WILSON ADVANCE.
lVlU.ISirKI) HVKI'V I'lJIUAY AT
YiLSX. NOUTII CAEOLINA.
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JIlSLPIHS HAMELS. - EJitar anil Proprietor
:o:-
SlUSCIMl'TIO.N liATKS IN AUVAXCE
one Year -
e.lX M.mtha r
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r Money ' fn be sent by Money Oni( r or
. i'stei-etl Letter at our risk.
m'KK K-TartHro Street, in the il l'ost
otliii- Huiltliiitr.
m:vs of a week
-:o:
Kli'KD FROM ALL FARTS
of TDK WOULD.
i;,lufcomli.- Gnurt' next week.
Judge She'pard will preside.
A machine hit. ly patented turns
out 10 cigarettes ;i minute'.
The col red. people's fair will he
1,,-M in Italeigh Nov. Kltli and
1 T 1 1 - . .- ' -.
A iM'vti nun and white woman
"were put in Nashville jail hist week
t.r living as man. ami -wile.
Another excur.-ion l Pennsyl
vania farmers will he made to
North Caiolina Nov. 1-th.
Tin iv was a liahv horn down in
Georgia l: 'u"' k thllt wt'iS,'-Ml
only a iniinl and ;i quarter.
negro hoV died in Alamance
,(f ui',1. from the e fleet of eating
rJiiiniuepins-." lie ate a gallon.
The town elections in Counecti
en t. hI! on Monthly, resulted as
usual favorably to the Republicans.
Mayor Lit robe d' Baltimore,
has been renominated lor a fourth
trin. by the Democrats of that
ii.
The Mormon saints in .conference
:t s.Hiililed have .solemnly determ
ined io stand ly polygamy and de
fy Congress.
The. lair of the. Roanoke District
will he. held at Woodland,. North
ampton county on Ocfcolier 2:?rd,
ili and 2.".th.
Col Folk, the
date lor supreme
year ,is to open
Yadkin com. i .
'liberal'' eandi-
' court judge last
a law school in
)v. Ab-raaihy, of Rutherford
College, -is -said to he so great a
stifle. cr from sciatica that tie cannot
tin u over in be I.
The Greensboro -YVorkinau''
sa, s there were seven deaths from
ilipi l'.eria in I lie Mehaiieville neigh
borhood last week.
. The "Augusta "Chioniele"' s ys
.letlei son Davis has made $HM,0itt
tail ofliis "Rise and Fall of the
Southi-m .Confederacy."
Twenty six young men weie
iiccii.-ed hy the Supi cine Court last
wceK to eke out. a precarious cxist
auee at the practice of lajv.
The Wsahingtou "(lazo. !.;;'. is to
!e enlarged and, the editor says,
ini raved The enlargement is all
, the improvement it needs.
FJ1. j. I. Bodeiil.antciv of For
s i li eoip.ity, has bought Mr- Lins
tcr's springs near S'atrsville. lie
vi I make it a S-unmer i fsoi t. -
The Ciyeiisiioro '"Patriot"'- says
that if will soon he enlarged, ' take
the telegrams, become a, penny
paper ami that t he Republican par
ty nuit go.
Misi L. ,J. Itooinson, a lawyer of
Button, has heeik nominated hy
!ii i rnor luitler as a special com
lui.sMoiier t4 take dejHisitiotis and
administer oaths.
We learn from the ''Mirror" that
two M-u inon preachers wo; e driven
out ol lircene comity hut Week
f; t v;.:g ti pre u h their peruiei
ous doctrine WeMd- ne.
The first cilifi J the portraits
o! list ii lisl.e t Methodists which
.Key. K Fell, ol'. Marion, ordered
has heen d m'-h'.l. Tin y wih le
iv.id I Si!
wi.Tiiu a week.
Mr. M. W. Fag
I i e eoailtv e tiiii:
was elected Ivy
;"on -ts of Wake
" i Tutus;! t lo tile ; si o" Fegis-tt-r
of D.'ed-; m ide vacant ;liy the
1.M ', o! ( ;5.t. W: W. White.
"' '' 'pal Ge'.n
.1 c
Veuii' n at IViila ielpliia. a inenio
ri.d relative io ;he division of the
"Ihnccse of No; i It Carolina was re
tired to the Committee of Dio
ceses. Tin w ork of removing the Con-
'''lerate dead from "Arlington to
Uale gh w ill take place .on the 10th,
"I October, ami a portion of the
St:'t ' thiar 1 will take part in the
s'l'Mres.
A serious warning to tipplers
,s"iieyed in the action of a late-
"'tile liostoii wife, who was dis
'j"v''i f'l Monday night deliberate-
x ";aiking lu-r husband lor going
lm""'U.toxicatcd.
:Vuig man who' '-weighed 120
"u,,l' has taken him to wife a
- oi k da nisei w ho weighs?5l7
,,,,m"lv How much better is the
WZ man than a Mormon . Ale
"'IHStoo
smieh wife' at one time.
1'
''"'..John Duekett writes the
suiiger" from Hamilton, Mar-
tin
,ui'ty, as follows: ".
A
f " vevors are surveyiug a line
e railroad from Norfolk to
'"Jluslwrri'iii .. ' ... .
will crns l?fwn..i... - A
i( uauiiKe river ai
t 'Hked r.nf jj ...... ,.
W..., rt,,u luli,,' u ravinel
l cbuDUrbs of IlaiIli,ton I(j
,;H'.ted that 3.000 Irishmen will
I c Kiauing iu a feu- davs.'f
u lliei,,. .- .
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VOLUME 13.--
Hon (Jeo. JJ..L0nng, uomtnts-
sioner oi . vginauniM , ui .i.sii Hil
ton City has iK-en selected to de
liver the annual addresss before
tlie 'agricultural society of this
State at the annual Fair on the
17th.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson has writ
ten a .card in which she says she
was Advised hy Southern friends to
partake of F.east ISutler's hospital
ity, at Boston. Well, well, it's all
right wo reckon, hut would it
have been approved by "Stone
wallf" .
The Statesville "Laudinark1' re
cords, mirdbile dictu; an instance
of a subscriber whose paper had
been discontinued calling and pay
ing the iimount due. ()! that all
subscrilKMs would emulate his ex
ample. Two men in Dallas, Texas, on
Fne 27th ult.", got into a discussion
about the existence of a (Jotl.
They tvirne to blows and one stab
bed the other to death. They are
represented as "respectable fit i
izens." ' - '
Ohio comes to the front with
another mark of distinction. She,
supplies uearly all the skunk skins
that find their way to the furriers.
Few men outside of Ohio are brave
enough to attack the skunk for his
jacket.
A colored man, W. D. Moore, lias
sued the manager, of Dehive's
Opera House, Atlanta, (la., under
the civil rights law, because he
was ejected fiom the opera, house
lor insisting upon
the white people.
vittinir among
The Georgia Legislature, after
having tried for years to pass a
dog law, has remitted it at fast to
the several counties. It now goes
to the people, vlio will deal by
local option with dogs a the whis
key and fences. 1
The Tarboro "Southerner" is re
sponsible for the following' stun
ner'! John Cox-... of Black Jack,
.Pitt county, recently sneezed so
hard as to dislocate his shoulder,
and the man who laughed at him
got his jaw dislocated.
It. is stated tli.it a Texas hen sat
for three days on a nest full of hail
stones before she . discovered that
they were not eggs. The funniest
part of the story is that she didn't
hatch out an i';e house or two. But
perhaps the Texas liar was uot'eu
jnjing good health.
V The English language is wonder
ful in aptness of expression. When
a number of men and women get
t;)g 'tiier, and look at each other
from the sides of the room, that's
called a sociable, AVhen a hungry
crowd calls upon a. half paid minis
ter, and eats him out of house and
home, that's called 'a donation-par-
ty. . ? -
The attention of the country will
be drawn to the Episcopal conven
tion at Philadelphia by the words
spoken there by Senator Edmunds,
lie is rei'orfed to have said in de
clining the presidency -'of the con
vention, that he was not "a candi
date for president for this or any
other place at this or any other
time."
... i
The Ilaleigh ."Chronicle" re
marks that it may not be, known
to its?i;eadejs that. Senator Vance
was in his early life a journalist.
When only eighteen years l'-ige he
wr-ote for the As'ievilh "Messen.
gei,"andin 1ST1, tor the "Specta
tor," f the same place. The year
following he
paper.
bee nne editor of the
The Xalioifd Colftui Planters'
Association of America,, will li.vbl
its annual convention in Vi ks'urg
on the 21st of November instead of
the i-lth. as previously- uldished.
Ti e Govern r oi t i.; ivtt.u in uiu
facturing States of New Englaml.
is well as the Governors of the cot
ton growing "States, have been of-
licially reipiestetl to appoint two
delegates from each eonntv of their
i espeetive States. ;
The Marion "lVist" savs that
Messrs. Sinclair & Sinclair, At
torueys have brought suit at this
term, against J.-'S. Tomlinson.late
editor of the Piedmont "Press"
for libel, assessing damages at
$10,000.. The complaint recites the
publication, by Toiulinson of an ac
eouut ofThe killing in which White
is characterizod as a tlesjierado, a
fugitive from justice, a corn thief,
and circumstances pointing to him
as the murderer of a negro 10 vears
ago. .
Mr. L.. li. Englehard, manager
of the bicycle riK-es at the State
Fair, writes us that arrangements
have leen completed for two
bicycle races on Thursday, October
18th 1SS3, on the grounds and un
der the Mipervision of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society.
Races to begin promptly' at 12 M.
Mile dashes; open to any' amateur
resident of tbe State. Prizes, one
handsome bicycle, by Western
Troy Co.: one superb "Harvard
Special." by the Cunningham Co.
Entrance $3.00 for both races,
which gives the admitta at e to the
grounds. ;
l'() , ' 1 ( 1 I . p N
WHAT TIIE POLITICIANS ARE
TALKING ABOUT.
THE POLITICAL CALD RON.
v Senator George, of Miasiseippi,
thinks the Democrat should not
touch the Tariff. "-).
A Ketucky paper thus announc
es its platform: "Tariff for revenue
and wTijsktr for snake bites oul.y."
Gea Sherman says Arthur is his
choice for the; Republican nomina
tion. He says Grant ' ruined him
self bv being elected President.
The universal , opinion of the
statepress is that Gov. Jarvis
acted wisely in appointing Judge
Men imon to succeed Judge Rulriu'
A man named llolton, whom
the Maryland iciublieans hnvejiiom.
inated for Governor, is distinguish
C'for being rich and ' generous on
cleetion day5-
Ihib. lngersoll, will take the
stump f:r the republicans. Be
tween denying t he existence of a
hell and lighting democrats 'l'Job
w i!lhave a pret ty tough time.
The .Massachusetts'.'- Republican
State committee announces a list
of 130 speakers residing in that
State, who are to take au active
part, in the' campaign. The com
mittee also promises the services
of distinguished men from other
states.
Tccumsch Sherman, remarks a
IMiLLulelphia paper, is being boom
ed for president by some indis
creet friend who is probably not
aware of the fact that kissing pret-
t.V'givls . g and shaping the desti
nies of a great and 'glorious coun
try are entirely different tilings.
The Hon. Daniel Russell has
been kind enough to inform the
Chronicle that the next- National
Democratic'. '. ticket will be B. F.
Butler, of Massachusetts, W- W.
Holden of xNorth Carolina! Mr. Rus-
sel is inclined to be facetious at
the expense of his Democratic
friends. :
The nomination of General But.
lcr as the Greenback candidate for
Gorcrnor of Massachusetts is an
aw kward "circumstance; but We
suppose n man in his peculiar sit
uation is bound to sIh.Ia
with every political polecat that
sidles no tt fiim Iloh..l.a,.i.i.i
"Record" -
Onite! a novel and ingenious devLe
is that adopted by The Democrat
iu some of the southwestern conn
ties -of Virginia- A small white
flag is nailed noon the 1 inn ii i-vf
every Democrat-arid the -.conse
quence is that these designs are
displayed upon almost all the hous
es of well-to-do- people. The "object
lesson is said lo disturb Mahone
very much, as it is ocular- proot
thafjiis party is opjesed by the
respect able" classes.
The "Mahonite negroes in Virin
a i e i ii w mKiarmg negroes who
are disposed to vote the Democratic
ticket. Here is what occurred' in
one locality: . ;v
c uorea -society called the
Pf iii-volciiL Farmers yesterday
hel.l a uu-c ting in Hanover. In
cendiary speeches were made in
oenaii ill i . an liqate Jones. Inoue
of them it was given out,: it is as-
seited, ili-.sr i r any negro advocated
the eatise oi u lcknam he should
be leatcii to death. Aaron Uracil,
a member of one of 'the Wickham
clubs in tin county, despite that
warning, attended the meeting
and attempted to advocate that
candidate's claim. He w as vio
leutlyjtakeu down and almost beat
en to death.''
Foi- Ktute TreiiNiirrr
AJsasii HHre,sjondent of tliA
"News Observer" savs If will El
a long w hile before the meeting of
tincr of
i ne otaie iemocratic convention
but it is not too soon for the peo
ple, to consider and discuss who
will be (suitable nominees of the
party, who will reflect the honor
conferred on them.
When Nash county was honored
with one of these nominations
reaches in the past ' beyond 'the
memory of middle-aged men to-day,
hence it is within the bounds of
modesty to recoinend for the office
of State Treasurer James S. Bat
tle, our present State Senator, who
is efficient and popular, and al
ready has a State reputation for
integrity and fine character.
The Sen Yt rk llrmocnry.
Republicans who hoped k for a
split and bolt in the Democratic
convention at Buffalo last week
were disappointed. The comS
mittee on credentials decided
"LET ALL THE E!H
l
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W7LS0N, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 12. 1883.
recognized all the W
York factions and gave each one
a proportionate representation of
1882. Of the seventy-two dele
gates from the city the County De
mocracy had .thirty .eight, Tarn,
many twen'.v-four and Irving Hal'
ten. There was some contest as to
which of the organizations should
be regarded as regular, but iu de
ference to the demands of the del
gates throughout the State, who!
had nothing to do with local squab
bles, this question was laid on
the shelf. The result was a clos
ing up of the breach and acquies
cence by the city factions in the
action of the convention. It is
said that Mr. Koosvelt, who was
the author of the resolution in the
committee demanding the expul
sion of the delegates from Tam
many and Irving Hall an 1 the rec.
ognifion of the delegates represent,
ed in theCounty Democracy is still
mad, but he has not a very large
following. Kelly, Tammany and
Murphy of Irving Hall and Cooper,
of the County Democracy, are in
accord and will give cordial and
united support to the ticket nomi.
nated. As the election is only for
Secretary of State, Comptroller,
Treasurer and State Engineer it is
not regarded Twith mneh interest
outside bf the State. It- will be
warmly contested, no doubt, for the
prestige and.advantage in position
it will give the voters in the great
contest of next year.
Tie PeaMy Fund.
New York, October 4. The re
port of Rev. Dr. Curry, general
agent of the Peabody .. Fund, gives
a statement of the condition of ed
ucational progress in the States
among which the fund is divided.
In West Virginia the Legislature
made, liberal appropriations to Pea
body institutes, and the work in
general is progressing favorably
In Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas,
Peabody institutes have all been
well attended and the influence lor
good is clearly marked.
The following are the amounts
distributed in the Several States
in the past year for public schools,
normal schools and colleges, teach,
ers institutes, Nashville scholar
ships, &c.',. viz: Alabama, $5,775;
Arkansas, $4,050; Florida, $2,025;
Georgia, $5,900; Louisiana, $2,125;
Missippi, $4,400; North Carolina,
$8,350; South Carolina, $4,225; Ten
nessee, $12,000; Texas, $13,600;
Virginia, $4,125; West Virginia,
$13,100. The report was read and
adopted.
The trustees met to-day at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. B-C, WTiu-
throp presided, and the only trus
tee not present at the meeting was
Hamilton Fish. Fx-Gov. Jas. D.
Porter, of Tennessee, was chosen
to succeed the late Gen. Larnes.
The Executive Committee elected
consists .-of Win. Aiken, Win.
Evarts, A U. H. Stewart, II. R.
Jackson and Jas. 1). Porter. The
Finance Committee consists of
Wni. M. Evarts, Hamilton Fish,
Theo. Lyman, A. J. Drexel ami
Judge M. R. Waite.
The meeting adjourned to the
first Wednesday iu Octoler, 1KS4,
iu this city.
' Plantation Philosophy.
De tear ob sorrow is as bright as
le tear cb joy.
niinkin whiskey is like makin'
money. De more er's got
de more yer thinks yer keiCstan.'
Because a man sings hymns
ain't no .sign he won't fight yer. De
mockin' bird sin.s mightily, but he
whips ebeiy oder bird in de neigh
borhood.' De man what nloau recognize
danger is de man what is de mos'
stpt ter git hurt. De pnssoii
what doan think whiskey will hurt
him is almos' sho'1 tor git burned
out..
Advise is all well enough, but too
muchob it brings de giver inter
toatemp'. A little horse radish is
mighty good, but too much ob it
will make yer sneeze.
De contemp' ob man makes it
animals. So
any slurs hab been Hung at de
i ieiw von. ... .-0
i veller dog dat nine times outen ten
in-i,,n 'vi meets him he'll hang his
I when yer 'meets
head. Opie Reade
in Arkansaw
Traveler. '
What North v' Carolina' most
needs outside of the development
of her natural resources, is a dog
law and a fence law; or properly
speaking, no dog law and a no
fence law. The weiiare a.m 4ur
perity of the people demand it,
aud soon or later they will find
it out. . - - ; '
It is the dog that has the 'pants'
and the voungmau the pantaloons,
but it is not unfrequently the case
that before the young man can
get safely over the fence it is he
who hastiie 'pants' and the dog
the pantaloons.
There is a young man in Phila
delnhia whose name is Ilughard.
All the girls are crazy to get intro
duced to him.
to
THOU AIJI'ST AT, BE TH COUNTRY'S,
ABOUT FARMING.
THE NEGRO SHARE FARMER
AS SEEN HY A NORTHERNER.
PICKED UP NOTES
9
Nrgro hurr farmer.
The changes wrought by the civ
il war in the South have produced
one character whom we found one
of the most interesting studies of a
recent trip through the South. We
allude to the Negro Share Farmer
At home, in Ins ramshackle cabin
among his lean pigs, his bony cat
tle and his always numerous foul
ly, or iu the market place, with
spike team often composed of a
mule and a cow. which he has
driven a long day's journey to sell
a dollar's worth of wood or a
couple of bushels of Ktatoes, he
presents a grotesque and interest
ing type. It would be difficult,
probably, to get down to jioorer
aud less profitable agriculture than
the share armer practices. But he
manages to scrape a living out of
the ground, exactly how he would
perhaps sometimes find it difficult
to explain himself.
You come upon his cabin among
the pine woods, with a .-patch'' of
scraggy corn behind it, and the
ground around strewn with fag
gots, among which pick a strag
gliugcrew'l of rusty fowls. A
couple of curs bark furiously at you
and a couple of pigs, which look
like dogs, theyare so bony aud long
legged, trot grunting away into the
brush. The mossy roofis sagging
on on its yielding beams; there are
great fissures in the mud-plastered
chimney, and the wind liuds in
gress through thejeraeks between
th slabs and logs of the walls,
from which the mud has fallen. The
commotion youv approach has
aroused brings a troop of children
tumbling over one another out in
to the road, to watch you with wide
open mouths andeyes, and shrink,
i ii g back when you look at them.
A sturdy negress, with a cob pipe,
gives you a curtsey in the door
way; behiiid her you see a figure
likethe witch of a fairy tale cow
ering in the big fireplace; the fig
ure of some old ' grandmother or
grandfather, carrying the weight
of uearly a century on a bent back.
As you ride ou, you perhaps come
upon thejarmer, sturdy and un
couth, hoeing iu his iofato patch,
or wandering among his corn or
cotton.
The share farmer obtains li is
title from the tenure by which he
holds his hand. He rents it at the
simple price of half 'yield- It is
commonly a portion of some large
plantation, oireu oi tue same one
on which he one! labored.
Such as it it is, the existence of
the uegrodiare farmer -s not devoid
oleleinents of-picturesqueuess. His
labor is hard and hlsjfare coarse,
but he is a tough, rude, man, and
has no longing for unknown luxur
ies. Among the fogs of iatly day-
he is at work; wheu .night falls he
fiddles or croons his 'simple melo
dies liefore the yawning fireplace
of his cabin. He generally has an
old gun and wages war uoii such
game as the woods around him
shelter- . What little leisure he has
he spends in sleep. In the scale of
education he ranks very low. He
cannot fed r write- His ideas
are frequently clouded by supersti
tion, though quite often he exhibits
a peculiarly keen native'wit and
cunning which make him a great
bargainer, and staud in good stea
in his dealings with men of better
knowledge, nis dress is a mass of
patches and of rags. But he is as
well dressed as his neighbors, and
has iio ambition to out do them.
His children wear a single garment
a shirt of coarse cotton; apparently
never washed. The women folks
own a dress of calico each, and a
cotton handkerchief and shoes for
state occasions. If the farmer has
any money he tiesti up iu old rags
and hides it in holes in his fireplace
or under the hearth. Raking out
his mouey at night and counting it
by the firelight is his greatest
perhaps his .only luxnry. Ameri
can Agriculturist for October."
rfilblr.
Mr. J. T. Lewis, of this county,
informed ns a few days ago that he
killed a sheep last week, common
6tock, that weighed eighty pounds
when dressed. He got ten pounds
of tallow and sold th s sheep for
$3,-20. He sheared five and a
half pounds of wool from the sheep
the last season. Sheep husbandry
would le a profitable business in
this countyif it wasn't for the
fact that there arejany worth
less dogs. We to see the
time when it can be said, in this
connection, that the dogs have
had. their day. Toisuot "Sunny
Home."
THY GSOD'S, AKD TRt'TIIS'
We are informed that Mr. B. W.
Best, of Greene, has a field of up
land corn that will make 10 bbls
to the acre. This-speaks well of
Mr. Best as a farmer. uBnlletin'
Hyde and Currituck produce
more corn than the whole state of
New York.
Oar Jocular Senator.
How he Lived and Lavished
and Enjoted Himself ix
Washington.
W ASHiNGTONjOctobcr 2. 1 1 ca u
hardly be said that Senator Vance
was ever asocial. "lion'', here; he
has too much good sense and too
many resources for a -good time
and for a good influence for that.
But if the walls of his residence on
T........l... . 1 1 . t.
""TOJ,i"uwus Aieuue couiu ten ,
ail tiiattliey have heard, the neigh
boring buildings would join in a
chorus of laughter.
It is a rather modest residence,
as residences go in this now luxu
rious city ; but it is pleasantly sit
uated. There is a modest lawn in
front, and the honse is one part of
a double house. It is what any
North Carolinian would call very
comfortable indeed,; but it is far
from being fashionably furnished.
The Senator's study is a small
room upstairs, where a lew books, M
thrown haruinscarum, a" few piles
of papers, a brace of easy chairs, a
table and a spacious and hospita
ble spittoon welcome . any Tar
Heel. It has a jovial ajqiearance
that look of negligence and able-to-take-care-of-yourself
which so
well becomes the furniture of a
busy or of a lazy man ; and surely
Senator Vance is both. .
Here one night just before the
last Congress adjourned, I had the
pleasure of sitting, as wo had pre
viously appointed to discuss very
important business. Tin prelimi
nary talk about the weather or
North Carolina led not to serious
work, but io serious jokes ; and
for an hour, fun and tobacco juice
found escape froni his lips. -
"I was mighty nigh dead to get
here," old Zeb said, "buJ I'll be
hanged if I am not higher dead to
get away. Every vacation of Con
gress I get stuck on some commit
tee." Then as always, when the
est comes, there was a serous
one and a jiatriotic manliness in
his voice. But, before yon could
think about it, he was illustrating
man's duty to his Creator by an
anecdote in which old Nash brandy'-
somehow or other played a part.
Although, therefore, the the
throng of fashion never goes to the
Senator's, there are always a few
of the most interesting people in
Washington to be found there. He
seems to have made it a rule to be i
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iiuiiiraiiu cm iciHuie a newiy mar- I
rip.1 .uAir - v,u. , r..i !
ways find him either at home or at
the capitol,
The regard that the Senators
hold him in is peculiar. That they
hold him in very hijih esteem, of
course, need not be said. That may
e sily Ik; taken for trra'ited. But
there are not a few of the Republi
can Senators who are his bitteiest
political enemies that are his warm
personal admirers and especial
friends. Such '-Buncombe" as he
gives them is very strange to their
notions of Senatorial dignity. In
the fiercest debate he has always
held their uttermost respect and
has always, too, confused them by
his ready wit.
I think I am not rash in saying
that he is by far t the readiest and
most graceful humorist that there
was in Washington last winter.
There are many Southern Con
gressmen who are genial gentle
men and full of fun ; but the most
ofthein need congeiial company
ami a great deal of elbow room io
display their wit They are heavy
when they rise to'make a speech.
Old Zel, is -s jol'y at one time as
at another.
Aud I am sure that n man ever
came to Washington who made
warmer'-' friends' here than he, or
who of recent years has done more
to put all the world iu a good hu
mor with the - South. C. in the
"Chronicle."
.Watch ont, Boys.
It is rumored that the linen
gaged young ; ladies of Asheville
are about to organize a society to
be called ;The Sunrise Sweeninir
Brigade," every member of which
obligates herself In strewn th kn1.
walk in front of the house in which
she lives liefore sunrise. The 0b -
ject of the ass)ciatioii is said to lie
to make an impression niton the
hearts of susceptible young men, t
aud to show them what industrious
and hopeful
would make.
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wives the uietn iters
-Asheville" "News."-
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Some heathen, are not as much
of the heathen as we think; read a
Mahometan proverb, "God has be-
stowed the good things of this
world to relieve our necessities, nor
to reward pur virtues. These will
be rewarded in another world."
We know of no greater necessity
to be relieved, than a stubborn
cold, and we knew of no better
relief than Dr. Bull's Cough Rjrup.
BVAMJ
PTlTTTnii p?l,PnQ
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A BRAKEMAN GIVES HIS
OPINION OF CHURCH CREEDS.
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CHURCHES AS KAILWA YS.
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The iKJCMliaritie's of deuomina-
tioulism force theiiiselves tqion the
mind of the world, aud we 'often j
find these set forth in the parlance
f( men, whose work and habits
give rise to a terminology-well un.
derstood by certain classes. An
inst nee of this :omes from Burd
.tte whose article' on; a "Brak-
m.ui at cliuroh
wesubjoin. It will
I e 'remarked, that while it indicates
peculiarities, it makes no irrever-
eut allusion to. the Sacred Name, j
Q,..i fhuniitnoivbeeoiov-1
d bv our readers. There is ales-i
J ?
son in it. j
On the road on e u re, with ,
Lebanoa'.ading in the listanee,
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the fast passenger dnnnin iig idly I
on t window iiane, the cioss'
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tall, thin passeugir reading "Getier-j
al Grant's Tour Around the World'-? ;
aad wondering why "Green's Au
gust Flower" should be printed
above tlie doors "A Buddhist Teie.r
pie at Benares." To me comes the
brakeman, and Keating himself on
the arm of the si' at, said:
"I went to church yesterday ."
"Yes!" I said with that inter
ested inflection that asked for
more. And what chu;ch did you
attend t"
"Which do you guess!" he asked
' Some union' mission church" 1
hazarded.
"Now, he said, -'I don't' like to
run on these branch roads- very
much. I don't often go to church,
and when I do, I want to lUii on a
main line where our run is regular
and you go on schedule t line, and
ilou't have to' wait.- on connect lons
I don't like to run on a branch;
Good enough, but don't like it. "
Episcopal,'.' I guesM-d-
"Limited Expres-.. he said,, -all
palace cars and two dollars .extra
for a seat, last time and only stop
at the big stations. Nice line
but two exhaustive for a brakes
man. -A train "man - in uniform,
conductor's punch and lantern
silver plated, and no train 1m.s
allowed. Then the passengers are.
allowed to talk back to the e in
ductors, and it makes them, too
nee and ca y. No, I couldn't
stand the palace-cars. Rich road
though. Don't otten hear oi
a re
that
oiiivpr beinir anoolnted for
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line. Some mighty nice people
travel on it, too.'
"Universalist V I suggested.
.'"Broad gauge," said the biake
man; "does too much complimen
tary business. Everyliody travels
on a pays. (Conductor doesn't get
a fare once in fifty miles. Stops
at all stations and won't run into
anything but H Union deHt. No
smoking car on the train Train
orders are rather vague, though,
and the train men don't get along,
well with the passengers. No, ;i
don't go to the , Universal ist
though I : know some aw fully .-good
men who ruu oh that loail,"
Presbyterians" I asked.
"Narrow irauce. eh!" said the
brakeman; "pretty track, straight
as a rule, tunnel right through a
mountain rather than go around
i if, spirit level grade, passengers
have to -snow, their tjekets before
they get on tie train. Mighty
strict" road, but the cars are a lit
tle narrow; and uo room in the aisle
to dance
Then there!
are no stop-over tick
got to go straight
ets allowed;
through to tae station j you re tick
etedfor, or you can't get on at
all. Wheu the car's full no extra
coaches; cars built '-at the ''shops to
hold just so many, and uol tody else
allowed on. But you don't often
hear of accidents on that road. It's
run rigla up to the rides.''
Free Thinkers!" I said.
"Scrub road,'' said the brake
man; "dirt road lied ami no bal
last, no time card and no train dis
patcher. All trams run wild, and
every engineer makes his own time,
just as he pleases. Smoke if you
w ant to: kind ol go-as-you please
road. Too many side-tracks, and
8xmcM wme In "w im,c' w,tu
1 t,,e switt'hma" hOU,Hl ask'- and
t! e taret lamp dead out. Get on
as you please, and off ' w hen you
want to- Don't have to show
your tickets, and the conductor
i.i.'f iriuu.tiil tnitii iinrlhinrr lint
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amnse tlH passcngeis. No, sir, I
j was offered a pass, but don t like
I the line. I don't like to travel on
j the ? oad that has no terminus. Do
jyou know, sir, I asked a division
Miperintendeut where that road
run to, and he said he hojied to
j die if he knew. I asked him if the
general superintendent could tell
' me, and he said he didn't 4 believe
j they had a general 'superintendent
j and if they had be didn't know any
' thing more about the road than
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f the passengers. lasted him who
i"I asked a conductor who he got
i his orders from, and he said he
! didn't t:ike orders from- any living
! man or dead ghost. And when I
asked the engineer who he got, his
J orders from, he said he'd to see
anyliody give him orders; he'd run
that train to suit himself, or he'd
run her to the ditch. Now, yon
can see, sir, Im a railroad man.
nd I don't care to mi u on :t mitl
that has no time, or -.makes no con.
'actions, runs nowhere and has no
: -superintendent. It may all lie
j right, but I have railroaded too
long to understand it.''
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"Maybe you went o the Congnv
gational Church! I: said.
'Popular niail," said the brake,
man, "an old road, too; directors
don't interfere with division su
perintendents ami train orders,
lioad's mighty )Kpular but it's
pretty independent, too. Yes
'dnft one of the division superin-
tendenls ilou 11 l-'.-.ikit it id.fntinn
-,i r. ...
one of the oldest stations on the
toad two or three years ago But
it's a mighty pleasant road to trav-
'l Always has such a spleii-
did class of passengers."
1
"D'd you trv' the Methodistt" 1
SilMl.
''Now you're shouting, he said,
w it h some enthusiasm- 'Nice road
eh! Fast time aud plenty of pas
seiigers. Engines carry a plenty of
steam and don't you forget : it;
steam gauge shows a hundred and
enough all the time. Lively road;
.when the .conductor'-' shouts "all
aboard you can hear him at the
he, I, Hi
ght. SbnJiecks giv
sll throu; I; passeu
en on sn inrour nasseu
ger can drop r" J as ol
as ne likes, ivnw.i,auon two or
hree times, anil hop on the uext
revival train that comes thunder
ing along. Good, whole-souled,
companionable conductors, ain't
a road in the country where the
passenger feels more at home. No
passes; every passenger pavf full
traffic rales for his ticket. Wes
leyan air brakes on all trains, too;
pretty safe road, but I didn't ride
over it yesterday."
"Perhaps you tried the Baptist!"
J guessed once more.
i Ah, ha !'' wait rti ie brakeman,!
"she's a daisy, isn't shet River
load, bea-.tiful curves; sweep
around anything to keep close to
the river, but. it's all steel rail and
rock ballast, single track all the
way, and not a singlei sidetrack
from the round house to the term
inns.' Takes heaps of water to run
it through; double tanks at every
station, ami there isn't an engine
iu tlie shops that can pull a pound
or run a mile with less than two
guages. ' But it runs through ' a
lovely country; these river roads
d; river on one side aud hills on
the other, and it's a steady climb
up In' gride all the way till the
run ends where the foiiiitainhead
of the river begins. Yes, sir, I'll
take the river road every time for a
lovely trip,' sure' connections and
good time, and no prairie dust
blowing in at the windows And
yesterday, when the conductor
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came around for the tickets- with a
little basket punch, I didn't ask
i
hint to pass me, but I paid my fare
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like a little man, twenty five events
for an hours run and a little con
sent by the passengers throwed iu
I tell von. Pilgrim, yon take the
river road when you want"
But just h"ie the loiul whistle of
the engine announced a station,
and the brakeman hurried to the
door shouting:
i
"Zionsville! this tram 'makes uo
stops between, here and Indiana.
polis!"
Fdd oo the Wrong Side of the Month
The Washington Press fells of
an.afTair at Greenville, Piit county
"Several of the young men made i
raid on the olicc!neii,8tripped them
of their badgesj we lielieve forced
them to resign. This had hap
pened several months belore and
the citizens thought it had gone
far r r.ough. The parties were in
dicted aud tried upon severa
charges, bnt acquitted ou a charge
of conspiracy, Mr.' J. A. Cherry, a
young man of aliout twenty-fivet
who apears to lie a tronspicuous
offender, waif tried - upon another
charge aud -convicted. Judge Phil
lip.', sentenced him to twelve
months solitary confinement in the
county jail- It was a severe M?n
alty, but it is said to be fully sus
tained by public opinion.
A muff is defined as a "thing
which holds a girl's hand aud don't
squeeze it." Correct,aud any fel
low is a "muff" who will hold a
girl's hand without squeezing itA
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Waste no time; delays have
dangerous ends! If a wemlier of
your family is suffering with a
slight cough or cold, dont wait un
til it develops itself into eon sump
tion, but proenre at ouce a bottle
of Dr. Bnirs C-ough Syrnp and cure
that congh.
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AdrcrtlMmenta hit J tor Cootractai by the Vmt
onloM food reference U rlren.
A FINE ART.
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HUGGING TERMED A FINE
ART BY A CHICAGO FATHEH.
SEXStltLE A HViVK
A queer case has just come to
light in Chicago. A muig man
BHMit an evenwig with his girl, and
luring the evening, w hile the fam
ily was present in the parlor, he
whs as demure and bland and child
like as could lie wished. The
mother eam Into the room after
the j family had retired to get a
handkerchief she had left, and the
young man wan seated in n chair in
the middle of the room, while Hie
girl was neated on a mI.i,iiiiiI noth
ing the mother could see in the ac
tions of either led hr to think
they were more than passing ac
quaintances. It seemed to her as
though the young jteople had inet'
lie fore, but there was uo evidence
that they were very well acquaint
ed. Alt night, after he had gone, the
girl complained of a pain in her side
and in the morning a doctor was .
called, and lie found that two of
the girl's ribs were broken. How
it wan done iioImkIv knew. The
girl could not tell lor the life of herf
though she blushed when askeit
about it, ami the mother looked '
very wise as nlie looked at the 'dm-,
tor. The doctor made Home in
quiries, set the ribs and went away,
and the girl proceeded to jceoer.
.- That evening the young - man
called and was astonished when in
formed of the extent of the girl'i
injuries, and wondered how, it hap
pened, though the mother watched :
his face close as he tspoke ami de
tected not only a blush but a pro
fuse ierspiratioii on his face. She
had been a girl once herself, and
though she had never h id any libs
broken she hail lieen hugged some.
It was a trying Ksitioii (. them.
The father was awav on a trio to
Wisconsin, and when he came '
home tlie matter had to k ex-
dained to him. He was told that
the ribs just simply broke them
selves, and that neither the mother
nor the j'oung man could account
for it, and yet all three of them
blushed terribly. The father pat
ted his girl on the head, told her
she would lie better when she got
over it, aud called the young in ni
into the library. The youug tnau
was so weak he could hardly walk,
and when he sat down he took out
a handkerchief and mopped hi
brow and wished he wan deatl. The
father looked the young man over
and was sorry. He finally said:
"Young man, I guess 1 can give
ou some KintM ou hugging- You
must first learn that a gill is not
constructed on the sain iinneiple
of au iron fence or a tin bridge.
A gir is a delicate -pica of me-
chuiiisiit, like it fine watch, full of
little spring, w heels, jewels, &c
The breaking of niiy one of these
would caime her lo cease keeping
time and necessitate l.er liemg
taken to a jeiellrfor repairs. In
hugging a girl you don ! want to -go
at it as if you were rak n z and
binding, or catching sturgeon 1
know that where the family up:
late with a y oung couple ami spoil
several precious hours of hugging,
that unless the oiiug man has a
good head when left iilolie ) it It I he
object of his art'cctiti'ii, Ihat he is
liable lo overdo the matter ami try
to makeup for hist time. Ilewems
lo want to hug up a lot ale-ad and
grasp the girl as though he wai.ted
to break her in two. This is w r.hg.
You Khould go at it calm'y and de
lilterately, even prayeif aily, and lie
as gentle as though Vhe was au
ivory fan. The gentle presHiire of
the hand that a girl love,' even the
touch, is ax dear to her a though
you rnn her through a sbmeci-iixhifr.
Yon should not grali her a y on
would a bag of oats, and leave
marks on her that will last a life
time. A loving woman should not
lie made to feel that her life 14 iu
danger unless she wears a cdr&et
made of lwiler iron. 1 hope this,
will Iks a lesson to ou, and here
after, if you cannot control yoiir
feelings, I will provide a wooden
Indian for you to practise on at
first, until yor have devtlojieiljour
muscle ami got tired, and then we
can torn our daughter loo c in a
room with yon and not feel that it
is necessary io keep a surgeon
handy. In allowing yon to keep
company with", my daughter I do
not agree tj',Tfovide you with a
human gymnasium, dreed in a
Mother Hnbbard wrappt-r and
wearing liengs. You eau readily "
nee that a girl would not last a sea-
on through if she had to have rilm
setonce a weeJk. Please think thin
thing over, and if the girl is
well enough next Sutiday yon can
drop iu aud try ooute more ribs
Nowyoucaii go home ami hug a
hat rack for an hour or two, and
have it repaired in the morning.'
The yonugman went out into the
night ir, took his hat offto cool
bis head and hired a man to kick
him. Milwaukee Sou.