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-TO THIS CFncE.'J
VOLUME 20
WILSON. WORTH CAROLINA, APlilL 10. 1890.
NUMBER 12
BILL ARFS LETTER
II ELI' THE M OS, U MEN T
FUNK. '
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Mi
,tbr of Love That the Old
i Enthiisia.nicali Endornes.
M last the graves 01 me
m
Ge
i Soldier wno tell at
, Fredericksburg are marked
witn ' marble neaa stones, wun
uauio and company and regi-
nie
4t chiseled: deep into the
k. Mrs. Barney is happy,
anil
so' are her noble compan-
-the ladies of the Memori-
fociety.. With them .it has
peen a laoor ui iuyb-iuyi wuai,
netr grows weary. Only a few
mouths- ago they made thetr
ape
kl K) Getrjia, ana right well
ha.a
Georgia responded. Two
hundred and three of her pat
riot
boys are sleeping there
tar
a way from home . and kin-
kindred whose loving
hail
da would have brought
et flowers in their season
kept the turf green from
their graves, and watered them
with tears. But loving hearts
weie there, and tb sa graves
have not beeu neglected. Wo-.
iu . ti can ever be trusted to per-
f..rkn
ihe sweetest, . tenderest,
ho
iest duties that belong
to
ut nature, tue poet says,
Man's inhumanity to man
Mrst;s countless thousands mourn."
Hut woman's humanity makes
a? many thousands rejoice, Mrs.
11 1 ruey is a nole Virginia wo
ins one who wen through
th -. war like a soldier, and was
rtiimys on duty quick to the
sici aud the wouuded and the
dying duty in the hospital
anil out .of it, duty in the sacri-
lie
a she made of personal com
t aud personal security, duty
Georgians and Texans, and
, a well as to Vrrinians.
d ever since the war she has
fo
to
at
an
C
Jutiuued on duty, duty to the
ddad aud dying near her home.
(t a soldier under the sod at
tetlericksburg, but would say
hi? spirit could speak to us,
ie is my mother and my sis-
tet.' That blood-stained soil
As always, been very dear to
for our Tom Cobb fell there.
A .
Oi
bm Cobb, the best loved son
Georgia ; the pride of all our
op!e; the Christian" hero ; the
I
fr
iend of huuiauity ;lhe learned
and brilliaat and noble gentle-
it
an. He was in his prime, of
anhood aud was my ideal of a
ubole man. .- j -
Mrs. Birney writes: "If I
aid only see all these dear,'
graves uiarsea wun maroie
liead-stoiies, I wssld die happy.l
We must hurry and get through
this work before the veterans
aire all dead, for I fear that the
ijext generation may be too
ou-iy to think of. them. There
are 1,800 graven here, graves of
Southern patriots, and none. are,
J- nuaueiitly marked except
i!i,wt.frih (Tnrlh. T fftftl Rural
hat the 'other States would re-'
pond if .here was some one tol
move them. Virginia hasdonei.
ktjry well. She has sent us;
B450, Texas has ssnt ?142;
:Idrylaud, 20 ; '.Florida, $8
Xortu Carolina, ?Q ; South Caro-'
lina, $2; Arkansas, $2, audi
Tennessee, 2. jl know that
there is just as much patriotism
in Lha liearts of those people;
as there is in Geprgu, and alt
tint is wasted id some good
lii-Oi or woman to awaken to itif
The marble head stones that
jou seut us are beautiful, the
work well doue and the letter?!
iai perfect. They were escort
ed from the depot to the camej
tary by a guard of honor, the;
Maury Cainp of Confederate
A'eterans, uuder command of
Captain Lee, a brother of Fits
Hugh Lee aud a nephew of
Itobart E Lee. With their own
soldier hands they; took them
from the wagons ; and placed
thetn'in the graves. It was a
silent, impre?sive ceremony, for
"Xot a drum was heard or a funeral note."
The band very kindly offered
their services, but we thought
best to dispense with it. Geor
gia'a patriotism shall be knowp
aud published, and perhapa the
other States will : tioon awake
and emulate her example.''
Yes, they will, I ; know they
will ifl the' women will take
hold of the work. There is not
a town or village in any of those
States that would not willingly
send teu dollars if some good
woman, would see two other
good woman and say, Nqw, letls
ko around this moruing and ask
i' t a half-dollar or a quarte'r
iroiu every man we meet. Let
in b iu a hurry and be in
i; truest. We are very late
about this thing, but not toi
lat:3. -We can raise ten dollars
in an hour." If the ladies wili
do this, they, can raise a thouar
aud dollars in a week. It will
not' take that much from eacn
State. Perhaps five hundred
will do, but tnoae trood ladies
have long since laid the founda
tion of a monument to the uir-
knDwn and unrecorded dead,
aud they would rejoice" to get
money to complete it. Bat let
ti' see to the graves of th3
ki.own aud the recorded dead,
and if any money is left it will
, not be lost or misspent. The
city of Macon raised one hud
dred and fifty dollars for the
graves, at Johnston's Island, aad
just so the cities of Nashville
aud Chattanooga and Memphis
and Birmingham and Annistoa
and Montgomery and Merridaln
aid Jackson and others, still
farther west, would gladly do
: ' - v
jlikewise to preserve the graves
ef their own soldiers. ' -Patriot-
tsm demands it, and so does
;ratitude and State pride and
Southern pride. Let every town
and village send five or "ten dol
lars and the good work , is done
Get the editor to help, publish
a notice that you are going to
call next day on everybody for
a half a dollar, and say yon are
obliged to have it and will stay
until yon get it. A man dunned
me on the street the other day
(for six dollars, and I told him I
.would see him about it, but
that I had to go to the barber's
shop just then. Well, he said
ihe was in no particular hurry
and could wait that Ion?, and so
e ioiiowu iub uu
;and watched until the barber i
toe followed me and took a seat
;not through with me, and, I had
to go and hunt up the money to
get rid of him. That's the way
to do some folks. Send the money
to Mrs. J. N. Barney, she will
find the marble and furnish the
names of the dead!. We had so
many marble companies in our
State that we preferred to have
Georgia marble over Georgia
graves,' and so I interviewed
them and found them more
than liberal. They are all
Northern men, but they have
domesticated and officiated and
acclimated with us, and they
like us and we like them. I
made a contract with George B.
Sickjes & Co., of Tate, in Pick,
ens county. Mr. Sickles fought
us for four years just as hard as
he could, but he won't do so
any more. He gaye us a beau
tiful polished marble thirty
inches long, twelve inches wide
and one and a half a half inch
es thick for one dollar, and
that is really less than its cost.
His contribution amounted
to over one hundred dol
lars in the discount that was
made upon the marble and the
lettering.
Now let every good man
stop his work a minute and Bay,
"I will go one dollar on the
grave, I will sure," and if he
cj,n't find any woman going
around for the money let Mm
send a money order or a dollar
bill to Mrs. Barney. She will
get it. The mail won't be rob
bed ot a cent Of it will go to
feed or fatten anybody. There
are no salaries to pay. It is all
woman's work, and it is all free
work. Mrs. Barney received a
letter from Philadelphia, in
closing twenty dollars, and all
that was written was : "A boy
who fought in blue sends this
to preserve the graves of the
boys who fought in gray J'
Wasn't that niee and kind ? I
would like to nabdr with
that man. Would God that
we were a nation of
friends. The Northern people
who have come South will re-1
spoud willingly to this work. I
know that they will. Why
shouldn't they?. We are taxed
everyday and have; been for
twenty-fire years to preserve
the graves of their dead sol
diers, and to pension the survi
vors of all their kindred. The
annual pension bill of ninety
eight millions have just passed,
and not a dollar of it will come
to our people. We foneht1 for
our convictions and they fought
for their'e, and that is all there
is in It,or about it. ' We are
exactly even in patriotism, and
ought to be even in everything
else, but we are not. r
But they are coming down to
live with us and are coming
fastrx and we are harmonizing
with them. In a, few years
they will have as much to do
with the race problem as we
will, and then Mr. Ingalls, and
Cooke, and all that , sort will
have to stand aside. , Bat I am
concerned for the dead now,
the 'living can take care of
themselves. Bill Abp.
w nat The South Needs.
The needs of the South, are
organized or systematized labor
capital, and less legislation. I
dissent from those who class
the negro as an inferior laborer.
I regard him as the best and
cheapest laborer that will ever
be found for the cultiavtion of
our chief product, cotton. His
adaptability to the climate and
the fact thai he is not a skilled
laborer, together with his natu
ral inclination, fit him for the
cotton field. What bis ultimate
fate may be is a dimcult pro
blem, bat it will be no - easy
task to find his epual or supply
his place as a laborer : for the
cultivation of cotton. When it
is remembered that the annual
value" of this one product alone
in Mississippi is, in round num
bers, fifty millions of dollars,
and that it exceedes that -sum
in one State and approximates
it in others, the importance of
well-organized and reliable la
bor is apparent. It is one of
the needs that cannot be over
estimated! have -had occasion
heretofore to say, and. I repeat
the statement, that if the . Area
protected1 from the floods, and
every acre cultivated in cotton,
it would produce more than is
raised in the United States in
any year previous , to the late
war. ExGov. Lowhy, of Mis
sissippi, . in North American
Re Tie wf or April.
Mrs. LiUBi. E. UlNBAia,. 155
Maraec ai. ban : jeranoisoo, ui
writes that she bad been sick lor
fifteen years with a complication of
disease peculiar t ber sex, and
took Kadam's MicrobeKiller ; now
she is perfectly well; For sale by
D. Herring. !
FOR THE FARM.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
TILLERS OF THE SOIL, .
Original, Borrowed, Stolen and
Communicated Articles
Farming.
on
BIG HOGS.
George Sugg says that the
Wilson Advance has often
spoken of large hogs raised in
Wilson county, but he desires
to inform the Advance that
some of the farmers in Edge
combe raise big hogs also.
He says in his township (No.
14) that within the last few
vears he has known farmers to
raige hogs that weighed when
,., - a a
He raised one himself' that
weighed when killed 828
pounds and knows several
farmers in the township who
killed hogd last year and this
year weighing over 500 pounds.
He said the heaviest hogs rais
ed in Wilson did not weigh
much over 550 pounds.
Mr, Sugg has been very suc
cessful in raising hogs and has
some very fine ones now.
A correct estimate cannot be
made as to the amount of mon
ey paid by the farmers in this
county for what meat they con
sume. Instead of raising their,
meat at home they content
themselves with filling the cof
fers . of the Westerners with
money that should have been
appropriated in purchasing
that which could- be raised at
home. . Let all the farmers do
as Mr. Sugg and raise what,
meat they consume at home.
Tar boro Southerner. ,
CANNING VEGETABLES.
There are many farmers in
Wilson county who could es
tablish such a factory as the
one described below. The ar
ticle is written for the New
Berne Journal by Mr. J. E.
Calhorne, of Baltimore, and is
full and complete. The Ad
vance is sure it will be read
with interest,and it trusts with
profit, by all our readers. Mr.
Calhorne says :
"As my pj-ticle on the can
ning industry has awakened
such interest, and your people
solicit further information, I
shall endeavor to be more ex
plicit and give figures. I here
with submit estimate of cost of
outfit and the necessary arti
cles of machinery for canning
1,000 3 1b. or 2,750 2 lb. cans
per day to be used withsteam
or set in brick :
1 scalding kettle, 1 exhaust
kettle, 1 process kettle, 2 scald
ing baskets, 2 cages, 2 process
cages, r crane, 6 furnace doors,
setts of grate bars, 2 gasoline
firepots, 2 capping machines,
2 soldering cappers, 2 tipping
cappers, 1 forging stake, 2 pair
of can tongs, 1 vise,l hammer, 2
files, etc. This outfit can be
purchased in Baltimore for $150
F. O. B. the purchaser can,
by instructions sent with outfit,
put up and operate it without
the aid of skilled help. It
would require 15 hands to suc
cessfully operate it as follows :
processor, 1 capper, 1 tipper,
12 peelers and packers the
latter could be done by womt-n,
boys and girls. In Maryland
processors, cappers and tippers
receive 82 to S2.50 per day.
Peelers and packers $1 per day,
but often farmers do their own
processing which could be
done in this case. Thus the
farmer could supervise over the
capper and tipper, this work
being simple, it could be had
for $1 per day. Thus the labor
necessary for packing the above
number of cans would consist of
I processor (the farmer him
self..... .'. $2 50
1 capper and tipper... 2.00
12 bauds (peelers andt packers) COO
10.50
We will now figure the cost
of raw material, cans, cases
labels, etc., required for pack
ing z.uuu o id. cans, per aay,
Tomatoes .will be taken for ex
ample 100 bushels will be .re
quired to fill these cans (3 lb.)
Thns we have 100 bushels to
matoes at 20 cents per bushel,
20,00:
2,000 caDB f45.00
Laber (in packing).. 10.50
Lbbels. solder, etc. 4.00
Cases (containing 24 cans,3 lb) 7.02
i '. : $87:42.
Now $87.42 is what it costs
lo pack 2,000 2 lb cans of to
matoes per day (labor and ma
terial) this includes pay for the
farmer at $2.50 per day; also
$2 is included tor his raw ma
terial. We' now market . these
2,000 consisting of 83 cases and
receive $1.65 per case, the pres
ent market grice. Thus we
have $135,95, or a profit $49,53,
a pretty good showing for' one
day's" work. Where , one has
wood or coal to buy it would
reduce "these figures, but a
profit of $40 could be counted
on, even where one haa to furn
ish all labor and buy his raw
material, wood or coal., I would
advise farmers to plant their
own crop and not depend en
tirely on his neighbor for his
canning supply. He can then
realize a profit on his product
in two ways. I would not ad
vise farmers to pact corn; the
labor and expense attached to
packing this article is so much
that they, could not compete
with the Western packers. It
requires expensive machinery
or silking and removing the
corn from the cob, and as they
have every facility : and pack
nothing else, there would
not be much money in it as
there would be in utilizing the
same acreage in tomatoes or
other vegetables.
Now we will take the profits
on one acre of tomatoes, grown
for canning purposes. In the
first place the plants can be
put out after all danger of frost
is passed. The farmer can now
obtain-seed that will yield him
from 300 to 700 .bushels per
acre; for an average we will say
450. He disposes of his pro
duct eitner by .packing it in
cans himself, or selling to his
neighbor at 20 cents per bush
el. Thus he realizes ?90 per
acre; runs no risk from early
planting, and he is sure of get
ting his money, quite different
rom the present mode of dis
posing of his product. Some
times he does, and again . he
does not, but more often finds
himself in debt. Even so he
can ship as long as he can . find
it profitable; then when it doea
not pay to ship, the surplus
can be packed. As to the capi
tal one has to have in order to
undertake the canning business,
I would say that the cost in the
cans, not the outfit, we v will,
figure on the amount necessary
for on to have : I '
Cost of outfit 150 00
Freight (about). 8 00
Briek work, etc 50 00
25,000 labels (to scart) 45 00
$253 00
The cans can be purchased on
six months time where parties
can close account with approv
ed paper, bearing six per" cent,
interest. This allows one to
dispose of his entire pack and
pay his note without any in
convenience whatever. I know
of no other business where so
small an investment will yield
such satisfactory results.
A GOOD SPEECH.
Soma Seasons Why Ycung Men
Leave The Farm
One of the Sub-Alliances of
Rowan county had a pic-nlc last
Saturday; They had music, a
big crowd, a big dinner and big
speeches. jThe Charlotte
Chronicle had a full account.as
it always does of any matter of
importance. Dr. D. ReldParkerof
Trinity College was present and
addressed the crowd. He spoke
chiefly upon' the necessity of
making the country life pleas
ant for the children. He said
speaking of the farmers, you
think it strange when your boy
runs away, from home, but you
let that old front gate V rot and
swing around on one hinge, and
every ' time j your boy comes
home he has to prop , it up to
keep it from falling down. Thai
miserable old gate drives Mm
away, or perhaps at nigns wnen
it was raining, and the barn
yard is muddy and sticky and
slimy, you tell your boy to go
and cut the feed for the horses.
He goes out and gets into the
rickety old ; barn, with two
sides about ready to fall down;
he thinks about the hardship
of climbing up into the loft and
cutting the feed with the feed
cutter one of these miserable,
damnable, up and down feed
cutters. Then he thinks of bis
father sitting by the big, blaz
ing fire, with his shoes , off,
warming his feet. No wonder
the boy throws a handful of
hay into the rack, and grab s
up a few hucks and pitches
them into the trought and
leaves. i
"Well son, did you feed the
horses ?"
"Yes sir."
"Did you cut ud the feed ?"
"Yes sir."
Well, the boy lied, and you
taught him to do it ; and you'd
have lied under the same cir
cumstances.
I think Capt. Fisher struck
the key note when he said to
you mothers "sweep your own
floors." Kep your floors clean,
make your home life pleasant
for the children. The happi
ness and prosperity of this
country depends more than
anything else, upon the count
ry home.. Wherever I go I try
to bring about harmony in the
homes I visit.
I saw a man hoeing in a field
one day. : I saw him bring his
hoe down and heard it hit the
ground "ranker," and I knew
from the way it hit, and from
the way it sounded, that it had
Btruck one of these sassafras
sprouts. I saw him raise it up
and bring it down again,
"ranker" louder than ever.
Then 1 saw the smoke rising
from the back of his neck, and
I knew he was cussing all in
side. I'went up to him, and
took him to the house, and
helped him to sharpen his hoe
and sent him on hisway re
joicing. Now, young ladies, if any of
these boys come around court
ing you, the first chance you
get you go and look at their
woodpiles and their axes, and
if the axe is dull, and has big
dents in it, you give him tile
go-by. " i ' . "
You can always tell a self-made
mau by finding the name of the
maker blown, as it were, in the
bottle. None are genuine without
this mark.
A REMINICENCE.
GEN SICKLi ES TO
i FRONT AGAIN
JTHE
Sow he ia Remembered in North
Carolina .
The Governor of New York
has appointed Gen. Daniel E.
Sickles Sheriff of New York
city in plaoe of the disgraced
and ; currupt Flack. The ap
pointment was a great surprise
to the politicians. While a
democrat and a member of
Tammany, Gen. Sickles had
taken no active part in .politics
for several years and his name
had not been mentioned in
connection with ' the , posi
tion. The people of North Carolina
will remember Gen. Sickles as
the Military Commander , in
charge of this State and South
Carolina in 1867. He was in
Raleigh in that year, the guest
of Governor Worth, and was
one of a party of distinguished
visitois who atttend the com
mencement exercises at the
niversity with President
ohnson. After his visit to
Raleigh, where h was invited
by the Governor in order, if
possible, to secure pleasant and
amicable relations between the
civil and military authorities,
he invited Governor Worth, of
North Carolina, and Governor
Orr, of South Carolina, to pay
him a visit at Columbia where
he had his headquarters. Anx
ious to secure and preserve
pleasant relations, the Governor
of North Carolina said to the
Governor of South Carolina
''Let's . accept the invitation."
Accordingly it was accepted.
The Chronicle has heard that
General Sickles was a great
stickler for all the ceremonies
of fashionable life, and that
every day during the visit of
the Governors, four hours was
the time required for dinner.
Music played while the party
dined. After a day or two
Governor Orr whispered to the
Governor of North Carolina:
"Worth don't you wish you
were at home eating jowl and
greens ?" This is really whit
the Governor of South Carolina
said to the Governor of North
Carolina. It was just after the
war, and during Reconstruction
and the Governors of the Caro-
Unas had not been accustomed
to "fare sumptously every day,"
and the great style did not win
them as it might not have done
in more peaceful days. They
were too anxious about the
future and too troubled , over
the poverty and dejectment of
their people to enjoy such high
living and such display.
Gen. Sickles is . remembered
here as a great dude. He was
as careful about tue set of his
tie and the polish on his boots
as a young girl is about the
impression she will make on
her first appearance, iu a train.
He dresses three times a day
and could not lounge in his
room without his luxurious
velvet dressing gown. Our
people did not like him and it
was not expected they should.
He represented the mailea
hand of military rule, and that
rule was detestable tp our peo
ple. He abolished civil rule at
will and was dictorial. Withal
he was better than Camby. But
we have tried to forget those
days and forgive the officers
who were . over us . and who
usurped power. The New York
Hearld says that Uen. bicaies
is "intolerant of injustice, open
in his dealings and outspoken
in his manner." .
He was minister to Spain at
ter the war and has also been
civil service commissioner iu
New York, and is an earnest
belieyer in the principle and
practice of Civil Service Re
form;. It is likely he will put
an end to the abuses which
have'r brought the Sheriff and
the Sheriffs office in that city
into merited disgrace. His ex
perience, in North Carolina will
enable him to ran rough shod
over and authority or deputies
that oppose him. state Chron
icle.
THE HOLT FAMILY-
All Making Money Manufacturing
C"tt"n.
Mr. Lawrence Holt, a'wealthy
North Carolina cotton manu
facturer, is living at the Metro
litan Hotel. He is one of six
brothers of a remarkable f ami-'
ly. His elder brother is Lieu
tenant Governor of North Caro
Una, and the six brothers own,
in severalty, a cotton factory
in different, sections of the
State. They are enterprising,
tmblic-sDirited, successful busi
ness men. Mr. Holt represents
a Southern syndicate of cotton
manufacturers, and is making
Washington his headquarters.
Washington Post.
1 Houston, Tex., Oct. 8th. 1889.
Messrs. Wallace O'Leary & Co.,
Agents Wm. Radam's Microbe
Killer; -
Gentleman I bave been using
the Microbe Killer for malarial fever
and general debiliny, and write
you a certify that t am again
strong a nd healthy and am satis
fied tbe Microbe Killer is a sure
remedy for those diseases.
R. E. Lewi .
Prop. Capital Stablee.
For Sale by V. Herring.
HOW GEOVEB PEOPOSED.
Mrs. Cleveland Beveals Some
oi
the Secrets of Their Courtship.
I am able to give some inside
information about ex-President
Cleveland's romance. At the
time ot the wedding the mouths
of the President and his wife
were as tight as that of a clam
concerning their love affair.
None of their friends knew
much about their courtship,
and they went on the priuciple
of the great ! German proverb
that 'speech is silver, but sil
ence is golden." The wedding
is still gossiped about here, and
the women pronounce it a love
match, while the men invaria
bly take the ground that the
White House had a good : deal
to do with Mrs. Cleveland's
acceptance. It seems- that the
men are somewhat in the right,
and a lady who lately returned
from a wedding trip to the con
tinent gives one of my friends
conversation which she had
with Mrs. Cleveland not long
ajco. The story as it comes to
me is quite spicy and I do not
vouch that the repoit of
the talk is verbatim. I give it
as 1 hear it. iho lady said:
"I met Mrs. Cleveland, shortly
after I landed in New York and
one of the first questions she
asked me was to pray tell her
how long I was engaged before
was maried.
"I answered her and told her
the story of our courtship. She
istened with interest and
when I was through ! conclud
ed that I would learn something
from her in return. I asked:
" 'Mrs. Cleveland, I have seen
?reat many stories about
your marriage and the most
that I have seen have been con
tradicted by your friends. I
have told you my story and
now I want ycu to tell me
yours. How 1' : r were you en
gaged to the i'lident before
you were married ?"
'Mrs. Cleveland laughed and
blushed and said:
'.'Oh, there are the most
ridiculous stories to!d about us,
but honestly thsj are hardly as
funny as it really was. Uncle
Grover proposed me five times
before : I accepted him. First,
when I was fourteen and I just
aligned at the idea, for he
seemed so much older. Then
agaiu two years later, when I
went to college; and the third
time when he was elected Gov
ernor of New York. I was by
uo meaps ready to marry any
one, ana ne let tnings go ior a
year, or until he was nomina
ted for the Presidency, lhen
he asked me again, and again
I refused. At last he was elect
ed and I promised to marry
in a year. Of course I always
meant to marry him some day
but I'll own the White House
had something to do with
hurrying it up." New York
Letter. ,
THE CENSUS-
The Supervisors and Their Territo-
!' ' ries.
First district
orge vv
Cobb, of Elizabet
7 v
City super,
visor, r (
Counties Beaufort, Bertie,
Camden, Carteret, Chowan
Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates,
Greene, Hertford, Hyde, Jones,
Lenoir. Martin. Pamlico Pas-
qudtauk, Perquimaus, Pitt,
Tyrrell and Washington
Second 'district Madison
Hawkins, of Henderson super
visor.
Counties Chatham, Durham
Edgecombe, Franklin Halifax,
Johnston, Nash, Northampton,
Orange; Vance, Wake, Warren,
Wayne, and Wilson.
Third district ' Caleb P.
Lockey, of ; Wilmington super
visor. :. '
- Counties Bladen, Brunswick
Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin
Harrnett, Moore, New Hanover
Onslow, Pender, Roberson Rich
mond and Sampson.
Fourth district William E.
Webb, of Roxborough, super
visor. Counties Alamance, Anson,
Cabarrus, , Caswell, Davidson,
Davie, Forsyth, Granville, Guil
ford, Iredell, Mecklenburg,
Montgomery, Person, Randolph
Rockingham, Rowan, Stanley,
Stokes, Surry, Union and Yad
kin. j "
Fifth district Henry Hard
wick, of Asheville, supbrvisor.
Counties Alexander Alle
ghany ,Ashe,-Buncombe, Burke,
Caldwell, Catawba, Cherokee,
Clay, Cleveland, Gaston, Gra
ham, ! Haywood, Henderson,
Jackson, - Lincoln Mc
Dowell, Macon, Madison, Mit
chell, Polk, Rutherford Swain
Transylvania,' Watauga, Wilkes
and Yancey.
Powerful Freight Engircs.
' i : '
A very satisfactory test of a
new engine on the Fort Wayne
road was made last week. The
engine pulled a train of eighty
six cars, each car loaded with
63,000 pounds of iron ore, from
Conway to Pittsburg, a distance
of iwenty-flve miles. Consid
ering the grades, tbe result is
regarded as remarkable by
railroad mer. Tl:e latest cars
on the Peasyivania lines are
very large, and the road has
been prepared to carry tbem.
New York Telegram.
xe
NEWS OF A WEEK.
'.' :o:- - I
WHAT IS UAPFENISG IN
IHE WORLD AROUAD WS.
Condensed Report of the New
. From our Contemporaries.
New Berne is' now lighted by
electricity.
There are 3,500 'domesticated"
Judiau in tbe State.
- Hon. F. H. Buabee will be Memo,
rial Day orator at Raleigb.
The congressional campaign in
the State promises to be spicy.
A negro is in the jail at Elizabeth
Oily charged with rocking a train.
A german corp weighing nine
pounds was caugbt near Mor
ganton last week.
Alamance county has fifteen cot
ton mills, consuming, in round
nu mbers, 20,000 bates of cotton.
A little son of Joseph Edwards
was killed in Davidson county by
a tree falling on him last week.
Walter Murphy, ol Salisbury.has
received from Hon. J. S. Henderson,
an appointment to the. naval
academy. '
It is proposed to to bave a public
library in Lhelby of 20,000 books
to cost $500. Tbe editor of the
Aurora offers $50'. .
The Newton Enterprise adverts
to the fact that lor each oi three
years past March has' been the
coldest month of the year.
Hon. G. W. Saunderlin, State
Auditor, will deliver tbe commence
ment address of Greenville Insti
tute on Friday, June 6th.
A repoit is in circulation that an
English bynaieate has an agent
traveling through this State mak
ing arrangement to buy up all tbe
cotton factories.
The priest oftheCatholiccburch
In Raleigh 'sys he believes ex-
Boyle bas gone to Scotland . for tbe
purpose of entering the TrapLiet
Monastery there. v , - .
Fayttteville has invested f 125,000
within tbe lust six months iu small
industries. No wonder the old
town ha9 taken on new life and
growth. j
A few days ago, during a thun
der storm, a negro child, in Win
ston, was struck by lightning while
in its mother's arms and instantly
killed. The child was on'y a few
months old.
a.
It has again been decided - to
locate the Bapti tFemaie Universi
ty at Raleigb, but the city will be
asked to ante op 150.000, which
was the amount offered , by Dur
ham. The Dm ham Med icated Cigar
ette Counprny has been organized.
with $10 000 stock capital with I
Col. R. R. Bridgers president and
Dr. R. F. W uitehurst secretary
and treasuiy. j
A large deposit of phosphate rock
has bevun discovered in Cumberland
county, not far frooS Fayetteville,
and a specimen has been sent to
the State Geological Department
for examination. '
UuipuBOunty now enjoys the
distinction of having the finest
courthouse, in the State, put Cbero
keufs getting her ambition up, and
isaalking of , building a $50,000
courthouse, of native marble.which
will eclipse Union.
The Baptists of tbe State, aggre.
gating about 130,000, give annually
$30,000 to beuevolent purposes.
Wake Forest, the Baptist College,
had the largest representation at
the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation Convention recently held at
Goldsboro. !
. Mr. Emanuel Nifong, a citizen
resident about ten miles South of
Lexington, owns a mare which
gave birth to twin colts last week
a mule and horse. Was- the like
ever beard of before 1 We pause
for an answer. Can-Chatham beat
it ! Lexington Ledger.
A gentleman of Stokes county
has- received letters from Gen.
Thomas E. Ewing and Senator T.
B Plumb, of Kansas, making in
quiries after the mineral resources
of that county and other counties
through which the piesent roads
and tbose projuected shall pass.
Tub case of State vf. Mag Bash,
a disreputable colored woman, for
the abduction of Eloise Chisenhall,
a little wt.ite girl tried before Jus
tice Busbee last week in Durham;
wps one of quick and swift justice.
The defendant was bound over to
court about noon.' and before tbe
court adjourned in the afternoon
she was tried, convicted and i sen-
senced to the penttentiary for 12
years. :
The railroad brxlge at Greenville
has b en completetkand the trains
are now running regularly into
Greenville. The grading of the
road i nearly H not quite com
pleted between Kinsto'n j aud
Greenville, and work will soon be
commenced laying the track. ! Mr
H. Walters, President of the A- C,
Line, expects to have the road com'
pleted and running regular sched
ule to Kin ston by August.
Tbe longest Height tratn, it is
said, that has ever been pulled into
Goldsboro, was brought in here,
local, from Wilmington Thursday
evening by Engineer Capt St;eve
Merediththeonly originalSteve."
The train numbered fifty-cars; and
packing it away on ' the yard herjB,
for the "lie over" Thursday night,
was no email job. Goldsboro
Argus. 1 1 :
The Twin City Daily says : Dr.
Ham Sullivan, of GermantOD,
i warded the wesfernbound Y. F. &
Y . V. trsin as it was leaving the
depot at liiiii pl.ico Saturday even
ing with a view of riding a short
distance up the road When the
train was crossing Buffalo creek
trestle tbe Doctor concluded it was
good place to jump off, mistaking
the water for sand be walked down
to the bottom nf the platform and
made a jump, landing in . tbe mid
dle of the creek about thirty feet
below. The Doctor was painfully
but not seriously hart,
' a -'
The Morebead Banking Compa
ny baa the youngest stoekholdor in
the State. He is about nine years
eld and his name is Ates. v
Pinnix. He sold his pony some
time ago and converted the pro
ceeds into bank stock. He has an
eye to business and seems destined
to be another Durham millionaire
Miss Elise V. Lee, a Presbyterian
missionary, of Mills River, Hender
son county, left the first day ot
April for Matamora, I Mex. She
speaks - Spanish and Italian j H i
ently, and during her residence in
Itlay translated inio English sever
al Italian books. I She goes cuder
the auspices of the Presbyterian
Mjssion Board and wili jotii other
missionaries in Mexico.
Adam Brewer, quite an old
am crewer, qnue an old mai.
Saturday., This is the oM
who wasstruckby the train
died
rf h.T, "f.r:"J '-"I ",u
h 1. Bfi-
" .if"!1
paid for it and took a receipt, j As
it was his special ; request that no
preacher shold be summoned at his
death, he was buried on Sunday
evening without any funeral ser
vices. Concord Standard.
FCSTAL CAES ST
A Hecent Important Decision
Leas than two years i ago
Congress passed an act making
it a criminal offence to mail a
postal containing written or
printed matter of a "libellous,
scurrilous, . defamatory or
threatening character or calcu
lated and oblivoualy intended
to reflect injuriously upon the
character or conduct of anoth
er." The penalty for a viola
tion of the law is a fine not
"exceeding five; thousand dollars,
imprisonment! for not more
than five years or both fine and
imprisonment.
Under this statute a St. Louis
business man was indicted for
maillnsr these two postals to a
customer.
- "Please call and settle ac
count, which is long past due
3 m i. - 1 1 . y
auu ior wuiuu; our collector lias
been several' times." )
To this the customer evident
ly paid no attention, asflie fol
lowing. -was sent tchim six
days later
"You owe us $1.80. We have
called Beveraltimes for the
same. If nojpaid at once we
shall placdthe same with oar
law agency for collection."
TheTJnited States District
Court hold that the sendine of
first was no, but that the
I mailing of the second was- a
criminal offence. The reason
given for the distinction is that
the second contained a treat to
sue, which "both calculated and
intended to humiliate and in
jure the person addressed- in
public estimation," while the
first was not open to this ob
jection. Of the first Judge
TnAYEH says :
'The language employed is
not of a threatening character,
and, in my opinion, no injury
would be warranted, in finding,
in view of its com- v.s,- that . it
was obliviously intended by
the writer to refleci, injurioaly
on the character or conduct of
the person addressed, or to in
jure or degrade him in the eyes
of the public;
It is true that it contains de
mand for, the payment of a
debt and says it is long past due
and that a collector has called
several times, but is couched in
respectful terms and no intent
is aparent to put it in such a
form as to attract notice or to;,
make it offensive to the person
addressed." I ' ' .
In view of this decision,
which we think is carrying the
law to an extreme hardly war
ranted, business men will find
it prudent either to enclose de
mands' for money In sealed en
velops or to be careful about
what
they
write on postal
cards.
A Noval Advrtisempnf-
The following story, which
has never before appeared in
print, is" told about the editor
of one of Maine's most promin
ent dailies: When a small boy,
his father, now one of the most
prominent men iu the State,
was then running a printing
and publishing a weekly paper
in one of the 1 largest towns in
Kennebec County. One day
the advance agent of a show
came along and ordered some
posters printed on cotton cloth.
His order was Allied, but for
some reason he neglected to
call for them, and they were
thu3 left on the printers hands.
The : printer's wife ran across
them, and as cloth was, then
high, she took the cloth home
and used it to' line a pair of
pants she. was then making for
the editor above mentioned,
then a boy about ten years of
age. :' . j ! :
As the-months-rolled by the
'pantaloons grew threadbare,
and at school one day he ac
cidently tore the Beat out, leav
ing about one foot of lining ex
posed to view. This in itself
would have made the boys
smile but they laughed till the
tears came when they observed
the following words, standing
out boldly npon the lining in
large type: j 1
"Doors open at 7:30 perform
ance begins at 8." v !
It is needless ' to state- that
the boy was sent home to hig
mother in teara. Globe. 1
Lack never gets
drop do wn. j
ripe enough to
HOME CHAtT
3vaTc?;B 01718
, A GOOD SCGGETIOM
hlv.eeoIglmap3 of th
; waning every countv frnm
mountain to s,v, rr "-l.ff001
If any
in tins Luion
cau aflonl fY
uZr ,VU , W N6rrolinS
Ivtter. -Danbury Reporter. .
Tuey ought to.
Jr? negroes
! hT...,Y;.V ', : are going to
T'" "iter
than its
i ccr urawn before.
tend to freeze nn 7h C. J lnH
p Tader? i,te Ee"
!,o,eJ lVT
They ins
U0US5:1 intention
oul-v ,or mcn of their ovi
viiuru IilV
j t-TIIoLDs TEE LAW. 1
Let ns uphold the law but let
us always omleuin any "cheering"
of huertiues and anvthin tw
r,... .r .
maius a nero pf.jnan
whose own confessions must for
ever damn him in the esteem of
all good men. This mawkish sens
timentfthty has already gotton too
strong ii bold ni bur country. Let
all good citizens froirudown upon
it, and treat a criminal as the na
ture of his ciime deserves.- State
Cnrouicle.
SAME DOWN SHIS WAY. '
MI.",ifi1,ei newspaper'
f.on.iu.uiu ui uoerty." uenrv
m,v.uu leierreu 10 "It as
-me wingfa encyclopjedia" and
Chauncay M. Depew has Just
characterized it as "the historian
ot the hour.'' Moat -people eeem
to regard it the free pack horse of
the comuiunty something that
may be ruid?u at pleasure by
evrev individualwho has a nelflah
end ,to acooiut lisU lienderson
uoki ijeat.
NOTE'OF.WAliXISO.
cue, the Observer desires to
n record as oimosinz in torn
ie sale of hundreds and thousand
of acres of lanil in Eastern North
Carolina, the property of the
school fund of the State, for a
mere song. The fact that timber
ed lands iu North Oaioliua are a
good investment no one will doubt
fop -a moment; that thev are beiher
sold for less than their real value
is shown :bv the fact that lari?
bodies, have been recently disoosed
of at less for less than one dol-
lar an acre Favetteville Obser
ver, ,! .. ,
THOSE GOVEKNIMNT WAREHOUSES
There are not enough of rcspec
tab'e white Republicans under a
Republican adiniuistiation now to
fill the pohtoflie.es and' revenue
offices and the custodians of the
bonded warehouses! iu the South
would bav'ivto be negroes or North
ern caipof begsen? m0re jjfceiy
the latter., Imagine just for a
moment another horde, of carpet
baggers swooping down upon us
from the North or that other and
more sickeui'ug spectacle of negroes
standing ui our market places,
handling our money and cotton
and grain. The, sig'
the heart. iSurely
farmers have not ser;
ed what they are as!.
th sicken
1 Southern
i y consider
, for. San
lord bxpressi. ' -
Mercurial Pcisan,
Mercury Is fVeqaently injudis
ciously used by quack doctors in
cases of Mula.ria aud blood poison.
Its after effect, is worse than the
original disease, B. B. B. (Botanic
Blood' Balm) contains no murcury
pOison from this-'system. Write to ',
Blood Balru Co., Atlanta, Ga., for :
book of convincing proof of its cur?
ative virtue. ,
A. F. Button, Jackson, Tenn4
writes; "1 caught malaria in Louis-
ana, and wbeu tuie lever at last
broke my'sysiem. was satured with
poison, and l( had sores in my
mouth Jand knots on my tongue. ,
I got two bottles of B, li. B., which
healed my tongue-and mouth and
niadifii new man of me." ' .
Win. Richmond, Atlanfa, Ga.,
writes : "My wife could hardly see.
Doctors called it syphilitic irita.
Her e;,Q in a drediul condition.
Her appetite filled. She has pains
in her joiuts and bne.s- Ilerkld
nes were deranged also, and no
one thought s!xo could bo cured. Dr.
Gillam recommended B. B. B.,
which she. used until her health was
entirely restored." V
It. P, li. Jones, Atlanta, Ga.,
writes; "I was troubled wi'.h copper
colored eruptions loss of appetite '
pain iu back, achina joiuts, dehility-
emaciatiou, loss of hair, sore throat
aud .'great nervousness.'. B, B. B
put my systefu in fine condition."
! A Kis'.aksn 'lMin.
,1 Some iui?guided people be
lieve that slavery iu this coun- '
try was abolished at the end of
tbe Civil War. Such people,
have never seen a 2-year-old
baby and h'u grandfather t0
g e the r . S u in ei s vi 1 1 e Jo urnal. ' ;
Easy
to Surf-
.It is a Wetrn editor who
remarks that a newspaper aHd
a family are tha easiest things
in this world to start. Bringing
them up is where the rub
comes. i '
The Chatham Kecord won't be ;
"downed"'' on good stories as is
attested by, tbe followed ; The
oldest-rnaa that -we know of in
this section of the State is Mr.
Charles Cox, vho Jives near Moore
aud Chatham line; Ilia age is 104
.years, as is recorded in his father's r.
."family Bible, which is still in tbe .
possession of his Bister. His oldest
son is now in Georgia, .and is 75
yearrf old. lie ia wonderfully prs .
served both in body and mind. He
is very fond of fishing and often
walks three miles to go ' a fishing..
Ilis voice is so strong that be cau
be heard to calf hogs three nu.es.
He never needed the. use of spec
taclea, -,