North Carolina Newspapers

WILSON ADVANCE. Published Eveby Fbiday At Wilson, Nokth Carolina, BY JOSEPHl'S 1IAML1S, -Editor iiJPwprokr Subscription Kates in Advance One Yt-ar .. t 00 Six Months.... , I 00 rWMoncy -an be sent by Money Order or Itt-Klatered Let ter tit our risk. . Orrirr.-Tartxiro Street, in the Old . Post Otlii-u Buililinif. NEWS OF A WEEK -:o:- OATII Kit ED FROM ALL PARTS til THE WORLD. VESVI 1. 1 I .VGA,- OLEAXIXaS The Winston "Sentinel reports a white blackterry. , . .. Col. D.'C. Parish, Mayor of Dur ham, died last week. ' "Asthe sw ig is sent is the spree' inclined." Dorsey Battle. A Texas paper printed itsF'onrth of .Inly isHtie in red and blue, Rev. S. Simpson has resigned the Presidency of -Yadkin College Senator Mahone'sson in a regular Democrat, and has 'not inherited his father's re adjusting proclivities. Eichlands, in Onslow county, has lour chnrches and but one hmnlred inhabitants. Reiigious jteople! The New Orleans "Picayune" is mean enough to say that old maids take to cats because they have whiskers. Rev.' Edward Schulken, of the N. C. Conference, a very promising young minister, died in Wilming ton last week. The inrst bashful girl we ever knew was one wha blushed when she was asked it she had not been courting sleep. A Brooklyn boy can imitate the sound of a lawn mow er. His fath er is going to try and imitate a threshing machine. The Statesville "Landmark," is enlarged. There is no letter paper in the State, aiid it is one of our most highly valued exchanges. Mr. U. Jl. Purrington's house, near Scotland Neck, was struck by lightning, set on tire and the house ami contents burned, last -week. Man is an animal that makes bargains. No other animal does this. One do" ioes not change a iMine with another. -Adam Smith. XV. II. Vanderbilt has added 10, 'tMMfto the endowment lund of the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Teun., making the total endowment $700,000. ' That cood, honest, (Quaker boef, John G. Whittier, never drank a glass of grog.never smoked a cigar, never chewed todacco, and never in dulged in profanity. It was fortunate for Mr. Beirne says a Boston punster, who has since died of softening of the brain, "that his antagonist was an Klaiu iteand not a Hittitc." A season ticket to Morehead and t-1 n i u bom Goldshoro is. now sold for tour dollars. A ticked good from Saturday, night tittit Tuesday is sold for two dollais. An Oshkosh maiden has a pro 'tile . of her recie:;iit lover cut out f gingerbread hanging on the wall oi her ltcdroom'. She considers it too sweet for anything. The Mormons were to have preached near Shelby, but the folks objected ami the two elders shook t he dust of Cleveland from their fret in a hurry. Hun the rascals out. - Mr. 15. W. Chadwick, editor ot the Heauh.it "Telephone." at one time a rssident ot Wilson, has lieen apiKiinted Clerk - of -"the" Court of Carteret county . Our congratula tions! t The Methodists oi all branches iu the United States numlier about 4,ti0,WM1 while the Presbyterians of all kiiid. number a Unit 3,000,000 and the Baptists of all kinds nhont 2,000,000. The Oxlor l Torchlight i . ten years old. We' very well remember when it was a little sheet eight in ches by ten. It has now grown to H' .meortl.e largest ami best 1is in the State. ia- WhM eve is the girl of lonu- a .rut" -".H- -'oaqmn Miller the other day, .!.,. We saw her Hut she isn't She "liad yrsH- r1" any nioie. hair and -,i u ..... . i,.. i... ?J " "u ner nose. n-eui ami wole sl,Cs The indem-ndeat damsels of Ath. ens, t,a.,formed a .sister's club,' which no , nen were suffered to at-' mo. men a hatchelor' 4krr;l fli vu.l ... I. 1 's club was ... ' and at r -..uui-s. iney were, holding a hunt - The Macon, Ga.,Telegra;,l, fells " a man who wanted, a drink of V NklV so l,ad he sold the ;:;'7cktoaUeKroi,a;: gender tor twenty.five cents and theu hohi.ui : . - u ""diyiu to g ery to quench his thrist. Jjrog- n ,VnoirTrn states that a CaldwelUmuiy boy,u of Xho3. lenuel, at the suggestion of a mother (the two being alone at 12 Tm?f'f 1 was loadel.w It WMds y d,erttwo dJ s after- 1 VOLUME 13.- A young man near Bethelj Pitt county, N. C, says the "Southern- er", went to see his lady love the other night, and stayed so late that the girl's mother brought in a dozen eggs andiasked him to hatch them for her. He left, and de clares that he will never call again The Journal-Observer notes that Gen. Leach has two sons in the revenue service. We suppose the General doesn't take much stock In all this talk about abolishing the "internal revenue." It is a domes tic institution in more aspects than one. ? ' Mr. Abell, of the Balimore "Sun" is pat down as worth 1 15,000,000' If we had that sum to our credit catch as editing a newspaper with the mercury standing at 89 in the shade. ije ought to retire and give some one else a chance. Hon. W.T. Dortcb, chairman of the Code Commission, left Friday for New York to be absent several weeks, says the Goldsboro "Mes senger," looking after the printing of the Code, which contract has been awarded to Banks Bros., printing establishment ' in that city, for ?lu300i No, my young friends, the word "mash," as it has recently lieeu ap plied to the sentiments of affection supposed to exist between a jierson of one sex toward that of another, is notja proper nor even a respecta ble word. It should not be tolera ted and will not be among refined and cultivated people. The "Visitor'' says. Mr. Caswell Phelps, who lives just east of Ral eigh, has made a bale of cotton every year since the war, and has never sold a baks yet. He is wait iug for the-price to advance. When cotton was selling at fifteen cents per pound he would not sell; he thought it would get even higher than that. The prospects now are that he will not sell this season - Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn says: "1 can name the next democratic ticket. Hoadly is going to carry Ohio by 20,000. That will make liim the Democratic candidate for President; and Cleyclaud, of N. Y., will be the' Democratic'" nominee for Vice-President. The Republi cans will abandon party organiza tion and nominate David Davis, and thev will not carry seven States." The Tarhoro Southerner" feels bad because fleiware r0 1,203 dogs and only 40r,6AO f sheep in the State, not. enough to go around, and suggests that perhaps the Legislature should provide let ter accommodations tor the curs. The "Journal-Observer,'? on the contrary, declares that the dog is aveiy useful -domestic animal when he is dead. Yon can't please every liodv, you kuow, anil it is useless to try. . A newspaper man called on Horatio Seymour, of New York: the other day and here is the way theoldgentleinan palavered him, "I love to think of the press and the great 'power that it wields. If I were younger and more vigorous myself I think I would give up farming and edit a newspaper." The old man, evidently, is on the confines of another world. No sen sible man would give up farming for the tread-mill life '.of -an editor We are gratified lose it at. nouueed in the Goldslioro "Ad vance" that Kev. M. 11. Moore, ot the North Carolina Conference, is preparing and will publish a volume to be eutitled "Sketches of the Pio neers of Methodism iu North Oaro lina and Virginia." It will con tain forty sketches and will make a book of some 500 pages. Mr Moore is a young minister of good parts and he has shown that he can do such wort with taste, skill and ability. Star. Mr. Jas. 11. Mair first svssi taut Post Master General, has issued a circular, that for the sake of unifor mity and to put a stop to continued complaints received by the depart ment, the sum of fifty -cents will hare to be collected foi each key giveu out. Postmasters at offices not located in government build ings will require a deposit of fifty cents for each key to lock boxes rented by them, and on the return of the kevs they will refund the I .1 ... ...... . I . . . . . . .111. lutlll . .' .1 11.1 takiug a receipt .from the party to whom iitipsad. Mormon Women Working in tbe Fields. At Providence, Cache county, Utah, there is a man having four teen wives, and his progeny is so uumerous that no one appears' to know the extent. Six or eightlof his women go to his farm at once and work iu the field while he sits quietly on the fence and looks on, just as the overseer of the past kept watch of bis slaves- We are assured this is no fancy sketch, but a veritable fact, which attracts the atteution of all passers-by. Of course, the man prospers'in the wealth of this world4and ths Mor uion priesthood ar ready to attri bute bia prosperity as bleiipgs from the Lord to reward " him'; for liTing up to his privileges . accord ing to the latter-day gospel. Sail Lake Tribune. 7 m A T? A P M "R OM ANflTC -:o: JOSEPH SCOTT TURNS OUT TO BE A WOMAN. HER EXPLANATION. A hour, six: weeks aeo two men one 'voune and rather good-looking J and the other apparently miuuie I . ? 1 Jl"i I aged-came to a farmhouse . near Rawlings' Station, in this county, land asked for employment- -iney were honest looking and , apparent- lv not afraid to work and aa help was needed, thev were employed, one having been put to work tend- ing stock and doing chores about the house, and the other jfeomg into the field. The young man called himself Joseph Scott and the elder Henry Scott. Both proved goou hands about the place, and the vouneer man in addition to being oniek and active about his duties, was very jovial alter work hours. Was a merry singer and whistler, and was always ready for a fishing excursion. All went well until last Sunday, when the mistress of the house was much astonished to dis cover that one of the three valises, which the hands had brought with them, contained woman's clothing' She at once suspected something wrojig, and promptly charged the younger of the hands wnth being a woman. He (!) said at once that II (lissmissai uiu wot iu.iu, 11c 01 she would tell all about it. The mistress promised immunity, and the young farm hand then acknowledged that she was a mem ber of the gentler sex; j that she had adopted man's attire as being more comioriaoie auu couvemeui I 11. , .1 " A. I w nen traveling, anu as maKiug ii, easier ior ner loouiaui empio.- f. t J. 1 -1-. . - . T I ment. Her companion was, she said, her uncle, and he was going on a tour, she decided to accompa- ny turn and ctiance u working as a man hand. The pair are said to hail trom Pennsylvania, xue gin is ot plump ngure, gooci-iooKing with fair complexion, dark wavy hair, which is at present cropped close. Her name is Josephine, and when she underwent the masculine transformation she took that of "Joe." She has ben retained at the farm and now does woman's jvork, such as. milking cows, etc- A geu- tlemau of this city - who saw her s:ivs slm in:ikfs :in eYraltant. man and her sex was never suspected until, accidentlly discovered as above. oiunberla'nd "News." KENTUCKY ROMANCE. 1 THE LOVE OF TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS HOW IT RESULTED. 1 Iu a certain part of our country there lived a family, in which there are two brothers just entering upon the prime of youthful manhood ; a short distance from them in fact in the same neighborhood there lives another family, in which there are two sisters, also iu the prune of womanhood, beautiful, lascinatiug ami attractive. These young people being near neighbors and coming in contact with each other otten, almost naturally, it would seem, tell m love with each other, the elder brother with one of the sisters and the younger with the other. All went smoothly for a time, and these young people enjoyed themselves and dreamed bright dreams of the future, and no doubt in imagination constructed fairy palaces of love, and gardens like Paradise, which should be only tilled with beautiful flowers, and fruits of happiness, and unal loyed enjoyment. lhen as a matter of course, the question of marrying arose, which must be reterred to the parents of the young ladies for approval. The eldest brother had no difficulty in obtaiuing their consent to his marrying the young lady, and the weddiug day was fixed upon. Then the young brother went to the parents and made known his at tachment tor the other sister and their mutual desire to "splice and travel the road of life together.' But the old folks were decidedly opposed to having more than one of their girls marry into "that fam uy,", aim piainiy intoruied him that if he wanted a wife he must go elsewhere to get her, intimating that he should desist pavin" further attention to the yonng lady iu questiou. But the young man was determined that if his brother married one ot the girls he would marry the other. So he went to the young "lady of his love" and told her the eircumstauces of the situa tion, and desired her, if she loved him, to prove her love by running off witn him. lo this she agreed and the night was fixed upon when they should carry out the mutual ajuieuL. . But now comes t he strangest part of the story. The two young ladies resembled each other very mucn in looks, voice, &c, and by WlLSQW "LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIJI'ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOD'S, AMD TBUT WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JULY 20. 1883. 801116 Btrang freak when the night f elopement came and the young man went to the appointed place of meeting he found a woman there 1 . whom ne tnongnt was the right one, out sue was not. Un conscious of this, however, he took her to the place where the mar. riage ceremony was to oe per formed before he fonnd out that he was with the wrong girl. Most wonderful . to relate, he thought that after he had gone to all this trouble he would get married any way, so ne asKea ner 11 sne wouia 1 1 . . -. 1. . - nave mm, ana sne in order to carry out the joke, said she would, and tuey were married then and there It appears that she had overheard him making arrangements to elope with her sister, and knowing the place of meeting determined to go there ahead of her and thus fool the young man, for whom she en- tertained a secret liking, although she'was engaged to be married to uis orotner. uur informant also states that alter they had lived to getuer lor some time the elder brother, determined to make the j most of his situation, himself the other sister. took unto David Darts' Bunion. Somet weut.y years ago DavidDavis was suffering with a severe bunion on his left foot. At least .the Sen ator supposed it was a bunion, al I though, as he hadn't seen his f eet for a eeneration. it. was nrefcfcv' much a mafcter rfCTewort How. ifc hurt him more tfa ,. th Eepublican successes, so he called n cl,ironodist: and l.An that. specialist inspected the damage and came to the surface once more, he reported that the excresence was about as big as a ten-cent loaf and that nothing but the most care- f . fcreatinent .vouM Si.vft thft- foot. Xfr n.,,,, a,1(,nr,iln(ri,. .,,,,1 n ghoe of the six dft jo-as-you-please - Ari,inn th tfU. ni- iin couki almost see himself when he kicked Q t tt n Jt M - siffht to watch the presidina offl f . m sfc dinme(l kU ho551in ni) the Canitolsteos. suo- po,. by a big caae and the leath- er Dedestal referred to six months after that. It was a new edition of Bunion's Pilgrim's Progress, bound in calf. Sometimes the bunion would grow better, sometimes worse Meanwhile, the corn doctor sent in his regular bill for "digging out the Senator's foundation," aa he facetiously .called it. At last the sufferer became imbued with an absorbing desire to visually inspect me cause 01 ins loi wenis, auu one day, yielding to a sudden iinpulsej he limped off to a photograph sa loon, pried off his 8hoes, and then reauested the operator to take a tintype of his foot When it was completed he al most fell off his seat in an apoplec tic lit of rage, for the picture dis closed a liitleiion clamp 1 attached to his little toe, the screw of which 1 At . 1: a. : 1 i a-. 1.4- Iue cl,ir1,uulsl .pviueuuj uguteueu. or loosened at pleasure- The Sen ator determined upon a frightful revenge, and the . next morning when the corn doctor knelt to ie move the shoe, the man of weight deliberately turned around and sat on him. But why dwell npou the sad particul irs? The corn doc tor was removed to the hospital, where, three months after, he died to slow music, after having made a full confession, and in the full hope Qf a glorious immortality A Brave Woman. Commend us to the young wife of Amos -Bid well, Ostego Lake, Mich. We have no doubt as to her devotion to the babies aud her ability to make pies and pud dings, and put up preserves. Al though, we do not enjoy the hon or of her acquaintance, we ; feel con . fideut that her husband's shirts are never to be found without their full complement of buttons and that the children's stockings areuever al lowed to go over Saturday night nndarned. e reach these con clusions because such are the qua! ities of a brave and true wife. Mrs, Tiidwellhas nroved tier title to that character aud she handles her Winchester rifle with the skill and quickness of a troutier scout. Yoiinir Mrs. Bidwell was alone in the house when a neighbor called n and offered au insult. Under sim ilar eircumstauces Mrs. C. Melnotte strikes a trag'uv attitude and in forms the offender that a husband's roof, however lowly, is the temple ..r a wife's honor, l ounsr Mrs. Bidweu did not do this. Probably . hq fver read Bulwer or seen thenlaV of the "Lady of Lyons." But after giving the ruffian prop erwarning, whiclf.wa.sunheeded.sbe seized her trusty Winchester, drew a bead on him and shot him dead All honor to the brave woman: If she bad hesitated her life and tbe lifa ftf hpr .llisband would have been 51ighte1. she was the protector of his happinfcSS as well as of her own honor- She deserves a substantial proof that every true man and fiVerv honest woman in the nation J applaud her courage and approve l her act. DRIVEN MAD. -:o:- YOUNtt MAN AND HIS MOTHER SEE A GHOST. MADNESS EPIDEMIC. Sntdebtown, PA.j June 19, Last night Mrs. Moore, a widow, who lives with her young son in. an old dilapidated house at Brush Valley, near here, was startled by hearing a shriek, followed by agon izing yells, in the room next to hers occupied by her son, a youth about sixteen years of age. In a fright she ran into the room and found the boy almost dead with fear and trembling in every limb. She quieted his fears and questioned him, and after considerable delay he told her that about 12 o'clock, while listening to the furiously raging storm, he was startled by seeing though the dim lishtofa lamp which burned in the room a man raising a window. ' Almost paralyzed with fear he sat up' in bed unable to move, until by he aid of a vivid flash of lightning he perceived the features , of 'the man to be those of his father, who was killed in the miues five years ago. W ith the shriek that had. so star- tied his mother he sank on the bed aud the intruder fled hastily. THE MOTHER SEES THE FACE. When the mother, had heard his story she turned her gaze towards the window aud beheld the identi cal face pressed against the pane. ith a terrific yell she sprang to the window, and raising the sash jumped through, strikinsr the ground, twenty-five feet below, with terrific force and injuring her self fatally. The shrieks and moans of vonnjr Moore hronsrht; n four neighbors to the spot, aud they carried the limp body of the wo man into the house aud after a few hours' labor succeeded in bringing her to sensibility. As soon as she fixed her eyes on her son she burst into a violent tit of laughterj iu which the son joined and which lasted until both fell to the tioor exhausted. On the part of young Moore the tit of laughing was then followed by violent spasmodic at tacks. He-foamed at the mouth, barked like a dog and made vici ous snaps at those who attempted to quiet him. . MADNESS EPIDEMIC. A young farmer named Herrick went up to him and, while attempt-! ing to quiet him. caught hold of his hand. No sooner had he done so than he too was seized with fearful spasms aud, writhed on the floor in intense agony, exhibiting the peculiar symptoms manifested by others; The Other neighbors who had come to the scene were so badly scared as to lie of little as sistance, and they tied precipita tely, leaving the three maniacs alone in the room. Mrs. Moore was stark raving mad and soon the two young man were at work de molishing the furniture and strik ing one another. One of the wo men who had first rushed to the scene ran home and returned with her father, an old army sergent named Isillheimer, who run into the room and, grasping Herrick threw him to the floor, and putting his foot upon his breast, bound him with the bed ropes. He then secured young Moore in the like manner. .Mrs. Moore was bleeding from the wounds received from falling out of the window aud lay on the floor insensible. Lifting her in his arms Billheimer carried the woman to tbe oiten air, the storm having ceased. A PHYSICIAN IN ATTENDANCE. One of the neighbors had mount ed a horse about one hour tiefore and ridden at full speed across the rough country road in search of a doctor. Afer a long search he found one and brought him to tbe stricken family. "The young man Herrick was taken home by his father in the morning and another pnysician attended him. No hop6 is entertained of Mrs. Moore's recovery. Her son was unusually violent this morning - and conld scarcely be held by four men. The case has occasioned much excite ment among the farmers through out the neighborhood,, Mrs. Moore's husband was killed in the mining region five years ago. She and her son are practical, steady people. Young Herrick is not so violent, but arrangement are being made for his removal to an asylum. Mis. Moore was in a sinking con dition this evening, and she will hardly live until morning. Issing i Festering Corpsi New Orleans Special to the Chic ago Tribune: Yesterday afternoon the attention of the sexton of St Louis Cemetery, on Claiborne street, was called to an unusual noise in the yard. Followingfthe di rection of the sound he came upon a woman beuding down in front of '4 a broken torn stone- Before her w a coffin, the lid of hich vd wrenched off and layed . on i gronnd. - The woman was stoop: over a dead bod v. 1 The scene a wild and ghastly one the bi en, tomb, the long black coffin the lid thrown on one : side, this strange woman, with strai gestures and appearances, bold; a corpse in her arms and kisJ The sexton at once placed the an under arrest and took her u the Fourth Station. There she her name as Mrs. Frank Dm iler uusuaud, a promt Creole druggist, was informed. the affair, and going, to the tion identified his w ife and exj ed her mysterious conduct, corpse was the body of their who had died from smallpox weeks ago. The mother be crazed at the" death of her and was not able ' to see the ne I s,i stf before. burial. ' Mrs." Ducolng, questioned in regard to her action, said she only wanted a look at her boy's face, and had broken open the tomb with - her fin gers, removed .) the ; mortar -and bricks, drawn forth tbe ooftiu, torn off the lid, and taken the , body in her arms, with : which she was about to flee from that yard when discovered. The woman is raving mad, and calls continually, upon her poor dead boy by name. The State of Society in irk&nsas. ji. tra veler on horseback, attracted by a large numlier' ol'chililren hud dleJ around the door of au Arkan sas cabin, stopped and asked of a woman who suddeuly appeared: . 'Is this a school-house t" "Did you take it for sich f" 'Yes,: considering the nnmler of children." - "Well, I reckon - you've a right to your opinion," r "But is it a school t" , "No, it ain't." . "Are all these children yours f" "I reckiu they air, ,' Pears tome that way, anyhow." . "How do you make a living for all of them " "I don't. I turns 'em on'; an' lets 'em scratch." "Where's your husband?'" "In town." 'In business there t" ' "Yes, I reckin." "How urns has it been i since you saw him I" - "About a. year." " "Why doesn't he come to see youl" "Well, you see, them deputy martins came aloug one day an seed him bilin' some com in a ket tie. an' thev lowed' he was makin whiskey, so they took him along Look out there!" The stranger .dodged, but not quite soon enough. A boy fell from a tree under which the stranger had stonned. '-'and 'struck.'' him on the shoulder. "I didn't know he was there," said the traveler, regarding with astonishment the arose to his feet youngster who and liegan to throw dust at the horse. "I don't reckiu you .. did,'? tne woman replied, "but leinnie tell you the woods is full of 'em, au' they're liable to drap down pu you at any minit, au, as it ain't safe to stay in the timber, you'd . better take to tlii l.inr mud un1 inniwv t .ruul duv You, Ike, put (hat lizzard down.' Jipu, mat ar tarrapin ii Dite you u you put your finger in his mouth. Drap that scorpion, John, aud blow Tominj 's ' nose." Arkansas "Traveller. Bill Arp's Philosophy. Mr. Chi lyle says it is the unpre tending masses of, common work ing ieoile who move the world and keep it safe. They may not thiuk deep, but they all think, and when their thoughts come together and take shape they, generally think riglri, and that is where the old maxim came from that the voice of the people is the voice of God. Great men and eloquent men may move us and charm us for awhile, but we are happier when we come back to simple faith and stand by the old landmarks There are new inventions andnew ways aud new fashions, but there are no new principles. Human nature is just what it was 4,000 years ago. It gets better and gets worse and moves backwards and forwards like tbe swing of a eiidnlum bat its average is about the some. We used to read about those awful wars iu history. We thought they were a dreadful people, but we had one ourselves a few years ago, and it was as bad as any. There are folks killing folks all the time and folks cheating folks. The papers are generally about half fuJI of crime and patent medicine. If they can't kill us one way they will auother. This reminds ine that old Aunt Lyddy Pinkntn is dead, but her picture keeps com ng along all the same. Poor thing, I reckon she must have taken some of her medicine by mistake. The celebrated 'Fish Brand' Gills Twine ir sold only at Jacobi's Hard ware Depot. , Wilmington N. C. m the farm, displaying few comatose symptoms, and jduring the haying leriod, was as active as any. One day, however, he was. affected more than usual by the heat, and whil not overcome by it, lay down on the hay under a tree to rest, hop ing to feel better after a short nap. It proved to be'. a long one, how ever, for although his days ot con secutive sleep did not (hen begin the influence which! tended to make protracted sleep possible instituted its work. While under the tree the belief is entertained hy his mother that he suflcred sun stroke, for on beiug removed to the house he acted and talked strangely, and since seemed not to be himself. Whether it was malarial, sunstroke or the two combined that produced his present condition or not, cer tain it is that, after last Thanks giving Day, (November 30), he kept himself aloof, remained most of the time within doors and a few- days before Christmas sank into a deep sleep in his lied, continuing there until tlichvier part of Jan uary, scarcely changing his. jMisi tiou or rceognizinr -m-rsons' in at tendance aud not once rbusiuz irom ins stupor. Toward spring there was a slight chancre m the sleeper, which was manifested by an inclination to move, but he did not open his eyes, and during three months since his semi-unconscious-uess set iu he has eaten scarcely enough to sustain life. SINGULAR' SYMPTOMS. What influence kept life in him is more than anyone can tell. He was bolstered np in bed, still with closed eyes, and mouth sealed against seech. He expressed by souud or motion no evidence of suffering, and his silence seemed to indicate that his wish .-was 'sim ply to be lett alone. Later he was assisted to a sitting position but the affectionate words of his relatives were uttered in - ins ears ill vain. At last he was taken Irom the bed and his clothes put on. This was brought about with difficulty, as he was like one with uo life no muscular power. In April he began to walk tremb lingly, at first holding on by ar ticles of furniture, and afterward he could stand and walk, alone. No kintl appeal succeeded iu drawin Irom him even the reply of a syl lable. As the days came and went be walked from hislw-d to the chair and back to the bed. t Daily, like au infant, he was dressed and un dressed. Evidences of, returning strength have been marked' since the arrival of warm, weather, but reason only m part. A while back he scented the wav to thell household pantry, and he has si mil, at nearly regular intervals, oscillated be tween the chair and , cupboard shelves. When moviiiir, his eves T have oened partially, and he has uttered involuntary words only, but none which could be under stood or accepted as intellighut. On rising in the morning after sleeping soundly at night, he is regularly dressed,-like a balM,'and led to his chair, where be immedi ately sinks to sleep. When hun ger prompts, be rises, proceeds to the pantry, eats, returns to the chair, sleeps aud when night comes is undressed and goes to sleep again. In winter and early spring, or before the nature of his strange case was known, mauv visitors were admitted to see the erson ho could sleep so long and live, but of late no one is allowed to see the patient save the immediate members of his family. The period of his lethargy at this writing, covers 101 days. NVY. Hvrald. BU Fees to Lawyers. Ameiica takes the lead in big lawyer's fees, hut it Is only within a dozen years or so that, our lawyers have been so lucky. Piukuey, Webster, Choate, Johnson, Wirt, McMahon, or any of our.great law yers in time past, never dreamed of such extravagant bills as are paid to some of our attorneys of the present day. The first great fee ever brought into this country , - --NUMBEB 23 was received by ClarkaouN. Potter iu the foreclosure of the Canauda igua Railroad not many years ago. It is said that he received 9100,000 in that case. It is reported that Charles O'Connor received 7o,000 in the Jumel will wise and 100,000 iu the Par-sh will case. Iu the lat ter case Judge John K. Porter and Daniel Lord received large fees. It is stated that Henry L. Clinton charged 250,000 in the Vuiulerbilt will 'case. Judge; Geo. M. Comstock, of Syracuse, charged j and received ?o0,000. Mr. Scott Lord, the couusel for the contes tants of the Vauderbilt will, receiv ed 100,000. These immense fees are beyond anything ever known or heard of, not nily in thiscouutry but in for--eigu lands. The famous lawyers of England or France ,have never re ceived such large sums even in cas-' esof much louger continuance. During the entire eight years in which the famous Warren Hastings trials went on none of the lawyers received such heavy fees. In the even most famous case of "Jarn dyce and Jarndyce" the reporter on the c .se is sileut in regard to the fees of the couusel; .but it is to be presumed that they '. consumed the estate. Ersine, the leader of the English bar in his time, and oneot the most brilliant advocates that Great. Britain ever produced, never received a greater iucome than $12,000, and not more than $.j,000 in any one case. Sir James Scarlet, afterward Lord Abiuger, a very successful lawyer, had an income ''certainly not. exceeding Erkskine's. The same is true of Garrows. another great English lawyer- Ballautyne received from the liritish government a very large fee. for going lo Calcutta to try a murder case, but apart of it was consumed in expenses. An Unjust Assault. The New York "World" and cer tain otner journals ot smaller l in portance have objected to the elec t ion oi Samuel J. Kandall to the speakership of the federal house of representative!, on the grounds hist, that Ids views on the tariff are out of harmony with democrat i principle, and secondly because a speaker of the house during the electoral count of 1877 he ruled against dilatory motions intended to defeat the completion of the count. It strikes us that these objections to the election of Mr. Bandall are unfair and unjust. The recent de liverance of the Ohio democrats on the subject of the tariff has receiv ed the endorsement o( the journals! in question and will almost beyond doubt be iucorKrated into the platfo in of the national deinocnt-' cy in 1.S84. Mr- Randall will accept that view of the tariff; nay, ho has on more than one occasion, iu and out of congress, expressed opinions on that .question identical with the doctrine enuntiated by the Ohio democrats. The World" and the other journals '--objecting to Mr. Randall's candidacy will therefore be obliged to withdraw their oppo sition to Mr. Randall on this ground. As for the part which the ex- sKaker played iu the electoral count, it must In said, that he act ed with a large ImhIv of demircratic representatives in congres who lie- lieved that after they -had given their assent to t.ie law authorizing the electoral com mission tliey were iu honor liouml to submit to the de cision of that tribunal. The mis take was not in failing to filibus ter against the elect oriul count, but in consenting to the establishment of a tribunal unknown to the con stitution and coniMsed of men who could not rise alrove the level of the political partisan- If the op ponents ot Mr- Randall hoie to de feat his election to the sjyeaker- shio t hev must chaiiffe their tac tics. Ilurrisburg Pa) "Patriot." Embezzlement. Quite a sensation was created in Charlotte last week bv the arrest on the charge of embezzlement of t wo of the most prominent railroad men and resectable citizens in that city. On the.'kd Mr. J. E. Adams, ticket airent f Jr. -the Air Line. Richmond & Danville, and ('. ('. & A. Railroads, and'Capt. E.O Nes but, conductor on the Air "Line railroad, were arrested on the-fol lowing charge: It seems that danis has been in the habit of selling tickets unstamped which Ne.sbitt took up without punching them and they were returned into the otfice and sold over again, these two men sharing the profits. Some months ago Adams projo.s-d to Capt. Win. Ciarksoti, a conduc tor on the A. T. & O. Railroad, to e titer into the same sort of arrange ment, saying that Nesbitt and oth ers did it aud there was "big mon ey" in it. Clark son scouted at the idea and refiorted Adams the next day. Since then Adams and Nesbitt have been hadowel by detectives aud sufficient evidence secured ujrou which to base an arrest. Adams was released uon 11.500 bail and Nesbitt sent to jail be cause he could not get no one to go on his bond. "Joornal Observer." WILSON ADVANCE. ' Kates ok Advektisiso. Ope Inch, One loorttoo 1 on " " ! MonU . . j oil 1 MUu Z ?' poth .... m Liberal Diaoounta will be made for Ijuvim Adwuaomeota ami for Contract bj the Y.-ar Oaah moat accompany aU AdvTti,.m. nt . nliaaiwklrefoenoelaatwgn. FIGHT IN CHURCH. -:o:- TWO MINISTEKS FIGHT AX1 FALL INTO THE WATEB. A DISaiiACEFUI. SCBSE. 1 Jartford, Conn., June 2d. The Ilev. Dr. Parker aud the Rev. Mr. Everts Indulged in a tierce fight, in the baptismal taunt of the Son' It Baptist church Sunday afternoon. For a long time Congregationalism had been striding to capture the church. The Rev. Ari Everts is1 pastor of the muclMHiveted "prize while the Rev. Dr. J'arker is the leader of Congregationalism. It -seems that-Dr. Parker concehed . the purpose ot baptizing a score or two of young children in the bap tist r r the .South Baptist. He was ivssesscd of this notion as his solemn dot v, aud he according ly iK-guilesl a large numitcr of his parishioners aud their children In to his scheme. It was detided that it should Ih carried into elTe t, at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. At the appointed hour a procession was formed. At the headf the procession was a double quartet. led by a hand-organ, which had re cently bceu repaimlatcoiisiilerable cost. Besides nearly '20d chihlren in the procession, there was fully that number of adults, men and women, mostly pareuts of the chil dren. - - Arrived at the church, the door of which were uiilocked,t lu prH-ess ion entered and took . nsessio:i. liy this time the sacristan had no titled the Rev Mr. Everts, who quickly sent for the deacons.. Mean while the Rev. Dr. Parker and his crowd had turned on the water, which was rapidly tilliim the great tank used for baptisms. Children were lieihg prepared lor receiving the rite, and the Rev. Dr. Parker was excitedly spurring on" his fol lowers iu what he called a hatc for Congregationalism. Presently the Uev. Mr. .... ::j arrived, followed by his deacons. He protested to Dr. Parker ag inist the outrageous intrusion, but the reverend doctor simply replied that he was determined to finish what he had come to do. lie fore. the great tank had filled, the spacious edifice was resounding with inquir ies, protestations ami recrimina tions. Ranged aiouml the baptist try were the chihlren vhoiii r. Parker had now lcguii to baptize. The invading party s ouid not be persuaded to leave. It became painfully . evident that a lletce strife was to take place. While ne women ami elders of the two congregations were making pin e moil ill ill of the Jilaee, the lvn inlil- isters carried ona bitter war of words between themselves, Ir.; barker proct;ediug all the while with bap tizing the chihlren who stood about with blaiichc.il faces ami forms that shmjk with fright. Suddenly a struggle be I ween the t'.vo sides broke out in earnest. Au indescribable scrimmage took, place. The shrieks of childieu, tne wailing infants, and the imploi ins of worn en mingled w ith the angry cue of pastors ami ofiiccraof (he contend ing congregations- Many women fainted, and many had their Sun day clothes almost torn off them. Dr. Parker and - Evert ts had a terrible strnggje. They bent, each other aud tore, each other's hair frightfully, and filially fell into the im incline tankf firmly grasping each other. So buy were the other lighters that t hey could nut observe the accident that ha;jeii ed.to their pastors Policeman COllId llotlte follnd, but a few solM-r-miiided men of 'either parish combined to remote order. By this time the mad tlht in the tank was disrovered, and some of the, icacemakers turned tlicir at tention to the Hirt:u'X pasuus. It was found imMssjl(le to tear them apart, so they wcie taken out locked iu a fierce einhraee and Iroth uucyonscious. Tln-y were final ly seitratcd though they clung to each other with the tenacity ot drowning men Hid resuscitated. After a litlte talking, the ministers were reconciled. t 1 ' -A sad ruor prevailed that sever al oi the young children weie drowned in the baptistry, , but a careful search made ofthe prem ise discovered no bodies. That several were not killed in the fear ful struggle is a miracle. Main. a.... is.ftri.iMt tj.tlu.ir i.edrt fmm tlie U . I , .Ilill.IV'. - - - - effects of fright. Both ch-rgyuK-u are In a sad condition, mentally and physically. The unfortunate affair has scandalized the whole Christian community. Did the prophet Isaah ever eat at a railroad station! It certainly looks so, for how could he descri b it so literally if he had hot I "And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry: and he shall eat on the left band, M they shall not be satisfied." A fine assortment of Guns and Pistols at Jacobi's Hardware De pot. Wilmingtou, N. C. i