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. - . - - , ' y' V:-1' CM'" , . ;-i !. ; 'vrr- 7. 3 A -NOW IS THE TIME T0- TWA XT H T.T K3 jlll rnrrs c? JOB YTOBK- BZXBYOXROKBrES SUBSCRIBE FOR The Wilson Advance "LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AHI'ST AT, BE TUT COUNTRY'S, THY OOD'I, AND TRUTHS'." FOE 13 8 9 ho this orrxcz.-1 VOLUME 19. WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, JAN. 31, 1889. NUMBER 1 - - i- - :o:- RECOLLECTIONS OF WAR TOLD BY MBS. THE ARP. She Talks to the Children of War TimVf sheeting and he hid it in the BILL ARP'S 'LETTER smokehouse. Confederate ir.onv ey ii a, u got bo uau iutv juhjl'uujt wanted it. It wouldn't buy anything hardly. Salt is a great deal better than money, and so was sugar and tobacco, and shirting, or anything r to mifis clothes- out of. Shoes were aplendid currency.. Your grand pa had two calf skins, and he tanned them with ashes and rubbed abeut half the' hair off and got an old cobler to make shoes for my children, and you never saw such things- in your life but they were a good deal better than none. , The night we ran awav that bale" of sheet ing was put in a wagon that belonged to a friend, who was running away, too, ana it was left several miles away with a tfocd woman who set it up in corner of her room and put a vallance over it and a looking glass on the top like- 'it was a dressing table and so the yan kees dident find it. When we I was in my room answering a batch of letters. The mother and children were in her room and the door vwas open, and about nine o clocs 1 heard one say: "Now mamma, piease tell us a story we have gotten our lessons please, mama, tel: us about something away back when you were a girl, or some thing about the war." "Well don't turn that chair over sit up straight you will break a rocker off if you don't mind. That is my war chair and I want to keep it as long as I live. Pve rocked many a child in that chair and I've seen sorrow and sadness , in it, too If the old arm chair of a moth er ora grand mother could speak what a life history it could tell." "But mamma, we don't want any sorrow or sadness now nor anything about chairs. Please tell us something about when you run from the yankees, won't you?" "Oh, you worry me. Yon know that I don't love : to talk about the war nor the yankees I wish that I could forget all about both. It seems to me, now, that I lived twenty years in those four years of the war, But let me tell you about that chair and why I call it my war chair It was the only chair we saved from the reck one chair and one bedstead. We f onnd tlem at a neighbor's house when we come back to Rome The yankees carried off every thing else, carpets, bureaus, bedsteads, bedaing, tables china,pictures, and I don't know what all. 'I he house was full of nice things the kitchen was full and the smoke hou3e and the cabin w lie re the boys slept. T v a Kao lit fnl TOnrkstn.nr! that cost thirty dollars and a i jelerapli operatorsmpped that f to his home in Indiana, and Inntr aftr the war wasoverhe wrote pa a letter and said he had it and felt bad about it and would return it or buy it just as we said. So your pa wrote him a ?ery nice letter and ask ed him to ship it back to us by express for it was a birth-day present; but we never heard from him again. He didant feel as bad as he thought he did. He was written to again but ' he played possum and made out like he was dead. He had better not die if he knows what is good for him Those yankee? got lots or nice thlDgs from us, and they lived hitihoff of our smokehouse and pantry. There were thirty large'hams banging away up on the top, and there were shoul ders and middlings and sides and two large cans of leaf lard and a barrel of soap." "Whv. what made you leave all those things couldn't you have taken them along in wairon?" "Why, children, we had no wagon and no time; we dident know we, had to go until mid night. The town and the Buburha was full of our soldiers enough, we thought, to whip the whole yankee nation. Why we had company to supper that night, and had strawberries and cream. We hadent been to bed long before we were told to get up, for General Johnson was falling back and our troops were all leavimr Rome and the everlasting yankees were com ing right on. Just then they began to throw, their singing eizziniz shells over the town scare us and make us more live ly. They bursted in the air and scared us almost to death. I never thought about furniture or anything else but getting my children out of danger. I haven't got over it yet. We got tangled up in the street among our soldiers and the. ar tillery wagons and couldn't move for two hours. The shells kept coming and by ai.d by the up town bridge was set on fire to keep the yankees back until we could all get across the oth er river and burn that bridt e. Ob, it was an awful night. Bat we wont talk about that. I hid 11 1.11 i , ' , raiuer leu yuu now glad 1 was to get back" home again after eiht months of exile. Eight long mouthfc of running around with half a dozen children who were about half naked and al ways hungry. Your pa was way holding court in Macon M I lia r! dace to place and impose . " ttttea and friends who . wore sa too I tell you I Tn! Pp,y when we got back to IZ 0lVT desolate as it ZSl 7f,lr d rough M UUO U LI LI 1 1TT ..n ,7m i vyoaQtully. We S5 'Bhe?."nff for airs and .tab e8 and bedsteads, and iuuoes. ana sorghum." 'Where didyougetit, mam "Well, just before old Sher man run us away -your pa man aged to get a bale of yard wide :o:- WUAT OUR REPRESENTA TIVES ARE IjOING. A Summary of The Work of The General Assembly Now in Ses sion at Raleigh. came home we had vthe bale hauled in and went to trading on it sni we lived on it, for it was better than greenbacks. But there was . not much to buy in all that regions-no ccrn, or nonr, or cattle, lour pa- went down in Alabama; and got ten bushels of corn and kept it hid out in the country;and had only half a bushel grounp at. a time." ! "What for, mainml Wiiat was he afraid of." Why the x'obbrs and desert ers ana outlaws wpo were prowling allover the country like buzzards after dead hordes. They robbed men yvho had anything.1 One night they came in town ,and robbed old man Quinn.l and he made so much fuss about it Jthat Mr, Ouiberg ran over there and the robbers shot him and Ml led him for coming. They hang up men ty the neck to- make them give up their gold or their silverware. One niht they huig a little Dutchman, and as' his toes just could touch the ground he pcreaned out, "Sviug avay, sving avay; I tells you nottinxs, i but I meets you in hell all jde same, and deul aviugs you aop. "Did they kill him, mamn: a?" "No. children, no. They let liiui -down m1 '-go.-re-'" iiijir" drink and told him to go. But the funniest thing you! ever saw was your pa's store, i He and Bob Hargrove had the biggest storehouse in town, and taey put twenty thousand, dollars' worth oi goods in it and went to trading." f "Whv where did they get the goods, mamma?" "Well, there was a. man in jail in Selina, and he f wrote to your pa to come down; and get him out he would givej him ten thousand dollars. Sofhe went and got him out and got the money and he paid half or it for a pound of opium' and the other half for four do.zen cotton cards on the leaf-thatjithey had no backs nor handles.!. It was just the wire stuck in, the leath er, and he brought home the whole stock in a little valise. ;THE LEGISLATURE Sam was nothing but a bey of sixteen, bat they, say , that he stole over one hundeed and gave them all away to the poor people who had lost their stock. You see he got some old blue yankee clothes and put them on and went about among the guards who had charge of the extra horses and he made out like he was a yankee too and he generally carried with him a bottle of whiskey and a aecK of cards and got them drunk and gambled with them and before morning he would nave several of their horses and mules away off in the swamp. He was just as full ot miscmei then as he is now though his mischief was of different kind'. He was fighting the yankees them and he ia fiehtine the old boy now and there lsent so much difference after all. "Why you ought to have seen our smoke house when we got home. They had coverted into a bakery and naa tne finest bread troughs " you ever heard of. They made them out of the Presbyterian church pews and they built a great long stable on our lot oui oi the church lumber ineir horse troughs were made of .the Dews, and the pulpit was scat- tftrfid urnnnd. We cleaned out the smoke house ana aug up the dirt and boiled it down and maAa sn.lt of it. Smoke house that has received.the drippings of 8ault meat for years make rHn t.n.bl salt when it 13 r - , Wednesday -January, 23 SENATE The reports the different commit tees was made. Mr. Williams offered a bill authoriinzing the Commissioner ot Agriculture to offer permission for the largest yield of wueatf corn, oats and Irish potatoes. J-nis resolution was a few days ago loaded down in a spirit or levity and jest with numerous amend ments somewhat ridiculous ana recommitted. This bill was pretty generally discussed and the practical defeat of the bill was so apparent that Mr. Williams moved to indefinitely postpone, . i Message from the Jiouse oi jsep- resentatives transmitting a mes sage lrom the Govenor With the re port oi the Siate Board ot Jiauca- better protection of the books m the State hbary, appropriating two j hundred and fifty dollars for glass cases, H. B. 251, draining flat lands, an amendment to the drainage act, causes to be tried before a justice: H. B. 253, prohibiting in certain counties the sale of 5 bushels or less of corn before sun rise. Satuedat, Jan. 26. Senate. The following bills passed their third reading: Simplifying Indict ments for perjury; amending the charter of Smithfleld; to amend sec 741 of the code relating to cost against the county, atnhdiog the laws of '87 relative v working convicts on the publ c roads; The bill amending the public school laws was made the special order for to-day. Thursday. House op Eepeesentative. Among the bills introduced were the following: To repeal at the al- -owing counter affidavits in cases of contmuence: to repeal the act allowing counter affidavits In appli cation for removal of cauoee; to regulate railroad fare; requiring railroad companies to fence their track; relative to trespass to crops; to remedy defects in probating wills ia certain cases; regulating the deficiency in seed cotton4 be tween landlord and tenant. The committee on privileges and come here and go into the drng business, and it must be expected that he will make a few mistakes in the go off. We call attention to his liberal manner of advertising in The Kicker. He has assured us that puch a mistake cannot occur again, as he has properly label ed the bottles. AH INFANT PE02IS7. uod, with a proposition to print the feiections reported tavorable to the boiled down and clearifled. We mafia Hcrht trood Coffee OUt of dried sweet potatoes. I used tn mat tints for the boys out of old scraps of cassimere Your pa built a fence and a boat without a nail, tie Dorea noles in the plank and pinnea them on with - wooden pins. The war made us all 'powerful shifty,, as Cube says, and so we got along pretty wen. me children all kept well and strong until the war was over and doctors came home from the army. And there was no law suits nor courti - until the lawyers came back." "You have to thank the yan kees foi that much, don't you mamma." nr T don't thanlc- th yan kees for anything. They run me and my childreb all over this country like wel were dogs. Your fja makes out like he has forgiven them and is trying to harmonize and all th.it, but they have never apologized and to me yet or shown any numm ty or repentance." Oh, my country, l m airaia this generation of war women will never harmonize, ihey know too much and suffered too much. They mix and mingle right nicely with our northern friends as long as .he war is not mentioned, but it won't do to discuss that for it makes the fire fly, and keeps them from being calm ana serene. iJILL AEP. same. xne resoiunou iu ynuv adopted by the House of Kepre- beuiatives was concurred in. S. B. 120, Mr. Lusk's bill, to pie vent the keeping of screens, blinds, and other obstructions in bar-room doors, tailed to pass, on a call for the ayes and noes 13 ayes, 51 noes. House of Representatives. The committee on privileges and elections reported favorable for the sitting (Democratic) member, in the Halifax county contest. The committee reported unfavor able on the bill requiringtne ele ments cf agriculture to-be taught in the iiblic schools. The bill incorporating the Bank ot Rocky Mount was reported fa vorable. Mr. Crisp introduced a resolution relating to the public printing be iuglet.out to the lowest' bidder. Keterred to the Com. on Printing. Mr. Outlaw introduced a resolu tion concerning ex-Confederate sol diers. .Referred to the committee on finance. , A message was received from the Senate informing tne House of its readiness to go into a joint ses-f'.on-foT tbe final election of United States Senator. A recess of five minuies was ta ken when the joint session took place and proceeded with the elec tion of United States Senator, with the following result: sitting (Democratic) members in the contested cases for Jones and Wake counties. The Judiciary committee report ed unfavorable on amending the Constitution, so as to abolish the homestead; bill relating to landlord and tenant act; relating to criminal jurisdiction of justices of the peace The committee reported favorable on bill incorporating the Bank of ltocky Mount. The Committee on Education reported favorably on a. bill which amends the Bchool law as follows 1st The 6Ciiool year is changed to end on the last day of June each year ana an reports are to corres pond. 2d. Any county, with the consent of the coutity commissioners and justices of the peace, may submit to the people the question ot a scuooi tax, not exceeding one fifth of one per cent on property and sixty cents on the poll. 3rd The Superintendent ol Public Instructions is made Treasurer ol the School fund, after July 1st. 1889, and i& required to give bond The bill to establish au agmultu ral and mechanical college for the colored race was tabled. Professor Oscar Uocra. a Tkrea - . -Tear OldiPickaninay. A startling human prodigy Las Juot come to light, which premises to furnish material for a sensation the like, of I which has not been known since the advent of "Blind Tom" upon the public. Profeisor Oscar Moore was born near Waco, Texas, is color ed, has been' totally blind from birth, and is three years and four months old. What the sensitive plates In the pho- Dorgraph ara to sounds, Prof. Moored memory is to. ideas. Facts, figures, fates, poetry, speeches on the tariff, what ever Is thrown against that wonderful faculty of the dimi nutive professor lodges there and stays, and the professor can go over all the vast stock thut he has already accumalat- ed in his brief life, and produce any article he requires at an instant's notice. He is a naturedly developed child for his age, with a bright face and wide open, handsome VAGABOND JACK THE LIFE OF TUB WA 1 WARD LOVF.R. A Story of a "Shiflls. Ne'er Well" Beautifully Ilelated. do eyes, which nave me queer ap pearance 01 looKing in wara in-1 lerrea.j as may stead of outward. The powers sleep io bis own Tbli Story wi Uua January 3rd. MI can't give you mv word for that,' said Jack; bo t untie my arms so that I mav take the noun and after that von can bind me as tightly as you please.'' ery well," said the corporal Jack ate and drank with an excellent appetite, and having finished hi supper, honourably held out his bands to be pinioned again. . "I would gladly spare you that, my poor fellow, but you know I am responsible for your safe-keepin." "Do your duty, corpora,! bow. ever, I should be glad ir you would not tie my bands behind, as it quite prevents me from, sleeping on my back." The corpora! was aboa! to refuse this favour wheu tab. -ye met a oeseecning look rrorr. his wife. Jack, the rascal, had always the women on bis shl-, and, bis luck did not desert bim this time either. o doubt," saio the corporal aeuieuuousiy, "tuai it nal be a great hindrance to sleeping. ixjueui; out lor grexr security xrraru win pasi tbt night here. Go and bring Berard, -.rife." iiuuc.n ivraru wou; have Dre ' oe tt-ippesed, to good gendarme's o J man bad ovtr him. Fifteen Ounces rccoiUnl wiUx reDananee Lom the falsehood that be was urged to tell, and went over bis ory again, recounting the facts i'.hout too much exaggeration. 'What was it. now. that I said a little aeo! You see Terr welL daughter, that people are a! rajs in too great a hurry to weep. If ck bas not kCled anybody there h no fear of his coming to the scaf ford. Dry your tears. 1 know very well that Le must go to the galleys, but we are not to far as that jet. It wili betims enough to mkke ourselves miserable after the arizes, voa think ec, L.ette t" ; Old Martin bad a way of con- sc.ing people, than which nothlne copld bo better calculated for mak ing their sorrow more bitter, tbeir gref more ;polgnat. Without r ,ariDgto intend it, he excelled a turning the knife in the wound arl would dwell with c i place lcv Cii everv of his memory seem to De ea ; out uuty befoie all! He absolutely without limit. eaieu uimseit. without amnrmur Whatever is repeated to niin -me prisoner, aod m I once or twice ne never lure to. In response to questions, he told instantly the populations of all the nations of the earth, and of all the cities, statistics of weight aud uieasurineMs in volvine sums of ho matter how" many figures, he rattled it off before the question was hardly out of the questlonsr's mouth. He sang songs in German, Dan ish and English. He conversed in eleven different languages. He made a speech with laugh able renroductions of all the corporal, turning the key upon the vi mem, retired with bis mind at ease. iwo iun hours passed Without the gloomy silence cf the nicht uc.ug uroKen oy any t und. Jack uaa again lallen luto a tound leep uu uuuesi ieraru was struggling s wen as ne could against the haraslng fatigues of the day and his gradually Increasing inclination to arowsiness. The tniokj lamp now shed only a reddih light, and his blinking eves ceased from time io iime to perceive objects dm iincuy. lwice or thrice be bad caught himself going off in a doze atrodoaa fct that Id irritate- and envenom it clise wai almost driven wild by hi- remarks ; aud unable to endure tlim auv longer, took refuge in her U'mber. where she could md ' - M- Eansom Vote of Senate, 33 DOCK'EY 13 34 Mr. Hargrove put in a halt !jox of tobacco and a lew! bunches of factory yarn fori his, ten thousand dollars and they went to trading. i ou could have put the whole stock in a big wheelbarrow. They j sold the opium at five dollars an ounce in gold and the cards " at two hundred dollars a pair in can- federate money. You see all the cards in the country were worn out and the women were in a bad fix. so they would club together and bring, in'i'chickeni and potatoes and sorghum and old bacon and trade for a pair of cards." 1 . "Well, mamma, what did you all sleep on when you first come?" t "Why we borrowed a "couple of mattresses and slept on the floor, and cooked in -a skillet. We had S3 little to qook that we got along very well. We had no sugar nor coffee nor milk nor flour. Your pa hoard of a cow somewhere and r aid three thousand dollar for her confederate money was al most as plenty as the leavea on the trees every body had a pocket full. Hundred dollar bills were common; but they wouldeut buy anything hardly except a drink of mean whis key. Some of the cavalry sold iers used to give al hundred dollar bill for a drink so they said. Before the money got so bad your grandpa sold his farm for fiifty thousand dollars and moved away down country to get out of trouble,, and ho .in vested his moneyiin rcotton in Columbus, and Wilsons raiders came along and burned it. Poor man. Cut he was like Job. He fnever lost his integrity nor his careful disposition, rl never heard him compiain about any thing . i ' TELL OX MAMMA. A Girl With OneStockmg- SENATOR VANCE. IS CONGEESSIOiS AL EECOED. Vote of House. 80 Total, 113 47 The Speoker declared that Hon. M. W. Ransom was duly elected United States Senator from North Caryl: n a from March 4th, 1889, to March 4tb, 1895. The bill relating to fees of crop liens making 30 cents the total cost 10 cents for clerk, and 20 lor register, passed final reading. If this passes the Senate and becomes a law it will save a good deal to our people. Friday Janury 25, 8ENATE- Well, you must know that Sherman wanted to make the people tired of war, and s- he took away all their horses and mules, and cattle, and corn, and everything that they hadn't hid away in the swarhps. The men were most all in the army, and the women anet children did the best they coujd, an l hid some things until the yar-kess went away. - Sam Jones and few dare devils hung on their flanks and stole horses and Composed and arranged for the old spinning-wheel, and respectful ly dedicated to that devoted friend of protected mnchinery and high taxes, the Senator from Rhode Is land. ' . L Our Mary had- a little lamb, And her heart was most intent To make its wool, beyond its worth, Bring fifty -six per cent. II- But a pauper girl across the sea Had a small larub also, Whose wool for less than half that sum She'd willingly let go. III. Another girl, who had no 6heep, Nor stockings, wool, or flax, But money just enough to buy A pair without the tax. IV. Went to the pauper girl to get Some wool to shield her feet, And make her stockings not of tax, But both of wool complete. V Wheh Mary saw the girl's design, She straight began to swear, She'd make her buy both wool and tax. Or let one leg go bare. VI So she cried out "protect" me from That pauper's sheep wool free, If made to keep both her legs warm What will "encourage" met VII. So it was done, and people said Where'er that poor girl went One leg was warmed with wool and one With fifty -six per cent. VIII. NY.nr nraispi to Mary and her lamb Who did this scheme mvenr, To clothe cne halfa girl in wool And one-half in percent. IX. All honor to Mary's friends, And all protection's acts: Who cheaply clothe the iich wool' And wrap the poor in tax! in EailroacLCommisson in Georgia- The Railroad Commissioner of Gireinia in his report shows tb cn.sn al ties of 1888 to have been 100 persons killed and 600 injured. There are about 3,000 miles of road in the State. Norfolk Virginian. The bill to enable justices of the peace to take bail in certain crim inal action, was tabled- HOXJSK OF REPRESENT A TIVES. Evolutions: By Mr. Baird, of in struction to the committee on pub lic printing, requesting tbem to makea contract at the lowest fig ures, placed upon the calendar. Mr. Beddiugrleld also introduced a resolution to the same committee on the printing done for the State Library. A.mon.' tha bills introduced of aa important nature were tne follow ing: For the puriflcation of the jury box; relieving the Governor ot the State from acting as chairman of the Board of Agriculture; to amend the charter of Rocky Mount; for .the better collection of taxes; relat ing to the sale of seed cotton; to to pay special veniremen the came that regular jurors are paid; amending the insurance laws of the State; relating tne fines and forfeit ures. Proposition and grievances : Mr, Sutton, chairman, favorably, the following: H. B. 336, relating to the bird law of Johnston county: substitute for H, B. 52. making four feet a legal fence, applicable only to certain, counties; H. B. 332, changing the name of Hickory Hill to Laurence m Edgecomo county; H. B.23, preventing the increase of hog cholera, applicable to certain counties; H. B. 366, to reduce fees tor impounding stock in Warren coanty; H. B. 352, to protect fish in Ashe county, unfavorably; t. a. 275, to protect persous renting stores; H. B. 33, in relation to the stock law. Judiciary favorably: H. B. 168, changing term of Henderson Supe rior Court from 2 to 3 weeks; H. B. 295, relating to vacancies in the of fice of county Treasurer; H. B. 30. relating to vacancies in the office of Kegister of Deeds, cororners, sc. ; H. B. 339, relating to juriors. The Committee on nnance report ed unfavorable on bill relating to pensioning ex-Confenerate Soldiers. Bills that passed tniru reauing: H. B. 116, regulating the ser vice ol summons by advertising, when the person cannot be found; H. B. 135, relating to sdes made by executors and administrators, all sales to be advertised in news papers whenever the amount ex ceeds three hundred dollaca, H. B. l67joint resolutions to uongress in TAEE020 NL w3- Matter of Interest to The People that Progressive Town- (From the Tarboro Southerner) Next week the town commis sioners will adopt a plan for water works aud make contract for the building of tbem. Dairy farmers who improve their stock by gradiug and are impatient over this slow process should buy some ot Ben Eagles' stock of crows. He has a cow thirteen years old, which has bad eleven calves. "The Old Field" w.urr, as the darkies call this tribunal, but not out of any disrespect, met Monday. Justice, Bridgers charged tne Grand Jury in his usual, clear, lucid and mannered way. By the middle of February the cotton factorv is expected to begin work. The engine and boilers are here and are being placed in posi tion. The drive wheel is 10 feet in diameter and is a huge affair. Header, how much butter was made in this county and sold in Tarboro last year I More than ,000 pounds ousting m .the neigh- rhood of 1,200. ' Mr. J. L. Bridges furnished 1,300 pounds J. C. J'owell 1,000 aim Col. Carr 600 or more. If to this is added that brought in smaller quantities by John and Thos. Best, W. T. Knight, W. L. Barlow, and Sam Quinley, it will be readily seen that Tarboro consumed of country batter last year, not less tnan 3,500 pounds. exaggeraveu bouuud, xuw"w"" na ne was positive that he had ond falling uuneciiona oi vu awosc with a severl time. On a etump orator. sndden, and just as heVas dream- It is only about eight months ing that th, corporal had come to dnce his memory began receiv- f,leve him of his c'iarge, poor ing its impressions under an instructor and yet the child is literally a walking cyclopedia of useful information. A gentleman from Austin, Texas, has him in charge, and foreseeing In him a possible fortune, induced the boy's par ents relinquish their authority for the next seventeen years. His father and mother are ig norant colored people, and were formerly slaves. The Seven Wonders- be Secretary of Secretary of will be Who State? Who will Treasury? Who will be Secretary of 2s a- vy? Who will be Secretary of In terior. - Who will be Postmaster-General? Who will be Attorney-General? Puck. xierrtni ieic nimself 6ei; ed. rhmwn on his back gagged, ud pinioned inless time tban it taL.-n to write it. His assailant wu Jack, who had slowly gnawed ? trough bis fasteoings with hit kliarp teetb. and bad used the pi ccs against bi8 attendant. Once n.aster of his movements. Jack ran to the door with the ligh, and dating all bis weight against it ma le it spring from its hinges like Samson with the gates of Caza. He then opened the first window be caae, to, leaped lightly into the street, then with his band raised, bis lip trembling with a proud smile, he t napped bis fingers at the Blues, and dis appeared immediately in the dart- pess. III Governor Powle's StafL The staff of Governor Fowle, the Commander in Chief of the State Guard is as. follows: Rritradier General James D. Glenn, Adjutant General; Col. Francis H. Cameron, Inspector General; CoL Fred. A. Olds, Quartermaster General; Col. Hubert Hay wood, Surgeon Gen eral; Col. John L. Cant we 11, Commissary General: Col. Eu gene Morehead, Paymaster General; Col. William G. Lewis, Engineer-in-Chief; CoL John &. Cunningham, Aide de Camp. Col. Thomas W. Strange, Aide de Camp: CoL W. H. Williams, Aide de Camp; Col. Alston Grimes, Aide de Camp; Mai. Jas. G. Martin, Assistant Adjutant General; Capt. F. K. Curtist, As sistant Adjutant General; Capt A. L. Smith, Assistant Inspector General; Capt Baneh&m, Assis tant Inspector General; Capt. J. M. Baker, Assistant Surgeon General; Capt, W. D. Uilliard, Assistant Surgeon General: Capt Leo. D Heartt, Assistant Pay master General; Firs. Lieuten ant T. B. Young, Assistant Ad- Tbe reader may imagine tne effect produced by Fiteen Ounces when he returned to Tioet' with the game, and described the terrible battle he bad witnesed In spite of his habits of dimnlatioD, and hisself-commaud, Father Mar in found it very diEc;- t to con ceal lus internal satu. iction, aud drank off two or tLre bumpers in tin succession, to enable him to keep bis countenance. -"Unlucky Jack," said be at last ; you say tnar, ne kuocked down ' THE ARIZONA EIC2"2. Pleasant Items From The Glorious West- We extract the following from the last issue of the Ari zona Kicker: As we were returning to our office from the Widow Smith's the other evening (we have been sparking the vidow lor several weeks past.) and just as we came opposite the old In dian fort, some persons whose manners certainly need polish ing np fired four bullets at us from a revolver. The intent, no doubt, was to kill us. It took us about the millionth part of a second to realize this fact, and then we opened out for a run and made good our escape. We don't claim to be great shakers on shooting, but if we can't hit the editor and pro prietor oi a great and growing jutant General. weekly at a distance of twenty fp.et once in ' four shoots, we will leave Arizona. We don't OUS EXTBAVIGA1TCE. claim to be a Chesterfield, but if our manners permitted U9 to Sow Lavish we Expeni itoney two of them ! It's a frightful ba4 ness then, and at the u-it that he rnns the risk of is the galleys !" At thece words Felise burst Into sobs and wrung her bands in despair. Jpck a prisoner! Jack condemend! Jack in the galleys at Toulon coupled to a robbers! - was it possible I Cou,d it be be lieved 1 To think he was there not an hour ago, sitting .on that chair, radiant with bappine. wnispenng sweet words to her. speaking of the future, of love, of an early marriage, aad to think that be would have been there still but ior that cursed convey of partridges, and that it was her- sen woo oaa urgea turn with a smile to go and fire a last shot ! OU misery! Oh tortures! Would her poor eyes ever have tears enough ior sncn gnei as hers! Jfartber Martin did nothing to console - ner. prelernne &n he hide away behind an old wall and begin popping at a gentle man without warning, we'd ex exDect to be mentioned in the same line with a hyena. There is altogether to much talk about that mistake of our popular young druggist of the Blue Front which sent Col. Jim Jackson to his grave. Col. Jim asked for quinine and got stry chnine by mistake, but there are a good many redeeming features. The colonel was old, regard to the geological survey; H. iazy and drunk half his time B. 195, relating to public highways and left n0 one t0 m0urn his forbidding tne ienmg or ueuiuS i joga The druggist Is a young trees within a certain nistanee from Lnd eaer(?etic man, who sold the public roau u. d. -o, iui tuc coal-yard in Chicago to For Education Purposes. "North Carolina expends less money per capita for schools than any one of the 33 States, except South Carolina, and on ly about half as much as Ar kansas, and less than half as much as Virginia. If all school funds in all the States were raised from a tax on property, the rate in North Carolina would be lower than any of the 38 States, except Georgia. Ala bama and Sooth Carolina. Report of Superintendaut o Public Instruction. The Oxford Rews says the build ing record of that town for 1S88 is very gratifying, said, to ulet4the water run." When her thought she somewhat calmer, however, be set bituself to reason with her afier his fashion. j "You cannot do better than Lave 1 a good cry, my poor girl; crying relieves the feelings : but what can one do against fate? Sooner or later Jack was bound to come to a bad end, living as be lived ; better nooner ttan later, lei me tell you : and you ought to thai ic your patron saint for having dra.-n you away orm the wasp's acut in time. What would become of yon all this time if by bad lu.k you were uo no ui iuis unoirunate lenow nd thougn I said the galleys, who ows f It is perha-i the scaf fold that awaits bim! -An;- Baiu fence with an our burst, "it is useless for yon to speak, you will not make me deny my poor jacK. lie wa going to make me his wife, and I- shall re. main his whatever happen P "On yes, or coarse. an honest fellow who says anvtbine to the contrary I After all. we do notjtnow anthing about the affair, expect what Filteen Oances tell us, and perhaps it is not so bad be says. Tell us a little ot -your story again, boy, did Jack really kill two gendames. In spite of the influence that the at her ease and without oontraint. Vbat a night that was I She had thrown herself on the bed with all b.r clothes on, ana her tears fell stoutly on the pillow. She thought oi ber youth, now worthless t of tt great love, which she had .-er before felt in all its fulness; all her projects for the future, so fondly chembed. but now -shed for evrr And Jack! was Lc not more nufortunate a hundred tii'.e tbn herself ! How could be ev.-r, with his indomitable nature, Hrt this lile of shame, ot toil, of discipline, and of privation, lie would succuoib to u, that was certain ; but if Jack were ded, then was not the world empty for Ftlise I Her father was weclome to say to ber, "Dry jour tears : no u.e being in a Durry to make one's sell miserable. "Heaven," the prayed sobbing. Tit lit Iliiaf f iniv liA f iiV k tie me awav. or tend me back b'ui I love ko well ' Ob, woudetlul! whence comes tLat Kund! Can she believe her earn! 1 the not the sport of hallucination ! No no ; It is ci-uaiuty bn this time it is indeed h in whistle it is bis signal it Is J.k! Jack, wbo bas returned, Jt. :k who w calling ber. 1 iVhse, bewildered, runs to the w'adov d1 tbrowalt widn open. J.tck is there indeed, alone, at ti vrty, bis arms held out towards b. r, more htudsome and proud- -kiug luau evr. ' Oh Jack,'' 4id Fc'.ise in a tone t luuauie letiderne, i was weeping for you as if you were d'-ad oh my dear Jack P Felme,1 &id Jack tn a grave voice, "do you continue to think me, as formerly, a man upright ai.d sincere!" "Yes ! ' "And are you still willing to be "Oh yea moi than ever Jack !" '1 am going to leave th4 country for a long lime perhaps, Ltse the wife follows her husband, will you follow me f WI am yours, Jack do with me what yon will." "Very well, them ; tnak op uur buudle quickly and come d'. wn ; we have no time to lose." Felie without hesitation opened b'r trunk, tok out some linen, a u'-.'S-s and come spare stockings. :ud boldly descended by the Udder which Jack had jut placed against I" r wiudow. Day was now break ing, the two lovers gained the j mntain at a rapid pace, and licappeared in the direction of L'.s Oregories. Ai they reached .'Jo first bouses or the hamlet tbey i.et Jean Cendrous going to yoke hi t oxen for the last labour of the eason. "Hullo," said be merrily, thniwdt I th firat an IB All t..e combe, but It seems you are iall earlier than I am, my friend." 'Jean Cendrous," said lease resolutely, advancing towards the farmer, "I take yon to wltneas that l -im carrying on Jack bere, and 1 oeg you will proclaia it to my f.-.ther this very dty." "Certainly, my pretty girl; It w-.ll put me about, to be sore, but one cannot re lose to proclaim a icbbage. Heaven guide yon, toy children P The robbage is an old custom of the country which has survived the invasion of French manners. It is the girl that carries off(robbe) ber lover, and thus by ber declara tion free bim from all parsait. Ihe robbage in tbe lat resource of !uvers wbwe patience is utterly worn oat. When coot-ent to tbe t arrUge is obstinately refused, tbe parties tun away in this fashion fad the matter im ended. Marriage i- not long in following and tbe paternal authority receives from it tierhaps !-.- Hence tban from e "reeet:iil mammons" Invented NEWS OF A WEEK WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD ARO UND VS. A 0iwIkmI Report of the Nnct (WMpnriM, StoU and NatUnal. Tbe Farmers Alliance are bcUJ- ing a tobacco factory at Oxford. Tbe next General Conference of tbe M. iL Church South will ba held at St Louis. The rboenlx says Bockr Mount needs tenent bonsea. The town la certainly growing. ' . Henderson has a tew Back. It ill be called tbe Citizens Bank. says the Gold Leaf. John Nichols wants to be pnblie printer at Washington nnder Uar risons administration. Cliutcn baa a plate factory and the Caucasian peats in high terms of tbe work tarsod out. Charlotte U endeavoring to get tbe riedmoet Wagon Works to move from Hickory to that place, Tbe citizens of Graham have or ganized a Building and Loan Asso ciation which tbe Gleanor aays Is aoiog well. Tbe Kins ton Free Press says about twelve thousand bushels of noe were raised la Lenoir county tbls season. From tbe Wilmington Messenger we learn that Bro. Bonitx proposes to Usne a weekly edition of his pa per in Goldsboro. . Tbe State Assembly of the' Knights af Labtr met at Goldsbo ro lost week. Master Workingman John Nichols presided. Durham wants the shoe factory of W. II. Wetmore & Co., moved to that town. If she wants it done la earnest it will be done. Two moonshine" whiskey ditll tries were captured in Harnett county a few days since, we see from tbe Dunn feign board. Tbe Wilmington Star, aays a too. oessfnl cot ton planter of Sooth Car olina, Mr. J. S.Scott, bas gone to IluMia te take charge of a large cHton plantation. Durham bas a pork packing es tablishment. If all our pork was raised, killed and packed ia North Carolina, tbe State woald go for ward as it has never done. Application will be made to the General Assembly, now In session at Ilaleigh, for a charter for a new railroai from Aberdeen, In Moore county, to Fayetteviiie, fayette ville Observer. We see It stated that not a single baby haa been bora in Liberty, Ky. lor thirteen years. Liberty has a population of TOO. We'll bet a plate of oysters there is not a Meth odist preacher in the place- The News of Oxford rys tne Copper mines of north Gran ville lately purchased bv uc French syndicate will at onw bo worked. Mr. Smith for tbe past been engaged in hauling machinery to the mines and the prospect is tbat a force of possibly four or five trno dred hands will be put to work in tbe next thirty days. ' A fearful tragedy occurred at Wade's Station, on tbe Short Cot, on tbe 23d Inst. A bnrly negro entered tbe boose of Mim MeAhs ter, an old lady about 80 years old, and killed ber. Bobbery was sup posed to be tbe object. Her cries were beard and ber klnsmar k1 " Alex McAllister, entered the , -and shot tbe negro dead. Tht oners jury axhonorated bim I Mrs, J. A. McDonald, one of the best known Instructors la the State baa been selected to take charge of tbe Shelby Female Colge after tbe first ol next month. Mrs. McDon ald bas been a member of the fac ulty for nearly two years ard Is rreaUy beloved by ber pupils. Newton Enterprise. She taught in tbe first Normal School ever held here and osr people have verv plea aant recollections of her. :i the I. L'i.-l.tior of tbe civil code. Father Martin beard tbe pro : i in. i' ion earned by Jean Ceud k:ou turnout moving a muscle Very gOvxi, said be ; "tbe man - tio bas a daogLter may expect jythiDg ; but I am afraid a good .al of water will pass nnder tbe ridge before we go to tbe wed ding." Jack and Feline passed the day r the cave ol MaravaL ever on tbe outlook, as may readily be sup pesed. After nightfull tbey came down to the village, and arm in arm went and knocked at tbe parsonage door. (TO BK CONTTJICED.) Well, Governor Scnles goes out "Ring out the old ring in the new." . Governor Scales' administration trill be noted for its quiet, conservative lone. No tempest or cyclone rufied the smooth waters of Lis term, lie received the good old com monwealth in a sound, vigor ous and healthy condition from Jarvls, and he has delivered It to Fowle in as good condition as wheu he got iL Greensboro North State. Cur Ztz Cur Uiucei Waterprwer. North Carolina has ample water power to run every wheel end move every spindle in the whrtla New Vntrlnnfl PjhMp And beis,1tatwe tavo tbt cton fields ut our doors, an abundance of libor all among ns, with every neans of transportation to the four corners of the civilized ' 1 a 1 1 V. wuiiu, w uu advantages The present system of work log the public roads in North Carolina nnder the general law has not proved eSdent and eatisfactory. It is founded op-, on a wrong principle. The roads should not be worked al-. together by assessments upon labor, as tbey are done under tbe exiting laws. Nor should they be worked altogether by taxation upon property and the poIL Tbe true plan, one that is J tut and eSlcIent, is to work the roads by a combina tion of assessments upon labor and taxation upon property. All men stould bear their just and proportionate share of the bar den ot keeping np the public This can only be done roads. This can only be a thousand other ley a juaierous tax on propuij, too nnmerona tolarranired in combination with assessments npon labor. Afihe villi atfcen. mention. Fayetteviiie Observer. : i 11 . i.