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SXILl. 001i>G WKST.
Leaving Oxford, on a pleasant
morning, and leaving the children
to pursue their studies, we are off
again for the West. Horace
Greely says, “go west, young
man,” and wo go, and keep going.
At Henderson, many protninont
citizens of Granville take the train
to go to Kaleigh to court Judge
Lrooks. Better visit him at his
homo in Elizabeth City than at
the bench and bar in Kaleigh.
Tlie courts and the politicians are
busy at the Capitol. New law
yers and old campaigners are at
work. Some body is to hold of
fice, and hundreds feel themselves
competent. But our business in
Kaleigh is arranged, and off we
go, “ Westward, ho !” Train full
Col. Long reads of the Indians
and falls asleep. Ho ^Ireams thai
a rude red-skin seizes him by the
hair on the top (a hem !) of his
head, and draws the dreadful
scalping knife. His nightmare
can not take him away, and so he
cries aloud for help. “ Murder,
murder, murder,” rings through
the coach, and the Col. awakes
as happy as sister Jones at a
camp-meeting, and laughs at his
own alarm.
We reach Thomasville and the
Female College too late to hear
the address by W. H. Pace, Esq.
But the people pronounce it a
good one. We are too late also
for the exercises of the graduates,
but in time for the excellent con
cert. So far as we can learn, this
institution is doing thorough and
faithful work in the cause of ed
ucation, and the prices are low,
while the fare is good.
COMMEKCEMENT AT TRIXITY.
On Wednesday and Thursda}^
for many miles around, the land
is astir to hear Dr. Talmage, the
famous Brooklyn preacher, at
Trinity College. He is a small
man physically, except that his
mouth, nose and eyes are large.
His red hair is combed across his
bald head, and he looks like a
cool, calculating Yankee. His
voice is loud and strong, high or
low, coarse or fine at pleasure.
All his weeping is done with his
mouth. In an instant he can fill
his voice with tears, while his
eyes look sad, but keep perfectly
dry. As a speaker he is intensely
humorous and better than an av
erage circus. Even in a sermon,
his wit and humor are constantly
boiling over ; but his sermons are
sensible and attractive. His lit
erary address was not literary,
solemn or profound. It was
amusing from the start. He first
broke a bottle of mirth over the
heads of his hearers, and then
came a rolling flood of
“ Sport that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding hoth his sides.”
It was good for the grumbles,
a disease which now sorely af
flicts our people. It abounded in
good advice on matter’s of minor
importance. But the people
laughed at the man and at his
manners, eveu when what ho said
was common. Hero is a sample :
“ The man, who does not love a
horse, ought to be—ah—kicked
by a mule.” Read this sentence
and it seems to be as dry as a
bone ; but hear Dr. Talmage say
it, and you will laugh till your
sides are sore. The address was
certainly entertaining to the vast
assembly ; but the occasion nright
Lave been improved to stimulate
education among the people. The
graduates delivered their orations
with ease and graceful dignity.
Dr. Craven held the crou d under
complete control, and the mar
shals were equal to every emer
gency. The aisles were kept
open, talking was prohibited, and
perfect decorum prevailed. Judge
Dick presented the medals, and
Dr. Bryant presented the Bibles.
Both delivered brief and very
appropriate addresses. Mr. C. L.
Heitman, of Lexington, delivered
the Valedictoi’}^ Addresses. They
were touching and appro)>riate.
Dr. Burkhead, President of the
Board of Trustees, presented the
Diplomas to Dr. Craven, and he
read them to the audience and
presented them to graduates. All
the ceremonies were impressive.
High hopes are entertained of the
future usefulness of Trinity Col
lege.
Leaving a discharged orphan
with a good lady in Lexington,
we are soon in Salisbury. Mr.
Robbins and Col. Waddell
have been renominated and the
people are full of politics. Some
can hardly eat. What will be
come of the orphans when the
campaign gets hot ?
SU««EST!ONS TO FARMERS.
1. Many have failed to raise a
supply of tobacco plants, and will
have leisure in June, though grain
crops are growing where prepara
tion was made for tobacco. In
one day a large quantity of black
berries may be gathered. At
night they may be dried in a few
hours in the tobacco barns, just
as tobacco is cured. Next day
they will command the cash iu
any market, and will promptly
and richly repay for the labor
bestowed
2. It is true that corn is the
best food for hogs. It is also true
that hogs need vegetables, and
onions especially'—as a preven
tive of cholera. When you take
up dinner, drop onions, (tops and
all) into the pot and boil for half
an hour. Hogs so fed enjoy good
health.
3. Dead wood in the forest en
genders diseases. Better burn it,
in dry seasons, and fertilize with
the ashes, the best and cheapest
of all the fertilizers.
4. Let us, as a people, help
each other. Some things must
come from Northei’n shops and
stores. But as a general rule,
let us buy from our own manu
facturers and trade through our
own merchants. There is no vir
tue in sending to New York tor
painted goshen butter, while good
butter made in our own state is
selling for 20 cents. Cloth made
in our own state is good enough
for a gentleman’s coat or a lady’s
dress. Our own tan-yards and
shoe-shops, andj chair factories,
sash factories, cheese factories,
and wagon factories would be
equal to all our M'ants if duly pa
tronized. The best hominy in
the world is made in North
Carolina. Yet our people pay
double price for hominy from
other states. Those farmers who
raise their own hogs and beeves,
and make most of their farming
tools are always prosperous.
Those who buy ever}' thing they
want, and depend on cotton and
tobacco to pay for all, are gener
ally asking credit at the stores.
It is a remarkable fact that
every day in the week is observ
ed by some nation for the public
celebration of religious services.
Sunday is devoted by the Chris
tians, Monday by the Greeks,
Tuesday by the Persians,
Wednesday by the Assyrians,
Thursday by the Egyptians, Fri
day by the Turks, Saturday by
the Jews.
WAKE FOREST COMMENCE-
MEA’T.
June OtEs, TtlSy and Sthi
Tuesday, the visitors begin to
come in on the different trains.
The Trustees meet at 11 a. m.
The visitors are delighted with
the appearance of the place. They
admire the stately oak.s, the beau
tiful grass and the winding walks
of the College Campus.
At 8 p. 111., Kev. C. C. Bitting,
D.D., Kiclimond, Va., delivers the
Annual Sermon from Luke 24:
45, “ Then opened he their un
derstanding, that they might un
derstand the Scriptures.”
“The Enlighten Understand
ing” was well discussed. The
preacher was enabled to keep his
subject between himself and his
audience in such a way, that the
people saw the subject, not the
preacher. Notwitlrstarnjing the
occasion and crowd, he kept the
undivided attention of his audi
ence. Long will we remember
his pleasant face and kind heart.
Wednesday, 11 a. m., the ad
dress before the Literary Socie
ties is to be delivered. The ad
dress comes, but the Hon. W. M.
Robbins, of Statesville, N. C., is
kept by pressing duties in Wash
ington. The address is read by
Dr. Bitting. He enters so fully
into the spirit of the address that
it is hard to conceive how Mr.
Robbins himself could delivered
it in a better manner.
Wednesday, 4 p. m., the Alum
ni Association holds a mass-meet
ing for the purpose of discussing
the North CiU'olina Baptist Stu
dent’s Aid Society. Short speeches
are made by Prof. Taylor, J. W.
Denmork, Dr. McDowell, Rev. J.
D. Hufham, J. 0. Scarborough,
Dr. Bitting, Dr. Pritchard. Mr.
Scarborough tells how he came to
Wake Forest soon after tlie close
of the war wearing his Confeder
ate Uniform, and without one
dollar in his pockets. He finds
friends who lend him money and
he completes the regular College
Course. He Is emijloyed as Tu
tor, and t’.vo years after he grad
uates, repays tlie last cent of the
borrowed money, and has twenty
dollars in his pockets. I’he ob
ject of this Society is to lend
money to poor young men to en
able them to obtain an education
—the money to be repaid with
interest as soon as the young
men can.
Wednesday, 8 p. m.. Rev. T.
H. Pritchard, D.I)., of Raleigh,
N. C., delivers the Annual Ad
dress before the Alumni Associa
tion. His subject; “The English
Language.” The address w'as
well conceived, instructive, and
well received by the audience.
Below we give the programme
for Thursday. Were we to tell
a tithe of the compliments we
heard paid the different members
of the graduating class, wo might
turn their heads well balanced as
we think they are. It is suflicieut
to say that without exception,
they acquitted themselves well.
PROGRAMME.
I'liAYRIl.
MUSIC.
LATIN SALtITATORV.
J. T. Blaud, Pcmlei- Co., N. C;
MUSIC.
OKATION.—Talent,a Dangerous Possession.
J. J3. Powers, Pender Co., K. 0.
MUSIC.
ORATION.—Pleasure of Communing with
the Wise.
J. L. Britt, Wayne Co., N. C.
MUSIC.
ORATION.—“Wluit Man lias Done Man
can Do.”
B. F. Montague, Wake Forest, N. C.
MUSIC.
ORATION.—The Materialistic Nature of our
Civilization.
J. T. Bland, Pender Co., N. C.
MUSIC.
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS.
J. n. Powers, Pender Co., N. C-
MUSIC.
Conferring Degrees and President’s Address to
Oraduating Class.
MUSIC.
BENEDICTION.
NAMES OP
I. Stitdmit§ wlio !iave completed
tlie several Schools.
JLATIN.
J. T. J. Battle, W. E. Daniel,
J. a. Bunch, A. E. Walters.
GREEK.
J. G. Bunch, C. W. Scarhorough,
VV. L. Poteat, N. U. Street.
I71ATIJEMATBES.
L. T. Buchanan, W. L. Poteat,
I’''. R. Jouea, W. C. Scarhorough,
J. ii. Jones, N. II. Street.
U, Studci&ts who hsivc completed
the Course for the Degree of
Bachelor of Scieuce.
B. F. Montague.
ISI. Students who have completed
the Course tor the Degree of
Bachelor of Arts.
J.T. Bland, J.L. Britt, J. B. Powers.
IV. Students absent from no duty
during the past year.
H. Y. Allen, D. H. Jenkins,
E. F. Aydlett, W. N. Jones,
J. T. Bland, J. B. Powers.
V. Students absent from no duty
during the i»;ist two years.
W. E. Daniel.
Thursday, 4 p. m., there are
pleasant reunions of old students
in the mass-meetings of the two
Literary Societies, and many a
tale is therein unfolded.
At night the Campus, Chapel
and Literary Halls are filled by
old and young. There are very
few “ivall-flowers” and every
bashful young man and blushing
maiden seems to find something
to talk about. And that something
generally appears to be of a pri
vate nature. Notwithstanding it
is leap year, we see sever; 1
young men, rve think, are doing
the courting.
The D. D. tree bears no fruit
this year No honorary titles are
conferred. We have attended
every Commencement since the
war, and we have no hesitancy in
saying, that this is the most en
joyable of them all.
L. R. M.
THE OXFORD ORPHAIV
ASYEFM.
There is no institution, or en
terprise in the State, which so
strongly appeals to every noble
and generous impulse of the hu
man heart as the above. And
yet, notwithstanding the unques
tionable claims it has upon the
people for a generous and liberal
support, we learn its excellent
Superintendent is barely able to
keep it going. There is no duty
w'hich a State is called upon to
discharge of a higher dignity than
the comfortable maintenance and
education of its indigent orphans.
It is a question which has both a
political and religious aspect, and
appeals both to our patriotism
and philanthropy. It should be
done as a matter of State jiolicy.
It is well known that the bulk of
the Clime committed is the result
of neglected childhood and ignor
ant manhood. Our jails and pen
itentiaries are filled with crimi
nals who might have been occu
pying honorable and useful places
iu society, but for a childhood of
poverty and neglect. It is our
duty from a social and political
standpoint to look after the poor
and destitute orphans of the State,
take them out of the abodes of
vice and wretchedness in which
many of them are forced, and
give them a chance to make hon
orable and useful men and wo
men.
As a Christian people, rve should
remember the word of God tells
us that “ pure religion, and unde
filed,” is “ to visit the fatherless
and widow in their affliction.”
There is no duty more strongly
enforced in tlie cliristian’s creed
than that of lieipiog the orphan,
and yet we people of North Car
olina who almost boast of the pu
rity of our faith and the consis-
tency of our religious deportment,
are permitting Imndreds of or-
phans all around us to grow up in
ignorance and vice, with no reli
gious training of instruction. We
write tliis as tlie editor of a secu
lar pajier, and we say to the pro
fessed Christians of the State wlio
ride to clmrch in carriages and
worsliip God in silk and broad
cloth, without lifting a hand to
lielp the destitute and starving
orphans around you, we would
not give a fig for your religion.
Notwithstanding tlie admitted pov
erty of our people, we throw awav
on useless, if not actually hurtfi 1
indulgences, enough everv year,
to feed, clothe and educate every
orphan in the State.
We intend, at some future time,
urging the importance and pro
priety of our State Legislature
making an appropriation for the
maintenance of the orphan insti
tution, but in tlie meantime, we
■appeal to the people of the State
to come forward like the noble
men and women we have always
regarded them, and support this ■
institution. Send yoiir money,
and if you have no money to
spare, send provision or clothing.
The editors of this paper will
gladly take charge of and prompt
ly forward any donations to tl e
Oxford Asylum.— Warrenton Cen
tennial.
A ClJcerfu! Ileavt.
“I love to see you coming.
You are gladness in tlie darkest
hour—a perfect sunbeam.’ A
merry or a cheerful countenance
was one ot the things Henry ■
Taylor said his enemies could
not take from him. There are
s line who spend their lives as if
s lut up in a dungeon—gloom and
despondency ever on their face.-;,
fretting and fault-finding ever on
their lips. They mourn day b’v
day, they have so little, and are
in constant fear lest what they
have should slip from their fin
gers.—The} never enjoy the good
of to-day, for fear of the evil
which may come. This is poor
piety.
“A merry heart m.aketli a
cheerful countenanoe.’ Reiigiou
must make the heart glad. Wlien
the true relation is established,
and known between God anu
nian, men must be happy in s ito
of thom'selves, anl happiness
in the heart will be reflected in
the face.
There is enough to find fault
with, if we have the disposition;
there are thorns and thistles ou
every hand; there is a cross iu
every lot. We may be called to
travel a weary road; but with a
heart to praise God for His mer
cies, wo may “make a joyful
noise” unto Him and walk as in
our appointed way in comfort
and peace, even to the end of the
journey.
Pride and Humility.—Of all
the trees, I observe that God hath
chosen the vine—a low plant that
creeps upon the helpful ivall; of
all beasts, the soft and patient
lamb ; of all fowls, the mild and
guileless dove. When God ap
peared to Moses, it was not in the
lofty cedar, nor in the spreading
palm, but a bush, a humble, ab
ject bush. As if he would by
these selections check the con
ceited arrogance of man. Nothing
produces love like humility;
uothing hate like pride.—Fettltam.