'- ',-"""' -:otistset:sisto- ; srr.scr.ir.K row The Wilson Advance i FOE 1SS9. FOB ALL EINBS OF 1 JOB WORK- SEND YOTJR OEDEHS "LET ALL, THE ENDS THOU AIM'ST AT, BE THY COUNTUV'S, THY GOD'S, AND TRUTHS'." !-T0 THIS OFFICE.-: VOLUME 18. WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JAN. 10, 1889. NUMBER 49 I JnLJtLi -i O BILL ARP'S LETTER -:o: 1 1 1: in. k s o r m niiiLE a nd BREWTON. Two South rn Towns Compared I, ij I'Uf Old Philosopher. l"orfy-t wo years at:o I visited 3Io I )i Ie, ene the oldest cities of tli stuth. It is there yet, but not changed. I recognized iij.iny of the same venerable uildiuirs rid I spotted the very place when; I bought a mule from' a wagon a mule that I was to ride 12- miles to my destination in .Mississippi. I mo uted the ambiguous brute and politely invited him to ro, but he not. He did not feel in clined to leave his companions in the team and tuo more. I unred him the more he declinde In fact, he did more receding than proceeding and the clerks in the stores took a lively in teiest in my welfare. They advised me to whip him on the hary ide aud to turu him round let him advance back wards and so forth. I could have whipped any two ol them aud wanted to do it, but my father had told me to keep my temper while I was gone and have no fu:'s with anybody. A good hearted man came up to aie and sympathized and said I l ad better get me a pair of fpnrs, and 1 did. He held the animal and helped me to put on the spurs. I roweled that mule' Hanks with vigor and he departed those coasts with alacrity aud I and my friend were parted forever. I hope we will meet in heaven and recognize each other, but if those devilih boys are there and recognize me, I recon they will apologiza I recon they will. Young men you boys, I mean be careful how you make sport of a of a. stranger, for you don't know how lone some he feels. For forty-two, years I have had bad feelings towards those Mobile clerks. TLe.i may be dead ; they may be in the chaiugantj ; they may have suffered all sorts of trouble aud miefortune, but I am not r conciled. I rode forty miles th t da forty miles through piney woods and over corduroy roads, aud stopped over night in a shanty that had a dirt floor and a pile of straw in the corner a table made of split boards, and we had roasted po tatoes lor supper, lhe man was clever aud his wife was kind. They apologized for the scanty fare, for the man said he had hunted all day and didn't find "nary squorl nor nary deer." A pet lawn laid down by me on the straw, and I slept well, fori was tired. Just think of the changes that -12 years have made. It took me three weeks of hard woik to mafce that trip, and now it ran be made in three d s with ease and comfort. SavetiuiesI feel like we old folks ought to be allowed to grow up again ana have a good easy time like this generation of young folks. Forty-two years ago I took stage at ilarnes ville and rode on to all r.ight going to Montgomery. The great United States mail was carried on the foot boot of that f-tage. There was no railroad from Atlanta to Montgomery then. From Montgomery I went to Mobile on the new and beautiful steamer, the Orline St. John, Before I returned jihe was burned to the water's edge, and many passengers per ished in the Haines or in. the water. Here is John Taylor, the barber in my town, who was on that boat and who is proud to tell how he followed Henry R. Jackaon to Mexi co in the war Df '-1G, and has shaved Judge Law and Judge Berrien, and all the notable men of Sa vannah. Mobile is a good old town and always will be. Her people are not progressive like the people " inland towus, because they don't have to be. The grea ulf protects them. Xo rival 'itien '-an ever be built south of .4obil. isiie jS at least secure on that t ide. Xo railroads can take commerce away from the sships that anchor there. I saw a trrcat cceau steamer there the other day the Victoria load Jiiu with cotton and in a few days will unfurl her pails for Liverpool with eight thousand bales of ootton on board. Just think of eight thousand bales on a single vessels. There are five great compartments water tight, and lire proof, and the compressed bales are packed in with jack screws that make the whole mass solid bo solid that you cau hardly insert a knife blade between them. Two hundred years ago Mobile was the capital of the Louisianna colonies and Mas owned by the French. Long years afterward New Orleans was made the cap ital. The French ceded all that -oast to England and Eng land ceded Mobile to Spain, but -Spain was whipped out in 1812 hy the Americans colonies, 'ihere is some curious history about Mobile. Iu 1704 the lUtle French colony that had nettle there got belligerent be cause there were no women there and they swore they would not live such a God-forsaken county ; whereupon the French government called for female volunteers, and forty three responded and cafne over. And then there was a big row over choice of wives, for the good louking men wanted the best looking women, and so it had to be decided by lot. The next year the women got up a row because' they had to eat corn bread. It was called the petticoat insurrection, and was quieted by a promise of wheat and barley. I wonder how many of our girls would be will ing to go into the lottery busi ness for a husband. Georgia has giveu many no table men to Mobile. John A Cuthbert was horn in Savannah just one hundred years ago and died in Mobile when he was ninety-three years old. He was the oldest living graduate of Princeton College. In 1818 he edited the old Federal Union at Milledgeville. In 1837 he removed to Mobile and was made judge of the circuit court. Johu Forsythe, Sr., another no table Georgian, moved to Mo bile and became the foremost) editor of the south and was al so minister to Mexico. But the busiest, livest little town I have I have found In my travels of late is the town of Brewtou, which is seventy-five miles northeast ot Mobibe on the Louisville aud Nashville railroad. The latest edition of Raul A: McXally's map of Ala bama, nives the town only "80 inhabitants, m hich shows how hard it is for the mapmakers to keep up with the ground swell of southern progress. Brewton now has a population of nearly 3,000 and there are over 100 new buildius going up. Over three hundred and fifty thous and feet of lumber are ship ped from this point every day. I visited one of the great liviathan mills that cuts over one hundred thousand feet a day and kiln dries about half Jhat it cuts and dresses all that it dries, and the plant cost four hundred thousand dollars. The logs are floated twenty miles in a plank race that cost twenty thousand dollars, the logs ire end to end the whole line and and moved to nre mill just as the mill wants them. This com pany is Horn vucnigan ana owns over 100,000 acres of tim ber land, and they iutend to cut it all up. The yankees are taking that country. I net one who was prepariug to plant 100 acres Lecomp pears, TLiey will find use for the land after timber is all cut, They dress .veil and drive good teams. They build nice churches and academies I know one dwell ing that cost 10,000. and sev eral that cost half that sum. All this venture of northern men and northern capital has come within two years, and the cry is still they come. They don't come tooting horns nor waving banners. They don't come in swarms nor platoons, but they are slipping down upon us quietly, and be fore we know it have bought up our lands or our mines at their own figures. They pre fer to invest in new places that our people have slighted, and they so at once developing. I find them wherever I go, and am glad to say that our people give them welcome. They seem content in ineir new homes, and their wives and daughters go into raptures over our climate. They are nearly all republican-!, and civility, morality and energy is making their polities respectable. They have no love for the negro, and say that in a few years he will not be a factor in national poli tics. They say that their party tried hard to get h;.s vote, and failed, but they do not need it now, and do not desire his af filiaton. One man said to me: "You southern democrats know better how to manage him, and we will gladly let you do it. We have a clear majority in both houses, and will soon make some more republicans slates out of the territories, and will run the government until new issues come up and new parties are formed that will divide the solid south, and, in the meantim;, we will help to div de it by transplanting tho sands of our best people to this inviting land. Your peo ple seem at a loss to decide what was the real cause of Mr. Cleveland's defeat, but I can tell you. It was not a bad ad ministration, nor was it the tariff, but it was the solid south. That battle cry aroused our northern pride. It was the chip on the hat. It was hu man nature ; it was not poli tics." Alas, poor darky? It looks like he is going to be left out in the cold going to fall between. In national politics he will not be wanted, and in state politics the southern republicans will unite with the democrats in ruling him out. But he has got his inucle safe and can always rely upon tl at. He has got his Kood nature aud his contented disposition, and so we need not worry about him. I saw one the other day in a side-show to a circus. He had his bie black head sticking through a hole in the wall for a target to be thrown at with a ball or an egg. "Step this way, gentle men, and kill the coon," tha manager said to the gathering crowd, and for hours the boys paid a nicle for a shot and fired away. The coon was allowed to dodge bat his dodging soon was very limited. If he was hit the marksman gets a dime. It hit twice in succession he got a qnarter and for three good shots the refund was fifty cents. "Step this way gentle tleman, and kill the coon." When eggs were used the price was a dime a throw. I saw one fellow pop lhe coon square in the mouth with a ball and it hurt I know it did for the coon pulled in his head and struck struck for higher wages and got them. I couldn't tell whether his lips were swolen or his nose flattened but his big face seemed puffed and bumpy from the daily pound ing. 1 see him now like a pho tograph and imagine that I hear that significant, prophetic speech of the yankee manager. "Step this way, gentleman, and kill the coon." Bill Ari That Endei It- Some of the greatest orators the world ever produced have shown their brightest when some incident or impertinent question drew them out. The eloquent, ani erratic Tom Mar shall, of Kentucky, was once delivering an address iu Buf falo, N. Y. As was usual, he began in a low tone of voice. Some one in the rear of the hall yelled, "Louder, louder," several times. Marshall stood the interruption some . time, then advancing to the front of the platform, he raised his im pressive voice to a tone that everybody could hear, and said: "When the last great day comes and the angel Gabriel blows his trump to waken the quick aud the dead, then, I suppose, some d d cuss from Buffalo will yell louder, louder." That ended futher interruption.- St. Luois Globe-Demfcart. k Good Log Story. We have a good story to tell on Bam Telfair, Governor-elect Fowle'i Private Secretary. Sevtral years ago he went to school at Finley High Acade my in Lenoir. A few weeks before he was to leave for home it was industriously cir culated over the couutrv that Sam Telfair wanted 25 dogs to carry home with him and that he would give 3 for every dog brought to Lenoir on a certain day. On the day before the day set for the doys to come to town Sam went home. Next dav Lenoir was full of dotjs of high and low degree. All sorts of dogs were here with strintro around their necks and fre quent inquiries were made for "Mr. Telfair." But he had gone without the dogs. Lenoir Topic. A Farcical Stats. Nevada was admitted to the Union to serve a politicial pur pose but, those responsible for its admission can hardly be sat isfied with result of their work. In the last election its total vote for presidential electors was 12,278. In 1880, with a pop ulation of 62,266, it cast 21,6J0 votes for electors, the vote be ing about 35 per cent, cf the population. The fall to 12.278 indicates a decline in popula tion since 1880 from 02,266 to 35,000. Of the 35,000 some 8,000 are Indians and Chinese. Yet this handful of people and not a very wise or select people, either send two sena tors to Washington and one Representative and has three electoral votes. Justice in Clinton, According Darkey. to a On last Saturday night, on Grog Row, two of Clinton's "fast men" got into a quarrel, which grew so warm after a while it was thought by those standing by that they would hitch in an old fashioned way, when an aged darkie said to them, "Gemmen, gemmen, don't do dat, the mayor and po lice are out of flour, and you mout have it to pay for." They didn'i fight. Clinton Caucas ian. Soma Facts About Feed. A pint of white beans, weighing one pound, and cost ing 7 cents, contains as much nutriment as three pounds and a half of roast beef, costing 37 J cents. Of all the articles that can be eaten, the cheapest are bread, butter, molasses, beans and rice. A pound of corn meal goes as far as a quart of flour. If corn and wheat bran and all, were made into breadj 15 per cent of nutriment would be saved, with much great healthfulness. "Joe" is Thankful. However it may be with the average individual, the aver age, North Carolina newspaper that the new year finds alive has cause to thank God and take courage. So many of them have died within the past Bix weeks, you know. Statesville Landmark. NSISHBOUHOOD NEWS- Events That Happen Hear ns cf In terest to You- Pitt County. (From The Ueflectob.) During the mouth of December the Register of Deeds issued licen ses to 35 couples, 17 white and 18 colored- The ruau who made good resolu tions yesterday and inteds keepiug them will pay what ho owes the newspaper. Oil account ot the railroad boom the Kellector thinks it would pay property owners to .irevide house room enough and to spare Mr. J. il. Mills killed a hog the week hi fore Christmas that weigh ed SGI) pounds gross 716 net. Pitt County as usual, takes the lead in porkers. Keuss & llaniss, doing business at the Cross Kosds two miles from town, made an assignment last Fri dav. Liabilities 1,800 assetts dinned ?1,000. Mr. II. W. Smith and Miss Ma mie Little were married at the residence of the brides father, iu Paetolus township, Dec. lOtu, Kev. Ceo. .1. Dowell officiating. The pupils of Miss Moilie House's sclno! gave an art exhibit Tuesday ol hixt week. The Keffeutor pro nounces it magnificent and very complimentary to Miss Kouse. A real estate owner was last week heard to remark: "lam cer tainly a railroad man, I have two vacant houses tor rent aud have received ten applications for them." The mouied men should build more houses. Uev. .Mr. Olesby, the presiding Elder for the Washington District, has preached in Greenville and the congregation were very much pleased. Sociallv he is a pleasant affable gentleman, aud fill make many friends in Greenville. It looks perfectly natural to see Minister .l.uvis on the street of Greenville agaiu, shading hands with the people who love and hon or him. The ex-Governor is en joyli:g splendid health and look equally as well, as vigorous and as young as when he last left here lor Brazil, neatly two yeas ago, and he iooks capable of doing just as o(i d and faithful work the State and nartv as he ever done. Since getting a louk at him the Reflector is Mt il: stronger in favor of his being elected to the li. S, Senate. Hash County (FuOM THE Ai:(io.N.L'T.) Mr. B. 11. Sorsbv moved into the Farmers' Ilo'e' and opened it ou the 1st inst. A young man was fooling with an air guu ami hit a colored man in the t'orhead sending him to the doctor. Il was 100 vards awav hut a line shot hit him plumb in tne forehead. On Dec. 27th at the residence the bride's lather, Capt W. A Farmer, of Spnnghope Mr. J. J. Soivev ami Miss Mary K. Farmer were married, Rev. M. J. Will oughby officiating. Nash county has nearly 200,000 acres of wood land, the larger portion of which is the finest pine timber. Only about one third of the area of the county is in cultiva tion. On ut uly every farm there is pine timber which in the near future will sell for much more than the 'and can now be bought for. Zdjocombs County. (FnoM the South" ee nou.) The fertilizer factory has begun operations. Receipts at the cotton yard from September 1st to January 1st were 8,7Jl bales, aaaing 8,104 bales for the same period last year. Ed Gnrham superintendent of the Flag Marsh farm near Rocky Mount began maki u butter Janu arv 1st, 1-SSS up to tin? first of this year he had sold 12'Jl pounds. Dairying pays. ki Upri-ht Judge. At a murder trial : Judge : "Ilefore you begin your testimony, rr. Prisoner, it is my duty to insiruct you that you are not obliged to give s.r,f statement criminating yourself. Proceeed sir, with your story' ' Prisoner; "vVell your Ilonar, IT! own up at the very outset that I shot the man," Judge: "Oh, you acknowledge that, do you ? And upon what provocation, pray ? Prisoner: "Ytell your Honor, it was only ten days after elec tion, and he came in the stairs cornered me in a seat, and began to talk tariff." Onines: "What! ! !" Prisoner : "Yes, your Honor, and Gentlemen of the Jury! and when I warned him, he yanked out what he called a trbulated statement of the comparative compensation of all the wage workers of the world and be gan to dish that out to me, ana " Judge. "Great Scott! Gen tlemen of the Jury, you are in structed to a verdict of justifi able homicide." VThat we Got- A bushel of corn makes four gallons of whiskey. It sells for 16 at retail. The govern ment gets 3.60, the farmer 40 cents, the railroad 1, the man ufacturers H, the vender 7 and the drinker all that is left delirum Tremens. Warner Miller. The lay of the Jand is what darkness broods over. VAGABOND JACK T1IE LIFE OF TIIE WAY WARD LOVER. A Story of a "ShijJress, Ne'er do Well" Beautifully Belated. This Story was Ix'cun January ard. The origin of this custom is lost u the mists of antiquity ; but it is more than prMiabie that it is a remnant of the worship of Cybele, still holding its ground al'tera!mot twenty centuries of Christianity. Formerly the festival was cele brated on the 1st of May through out all the county of Venat-oue, both in towns and villages, aud I have a perfect recollection- of the pretty bakeresswho was the last queen at CarpeDtras, now nearly lorty years ago. .Nowadays this custom is losing ground everywhere and one requires to go far up the mountain in older to find it in its primitive simplicity. Jack emptied his pockets to the last copper into the wooden howls that circled gaily round him, and with his brain quite confused went aud stood leaning at the. oilier end of the suiiarc beside the fountain. His fascinated ejes aw nothing the vision in white ; the throng ol laughing girls passed aud repassed belore him without excitiug his attention in the least ; he felt his breast heaving with the pulsations of his heart, and a strange heat per vaded his whole frame. ul elise!' he repeated without even noiticing that he pronounced, the sweet, name aloud ; Felise ! ' Poor Jacu was over head and ears iu love. The fair Felise on her part re turned home in a very dreamy mood. She too had not been able to see without emotion this bold felloe regard her so olist inatel.v with his large eves that t-parkled like burning coals. Involuntarily she compared Jack to the other voung men who paid cour t to her little fortune, aud the comparison was hardly to their advantage. They seemed clownish and awk ward, without grace or elegance, even on feast-days ami in their best clothes. Oi;ly see tlu-m beside Jack ! With hat an air he entered the church, his jacket negi'egeutl.v thrown over his left shoulder : and how straight he stood during the service. Jack had nev.-r iu nt his back to the hard labours of the of the fields, and il was wonderful how well he had preserved his youthful appearance, suppleness, and activity. In pi. tee of'thehoruv paw covered with knot's of those accusomed to pulling madder, Jack had the hue and sinewy hand of the hunter, and it whs a pleasure to feel delicate fingers clasping ones waist. Rut could an honest girl dream of Jack with honour and propriety What would be thought of Felise if her secret pre ference were discovered ! Jack the Vagabond, without a penny to (Jess himself with, withnif hearth or home, game for the gendarmes, au1 not bins: but a cave fur his abode that truly was a lover lo he preferred to all others by the lair Felise ! How the gossips would laugh at it when they met to work together in the evenings ; and the weddin -party would be almost mobbed ! And suppose they did jeer and whisper maliciotwv what then ! Was Jack not worth bearing tl is for J lie was poor, no doubt ; but ho was his equal for honesty and integrity ? He was esteemed by all the country round ; and the vilhure folks that held their heads highest shoo.-1 hands with him lordrally. IJesides, who could alliim that he was incap able of settling dowu to a regular course of life ! Does not a man wro is in love do everything to please his sweetheart ; and would Jack be the first on whom love had worked a complete change ! 15ut, indeed, what was she think ing of? Was it not the feverish excitement caused by want of sleep! hat was putting such ideas into her! Jfy'k in love - what reas ou had she ror thinking that J He had looked at her, to be sure in a manner as to the nature of wiiica women are, rarely deceived; but was this enough to build so many fine suppositions hang hopes upon? Poor thoughts, and somewhat ashamed of herself into the bargain. Before long all her gaiety dis appeared, her cheeks grew pale and thin, makiug her eyes in which burned a sombre fire seem larger than ordinary, and she suffered from langor and lassitude that had no apparent cause. Jack made no siu ; but all the world could see that ho was strangely preoceuppied. and that a great stuggle was going ou in his breast. He scarcely ever left the neighborhood now, and his visits to Tiuct's became exceed ingly frequent.. Old Martin was somen hat annoyed by him indeed. "What's your errand this time J'' he said to him one day, looking him straight in the face. "I mean no offence, hut this is the third time you have been here this week. Juck takeu thus unexpectedly, made up his mind at once. "This is what orings me," he said bohll l'I have come to talk with Felise, if she has no ob jections." "Felise may please herself," said old Martin, without appearing to be much surprised at the re quest ; "but 1 believe your time will be yasted, my lad." That's my affair,' said Juck. "Tell Felise that I shall be, back this evening." Over all the mountain and far into plain, this is the way in which gallants in quest of a wife introduce themselves to the families. The young people talk together for a longer or shorter period before carrying matters farther.sornetimt s tbey talk for years without any thing coming of it ; or the talking may be formally broken off without damaging the reputation of tbe girl in the least. Everything soes on opealy in the simplest manner possible ; the lover comes alter supper aud passes the evenin, the gir l makes room for him at her side, anb continues her spinning or kaitting as if nothing were in the wind at all. Now and again they exchange a word or two in a low mutually observing each other watching for any little occasion when the real disposition will betray itself, wholly engaged in trying to become perfectly acquainted with each other, and both carefully keeping their weak nesses as much as possible out of siht. When it is time to retire the lover bids the company good night, and goes home, singing by tho way some ditty expressive of thijoy he feels; and so on for night after night till he makes up his mind to take the decisive step. It i.s clear that nothiug could be simpler than these courtships. Jack's entry In the character of lover authorized to talk was lii ide quietly and without fuss. He piocceded to seat himself by the s;iie of Felise on her mute invitation, and maintained a shy silence all the eveing, hardly rr. tenug a word, but very happy nevertheless, as any one my sup pose. Felise sat and span, twirl ing her spindle with astonishing r..pidity, Old Martin seemed ;. leep. but kept a corner of one ieopeu for the slightest move n eut of the young people. Every thing went on according to ancient u- e and wont, and as custom would have it. The last days of July were at haud, and in spite of tne burning heat of a torrid sun, ihe cattle were kept treading out the grain o i the thrashing-floor from dawn to nightfall. Jack, lull of praise- orthy zeal, would take part in these labours aud show his skill : aod he astonished everbody by his ; steadiness aud his cleverness in managing the mules. Felise blush ed with pleasure and said to her self, "He 'II make an excellent hus- b.uid. I am sure, whatever they may say of him." Old Martin did no1 lake quite the same view of .mum as his daughter did. "T.us busy lit of his is all very fine, no doubt," said he, 'hut what makes a better blaze than straw ? Wait till the poaching season comes on and we'll see if the old man is really dead. I won't helieve it till I see Jack follwing he plough iustead of catching hares." Martin's doubts were not alto gether unjustifiable. At the first c;-lI-notes of the new coveys of red p irtridge. at the first marks of the nocturnal excursions of the hares J.tck felt himself seized by a violent desire to regain the mountain and r-uew his past exploits. He -v niggled long against the tempta tion and wrestled with himself. Out i i the clear moonlight, after a day o,' h irassing toil, how was it possi t:e to hear unmoved the sound of Poacher's gun J At the cry ol a p issing flock of quails he would till a terrible itching in his limbs ; ami it was sometimes as much as he could do to stick to the plough aud not leave the farrow half made. What had a still greater effect o:i him, aud inspired him even with a kind of remorse, was the mute portestation of Maripan, his eid companion in adventure, who, as if he had been the renegade sportsman's conscience in bodily form made him almost blush for !-!s steadiness as he ceaselessly followed him with his now ue eeching now indignant. Maripan was a large lean dog of the lurcher breed, bold hardly, aud almost wild, with the feet dry aud nervous, tbe breast fell aad strong the belly hollow, the Joius vigorous ;-.ad supple, the tail straight the ears mobile, the eye inquisitive and restless, and sparkling under a pent-house of dense grayish hairs, fangs pointed, projecting, and of dazzling whiteness, aud the nose moist shining like a mulberry :nd as black as a roasted chestunc. As well known as his master, the villagers vied with each other in pampering him, aud he had always pleuty of delicate morsels ever Mnce it was noticed that on return ing even from the longest run he would rather stretch himself out and go to sleep than touch any vulgar mess in which the bread was not irreproachable. The priuce iy air of disdain with which this vagabond would then turn up his nose at the pittance offered him had gained him the name of Maripan (bad bread), under which he shared the celebrity of Jack, and with him formed the subject of many a lireside story. No longer finding an outlet for his activity. Maripan could not resign himself to this sluggish life. At the least whiff or scent which met his nose, the least rustle in the bushes, he was off like lightn ing, jumping, braking, and joy full wagging his tail, but in vain. His appeals met with no response, and he had always to return disap pointed and discouraged to take iiis place at his master's heels vhora he would piteously follow vith his tail between his legs and his ears banging. Sometime, however, he revolted altogether. On such occasions he would pass rue plough with a vigorous bound, plant himself beyond it with his wo fore legs firmly supporting bim iu the energetic attitude of one who demands an explanation, and then gravely sittting like a judge, with his neck proudly raised his, head inclined as if he waited, for an answer, his eyes wide open, and his ears erect, he would gaze reproachfully, on his master as mncn as to aay 'Oh, you are langhing at me are you? Bat if you pleased to give up our fine wandering life, do you think that I was made to turn the spit and serve as a plaything for the village brats V -(TO BE CONTINUED.) The Comptroller of Currency has declared a second dividend of 10 per cent, iu iavor of the creditors of the State National Bank, of Ral eigh, making in all 30 per cent, on the claims proved. ALL SORTS. Divers Clippings and C;nments, Both Stolen and Original. We understand that Congress man John Henderson, of one of the Western districts says that the Blair Bill will jiever be come a law, and also that such is the opinion of lea.ung lie publicans at Washington City. Mrs. Harrison has tvt yet ar rived at the unenviable distinc tion which generally appertains to prominent womeu in this country. Xo tobacconist or soap-maker has yet used her picture to advertise hi.? wares. The Georgia Legislature has declared in favor of text books by Southern authors for the Georgia public schools. North Carol: na can go a step further aud declare in favor nf text books by North Carolina au thors. Mr. Powderlv savs: "Not.. withstanding all reports to the contrary, ttie order of the Knights of Labor is neither bankrupt nor extinct. What has been lost to the organiza tion in numbers has gained in strength, devotion ani determi nation. We have weeded out the anarchistic element." He generally knows what he is talking about and we trust he is right in his conjecure3. The Senate of oouth Carolina has adopted a measure punish ing with expulsion any mem ber who may accept i free pass whereat the Philadelphia Pie cord recalls the fact ihat a pro vision of the Constitution of Pennsylvania prohibiting free railroad passes to members of the Legislature remains a dead letter. Now. in the event that uch a provision is made bv our Legislature, shall it become aeaa letter? And who is to see that it i3 enforced? Here is a clause from the in augural address of Gov. Rich ards )n, of South Carolina, that strikes us as sound doctrine, and the proper stand for the people of the South to take. He says: "It is to be assumed efforts will be made either by coercive or conciliatory meas ures to break the solid South. but that the position of the State should be one of unceas ing vigilance and watchfulness anticipating neither evil pur pose nor unfriendly action, but standing with cloted ranks ready to resist, byev-ry consti tutional means, any f-ncroach-ment upon the right of States to manage domestic affairs in the own way." "Sou h Caroli na will, in purest loj .Ity to the Union and submission to the constitution, mainta.a the in tegrity of the only government that ever has, or can give her peace, satety and prosperity, her Democratic government, ruled, directed, and controlled by the all-prevailing, all-jon- quering Anglo-Saxon race." The Biggest Ecs: Yet. John Adams living in Har nett county has plowed 77 sum mers in succession and never took a dose of medicine in hib life. He is strong, healthy and able to plow another summer. He has a son who has a little shoat and tho lowest guess oa his weight is 800 pound.-Wilson Advance. The editor af the Democrat knows Mr. John Adams like un to a sort of grand-father. He was guardian for our father, and we remember him with great reverence and love. He is one of the noblest of God's noble. As to his "son who has a little shoat and the lowest guess on his weight is 800 pounds," well we've sojourned there often times. Mr. J. J. Adams, is tli6 son's name, and if there is any home in Xorth Carolina where you can find more and and better of the sub stantial of life than with Mr. Adams who has this "shoat," we would have to see the cribs, barns, smoke-house?, cellars, kitchen, dining-room, &c, before we would believe it. This writer was boarding in that home when Tilden was elected t.nd yet was not Presi dent. If the wind of chane were advised to drift us ary where without previous warn ing, we know no place in all this land where we would pre fer to ledge than in the home of J. J. Adams.-Scotlan l Neck Democrat. Our Grover- Grover Cleveland stands to day as the grandest living man. His letter to the tariff Reform League of Boston iu the deliv erance of a strt- 3aian. He went down in df?at but he rises to say that the priuciple for which he stood is eternal the principle of iqual and just taxation. How high he stands above the horde of petty poli ticians, trimme. s and time sorvers, who cure the country! Statesville Lan Iraark. Where Ignorance Was Bliss. A little girl, whon told for the first time of the identity of Santa Clause, lookec up in dis appointment surprise, and with a tear in har litte eyA hesitat ngly asked, "And ia it all story about Jesus, too." THOMAS L- CLIGMM. Ona cf The IToted lien cf North Carolina- The Reporter of the New York Star happening in the cor- ro2or of the Fifth Avenue Ho tel last week, says there sat on tM sofas two men remarbable examples ef the past and pres ent in American politics. One of of them was a statesman of an almost forgotten era the other, an energetic, pushing representatives of the public lif j of to-day. They were ex- beuator '1 homas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, and Con gressmen Richard W.Townshed of Illinois. The ex Senator is three score y ars of age and over, but he is stiil little, stalwart and vigor ous, and stands erect as steadily as he did a little more than t.wonty-seven years ago, when, with the other Southern mem bers af the United States Senate he left the Chamber to cast his fortunes with the Confederacy. O. all the men who with him cii that summer's morning bade good bye to their places in the National Capitol, only one oth er besides himself survives un til this day. That other is Jef ferson Davis. When Mr. dngman reached home from Washington he. entered the Southern Army, and when the "r was over ho returned to fiiid home desolate and his property destroyed. He took up his iife asain. as thousands like him did, and tho Btrujjgle ever since has not always been a happy one. Youneer men took his place m political life ; the generation with which he had been infl.it ntixl and power ful disappeared Vvith the war, and the white-haired old states man aud soldier lives to-day only in the memories of the tines when he was one of the jted men of the country. C'JITSAU'S CUSS'S RECALLED. Br- IvIoBonald, The Insanity Export An evening paper says? Not withstanding the carefully s-ndied efforts to keep the fact fruui public kuowledge it has looked out that Dr. Alexander K McDonald, general euperin- tc .dent of the insane asylum u ard s Island, has become in sare. ft is hoped that the affliction i :nly temporary, and the once bulliant mind of the great spe cialist will be restored to its normal condition, but the pros pect at the present time is not encouraging. Dr. McDonald has for many years been one of the universally recognized au thorities iu this country on the subject of insanity and its treatment. It seems like a true exposition of the irony of fate that he himself shotil l hare been visited with an nffliclion that no one was supposed to know better than he how to o ire. Dr 'McDonald was one of the experts whose testimony con verted Guiteau, the sussassin of President Garfield, and it is uoteworrthy that he in another of those, who participated in that trial, and who have appar ently fallen under the bane of tue assassin's curse. PLAIIT TMI AGAIN. II 2 Gives the Headers cf the Advance a Now Year's Greeting. Castalia, X. C, Jan, 1st, '89, Dear Advance : The holidays with all have passed away quietly in a social way notwithstanding the community has been excited and shocked at the discovery of an undressed female child, which brought to litrht one of the most shameful ami diabolical crimes ever perpetrated in this quiet and law abiding portion of the county Coroner Crocker was sent for who yot a jury .mi made the following investigation: -JOn the 8th day of DwembiT a white girl from Franklin, named Pattie Ilsrns, nged 10, gave bir i ir to a child in the house with her aunt, Jane Iledgepeth, and her husband W.T. IledgepetL. T1m errl and the two fist named were t.iken before Jus tice T. J. JJr.isw -II, Jr., sand Tom C jllins. The uii l confessed the birth and said her child was taken from her against her will. The j ir's verdict was that Tattie Uar- r.s, the mother, and Jane and W i". lledgepeth wefe all guilty of concealing the birth and murder- L"g the child by drowning in a well ; 3d are ail in jail. The Senatorial race is talked of u. many in this county and it is thought the contest will be warm, rts many think the time for a 'iange is expected and wanted. Messrs. C. W, Dennis and G. II. Rodger are working in this section with pretty prospects in taking op tions on timbered lands for a Northern syndicate who are think ing of build.r g a Railroad from Suffolk throjgh the timber belts of the State. I. with many of his warm friends, are anxious that Je Daniels of the State Chronicle should be given the State printing at the hands of the uresent Legislature. Joe i i de serving honors at the hands ef the Democratic party. Plain Tom. The next session of the Teach er's Assembly will be held at More Viad City, Juue 18th to July 2nd. A trip to Eurone is proposed for them wien the work of the session 6 ended. NEWS OF A WEEK. WI1AT IS HAPPENING IX IHE WORLD ABOUND US. A Condensed Report of the News an Gathered From theColumna of oar Contemporaries, State and National. There are 231 preachers in the North Carolina Conference. The removal of Trinitv Col'erre to llaleigh is being seriously moot ed. Anna Ellis, the patricide, will be hung iu Clinton, Tuesday, tne 29, inst. The Durham Daily Tobacco Plant has absorbed the Daily lte- coruer, ol that town. It is whispered that there may be an independent daily mornii g pa per started in Kaleigh. Col. Holt and Judge Fowle were boru in the same year, the lormer being fonr months the elder. Wilmington has an artesian well that has reached the depth of 500 feet. Work will be resumed again Bon. It is said that there are over for ty candidates for the position ol door-keeper of the Seuate aud House. Clinton has a veneer factory. The first piece was cut December 27ih, 1888, so we learn from the Caucasian. A colored woman dropped dead while leading in a sunrise prayer meeting in Craven county Christ mas morning. . The laud purchases for the VanJ derbilts near Ashevllle have been quietly going on until 2,000 acres have been secured. Adjutant General Jones is in fa vor of having the North Carolina State Guard attend the inaugura tion of President Harrison. A negro boy in Caldwell county was driving a load of apples to market. The wagon upset and the boy was caught nnder it and kill ed. Governor Scales and Governor elect Fowle have agreed, upon Thnrsday, Janaary 17tb, as the day for the inauguration of the lat ter. The Christian San states that Graham College, having secured a tract of 150 acres at Mill Poiut, near Burlington will be moved to that place, and the name changed. The Caucasian says during tho year 1S88 thirty houses w?re built in Chnton, lOO lots bought by par ties intending to build, the volume of trade douoled, two factories built and the death rate was only 5 in the thousand. The Methodists will probably es tablish a publishing house at Kal eigh. The matter ia now being carefully considered. Tin Baptists already have a large ishiug house, which Is doing a g. -s busi ness. The Confederate Vetcreaiis' Con vention will be held in Raleigh, January 22nd. Tbe railroads will give the delegates free transporta tion and an effort is being made to get the citizens of Kaleigh to en tertain them, The North Carolina Millstone property in Moore connty has been purchased by Mr. M. Schall, a wealthy capitalist of Pennsylvania who will reorganize the company, revive the business and push it with both capital aud energy. The following military compan ies having signified their intention of participating in the Inaugura tion: Charlotte, Goldsboro, Oxford Wilmington, Reidsville, Greensboro Henderson, Durham, Fayetteville, Elizabeth City, Lambertou, Max ton and Kaleigh. Valuable silver deposit? have b..en found about Valle Crucis, Watauga county. Gen. Leven thorpe has taken an option on the farm of Mr. Joseph Bryant for $10, 000. Lands in the neighborhood have appreciated in value enor mously. During 1888, in North Carolina there were 2 agricultural imple ment works built; there were 6 breweries erected; 'J tobacco and cigar factories; 41 cotton and wool en factories; 8 electric light plant3; 12 miuiug and quarrying compan ies, 13 oil mills; 43 water-works 5 railroad companies organized. And we agree with the Wilmington Star in saying: This is commenda ble and encouraging progress. Compromised- President Lincoln U3ed to tell about the influential citi zen who wanted a Cabinet po sition, but compromised by taking a suit of clothes. That statesman's successor still lives and is very numerous. Cincin nati Telegram. "He's BeenThers." An intoxicating drink is any beveraga which, taken in such quantity as men usually drink, will produce an obf uscation of the crebal ceutres with a conse quent hypertrophy of the ton gue and a general bewilder ment of the legs. Milwaukee Sentinel. To Pave The Liberty Spot. Measurements of Independ ence squaae were taken to-day. The square is to be paved with TCoicriiin hloek. which will be cut at the city's quarry. Char lotte News.
