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STAID OLD STANTONSBUKG What Our Correspondent Notices Among These Good People. (SPECIAL COR. TO THE ADVANCE) Stantonsburg, Nov. 16, 1891. Dear Advance : One week has passed since I wrote you. As I did not see a letter in your valuable pa per from this place last week, I will give another one, although I have not had time to get up the news of our section. We will soon have our crops all in. Rev. Mr. Rose preached a good sermon at this place second Sunday. The second in every month is his regular appointment. He will preach here next Sunday, (the fourth.) We have a very good Sunday school at this place, with Mr. J. H. Applewhite as superintendent, and a good one he is, too. Miss Cora Applewhite performs on the Organ. Miss Cora is one of Stantonsburg's most beloved, beauti ful and accomplished young ladies. That popular, graceful, bewitching, Christ-like, Miss Bettie Graves, has returned home from an extended trip in the Western part of the State. Our Masonic order meets first Thursday in each month. We have had right much ot a revival in it this fall. I did not think to tell the people that Messrs. Applewhite & Lane's popular and handsome clerk, B. J. Thompson, has recovered from his long spell of sickness and is back at his post again. It was an oversight. I hope we will be able soon to go down to Hookerton, Ben. We are glad to see Miss Ida Thompson out gracing out streets again. We have one of the most clever and accommodating mail carriers in jhe State in the person of Mr. Billie Spears. Our neighbor, Mr. Frank Ellis, says he has caught 45 opossums this fall. What can Mr. Wiley Webb say for himself on a 'possum hunt ? Dr. Joe Ward has, we learn, lo cated at Penny Hill, Pitt county, to practice medicine. I took a short trip down in Green county the other day. I saw that Mr. Will Darden was making con siderable improvements around his residence. Will is one of Green's best men. I also noticed that Mr. Rom Beamon was putting up a large steam mill near Speight's Bridge. Mr. Beamon is one ot Greene county's most enterprising and suc cessful citizens. I also toook a short trip above Wil son the other Sunday. I recollect meeting that clever and handsome Ed. Watson. I would not have no ticed Ed. S(y closely if he had not had his cousin out to ride. Behold, Ed., your house is almost completed, and you have not stopped cousining yet. Let me know about it. I would like to be there. Yours for success, True. HE DEFIED THE SHERIFF, And Drove Judge Bynum Bench. From The And The Moon Hid Her Face. The total eclipse of the moon was observed here last Sunday night. In anticipation of the event Wilson scientists and astronomers had rub bed up their glasses and prepared to take careful observations. The clouds, which were not on the pro gramme, were also observed. That is, they helped to obscure fair Luna's face and the eclipse was not as satis factory as we had hoped it might be, but upon the whole the aftair passed oft very pleasantly for all concerned. Of course everybody knows a total eclipse can only occur when the moon is full, and the sight is calculated to fill with awe and reverence the most unlearned. The knowledge of this wonder the obscuring of the splen dor and brilliancy ol the glorious queen of night has been repeatedly used by the white men to excite the fear and admiration of uncivilized peo ple. The fears of Indians have often been played upon in such a manner. The story of Columbus will doubtless be recalled, when shipwrecked on the Island of Jamaica and in great dis tress for provisions, the famous navi gator made use of his knowledge. The natives were told, that if not sup plied with provisions he would cause the moon to hide her face. Indiffer ent to his threats at first, they be came terribly alarmed when on March 1st, 1504, the moon became dim, and immediately supplied the Spanish fleet. The eclipse lasted from 7 o'clock until about 8:30. AS TO MORALS. The Asheville Mountain Home Journal reports that a most disgrace ful and daring occurrence took place at Burnsville, Yancey county, last week, and says the facts are these : 1 1 r 111 1 1 1 1 kiii 1 111 1 A A'.A upru snnrlpnh; ann wo; hfincr hiinprl J - ' (inrret D. Rav. another leading citl- v . , m 1 - . 1 j nn (kuui 1 nrrn w wun ivi 1 -ii iri 1111 had removed one of the two, Mr. thought he would aid in paying t -M - l i ! J neienoor ana attend tne ounai. 1 ms he shot at his lather several times, whereupon Judge Bynum ordered the arrest of young Ray. He defied the sheriff, but walked into the court house with his doubled barrelled gun and drove the Judge from the bench, cleared out the assembly and deliberately walked oft. Can all this possibly be true in law-abiding North Carolina? During the session of the N. C. o 1 1 i- mi u 1 i J - Mt 1 .1 m r t: "" " wJm - ,j vernber, the Eastern Reflector will publish a daily edition giving full proceedings of the body. The daily Reflector will be a 16 column paper, ceedines, and will be furnished subscribers through the whole 1 11 J ' . i I i l. A -4 luuv ui uic vumciciitc udmy. nxx- dress, The Eastern Reflector, Green ville, N. C. How "The Farmer's Advocate" Catches Bubbles From Tarboro's Current. Whist parties are fashionable with the young people of the place. Mrs. Lanier intends erecting two prize houses on Albemarle street. Horse racing is becoming a sort of) the camp for a whole week. lever with some who own horses here. Self preseryation is the first law of nature. It Is. It is a good sign to see Mr. Harry Skinner, the Alliance speaker, stand ing - up for the preservation of the errand iin nartv of rpfnrm rind r in stitutional limitations. It is to i ,.1 i i i nopea inai ne . soeaKs ov tne 1 1 i.i Ml 1 . T1 Partv in North Carolina. Such Jcl LV WUU1U liLCIctJlY IvilS. LilC 1L A J J the fire" and make Sambo howl XT I omhna hoc nn rcar rr- enrh n n-irHr Wilmington Messenger. Short credits make long friends.
The Wilson Advance (Wilson, N.C.)
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