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NEWS OF A WEEK
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GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD.
1 1 E KE, T 1 1 EKE, EVERYWHERE.
PENCIL LING'S- GLEA NINuS
Peach tree are in bloom in New
Berne..
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11. S. Graut bas leeu confirmed
: Post Master at Goldsboro. :
. Steel .sells are to be placed in
Wayne jail, sit a cost of $8,350.
Mr. L. 1). Knight, of Tarboro
made an assignment hist week.
The Newa-Obaereer lias been re
elected public printing acclamation.
, ; The Wilmington Star ays that
Dr. Talmas - will lecture there
won. .
There have been six cases of
small pox two of which died, at
Trenton.
The ! Winston Sentinel has been
sold to a company of gentlemen of
that town.
. Graded schools are the boom all
aver the State and they are a boom
in the right direction.
A call has been issued for the
formation of a new party to be
known as the anti-monopolists.
Toney Gatliri, at Edenton bet he
could drink one half a gallon of
whiskey. He won his bet and died.
An Alabama judge decides that
a sfehel reserves a car seat, unless
removed by a bigger jnan than its
owner. ;
The State Treasury was enriched
to the extent of $8,100 being the
sale of drummers licenses during
Jamiur.v. .
An offer of marriage" so delighted
one Michigan girl that she fell
dead of joy hear disease they
called it. .
Col. Dockery has decided not to
contest Judge .- Bennett's election
and has so notified Dennett. Sen
sible decision.
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Strange to say there is but one
man named Smith' in the Legisla
ture, lie is a Republican and hails
from Wayne county,
The (Charlotte "Observer" states
that a meeting of grand lecturers
of the Grand Lodge of Masons has
been held at Mebaueville. .
A Boston lentistress is so1 pretty
that "she could coax a man's tooth
out by just putting her hand un
der his chin and asking for it."
Colorado ami Kansas papers are
demanding in tones of thunder that
the legislature regulate Pullman
sleeping car fares and extortion.
The Tarlsno '-Guide" says an
lidgeeomlie man is so tall that,
when he catches cold in his feet it
takes it a fortnight to reach his
head. J I
A colored nian was licensed to
practice law by oujSnpreme Court
last week. Another olored- man
failed' to stand an approved exami
nation Returns of the . Agricultural
Bureau indicate a cotton crop of
0,S0(),000 bales; of which North
Carolina is credited with . 452,000
bales
Maine of Maine is said to be
writing a hook all alMuit national
legislation from 1X1 to 1881. It
will the most valuable look issued
since the war.
The New York "Star" says: "We
are in favor of the best-. Democrat
in the j country vis candidate for
President in 1884." So are all
other good Democrats. ,
A bill legitimatizing children
born out of wedlock, by a subse
quent I marriage of their pareuts
has passed Jt he New York Legisla
ture with only five dissenting votes.
The meanest keeper in the Uni
ted State resides at San Francisco
He acquired this distinction by pros
ecuting a woman ninety-six years
old for stealing three cents worth
of snuff.
There was a man in Tarboro the
other day who ate a barrel of
oysters, and said he would tackle a
barrel at some one else's expose.
Some one offers to wager ' that he
can eat more than
State.
any man in the
m A correspondent at Wadesboro
writes us that one man in Anson
county made hut, year with one
horse 18 bales of cotton and 350
bushels corn. Another ,na,.e 19
bales of cotton and 180 bushels of
corn. Another with five horses
oaies ot cotton and ayears s
ply ol corn.
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A St. Louis judge reproved' a
lawyer for hanking a jury when it
returned a verdict in favor of his
client.. The lawyer meekly re
marked that he thought politeness
always in place. "No, sir," broke
out the judge, "you have no more
nght to thank the jury when you
in, than you have to damn the
jury when you lose."
The ' Wilson AriiMi
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LET ALL THE ESDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE Tfl COCTTRrs, THf GOD'S, AMD TBCTlj(" ,
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VOLUME 13.-
Rev. A. G. Haygood, D. D. Pres
ident of Emory College, Ga., will
preach 'the annual 'sermon JTand
James W. Reid, Esq., of We&t
worth,N. C, will deliver the an
nuaPaddress atTrinity CoUege, at
the next commencement. . '
Shelby "Aurora" says North Gar-l
olina is called a slow, sleepy btate,
but there is no other State in the
United States that is rich enough
to build two railroads on marble.
The Western North Carolina Rail
road and Marietta and North Geor- j
gia route at Red garble Gap near J
the Georgia line will ran for over
a mile on road beds of variegated
marble of the finest quality.
An Illinois town .- has passed an
ordinance requiring saloon keepers
to pay the cost of sending every
man home who is found drunk in
or about their saloons. The hack-
men watch ' so closely in order to
make a dollar that a number of
places" have had to close, Those
that are running have inuer rooms
where the inebriates are stored nu-
till sober enough to go home alone.
The conference will be held at
Chicago on the next Independence,
day. The platform will be based
upon opposition to confederated
monopoly; the grant of public
lands to actual settlers only; sup
pression of gambling iu the neces
saries of life ; opposition to a pro
tective tariff and the .election by
the people of President, Vice Pres
ident and Senators.
A great howl is being raised all
over the State because State offici
als and members of the Legislature
accept free passes on railroads.
For our part we see no Improprie
ty whatever iu it and think that
this terrible howl which has been
raised is more "gush" than any
thing else we do not believe that
any official or legislator in the State
could be bribed with a free railroad
ticket- If we did we would favor
their impeachment.
A gentlemen from New York has
written a letter to a citizen of Wel
don which appeared in the last
issue of the Roanoke News in which
he pays' a high compliment to pure
Nash brandy.
Mr Dear Sir: "My way of life
has fallen into the sear and yellew
leaf," but nevertheless I still enter,
tain a iaithful weakaess for the
very best quality- not of "Apple
Jack" as it is called in Jersey
and Connecticut, " but a superb
quality of venerable apple brandy;
The very mention of this subject
must strike you in a tender spot;-
Nash county, (Old Nash is immor
tal. Now why! AH, on account
of its immortal apple brandy. Now
My dear sir' and if you love good
old Apple brandy, perhaps I ought
to. say, "Daar friend and brother
"I am a Mason, an Odd Fellow and
all that, but what are such ties
compared with the ties good old
apple brandy can spin into or out
of a human soul, when it spreads
itself in the right direction in sufli-
cieut quantities. Now the Ran
soms, both brothers, are my friends
The Senator, when I asked bun
to whom to write to get the right
information about the right sort of
good old apple brandy,' gave me
your name, which said name I have
lost, but he mentioned you was
P. M., at Weldon. That gives nie
a hitch on a fact that I can freeze
to and pan out on; at least the ex
pense of one. modest little note of
enquiry as to the possibility of get
ting from you, or souie friend ol
yours, the age and price of the
''best" quality of Na-sh county Ap
ple brandy to be had. I want it
want it very muchnot to sell but
to drink and otter to my friends. I
am a right royal, upstaving, hell
tearing, unreconstructed Old Rebel
whom no amount of reconstruction
can ever wean from such apple
brandy as they know how to make
and do make, in immortal Old
Nash county. Please then address
meat- -New York City, and
give me answers to the questions I
have herein propounded First, what
is the age of the oldest Apple
brandy you can' get for ; me and
what is the price of it They sell
Apple Jack at 30 cents a gallon in
Jersey and they ought to, its dear
at that. It will kill round the
turner, first crack 200 .yard- off
haud. . I want something that will
not kill so d u quick and will
cost a trifle more. Enclosed I send
you the expense of Answer. '
''' Yours truly.
Better Get Married.
In the case of Miss Burr's will
in New York, the other day, where
the plea of insanity was set up, Dr.
Hammond aud Dr. Clymer testified
that an old maid who did what Miss
Burr did, must have been crazy.
They also testified that celibacy is
a recognized case of insanity. In
view of the last named opinion, we
would advise every giil, if she
dou't want to go to a lunatic asylum,
to seize the first convenient oppor
tunity to snake in a husband. She
may go anyhow, but she'll have
the chance to make the top of some
man's head a howling wilderness
before she's locked up.
OUR LAW-MAKERS
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BILL "FOR LEVYING, EQUAL
IZING & COLLECTING TAXES."
ON COUNTY GOVERNMENTS.
ABOUT COTTON FUTURES.
One of the best bills before the
committees is by Mr. Alexander,
the Senator from Mecklenburg
county, "for levying, equalizing and
collecting taxes," says the Charlotte-
Observer correspondent. I
hear that the bill received high
compliment from Chief Justice
Smith. It is now before the sub
committee of nuance of the Senate
who are at work, on it. There are
one hundred aiid sixty-seven mil
lion dollars worth of property in
the State on the tax list and this
bill is drawn to put five hundred
millions there without imposing a
double tax on anybody. It would
bring everything to its true, value
in money of every species of prop
erty within the borders of the State.
Why I am told there are lands in
the State that have had the same
assessment on the tax lists ever
since the grant in 1798, and fre
quent instances occur of land sell
ing for cash down at thirty and fif
ty dollars an acre while on the tax
lists the very same land is only at
from two to six dollars an acre. So
too iu all other business ; there are
twenty-five of the forty-six coun
ties west of the railroad between
Dauville and Charlotte that do not
give any purchase liquor tax at all.
Again merchants are found who
thousand dollars while their ad va-
lornm tax on the list is only put at
twenty-five hundred ; such a sys
tem of wild cat taxation in North
Carolina should be reformed and
equalized at ' once. It would help
all classes rid the merchant ot his
license tax, drummers tax, and the
"devilish" tax as they call it, that
goes to the sheriff and register of
deeds, and in short by putting five
hundred millions of dollars of prop
erty on the tax lists where there's
now only one hundred and sixty
seven millions, reduce the tax from
twenty-eight cents on the hundred
dollars to ten cents on the hundred
and thus draw capital from abroad
to North Carolina in a rush, because
of the low taxatiou. Mr. Alexan
der's bill is a phamphlet of sixty
three pages; ;the approaching
campaign of 1884 will prove a bug
bear in its way, for members while
they acknowledge the inequality of
taxatiou (I would rather say hum
buggery of taxation) in their own
couuties, still they fear to "make a
stir" among the people at this time.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT SYSTEM.
The present system will, it is
thought be slightly changed. Each
township Is to have two additional
Justices of the Peace and also one
additional Justice for towns of 1000
luuamtams.
By the new law Wilson county
will have. 21 new Justices no as
many as it had before the war.
The bill proiosel allows the white
people of a district to elect commit
teemen for white schools, and the
blacks to elect committeemen for
colored schools. This will throw
the entire management of the
schools in the hands -of those most
concerned. i
(H)TTllS KUTU.KE CONTRACTS.
Representative Tate has intro
duced a bill to make it unlawful for
any person in the State to make or
cause to be made, or in any manner
to become a party to the purchase
or sales of what is commonly known
as "Cotton 'Futures" whether such
futures provide for the - actual de
livery of the cotton or not, and
whethev-4he contract is made part
ly in this State and partly iu anoth
er State. Any person violating
the above law shall be deemed guil
ty of a - misdemeanor and, on con
viction finded or imprisoned.or both.
It is hardly probable that such a
bill will become a law in the "Specu
lative Era of the world."
W. N. C. 11. II. BILL.
The committee, for, the relief of
the above named road will .report
a bill which provides that if the
Western North Carolina Railroad
Company completes its road to the
Tennessee river, at the mouth ot
Nantahala, and pays to the State
the 020,000 of mortgage bonds;
and accrued interest, at par, on or
before the 29th of March, 1884,
that then the provisions of the Best
contract declaring that the bonds
shall not Iw foreelosable until the
road is fiuished to Murpey and
Paint Rock, shall be stricken out,
but that no part of this act shall
have any force or effect unless'. the
road is completed and the pay
ments made on or lioiore the 29th
of March, 18S4. That upon its com
pletion and the payments as above
stated, they will le authorized to
build down and up the Tennessee
river branches of the road, and
shall place a force of convicts and
keep them continuously at work
upon the lines west to the town of
Murphy until completed.
scraps. I
The bill to incorporate the town
of Sharpsburg has passed its third
WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 23. 1883.
reading. -
A bijl has beeif introduced to es
tablish a Graded School at End
field. The bill to incorporate Palmyra,
Halifax county, passed its third
reading.
The contested election case of
Moore vs. Williams from Granville
was decided iu favor of seating
Williams by a vote of 49 to 4S,
Bunn and Standford made ; strong
speeches in favor of seating Wil
liams. Pretention in Parable.
A FEW POINTS ADOPTED TO THE
COMMONEST PERCEPTION.
As no coffee 's produced in the
United States, if a tariff tax were
imposed on it,t all the money paid
by the consumers would go into
the Treasurer of the United States
No tax, however, is levid on coffee.
lecause it is said that old women
are fond of it, and Congress,' wish
ing to be very kind to them, allows
coffee to be as cheap as possible.
But suppose that Cougress, to ob
tain more revenue, should levy a
tariff tax of fifty percent, on coffee,
and should also provide that here
after the taxes should not be paid
at the place of importation, but to
the merchants who sell directly to
the consumers? An old woman
comes to a country merchant in
December and sa3 s.
"We are very bad off at our
house, and my husband sold some
of his corn at forty cents a bushel,
audi have brought a little money
to buy some necessaries. Let me
have two dollars worth of coffee to
carry us through the winter."
' The storekeeper replies: "Well,
madam, you shall have the coffee,
but Congress has put a tax of fifty
per cent on coffee, and yon must al
so pay a dollar of tax, making three
in all.
. The woman says: "Then I reckon
I had better give up the coffee and
try to do with parched rye. We
need a pair of blankets very much,
as my husband has the rheuma
tism and our children complain a
great deal of the cold these nights.
You used to. sell blankets at 2 a
pair, and I suppose you can let me
have them for that. But tell me,
will I have to par 1 tax on
them?" "... J '
', "Madam." replies the merchant,
"I am sorry to be obliged to tell
you that you will bare to-pay much
more than one dollar on them,1 for
three-fourths of thb blankets are
made in New England and seventy
five cents of the- dollar has to be
paid to the manufacturers of the
blankets, so that there is only one
quarter of the dollar left to the
government, henre, to make up
your share of the puhjic taxes you
must buy four pairs of blankets,
which will cost j eight dollars."
Thereupon the woman says:
"And will 1 then have to pay an
other dollar, so as make nine in all?"
The merchant answers-
"Oh, that will not do, madam, for
then the government will only get
its quarterjot a dollar, you must pay
four dollars inure, making twelve
iu all.
to the
Then I can pay one dollar
govern stent, three to the
manufacturers,' and have
eight
dollars left to nav nie
for the four
pairs of blankets."
"liut,' .excjaims the woman,
"why am 1 obliged to pay three
t dollars to the 'manufacturers, for I
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never owed tlem anything?".
The merchant says, "Madame,
they are American lalorcrs and
want two dllar a dav for s their
wages. As their work is only
worth a dolUr aud a quarter, the
government has to give them three
quarters more to make up the
two dollars k day."
; "Oh, well, then," exclaims the
delighted woman, "my husband
and I were both iu America and
have always lived here, and I sup
pose we cai get our share of these
taxes, can Jwe not? My husband
works as hard as anybody in fact,
he got Iris rheumatism by working
out too lurch in bad weather. And
reniemler that when he got sick
he had tohire some men to save
his crop, hud paid them fifty 'cents
a day, ani lie said that was as much
as he coull afford to pay them, and
they were; very willing to take it."
"Madalie,"' replies the merchant,
"I am vety sorry to be obliged to
tell you that the government only
gives lonuties to manufacturers
aud doej not give any to fanners
and mechanics in the country. On
the couttary, you are all comiell
ed to ply the taxes so that the
manu fad lire rs may get this addi
tional Uim. to increase their
wages."!
"My jG
rod, exclaims the oor
woman,,; "what are we to uo: i
have mi the twelve dollars and we
are iu bry great distress.!"'
Does iio't this illustration fairly
present the case as made by the
presentprotective system! A doz
en hardworking farmers and me
chanics are taxed for the benefit of
one mtn who gets two or three
times a much as they do.
i T. L. Clinqmak.
Waskingtou, Feb. 9. -
The meanest slight a girl can put
upon iii admirer is to use a postal
card iri refusing an offer of mar
riage, J It proves that she dosn't
actuals care two cents for him.
THE NOBLE WORDS
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OF SENATOR VANCE
IN
BEHALF OF WOMAN.
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THE TARIFF COMMISSION.
TA XA TION, O TA XA TION."
Thread is an article in daily use
by the women of America. It seems
to be a trifling and inexpensive
item, but we doubt if there is a
sewing woman in the United States i
who out of every dollar's worth of
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thread she consumes is obliged to
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pay a tax of seventy cents in order
to protect the rich manufacturer,
but will thank Senator Vance for
his noble words in her behalf. In
the debate upon tbat portion of the
tariff bill, a few days since,he said :
Mr. President, I have heard a
great deal since I have taken a seat
on the floor about the; necessity of
encouraging struggling infant in
dustries. Our sympathies are ap
pealed to in behalf I of American
men who have money and put it
into a certain direction and are
asked to aid them to make it prot
itable, and they . are j called strug
gling infants. Is there any com
miseratiou in the breast of the
American people or of Christian
people anywhere for struggling
manhood or womanhood! Is there
anything in the situation of a deso
late woman who makes her living
by her needle that appeals to the
manhood of the American people!
Why, Mr. President, if there is any
class of people on God's green
earth that calls for the exercise of
every particle of human ; manhood
in its behalf and protection it is that
class of women who make their liv
ing by the needle, for as a general
rule they are" unprotected women.
It is known to be the least re
munerative of all human labor, and
owing to the peculiar! constitution
of our society;most ol; the avenues
in an honest livelihood are shut up.
to unprotected women,' whether ed
ucated or otherwise. If 'they lose
their property, if they lose their
natural friends and protectors there
are few avenues open to them
whereby they can maintain them
selves in honor and in competence.
Almost the last resources and cer
tainly the poorest paid of all other
labor is that of the needle.
Now, Mr. President, I have a
little testimony here that I want
to read to the Sen ate. j It was not
taken before the Tariff Commis
sion; but it is much more true and
much more graphic and much more
descriptive of the merits of the
question that is now before the
Senate than any that was taken
before that famous j commission.
Perhaps the Senate will recognize
the authority when I read a portion
of it,
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy jand red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread,
Taxed 70 per cent, ior the bene
fit of Coates and Clark
Stitch! stich! stitch! (
In poverty, huuger and dirt;
And still, with a voice of doloror.s
pitch, -
She sxiug the "Songbf the Shirt!"
"Work!-work! work!
While the cock is crowing about!
Aud work work work
Till the stars shine through the
roof!
It's O, to be a slave -
Along with the barbarious Turk,
Where womaij has, never a soul to
save
If this is Christian work!
Work work work !
Till the brain begins to swim!
Work work work
Till their eyes are heavy and dim!
Seam and gusset and band,
Till over the buttons I fall asleep,
And sew them on in a dream!
Seventy per cent, favor of Clark
and Coates.
On, men with sisters dear!
Oh, men with mothers and wives!
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives,
Stitch! stitch stitch
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
Sewing at once with double taxed
thread j
A shroud as well as a shirt.
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But why do I talk of death,
That phantom of grisly bone!
I h ardly share this terrible shapef
It seems so like my own,
It seems so like my own
Because of the fasts I keep;
Oh, God! that bread vshonld be so
dear,
Aud flesh and blood so cheap!
Now, Mr. President,! we. propose
for the benefit of these struggling
infants in the North to invade the
garret of that desolate woman and
add to her already short allowance
the cost of the protection to these
gigantic institutions. We propose
that, and profess " to be Christian
men. ,. The chairman of the Finance
pom mittee gets np . and says.
"What is all this fuss about! It
only makes the difference ofj a
twelfth of a cent, or a mill on each
spool" Then, Mr. President, if lit
only makes the difference of a
twelfth of a cent on each 'spool, in
God's name let us give it to the
poor woman and not to Coates and
Clark.!, If it is small enough fjr
these giant monopolies to invade
the garret and wrest it from the
clutches of despair and starvation,
then in God's name it is not great
enough lor American Senators to
protect! j
It is all done, however, for the ul
timate good of the women who nse
thread. Of course it isr because
you say in order to give them cheap
tureau it is necessary to lew ;a
high tax. It is the old story al
ways. It is not for the benefit "f
manufacturers! Oh no; the cheabr
ness is all in favor of the consumer!
The manufacturers do not reap any
benefit from it. - Why, then, are
their representatives here to claiin
it! - ' T
Is not that the most wonderful
thing known to mankind, physical
or metaphysical, material or spirit
ual, this great fact of taxation.
Nothing in this land can be donie
without taxation; no enterprise
can flousish without taxation, no
genius can reap its reward without
taxation; everything is oone by a
good, stiff', sound taxation, and that
is to make cheap the price of every
thing. That is the doctrine. Why.
Mr. President, I think there ought
to be a new version of the old mis
sionary hymn for the benefit of mv
friends on the other side. It should
be somewhat this way:
From Greenland's icy mountains,
Jb rom India's coral stand,
Where Africa's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a balmy plain,
They callus to deliver
: By the high taxation plan.
What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's Isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
Free trade alone is vile; .
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are strewn;
The heathen in his blindness
Prefers cheap goods alone.
Laughter.
Taxation, O taxation! -
The joyful sound proclaim
Till earth's, remotest nation
. Has learnt protection's name.
Resurrection of Hope.
The tolling beli of the tower bas rung.
The funeral ended and requiem sung ;
And broken and lone,
- The soul has gone
The harp of life in death unstrung, :
Life, in sinfulness, had proven a blight.
And the soul vent down In the darkness pf
. night;
And hope had cried
' In aneuish, and died -
Vanquished in the strife of wrong and rightrj-
And clad in its pinions so broken and soiled!
By the touch of the soul for whose life it had
toiled, . .
In its grave it lay. i
Awaiting the day : ,
But sunlight anon had over'it smiled ft
For deeds f charity in life had been doiic.
And a kindly heart in the Great Heart of One,
Sweet recognition
In fullest fruition.
And Heavenly Charity, in mercy, had won.
Anqn the Daylight of Heaven wiU o'er it gleami
And the demand of death in their flight sha;il
scream, j
"Saved" 'Tis mercy given
From the throne of Heaven ; j
And hope shall awake from its Sad-Sleeping
dream. ,
lHampion Gluttons.
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has
A "catfish eating match"
been started in St. Louis,
contestants are John II. Evill
The;
anil
Joseph Ambs, and the wager is
tbat Ambs cau "out eat" Evijl
until the latter shall cry "hold,
enough!"
Alexander Sherman, of Athen
Ga., proposed to eat a ten-pound
fish raw if Shelton Jester would
give him a fish of the samo weiglljt.
Jester told Sherman to go ahead,
and Sherman at once devoured tl e
fish, declaring that it was the best
meal he bad eaten in a momth of
Sundays. ;
Some young men of Monroe, G; .,
offer to wager all their pocket
money that Cicero Edwards, f
that town, can eat sixty partridge
in thirty days. He has been knowjn
to eat sixty eggs at one time, and
also to eat during one night six!
chickens, a fourteen pound ham
and a bushel of biscuit. 1
A citizen of St. Louis makes the;
following offer: "I will eat five pies
within one hour for thirty days, be
tween the hours of 11, and li2
o'clock, or, if that don't do, I will
wager $300 in a match, go as yon
please, that I will eat more pies in
a given time, say ten hours, than
any one man in St. Louis." J
George Edwards, who was em
ployed at the North Carolina ware
house in Goldsboro, bet that hh
could eat a quart of oysters and
"wash them down" with a quart qf
whiskey. He accomplished thp
undertaking and fell into the hands
of the undertaker. The fool-kille
seized him shortly after the mon
strous meal had been devoured
A Long Island inan has been
sent to prison for thVee months for
kissing a woman on the street. A
distressing lack of ' details in the
account leaves the reader in doubt
as to whether kissing is of itsebT
a criminal offence in Long Island,
or whether the woman was, so ngly
that the offender could not plead
mitigating circumstances, oh
whether the salute would have
been permitted, in the seclusion of
a Darlor with the lamp turned
down. r
THAT BAD BOY.
T
HE
GOES WITH HIS
TO SEE CHICAGO.
PA
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A POLICEJIAX! GRABBED PA.
PA MADE A BIG MISTAKE.
"What is this i! hear about your
pa being arrested in Chicago?? said
the grocery man to the bad boy, as
became in with a can for kerosene
and a jug for vinegar.
"Well, it was true but the police
let him off after they hit him a few
licks and took him to the station,"
as he got the vinegar into the kero
sene can and the j kerosene iu the
jug. "You see pa and me went
downhere to stay over night and
have fun. Ma she'd ruther we would
be away t han -not when they were
cleaning house, .and pa thought i'
would do me good to travel and
sort of get tone and he thought
maybe 1, would be better and not
play jokes, but J. guess it was born
in me. Do youi know I actually
think of meau things to do when I
am in the most solemn ilaces.
They took me to a funeral once aud
I got to thinking what a stampede
there would bef the corpse would
come to life and sit up in the coffin,
and I snickered right out, and pa
took me out doord and kicked my
pants. I don't 1 thiuk he orter
kicked me for it, 'cause I didn't
it do for a purpose, Such thingshave
occurred, and I have, read about
them, and a poor boy ought to be
allowed to think hadn't he!"
"Yes; but what- about he being
arrested! Never mind about the
funeral!" said the grocerj inau, as
he took his knife and picked some
of the lead out of the weights on
the scale. -
"We went down on the cars, and
pa had a headache, because he had
been out all night electioneering for
the Prohibition ticket, and he was
cross and scolded me, and once
pulled my ear, cause I asked him
if he knew that girl lie was wink
ing at across the aisle. I didn't
enjoy myself much, and some men
were talking about kidnapping
children, and it gave me the idee
and just before I got to Chicago 1
went after a drink of water at
totherend of the car, aud I saw a
man who looked as "though he
wouldn't stand any fooling; and I
whispered to him and told him that
the bald-headed man I was sitting
with was taking me away from my
home in Milwaukee, and I mis
trusted he was going to niae a
thief or pickpocket of me. I said
's-h-h-h,' and told him not to say
anything or the man would maul
me. men i went Dact 10 rue seat
aud asked pa to i buy me '.-'.a gold
watch, and he looked mad and
cuffed me on the ear. The man I
whispered to got to talking to some
other men, ! and . when we got to
Chicago a policeman came up to pa
and took him -by, the throat and
said 'Mr. .Kidnapper, I guess we
will run you in,' Pa . was mad,
tried to jerk away, but the cop
choked him, and another cop came
alonsr and helped, and the passen
gers crowded around and wanted
to lynch pa; pa wanted to know
what they meant, they asked him
where he stole the kid, and he said
I was his kid, and asked me if I
wasn't, and Hooked scared as if I
was afraid to say no, and I
uai1
Y-e-s, s-i-r, I gness
so. Then the
police said the boy was scart, and
they would take us both to the
station, and they made pa. walk
spry, and when he held back they
jerked him along. He was afl'ul
mad, and he said he would make
somebody ' smart for this, and I
hoped it wouldn't be me. At the
station they charged pa with kid
napping a boy from , Milwaukee,
and he said it was a lie, that I was
his boy, and I said of course I wasj
and the boss , asked who told the
cois pa was a kidBapjter, and they
said damfino, and then the boss
told pa he could go, but not to let
it occur again, and pa and me went
away, I looked so sorry for ji that
he never tumbled.to me that I was
to blame. We walked around town
all day, and went to the stores,
and at night pa was offul tired, and
he put me to bed in the tavern and
went out to walk around and get
rested. I was not tired, and I
walked around the hotel. I thought
pa had gone to the theatre, 'and,
that made me, mad, 1 thought I
would play a joke on him. Our
room was 210 'and next room was
211 and there was an old maid with
a Scotch terrior occupied 2L2. I
saw her twice and she called me
names, cause she thought I wanted
to steal her dog. That made me
mad at her, and so I took my jack
knife and drew tacks out of the tin
thing that '. the ' numbers were
painted on, and put the old maid's
number ou our door, and then I
went to bed. I tried to keep
awake, so as to help pa if he had
any diflculty, but I guess I gofc to
sleep, but woke up when the dog
barked. If the dog had not woke
I me up the woman's screams would,
--NUMBER 5
and if that hadn't pa would. Too
see, pa came home from the the
atre about 'leven, and ' had been
drinking. He says every body
drinks when they go to Chicago,
even the minister. Pa looked at
the numbers on the doors all along
the Hall till he found 210 and
walked right in and pulled off his
coat and threw it on the lounge
where the dog was. The old maid
was asleep, but the dog barked and
pa said, "That cussed boy has
bought a dog,' and ho kicked the
dog, and then the old maid woke
up, "What is the matter, pet!''
Pa laffed and said, "Nothin the
uiazzer with me, pet," and then !
you ought to have heard her yell- j
iug. The old maid covered her
head and kicked and yelled, and
the dog snarled and bit pa on the
pants, and pa had his vest off and
his suspenders unbuttoned and he
got scared and took his coat and
vest and went out into the hall,
and I opened our door and told pa
he was in the wrong room, and , he
said he guessed he. knowed it, and
came in our room, and he said he
guessed he knowed it, and be came
in our room and I locked the door,
and the bell-boy, and the clerk and
the porter came up to see what
ailed the; old maid, and she said a
burglar got in her room, ( and they
found pa's hat on the lounge, and
they took it and told her to be
quiet and they would find the burg
lar. Pa was so scared that he
sweat like every thing, and the bed
was offul warm, and he preteuded
to go to sleep, but hewas wonder
ing how he coufd get his hat back.
In the morning I toldjhim it would
be hard work to explain it to ma
how he happened to get into the
wrong room, and he said it? wasn't
necessary to say anything about it
to ma. Then he gave me five dol
lars to go out and buv him a new
hat, and he said I might keep the
change if I would not mention it
when I got home, and I got him
one for ten shillings, and wo took
the eight o'clock train in the morn
ing and came home, and I sThjso
the Chicago detectives are trying
to nt pa's hat on to a burglar! Pa
seemed offully relieved when we got
across the State line to Wisconsin.
But you'd a dide to see him come
out of that old lady's room with his
coat and vest on his arm, and his
suspendeis hanging down, looking
scart. . He dassent lick me any
more, or I'll tell ma where pa left
his hat."
Geo. D. Prentice's AdYlce to a
Man.
Young
To a young man, away from home
L friendless and forlone in a great
city, the hours of peril are those be
tween sunset and bed-time ; for the
moon and the stars see more' evil in
a single hour than the sun in his
whole day' dircuit. The poet's
visions of evening are all composed
of tender and sooting images. It
brings the wanderer to his hoine
the child to his mother's arms, the
ox to his stall and the weary labor
er to his rest but to gentle hearted
youth who is throw upon the rocks
of the pitiless city, aud stauds.home
less amid a thousand homes, the
approach of evening brings with it
an aching sense of loneliness and
desolation which comes down upon
the spirit like darkness upon the
earth. In this mood his best iuf-
pulse becomes a snare to him and
he is led astray because he is so
cial, afiectionate. sympathetic, and
warm-hearted. If there be a young
man thus dircumstauced within the
souud of my voice, let me say to
him that books arethe friends of the
friendless, and that a library is a
home to the homeless. A taste for
reading will' always carry j-ou to
converse with men who will in
fluence you with their wisdom and
charm you by their wit ; who wil
sooth you when fretted, refresh you
when weary, console you when per
plexedl andn sympathize with you
at all times. Evil spirits in the
middle ages were exercised ant
driven away by bell, book andean
dies, aud you want but two of these
agents, t he book and the caudle.
rThe Bible.
'Reader !. I)o you prize, love, re
vere and humbly, thankfully and
regularlyjread your Bible the old
est, truest, and the best of books;
read it for the rides it gives fo:
this nie, ana the hope it inspires
lor a better life to come ! It is
adapted to all classes and should be
prized a'ike by all. Within the lids
of the poor man's Bible there is
treasurer, a greater wealth of hap
piness, of honor, of pleasure, oi
true jteace, than is concealed in all
the - mines of the earth. " These
mines, however rich, cannot buy
the pardon of sins, cannot purchase
the favor of God, cannot secure
rest for the weary sin-sick sool, but
the Bible tells how all this may be
procured. If a millionaire had
died and you - were named in his
will, how carefully would 30a listen
to, or read every' sentence, every
line, every word! But Christ has
died and left a will; you are partic
ularly named in it. Go read, , and
study and learn where your treas
ures is, what it is, and haw you may
obtain it. Go quickly.
"And let these aacrei paes he
your souls eternal fofl
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EDUCATION IN N. C.
WHAT TnE NEWS O BSE BVEB 1
HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT.
THE XKWBERNE JOURNAL.
STATESriLLE LANlKMAKK.
1 i
BALE1UU NEWS-OBSKliVKU.
We are not of that das who
shriek education a the only gmnl
thing in life. We do not lxlieve
that a population is bound . to U
unhappy, mean, law-breaking,
turbulent, a menace to government,,
a menace to projierty merely Ih-
cause a large proportion are illiter
ate. The history of the world
of Europe, of America, of North
Carolina, contradicts such Migges
tions. The facts are it was Illiter
ate Englishmen, who won their
iberties; it was illiterate Ameri
cans who adopted the constitutions
of the States, and illiterate Amer
cans who founded the government
of the Union These were the davs.
before public schools were in vogue.
The great bulk of the American
,eoplo were illiterate a century ago,
aud who will say that the old revohi.
tionary patriots were les worthy
because not learned in the alpha
bet! And so, coming home to
North Carolina, where au "unusual
proportion of the . people are una
ble to read and write who will say-
that they are worse citizens Jess
happy, less amenable to the dic
tates of justice, more dissolute and
more given to riot and vioh-ne
than the people of other States!
NKWBEBNE JOURNAL
An amendment to the 'Const it iu;
tion
allowing eacn race in a
community to vote special taxes,
each race voting separately, to w
appled to their own schools,t ouM not
be objectionable. If the white (mhi
ple of any town or--iicigiiltorhood
desire to vote additional taxes for
their schools, the colored jN'ople
should have no voice in it. If tin
colored people want additional
taxes for their sehools they shoiiUl
be allowed to vote it on themselves
without interference of the wliite
people. But in the distribution of
the general funds ;- let the negro
have his share. . -:
jf A fPOVff T V T k W1V A 1 If f
We set our face as a Hint against
any scheme to amend the const i ;
tntion so that more tax ,caii lie
levied for school purisc. A part
of the white people of this State
bear nearly all the burden of this
government, l ew .-coioren. men
pay ioll-tax, and there ire - thousands-
of white men like 4hem.
- A i I .... 1
When these jiersoiis Hie made to
COlue up to the scratch the selhiol
will swell and reach resjiiif lable
proportion, but until allthnse who
are iiaoie arc uiaue 10 pa.,n i.
unjust as it can be to talk lhnt In
creasing the burdens of tho-e who
do. It should 1m; required, of every
citizen of this State that 'when he
goes up to the 'polls to vote he shall
Hxbibit his receipt (or poll tax. I
We cannot KiihscriU- to the doe
trine taught by some of onr YiionI
eininet men, that education is a
necessary and its blessinys as
great to one race as another. Tlie
negro if in Africa or aii other
place, is not by nature shtji ilile
to the improvement which educa
tion conferes iiimhi our race. II
there were no oilier rea ui than
this, t would to some decree at
least 'show -the-mistake of thoe
wise men, who in their zeal for
edticatiou lowe their judgment.
Education does almost eei. thing'
for the highe-t plane socially,
intellectually, "morally, religiously
It does not do tins lor the lihu-U
as a race, therefore it is not oiiii
portaut and essential to educate
.1 ... f'lttit.n 'tl nrIKltl 11
mai lair. v.i"." -
There is one common ei 101 men
are prone to fall into whu lishon.d ly
eradicated from the mind of
who consider this subjeet. 'i i,t'
error is this that illiteracy and
crime go hand in hand; that educa
tion promote virtue; thatthe wiser.
th,e people the happier they grow.
V , The ahdin to
read write and cipher do not make
a man. The mo.4 consuinate vii
lains in the land nre often men ef
culture. The forgers, t he burglars,
assassins, the bank robls-i-, the
defaulters, the blackmailers,
ducers of women, jtolitical eorrup
tion is U, swindlers, and cheats, and
all the host of accomplished
scoundrels, are m all jllitcratv.
We believe it is a fact that the ratt.i
of crime and paujerisiii in Mas
sachusetts where education is car
ried to a very high ilnt, is greater
than in North Carolina.
The county Commissioners of
Guilford refused to grant H-eus to
negro bar-rooms. This, it is rUtiuied,
is a discrimination on account of
color, says the Vatriot, which i pr
hiiiitMl Iiv tho Fourteenth amend
ment- It will nrobaljy ne carried
up to theSupr,le "-t of he, Fiji
. .' 1 - . ' ' '
tea mates.
Kx. Q-' Ma"hall Jewell, of
Connects11' ' dead. Jl :.
prominen' publican' and wa
Part JHaf General under Grant.
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