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WILSON' ADVANCE
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WtLSox NokthGaeo
BY
JOSKPHUS DAMtLS. - Hitorao
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Allege, u I). 1
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nieet in"
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Cltarlotae on the m.h if
Ilgll-Sl.
b'ington is at
to have
t new hotel np the corner
Dock r-U'vts. Good!
is mighty and must pre-
lltllli(ti'i until has been
lined . riv,riL, in .. horse trade.
Phillips-, of Wil-
ven e hctcd a mem
ber of the Germ i.omicai socie
ty, of Berhn.
The ice lacioru )n j;,leifrli
ls
nearly completed. i-,i,s js ;l new
enteiiise fur North Carolina. Is
it not the t'nstf , .
A ttsht over an Vwk in
tlleveland cou nt v h.iscr.t iirut.i'
last, the Aurora" sjys ' iyo iu.
'lln- lJ'Xt rssioll 'of tho Uni
versity Normal-School will le held
at Chiii-1 1 1 ill, in the University
liiiildiu'. from June 17th to July
17th.
Twenty years njjn lliere were
twelve womeifi doctors in the Uni
ted Sbfctcs. j;w u.ie are SOO in
the tield andian ann.v of recruits in
t i-.i in i ii
A violcn't
storm in
Dinwiddle
a l;iptisl
count , V:ij, Sunday
chuicli ii. -ai J',i,hii (ii.e was
blown down: .,,i ;, W( ., .-.killed In
liKhtniii.
It do 'I ,(si mm h to;et mar
ried in Nei .h-is.-v. The liien-e
fee U o ' v2 i,.;.nts. p,t S1N.
States, hm.Iu J Pennsylvania,
have neithL,. ii, , IS1. or lee.
Sherilt u. Hill, of Samp.soii.
escorted hjur eouviets to the pent
tentiary hlst W41.k, vi.: Troy Car
ver, cig(,t years; J. Dam, 2
years; Any llerriii", t ears.
' '''ir 'ehne a Hindoo woman
dies a js brought in so I hat
she maf hold its tail as her l
leaVfH;tlP, lM,dv. ' Perhaps
der tliHtftiiu -might realize th. --.
-lklmumf Hnhardson, in
of the World's Industrial an.,
ton Centennial Exposition, at New
"Orleans, is the largest cotton plan
ter and cotton tacior iu the ..ill.
-.Estimated- worth 1o,0uo,ihm iol
lars. :
Oxford "Orphan's Friend'':
We are jilad to say io the Iriemls
of the Orphan As him all over I lie
State that vevery thing niovmg
on hariuonhmsly and pleasantly at
the instil ntlon. The health id the
children is Hd.
1 -Tle faintly of Mr. .1.11. 1'.ai nes
of Kockiutrlittu, together Willi. some
miest, werefnade vcrv sjcj;. last
Sunday week'A says the ' Um ket'',
by eating ice. ftVeani. It is believed
that theloisong was rail ed by
somo adiilteraviion in I lie lemon
extract..-
Hie tiohlsttoro ".lies; ener
says. It is runioieml beie th ai AViley
Crnnipler, Jr., whVse lioine is but
a few miles fromVown, drank a
quantity of lam!auil the early part
of last week, and iSaieiliately, ii-lt
his house, sinee- which, time no
tidings have been hid of him.
The AsheviHe.ti.lvanee''sa.vs,
Mr. ltichinond Pears i stated be
fore the board of coini.issioiier.sand
magistrates, that he knew posi
tively of !?f00,00() that ,ad been in
vested in Buncombe ennty, as a
consequence of the erei joii-of the
new iron bridge aei.s French
Broad river.
The curie-' lni doing
much damaged corn in tlir east
era part of the State. The Stmie:
wall "Enterprise" tells ol a citizen
oi i aiiiueo eoinu. wno is pay in
.
UK", per iuu n-r ai
can be canghi in
acre field of coi n h i.
The curlew bug at
at the root an 1 sin k
of it.
''in that
in
t.MM-
ii'iu
: to him.
the corn
sap out
The Goldsboio "Messenger"'
says, the Executive Committee of
.the State Fruit Association have
decided to ask SenatiislI:insoin aud
Vance to be present at the state
Fruit Fair. The annual address i
to .x delivered by Senator Uansdin
and a lecture for the benefit of tiir
Fruit Growers Association by Sen
ator Vance. The Fruit Fair will
tie held in Goldshoru July -3oth ai.il
31st. . "'-..
-The catalogue of Davidson c,,i
lege lor 188:5-4 shows that the in
stitution has a faculty of seven, and
llrt students who come from eleven
different States and one foreign,
country. During the past year
the Trustees have liegun the-'woik"
of adding 75.000 to the permanent
endowment, $50jO(H) of which i hex
expect to raise in North C'arolina,
ami ? 12,000 of which have already
bee.n raised in this State.
Senator Cokiv of Texas, has a
remarkably imweriiil voire, and it
is said that when he was discussing
the pliiei-o-pneumoni i hill and his
throttle valve wide open the
pages piu cotiou hi iheir ears and
wedged the window sashes to keep
them from rattling and breaking
the glass. The Senator- is a
brother to Capt, Octavius Coke of
North Carolina, who himself has a
voice which is like the rushin'of
-mighty waters. "
The sure effects of Ayer's
Ykilrillo. i-.
Sarsa-
,....... kuumugu ami nerini
nent. If there is a lurking taint
of scrofula about,you, Ayer's S ir
ssapanlla will dislodge if. and ei
tr. Trnm rr.t-n.
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VOLUME M.
Romance of the (
TIIE STRANGE HISTORIES OF TIIE
INMATES OF TWO CALIFORNIA i
HOARDING HOUSES. ,
Twenty-five or thirty years aim. 1
I i mink, at rdarysville, Cat, whicli
was then an established yet shanty
I like town, lived Judsre Stephen
Field, and in his law office was a
rmboai tied with a plain family,
aim at me Lp fj auUbiier
i T I I I I I W I VKi "
a florid, weltsh-looking Btrangei-.
In the next u6use liyel an Irish
man named Murphy? who had a
bright, interisting daughter, but he
was fond of paddling her when
anything wint wrong with him.
This paddlifig had been going on
for some time, aud one day the
hoarders held an indignation meet
ing and resolved to go next door
and see old Murphy, and tell him
that ifjic did not stop correcting
Senate.
that eljild on eei im an oecn- ry cnainnan ot the convention, and
sions they would take bun down to j Fix-Senator Henderson, or Missu
the stre mi and duck Imn. None j ri, was lieiinanent chairman. The
; of. the guests were especially brave, j Mahone. delegation was admitted
lmt t hv -nut on a very brave front, from Vinrinia. ..Fi-idav sit.' 4-:u
and held the indignation meet iug. j
Several years alterwards one ot j
thosiM,lirties' ' caueii loi
be juslii o of thi supreme court.
stii'i liter, by sdveral years, the ;
rei.ul.liea" in California nominated
(lorhani for governor, and they put
oil tin' ti' ket with him the present
Uiittoi States Senator, Jones.
Wif. ii .loues met Gorham ho said:
., i . ,.n tlie little fellow from Tjncr
( ' ' 1 4 -----
lV-i.iiiii who boarded at MaVysville
w - if it TiU ' "jrou ju miuw me.
'No. 1 doTr44link I do" Why, I'm
Jones, the. WensJi lookiug fellow
who torined one of Ue posse to go in
ami make old M urphystop keeping
that child screaming," 1 Tle,sh)ok
I, amis warmly, and then Jones
said: 'Gorham, do you know what
hus heeome of that Mary Murphy?''
No. "Why she is now Mrs.
William Sharon."
My informant says that conse
quently there met at Washington
city, Jones aud Sharon in the
United States Senate, Gorham
secretary of the Senate and Field
on the supreme bench all brought
out otMhat boarding house. Mary
Murphy grew up to le an interest
ing woman, and the paddling was
only temporarily disadvantageous
Cnpid's Odd Capers.
Spriugfiehl, O., was thrown into
a Hot ter by the appearance of a
beautiful yo'ung woman, elegantly
dressed, walking arm in arm with
a negro through the streets. She
proved to be Maggie Burton, of
Meehanicsburgind soon tiecome
Mrs. Je uersoii tilrothers, the ne
. i. becoming her loved and lov
II;; liiisband.
Miss Constance Bell, a handsome
- ar old girl of Boykin, S. C
home from boarding school
and found Dr. Benson, an 80-year-old
strauger sick in her fathers house.
She nursed the old gentleman, and
at, the end of two weeks, as soon
as lie was able to walk they were
married, the girl's parents giving
full consent.
Mary Sullivan, aged 23, a New
York domestic, is stieing William
Hayes, aged 70, for breach of
promise. She claims that Hayes
made love to her, and that alxHit
,Iu!v
1, 18S.I, made an agreement
with her that if she would marry
him within :i reasonable time he
would transfer to her all his real
i stale, his bank accounts, and all
other property lie" owned in the
world.
Walter Burden ami Miss Fanny
Swallenberg, a young heiress,
eloped from Long Island City, and
being inaried in New York, sent a
messenger to notify the young
lady's widowed mother. The
couple were-much surprised soon
afterward to receive a long and
warmly congratulatory telegram
from Mrs. Swallen berg, anil the ad
ditional information that all
the; members'" of both families
approved the match.
Mrs. Mary Duffy, of Phila
delphia, drew a pension as a soldier's
widow until she xvas re married to
William Chainliers, when by law
the pension was discontinued.
She has now learned that William
has another vile. living and that
her marriage to him. being illegal,
is void. Hence i she claims to be
still a soldier's widow, entitled to
i the oension for all the years that
s.iiiuiii,.w-uii iiu u'-.id Mrs. Chambers
(V :'n"-""- , -
insieaii oi xv mow jjuiij.
-
Ella Wheeler's marriage had its
miauce liehiud it. When the
Army of the Oumlierland held its
reunion iu Milwaukee Mr. liobert
M. V,le.ox, a young mauHfacturer
from Connecticut xvas present,
lie had read Miss Wheeler's poetry
and wished to see her. It haj)
pened that, she contributed )Mein
to the occasion and was pointed
out. toMr. Wilcox. On his return
home he wrote to her, and, though
she had never met him. she liked
his letter and replied. A pleasant
j correspondence folloxved, and soon
a meeting xvas brought bouf. It
proved a case ot mutual love at
! fp-st sight. '
"Heroes."
, , -- M i Morrill, who was appointed Mcre
Can anybody i.nagme tl. , poss.- Treasury, he was elected
ditv that Gen. Bob t h. 1 1., tli Senate or-t-lio Unitt.-.! States
vmld, for ui.j eons.derat.o lend b V-elected to the
Ins i.:mie to si lottery scheme? .... i.. m i. noo.
He was not that sort of a "hero."
-Nash v,lle Christian AdvcH-ate."
The imasrination would W . im
possiitU. for the. greatest trait of
the greatest hero of modern times
as ins deep religious onvic
lions ami religion and lottery can
no more hiix than oil and water
they are utterly repellant, the for,
iner is d"G-otl, and the latter of the
evil one. No: General Lee, would
rather hae severed ! his heart- i
strings with his own Iiands than ;
have snveiiA bis nitJuence io a
frairtl to n
"Jackson Tc
. bis' fellow-men.
in Whig." !
: .
A whisker de mu
to apply, tupossi
.!
euc io use, easl
hie 'to rub off,
a nee, and chea
ingham's Dye
,tfle NXst?.rs
these merits.
unites in itself
Try it.
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HE WILSON ABVAHGE;;-
Jr lET ALL TSJTOlUlW'T AT, BE THY COUyfUY'S, THY GOD'S. ASP TBIITI1S'."
7 WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 13. 1884..
BLAINE AND LOG AN
THE l.EPUBLICAN CANDI
DATES NOMINATED.
THE PLUMED KNIGHT.
eimliliean Coiivelituoi in
Chicago lal?WCJan
the most i,thnsfver Leld hJ
that nartv. The hall xKi-lLse,y
nneb-t.l J I . ... .. i a. . 1 . -
r""-,i i.iuuu"iioiit me enure ses
Sion. Intense excitement prevail
ed aud it was evident from the
first that Blaine was the choice of
the Convention. Whenever his
name was mentioned the hall niiig
with shouts and hnzzahs. A neero
named Lynch was made tempora
o'clock Blaine was nominated for
President on the fourth ballot.
ine lollowing wi re the
cast :
ballot
TIIE I1AI.L(T4.
Blaine a-J-i.i ;H:'375 i44
Arthur , 27s 270 J7o 207
Edmunds 85 78 41
Logan f,:U c.l CO 7
Sherman .'( 2S 19
Hawley 12 13 15
Lincoln 4 4 2
Gen. Sherman 2 - 2
The vote was received with en
thusiasm, the band playing and
cannon looming.- The st reets xx-ere
thronged with excited people, all
cheering" wildly. At 1:15 Blaine's
nomination xvas made unanimous.
The convention adjourned until
S p. m.
The evening session began at
8:15 ami the call ot the States for
the presentation ol candidates lor
Vice-President began. No re
sponse xvas made until Illinois
was reached, when Senator Plumb,
of Kansas, took the stand to pre
sent Logan's name. The mention
of this name' xvas received with
great and long-continued cheering.
Houk, of Tennessee; Thruston, of
Nebraska; Bradley, of; Kentucky;
Horr, of Michigan; Lee, of Penn
sylvania; Pettibone. of Tennessee,
and Lee, of South Carolina, all
seconded Logan. A motion xvas
made to nominate Logan by ac
clamation, but a call of the roll
was demanded and the 'motion
was withdrawn.
At ;i:32 p. m. Logan was nomi
nated by acclamation. The result
was received xv ith cheers and the
convention at once began break
ing up.
The. convention xvas again called
to order afler I lie chairman had
anjrounced Logan's 'nomination by
acclamation anil on a roll call of
States all voted sojidly for Logan,
except New A orkj which cast 1
vote for Foraker land (i for Gres
liani. The convention formally ad
journed at 0.55 p. m.
lheie is great disappointment
among 1 he Arthur wing and other
opponents of Blaine. The New
York -'Herald," the New York
"Times," the "Everting Post.'' and
other leading paper, have already
declared against the: ticket. Geo.
W. Curtis and Henry' Ward
Beecher of New York say 'they
will not support - Blaine. So say
leading Republicans all over the
country. -Logan adds no strength
to ticket, especially South. 1 lis
"bloody shirt" record can but
weaken him everywhere. Lincoln
as Vice-President, would have
made the ticket stronger.
The democrats everywhere feel
satisfied with the ticket they are
to beat.
Speaker Carlisle said that the
democrats would haxe -an easier
time Hi n he expected. "If," said
he, "we can't beat the nomination
made lo day, we 'can't beat any
thing. I xvas ve y much afraid
they would nominate. John Sher
man, Ilnwley, or some such man
but Blaine."
THE REri'BLICAN NOMINEE.
James G. Blaine, the Republican
nominee lor the Presidency, was
born iu Washington county,'; Penn
sylvania, January 31, 1830.- r After
a preliminary tutelage he entered
Washington college, in that State,
from which he graduated with dis
tinction. Circumstances led him
to adopt the profession of a journa
list, and he soon drilled to Maine.
where he became editor of the Port
land ''Advertiser" and afterwards
of the Kennebec "Journal," In
18.VJ he made his advent' into
active ixilitical life as a member of
the Maine legislature, and served
continuously until 1S02, xvhen he
was elected to represent- his district
in the Congress of the United
State He remained a member of
the House until 170, when, on the
resignation, of Senator Lot M.
V1 - ' :
( or ,, i11;11i nr ii!1rii..ld-!4
c.t'biliet untii piesident Arthur
speeded to the Piesideney, wlien
- 1 K! Ietired.
IIe al.jv'.- displayed a bitter
an
tagonism towaitls hisjbrilliant rival,
Rescoe Conkling, then a representa
tive from New York, and fastened
upon him the sobriquet of "the
strutting turkey gobbler" a piece
of malevolent wit that Conkling
i nAifli.tf fm-offit nor forfax-p.
As violent however, as were his
i personal antagonisms Blaine yet
managed to control the majority
-ni his r:irr,x" in me liouse ami
- j . , . ... nncommo 1OW(,r.
degant in al)near";The period of his i-egime was
Hn pne-e. . iict-, rl - r t, i,istnrv nr
! oar country. Jobbery - flourished.
Great grant3 of public lands were
waue mj tuiouiauuus. xmpviiaub
questions affecting the railroad
corporations chartered during
the war, and involving large
amounts--of .money in which , the
government was interested, were
brought forward for legislation.
Speaker Blaine it is alleged, al
ways was favorable to these
measures. The public treasury
was lieing milked by the adroit
manipulators of railroad magnates
and the Speaker, it has been re
garded, promoted their designs.
How far he feathered his own nest
is not" known.-. -.When the Dem
ocrats '.K'caine the dominant ma
jority in the House the judiciary
committee was instructed to make
some investigations ami judge
was Oil St, Sllh ern..
1 IlOUiaS!Rr.1f anma niuotlnoo
-, , - ' til. -.1 1WI 1.3
UlllbCl t V hi v -. . .
that appeared to m
the
intefirritv of the ex speaker
was during this investigation that
the notorious "Mulligan letters"
came before the public The inci
dents of that occasion are not en
tirely I resli in our memory, but as we!
recall them, Mr. Blaine when a crisis'
xvas reached suddenly suffered a
stroke of apoplexy or dangerous
illness that arrested the proceed
ings. Later on he recovered some
what, and having by a disreputable
trick obtained possession of the
damning proofs of his guilt, he
Haunted them in the face of House
and then was restored to health
xvith maivelous rapidity. It goes
without saying that the written
evidence of his guilt contained
in the Mulligan letters which he
thus secured, was never I made
public by him. But the voice of
the country .was pronounced, and
many of his own party friends re
gard him as a very disreputable
person. 'The "Evening Post" and
the New York "Times," both lead
ing Republican papers along with
numerous other Republican sheets
have'' never hesitated to speak ot
him as a disgraced aud dishonored
man, and as oue .unworthy of the
support ot decent citizens.
irausierreii to tuft senate in
187(5, Mr. Blaine lost no time in
measuring .strength xvith his old
adversary Conkling, who had been
called to the Senate chamber soma
years before. In 1870 Mr. HIaine
was tirst brought 'forward as a can
didate for t he Presidental nomiua-
tion, on the tirst ballot in the
convention of that year, 37'J lieing
necessary to a choice, he received
285 votes and on the seventh ran
up to 351; hut the tield being
against, him there was a stampede
to Hayes, xvho received 384 votes
and was nominated. Maine's de
feat at that time taught him a les
son, for Hayes was controlled by
those leaders xvho had made him
President. And so when the next
issue came, he determined -'that if
unsuccessful himself, he yet would
dictate the President. In the fol
lowing convention therefore, he
held his 284 votes against Grant's
30( until the 35th ballot when he
threw his strength to Garfield and
named the President.-
As the fruit of this stroke of pol
icy, Garfield selected Blaine as
the leading figure of his adminis
tration and he entered the cabinet
as Secretary of State. The effect
of this alliance between the Presi
dent and Conkling's personal ene
my was to throw Conkling and his
followers, among, them Vice-President
Arthur, into violent oppo
sition, and upon a trifling pretext
the New York Senator resigned
and appealed to the SMlwart wing
of their party for a vindication.
Blaine with much, adroitness mar
shaled the "Ilalf-breeeds" and
xvith consummate skill ..managed
lo 'defeat both ol the retiring
Senators and to obtain for Gar
field a dominant influence-in New
York polities.
One of the results of this epi
sode was the assassination of the
President-" by a deranged Stalwart
and the elevation of Arthur to
the Presidency followed by the
retirement of Blaine to piix ate life.
During his short career as Sec
retary of State, Mr. Blaine exhib
ited an activity -unknown to the
public men of his party. He sought
to signalize his administration by
a foreign policy that would be a
departure from all of our tradi
tions. Ire aimed to subordinate
tlie entire Western Hemisphere
to the influence of these United
States, and announced the pur
pose of establishing the doctrine
that this Union would interpose
to preserve the peace of the isew
World, and to control its affairs,
while European interference would
not be tolerated. A policy leading
so inevitably to distant warfare
and threatening to inxolx-e us in all
sorts of difficulties did not receive
the approbation of the American
people and yet it xvas audacious
and calculated by its very boldness
to win favor. The wheel of fortune
however that turned Blaine out of
his high office put a quietus to
these wild dreams, and President
Arthur quickly returned to the old
ways of -"nonintervention,"' - while
announcing a linn adherence to
the Monroe doctrine. To this rap
id and hasty sketch of Mr. Blaine's
caieer, xve must add a word as to
his jiersonal appearance. 'He is a
large, well made man, xvith a strik
ing carriage, quick m his move-,
nieuts, of dark complexion ap
proaching the olive, and full of
vigor.
The strength of his nomination
lies in his record in omiositioh to
j the Chinese, which gains him fav
; on the Pacific coast? and in Ws r
Kr?ss,ve toreign policy which
i i
ivor
ng-
is
J a,c" win to his support
j t,IOSft ln,sh v,0,('rs who ,,0l tbaC
may embroil this country in a war
with Great Britain. While his re
lations with President Garfield
were such that h.- might lx re
garded as Gartield'. political heir,
aud thus find a strong support in
Ohio, that very cirriuustance is his
greatest element of weakness, lor
it renders his carilidacv without
i Ij?! inasn'ch as ibe. Ulwart of
j ?ew X.rk will not vote for bim. It
' Me impossible. lor liiame i
i uunure r-iiaie, "
i though his adherents claimed in
t ,e convention that they could
elect him withont xw York, vet
wlJeu tUe concede jthat New York
Wl11 casfc Us vote against bim, tbey
ucicai
BILL ARP'S TALK.
MONEY ' AND ITS USES
THE FAMILY.
IN
MONEY AS A STIMULANT.
' Money is a right good thing and
no sensible man 'will turn up his
nose at it. Money biings comfort
au l leisures and Solomon says in
leisure there is wisdom. A man
who has to be digging away every
day for a living don't have mnen
time to read and reflect aud rumi-
n t matter whether he
is a merchant" mecnanic or
farmer or a pTofessk1 ma" if
he works hard all 'day'' liwant8
io rest an night.
Money promotes domestic tfu
quility and that is the biggest and
best thing I know of. But money
ftughi to be haid to get, so that its
rearsvalue may be appreciated
money :.as to lie earned to be
prized. If it is inherited or drawn
in a lottery or won at games of
chance or found in the' road or
obtained by lucky speculation iu
stocKs or bonds or cotton futures,
it goes at a discount. It is under
valued and .don't stick to a man
long. A fortune gained in a year
rarely sticks tfe anybody. Luck is
a right good thing when it follows
along with labor ;,nd honesty, but
luck by itself is 'a 'Receiver. "Trust
to luck" is the devil's maxim. I
knew a hard working man who
was so anxious to get ahead that
he stinted his family and invested
part 'of his earniugs in the Louis
iana lottery for hye years and
never drew but ten dollars. He
told me he had lost live hundred
dollars tiat way, and every time
he saw tie list published of the
lucky men who drew the prizes it
fired him up and he tried it again.
Sometimes IHvish Uncle Jnbal and
General Bc.Wegard would tote
fair and pub.ikh a list of them fel
lows who -diufoit draxv anything.
But 1 reckon That would lie so
long and occup.W many columns
in the newspais they couldent
afford it. I
It is just huma 1. know to want
more money than have got es
pecially if we are-liaid run and
living on a strain. I want more
myself, and if I xvas to find a hun
dred .'dollars in the road 1 couldenr
help hoping that tho owner would
never miss it, and never call lor it.
Just like a boy who finds a pocket
knife and feels like it is his, but
that sort of money is not as solid
and satisfactory as money we work
for. I know an old preacher who
had ten dollars and his sou hail ten
dollars and the young limn weut
down to Atlanta and took all the
money to buy somr things and he
came across a wheel of fortniie and
saw a fellow win ten. . dollars just
as easy, and so he Was persuaded
to try his luck,' and sure enough
he won ten dollai, and it hope
him up mightly and he tiied it
again and xvon some more, aid he
kept -on until be had won fflt1 dol
lars'. -and became a fool, for light
then his luck changed and lie1 lost
it all and his ten dollars audi his
daddy's ten besides, and! ha to
borrow a dollar and a half toWt
home on, and liked to have perisied
to death in the bargain. 'Well, the.
belonged to,the church and ihV.y
had him up and tried him. and
mane a ciean orcasr aim rout m
he xvas overtaken and tempted .iiill
how he went on and on mil
ne nan inane uity dollars cieaitl
"And right there" said the ol
man is where Johns sin begun
11 lie nail stopiHMl riiriit there it
.would have lieeii nil right but like
a fool he xvent on and outo.dct
srriiciion. en, .lonn wasenr s-icii
a dreadful sinner after all for hiv
wanted the money to buy some-'
thing io please- the old folks. But
money dont come t hat easy very
often. I know a man who has been
kept on a strain for tix'e years
working, out of his losses on cot
ton futures. Sometimes luck runs
I ... A t - f A
aiong xviin a man lor ten xears
and more and th
vain and he thinks
is infallible-nnd
lapses like Seney
Keene. No money is safe except
made by honest men.
The rewards of labor are mighty
good and sure. Here 1 set iu my
piazza and look over my farm anil
see the wheat and the oats all in a
strut and waving- so beautiful in
the breeze-" and I feel proud and
serene for I sowed rhat wheat my
self and helped to prepare the land
and it is my wheat and my oats
and come honestly and xvnsent
made' out 'of . somebody else, and
it does me good to cut a few
choce heads and bunch 'em anil
take 'ein to town and shoxv the
folks w hat I can do. It beats mon
ey made by luck all to pieces, and
so does xyalking in my gnrdeu and
di5ii" t'ho potatoes I pijanted and
working them e-er sol nice aud
biinging them in the I house to
shoxv to my wife and heijr her say,
"they are very fine." he nexer
saxs much on that line, fdie don't,
but a little goes a great xr
il Ii 11
me. She never indulge
tnre, she nexer uses ad j
any excess, sucli as li
in rap-
ctives to
x-ely, ex-
qnisite, splendid and the
like, but
I know what she thinks alhout
uiy-
thing just as well as
I'm going to get her
it
she did.
mess of
rasberries to-day, the fir
;t of the
season, and I'll surprise
'em at dinner time. She
her with
likes that.
Womeu lite ruose utile
thought
like oil
ful attentions. I hey are
on the axletree. and nil
kes the
machinery run smooth,
there ought to lie a little
IBut then
honey to
mix un things. Money i.-
a good
domestic lubricator itself.
A man
feels more like a gentlein
m with
some chauge in his pocket
and he
ouffht to always have a dol
ar or so
inst to feel of . -It stiffens
bim up
and keeps him from feel in
Ir like a
vncaboud. 'Ami woman
wants
en
some too.
.When a pedlaj comes
alonsr with tin ware or iJI wagon
load of jugs or the Gypsllls come
along with lace or the bo6aflgent
i .
comes along with pictures, and
besides it is such a dignified com
fort to have a little hid away for
the children when they ae jnst
obliged to have something to wear
aud dont want to ask papa for
money, for he is so hard run- aud
talks so poor all the time.
This is the kind of money that
goes for all it is xvorth. Money
that comes hard, money that is
earned. Even woman does not
prize money xvhen she has oodles
of ii and has every want supplied.
Folks must be cramped to be hap
py. They must have something
to stimulate them. Something to
provoke economy and industry,
and I'm thankful we've always
had these stimulants at my house.
Bill Arp. '
Temperance In Washington.
"A Washington letter to - the
Springfield Republican notes that
both Randall and Caislile, xvho
used vto look upon wine when it
lowetb its color in the cup, are
f-rkf..l nlwt-iinni'c Tin. ii'.-it..i-
IIAI yr. ... ( ..- Ii . II, ..- JIK II I1U .
also rciv5t's ,ni,t ' a dozen Sena
tors wh.u w "PI". ,mt"
lias drank air,5 Un' txo ye-.us,
and that all th ?tol'K ''xcept
perhaps one or two,"Sjyei'.v J)ll,
dent in the ue of liipmrN. lr t"
iu the House, so with moMU"".'1
men. According to .his autiioS
there has grown up a sentimeut T7
...dtiuvliti n. t ui..,k - .
a fool xvho uses liquor inimoderaii
ly, and that all men are better for
uot using any." We quote from
the Republican's letter:
"Three years ago I saw one of
the most brilliant members of the
Senate staggering drunk in front
of Willards Hotel. The other day
1 saw that he left Ills champaign
untouched at a dinner. Said he: "I
haxeu't touch alcohol in any form
for three years. I woke up one
morning realizing that what pretty
much all the temperance lectures
have said was true, and I simply
said to myself that I have had
enough. 'And. I have. 1 have never
seen the time from that day to this
that 1 have not felt a repugnance
for liquor." Garland," the learned
lawyer from Arkansas, is a teeto
taler. Said he: "I was pissing
by the cemetery near my home
one day, and I saw the graves of
a dozen brilliant men who had be
gun life with me, every one of
them hastened to his end by whis
ky. I made up my mind that I
hail drunk my share, and stopped."
Marrying Early.
The New York Evening "Post"
says observation among oneV ac
quaintances shows the fact to bet-hat
people do not marry early
nowadays, and, indeed, as a gen
eral rule, do not marry eaily
enough. In many cases that event
takes place as a result oPp'r.udenc'e
and calculation.
The New York "Ledger" rejoins:
We cannot agree with our contem
porary in regarding time a so im
portant an element in mmiage.
A girl can afford to wait a great
many years rather than many any
one but the right, inan; while, on
the other hand, it may be wiser
torn man to marry the ri-lit girl
as soon as he is sure he has found
her, no matter how early. As
Derrick sang, so he - may say to
himself :
"Hather ye rose-buds while ye may:
Old Tunc is still a-tlyliip;
And thin same Hower that smiles to-day;
To-moriMW will be dyiiisr.
"Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For haviiiff lost but once your prime,
Vou may forever lurry."
Our contemporary sjicaks of piu
deuce and calculation in the same
breath, as though each was equal
ly objectionable in the selection
oi a wife, but xve cannot go so far.
Surely prudence should be an elc-
iment in , exrerv matrimonial ar-
augeinent.
A Sensible Old Man.
IlitANXii the offshoot of anything, as of
a rivei. Wurcrtttrr.
The educational advantages n-
ed by t he boy s and girls of North
olina during I he earlier decades
he present century were of a
hat makes- him 7f l,mItpf,lM "'T''
w his judg.nentJriT' rf a ,verv k'w
suddenly he eo-fTutl"nfs ,1 k? whs'. 1'"
v and Eno aiiYX" f t'n,1('' l;oml lm)s
oft- State, and whose standards
of cheat inn were among the best.
NotiUle among tiiein was one loca
ted iithe seat of justice in the
countyofB , wl-ieh still main
tains its reputation. A certain
...... -.j i .
pianie- i-esnieii in a -contiguous i
county whose eldest sou had at
tained a the age when at the pres
ent young men are fully pre
jtaret t enter college, whose edti
cationlas sadly deficienr. What
he hailVas acquireil ly occasional
and infi niiited .dte.nNn'-e at the
"log sclL.J Itoiise" in his vicinity,
at such limes as an old-fashioned
school -nlstcr ''tanghtand birched"
the lioyslnd girls.
The faler of the lad in question,
posjiesscilif ample means, deter
mined tl-T ins son John should Ik
placed at, he aforesaid school in
the vihVgi of A ; and accordingly
iccomp. iiv by his son, carried
out his i .tff'.ton, leaving him with
ample n;-as aud prepaid tuition
under chi "i of the worthy princi
pal. On igjeave of his son he
xva.- iufnTtit .that ;. monthly reiorts
wrui.1 io?,'r( him by mail of his
son's progro in stndy, etc. At
the expiratio of tlie first month
the report vs accordingly sent,
and a note, a.bllows, accompanied
tlie report: 'When you placed
your son Johmnder my charge,
you forgot to reet what branches
you desired ln Ut be put 1u."
This note of n inder rather con
fused the worly old gentleman,
whase own edition barely ena
bled him to reai id write (the lat
ter by no ineanstn ea-sy task for
him.) C'onsultiukis wife, aud af
ter with her readand re-reading
the report and ile, he replied
thereto as follows jt
"Sue. We gote letter and
see yon, want ttioiowe what
branches we want Uiu put inter
we doant care wbartty ar so yon
keape mm oaten ralnrer.
4S.
I Harper's Drawer, kt
SUPERSTITIONS.
-:o
MR. W. G. RANDALL'S SPEECH
AT THE UNIVERSITY.
NORTH CAROLINA FOLK LORE.
We are glad tq lie able to pub
lish extracts from the graduating
speech of Mr. Win. G. Randall, of
Burke, on "Popular Superstitions,
or North Carolina Folk Lore," de
livered at the University commence
ment last week:
"The last remuauts of supersti
tion, whose natural home remote
from cities, must be sought in for
est glens, ' and amid mountain
leaks, ou the lonely frontiers,
among the mists of the ocean, and
in the recesses of mine, are fast
fading before the steam engine, the
printing press and the Bible.
When the newspaper' reaches the
remotest home, and oIitie sup
plies materials for the eveuiug gos
sip round the farm-house faggot,
the truth of Christianity diffuses
itself through the daily lives of all
classes.
superstition has lost its
the imaginations of the
hold of I
peoide,
though all are more or less
linuend. oy superstitious ens
ton
lOimois- icL.tiu luuau i ini-ii
old sup
Vrstltious about things lucky
Soldiers still carry
or uuluck,
charms again
bullets. Students
try to get the liu?
y mi in tiers in a
r
raffle. Our Protest.
rs might not,
.tii "ii . a
a Faculty
an, oe wnuug to nou
meetiug consisting of thii .
eeu.
It is astonishing to . const?
er the
various superstitious beliefs ti
to-day are secretly canied in the
bosoms of all classes even the ed
ucated among ns. A few of them
we will mention :
Some called doctors recommend
as a cure fbr a child 'with the rick
ets, to split a standing sapling and
push the child through the opening,
the child gets well and the sapling
takes the rickets. If you have the
rheumatism, just carry an Irish po
tato in your pocket. No cure, no
pay.! Farmers are. much given to
superstitions at least in those
places in which the same family
line has lived for (reiterations. The
like pretty and touching custom of
telling the bees of a death iu the
family is still adhered j to in some
places. Plaut your seed in the
dark of the moon to prevent too
much stalk or vine. If you kill
your hogs in the wane of the moon
the meat all turns togravv. If you
nail on boards iu the uew of the
moon they wilt cup up and make
your roof look like a sheared porcu
pine. You will seldom see a man
so much in a hurry that he will not
stop to pick up a horse-shoe. One
sees this ancient charm against
evil spirits in many households,
and it has liecomethe popular sym
bol for good luck. Iu the country
there are still found ersons plying
the trade of fortune-telling; while
the munlier of haunted houses is
still great. The wishing, bone of a
chicken is still in wide repute.
Plenty of old women will cure you
of a burn by blowing the place and
repeating,
"nit re came three angels out of the north, .
One broutrht tire nnil two brought frost ;
j Come out fire, come out frost,
lu the name ot the Father, Son and Holy
Ohost. '
Or they will tell your fortune by
shaking up the coffee grounds in a
tea cup finding out all aliout your
fut sie husband or wife,- how rich,
ami a great many other things, by
the money, houses ami so on pic
tared m the scattered grounds.
The resemblance is very -' striking;
about : as striking as that between
the constellations and the figures
of bears, gyats and heroes, which
the ancient astronomers saw in Cue
heavens. A great many young
ladies ivmIIv believe tlod, if von can
foim a wish while a meteor is fall
ing, the wish will surely le fulfilled.
They will not pluck the common
ficld-Iily, for fear it will cause them
to be freckled. Plants aud flowers
those beautiful emblems of im
mortality have from time imme
morial possessed tlie magical vir
tues. There are the mystic plants
and there are symbolical ones, like
the evergreens used in church dec
orations and cemeteries.
Superstition is nowhere so 'con
spicuous as in the affairs of love.
Lovers have always been fond of
enchantment.'. It would puzzle the
most-. profound antiquary to dis-
cover what could gire ontu io
i some oi tne strange notion cjiei-
Ished by fond nymphs and swains.
Shakespeare has represented Oth
ello as accused of winding Desde
uiona ny-. "conjuration and mighty
magic:" and Theociites and Virgil
have iHitli introduced into their
pastorals., women using charms and
incantations to recover the affec
tions of their sweethearts. Charms,
genii, witches, fairies, and all the
instruments or magic, have con
stantly been employed by lovers in
the business of love. Very few
maidens fail to get a ieep at the
new un sin oxer the right shoulder,
so that they may le able to catch a
sweetheart during the month ; and
they xvill lie 'sure to ttow to a cer
tain large black bird, when they see
him Hying near, that they may have
an early call from their "dear boy."
Here is quite an effectixe charm to
repeat on seeing the new moon for
the first time :
-'All hail to the moon, all hail to thee!
1 prithee, good moon, reveal to me
This nifrht, who my husband shall be."
' Young men need not be discour
aged, t hey can vary it . by substi
tuting wife for husband and tbe
potency of the charm is in no way
injured. It works equally
both wavs. Here is another:
v "New moon, true moon.
Bright and clear.
If my true love ts near.
Let me bear a bird sing.
If far off.
Let me hear a eow low."
well
"Swear not, by the moon.
. . . . l-i -
lest uiy love proves n-ewise vana-
hie" "ifvoawishto drearA of the
one you will marry, put daily roots
nnder vonr pillow and bang your
shoes out at the window Yoo
would not think it, bat a great
-NUMBER 19
many dainty slippers are found
with dew or frost on them. Cat
your hair when the moon is in Leo,
yonr locks will like a lion's shag,
when in Aries they will cnrl like a
rain's horns. If it rains while the
sun is shining, the devil is whip
ping his wife.
A whistling girl and acrowiiur hen
Will always oome to some bad end."
- When the hen crows jrood men
expect a norm within doors and
without. Put a flint rock in the
fire to keep the hawks awav. If
yon dream of losing a tooth, von
will lose a friend. To dream of
killing a snake siguifies that yon
win gaiu a victory, ir you want to
raise a big rain to make the crops
grow kill a big snake and bang him
up a big black snake is the best
kind. If the dog bowls it is a sfgu
of death. If the cat washes her
face there will be a wedding in the
family. If the cat sneezes there
will be a cold iu the family.
There is a spirit in tho room tor tbe candle
uurn Diuo,
I f your tooth aches your love Is untrue ;
Pull out the tooth and bid your love adieu.
If the bead Itches it is a slim Of rain.
If the head aches ltflg a profitable pain.
If your right eye itches you will laugh to-mor
row.
If your left eye itches you wiU cry for sorrow,
IO'our right ear burns, your left friends nay
you are rude.
If your left ear burns, your right friends say
: you are a isuue.
If your nose itches, you will
shake hands with, or kiss a fool.
drink a glass .of wine, run against a
church door, or miss them all four
If your foot itches, you will tiead
upon strange ground ; or if you
shiver, somebody is walking over
your grave.
There is nothing so small and iu
considerable that it may not appear
dreadful to an imagination filled
with omens and prognostics. A
screech-owl at midnight has alarm
ed a family more than a band of
obWers : the chirping of a cricket
struck more terror, than the
nf a. linn - A rnntv 1in.il- nr
roarlu . j
a croot5ttl Pin shoot np into prodi-
,'.!. ..iP"o ol the popular be
iieT iZl ,NLr skepticism, ed-
ucation, science,
tor religion have
been able wholly
o eradicate.
They belong exclusive?
to no age
or class and have been ti.
A" .
usmitted
eration
iroin generation to ge
nwnt-
turougn tne medium ot an i
ten language, to which the nat
impulse of the human mmd to
wards the supernatural is the com
raon interpreter." j .
lo Use.
There is, no use iu putting np
the motto, "God Bless Our Home,"
if the father is a rough old lear,
and the spirit of discourtesy and
rudeness is taught by the parents
to the children, and by the older to
the younger. -There is no use in
putting up a motto, 'The Lord
Will Provide," while the father
is shiltless, the ' mother is
shiftless, the boys refuse to work,
and the girls occupy themselves
over gewgaws and finery. There
is no use of putting up tho motto,
"The Greatest of these js Charity,"
whil" the tongue of the backbiter
wags that family, and silly gossip
is liisjiensed at the tea-table. There
Vs no use iu placing up conspic
uously the motto. "The Lihcritl
Man Peviseth Liberal Thing?,"
while the money chinks in the
pockets of the head of the house
groaning to get out to see the light
of day, and there are dollars ami
dimes for wines and tobacco aud
other luxuries, but positively not
one cent for the church. In how
many homes are these mottoes
standing lot us say hanging
sarcasms, which serve only tooiiit
a jest and adorn a satite! The
lieauty of quiet lives, of trustful,
hoefuI, free-handed, free-hearted
charitable lives shed their own
incomparable fragrance, aud the
world knows where to find them
Aud they shall remain trod) aud
! fadeless when the colors of pigment
and the worsted and the noss nave
faded, and the frames have rotted
away in their joints. , - '
A Jewess Elopes With A legro.
The New York "Sun" records
another case of miscegenation:
Three weeks ago John Good, a
mulatto, eloped from Easton with
a young Jewess, Pauhuu Lewis..
While serving as a waiter in a res
taurant Good met Miss Lewis and
began to court her. Mrs Lewis
forbade her daughter's seeing him.
The couple soon afterward disap
jieared. Yesterday Chief of Police
Bell of Newark received from
Easton a telegram saying that
they were living together at 'li
Canal street, Newark.
Last night Good and the girl
went to Police Headquarters in
Newark, accompanied by the Rev.
W. L. .IIoff, colored, and exhibi
ted a marriage certificate, showing
that they were married in this city-to-day
by Mr. lloff. The bride,
who is a plump and handsome girl
of 19, was neatly dressed. Both
she and Good are intelligent.
A Sheet-Iron Hes.
The 'Inter-Ocean" describe a
novel invention of an ingenious fel
low in Ohio, who has constructed
a sheet-iron lieu that promises to
lav bim a golden egg. "It is fin-
iaiitkil 11 1-1 tt life, full Rizj lLflrlAH
and loots with one eve at a timt
ui mirnrallv that it will deceive flip
oldest hawk in the count! v. It i
i .. . -. . u . I. n. i.
' . . . -
I miDs or poiecai pounces on to 111
j the back springs open and the!
i wings fly np and force the assail
ant on to a ravenous oazz saw that
makea 1,700 revolutions per min.
nte. After moving half a minute
the saw stops, the hen closes od.
folj8 it, wigH and begins ilS-J
ile as though it bad just laid an v luc YT .,7i in f Lis men
a freshly painted one ont in the;001
f .1 i A.t. .1 t.:nL ' . '. - -
suu to ury mo uwi wuicu
I attracted tbe attention of a line
oia cat Deionging xo
i bad been, poking a
doctor Wbct
ti.a h7 Z
fan at tbe foot thing.
tbere, bat the cat is
ence.17.
Rates of Adtxbtiswo,
Oo, Inch. One luseroon
Ona Unntk
On Vear.
Libera Oiaeounu will .
'JIM1""""'' ' 'awuT
POLlffCAlPOllvTS;
WHAT TIIE POLITICIANS AliS
TALKING ABOUT.
1'UE POLITICAL CALDROX.
Onslow has declared for ri...
ton J, Green for t'ontrr-
Jones county,-by resolution
ports Capt, Win, A. Harden ihr
State Auditor.
-Lot W. Humphrey is tl. v..i.
Carolina inemlier of th. n..- v..
lional Republican Pommitte '
The Abbeville "Advance'' nays
It is rumored here that Dr. ok'
Mott's candidate for Governor will'
not accept the nomination on the
.uoiigrei ucKCt.
The Washington -Post" insists
that it "has authentic information
full and complete" that "Mr. Til
den will not be a candidate More
the July convention, and lie will
not accept the iiom.tutl ion under
any circumstances A letter con
taining these statements over his
owu siguatnre will be ieud at the
New Y'oik Democratic convention
of June lth."
- Alas Poor York.
A Northern exchange has the
following concerning the ltepuhti
can candidate for Governor:
"York, the Republican nouiiuee
for Governor of North t'aroliua U
a model jHilitician. He rode u mule
all oyer his Congressional district
two years ago, and jmsed as "tlie
poor man's Iriend. Ue told thein
in a speech in Ashe county, that if
it were uot for-protective tariri
mules would be brought - into that
region and sold at f lii per head.
In the lower counties he told "the
poor laboring jieople that but for
a protective tariff this country
would lie flooded with foreign cot
ton and the price of this staple
would lie ruu down lielow the cost
of production."
Mr. Tlldeii Ana The TMria.
All signs point to the iiomina-
a?u oi Haruuel J. Tilden for the
PresITI
yicy by the Democratic na-
Lveution. This beiuir ko
uouni eo?
Jo recall the clesr
it is ery Wei
bring, breaker on
record of the great
the tariff question.
Twenty-nine years ag7
hMr. Til
den was a candidate for ofhvi
on
the Democratic ticket iu his owl
State, and on .October 3, lfi.V, in a
letter upon the principles aud jsili-
cy ol the Democratic party, he
used this language : ' Devoted to
the rights of our American indus
try, which is now beginning U fill
the world with the renown of its
achievements, it has refused to di
rect its application by a prohibi
tory or protective tariff, proferring
that each man should judge how
he can make his own labor most
productive, and trusting for the
aggregate result to those natural
laws which enable one of our null
ions of the city imputation to daily
choose his food and yet furnish
buyers for everything that has
been provided Iteforehaoil."
Nineteen , years afterwaid Mr.
Tilden was a candidate for the
Governor of the State of New
York on a platform which declared
for "revenue reform, Federal taxa
tion' for revenue only and no gov
ernment partnership with protec
ted monoKlies." During the prog
ress of that exciting and successful
canvass Mr. Tilden, in resisiiise
to a serenade, nutde a speech iu
which occurred this pannage?
"The Federal government Is drift
ing Into greater dangers and great
er evils. It is rushing onward iu a
career f centralism, alisorbing all
governmental jsiwers and assum
ing to manage all the .i flairs of hu
man societj. It undertakes todi
lect the business of individuals by
tariffs not inteuded tor legitimate
taxation, granting special privi
leges and fostering mouoMilies at
the expenses of the jieople.'' Mere
cau be found uo inoonsixleiicy.
The Tilden of 1874 was the Tilden
of 1855,- The Tilden of 184 is the
Tilden of 1874 and 18oj, and in the
light of his record the charge that
he is in favor of a protective tariff
or the pnuciple or the olicy of ,
protection per se must fall to the
ground. "News Observer."
Found His Watch By leans 0(1
Dream.
The miller at Glenn V Mill, Mr.
Elisha, McDanald, warf a few days
since grinding, and two or three
other persons were in the mill, aud
they and Mr. McDanald weie pro
jsising to swap watches, Mr. Mc
Danald had a 'heavy ca silver
watcb and handed it to so'nie of
them to examine, they handed it
back to him, and he went to till up
a sack of meal for an old darkey.
A few hours after Mr. McDanald
missed his watch and thought
some of the crowd had taken it.
So he took out a search warrant
and searched some of their houses,
but discovered no trai-e of the
watch. That night he dreamed
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tlm watch was in tlie io
I darkev's sack of meal that be hail
i rilled and so next 111 truing he
i searched through the meal and to
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