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W H I T E ,G O O D S
A find lot of Piques from C cents
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plaids and stripes, 'Victoria Lawns,
Swiss, French and Book Muslin,
Tarlatan!, in fact all the latest
NOVELTIES IK WHITE GOODS !
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HOSIERY and GLOVES, La
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LADIES' HATS, trimmed and
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a beautiful lot of Ribbons, French
and American Flowers for trimming.
GROCERIES
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COFFEE, from 10 to 15 cents.
Large and Small Hominys, Rice,
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VOLUME 3.
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CHATPEL
IF I COULD KEEP HER SO.
MY LOUISA CHANDLER MOULTON.
Just a little baby, lying in my arms,
Would that I could keep you, witu your
baby .charms;
Helpless, clinging hands, downy, golden
hair, , I !
Where the sunshine lingers, caught
from 'otherwhere.
Blue eyes asking questions, lips that
cannot speak, h
Roly-poly shoulders, dimple in-y our
cheek; . J ' !
Dainty little blossom hi a world of woe,
Thus I fain would keep you, for I love
you so. , i '
Rogiush little damsel, scarcely six 'years
old I j '
Feet that never weary, hair of deeper
' rold ; - !!
Restless, busj- fingers, all the time -sit
nlav. ; !,
Tongue that never ceases talking all the
day; !
Blue eyes learning Yonders ot the world
about; i I
Here yo'u come to tell them what an
eager shout !
Winsome little damsel all the neigh
bors know; i
Thus I long to keep you, tor l love
you so.
Sober little school girl with your strap
of books, ! I
And such grave j importance in your
nuzzled looks ; !
Solving weary problems, poring over
' sums,
Yet with tooth Idr sponge-cake and for
sutrar-nlums : I
Reading books of romance in your bed
at night, .
Waking up to study in the morning
light; I
Anxious as to ribbons, deft to tie a bow,
Full of contradietions--I would keep
you so. j
Sweet and thoughtful maiden, sitting
by mv side, I :
All the world's before you and the world
is wide ; j
Hearts are there for winning, hearts are
there to break, I . j
Has your own, shy maiden, just begun
to wake? I ;
that rose of dawning glowing on your
rhcek " P
Pel ling us in blushes what you will not
leak.' ! . . . .
tin- and tender maiden. I would lain
JUHgO j !
' :!-.( oMmi future, just to keep you so.
. Veiling angels saw that she
unfolding in the upper
ii.se of dawning turns to lily
t.
lose shut eyelids veil the eyes
shut ey
Ui il.e nast I summon as I kiss her
lirow . .. . L ,,.
i;.tl' :u- VUihl, anil maiuen,
all are
wit h Pifi -liow.
;uv lifart is
breaking ; but God's
l )V? l Know
! amutig the
her so-
angels, He will keep
From the Raleigh Observer.J
SOUTHERN LABOR.
That there is idleness and a great
ileal of it in the
South, no one who
deny, i That, there
uses his eye will
is more of it here than at the North,
no one familiar
with the two sec
say.. The New
tions . can truly.
Yorker who comes from his bustling
streets to pass a I few days in a quiei
Southern town thinks that its peo
ple have nothing to do and .do it
very thoroughly. If - he came to
stay he would jsoon find that his
work was harder here and with
fewer breathing spells than he knew
at home.
It is
all a difference ot
North and s South the most
ways
of us are workers in one way or an-
other, and it is lack of sense to
charge with idleness every man
whose manner oj work is not as our
own. We have no doubt that there
are many people in 'the world who
think that the editor of a daily news
paper, who does all the work on it
and connected with it and its busi
ness, is an idle man because he be
gins work at noon Instead of sun-up,
which is the time he; goes to bed.
So it is all very easy for the New
Yoik editor to talk: about Southern
idleness, and the Northern , rustic
reads it all and believes it all, the
one knowing about much as the
other of the actual state of things.
If. either would stop to think, or
rather if the editor were willing to
think, for the yankee reader has his
thinkiug always done for him on
matters outside bis business, the
amount of agricultural labor alone
done ia the' South would show the
4Mly ot the reproach so constantly
urged against it. f Take the one item
of cotton : the aggregate crops of
the eight years just before the war
were 273500,000 bales ; for tbo last
FOR THJE2 I?XJUILIO GOOD.
HILL, C,
eight' years 31,500,000 bales. In
addition to this immense production
a larger area of land is cultivated
for food than ever before. Of course
these crops represent a vast amount
of hard work. Let our, brethren,
so-called, work out the sum and cal
culate how they would i like to do
the work. j - "1 . s
Even our own people, sometimes
make a mistake ; that is to say, look
ing at crowds of idle negroes about
the public places of our towns and
cities, they think affd say that the
negro don't work; fit is all a mis
take. Icfle as 'they may be in the
towns, there is no lack of vigor or
industry in the country. There was
a period of great disorganization in
the labor 'system bf the South. There
was a time when freedom nieant to
the negro the right to be idle. But
they , have been finding out that-it
means freedom to work. In the
twelve or thirteen years that have
elapsed since the termination of the
war, a half generation has passed.
The little boys of fourteen years ago
are the stalwart workers of to-day,
men who have grown up accustomed
to free labor, accustorned to making
contracts for their own labor, and
learning gradually to respect those
contracts. They have 'learned, too,
the value of industry and steadiness
as effecting wages. Large' numbers
of negroes own small farms, and cul
tivate small crops of cotton ; arid
manv of these mickles make a
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muckle. Let us all learn to think
before we speak. ,
ONE-HORSE COLLEGES.
I jii'ink that the. tendency ot se.
tarian colleges, tb perpetuate the
strife! of sects, to fix whatever bet
erogeneous in the elements of na
tional character, and to alienate the
citizens from each other, is a serious
consideration. There ought to be
some common ground on which the
members of the :same Slate may
meet together: and fee1! that they are
brethren.- fc Some
common
jiround
on which their children may mingle
without confusion or -discord, and
may bury every narroiv 'and selfish
interest in the sublime' sentiment
that they belong to the t-ame family.
Nothing is so powerful as a common
educat.on, and the thousand sweet
associations which spring from it,
and cluster round it. Those who
have walked together in the same
paths of science, and taken sweet
counsel in the same halls of learn
ing; who went arm in arm in that
hallowed season of life when the
foundations of all excellence are
laid, who have been fired with the
same ambitions, lured with the same
hopes, and grieved at the same dis
appointments; these are not the
m on in after vears. to stir up an,i-
mvu - "
' nrnent intestine feuds.
Their college-life is'a bond of union
IllUOlVIVUf w - w -
j which nothing can break, a dn
try 0f existence which nothin
ivme
poetry
g s
allowed , to profane.
All these aid
vantages must be lost where sectari-
in trl nnationVrjrevails. We
shall have sect against sect, school
against school ; and college against
college. Daniel Webster.
.WELL SAID.
The very great degree of success
that has attended the resuscitation
of our University is undoubtedly
due to the indomitable energy and
intelligent management of its ac
complished President, Hon. Kemp
P. Battle, Whose election to that
nosition by the Trustees has re
flected honor on themselves and re
dounded to the glory of the Uni
versity and the good of the State.
We are. pleased to know f. hat quite a
number of new students have al
ready entered! lor the next session,
and the prospects for the future are
of a most encouraging nature.--Chatham
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SATUliDAY
, JUNE 21, 1879.
PRINCE OF WALES'
hcJme.
A writer thus describes the coun-
try house of thej Prince of Wales at
Sandringham, which! is a model of
comfort : ! . ' : . !
i If.'-'-.. -A
vge hall which you enter on
arriving is ntted up as a dining-
room, with a pianoforte, easy chairs
and two 'large writing tables, j Be
hind the piano are! a quantity of
tovs for the children Ito amuse them-
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selves with at the "children's hour'
aftea tea. j '. il ' . .'- i ' ' .
Here at five o'clock the tea-table
is placed in the centre of the .'hall,1.
and is presided over by the Princess
in the loveliest of tea-gowns. j
" It is a pretty! sight to see .her; sur
rounded by -her three little girls.
who look like tiny fairies, and who
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run about to put "papa's" leuers in
the large pillar-post I at one end of
the hall.- There are! generally four
or five large dogs ,to adl to- the
circle. I . ' .. . " i'. .'.!'
At Christmas the hall looks like a
large bazaar, being filled with : the
most costly and beautiful tables,
with a large Christmas-tree , in the
centre and objects "all around the
sides of the hall full of presents for
the household and visitors.
Their Royal Highnesses arrange
these presents all themselves, and
tin nn is Permitted to enter till; the
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evening.
The drawing-room
larly pretty room, full
is a particu
of furniture,
and every available corner is filled
wittj gigantic flower-glasses filled
with pampass grass and evergreens
Out of the drawing-room, oh the
opposite side of
the dining-room, is
a small sitting-room,
fitted with
book-cases." Be
ond this is , the
Pnnce s own rq
om, uuie iuu
beautiful things.
f. Here-he; and the Princess always
breakfast; ; and here, on the ninth of
November .and the nrst oi uecem
l.pr. are laid out all the numerous
birthday presents. !
Of the Princess's private apart
ments up stairs, it will suffice to say
that a prettier room than her Royal
Hihness's own .boudoir, or sitting-
was never seen; All the visi-
room,
tors rooms are
perfect, nor are
the servants' comforts negiecieu.
Youth's Companion. . .
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A GOODjENDING. ;
Just before unconsciousness cloud
ed and obscured the mind of the ven
erable General Dix, he said : "I be
Vicuvi -j j ..'
God : I have entire faith Jn
lieve in
my Redeemer : I
am at enmjty with
no man.
He
was
a man of excellent
sense, an intelligent man in the best
sense; his experience had been re
markably varied ; he associated on
the most honorable terms with mer
chants and bankers, for he was art
able and successful finaucier ; he had
served with distinction at home and
abroad with the ablest statesmen;
he was a man of unusual mental cul
ture, reading the
and Greece for re
pleasure ; hie was
classics of Rome
ief and solace and
also a man of the
strictest and noblest; integnty-r-an
nnritrbt man. The confessioa of
faith of such a man at the end of a
life of four Score yeai s is ot the high
est value. Nor was it the: faith of
the dying hour, but the declaration of
what had been the mainspring of
his life, of the faith which had con
trolled and moulded himj and made
him the truthful, intelligent, upright,
6trong and courageous man he was
and had been a ban of such emi-
nent qualities that
tion trusted him
him with unhesita
a State and ! Na-
and leaned upon
ing confidence.
They caught the king of turtles in
the river below Philadelphia. The
monstei is eight feet long and; five
feet broad, and weighs eight hundred
pounds, , Its head is twice .the size
of a man's, and its flippers two feet
longer than a man arm. Professor
Cope, of the academy of natural sci
ence, has obtained: possession of its
shell.
IS ER 1 0.
"AMEAN LINEN f
The manufacture of linen is an in-
1 -. . r
dust ry in which there; is, certainly
ample room for development in this
country at the present time, for not
a single yard of fine linen clotH h
now made in all these United States.
The principal seats of, the linen in
dustry are Ireland, jScotland and
Russia, though France, and v Ger
many and other.nations are engaged
in it to a greater or less extent.- Ire
land beats the world on fine linens,
Scotland takes the lead on coarse
goods, and Russia ' is the greatest
flax growing country bn the face of
the earth ; and
to all three of Ihdse
our heads and I ac
we must bow
knowledge ; our, inferiority and 'de-
pendence in the directions enumer-
ated. The fine, linen
soms is nearly all of
for shirt ! bo-
Irish manufac-
ture, and fine handkei
L
chief's, tovyels,
napkins, damasks and
diaper goods
come, from the
the latter artic
same source.
Al.1 c
es arej
also brptjght
from Scotland, Fran
ce ana oiner
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Europlean. countries.
Spmc of'i our
linen towels come from Russia, and
a good deal of heavy bagging, crash
and damask comes from Scotland.
One obstacle in the way of this in
dustry is the dryness of our climate,
though this is probably not so sen
oils an obstacle! as some Europeans
assert. . Linen goods must be-manu
factuied in a damp atmosphere, and
manv bf the factories abroad; are
partially underground. The lace
makers are generally located in eel
lafs. But the dryness of the atnios
phere can be obviated in a great
measure in factories in this, country
by artificial means. ,he mantitac
ture of linen threads 'and twines is
now well established here, , and the
thread and twine factories usually
contain wet-spinnmg apparatus which
counteract the influence of the; dry
atmosphere.
WOMEN VOTERS. 1
The correspondent of the Conyre-
Rationalist on the ground says ii) re-
ation to female sutirage in vv yom
n that "it has introduced a new
and fearfully co itupting element jinto
Dolilics: viz., the abandoned ot stnat
sex." .This etemeni no says nas uc-
come a prominent factbr iu the poli
tics of Wyoming" ana "stnues a
lower depth oi poiiuiion anu wunmj
than that of the; crog shop andf the
ambling hell.1'; Also that it has al-
eady iu a great; measure "paraiyzeo
he arm of civil government, in deal
ing with some ot the greatest crimes
against society. Votes are what; pol
iticians and onice-seekers want,' and
certain votes they lose, as tbey (well
know, whenever they attempt to ex
ecute the laws against ! sexual crime
and 'lewd fellows of the baser sort'
who nractice it. ' Another result has
been 'the weakening of our govern
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mental system, by introducing j
lare voting element which has no
power .to execute la w or make gov
ernmental authority respected It
is utterly powerless to secure opem-
o r n iii tft trip nneHL ,uj . ita
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OF VERY GENERAL APPLI-
- CATION. . j :
"I war about to deserve," said the
President of the Lime luln Alub,
"dat some ob de cullud folks in dis
nayburlwod am wery mucn con
cerned about de Presidenr's we to.
I bear Vm talkin''bout it in de shops,
an on ae su eets, an iai uii c v-
man Stover drapped in on me,! eyes
hangin' out, an' knees shakin', and
axed me if I'd hearh de news. j He
was so upsot dat he conldn't keep
still, spectin" dat de world war on de
pint of flopning boMom side up.
Now I want to say tc all of ye, dat
a dozen wetoes won't Tiz our wa;f8
a cent, nor yit make a drap", an dat
our way am to keep right along
blackin1 stoves and . doih' fust-clati
white-washinV J W can't eat wetoes
-we can't war 'em dey won't keep
roofs ober our heads, ah' de least you
talk Tbout 'em, de morp silver you'll
hev down in yer pockets. De President-may
be a great man, anV one
ob his wetoes may weigh a ton, but
de President ain't gwme down inter
his wallet to feed an' clothe us. Let
de white folks waste der bref if dey
want to, but let de cullud man keep
Tiifl mont shet. an' nis eiuow uyj
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guarantees good work. .-. .
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P RICE S ,
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my printing and finishing done by the
Baltimore National Photographic Em
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kindji and sizes of pictures made, from
card size to 45x0 i nt heft ,"...,
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