Pure bred laud aud
water fowls, of all the leading v.arietie
and eggs in season.
We are allowed special.ieduced rates
on all Slock shipped by express.
Reference can be had to our whole
community here, where we have al
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Address.
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'L’hc name of “Weed” .seems to be
destined to flourish perenialJy in Amer
ica as the Synonym for succes.s in o le
field or another of glorious achieve
ment. Capt. Colimbu.' Weed, wi o
came over in the “Maytiower iu 162'!,”
and settled iu Graiivdle County, Norrii
Carolina, a'ld feli fighting galhinily
hand to hand with tile famous Iiuliaii
Chief, Lord WeHii'gton, ai King’s
Mountain, was tlie famous marksman
of hall a century ago, of wliom itis
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came down, and surrendered at liiscre-
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old-style faiicv-price Sewing .Maclilac^
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We also carry a heavy stock ol
Paints
BRUSHES AND VARNISHES,
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