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H til By Ths Aivanas PuHHshinj Company LET AL-. THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOD'S, AND TRUTH'S. Jescf Its Carters Mincer WII.SOX, N. ., FKIDAY, DECEMBER, 9, 1881. VOL. 11 -XO. 40 I The Wilson Advance. AVilso.v, FKIDAY, I December 9, 18S1 POETRY; " SJO.TI I TiS i L'O V A WIS!" A LEGEND OF ST. PETER M.iltV liAVAItl) Cl.AUKE. In the d.rk day of Nero'.- reign, Whose hand with Christian blood j was red, - . Trembling before tho heathen' rage Fronij Rome Saint P'ter faithle i fled. j iiig-Miiit, and she no longer recognized eventful chapter of that life was 'Twas night, and through the city gate j iiersflf, laced until she could scarcely i closed forever. " " drUUkeu uartifi AU iie;ice j breathe, hampered with j the folds of And Moloch was cheated of his vic N an gel' walking by him now , ! lustriou-. aatin that impeded the little tim. With ftealthy step lie wlowly crept, i feet that had danced like; air over the Would you l ave had it otherwise? Fear paralyzed his soul untiT I u dangerous spot was safely art, When conscience raised her voice and Kpoke These words hii Lord had utteretl last. - Rowed down with shame the Saint walked on Till in the twilight dim and gray, He saw a well remembered form Pas.s slowly down the Appian Way. 'Lord whither goest thou?" lie cried, And marked the crosw that Jesus ! bore; "I go to Rome," his Master said, "Tiiere to be. cr'uciiicd once more!" Saint PvSier could not meet that glance Of pityhig love yet deep reproof, 8?en one;, and onjly ouce before, ..When from his Lord ho held aloof. It. wa enough! In his grand soul All fear and shame forever died, Rtiekward he turned and nobly wrought Till ho at Rome was crucified. And still ber.ide the Appian way i '1 "lie, mark of Jesus feef is shown; it tit iih ! the living print remains In human hearts and not on stone. A WHITE DAISY. ijy r.knN Aiii) 1 1 Knnnr.T. "Dear,' dear srandiia, how can I live without vol.! I would rather.die It nan Uvea w ay fro m. y o u b separated'."" Why should we' i il":N,H ,-,1"wu S"rw ucau I. ijyyd pileousiy to be allowed to re itsef upon tho oid man's breast, and j tt.r.i, it ;oniy ior a day, to cheer tiie tii girls nobs broke out afresh. You may y that there was no c casion for uch' a display of grief, for the girl was crying as though her '.ten der heart would break, while the aged hps tir.it were pressed upon tha soft ringlets trembled so that they could not reply to iier pitiful question. The episode may be briefly told. Madeline Miller was the only child of a wealthy, ' fashionable,- frivolous woman who -passed - her life in an unending round of gayety in the ity. - S J Almo.U from her birtli little Made line, or "the white daisy," as her grandfather fondly-called her, had been consigned to the care of her maternal grand-parents in-"' the conn Try to be brought up. The old folks had welcomed their pretty charge with open arms, and by the aflction and care which they lav ished upon her, endeavored as far as lay in thojr power to atone for the in difference of her unnatural mother. In return, Madeline loved her faster parent.- with all the a4ifo;iof:vgreat, pure, unsullied heart; ind when", the old lady Evans died, the child went to her grandfather and laying.her tiny 'hand in hi-, said: "Grandpa, the white daisy will bo all the world to you now."-- And she had keot her promise, so that eighteen happy years had passed j over her head ere'her.lirst grief came j to her: ! During one of her flying visits to. j Meadow vale, the fashionable Mrs. Miller had suddenly awakened to the fact that she was the mother of rarely beautiful daughter, and straightway there aroe before her worldly eyes visions of alliance which should -. com bine wealth and position.'- t'onsctpuently, scarcely had the Rweetf summer-time opened, when Madeline was peremptorily summon ed to come to her mother, and suffi cient intimation was given that the arrangemo.it was tode permanent. R was, tiierefore, after the perusal ofthis letter that the poor, grief-strick-girl Hew for refuge into the arms f her grandfather. 1 "Don't let me go!" she sobbed; "that 'hateful life will be my death." "Rush, Daisy," the old man said, tkit is your mother's will and wo must not gainsay it. .Resides, she hardly know j you, and it is a duty you owe hr if rthe wishes to have her little daughter with her.'.' ' "Hut she does not love me as you !" the girl persisted. , "Oh, yen, she does. Go and see." j Daisy went Oaway with a break U1? hystrt ?nd eyea that were so blind with tear that she did" not see the ! dear, familiar objects fade from view as the train bore her p way to the new life she dreaded otci meet. Hhewas conscious that her grand j ! father lasted Iter and that'Reuben May I murmured something in 'her ear about ! not forgetting him, a thfcy placed her in t!ie car, and sha was still more be- ( not cease wildered when her journey canio to'epent. an end and she entered! the stately t city residence where her mother fa-j vorcd her with a light touch of her lip.- and hurried her up gvtairs to be ; dressed by the Frencn njiaid for dm- ner. . j. . Poor Daiay! She felt that all the i happy, careless past had been laid j I aside w&h her prim little serge travel- f frngraiit m'eadows, and faint with tne i j stilling perfumes with which they had j bedewed her. j The graceful white neck was fretted with a rulHe of galling lai-e the soft, wind-tossed curls woro baaded and twisted into the latest Parisian ab surdity, and two heavy bands of gold upon the tender wrists like meiiaclea. She thought herself a fright she caught a glance of iiorself in the mir- ror when her mother swept into the dressing-room for her, but she gradual ly came to the conclusion that she must be mistaken when her mother's, fash ionable guests surrounded her as though .-Hie were some lately discover ed .wonder, and she felt hurself blush beneath the expressed admiration of bailing women and the bold staring of the men. . ' She was led out to dinner by a mid-die-aged man with impudent black eyes and a profusion of diamonds, whom she had once seen at Meadow vale wit a her mother. f 'This person. was Lester IMorton, the "catch" of tne teason,' and later she I learned,, to her horror, that ho was the Moloch to which she was to be sacri ficed. !.;; , She shuddered, but said nothing, and in a wild, desperate' way tried vo Keoji itaufecii iUay's "lVaUK, ple.iuiug i;u e oeloi o iier. j .That summer they went from one fasnionauitt resort to another, but ! never td Mcadowvale. i OnJ siio Heart of tiie ionvly oid man in tne desolate iarm-iioa.se, but Jacr petition met witu a derisive laugh and a warn ing "not to ue a fool." With tne iUte roses, the kindred tint ni-AJadoiiue's cneoKs j faded also. 'tthe is worn out and all out of order,' the lasmonabie physician said .with his stereotyped grimace. "Change of atr and scene, my dear Mrs. Miller. Europe if possible." i .Miller gnashed her tooth in silence, though talis said to hersolf : ".o Europe until one oi the Morton diamond sparicles upon her ilugur." And before long one of the coveted gems was in the desire place. It was placed tnere by Lester Mor touTiimself during one oftho.se visits which Daisy dreaded so. 1 "May 1 put this ring ; upon your linger, Miss Madeline.'" he asked in ids low, modulated voice. .And she, hoping if she aeceeded to his rewuest, that he would! go and re- i lease her, answered: i "Ves.' . j ' So society was electrified by the an nouncement, promulgated with in finite care by Mrs. Milier, that Made line herself was not consulted and actually did not realise it J As the autumn merged into winter poor white Daisy grew pater and thin ner than ever. Dreading the effect of the change upon the libertine she had chosen for a son-in-law, Mrs. Miller pressed on her plans with feverish haste, and at last they put poor faded Daisy into her splendid nuptials robe beforo she knew it. i Then, -as though by magic, the fatal apathy which had weighed upon he r vanished like a dream, and in spito of herself she was herself again for a brief moment. ; Snatching the bridal-veil from her head she confronted her mother. "What have you ilone?5;' she cried in a voice that rang out like a clarion, reaching the ears even of the assem bled guests below. "Oh, what have you done! I do not love this man you would bind me to!" 1 ".Madeline, are yau mad?" Rut she wrenched her , arm free of Mrs. Miller's detaining grasp and tottered forward with a gurgling cry, falling into the arms of the old grand father who at that moment entered tiie boiirdoir. ! Goaded to desperation, Mrs. Miller sprang forward, but her aged fcither waved her back. . i '"Let her have air," he,sai6! sternly; "she is dying." DmiM ! ' I - It was the wait of a; maddened; t L foiled ftpirit that for the first timo tastes the bitterness of utterfailure. Yes, Afadeline, the white daisy, was dying. Upon tha frosty satin of the robe glowed the life-bUod as it streamed ; from her lip?, and though every res-j ;torative was applied the fatal flow did until the last breath Raising her beautiful eye, now all alight with a seraphic joy and calm, the dying girl fixed them upon her beloved grandfather's face, while upon ! tne last breath that trembled out upon the awed hush, came the one name: "Reuben!" Than the gentle spirit winged its flight to the unknown, and - the briof o, a thousand times. Rathsr the ix?ace and obli vion of the grave than a life of pain, misery and sin! What Brother Gardner Saw on Election Day. "I would like to spoke a few words to Telescope Peikin, if lie am in de hall to-night," said the president as the meeting opened. The brother wiped oil' his mouth tmd advanced to the platform, and Rrother Gardner continued: "Rruddor Perkins, I met you at eight o'clock in the evenin' on 'leek shun night." "Yes, sah." "You, war what the white folks call slewed." ; "Pze mighty sorry, sah." "You were lull of glory. You felt uat you iiaa saved the kunty. Your. clctiies war' all mud. Your breaf smelt of skunks, an' you had to jump up an' down an' whoop, to keep from busTiii' your biler." "Lots o' white, folks was doin' de same, sah." i "riartiu'sartin'. You, an ox slave, unable to read or write, was on ly loiiowin' in de lootsteis of intelli gent, eddicated white men. Rrudder Perkins, I var' walkin' 'round on 'i-jcksium ilay, aa' 1 .saw some curus tniugs. Lhaw citizens who would not swallow ten drop of whiskey if life depended u it wote fur men who hov ioid the pizen stuff ober de bar fur year.-;. An'.dat was savin de kuntry. i saw my a who would turia servant gal out door on a winte'r night, it dey heard a scandal 'bout -her, walk up to do polls an' wote for men who rent from two to hulf a dozen houses to women of bad cnaracaer. Dat was gwine it straight. 1 saw men whose wives am break in deir hearts ober de wayward course' of beloved sons walk to de winder and stick in ballots for candidate-i who am in cahoots wid blacklegs and de steady -patrons 'of gamliu' houses. Dat was de glory of polities! I haw Christian men, pray agin vice and shed tears ober d wik odness of society, wote fur candidate wnoso xrivat lifes am one long night of debauchery and corruption. Dat 'was a standiu' by d j party. I saw minister of de gospel cast wotes for drunkards, libertme an' outlaws of society. Dat was supportin' da prin cipal! I saw de honet, decent men of leiroit arrayed on ono siile, an' de thugs, thieves an' loafers on da odder, an' de honest, decent men war' swept away like chatf bofo' a gale. Dat was an iilustrashun of de. beauties of de lective franchise!" "But I won't do it again, sah," pleaded Brother Perkins.. "You kin sot down," quietly re marked the President. "Dat name iviguti heard aldermen bawlin' like mules becase someTavorite candidate had pulled frew wid de aid of money and whiskey. Citizens wiio wouldn't let you in at de front doali roiled in de mud dat night like hogs. Men who hev sons to bring tip met and shook hands an' rejoiced ober de leckshuu of candidates who know de way into eb ery saloon an' pokor room in Detroit. Diamc you, Rrudder Perkins blame you for follerin' de example of leadin' white folks! No, sah! Go an' sot down an' feel proud dat j you come nigh brin' an eminent citizen!" Dc- trQtt Free I'ms. I - A young lady was wedded near Lew iston, Maine, a few days ago. Three times she had been engaged prior to her final betrothal. Tier first affian ced died of consumption. I ler second was prostrated with small-pox, and died a few days before the time fixed for their marriage. Her third was ac cidentally drowned on the eve of their weddiug day. Uer fourth love lived to marry her, . ', i ceeding, some a stationed preacher, k th w.:4i.,.v worth aKoiit n ono ! tU r-Ii21? K,n" of Great Britain, says , nreaidtn Piriers Gtc ltarel v ' -S, . w. ! ... V? A 'J.oito b ih cenruvT riiiap ouuey , , , . AL l ,r ; some as premium,, eiuers, etc. iwreij , The Atlanta Curat Jidton savs the t s ct. ud ererr e ruffm wah An' ex-consul the Brooklyn Eagle, related that Mr. Charles Town-end. Sedalia, Jo., was Char es lownnu, mou, J as fnvcnl of rheumatism of the worst kind i.v Hahs Oil Tndiniinpoiis (Ind " ly.ch law. THE ASSASSINS OF MR. LYNCH EXVl ATK THEIB CKIMEH NEAI1 THE HCEXK OK THE ML'UDEP.! Last week two negroes znurdtred lr' ihomas i-.yncn, a jew fo.rd' for the sako ufa Iittle Mr. Thomas Lynch, a jeweler of Ox- nioney. clip from the Free-Lance: The murder of Mr. Thomas M. Lynch, committed one week ago, was ! expiated on W ednesday night. Pun- I ishment has followed swift upon the commission of the crime, and, though accomplished without the forms of law, it was none the loss terrible and complete. k Of course, all the details connected with the lynching of the two negroes, Bhadrack Hester and John Rrodie, are shrouded in the deepest mptery, and we are enaDieu to report oniy uia plainest facts and circumstances at tending the event. About y o'clock on "Wednesday night the jailor, Mr. William R. Tur ner, was awakened at his home, just on the edge of town, by a body of dis guised and armed men, numbering between fifty and one hundred, who told him that ho must accompany them to the jail and deliver up the 2 negroes, lie positively refused at first, but seeing that resistance was usele3, he obeyed, and getting the keys, proceeded to the jail. Arriving there, the guard of two men, Capt. A. F. ypencor and W. II. Crows, a' color ed constable, were forced to go in the guard house and the door closed upon them. They were made to keep si lence at the muzzle of pistols and un der threats of instant death. The lamps about the jail were them knock ed out, and the doors having beon opened by the jailor, the lynchers pro ceeded to the cells. Tho ccTl containing Ilestar was first oponed, and ono of the party told him he mubt now tell about tho murder. While stammering and hesitating, he wasdiustled out in the passage, and taken in charge by others. Rrodie'.s ceil was next visited, and the jailor told him that some men wanted to se him. lie camo to tho door and seeing the crowd, was about to make an alarm when pistols wrer pointed at his head and he was ordered to keep quiet or ho would bo killed then and there. Permission was given him to put on his clothes, when he marched out of the jail. Having secured tho prisoners, the jailor was ordered' to lock the doors, ami while he was so doing, the whole party dis appeared down the street. Is'o alarm was made, and there ap peared to be no excitement or con fusion among the men engaged in this awful event. They proceeded to their work with remarkable delibera tion and seemed to have providod against every emergency. Nothing was known of the affair un til early next morning, nd for some hour it was uncertain what disposi tion had been made of tha. prisoners. About M o'clock information came that the bodies, had boon ducoverod hanging dead in a small grove in Tay lor's field. This information proved correct, and in a short time tho spot had been visited by hundred of peo ple, who quietly looked at the hang ings bodies and aa quietly walked away. ! The grove in which the bodies were found is about one hundred and fifty yards from the spot where the murder Was committed, and in reaching it tiie prisoners and executioners had to pas almost exactly by the place where Mr Lynch received his death wound. The bodies was hanging on separate trees, about twenty feet apart, and were suspended by a small rope, which was placed around the jail, and which had been carried oft" -when the men were removed from the jail. There are-numberless rumors and reports floating about town .regarding confessions made by the men before death, but we are unable to report anything definitely about the matter. It is certain that during the past few days strong additional evidence had been elicited, pointing directly to these men as the real murderers, and several facts discovered which sub stantiated the confession of Hester. It is reported that Hester, beforo death, repeated his former confession. Coroner W. Y. Jones was duly no tified of the matter; and, having sum moned a jury of inquest, he proceeded to the spot 'where the bodies were hanging and had them cut down. The jury are now investigating the affair, as Ave go to press Thursday after noon. ! Awful was the death of Mr. Lynch, ami terrible and prompt has been the expiation. Tiie Itlethodist Conference. The forty-fifth annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for North Carolina which was in session at Durham. Thejconference represents 775 churches, With about !00 ministers and a church property estimated at about'one million ofdol- ,nAaG up their minds to commit sui lars. Its ramifications extend into ! ,.-,de bcaure the mother of the crirl every nook and corner of the State, anuits inuuence ior g(ou is periiapIn tho Guiteau trial at W'ashlngtoi unenualed by any other body in Nor.h . m-i ...,-ir- K. are bright ; examples of Christian piety and self-sacrificing devotion to duty. The Durham Recorder ays: "Measured by conference member ship, Dr. Alforti is the oldest member, having been a member forty-nine years; next H. O. Burton, Dr. Closs, V. M. Jordan and J. W. Lewis forty eight years, and the others progress ively down to one vear. Bonie are notea ior mnuence on conierence pn - ; m one jnaiK eoaspicuous in all the ?etas ! remaps in gu-, t IO;lcaI metaphys-, ical analysis or cogent presentation or r V . m , 1 . S " 'he conference, as a whole, has '.haomafIk (invnrAfMcnn Af Iwvlv .no.eupenor in any profeKlea or.twdy.- 'cfjiren in thePtst 1 i i "'""V, " r'v'i; -i the story of his life, and elaborated j JTjt WW F E R?j? Q f V to be found men of the most sterling th thTrvof lnsnlratlon- under whk-h ' " fift5 frf iT) ft f worth and shining talents, whose lives ; i.,;,,, k. T..rio- i-or. ' & t t. fc ttK f tLlTLCc. C. LiK f THE NEWS IN A NUT-SHELL. Gen. Hancock is expected at Atlan ta Dec. 13th., and President Arthur sometime durin? the holidav.- Eight of the jurors who admitted Belle Spaulding of murdering her bus- band at Galesburg, 111., accepted her invitation to a uanauct in celebration of her escape from the callow. Dr Rice, of Wisconsin, testifies that he recomended Guitcilu's commitment to an Insane Asylum for four year's ago. Within .the past few years 900 miles of narrow gauge rail road have been. constructed in Texas. Sir. Ed ward Reed and'K party of Kn lish capitalists have been visitintr Florida and express themselves de lighted with it. They proposo to make largo investments, and to ini tiate enterprises that.will le of great i value to the State. There ajf i m,ui,a lu..,.,.:.. m:.. 1 '-J III k t. a rJ I . k It 1111 seem to be on the decline in Chatta nooga. During the past, four months there have been 3$ applications for divorce there.- Hon. A. II. Ste phens is ill in Washington. North ern men are purchasing land near Richmond. At a late term of Cherokee Superior Court, a man named Payne was sent by J udge Mc Koy fen years to the penitentiary for swearing falsely on a charge of carry ing concealed weapons. - Senator Davis, of West Virginia, is so full of railroad and mining enterprises that he can't find time te go to tho Senato, and declines a re-election. The Mormons don't teem to bo much afraid of being wiped out. There were more marriages celebrated among them last year than in. any previous year in their history. .Dr. Worth disclaims having a gubernatorial boe in his bonnet. The formal ;:open- ing of the ninth convention of the National Butter, Cheese and Kgg As sociation took place at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Z'Z states were represented An alfray took place in the Tennessee penitentiary, Tuesday, between two convict named McDaniels and Lam bert, resulting in the death of the former. Mrs. Garfield has sent to Queen Victoria a photograph of Mr. Garfield. The Atlantic hotel will be opened about a month, beginning Christmas week, for sportsmen. Mr. Gee's cotton gin near Weldon was accidentally burned a few days ago; loss $5,000 The Postmaster General of England is blind. The- rumor that General Loach was to start a daily paper in Raleigh, independent, with Republican; learnings, is pro nounced by him unfounded. One night last week, according to the dai ly Falcon, Rufus Stallings, of Per quimans county, was murdered in Gates county by Campbell Stallings; liquor was tho prime case. Chat ham county boasts of the tallest man in America. He is a mulatto, and is exactly seven feet; he has been oe exhibition at Rarnum's show at $100 a week and expenses. Judge Eure gathered 4,'JOO pounds of .seed cotton from one acre of land. Mr. Kieffer, of Ohio, has received the the Republican. caucus' nomination for Speaker of the House. This is equiv alent to an election. U.S. Circuit Court is in session at Raleigh. Cars now run trough from Norfolk to Edenton. Northern capitalists are. buying the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail Road. - The tcrible epidemic knovn r.s he "pink-eye" has mad a its apiearanco in Norfolk. A new city hall to cost $300,000 is talked about in Richmond. It is said that Mrs Oarfield recieves many begging letters. Governor Jar- vls has ordered a special term of the Superior Court of Wayne to be held February 6th 182. - Wilmington is the only Southern port that 'shows an increase of cotton receipts over last year.- President Arthur, in his annual message, will have something niuch alike that they frequently bor to say upon the subject of Mormonism. row money of each other without He will hot,, however, devote much s-;ace to this subject. His remarks thereon will be brief, but in their gen eral character anti-Mormon.- The authorities at tho Vatican have re jected an application to put a telephone in that palace. : A project is under consideration to run the New York elevated mads by electricity at a saving of $1,000 per day.- When an Arkansas man gets religion he gets it all over. Henry Ladd, a leading citizen of that State, recently shot his wife dead because he refused to ac cept his interpretation of certain passages of Scripture.- " Some of the New York papers are so enter prising'that they have full descrip tions ef hangings-several hours before they occur. Petticoat rule has been established in Burmah. The tyrant man, in the shape of King Theebaw, has been sat upon by the Queen, who has locked up him and his two new wives and the baby, and i making things howl.- Margaret I Vassey, aged 10, was shot In the head ! by her lover Henry Menne, Aged 21, j Friday, who then shot himself, both Immiiit it is believed fatally wounded-i j Mnne left a letter savinir thev had ! j v,-oukl not allow him to -visit her. S Wednesday the prisoner con rl ruled! ter is conducting the cross examina-i tion, and under his rigid questioning) the witness has already been obiigel to ; correct his testimony in chief in sev - ry oi mspiraiioo- ji nmv appean 000 This, in addition to the public 1 ci- nni ijiu j v... fv wo -;n ' j exhibjt of xorth Carolina woo is " and minerals at tlie Kxixitlou is "the ftne.tevcr made in.tho world'which ia 1.,,., ia..t.1afi. ,,! i,.,, utt4, t m4lr xnrtl, r,irnlinin. uf . . ' V " 1 h t rrW(L 1 l t k- . AXA lit-- M M V- llllk V '-f pr WIT AND HUMOR. A convalescent lescent invalid, Mr. B it lately against his doctor, Itbat the said Eseul'nplus ed in calling on htm per - brought u ; and alleged I had ersisted in calling on per- i sonally after he w.w cured, which fei ! 1,0 now refused to pay. Dr. F- d- i i,u-.ino wci, unu canea in a nuna wao attended the invalid to prove It ! "l U tfue," asked the judge, "that ;"-" ' continued his visits when Mr. IJ had no necessity for them?" . "L pon my word, sir," an3vercd the witness, "as long as I saw the doctor with Mr. R 1 thought he was in consideriblo danger," which wiive opinion caused tho court to burst Into a fit of laughter. Silence will sometimes waken a man moraexpeditiously than the loudet uproar. For instance: when a minis- Jt .,., eotlv i somnolence broods over half the con-' gregation! Rut let tho minister .stop 1 suddenly in his discourse, and be ab- Solutely silent for half a minute, how J wide awake they aro! No thunder' mer hotel, ever aroused lumberers more speedily or thorough! v. - An indignant old man whonodaMtrh- tor failed to secure a position as teach-! er, in consequence of not passing, an ; examination, said: "They asked her! lots or things Khe didn't know. Lok ) at the history questions! They asked j her about things that' happened -before j uhe was born! 1 low was uhe going to i know aoout the?nV W hy, they asked her about old-Goorgo Washington and other men she never knew! That was a pretty sort of examination!" A good wish.- A stout, jolly-looking mendicant recently entered a hop in Dublin, and asked the owner for chari ty, lie shook his head, and said: "I am not able to give you anything." The woman, in quite a cheerful tone, promptly replied: "Thank you, sir, and may yoiriong be in the same po sition." The Norristewn Herald says: "The electric light, as adaptod tafheatres and the ball-room, is said to be death to blondes, and one consequence Is to bo tha revival of brunettes. This makes it bad for families who already have two or three blondes on hand, unless thoy can exchange them for brunettes." "Old Colonel B U a perfect hound," said an Irate neighbor; "he's so mean that he'll run after n dollar any time as if he'd break his neck." "If he is a perfect hound, "...responed a bystander, "it will not take a dollar to mako him run; he will run after a Hcont.'.' - The Boston Siar says: "When the girl who has encouraged a young man for about two year suddonly tells him that she can never be more than a si ter to him, he can. for tho tirnt time see the freckles on her nose." It has beon remarked that French merchants aro more franc in their dealings than those of other nations, but that Americans have more cents, while the English are, noted for their sterling qualities. A cockney on being asked if be knew why hay-fever was becoming so fashr ionable, said ho supposed it was bo causo the victims of it always had an excuse for "Hying to the 'iiU (hill) they know not of." "Ifa John obtained a situation yet?" asked an old gentleman of his daughter, John being her ..-betrothed lover. 'Pb'ctiiw-d a sittM'iott! Why, pa, how disgusting! No; but ho has accepted a i03ifhny Two twin brothers in Boston are o knowing it ' - - -An. old lady out Weet,' who ells egS. bas over her door: "New" laid oggs eyeryjniorningoy Petty lirigg.' . , . MEDICAL. i Vt Hsuratile Sciatica, Lumbago, ; - "1 Backaeha, Sorsnis? of tha Chest, Gout,, j Quimt, Sor hroat. Swellings ana Ssnsrcl Bodily tains. I ena ar a"a.L ' u'"m anu ac nor. ' t... vrth mnAis tr. Jkcc Otr :i IQJJ) ST ILL DEUGGTST8 A52 VClLOi IS v MEDICI3TE. AVQGIXES 8c CO., f I'l i ' f 1 1 . ( 4-1 XV ' Ilarmg. put chased all of . tVi . mnelilnorv -Tmlmininnr t ' m a w i A A V amwriglit. wo nro novY I nreparcd to build new urol r... pair H kinds of . 31 A C 11 I X K It Y. We kcop constantly on hand l'0 ad-littinr Also valves i " a" n3 Special attention . . , given t,0 litiipg up Mill work. Geo. II. Waiiwrai k Co., Wilcox, n. v; Dec. l-M. ONE PRICE STORE! A. W. AMUNGTON ROCKY MOL'NT, N. C lias bought a nico assortment of . ' -'-'-, - ; '. '--" '-'""'.j. -.!.. DRY GOODS CLOTH LVGf, SIIOKS, HATS, ; NOTIONS, CAKPKTS ' Ho bought for casfi marked m each article a small profit and dyW not deviate from tiie one price rulet All of his old customers'-and friends are in.vited to call on him. '. W. W. EDWARDS' SALE AND i EXCHANGE STABLES Cof. Goldshro and Barnes Sta, Wifson, N 0. Having jn$t retuniel witft a f'i;e and well selected lot of TOOK aw now prepared to fill an jr order from booiJ0Q m th n.ft. of ock. Any pCTftWl ili want of a eood or mule will find it to tlieir a4 vantagfrto examine my atock j before uaying elsewhere . Kcfurtini thanks for past patronage' and seeking a con linuance of the Harue. I am Very Respectfully, . ' y w i 'flip k tilv : At Sug2 t Edward's old ataorl. Take Aolloc! Any person desiring a good family or driving morse, .can ouy nim at, inyctaoies uiiuei ;v guarantee. HARDY & BROTHER. (rtablbdied in co.n.Mixnio.x uRtnii'' For tho rale of - totion, L.unuer, l eanuw ctm otnor t fir:n:il."DliV ! nf . jn pcruvIan (5uano and- (other STANDARD FERTILIZERS. Makcliljeml cash advjKrte 'on cou-- isignments. Proini't fcalesi and quick returns. . Hanry Wharf, XortWlk, Va ov 18 :3m. . PO W ELL, .v FAIlIO.VAntE BAHBFR.- TAKUOKO HT-, WICJSOX, X. C. W t I Al .A T 1 shop solicits the iatrouage of thoe--who wbh good work done. 8atLf3" Srtii nar)iritod. ' f.fntvl Xm 1 DC fam mm