Fresh and complete
The Best
KITCHEN LAMP
Ou the ni-irket fur 50
fits. A full line of
Lamp goods at
Miller's Pharmacy.
Juine of
FRUIT JUICE,
TABLETS AND
MARSIIMALLOWS
Can be fou d at
Miller's Tharmacj.
"This Akgus o'er the people's rights
D"th aneternal vigil keep;
No soothing strain of Mai's son
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep''
Vol. XVI.
GOLDSBORO, N. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1893.
NO. 88
ItL THERE A LETTER FOR ME?
I-j there a letter for me, sir?
I tin-re a letter fir mt?
P: y lighten my heart with your answer;
There if, that my mind can be fr e.
LoniT years from home have I wandered
IrTliiu of good fortune to seek;
For my parents great comfort have I
pondered.
That has now made nvj otally wak.
At 1 ist I lave been quite successful
And of wealth I have made quite a
chest
That their declining years may no more
be fretful
And in happiness their lives now can
rest.
I oft thiuk of home and our tiouble
To keep tne Hungry won
door .J1 2' -,,
How joy.'ully my dear parents will
huddle
When they hear ol u-y tread cn the
floor.
No more the f ar of bing eyictf d
From the home that they love so dear,
As their living in that was restricted
By the landlord who awed them with
fear.
Is there a lett. r fir me, sir,
Stating their health and living tub
lime. As I am ready to sail the deep water
To reach home at Christmas timi ?
"What! poor father and mithergone, sir!
Gone far beyond life's happy rtcUl!
Alas! have I toiled tor no one, sir.
For that, that I aimed for, to fall?
I. L. Marks.
California Leads the Way.
California h&a taken the lead in
two most important political re
form?. At the recent November
election her people declared, by a
vote of 187 958 against 13,342, in
favor of the election of United
States S--'n; tor bydmct v ;te of
the peoplcAt tin-Sim-' election her
people voted, by 151,320 a-iinst
41.059, in 'avorof n educational
.qualification tor voters.
Th question of ejecting United
States Senators by a direct vo'e ot
the people has betn kmj aui'afed
but the first practical movement to
carry it into ffect his been made
bv California The vorwhel.m.
nw Tf,ti nf hrr reot'. in favor of
rt&inlv aspires it ad'
v l I i
tin by
period
S-RteF,
it
that
. 'tic st
the tartest
mmv other
possible.
In
the office
Senator has a
of United fc.fatte
Imoet invaritly been
sought and svon
tnn ond often W
by men of f r
"t.h li tie regard
" j .1
6tatef man-
Ship. Indeed, in all otorxh
em States the claim o. jonune
have more or ler3 i revai.ed tv?r
character and ability m cuooeing
members f the hih- i-s'at.ve
tribunal of the nation; Tnere l
no reason to doubt that the people
of every State weuld vote with
nnanimitv equal to that California
in favor of this relorm.ard the fact
that the leading State if the far
"West has taken thi important stop
will strengthen others to adopt this
wnoleeome reform.
Every day more cleariy teaches
the necessity of a 'substantial edu
national qualification for voters at
our elections. The bitterness ol
rare conflicts in the South has led
to its adoption in a number of
the Southern State?, but it ia in
the great North where the herds
of ignorant voters do most congre
gate. There is not a sing'e attri
bute of justice in permitting a
man to exercise the sovereign
power of our citizenship who can
not read the constitution or the
laws of the country, or even the
ticket that he deposits in the ba!
lot box, and the tooner the gr-al
States of the North shall adopt an
educational qualification ot voters
the sooner will our political sys
tern be elevated t a much higher
ril an e.
There is no excuse for ignorance
in this free land where, free schools
are ooen to all, audit shond b
the positive law of every Common
wpalth that onlv these capable of
reading and understanding the
liws, and of reading the ticket that
be proposes to vote, tnouia oe per
mitted to exercise the sovereignty
' of our beneficent citizenship.
The Columbia Daily Calendar
remains the only valuable daily
pad calendar for '92 is it the same
general design as that of previous
years, consisting of 366 leaves, one
for every day in the year
and a calendar for the entire
year. The day ot the week, of the
month, and ot tlie year are given
and on each leaf a short fermon
nn the "Gospel of Outdoors, Health
or,l Ffanniness." with valuable
hints on practical road making
The leaves are so arranged that
there will be no stab left,and each
can be referred to at any time dur
ing the rear. The pad ia upon
.metallic stand of ivory black, bo as
i to ieBt upon the desk at a convent,
ient anele. The pad matter, which
:jn the aggregate ia enough to make
book, is all fresh and naw, and is
of more pertinent value than that
. i j mi
Of any previous caieuuar. tut
calendar is issued by the Pope Mfg
Co., of Boston, New York, and
Chicago. r
Georgia's Shame-
The Georgia Legislature has des
feated the bill for the Georgia
Confederate Soldiers' Home. The
Atlanta onstitution says :
"Ir, is impossible to regard it in
any other light than as a triumph
of the Third party. In the last
campaign that party made a
strong fiht on the Home, and
made it a leading issue.
"Smnsh the "Soldiers Home!'
was the shout all along the line,
and all the Third party candidates
were pledged to vote against the
bill. It was useless to talk to the
partisans about duty and patriot
--in u&eless to show them that the
State had an opportunity for ac
quiiinga splendid and profitable
property without expense, lhe
Home was tendered uncondition
ally by its trustees and the State
could have sold it and applied the
money to the relief of homeless
veteran?. But the Third party
was determined to kill the bill una
der any and all circumstances and
leave our homeless and destitute
eo'diers to seek shelter in the poor-
house!"
Well mav Georgia hang her head
in 6hame, The State cannot pross
per, for a curse will follow it so
long as this reproach hangs over it.
ihe vtcorgia third partyites are
what the Mahone party was to
Virginia. We remember that the
Mahone cohorts, forsaking every
thing to do the bidding of the
creature xho directed them,tnrned
out maimed cxCon federate sold
iers to make places for negroes
Bat the resaction followed and to
day Virginia's Confederate Sold
iers' Home is not only a source of
pride, out is tne object ol praue
from those who fought against U3
Georgia can very well impovers
ish herself by 8l.gb.ting her needy
soldiers for the advantage ot a tew
demagoguee. Richmond State.
Settle G-ts His Certificate,
The certificates of election have
been issued to all the members of
the 531 Congress for this State in
cluding tne one to Hon. Thomas
Seit'e, Republican, of the fifth dis'
irict, about which so much has
been sid lately in the newts
ppen?.
M. Settle will receive his Com
i- i s;;n Kb a C insf m:t present.
When the Arews Observer ropre
eentmive called at the executive
ofli -o yesterday afternoon, he was
shown Mr. Settle's commission al-
eidy done up and prepared for
iung. It went off on the 440
ain yesterday evening, Ra
Leigh IVitcs-Observer.
Railroad Mail Servica.
Washington, Dec. 29. Gens
ral Superinteiident White, of the
ailway mail service, has perfected
rran . ements by which kfte-r Jan
ary 1st, 1S93, the mails leaving
Washington at 10157 a. ui., over
the Atlantic Coast Line, now run
ning through to Jacksonville, 1'la ,
by way of VViliniugton; JN. C, will
nn over what is known as the
Wileon ent-eff, by way of Fayette-
vil e, N. C , to Florence, S.C. This
hange will reduce the distance
about fixtv-lwo miles, which with
he qnickeued schedule wiil put
he .Northern mail into Uharlec-ton,
Savannah, Jacksonville and all
icints on the s. ntheat coact about
three hours earlier than cow.
Miss Winnie Davis
New York, Djc. 29. The
North and South met again in
araicabilitv last night. Miss Win
lie Davie, daughter of the Confed
eracy, is visiting friends in the city.
To-'iiigLt Wm. 1 , St. John gave
an elaborate theatre party in her
honor. Dotails of the fcffir were
arranged by the bachelor hobt in a
manner to make the compliment
complete It was a special point
that no person who had lived in
the South and no deFcendents o!
Southerners should be invited
thus making the party representa
tivcofonly Northern sympathy
The company met at Sherry's at
7,45, 1 hence they took carriages
to Daly s theatre, to erj iy Ada
Rehan's "As You Like It." At the
conclusion of the play the party
returned -o Sherry a to enjoy eupa
ter, Mrs. Arthur M, Dodge, Ur
and Mrs Henry P. Loomis, Mrs.
Joseph T. Lay and Mrs, James
Brown Lorde were chaperons. lhe
voung ladies invited with them to
meet Miss Davis were Miss Stock
ton, Miss Marion Wing, MissRichf.
ard, Mis He en King, Miss Dra
per, Misa Cooke, Miss Lydie Itedo
mond, Mescre. Arthur M. Dodge,
M, Tayk : Pyne, Joseph T. Law,
James Brown Lorde, Howard Con
stable, Wm, B. Bnstow, Talmage
V an Renssaler. .Lvart J. Wendell,
Eugene H. Lewis, Jas, T. Wood
ward and 1 eter Morie with Mr,
St. John, were in the party.
Carthage Blade: Mr, William
Fie'ds' barn, with the forage, sev
enty-five bushels of rye, a thresh
inff machine, a feed cutter, eta
was burned last Tuesday night. It
is thought to have been the work
pan incendiary.
UNTIL DEATH.
Vlake me no vows of constancy, my friend,
To love me, though I die,- the whole life
long, And love no other till thy days shall end
Nay, it wei e rash and wroug.
It would not make me sleep more peace
fully
That thou were wasting all thy.life in
woe
For my poor sake. What love thou has
for me
Bestow it ere I go!
Carve not upon a stone, when. I am dead
The praises which remorseful tr -turners
- lvo
To woman's graves a tardy recompense
But speak them while I live.
Heap not the heavy marble on my hed
To shut away the sunshine and the dew
Let small blooms grow there, and let
gasses wave.
And raindrops filter through.
Thou wilt meet manyTfairerjmd more gay
Than I; but, trust me, thou canst never
find
One who will love and serve thee night
and day
Vfith amore single mind.
Forget me when I die! The violets
Above my rest will blossom just as blue,
Nor miss thy tears e'en Nature's self for
gets
But while I live, be true!
A TIME OF KECKOX1SG.
A Look Before and After -There is Cheer
for the New Tear.
The first flush of the Christmas
holidays is over and during the cur
rent few days business men every
where will be devoting themselves to
balancing the books of the year soon
to close and to looking for the bus
mess cheer of the future. The new
year is about to be ushered in upon
us with its new duties and its new
opportunities, and in this age of
swift advancement all progressive
business men understand that he
who stands still is lost in the race.
True, the year will close with a
general depression in values and a
somewhat unsettled condition in
money circles; but the signs are un
mistakable which point to a speedy
restoration of confidence that must
greatly improve the markets. We
have been hugging the silver delu
sion to meet real or imaginary polit
ical necessities, until we have come
m sight of the brink of grave dis
aster; but the halt has been called
and with our beautiful crops and
progressive industries, there is no
danger of financial disaster.
The balancing of accounts at the
close of the year embraces interna
tional balancing of trade and finance
as well as the general home squaring
up of accounts. We have shipped
gold during the last three weeks to
an unusual extent and that is al
ways accepted as a danger-signal. It
is a serious admonition when the bal
ance of trade is against us and it is
an admonition that should be re
spected at all times; but the present
shipment of gold is obviously only
temporary and is not the result of a
balance of trade against the country.
t is simply an admonition that
American securities are shadowed
with some measure of distrust be
cause of our gradual hut steady drift
toward free silver. We have drifted
too far for safety; the halt is called
at home and abroad, and the peril
will be averted.
The new year is reasonably certain
to open with good business cheer
notwithstanding the present depres
sion in values. Unless all signs are
at fault, there will be a steady ad
vance in prices for securities gen
erally early in the new year. It is
not likely to take the shape of vio-
ent and fitful booms; but it is quite
ikely to inspire legitimate . invest
ment and bring all securities to the
standard of intrinsic values. The
speculator and the gambler will have
less scope for their vocations, but
values will advance and legitimate
business of every shade will be more
prosperous.
The new year will come with good
business cheer. The crops of 1892
were unusually bountiful; there is
every promise of plenty in the com
ing harvests; there is general freedom
from debt among consumers, and
our industries are as healthful as is
possible in view of the adaptation
that is now ever pressing upon them.
When they learn that no business
can be substantially prosperous in
this country that depends, upon the
paternalism of the government, they
will speedily reach a basis of endur
ing prosperity.
Taking the varied channels of
production and trade throughout
the country, there is everything to
warrant the belief in a new year of
general thrift. There is good busi
ness cheer for our holidays; let us
greet it with thanksgiving and ad
just onrseWeto its new duties and
new opportuuitieF, with energy and
unity of purpose for our common
weal.
KAIL ROAD CHANGES.
That Go Into Effect T. -Morrow
n the
Atlantic Coast Line : How it
Aflfeet Goldsboro.
will
For months "our people have
het.rd talk of the opening up of the
Wilson, Fayetteyilie & Florenca
"short cut" of the Atlantic Coast
Line and the transfer of the Fait
Mail to that route North and South,
whereby Goidsboro will lose this
train and Wilmington, too.
At length the time for the change
has come and on to-morrow the new
schedule will go into effect, aud the
fa6t mail will switch off at Wilson
and go over the "short cut" to
Florence and thence on southward
Many of our citizens have looked
forward to thia event as a detri
mental happening for Goldsboro; but
Thk A eg us looks at it altogether
different, and believes that under the
new schedule the change will result
in positive benefit to our city and the
people along the line of the W. &
W. R. R. -
in tne nrst place, liolaaboro ia
strictly a market town a centre of
trade, both wholesale and retail and
as such it is the finest in the State.
Country merchants and merchants
along the lines of the several roads
centering here say that they can buy
stocks of goods of every description
from the .wholesale departments of
our business houses as cheap as they
can purchase them from fir6t hands
at the North; while individua
traders always find goods cheaper at
retail here than at any other town
they can visit. Therefore, Golds
boro is interested in local travel ex
clusively, and is not concerned in
through travel whatever. And as
to the mail service, the change im
proves that and gives us our New
York papers of the same day of pub
lication five minutes sooner than we
have been receiving them heretofore,
viz : at 7:35 p. m., instead of 7:40,
by a special train between Wilson
and Wilmington, leaving Wilson
immediately upon the arrival of the
fast mail, and running right through
to Wilmington, doing local service
en route, which the fast mail has
never done heretofore, and arriving
in th latter place at 10:25 p. m.
By this arrangemeat Goldsboro
will have the benefit of the fast mail
service, and the still greater benefit
of an additional local train service
daily along the line of the W. & W.
R. R, both North and South : so
that people coming to the city on the
noon train trom stations aloug the
line between here and Wilmington
to make purchases, can return home
either ou the afternoon train, as
heretofore, at 3:15, or remain over
till theeveuing train at 7:35, giving
them more than four hours ad
ditional to consult our merchants
and make purchases. So that it
behooves Goldsboro to bestir herself
and cater for this desirable transient
trade that she has auch increased
and superior facilities for accommo
dating.
The train which will pass here in
the afternoon at 3:15 o'clock will be
the regular through train for the
South, and will connect with the
fast mail, over the "short cut", at
Florence. The train to connect with
the fast mail North will pass here
at 10:33 p. m, and connect at Wil
son. The noon train will go North
ai now, at 12.15 o'clock.
The "Shoo Fly", going south, will
pass here at 8.40 a, m., . and North
bound at 6:59 p. in. So that Golds
boro will hare, by the hew arrange
ment, three local trains, each way,
North and South, daily, instead of
two as heretofore, and the fast mail
service as well.
Let us congratulate ourselves,
therefore, and hustle to improve our
opportunities and reap "all possible
benefit from our advantages.
Wilkesboro News; A' warehouse
for the buying and handling of all
kind of herbs, roots, etc. is to be
established - in North Wilkesboro
shortly by Mr. Mac Absher, of
Obids, Ashe county, North Caro
Una. We learn that the buildings
will be very large and that the
work of constructing the same will
begin soon.
THE BUHDEN OF THE DAY.
Ohl when we face some trying hour be
fore us.
And feel tae press ot care on every
sidf:
Behold tn sky t-f life storm laden o'er
U3,
And hear the rolHng,rumbling ebbless
tide
Of wearing daily toil that never ceases
Dulliog the soul with its monotony,
When hope dits out and gloom of soul
increase?,
Oh. then, dear Lord, if we but cry to
Thee,
Andoiling still at our appointed labor.
In spirit rest upon Thy Sacred Heart,
Lo! Calvary Thou wouldst change for
us to Thabor.
And of our burders bear the heavy
Part- t
But no; in hours of petty tribulation,
The soul unceasingly complains and
frets;
In peace learns how to wrestle with
temptation,
But when it comes the lesson learned
fonjets-
Why thia lament; We've no time for
devotion?
With pure intention work becomes a
prayer.
Each trying thought worth more than
sweet emotion.
Each weary step a shining heaven
ward stair.
Margaret E. Jordan, in Annals of Our
Lady of the Sacred Heart.
The American End of the Canal.
That there was an "American
end to the Panama scandal" is
scarcely a revelation; the as8unip
tion that it involved such corrupt
practices as have been exposed in
France is wholly gratuitous and
impertinent.
The history of the visit of De
Lesseps to thjs country and the
formation of an American com
mittee is familiar. That it had
an influence upon public opinion
and disarmed the threatened oppo
eition in Congress is well known
It was for that that De Lesseps
came over here, that the commit"
tee was formed and that dinners
were given to the engineer in the
various cities, where he had the op
portunity of addressing the sup
posed leaders of public opinion.
All thia necessarily cost money.
Of course it was charged to the ca-
nal company's account.
The only new information that
ha come out is that the American
end of the enterprise coat two mil
lions and a half of dollars, That
was an extravagant price, it the
figures are right, but it was not
paid to buy legislation or to influ
ence official action. That Uncle
Dick Thompson required a large
salary to give up the Navy Depart
ment for the chairmanship of the
Ppnama committee was well
known at the time,, that the va
rions high priced attorneys, pro
rnoters and lobbyists who were
working up American interest in
the enterprise were not working
for nothing was taken for granted.
If they actually did get away with
all this money it only shows their
great capacity for taking care of
themselves. It is reasonably cer
tain that they did not share out
their plunder without good reason
lor sharing it at all.
The f icts were simply that while
the canal seemed likely to be built
there was some uneasiness in this
conr try lest it thonld lead to a Eu
ropean control of the lshmns, and
there was a disposition to interpose
diploma'ic objections, De Lesseps
thereupon came over, and by his
plausible presentation of the
scheme disarmed hostility. Notlw
ing was done, simply because it apa
peared, a events has proved, that
nothing ought to be done.
That the unfortunate sharehold
ers were robbed under the pretext
of promoting their interests is
scarcely news. There is not one
scintilla of evidence, not a shadow
of fact to justify the intimation
that any effieial opinion or author
ity in this country was in the
smallest degree influenced by
money, and we do strenuously ob-
ject to the attempt to extend the
general mudiling to this side.
JLhtla. 1 imes
Politicians ia New York,
New Yokk. Dec. 24. There
were a numoer ot prominent
politicians in town to-day. Besides
Speaker Crisp and Congressman
Owen bcott, ot Illinois, who ar
rived yesterday. There were Sen
ator .Gorman, of Maryland, ex-
Speaker Reed and Senator Chan
dler and Harris. The two topics
of conversation were the New
York senatorship and the proposed
extra session of congress. The
general impreesion prevailed,
notwithstanding Mr. Cleveland's
avowed hostility to Mr. Murphy,
that the latter would be a candi
date of the organized democracy
when the legislature meets to elect
a successor to Mr.Hiscock. Regardt
ing the extra session of congress, t-
was currently reported at the ho
tels frequently by Washington
politicians, that in all likelihood
Mr, Cleveland would call one for
September,
Anti-Option Bill.
Washington, Dec. 29. Within
a day or so, after the reasembl
ing of Congress, the Republican
Senators will hold acaneua to der.
termine upon the order of business
that is to be pursued. It is the in-
tention of the Senate to begin ae
tive work and clear the calander
as mnch as possible. There are a
number of important matters now
before it and coma agreement will
be reached at this cncyis a6 to the
precedence to be given, A prom
inent Senator said this morning
that he thought debate on the Anti-Option
bill had been spun out
to a sufficient length, and that
there was feeling that the matter
should be foroed to a vote. He
has always favored the bill and
now anticipates that within a week
after the Senate convenes a vote
will be taken and that the bill
pass. There is a very considerable
majority of the Senate in favor of
legislation that will correct the
eyil the Washburn bill is designed
to remedy; of the particular meas
nre now under discufsion. Sena
tor Mitchell, however, is very con,
fident that the bill wili pass by a
clear majority, and that dabate
will be ended very shortly after
the Senate pgain gets to work.
Referring to financial measures
that had been introduced, and par
ticnlarly those which had the re
peal of the Sherman law in ?iew,
Mr. Mitchell said that he did not
think any Eerious attempt would
be made to force these bins to a
vote.
Trade Flourishing
New Yokk, December 20. The
meet prosperous year ever known
in business closes to-day with
strongly favorable indications for
the future, irom nearly all points
comes the report that the holiday
trade has been the largest ever
known, and while the wholesale
trade is not unusually active at this
season of stocktaking, it is now re
markably large. Settlements
through Clearing Houses outside of
New York in December, were ap
parently the largest ever made in
any montn, exceed m? last year s
by more tbsn ten por cent. For
the year the volume is also about
ten per oent. larger than last year,
and the largest ever known.
Railroad earnings in December
show an increase of about three
per cent, over last year, and for
the year an increase of about 5.05
par cent.
roreign trade has been smaller
than last year in volume of exports;
at New York, 17,800,000 in value
for the past four weeks, and at the
cotton ports about 10,000,000
lees. But imports at New York
have been $8,000,000 larger, and
this month still shows great exc3ss
ofoxports.- For the year, exoess
of merchandise exports has been
not far from $70,000,000, with
largest imports and largest total
of exports and imports ever known
in any year.
In iron, the trade is weaker, the
demand for finished produta being
at present light; but bteel rails
have been reduced to $29 per ton
and sales of 78,000 tons have f jIs
lowed. This great industry has
been much affected by the market
for securities, which has been des
pressed for some months by foreign
selling and monetary uncertainties,
so that the companies have been
restricted in purchases of railroad
supplies.
Bradstreet says Southern mer
chants report the wholesale trade
seasonably quiet, with the prospect
for distribution in 1893 regarded
favorably at New Orleans, Bir
mingham, Galveston, Meifiphis
and Richmond. Atlanta dealers
say retailers nave email stocks.
Some excitement exists among
Charleston dealers owing to the
new liquor law. Ihe total volume
of general trade at the South is
believed to be in excess of that for
1891.
Southern-iron furnace stocks are
the lowest for thirteen months,
and are regarded as normal two
week's supply.
Congratulated Mr. Gladstone.
London, Dec. 29-. Queen Vic
toria was among the earliest to
congratulate the Right Hon. Wm.
E. Gladstone on the arrival ot his
83d birthday. Her telegram was
unsnally gracious in tone Hnn
dreds of other telegrams and letters
have been received, many at Haw
arden and others at Biarritz, where
Mr. and Mis, Gladstone are. Mr,
Gladstone is said to be enjoying
excellent health and to be greatly
refreshed by his visit.
London, Dec, 29.--The author i
ties appear to be so Btrongly oon
vmced that tne lamin ex
plosion, by which Detective
Synnot lost his life, waa.part of the
work of a band of conspirators that
they have sent a detective to Bar
riaz to keep guard over Mr, Glad
stone to protect him from outrage,
Mr, Gladstone has not been made
aware of the precaution taken, as
it is known he would resent it.
THE STRAIN ETERNAL.
From crystal ether-plains is heme
To slumbering earth one silent morn
A glorious strain,
A sweet refrain,
Of "Feace on earth, gool will to men."
Through ceaseless course on rapid wings,
The dial of days to age3 swing.
Fast fl.3 ing years
Of smiles and ters,
Speed onward toward eternity,
Pound e rthly sphere heaven's echoes still
In sweetest cadence throb and thrill.
Star rrdiance shines,
The song still chimes
To wake hearts' sleeping chords to life.
The swaying bells ring, swing and sing,
"The Christ is born! The Christ is King!"
Let hearts in praise
The strain uprise
'Messiah reigns! Amen! Amen!"'
Amy Seville Wolff,
Profossor Erigfjs.
New Yokk, Dec, 30. The Pres
bytery to-day reached a vote on the
charges against Prof. Briggs, and
the result was u Prof. Bribes
favor upon all the counts. On the
first charge acensinz Prof. Bricks
with teaching that reason is a
source ot .Divine authority, the
vote was to sustain the charge, 60;
against sustaining the charge, 86.
Oa the second charge, which ac
cused Prof. Briggs with teaching
that the church is a source ot DU
vine authority, 55 votes were cast
in favor of sustaining the charge
and 71 against. On the third
charge, that Prof. Briggs taught
that the Scriptures contained errors
of history and fact, the vote was,
to sustain the charge, 61; against,
OS. After tins vote had been taken
two or three of the antiBriffsrs
tnen left the court, and thus re-
i'rained from yoting on the last
three charges.
On the fourth charge, accusing
l rot, Urigga ot teaching that Moses
was not the author of the Penta
teuch, the vote was, to sustain the
charge, 53; against, 72. The vote
on the fifth charge, accusing Prof
Briggs of taaching that Laiah did
not write many of the chapters in
the book bearing his name, war, in
favor of sustaining the charge, 4.9:
against, 70. Ihe vote on the fixth
charge accusing Prof. Briggs of
teaching that sanctification is pro
gressive alter death, was as fol
lows: To sustain the charge, 57;
against, 69.
Ihe case will be appealed to the
General Assembly, which will
meet in Washington early in the
ring, lhe Assembly will appoint
a commission,consi8tingof fourteen
unprejudiced membeis, to act on
the appeal.
lhe friends of Prof. Briggs were
greatly pleased with the result.
Ihey had calculated on a majority
ranging trom 4 to 6.
Business Failures in 1892. 749
New York, Dec. 30. The num
ber of failures occurring in the
United States in the year 1892,
as reported by R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Mercantile Agency is 10,611, be
ing less than than in any year
siDce 1886, and showing a differs
ence in favor ot the present year
as compared with 1891, of 2,029.
The indebtedness of the failures
of the past year was $114,000,000,
against $189,000,000 in 1891, and
nearly a similar amount in 1890
The largely augmented number ot
traders and the enormous increase
in transactions in the year render
these fi 'ures very significant. Only
one in every one nundrea and
thirteen traders in the United
States succumbed in loyu, as
against on ein every ninetysthree
in 1891, and one in every one hun.
dred and two in 1890. lhe aver
age liability of the failures in the
last year waB $11,000, being the
lowest average reported since 187S
STATE NEWS.
ivinston jcree i-rees: jvir. .cawin
Tavlor, aged 72 years, died on
the Uj'ghtof Dec. 15th, at the home
f his sonain-law Mr. Jas. Wil
liams.
Raleigh Chronicle: At 2 o'clock
yesterday morning snow began
falling and continued throughout
the dav. Up to 6 p. m, the fall
was nine inches, but it continued
until I&te in the night, probably
adding an inch or a little more. It
is.tha heaviest fall in this city
since lb7b.
Danbury Reporter: We learn
that some North Carolina cani
talists epeak'of purchasing Camaca
and some 2000 acres of land ad
loining. wun tne cascade, and
building a real mountain town
They can have a park 1000 yards
Equare, with the water falling over
the mountain 500 to 1000 feet
above the town.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: A large
poplar tree was hauled through
town last week. Ihe tree made
five cuts, twelve feet long each,and
would average 500 teet of lum
ber to the cut, making near 2,500
teet ot lumber tor one tree.
A CHRISTMA.S CAROL.
There sang twelye sparrows on the wall
At even-fall, at even fall,
vvnen gloomed apace the village doors
Between the silent sycamores.
They heard a sound from mystic shores.
And sane their song for gladness' sake
The birds of God were all awake.
There lowed twelve oxen at the bin
Behind the inn, behind the inn.
Along the dark, acro3s the lea,
They knew a sign no man could :see.
There was a wonder soon to be;
O, Pecret of the sns of Shem!
Who told the beasts ot Bethlehem?
There flew twefcre angels, clothed in
Hght,
At middle night, at middle night;
With countless peers ei kindred wins
They called as distant bugles ring,
uenoia me craaie oitne Hint;!
The Son of Heaven, the Prince of earth
Becomes a babe of human birth!''
There Knelt twelve shepherds at thv
head, ...
O, manger-bed, O, ma ger-bed:
They watched within thy stony shrine
me miracie or ijiie divine.
And reverent saw around Him shine,
Between the sordid stable-bars.
The lustre of the Star of stars.
Chime, all ye bells of Christendom:
lhy kingdom come! Thy kingdom
come!"
For every hour a warning charm,
For every moon a sweet alarm,
For eyery gate of Heaven a psalm,
Nor ring a note of self or sin
O, twelve o'cloek, when Yule comes inl
And joy shall hail from clime to clime
At Chri-tmas time, at Christmas time.
Till every life that walks or wings,
And Death itself saluting sings
The Lord of lords, the King of kings:
Ana an tne worm shall smile again
ltn peace on earth, good will to men!
Wide Awake.
At MOST A CENTENARIAN.
Death of Mrs.
LTiilsa T, Crawford at the
Age of 93.
Goldsboro's oldest inhabitant in
point of years, Mrs. Louisa T. Craw
ford, relict of the late John B,
Crawford, Ejqr., died at the home
of her son Mr. Wm. V. Crawford.
in this city, on Wednesday night, at
9:25 o'clock, in the 93rd year of her
age.
The deceased was Miss Louisa T.
Harris, of Wake countv, and was
born on the 14th of July 1800. The
great Washington was living when
she was born, and she has seen the
reign cf every President of this na
tion from his day to the present,
which spans the years of the Re
public. Her husband, the late
Mr. Jno, B. Crawford, came here
from New York, prior to his mar
riage, and was a school teacher in
old Waynesboro, then the county
seat.
In 1849 she professed conversion
in tne great "Wvche ltevival .
which was held in Waynesboro in
the Spring of that year, and which
many of our oldest inhabitants re
member well. She continued a
consistent member of the Methodist
church from that time till the hour
of her death, going down into "the
valley of the shadow " with un
faltering trust and triumphing hope
in the promises of the Saviour of
mankind, whom she accepted in
the years that are gone and are now
as a "tale that is told ",
Five children were born of her
marriage; tour of whom survive
her, viz : Mr. Jas. D. Crawford, of
Robeson county ; Dr. Jno. II. Craw
ford, of Raleigh; Mr. Wm. W.
Crawford, of this city, and Mrs.
Mary Ballenger, of Craven county,
and the late Mrs. N. B. Stanley, of
this city. ,
The Steamship Umbrla, 1
New York, Dec.l 30. Capt.
Dack of the steamer Manhansett,
which arrived from Bristol this
morning reports Dec. 26th. at 1 30
m.; in lat. 42.50. Ion, 57.45.
epese tne uunarder umoria, ly
ingto, with three lea anchors out,
repairing shaft. Expected to fit'nish
repairs next day, and wished to be
reported: All well
Morganton Herald: Mr. E. F,
Walker, of this county, says he
has a rooster with horns li inches
long. The horns are hard and grow
above the eyes look very much
like spurs.
Newton Enterprise: As a gene
eral thing the farmers of Catawba ,
county are in good shape to start
on a new year. They used less
fertilizer than usual this year and
made fewer store bills than ever
before,
Wilson Advance; Two prisoners
from the Greene county jail, were
last week carried to Greenville, by
order of Judge Whitaker, for safe
keeping. They are chared with
murder and there bad been talk of
lynching. -
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