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Published Weekly GOLDSBORO, N. C. W. II. ROBEY, Editor that they go forward”—Mobxb. ‘I press toward the mark”-Paul. VOL. II GOLDSBORO, N. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1881. ADVERTISING RATES. Transient advertisements payable in advance, yearly advertisements quarterly. 1 inch 3 “ 4 “ I Col. 1 “ 1 00 1 50 2 00 2 50 3 50 6 00 10 00 2 50 3 50 5 00 6 50 8 00 15 00 3 m. 6 50 12 00 12 00 18 00 20 00 40 00 6 m. 12 18 22 25 35 75 25 00 65 00 100 to CO CO Co 00 CO 00 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE; One Year $2.00 Six Months 1 00 J^CASH IN ADVANCE. ONLY WAITING. Only waiting till the shadows Are a little longer grown ; Only waiting till the glimmer Of the day’s last beam is flown; Till the night of earth is faded From the heart once full of day; Till the stars of heaven are breaking •Through the twilight soft and gray. as a Governor, as a rewarder or punisher, he no longer acts as a mere sovereign, by his own sole will and pleasure; but as an im partial Judge, guided in all things by invariable justice. Yet it is true that, in some the hills,” and confidently ex claim,“We looked unto him and were lightened, and our faces were not ashamed.”—IV. T, Christian Advocate. ^©m®, NO. 40 Only waiting (ill the reapers Have the last sheaf gathered home ; For the summer time is faded And the autumn winds have come. Quukly, reapers, gather quickly The last ripe hours of my heart, For the bloom ot life is withered, And I hasten to depart. Only wailing till the angels Open wide the mystic gate, At whose weary feet I’ye lingered, Weary, poor and desolate. Even now I hear their footsteps, And their voices, far away; If they call me, I am waiting— Only waiting to obey. Only waiting till the shadows Are a little longer grown; Only waiting till the glimmer Of the day’s last beam is flown ; Then from out the gathered darkness Holy, deathless stars shall rise, - By whose light my soul shall gladly Tread its pathway to the skies. cases, mercy rejoices over justice ; although severity never does. God may reward more, but he will never punish more, thin strict justice requires. It may be al lowed that God acts as Sovereign in convincing some souls of sin; arresting them in their mid career by his resistless power. It seems also that, at the moment of our THE GOSPEL INVITATION. My Christian brethren, one word to you. We are continually meeting men around us, and often have intimate dealings with them, who are not Christians. You THE CHILD-MARTYR. In the reign of the Roman Em peror Galerious, three hundred years after the death of Christ, the senior deacon of the Church at Ciesarea was called to suffer AN ENGINEER'S RACE FOR ••LIFE. At Pantano- Wednesday after noon, the brakes of a flat car load ed with ties, became loosened in THOUGHTS. UPON GOD’S SO VEREIGNTY. God reveals himself under a twofold character, as a Creator and as a Governor. These are no way inconsistent with each other, but they are totally different. As a Creator he has acted in all things according to his own so vereign will. Justice has not, cannot have, any place here; for nothing is due to what has no being. Here, therefore, he may, in the most absolute sense, do what be will with his own. Ac cordingly, he created the heavens and the earth, and all things that are therein, in every conceivable respect, “according to his own good pleasure.” 1. He began his creation at 111 V seemed, him good. Had it pleased him, it might have been millions of years sooner or millions of years later. 2. He determined by his sover eign will the duration of the uni verse, whether it should last seven thousand, or seven hundred thou sand, or numberless millions of years. 3. By the same he appointed the place of the universe in the immensity of space. 4. Of his sovereign will he de termined the number of the stars, of all the component parts of the universe, and the magnitude of every atom, of every fixed star, every planet, and every comet. 5. As Sovereign he created the earth, with all the furniture of it, whether animated or inanimate, and gave to each such a nature with such properties. 6. Of his own good pleasure he made such a creature as man, an embodied spirit, and, in conse quence of his spiritual nature, en dued with understanding, will, and liberty. 7. He hath determined the ■fcji^eyer nation to come into ■h^^liounds of their 8. He has allotteuin^nme, the place, the circumstance, for the birth of each individual. 9. He has given to each a body, as it pleased him, weak or strong, healthy or sickly. This implies, 10. That he gives them various degrees of understanding and of knowledge, diversified by num berless circumstances. It is hard to say how far this extends; what an amazing differ ence there is as to the means of improvement between one born and brought up in a pious English family, and one born and bred among the Hottentots. Only we tire sure the difference cannot be so great as to necessitate one to be good and the other to be evil, to force one into everlasting glory or the other into everlasting burn ings. This cannot be, because it would suppose the chauacter of God as Creator to interfere with God as Governor; wherein he does not, cannot possibly act ac cording to his own mere sovereign will, but, as he has expressly told us, according to the invariable rules both of justice and mercy. Whether, therefore, we can ac count for it or no, (which indeed we cannot in a thousand eases,) we must absolutely maintain,that God is a “rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” But he cannot reward the sun for shin ing, because the sun is not a free agent. Neither could he reward us, for letting our light shine be- f re men, if we acted as necessari ly as the sun. All reward, as well as all punishment, presup poses free agency ; and whatever creature is incapable of choice,is in capable of either one or the other. Whenever, therefore, God acts conversion, he acts irresistibly. There may likewise be many irre sistible touches during the course ot our Christian warfare; but still, as St. Paul might have been either obedient or “disobedient to the heavenly vision,” so every in dividual map, after all that God has done,either improves his grace, or makes it of none effect. Whatever, therefore, it hath pleased God to do, of his sovereign pleasure, as Creator of heaven and meet them in society ; you meet them in the community life of the university and the exchange, and in the bustling corners of business where men meet in common on the broad basis of their accepted merits, and where allowances for individual peculiarities are never made, and are elements utterly unknown. IIow are we to treat them?. What is our Christian profession for? Is it in fencing us in from the world, at the same time to fence out the world from us? Are we to clothe ourselves in the outer coverings of religion, and talk at our brethren from the martyrdom for the faith of the Gospel. The martyr was subject ed to the most cruel tortures," but in the midst of his sufferings per sisted in declaring that there is that there is but one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” His flesh was al- one “Mediator earth; and whatever his mercy may do on particular occasions, over and above what justice re quires ; the general rule stands firm as the pillars of heaven: “The Judge of all the earth will do right. He will judge the world in righteousness,” and every man therein, according to the strictest justice.. He will punish no man tor doing any thing which he could not possibly avoid ; neither for omitting anything which he could not possibly do. Eveay punishment supposes the offender might .have avoided the offense for which he is punished ; other wise, to punish him would be palpably unjust, and inconsistent with the character of God our Governor. Let then these two ideas of God the Creator, the sovereign Crea tor, and God the Governor, the just Governor, be always kept apart. Let us distinguish them from each other with the utmost care. So shall we give God the full glory of his sovereign grace, without impeaching his inviolable justice.—Rev. John Wesley. ®®li^to®». A vast throng of observers gathered recently on Broadway, New York, gazing intently up ward. Upon one of the massive buildings that tower far up into the sky workmen were engaged in adjusting the topmost spire. At first their perilous situation attracted the attention of only one passer-by; but very soon a multi tude of upturned faces were di rected thither. The absorbed gaze of a single individual started a movement, that contained in itself an almost irresistible im pulse. Such always is human personality, whenever thoroughly sincere, and profoundly engaged in any direction. This incident suggests a most valuable lesson in the spiritual world. Let there be but one soul in the community truly and deep ly awakened on account of sin— with an absorbed, anxiour thought looking away from all sensual things; forgetful even, for the moment, of earthly engagements, so occupied with the supreme magnitude of eternal interests—• how soon will other souls be moved in like manner! Apart from the conviction of sin, which is wrought in the soul by the Holy Spirit, there is a secret mo mentum in personal example arising from the mental constitu tion with which God has gifted us. Let but one honest, earnest mind lead, and very quickly others will follow. Everywhere the Holy Spirit operates in har mony with this law of our nature, using it to bring to pass extensive revivals. This is equally true in the be lieving church. Let one soul be thoroughly convinced of the ne cessity of a clean heart. Let a view of the nature of sin remove spirit and hardiness. Let the promise of fullness in Christ kin dle holy desires within; the eyes be lifted to the mercy seat in prayer; the mind be lost in the one aspiration to behold Jesus, and in all possible completeness to bear his image. 0 what a new order of things will speedily take place in the midst. Souls, one after another, will pause by the way, and will also look up; old animosities will disappear; indo lence will give place; all the graces of the Spirit will flourish in hearts hitherto barren and dead. Behold how much uncon scious power one may exert for good, especially when the Holy Spirit has so wrought within,that the outward profession of that one is the unaffected expressiornof a divine, inward life. The song of the ages has been, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” This attitude of the Psalmist has quiet ly drawn myriads to a similar up lifting of heart. They have caught his spirit. They learn through him in their need to look “unto stock of goodly words in our ex perience, as David chose the peb- ibles from his shepherd’s bag, and hurled them at Goliath? No, my brethren; not so. We must be true and manly men; we must take men as we find them in the most torn to pieces, the Roman Emperor Galerius himself looking on. At length, weary of refusing to acknowledge the many gods of the heathen around him, he told his tormentors to put the questions to any little child whose simple understanding could de cide ^whether it were better to worship one God, the Maker of heaven and earth, and one Saviour who was able to bring us to God, or to worship the gods many and the lords many whom the Romans served. some inexplicable manner and the car began to move down the steep grade toward Cieuega. A by stander jumped aboard and en deavored to tighten the brakes. He, however, found them unman ageable. Another tried and failed. A regular brakeman then boarded the car and quickly discovered that the brakes were out of order. The car by that time had increas ed its.^,peed to fully twenty miles an hou.y, and to remain upon it would.be almost sure death when the - washout was reached] He therefore called to the other he went on stilts, and therefore) A serene spirit is the source of all that is noble and good. What ever is accomplished of the great est and noblest sort flows from such a disposition. Petty, gloomy souls, that only mourn the past and dread the future, are not ca pable of seizing upon the holiest moments of life, of enjoying and making use of them, as they should. Liberal discounts to large* advertisers and on yearly contracts. It is desirable that yearly advertise ments be changed quarterly. are his legs small and shapeless. In short, the natural exercise of the parts, whether they be active or passive, is the stimulus to the circulation through them, exercise being as necessary to the perfect constitution of a bone as it is to the perfection of the muscular powers.”—Chambers’ Journal. KEEP THE LIFE PEEE. An Arabian princess was pre sented by her teacher with an ivory casket, exquisitely wrought, with the instruction not to open it until a year had rolled round. Many were the speculations as to what it contained, and the time impatiently waited for when the Says the Independent: We be lieve that there never was a time wnen the church was so pure as now, when it exerted so much power in the world, when it was so generally respected, and when so many were in its membership as now. The world is not grow ing worse; it is growing better. The church is not growing weak- jeweled key should 1 disclose the . W ’ 11 * Showing stronger. Miss Annie E. Williams and Rebecca D. Toland have been ap pointed by Bishop Pierce to the boarding school for Mexican girls at Laredo, Texas. They go un der the auspices of our Woman’s Missionary Society .A large loss of lite reported from the sinking of a Steamer on the Mis sissippi: cause—drunkenness of the crew. But there must be no interference with the liberty to get drunk.—N. C. Presbyterian. world; we must not sink our manhood in what we may be dis posed to think are the require ments of a Christian profession, or else we cannot obey the Apos tle’s injunction, and quit us like men. We must throw away all cant, not the foundation basis— the root of the matter of which this is only the superficial cover ing, for somehow it is hard tor a true and honest man to respect a whining fellow-man, no matter how near canonization he may be in the church’s calendar of saint hood. The first step, then, is a thor ough re-pect tor one’s character as a.true Christian in God’s sight, not in man’s. The second step is to abandon those technical terms which we never use about the real things of every-day life. Why can you not talk to your neighbor about being a Christian in an open, manly way, and not feel yourself compelled to sidle up to the subject by degrees, and with the help of obsolete and long- luvanb, TiO tiOubt, LU COWL Like needs of the soul; whereas, in re ality, they too often bind. They were invented to help forward the awakened soul; whereas, they deceive men with the mere talk about the externalism of the church as an institution, and dis gust men with spiritual things. Never let us be ashamed of Jesus and his cross, and his atoning work; we glory in all these! Only if the gospel needs translat ing and explaining, let us trans late it into the honest language of to-day. Do not wrap it up and dwarf it into the phraseology of the past. Let us tell the old, old story of the cross, as Jesus would tell it if he were here on earth in this nineteenth century to-day; just as he told it to meet the com mon wants of a sin-stricken world when he was here eighteen hun dred years ago.—Rev. Wilberforce Newton. CHRISTIAN TESTS. To practice righteousness and resist sin requires the indwelling strength of God. “Renew a right spirit within me.” prayed the Psalmist. The original word sig nified a firm, constant spirit, that has no waverings. A steady hand writes a clear, strong line; the shaking, tremulous hand makes the crooked scrawl. Faith is likened to an anchor, because it has a holding power; and that comes from the hold which God has upon the man who exercises it. The surest preventive of sin is the practice of (holiness. When the mind is full of joy in serving God it pays no heed to the devil’s bribes. The young man who en joys a prayer-meeting has ne temptation to go to the theatre or the gaming room. He who walks in the Spirit is not likely to stoop to fulfill the lusts of the flesh. In stead of picketing the whole road to the kingdom of heaven by sharp prohibitions, the word of God puts faith at the entrance gate, and lines the pathway with the rewards of obedience, and makes crosses to turn to crowns, and keeps in view the “prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Before us ever walksour Lord and Master. His winning command is, “learn of me.” His promise is that we too shall be annointed with the oil of glad ness, if we love righteousness and abhor iniquity. And to those who fulfill these two tests an abundant entrance shall be minis tered into the kingdon of heaven. —Rev. T. L. Cutler. Morse, who invented the tele graph, and Bell, (the inventer of the telephone, both had deaf mute wives. Little comment is neces sary, but just see what a man can accomplish when everything is quiet. Now it happened that a Roman mother wns present, holding by the hand a little bey eight or nine years of age. The Emperor no sooner heard the martyr’s words than his eyes rested on the child, and he desired the Christian to put the question to him. The question was asked, and, to the surprise, of most of those that heard it, the little boy replied, “There is one God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.” The persecutor heard, but, far from being softened or convinced, he cried, “Base and wicked Christian, it is a snare; thou hast instructed the child to speak thus!” Then, turning to the little boy, he said very mildly, “Tell me, child, who taught you thus to speak.” The boy glanced up to his mother’s face, and then replied, “It was my mother taught me, when Isat on her knee, that Jesus loved lit tle children, and I loved him be cause he loved me.” “Let use see now what the love of Christ can do for you,” cried thejudge; and at a sign from him the lictors, who stood ready with their terrible rods, instantly seized the poor even at trie cost other own life. She could not do so, but she whispered to him to trust in the love of Christ, and to stand by the truth. And the poor child, feeble and timid as he was, did trust in that love, nor could all the tor tures of his tormentors separate him from it. “What can the love of Christ do for him now ?” asked the judge, as the blood streamed from the tender flesh. “It enables him to endure what the Master suffered for him and all,” was the reply. Again they smote the child to torture his mother. “What can the love of Christ do for him now?” they asked again. And tears fell even from heathen eyes as that Roman mother, more tortured than her son, answered, “It teaches him to forgive his persecutors.” The boy watched his mother’s eye as it rose up to heaven for him, and he thought of the suffer ing of his dear Lord and Saviour of which she had told him; and when his tormentors asked if he would not now acknowledge their gods and deny Christ, he stead fastly answered, “No! There is only one God, and Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of the world. He loved me and died for me, and I love him and will die for him.” Then, as the poor child fainted from the repeated strokes, they cast the mangled body at the mother’s feet, crying, “See what the love of your Christ can do for him now.” And as the mother pressed it gently to her own pleading heart, she answered, “That love will take him from the wrath of man to the peace of heaven.” “Mother,” murmured the gasp ing child, “give me a drop of wa ter to cool my tongue.” “Child, thou shalt not have time to receive it ere thou shalt be drinking of the pure water of life that flows from the throne of God.” She spoke over the dying, for the precious little martyr spoke no more; and thus the mother continued: “Already, dear child, has thou tasted of the water that springeth up to eternal life—the grace of Christ given to the little Lamb. Thou has spok en the truth in love; arise now, for thy Saviour calleth for thee. Young, happy martyr, for his sake may he grant thy mother grace to follow thy bright path.” The boy faintly raised his quiver ing eyelids to where the elder martyr stood, and said again, “There is but one God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent;” and so saying, he died.—Zion’s Watch man. Whosoever is conscientious in little things can be depended upon in times of trial and emergency. He has so schooled himself that occasion makes no difference in the character of his fidelity ; heis faithful in everything. two men on the car to jump, and tiffs they did. Engineer Frank Shaw at this time was sitting on his engine at Fantano,and attached to his locomotive was a car filled with Chinamen. He at once rea lized the terrible result if this runaway flat car was allowed to proceed unchecked on its way, for a score or more of laborers were engaged far down a deep gulch in the Cienega pass strengthening the braces of a broken bridge that spanned it. They would not be able to hear the approaching car, and it would soon crash through the weakened timbers and proba bly crush many beneath its weight. As these thoughts flashed through his mind he pulled wide open the throttle-valve and started in pur suit of the fast-receding car. It was a race for life, and Shaw was soon thundering down the track at sixty miles an hour, with the car load of terrified Chinamen be hind him. The flat car was in- creasing in speed at every turn of the wheels, and the grade there is very steep. The locomotive, however, kept gaining, and final ly Shaw, placing the lever in charge of his fireman, crawled to the cow-catcher, and, taking the heavy coupling-rod in his hand, stood in that perilous position un til the car was reached. The chasm where the men were work ing came in sight, and still the fugitive car. was two hundred and the laboring engine nw- his lurch that showed she had fiSilve. increased volume of steam. They sped on with lightning rapidity. The space between! them gradu ally lessened. Shaw stood with the rod in one hand and the coupling-pin in the other. Final ly the few feet disappeared, and with a dexterity that comes from practice and a cool brain, the coupling was made. The locomo tive was reversed and the train came to a standstill within fifty feet of the bridge. This is the way one man saved many lives.— Tuscan (Ar.) Journal. gw mri®. THE EVILS OF HIGH HEELS mysterious contents. It came at last, and the maiden went away alone and with trembling haste unlocked the treasure; and lol reposing on delicate satin linings, lay nothing but a shroud of rust; the form of something beautiful could be discerned, but the beauty had gone forever. Tearful with disappointment, she did not at first see a slip of parchment con taining these words: “Dear pupil, May you learn from this a lesson for your life. This trinket, when enclosed, had upon it a single spot of rust; by neglect it has become the useless thing you now behold, only a blot on its pure surround ings. So a little stain on your character will, by inattention and neglect, mar a bright and useful life, and in time will leave only the dark record of what might have. been. If you now place within a jewel of gold, and after . 9 0 ^. 'Y- 4 Richardson, of Mis sissippi, is said to be the biggest cotton raiser in the world, his crop this year reaching 12,500 bales. Col. Richardson is, we think, a native of Rockingham county, in this State, whence he migrated to Mississippi many years ago. He manufactures his A shrewd reply was given to Lord Cockburn, who, after a long stroll, was sitting on a hill-side with an humble shepherd. Ob serving the sheep had selected the coldest situation for lying down the lord remarked: “Mac, I think, if I were a sheep, I should have certainly preferred the other side of that hill.” The shepherd answered: “Ay my lord; but if ye had been a sheep, ye would have had more sense.” many years seek the result, you will find it still as sparkling as ever. So with yourself; treasure up only the pure, the good, and you will ever be an ornament to society, and a source of true pleas- Ure !° y ourse lf and your, friends.” —Zion’s Watchman. crop.in his own mills, which are on his plantations. Mr. Goodwin, of Lumberton, in this State, is reported to have raised seven bales of cotton on two acres, notwithstanding the heavy drought. As far as heard from Mr. G. is entitled to the ribbons. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 2.—Con federate bonds are still in demand in Augusta. Large amounts were purchased to day at from ten to eleven dollars per thousand. Common sense can accomplish much without great talents; but all the talents in the world can accomplish very little without Bristol and Noi th row Gauge Railway held October 26th, GenwRH Imboden was elected President ot that company. This road is to form part of the great line from the Ohio .fiver to the Atlantic coast, to be constructed by the South. Atlantic Railway and Con struction Company, which secured a charter last winter from the Legiclature of this State.—Char lotte Observer. ^rt^jaitt^s. common sense Round dealing is the honor of a man’s nature” and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the mental work bet ter, but it embaseth Bacon. it.—Lord Bishop Kavanaugh return to Kentucky. will soon return to Iventucky. Uis more than twelve months stay on the Pacific has been of untold benefit to the church. In labors he has been abundant, and he is perma nently enshrined in the hearts of successful The light illuminates I l^Uon A St for _fivo hundred vards..) tral Methodist. J Bible was the word - of God. She In Austria the experiment of using an electric light as head light to a locomotive has been Just how the secret of his love is revealed to the inner conscious ness in a prayer-meeting, we can not explain; but it is the theme of joyful memojy, that often and often the Lord has made himself known here to the famishing soul. —Christian Intelligencer. By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly—namely, by simplicity and purity. Sim plicity ought to be in our inten tion; purity in our affections. Simplicity doth tend toward God; purity doth apprehend and taste him. Until the ladies of our day re sumed the antiquated fashion of high heels, bunions were shown up only in burlesque, and there is more t han their ridiculous absurd ity to be condemned in wearing them. The weight of the body is thrown upon the toes, which are thus unduly burdened and thrown forward against the front of the shoe. But worse than this, the ankle has many a twist or wrick, the step is not firm or se cure, and the further tendency of all this is to give to the spine more curvature than even fashion ordains in the “Grecian bend.” Add to these unlovely results the clatter of the heel-blocks, and we have a total not less disagreeable than that of the pattens of our grandmothers, which had,at least, the strong recommendation of utility. It is true that high heels made the instep seem higher, but surely no proper-minded person would be guilty of a sham. And further, as the heel of the foot is kept up above its proper level the muscles, whose duty is to raise it, are enfeebled by the loss of that exercise. These muscles are the calf of the leg, which will thus dwindle away to the leanness of decrepit age,and become a “shrunk shank” if this unseemly distortion be long persisted in. “The ani mal machinery,” says Sir Charles Bell, “can be seen in perfection only when it is kept in full activi ty. Exercise unfolds the muscu lar system, producing a full-bold outline of the limbs, at the same time that the joints are knit small and clean. Look at the legs of a poor Irishman traveling to the harvest with bare feet; the thickness and roundness of the calf show that the foot and toes are free to permit the exercise of the muscles of the legs. Look, now, at the legs of an English peasant, whose foot and ankle are tightly laced in a boot with an in flexible sole, and you will perceive from the manner in which he lifts his legs that the play of the ankle, foot, and toes is lost as much as if Senators Hampton, Morgan, Brown and Slater took a tilt at an old-fashioned spinning-wheel at the Atlanta exposition last Saturday. The contest closed with Brown as champion, had not entirely forgotten early education.—Charlotte server. Two men named Peppin He his Ob- and Gilbert, in Thomas county, Ga., went to town in a buggy recently. They got drunk. On their return they fought in the buggy. Gil bert drew his knife and cut Pep- pin’s throat. Peppin died in five minutes. Massachusetts workmen are mad because Canadians are driv ing them from their places, by superior soberness, thrift and skill. Not less than 100,000 of these French people have entered the Bay State, and threaten there a political as an industrial revolu tion. There are two hundred and forty-five towns and cities in the United States having a population of ten thousand and upwards. General Walker, the Superinten dent of the Census, predicts that the census of 1890 will give the United States a population of 64,- 467,000. The darkest cloud will vanish before the sun, and the heaviest night give place to a coming mor row. There is no grief so pro found that it cannot be alleviated, no sorrow so great that it cannot be lessened, no mourning so bitter that it cannot be turned into joy and gladness. President Garfield, when he, for the last time emtered the Wash ington Railroad station, carried a small hand trunk which he had packed himself. His widow pre serves it as he left it, and will not allow it to be unpacked In his last hours, Charles Wesley was asked if he wanted anything, and he replied: “Nothing but Christ.” Long before, he had written: “Thou, 0 Christ, art all I want) More than all in Thee I find.” The business.men and our peo ple generally will be waited upon for .their signatures to a petition asking the Postoflice Department to give the public a double daily’ mail service between Goldsboro and Newbern. The Board of Trade, Cotton and Grain Ex change, wore yesterday signing a letter, to the Postmaster General on tins subject, and we trust that our Kinston, LaGrange and Golds boro friends Jwill join with us in the matter. Blank forms of pe titions will be sent to these places and all postoffices on the line of the. road. It is a peoples’ and business movement.—Commercial News. was confused; she could not an swer. Suddenly she asked her questioner, “How do you know there is a sun in the sky?” “I feel its warmth and see its light.” “Just so,” answered the woman, joyfully, “the Bible lightens and warms my soul.” The Channel tunnel between France and England is no longer a question of preliminary experi ments. The boring has already been effected to the extent of 1,- 800 metres from the French and 1,600 metres from the English side. This makes altogether more than one tenth of the entire dis tance to be pierced. The Jones family propose to meet in Maryland next month, “when all the Joneses are expected to be on hand.” The immensity of the event will be worthy the recorder of the wonders of this wonderful year.—Society Journal A canny Scotchman inquired of a fellow-trader, “Is Colonel X. a man to be trusted ?” “I think you will find him so,” was the re ply. “If you trust him once you will trust him forever.” We were favored yesterday, by Mr. L. M. Ironmonger, with a lot of ripe strawberries, and we learn from him that he will pick straw berries for the market in a day or two.—Com. News There are now living two ex-Presidents of the United States—General Grant and Mr. Hayes—and three widows of ex-Presidents—Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Lincoln, and Mrs. James K. Polk. The late Governor Wiltz, of Louisiana, left his widow and five children in poverty, and a com mittee of leading citizens has ap pealed to the people of the State to provide a fund for them Minnesota raises about forty-one million bushels of wheat this year, an increase over last year of more than a million bushels. A few such “poor crops” will bankrupt the bears. The financial failure of Pink Cottage, the Kentucky hospital for miraculous cures, has not dis heartened the Rev. George 0. Barnes, who had charge of the enterprise. He is about to open a new establishment, with a pray ing band of twenty devout wo men. He thinks that the mir acles undertaken at Pink Cottage miscarried because they were not backed by faith, and he will now pay particular attention to that part of the business. He is said to have a following of 17,000 con verts in the mountain counties of the State, and they believein him, while others pronounce him a lu natic or a fraud. Ten years ago, w^/noW sucre JneMetToifist churcF.”.tefSf Irom are thirty eight. Ins, the Pres byterians anti .episcopalians and Congregationalists, have lost one each; the Evangelical Lutherans have increased from seventeen to thirty-four. The Roman Catho lics in 1871 had twenty-five, now they have thirty-seven. These figures show that the Evangelical Lutherans have made the greatest increase, the Methodist the re mainder of the Protestant increase, and the Roman Catholics have grown less than either the Metho dist or Evangelical Lutherans.— Central Methodist. The vocabulary of the English language is displaying a wonder ful capacity for expansion. The most recent dictionary published contains 140,000 words, while the edition of Johnson’s celebrated work comprised only 68,000 words, an increase of 124 per cent. This astounding growth is largely due to the creation of technical and scientific terms, caused by the ad vance made during recent years in the mechanical and other arts. It is partly attributable also, to the incorporation of foreign words in thelanguage, which has proceeded so far that there is scarcely a dia lect which has not made some^ contribution to the wea^M^® English tono-'waa^lMMi s fact that we have just received" Washing r.o^ of cneau h-vj Wood the' only Presidents who were church members; but all, with one exception, were men who revered Christianity. Adams married a minister’s daughter,and was inclined to Unitarianism. Jefferson was not a believer—.at least while he was chief magis trate. Madison’s early connec tions were Presbyterian. Monroe is said to have favored the Epis copal church. John Quincy Ad ams was like his father. Jackson was a Methodist, and died in com munion of that church. Van Buren was brought up in the Re formed Dutch church, but after wards inclined to the Episcopal church. Harrison leaned toward the Methodist church, and Tyler was an Episcopalian. Polk was baptised by a Methodist preacher after his term of office had ex pired. Taylor was inclined to the Episcopalian communion. Fill more attended the Unitarian church; and Franklin Pearce was a member, but not a commu nicant of a Congregational church at Concord. Buchanan was a Presbyterian. General Grant at tended the Methodist church, and President Garfield was a member of the Church of the Disciples. —Greenville Express: Mr. SamuelE. Moore, a native of Pitt and an excellent man, died of Typhoid fever at his home in Greene county, on Monday, October 31st, He leaves a wife, two small child ren and a great many relatives and friends to mourn his loss.