The Orphans’ Friend.
I'HIDAY, - - SEPTEMBEE 21, 1883.
Published eveiy Friday at i ne dollar
per annum, in advance.
PRESENT ORG-4NIZATrON OF
ORPHAN ASYLUM.
■1^ U. MILLS,
Superintendent.
'Mrs. WALKER
I'Mcher of First Form, Girls.
Miss KATE McLOUGALB,
Teacher oj First Form, Boys.
Miss MALY C. BOBB,
Teacher of Second Farm, Girls.
Mrs LIVES,
Teacher of Second Form, Boys.
Miss LULA MALTIN, '
I (xccher of Third Form, Girls.
MISS E.M. MACK, ^
Teacher of Third Form, Boys.
In Charge of Bospital.
Mrs. EVICBINSON,
hi Charge of Boys Sewing Loom
Mrs. FOWLEL,
In Charge of GirVs Sewing
Room.
Miss A. Y. Walton is a recent
addition to the corps of teache’S
at the Asylum- She is at pres
ent in charge of the si ging class
and the Asylum books
SCHEDULE OP BELLS.
iiising,
5.30 A. M.
Prayers,
6 ‘
Study,
6.30 ‘
Schools Dismissed,
7.20 ‘
Children’s Breakfast
7.30 “
Teachers’ Brealriasi,
7.50 “
Becitations,
8.40 ‘
Morning Recess,
10.10 “
Recitations,
10.30 “
Noon Recess,
12 M
Children’s Dinner,
12.20 P.
M.
Teachers’ Dinner,
12.30 ‘
Recitations,
1,30 ‘
Afternoon Recess,
3
Recitations,
3.15 ‘
Schools Dismissed,
4.30 •
Children’s Supper,
5.50 ‘
Teachers’ Supper,
6 ‘
Prayers,
8 “
/Silence,
9
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO THE onj n 4.N ASYLUM FOR
THE
WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBEE l9xil.
IN CASH.
G. P. Burgwyn,
2 00
J. A. Parker.
1 00
I. N. Selden,
1 00
W. J. Rogers,
1 00
W. J. Picard,
1 00
B. S. Gay,
1 00
Dr. McNider,
100
E. J. Peebles,
1 00
D. A. Jordan,
60
H. R. Deloatcli,
60
W. H. Buffaloe,
50
G. S. Wright,..
50
W. R. Deioatch,
60
C. J, Bradley,
60
McBlair&Co.,ofPort8mouth,Va.,
advertise in this issue. They wa>it
to sell coal. Now is the time
to lay in a supply for the winter.
The recent storm has, we learn,
seriously damaged the tobacco
crop, by the twitting and turn-
ing given to the .leaves, thus ren
dering it difficult if not imprac
ticable to cure them bright.
The State Convention of the
Y. M. 0. A. was held last week
at Hickory. On Friday there
were about thirty delegates at
tending, besides several ministers
and gentlemen from various sec
tions, and many others were ex
pected.
delegates^ And yet the growth
of this denomination of Chris
tians has been much less th n
that of some others. The in
crease in church membership in
this country during the century
just closed has largely outrun the
increase in population, and from
this we may reasonably conclude
that the American people are
much more religious than former
ly.—News & Obs.
A. B. PITT’S COLLECTION, CUBBITUCK
COUBT HOUSE:
Edmond Spivey 26c., C. C. Bar
clay 25c., C. C. Walker 25c.,
Wilson Etheredge 25c., Thos.
Poyner 25c., G. G. Gallop 25e.,
J. S. Perry 25c., Capt. D. M.
Tate $1, Alonzo Hampton 10c.,
Thos. Miller 25c., B.D. Taylor
26c., W. W. Ballance 25c., G.
M. .Walker 25c., John Doxey
26e., E. B. Midgett 25e., B. C.
Bell 25c., A. P. Frost 26c., W.
Williams 25c., R. B. Flora 2.5c.,
1>. Adelsdorf 25c., Col. J. M.
Woodhouse 25c., John E. Bar-
nard25c., W. D Northern 25c.,
J. W. Bennett 26c., George N.
Jarvis 50c.,Thos.Newberne 26c
John Brock60e.,-Peter Poyner
25c., T. D. Sears 25c., A. Gib
son 60c., W. W. Forbes 25c.,
Capt. Major Everton 50c., H.
B. Ansell 26c., A. J. Davis 25c.
Total $10 10
SPECIAL MENTION.
Farish Furman, the great
Georgia farmer, on the intensive
system, is dead.
We notice with pleasure that
the high schools and colleges of
the State have opened the fall
session with increased patronage
The Biblical Recorder appears
this week in a new dress. The
type with which it is printed is
new and clear. We congratulate
both publishers and readers.
The coloj ed Baptist State Sun
day School Convention is in ses
sion here this week.
To the number of excellent
schools advertised by the Friend,
we add this week the Norfolk
College for young ladies. Those
who have daughters to educate
would do well to examine the
merits of this institution.
A lady in Atlanta, Ga., applies
for a two months old babe. The
Orphan Asylum is not a /ound-
ling hospital, but an institution
tor the education of orphans.
The Grand Lodge directs that
^‘tboy thall be received between
the ages of eight and twelve
yeais,^-* except in extraordinary
cases.
War between France and Chi
na seems to have begun in earn
est. The dispatches report a bat
tle lasting eight hours in which
the French captured two towns
and two flags, with a los > of two
officers and 50 men. The Chi-
mse 088 18 believed to be be
tween 500 and 600.
Wni Montross, of the New
York “Police Gazette” has been
convicted, Atlanta Ga., of
distributing an obscene pictorial
newspaper, and sentenced to pay
a fine of ^10,000 or twelve
month’s in the chain gang. T1 e
case will be cairied to the Su
preme Court.
The latest item in Kailroad
matters is a new fast freight line
to be know n as the “Great South
ern Dispatch,” now being organ
ized, to run between all South
ern and Southwestern points and
Baltimore,Philadelphia and New
York. It will start with five
hundred cars, and its main stem
will be 1,100 miles long, from
New York to Chattanooga, but
its cars will be sent to all points
east of New York and over the
south and south-west.
During our visit to Norfolk we
called in at the great furniture and
carpet house of Messrs. S. A. Ste
vens & Co. This immense estab
lishment is the largest business
building in the City, and the ex
hibition rooms for furniture and
carpets embraces an area of over
30,000 square feet. Every depart
ment is complete in itself. Ti.e
entire lower floor 50 x 130 is devo
ted exclusively to carpets and up
holstery, while the vast ware-
rooms above are crowded by the
grandest assortment of furniture.
Messrs. Stevens & Co., is an old
and well known house. I’rom a
small beginning some twenty years
ago, they have built up the largest
business in their line in the South.
They are well known to our peo
ple, and we need only to remind
them that Messrs. Stevens & Oo.
are still at the bead, and have a
larger and more attractive assort*
meat than they have ever offer
ed before. As they buy direct,
pay cash don n, and own their own
store, they can give customers the
very lowest terms. Their Piano
Depaetment, No. 17 Granby St,
contains a largo assortment of Pi
anos and Organs, and they sell at
the very lowest factory prices
Only the very;be8t instruments are
sold and fully warrented. We can
commend Messrs, Stevens & Co.,
to all who are wanting anything
in their line.
We acknowledge the receipt
from Dr. A. G. Haygood, of a
printed sheet containing his re
cent speeches on the “Education
of the Negro,^'’ delivered at
Monteagle, Tenn., and Chautau
qua, New York. The sheet con
tains also an address of Judge
rourgee,at Chautauqua. In these
addresses are some held, strong
truths succinctly stated. It will
do good to circulate them North
and South. A copy will be sent
po it paid to any one who will
send his address to A. G. Hay-
good, Oxford, Georgia.
The New York Tmes tells us
that the next general convention
of the Prote tant Episcopal
Church of the United States will
celebrate in a most interesting
way the one hundi edth anniver
sary of the consecration of the
first American Bishop. It will
assemble in old Christ Church,
Philadelphia, the same place
where a handful of clergy andlai-
ty met 100 years ago. Abthecon-
vention in 1785 the delegates
met as one body, there being .iO
Bishop at that time. Seven
States were then represented m
the convention, namely. New
York, New Jersey,Peunsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
and South Carolina. Forty-five
delegates composed the number
of the first convention, w'hile in
the last convention, 1880, there
were 63 bisLops and nearly 400
EDUCATION.* L.
Some schools employ cheap
teachers, and give cheap educa
tion. They can afford if, but you
can’t afford to send to them.—J.
B. Soloman.
The late Alexencler K. Isbister,
of Loudon, Canada, has left Man
itoba University property to the
cash value of over $65,000, and a
fine library of educational works.
Everything that can be done
should be done to train the brains
and bauds of our young men, and
we will add our young women,too,
to useful labor, ‘for on these tlie
South must depend tor her indus
trial independence, and permanent
success in competition with other
sections.
There is nothing "worthy oftlie
name of education which is whoh
ly apart from religion. Every
child has a soul, which makes him
conciously akin to the unseen and
the eternalj and his soul, fallen
in Adam but redeemed in Christ,
must be educated in the truth as
it is in Jesus
There should be in every South
ern State not one but a number oi
industrial schools, and every
school in which the States have
any interest ought to have an in
dustrial training department con
nected with it, where the
young man desiring to follow
mechanical pursuits could enter
and acquire not only the ordi
nary book education but come
out a finished mechanic as well.
Louisville, Ky., is to entertain
from September 19th to 2l8t a
national mass-meeting of teachers
and educators, who will discuss
national education in the public
schools, Federal aid in the fight
against illiteracy, the census les
sons as to schools and instruction
and kindred topics. It is said
that the governors of all the States
have been asked to send official
delegates,and Louisville is getting
ready to entertain the meeting
liberally.
One of the most gratifying signs
of progress is the general awak
ening in regard to school dress.
It has heretofore been considered
enough to discourage a lavish dis
play of jewelry, but a girl could
be thinly clad in cold weather;
she could change from thick wool
to thin silk; she could encase her
arms in skin tight sleeves and
pull her dresses together within a
quarter of an inch of her life—and
no one thought of protesting
against her folly, but gymnastics
in schools have accomplished
something; they have established
the fact that in the ordinary dress
the girl cannot raise or use her
armSjJand it at last dawned upon
teachers and intelligent mothers
that she ought to be able to use
them elsewhere than in the gym
nasium. The appalling fact that
there is barely a single healthy
woman or girl left in these United
States has at last suggested that
there may be some connection
between health and dress, between
the dress aud development; be
tween the universal “nerves” aud
the universal anxieties, woiries
and tortures that assail women in
regard to the ever-reourring prob
lems of their clothes. We talk of
dress as “frivolous.” It is the
most serious question in the wom
an’s life of to day, and no girl or
woman can accomplish any im
portant work or purpose who nas
not practically settled it for her
self. The principal of one of the
most fashionable schools in New
York will not permit her pupils to
wear a dress of any material save
wool or cotton -the former in win
ter; the latter in milder weather,
it they choose. A girl wearing a
velvet suit oue day was sent home
with a message that her dress
must be changed to oue adapted
for school wear. Tl.e mother of
the girl returned a reply that it
was a last year’s suit which must
utilized or it would be outgrown.
The teacher was iuflexible. She
said the school room was uo place
for cast off finery; that the moral
effect was bad and the final result
worse than the present loss. The
lesson was a salutajy one, and
if all teachers knew what was
wanted in this respect aud de
manded it of their pupils much
would be accomplished for the
future generation of 'Omen.
“clippings."'^
Truth may be outraged by si
lence.
lie that hath knowledgespareth
his words.
If you would create something,
yon must be something.
By desiring what is perfectly
good, even when we don’t quite
know what it is, and cannot do
what we would, we are part of the
divine power against evil.
Herbert Spencer says Ameii
cans arc so diiven by business
cares that they never stop to leis
urely examine any thing. Guess
he never saw five or six hundred
busy Americans standing around
for two hours watching three men
raising an office«safe to a fourth-
story window.
There is one se.areh that is nev
er unsuccessful, namely, the search
for trouble.
It is sad, but true, that we can
silence our conscience easier than
our desires,
Some men give accordin g to their
means, and some according to
their mean-ness.
You can’t get anything out of
nature’s workshop at half-price.
The best way to cover your
tracks so that no man will find you
out is not to do the deed.
Public gossip is sometimes the
best security for the fulfillment of
engagements.
There is in human nature a gen-
eral inclination to make people
stare.
A Kentucky paper thus announ
ces its platform: “Tariff for rev
enue, and whiskey for snake bites
only.”
The failure of the mind in old
age is often less the result of nat
ural decay than disuse. Ambition
has ceased to operate; content
raent brings indolence ; indolence,
decay of mental power, minui, and
sometimes death. Men have been
kno to die, literally speaking, of
disease induced by intellectual va
cancy.
Up ill “Moriah” one farmer said to
another, “Do you know what ‘Bull
dozing’ is?” “Yes,” said he, “the
latest style is done by the travelling
Sewing Machine Peddler when he tries
to ‘Bull-doze’ the farmer to pay him
45 to 55 dollars for a Machine, just to
save_ the trouble of going to Oxford and
gettin t a simpler and a better machine
for 10 dollars less money, the New
Ball-Bearing Hartford, from A. M.
Jone-, at the Postoffice.”
CLWML liWlTUTE
FOR YOUNG LADIES,
LITTLETON, N. C.
This school is located in Warren
county about 26 miles norl h of Weldon,
immediately on the Ralei.4h & Gaston
Railroad, in a healthful seetiou, free
from malaria and just above the mala-
riAregion.* Our building is new and
very comfortable. The campus is large
aud well siiaded. The rooms are al]
fnrnished with new and first class fur
niture including hair mattresses for all
the beds on the second floor and Union
Wire-woven Spring mattresses for ev
ery bed in the house. The school-rooms
and dormitories are under one roof. We
offer superior advantages in 4ic Musi
cal department. Instruction niorougli
in all departments. Water from Pan
acea Springs furnished boarding pupils
when desired for a very small extra
ciiarge. Just enough to cover expen
ses of bringing. The Fall Term will
begin Monday, September 10th 1883
Send for Catalogue.
IiaV. J. M.RHODES, A.M.,Pria
Littleton, N. C.
WHAT IS THIS?
Tlie name of “Weed” seems to be
destined to flourish pereniallyin Amei-
ica as ihe Synonym for success in one
field or aiiotin !■ of glorious achieve-
ineuf Capt. ('olumbus Weed, who
camo ./('eriii tin- “Mayflower in 1620,”
and S'-ttled in I'anville County, North
Caroli-1.1, and fe’J fighting gallantly
hand to hand with the famous Indian
Chief, Lonl Wellington, at King’s
Mountain, was tlie famous marksman
of half a century ago, of whom it is
told that a Coon at which he was aiming
came down, and surrendered at discre
tion. Just as the shoddy,,'rebuilt, and
old-style fancy-price Sewing Machines
do when the‘‘New Hartford Machine,”
with tliiit Ball-Bearing Balance Wheel
gets after thejii. Now, as if to prove,
that PiMce hatii//s victories no re
nowned than war, the name of “Weed”
is imperishably associated with the
latest, most perfect, and most popular
Sewing Machine yet developed on Oils
Continent. The .World’s Eighth won
der, the ‘ New Hartford” in the hands
of the World’s toiling millions will
“buzz” his namefromage to age down
the centuries. See this machine before
you buy.
A. M. Jones, Agent,
OxforJ, N. (h
S.A,l!TEraS4C0.,
NORFOLK, Va.
FURNITURE,
CARPETS,
Window Shades,
Lace Curtains,
Many a man wlio thinks himself
a “big gun,” is nothing but a great
boie, and not a smooth one,
either.
Two-drinks a day, remarks an
excltauge, will supply a family
witli ffour. This, of course, refers
to the saloon-keeper’s family.
True glory taltes root, and even
spreads. All false pretenses, like
flowers, fall to the ground; nor can
any counterfeit last long.
California Papers inform us that
alcohol may be made from beets.
e know a great many dreadful
“beat8”hive been made from ah
cohol.
For twenty years we have stood at
the head of our business, and this sea-
•SOU onr assortment exceeds in volume
and variety any former display.
il®“Our immense warerooms contain
an area of over 30,000 square feet.“^
We Import and buy from FIRST
ilANDS, and for CASH DOWN. No
concern in this country possesses su
perior facilities to ourselves, and we
guarantee to sell as low as any house
ill the North.
Our assortment of PIANOS AND
ORGANS is the
LARGEST IN THE SOUTH,
and we sell at
Lowest Factory Prices
Our Agency eu.braces the very finest
aud best Pianos manufactured. We
are sole agent for—
STEINWAY & SONS,
CHICKERING & SO.NS,
HENRY F. MILLER,
EMERSON PIANO CO.
Don’t fail fo come and see us or write
to us if needing anything in our line.
S. A. STEVENS & 00.,
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA,
VIRGINIA
CO-OPEKATIVE
Stock Farm.
CATTLE—Ro:ji?tered Jersey Cattle
of best butter strains a specialty. The
largest herd in Virginia, and most suc
cessful in the Virginia State Fairs,
Bred on three farms.
SHEEP—Cotswold, Shropshire and
Soutlidown Sheep, all bred from im
ported stock, and kept on separate
farms.
SWINE—Herd Record Berkslilre,
also Poland Ciiina and the Jesey Red
breeds-
POULTRY—Pure bred laud and
water fowls, Of all the leading varieties
and eggs in season.
We are allowed special reduced rates
on all Slock shipped by express.
Reference can be liad to our whole
community here, where we have al
ways resided.
Address.
A. P. OU IS. HI. UOWE,
Fredericksburg, Va.
R. P. Richardson & Co.,
Wliolesale and Retail Dealers in
CARPETINGS,
OIL CLOTHS, CURTAIN MATERIALS,
.WINDOW SHADES, CANTON
AND COCOA MATTINGS,
No. 809, East Main St., Pace “Block,”
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA,
aug 3I.ly
Farming Implements.
EDWARDS&R0GER8
GENERAL
OXFORD, N. C.
Will supply Flue Iron
or Tobacco Flues
prepared, readv
for use, al
LOW RATES.
We keep on hand a] well select od
stock of HARDWARE of every dos
cription, embracing
CROCKERY AND^GLASS-WAREJ
LAND FOR SALE.
A CHANCE FOR THOSE WHO
WISH TO GROW FINE
TOBACCO.
Over 600 acres of Beaver Dam Fine
Tobacco land for sale. As good as
there is. It lies in one body and will
be rold all together, or cut up into
suiall tracts to suit purchasers. Is sit
uated in Brassflelds Township, Gran
ville county, N. C., two and a half
miles south-west of Wilton. Has a
large portion of original growth on it,
is well timbered, and has a large body
of bottom land.
There are upon the premises a two
story dwelling, containing four com
fortable rooms, four flue curing tobac
co barns, with other necessary out
buildings.
Only part of the purchase money will
be wanted in cash, for the rest two or
three rears will be given.
Apply to
W.B.WALTERS, or S.H.CANNADY,
12-6t. Wilton, N; C.
COOKING AND HEATING
STO^HIS,
POCKET AND TABLE CUTLBRT,
; WOODEN AND WILLOW-WAB
Guns and Pistols,! i
Cartridges,
Ammunition
AND SPORTING GOODS ;
We invite attention to our stock of
SEWMJ MACHBES.
OILS,: f:
NEEDLES AND ATTACHMENTS,
also carry a heavy stock of
Paints ^’'°Oil8,
BRUSHES AND VARNISHES.
Lamps and Lamp Goods