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- i i - . - . . ..... ... - v - . ; . . . . - . . ,-- - j; - - 1T0W IS THE TIME TO 6UB3CRIBE FOR -job wonix SE5X TOrS OSBSJ The Wilson Advance "LET ALL THE EMDS THOU AIltt'ST AT, BETflT COUHTRFS, TJTIT COD', AND TRVTUS',H FOB 18 39; H?o this orrxcr- VOLUME 19. WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, FEB. 21, 1889. NUMBER 4 i - . - , BILL ARP'S LETTER :o:- HE TALKS OF OUR DUSK FELLOW CITIZENS Would That the Northern Peo ple Could Look Through Ills Spectacle. guard duty at Joe (Johnston's tent, stole the general's jug -of j apple brandy from under bisi cot. He took about ;half of it i and put the jute back", where he j got it and said he would "tte fair with the genrul." Un ae occasion when I remonstrated with our cook for staking so much flour and lard, she smi'ad and said "you dont niiss wl-at little I takes." If they ever do It will astonish many . North Carolina a to know that the Croatan tribe still exists, a distinct people, among us, liv ing on the North side of the Cape Fear: still pround of their Indian blood, and still marked by it and by Indian traits. More than this they claim En glish ancestry, they cherish tha traditions of English paren tage; they still employ English words that were in use three THE LEGISLATURE STrat,Dgthe Bank of Kocky Senate, bill 106, to amend the Constitution so as to prohibit mem- "The devU'acrt, lck, the dovil a saint would be, "Tbe dovil t well, the a saint was h.o. "Well, they run the netrro out of the whitefolk's school at Felicity, in Ohio.. And now they have run him out of the tobac co factories at Marion, in 111. What is to become of the poor creature when he gets among hia northern friends. The poet sang a pitiful so ng about "Lo, the Poor Indian," but if he had lived to our day he might have written something about: I. the poor nepTO, whose untutored mind See MJklux everywhere, unless he's blind Deprived his vote, his swoetust dearest Joy. He tl It's for refuse up to Illinois Asks for a Dome and work and civil nirhts Nor dreams ofltfuns, uor rocks, nor bloody JlKhts. nut, lo, he is refused a house a nut. a shack or Ken the rights to st iy and stem tobaker io bat-k they said you bl 'Ck old billy (feat, Oolmek to Uixie land stay and vote Against your color we have prohibition We want your vote, but d n your competition. On back, and if those robs iret in your way -Then arm. and fight, and shoot, and burn,- and slay. The color line seems to be crawling up north The race problem is spreading. I wish that about onejthird of of the negroes would go up there and about one-fourth of their' good people would coine down here,, that wpuld fix things about right and make evertbing harmonious and ho mogenous so far as the pale face are concerned. But what would become of the negro. Ask Felicityw-ask Marjon. The commln people of this country have no love for the negro a"nd the negro has no love for them.. They are in each others way. The poorest white man feels his inborn superior ity and the negro will not acknowledge it. lie respects a rich man or a notable man or a judge or an officer and will do his bidding with humility. In fact he loves to wait upon and serve him and oe dependent upon him, but there is a deep nn.tnd hostility between the white yeomanry of this land 1 and the negro. ' It crops out in atrorir fnnftift. hntween the iim. . . races when an outrage is com mitted by a negro the common people are the most eager to pursue acd lynch him. Here are a dozen large farms in one neighborhood that are cultivat ed by negro tenants. Interspers ed among these farms are many smaller ones that are owned or rented by poor white men. Their land is , poor; their stock poor, and they live ou a strain and do not get ahead, but more generally fall behind. They eea that the rich man who accumulates makes his money off of negro labor, ' for the negro will live in a leaky cabin, and eat his cornbread and fat meat, and sleep on the floor with his head to the fire, and he will sug and laugh and Joke and play cards, and if he is hard run. will step over to the poor man's habitation and gently lift a chicken off the roost, or he will go to his coton field with a hamper $,nd fill it frotn the pen, or to his fodder stack and extract! a few bundles. The poor man misses have to make an exodus fr.m this country I donft beli ve j hundred years" ago, and they they will steal any more bet sre I have strongly marked English they go than did the Jews fr ai J characteristics. They are land the Egyptians. " ' . j owners, they are land-cultiva- The neero is a good natur. d, I tors and they are roBd-makers. contented, friendlyj creature, j Above all, they have the En with but little .conscience t nd i glish family names still com no "nerves not endugh c u -imon among them that are sceience to pursue! him or i f nund in the list of Sir Walter's WHAT OUR REPRESENTA TIVES ARh. IjOING. A Summary of The Work of The General Assembly Now inJtsea sion at Raleigh. annoy him. "Conscience males cowards of us all'l does not no apply to" hinii He .".iu sleep Just as well alter a crime as before, provided there is no on one his track. Hisas a natur al born coward, and the south has no fear of any insurrection that "they would-plan, for they would not dare to -execute it. When - the malignahts of t be north want them to begin the work of carnage they will h:,ve to come down and lead th ia. 'lhis they will never"; do, for it is a law of human nature t-iat mm . - - . 3 a malignant man is acow. ra too, so I recken we are safe. ( ur enemies had better! give he matter "up aird let. the ne?ro alone. His vote is not needed now. I don't think .that .it ever will be, for I believe that a new line of battle will be drawn that will inyole soi ia thing more than offices s.nd spoils a line that will divrde the north as -vell as 'the s -Md south. Fet it comej for ti er will be no national jpeace u-til this sectional strife is brol en up by new issues. . ; i Isow here is another h jwI ill-fated colony. It was ascertained fact that Tuesday, Feb. 12th. "sESATE. The biil of Senator Williams, of i Pitt, to preveuS the buying and seliiDg of futures, was taken np. Mr. Williams, in support of his bill, said he championed the bill as a farmer Dd in behalf of the farm ing classes as well as for its pur- nose to elevate the morals of the Spanish . names, and traces of , stat,. lie tbouebt the pvstem of Spauish blood and the Spanish' gambling in the necessities of life language still are found in the and products of the soil was a curse about the killing of Clayton, and the whole south s held sponsitle. And for cause a man was Arkansas killed of politics. That thfe special horror, is politics but a mass of con op tion and over reaching ud bribery and intrigue.l Why '.z a political murder any worse than any other murder. Dident a lot of saloonkeepers murder a temperance preacher in OMq just because his .! preacl ng threatened their busluess. .Ye made no f nss about that. We never call tj)e north o accocnt. We left it to toat community to avenge his death', and t' ?y did it.' And I rebkon .Ir. Cfiandler and Co. had be ,ter leave the Clayton murde? to Arkansas. '''j I They are a good people. ; ud will attend to their own afiurs in their own way. It is v ,ry easy to stand away off nd preach and threaten, but our folks have got used t that, uid are just going along and attend ing to their own business. I will remark,; however, thtt it wouldn't strain ourj' people to wish that it had been Chanel er instead of Claytoni-ndt that we wish anyboody killed, but somehow or other whenever oue of ournortbern enemies die even our best Christians ex elaim: "The Lord gave a,nd the Lord has taken away blessed be the name, of the Lord." Biii Ar. islands that dot tha ocean on the Xornthern shores of Great Britian, , and that there are tracesjof the Spanish sailors and soldiers thrown on those is lands in the wreck of the grand Armada three hundred years ago: Nothing is, more interesting thau studies in ethnology, such proofs of the persistence of type, and of the force and value of hereditary'. Our Anglo-Indians In Robe son have found an earnest, in telligent and reliable advocate in Mr. Hamilton McMillian, who has just put forth 'a small phamphlet entitled "The Lost Colony," which concerns the Croatans, and is likely to dif fuse a widely awakened inter est and inquiry. We are much in his debt for the very enter taining speculations and the valuable information he pre sents. The people have no inter mixture of other than English and Indian blood among them what ? '9- onrt thv a.r nrond of the fact. klled in Thev alwavs disdained affinity account With the negro, they refused to seems to be sit side by side with him in wen, w ai church or school room, ana are indignant at being classea as "mulattoes" or free person of coioi." The special object to be pro moted by publication just now of Mr. McMillan's researches and observations among them is to remind -our General As sembly that the annual grant of S500 for the Croatan Normal School should be rejaewed at this session. Rather than be classed with the negro popula tion these proud people have refused to accept any educa tional advantages for their children, but with schools and teachers appropriated to them pelves they are eager to go for ward. Mr. McMillan has done them a good service. He has lived in their section or coun try, has knowu them all his life and has gathered up many of their traditions, now - fast passing into oblivion. He has made a deeply interesting story abont them, and though it can- on to onr land. Mr. Williams was not well and could not make a lengthy speech on tne merits of his bill. The measure does not apply to manufacturers who may contract for the actnal future delivery of cotton. It is, intended to aflect tne margin business, where there is no intention ot any delivery. The bill was equally as strongly opposed as it was supported. Sundry amendments were submit ted, among which was one that ''this act stiall not apply to tutare contracts of marriage." Thb bill passed its second reading on a call of the roll aves 37, noes 3. Tbe bill also passed its third reading. , Mr. Payne submitted the report of the majority of the special com mittee on railroad commission, ask ing that the usuhI number of copies be printed and that the considera tion of the - same be made tbe special order for Thursday- next at 11 o'clock. Mr.Tnomas submitted a minority report from the railroad commis sion committee. ' The special order of railroad commission bill was fixed for Tues day, February 19th, at 11 o'clock. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. A petition was presented from citizens of Pitt county asking the repeal of certain oppressive laws relating to the impounding of stock, by the towD of ureeuynle. The committee on education ou fered a substitute for the bill abol ishing the norm'al schools of the State (This bill abolishes all the white normal schools and approp riates the niODey now nsed to run the normals to be applied to hold ing teachers' institutes throughout e State. It leaves off the training school feature of the Senate bill.) The following bills passed their thild readings: bill authorizing the board of councilmen of Green ville, Pitt county, to appropriate certain funds for building roads ; THE LOST. COlfpJSY. his DrDDertv and knows that some infernal darky stole it, An Intsresting ani Valuable Hie and he generally spots the very nigger, but can't quite prove it. The white farmer who live in a negro -neighborhood has to fortify against him all the time and he hates him for the darky is hard to catch. He hates him, too, Tor the same reason that the native laborers in Califor nia hate the Chinese. He is in the way. The poor white man would like to rent better land, biit the wealthy landlord prefers the negro because he is inore easily managed and is content with less and can be settled with at the close of the year without friction. He alwavs comes out in debt and does not care so he can stay and draw his supplies, and will set in for auother crop without the slightest concern for the debt he carries over. A few dollars for Christmas and a jug of whisky is the in.oJ.sure of of hla ambition. Of course there are exceptional cases, but what I hab written applies to the average negro cropper of this region. I have: had negro tenants to whom I was attached and so was my family. Our children delighted to go to their cabins and hear their fstories about ghosts and witches and jack-o'lanterns, and they were all attached to the chil dren and humored them, and sometimes would go a mile or two in the night and steal catenae Ions or peaches or ap ples and divide with them and no questions asked, and they would steil from me and di xid) with . 6ther negroes, but they never took much at a time and has no malice afore thought. They do not call it ste iling. Their simple idea is . that you have got it to spare and won't miss it, or if you do luirH'it you have got plenty of money to buy more. It is a kind of fair divide wid de white lolks. They are like the original Bill .Arp, who, . one dark night when he wap on cf the Cr:atansby Professor H:- mil- ton McMillan - Chapel Hill, N. C, Feb.. -t. One of the saddest stories in history is the disappearance of the colony of English p ple planted ,by Sir Waiter Raleigh on the coast of North Car- lina three hundred year ago. There were about one "hundred and ana twenty oi iaem, men, women and children, and t,hey left absolutely no trace by which their fate might be jiore than guessed at. Were they murdered by the hostile In dians ? or were they incort. crat ed among some friendly t) .be ? Silence hangs over it all and a dark cloud of hopeless con jecture. They vanished from the snot where they had neen first eettled, and hone of the shins sent out charged with tbe duty of succoring, th ascertaining their tfate isem to have doue more than iaake sure they had abandoned .heir first settlement. No attempt was made to follow up the sole slight indication that ihey had removed to"Craatan." Gov White sailed away and lei I his daughter and grand chill to their fate, whatever it may have been. Where was "Croatan?" Nobody -seem to have been sure. The wet'ther was stormy and there was :iiore profit to be had ijn cruising outside for Spanish, 'prizes than in searching up and dowa the Albemarle and Pamlico for a lost colony, aad so the ships put to sea again witlk as little loss of time as possible. - We . may, imagine how the colony looked, and longer, and weDt. through long years of KU3Den3H for the Jielp from. home that never came. They seem not to have been murder ed. They had gone jto "Croa tan" and the Croatan Indians were certainly a friendly tribe. This Is all we have to rely upon. not now be provedj still every probability appears on the face of things that 4hese Lalf breeds are indeed descended from "The Lost Colony." Two years ago Mr. McMillan represented Robeson county in the House, and is a gentleman of educa tion and much knowledge of the Croatans. Ed.1 He has certainly given us the annals of a unique race. They have been good citizens, tho' the "swamp angels" of twenty years ago, Lowrie and Berry and their gang, Were of the tribe. They fought on the pa triot side in the Revolution, they sent soldiers to the Mexi can war and to the confederate army. They should be protected and legislated for. We hope to hear that every legislator has a copy of this pamphlet and has read it and is prepared, to give them the austice they ask The Damphlet is published by the Advance presses in Wil son, JN. j:, price iniriy cents, and it may be had on applica tion there. C. P. S., in the Raleigh State Chronicle. Anctnsr Slap at "Woman's Eichts. The Charlotte Chronicle status that a Mrs. Vauderburg, of that city, was arraigned and frifid before the mayor and fined S5 for beating her hus band. The Chronicle calls this "out of the usual order of things:" - 'It is Seldom Surpassed.' The Wilson AdvAXCE is al most grown having recently entered upon its nineneeth year. It has long been a grown paper in size and ability, as it ia seldom surpassed by a week ly. May it live long and pros per every year of its existence. Greenville Reflector. "Never Minces-His Words- The Wilson Advance has closed another volume, and ia still advancing under the veTy able and fearless management of brother C. C. Diniels. Char ley is "good grit," and never minces his words. Long may the Advance live, for it is one of the foremost weeklies in the State. Fayetteville Observer. to require surveyors' chains to be sealed by the standard keeper, 22 standard yards being the length ; incorporating the Farmers Co operative School ot North Carolina of a high grade at Morehead City ; II. r. 474, lor the protection oi schools and ; colleges, (relating to lewd women) created a hvely dis cussion and much time was taken up in its consideration. Tbe b 11 tailed to pass its third reading. Mr. Cooke, from the committee. on railroad commission, maue majority report in favor of a com mission. Mr. Walser, from the same com mittee, made a minority report against some of the features of the bill as reported by the majority. Ou motion of Mr. Cooke the rail road commission bill was .made a special order for Thursday at 11 o'clock, to be considered from day to dav uutu disnosed ot, and that three hundred copies of the same be printed for the use ot the Ilouse. On motion of Mr. Walser, three huD-lred copies oi the minority re port were orded printed. Wednesaay, Feb. 13th. SENATE. The bill-to alter the Constitution so as to re-establish the whipping post, was defeated by a vote of 15 to 20. The Senate as a committee of the whole, Mr. Pou, of Johnston, in the chair, took up consideration of tbe school bill which had passed the House of Representatives as a sub stitute lor the Senate bill on the same subject. Some fee changes were made in the biil but none of great importance. Tbe material changes from theJaw of two years ago provide far the school year to end June 30th instead of November 30th, so far as relates to county of ficers, thu not dividing the school sessions into two fiscal years. house of representatives. The Judiciary Committee re ported favorably the bill to require Railroads that paj no tax to do so. The unfinished business of the day before, the consideration of H. B. 474, lor the protection of schools and colleges, was taken np. This bill relates to lewd women. After some discussion, upon a call for the yeas and nays, the bill passed by a vote of 75 to 31, The following bills passed their third readings ; Bill to compel hucksters and butchers to keep a book of registration of the ear marks and brands of the stock pur chased, the names of parties from whom purchased, etc. ; a. u., abolishing the white normal Bchools of the State and applying the pro ceeds of taxation for that purpose to the holding of couoty institutes in connection with the institutes already established, to be under the control of the State Board of Fducation ; to protect owners of land adjoining the lands of ra'lroad corporations (preventing" turning streams out of their natural cours esv. S. B. 487. to promote the ef- bers of the General Assembly from holding or being eligible to an of fice created by the legislature of which he is a member, and to make the Commissioner of Agriculture a State officer; also changing the date at which the term of office of State officers shall begin, was taken up on its second reading. The first proposition was defeated by a vote of 18 yeas to 14 noes, a three fifth vote be ng necessary. The second proposition was dopted by a vote, of 23 yeas to 12 noes, tbe president ruling under established precedent that the con struction of the Constitution in re lation to tbe three fifths vote means three fifths of a quorum voting. In his ruling Gov. Holt remarked that he was very doubtful of its being correct and would not feel aggriev ed if an appeal was take" from his ruling. .. The third riidiV of the bill was further postponed that the opinion of tae Supreme Court might be had upon the question of a thtee fifths vote. The Senate resolved itseli into a committee of the whole and resum ed consideration of the school bill. which was begun yesterday. After considerable discussion upon var ious amendments, leaving the bill virtually as it was after tbe action of the Senate a week ago, the com mittee rose, reported progress and asked leave to sit again. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. A resolution was introduced in structing tbe judiciaiy committee to prepare and report a bill direct ing the establishment of a whip ping post. Placed upon the calen dar. The calendar was taken np and S. B. 437, to promote the efficiency of tbe State Quard, put upon its third reading. Upon a call for tbe yeas and nays from the Republicau side the bill passed by a vote of 51 to 48. , . The following bills passed their third readings : To compel clerks of Superior Courts to publish a statement of money iiLtbeir hands at certain times and after two years to pay the same into tbe county treasury; to protect the manufac turers ot lumber (allowing private marks to be recorded in the office of the Superior Court; regarding the divorce law ; incorporating tbe Bank of Goldsboro ; incorporating the State Farmers' Alliance and sub Alliances; to prevent throwing timber in Swift creek, Pitt couuty. The speaker announced that the hour for the special order, the con sideration of II. B. 811, relating to the proposed railroad commiHMion, had arrived. On motion of Mr. Cooke the bill wa passed over and made a. special order for Friday, at 11 o'clock. The reaaoa given by Mr. Cooke was that the Houe was not prepared to go into the discus sion ; the printed bill bad not been read by the members. . The Senate resolution relating to the creation of a joint committee to invesMgate railroad and other corporations who refatse or fail to pay their taxes was, on motion of Mr. Carter, Allowed to go over, and took its place on the calendar. . NAUTICAL LIFE. ASTIR A T THE NA VY IT A RD. ORDERS PR03I UNCLE SAM. cruise Are carsfollv weighed.' whether tbe ship Is to stay on oar own coast, or to be stationed in . , European, Chinese or .Sooth Ameri-'. . can waters. Tbe dim m of interest Is reached In the discrsion of the ' ' merits of the various t. arts of the' world, all of which ld to the thrilling stories by the old iea do? 1 I of "when! was in ua in '49." " Iloto a Man of War is Put in Commission. And . Officered and Manned For a Sea Cruise. Horn U. S. Navy Yard,Brookltk,N.Y When our esteemed Uncle Sam, who in some way is supposed to preside over our national affairs, has decided to Kend one of bis 6hips to sea, for the purpose of as. tonishing and appalling the bar barian world, he goes about it in ' a businesi-'ike way. ilis orders are tabued to the officers jf the Sary Yard, wbere the. vessel is lying in ordinary, and instruction is given to tbe various departments to direct tbe wort in tepalrlng and equipping the ship for the sea cruise, upon which he has been pleased, to fix his mind and heart. In a large Navy Yard like this in Brooklyn, of which I am going to tell you, there is nothing start ling in Uncle Sam's brosque orders, for often war vessels are lymgi at ber docks, and it is sometimes a reliet to be rid of them. Besides everybody Is glad4to have tbe na tions of the earth know that we possess ft few ships, and can an them with as gallant officers and crew as ever strolled the deck or a more pretentious navy. With its large facilities, Us abundant dockage and its compe tent management, tbe Brooklyn Yard is enabled to repair and equip a vessel, for a three years' cruise, on very short notice. A ripple of excitement is awakened, to be sure, and a show of some interest ia manifested among tbe eligible officers who happened to be on waiting orders, when a par ticular ship designated to bear the compliments ofA to the remotest parts f the world, for they who are to wear tbe honors have not been chosen, and expec tation goes abont, in her accustom ed way, on tip-toe. A ship, lying in ordinary. Is hardly more than a ske'lon, from which all movable articles, masts, aad"when I came round tbe iu 'C0.w When the sailors, however, in , anticipation of a era"., the op- permosi tnougat cec:ers on tbe "old man," as the commancfer; under whom they will serve, in called. lie it Is who makes their life agreeable, or who may impo upon them the severest hardships. Some have sailed with'him before,1 and know him thoroughly as a kind hearted man and a respected officer. Others have beard of him as a veritable tyrant,- and finer that they bear the clanking of chains when his name is mentioned. Aftr profouni del i Nation .jsrv J I mil heat my escape. Thre a greater probability of tbe -lk being tainted when delir d in air tbzht lars" Ilia wb are stall fed rammer and oter, being fed In winter on ' j, the best food known, and t always fat enough for beef. 4 esers. Eccles A Kryan," said . Watkln, "Lave been taking j i r milk for more than a year j r 25 cents per Kali on, In prefer-' c je to the milk that they were iting at 20 cents." Mr. Wat ! ' is Is also a good farmer. A C od ' many acres of his land L .ve netted hi tn from $50 to 5 O per acre in clover. Char lotte News. '.That LsrltUUca to tia 7arer ! bis mind wheUer be i wmut.9 iaj fti v i vp Bra vs. uw vo u t. sight 01 tbe greater fact that in all human probability he will have to go, whatever be his mental reser vations. .Like tbe true American citizen that he is, with an air ol importance he boastingly declares what he will do, and then quietly does what is required of bim by the superior authorities. On a man of war from two baa- drcd to three hundred and fifty men are required to make np tbe full complement of officers and crew. Tbe commissioned officers include the captain, chief executive, navigator, chief engineer and as sistance, doctors, paymaster, watch and mrlne officers, midshipmen and cadet engineers. Tbe sailors, marines, firemen, mechanics and servants constitute tbe crew, who are assigned topecidc duties and . to particular parts oi rbe ship. j At tbe appointed time tbe officers with the crew grouped, about them, I forming a picturesque scene, wheu ' tbe captain reads alotmd his orders, The farmers must understand t! it their principal relief U In t.-?Ir own baud eood farming t be legislated Into better 1. rues and better farms. Mon- r--e Planter. Tbs rarscrs izi Feriic- rromalllhe Indications we conclude that there Is an al dost .universal' determination Luong farmers to largely car till the n?e of commercial fer ti liters and to do without them entirely If the present prle.es are kept up. Mecklenburg Times. NEWS OF A WEEK. rruAT is ha PFEjfis a xjt WE WORLD O VST) VS. I Condensed Report f th Xto mm (JwKreg frM th CUwmu Mr CvntrmpormrUm, ttUUe amt National. II fa said that tLere are nor than one hundred Mormon mission aries now recruitina in the South- era States. A bronte aUtne. Lcro.c ;a. r.r Stonewall Jackson, to eott 50.0XJ, baabren ordered br ti.s Jrksoa Memorial Association of Lertnrton. b It Will b copleted ii lurit year. . Tne iUoimaa, Gt. Joan ... that the idea of t4rtiint girl to tlorap a piano, au boy to be a bookkertter, win iMiatorstta baibel In less twenty years. mte than An appreciative balnea man cf Henderson made Tbad Mannier. the editor of the Gold Leal, whicn la doing great good for that town, a present of a new suit of dot Lea. Tbe Wilmington Star says: Kor Kortu Carolina great InvtaUUve genins Ir. Ulchard GatUng, bora in Hertford Goosty, has another aseful invention. It Is a police gna for riota. It will lire sjjots a minute. The Xaalmlle Argons ot aajs : 'I would urge upon all of onr 1 James Taylor, colored braketuaa embers the necessity of men- 1 improvement, llead good .rm Journals. Improve your I nds by gras., clover and stock !s!n. ttke nr.d. Judiciously f ply all the manure possible 3d bring up your farms to al r.ying fertility, at home. n-vm.K mints iV.. mam nntllnn. lk. duties of all on shipboard, and) resident Kean. praises tbe name and genius f Uncle Sam in a becoming manner, j The flag is then hoisted, and a I commUsion pennant is raised t tbe maHbead which remains' Hying until the end ( the cruise, ' The pennant may be changed, bt as it U the vessel's ol icial insiRtffJ , it must not forsake Us palce above ., of Randolph, "HASSS CHAIT."- Writen after hearing JJeison Page read his inimitable story.J -A sad, sweet tale of other days we heard, To which there clung the charm of vanished years; Bv those quaint - accents alt our hearts were stirred, And many an eye hilf sadly filled with tears. Not since Burns touched his rug ged peasant lyre Till its deep music thrilled the soul of man. Has a rnde language told tbe heart's desire In more pathetie words than thine, "Mars Chan." To us of younger years that sad romance Reads like soue legion of the lajs of old. As when King Arthur ant bis knights drew lance E'er ye't the flame of chivalry ijrew cold. spars, equipments and furniture of 1 ( be rigging, even for . moment. every kind, nave neen removeu and put in storage. Tbe vessel, upon the arrival of the department orders, is placed in the dry dock, wbere the work ol painting, caulk ing and repairing the hull ii car ried forward vigorously. Tbe sound of hammers and the stir within and withnnr. tho shin, the activity in the shops and at the forges, the bustle in the stores and warehouses and alobg the docks, and the close application of the'workmen of all giades to their immediate duties, give evidence of the positive will of Uncle Sam, which the observer may interpret as the law that governs the Navy Yard and eets its machinery in motion. Th various departments. Into which the business of the Yards divided to give greater facilitv and efficiency to the service, perform their respective parts in tbe repairs and equipment ol the vessel. The Bureau of Oonstrattion does tbe carpenter work and makes the i-Anaira nnnn the hull; that of Steam Engineering puts in order tbe motive power and machinery; 5hat of Equipment prepares the rigging and sails; that of Naviga tion adjusts the compasses, nautic al instruments and the electric light plant, that of Ordnapce makes ready the battery, the guns, small arms and amunition, belong ing to the ship; and that . of Sup-. and buts on board. , - . m .a all provisions neeuiui. ior iuree months, and all the cloth.ng re quired by the crew and likely to be issued to them during tbe cruise. a a nnn as the repairs are completed, the machinery tesred and the work of the several de partments is done to the satisfac tion of those in authority, the vessel is pronounced ready for the sea, equipped with armament and all naut'eal appliances, aud coaled To older hearts it brings a joy half an(i provisioned for a long voyage pain, in foreieu waters. The federal A eleam of sorrow's shadow darkly (rnr.rnment is notified that the From tbe time th ship goes ir. commission the officers of tbe deci with tbe midsbipmr i remain oi duly, relieviug each other in suc cessive periods of fo j hours da aud night, in charge or all above ; deck, uuder the dir ction ol th ' captain. Tbe mvigttor, as hi uaine implies, dirfcu the courv and movement of U-i ship. The engineer aud bis afsi -tsnt aasun:. ' charge of tbe nia. ninety. Tin; marine officer become . chief of the ' marine guard, who io tbe jKlic j duty on shipboard. "i he sailors are , divided into boat crew., gun crews and compauies for 'b.auhou drill, 1 and are given p.in.cular a&iu-' meats oi places and I ootk, leading ' lives notorious bardi-bip, exposed to all weather and subjected to the 1 mo.st exacting duties. The ship is tbns formerly com mi.xsioned to proceed to w under epeciiic instructions, and awaits orders for sailing from ber borne port. Under tbe laws ol nations no clearance or enterance papers are required of her, as in the case of merchant vessels, to direct her going and coming, but like the' rover of the sea, as she is, her movements are made to please ber own wayward fancy, or at least to tickle the caprices of the big hearted and whole souled old nncle, . whose only pride Is to see everybody happy even though nt his own ex pense. SaLISAURT. A great many people say that ;ey will bo compelled to buy e most of their meat this 'ar, as the cholera killed their -yea. Some will be compelled ' buy corn, bit we guess the lolera did not affect the quan tyof this article. Columbia 'cord. The Goldsboro Argns eaya : )ne of the strongest arguments at the farmers of this section mld be inestimably benefit ed and enriched in more than ind by having their smoke onscs at home and stocking lent for themselves on the rm, Is contained in the1 fact tat Mr. W. R. Hollowell, of uls county, has put np this eason over five thousand ounds of home-raised meat ; ; ad from the sale of one hog . 'one, in the way ofhama, san : jge and lard, he has realized, i ronnd figures, fit!;, dollars : ni five cents." "z9 Prayer T7h:a tia Vcte ledarirg Hirrisra ari Ikrtra Eectei "Was Crtci ia Crrgrecs. FACTS ICS FAEHELS. letters cf Irterest tD ths TUlen tbaSsiL of There is llaey ia Eairy Famiag At noon the Speaker's gavel .Pushed the hum of conversa tion, ana tue mapiam xn&ae the following invocation : God of our fathers, a the Senate and lhe Representatives of the people will presently assemble in Congress to announce and record according to the prescrib ed form, that ttenjimin Har rison and Levi Terry Morton i nve been chosen by the euf i rrages of theii fellow citizens on tbe bTi:ie Uraoch IS 1L, while employed coder one of the tbe cars, putting a shoe on a brake the ecgineer not knowing Le was there, tn shifting cars, ran agsiast the car Taylor was nnder and hurt bimserionsl j bat not fatally. Tbe Scotland Neck Democrat says: "Ua Tuesday oT last wek, on tbe 'Nix Barn', farm Bear TU lery, two negro boys about 13 years old were fooling with a pistoL Jim Crowe!! shot Julias liar. Tbe bill entered Juliu' bead between bis eyebrows. Dr- Fargerson, of Hali fax, was called in, and said that tbe ball bad entered the brain. The boy was alive at last hearing, but unconscious. The New heme Journal lb as warned tbe "fakirs'' off: If there are any gamblers or "game of chance" men who intend taking advantage of the Fair next' week lo take in tbe unwary, we inform tbem bow tbattbey may jnit as well not come, for tbe directors of the Association ' have taken every precaution not only to keep them out of tbe grounds, but away from the i a me diate vicinity. We honor tbe man agers of tbe fair and sou' doom mend tbeir example to the mana gers of other fairs. Win. C. Abernatby, a clerk in a 6 tore at Catawba Junction, S. C, was murdered by some negro burglars, whom be discovered in tbe store. Three of the murderers were captured one at Yorkville and two near I lock Hill. One of the negroes confessed t . - crime, stating that there were i zeroes concerned in it. A mob Elected ia liock Ilill and Hartt . or the guard bouse to lynch the pi toners, end the people were so intonated that they would have quickly ended their lives, bat for the appearance of a Presbyterian miuisur, lie v. Mr. White, on tbe cene. After stealing a lew minutes be cot. vinoed tbe men of tie misuse they were making and they all quietly dispersed. crossed. As if tbe ghost of youth came back again. To vex us with the things that we have lost. By "Uncle Item us" told, our South Land lore Has charmed tne listftiing ear of old aud young, , With those quaint, legendary tales, that bore The music ot plantation tongue. But since these famous day before the war," Xo voice save thine has told, or . ever can Tell the full charms of days that are no more. As in those wondrous tales of thine, "Mars Chan," Alston McDearman. Clearly Established. Mr. Hamiltou McMillian has pretty clarely established the fact that the Koanoke Colony of Sir Walter Ealeigh was absorbed by the Croatan In dians, and that the remnant of that1 people exist in Robinson connty, where they have resid ed for quite two handred years. Durham Tobacco Plant. The Tares Curses. The three great curses of the newspaper press are general puffey, dead beats and the cred it svstem. Either of them ficiency of the State Guard, passed wm damago any aew'spaper, all . . J - 1 .' .. w n a nf i. m . 9 1V IMI v " nr T.nm win is.ni auv outs. North Carolina vessel may be put in commission and formally committed to the nffWrs and crew, who will remain with and in charge of her during tbe cruise in contemplation. The officers, who have been selected by the Navy Department to carry out the whim ,of Uncle Sam in displaying tbe Rtars and stripes m foreign ports and doing gallantries on all court occasions in the preneuce of the barbarians, au ordered to report for duty to tbe commandment of tbe yard, where the shin lies in waiting, by whom they are instructed to report to the caotain of the vessel, he having received his orders from the com mander, for assignment to their grade and line of duty. In manning a war vessel the selection of the crew is made from the sailors who previously have been enlisted and quartered on tbe receiving ship, xms vesei is usually an old line oi war snip, arge and roomy, wnicn nas Deen retired from the service and stationed at the Navy Yaid for recruiting purposes, and gives up her men in quantity ana quality about as desired. The enlisted men are received for a term of three years upon a rigid examina tion, and are paid according to ability and nsemmess irom sixteen to thirty dollars a month. When it becomes anown among the men on tbe receiving ship that a crew is to be mustered in for a Beacroiner vesesl, the cene U all The growth of the dairy i U the ofiees of President and business at Charlotte daring thf vice Prsident of tha United rast few years has been some- elates, we humbly aUd devoutly thin extraordinary, and ray tnai inou win nave mem city In the South can show a nd their failles in Thy eacred its second reading by a vote to 51. Thursday. Feb. 14th. SENATE. Among the bills ' that passed their third readings was the one Some ef the pre3a is afflicted with these can cers, ill editors seek to remedv. them?" Sanford Ex- press, -- The animation and excitemenr. prospects are discnfsul. The ship is talxed about, and a wot Id of ideas is Bet going as tn her ability as a aea boat, whether the rolls much, whether she takes in much . t heavy weaiuer, ana more complete or more reliablt system of dairying than tba possessed by Charlotte. Tfci dalrys of Charlotte are nnex celled. One of the oldest anr most popular ia the Spriogdal',, owned by Mr. McD. Watkius, and located on a beautiful fan- one mile east of the city. Mr Watkins took a News reporte: through his dairy, and it is pleasure to epeak of it. Th dairy is admirably arrange i: and is certainly an interestif place to visit. The cows ar sheltered in winter in two lark barns, arranged especially f i . the dairy business, and in tbf . the reporter saw eixty head c cattle standing in rows of four at the feed troughs. An aut -matlc collar keepp them in po sition, and while it allows the;., ample room for eating an-. resting, it prevents them froc. Koriug each other. 'The devic for keeping the stables clean i a most ingenious and perfect one. " The feeding arrangemert is also a novel thing; thewhol' herd of sixty cow-: can be fed iu ten minutes. The barns ar? supplied wjth ensilage celb. root cellars, etc. The reed 1- cut by machinery, and hay i? llfted from the wagons into the loft by a pair of machine tongs that lifts half a load at a time and dumps it where wanted. Mr. Watkins bought this farm in 1881, partly on credit, and commenced business with one cow. He does not deliver Liu milk in jars, "because,'! he Bays, Are. Guard tbem from all peril and dangr and prolonk their lives. Grant tbem hea!th and peace and everlasting blessings, j landing as we do th threshold jf a second century of onr national history ; when the tiralns of tbe masses of men xe touched by a Cop r lallllgenc nd possessed by more sentltive eellngs ; when man's monarchy a nature and uiasterdom of Its 'aws and energies enlarging: - ehen indu.tr aifjl inventive kill, means us transportation .nd comuiu uiction are enlarging rben populations all are enlaig og and men are coming closer ogether and questions, civil, ocial and epiritnal are belne igitation as they never were efore. In this time of lniversal ferment and agitation. (Tiy servant the President elect has: been called by his .ellow-cltizeLs to one of the -noet solemn and honorable posts to which man could be summoned, to bear the eword, to guard the Treasury, to nalntain the Constitution and to execute the laws of the nation within the Crcrtantfo cf tli Z-rsa Syttca- Commenting on the fast age In which e Live, the Phila delphia limes says : There la a l'.mit to human endurance and the human machinery, like the locomotive that Is constant ly run at the highest possible pressure, sxm wears out. Jay Gould has plied np Lis Immense fortune at the expense of a neu ralgia that Is tnaklnir Lis de clining years a continual pen nance. Vanderbilt died with appoplexy at an age when he should tiave been in tbe very height of his powers, both physical and mental. Robert Garrett, who has scarcely reach ed middle life, Is awaiting death In an Insane asylum. That the diseases which are peculiar ly the result ot overtaxation of the human system Lave greatly ipcreaeed within a few years is abundantly proven by the health statistics of ew York, the city lo which the rapM tendency of this flit ag has found Its highest development. Cr?wJicfarr::x. When Webster's Unabridged was first published in one vol ume, it was a comparatively email book. Some years after, an addition was made of 1500 Pictorial Illustrations. A Table of Synonyms, and an Appendix of New Words Lad come Into use. a. iew years Later rams an entirely new revised edition of large size, with 3000 iMclorl al Illustrations; then after an interval of a few rears, a Bio- united trrar,hlcal Dictionarr of narlw brotherhood of Sovereign io.OOO Names .and a Supplement states, and eo we humbly and of nearly 6000 New Words were earnestly pray that Thou will added: and now there Las come watf-r in whether there be an abun-Vaace of "milk should never be pat room for the use ot the or w. The I in air tight cans nntil probabililies of tbe course of the j thoroughly cooled, so that the J imbue him and his advisers with an excellent spirit and understanding, and may the peace of God which passeth all understanding keep his heart and mini in Thy knowledge and Thy fear and eo make the land have peace and prosperity it ire8t on U3- A11 ve ask . a I i h mtlcrrt. Taana ft! f swiw f ft another new and most valuable addition. A Gazetteer of the world, of ever 23,000 Titles. The work is now not only the best Dictionary of the words of the language, bnt it is a Biographical Dictionary, a Gazetteer of the World,' and a great many other good and use ful things la Its many valuable Tables.