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NEWS Ot' A" WEEK
GATHKKEl) KiiOM ALL PARTS
OK thi: WORLD.
FEXCI 1. 1 i SOS- GLEAXIXU
Polloeksvilie has telegraphic
communication.
A t. Louis clergyman Las run
'away with his stepdaughter.
Men are geese, woman are ducks,
anJ birds of a feather flock togeth
er. Tlie U. S. Supreme court has de
cided the Dorsey will ease in favor
of Jeff'ei son Davis.
A Henderson stove merchant
has the misfortune to lear the
name of R. B .Hayes.
Mr. Swindell, of Goldsboro, has
been given a place on the capitol
police force at Washington.
The Raleigh colored people will
celebrate Emancipation day, Jan
Int. Congressman O'Hara will be
tlie orator.
An editor is in luck .again. Mr.
R. II. Cowan, of the Anson --Tinies"-has
secured a clerkship in the
House.
Gen. W. R. Cox has a new bounc
ing boy in his family, so says the
papers; which publish everything
nowadays.
Mr. O. O. Stealer, the -Washing
ton correspondent of the Louisville
"Courier-Journal" won $70,ooo on
Carlisle's election.
South Carolina declines to. have
a divorce lawr' .'-"For better or
worso" in that State means nntil
'death tlo us part."
In seven townships in . Randolph
county ther.i was not a Mingle de
Unqent t. p.iye.rs last year. This
is the banner couuty !
TliorRiiieigh "Chronicle'' learns
from one who knew him that the
late Bishop "Atkinson found mental
rest in novel-reading.
Col. L.'L. Polk has gone to Dos
ton to engage, in the 'manufacture
and sale of his diphtheria,eure. He
has a wealthy partner
The Wilmington "Review" cele
brated i's seventh anniversary last
Thursday. The editor gave the
boys an oyster supper.
Julian S. Cart; Esq., than whom
North Carolina has no more liberal
son, gave the Orphan Asylum
UHt Thank-it v-;ng day.
; The Wilmington people have
published statistics proving, thai
Wilmington is .the
largest
naval
Btore market in the world.
A Western dramatic clitic de
scribes Emma Abbott's kiss as a
cross between a suction pump and
explosion pf a yeast jar.
An Anson county man carried all
pf his eggs to market ill his saddle
bugs. He carried fourteen dozen
thus ten miles without breaking
me. '
The Goldsboro "'Messenger" says
that Messrs. T". II. Best, Thomas
Edinuudson and Jno. W. Blount
of Greene, will shortly move to
that city.
There is talk of lynching a man
who involved this toast: ''Our fire
eugiues, may they be like old
maids ever ready, but never
wanted." -. . . '
The next Baptist Union Meeting
of .the Eastern . Association .will
neet with the church at Warsaw
on Frid.iy, belore the 5th. Suuday
in this month.
An Iowa editor retires from the
journalistic field, and ends his val
edietory by saying, TkNo true Chris,
tiaucau ed;t a newspaper.'' - He
was a Republican.
The Rocky Mount "Reporter"
says that. Mr Joshua. Bullock kill
ed a hawk, measuring 53 inches
from tip to tip of wings. His ouly
weapou was a switch. "
The Washington "Gazetto" sug
gests that the Pender Mouument
v-'oinmitteo invite Jno- Long Esq.,
to, deliver a low lectures in aid ot
the fund. We second the motion.
"The sale of aecordeons is dimin
isliiug," says i musical euchange.
"The average oi human life is iu-
An. m . . ' -
ceasing," says the Cincinnati
"Commercial Gazette.'' Cause and
fleet, say we.
Robert Pratt colored, who was
to be hanged at Goldsboro on the
-iOth inst., has been reprieved by
& JTrrvi!l uuti February 29,
x Ue murderftd a white man
aaniea .O'Xcal,
A PeuQsyivauia paper believes
that batter-,u,ik will soon super
ede , beer tbe uationnl beverage.
That n never be- Buttermilk
no tiutoacatingeno ugh for po
litical purposes. .
. A colored man and his w,Te lir.
VW Sandajr, leaving .hdr children
their children were in ashes. '
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banged at Newgate prison Monday
morning: he was calm and collec-i
ted ; he made no statement ou the
scaffold.
A sentimental American, gentle
man, who Is iu favor ot all river
and harbor bills, intend? to peti.
tion Congress to improve the "chan
nel of affection" so that hence
iorth the "course of true love" may
'runs mooth." .
The Greensboro "Workman says
that Mr. Freshwater was m arried
in Orange '. county last week. He
is in no ways related that wc know
of to either Mr. Tarwater or Mr.
Atwater who got themselves into
hot water several years ago.
The "Eastern v Syndicate" com
posed of merchants, of Goldsboro,
Rinston and New Berne have leas
ed the Midland rail road for thirty
years. The termi of the ' lease re
quire that the road, shall bo ex
tended to Fayettevillo in four
years. -
A gentleman who, came down
with the party from Boston which
has recently Jbeeu visiting in this
State, informs the Raleigh "News
Observer" that all of them except
two made purchases of property of
some kind in the state. One man
invested as much as 830,000.
We learn from the Raleigh News
Observer that Enoch Brown, color
ed, who was to have been hung at
Halifax, X. C. last Friday morn
ing, for the ninrder of his wife,
was respited by Gov. Jarvis uu-j
til February 20th. It appears that
some news favorable to the prison- j
er has been disco rerd.
George Grimshaw of j Langlade
county, Wis., who' is represented
to be 104 years old, last year clear
ed the timber from an acre of hard
wood land, and during the summer
raised 150 bushels ot potatoes. We
don't knowjwhether the lie comes in
on his age or his jerformance, but
arc inclined to think it includes
both.
Matiy'young attorneys who are
'struggling for wealth 'iiid position
mav learn a lesson; from John
Swim, of West Jefferson, O. He
began life -s a lawyer, but soon
abandoned the profession and be
came a rag-picker. ' He has not
slept on a bed for thirty-five years,
but owns several fine farms, and is
worth fully 200,000.
The Grand Lodge of Ancient,
Free, and Accepted Masons off
North Carolina will assemble in its
97th annual communication at its
hall in Raleigh, on Tuesday, the
Sthdayof January, 1884, at. 7.30 .
o'clock p. in. Return tickets will on
appIication.be. furnished officers
anil representatives over the sever
al railroads.
George A. Dunne, a broker, and
his bride, wero occupying a sumpt
uous room in the Windsor Hotel,
New York. They had been marri
ed for two days. Miss Rose E. Key
serappeared and after charging him
with breaking her heart and de
ceiving her, deliberately - took her
own life iu the presence of loth
bride and husband, by shooting
herself.
Tlie Washington "Gazette" says :
"Will our Western friends send
some of the New England visitors
down East I Nature has given us
everything except mountains and
yankees and we' want to supply the
deficiency as, much! as possible by
getting the latter. Let Commis
sioner 'McGeh.ee and Mr. Patrick
give them a map of the "whole"
State."
An Ohio girl after being elected
to the position of a wife, declined
the office at the last moment, even
after the. guests 11114! .minister were
assembled, because her affianced
expressed a fear that his fortune
would not support them in the
style they bad been acenstomed
to. She said if he was afraid of
that he "might go," as she coold
take care of herself and he went.
Senator Hoar is a partner in an
establishment iu Boston. Mr. A.
C. Carey is his associate. They
make what is know as the "Carey
patent ballot-box.",- Well the Sen
ator has an eye to busiuess - iu the
true Yankee way. So he. has in
troduced. bill in the Senate to
supply -'every polling place in the
United States and Territories"
with one of his concern's patent
boxes. Nice and - self-respecting,
that! . ;;; ; V';.:; '
After examining forty witnesses,
mostly colored, the grand, jury in
te Hustings court, charged by
Judge Blackwell to investigate the
circumstances of the late riot io
Danville, Va., reported that, they
had no presentments to make.
This puts an end to the Danville
matter so far as the courts are con-
9. -rned, and the ; facts in the case
have long since settled the public
mind in the belief that the whites
were not to blanie for the difficulty.
And thus the latest great Southern
outrage passes out of sight into the
dim mysteries of republican cam
A
POLITICAL POINTS
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WHAT Til E POLITICIANS ARE
TALKING ABOUT.
THE TO LI T I CA L CA LLMOX.
The Republican Convention - to
nominate a candidate for President
will be held in Chicago, June 3rd.
1884.
The New York "World" professes
to have polled ,the State of New
York relativeto the candidaey. j of
Arthur. The result 13: the "old
Grant set" will support him, whilst
the Blainjsrhig will .antagonize, ,,,
The Republicans ! evidently; be
lieve in Chicago luck. They nomi
nated Lincoln there in 18G0, Grant
in 18G8, Garfield in 1880. As for
the Democrats, they never have
had any luck any wheie up to the
present writing.
In the Virginia House of Dele
gates, on the organisation of that
body last week, Hansford Ander
son, Coalition member from King
William county, kicked out of the
Mahone traces and voted for the
Democratic nominee for Speaker..
The Board of Canvassers met in
Raleigh last week and counted the
vote of the First District and certi
fied that Skinner was elected by a
majority of 777. The board of can
vassers is composed ol Gov. Jarvis,
Atty, Genl. Kenan, Sec. Saunders,
Senator Jas. S. Battle and ' Senator
T. R. Puruell. j
The Republican Senatorial cau
cas decided to dispense with the
sorvices ot Chaplain Bullock on ac
count of his political- affiliations.
He Is a Democrat. The Rev. Dr.
Huntley, pastor of the Metropolitan
M. E. Church, of Washington, who
is a devoted Republican, was sub
stituted. The supposition is that
the Republican Senate wants a
Chaplain to pray for it who can ap
preciate its sins and shortcomings
from a party standpoint. ;.
K '(- I from 0(f!e ekiiig.
If our bounding young democra
cy in North Carolina, says the Ral
eigh "Chronicle," wishes to put it
self in line with the NationaJJemo
cratic partyHt VooTd hofbe ft "bad
notion to refrain from office-seeking
at Washington and to organize rev
enue reform clubs in the State.
V'tjtee on I'r-- I'-ispe-
Senator Vance's proposal to ren
der liable a dismissal from office
and to a fine not exceeding ?5,000
any United States officer who ac
cepts free passes, tickets or stock
from a railroad, telegraph or bank
ing company may not : receive a
universal ami joyous welcome in
Congress. Yet if a legislator . is
called upon to make laws concern
ing a railroad or a Judge to inter
pret them, or an executive officer to
enforce them, he ought not to have
the company's bribe of a free pass
in his pocket. -New York "Sun."
1 11: Kv'-iIk Cat '9'lirir "!iud-
In the year that preceded the
Presidential election of 1876 Mich
ael C. Kerr, who lived within half
a mile of the Ohio River in Indiana
was chosen Speaker of the House
as itn open advocale of tariff re
form,' and on that same platform a
Democrat was elected President
by a majority of 250,000 votes. . In
the year preceding the Presidential
electiou of 1884 John G. Carlisle,
who lives half a mile from the Ohio
River on the Kentuck- side, is
elected Speaker of the House on
the same issue on which Michael C.
Kerr was chosen. Carefnl observ
ers of political signs will put that
and that together. The omen is
propitious. 'Philadelphia Record.'
Gi-et far Spoil
The Raleigh Chronicle" truth
fully says, the better class of Re
publican voters in ;he Northern
States have long refused to entrust
the Federal government to the
Democrats not more because they
do uot love Democratic principles
than that thej- are afraid of the
greed of the Democratic office-seekers.
-The. flocking of Southern can
didates to Washington to seenre
positions as soon- as Congress as
sembled is the- very worst thing
that can befall the Democratic par
ty. .Ye used to be a dignified par
ty. Greed for spoils will spoil our
chances next j ear. If Southern
Democrats are working for the es
tablishment of Democratic princi
ples, let them keep - away from
Washin gton. Or are we really
workiug for lucre ! If so, wherein
are we better than the other fel
lows? YasMngton letter.
Editoe Advakck : The National
Capital is now in holiday attire.
The streets are gay- with merry
throngs of shoppers in warm, bright
colors that lend an added charm to
the clear winter atmosphere which
seems to infuse a Vpirit of felicity
i-to every one. The air is full of
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secrets that wul burst forth into
full bloom on Christmas morning.
Pennsylvania Avenue is transform
ed from a homeward channel for
Government clerks, and a fashion
able promenade, into a. live, bust
ling, crowded thoroughfare down
which, at the noon hour of the day,
you must almost elbow your way
through a bright and busy multi
tude. But it is a real pleasure, for
ouo fond of the beautiful, to walk
on this broad business and political
centre these sunny afternoons
during shopping hours.. If he is
not charmed by the beautiful mat
ions and belles of Washington
society, who find, recreation from
their social duties in' this - Christ
mas shopping, he will at least" be
attracted by thp glitter of the shop
windows. It is in these 'windows
that the stir in-the pulse3 of trade
is most manifest. Art has been
spent to supplement the attractions
of commerce, until it is hard to tell
which it is that exercises the most
potent temptation the artistic de
sign and arrangement, or the flush
of colors, the sheen of satin, and
the shimmer of silk. . The holiday
season at the Capital seems to
begin earlier every year, and never
before in the history of Washing
ton have the stores glowed with
such wealth, such delicacy of fab
rics, such mingled harmony of beau
ty and use. . j .
Washington is fast absorbing the
b st social element of all the lead
ing cities, and all sections of the
country send their fair representa
tives ladies who are distinguished
in society here for their elegant
maimers, many for their baanty.
their entertaining qualifications,
their womanly attributes, and their
virtues. Since the election of Mr,
Carlisle to the speakership, the lat
est incursion in social circles has
been from the Blue Grass region.
One would be surprised at the num
ber of Kentucky's daughters uow at
the Capital. They are of course led
by Mrs. Carlisle and Mrs Beck, the
latter a grand-neice of Geo. Wash
ington, and I could recall a long
list which would almost consume
my space. It is said that Kentucky
leads all the other States, except
New York in the number of its so
cial representatives. Several much
needed social reforms are piornised
for tki.ks;eas6n. and first anion
these- is" the)!fsa3it pi-ospdetT tliat
the rather vnlfa- profusion of food
and general ove' dfisplay which has
characterized fiiniter parties for
some seasons past will shortly give
way to more simpjle bills of fare and
severer but moretruly elegant style
in the manner of serving and deco
rations, floral and otherwise. There
is one conditio of society at the
Capital in whicfh reform is much
needed, but for wvhich there is no
present prospecrt of improvement.
It is becoming more and more
impossible for rtj(tybody engaged iu
steady employment to go much into
society, for the i iours are becoming
later and later, yintil a ball means
almost an all g night affair. The
fault of this lies i in the fact that all
.are afraid of beijiig the first to enter
the house that laas been swept, gar.
nished, garlaudfed and lighted for a
ball. Usually fcuests do not begin
to arrive until labout ten o'clock.
It is claimed a'or Washington that
it is the only American city where
society'' really existed f-that is, I
the meeting :ind intermingling of
men on trueV social conditions.
Everywhere else it is who were j our
father and molther ? What do you
do ! Or howv much are you worth !
Here it is wlr'at are; you, and what
can you'eontitibute toward the en
lightenment olr the entertainment of
others!
I happeuedn-in the room of the
Board of Appeals of the Patent Of
fice on Saturiday, and there the cen
tral figure wits a large white-haired
man gesticulating awkwardly with
a telephone.1 It was Roscoe Conk
ling, and hel was making an argu
ment for Eiftison in the big tele
phone iuterlerenee with BeU and
others. Thli ex-Senator has grown
much stouteir since his then corset
like waist; alid tight-fitting clothes
were the tntflk of the Senate and
country.
iat now the fact is Mr.
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underdressed rather
than an ovi
'er dressed man. He had
on a loose.l
ill-fitting business suit,
hairo-v at til
le knees, and altogether
OOrf 1
as awkwar
I as the clothes turned
out bv thi
London tailors. His
necktie hulked the gorgeous hue of
old, and tlile handkerchief, was not
as brilliant as in the days when he
posed for llLe pleasure of ladies in
the Senate hrallery. Mr. Conkling
is now makl
ns money in his pro-
Cession at t l
Se rate of nearly 100,-
000 a year,
md if he takes good
care of his
nouey no win in tlie
course of a irew years be a rich man.
That has alwj-ays been hU earnest
desire, and
hen he gets half a
million in hail
d he will be able to
retire from thJ
deal more eqn
law with a good
animity than he mail
ing the Senate.
ifested in lea
Lexox.-'
Washington,
, C, Dec 17th, 18S3.
The destrut!
oa of two illicit dis-
tilleries in Lt
noir county, N. C,
ials, is reported.
by revenue ofi3
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ABOUT FARMING.
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WHAT THE FARMERS ARE
DOING AND TALKING ABOUT.
PICKED UP NOTES.
Z. P. Davis, of the Fremont sec
tion, says the "Bulletin," raised
this year on eleven acres, 11 - bales
of cotton, averaging 48G lbs. ; on
four acres, 40 barrels of , corn and
on three-fourths of an aere 200 bush
els of potatoes and all this with one
horse that is 21 years " bid. ' Such
farming as thisr pays, and we wish
ther6 was more 1 of it. .
Lexington "Dispatch": Mr. C.
W.'Kinley, of Tyro township, plant
ed eight acres of cotton in drills,
an,d two acres in hills about two
and a half feet apart, all in the same
field, and about the same time. The
drilled cotton required more work
than the other, especially hoeing ;
but the two acres in hills produced
twice a3 much cotton as the eight
acres in drills. This much for the
new system. - :
Mr. J. M. Wilson, Wiilson's Mills,
Johnson county, stated to the Clay
ton" Bud'' last week that he raised
over 500 barrels of corn, gathering
300 barrels off Of 55 acres of upland.
He raised 100 bales of cotton on his
farm, Itnd about 14.000 pounds of
tobacco. He sold two barns last
week in Durham,- about what was
cut from two acres, for which he
realized $447, averaging over 25
per hundred pounds. He received
$50 per hundred for part of the lot
he t old, and has not marketed his
finest tobacco. He has a tenant,
Craf. Rodgers, colored, who tended
40 acres of his poorest land plough
iug a mule twenty years old, and
having the assistance of two worn
en only and he has housed ; 32
barrels of corn and 16 bales of cot
ton. Mr. Wilson says Craf. did not
attend either of the two elections,
and has not been to the court house
(only six miles) in three years.
A JfW Oir for Hs:.
. Hog cholera has been very fatal
in Yadkin, carrying off large num
bers of swine Squire Toinlin gave
each of his hogs a dose of calomel
-about what would, lie easily ; on
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the end Ol an orainary case kuub.
Everv one of them recovered. One
which was too sick to drink milk
into which the calomel had been
put, had its mouth prized open and
iris thus dosed one evening, and
next morning came up to his corn
and ate heartily. Squire Tomlin
has thus demonstrated to his entire
satisfaction that calomel is all that
is claimed for it iu the treatment
of hog cholera. "From the States
ville Landmark."
The Ihlloiioplicr'N Stone.
Our farmers and laborers place
all kinds of lien's and mortgages on
their future crops and then go reck
lessly to store trading and buggy
buying, piling up against them
selves hea vy and often useless in
debtedness, expecting to find relief
with a good -crop of cotton. Unfa
vorable seasons or low pi ices, or
both, comes along and gives cotton
a "black eye',' aud away go the ex
pectations of all who have builded
on the capricious and fickle thing.
The ouly way to come out ahead is
to let mortgages and hen bonds se-
veiely alone. When John Randolpli
sprang up in the House of Repre
sentatives at Washington and cried
out that he bad found the philoso
pher's stone, iJ5 was no idle boast.
"The philosopher's stone," eaid he,
"is pay as you go." Newbern
"Journal."
Unwritten History!.
We met an old gentleman in
Murray county not long; since, who
claimed to be lo5 years old, and in
course of conversation wo asked
him if he remembered auytning
about the revolutionary war.
J "Oh, yos," said-he, "I was in
some of the battles, and remember
distinctly the surrender of Lord
Cornwallis at Yorktown."
"Were you there !" we asked.
-Certainly," he replied.
"Then tell us something about that
memorable event some incident
connected with the surrender," we
requested.
"Well, I was standing a few
steps from General- Washington
when Cornwallis stepped up in front
of, the General and offered him his
sword and as he did so Washington
rai ed his hand towards his head,
for the purpose possibly of removing
his hat,"when- Cornwallis dodged
his head away from the General.
Whereupon Washington said, "yon
needn't dodge I ain't going to bit
yon."
Of course this old man was pres
ent on that memorable occasion.
I Dalton, Ga -Citizen."
Pardoned Throng Tte Efforts of A
; Little Boj.
Nathan Creps was pardoned on
Wednesday last by Gov. Jarvis.
The circumstances are as follows :
Till' GOD'S, AND TRUTHS''
He was sent to the Penitentiary i
from Wilkes county for manslaught- j
er for a term of ten vears. He is ;
an old man of sixty years, and is
known in penitentiary as a trnty.'
While working at the Governor's
mansion, uow iu course of construc
tion on Burke Square, it was his
duty to carr3 water to the convicts
at work inside the stockade around
this square. The water was drawn
from a well in the yard of Dr. Mc
Kee just across t he street. While
eugaged. in his work he attracted,,
by his old age; the attention and
sympathy of Johnnie, a httle son
of Dr. McKee, who became very
much interested in him, and ofteu
gave him some little delicacy from
his father's table, which was very
much apj?recjtfttiLund was i -reciprocated
by the prisoner mVking him
presents of little trinkets made by
himself and fellow prisoners in the
penitentiary. One day, while a
gentleman who is a member of the
Board of Directors of the peuiten
tiary was dining at Div. JIcKee's,
he was asked by the doctor's little
son if he could not pardon the old
man. He was told that the Gover
nor could, upon good reasons
showu, use the pardoning power.
This but increased his fervor, and
one day while down the street with
his father they; met Gov. Jarvis,
and being told that it was the Gov
ernor who could pardon tho old
man, he approached him and laid
the case before him. It was promis
ed him by Governor Jarvis that
the old man's case should be look
ed iuto. Tlie transcript of the case
was filed in the Executive office and
tho matter gone into. And you
can imagine the surprise of our
little friend when on Thursday,
Thanksgiving day, the old man
walked into the yard in citizen
clothes with a pardon from the
Governor in his pocket, no longer a
prisoner but a free man, at liberty
to go wherever he pleased. It
was indeed a day of thanks for the
old man, and his little friend gave
him his dinner and filled his jackets
with lunch, when the good bye was
said and the old man . went to the
dejiot aud took the western bound
train for home. Thus it is shown
that a little boy can do somtthiiu).
"Evening Visitor."
Fanny Verdicts.
An Indiana jury recently return
ed a written "verdict of --"Blodet-to-
peces li the biler bustin."
A Kansas jury gave the folio w-
ina verdict in a case where a man
died in a state of intoxication
"Death by hanging round a rum
shop."
"Jury," said a western judge,
"you kin go out and find a verdict
It you can c Una one ot your . own,
get the one the last jury ued."
The jury returned with a. verdict of
"suicide in the ninth degree."
A Rhode Island jury were 5 days
debating on a hog case involvjng
$7, and then came in, found the hog
not guilty, aud recommended both
plaintiff and defendant to the mercy
of the court.
A Pekin, 111., coroner's jury ren
dered a very singular verdict, that
a man whose body was found in a
river came to his death by a blow
on the head, "Which was given
either before or after the drown
ing." -'.'.. '
Whiskey as a Leveler.
Pitsburg Dispatch :
Whiskey,"
said a considerable of a politician
the other night, as lie held up a
glass of it, "is the typical American
beverage. It is a kind of leveler
that is characteristic in our glori
ous country. Take a view of this
bar and tell me if I am not right.
At one end is a United States
Senator with whiskey in his tumb
ler, and here back of us stands a
hack driver, whose glass has been
filled from the same bottle. Is
there anywhere else than a bar, or
anything else than whiskey, that
puts men more on a level ?" Whis
key, he might have added, will
land the Senator and cabby in the
same gutter,
Can't Kill a Nijr.
The New Berne "Journal" states
that one dav last week whiles
freight train ou the Atlantic &
North Carolina Railroad was run
ning about fifteen miles an hour,
the engineer saw a little darkey,
three years old, stick its head up
from between twoVross-ties. where
it had been asleep. He started
along the side of the engine in
order to get to the pilot and grab
it, but before he could do so the
pilot hit it, lifted it about twelve
feet and deposited it on the side of
the track. The little nig scamper
ed off, -not as badly hurt as its
mother, who saw the occurrence,
was wared. -
Tne Yilcst Sinner Betaped.
Bob Toombs has joined the
Methodist church at Atlanta, and
it is now believed that, having
accomplished the object for which
it so "long held out to burn," the
light will incontinently go out.
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COUNTY EXHIBIT.
-:o:-
FROM SEPTEMBER 1ST
TO
DECEMBER UST,
A GOOD SHOWING.
As the time for making tlie an
nual statement of the expenses of
each eouuty has been changed from
bept. 1st to Dec '1st, 1 hereby give
the amount of each account claim
ed and allowed by the board of
County iromissioners from Sept.
1st to Dec. 1st, 1S83. , " -
SEPTEMBER 3.
Monthly allowance - for Pollev
Pago 1 ou; monthly allowauce for
2 infant children, Oeorge N Branch
to B P Branch 10 00; county poll
tax reiuuueu ; Jenms Amngton S3;
mouthly allowance to Mahala Batts
1 00; monthly allowauce Theresa
Walston 2 00; making coffin for
couuty charge J J Farmer 2 50;
making coffin for W B Balance to
T F Winstead 2 50; making coffin
f r Vina Taylor, T T Wiustead 2 50;
2.J days assessing land Jonathan
Tomlmson .VOO: iuk medicine, &c
for county W , W Hargravc 4 30;
cioining lor ueorge Artis. v j
Woodard.2 50; for 7 days services
at poor house W F Rowe 5 30:
board ol prisoners in jail J J Bare
foot 11 55; making . out merchants
returns for June B J Barnes 14 1)5:
services as sheriff James E Farmer
13 25; auditing treasurer's report S
M Warren Sr 2 00; assessing land
'1 uays to John P Barden 5 00; ad
vertising lor county Wilson Ad
vance 1 50; lumber for ioor house
u A bcott 11 37; merchandise for
poor bouse Batts & Rice 5 10; for
19 days services as county commis
sioner 2 per day 38 00, and mile
age for same 5 cents per mile 15 20;
Dr AG Brooks, monthly allowance
for Jas Ethendgo to Jesse Jones
4 00; monthly allowauce for Dor
sey Davis to Sam Billiard 2 50.
OCTOBER 1.
I or mouthly allowance 2 i 11 fa 11 1
children of George N Branch to R
P Branch 1000; for making coffin
at poor house to J J Porter 1 20;
repairing Horns' bridge cross cieek
Spencer Williamson 8!) 14; monthly
allowance to N J Hudson 5 00;
mouthly allowance to Theresa
Walston 2 00; 5 days serv ices as
cryer of fall term of Superior court
H W Peel 10 00; for guardian bond
book and blanks Kdwards Brough
ton & Co 2 50; for hauging shades
in clerks office, spittoons, pigeon
holes &d to Woote.n & Stevens
a yu; lor - ouu envelopes , express
postage &c Walker Evans & Co
10 55; for oue ream of docket paper
Edwards Brough ton & Co 10 50; for
"supplies for Purity Ruffin 3 months
D A Yelvertou 5 G4; for supplies for
William Owens for 3 months D A
Yelverton 5 44; for advertising conn
ty statement Sept 1st Wilson Ad
vance 75 94; for services rendered
at ioor house J J Porter 2 00; for
board of prisoners -in jail J J Bare
foot 25 10; for outsides for road at
Hominy K U Watson I 50; for
summoning jury, ' witnesses &c
James E Farmer 10 20; for labor
performed at poor house Marion
Porter 3 75; Laudanum and survey
ing poor house land E M NaJal
4 25; for letting out and feeeiving
bridge W II Williamson 2 00;' 'mer
chandise for poor house Rountree
Barnes & Co 21 s7; for making out
tax list and abstiact for 1883 II , J
Barnes 190 00; auditing Treas Re
port, 1 day running poor house, land,
and one months service at poor
house W.F Mercer 31 00; for 5 days
services as commissioner to Oct 1st
W F Mercer lO'OO; for 1 pair shoes
for Biggs Moore W G Ellis 1. 75; for
State failures fall term Superior
court A B Deans 373 !)!); lor grind
seed and fixtures for poor house J
L Weaver 75; for monthly allowauce
for Jas Etheridge to Jesse Jones
4 00: for 2 davs services as officer of
iurv and board and lodging lor same
F I Fincn l'J 5U: lor support 01
Hezekiah Flowers 4 months 8 M
Clark 16 00; for h months services
at poor house J (J IVarsou 12 50;
for monthly allowance lor Policy
Page, Theopilus Page 2 50; for mer
chandise for poor house to Batts.' &
Rice 1 10.
XOVKMIiEB ". '
For monthly allowance 2 infant,
children of George N Branch to IJ
P Branch 10 00; for 'monthly' allow
ance for Mahala Batts lor Oct 1 00;
for monthly allowance for Mahala
Batts for Nov 1 00; for monthly., al
lowance for Laney Veasley I 00; for
building bridges acioss slough near
to John S Boykins 30 00; for re-,
pairing Ijridge Bloomery Swamp
C II Maddry IK '72; for repairing
bridge Bloomery Swamp 011 coun
ty line road J 1 Lamm C 00; for
one months services at poor house
J C Pearson 25 00; for monthly i 1
lowance for Jas Etheridge to Jesse
Jones 4 00: or monthly allowance
tor Treascy walston i 0 lot on na-
in? nouse ai. ooor iiyie 1 x riiicu
11 00; for 1 day services purging
-
jury box B II Barden 2 00; for let
ting out aiid receiving budge Si
mon Barnes- 3 GO; for repairing
Morris Ridgc William . itenmut
5 00; for I day ?ervics levising ju
ry box Jouatbau Toiulinson 2 00;
for letting out aud receiving bridge
William Hiiinaut 2 00? for 2 days
services as commissioner 2 icr
daj- and 4 ihiys letting out and re
ceiving biidges W F Mem:-r k (K);
for fees State failures fall term
Suwrior court E J Fenn 1 22; for 1
day services revising jury box Cal-
ley S Braswell 2 00; for iron grate
petition tloors ccc for prison at ooi
linuao tn Afui-1 X' llenfoii 1 -10 fKh
fbr j feos in State failures fall term
Superior court S Has-ell I 37; for I
fees in State failures tall term Sn-
perior court B A Howard 1 35; for
repairing bridge aeioss Turkey ; - , - . , , -, ..i.,'
Creek K II Baifey 00; for 2 days the bursting of a boiler about three
assessing land 2 -per day W W i weeks ago. Their funerals were
Farmer 4 00; for 1 day revising ju-1 preached at the same time, at the
ry box W W Farmer 2 00; for 1 j game duu-cb, by the same minister,
dayl-DSU7 b0A.MTl-?mi'land tbey were buried in the. same
son 2 00 for A fees State failure ur-i Tt
faU term Suix-rior court U W Pee! graveyard at the ine time Lin
55; for i fees State failures fall term j coin Ire. , , , , . .
-NUMBER" 45
Superior court n W Peel 55: for i
days work for self and hand at poor
house J T Manning 1 00; for servi
ces as clerk Superior court A B
Deans 8 55; fori day services revis
ing jury box J T Graves 2 00 for
coffin for Milberry Griffin J J Far
mer 3 00; for 1 day services revis
ing jury box Simon Barnes 2 00 for
provisions for Mahala Batts 3
months R S Wells 9 00; for 1 day
for wagon and team at oor house
SUas Lucas 2 50; for 1 day services
revising jury list Jesse Kirby 2 00;
tor provisions for Eveline Newsom
Jos J Hales 4 00; medicine for poor
uouse A w Kowland 12 85; board
of prisoners in jail J J Barefoot
41 30; 1 day letting out and receiv-
iug bridge 1 day revising iurv box
T AThompsou 4 00; 1 day revising
jury box D A Scott 2 00; 2 days
services letting and receiving bridge
V IT Will: T-..l.' r-
j.x iui;imsuu i iiauung ior
poisr houso Frank. Latuui 1 00 mer
chandise for poor house Warren &
l.ui nes 4 2o; monthly allowance for
Policy Page 2 50; poll refunded
1 nomas noyett 1 58; 1 day services
revising jury box T R Eagles 2 00.
UET-APITULATION.
Expenses of poor house and
iKor and sick . 213 US
Kxiienses of bridges 159 M
Tax refunded . 241
Prison and jail expenses, State
lauures tall term superi
or court and salary and
fees o 9
Miscellaneous G07 95
v $1804 37
I, B. J. Barnes, clerk of the Board
of County Commissioners, do hereby
certify that the above is a true
statement of the amount of each
account claimed and allowed by
the Board of Commissioners of
W llson county, up to 1st Monday
in Dec. 1883.
B. J. BAENKs, C. B. C.
k Lost Art.
Girls in the J Iowa Agricultural
College are taught to cook. By
md by our superior civilization will
educate a gu l in sucli a manner
that she will be fit to become a
wife an art which appears to have
been lost sometime in the pastgeu
eration.
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She Paid Tno Debt.
The 'Gazette,' of Carthage, Moore
county,-Hays a young man iu that
county has been in the habit of
seeing these duns of Northern mer
chauts sayingr "please remit," and
it seems that he believed it 'to be
a rather sweet and 6tylish manner
of concluding a letter. He wrote
a very loviug letter to his sweet
heart, finishing ; up as follows
Write soon, please remit. J. R
The answer was "I don't owe you
nothing but a kicking.- PIeae fiud
that clulosed..?-
Wise'. Girls.
American girls are becomiug
worldly wise.- A Soutn Carolina
damsel recently declined an offer
of marriage on the ground that her
father already had too large . a
family to supjiort. With similar
admirable foresight :iT friend of
ours, who hak passed the giddy
period of her girlhood says the
reason why tshe has never married
is that she has never felt that she
was rich enough to support a hus
band. NcwImtuc Journal.
Garfield's Gold Bine.
It is not generally known that
there is a gold mine in Stauly
couuty owned by the late Presi
dent James A. Garfield. The mine
is known as the Flag town mine,
and was bought by the President
shortly before his assassination.
President Garfield not only bought
the mine, but established at the
mine a io.stoffice called Flagtown.
The mine has Ix-en lyiug idle, but
the man iu charge of the property
has "received. a.-' letter from Mrs.
Garlield stating that she intends
visiting the mine in .iK-rson next
summer stnd make sirrangenients
to Lave it properly worked.
Stealing Will "Dp."
The Raleigh "Farmer and Me
chanie" says: A voung man named
Harry Jat-per was arrested last
week, charged with abstracting
money from the pockets of Wallace
Bachelor, of ' Nash, while the lat
ter sdiniil-ered and slept, the two
Xn.ixv. ilii:i. mates at a hotel, pend-
i .
ing t ho .sessions of Feleral court
Iasp-r swallowed a 5 gold plw-e,
(to zet it out of ignt), but was
forced to swallow an emetic, which
restored the gold to eircuIation,and
sto!icd his; the police putting him
in banque.
Too Much Samenehs.
There lived in Montgomery cuun
ty, in this State, two young men
who were born 'on the same day in
the same neighborhood. They
were converted at the same meet-
I ng and joined the church at the
same time. They eutered the cm-
; pjoV 0f the
lK)th kiIe(la
ijarrMV man and were
at ft.n &amA iiKDnont bv
WILSON ADVANCE
RATES OF ADVEfcTISEfO.
On ln.h. On Intcrttoa.
..$1
Thit MonUis.
-;
llrai l
Nl JMOtlirtt
"- par
LlHrai lhoi-i; m be ruado for Lm-r
Advonit-inctitx a I tut Oontmct by Vha Tear
Cash mvm jicooa'pary all AdTprtimcnt
solos- rooa rvf ernco 1 1roa.
BILL ARP
TALKS AllOUT COURTSHIP
AND MARRIAGE.
0VKfl OXK THEY GO."
One by one they go. They are
always going for the boy? will run
after ihe giris, and they pull 'em
beg 'em and flatter 'em until they
surrender, and Ueu marry um g.
heke m a sweet sadness about it,
and for a while the house seems
desolate aud the good old father
and mother wandered around and
ook lost aud tuy nothing. I cairn
by one of these deserted homcM
1st night and saw the old folks
through the window. The mother
was knitting in the coiner ttnd the
old man looking fixedly in Ihe
blaziug fire and moUisg his pi-.
knew well what they werethtnk-
ug about, for a young man had
come after their child and eariie-l
her far away- the child they had
nourished and loved so long and
done all they could for, and now
she was gone for good.;. It in the
course of nature, but somehow it
humbles a fond parent in npite of
nature, for a man, a stranger to
his blood, to Htep in between and
steal a daughter's purest, tender
est love, and take , her away.
Somehow it reminds us of our age
and infirmity. The old pillars that
sustained the house are decaying '
and growing weak, and the child
seeks a new and more vigorous
support. One by on they go, and
the toys aud t h . girls; and lite
old homestead I but a place to
visit and then go awuy again. We
are thankful and happy when they
come, and we know they love u
still, buX it is most always a saeri
flee- a sacrifice of time and money
and puts in ieril their , bunine
aud opportunities. Neverthele
they ought to. come, "lor life U
short and time is lleefiug," and
the old folks will ' 'soon 1m gone.
This devolioit to aged parents is .
mighty sweet to me. I know a
man of your : town a lawyer of :
standing and distictiou who,
everyj month, gms by my house iu
a hired baggy and .spends a day
ana a night with bis aged mother
iu the monntains, and com fori s
her, and she . lookn forward with
delight to his monthly visits and
fondles him to her bosom and
blesses him, and when he leaves
her to return to bis wife and chil
dren he knows that her prayer.
follow him aud they ri taliaveii
like mcensa and he ieeb better ami
nobler for his pilgrimage. I to .
spect that man Ix-cause he tvsp'ci.
that good oldmot her,1 a nd if I h:id
a jiise for court wtiuhl submit i;
to hi in with all confidence, and W
I had a large estate and wanted a
faithful executor,. I would, clio.e
him. I can't help rumination ovet
these things nometimes, for n led-
ing of sadneMH come over me when
I think of our own children who
have left its, and now domic. led in
five, different ttatc from New
York to Florida. When .-hall c
meet again f And there are more
to leave us," aud by and b' they
will all be gone and our hopts and
joys will flutter and fall like the .
leaves upon a withered tree. That
is the way I feel at times, but it ik .
uot the way wc ought to feel. It
is not the way 1 talk to other co
pie.
"Brace lip oid gentleman,'' I nay
brace up. Why, they -will, keep "
coming and going, and your zraiid
children will come to ee y 11 and
you umst make things lively. Fro
lic with 'em play horse and lear,
and go hunting with em, and u 11
'tin fttorirs, aul bold our head up
like a patriarch. Grow old grace
fully aud 1h? always ready to bright
en up the family health with a
venerable -tmile. Vie' don't want
any long faces iu this Mihluuary
world. Cheer up, and make folks :
glad to see you. Nexcr irtt, die
nntil your time coiner, and when
it does come draw the drapery 61'".''
your couch about you a tlie foet
say aud be down t ple-aiant
dreams.
To Cue the "Bioos.'
(Wit the bloofl,' have feel terri
bly, deprered? waieccly can
claim to le a christian ! JJce te
scription, James Iave a
nice little package of Migar and
coffee, or a sack of Hour when you
say 'good-bye,' and it will leave
the 'blues' no lar :bcdind U .that
they won't overtake von in a week
or a month.
A YeriUDle Crank.
- A' crank -a young travelling
salesman, ha been annoying" Mis
Mollie GrlifclJ, the late President's
daughter, for mauy montlt, by .
seeking interview. He is from
St. Louis, and in now in jail at
Cleveland. He gave the name of
George Washington, and asseited
that he waa a lineal desceudanj ol
the father of his country; -and(if I
don't marry Mollio Garfield," be
exclaimed "IU bang myself v
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paign