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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, January 9, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 111 King Street,
New Bern, N. C., by the Sole Owner
j. GASKiLL McDaniel
-Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRiPTION RATES:
One Year $2.50 Six Months .
Entered as second-class mail at New Bern April 4, 1958,
un Jer the act of March 3, 1879.
$1.25
ON A SUNDAY MORNING
Church bells were ringing, as the editor of The Mirror
walked into the postoffice to pick up his morning mail. In a
matter of minutes he would be teaching a Sunday school
class across the street. In an hour he would be taking Com
munion at the morning worship service.
There were the usual overdue bills in his box, a couple of
checks, and a pink postal card mailed from Minneapolis, Minn.
The card gave no indication of the sender’s identity, and it
wasn’t hard to understand why.
Newspapermen—the ones who dare to live up to their call-
ing—get accustomed to threats, slander and condemnation in
their mail. They are a natural traget for every screwball and
square who wants to hide in the darkness as an unseen and un
known coward, and knife his fellowman in the back.
But here on a printed postcard, exposed for all to see,
was viciousness so revolting that it made one cringe at the
thought that it could happen in America. What warped mind
in this, the most blessed of all lands on earth, would fashion
and distribute lines like these:
WHO CARELESSLY LEFT THE STABLE DOOR OPEN?
The Holy Ghost, a total stranger,
Raped a virgin in a manger!
But, rescued by a Texas ranger.
She was shortly out of danger.
In the same vein, the card carried this blast at a Man of
Galilee Who taught a doctrine of peace and good will, and
practiced what He preached even in His agony on Calvary’s
cross:
RUMINANTS
These dumb, submissive Christian “flocks”
Remind me of the sheep and ox.
Excepting that they chew their cud
On something they call Jesus’ Blood.
It is quite apparent that the party who went to the time,
trouble and expense of mailing the card to his newspaper
editor has an extra special hatred for Christ, and a keen desire
to besmirch events that happened in a little town called Beth
lehem almost 2,000 years ago.
However, he or she also has a decided distaste for any
'aird faiths. Among other things, the card sa«>5^r“Beligion is
retarHihg Progress.” We assume that this blanket denunciation
includes not only Protestants and Catholics, but the devout
Jews that The Mirror is proud to number among its friends.
This card would have been no less revolting to us if the
object of its vile phrases had been the Jewish faith, or any
other faith that mortals look to according to the dictates of
their conscience. In its godlessness it is aimed at the very
roots of our great American heritage.
Maybe it should have been shrugged off, as just one of
those things, but to us it was no laughing matter. Not in a
nation where places of worship have been repeatedly bombed
in recent months.
God needs no defense against those who seek to destroy
Him in the minds and hearts of believers. But America itself
is less secure for all decent people in exact ratio to the number
of crackpots on the loose who carry such unbelievable malice
in their twisted brains.
Fortunately, there are limitations on the nature of mat
ter sent through the mails, and aside from that. Uncle Sam
doesn’t react to(? kindly to those folks who conceal their iden
tity when mailing out unwanted and objectionable material.
The sender in this case will probably never be ascertain
ed. But at least he postal authoriies in Minneapolis have the
card at this writing, and will proceed from there. Our guess is
there won’t be many more of these conspiciously pink postcards
wending their way through the mails from here on out.
Incidentally, the card was mailed at 7 p.m. on January 1,
1959. What a way to start the New Year off right!
Historical
Gleanings
—By—
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
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William Lister of the Listers of
Shibden Hall, Halifax, England, re
sided first in Virginia, later in New
Bern. He was engaged in the mer
cantile business in New Bern prior
to his death in 1743, when he was
drowned as he was returning from
Virginia with goods which had
been sent to him from England.
He left his wife, Susanna^ Lewes
Lister, and two small daughters,
Phoebe and Mary.
Susannah Lister, Admini^ratrix
made an inventory of the goods,
chattels, and merchandise belong
ing to the estate of William Lister
of New Bern Town, dated March
22, 1743, and listed in the store,
among other items: 28 yards Fus
tan, 11 yards fine check, 2 pair
gloves, 2 pair of worsted hose, 6
double cotton caps, 27 yards black
Shallon, 9Vi yards bearskin, 1 hank
green silk, 4 ivory halted knives
and forks, 3 coopers adzes, 25 yards
silk crepe, 5 lbs. pepper, 20%
Welch cotton, 14 yards Tartan, 2
bundles of thread, 6 barrels, 191
gals. 2 casks of loaf sugar, 9 bbls.
N.E. rum, 153 buskels Lisbon and
rock salt, 192 deer skins, 123 lbs.
raw hides, 3 lbs. beaver fur, 213%
lbs. tallow.
In the lower room, one feather
bed, one bolster, one rug, 1 pair
blankets, two pairs sheets, one bed
tick, one dozen mash-bottomed
chairs, one pair pistols with hol
sters, and caps, a set of china for
a tea table, a pair of brass scales,
one Delph mug, one side saddle
and velvet cover, one old pot and
funnel, a stone jug..
In the upper room, one Bible,
two Common Prayer books, four
Whole Duty of Man by Shuler;
Discourses on Death, Elements of
Astronomy, Universal, Arithmetic,
a Spinning wheel, a teat kettle, ond
marking iron, a set of brass
weights. In the kitchen, 6 pewter
dishes, one dozen plates, one box
iron, 2 heaters, 2 iron pots, 2 ket
tles, one sifter, 9 five pounds this
currency in money.
An inventory of the balance of
several accounts due on the books
of William Lister, deceased, ex
hibited to March Court in New
Bern in 1744, includes many promi
nent New Bernians, to wit:
Richard Nixon, Thomas Graves,
John Fonvielle, Nathaniel Smith,
Samuel Griffith, Mrs. Linnington,
Francis Stringer, John Irons, Fran
cis Nunn, Hardy Bryan, Dennis
Shulock, Lambert Flowers, George
Bould, Jonathan Bangs,’ John Car-
ruthers; Nicholas Routledge, Arth
ur Johnston, Malachi Johnson, Wal
ter Lane, James Durham, Elizabeth
Reed, Henry Hammond, John Bry
an, Thomas Murphy, Sr., Jeremiah
Murphy, Martin Franck, Robert Jar
man, Alexander Steel, William
Cookson, George McCarthy, Jacob
Sheets, George Coons, William
Brice, Mr. Moore, Peter Blin, Pat
rick, Stanaland, George Kernegee,
Thomas Pearson, John.Good,' Thom-
Villoge Verses
WATCH THE CHILDREN
No motorist would kill a child if he could have his way.
And yet, somewhere small broken forms are buried every day.
Somewhere a home where laughter rang is saddened now, and still.
It seems so strangely different, and we know it always will.
No boyish shout of “Hello, Mom” as up the walk he’d come.
That’s gone, just like his whistle and the song he used to hum.
The burst of spring can’t mean a thing when days on earth
through.
And autumn’s flame he’ll never claim in woodlands that he knew.
There’ll be a youngster missing, when the kids make lemonade
To peddle on the corner, and when Scouts parade
Their marching feet along the street will beat a sad refrain.
A mother’s heart will hear it, and old wounds will throb again.
What would have been the future of this happy, carefree lad,
' What were the hours of triumph that alas he never had?
Was a statesman taken from us, in the twinkling of an eye.
Did a scientist or inventor, or an author bleed and die?
We only pause to wonder, by a grave that claimed its own.
No place this side of Heaven are such answers ever known.
But this we know, with certainty, throughout our Old North State,
The sacrifice of lives like these goes on at ghastly rate.
Such tragedies are bitter, and each driver of a car
Should exercise all caution where little children are.
Sometimes a child is thoughtless, hard to predict it’s irue,
So take heed as a grown-up and try to think for two.
May you niever save a minute, as you plunge full speed ahead,
Then spend your life remembering a child that’s long since dead.
- —JGMcD.^
305 Johnson Street
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Now is the time to get in
some coal as winter is not
far off. We have plenty.
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Pocahontas Briquets
The Best Stoker Coal
A!so, Mr. Farmer, we have Hog
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form your hogs. Drop by and
get severe! bags. We de!iver in
country.
We Also Have Fresh
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Dial ME 7-3406
For Quick Delivery
as Lovick, Francis Lingfield, Daniel
Dupee, David Dunn, George Lewis,
John James, George Fisher, Thom
as Fisher, William Peters, William
Charlton, Nicholas Lawley, Daniel
Wilson, William Wilson, Frederic
Isler, Edward Williams, John SSpp,
Francis Brice, Richard Spencer,
Peter Prevat, John Gatlin, Durham
Hancock, Thomas Hogg, John Hol
lingsworth, James Perdue, Winslow
Driggers, Martin Fulch, Nicholas
Harper, Cornelius jLpftin, WUli^
Whitfdrd, Benjamin Fordham, Gi|f-
rett Hyman, Thomas Smith, Dr. lA-
Pierre, John Murphy, Lewis Bryan,
Paul Ives, John Powell, William
Herritage, Richard Lovett, and
Thomas Robertson. It was noted
that one pair of pistols were in
the hands of Mr. Joseph Hannis.
Phoebe Lister married Mr. Isaac
Van Dam, a merchant, who resided
sometimes in New Bern and some
times in St. Eustatia. Their only
child, Susannah, marled Dr. Nicho
las Homayne, who was president of
the New York Medical Society from
1805 to 1811.
Mary Lister, the other daughter
of William and Susannah Lister,
married Richard Nassau Stephens,
and was the maternal grandmother
of the distinguished Hawks broth
ers, the sons of Francis Hawks. The
grave of Mary Lister Stephens is
in Christ Church yard near the
Pollock street entrance and is
marked by a marble slab.
Some orators don’t seem to un^
derstand that there is no Connifec^ltV
tion' at all betweeu-Moquehce-att^;.
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