North Carolina Newspapers

W J LSOK ADVANCE. rruLisHKU I'vkrv Friday at Wilson, Nokth Cakolina. -nv JOSEPHIS ll.MELS4 - Editor ami Prpririr -:o:- Srnsi RrrnoN Batks in Apvance t ne Year-.--SiX MnThs . S no 1 (J rT'Mi)' tsn ,w sw'it- ly Money Order or ic.iristi-n a Letter at our risk. tiKrii'E-Tnrliort sini-t, in the (1.1.1 l'ot office HuiMinif ...... t. . urnrnr X ( ) ' A W h L K i -: li ; ATI I Ki.' I'A TIM M ALL PA KTS 1 ' M TIIH WOULD. I ; " , i ll.SCltl i A us -?. a I. EA A- A os ; i . . i Ransom's health, is nil- j Senator lioviiiLr. Durham will i'"1 co Fair I In- ear. - the Tobac- Maj. Win- -V. 'i'itli, of .Johnson, ha- gone ."i""'1, l'r 'nedicaj Meat men!. . It is untrue, that llohleu will he connected Willi the ''State Chroni cle." ,'. ' ' I'dward A. Oldham is to assist W: M. Page on tin- "State Chroni cle." The weather i-always very re markable for the. season (if-the year. A Green si torn man shipped ten tons of dried, blackberries to Van keeiloiu. . A colored man in Winston eat thirty pounds of 'tvatet melon at one sitting. Two Illinois voting men fought a duel last week and both were killed. Silly hoys! The Winston "Sentinel,'" one of the best, papers in the State, is to he enlarged. A South Carolina 'preacher shot an obstinate organ because he coiildn 'l play it. Gov. Hidden has ?i;o,IMM in U. S. Itomls. So much m lk' Ironi the republican cow . The Durham "Recorder" ha- a subscriber who has l.cen taking the paper since 1S-J i. The Tolshnt "Suniu Ilonie" tells of a man I sears old; w Ijo lias never received a letter. The postmaster at Atlanta, Ga has liccu removed', on account of a deficit ot.",0tl() or -C.iMlO. . Dm ham will spend 'rio.iioo in im proving the r tads leading into that town and it will pay well. A Pitt county farmer refused to giving lodging to .Mormon preach ers one night last week. Correct! Mr. Josiah Hvaus will begin the publication of a weekly newspaper Sept. Lt;, at Favettevifle.to, lie called the "Sun." . Virginia, Delaware and 'Mary land -arc the only states that have the whipping post.. Canada fol lows suit. .- . (jov. Jarvis having gone to the Boston Exposition Lt. Gov. Robin son is acring Governor, . Gov. Rob inson sounds well ! The late cyclone in Minnesota is said to have deshoyed over one million dollars worth of property and thirt-four lives. The Roanoke "News" is enlarged and improved. We read no paper with more interest and 'we are glad j to note its prosjN-rify. . j " ! We a;e pleased to note that our young friend P. W. Wiley has been i appointed to examine and pass up-1 on printing done for the State. lie saiil he'.l h'anged -it her bangs didn't bang out anything he ever saw this side of Itangor, whtye he once ran a " licbang" of his own. A lawyer in. Elizai-eth City re centlv bought a second hand law hook from Loudon which contained a card bearing the name, "J. P. Benjamin.' Some level -headed IWs in At laiita have assoiiiated t iiemselves ,,,.. 1. . i . i . , , i together and taken a p cd"e not to1 . ''l,,".-, ooi io ! lei cream any girt who ban rs fieri hair. Sensible hoy- Among the patents ined j fO-j Aortli ( arobnians in July we tind one issued to John ('. Williams of Scotland Neck, on a -machine for measuring flagging and other fab rics. : P i in ifTiipi ion oi . die oicauo on. the islaiid of Krakatoa continues; a part of . lava is covered w ith ashes, mud 'a ild stones: crops are ruined;, several settlements have been swept away by tidal waves. -ex-judge of maiiv years' ex perience says that for eVery jut sou that commits suicide from dis appointment in lve there are ten who do s Ih1!11u,, ,,( insanit y re sulting from -drunkenness. " r , ... , 1 S lVs: "Those w ho are n,.7. iV "' a'"-'f K colossid - fort- lines belon- to tlu. a,,,,.,,,.,., to in ii. .V ",,t ,,( U ''''''ed ! doctor Ii ,,1 b'tt".'" W'VV ,ht,i ; "' "' s,"rs u. . . Tliei,. j.. ., ..,,. , , great deal l iilMiiit the p, talk oav r.. , 1 . . i 1 1 111 restilei.t 1 ne 1 line fit IHMi.Uin travtdlino- a. 111 hi leci'eatlOII. Let thi; I... o)K'ii : He is alxmt a.- 'Iheieiit i.HKota as in Washingtoi, f S.'coi.d 1 win. Joseph B. llat, :. ' ;.'r,,h Infantry has bee,, de tailed as ' professor of millitary science and ta-tles.-at the Bingham . ....... v,uui-e county, N. (' take etlect October 1st., 188... to T l ie strength' of man's teudenev roiu.ti. t 1 - iiiui raicu leeentlv in lmci,,,, i., ...1 ,..., .mien was . uiiKtr-iteil ., .. wlieiC 11 iMuglar was found in sound slum - 1 onlJZZ,S?' ,Vter V.th ' "i.i.c4cii aryuuu Uim. VOLUME HI A inaii living near Bethel, Pitt : ' -"ty, has sent his dog (a yaller ! lazv good-tor-nothing Ci mine) to his j mother-in-law in Winston, says the ! ".Southerner."". Won't she. make it htt f"r ? - The Asheviile '-Citizen'' makes the prediction, which we have no doubt will le verified, that in ten years Western North Carolina will octroi t!ie apple, market of the United States and of the. world. A Maine girl didn't want her ovt.,. (o .(me ;l iM)at ajt(.,. j,,,,. U) canst; she didn't desire to read in the papers that "Matihiy'SIoeurn is up lor repairs." 'Matildy Slocuni is in the dock to be scraped," etc. 'Is there anything wrong iu kiss 'nigf he asked her, as they stood together at the garden gate. 'Oer tainiy there is.' win; briskly replied ; then-slowly and softly added, after a pause, -if there's any one look ing"" At the last. term, of Granville In ferior Coiut the Grand Jury pre sented every sucrvisor ol public roads. If the. supervisors in some other counties we. know of were presented there would be better roads. ' : Mr. Ja sa'.s the ' . Wiggins id" Weldon, News," while trving to kill a chicken with a gun lnissed 1 district as their candidate for Con ine fowl and hit Miss Willie Wig- i ... ,";,. ..... e-,.....! i- gins, mulcting a slight tlesh wound. We hope she was not "chicken hearted."' . A sensatorial story comes from the Yellowstone "country that the cowboys have formed a plot to capture the President.' and hold him lor ransom, and we have no doubt there are plenty of .innocent minded peeple w ho w ill believe it. The Shelby "Aurora"' says the' oft repeated account of the Mor mons baptising three nude women J near Duncan's Yeek, Putlierlord I county, this summer' is false. It? existed only in the imagination of, some liar, as no such baptism ever j occurred. Three white women have been mobbed at Trenton, N. J. , for flirts iug with negioes, the mob" being composed af colored w omen whose husbands had been led v-stray by the plain sirens. It will take a ; long 1 inn: to nib out the color line in Mew Jersey. ' A friend in Ottawa. Kansas, writes that there are a dozen men, confirmed drunk. lids, who came there lieea use -of the prohibition which prohibited, and have suc ceeded in. reforming because the 'temptation of the saloon did not ex ist. "Spirit of the Age." Florida has a "good law on the license question. Before a man can get a license to sell, he has to ob. tain the signature tif a majority of the legal voters in which he pro poses to sell.. The majority 'could quietly refuse to sign , and there, w ould be no dead falls. Gen. Clingman has a patent on his electric' light. He says he is going to give the children of the State better, educational advan tages with the fortune he is going to make. His electric light eau be constructed one-third cheaper than Edison's and is equally as good. ' I We are informed, savs the Loiiis- burg "Times," that a difficulty took place in Cypress township, a few ,avs a "go, between Dr. A. S. Harris, in which the negro broke Dr. IPs thigh lioiie with a rock, and in re- turn Dr.il. shot the negro in the shoulder w ithl a 'double-barrelled, shot un. President -Arthur's daughter. Miss Nellie, ami different' members of his Cabinet, are tak'iig cruise on the .-''Government vessels. It don't cost anyt Uing aoii know and therefore the riding is so pleas ,nt. '-.The'; Constitution gives lliein no such privileges, but wha'. .odds for that f They do the riding ami the 'people do the paying.' New Jersey has ii.vei.te 1 an ar tificial egg. A plaster of paris shell is tilled with a preparation of :.. .1 ; ...I .. ....I. .. ...1 ..!..,.. mil mil r ii. nil n .-i .in 11 ami i iu-i - i . i .1 i ' .Moi-clien ts .and the iiro.luct is ln- . .. i . 1 i 4 ii i . o.i ii l.-ii.t i ut: in I.I--II-- iiiii ii 1 eral apiiearance from Jhe geiiu- ine aim ic. a u oi noi naicii, iw.il ..r lieii'it- i:iil- tin. nriisiieets are bright for New Jersey and dim for the hen family, flic lieu must go! "" " .. Eliza Baggs. of Sumterville, Fla.. I belongs' to a prolific family. Slie j married at thirteen, and, though j now only thirty out ', is the juother; of eighteen children, of whom til ! teen are living. She had twins j tw ice. She is liale and hearty, and j is said to be a very hard worker. ! She had three sisters. One. w ho is ! dead, had fourteen children, and ; died at twenty-six. The others: have eighteen elr.Idreii each. A Pittsburg widow lias adopted : a new and successful way 'to collet i old debts. The Beaver Savings .; , r..;i...i .. r..,. .l-.v. i ago: the widow had on de,.sit s've' tliousand dollars, iioing to tint president she drew a revolver, auiMieiiiaiideduie ainoum in ".! giving linn his choice between a ..i i . , i se; I lement or ilivitl. 1 1. .lem mi reil :ir first, but seein-Mhat she wa in .....i,...i i,L..'- .l .n ... r ... .l.ai.... the entire auiount. - The young ladies of New York are original in their progressive notions. Last week one of the belles of Gotham had a quarrel with her. sweetheart and, in language of the small boy- of the the street, "shook'' him. She immedi- ate,.v thereafter sent scented notes 10 an ot iier hik ins iriem s at " . menus at - ,,1. .;,,;.,, n...... r... 11.. i-o..i-.... r"""iiiiii im in nnni.ui ti llieiatl. 1 A a sodal advettising metlium the , iYMk ,,t Uo ls MerM oc.pai POLITICAL POINTS -:o:- W J I AT TU E POLITICIANS ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE POLITICAL CALDEOX. Jere Black described Garfield as "a sheep in wolfs clothing." , It is rumored that Pat. Winston, of Winston, js going over to the Liberals. Js it true! ; The Asheyille "News" hoists the names of Joseph B. Hawley of Goiin'. for President, and Bobert Lincoln of 111. for Vice President. j "Wood ""pulp" Warner,- U. S. Senator from New l oi k, says Blaine can get the nomination for the Presidency if he desires it. Well, Je Miles desires it, .so let the nomination proceed. The IJepublicans, we hear, will perhaps choose, K. A. White, late CollH tor df Revenue of the. -2nd the dea'h of W. F. Pool, in the 1st district. On the other hand the Kepubli- can platform has never given an uncertain' i-nund. It always has genuine ling," is the remark of the Washington "Republican." The fact is that t he rnig is just what the people object to. A corresiKindtiit of the Boston "Herald" says : H fever man hoped for, if ever a candidate looked for. ll'e presidential nomination, - in my ".judgment, Mr. Jauiek .G. Blaine is hoping for and looking for a presi dential nomination todav." Dr. J. J. Molt, Col. Wm. - John son and Dr. N'oiinent were "closet ed"' in Charlotte last week. They are going to start a Liberal "organ," and the last two named are to be the editors. They, have assessed the ollice holders !17,00i) to start the enterprise. - , The Boston "Herald"'' says that to nominate President Arthur be cause lis is a good fellow," and has done. better than 'expected of him, would be to abandon the fighting chance for success which is "all the pat ty has, from the present out look At .a -conference, inj Washington City, at which Gens. Mahoue, Long-street, Chalmers and others were present, it was generally agreed that a 'determined effort should be made to extend the "in dependent movement, throughout the South." .Senator Ransom was in Wash ington recently and was interview ed by a reporter of the Washing ion ( :rit1e. The reporter asked: , -How is the political atmosphere!' -All right. You see that there is more dissension among the Repub licans than with us." "How about the old ticket of 1S7(! for President Mid Vice-Presi- dent." "North Carolitm will nominated, but I div.'t she will otand in the She may be for my McJ lonald, of i n.li ma.' go for it if know, how convention, old friend J. E O Hala. the colored Con gressman elect from the second dis trict, has been dined in Boston by some of the swell daikeys of that city, and in hi.; post prandial sjieech said the colored' man has little to hope for from either the Republi can or Democratic parties, and that on the coming national election the policy of the negroes will probably be tost and aloof from both parties and so make t iiemselves felt. He thinks that .eventually they w ill be come a 'political power, like Pat or Hans, whom both '"'parties desire on I election dav. - - ; IHiW HAM'i it'K W AS 1K1KATK1. The New York "Sun" of yester day inoi n iug T'i in ts copies of twenty or more-letters whieh passed dur ing the ''presidential campaign of lssp between '-Garfield,,;. Dorsey, Blaine, Allison, Foster, Morton, and other Republican '-leaders' and the Republican National Committee. The letters from Garfield are to Dotscy and Governor Jewell, and relate chietly to the conduct of the campaign, in Indiana. The "Sun" : as,-,'ti "'" 'ally that these letters ; prove that General Hancock was defeated by the use of large sums of moneV illegally expended in Tndi 1 iJ.,,,-i al,a ami elsewhere witti the knowl- s kihwi 1 ut' General Garfield and the t niaiiarer,: of lo's e nm. .;.. ! - . - , - Why I Meyer Married. A lady writes an: 'article .for- the Winston Leader" on J Why I nev er married." ..Her', first offer was "a handsome yout h of sixteen, but 1 not u-i.lt M,iit....'tA.i .111.1 1 health." It couldn't have taken . - ' v' ' nl u ,,.ii i . i.- a very ; --" .......u i-. ii.-i.-i ..n u il ieill- i tation as that. , The seeonJl offer was -a widower i old enough to be uiy lather, hand- WlLSOI "LET ALL TIIE EDS THOU AWST AT, BE TI1V COUXTHV'S, WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 7. 1883. some, well educated, good poor as a legrar, fond of being waited on, and verv extravagant." Anyliodv could have rejected such an offer as that poor and; proud it was. ; , ' ' The third was "a youth who looked like a great over-grown ba-! by staffed with sweat meats, little ! eyes, big jaws and cheeks, narrow! brow and red lace.' Of course, what lady conld have fancied him, without money, as it seems he- was., - The fourth chance was "a widow er, old enough for my grand father, poor, lazy, could fiddle, and that hvas his only recommendation." A poor chance, most assuredly. The fifth was "a tall, pale, intel lectual young man no common sense who quoted poetry and raved abont my auburn hair and glorious brown eyes." ' Not much in him to take a young girl from home, though many have lieeu car lied away with just such. The sixth was "a. substantial, w ell-to-do farmer, who talked about his 'crop,' and hadn't an idea be yond his money and farm." A woman of sense couldn't afford to surrender to him. . The seventh was "a very wealthy old bachelor, who loved his money too well to make me comfortable. He was good looking, intelligent, honest, and has much to recom mend him, but I'd have to beg for a calico dress, so I'll stay single and put up with my small income." It is quite noticeable that the writer speaks of this last man in the present tense, all the rest in the past. "lie has much to recommend him," she says. It is evident that there is a spark of partiality that might easily be kindled into a blaze, and we guar antee success if he will go buck and urge his suit. Letter From Seven Springs Although yon have a good niany subscribers to your, interesting pa per in this cinity my eyes are never greeted with the news of our thriving and popular resort. It has never occurred to me before to drop you a few lines, always as others waiting for some one else. Our springs are indeed growing in to quite popular uotice, and deserv edly so. And to those who may not have been so fortunate as to visit theui I will give a faint .des cription of the locality and salubii-. tv. They are situated almost in a central point between Gohlsboro, Kinston, La Grange and Mt. Olive, in what might be termed the trian gle formed by the W. & W., and Midland R. R's., and at a distance of about 18 miles from each one- Approached in but tw o directions, but which are in the summer quite pleasant roads. Steamers ply the Neuse to White Hall, a village of olden time notoriety, frequently during the summer,'-and take the visitors upon most enjoyable ex cursions. Pic-nics both private and public are continuous the. season through, and most pleasantly end i" a ball at night. The. water is as suredly most healthy. Each spring possesses a separate and distinct analysis, that is, those that have as vet been tested. But three have been submitted to the chemist's ex amination, and I may say with very satisfactory result. It is a shame that mineral waters, of such curative properties as they possess, right here in in the center ol our eastern country, where something is si) needful to sustain and invigo rate the system through the mala rial season, that this remedy that nature seems to so purposely have m-ovided for the emergency, should : ' be so unappreciated and neglected. The analysis of the other 4 springs should by all means be procured. Who knows but1 that something might be discovered that would prove an antidote for that dreadful and dire 'enemy that invests our land in summer ami autumn sea sons. We have visitors now from all parts of Eastern N. C , and some from further West, among whom are ladies and gentlemen from your town in abundance, some from Pitt. Edgecombe, Nash, Wayne. Lenoir, Craven, Onslow, Sampson. Duplin, Beaufort. Jones, and l ist but not least, Greene. A great many t ome from Snow II ill seeking health, and invariably return very much bene fitted, la fact no one who once comes here hesitates to speak most favorably of the effects ol the water. VtPI MX'. Aug. 188.! TDe Desecration of Snnday. Ale Perry, (col.) has left for parts unknown. He got to selling wine on Sunday during the big ineetiu at Union Chajiel, aud this being considered a nuisance by some of the .good people iu the neighbor hood, he vaiiKxised. "Torch Light.' Good riddance! The people ol 'Wilson county ought to work up thy publie sentiment! - such a health ti..ir o min could sell whiskev. or i iliai no man t.oiuu s-iu Ulwr,'i " ; cider or water melons at OUT "Dig It is ik-mor rliziiei and should not be tolerated. STARTING A PAPER -:o:- WIIY AN ARKAXSAW ENTER PBISE WAS ABANDONED. TltE ElUTOliS ALVOCXT. Captain Lomotil has just returned from interior county, where he went sometime ago to establish a much needed and loudly-demanded newspaper. When he left Lit tle Rock he was so full tif. hope, and so confident - that his enter prise would prove a success, that his sudden reappearance and dec laration that his venture was a fail ure, created an inquiring interest among his friends. "Why did yon give up the en terprise, captainf he w as asked the other evning. "Well," he replied,, blowing .a cloud of smoke over the head of a short man who sat on the opposite side of the table, "I did not receive sufficient encouragement to con tinue, but received a great deal of it to quit- Arkansaw may be f he future home of the country paper, but at present I am inclined to be lieve that the hand press and the roller are mistaking their calling, and misappropriating the wisdom oftradition, when they assume citizenship under the rural pine tree. Sometime ago 1 heaid that Bugleville . wanted a newspaper, and .that the citiensof the pros perous place were so rife for a lo cal puolication that they would willingly contribute toward -the perinameiit establishment ol a weekly journal. I w rote, to a lead ing citizen of the tow n, and his reply fairly blazed with encourage incut. "Of course we want a news . . . . . i . paper, lie said, 'and to 'show you now anve our citizens are, come over and see what they propose' to put ii p by way j of a starter.' I went over. .Everybody was glad to see me, and with considerable ceremo ny I was conducted around -the town, consisting of a few board stores, a saw-mill, a blacksmith shop, an undertaker's establish ment, which seemed to be the liv est institution in the place. Final ly we met in a back lot, and held a meeting in regard to the paper After numerous speeches, it was agreed to grant me twent v live acres of land, situated near: town and then further tO promote the matter, the mayor declared that he would give me a mule. This seem ed encouraging enough, and 1 in vested what money I had in an office I soon got things in running shape, and by w ay of originality, I called m v paper the "Shark". 1 did not attempt to canvass for .subscription until the first number was issued, preferring to let the people see what I could do. When the paper came out, I went aiound town, having hired an apt penman to accompany me, and take down the names of the subcribers, w hile J solicited and called them oil". 'The first man we struck said: "Certainly, you can put me down." For a year V 1 asked Oh, yes. or for tw o years.' - "1 am tniuch , obliged'lo you,' I gratefully replied. "Not at all. Needn't write out a .receipt, for you see, out-- acr the forty-live given vou, was e of do- nated by me. I don't think . that you will have any trouble running a paper on forty-live acres of land, for I understand that 'some of the most successful papers in the coun try are operated on 'a basis ol about te:: acrcs- "I moved away, somew hat disap pointed. The next . gentleman, an intelligent looking fellow said; "I have alw ays been .regarded as the most enterprising man in this community, and 1 must say that I am proud of the distiiiotfoii. I was the fust man to suggest the estab lishiucnt of a newspaper, and I shall lie by no means small in , my supiKut. Put me down for two subscribers hold on, put me dow 11 for tin uc, as 1 want to send a copy to my brother. No, a receipt, is' unnecessary. Ten acres of the j forty-live, were donated by me. ; Just give me credit on your books': for the balance." . This dug deep into my tlesh, but e f-eeiiied to be so interested in I my success that I could not t. II him. how Ilougedto stand Hat footed on : the too of atiarrel and split ah oak board over his head. ... The next imui we approached was very warm in his praise of my teiiiions; but I decided upon la-ing careful. The land-racket had Ih-cu worked on me just a little too of- ten and was in a fair way to bank- ; nipt my scheme- fi ''Did you contribute any ot .the fortv five acres!" 1 asked, "Not" a foot," he repiafeil, "but not liecause I did not ' favor, tliet (,uiet and' "entltj -as a dove. The j project. 1 am a surveyor, jiossess a iair degree of intelligence aud .. . : . 'shall lie. more man pleased wnen 1 ou nave noiKt-u up a good circu- lation. 1 . You will of course subscribe!" Advance TI1V GOD S, AXD TRUTHS': "Oh, yes, lor two copies." "I. must insist on pay in ad vance, kI said wlien after a few mioments he still made no lnove nient toward handiug out the money. ' "You are right," he replied. "I've always rliought that newspaper men were indiscreet in giving cred it. Say, there's a little balance on our account. You see, 1 survey- i ed the forty-five acres " j 'Good d ly, sir," and with iudig- j nation that lent agilitv to my "legs, w alked away. Soon after I met the mayor who subscribed for ten opies on the strength of the mule, ind a little further on I met a man who wanted to be put down for six months because he had fed the mule. . "I decided to sell the land, and one dav went out for the first it line to estimate its value. It was on one side of a mountain and stood on its edge. A thrifty German, who owned a farm adjoining my laml, said that he plowed by means of a windlass at the top of the land. When the plow was wound up he would throw it down, and a man stationed at the lwttoiu would arrange it for another furrow. lust as I was about to close a trade with the German, the sheriff came out and seized the land for noii 'pay ment of taxes. ,1 went, back to town and offered my ollice for sale. when one of the leading , citizens mounted a stump and said: "This is the return we get for kindness, fellow citizens. We start ed him in business, gave him lands ind stock, now he wants to desert us. We'll give him fifteen minutes in which to leave tow n." 'I w ent, to the stable to get my mule. Iltj was lying down ' in the stable w hen I entered, but I arous ed him, put a bridle on him, and left.' The mule staggered, and by the lime I had gotten two miles from town, he laid dow n and died. Then 1 started on foot, ami after walking sixty miles reached the railroad. I still own the office, and am willing to sell at a reason able tigiire." "Arkansaw Travel- er. Big Snakes, Little Snakes, Snake Skeletons. and The best plate we, hear, of now for editors who niav fall short of (ropy is Manitoba. There is a horse-shoc-shaped .mountain.'' in Manitoba which is literally alive with snakes. A trustworthy cor. respondent writes that there-is a perpendicular hole i ii the -solid rock about, fifteen feet deep, like a large well, where probably five hundred thousand snakes used to gather from all parts of the sur rounding prairie to pass the winter 111 the subterranean passages lead ing from it in all directions at the bottom. Some of the passages are large enough for a man to crawl through, bnt the stench is to strong. In the spring they would scatter out through the adjoining country so thickly they would become a common nuisance. If a -man left his coal on the ground in the Held a score or. more of them would craw l under it, and they often took .possession of a large shanty then used as a church on Sundays, frightening the ladles' out of their w its, and forcing t em to stand on the seats and shriek for protec tion. It was finally decided to ex terminate them if possible, and one mild winter abont eight years ago. after they had gathered into t lie pit, a wall was built around the mouth'')!' it inclining inward a little, and two foxes and a setter Jlog were put down to kill f he in. Three wagoir : loads of skeletons were taken out in the sprii :g for a lion fire." '' . i , Breaking up an Elopement. A young fellow from the country, whose manhood is. a wreck and whose finances aie more -dilapidat ed, all from dissipation, had won the affections o I a pretty count r maiden, and insisted on meeting her against a stern father's will. ; A' few nights ago they met and were arranging an elopement.'' The spot they had selected for their tryst was near an old family J)iir ing iind the hour was near .-midnight- Tliev made 110 definite plan, owing t,t. j.;rl's perverseness, and the ! tellow was suing earnestly, when a groan was heard among the graves and a white form rose up and ad- vaneeti ioani iiiv; uiquc. teiint.i ..ftl.en. conld sneak or more. The tignre moved slowly forward, the j where there was some talk of get eyes seemingly blazing and the ' ting up a nectie party this niorn Imi. cs clanking as it stepped j,,," When in a lew feet of the lovers it j 7Iol,niUl - represented asa spoke in a scarcely articulate tone, ' v , , , . - , , telling the youth to .'-liegone !" as !-.. lull bhxMled Afriean, while 'his obiect was to desty the iriii's ' the irirl is said to lie but sixteen happiness after getting her money. The young fellow slid on his knees, and promised to go if he was. He. VMXiviX ten ! , s0(.onus to get out of '-sight, when the girl kneeled over in a faint, and the young m.iu started ou a i" Tor home. .Then the old man threw down a sheet on wh eh some nll(KI1inrill1s i,.,! w...., mbliedand some old dead cow bones he had 1 1.1 . . . picked up, took ins gin into m i arms, and carried her uito the i house. '"The young fellow has left the -country, and the girl is as , old man is liajipy, and gives his daughter all tlie presents aud at - 1 t..n t ii r. ln i-:in but l.is ntvpf tul.l . . , , hu n:rt : 111 tlm transaction - anil k1i his part m the transaction, and she hasnever spoken-a word of the terror that drove her lover from her side. American "Recorder." (REVOLTING GASES. :o: WHITE GIRLS ENTICED FROM HOME BY NEGROES. -:-' . " THREE OVCl liliEXCES. was wrong. The girl is only six- , ! teen years old and is said to le Alas! there are abundant signs!.,. x. ,.. , .... . . , i tine looking. When, she arrived that the days of sorrow and dis- ,, , . . ,. ' . , , , . ,i at Hamlet she wore a shabby dress grace from race adulteration snilii,., . ..... ... ' . " n , .,. ! bnt shortly al rewards i came out in niisee!enat ic causes, are fast drift-; . ' . - .. - T ... mg down upon ns, says the "Farmer and Mechanic. It is a well -fixed law of nature that baser elements absorb the purer. Mingle; a drop of water and a drop of ink, ; .iiil"von will blacken the water.: and not whiten the. ink.. Mix the ! bloods of whites 3u.d blacks, and j vou will not elevate the negro, but ' onlv Pull down the whites. TheS basest creatures whom .God allow to walk the earth as men are -the "half breeds," "peors" of Mexico, the Apaches with white fathers, and the Henry Berry Imwery classes. ' For these reasons - we have 017 posed the color-line by mixed Con ventions like the Prohibition affair, j the review, ing of negro troops by the Governor, ami all such meth ods of procedure. We believe the tendency of them all is to break down the color-line; and it requires no prophet to see that w lieu the race line begins to relax there will be daily scandals such as the two which last week ; caused the Old North State to lie sneered at by thousands of the Yankee fanatics who made such occurrences jiossi ble by forcing the negro upon us as a political element. The day may come within the lifetime of some who readtliese lines when nearly all rietT negroes will have white wives', perhaps the grand daughters of their old masters; and rich negro women will have w hite husbands, perhaps sons : of the very men who are now most prominent citizens. CASE SUMBEB (INK. Charlotte "Observer" says: - The two walked into the city at an early hour but. were- not seen again until a Unit noon when the girl was found to have taken temporary refuge in a house of ill repute the owners of w hich, having seeii.her passing by In com pany with, he negro and with the Matthews Station case fresh on their minds, called her in'and sent for the. police. The negro taking alarm fled and has not since lieen seen. The police arrested the girl and carried her to K. P. Osborne's office, where air investigation into the cas'- was made. .The girl was under the influence' of liquor and it was impossible ti get an iutelligible account from. her. She stated, howe ver, that her name was Lizzie Hen derson, and she came from Lnion county. Her father, Thomas Hende son, was dead, and since his death her mother married a "man name Col. Kendall, and is now living near Davis' mine, in Union. She had been unable to live peaceably with her stepfather, and her mother finally told her she had belter go seek a home elsewhere, and. yesterday morning turned her adrift, with a gift before leaving home. Th ne gro who was .with her, she states is named Bill Gregory, and she has know n him all her life." A STILL SADDER CASK. i -"-- ; ! Wilmington "Review" says: "On ! Tuesday a ' colored man and a white girl eloped together from ! Kevser, on R. & R. A. L. The uia 11 is named Frank Holbnan and the girl is tue daughter of Mr. Eli Mcleod, a very respectable citizen and a turpentine man at Kevser ; Holhnan had been employed by i Mr. Mcleod and on Monday last j Wils j,al,i oft' by' him, receiving 1 considerable- amount-.', of money, j- That night he disappeared and i the girl was also, found on Friday j morning to le -missing. They were ; fonnd at Matthews. on Tnesday afternoon, and the girl was taken , into custody and Hollman fled, ! but was captured afterwards near,j i Charlotte. The parties were j jou'lif down the road last night U1(1 w(.re met ilt na,lct by a par- i ty who took them on to Keyser, vears of ae, although she apt .ear- ed to 1h- at lea.sX 20. She savs, w e understand, thai it was her fault w hile Hollman is'jnst as generous, and says that he ' . h-rsuaded the girl to elope with him-" The Chariot "Jounial-O bser ver". says: The girl was weeping .bitterly, and for sometime would ; noj answer a question, but tinallj- ,"8,e t J(l theni tuat .Blje. ia(iiKen 1 over-Iersuaded and had run away from her father's house, iu 3Ioore j county, the night previous with tin j negro. . . - Her father's name, she said, wi ' i , . , ! Sram wa seut hnD' a,,d au answer was hortly received, re- questing them to hold the girl, --NUMBER 30 who was really his daughter, and who had run away with the uegro. Mr. McLeixl had been hunting for her, and telegraphed that he would reach Matthew's on the first train; ('apt. lr lv. F. Everitt, Vondnctor of the Central train, says that the couple Intarded the train at Ham let and he noticed their queer ac tions and surmised that something . - ...... VIWII.VO, j other jewelry, a gold iietTkhice, and line 1l1lil:lV - J.l.-lMi.kC H'.iflri.li& was otherw ise stylishly dressed." THK Allprt-TOU'S CAI'TOKS BE- WAlillKll. 1 Mr- Eli McLood, father pf the wh" ""s ubducted Iron, Moore Vo,,n' b ' "egro named I ra,,k "oilman yesterday paid the Ju,r of ,I",,"! P"ian I it will be remembered, was eaptur ediat the house five miles from of Mr C II Wulfr' Charlotte, by a par- ty from Matthews' Station, at which plane he got otf the cars with the girl. ANOTIIKK SIMM. AK CASK. We had hoped, says the "Journal Observer," that we were through tor n tune at least, with reporting cases ol white women running otf with ncgrtH's, having noted two cases in (puck succession, but yes i 1 terdav another ctise was brought to our notice- A negro man aecom panied by a white women was seen strolling about Rockingham and it was soon ascertained that they were trying to find somebody to marry them. I he officials hearing of it. had them arrested and. after trial, sent them to jail "Southerner' Notes A gentleman who returned from Nash court this week says the apple crop Is a failure. It is as inqiossi bleto manufacture apple jack with out apples as it was for the Israe lites to make bricks w ithout straw A famine in apples means : famine in jiickj and this is w hy the Nash man sits down am weeps, refusing to le comfort, ed. . Mr. Frank Duprce, a constable in Falkland township, Pitt county, hist Saturday attempted to serve a warrant upoii one Wm.Oten, col oreil, who was charged with assault upon a negro with a pistol at th church. Oteii fired three times at the constable, each ball passing through his clothing, but not touch in' the skin.- The .countable in refill 11 fired five times at the tl 11 kev. but it is believed without etfe ;t.J Oteii cscai ed. We have information to the effect" I that while the pupils in a public school near Wllliamston, to t lit number ,(' sixty, were at their studies on 1 hursdav, the.v were frightened nearly to death by tlu crushing of glass, and the next 1110 meat through the broken window sprang Abner Easoii, a 'deranged man. lie Was armed with a club ami swore he would kill t he teacher. Several of the female pupils faint ed, but the teacher attacked the maniac, and alter a desperate st niggle overpowered him. Euson was taken home. The next day he escaped lieiu there, and g ting to the house oi Mr. James Lanier, broke i i! while the family were at supper, and attacked the entire family, lie had to lie knocked senseless ere he vyas subdued. Dm ing t he heavy stoi 111 Friday night the gin house on Capt. Win. Tobb's plantation was - fired by liiilit ninr ;.itnl entirely consumed. Luckily there were 110 contents of value except a gin and some cot ton seed -TarlMiro "Southerner." The Difference. The man who is in love and w ants to get mat l ied sits around and sighs and looks like he wants to take a bath iu-melt. -d rainlx.w s every, half hour; but the fellow who is married don't look that way. He sits around and claws his hair and looks fear fully. troubled, for his wife wants a lioniiet and a 1(0 dress. The difference in a man's feelings -In; fore and after marriage are very great, we imagine. . Dancin' as Was Dancin. A cor;( spundeiit to the ' Green ville "Iletlcetor," from the back woods of Pitt, thus very graphical ly and sensibly sjMaks of the 'Ger man" as danced at Morehead when he was down there : After that come danciir' as was daucin'. Thev had some sort ot a funnie dance called German, and it shorelv was funnie to me. I never seeii so much huggiii' in all my borirdays. A gal would ruii uj to er man an' the Inan he'd meet her hal' way, you )et, and they would come close together, he er huggin' her and she:r huggin' him, and the music would rattle away, and here they (I go over that noor, both er j huggin' an' t danciir an' er slidin' an' er flingin' out their feet same as er mad mule kickin hornets. I looked at it out will I couldn't stand it no longer, an' I went to bed er thinkin' that folks tliat live. in" the cduntry has got a heap to larn yit an' there's some things I don't nev er want my folks to larn and this is one of 'em. WILSON ADVANCE. KATKS OF AnVKKTIsJNU. One In.'h.One Insertion tl onoMimth- . Thrr Months . Six Months n ( ' ' thie Yir 15 Liberal Discount- will U. uis.le for liv. r Advcrtl somen U sn l for Contraots by the Year Cash must accompanr all AtlMTtiwineni alcs (rood rcferpDco Is kIti-k. i ABOUT FARMING. :o:- - r SOMETHING ABOUT COTTON PICKING. l'ICKi:i I XttTES. A man at Littleton has a stalk of cotton which contains Xi", UilU. Mr. Henderson Pice, of Nasli hastwenty acres in rice this eai which will pa well. .Who says there's nothing in a name! Mr. Callie S. P.rasw dl, of Edge coiiiIh, has cot ton baskets, which lie has Ih-cu using for twenty con sccutive ears, says 'he "Home. A Inoir count v man has a cot- ton stalk three feet high with nine ty three matured 1 Mills and one Imn- and eighty three blossoms and .V",-. the Free Press. , A . on ng farmer, named llauis in Mecklenburg comity Jricd V ii man's method of .l. inning, lie put .2(m touuds of ("jiupos; on line acieand. altlougli tlje season was bad, he will make three bales to the acre. The apple crop of Kansas is no large this season that-it is expect ed to yield more bushels of Unit than ever before, despite the de struct ion caused bv wind and hail storms. On a single twit; abi.nl i'.l a p- nine inches long, recently, pies were counted. A Putnam county farmer is making a hundred Miunds of but ter a week, which .he sells at .'i." cents a pound. He feeds hit cow s in summer on-l!ei uunU grass, and in winter on Bermuda hay. He regards Bermuda grass the gn at est blessing in this country. We have lieen show ii, says the Tarlxiro "Guide," by Mr. Da id Boyett, a stalk of corn on which were growing five, good size and formed ears of coi n. Mr. B. in forms ns that hist' fat her has live acres of this corn, on t he farm in Halifax county, all the stalks Ix-ar-ing .from three to eight ears. We are reliably informed that, the cotton-picker, invented and patched br Mr. B. O. Savage, of this "Community, is proving suc cessful beyond .'expectation of many. YVc have not had 'the plcasure-of seeing the machine, but are sure of one thing if it i made to pick cotton successfully. Scot. ' land Neck will have a millionaire in in the jkmsou of. Mr. Savage. We understand that !(? starts for Louisville next Monday , to place his invention oil exhibition. lb.a- noke News" Clll lON I'M'KINii. Dav id ' Disoii ot -Coorin, s.iys 'N'o-s stem can prosper w it hunt ' teaching all the" iiht,i'ivi's and laborers to In--..expert.- The first t 'llllg to be done is to leach I lie laborers how to do If; the iicl filing, to do it W if ll liiot e c 1 c alnj.. to do bet Icr w 01 k 'c 1 ! d.l.' . l or instance, lake: a boll ol coiton. They must be I taught wilh the :reatcst speed how lo tliiw t liy 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 into I he bull and iill "hi :dl the cotton with, one In k. not Mail ing to sec whether an i. I -1 1 111 the boll or not. Al-.ra s hie m mind lo-sfr-ike but one t In k at a boIl aiidassoou asin.it i done to st like ar llliol hel boll. 1 have in five minutes taiight a hand to pick one hundred polli.ils lnoie of eoi. ton jM-i day than lie I1.0I picked 1.11 the previous day, and It an that point he ill continue to ii.p:-ic. The greatest (tlieienc .in l.:ons picking c it ton va elyht. hiiu.lied pounds pel dav . ' , lir.l lliL.MKNTd A i aumli: !i ( lsi-i i r. A man must know, something about farming before he can be sin -eessful. lie ma desire .to In-come a farmer or gardener, bn Ix-tnie In-Im-coiim-s one lie has something lo learn. e are constaully meeting: men, lioth old and oung who say they would like to U-come tinners. They like fresh milk, butter and eggs, the country air and fics-b MiawU-rries. Oh, es, the like all thes good things, ami many oi them think that, they can be had for asking, no skill Ix-ing icipiiicd 111 their production. "I would like." says another. '-tobc a den tor or law ver." Well, iloi he Ix-come iich without study f 'S'; imu i.m-s any one think ol Mich a thing. Yet it would lie. just as foolish to think 0 biHa.miiig a scientific and Micccssffcl farmer w ith out stud , "as to bccouie a successful lawyer 01 doctor. A love for the country is uot enough of itselfto prepare ojie.b.r U ing a farmer. There is no business which requires a more thorough olisers anee tr clearer licrception of nature than farming, except erhaps, that of ing a physician: ami the two profes sions are very much alike, for we must study the laws which control life In both. The pig finds a living 111 his cn and so doe the editor. The simi larity, however, ceases " at this point. :