VOLUME XV.
Reporter and Post.
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A. J. BOYD, J. W. REID
P. M. JOHNSTON, JULIUS JOHNSTON
BO YD, RETDftJOHXSOX,
Attorneys - at - Law,
WKNTWORTII, N. C.
Messrs. llcid aud Johhson will regu
larly attend the Superior Courts of
Stokes county.
R. L. HA i WORE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mt Airv. N. C»
Speriul attention given to the collect ion o,
oluims. I—l2in
m F CARTER,
jiTTVtiINEF'tfW-lrii IT.
MT. ah: V, Nl'illiV CO., N. i.
Practice wlieiwe. 1 •- •MMTICI'.S are wanted
P. DAY, ALBERT JONES.
SPay & Jones,.
manufa 'Hirers of
BADDLKRY,HARNESS, COLLARS,TRUNR
iio. 33G W. Baltimore street, Baltimore, M*\.
W. A. Tucker, 11. C.Smith, II.S. Spraggiiif
Tuclcer, Smith *■ Co..
Maiiui'acturhn & aholesale Dealers la
BVQTS, SHOES, HATS AM) CAPH
Mo tflO Raltinorc Street, Baltimore. J/d.
M J. * it. /•;. liEs i\
WITH
Henry Sonnebovri 4" Co.,
WHOL ESJ LI: CL O NIL EN V
M Amoyor St., (uciwceiiUeinimi A* lAtmb.ril Stul
JIALTIMOItJE Ml).
H. SOftSEBORN, 8. BUXIIXI
Mtcfhe* Putney, L. H llluir
W. 11. MILES,
STJCFJIE. \ I'UrXE 1' $■ CO
H'holeiMl dealer* in
Botls, Shoes, and, Trunks,
1219 Main Street,
gept. S-SI-Bm. RICHMOND, VA.
BKllAl.li WOOD SAM I. P. OOODWIN.
IIK.NKV IIKXDERSOX. Kli'll'D W. ItACON.
WOOD, BACON &C 0
ImpurlerH and Jbbbcra of
DRY GOODS, XOTTOXS,
W ITITE HOODS, ETC.
No*. :ioo-:tii Mm kit St.,
PIIILALKLPHIA, FA.
Parties having
CUT MICA
for sale will find it to their interest to
C*"res|)on l with
A. O. SI'IIOONMAKER,
168 William St., New York.
R.IT OGLESBY,
C. W. SCOTT.
WHOLESALE
MOTIONS AiND WHITE GOODS,
(512 Main Streot
LYNCHBURG VA.
O. E LKk'TWK'K.
with
WIKGO, EI.IJSTT It CRUMP,
niOUMOND, VA.,
Wholesale Dealers i*
BOOTS, BHOKS, TRUNKS, AO.
Prompt attention paid to orders, nod satls
ction gauranteed.
Virginia Sate Priion Goodt . tyectatly
March, 6. m
BOStaT w. powsas. soo.a D. t*vlo .
R W POWERS & CO..
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
Dealert In
PAINTS, OILS, DYKS, VARNISHES,
French and American
WINDOW GLABB, PUTTY, &C.
SMOKING AND CHE WHO
CIGARS, TOBACCO A SPECIALTY
1305 Main St., Eichmond, V«;
AngujtGm 26
wuamTKRJW * «0.,
WHOLESALE UROCPRS AND OOMMIf
SION MERCHANTS.
3o 3 Howard street, cerner of Lombard;
BALTIMORE.
We keep constantly on hand a larpe ana
well assorted stock of Groceries—sultaHe fti
Southern an i Western trsde. We solicit con
signments of Country Produce —such as Cot
ion; Feathers; Ginseng; Beeswax WodljtmM;
Fruit; furs; Skins, etc. Our tacilit.es for »to
ng business are such ss to warrant uuik sale!
•dprampt returns. All orders will have out
Pft ti^Mrtiss.
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TIISE 11LOCK,
"WiiiMtOn, IV. C.
FOR GOOD
Tobacco Flues, Sheet Iron and Home
made Tinware at
Living Prices
Also Roofing and Guttering at shor
notice, at BOTTOM PRICES.
Sept IG-ly
J W. Sill^LEY,
Corner Main mid ;trd Street.
WIHSTOS, SI.C.
Under Jacobs Clothing Store.
MANCPACTRRKR OP
Harness, Bridles, Collars and Suddlcs,
Also dealer in Whips, Hamcs,
Brushes, Lap Robes, in fa:t
everything in the Har
ness aud saddlery hue.
CHEAPEST HOCSK IN WESTERN NORTH
CAROLINA.
Will sell my own manufactured goods as
cheap »s yiu can buy the \\ estcrn
and Northern city made goods.
PATRONIZE HOME IHUUSTHY.
lias a stook of the old army McClcllnn
Saddles ou baud.
Come and see me Sept 26 1-y.
Brown Rogers s % Co
Wholesale unci Retail
HARDWARE
largest line of STOKVB in Winston.
Agricultural Implements
MAC HI NEIIV ofall kinds
HARNESS JUiD SADDLES S, c.
PAL \ TS, OILS, VARMSHES, &C'
Special attention invited to their tV/itles
L'tipper I'tows.
.Igrnts Dvpont's otet and welt known
Rifle Powder.
Sept *2G-ly
Doors, Sash, Blinds.
Having rebuilt our Planing Mill,
Door, Sash aud Blind Factory, slid fit
ted i: up with all new inachiotry of the
latsst and most approved patterns, we
are now prepared to do all kinds of
work in cur line in the very best style.
W« mki^ufacturc
DOOKS, SASH, BI.INDS,
Door Frames, Window Frames. Brack
ets, Moulding, Hand-roil, Balusters,
Newels, Mantels, l'orcli Columns, and
art prepired to do all kinds of fecroll
Sawing, 7'umlng, &o. We carry in
stock Wcatheiboarding, Flooring, Ceil
ing, Wainscoting and nil kinds of Dress j
ed ' Lumber; also Framing Lumber,
Shingles, Laths, Linns Cement, Plaster, |
Plastering Hair and nil kinds of Build- J
ors' supplies. Call anil see ur or writo ,
for our prices before buying elsewhere.
MILLER BROS-, WINSTON, N. C.
GEO. STEWART.
Tin and Sheet Iron Manu
facturer.
Opi>>>il»' Farmi'iV Warehouse.
wixstox, r ,
ROOFING- GLITTERING AND SPOUT
ING '
done at short notice.
Keeps constantly on liand a fine lot of
Cooking and Heating Stoves
I aUonB for VitSf^S
|N| thn I'n.ted RUt^Dd^l|n
Pla v continue to act m solicitor*
I flMhl 1 far patent*. r,a*f*t«. tr«de-uj*rks, copy
iwnJi right*, ate., for th* United Utates, and
to obtain patents In Canada, England. Franca.
Germany, and all other K>untrie* riielr eiperi
•nre is unc|ualod and their facilities are unsur
-9 Drawing* and *peciAcations prepared and ftlad
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or drawl Ma. Adrir* by mall free.
Patents obtained through ICannAOo.arenotleeA
I.Xeici KMTirir AMltßlCAM.wkieh ha*
the I ares* i circulation snd >s the meet influential
XliSEer of »U kind pnhlUhJ In the world'
The advantages of snoh a notioe overy patentee
Bl Thia\arae and splendidly illnstrsted newspaper
la published WKKKLY at tXHOa year. and la
adm'tted to be the neat papordaroted to science,
mechanic*. Invention*. engineering works, and
other department a of industrial progreee, pub
lisbed in any country. It contain* the names of
allpatestoea and title of every invention patented
Cm week. Try it four months for one dollar.
Idbv all newsdealer*.
If ton bare an invention to patent write to
i Munn A Co.. publisher* of Bcieutifle AjasnaM.
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yMaadbuek at>uut pauiuta mailed faaa.
"NOTIIINO HUCCEEDS I.IKE SUCCESS."
M - . . ....
DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1887
Si^i®
DIMTANCK.
MABOARET W. HAMILTON.
On softening (lays, wlien a storm was near,
At the farm house door 1 have stood in
tlie gray,
And caught the distance, faint but clear,
The sou mi of a train passing far away.
Tl»e warning bell when the start wos made,
TIIA ibgine'S puffing t\F smoke unseen,
With the heavy rumble as wheels obeyed—
Across the miles between,
Anil so sometimes on a moonloss night,
When the s'ars shine soft and the wind
is low,
To my listenim; soul in the palid light.
Come the trembling vtiiees of long ago.
The tuneful echoes when hope was young,
The tender so »g of love serene, 0
And the throbbing rhythm of passion's
tongue—
Across the years between.
"THE NEW SOUTH."
MR. lIENRY W. GRADY'S SPEECH AT THE
NEW ENGLAND DINNER.
The following is an extract from the
speech of Mr. llenry W. Gradv, one of
tbc editors of tho Atlanta (Ga.) Con
stitution, ut tbe dinner of tbe New Kng
land Society in New York.
"In speaking to tlio toast wi:!i which
you have honored tue I accept the term,
'The New South,' as iu ut seuso dispar
aging to the old. Dear to me, sir, is
'lie home of my childhood and the trad
itions of my pecple. There is a new
South, not through protest against the
old, but beoause of new conditions, new
adjustments, and it you please, new
ideas and aspirations. It is to this that
1 1 address myself. I ask you,gentlemen,
to picture if yoa can the footsore sjldier
who, buttoning up in his faded gray
jacket the parole which was taken, tes
timony to his children of bis fidelity and
faith, turned his face southward from
Appomattox in April, 18G3. Think of
liiui as ragged, half-starved, heavy
bearded, enfeebled by want and wounds,
having fought to exhaustion, lie surren
ders his gun, wrings the hands of his
comrades, and lif'ing his tcar-stuined
and pallicd face foi the last time to the
graves that dot the old Virginia hills,
pulls his gray cap over his bruw and be
gins the slow and painful journey.
What docs he find let me ask you, who
went to your homes eager to find all the
welcome "you bad justly earned, full
payment for your year's sacri6ee—what ,
docs ho find when he reaches the honn ,
ho left four years before ? lie finds his ,
' house in ruins, his farm dcvaslefl, his ,
' slaves freed, his stock killed, his barns
empty, his trade destroyed, his money
Worthless ; his social system, feud.il iu
its magnificence, swept away ; his peo- |
pie without law or lugal status, his com- {
rades slain, and the burdens of others
heavy on his shoulder. Crushed be do
feat, his very traditions gone, without ,
money, credit, employment, material,or ,
training—and, besides all this, confront- ■
ed with tlio gravest problem that ever
met human intelligence—tho eslablish
-1 iug of a statue for tho vast body of his
1 liberated slaves, what does he do, this
hero in gray, with a heart of gold l Does
1 he sit down in sullenness, iu despair?
; Not for a day. Surely (iod, who had
scourged him in bis prosperity, inspired
liiui in bis adversity! As ruin was
never before so overwhelming, nevei
was restoration swifter. The soldier
stepped from the trenches into tho fur
row ; horses that had charged Federal
guns marchod before the plou h, and
fields that ran red with human blood in
April were green with the harvest in
June, worncd reared up in luxury cut
up their drctses and made breeches for
their husbands, and with a patience and
heroism that fits woman always as a gar
ment gave their hands to work. There
was little bitterness ia all this. Cheer
fulness and fraukness prevailed. 'Hill
Arp' struck the key-note when be said :
'Well, 1 killod ae many of them as they
did of me, and now I am going to work.'
Or the soldier, returning homo after do
feat and roasting souio corn on the road
side, who made the remark to his com
rades : 'You may leave the south if
you want to, but 1 am going to Sandcr
ville, kiss my wife, and raise a crop,
and if tbe Yankees tool with me any
! uiore I will whip 'cm again ' 1 want
| to say to Gen. Sherman—who is consid
ered an able man in our parts, though
i s me people '.hink ho is a kind of caro
: !■■« man about fire—that from the ashos
I left us iu ISO I we have raised a brave
and beautiful city ; that somehow or
other we have caught the suushinc in
the bricks and mortar of our homes ant!
have builded thorcin not one siugle
prejudtm: or memory.
'But what is the sum of our work ?
Ave have foun-1 out that in the general
summing up the fret, negro counts more
than he did as a slave. Wc have plan
ted the schoolbouse on the hill top, and
made it free to wbito and black. We
have sowed town, and cities in the placr
of theories and put !-Usinc"i above p'tli
ttcs. We have challenged yout spinners
m Massachnsetts'and iron makt-rt
in Fennsylvania. We bave learned
that the $400,000,000 annually receiv
ed from our cotton crop will make us
rich. Then the supplies that mtikc if
are home raised. We have reduced the
commercial rate of interest from 21 t ■
G per cent., and are floating 4 per cent,
bonds. We have learned that one
Northern immigrant is worth fifty for
eigners, and have smoothed the path to
Sou'hward, wiped out the piacc where
Masons and Dixon's line used to be, and
hung out our latch-slring to you aud
yours. We have reached the point that
marks perfect harmony in every house
hold, when tlio husband confesses that
the pics which his own wife cooks ate as
good as those his mother used to bake,
and we admit that the sun shines as
brightly aud the umon as softl) as it did
'befoie the war.' We have established
thrift in city and country. We have la!
len in lovo with work. Wc have restor
ed comfort to homes from which culture
and elegance never departed. We have
let our economy take root and spread
among us as rank as the emit grass
vfliich sprang from Sherman's cavaliy
camps, until we aro ready to lay "rids
on the Georgia Yankee as he squeezes
pure olive oil out of his cotton Rbed,
against any Down-Kaster that ever
swapped wooden nutmegs for flannel
sausages in the vallev of Vermont.
Above all, we know that we have achiev
ed in these 'piping times of peace' a
fullfl. independable Cut il.lHSoutli ili.u
which our fathers sought to win in the
forum by their eloquence or compel on
the field by their swords. It is a rare
privilege, sir, to have bad part, howev
er bumble, iii this work. Never was
nobler duty cotifidcd to human hands
than the u[ lifting and upbuilding of the
prostrate and bleeding South, misguid
ed, perhaps, but beautiful in her suffer
ing, and honest, bravo and generous
always. In the record of her social,
industrial and political illustrations wc
await with confidence the verdict of the
world.
"When Lee surrendered—l don't say
when Johuscn surrendered, because 1
understand ho still alludes to the time
when he met Gen. Sherman last as the
time when ho determined to abandon
any further prosecution of the struggle'
—when Leo surrendered, 1 day, an I
Johnson quit, the South became, and
has been HDCP, loyal to the Union. We
fought hard enough to know that we
were whipped, and in perfect frankness
accepted us final the arbitrament of the
sword to which we had appealed. The
Siuth found her jt ol in a toad's he-id.
The shackles that held hot in narrow
limitations fell forever when the shack
les of the negro slave were broken. Un
der the old regime the negroes were
slaves to the South, the South was u
slave to the system. Thus was gather
ed in the hands of a splendid and chiv
alric oligarchy the substauce that should
have been diffused among the people,
as the rich blood is gathered at the I cart
tilling that with atHucut rapture, but
leaving the budy chill and colorless..
The old .-'outli rested everything on sla
very and agriculture, unconscious that
these could neither give nor maintain
healthy growth. The new South pre
sents a perfect democracy, the oli
garchs leading into the popular move
ment—a social system compact and
closely knitted, 1' ss splondid on the
suiface, but stronger at the Cl.re —a
hundred farms for every plantnti >u, fifty
homes for every palace, and a diversi
fied industry that meets the complex
needs of his complex ago."
Witness the diplomacy and presence
of nnnd shown in this answer, in the
caso of the youug lady who sat in an
alcove of an evening parly with a bright
youug uilitary man, her little niece on
her knee to play propriety. Suddenly
the company u elcctri6ed by the excla
mation of the child : "Kiss me, too,
Aunt Alice !" But tho sudden shock
is succeed by a feeling of relief as Aunt
Alice calmly replies; "You should
not say' Kiss nic two," dear; yon should
s»y'Kiss mo twice.'"— The ln-leptn
denl.
BEAUTIFYING OUR HOMi'B.
Since the lays in the lone, ago v. ben
\d:im and Eve dwelt id the garden i '\
Eden ami the beautiee of ihat paradi'e I
wore theirs to ouj >y, the chief pursuit
of man has been to search out happiness.
The idea! of that happiness is to gain j
for himself an abode like unto that of
oui first parents, and call it his own.
Kacb of us can make for ourselves a
homo, adorn it with the beautiful things
Nature has to lavish given, if we
so desire, and all she asks in return is
the care and labor bestowed on her
reasuros. Tlnse whos» heart's desiro
is to have f-r themselves this ideal of
a home—this little Elcn all of their
own have inly to bring to their aid
the beautiful things Natur) has pr
vided ami with willing hearts and ready
hands rear fur themselves au abode of i
peace and plenty It is not wealth
which gives to some homes that air of
attractiveness so inviting It is the
individuality of the inuiate» Ihat is im
pressed upon their surroundings ami
gives character to all about them.
There is uo surer exponent of the refine
ments and high moral culture of a neigh
borhood than the appearance of the !
homes and their surroundings. The |
humblest entuige, about whose do rwavs
aro vliinbmg vines aud w'* ..-e windows
are drapud with tbeir clinging tendrils,
present to us a much more inviting pict
ure of bappiuess and homely pleasure
than its more pretentious neigbi r of stone
with its barrcness of grandeur. The
inspired writers sang of the loveliness
of nature, and the grandest inspirations
and illustrations were drawn from the
same inoxhaustible source. The bards
of all ages have taken "up the refrain,
and it shall continue to echo d"wn the
hulls of the time shall be no more. It
is our privclege and out duty to gather
about us alt that will help to make us
better, and to make for ourselves suoh
a home as will influence our charactei
for good aud develop in us higher ideas
of living than that of a mere animal ex
istence. Let us Mirroood ourselves
with the luxuriance tnd beauty of na
ture, become familiar With her charms
and graces, aud bring of her stores to
decorate our homes. There is an influ
ence emanating from an intimate asso
ciation with nature that is ennobling in
its tendency ami which will lift our
thoughts above the gt jsscr tilings which
arc physical to things intcllcetuai and
spiritual. In this intereoifrse with Na
ture we aro developing » love for the
truly good and beautiful ami receiving a
refining influence that cannot fail in hav
ing its effect on our lives.. We look
through nature up to Nature's God.
• hen its riches aro brought into the
homes of the poor, even the squalor of
poverty disappears aud a ray of the
brighter liuht from above takes its place.
I Exchange
FOR VALUE RECEIVED.
Cheap journalism will not do, wheth
er it consists in quantiy or price.
There isjust standard of value for ill
marketable gifts as well as commodities,
and this will soon rr later regulate
itself. Some of our contemporaries have
made efforts to furnish themselves to
subseribers at figures far below the
standard. People certainly do not think
more of a paper which puts a low esti
cstimate upon ttself. Wo doubt wheth
er they pay for one such with any great
er regularity or promptness. People
are eager to claim, they should, as in
all things tlso, so in journalism, be wil
ling to pay for value received. Cheap
jourcalisin, in whatever souse, we be.
licTQ to ba a mistake.--Chaarlotte
Church .1 Itssenqer.
APIIROPRIATION3 FOR PUB
LIC BUILDINGS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The House
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds to-day ordered® favorable re
port on Senate amendments to itie bill
making an appropriation for a public
building at Jacksonville, Fla. It ap
propriates $250,000. The co:uinittee
also ordered a favorable report on tlio
bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for a pub
lic building at Charlotte, N. C.
The Senate Committee on the Dis
trict of Col'tmbia this imorning ordered
an adverso report on the nomination of
.) C. Mathews, of Albany X. Y , the
eolorcd register of deeds of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The vole wis 7 to
2. It is understood that the two were
Sma tor Harris an I Brown
Matthew Stanley Quay is the name ol
the new U. S. Senator from Pennsylva
nia. lie is a Republican,
Bx-I'RESIDEN'T DAVIS AND THE
OitFHAN.
One morning my train, which was the
lirst one to £0 through to New Oileaiis,
ran considerably past Beauvoir station,
; and the engineer had to reverse and go
j back to pick up a couple of passengers.
One of thoni was Mr. Davis. He boaid
! Ed the last car audsft down tn a seat
behind a young coupic who got on just
above Misissippi City. They had evi
dently just been married, and were
| Yankee to the backbone. Hailed from
Philadelphia, as I learned afterwards,
i She was very pretty, bul evidently dis
gusted with the South. Presently J sut
! down just behind Mr. Davis, in time to
bear the young lady say; "What place
I was that where we stopped just
; now?"
i "Beauvoir, I believe," answered the
young fellow, without looking up from
his new -paper,
i 'Why that's where .fcflf Davis lives,"
1 she exclaimed; then in an under breath.
"The old rebel} he ought to have been
j hung!"
'•And ; ray, Miss," said a stately
1 voice at her elbow, "why do you, a
; young, innocent girl, pronounce such
harsh sculeuco on him?"
t "Bee i ' e," she replied, not recogni
sing the speaker, "because he deserved
it. lie tri dto ruin our country, aud
caused thousands of brave men to die.
! lie made witlows and orphans—he made
me an orphan," and tears swelled into
! her eyes.
| "Did Jell Davis do all that'" ask
| etl the man, huskily.
"The girl looked cariouslv over her
shoulder aud said: "1 believe he was
! responsible for it."
, | "The stranger bowed in sileucc, and
; when he raised tears fell on bis coat
| sleeve and he said: "I uuderstaud the
, spirit which prompted you tc speak, but
, I wish to correct the view you entertain
of Jeff Pavis.
. i "He is not the cruel person yonr im
. ■ agination paints him, young lady.
Here in the South, as "«I1 as iu .he
'
North, thousmds of mournirs for dear
i 1 ones who fell in the war. Jefferson
, Davis sympathizes with all. Whether
. j they wore the blue or gray makes
no difference now. You, 1 take it, are
,| a soldier's orphan. In the los- of ymr
. ' father you have Mr. Davi s sincere
I J %
, j piiy. If he can aid you iu an; way he
1 \ will gladly do so." \\ I'.h the word 3
the stranger took a card from his pock
» et, and presenting it to the young lady
, left the ear She read the name iu si
lence and handed it to her somewhat
. annoyed companion, M uch to his sur
prise be saw iuscribcd in a plain, firm
, j band the name,
F | J EEFERSON DAVIS.
Beauvoir, Misissippi.
| —lit:cau\ior Cor. Ronton Globe.
A REMARKABLE PETITION.
A petition of a somewhat remarkable
character will shortly bo presctited to
'lie Legislature of North Carolina, by
the farmers (or more properly speaking,
a portion of the farmers) of Mecklenburg
county. This petition will pray for
special legislation to prevent the impor
tation of (ieorgia watermelons into
Mecklenburg county. The petition had
its start among the farmers of lierryhill
township, and it was yesterday placed
in the hands of sheriff Cooper, The pa
per is quite numerously signed, and the
chances arc that a large addition of
names will be appended to it, before it
goes to our representatives in the Leg
islature. The petition calls for protec
tion for our home watermelon raisers,
and prays the legislature to pass a spe
cial law for the benefit of Mecklenburg
county, prohibiting the shipment into
this county of Georgia watermelons.
The petition sets forth that our home
watermelon growers need protection
from the influx of the Georgia produc
tion, and a high watermelon tariff is
demanded. 'I bo petition in in the hands
of sheriff Cooper and it will be sent to
Kalcigh this week.—Charlotte Chroni
cle,
Wo have in vain looked among all of
our exchanges for a single opinion favor
able to the innoeence of Cluverius out
side of North Carolina. Wo liavo not
seen one dissecting opinion as to his
guilt and the extreme baseness of the
I crime—first reduction ol his cousin,
| who loved and trusted him, and then
her toul murder during the darkness ol
night and in the gloomiest of places.—
Wilmington Star.
Francis 15. Stookbridge, who suc
ceeds Conger from Michigan, wan bom
in Maine in 1826. He is a Republican
aud a "boodle Senator.''
I : E ROWERS eOLLE
NO. 29
PICKINGS. *
From tlie Wilmington .Star.
The English Liberals believe tlmt nu
extreme coercive policy ou the part of
the Tories will smash up their Ministry.
Let them cource then.
We regret that Get). Jo McDonald
w»s defeated in the Legislative caucus
for U S. Senator. David Turpio was
the successful n>an. He once serv
ed for a few days in the Senate. Gen.
McDonald wa» tie man aud ought to
have beeu ebosen.
You cannot find two daily Democratic
j papers in the United State that advocate
i the same measures all the way, and op
| pose others. Some are so extremely
independent as to favor many uiore Ite
-1 publican measures than they do Demo
cratic, and yet thoy pretend to be among
the faithful aud the "uuterrilied."
Mr. U. 15. fc'arwell, Logan's successor
was born in Now York State in 1823.
lie has served two terms in the Ilousu
of Representatives. He has held many
offices at home, lie is said to be very
geuerojs aud charitable. lie is very
rich in money.
I'OIJITTJAIJ.
"Did the President remove the wrong
tnau t" is a question, it is said, that
eaustic Senator Ingalls proposes to argue
the affirmative of in connection with tho
removal of District Attorneys Stone
and Benton—MontgomeryDis
patch Dent.
Every Dcmocr-it in Missouri is a
Thurman man, bui .1 i* nut that many
Democratic papers arc pronouncing fur
Tliurnun and llill in 18S8. Missouri
will stand by any good Democratic torn
naiion-liut at present it looks Clcvelan
disb.—Kunsi* City Times.
President Cleveland's intimation that
be may be constrained to call an extra
session of Congress next spring in case
I tho present Congress shall bo uuablc t
1 reduce taxation and dam up tbe Treas
' ury flood brings into proiuiuonce the
question of tbo Speakership of the next
i Houso ot llepresentaties.— Phil. Record
Dim.
CREDULITY ON STILTS.
A llaleigh correspondent of somo
paper says of old people in this Stato :
J "Quite frequently there are para
graps in papers of this State noticing
tbo fact that people aged 100 or upward
I have just died, or done something to
bring thorn before the public. Incred
ulous persons laugh at these statements
and say that people do not live to thu
the age of 100. Your correspondent
4«ill venture the assertion that there
are now living in this State oyer 100
a century old. There isoue in this city
who is certainly 103. Hannah Putter,
colotod woman of Craven county, is
certified to bo 109."
As tho Star bad more to say about
the easy credulity of newspaper men as
to very old people we may comment
briefly on tbe above. As fur as this
paper is concerned it has not denied
that there were now und then persons
even as old as 100 years or more, but
the cases are extremely rare.
Nearly all of the persons said to bo
over 100 are negroes. This is very
| suspicious. We saw a negro some years
1 ago who remembered well when Colum
; bus discovered America. No record
that could stand the test of tbe courts
has ever been offeiod to prove tho eor
tainty of a negroc's age being above
100 in North Catolim. If so, when
and where.
Life insurance has been operating for
over 200 years. Life companies select
their subjects. Tbey have to be care
fully examined by a medical expert, and
all persons arc excluded who are not
of sound health, and in whose family
i there arc consumptions, scrofula, heart
! disease, insanity and so on. Millions
> of peoplo are insured and all have been
. critically examined. Now it would bo
reasonably supposod that if any class of
j. inhabitants would attain to extreme age
it would be some of tho insured. They
are picked subjee,s, and are almost »1-
t ways peoplo of menus so us to avoid
9 hardships and exposure. Now as to
e the result. Of the tens of millions thua
| selected and insured not one bas ever
J lived to be use hundred years old. Not
j. one ocnt hasneen paid by any insurance
company on account of death when the
| person iosired had attained to his hun-
dredtn year or more.
And yet all over North Carolina ac
cording to tlie newspaper*, tliero are
genres of old m'groe* from 100 yuura tq
165 years —V« iluiiugton Mar.