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f WILSON ADVANCE -xr tttTU OT ADTXBTIEI53 i w xv 7 A ; i ncb r... 3 oo Id Pom km IE HE IX ted by the Itch Jfore yian For- iders. . io V shob m "LET ALL THE ESDS THOU AIHI'IT AT, BB TUT COUNTBri, Till GOD'S, Ajf D TRUTHS' j ' " JT VOLUME 18.- sense, and I know are good citi- stop exaggerating the use ol ed zen9. They labor with a good ncation. Why don't they put will and rest well at night and the boys to work. Give them a enjoy their" food. They work common education in the rudL. the roads and serve on the jury ments and put them tor work, and go to meeting. They are Let them learn a trade. and go content with life and its bur- at it. It is idleness that'is.their dens more content than the rain- TrNenasn is worse than WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 8, 1888. TRUE KNOWLEDGE. T " . ! 1 IMiinmi ii 4 tor Cotrou It i- ... r " " 11 sssssssssssssssssjss. NUMBER-6 " Om Mocik " Tfej Moats. I T m 1. 1 1 wt -- :o:- DIFFICULTIES THAT SOME TIME A TTEXU ITS FURS UIT millionaire with his 1 cares and vexations. The law Of compen sation comes in and balances the account They locked at the long heavy freight traias rolling by and wondered wha tall them 'kyars' were loaded with. No wonder they were amazed, for not much goes up to their mountain homes. They will carry oacs a little conee, some "spun truck" a set of cups and 'sassers,' needles and thread, pegs, and two pairs of assume control of human progress sucn. was the approach of steam and the telegraph and railroads. Rail roads did not seern at first to be a very great thing The poo, pie wondered of course but they did not feel or realize that they were an absolute necessi ty. Fifty years ago there were about half a dozen in the Uni ted States, and but lew people cared very much whether there were any more built or not. In fact the railroads had to force their way over many obstacles find prejudices. One of the first was projected in South Carolina, from Charleston to Hamburg, and its champions had to beg and plead for a char ter,' undat last had to promise not to lay the rails on the ground, but to elevate them on trestle work high enough for wagons to pass under at every crossing. Mr. Black was the chief spokesman before the Legislature, and got sublimely eloquent when he said. ' Mr. Sneaker, if this assembly will grant us this charter, I predict in all sincerity that when we have built the road, a man can leave Charleston in the morn ing and take dinner in Augusta the next day." It was not ex pected that the train would travel by night. It was to stop at the half way house and rest und take a fresh start in the morning. The first cars were built of staves like a barrel, and were perfectly rOund, and the ends were much smaller than the middle. They wero con verged so as to offer less resis tance to the atmosphere. There were two long seats just like an omnibus. Ten miles an hour was considered the maximum . speed. When this, road was completed to Aiken, they did not know how to get down the bluff or rather from the hill country down to the plain that was some sixty feet below. So they built an inclined plane about half a mile long and had a stationary engine to pull up the trains and let them down by a big rope and windlass. I remember with what : solemn feelings we used to go up that plane, and wonder what would become of us if that rope should break. I set in my piazza now and wat:h the long heavy trains go bp, and I ruminate upon the wonderful changesI i wonder how we got along without them in my young days I wonder if we could possibly get along without them now. bat are all these trains loaded with, anyhow? e don t eat any more than we used to we don't wear many more clothes and there are not more than five times as many people. We used to get along, very wtll with waicons'. and it does look like the wagons might have in creased with the people and done all the carrying. But these trains on this one road carry more in one week than all f he wagons in Georgia used to carry in a year. The railroads of Georgia carry more in one d iy tnantnse wagons carried in 365 flays. What does it mean? What have they got in all these cars? The wagons have not stop ped either tbey come ana go just like they Used to. I know that the (rains bring flour and they bring meat, and the wag ons did not do that forty years ago. The people raised their own meat and bread. Most of the farmers raise it now but there are four hundred thous and people who are not farm ers and they have to be fed une tram a day will bring in enough lor them. What are all the other trains j loaded witu.' bet down two trains a day for hay and corn for the 6tock; that is nof on the farms, and still there are near fifty vtrains left that brin in sup i'Ues ot diQerent Klnda every day". Tey are loaded with the luxuries of life mainly or some thing that produces luxuries mere are ten times as many luxuries as necessities, lnis is an runt, of course, if we can afford it, but I was thinking how immensely rich we would become if we were to quit spending for five years, and on ly buy what we were obliged to have. Yesterday 1 saw two ieamg in town that came from ncnens county, iney were good looking ox teams, and the , wagons were loaded with cab udge, potatoes and apples. I he men who drove them wore home made jeans and home made ehoes. The wagon covers were made of cloth woven at home. i talked to the men and they had plenty of home made store shoes for the gals. 1 hey mentioned some othe little things that I do not remember. When J was a boy one pair of shoea was sufficient for a year; until he got too- big to go bare footed in summer. They were sewed shoes, and made of leath er tanned at home. A man with a large family and some slaves had a shoemaker to come to his house and work by the day or the pair1, until all were shod, black and white. Nice soft calf skins were used, for the wives and daughters, and the heels we're reasonable and eensible. A pair of those cost about two dollars and would last six months. Nowadays a pair of fashionables cost five or six dollars and don't last half so long. The shoe bill for a large family who are trying to keep up with society, is just awful. I wish our schools for girls were like the one at Salem, where all the girls dress in plain uniform clothing, with sensible shoes, and bustles and busts, according to nature, and where they are taught that the exactions of society are frauds and follies. Our girls have got an idea that fashion is -king and they must keep up with it or die. If one girl, who assumes td be the bon-ton. all the rest want to keep up with her and yet they despise her for taking the lead. If we were all rich alike it wouldn't I matter, but we are not and never will be. It is a pitiful spectacle to see poor girls trying to keep up with the rich ones. But it is everybody'. duty to improve their condition. I don't want my children to go through the hardships we did fifty years ago. We didentknow there wa3 anything better then and we dident care. It was all right. A talloy candle was good enough to study Dy. A little house with shed room and, wooden shutters was splen did. I know that we were happy in ours, the first house we lived in after we were married. M had a room before a room and J a room benind a room and that was all, and it was enough for us. But now It i takes four or five to do a yonng couple just starting out. There is no harm in that if they can afford it. Let everybody add all they can to their comforts. Have better houses and better furniture. A man is a fool to sleep, in a straw bed if he can get a good mat trass.. There is no good sense in hanging on to the old ways and old things just because they are old. A good farmer howev er poor will improve all that he can. He will get better stock and build better stables and barns, and get a sewing ma chine, arid " patch the broken window glass Fix up, fix up, do all you can to make home attractive. Hold up your head and teach your children to hold up theirs. If you are poor don't envy your nabor i who is better off. Some folks nave got to be poor, and some will have good luck and some bad luck in spite of everything they do. Solomon said that "The race is not to the swift and the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise. nor riches to th.e men of un derstanding, nor favor to the men of skill, but time and chance' happeneth to them all." But in nine cases out of ten labor has a good reward. I know that it does in Georgia and in the South generally. If a man wants to grumble and growl let him complain to Provi dence for not giving him lot. Thse grumblers abuse tho rich and envy them, and yet they want the very money the rich have got and would take it if they could get it. It is the money of the rich that moyes the world. Their money is not hidden aWay nor locked up. It is always busy building houses, churches, colleges, railroads, steamships, furnices and facto riesrand the laboring classes get some of. it every day. The money of the. rich has a hard road to travel. ..There are fires and strikes and storms and wrecks and absconding cashiers and failures and iheives and robbers and burglars. The rest of the laboring man ; is sweet, but the dreams of the rich are clouded with care and anxiety. So it Is all right all round, I reckon, or it would not have been so. The poor m an will be held accountable for his failure to work, and the rich man will be held accountable fox the use he has made of his money. But work is the main thing and it is a bigger thing than educa tion. Will Jour people never ignorance, and a high degree'of education encourages idleness. Now there is no as dodging or evading this proposition. The teachers will fight it and deny it for they aie alii absorbed in their business, but it is a sta tistical fact that continuous schooling unfits a boy for work and fits him for idleness and fits him for crisae. AH the pris on records prove this. Ia .1886 there were 553 canvictsfsent, to one prison in Pennsylvania. Of these 477 had a good education and but qnly 39 had ever learn ed a trade or don any "work. Out of 1069 convicts under 21 years of i age received in this penitenitentiary, 864 had a fair education, but 93 had - never learned a trade. Of the 1451 convicts in Joliet prison, Illi nois, 1087 had a good fair edu cation ant 129 wer college graduates and 1121 had never done any systematic work or learned a trade. The truth is w ar running wild about education. Let us give all a good start la the ele mentary branches and then put the boys in a technological school and make them work and learn a trade. Let as look this matter straight ia th face. A great part of every communi ty is destined to labor with the hands for th supply of cloth ing and food and fuel. This condition has existed in all ages and we cant help it. Boys and girls are pushed too far in high schools and seminaries and colleges and universities. Tbey are crammed beyond their capacities and then . the reaction comei and they be come drones upon society, Our Northern brethren never made a greater mistake than in con tributing their millions to push the negro race to a high degree of education. They have ruined thousands already and the South is becoming flooded with a race of idlers and vagabonds. Let every boy, whether white erblack.be taught that work is the law of our nature aad we must work. Work brings happi ness and content to young and old be content! An old.: deaf man brings a load of wood to town most every day and al ways wears a smile. "Good morning Uncle Jake," and he always replies "Seventy five cents." "The roads are pretty bad ain't they Uncle Jake?" The old man shakes his head and say?, "Couldn't sell it for a cent less, git along Dick you Dobbin what yon stop' here for?" and he pops his long whip and just as they start off the The Charming Story of Sweet Ivy Geer a She Treads the Flowerey Pathway of Learning. boys say, "Whoa Dick whoa Dobbin," in a low tone and the steers stop again. "Git up Dick, you old brindle rascal. - This here ain't no hill; git up I tell you." "Whoa Dick, whoa Dob bin," the boys say and so they worry the old man until he finds It out and joins in the laugh and pops his whip at the boys and drives oh. -I. Bill Abp." This stery was commonocl Fob. 16th. Anl as Ivy looked, she saw how the children of men became a great nation, and possessed the land far and wide. They delved into the bosom of the pleased earth, and brought forth the piled-up treas ures of uncounted cycles. They nnfoMed the book of the 6kies. and" sought to read the records thereon. Thev plunged into the nukuown and terrible ocean, lo deck then own browb with t'ue ;ems they plucked from hers. Ami wueu conquered Nature h.id ta d her hoards at their feet, ibeir restless longingj would not be satisfied. Brave young spirits wiili t re dew of their youth fi esh upon tbem, set out in quest of a laud beyond their ken. Over the iiioiiiitiain, across the seas, tbroa ;h the forests, there came to the ear of the dreaming girl the measured tramp of marching men, the softer footfalls of loving women, the pattering of the feet of little children. Many a day and many a night she saw tbem wander on to wards the setting sun, till the Un seen Hand led them to a fair and fruitful country that opened its bounteous arms in welcome. Broad rivers, green fields, laughing val leys wooed them to plant their household gods, and the founda tions of Europe were laid. Here were sown the seeds of those heroic virtues which have since leaped in to luxuriant ; life, seeds of that irresistible power which fastened its grasp on Nature, and forced her to unfold the secret of her creation, seeds of that far-reaching wis dom which in the light of the un veiled past has read the etory of the nnseen future. -And still under Ivy's eje they grouped themselves. Some gather ed ou the plean.int hills of the sun ny South, andjtbe. beauty of earth and sea and sky passed into their souls forever. They caught the evanescent gleam. . the passing shadow, and on unseemly canvas limned it for all time in forma of nnuttered and unutterable loveli ness. Tbey shaped into glowing life the phantoms of grace that were always flitting before their enchanted eyes, and poured into inanimate marble their rapt and passionate souls. They Btruck the lyre to wild and stirring songs whose tremnlous echoes still linger along the corridors of Time. Some sought the Ice-bound North, and grappled with dangers by field and flood. hey hunted the wild drag on to his mountain-fastnesses, and fought him at bay,"and never quail ed. Death, iu its most fearfnl forms they met with grim delight, aud changed the glories of the alhalla waiting for heroes who should for ever quaff the foaming, pure, and shining mead" fiom skulls of foes in baule slain. Some crossed the sea, and on "That pale, that white-faced shore, Whoo foot spurns back the ocean's swelling tide," they reared a sinewy and stalwart race, "wpose motiug drum-beat en A STOUT FOB HUSBANDS. If You Have Never Given a ! Mort gage, Don't, if You Can Help. it. i . - - A farmer asked one of the visi tors in a store about making a loan of 1300. It seems that the man bad worked hard all his days, and had bought and paid for a 1 1,200 farm, had taken a wife, - furnished a bouse, and now, envious of so roe of his neighbors, wanted to baud a $300 barn. To do this be proposed to borrow the cash, giving a mort gage on his farm. Baid the store man after the story was told:; . '.'Your farm is clear now?" 'Yes, sir." "You love your wife!" "Yes, sir." "Well," said the merchant, "this is what you should do. Go home and earu the 1 300 first, and then build the barn. If you borrow how, you will think each night as. "you lie in your bed that you are in debt. You will fret and worry; your wife will do the same; sickness and accidents may come or a poor crop may be your portion; there will be a 1800 skeleton in your house, and ten to one yon fret and grow peevish and have a quarrel with your wife. Don't go into the mortgage business ! Don't go into debtl Live within your income, be industrious, and when you build your barn and own it, yon will be as proud of it as the Englishman is of his castle." ;,. For a moment the voung farmer hesitated. On each side were . inter ested spectators, and all was si lent. Gradually the bead lowered aud the tear rolled down the cheek. The man took pride in nig occupation and wanted that. barn. At last be said, "Thank you, 6ir. To tell the truth, my wile was cry ing when 1 left home because I was going to mortgage the place. I'll take your advice and go home as I came down, and she'll be glad to see me." - j 'There," said the merchant, that fellow came to a good, wise conclusion. I have seen lots oi mis ery on account of this . mortgage business. He who gives one,: often gives peace, comfort and content ment with It" 1" The wife of Mr. of Kinston, who is and seventy years him with twins last Free Press. circles, the world." Auu History taught Ivy to rever ence mau. But there w as one respect in which Ivy was both pupil and teacher. Never a word of Botany had fallen : upon her ears : bat through all the unconscious bliss of infancy, childhood, and girlhood, for sixteen happy years, ehe had lived among the flowers, and she knew their dear faces and their wild-wood names. She loved them with an almost human love. Tbey were her companions and friends. She knew their likiags and dislik ings, their joys and - sorrows, who among them chose darkest nooks of the old woods, and wha bloomed ouly to the brightest sunlight, who sent their roots deep down among the mos.-es by the, brook, apd who smiled only on the south ern hillside. Around each she wove a web of beautiful individual ity, and more than one had receiv ed from her a new christening. It is true, that' when she came to study from a book, she made wry faces over . the long, bai borons, Latin names which completely dis guised her favorites, and in her heart deemed a great many defini tions quite superfluous; but she had strong faith in her teacher, and when the technical was laid aside for the real, then, indeed, "her foot was on her native heath, and her name was MacGregor." A wild and merry chase she led her grave in straccor. Morning, noon, or night, she was always ready. Under tbe blue sky, breathing the pure air, treading the green turf familiar from her infancy, she could not be otherwise than happy; bat when was superadded to this the compan ionship of a mind vigorous, cultiva ted, and refined, she enjoyed it with a keen and intense delight. Nowhere else did her soul so en tirely unfold to the genial light of this new sun which bad suddenly mounted above her horizon. No where else did tbe freshness and fulness aud splendor of life dilate her whole being with a fine ecsta cy. ' And what was the end of. all thisT Just what you would have supposed . She had led a life of simple, unbounded love and trust, a buoyant, elastic glodnesa,-ai dream of sunshine. No gray cloud bad ever lowered in her 6ky, no thunderbolt smitten her joys, ffo winter rain chilled her warmth; Only tbe white fleciness of morning mist had flitted sometimes over her SQUiDicr-skv. deeneninsr - the . hi tin Cireen Harper Little cooling droos had' .flattered between ,: sixty I down through the leanness, only to old, preaenied span fcer with a rainbow in the week, says tbe j setting sun. But the time had come. From the deep fountains of her heart tbe stone was to . be rolled away. ' The secret chord was to be seritten by a master-hand, a chord which, once stirred, may never ceaee to a qaiver. iAt first Ivy worshipped very far on. uer inena was to ner tbe em bodiment of .all knowledge and goodness and greatness. She mar velled to see him so at borne in what was to her strange. Every word that fell from his lips was an oracle. She secretly contrasted him with alt tbe men she had ever met, to the otter discomfiture of the latter Washington, the Apostle Paul, and Peter Parlay were the only men of the past or present wnom sue considered at all worthy to be compared with him; and is fact,-if these three men and Felix Cierron had all stood before her, and offered each a different opiu ioa.on aBy ive srbject, J Vave scarcely a doubt as to whose would com mend Itself to her as -'Combin ing tbe soundest practical wisdom and tbe highest Christian benevo lence. So the summer passed on, and her shyness wore off, and their in timacy became less and less that of teacher and pupil, and more and more that of friend and friend. With the sudden awakening of her Intellectual nature, there woke also another power, of - whose existence she bad never dreamed. It was natural, that, in ranging the fields of thought so lately opened to her, she should often revert to him whose band bad an barred the gates; she was therefore not startled that the image of Felix Clerron was with her when she sat down and when she rose op, wheu she went oat and when 6be came iu. She ceased, Indeed, to think of htm. She thonght him. She lived him. Her soul fed ou his life. And so by a pleasant and flowery path, there came into Ivy's heart the old, old pain, i . Now the the thing was on this wise One niprnlng when she went to recite, Bhe did not find Mr. Clerron in the I library, where he nsnally awaited her. After spending a few moments in -looking orer her les sons, she rose and was about to pass to tbe door to ring, when Mrs. Simm looked in, and, seeing Ivy, informed her tbat Mr. Uierrou was in tbe garden, and desired her to come out. Ivy , immediately follow ed Mrs. Simm into the garden. On tbe sooth side of the boose was a piaua two stories high. Along the pillar whLh supported it a trellis-work had been constructed, reaching several feet above the roof of the piazza About this climbed a vigorous grape-vine, which not only completely screened nearly the whole front of the piaz za, but. reaching the top of the irelhs, snot across, by the aid of a few pieces of fine wire, and over ran a part of the roof of the house. Thus the roof of tbe piazza was the floor of a beautiful apartment, whose walls and ceiling were broad rustling, green leaves, among which drooped now innumerable heavy clusters of rich purple grapes. From behind this leafy wall a well known voice cried, "All hail, my twining viuel" Ivy turned and looked up, with tbe uncertain, in quiring smile we often wear when conscious that, though unseeing, we are not nnseen; and presently two hands parted the leaves far enough for a very sunshiny smile to gleam down on the upturned face 'O, I wish 1 could come op there !' .Ctied Ivy, clasping her hands with childish eagerness. "Tbe wish is father to the deed." "May If" "Be sore you may." MBat bow shall I get in T1 Are you afraid to come up the ladder 1? , 'No, I don't mean that; but bow shall I get in- where you are, after I am up !" "O, uever fear 1 I'll draw you io safely 'enough." "Lorful heart 1 Miss Ivy, what are you going to do V cried Mrs. Simm in terror. "He Baid 1 might.' uHe said you might, yes," con tinned Mrs. Simm, talking to Ivy bat at Mr. Clerron, with whom she hardly dared to remonstrate io a more direct way "And it he said you might throw yorrselt down Vineyard Cliff, it don't follow that you are bound to do it. He goer into all sorts of haphazard scrapes himself, bat yoa can't follow him." "But it looks so nice op tbere,7 pleaded Ivy, "and I have been twice as high at home, 1 don't mind it at all.' uIf yonr father chooses to let you run the risk of your lite, it's none of my lookout, bat I ain't going to have you breaking you neck right under my) nose. If you waot to get op there. I'll show you the way in the bouse, and you can step right out of the window. Just wait till I've told Ellen about the dinner." As Mrs. Simm disappeared, Mr. Olerron said softly to Ivy, "Come !" and-in a moment Ivy bounded up tbe ladder and through on opening in the vine, and stood by his side. "I'm teady now. Miss Ivy,' said Mrs. Simm, reappearing. Miss ivy 1 Where is tbe child I" A merry laugh greeted ber. 'O, you good-for-nothing V cried the goud-natarei of housekeeper, 'you'll never die in your bed.' Not for a good while, I hope,' answered Mr. Clerron, Then he made Ivy Bit down by him, and took from the great bas ket the finest cluster of grapes. 'Is that reward enough for com ing V Coming into so beautiful a place as this is like what you read yes terday about poetry to Coleridge, 'its own exceedingly great reward." 'And you don't waot the grapesf 'I don't know that I nave any in trinsic objection to tbem as a free gift. It was only the principle that I opposed.' 'Very welf, we will go shares, then. You may have have half for the free gift, and 1 will have half for the principle. Little tendril Ivy rose, made at profound coor teny, and tbea turned slowly around, after the manner of tbe revolving fashion-Azores io a tnillt ner'awiudow. j 'I don't know,' continued Mr. Clerron, when Ivy, after a con pie of revolutions, resumed her seat. ,You seem to be the same. I tblsk it most be the frock.' 'I don't wear a frock. I don't think it woold improve, my style of oeauty ir i aid. rapa' wears one sometimes.' j And what kind of a frock, pray, does fpapa' wear 1" i 'O, a horrid blue thing, Gomes about down to his knees. Made of some kind of woolen 'stuff. Hor rid T 'And what name do yoa give to thai white thiug wite blue prays m.iti' i This r YeB.' This is a dress.' 'No. This, and your: collar, and hat, aud shoes, and sash are your dress. This is a frocki Ivy shook ber bead doohtfully. You know a great deal I know.' 'So yon informed me once before.' 'O, don't mention thatr said Ivy blushing, and quickly added, 'Do yen ksow I have discovered tbe reason why you like me this morn lngT . ! And every morulDg.1 Sirt . i H3o oo. What is the reanon V It is because I clear starched and ironed it myself with iny owny-do-oy bands; and that, yba know, is reason it looks nicer than usual.' Ah met 1 wish I wore dresses.' Yoa can, if you choose, I sup pose. There is do oue to hinder you.' 'Simpleton I that is not what you were intended to say. j You should have asked the cause of ho singu lar a wish, and then I had a pretty littie speech all ready J for you, a veritably compliment. ,It is well I did not; ask, Ithen. Mamma does not approve of com pliments,! and; perhaps Jt would have maoe me vain.' j Incorrigible I Why did yoa not ask me what tbe speech was, and thus give me an opportuuif'y to re liev myself. Why, a body might dt of plethora of flattery, if be had nobody but you to discbarge it against.' I lie must take care, that the sup ply does not exceed the uetnand. 'Political economy,! upon, my word I. What shall we Lave next ?' 'Domestic, I suppose j yoa would like. Men generally, jndeed, pre fer it totthe other, I am told.' Ah, Ivy, Ivy! little, yon know about men, my child.' j He leaned back in hw seat and was silent for some.. minute. Ivy did not tare to interrupt his think ing. Presently he said,- 'Ivy, bow old are youjT' I shall b3seventeen;HieJant day of this month.' A short pause. Ani tLen eighleru ' 'And then nioeleeL.' 'And then twenty. In yoa will be twenty.' 'Horrid old. isn't it He turned his head, jand looked down upon ber with' what Ivy tbooght a curious kind of mule, but only said, t 'Yoa must not say -horrid so much.' i By and by Ivy grew tired of sit ting silent and watching the tustlo of tbe leaves, which hid every oth er prospect; she turned a little so tbat she could look at him. He sat with folded arm, looking straight ahead; aud she thought his face wore a troubled expression. She felt as if she would like very much to smooth out the. wrinkle in bis forehead and rnn her fingers through his hair, as she' sometimes did for ber father. She had a great mind to ask him if she 6boald; then she reflected that it might make him nervous. Then she won dered if he had forgotten ber les sons, and bow long they were to sit there. Determined j at length, to have a change of some kind, she said, soitlr, t j To be continued 1 NEWo OF WHAT IS UAPPKSISQ IX HIE WOULD ABOUND VS. A c-nIcncil report oflhentv uu gathered from the columns of our eonJemporaHe, State asui Xutlnnnt. A WEEK L T6 P"1 Eecorder speaks a I iuiu mmi every ibODgoual tnao wiu admit, when it aaya m fatal mistake made by the Bootiera urmers is the neglect to cultivate grana. Grana is the londao oa which every good farm U beilt, aad any larmer wbo neglects its col tare, will at the eadof core of year Cod I be farm d ached by gullies and oftentimes covered with mortgages. rzxzATi: ctats m: mrz ZZHC77ZZ. 7b 77 Democratic Party cf North Carolina, tbiee years Old FasMonFoIks. The Kaleigb Evening Visitor has pot on ocw dress of type. Col. Ii B. C.Oab, a remarkable chtracter io Sooth Carolina, is dead. .... James Jone,savs the Farettville Journal, dropped dead one day last week. s Another veKtilmlfl train ia tn 1 put on the Atlantic Coast Line, the ' Messeoger ttates. ! I Mr. N. Hard in Calburn is so in to begin tbe publication of morn iog daily io Greensboro. The corner stone of the Teachers Assembly building, at Morehead City, will belaid 1st of May. A co-operative ! cotton factory under the anepicen of colored citi zens is tbe latest talk In Charlotte. Hon. Wm. A. Smith, of Johnston county, is iu Richmond, Va, ou der treatment lor tbe benefit of bis health which is very feeble. Tbe total expenses last year of tbe colored Insane avluni at Golds- boro, were $26,462,22, being a per capita of 1147,63. . An estimate just made by the State auditor places the increase in valuation of property in North Carolina at f 3,11 1,453 over 1886. Priscilla Sykes, a poor soman of Fayettville, was burned to death last week. Sbe had a fit and fell in tbe fire, e ee from the Jour nal. " ; ' ! Several physicians of Durham county have been presented by tbe grand jury for prescribing whiskey io Durham, where prohibition pre vails. Tbe Snow II ill Knterpriie claims that the largest pine tree ia tbe State in to Je found io tbat county. ine tree is 'i leet iu circum ference. ! . Tbe Charlotte Chronicle says Jack Ilemhardr, of L'ncola county, has discovered a gold mine in bn cotton patch, for which he ha re fused $-'0,000. The Greensboro Patriot tells of the killing of genuine bald beaded eagle, in Chatham couny that measured 7 feet and 4 iuche ftom tip to tip and weighed eleven and a half pounds Mr. D, W. Jones, living near White Plain, in Surry coanty, is tbe father of a boy nine months old, who bas ten finger, two thumbs and twelve toe says tbe Goldkborc Patiiot. . Tbe Durham liecorder nays one hundred and thirty one hogs from KentucKy were received ov one firm, tbe other day. Why cannot our iteopla raise as good hojis as tbey do iu Kentucky! Master Eddie Warner, of Forsyth county, lost two of bis fingers oo bis right band by tbe bursting or a 2.50 shot gun. Doys be careful how you himlle guns, thev are dangerous witb stock, lock or barrel!. ! Dlackwell's Puibam Co-Operative Tobacco Company tlnce 1 v$ has produced more than 17,000,000 oundn of i-tnoUinc tobacco, paid 91,500,000 internal revnne tax and and consumed a. out 20,000,000 pounds of leaf tobacco A correepondeui of the Wilming ton Star has been over the Hamil ton railroad flora Tirboro. He says tbe road is doing a good busi ness and that it will be extended to Kill ljuick, tj leecombe county, aud probably to Whitaker. The SUte Chemist has bea basy analyzing tbe stomach aad tatM- ,ZJ fdTr f. CteTtlaDd mtioaU held """"'ji "uu wm soosb two vears ago poisoned by an alleged preach er named Strers. Bean's wife wm Styer's paramoar, and the two did toe poisoning. Tbey fled w he tbe body of their victim waa dislatered last week. The man StTere ta hardened villiao, for at tbe ve'T time be committed thle m order be was conducting revival at which more tbao 1 0 conversions ware made. Eticf Tisicra la tie A Patriot reporter came across a very remarkable family io tbe mountains of Stokes last week. The bead of tbe family is a gentleman of about fifty summers and ban six daughters, all grown and unmarri ed. Each of tbem own a borse, bridle and saddle and always ride horseback to preaching by two, the father and mother bringing up tbe rear, also on horseback;. This is one of tbe families of anelent idea wno spin and weave all of their wearing appael, while 'the father tans the leather and ,ma'infactnres their own shoes. He says he knows nothing of and wants to know noth ing of tbe tariff, but confound the Internal revenue." Greensboro Pa triot. - - j The Young Han Was.Sight. "In our issue of last laturday," says a Tennessee paper,: "we inad vertently stated that Colonel Hank thunder bad been suffering from 'a frightful visitation of snake,' What we wrote was 'shakes.' We apologized pei son ally the next day to the Colonel, but in Ills frank. generous, whole souled way he sa d it really made no difference the medicine was tbe same in both ca ses. Chicago Tribune. Contributions Accepted. The young man who aspired to be a journalist came round last night and remarked complacently: "Iv'e just had one of myj contribu tioos accepted by the I Century. When closely questioned ihe admit ted that the contribution was 13 for a years subscription to the mag azioe Bunalo (Jourier. too look as fresh as the morning.1 Don't 1 always V 'I should say there was a little more dew tnao usual. Btand op and let ne survey yoa, if perchance I may discover the cause.' . The Naked Trtti. If there is anything greener tbao the goods the counterfeiters deal in, it is tbe idiots who buy them. Times. Mr. Joseph Cabaniss, of Shelby, fell from a loaded wasoo ooe dav last week, which ran over bis body. It if in juries w ore internal aud proved l.iUl. lie was about 21 years of age and leaves a widow, having been mairied about two months ago. We see from the Wilmington Star tbat the Carolina Oil aod ureosoie company has declared a semi-aniiu.il dividend of 3 per cent. e make this known as oue of the many evidences that there is mos ey in otbeV enterprises than Mbit of farming and merchandizing. The Fayettville' Observer' says tbe freighting busiuess on tbe Wil son Shortcut is continually ou tbe increase. At firs'', running through a country where there was no towns it was a jtoor business; now as the towns grow, their business iucreanes and is very t-atU factory. The Wilmington ! Ileview is au thority for tbe statement tbat with in the next two years the Sorth Carolina State Board ol Elucation contemplates doing a good deal in the way ol dainage and opening of the vast bodies of lands it holds aggregating very nearly 00,000 acres. Tbe Fajettville Journal sjts Mr. W. M. Decker, Bail tray Postal Clerk on tbe Atlantic Coast Line between Washington city and Wilmington, C, has reiged his position on that miil service, and will in a few days embark in the Job-Printing busne4 in tbat place, : We see from the Kinston Free Press tbat lie v. II. C. Iioweo baa been sued for libel by Messrs Cook & Co., of that place. Mr. liowen is tbe Ktnston correspondent of the New lierhe Jonrnal, and in tbat capacity warned eople against trading with this firm, as Le be lieved tbey were crooked. Tbe Free Press, says there are some suspicious cirepmstances connec ted with their manner of doing bosioess. ' The first tbiog Io order wkea Ue meeting opened wm report m to tbeamoontof damages sutaloed by tbe raid oo PeradiM Hall. Bro. Gardner said tbat a careful esti mate had been made by the cob- mit tee, aod tbe damage woold sot fall short or. 13,000,000. The elsb woold have to bear every dollar of this loss, as the iooranoe only covered fire. Over ooe headred ered and historical rtltas which could not be replaced fr any sam bad been destroyed. It wm bard blow at tbe parse of tae dab. but business would not Le Inlerrteted for sinc-le hour. Toe ball bad been pot io abaie Kgaio, aod Qive aOarn Jotir and Dreadful Sailb would protect it. one watching by day aud tbe other by night. Each had bteu armed with shotgsa filled to tbe muzzle with bock shot. shingle na., marbles, eorpet lackl and lead nickles and tbe.maraoder who eot within half mile of ooe of tbem wonld never attend sooth er wrd caucus. Tbe many friends of the clob be stirred themselves to replace tbe nnteuru. Tbe fallowing articles were receive! during the week: bn swordwbich were more or lers worn by Xspoleoa on his re treat fro'n Moscow. Five relics from Valley Forge, all of which were aseJ by George Washington. Various cups, botUes, candle sticks, padlocks, boot jacks ana jack-knives used by celebrated pi rates as tbey sailed tbe raging main. Tomato cans, day pi re, poser chips and checker boards which were naed by various crowned beads from tbe thirteenth to tho sixteenth century. Tbe Secretary was isitracted to return tbe thanks of the dob to the donors. Letters of condolence were n oooncedfrom several braocbee of the government, from a ooore of different eocieties, aod from nearly 100 honorary members. It wao no ticed and whispered boot tbt not one single missive had t- receiv ed from a member of the Legisla ture, and presently Wsytown Be bee Arose to a question ol privelege nd called the attention of tbe dob to this point. Wae It because the Legislature wm jealoos of the Lime Kiln Clob sod exalted over the great disaster wuico baa come oio IU The question being declared opto for debate. Colonel Cahoot said he felt a pain io tbe region of bis beait to see a great legislative body animated by aacb a principle. He Kneweveral member of the pre s- eut Legisla'ore, aod be bad gone out of way several times to show tbat be did not feel above them. Fiom tbis date to tbe year 2000 be woul.i never Fpek to nor recognize a member of tbe State Legislature. Jadge S'jackleiord Jackson gave notice that he wo aid ask leave to introduce at some future meeting a r notation calling for ao ievestiga tioo of all the crimes aod offenses committed by the Legislatures of Michigan daring th- past forty years, and several other members spoke with much feeling against tbat body for its apparent want of sympathy. Ao official commooieaiioo from Braoch Lodge So. 124, of Fiereoce Ala., asked thit Brother Gardner make a densioti Io case before th-'t lodge. The Treasurer, ia tnak tng ch.ine with a member for due, pnt three ten cent peioee io bis mouth for tbe momeot, sod ae cidentally falling over a cbsu, be swallowed them. lie was there fore that much abort in bis settle ment, but iiiM'.ts tbat no shortage has occurred, hh be is on band and the money, rx i force, is oa band with him. While be can't prodoce it, he hasn't converted it to bis owe use nor intentionally bidden it away. Tbe branch is divided in opinion, and ao appeal is therefore made to bead center. While de clob can't blame it treasurer for golplo' down im mon ey,' replied Brolber Gardner after a momeot'a reflection, "he co't blame de dub far wsatin' him to gulp it op again. It ar' my decision dat a speshoal committee has de right to stan' bim oo bis bead ao til it is proved dat de recovery of de cash Is hopeless case." Pickles Smith didn't waot to take op the valuable time of tbe meetiog, but he bad received sev eral letters from ProL Biinkerhoff, of Louisville, offering to ct as weather prophet for tbe dab at a small. monthly salary. He didn't kuow bow to reply, and woskt therefore ask if tbe dob Intended to employ any aoch personage. No, sab," promptly replied tbe President, "we ain't so rushed wk! bizoessdatwe can't wait till, to morrer to know what de weather is gwine ter be. i'oo kin write to yer friend dat we doao' need bis erti cea. an' it might be well to call bis attenshon to tbe fact dat pork and &xxioh, 2. C Feb, 2". At a meeting of tbe Democratic SUte Executive Committee beld In this city, on tho 23d cr Feb ruary instant, it was resolved tbat the Democratic ff Ute Con la tLe city ot BaleUb, on Thursday, tbe ZOth of May, 1S&8. TLe eeid Convention will be held for tbe nomination of can didate for tbe oSces of Gov ernor. Lieutenant Governor, Secretary or KUte, .n2llor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney General, three Justices of the Supreme Court one for tLe vacancy now filled by appoint ment of tbe Governor, and two to take tbelr seats In case the number of Justices shall be in creased by Ibe vote of the peo ple aad ot two Hectors for tie 6Ute at large, and for tLe elec tion ot Delegates and alternates Delegates to tbe Democratic National Convention to be beld la tbe city of St. LouLi on tho blh ot June next. Alo for the adoption of a platform of prin ciples and tbe transaction of ncb other business as may come before it. It will be observed tbat the State Convention is to be bell " much earlier this year titan uraal. This was necessary In order tbat tbe delegate to tLe national convention; to be held the week after, may be selected Tbe national convention Is called earlier than usual in or der tbat tbe party be better organlxed and a more th trough campaign made In behalf of its nominees and Its great princi ples. The same advantage at tends the earlier meeting or our SUte convention and nomina tion ot Its candidates. The BUte committee respect fully uapon the counlv com mittees throughout tLe SUte to Uke early action for the all of their county conventions, in accordance with the pi id of organization which Is pulpit-Led with this address, givine full notice of meetings in the differ ent townships, so that tbe pri maries may be fairly Leld end fully attended. Thus the fair ness of all nominations and other business done rau-t be universally conceded. It is ob viously Important that every county shall be reprer-enteJ ia tbe SUte conuentlon by aae or more of its own citizen., Lut if for any reason one cannot at tend, provision has been ui&de for the representation cf t!.e county by any person appoint ed by the chairman cf tLe covpty convention, or In raenf bis failure to ppoint,ry one appointed by Its secretar y. lr purposes of eflcient o- -iuira- tlon It is desirable InAl i. 1 va cancies in the different com mittees be filled at ence ly sxtlve svnd lesions men. At the recent meeting cf tbe Bute committee It was tr&de my duty to call epecial atten tion of the chairman of county and congressional executive eommltttee to the necea-lty of immediate steps to provide for the election of delegates to tbe national convention from the different districts. If it t-ball seem impracticable to cill con ventions to meet in eotne of tbe districts for this purpo-e.it Is suggested that tbe end tnsy be effected by authorizing dele, gates to the SUte Convention from such districts to me ?t lo Raleigh on or about tbe UKU of May, in district conveniens and elect delegates to repre-ent the district at St Louis. We have reason to know that oar adversaries will make desu." derate efforts this year to re store the SUte to Uadiral rule with all Its atthndant evils Let true men and good Demo' crats attend tbe conventions cf our party, resolved to present for the suffrages of the people men of character, integrity and recognized fitness for tin oG;es to which tbey are nominated, and only each, and tbe contin oed supremacy of tbe white race, which is eynonoinoiu In North Carolina with tLe su premacy of the Democratic party will be assured for anotls er term of years. For the committee. ' Ii. IL Uattlb, Cbm'n. B. C Beck with, Sec'y. Til Spirit cf Izt Ultj. A Chicago preacher is ti!kia; boat -hurrying sinners into the endless despair of the bo'.UtmlM pit" It is all tight lor tbe rxr iooerif tbe pit Is bottom le-. Falling U all right bat lifbtiog is what scroocheaSao i'raociscu Alt. Utera am gwioe to be mighty high next spring Detroit Free Preee. The Vadeborol0lel!igi-ner ay a car load of colore! people, inca and womeo, kit for Arkansas Ltt Tboreday morning. More are iu folio v. Tbe agent, woo was ia VTadeaboro last week ioct-Lg thea so leave, appears to have rut oo a big scare tbe night bt fore the dr .partore of the negroes, lie g-H an idea somehow that be. was uiu- to be regulated by tbe wli, aM so oneasv was be tbat be remained ia tbe office of tbe depot totJ all night, afraid to go to bed, aai , the first man to board tbe train ben it rolled op to the -'.atfria. c c