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Our Aim will be, the People's Rigid Maintain,
Unaiced by Poicer, and Unbribed by Gain."
WILSON, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1887.'
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,r Resident of WilsonAn
By ur,lci1-,i. Brilliant. Cultured.
iXbtfal Writer, Who Dips Her
ate Brush in the Gorgeous Dye
B0f Richest Beauty, and Paints
Irnh Exqisite Colorings Many
Clorions Scenes of Interest.
. My Dear Mirro-
come appearance bearing press eulogies of
TOur gifted editor very pleasantly recalled
'memories of the past Avhen the lync stage
yielded honors to the youthful actor. -
' i doubt if Bulwer ever gave more pleas-
ureto personators of his charming drama
than to the shortlived mespian p
Wilson. While recently floating along the
shores of Como there was no memory
. ?j ii ti-,of nmnteur rendition of
more viviu uuut
the Lady of Lyons.. I realized also that
.. . . i J- Knifir in
Claude did not exaggerate ""V -
Minting i" ""
tins nis cnaLcau r0.. ---
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He
could have drawn ic stroiiSci
truthful. For I do not think he includes
the distant setting ot tne snow
peaks while every tropical fruit, flower and
fracrrance adorn its steep shores and jewel-
in,. uMs. We also saw birds in marble
halls, but do not think they could have be
longed to Claude's aviary. However haz
ardous it maybe to locate that , air castle,
I firmly believe the author must have re
ceived his inspiration at the exquisite spot 1
'of Bellaggio, meaning oeauuiui iac.
i i.:x..i i .
Nothing but the frightful propinquity of
Italv's
scourge and the intense heat 01
August come
ild have dnven us irom tnis
i i.ii
fairy like spot, let no snores can leu
more kiteresting history than those of
Como. It has long been and must ever be
the pleasure retreat of royalty and of what
is more noble, the beaux-espnts. The place
is still to be seen where the younger Pliny
lived, and the beautiful palace of the un
fortunate Queen Charlotte is now used as
hotel. Light and graceful Villas of marble,
yellow and white stucco thickly dot the
vine-dad shores, and many of these are
decorated with a highly colored Virgin and
Child, while others belonging to a less re
ligious occupants have Caricatures of hu
man beings painted on the wall spaces.
These decorations did not increase our rev
erence for the wonderful Italian art instinct
and fame who believes in physical influence
over art would doubtless attribute these
vagaries to the proximity of the beautiful
Alpine snow. Every mercurial . descent
must necessarily nip the budding art ideas.
We have had much' pleasure this sum
mer m comparing our own Appalachian
range with the.Alps that are so fresh in
memory. Many tourists give the prefer
ence to the White Mountains, on account.
of the wide valleys', the atmosphere, and
the more extended views from the lower
peaks. All these are necessary and de
lightful, yet nothing can equal the dazzling
hite snow peaks that extend twice as far
o? into the blue sky as the loftiest of the
AHeghanies, while the eternal glittering
seas of ice reach from the summits far
town into the loveliest of green valleys
fce white and -the green blending in a weird
harmonious beauty.
I kites set like iewpls nmnncr the
ne peaks form a most attractive feature
mat is
n0t formprt in tVi ViPnrt zif thp
lte Stains. Comparatively there is
rcost a dearth of water scenes in this
ff10" wtiny cascades are found in
e Crawford xotch whose fi extends
0ver a thousand feet, but thev are so nar-
that One hnR Vun onnrnnriof v nomPrl
e 'Ribbon." Harriet Martineau pro
duced Fronconia Notch to be the most
Jquisite mountain scenery that she had
cver sppn ti-- . ...
aius most exquisite region
mishes many interesting features. Arj-
SiChing rom Franconia Valley the
J grand Layfayette range extends
rth and south, and! the ascent to the
NotrK V. - . . ... .
u "1 at the village of Franconia.
an ascerit of four hu
a four 5Hles drive, you arrive at
fc t kePl hotS in the mountains, "as
Weu as the L-.. t j
41 ii ! m W llll rki ill r kl I I I'J 1
This is at the entrance
jaodsin.the narrow de--tte
and Cannon Moun
a few minutes', walk
)t majesUc uOki Man
rotchand;
file stands out like a
thrw. . "."SWT,
the
sky nearly ) two
. ad f abA Vre the small lake at it I
e ei) tK)t two small for a fair I
of v. If - ... ; I
-j- -
y g 13 scene a -v' rest"
throng of rowers. Six miles further
is that qaeer freak of nature, the Flame,
that is the Mecca of thousands of summer
pilgrims. . All this must be seen and not
spoiled by misleading adjectives in word
painting, so I drop the curtain and come
on to Saratoga.
The season has closed in this Paris of
America, for it became too cold a week
ago to sit on the piazza. Piazza life and
Saratoga are inseparable, and ladies clad in
gossamer laces will sit on the piazza of the
States or Union even thouorfi th fwmpt.
tish chill has reached the cerebrat base of
her spinal column and tearful eves
an itching nose have signaled the . fatal
epidemic - the ' bad cold. The races are
over there is no more music in the
nof a gafden paUy ln v,eWj SQ the Saratoga
beUe must lawn tennis ride horse back
Qr hunt (Jr autumn leaves to keep up her
circulatkm at this seasQn of the jean
The grand pageant of equipeges is daily
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aiminisning on Broadway. The cottagers
afe p . . themsd and with lheir
paiace nke homes it would be strange if
they did not. North Broadway and Union
.1 - "L . . . .
streets are architecturally fair rivals of
Newports avenues. Here the early Eng
lish styles of architecture are most elabor-
treated and prevail It is to hoped
however, that our future' architecture is
not to be so hopelessly entangled in such a
threatening confusion of porticoes, Eliza-
bethian windows,; towers and gables, as a
few specimens here would lead us to ex
pect. The grand old elms of Saratoga re
ug q those 0AWiW
Here they
are often covered with the brilliant Vir.
erinia" creeper that extends to the bough
and festoons them in a very artistic man
ner. The favorite drive is through Wood
lawn Park, "the extensive domains of
Judge Hilton's summer home. We sup
pose the statuary found there must have
to Mr A. T Stewart's embryonic
virtuoso period. It would be interesting
as well as amusing if that were true.
For the benefit of those who pin their
faith to Cohsress water it is necessary to
tell them that it has ceased to flow as it
ought. It is growing decrepid and has
taken unto itself a fresh water spring that
makes it antirely too weak for the Antis.
The latter are now found daily at the
sparkling Hathorn and that is not stronger
than it ought to be. The people who fre
quent Saratoga aae its chief attractions.
A few days since we were regaled with
a sight of Thakore Sahib, the Indian prince
lately lionized in Newport. His dingy
copper face with its close shaved wooly
beard, to a Southern eye did not compare
favorably with some of our African deniz-
ons. Jtiis wnue luruaa wc wy
ture of dress that distinguished him from
other Americans. . '
In season here the Spanish and German
languages are more heard than the Eng
lish, The foreign air really recalls the
brilliant Paris, which always represents a
congress of nations.
The recent Republican State. Conven
tion was not entirely satisfactory in its
nominations. Probably it thought the
nominees would be good ones to bear the
defeat,
Next week the Democratic State Con
vention meets here and it is lo be hoped
that Blaine will be again repulsed by an
other Democratic victory in the Empire
State even if they are only minor offices to
be filled.
This has become such a politicai base
that Levi P. Morton has moved his resi
dence here in order to get a controlling in-
fluence. i
Many North Carolinians are daily seen
on the streets, and there was one at a spring
the other day who-had evidently never
been so "fur" from home before. He said
"a lady down in North Caliny had told
him he'd see sights up here." He was
making himself at home.
With best wishes for your prosperity, I
cease my gossip.
R.
His Hark.
How doth the little mosquito
Improve the midnigh dark, 4
To leave on forhead and on limb,
His'sanguinary mark?
How skillfully he plies his bill,
How neat he makes attacks;
Then stores himself In parte unseen,
And dodges all the whacks.
The Presidential Party.
President Cleveland left Washington City
last week for his Southern and Western
trip receiving an oration all along the
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A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHONI
OUSLY ELUCIDATED.
Numerous Newsy Notes and Jfanr
Merry Morsels Paraffraphically
Packod and Pithily Pointed.
Wisdoms makes opportunities.
Those who look for evil find it,
Man's thought last longer than
man s
deed.
-A mistake is one thing and
blunder
another.
A woman of the period is the female
typesetter.
The editor's motto The write man in
the write place.
We judge, in this world, not by inten
tion, but by result.
As a rule the people who save are the
people who thrive.
Henry Mi Stanley was heard from as
late as 23d of June.
Genius is so rare that it must impress
one when one meets it. f i
Samuel J. Randall is the ablest assis
tant Republican now in Congress. :
-Senator Voorhees says there is no di
vision in the Indiana Democracy. Good.
There is nothing so valuable and yet
so cheap, as civility ; you can almost buy
land with it.
A man may trangress as truly by hold
ing his tongue as by speaking unadvisedly
with his lips. '
Twoytnore passengers of the plague-
stricken steamer Alesia, died of fhe cholera
at New York.
There was frost in Virginia Saturday
night, and there are fears of great loss in
the tobacco crop.
rT,l 1 1 1 .
' xiic new cierK wno naa cworKea as Jii
type-sticker, inadvertantly died "copy !"
insteaa or "cash!" .
T1 . e 1
-xne xoreman 01 me composing-room
says that making up the paper is a mere
matter of "form."
Gen. Pryor and Capt. Black are confi
dent that a writ of error will be granted in
the anarchist case.
Col. Insergoll thinks that Mr. Harlan,
of Iowa, will be the republican candidate
for the Presidency.
. Ten ministers in the Virginia Confer
ence nave aiea mis year. 1 ne last was
Rev. E. N. S. Blogg.
The criminal courts of Philadelphia
are unable to keep pace with the accumu
lation of indictments.
Never wait for a thing to tiirn up. Go
and turn it up yourself. It takes less time,
and it is surer to be done.
Ben Butler is fighting a judgment
against him in favor of the National Sol
diers' Home at Mogus, Me.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a
difficulty out of countenance and make a
seeming impossibility, give way.
xne x-ouisviue courier-journal says
that in the death of Gen. William Preston
the last of the Cavaliers departed.
A young man on a bet took twenty-
two drinks of whisk' at Da-ton, O. He
died after swallowing the last drink.
: A drunken fool at Vicksburg defaced
the monument that marks the site of the
interview between Pembertbn and Grant
The strongest of us will be nothing but
a memory to our friends by and by, the
better we live the sweeter that memory
will be.
"Oh, to be an editor who doesn't have
to set type," is the plaint of one of pur
country exchanges. Probably he wanted
to go fishing.
"There are plenty of openings for poets
of real genius," said a writer. That is
true. This office, for instance, has several
windows and doors.
Prof. E. M. Potcat writes to the Ra
leigh Recorder that there are but 36 Baptist
Churches in the entire State of Maryland
outside of Baltimore.
At Petersburg R. P. Barham and W.
N. Evans, charged with libel on Mayor
Garrett, were sent on the grand jury and
released on $500 bail.
"What does prominent mean, father?"
M Prominent, my son, is the title applied
by the reporter to the citizen who allows
himself to be interviewed." . 1
The Tories have succeeded In convict-
J ing O'Brien; but free speech will go on in
I Ireland. Tho
eaders cannot crush the purpose of a whole
people whose sufferings have made each
of them a leader. i
There were 27,844 immigrants landed
at Castle Garden during the month of July,
heir total number being greater by 3410
han the immigration last vear.
There are conflicting rumors as to Mr.
Davis health and the probability of his
being present at the Macon Fair. The
editor of the Telegraph, however, says he
will be on hand.
"Well, Harry, what are you doing now
a days?" "Writing for the press." "Thank-
ess sort of work, ain't it?" "Bless your
heart, no. 'Bout everything I write is 're-
urned with thanks.' "
t
A man escaped from a Rhode Island
ail by making a rope of newspapers twisted
ogether. Newspapers have got many a
scoundrel into jail, but they are not often
used to get scoundrels out.
The Dakota Bell has gone up the hu
morous flume. It was ,too bright for the
Territory where the tornado takes half the
product of the soil and the land speculator
has a mortgage on the rest.
Foreman (to country editor) Do you
want fhe Rev. Mr. Goodman's sermon.
'Feed My Lambs, to go on the editorial
page."" Editor ( absentmindedly ) "No.
Run it in the 'Agricultural Department.' "
The Confederate Soldiers Home at
Richmond has 125 inmates. It is main
tained by contributions chiefly from people
of that city. It is proposed that each
Southern city shall erect a memorial col
lege. .
It is said that 700,000 persons visited
Philadelphia during the Centennial cele
bration. There must have been a erand
revival and awakening in the sleepy hotels
and boarding houses of the Centennial
City.
The inmates of the Minnesota peniten
tiary are .going to start a paper. If the
sentences in its leading articres"af e' as long
as those of the inmates, o suspicion will be
aroused that Senator Evarts is the editor
of the sheet.
Grand Mastes Workman Powderly
drinks water only. 1 He abjures liquor of
all sort, as he does also coffee, tea' and
milk. If all of his followers would adopt
his course in reference to strong drink pov
erty would indeed be abolished.
Sombody sent a poem to a Western
journal, beginning: "Old friend, compan
ion of my youth, a bumper to the brim."
But when the compositor tortued "bump
er" into "bummer" there was a roar in the
omce, and tne editor was obliged to wear
crtuches for two weeks.
A Tennessee country editor who went
off for his summer Vacation left the follow
ing notice on his office door: "Will be
gone for several daj-s and have left matters
in charge of office by. People who wish
to pay subscriptions will see our wife
Those who have complaints to make wil
please go to the devil."
They say "Our Zeb" has taken to fid
dling so as to while away the hours of soli
tude in his rustic home at the foot of the
Great Black Mountain. If the report be
true, we will venture to say that the Sena
tor will soon be able to out fiddle anybody
in the mountain region. That is the only
way he knows how to do.
The New
York
Herald states that
General Roger A. Prvor has been
-
offered .
a retainer to argue an appeal for the Chi
cago anarchists before the Supreme Court
of the United States, and it is understood
that he will argue the case on appeal in
Washington. General Pryor is quoted as
saying that the anarchists have a reasonable
chance.
By the death of Ex-Senator Joseph
Cilley, of New Hampshire, Simon Came
ron becomes the oldest surviving Ex-Senator.
He was born in 1799 and is followed
by Ex-Senator James Bradbury, of Maine,
born in 1805, Jefferson Davis, born in
1808, and Hannibal Hamlin, born in 1809.
Mr. Cameron served in the Senate with
Messrs. Cilley, ''Bradburry, Davis and
Hamlin. r '
It is rumored in New York that Dr.
Charles Simmons has presented to. the
trustees oUhe Tildcn estate a bill for $143,
000 for medical service and attendance on
Mr. Tilden. The doctor explains that he
visited Mr Tilden probably every day for
nearly eight years and that being on terms
of great intimacy with klm It was natural
that a settlement should be deferred.
OLD NORTH STATE
STILL IN THE FRONT RANKS OF
PROGRESS,
As Will beSeen From the Following
Very Gratitylnr Report or Her Pro
gress and Prosperity.
The Chattanooga Tradesman, in its ,
quarterly review of the Southern industrial
situation, just published, shows a very
gratifying state of affairs. There has been
increased material growth in every section,
and what is of more interest to hereabouts.
North Carolina stands generally well up
near the head of the line in the march of
improvement. Thirty-three new factories
have been organized, for example, during
the three month, and of the number this
State is credited with 12, leading the next
argest State, Texas, by 5. Of S3 wood
working establishments, exclusive of saw
mills, North Carolina has established 13;
Georgia io; Virginia 3; Tennessee 9;
South Carolina but 1. Of S7 railroad com
panies incorporated this State has had 6;
Virginia 3 ; Tennessee 10; South Carolina
Georgia 21. The general companies
formed are pretty evenly divided among
all the States. Five glass factories have
been organized, one in this State, and a
great diversity of other industries have
been formed, among these 4S flour and
grist mills, of which 14 were in North
Carolina. A remarkable development of
gold and silver mining is reported and
there has been considerable progress In the
work of iron making, more particularly in
Alabama and Tennessee. Moreover, the
rolling mills in Birmingham and Chatta-.
nooga have orders for months ahead. The
consumption of cotton by Southern mills
has been increased, as we have already
shown, nearly five and a half per cent,
during the last twelve months and new
companies are being rapidly formed. Al
together the situation appears very active
indeed, and it is not a little pleasant to ob
serve that our own good old State in the
renewal of her youth she has of late years
indulged in no degree behind any of her
Southern States. In reality and solidity of
boom, indeed, we more than suspect that
she is entitled to first place ijmong the
Southern sisterhood.
FROM FLORIDA. t
A Graphic and Characteristic Letter.
Prof. Tucke, in a private letter, writes in
such pleasant wise regarding Wilson, and
with such interest about the land of hisr
present sojourn that we venture an extract,
as we believe it will be of interest to our
readers, m the hope that our appreciation
of his letter may prompt him to write one
for. publication. He says:
"I uppose Wilson is not entirely dead
in the shell,' but flourishing in a moderate
way not booming. I continue to say
what I have always said, that it is the most
respectable place between Weldon and
Wilmington. Wilson is a good place and
altogether I have found no better . people
in any place I have seen during the thirty
years past, and I know human nature pret
ty well. It has been summer here ever
since I arrived in January last, only s little,
more so during July, August and Septem
ber. July and August are called the
rainy season preeminently, and so it is
but occasionally we have 6howers now.
September and October are called the sick
ly season, but we do not find it entirely so.
On one of ths hottest days in August I had
a chill, but in two hours I was 'over it and
up.' I have to say that the depressing
effects of the climate here is due to the
low barometer mainly. I think the heat
does not range so high here as in many
places in North Carolina, but the sweat
just rolls out of a person, and scarcely
man, beast or "nigger" can endure it."
RATHER BARBAROUS.
Bat Then, It
Pleased
Wife.
Ills Lovlns;
"Is my shaving agreeable to you, sir?" a
loquacious barber asked a costomer whom
he was flaying alive. "My wife would ad
mire it very much," rather indefinitely re
sponded the man under torture. "Ah,"
said the barber, with great cerhplacency,
"ladles are excellent judges of their hus
bands being well shaved. And you think
mine will suit, sir? "No doubt of it In the
world, it was only this morning she be
came angry because I told her I could not
afford to to buy her a fall bonnet and the
said I ought to be skinned alive. The
harber lost himself in reflection.
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