ME OKPHANS’ FKiEND.
fi^cdix«sday, J>cceMitoer 8, a8Y5.
SPECIAL
BOYS’ AND
COLUMN.
UIELS’
We still continiio to receive
communications from the girls
and boys, but not as fast as we
anticipated.- Those we have re
ceived and published are well
written for writers so 3’outig, and
would oven do credit to those of
more experience. We would like
to get letters from all the counties
of the State ; those heretofore re
ceived being mostU' from one di
rection, But let these writers
continue, and write on any sub
ject they please, and we hope
others, from other sections will
write also, until tliis psige of the
paper is filled with their favors.
IIarrellsvili.e, N. 0.,
Nov. 29th 1875.
Editor Okth-Aks’ Fkikitd.—On
looking over the last copy of the
“Okphans’ Friend,” I see that
only oue has complied with your
propisotion made in a previous
copy of your paper. I will
now attempt to give you a des
criptioii of the county in which 1
live, w'hich is Hertford.
I was born in the village of
Hairellsville in said county, and
MU now just twelve years old.
Hsrrellsville is a small vil
lage loeatod in the lower
of the county three miles
of the Chowan River, has
sixty or seventy inhabitants, it
eontaiiiB five stores, a Methodist
ohursh, a female school andamale
academy, in which there has
been no school since the death of
Jir. Henry Riddick, a well known
teacher in some parts of this State,
who died hero some six' mouths
ago. This academy was ojiouod
several yeiu'S before the war,
Hon. J. j. Yeats being the loader,
and one of the teachers.
Winton is the county seat, it is
the largest shipping point in this
aectiou of the country, fi-om the
fact there is a very largo back
country and Winton is the near
est as w'ell as the most conven
ient place. It contains several
large stores, an academy, a Bap
tist church which has boon re
cently built, a large steam saw
mill, a coach-shop, and two hotels.
The court house is a large nice
now brick building, the old one
liaving been burned during the
war by United States soldiers.
Murfrootiboro is the largest and
theoldosttown in the county, loca
ted in the upper part of the county
twelve miles from the b. & H. R-
B,, it is situated near the Mehor-
rin River, and is noted for its ed
ucational advautag'QS, having two
large female colleges and a male
academy. Rev. G. W. Btarr is
the president of the Methodist
College, Rev. A. McDowell of
the Baptist, Prof. Oourad is the
piineipal of the academy. Prof.
Delke, who sometimes writes for
the Orphans’ Fkiesu, is one of
the principal teachers in the Bap
tist collog'e.
Murfreesboro is not only noted
for being remarkable for its edu
cational advantages, but it has
given to the State two very noted
»nd talented men, Hon W. H. U.
Smith who now lives in Raleigh,
and Hon. J. J. Yeats, who is now
Oongreaaman from this pai-t of
the IJtate. It contains several
stores, a Methodist, Episeopal,
and Baptist church, a phuto-
grapluc gitlleiw, and there hasre-
cenily bCui started a new paper 1
called the ‘‘Miu-freosboro Enqui
rer.”
The surface of the land in
Hertford county is low and Hat,
and the soil is in many jilaces
sand}'. The principal products
lU'O cotton, com and potatoes, but
very little attention is paid to
raising fruits; tliero is some little
trucking in some p.arts of the
county, and I am told that the
soil is adapted to this kind of
farming.
We have no mountains or high
hilU ill tho county except the
hills oil tlie banks of tlie rivers
and creeks. The [n-incipal rivers
are the Chowan and Meherriu, the
former is formed bi' tlie junction
of the Mcherriii, Nottawy and
blackwater, it is quite a large and
beautiful river, some fdty or six
ty miles long, emptying into tho
hi . email sound neai' Edenton
bajq it is the houridary lino be-
tw-een this county and GateB and
Chowan counties. There is a
steamer named fur the ‘Chowan,’
which is quite a large and hand
some boat, which runs over this
river three times a week briumng
us our mail, the route extending
from Eranklin, Va., where it con
nects with the S. & R., E. R.„ to
Plymouth N. C., a distance of
one hundred miles. There are
many large fisherios on this river,
which are fislied every spring,
and supply most of the Northern
markets with many shad and bar
ring. It is a very amusing sight
to sc® the seine* landed with its
thousands of tlie “finny ti-ibe,”
and 1 wish all the boys and girls
in Middle and Western N. C.
could witness this aniuaing sight.
1 have not said in my impor-
feot way all that might he said of
my county, but the length ol my
letter warn* m« to stop and finish
in aome future communication
should it bo your plea.su2a to ac
cept it.
Nannie E. Shaw.
For Oi-phaiis’
TI5S ORySsLTi'S
A waixierer silwue, o’«r ILfs's stxu^y uiaia.
No shelur or liaveu, in Biuknesa or ;
Huge \iiilowa of griaf otjarmy h&sid.
iloiuflosa and htiuaclosa—inj pisjects aw dead.
ily f«U bleeding ’aiivist o&iuag© and
strife,
On the red batrie iield lie yloldod bin life;
One tbouglit of liis home, and oalmly li©
miiUed,
Aud left to liis oonntry IvU pHM' orphan child.
iloart'trokoB, my moth©!' soon aickeued and
died,
In the vilkigo shurcb yard all© slfrep.s ^bj his
9idg ;
Ahiuo, all akmo, -vyilhout IrioudR or houi»,
1 was left ia my grief, u’«r this wide world to
roam.
Tho cold blasts of winter howl over my head,
I am fveoaiiig -with oeUl whilst I hunger for
bread;
Too feeble to I only can cry,
Kind stranger, tak© pity, or I too v/LU die.
0 G>d of the orphan ! whate’er may betide,
I pray 'L'li»e, that I too, may sleep aid© by
Slid©
With the loved ones Tt© lost, with them may
I rest,
And b© taken to heaven with the good and
, the blest.
Eucbldounb.
Wfeai’ii ^’cBocIa.
When I was a boy, my lather
one day called mo to him, that
ho might teach mo how to know
what o'clock it was. He told me
tho use of the miuuto finger and
tho hour hand, and described to
mo tho figures on tho dial-|)lato,
until 1 was pretty perfect in my
part.
No sooner had* I gained this
additional kuotvledgo, than I sot
ofi‘ scampering to join my eom-
pauious, but my father called me
buck again. “Stop, Humphrey,”
s.ud he, “1 have something else
to say to yon.”
Back again I went, wondering
what else I had yet to learn, for
it seemed to me that I knew all
about tho clock, quite as well as
my father did.
“Humphrey,” said he, “I have
taught you to know- the time of
day ; I must now teach you to
find out the time of your life.”
All this was Dutch to me; d
waited rather impatiently to hear
how my father would explain it,
for I wanted sadly to go to my
marbles.
“Tlvo Bible,” said he, “de
scribes the years of man to be
tiireosccu'e and ten, or fourscore
years. If wo divide tho foiu'score
years of au old man’s lUe uito
Welve parts, like tho dial of the
clock, it will allow almost seven
years for every fig'ure. When a
Ikoy is seven years old, then it is
one o’clock of his life, and this is
the case with you ; when you ai--
rive at fourteen years, it wdll bo
two ©’©lock with you; aud tlien
at twenty-one years, it will be
tliroe o’clock, should it pDas© God
thus to spar® your life. In this
laanner, you may always know
tlie time of yoiu* life; and your
looking at tho clock may perliaps
remind you of it. My great-
graruifather, according to this
calculation, liiedat twelve o’clock;
my grandfather at eleven, and
mj father at ten. At what hour
vou and I sliall die, Humphi’ey,
is only known to Him to whom all
things are known.’*
Never since tlxea have I Ixeard
tho inquiry, ‘‘What o’clock is it!”
without being reminded of tli»
words of my father.
I know not, what o’clock it
saay bo witii you, but I know
very woU what time it ia with
myself ; and that if I mean to do
anything in this world, which
hitherto I have neglected, it is
high timo to set about it The
words of my father have givou a
solemnity to the dial-plat© of a
clock which, perhaps it never
would have possessed in my es
teem, if those words had not been
spoken. “What o’clockis it with
your
IfSi* Cry.
The following beautiful appeal
for til© world’s homeless and
friendless little ones is from the
Advocate ayul Guardian :
How pitiful 1 “Tho last cry
hom’d was that of a little child in
the cabin,” says the narrator of
tliQ fearful wreck of tho Schiller.
How far tliat cry has reached!
The little helpless babe, its moth
er swept away by the rushing
waves, wailed out its terror aud
grief in the darkness aud empty
void. There was no lielpor, aud
it, too, sank into tho cold abyss.
But its voice has rung round tho
world.
Long years ago, another babe
wept, but the voice of its crying
found a loving response. Tho
king’s daughter had comjiassion
on the little waif, hud by tho
river side alone in its ark of Dal-
rushes, and took liiin for her son.
Ho was saved.
And there are weeping babes
all around us. The cries of help-
loss infancy fall u])on our oars at
every turn. Fathers, mothers,
are swept aw'ay by the relentless
hand of death, and the cry is heard
of the little child ia the empty
home. VvTrse still, when sin
swoops tho pai*ent on in its re
sistless power, and the babe is left
at|the mercy of Ufo’s cruel current
—loft to sink to a premature and
sad grave, unless some king’s
daiigiitev passes that way, and,
uii'ved with compassion, takes the
ciiiid to her own lieart. Who
niu'.' not rear a Moses f
A Mail K!iie F€«t Loug;.
America has come near having
a giant to rival Og, KiugofBasli-
an:
Mr. Sluslien, tlio largest rnan
ever born iu Tennessee, diod in
in Greenville, in that State, re
cently. lie wasbutiiiiioteenyears
of age, and had ho not boon bent
by an attack of rheiuiiatisui, w’ould
have been nine feet high. His
boot was eighteen iuches long, aud
one of his hands was about tho
siae of four ordinary ones. Ho
could sit on a ©Inur and pick up
anything tlireo feet from him.
ilis Imad luejisuiedabout fobneen
inches, and his cheat seven and
oii®-haIf feot in circiunfereuce.
His eoiUn was eight and one-half
feet loiig, fifty-eight inches wide,
aud two and one-hfilf feet deep.
Churlish souls stint their con-
Tributions, aud call such saving
good economy. Little do they
dream that they ai*© thus impov
erishing themselves. Our God
has a method ia providence by
which lie succeeds our endeavors
beyond our expectations, or can
defeat oui* plans to our confusion '
and dismay. In a very wide
sphere of observation, 1 have no
ticed tliat th© most generous
Clmstians ol my acquitintanco
have been always the moat hap
py, and almost invariably the
moat prosperous- Men trust good
stew'ards with laager aud larger
sums, and sf) it Aequently is w'ith
the Lord. He gives by cart-loads
to those who give by bushels.
Where wealth is not bestowed,
the Lord xnakoa the iiitle much
by the contontuient which the
sanctified hearts foel in a portion,
of hich tho little has been dedica
ted to the Lord—
Java possesses a curious fish
that iw^aai'ium managers should
took uitor. In tho t5mk inliahit-
,ed hv the il-ih a stick is placed
upright, projecting a few inchorf
.above the water, aud a Hy or in
sect of some kind is placfnl on th'
top. 'rii© fidi swims round tho
stick to exaiuino the prey, and,
after appai'eutly measuring the
distauco, ri.-ies to tho surface and
discharges a few droix*^ of water
at the insect rarely falling to se-
c.nre Its game. This “shooting”
lish is of a plain, yellowish color,
marked with dark stripes, and is
about ten inches long.
Apsuoiaitcd Busedcr of
62ic 40 raise C^k-
erijissftioaasi iQipSAasia Asyla&nnsj
American Oiorge, 17—Dr. C L CatiipFoli II
C Mail.lry, G Vi Spimccr.
Davie, 3i), Tkomjuj J Pugh, Josc'j^h CotteO;
Goo A Tally.
Hiram, 40, J C K Little, T \V Blake, A H
Winston.
Concord. 53, W G Lewui, Joliu W Cotloo,
Joseph P Su^ga.
Scotland.Nech, 03, A B Hill, W E Wliit-
inore, G L Ilyraiw.
71, JAmea .A G-»ttia, ChM-le* C Tay
lor, Isaac li &tra-jh>ys.
Or, 104, J F Kaadolph, T J Carroalt, Eloh.
axd Grrtager.
Clinton, 107, N M Beau, J C Giiffitb, G
Watson.
Frafrihlin, 109, Wia M Th^rap^fl, F B Sfaea,
B IxilWCTillX-fg.
St. Albans Lod^ 114, MaQueen, H T
pitman and Neill Townsend.
3£t. Lebanon, 117, Jamt^ W Lancaoter, A J
Brown, S B Waters.
Tttocarora, 122, M B Jones, W S Graady, W
R Turner.
Clinton, 121, 'Pho© Whit®, B Y Yarbro, G 3
Baker, J G £in?.
HadicmcB, 132, J. G. Britt, Jesiws Benton, T.
II. Suggs, Taylor Barrow, C. H. Alhrit-
toQ.
Mt. h'norgy, 140, J B Floyd, H Haloy, W E
Ballock.
Boicni^nlhi, 156, C II Hortoa, I II Soarhero, A
R YoBog.
Bi^fah, 172, A A Mclver, A A Harrington,
B G Cole, A M Wiokor, R M Brown.
Falkland, i9r», A. R. Pai-ker, J. 'i'. Parker,
Wui. i’cebks.
Cary, 193, A D Blaokwoixl, P A Siirrol^ R
H JolKSJ.
Boanoke, 203, R W Dauiol, E M Hicks, W
T Kco.
Berea, 204, W 11 Eiiaiua, F M Moiidowg, R
W Hobgoo 1, E C AUoii, A &h.6nnaji-
Lobwio^i, 207, Juo H Smmnor^tt, Wm Mei--
ritt, W S Friuk.
Mt. Olive, 203, Josae T Albiitton, Jool Lof-r
tin, D M i\I Justice.
McOosmiicJc, 226, Dalryuiplo, Natlian Das-
gal], W 0 Thomas.
Lenoir, 2Ji3, Bcuj. S Grady, John S BLasell,
S B Parker, John H Aldridge, Juoub P
Harper.
Wicaacon, 240, Noriufin L Shaw, MaUlicw
Brewer, Wui E Peel
Bou'uU’es, 243, Alien Johnston, S Quineeley,
Wm D Tucker, W T hleseley, P hi
Pittmau, Henry F Brooks.
NeuCsrv, 245, J E West, T Powere, E Hutba.
Catiiiuha, 243, R P Rieulurdt, J Long, D
W Rainsmu’.
Shiioh, 250, W H Gwgory, E©v £ 12i&©©, T
J PUUi-d.
FaniUngiOfi, 265, L O Haat, W G JokusU*,
W F Furekes.
Watauga, 273, J W Council, J Hariiiajf, L»
I* Gr&ea.
Nine Lukanon, 314, Saint^l Wilimtae, Jidui
JaeoW, \V M Speuci©,
Jermaiem, 315, J«)ha U K B«rm>
hxrdt, Thoiua© M Bcaascat.
Manalan, 318, J. J. SiukSvr, John Martin, J
N. T. Mania.
Matiamajike^, 3id, S S J C iW."Ua4.
FayeiUviik, 329, A S Heui*, B £ S«4b«nry,
George P HoNi*iLL
Mt. Mjm-Uk, D. D., j W P«w8il, J B PkU
Ups, W F
THK ORITIANS’ FfelHND,
i\Mit>hed cd t}^ OrpJum
OXiXlIMi, 5t. C,
Prick, $1.00 a yoH-f, cajui, portag© pr©
paid here.
Advi^ti^iiiemts inserted at 10 ©eats •
Uue for first iasertioa and 5 ©©ate a lia© Ibr
eauh ooutiuuance. About ©igUt wurtl© uaak«
a line.
The paper is edited by the ofSoere of
iustitutioB without exti^ cempetuuitioD j and
much of the work of printing it hi done by tho
Orphans.
AH Ute net p-rojita go ie th» a/ tka
Asylum.
We ask every present aubeasber to •*
at least oue additieoj^ o&tM boiera
iag of tba Grand bat 0*4 aoed bM be
oou^idered. ib® Limit.
Aujuit ii-ltb, 1875.
. Ji. ETo.V, JR.
B. UAi.sr.
(/>fe of "Dalby Pn^.*)
LYON, DALIU^ & 00.,
MIANUFACTURKRS OF
TOIBACICCS.
Durham, N. C.
Orders solicited—Agents waated—T»b©a»»
guaranteed.
March 17th—ll-2in.
fl. A. KEAMS & ©©..
MANUFACTUKSSa OF
REAMS’ DURHAM BOOT AND SHOE
POLISH,
Wa^wnted to excel aU others, o» wwwy
Refunded.
Tho only Blacking that will polish on eSed
surface, ft is giuaraulet^d to preserve leather
andinake it pliant, requiring lass quantity aad
lime to pvodne-o a perfect gloss than any ©thef,
tho brush to be applied immediately an©r po^
ting on tho Bbtokiug. A perfect gloaa frosB
this will not soil even white clothe©. "W®
guarantee it as represented, and as for 7>«4*
ronage, sttnctly on its merits.
H. A- REAMS *Si CO., Mannfeetrwera,
Lhtrhfm, N. TX
This Blacking is rocemmend edin th© high
est teniis, after trial, by Geo. F. Brown, J
Howard Warner, Now Yora; tho Prwndeat
and Professors if Wake Forest College ; and
a large number of gentlemen in and aromid
Durham, wtiose certifiicates hav© l>c«i for-
nisbivl the Mamifacturers.
Ordf-rs fKdirifpd snd proinptfy filled.
1375. . D-tl