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THE-GOLDSBORO MESSENGER, IMARGH 29, 1886.--POUBLE SHEET. ItlMM iWUPI ; , IT' " . f PASS CHRISTIAN. An Interesting: Description of this Southern Ilesort. New Orleans, March 19, 18SG. Editor Messenger : Leaving New Or leans by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, you skirt the oeautuui Mis sissippi sound for a distance of a hun dred miles or more and pass through a region of sea marsh, cut up by myriads of bayous and lakes, which are the favorite hunting and fishing grounds of the South. You can see the fish in the streams as the cars flash by, and the duli winking eye of the al ligator or the roar of the train may frighten from some lagoon where they were feeding a flock of ducks or poules d'eaux. Homes are miles and miles apart. Here and there the few that thertj are for the accommodation of the sportsmen from the city will recall Venice, for they are perched high above the water on stilt. You cross the beautiful Pearl River, which divides the two States Louisiana and MississiDDi. and dash by immense fields oft wild rice. In the distance skirting the horizon, rise tall columns of cypress, from which depend droop nt? garlands of crev mos swaying m in the breeze like innumerable plumes of heajsss. No peuery in nature can Iconvey a uiovo solemn and impressive twdincr'to the traveler than a moss- covereu swamp, rurmeruu nuujm 1 ' " ll. nA iric-t midway between New Orleans and Mobile, the two ancient and famed cities of the South, you reach the lit tle French fishing village, health re-sort, and watering place of Pass Chris tian, fronting directly on the bound less waters of the Gulf. And a more picturesque, and" all tiring little town in nrtfr fnnnd in all the South. Long years ago a, Danish Columbusf one Christian by name, successfully piloted his ship'behind the fringe of Islands that stand out to sea, and he discovered thereby a new route For ships to -pass. Here Brinville's men stopped to rest on their weary mar h from Biloxi to found New Orleans. Here theFrench pi iests stopped to pray, so it took on tho name of Pass Chris tian. This quaint little seaside town, most characteristically Southern in all the South, is strung upon the edg6 of a glistening' white shell road, known as one of the finest beach drives in the United States. The shell avenue 'ex tends along the shore for a distance of seven miles. On one side are the beautiful summer and winter homes of the Southern and Northern visitors. The houses are wide and rambling and have great lawn?, with clusters, of pine trees, superb avenues of Spanish oaks and shadv oranere irroves. Tho ! other side of the avenue is framed with a margin of green grass, a long line of royaj oak trees, that here and there reach down quite upon the beach Mississippi sound, more beautifully colored to look upon than the most precious fire opal of the Mexican mines. Midway on the avenue, and fronting as a matter of course on the opaline Gulf, stands the beautiful Mexican Gulf Hotel, Its picturesque red roofs and shingled . towers gleam ing alioye the arbor of &iant oak trees in which it isetnbowered.; The Mexican Gulf Hotel is one of the finest watering place Hotels in tho South, and one of the most popular. It is commodious and comfortable, and abundantly sup plied with the conveniences and corn torts requisite to make life in such a place delightful and luxurious. It has ' accommodations tor five hundred truest s and in addition a number of Southern built cottages, sitnaled in the grounds and fronting the beach. Some luxurious Southern customs pre vail at the MexicanGulf . 1 he early riser 1 will see the neat telt-shodeu sambas moving about from room to room, carrying fragrant cups of black coffee , to the lazjT folk, as a preface to their eleven o'clock breakfast. The visitors at the Pass will find many ways of amusement. The fisherman may board a fishing smack and take a two days cruize tothedeep sea fishing grounds, or anchored out at the edge of the channel he may have splendid sport with line and tackle, or he may lie off shore in a sloop, and watch the men scoop oysters. There are beautiful walks and drives out past the ruins of an old monastery and convent off into the ordorous pine grove, the pathway faintly starred with exquisite dainty flowers, that belong to the pine woods of Mississippi. Other drives out to the J)avis vineyards where tho scup peirnong wine is made, and to Wolf River, to Black River, and to the camp, of the charcoal burners. One of the prettiest places in the Pass is the little Episcopal church under the immediate supervision of .the distin guished, Right Reveiened Hugh Miller Thompson, Assistant Bishop of Mis -sissippi. It is well worth a visit, be ing one of the most beautiful churches in the South, enriched by three superb memorial windows. It stands off in the woods a couple of squares distant from the beach, and is under the per petual shadow of some grand old moss coyered oaks; a quiet lake is on one side, with brambles, tall grasses and delicate terns fringing its waters; an old graveyard full or ancient mon 1 1 A uments ana halt torgotten graves sweep out behind the church. While in the background rise the mighty pines of a virgin forest, keeping up a solemn and tremulous murmur, the lake its muffled beat and breathing, just the place for the hand of God. The little church, like the Holy of Holies, in the temple of the woods, is in the form of a Greek cross, with Gothic doors that unfold like the wings ui a uruuuiuj uuve, uisciusiug interior finishings, artistic and hand some to a high degree. The sunlight streaming through-the richly stained class windows fillinp' th Rilpnt r!ifi' 5 ry w with a great glory of purple and am ber light. Whoever directed the dec orations of this Chapel, was an artist, and full of religious sentiment. Some times one sees strolling about the vil lage, a Choctaw maiden pretty as Pocahontas, with her load of red and j JlXJ W iLFtiO.w.o j " v -a - v x. ovvutvi grasses, a fisher lad bare-footed and tangled under a net of dripping fish nets. A bronze browed Creole with her basket of eggs deftly balanced on her head, a dago drowling out his wares. Indeed many and various are the picturesque personages, that loiter tinder th green arches of the antlered oaks. ?As a health resort Pass Chris tain is unequaled. The climate and atmosphere, are almost perfect. What with the sandy soil, the bracing salt air, the odors from out the limitless forests of pine that stretch away for hundreds of miles in the interior, the air is clear and has a delicious softness, that is greatf ul to the senses. ItTs surely God's country, and a rparadise; alloted for the sicK. L. D. C. NATIONAL LABOR SUBJECTS Commissioner Wright Submits Suggestions to Congress. Washington, March 23. The first annual report of the Bureau of Labor has been submitted in manuscript by Commissioner Carroll D. Wright to the Secretary of the Interior, and will be printed immediately. By way of summary the Commissioner says: "It has been clearly shown that the depressions of the past in the manu facturing pations of the world have been nearly or quite contemporaneous in their occurrence. As to the sever ity of the present industrial depression and its duration, it can safely be as serted that the depression commenced early in 1882 and has continued until the present time. From the time the agents of the bureau entered the field in prosecuting their investigations to the time they left it, a period of five or six months,there bad been amarKexi cbantre in the condition of business. At the pretseut time (March 1886) the effects of ihe depression are wearing away and "all the indications are that prosperit3'j is slowly, 'gradually, but safely returning The extent of the depression has not been so great as the popular mind has conceived it to be. 1 "With a' healthy public opinion be hind it, the law-making power can prevent to a great degree the un holy" speculation in food products. It Jan indulge iu conservative care in extending railroad .building and iu facilitating the organization of man ufacturing corporations. It can re strict the; grants of the public do main. It can enact uniform bank ruptcy la.ws, extending the provisions of such laws so that the poor man in debted but a few hundred dollars shall be able to readjust his financial affairs as the larger debtor. It can abridge the provisions of laws relating to the collection of debts, to the end that the credit system shall not be abused. It can regulate transportation on a just and uniform basis, to the end that the stockholders shall not bo robbed by ruinous competition, and that the workman may calculate with some de gree of certainty the cost of his living and the producer of production so far as transportation is concerned. It can see to it that the tariff shall be regulated on the basts of justice and science and not on a haphazard basis which affects only individual interest and oftentimes inflicts general harm It can see; that a stable currency be guaranteed, that the workman may know the! purchasing power of his stipulated learnings. It can consider what reasonable and humane regula tions may be adopted relative to im migration and see to it that labor is not lowered either in standard or through earnings by the pernicious method of importations by contract; that every lawful endeavor be made to stimulate industrial education in all parts of the countrv; that the neces sity shall be recognized of the indus-! trial development of all parts of the land, that there may result a legiti mate increase in the consuming power of the people. It can stimulate the growth of the principle of industrial co-partnerships through methods of profit-sharing by wise premissive laws. Public sentiment can encourage the perfect organization of the forces in volved, to the end that each shall treat with the other through represen tatives and that production shall be regulated by the demand and not by the ill advised eagerness of men to push their work individually to the detriment of others, that there may come the universal adoption ot shorter hours of labor, and demand that after capital and labor shall have received fixed and reasonable compensation each for its investment, the net profits of production shall be divided under profit-sharing plans or methods, or through industrial copartnership, to the end that all the forces of produc tion shall be equally to mutual wel fare. It can ask that the contracts of labor be as free as the contracts of commodities, under fair agreements for services rendered, to the end that the workman shall not be obliged to make contracts on terms not accepta ble to him, and it can hold the party which declines to resort to the concil iatory methods of arbitration morally responsible for all the ill-effects grow ing out of contests. These remedial agencies or remedial methods, allevia tory in their design, are all possible by the reasonable acts of men. They are not chimerical schemes, but meas ures adapted to practical adoption. They demand simply a fair recogni tion of a part only of the truth bound up in the rule which insists that all men shall do unto others as they would have, others do unto them. GKEENE COUNTY ITEMS. Gathered From the Snow Enterprise. Hill Miss Virginia Jordan is on a visit to her brother, Dr. Thos. M. Jordan, at Hookerton. The Doctors friends will be pleased to learn that his little son is recovering from a severe attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, probably the oldest person in Hookerton, died last Saturday evening about 6 o'clock. A more extended notice of her death will appear next week. Isaac Dixon colored who lives on Mr. J. T. Frizzle's farm lost his house hold and kitchen furniture by fire on the night of the 13th inst. He and his wife had gone over to a- neighbor's and left two boys in the house with a large fire and the boys soon went to sleep, when the fire caught a bed sit ting near the fire place and soon burn ed the house and contents before any thing could be saved, except the boys who were taken out at a window. A small oy was kicked in the face by a horse at Mr. Richard Harris' near CobVs store last Sunday while he was currying the horse, another horse was passing and was kicked at and the boy was struck. Capt. H4 F. Price is doing some work about four miles from here for Col. M. L. Carr. Farminpperationsare making good progress just now under such favor able weather. None of the farmers around here will plant any corn in March this year. Mrs. E. A. Hornaday was so much improved in health as to be able to make an evening visit on the 14th inst. Travis Hooker, Jr., is improving rapidly. j On account of sickness the Social Glass .was not played at Hookerton the 2Cth inst., but will.be April 2nd. Another car load of the popular "Dixie" Plow just received. 800 sold this season. f - W. H. Smith. mch8-3w EMPEROR WILLIAM'S BIRTH DAY; Scenes in Berlin and the Kaiser's "J. " Household. ; . I r . t Berlin, March 22.r-To-day all J Germany rings wit k shouts of "Koch f t HochtEs lebe der. Kaiser f Ebchf" The erand bid warrior has celebrated his ' eighty-ninth birthday, and throughout the Fatherland thete is rejoicing. From every part of Europe, from America and from distant Africa con gregations have poured in all day. One of the first telegrams to arrive was from the Pope. German Kipgs and Prince hare brought to admiration, and Berlin is thronged with enthusias tic crowds, who seem as if they would never tire of singing loyal songs in his honor.' . The rejoicings may be said to have begun pn Saturday, when the Kaiser, j accompanied by the Kaiserin, his i children, grandchildren and several j illustrious gnests, including the Crown J Prince and Pr n?ess of Sweden, de-i lighted the hear is of his subjects by J reappearing for the first time since his recent accident at the Schans- ! pielhaijs, where he sat some time watching the tableaux tipants organized for thejbenefit of a Roman Catholic charity. The scenes represented were suggested hy Liszt's "Legenei of St. Elizabeth.77 The actors were titled dames and nobles of the Prussian Two attaches of the British court embassy also "posted" and looked; very effective as armored knights in the tablleau of "The Departure for the Crusadies.77 The Raiser will enter his ninth de cade well, hearty and happy. Long, before! he had left his couch this morning thousands of Berlinese had assembled outside the palace, watch-; iner for! his apDearance at the historic ' windotf. The roads were anything . ttbaw hSad repl ice by thick mud and slush. The; rrktrfl.rhnwAvpr. -nn.irl no hfipn to snfh however, paid no heed to such tnnes, land when at last the old hero, havingj got through the ordeal of re ceiving the official greetings, showed himself, the air was rent with deafen-, ing chejers. The jfirst person who entered the Kaiserls study to-day was the Kaiserin . The meeting of the aged couple was very affecting. Hardly had they em braced when the ushers tapped at the door and introduced the court mar shal, Count von Puckler, who, being blind abd decrepid had to be led to his master to congratulate him. Then came Ciount Perponcher, chief marshal of the Ifiousehold. Soon after a long array ,df distinguished arrivals drove up to tie palace, including the Crown Prince j and Princess, the king of Saxony:? the Crown Prince and Prin cess of I Sweden and the Prince and rrmcess William, with their three little sqns, each carrying a bouquet in greiy&ds learned krthe occasion. Knowing the Kaiser's love of flowers, many jf his subjects, rich and poor, also seit bouquets. Some sent costly azaleasj. camellias and baskets of fragrant roses and jasmine from the Riviera). Others sent bunches of the emperdr'sl favorite cornflower, while; rsaron itJieicnroaer snowea nis aevo i tiontoithe empire by adorning base of! Fredrick tho Great's statue front of the Schlo'ss, with a pe back o the rares't hothouse plants. The ! chancellor and Princess Bis marck reached the palace about noon with several ministers and a brilliant IlilU UVT V1U1 LUlUlOlLin CUA KM X 1 1 X It 1 1 U group of generals. The reception constantly interrupted by the coming and Hoinir of messengers bearing presents, letters and despatches. By tour o'clock, when the imperial family sat down to dinner with the royal! guests at the Crown Princess palace' the Kaiser was glad enough for a little rest. i ( A grand diplomatic dinner was. given this evening and innumerable , other blanquets, but the most interest ing feature of the evening was the ! soiree in Weissersaal of the- imperial: palace where the Kaiser, dressed in j the handsome scarlet uniform of the i guards was for an hour or more thej centre of all that is aristocratic, beauti ful and brilliant in the German capi-! tal. ! ! The most touching incident of the i day was a pilgrimage of the imperial family ,to a little oak cradle in which the future emperor lay just eighty nine years ago. It is still as good as new arid lately did service for the Kaiser's great-grandchildren, the sons of Prince William. Berlin made a grand display of bunt ing in the sovereign's honor. From thousabds of joofs the imperial stand ard fluttered . gaily beside the Prussian colors.! As the afternoon wore on the crowds! grew denser at one time, while the gala carriages were driving away from the SchToss, dangerously so. Happily the exuberant demonstrations in the j streets led to no accidents. Prince Bismarck looked a trifle bent and very bald, but his eyes were bright! and his manner as srallant when he bowed his thanks to the la dies who clustered round him as twenty years ago. At dusk Berlin was magnificently illuminated and the city is still ablaze with lights and filed with jubilation. Kever Give Up If you are suffering with low and de pressed; spirits, loss of appetite, general debility, disordered blood, weak constitu tion, headache, or any disease of a bilious nature,- bv all means procure a bottle of Electric . Bitters. You will be surprised to see the rapid improvement that will follow;; you will be inspired with new life; strength and activity will return; pain and misery will cease, and henceforth you will rejoice in the praise of Electric Bitterai Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Drs. Kirby & Robinson, Goldsboro, N. C. The f.'Maine law" is still supposed to be i6 force in Maine, yet of 1.933 ar rests reported for last year by the city marshal of Portland, "1,320 were for crimes directly resulting from liquor.jj' ADVICE TO MOTHERS Are ybu disturbed at nig-ht and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying: with pain of cutting: teeth? If bo, send at once and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothiso Syrup fob Children Teething. Its value is incalculable. It wiU relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend up on it, mothers, there is no mistake about ft. It cures dysentery and diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, and fives to$e and energrto the whole system. Irs. Wixslow's Soothing Strup for Chii dren Teething, is pleasant to the taste, and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female nurses and physicians in the United States, and is for sale by all druggist through out the world. Price 2d cents a bottle. j feb25-Iyt Don't forget that LISTERS' is the best fertilizer r W. S. Farmeb. (B(3i)ILTlDSIBaDIEII9 No ' (Do -i n i-i rwu i T. -j-u-u-uo- fjT-LTu ' jnsv-r-xj i r-ij-vT---- u - i- -i-ix-rJVi-. n-. u unrxrv-try- i-u-utj-u-otu-ut. -LitAarwwwuxru Morrison's New Tariff Bill CONSEQUENCE A To meet this Iniquitous attack on a great Southern Industry we have perfected our arrangements to Reduce Prices, as follows .' DRESSED CEILING, $7.00 PER THOUSAND AND UP, , AS TO QUALITY. . DRESSED FLOODING, $7.50 PER THOUSAND AND UP, AS TO QUALITY, j DRESSED WEATHERBOARDS $7.00 PER THOUSAND AND UP, AS TO QUALITY. Doors;, Blindsf, Brackets, Pmp I .hprru Ach A;alnii Rough and Dressed Flooring, . i r" f LSCeS, CmDrOIUSneS, and Brocades and Swiss BM ai Colored Sills and Dress Goois! OUR PRICES ARE BELOW ALL COMPETITION! THE LARGEST STOCK OF EMBROIDERY MATERIAL IX THE STATE. -Rmbrn:(1prv Silk. i cent ner skein. Embroidery Silk Arrasene, 35 cents per Filo Floss, 3 cents per skein. Cur Entire Stock At' Lower Prices Than -r -m r r r-i - JV1 (Z A CTt Y A Ci O mchl8-tf I VI . WiW I L- W W . 74 West Centre Street, Goldsboro, N. C. 1867. M ESSE Steam Power Book & Job Printing House, GOLDSBORO, N. C. 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C. iw Of pew Ote Ik BEST GRADES OP STRUP! Best Grades of FLOUR. COFFEE and SEED IRISH POTATOES, CANNED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, - Royster's Fine Candies, Tubs, Buckets, Crockery, Glass and Tin Ware, 03bLSLX for Gasli! WILLIS EDMUNDSON'S KORNEGAY BUILDING, WALNUT STREET, Goldsboro, N.C.- FRAMING LUMBER $6.50 PER THOUSAND AND UP, AS TO QUALITY. s PICKET FENCING COMPLETE, READY TO PUT UP, $1.25 PER PANEL, 8 FEET. -HVTXl-ULXStCtTJLrors Of- - A Stair Work, Newels, Balusters, n- Pnnar ATflTTT TiTATfiW of -rri ppo Bfl Til AT na Ceiling, Weatherboarding, and other Lumber. Estimates made; wooa nunaing Material, special uiscount to i ontracrors ana me vvnoiesaie i raae. 1 iiil !x HQ ..II KjlGdlU anU-TOlllie 11111115. Embroideries, all Widths, to Match I Embroidery Silk Chenille, 35 cents per dozen. dozen. Ball Tinsel, 15 cents pr ball. Zephyrs, all shades, 8 cents per ounce. Ever Before. tT Samples Zert By Mail. 1886 N G E R IN COLORS, TASTY MANNER. ana I NEW GROCERY STORE, -March 8-tf Puts LUMBER on the Ffree 'TITTMBLE" IN PRICES! 1 ; Scroll Work, Mantels, Fancy Store Fittings, Counters. Shelving, in ' 1 j I W-yC j 1 The Gox Cotton Planter, ; improved, is the Simplest, Strongest, and Most Durable Planter made. . It has proved, in every test, to be the best in use. -FOR HUQQINS fe u-iu4.v . .ukj j. I, iiuii ux u 1 1 We Have in Store and to Arrive Tons Prolific Guano. Tons Acid Phosphate (UISADE) Tons Genuine German Kainii 500 500 500 All of which will be sold Low on accom modating terms. H. WEIL.& BROS. Goldsboro, N. C., February 18 tf ! THE DURHAM BULL FERTILIZiriRf. - - -i m va v Manufactured Especially For Bright Tobacco ! W.e guaranteeeverv pound ammoniated with r.innB iL . fire the plant In dry weather. Insure Bright, Rich, Waxy Tobacco. Introducedand rSSiSUSSl wherever used. Remember some Peruvian Guano u ST i ? , gr to grow Large, Rich Tobacco. 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