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VOL. 8.
MILTON", 1ST. 0., THURSDAY, MAT 27, 1880.
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Poltical Humor.
The New York correspondent of
' Hale 8 Weekly" at Raleigh, himself
a sturdy champion ot temperance,
gets off the most gorgeous story -of
the age as follows:
Among the humors of politics is
the pending contest in Indiana for
th'e Radical nomination for Governor.
Gen. Streight and Mr. Shackleford
are the rival aspirants, and it is claim
ed in tavor of Streight that" he dug
his way out of Libbey prison during
the war. The Shackelford papery
thereupon say that "a rat could have
done this as well, or better." And
Shackelford, who drinks no liquor,
refers to the sun-set glow on the end
of Streight's nose and dubs him
"Whisky Streight," whilst he says
that any such tendency to red upon
his own nose is derivable from sun
burn upon the prairies and removable
with Duttermilk and cold cream. This
is all very good, but I bet upon the
red nose.
Scraps of History.
Martin Van Buren is the only man
who held the office of President, Min
ister to England, Governor of his own
State, and anember ot uotn nouses
oi" Congress. Thomas H. Bnton is
the only man who held a seat in the
United States Senate for thirty con
secutive years. The only instance ot
father and son in the United States
Senate at the same time is that oi Hon.
Henry Dodge, Senator from Wiscon
sin, and hi9 son, Hon. August on C.
Dodge, Senator from Iowa. General
James Shields is the only man who
ever represented three States in the
U. S. Senate ; at one time he was
Senator from Illinois, subsequently
from Minnesota, and then from Mis
souri. John Quiney Adams held po
sitions tinder the Government during
everv administsation from that of
Washington to that of Polk, during
which he died. He had been Minister
to England, member of both Houses
of Congress, Secretary of State, and
President of the Ucited States. He
died February 23. 1848. while a mem
ber of, the House et Representatives,
with the exclamation on his lips "This
is the last of earth!" The only man
who, entering the Executive Depart
ment at the lowest, clerk's salary, was
promoted through all the grades to a
Cabinet appointment by. the Presi
dent and Senate, is Horatio King, ex
Postm aster-Genera I. The onlv man
who has been employed in the Senate
chamber as a page and has attained
the position of Senator ot the United
States is Hon. A.P. Gorman of Mary
land. About'one-half of the Republican
delegates from the Southern States to
the Repubiicau National Convention
at Chicago, on the 2d of June, will
be negro men. And very little South
ern Rentiment or property will they
represent.
At a town out west, the other day,
the Good Templars gave a pic-nic. to
which none but members of the order
were invited. During the day one of
the sisters fainted,and loud calls were
made for a restorative, when a dozen
bottles of whiskey were preseuted to
supply: the need.
The bright red of this season's fash
ions has reached Texas, where steers
run wild, and fierce encounters be
tween belles and bulls ensue.
Mr.- Wi ET: Pattereon,who lives near
Green flilfi &rry.is owner of a heifer
3 years oMrhicn , never had a calf,
land gives fronr three to Jive gallons
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If the Women Desert the Church !
New York San.
Is the church losing its bold on the
women? If so, it is in greater danger
than it ever was in before.
An observant English woman is sat
isfied that there is no room for doubt
as to the fact; that the peril is real
and imminent. She asserts that among
the most intelligent women in Eng
land unbelief is spreading year by
year, ani at a rapid rate. The edu
cated countrywomen of Harriet Mar
tiueau and Frances Power Cobb are
not poring over the Bible and prayer
book as their mothers and graudrno
thers did. They are reading Darwin
and Spencer, Huxley aud Tyndall.
Is this true to any appreciable ex
tent of the educated women ot the
United States?" We.uow it was not
true even so recently as Margaret
Fuller's time. Unbelieving ur doubt
ing women were as rare her9 then as
white blackbirds. But since then
there has been a notable increase in
the uuiuber and improvement in the
quality of girls' schools, well equip
ped colleges for young women have
sprung up; colleges heretofore sacred
to the education of the young male
of the human species have dpeLed
their doors to his sisters: even con
servative Harvard has somewhat tar
dily and grudgingly shown a dispo
sition to adjust itaelt to the changed
conditions.
The American girl of 23 who has
"had advantages," to borrow a New
Eglandism, is a very different young
peisou trotn that other American girl
whom her father courted, loving her
alljhe better perhaps for her .simplici.
ty, sweet ignorauce, aud undoubtiug
piety. This modern girl has studied,
more or less thoroughly, the higher
mathematics and the natural scien
ces ; she has lead or skimmed the
books of the day; she has heard souae
of the lecturers; ehe keeps the run ot
the magazines; she has had her read
ing club, possibly a social literary
club us well; very likely she is writ
lug a novel, or getting ready to do
so by assiduous magnzine practice;
she has her head full and her hands
tull. Certainly the Church does not
till the same place in her thoughts or
m her life that it did in her mother's
at her age. Still it remaius to be
proved that she is ceasing to be1 a
Christian and becoming an unbeliev
er. If she is, the outlook for the Church
is disquieting. Ever since -it was
written, the preachers have been foud
of quoting adverse setting forth that
woman was
"Last at His cross and earliest at His
grave.''
From time immemorial the clergy
and the women have been close allies.
The dav that saw this alliance brok
en would be a cloudy day for the for
mer. What would they do tor hear
ers? In very many ot the churches
of this city, anywhere from two-thirds
tc nine-tenths of the weekly congre
gation are womeD. Moreover, of the
comparatively small number of men
who are habitual or casual church
goers, how many, would have been in
tu pews if they had not been attract
ed, coaxed, or gently coerced thither
by women?
Yet it is not in looking down upon
a dwiugling congregation that the
preacher would feel most, acutely the
withdrawal of that potent womanly
influence which Goethe has sung in
the last lines ot "Faust." It the moth
ers turn uubelievers, what chance
will there oe for the children?
If the preachers are at a loss for a
topic at their meetings next Sunday,
let them take this one: "Is the higher
education sapping the faith and chill
ing the piety of women?"
The Bishop of Long Island seems
to be in a gloomy frame of mind this
spring. In his sermon before the cler
gy of the diocese yesterday, he said
that a "mist of indifference ' has set
in, the zeal of Christians has grown
laint,, the paths that , lead down to
hell are winked at, and there is even
talk of taxing church property!
A CHEERFUL VIEW of the SOUTH.
How a Northern Minister was Im
pressed. The Reverend Dr. W. F. Hatfield
delivered a lecture in Washington
Square M. E- Church, New York,
Sunday evening, on Kis recent visit
to the Sonh, and his impressions of
the countiy and its people.
He says that nowhere in his trav
els has he ever met with suchjgenuine
courtesy and hearty hospitality as
that which characterized his recep
tion in the South, and he advises
heads of families and young men who
cannot make a living North to go
South and buy a farm, assuring them
that, it they imud their own buaiuess,
devote themselves to developing tire
industry ot the country, refrain from
boasting of - haviug thrashed the
Southerners, aud from thrusting into
undue prominence the unsavory truth
that a negro is the equal of a white
man, they will be made heartily wel
come. The progress made in the education
of the people, Mr. Hatheld said, was
remarkable, and in Richmond, Va.,
the building set apart tor the colored
children .is as fine as any schoolhouse
in New York city. The South, to his
personal knowledge, is doing all in
its power to "lift up the colored man
to the rank tt intelligent, useful and
moral citizens, and he found the col
ored people industrious, happy and
contented, and not Btriviug lor high
er wages or shorter hours Many of
them own farms in Georgia and Vir
ginia, work them with zeal, and are
encouraged by theiroId masters.
A Brave axfd Noble Act.
Kanawha, W. Ya. Gazette.
A few afternoons ago a party of
girls and bo s were taking a skiff-ride
in the river near the upper end of the
city. They were out in the middle of
the river, where the water is ten or
twelve feet deep.wheu by some means
i Miss Louise Gramm fell from the rear
of the skiff into the river. Young
Harry Smith, aged about thirteen
years, the son of I N. Smith, Esq.,
was, seated in the front of the skiff,
and when be saw that Miss Louise
Irad fallen into the river he instautly
pluhged into the water and swam to
wards her and caught hold of her,
The young lady is quite large for her
years, being fourteen years old, and
in her struggles she twice drew Har
ry under the' water; but he never fal
tered or released hishqld,but bravely
kept his gragp upon the drowning
girl, and held her up until a boat
reached them, and thej were taken
from -the water. It. was a noble act,
characterized by a heroism and chiv
alry, worthy ot a paladine. The
child is father to the man," and well
may his parents feel proudly grateful
that they are blessed with such a
sen . V
A similar incident to the above it
will.be recollected, occurred a few
weeks agar near Raleigh in our State,
but which was attended with more
disastrous consequences two youth
ful braves losing' their lives in the
effort to rescue a young lady from
drowning, and' should be a potent
earning against imprndent ventures
of the like sort . But however grand
ly' people and poets may romance
about the story of Helen and Lean
der, the latter ot whom swam the
Hellespont for his lady-love trie form
er; however incomparably the great
master-dramatist may have told the
tale ot Autony and Cleopatra, the
former of whom lost an empire for the
sake .of the latter ! Point to these
and a thousand similar illustrious ex
amples of heroism, bequeathed rom
former generations of greatness and
glory, but the chivalrous exploits
ot thee boy-heroes of our own time
surpasses in regal grandeur all that
ld-time chronicler's tell of daring
venture in the days that are past, em
blazed as they are with high historic
names in the annals of fame.
I Hornets Exhaust the Judiciary.
Col, Creecy, of tbe Elizabeth City
Economist, writing to his paper from
Pat liquor House, Columbia. Tyrrel
county, gives the following graphic
sketch :
While on the subject of the admin
istration of justice in tbe Superior
Courts it will be kindred to our sub
ject to relate a recent fact that came
to our knowledge, illustrating its ad
ministration in the lower courts.
Joshua B. Davenport, a J. P. and
Chief Justice of lower Washington
co , in the vicinity of Columbia, Sam.
Spruiil, Jr., a young lawyer of Ply
mouth, in the county ot Washington;
Henry White, a citizen of Washing
ton. Prosecutor, constable and by
standers. These are the dramatis
personam.
Frank. Smith was arrested for an
assaultupen Dempsy Meekins.agamst
the peace and dignity of the State,
and the like o' that. Sam. Spruiil, Jr.
was employed as attorney for Smith,
who was brought before Justice Dar
venport for trial. The prosecutor and
defendant being both prominent citi
zens, the case ot St. vs. Smith attract
ed much attention, and on the day of
trial a large" crowd was present at the
house of tbe Chief Justice. It was
soon found that the judicial accom
modations of Justice Davenport's
house were not large enough for the
audience, and therefore for tbe con
venience of the public he adjourned
the court to the apple orchard near
by. A goods box furnished a provis
ional. rosViim,, upon which .the .Ch.
Justice seated himself under a large
apple free, and proceeded to discharge
his judicial functions. Witnesses call
ed, examioed,te8tified,and the defend
ant's counsel proceeded with his
argument. Among the crowd of at
teudants was one Henry White whose
feelings leaned against the defendant,
and when Mr. Spruiil would make a
good point for his client, White would
interject a brief reply in these words:
4hic d n lie." (Prohibition does not
embrace Washington couuty. j .These
interruptions were so often repeated
in the same words, that bro. Spruiil
claimed the protection of the Court,
aud the Ch. Justice ordered the con
stable to remove White trom the ima
ginary Court room. White retired,
but it was not long before he slyly
came up to the back part of the seat
of justice with a plugged hornet's
neat under his coat. Watching his
chance he pulled out tbe plug, drop
ped the hornet's nest and skeedadled,
with a hornet after him. Pretty soon
one struck the constable on the side
ot his nose, bip, and he unceremoni
ously fled the preciucts ot the court.
The attorney followed the nonstable,
leaving his argument halt finished,
and with a flock of hornets at his
heels. The Judge left tbe goods box,
in a style more rapid than dignified,
the audience left without minding
the order of their going, as Shakes
peare says, and Heury White, con
cealed in a bush near by, enjoyed to
its full the luxury of revenge.
The spectacle of an ex-Confederate
member from Mississippi rising in
the House to propose legislation plac
ing the heirs of colored Union sol
diers on an equal footing, as regards
pensions, wit a the heirs of white
Union soldiers, is not the least inter
esting sign ot the present times.
Win8t6n Sentinel:" A number of
distillers in -this district propose to
continue operations during the sum
mer in the-Tninnitac and
rye whiskey. Owing t a failure in
a greater part of the fruit crop, a good
price for grain may be expected.
Distressing Occsrskcb. - On Tues
day, the 4th iiist., during a thunder
storm, a cabin near Catawba, in this
county, was st ruck. by lightning, and
the building.' its contents, and three
littlanegro children were bnrned up
before help arrived. Halifax Becora.
Two Brave Boys.
A correspondent of the Durham
Recorder, writing from Cedar Grove,
N.C., gives the following interesting
account. He says:
Two young brothers who at the
close et "our late unpleasantness," af
ter having given four years of their
young lives to the "Lost Cause' re
turned to the bumble abode of their,
mother in Cedar Grove Township.
She was a poor woman, had neither
house, land nor money ,and could ren
der her dear boys no aid save to give
them good counsel and a mother's
kind wishes.
With no thought of a living with
out work, and with the determination
to make an honest living, these brave
boys shouldered an axe each and with
no capital but will and muscle (and
of the latter their stock was limited;)
they set up for themselves as wood-
choppers on the N. C. R. R. where
lor twelve mouths by dint ot hard
licks, perseverance and strict economy
they saved enough to buy them a
horse. A change ot business was
now made from wood chorpinfr to
farming. With no abatement ot zeal
or energy they worked and toiled
cheerily on as tenants until thev .
thought it best to own land of their
own.
Col. James I. Allen, a .man who
always stands ready to help the man
whom he sees trying to help himself,
sold thera a tract of land on easy,
terms. for twenty-three hundred dol
lars. Tn three years they had paid
the last dollar of principal and inter
est, and to-day they are in their own
right, owners of about four )iun3red .
acres' of fine tobacco lands, two teams
of A No. 1 mules, stock of all kinds,
two neat and comfortable dwellings,
a crop of tobacco on hand worth fif
teen hundred dollars, owing no man
anything but good will, and what is
best ot all, havihgthe respect, confi
dence and esteem of their neighbors
and acquaintances. as honest, sober,
industrious, high-toned and honora-
ble young men. y
Thus have these two brothers.Felix
and Billy Witeon, under adverse cir- '
cu instances, unaided by any one save
a kind providence risenfby their oum
exertions from poverty to competen
cy if not affluence.
Such young men are an honor to
any people, and .we are proud that .
Cedar Grove can boast of such within
its limits and point to them as a bright
example for our ypuug men to imi
tate. Their .success enturees the truth
that great achievements are within
the reach of whoever will pay their
price. , -
Don't "go West youn man," but
remain at home ; stick to youi busi
ness like these yeung'heroesand you
will find a real Eldorado lere in the
"OJd North State."
Advice as tu Kissing.
Burlington'Hawkeye. No, Ethel,
no; we don't suppose ''clerical kiss
ing' is any wors than the other kind.
The worst thing about it seems to bo '
that it is more readily anfl certainly
found out aud people make a greater
fuss about it, Kiss your pastor if you
wish and he wishes it, but Etbel.dear,
remember this, although you kiis
him never so darkly, in the hall, be
hind the door, down in the cellar in.
tbe dark, down in a coal mine even,
it will be in the papers next morning,
though never a word will be said
about those two times yon kissed
your cousin Tom on the front veranda
at noon while the procession was go-
ing by.
MHeaesMBaeaeaBaeieieieHeHBe
Dr. Peck, of Illinois, has amputated
the l?gs of a young girl on account
ot decay iu the bones, produced by.
excessive rope jumping. He advises
parents'anct teachers , to prohibit this,
play, under all circumstances.
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On Sunday evening, at the Jewish,
cemetery ,a few miles from Louisyille
Ky., Dr. Gabriel Kayser shot himself, 4
through the heart at the foot of th
gravd of his -wife, who died about six
weexs ago.
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