North Carolina Newspapers

JOSEPIU'S s I i I Sn nii-i HN "Baths in Ahvami: '. 1 J Or'ilcr or L.ET ALL TIIEEDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE MT COUirTBT'S, TB GOD'S, AID TRUTHS' l'.iiri' .n-i.-K-Tiiril-.r.. s-nci, - ' iiUi-; Huil'1't'--1 YILSONi NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 1. 1883. --NUMBER 19 n i:vs or A week (lATHKIi . OK '0(7.j,v'V' ; i'yi-yti.s of Washington, Triend is nine .Inline Rodman, .is very ill. . Tin- Jri'lnm: vears o!d. i Skiini-n;iM-n Mouse, in Green ville, is nearing completion.' .The State of ;Kansas has 5"55 school hou.sj-s worth $5,00r,0o0. . The Graded School election will bf held at Kooky Blount, 'June 4th. The Greensboro Patriot, the spi-cii-st paper in the state, has: en tered on its .'.Sth volume. According to ' correspondent of the "Gazetje''i Greenville is about to be overrun with duties. fisheries-' were partial The high price "'astern failures t-hi Capt. Wl 'After the crime was found out, a party was organized to go in J search, of the guilty party. A negro by the name ofTalbott King, in i i;OM ALL 1'ABTS j was suspected and the party went i'HF - WOULD. - alter nun ana iook nun; tuey aiso ! took ropes and other attachments so as to enable him to an angel in short order. The negroes all sus pected Soon, Alias Edwards, and he was taken also, although no warrant was served on either. King proved his- whereabouts at the 'time the rape" was committed. Soon could not prove where he u-.w -,t. the time the crime was committed and he was taken over in Green county to Mrs. Jones to identify. She said he was not the man and he was turned loose. Im mediately upon his return to Le noir county he was arrested for carrying a deadly w eapon. B. P. Kountiee stood his boid in the sum of one hundred dollars, and not David Rouutree, as published last week. Mrs. Jones afterwards said that he was the man but the reas on she did not say he was at the time when he was brought to her for identification was that she was at'iaid lie would kill her. There was no money found on his person norhad Mrs. Jones, lost any. The knife and pistol that it was report ed the Justice threw iii the creek is now at C. M. A. Grffiu's store. A warrant lor -Soon was issued Monday, the 14th ins;-, charging him with rape. When parties went to arrest the. negro he took to the woods and" made his escape. The negro houses have been searched in every direction where there was any probability ot his being. There is a reward of fifty dollars '"at C. M. A. Griffin's store, Bell's Perry, for the negro." THAT ; BAD BOY. -:o:- DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE Ej BECOMES A WK1XK. year. HE S1CKVXS jIS I' A. didn't sustain the poor caicn. Mrs. Lviliii I'iiikham is dead: She spent nearh 00,1)00 annually for advertising in tin; newspapers, A Virginia mother is reported to have iiainedj.her babe, "Mahonc," because its reputed father repudi ated it lite, uarreuton s new Mayor, asked that his sai-ryoe re duced. lbv long before resurrec tion day! ! Three nersons were drowned near lieH's IVnl, Lenoir county; on Saturday ot; last week, says the 'free Press." Mr. Wm. S. I ".at lie of Tarboro. who has been to Florida; thinks North Carolina the best place yet, savs tltc f in i 'Ic- j. ; The democrats ina'de gieat gains in Virginia last week. In Norfolk and Portsmouth, Mahone's sunns hold, they routed the I loss forces. Jay Gouldiis engaged in binding i.:it is to be the finest mausol eum in Greenwood Cemetery. But) the worms will j gnaw him all the ! same. - . Col. 1). WoiUiington will be Chief Marshal of the Tarboro Fair Will be an elevation or a come down from having been anieniber of .- the legislature? j "The Louisliurg people .seem to be in earnest, in; their .effort to build a road to Henderson. An enthusias tie meeting has been held to furth er the object . The New Thing in Bangs. Miss ( lea ringer, Store, in Guilford twelve years dred and sev near Liberty county, is only old, wei; lit v-oue ;lis tine pound:- 1 1 1 1 1 1 -She is smart, too, according. In Wilmington a newspaper and .job office has to pay'lho same tax us a bar-rooiii. That's encourage--inent for the young, men to devote Hheir talents to bar tending. An old ladv in Kahua.oo, .Michi gan, objected! to the setting of a telegraph pole on her premises saying she wasn't going -to' have that ihingtluj-ro to telegraph every thing she said all over town. The Tarboro "Southerner" says that Wednesday, the oiiiigest son of Mr. .1. .1. Brown - put - some -.con-eentrated lyel in his " month, fortu nately none . was swallowed but the mouth and face Mas much burnt. ' j I It is remarkable how low dow n a white man can get when he tries. B. 1). Peachy!, Mahone's candidate for Solicitor 5u ; the Williamsburg district, Virginia, said' on the stump vl am ja niggers man. and mean to be a-.uiggers m an."-" i , It is currently, auinoi ed here says the Ualclgh Visitor," that a large hotel is j to be erected near .the Capitol aifd to be furnished in elegant s,-i U is also asserted thai a we'l know n hotel ist in the Stab- h;s. ahctidv soniitieil his in. I on tion tu 1,-.im- it at an annual rental ofyiojuiii. Russia m.ik Uc behind . the age in some tiling, ,t silo js uot incapable, oli vih an example ll(at luiglu be t;.'.'...-,i with advan tage in the !wctei:, world. Two of the directors oi ;l savings .bank which latelvi failed .at Coiwfudr have lieen sejitenieL hi tiusporta tion. the couijt lndding th.H direc tors w ho .hi u'iit direct are of no use to tin- eoiiiiiiiiuity. If tins idea were can :el fnto effect in . Ameri ca there w ould be a terrible depop ulation of eminent citizens. The Lenoir Rape Case.' MrC. L. Bjmutree Justice of the Peace, has gii on tlie Kinston Free IVm the'paiiculars of the outrage perpetrated upon Mrs- Jones, from which u appoars. that the Free Press'" did Mr. Kountiee an intentional wrong. We copy from the VPrec Press" as follows: Bangs it appears, like everything else in this 'eccentric world, says the Philadelphia ''Times," some times change. Those who have years and yems seen the same old style of bang turn up regularly had" begun to fear that the bang would never change. It , was ' im possible to drive the bang out by any sort of ridicule, and everybody except the girl who wore the bang knew perfectly well that it was an .extremely ugly " thing, which no eiil with anv taste or sense of ! beauty, would think of wearing. i Still, there was souiethinjjattrac-j tive about the bang. To a-great ! many the attraction was undoubt edly the girl herself, but to the girl it was something else. The bang is undeniably a handy thing. It is made out of a girl's own hair and is cooler and more comfortable as warm weather come on than the store frizzes which encumber the fair forehead ; it does not require crimping and -does not get out of shape if one is caught away from home iii damp weather. Little features like these made the bang a liandv thiuir even though it could not always be called beautiful. The -bang however, has been greatly improved and made posi tively pretty. Some - pfetty girls who understand the convenience of bangs and were not willing to put ..... 1 t up w it n I lie piastereu ami ponsueu kind have made an attractive be ng which a lover or the wind or Wit weather may sately play with. It does' not-spoil, and the greater its confusion the lovelier it' looks. Other pretty girlsTvill adopt this st le and we shall soon have abun dance of pretty girls in 'pretty bangs. Now you git right lrom heie," said the grocery man to the bad bov, as he came witHTHiimgry look oil his face, and a wild look in his eve. "I am afraid of you. I I wouldn't be surprised to-ee yougo off halfcocked and blow us all up. I think vou are a devil. You may have a billy goat, or a shot gun, or a bottle of poison concealed about you. Condemn you, the police on "lit to muzzle you. lou will kill somebody yet. Here take a handful of prunes , and go off some where and enjoy yourself, and keep away from here and the grocery man went on sorting po tatoes. and watching ,the haggard face of the boy. "'What ails you any wav 1 he added, as the boy re fused the prunes, and seemed to be sick to the stomach. 'O, I am a wreck," said the boy, as he grated his teeth, and looked wicked. "You see Iwtore you a shadow. I have drank of the sweets of life, and now only the dregs remain. I look back at the happiness of the past two weeks, during which I havejbeen permit ted to gaze into the loud blue eyes of my loved one, and arry her rub bers to school for her to wear home when it rained, to hear the sweet words that fell from her lips as she lovingly told me I was a terror and as 5 think it is all over, and that 1 shall never again place my waist. I feel as if the world had been kicked off its base and was whirling through space, liable to bo knocked, into a cocked hat, and I don't care a darn. My girl has shook me." J "Sho! You don't say so," says the grocery man as he threw a rot ten potato into the basket of good ones thatwere going to the Orphan Asylum. '"Well, she showed sense. a cup of coffee and eat'a donut. "1 like to dide, and that is one tliiug, that makes this disappoint ment in love harder to beari'Bat I felt sorry for Ma. Ma ain't got a very strong stunimick, and when she got some of that cod liver oil in her mouth she went right up stairs, sicker'n a horse; and pa had to help her, and she had uooralgia all the morning. I eat pickles to take the taste out of iay mouth, and then I laid lor the hired girls. They eat too mhch syrup, anyway, and when they got. on that cod liv er oil, and swallowed a lot of it, one of them, a nirish girl, she gofr up from the table and put her! hand on her corset, and said, "howly Jaysus,"aiid went out in the kitch en as pale as Ma is when she lias powder on her face, and the other girl who is Dutch, she swallowed a pancake and said, "Mine Gott, vas de matter from me," and sh went out and leaned on the coal bin, then they talked Irish and Dutch, and got clubs, and started to look for me, and I thought I would come over here. "The whole family is sick, but it is not from love, like my illness, and they will get over it, while I shall fill au early grave, but not till I have made that girl and the tele graph messenger wish they were dead. Pa and I are going to Chi cargo next week, and I'll bet we'll have some fun. Pa says I need a change of air, and I think he is going to try and lose me. It's a cold day when I get left anywhere that I can't find ray way back. 'Well, good bye, old rotten potatoes." THE CONVENTIONS andMyifroue?D' they are 1re' pareu 10 lake ueavier uurueus in support of more episcopal help. iieip tney need, out it is not irom THE EPISCOPALIANS IN COUN the church's head. It isa sacri -:o:- CILAT CHARLOTTE. THE DIOCESE DIVIDED. ficing, earnest clergy; clergy alter the older stamp, whose hearts I are in the work of stiiriug tip the growing indifferent children of the church. I see no need ot such haste in this matter. I hear of no cry com- The Episcopal Convention which ing up for relief from any parish was in session last week at Char-1 or section in this diocese. lotte, was largely attended. The When this cry came some years question of the division of the Dio ago there was a confused idea prev- cese was the most important matter alent thatour State was to be over- that came before the body which ran with immigration, and the- was composed of educated, influen- chorch mast be. prepared to meet tial representative meu. After this emergency and throw open her is as follows: mature consideration the Diocese doors to catch this tidal wave. I Truck farming has lieeome, dur was dividedthe Bishop and those think our beloved Bishop, now gone ingihe past five years, one of the onnosine withdrawine their obiec- to his rest, partook of this seuti- j most important and remunerative tions. In this connection we note ment, but alas! where is this uiigh that our townsman, J. B. Stickney, ty promise! Gone glimmering, a Esq., made a very eloquent speech taere school-boy's tale, the wonder in opposition to the division. "We of an hour. think so highly of Mr. Stickney's No, sir. Oar population has effort, entirely impromptu, that been rather attracted elsewhere. WATERMELONS. ko: INSTEAD OF COTTON, 'THE WATERMELON IS KING." .i lvsciovs Choi: Watermelons promise to le king down! in Georgia this summer. We find in the "News and Courier" au article on the production of the melon and the prospects of that crop in Georgia this year that will be sure to interest our readers. It industries in Georgia. Prior to this ti it was wholly undeveloped. Heurv Gradv. of the Atlanta "Con stitution,' has published some in teresting statements about the progress of the iudustry and its Rail Road Through Nash. WHAT A ST AX HOPE CORRESPOND ENT OF THE TAEBOBO "GUIDE" SAYS ABOUT IT. "From reliable data fin nis'hed, it The State Press Association. It has been -decided that the eleventh annual meeting of the X. Carolina Press Association shall be held at the Hayw ood White Sulphur Springs, Waynesville N. C begin ning on the ;rd of July, iss;. Al arrangements 1 will be perfected to give those attending this year a ih:isant thine. The citizens of I fay wood are arranging a hand some programme for the entertain- You would have blown her up, or broken her neck, or something. But don't feel bad. You will soon find another girl that will discount her, and you will forget this oue." "Never-H'said the boy,- as he nib bled at a piece of codfish that he had picked off.. "I shall never al low my affections to be entwined about, another piece of calico. It unmans me, sir. Henceforth I am abater of the whole girl race. From this out I shall harbor my revenge in my heart, and no girl shall cross my path alive. I want to grow up to become a he school ma'am, or a he milliner, or some thing, where I can grind girls into the dust under the heel of a terrible despotism, and make them sue for mercy. To think that that girl on i whom I have lavished my heart's I best love and over thirty cents, in the past two weeks, couia let tne smell of a goat on my clothes come between us, and break off an ac qnaintanee that seemed to be the forerunner of a happy future, and say "ta-ta! to me, and go off to .dancing school with a telegraph messenger loy who wears asleep ing ear porter uniform, is too much, and my heart is broken will lav tor that messeuger some night when he is delivering a mes sage in our ward, and I will make him think lightning has struck the wire and run in on his beach. O you don't know anything about the woe there is in this world. You never loved man v people, did you ? The grocery man admitted he never loved very hard, but he knev a li tie something about it from an aunt of his, who got mushed on a Chicago drummer "But your father must be having rest while your whole mind is oc eivpied with your love affair," said he. ''Yes," says.the boy, with a -.va cant look, "I take no interest in the pleasure of the chase any more, merit of their visitors on that occa sion, and it is intended to lake in j thougli I did have a quiet fun this To-day has lieen a lively one for i this quiet little place. According to appointment the taxpayers of Ferrell's and Jackson's' Townships met at this place to discuss the ad visability of subscribing to the cap ital stock of the "Albemarle and lialeigh Railroad Company.' On motion of A. B. Baines, Esq., the present eflicieut chairman Board County Commissioners of Nash, Mr. Thomas Westry was called to the chair and J. L. Finch, Esq., invited to officiate as- Secretary. Mr. B. T. Strickland, who is the Henry D. Roberson of this section, was re quested to explain the railroad question, which he .did most fully and intelligently. Mr. Strickland is a Director of the A. & R. R. R-5 and in him the Company has a zealous, earnest worker. Gen. W G. Lewis and Rfchard Battle, Esq., both of Tarboro, being present in the interest, oi the Kailroaii, in response to calls, made explanatory speeches, setting for the intentions of the company and what they ex pected the people to do, and the advantages that would result from the construction of this important ine of railway. Mr. F. B. Arendell of Wake, being called on matte nertinint remarks showing the great . good of railways to ; country. Mr. Battle read petitions to the Board of County Commis sioners from Ferrell's and Jackson's township asking that au election be ordered from those two townships so that a vote can be had as to whether each township shall sub scribe ten thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Albemarle aud Raleigh Raihoad Company. Each man on the grounds eagerly signed these petitions. These petitions also ask for a new registration. It was asserted by many respon sible gentleman that the registrars to be appointed would charge noth iug for their services. In fact Un pledged themselves that such should be the case. Afneli enthusiasm is felt in this section on the railroad questiou, and if an opinion predicated upon the exhibit of feeling here to-day on this subject was had it would be flattering to the friends of the Road. Co. ton and corn through this section is looking well, much of which has been "chopped out" and plowed over. we nnhlish it. as rnnorted bv the Many have sought homes in other propects this season. Mr. Joseph " i . . dhnre.h Messeneer. He said: I States, and I think I may assert layior, I ...... i r-, in i i- i a i" : I at A ,. rt.-a?itm,, witb safety that the church in this bavauuan, i lonua y esu-i,, iva.i t.hnnri. rtraincii, fA vMa t.nbvA State to-day is weaker; financially road, says: r. , v ,-f fi.Q rja TiaA than ten years ago. Under con- of entering my solemn protest and tant episcopal supervison foryears, is estimated that a crop ,if melons r. - o-m.s.tth,--vrr did the church at Wilmington grow along the line ot the road will reach unwise,yea,I might say foolish step aHU PP1 lo an uimsitai ueee! 1 "w" .i J taun iw tt, of Did division in her parish do great car loads.' cood anu give satisiacciom re ltnout counting otner points 01 all these churches free from debt culture it is safe to say that Gebr- and cheerfully sending up help gin will produce this year 0,000 ear abundantly to the conventions! I loads of melons or more than 7,500, only ask these questions to awaken 000 separate melons. The price of a sober, second thought in those melons ranged in Chicago last year enthused aud wild in their advoca- from twenty-eight to twenty cents cy of this scheme, one not duly Averaging the crop this year at members of this convention ready weighed or considered. twenty cents .ami putnng 1,0 toassert that this diocese is self- Let us rather direct out energies melons to the car, each car will be s5 rt,wfirtw.,. to recovering lost ground, gather- worth ,2o0 Ihis will- make the 0un.iu.i, auv. v....j . -lTnUiA Tli 1,1 pared to reach out her arms and S 1 our scattered people, water- . . v., nht. w iw, it lnok ing the waste places aud make of cash poured into the State 111 the A'U,1V iiV Vai'Vil'OI VJW V 1 - I lit 111 11 .1 r- middle otthe dull summer win like a sell-sustaining aiocese wnen 1 " ' ,1111 1t manv of her parishes are laneuish- J 111 tl,e,r strengtn ana zeai. ing for want of ministerial help Let it be the great effort of this How to get the crop to market is where it has become impossible to convention 10 uirect its energies a serious prooiem. nit- s..i,.u.,..s OIo; l.n.Tof Ara cnh W me HliaiUUieui Ul lut "a i will iill .iwmh, uiu immm- "i tv parishes ready to enter into new results, instead ot wrangling over a and end about the middle ot au oblirofions' nml lav unon them- question oui 01 wnicu 110 preseni, O - - selves a double burden? good can come, put untoia evii Have the parishes famishing for may flow. Let us not, lrom per episcopal help called upon this con- sonai leenngs outsiae 01 tne gooo veution to send them more relief ot t ne cnurcn, press a scneme w men for classes thirsting for the bread fls to meet with the hearts ap road on Sunday. Tne only passen ger train that will be run on that day is that carrying mails, and efforts will lie made to discon tinue it. In cases of perishable oods or live stock, freight trains ill run when necessary only. The order further says: ; j "You will in future run no ex cursion trains of any kind, for any purpose on the Sabbath. This order applies to camp-meeting trains. If Christian people can not find other places for worship, this com pauy will not vio!atrthe divine and civil law, and deny Us employees the essential rest of the Sabbath to carry them to camp- meeting grounds. I am also in formed that a numlier of the com pany's employees have cscicnoii- tious scruples against any work on the Sabbath. There are likelv others who do not feel so strongly on this subject. Under no . ordina ry circumstances must an employee who objects on the ground of his religious convictions be ordered or required to do any services ou t he Sabbath. ..If any. diflculties arise in the execution of this regulation you will please report them to li'ie for consideration and you will also notify the employees of their rights 011 conscientious grounds to lie full- North Carolina. The idea of dividiug a diocese al ready too weak too sustain herself, and that too without one single weighty reason for it, is to my mind so absurd, and I might say cruel, that I shudder for the con- eouences. 1 tnink l see some of life! Whence comes this great proval of a large portion .of the crv for divisiout Does it come smew ot the church. from the head of the church! Does Let the cnurcn m au ueriiiove- I menta make liaste .slowly, uot lighteu his labors! WTith what face, jumping at conclusions, lor some- let me. ask. can the clerev take it times her strength is to sit still. upon themselves to lay the heavy gust. The, bulk oi it must Ui inoveu in loitv davs. This will 'five average of 130 cars or ten solid trains of fifteen each a day. -Grady has no doubt that the roads will frequently be called to move twen tv melon trains a day: . It will take One Inch, One lnrrtkn. 1 n n Month . .Sin. Thrpo MiWths..... ... h i Six Month ... , i ' One Year . ; , . Liberal Discount will K ma-le f.w fjiottt AdrerUMmeoU nJ furVontnti'tn hy hv- Vnt Ckab muil aocompary u A,iviTtiwimtitn unlogs rood reference la given . SIMPLE STORIES. A. BOUT- KD1TOBS, PIUNIKKS AND OTHKB (JCKI-B PCI.KS. sTtnut:s nut ciithiu:i-:y. ly protected in the observance the dav of rest." of The Increase in Grain. bnrdens upon the laity, knowing that they are powerless to lighten these' burdens in the smallest de gree! ' Show me the parish with an overflowing treasury, ' one that cheerfully and readily meets all its obligations, - pays off its minister and meets all diocesan calls All is Yanity. The life of ex-Governor Iloldeii has had a surfeit of political hon ors. With the old "Standard" he was master of the field and as Gov ernor of the State he sat clothed witli more despotic power, than without a ruffle or a murmur. Show I any Governor before or since. And me the parish where it is not aeon-1 yet wnat did. it profit him ? To day William W. llolden is living with an eye to another world. As an siderable effort to meet all these obligations. The laity know some thintr about these trouWes. The clergv are uot presumed to know, editor aud iwlitician who has sam. although, be it regretfully said, pled the huirahs of the populace they are often compelled to kuow I and found tbe honors of to-day the too much of them to make their curses of . to-morrow he huas the places comfortable. Ask any vestry retirement of private life as sweet in this already feeble diocese it it er tiaa aji tue clorv he has tasted. I Ashville and the Warm Springs I dm inga week.lt is hoped the attend ance this year will be full, as see It ions of North Carolina heretofore morning at the breakfast table. You see pais the contrariest man ever was. If I complain that any thing at the table don't taste good, pa says it is all right.""- This morn ing. I took the syrup pitcher and Suili ,rarolina l'ress Association j emptied out the white syrup and seen by but lew of the editors of the State will be visited. lhe will probably join us at aynesville and participate, in the '"duties"' of the week. U will bo so arranged that members will be enable to re turn east on Saturday of the same week. '.'! '.V' S. T. at least seven days for a train to reach the inarke's and return. We may expect, therefore, to see, dur ing the mouth of July 100 trains of fifteen ears each loaded with Geor gia melons on the road to and 'from the market. At tliesame time cars will be needed at the melon stations to load for the new trips. The fa cilities of the roads are thought to be equal to the emergency. The truck aud melons for the, Eastern markets wjll find their way mainlv bv the ocean ' routes and the coast lines. The East Tennessee aud v lrgiuia and tbe Kennesaw and Air Line routes will carrv to the East whatever surplus age is offered. To accommodate the great rush to the Northwest there are three routes open the Louisville and Nashville, the East Tennessee and the State ltoad,and each of these has provided special equipment.- Fast freight schedules have been "P. W. M.," the lialeigh corres poudeut of the Fayetteville ''Ob server," is secretary of the State Agricultural Department, and speaks by the book when he writes : f Reports from 73 counties made to the commissioner of agriculture shows. a very satisfatorv increase in the wheat, oats and corn crops. This means more than would ap jiear on the face of it at first rend ing. The drought of 1881 drove the farmers, by necessity, to a larg er acreage in grains and their lxt ter cultivation. The result was that, with favorable seasous, the wheat crop ot 1882 ran up to f,- 4!4,S00 bushels, as against 4.07U, 100 in 1881. With the average in crease of 10-45 per cent, in acreage indicated this year and the whole some -weather for wheat reinirted bv the press all over the State there is every prospect of a (,00 000 bushel crop. The increase in the acreage planted is fully 15 per cent., and if the destruction of the tobacco plants by the fly coutii, lies as it has begun it will be still further extended. The crop of The man at the desk, lie is an editor. What is that m his hand? It i;H UiicrosVopc. What does tie editor want of a microscope! He is looking for hi salary. See tlie elevator. It is not mu lling. How the man swears, lie is an editor. Do elevators ever ruuf Oh, yes. when they are first put in a building, mid U fore they are paid for. i This "is the man who has had a , notice rn'lhe paper. How proud he ,s. .He is stepping higher than a blind horse, if he had w ings he would tlv. Next 'week the paiK-r will sav the niiin i a measly .old fraud, and the man w ilt nut Mcp 'so high. Here is a valise. It do s not weigh four hundred iMHiuns. It is the valise of an editor. In the iy lise are three socks ami a Uittle ana a iMKtk. There Is something in the bottle. Mavbe it is arnica tor the editor's Hore linger. The look is "Uaxter's Saint's Kest." The sin ks got into the valise by nnsinkc. I'ei haps the lnittl will get into the editor by mistake. Iiehold the printer. He is bunt ing for a pickup of hall a line, lie has been hunting lor two hours. He could have set the half line in I w ci ty seconds, but it is a matter of iiriuciiile with him never to m I It on' in a v ''. IjsSI was 156,799, 000 ; that of 18.S2 34,2f0,700. The crop of this yeaij, if the seasons are favorable for the corn crop, will not fall far short of 40,000.000. . ' gives them 'no trouble to gather Holden has shown himself liberal arraugedKo that twelve hour's time ui these annual requirements. It to nj political foes. Of the late is not an unheard of thing that a editor of this paper, who had hit call from some other pansn to tne uin, ujany a sore lick he spoke m incumbent comes to their aid and handsome eulogy at a Tress Associ- enables them to once more collect tion a few yeirs uack and when the needed sum to keep the body the jate Daniel W. Courts, ex- and soul of their minister togetner. Treasurer of the State . was. on his No, sir; this diocese is in reality death betl at Cai.y a lew weeks since a missionaiy held, w aste places UoUen sent inm word that he are stretching out their hands unto hoped soon to meet him on the God and asking for help. Is she fining shore. When Mr. Courts ready and able to give this help by left Raie jgh at the close of the war sending out missionaries to tnese he gald to Holden that they had weak places! Is it not common tor a ionctime together as politi your bishop to turn his back upon cal frieml3 of the same faith, but applicants desiring to enter this now they mU8t part forever .ina i 1 1 1 J.1 Z rm nf V -Tk 4 f I netu, oecause ineio uumiUti Holden replied that there were sustain them! three men in North Caroliuatbat Would it not be sensible to try he should always esteem in the and gather up those three or four highest and they were 'Daniel W thousand dollars which this new Courts, Wesley Jones and David move would impose upon us and s. Reid. And these three gentle and call in some eight or ten more men, if all living, would testify to- clergymen to try and build up the j day, that, political honors are bub- is now saved between Atlanta and Cincinnati, and a corresponding re duction has been made iii the run ning time to other important com mercial points in the Northwest The freight rates have ben reduced so that they are less than two Years ago. 'Direct schedules and direct rates have teen established . .o more than live hundred .cities in the West, so that instead of breaking the ear load as under the old fctyle of doing things tie freight is carried direct lv throeli to "its destination without change. The progress in the cultivation of vegetables and berries has not been so great as in the melon biipi uess, but there has been a heavy increase and several .shipments have already been made this season; The Illinois Central Koad carries into Chicago ten car loads daily of berries that come three weeks to ' a mouth later than berries can lie ship- A Heavy Slam. Maj. John Gatling, was,speaking to an old section master, a few dayU 'urn. nliniil iiiittin& new eiieriuew x r - i on the Atlantic & N. 0 . Kailroaii, w hen the old man, N w ho was 1 very knowing chap, told him it would be the height of folly to "tilt new engines on. "The old ones, ho said, "know the. wav to More head bv.theirou rust on the' ground but that 'if he put new ones u - - thev would run in the woods -eeif- tain.7 A lieavv slam on tne muir let road. Kinston "Free l'ress. Frightened to Deatn. A little 12- year-old girl in Knox ville, Iowa, was trightencd to death by a severe thunder" storm a few nights ago. She had been quite what he Van pick up. lhe primer is a hard time, lie has to set po all night ami day peilio lor the beer all day. We would like to be a printer were it not loi (lie night work. . Is thin a collier lot! No, it t. a towel. It Jias bee n serving an up prenticeship in a print n olli. e 1 . 1 the past four years The horse are dragging it away. A man will take an ax and break the towel into pieces and boil it lor soap grease. Then he will sell the -towel lor tripe. If vou find a piece of liipe -with a monogram 111 one cornei, know it is towel. Has the printer any tobacco lie has, but he w ill not tell you so. He carries it in the leg of his boot, and w hen he wants a chew he sneaks down in the back allev where n body can see him.- When he spun tobacco it sounds like a duck diving in the water. The -printer -is a queer man. lie is a lie Lie pel -on Sometimes he has ten thousand ejus on his siting, !ut they aie-"always his dupes. If you .11 e a pi in ter do not be a blacksmith, or put will get tired. Here we have a biisiiii hs mana ger. He in blowing nlMi'iit lhe cir culation of the pajHT., He is saving Ithc paper has entered upon an en? of unprecedented prurient.'. In a minute he will go up Hair and chide the editor for leaving his gas burning while he xvent out lor a drink of water, and he will d k a reporter four dollars because a siili sci itier has licked him tnd he -.'n- m.t work. Little clilltlrell. 11 we believed business managers went to heaven we w iaild give up our M'W.in church. Here wc haea knile. It lo,ks like a saw, but it is a knile. It Im-. longs to au editor, and is used for sharpening iwin ils, killing loaches, opening Champagne loltlcs, ami cutting the hearts of b id men who n .'.11 tl... .1-11- 1 K.f Kill tlVL'llkP. ... L-eome llilo income 10 wuaie mm ; tne storm ana Desougui nei High Time For Metiiodists The peopie down in tieorgia are digging pits as a protection from future tornados. "I hear you have dug a pit to protect you from storms," said a Methodist to a li imit ive Baptist Saturday- "Yes, I have,'' was the reply-. Well, if you .Ilardshells, who believe that whatever will be will be anyhow, have gone to diggrug pits, it is high time thai w e Methodist were at it'.' put in some cod liver oil that Ma is taking for her cough. 1 nut some on my, pancakes aud pretended to taste of it, and I tol, pa the syrup was sour and not fit to eat. Pa was mad in a second, aud he poured out some on his pancakes, aud said I was getting too con founded particular. He said the syrup w as gooJ enough for him, and he sopped his pancakes in it aud fired some down his neck. He is a gaul durued hypocrite, that's what he is- I coukl see by his face that the cod liver oil was nearly killing him, but he said that syrup was all right, aud if I didn't eat mine he would break my back, and by gosh, I had to eat it, ana pa said he guessed he hadn't got much appetitej aud he would just drink Some on Mosquitosr , i !j George Ore-die, of New Berne, who bids fair to rival Baron Mun chausen, has been visiting Hyde couutv, and the New Berne Journ al reports his having seen a dead mosquito whose long-ribs made a hundred panels offence and whose les were long enough to make beckets tobiud it all. nlaees and eive the church, I hies and the nnhlie breath a srmt with her beautiful ritual and soul Lf wind, 'and that the only 1! Thomasville. In the one (;,f,-jWMrri.p. to those hnneer- c,,ifanHal mootnow''. wlnV.li will fiteni ot . Irisli poraioes waviuson onuoij.ufeu , I f.,... .1.;.. 1 11..L0OA - i.l.:.i;..nntslnn coaffor. lt n: 1 .1 M.l. LitV. leUIiessei.-, nuiiin.-. ing anu uiuauug ovu-o .uv. 1 all tunc auu cuuiur tmuuu , bushels last ear uuimm uu.-mi ed or too feeble to sustain a minis-1 all changes is the honor of striv- ter among them. I ing with God Almighty's help to be For illustration go to some of our generous, just and good. M ilton oldest parishes in the diocese "Chronicle." one oi oar Crowd. James E Anderson. who was killed last November, the founder and first editor of this paper, is in another world, his successor is in Nevada Insane Asylum, and the third and present uuforunate, is still battling with the world, flesh and the devil, dodgiug bullets and soliciting advertisements; Arizo na ''News." The celebrated 'Fish Brand' Gills Twine if sold only at Jacobi's Hard ware Depot. Wilmington N. C. some whose walls were built with British brick in colonial times. Go to St. Thomas, of Bath, the mother of the church in this diocese, and see her fallen estate. No minister sprviui? at her ancient and sacred ..par "Whv! Because they are day by els six years ago. Mr. Joseph M. Browii, the gener al freight agent ot the State Road, t.,vs that the v est ha.i grown po rapidly in favor as a market for fruit that he has received' notifica tion from the Sonth 'Carolina ISoad A wild woman was seen in the j that perhaps four hundred car loads woods near Hamburg Mills yestr- of melons will, lie s.hipjied west this fisher- season. One man on that line, a during mother to take her to lied, "for Mint was afraid of thunder." Her npplij catious were unheeded, aiid ksoow th.-mother was aroused by the child's difficult breathing. A- proaching the lied with a light, she found her dvingJand in a few moments she breathed her last. lloiiffh on the Yoinnj MtH. In moderii Egypt a young mail is not permitted to see his wife1 face before niarriafie. 1 This i; rather rough on the young iiuin says the Norristown "Herald," bn( it prevents the newspapers of Egyp from making jokes about the gir enticing him into ah ice cream sa loon and bankrupting him. 1 Wild Woman. two Greensboro mid- sand acres 111 it three, hundred acres last year, and sold the crop! on tbe ground for 7,000. raUe 1 r TSTm& W, . be alut Mr. N"isu, lias ,,, .!. weak mk y iair . sand acres 111 melon.-, lie had eihtv vears ago. Go to old Zion 2" 3ais "lu " - parish near bv, once the cynosure night and, with the exception ot a ofalleyesiu that section, sustain- few rags artistically arranged, w.os iu herself in the beauty of holiness, entirely nude. She was ignorant Has she one serving at her 'altar! of her name or whereabouts, but Go with me to bid Trinity, Beau- "bowed great terror at the sjght ol fort county, the parish once served a shot gun. While talking to her t j j . ch a foamed at the month nnd bit vir w tint, the trees use a iiu oumiot. Go to all moment she was on uer A Freacnio Railroad. Col. Bennett II. Young, of the 1 those parishes throughout that sec- witn tne neetus - auc , ... - tlnoYeven excepting Edentonfl appeared in the woods. , 'done, or trains be run on that In a i Railroad, has taken a new aepan- and ' nre in railroading. He orders that A short time since, says the IJiithertordtoii "Banner," the re4 cruiting omcials ot .viormotmoiu were in this county, holding pray er meetings and other services, ami the result is that several women from Duncan's Creek towushipj have pulled up stakes ami joioed the Saints and are now on then! waV to Utah. Immersion wtui their mode of baptism, which wa8 done at 12 o'clock at night the parties baptiseil being divested of every article of clothing. W hat i$ the use of hunting np the heathen in foreign lands when we have them at our doors ! j lelorters. Iherels lilo.nl on Tne , blade of the knife, but the editor will .calmly lick it oil, ami the Made w ill le as clean and bright a .ever. The knife cost 7o cents, and was iniol ted from Iolidoii. - Connect i cut. r If. vou ari good, perhaps the editor will give it to you to cut the cat's tad. , 1 ' '- - Here is a castle. It is the hoiue ef the editor. It has ft amed glass windows and Mahogany -taiiwa, In front of the castle is a park. Is 'it. ..rot sweet! The lad in Hie .aik is1 the editor's wife. She wears a costly ioIk of velvi trimmed w ith gold lace, and there are eaN and rubies in her hair. The editor sits on the front stoop smoking an Ha vana cigar. His little children are plaviug with diamond marbles on the tesselated tloor. The editor ran a fiord Uilive in style. He get-seventy-five .dollars a month wages. Rutherford College has conferred the degree of D. D. on Rev. J. T, BagwelL of Charlotte, and BevJ Wm. M Eobey, of Goldsboro. V Losing Bisiness. There is a gentleman in town, Rays the Duiham "l'Hnt who has lieen in the habit of taking time drinks a day at a cost of thirty cents. His gooil wile U-i'tig desir ous of saving alUh could, proMsed to supply him "with -.'dram if he would give her' ten cents every time he took one. He was agreea ble. Tbereniwn she invested fif ty cents aDd commenced business. When he took his fourth drink, to her astonishment she discovered that the stock was exhausted, and. instead of making a profit, she bad lost ten cents on ' invest ment. She has gone out of the busi ness. .