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A SONG OF KEST
) :vt :iry hands that all the dav '
-We set to labor hard and long .
N.w softly fall the shadows grav ;
'I lie bells areirung for even sons'.
A ii hour ago the golden sun .
Sank slowly down into the wesi ;
I'ui.r, weary hands, your toil is done,
i i'Tis time for rest ! 'tis time for rest "!
O weary feet, that iilany a mile : '
'! I lave. trudged along a stonv wav,
At last je reach the trysting stile";
! No longer fear to go astray. -
Tin- treiille landing, rustltn treis
: Kin k the young birds within the nest,
: And softly singi the quiet breeze :;
j'Tis tijine for rest ! 'tis time for rest !
Ojwearyf eyes from which the tears
Fell many a time like thunder fain ;
Ojwcnry -hearts; that through the'Vears
d'.eat with sueh bitter, restless pstin,
To-night forget the stormy strife,-"
And know what I leaven shall senilis best;
l.iiy down the .tangled web of life,
i'Tis Aime fori rest! 'tis time for rest,
i j ChumhiTu' Mtitjtiz'ntr.
Till imvixi: plujiij tisi:.
Itrl Taliiiajfe's Sermon, Preached
Sunday, Sept. t,"tli, 1HX7.
Ii-xt: "AiuJ the I.i.nl suiil mitonie; Amos, wluit
tlinu ' ami I sjliil, a plumb lnic."-t-Aliios-7-K.
The Solid masonry of the. world
had to me a fascination. Walkabout.
--ipiiK ofi the triumphal arches imd
the eatlK-drals, "our hundred or six.
hundred years old, and see them
stand as erect as. when they were
huthledj walls of .great height for
centuries, not bending a quarter of
:m inch this way or that, SoKgreatly
honnred"'. were." the masons who
l.Hildcd these I walls that they were
Inc from, taxation and'called "iree"
masons. The trowel gets most of the
1 it dit for these buildings, and its
clear ringing on stone and brick has
sounded across the ages. But there
is another implement of just as much
importance as the trowel, land my
test recognizes it. Bricklayers, and
stone-masons,; and carpenters-, in the
building of walls, use an instrument
made 'of a cord, at the end 'of which
a lumptof lead is fastenedi They
'drop it over the side orMheAvall, and
as the plummet naturally seeks the
center of gravity in the earth, the
workman discovers where he wall
recedes: and where it bulges out, and
just what is the perpendicular. Our
text represents God as stahjding on
the wall of character, whiclif the Is
raelites had built, and in that way
measuring it.; ''And the Lord said
Unto me, Amos, what sees t thou?
and I said, a plumb line."
What the" world wants is 4 .
A STUAuntT VV AX I) DOWN KKI.HIIONV
Much of the; so-called piety of the
day bends this way and that, to suit
the limes. It ijs horizontal with a
low state of sentiment ami morals.
We have all been building a wall of
i. character, and it is glaringly imper
j feet and needs reconstruction. How
; shall jt be brought into the perpen
dicular? Only by the divide meas
i uremeht. "Andthe Lord sid unto,
me, Amos, what seest thorn? and I
said, a plumb line." I
" The whole'tendcncy of the times
- is to make us act by the standard of
what others do. If they plliy cards,
Aye play cards. If they dapce, we
dance. If they read eertaufi styles
of books, we read them. We throw
over the wall of our character the
Wangled plumb line of other lives
and reject the infallible test which
Amos saw. The question I for me
should" not be what you think is
right, but What Cod thinks is right.
This perpetual reference to'; the be
havior of others, as thougli itklecided
anything but human fallibility, is a
mistake as wide as the world. There
are 10,(KK) plumb lines in juse, but
only one is true and exact, and that
is the line of God's eternab. right.
..-There is a mighty attempt--being
Snade to reconstruct and fi up the
Ten Commandments. To many they
seem too rigid. The tower : ot Pisa
- leans over about thirteen feet from
""The. perpendicular, and people go
.thousands of miles to see its grace
ful inclination, and- by extrja braces
and various architectural contri-
' vanct-s it is kept leaning from centu
ry to century. : Why not bave the
tin granite blocks of Sinai seta little
aslant ? Why not have the'pillar of
truth a leaning tower ? Why i-1 not
an ellipse as "good as a squarp ? Why
is not an oblioue as trood asstraiirht
up and down ? My friends,!we must
have a standard; shall itbetJad's or
man s? I ,
The divine plumb line i
-XKKDS TO I5K THROWN OVKIt ALL MKK
! CIIAXDISE. ' .
Tliousands of years ago $ol onion
discoveml the tendency o buyers
to depreciate; goods. : He sajv a man
beating down an article lojver and
louver, and saying it was net worth
the price asked, and when jhe had
purchased. at the lowest rloint he
told everybody what a sharp! bargain
he bad struck, and how he had out
witted the merchant.;' Proverbs xx,
14 : It is naught, it is naught, saith
the buyer, but when he is gone his
way, then he boasteth." . So utterly
askew is society in this matter that
you seldom find a seller asking the
pricethat he expects to et. He
puts on -a higher value than; he pro
poses to receive, knowing that he
will have to crop. If he wants fifty,
he-asks seventy-five. Anid if he
wants 2,000 he asks 20(K "It is
naught," saith "the buyer. "The fab
ric is defective; the style of goods
is poor ; I can get elsewhere":a better
article at a smaller price ; it is out
of fashion ; it i is damaged; it will
fade; it will hot wear well.? After
a while the merchant, from pverper
suasiori or from desire to depose of
that particular stock of goods, says:
"Well, take it at your own? price,"
and the purchaser goes home with
light step and calls into hisj private
office his confidential friends, and
chuckles while he tells howHhat for
half price he got the goods, fn other
words, he lied and was proid of it.
Nothing would make times -as good,
and the earning of a livelihood, so
VOL. XVI. NO. 40.
easy, as the universal adoption of
the law of right. Suspicion strikes
through all bargain making. Men
who sell know not whether thev will
ever get the money. Purchasers
know not whether the goods shipped
will be according to the sample, and
that, with the large number of clerks
who are making false entries and
then absconding to Canada, and the
explosion of firms that fail for mil
lions of dollars, honest men are at
their wits' end to make a living.
HE WHO STANDS UP AMID ALL THK
. MtESSrUE AXI IXKS KIl.iHT
is accomplishing something toward
the establishment of a high commer
cial prosperity. I have deep sympa
thy tor the laboring classes who toil
with hand and foot. But we must
not forget the business men who,
without any complaint or bannered
procession through the street, are en
during a stress of circumstances ter
rific. The fortunate people of to
day are those whoare receiving daily
wages or regular salaries. And the
men most to be pitied are those who
conduct a business while prices are
falling, and yet try to pay their
clerks and employes, and are in such
fearful straits that they would quit
business to-morrow if it were not for
the wreck and ruin of others. When
people tell me at what a ruinously
low price they purchased an article
it gives me more dismay than satis
faction. I know it means the bank
ruptcy and defalcation of men in
many departments. The men who
toil with the brain need full as much
sympathy as those who toil with
the hands. All business life is
struck through with suspicion, and
panics are only the result of want of
confidence.
The pressure to do wrong is all
the stronger from the. fact that in our
day the large business houses are
swallowing up the smaller, the
whales dining on bluefish and min
nows. The large houses undersell
the small ones because, they Can af
ford it. They can all'ord to make
nothing, or actually lose, on some
styles of goods, assured they can
make it up on others. So a great
dry goods house goes outside of its
regular line and sells books at cost,
or less than cost, and that swamps
the book-seller; or the dry goods
house sells bric-a-brac at lowest fig
ures, that swamps the small dealer
in bric-a-brac. And the same thing
goes on in other styles of merchan
dise, and the consequence is that all
along the business streets of all our
cities there are merchants of small
capital who are in terrific struggle
to keep their heads above water.
The Cunarders run down the Newfoundland-fishing
smacks. This is
nothing against the man who has
the big store, for every man has as
large a store and as great a business
as he can manage. To feel right and
do right under all this pressure re
quires martyr grace, requires divine
support, requires celestial reinforce
ment. All sorts of religions are putting
forth their pretensions. Some have
a spiritualistic religion, and their
chief work is with ghosts, and others
a religion of political economy, pro
posing to put an end to human mis
ery by a, new style of taxation, and
there is'a humanitarian religion that
looks after the body of men and lets
the soul look after itself, and there
is a legislative religion that proposes
to rectify all wrongs by enactment
of better laws, and there is an a-s-thetic
religk n that by rules of ex
quisite taste would lift the heart out
of its deformities, and religions of all
sorts, religions by the peck, religions
by the square foot, and religions by
the ton all of them devices of the
devil that would take the heart away
from the only religion that will ever
effect anything for the human race,
and that is the 'straight up and down
religion written in the Book, which
begins with (lenesis and ends with
Revelation, the religion of the skies,
the old religion, the CJod given re
ligion, the everlasting religion which
says : "Love Cod above all and your
neighbor as yourself." All religions
but this one begin at the wrong end
and in the wrong place.
THE BIBLE RELIGION DEMANDS THAT
WE FIHSt'gET IIIGHT WITH GOD.
It begins at the top and measures
down, while the other religions be
gin at the bottom and try to measure
up. They stand at the foot of the
walk up to their knees in the mud
of human theory and speculation,
and have a plummet and string tied
fast to it. And they throw the plum
met this way, and break a head there,
and throw the plummet another way
and break a head there, and then
they throw it up, and it comes down
on their own pate. Fools ! Why
"will ye stand at the foot of the wall
measuring up, when you ought fo
stand at the top measuring down ?
A few days ago I was in the country,
thirsty after a long walk. And I
came "in, and my child was blowing
soap bubbles, and they rolled out of
the cup; blue and gold, and green, and
sparkling, and beautiful, and orbicu
lar, and in so small a. space I never
saw nforesplendpr concentrated.
But she blew once too often and all
the glory vanished into suds. Then
I turned and took a glass of plain
water and was refreshed. And so
far as soul thirst is concerned, I put
against all the glowing, glittering
soap bubbles of worldly reform and
humane speculation one draught
from the . fountain from under the
throne of God, clear as crystal. Glory
to God for the religion that drops
from above, hot coming up from be
neath I "And the Lord said unto
me, Amos, what seest thou ? and I
said, a plumb line."
I want, you to notice this fact, that
when a man gives up the straight
up and down religion in the Bible
for any new-fangled religion, it is
generally to suit his sins. You first
hear of his change of religion, and
mm
: :
"HERE SHALL THE PRESS
then you hear of some swindle he
has practiced in Colorado mining
stock, telling some one if he will put
in S10,)00 he-can take out $100,000,
or he has sacrificed his chastity, or
plunged into irremediable worldli
ness. His sins are so broad
HE HAS TO P.KOA DEN. II IS RELIGION,
and becomes as broad as temptation,
as broad as the soul's darkness, as
broad as hell. They want a religion
that will allow them to keep their
sins, and then at deatli say to them:
"Well done, good and faithful ser
vant," and tells them : "All is well,
for there is no bell." What a glori
ous heaven they hold before us !
Come, let us go in and see it. There
is Herod and all the babes he mas
sacred. There is Charles (luiteau,
and Jim Fisk, and Robespierre, the
Mriend of the French guillotine, and
all the liars, thieves, house burners,
garroters, pickpockets and libertines
of all the centuries. They have all.
got crowns, and thrones, and harps,
and scepters, and when they chant
they sing: "Thanksgiving and hon
or,and glory, and power to the broad
religion that let us- all into heaven
without repentance and? faith in
those disgraceful dogmas of ecclesi
astical old-fogyism."
My text gives me a gran1 oppor
tunity of saying a useful word to all
young men who are now forming
habits for a lifetime Of what use
to a stonemason or a bricklayer is a
plumb line? Why not build the
wall by the unaided eye and hand ?
Because they are insufficient, because
if there be a deflection in the wall it
cannot "further on be corrected. Be
cause by the law of gravitation a
wall must be straight in order to be
symmetrical and safe. A young
man is in danger of getting a defect
in his wall of character that may
never be corrected.- One of the best
friends I ever had died of delirium
tremens at 60 years of age, though
he had riot since '21 years of age
before which he had been dissipated
- touched intoxicating liquor until
that particular carousal that took
him off. Not feeling well in a street
on a hot. summer day he stepped'in
to a drug store, just as you and I
would have done, arid asked for a
dose of something to make him 'feel
better. And there was alcohol in the
dose, and that one drop aroused the
old appetite, and he entered the first
liquor store, and stayed there until
thoroughly under the power of rum.
He entered his home a, raving ma
niac, his wife and daughters fleeing
from his presence, until he was taken
to the city hospital to die. The com
bustible material of early habit had
lain quiet nearly, forty years, and
that one spark ignited the conflagra
tion. Remember that the wall may
be 100 feet high, and yet a deflection
one foot from the foundation affects
the entire structure. And if you live
100 years and do right the last eighty
years, you may nevertheless do
something at 20 years of age that
will damage all your earthly exis
tence. All you who have built
houses for yourselves or for others,
am I not right in saying to these
young-men, jrou cannot build a wall
so high as to be independent of the
character of its foundations? A
man before 30 years of age may
commit sin enough to last him a life
time. A cat that has killed one
pigeon cannot be cured. Keep it
from killing the first pigeon. Now,
John, or George, or Charles, or Wil
liam, or Alexander, or Andrew, or
Henry, or whatever be your Chris
tian name or surname, say here and
now : "No wild oats for me, no cigars
or cigararettes for me, no wine or
beer for me, no nasty stories for me,
no Sunday sprees for me.
1 AM GOING TO START RIGHT
and keep on right. God help me,
for I am very weak. From the
throne of eternal righteousness let
down to me the principles by which
I can be guided in building every
thing from foundation to capstone.
Lord (iod, by the wounded hand of
Christ, throw me a plumb line!"
Lord Nelson's general direction
when going into battle was, no man
can do wrong that places his ship
close alongside that of the enemy.
My friend, you will never do wrong
if you keep your life close alongside
the Ten Commandments. Do right
and you can be as brave as Maria
Theresa, who rode up the hill of De
fiance and shook her sword at the
four corners of the earth.
"But," y'ou say, "you shut us
young folks out from all fun' Oh,
no! I like fun. I believe in fun. I
have had lots of it in my time. But
I have not had to go into paths of
sin to find it. No credit to me, but
because of an extraordinary parental
example and influence I was kept
from outward transgressions, though
my heart was bad enough and des
perately wicked. I have had, fun
illimitable, ; though I never swore
one oath, and never gambled for so
much as the value of apin, and
never saw the inside of a haunt of sin
save as when ten years ago, with
commissioner ot police and a detec
tive and two elders of my church, I
explored these cities by midnight,
not out of curiosity, but that I might
in pulpit discourse set before the
people the poverty and the horrors
of underground city life. Yet though
I never. was intoxicated for an in
stant, and never committed one act
of dissoluteness, restrained only by
the grace of God, without which re
straint I would have gone headlong
to the bottom of infamy, I have had
so much fun that I don't believe
there is a man on the planet in the
present time who has had more.
Hear it, men and boys, women
and girls, all the fun is on the side
of right. Sin may seem attractive,
but it is deathful, and like the man
chincel, a tree whose dews are pois
onous. .
The Chippewa, wanting to see
God, blackens his face with char
j- :
THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE
DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5,
coal and fasts till he has a vision of
what he calls God. My God I can
see best when I take my hat off and
let the sunshine blaze in my face,
ahd after a reasonable breakfast. He
is not a God of blackness and starva
tion, but of light and plentitude, and
the glory of the noonday sun is Egyp
tian midnight compared to it. There
they go two brothers. The one
was converted a year ago in church,
orie Sunday' morning, during prayer,
or sermon, or hymn. No one knew7
it at the time. The persons on either
side of him suspected nothing, but
in that young man's soul this process
wmt.on: "Lord, here I am, a young
man amid the temptations of city
hie, and I am afraid to risk them
alone ; come and be my pardon and
my help ; save me from making the
mistake that some ot my comrades
are making, and save me now." And
quicker than a flash God rolled
heaven into his soul. . He is just as
jolly as he used to be, is just as bril
liant as he used to be. He can
strike a ball or catch one as easily as
before he was converted. With gun
or fishing rod in this summer vaca
tion he was just as skillful as before.
The world is brighter to him than
ever. He appreciates pictures, mu
sic, innocent hilarity, social life,
good jokes, and has plenty of fun,
first-class fun, glorious fun. But his
brother is going down hill. In the
morning his head aches from the
champagne debauch. Everybody
sees he is in rapid descent. What
cares he for right, or decency, or the
honor of his family name ? Turned
out of employment, depleted in
health, cast down in spirits, the ty
phoid fever strikes him in the small
est room on the fourth story of a
fifth rate boarding house, cursing
God, and calling for his mother, and
fighting back demons from his dy
ing pillow, which is besweated and
torn to rags. He plunges out of
this world with the shriek of a de
stroyed spirit.
ALAS FOR THAT KIND OF FUN !
It is remorse. It is despair. It is
blackness of darkness. It is woe un
ending and long reverberating, and
crushing as though all the moun
tains of all continents rolled on him
in jone avalanche. My soul, stand
back from such fun. Young man,
there is no fun in shipwrecking your
character, no fun in disgracing your
father's name. There is no fun in
breaking your mother's heart. There
is no fun in the physical pangs of
the' dissolute. There is no fun in the
profligate's death-bed. There is no
fun: in an undone eternity. Para
celsus, out of the ashesof a burnt
rose, said he could recreate the rose,
but, he failed in the alchemic un
dertaking, and roseate life once
burned down in sin can never again
be made to blossom.
Oh, this plumb line of the ever
lasting right ! God will throw it over
all our lives to show us our moral
deflections. God will throw it over
all churches to show whether they
are doing useful work or are stand
ing instances of idleness and pre
tense. He will throw that plumb
linejover all nations-to demonstrate
whether their laws are just or cruel,
their rulers good or bad, their ambi
tions holy or infamous. He threw
thatplumb line over the Spanish
monarchy of other 'days, and what
became of her ? Ask the splintered
hulks of her overthrown armada.
He lhrew that plumb line over
French imperialism, and what was
the r!esult? Ask the ruins of her
Tuileries, and the fallen column of
the Place Yendome, and the grave
trenches of Sedan, and the blood of
revolutions of different times rolling
throiigh the Champs Elysees. .He
threw that plumb line over ancient
Rome, and what became of the realm
of the Ca'sars ? Ask her war eagles,
eaks dulled and wings broken,
flung1 helpless into the Tiber.
"But," say you, "if there be noth
ing but a plumb line what can any
of us do, for there is an old proverb,
which truthfully declares : ' If the
best man's faults were written on his
forehead it would make him pull his
hat oyer his eyes.' What shall we
do when, according to Isaiah, God
shall lay judgment to the line and
righteousness to the plummet ?" Ah,
here is where the Gospel comes in
with a Saviour's righteousness to
make Hp for our deficits. And while
I see hanging on the wall a plumb
line, I Isee also hanging there a cross.
And while the one condemns us the
other saves us, if only we will hold
to it. And here and now you may
be set free with a more glorious lib
erty than Hampden, or Sidney, or a
Kosciusko ever fought for. Not out
yonder; or down there, or up here,
but just where you are you may get
it. The invalid proprietress of a
wealthy estate in Scotland visited
the continent of Europe to get rid of
her maladies, and she went to Baden-Baden
and tried those wraters,
and went to Carlsbad and tried those
waters1, and went to Hamburg and
tried those waters, and instead of
getting better she got worse, and in
despair! she said to a physician:
"What shall I do ?" His reply was :
"Medicine can do nothing for you.
You have one chance in the waters
of Pit Keathly, Scotland." " Is it
possible ?" she replied. "Why, those
waters are on my own estate !" She
returned, and drank of the fountain,
and in a few months completely re
covered. Oh, sick and diseased, and
sinning,! and dying hearer, why go
trudging all the world over, "and
seeking here and there relief for your
discouraged spirit, when close by,
and at your very feet, and at the
door of your heart, aye, within the
very estate of your own conscious
ness, the healing waters of eternal
life mayj be had, and had this very
hour, this very minute, this very
Sabbath ? Blessed be God that over
agamst the plumb line that Amos
saw is the cross.
71
ALL OVER THE STATE.
ITEMS OF NEWS SCISSORED
FROM EXCHANGES.
Marriages, Deaths, Personal Par
agraphs, and All Sorts!, Culled
lor the Readers of TheiPlant.
i New Berne graded school opened
Monday. I
i Taylorsville is preparing? for a big
jubilee in honor of the completion of
trie june bug road.
! Trinity college will in
October is
Pfof. Arm
s,ue a college magazine
strong is .editor-in-chief, the students
assistants. -
I Dr. J. M. Baker, of Tl
irjoro, has
been appointed Assistant Surgeon
General, vice Dr. Hubert, Haywood
promoted. , j
; Tidn-City Daffy: Sixty f bales of
cotton, together with a box; car, were
consumed by fire at Tatjurii's depot
on the C. F.& Y. V. railfoad last
week. I
; Davidson Dispatch: (apt. Trice
says he caught the boss rat of the
county last Friday night
at the ue-
not. It measured
17 inches from
tip to tip.
I Carthatre Blade: Mai.
f .
John W.
fcjeott, of Greenwood towrisrjip, has a
ip, h
stim
scupnernonc vine that is estimated
tthave borne this year onej
dundred
bushels of grapes.
I Ninvx, (( Obserccr : Governor Scales
arid family will move from their
preseiit residence on Nortlji Wilming
ton street, to the Blount mansion on
Ilillsboro avenue. !
! Asheville Citizen : We (asked a
friend yesterday "What's tbe news?'''
and he replied. "Thingisjis awful
quiet" We found them jst). And
this in Asheville ! Plant. I
I" . ' it
! Raleigh's water works ciajue up to
the contract in every particular. The
News & Obxercer says theyj proved to
be as fine and perfect a system as
can be found in the countri'.
Reidsville Demon-ot : Iti is said
that Maj. Robt. L. Raglandjof Hyco,
YjL, will raise 100 bushels bpf tobacco
seed this year. Enough to -plant the
acreage of the entire globe four times
Fayetteville News : The V. S. C.
R. R. Co. has about corripleted a
freight warehouse in the rear of their
otlicejin Fayetteville, whiclpjwill add
considerable to the convenience of
our merchants. j
Neictf & Observer: The cotjton com
press has handled nearly 5,000 bales
of cotton already this se4son. A
count on yesterday showed that
eighty -four bales of cotton were com
pressed in sixty minutes, j
Washington Progress: Thk remains
of Mr. Thomas II. Blount, who died
in Birmingham, Alabama! arrived
in this town on Wednesday night
last, and wrere interred in the Epis
copal churchyard on Thursday morn
ing.: j
Kernersville News t Farm : Mr. R.
I). Fulton, of this place, had a barn of
tobacco which had just beencured,to
burn down last Friday, causing a
pretty heavy loss. 1 Every lyear we
chronicle cases of this kind which
shows that additional care? is neces
sary. ;
Charlotte Chronicle : The cotton
compress in this city is doing some
of the finest work on record, and is
squeezing the cotton at a lif ely rate.
Yesterday the press turned out 102
compressed bales per hour,br at the
rate of 2,448 bales per ddy, of 24
hours. j
Western Sentinel: Mr. Jarpes Line
back left Monday morning ith Miss
Pattie Vogler, of Salem, for th.e Mor
ganton asylum. Miss Vogler's mind
has been affected for sorne time, but
it was not until a few days past that
it was thought advisable toj take her
away for treatment. Jj
The News & Observer tells bfj a won
derful wild creature that! has ap
peared in the woods four miles north
of Raleigh. It is a wild rriajn or a
wild beast of some unknown species.
It goes on all fours, has a stuhipy tail,
climbs trees, chatters like i ah ape,
etc. Probably an old circus monkey.
Greensboro Workman : j We are
glad to hear through Principal Mor
gan that the repairs to the college
building, since the storm,j are pro
gressing rapidly, and w ilL be. com
pleted in two weeks more, and that
four new students have been added,
making the number on hs.nd fifty
four. ; !
Wilmington Messenger : ' The Mes
senger is pleased to learn j,h'at an or
der for the three drinking fountains
decided upon by the mayor! and wa
ter works committee of thejboard of
aldermen will be given at once to
Mr. J. W. Fisk, of New York. They
will probably be placed in position
by the last of October. j
Selma Neics : On last Wednesday
evening, as the train which was bring
ing back the colored excursionists
from Wilmington was passing the
Faison or Mount Olive section, show
ers of stones were thrown atthe train
by some boys and one woman was
hurt. These young villains jought to
be caught and severely punished.
Webster's Weekly: There jis riot a
day that passes but that w see lots
of little chaps playing around the
depot and platform. They pump on
the passenger cars to stealj a snort
ride and hang on the freights as they
are side tracking. The polipe ought
to put a quietus on theml Seme
boy may ether get killed oriseverely
hurt in this manner. j j
New Berne Journal : There are: two
enterprises which we think will be
of great benefit to New Berne and
which we think can be secured by
united effort, and only by united effort.
These are to secure an extension of
the A. & N. C. R. R. to - Sahford or
Fayetteville, and the otherj is to se
cure a through line of railway from
this city to Wilmington. " j j
Henderson Gold Leaf: Tpere:is a
AND UNBRIBEp BY GAIN.
1887
new counterfeit dollar out which is
said to be a fine piece of workman
ship ami hard toj detect, being made
of glass and composition. However,
any of our friends who desire to pay
their subscription to the Gold Leaf ',
need not hesitate on this account.
We will take the jrisk of having coun
terfeit dollars passed upon us.
Charlotte Chronicle: AVork is pro
gressing rapidly on the new cotton
factory at Fort Mill, and the walls
are built up to the top of the first
story, and the bricklayers are wait
ing for the carpenters to place tim
bers before proceeding further. The
main building isi two hundred and
seventy-two feet long by fifty feet
wide, and is quite an imposing struc
ture. S.tatesville Landmark-: Mr. Edwin
Borden, and Mrs. Octavia Wallace,
botjipof Wilmington, were married
at t'lie residence bf Dr. L Harrell,on
Davie avenue. Rev. Dr. W. A. Wood,
pastor of the Presbyterian church,
performed the ceremony, and soon
thereafter Mr. arid Mrs. Borden left,
via Charlotte, for Wilmington. Mr.
Borden is train ! dispatcher at that
point for the Atlantic Coast Line.
Statesville Ldndmarl: : This has
been a year of rank growtns. Mr.
R. J. Williamson raised on Third
creek bottom, in this township, near
the mouth of Duck creek, on land
which he had rehted from Mr. Hugh
Plyler, a crop of born in which there
was one stalk which measures even
1G feet in length.) It grew two ears
of corn, a large and a small one, and
from the ground! to the second ear
was a distance ofi 10 feet.
Rockingham Rocket: Two negroes,
Essie Adams anjl Win. Campbell,
ot into a row in Laurinburg last
Saturday night, and in the affray
Adams drew his pistol and fired at
Campbell. The shot missed its mark
and lodged in the! body of Burt Wil
son, who was standing near. As
W ilson fell.Adamjs escaped through
the crowd, and has not yet been ap
prehended. Wilson died from the
wound on Monday morning.
News f; Observe?: Three convicts
of the squad now lemployed on the
Carthage railroad jescaped last week.
Mr. Hicks, of this city, is in charge
of the squad, and his humanity and
kindness to them jwas taken advan
tage of by some jungrateful fellows
and made a mean of escape. Mr.
Hicks had six of them out clearing
up the roadway, when one walked
up to him and asked for a chew of
tobacco. Mr. Hicks put his hand in
his pocket to gratify the negro, when
the burly fellow seized him while off
guard and took away Ins gun and
pistols Mr. Hick'b life was in dan
ger for a few moments, but three of
the six ran off without attempting
to do him any injury. The other
three went back to the stockade with
Mr. Hicks, though 'jhe was unarmed
and they could haye easily gotten
away.
"What is Woman's Worth?"
asked a fair damsel of a crusty old
bachelor. He did not know, so she
said : "W. O. man") (double you, O,
man). But a woman feels worth lit
tle if disease has infaded her system
and is daily sapping her strength.
For all female weaknesses, Dr. R.
V. Pierce's "Favorite , Prescription"
stands unrivaled. It cures the com
plaint and builds bp the system.
Send 10 cents in stamps for pam
phlet to World's Dispensary Medical
Association, 6V.'j Main street, Buffalo,
N. Y. j-.
Lightning Rewards and Punishes
Exchange.
A Dakota man, while on his way
to borrow a neighbor's paper, was
struck by lightning and killed.
Puck.
A man in Missouri, who had just
been to town and subscribed and
paid for his county paper, found on
his return home that the lightning
had struck a tree in his yard. The
bolt tore up the ground disclosing a
rich vein of gold.
The Long- and Short of It.
rTwin-City Daily.
A very little baby was born
to
Dennis and Betsey Broughton, re
spectable colored citizens of Monroe,
Ga., the other day. It weighed but
two pounds and looked too small to
have life in it. But its proud motii
er said that there was nothing trie
matter with it ; it was "jes' small,
dat's all," and she narried it "Martha
Ann Mary Magdalene
ranees Cleve-
land Broughton."
A Woman's Discovery.
"Another wonderful discovery has been
made, and that too by a lady in this county.
Disease fastened its clutches npon her, and
for seven years she withstood the severest
tests, but her vital organs were undermined
and death seemed imminent. For three
months she coughed incessantly and could
not sleep. She bought of usl a bottle of Dr.
King's New Discovery for Cjrasurnjtion, and
was so much relieved on taking the first dose
that she slept all night, and! with one bottle
has been miraculously cured. Her name is
Mrs. .Luther Lutz." Thus write V. C. Ham
rick & Co., of Shelby, N. C. j Get a free trial
bottle at K. Blacknall & Son's'drug store.
The Verdict Unanimous.
W. I). Suit, druggist,' Bippus, Ind., testi
fies : "I can recommend Electric Bitters as
the very best remedy. Every bottle sold lias
given relief in every case. One man took six
bottles, and was cured of Kheumatism of ten
years' standing." Abraham Hare, druggist,
Belleville, Ohio, affirms : " The best selling
medicine I have evT handled in my twenty
years' experience, is Electric Bitters." Thou
sands of others have added their testimony,
so that the verdict is unanimous that Electric
Bitters do cure all diseases of Ihe Liver, Kid
neys or Blood. Onlv a half j dollar a bottle
at K. Blacknall & Son's drug store.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for .Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheunij Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapped hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively
cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money
refunded. Price 25 cents ier box. iForsale
bv K. Blacknall & Son.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
THE GREAT DIFFERENCE.
THE
TARIFF IX NEW YORK
AN
I MASSACHUSETTS.
The Peel.
arations of the Two
at
States Their - Platforms
Side
One,
by Side Protection for
Reduction for the Other.
"Whereas, The unnecessary federal taxation
of the lasjt fiscal year exceeded $100,000,000
and uunetessary taxation is unjust taxation,
therefore the Democracy of New York de
mand that federal taxation be straightway re
duced by a sum not less than $100,000,000 a
year, and also respectfully urge upon Congress
that a measure shall be adopted which will,
in the language of the President's inaugural
address, relieve the people from unnecessa
ry taxation, having a due regard to t lie inter
ests of capital invested and workingmen em
ployed in American industries.' The taxes
to be firstj reduced or altogether removed are
those on imported raw materials, which now
assist audi promote foreign conietition with
ourselvesfin our own markets and prevent or
hinder thie sale of our surplus products in
foreign markets. Along with those taxes
should bej forthwith remit ted,or reduced the
taxation which increases the cost to our wage
earners of the common necessaries of life and
the price bf the common daily clothing of all
our people. Beside these there are several
hundred articles among the 4,182 articles
now taxed w-hicli should be swept off t he tax
list into thi free list, thereby diminishing the
cost of eolkpeting all our seaport taxes and
casting awat those which are Jetty, needless
and vexati(is. We also urge an immediate
enactment If the measures prepared by Mr.
Manning aiw Mr. Hewitt and reported to
the last Ilofise by the Committee of Ways
and Means (.o systematize, simplify and econ
omize theliAachinery for the collection of the
customs revenue, and especially for making
correct appraisements of foreign values wher
ever ad valorem rates of duty shall be re
tained." j
That lis what the Democracy of
New lork says. Here lollows m a
short sentence the Massachusetts
declaration in favor pf protection.
This isHhe great dill'erence between
the parties at present, or at least this
is about the only difference that can
be ascertained from their platforms.
Massachusetts Republicanism says:
"We believe in a protective taring recog
nizing the benefits it brings to our country by
giving ouri jeople more varied industries,
more constant employment and better remu
neration, furnishing an incentive for the full
development ot our resources - ami securing
our markete the best in the world to our
own producers."
She sitjaply reiterates old fallacies,
and subscribes to them.
After the platform was adopted
the New York Democrats endorsed
the administrations of President
Cleveland and Gov. Hill in the fol
lowing Jariguage :
"The Democracy of New York approve the
administration of tJ rover Cleveland, Presi
dent of the United States. It has won the
respect and tonfidence of all citizens without
regard to party. It has removed that appre
hension of the dangers which would attend
chantre of party in the federal administration
which had become a serious obstacle to the
maintenance; of our system of a free govern
ment depending upon the popular will. It
has brought back honesty and simplicity to
the conduct of affairs. It has checked the
waste of public moneys and insisted upon
their devotion to constitutional purposes.; It
has effected a practical reform of the civil
service. It has maintained the national char
acter for justice and forbearance in dealing
with foreign countries. Its management of
the treasury has been signally wise and pru
dent and it hjas begun the reconstruction of
our naval establishment with a thoroughness
that promised the restoration of our ancient
prestige upon the sea. Y lierefore we, repre
senting the Democracy of New York in con
vention assembled, again pledge to the Pres
ident our strong and unwavering confidence
and support.
"New York State now enjoys the benefit of
a Democrats- State administration, which
has well fulfilled the trust committed to it by
the electors in 1885. In eveiv branch of
the State government under Democratic con
trol the laws-ihave been carried into effect
with rigor anil justice, and every right of the
people ,h:is j lx?en zealously maintained.
Wherefore we heartily indorse the adminis
tration of thedlon. David B. Hill, Governor
of New iork,iand pledge to him our full
confidence and support."
Both parties speak of good to the
working mari, but if the workingman
will think, he will see that the re
duction aski'd for by the Democrats
will more certainly relieve him than
any spurious advantage dilated upon
by those who favor protection.
Good Times in the East.
Fayetteville Observer.
It is very ! gratifying to us to be
able to announce that the farmers
are paying ff their mortgages arid
crop liens more promptly and uni
versally this year than ever before.
The important bearing of this fact bn
our future prosperity is almost in
calculable. We may talk of manu
facturing enterprises and hail them
as a means to material prosperity;
but there can be no genuine, healthy
prosperity in jany section where the
agricultural glasses are burdened
with debt antl unable to meet their
obligations from one year's end to
another. i
Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pel
lets." Positively Popular ; Provoke Praise;
Prove Priceless ; Peculiarly Prompt;
Perceptibly Potent ; Producing Per
manent Profit!; Precluding Pimples
and Pustules ; Promoting Purity and
Peace. Purchase. Price, Petty.
Pharmacists Patronizing Pierce Pro
cure Plenty, j
A quiet life, bften makes itself felt
in better ways than one that the
world sees and1 applauds ; and some
of the noblest are never known till
they end, leaving a void in many
hearts.
There are souls in the world who
have the gift ojf finding joy every
where and of leaving it behind them
when they go.j Their influence is
an inevitable gladdening of the heart
There is no velvet so soft as a
mother's lap, no star go lovely as her
smile, no musi4 so melodious as her
voice, no rose I so fragrant as the
memory of her love. !
Good temper1, like a sunny day,
sheds a brightness over everything.
It is the sweetener of toil and the
soother of disquietude.
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PEOPLETAXKED ABOUT? :
Senator McPherson says he is tired
of politics, and will not seek the
nomination for senator.
J ohn Washington, one of the most
prominent lawyers of Caroline coun
ty, lrginia, dropped dead in church
on Sunday.
TheSwedish nightingale, the peer
less Jenny Lind, is thought to be
rapidly Hearing the grave. Wil
mington Star. - .
President Cleveland will be re
ceived with enthusiastic greetings in
a imparls 01 .triebouth he may visit.
Wilmington Star. .
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that
English people are taller, stouter
and healthier than New Englanders.
Philadelphia Record.
Mr. Kilbride, who attended Mr.
OBnen on his Canadian tour, has
been elected to the house of com
mons without opposition.
Samuel L. Avery, nominated Re
publican candidate for mayor of
Louisville, voted for Cleveland in
1S84, and is classed as a Mugwump.
If Gould gets all the telegraph
wires in the country Blaine mav be
elected for two weeks after the elec
tion next year instead of one. Phil
adelphia Times.
The fact that Mrs. Cleveland does
not remove her gloves at dinner, is
not nearly so astonishing to Western
congressmen as Mr. Cleveland's habit
of eating with his coat on.
Henry George really does not need
a daily Newspaper organ in New
York, such as he wishes to establish.
The New York Tribune is doing all
it can for him. Savannah Neivs.
Hon. Wm. R. Morrison, of Illinois,
says the President is growing stronger
all the time with the people, and
will continue to grow stronger until
tle next Presidential election day
comes around. . .
Lord Salisbury's health is said to
be very poor. We are not surprised.
With the burden of Ireland upon his
conscience he has enough to break"
him, or any ma.11, completely down.
Wilmington Star.
Gov. Richardson, of South Caro
lina, says that while in Philadelphia
he was greatly annoyed by the ques
tion: "What did the Governor of
North Carolina say to you just now?"
'( ilad'Vph ia Record.
Ex-Governor Carroll, of Maryland,
says his Shite will send a solid Cleve
land delegation to the next Demo
cratic National convention, and that
Mr. Cleveland will then receive an
almost unanimous nomination.
Lord Randolph Churchill is being
boycotted by some of the tory or
ganizations, and he gets but little
sympathy from ; the tory leaders, a
number of whom have refused to
speak from the same platform with
him.
Jarvis will be the man to nomi
nate for Governor, an4 the Times be
lieves that his election would be by
a much larger majority than before.
The whole State would rally to such
a noble Governor as Jarvis made.
Give us Jarvis. Reidsville Times.
Ex-Congressman Wm. K. Morri
son, of the interstate commerce com
mission, who is spending his vaca
tion at his old home in Illinois, is
said to be utilizing his spare mo
ments in laying his pipes for his re
nomination to Congress. Wilming
ton Review.
Secretary Whitney has not al
lowed the grass to grow under his
feet.- He is a master workman in
his department, and is rapidly mak
ing a record. He has in less than
three years of service taken three
strides toward the American navy of
the future. Neio York Herald.
Atlanta, with President Cleveland
as a feature of her Exposition, and
Macon, with Jefferson Davis as an
attraction at her State fair, are bound
to have a close race to see which is
the cake-taking city in Georgia. We
are betting on Macon's exhibit as a
crowd-gatherer. Philadelphia Press,
Rej.
The plain, simple truth is that
Mr.-Samuel J. Randall holds pre
cisely the same relations towards the
Democratic party that any other Re
publican Congressman would hold
who should call himself a Democrat,
and rest his Democracy on that point
alone. Charleston News and Courier,
Dem.
Mr. Chauncey Depew says with
commendable pride that the title of
American is equal to a patent of
nobility abroad. This is a very pleas
ant remark with which to greet his
friends on arriving home. He also
declared that Mr. Blaine is not work
ing for the Presidential nomination
at least so it seemed to him.
General P. M. B. Young is to su
perintend the arrangements for the
great sham battle 1 at the Kenesaw
Mountain, and he guarantees that no
one shall get hurt. The blank car
tridges will be duly inspected before
they are served out, and in no case
will the opposing combatants ap
proach nearer than forty yards to
each other. T'
General Lec went to the theater in
Philadelphia, and as soon as the au
ditors obtained sight of him they
shouted for a speech, nor would they
rest until he came forward and made
a few remarks. The applause-which
followed was tremendous. The man
ager says he never before saw bo
much attention given to a stranger
in a theater.
Charles Dickens, Jr., who is to lee-
tureln this country, is about as much .
unlike what the public would ex
pect in a son ot Boz, as a parlor
match is unlike aacomet. His round
face and rather feeble cast of features
are scarcely redeemed by a large
pair of spectacles, and in his deliv
ery he has neither physical nor dra
matic power. News & Observer.