n - . . : v- L vy ----- v. '"" .-' "Sr ' , , ; r..:-szz.. - r,1"1 r ', 1 111 mm in i ... i imvttmj. juu .-..-u-a., , .. .. - -j. : , p ' ' J. A. BONITZ, Editor and Proprietor. " For n, tMnciple firindi-Eght is EU Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow Porerer." Published Semi-Weekly 13.00 Year. VOL. XVIII. GOLDSBORO, N. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1881 JNU. ZU- - 3sT m HAEDWAE W. H. SMITH & CO., Is Always Filled with a (rood Stock at the LOWEST PRICES. Have just leelvcd ttveral car loads of those celebrated Monuental Iron Kins, Coin Kini, anS Fanner Girl Coot Stoves !'-' , Also a full line of Heating Stoycs (for IF YOU V ANT THE BFST, CilVE ; Also, a full line of SASH, DOORS AND BUNDS. CARRIAGE, WAGON AND CART MATERIAL. OUR T1X SIIOI is always, open, with the best workman employed. We also carry a nice line of Clocks, t Cheaper than ever. All Warranted. We ask you tn g. our pr'oei before purchasing. We will sell low as aoj one. "AimI Oon't Von Forget It!!" Ooldshoro, N. C, Oct '.'4. lS81.-tf FALL STOCK Unusually BOOTS AND SHOES ! ! Styles Universally Admired ! I 1MUC1.S Pronounce! the Lowest ! I Tho be.st is the cheapest, and all mv work I warrant SOLID LEATHER Repairing neatly and prompt ly done. J. D. Winslow. lTliicellnncus. Goldsboro Institute for YOUNG LADIES. Horns School in "Wayne Co., North Carolina. It. II Mrs 'Chapman,- D. I) , V. S Al. CnAPMAN, Principals. This School re opens (D. V.) 15th Sept., 1881. Limited number cf pupils ; hence, the almost entire teaching is by. tbe Prin cipals. No "assistant" musick Teachers; every pupil being under the direct and thorough instruction of M. de La Croix, of Paris, which instruction, Vocal and Instrument 1, is fully up to the rt.qnire-iin-n t. .f the largest city schools, No school in the State, offers superior dura tional advantages. Airy dormitories ; ex cellent fare ; most reasonable terms. " Apply for Circulars, during July and 'August, to Dr. Jno. II. Ilill, GoUMnroV and to Rev. Dr. Chapman, Asheville, Bun- , combe Co . N. C. Afrer 1st September ; to Dr. Chapman at Golds'boro. ! 19th July, 183i-tf Dress Making. FASHIONABLE MILLTNERY ani DRESS MAKIXtt ESTABLISH MENT NEXT DOOR TO Bank oi Now Hanover- Orders promptly filled. oe. 'J I f Mrs. Griswolij & Lane. NOTICE. I will give instruction upon the Piano, , at my residence on William street, to a limited number of Pupils. j Terms: $20 per Session of 5 months. ! Mrs II. L. GRANT. Goldsboro, Spt. 14, '81. sepl5wswtfj mm The Mozart Saloon, WILMINGTON, IV. C,, Is the Dlace to get the finest Orink mix cd in the United States, and the best Beer in the City. Good dears and Billiard Siloon. apr26 1y JOHN HAAR, Jr., Por.'r Field Seeds I have now in store for SEE I S Long Berry lied Wheat. , Tappahannock white Wheat. Black Winter Oats. Red Rast Proof Oats White Oats. Clover Seed. Timothy Seed Genuine Southern Rye. Farmers will do wel! to examine my stock of Seeds before supplying themselves i no7tf S. II. DENMARK. 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I have just received a large consign ment of Oranges, and tO barrels Apples, which 1 am selling very low, SAH'L. K. ROYAL. L, nov. 28wswlf Opposite the Bank. The Klnston Machine Woiks are now in foil operation, and are prepared to do all kinds of re pair work on Engines or other Machinery ! Honoi Gooos !i0 KINSTON Machine Works All kinds of castings either of Brass or Iron done with neatness and dispatch. , Casting done every Krlday. A fall line of Pipe, Cocks, Bo ts and other goods needed for repairing machinery kept In ptock. We are prepared to fornleb Steam Engine Saw and Grift Mills, and other machinery, on as good terms as any other house selling the same goods. Also Plow Manufacturers ! Agents for Tanner, Talbot, Book waiter, Cooper and other Engines. Highest prices paid for old Iron an-i Brass. Klnston Machine Works. oe316mwsw Go to Fonvielle d Sauls FOK New J lulled Buckwheat AND IE"1 me Syru x- FROM A BALLOON. Ho ! w ar looe ! Hear bow they hent. And bow thlr cluwr dwlnUs oat ; BenaU ut to the m ft aim, :L Of rh)r aocUmatlon. Come, Lean with me here and look below Why, bleu you. man; don't tremble to ! There la no need of fear up bere. Not higher than the buzzard swings About upon the atmosphere, "With drowsy eyes and open wing ! There; steady, now. and feast your eyes, See, we are tranced, we do not rise It Is the earth that sinks from us Bat when X first beheld It thas. And left the breezes downward flow, And heard all noises fall and die UsUl bnt silence and the sky , , Above, around me, and below. Why, like you now, I swooned almost. With mlBKled awe ana fear and rlee Aa giddy as an hour-old ghost That stares into eternity. tr. OYER THE SNOW. Hark the herald ! angels sing, Glory to the new-born King I rang ont from the choir, and the organist, a slender, pale-faced girl, with grave, beautiful brown eyes, joined in the an thems, all her soul in the triumphal words : Joyful all your voices rise, Sing the anthems of the skies; With the celestial hosts proclaim . Christ is born in Bethlehem. It was the last of the rehearsal. The choristers threw down their books, only too glad to get away. The organist alone remained, to play over once more a new voluntary. 'Good-night, Miss Englehart.' Good night, Miss Katherine!' 'Goodnight, Katie, and a merry Christmas eve were the cries, as, one by one, men and maids left the choir, and went down the stairs and out into the bright, white Christmas night. Miss Englehart's smiling lips and gentle brown eyes answered them all. A moment and she was alone, only the white, piercing moonlight streaming through the painted oriel over the altar, and the one dim light below. A flare of gas lit the organ loft, but this the lowered, and with rapt face and dreamy eyes she played over again the jubilant new voluntary. She might have gone on for hours she was quite capable of it but a piteous yawn from the boy at the bellows recalled her from heaven to earth. 'Ohl' she said, stopping suddenly, with a halt laugh,- I had forgotten you, Jim my. Well, I won't play any naore; and here, take this for your Christmas box.' Jimmy jumped up and seized the prof fered greenback with glistening eyes. tThanky, Miss Kate merry Christmap, please ma'am,' cried the boy, seizing his cap. 'Ah! she's a brick,' said Jimmy to himself, as he clattered down the steep stairway. 'Nobody among all the singers ever thinks ot the boy what blow the bel lowses 'cept-her. Don't I just hope she 'scorts here sometime, awl. leave tbef ohnir fnr nnrf " ! I choir for good Still a few moments longer lingered Miss Englehart on herj knees; then she, too, hurried down the: stairway and out into the shining coldness of the starry De cember night. Highland white and cold lay the Chiistmas snow. No 'green yule' this to make fat the kirkyard. Cloudless and blue epread the sky, filled with sparkling Christmas stars. Could that other night, so long ago, when the shepherd watched his flock in the great Galilee hills, 'and the glory of the Lord shone around them,' have been one wit fairer than this ? Katie.' With a great start the girl came back over eighteen centuries, from Bethlehem to the town of South port. A tall man had started up in her path, and spoke her name. 'You, papa 1' the girl said, in doubt and surprise, the color that had arisen to her face fading out. 'I Katie.' He drew her hand under his arm with a laugh. 'Did you think it was Harry Hatton. Well it is almost as good, for I have come to talk to you ot him.' Miss Englehart looked up a sudden trouble in her brown, tender eyes. 'I thought you had done talking of him, papa,' she said, a tremble in her voice. 'I thought yesterday had finished the sub ject forever.' 'Let me see. What was it T did say, yesterday?' says Mr. Englehart, blandly. 'Ah! I remember! that my stiff-necked, doting old client, John Hatton, had made up his senile mind to forgive his runaway daughter and disinherit Harry. Under these circumstances, I very naturally told you you were to meet llarry no more. You're a good girl, Katie a very good girl 1 Mr. Englehart pats paternally the little hand on his arm and at any sacri fice to yourself you would have obeyed me, 1 am sure. My dear, it attords me great pleasure to inform you the sacrifice will not be required. ' Papal the girl cries, her whole lace lighting upj 'you will let me marry Harry, Pr as b is. Oh, papa 1 I am not afraid oi poverty uui aiiaiu ui wuia, ueimei io Harry, and 'Oh, pooh ! my dear, pooh ! nothing of the kind. My opinion on that point has never changed, and never will. No, no: it is something infinitely better than that. Old Hatton died suddenly last night before making the proposed new will, and all is Harry s. Katherine Englehart uttered a faint, startled exclamation. 'And the old will, leaving all to Harry, stands, and his only daughter is disin hented and left out ! 'Left without a stiver, my dear, and serves her right, say L She ran away with a worthless scamp, against her father's will, and, like all fools; has paid the penal ty of her follyr She supports herself and her five children by sewing, so 1 have been told, and you know what sort of support that means. Serves her right, I say again. John Hatton has done what it was his duty to do what 1 would have done in his place cast her off and left her to starve with the pauper she chose.' In the moonlight the face of Miss Eng lehart grows white as the snow itself, but she walks on and does not say a word. 'However. cries her father; cheerfully. 'that is not what I want to say. Rose Hatton's case need never be yours. All b Harry's, and except his poverty, I never had any obiection to Harry as a son-in law. So when he comes to wish you mer ry Christmas, my dear Katie, I give you leave to name the day.' ' A strange light comes into the brown eyes; a strangely, resolute expression sets the pretty, sott cut mourn. 1 he eomine to-night, papa?' 'You will find him, I have not the aliffhtAHt doubt, at the house. It would be hypocrisy for him to profess any grief for that old skinflint ttncle, and Harry is no liimfwrit , Vnu have "seen : him since his uncle's death ?' 'Certainly, Katie, and was the first to rongratulate him. 'I trust you withdraw your objections to nay suit now, sir?' he says to me, in his haughtv way; I am John Hattpn's heir palter alWv A trifle hot-hedea IsJTarrW bntfa, go fellow ! I have no"doubt," KatieThe will make you an excellent husband.' flo means to keep this fortune, then ?' his daughter w, and rays it In &6 odd a voice hat her father looks at her, puzzled. 'Keep it ? What do yo mean 7 What should he dVbal keep ik?i,By George 1 1 should think h did mean to do it a cool hundred thousand, if a dollar ! May I ask What you mean by the question Zt " , j 'Not now, papa, please; I will see Har ry first,' she answers, in the same strange voice a very quiet voice, though it startleu her father. !" 'Look here, my girl,' he says, sternly, I know vou of old know your high- drawn Quixotic) notions about things tj general, and points othondr and con science tn particular. 1 warn you, don t let us have any of them here, if you want to be Harry Hatton's wife. The lad has come fairly by his fortune let him keep it in peace.' They are at the house with the last words words harshly and menacingly spoken. They go together into the parlor, and there, as Mr. Englehart has predict ed, they find young Hatton alone. A tall and proper fellow, this Harry Hatton, with a handsome face, and eager, happy eyes. 'At last,' he cries, coming forward, both hands outstretched, just as patience, was ceasing to be a virtue. 'Thank you for bringing her, Mr. Englehart. Come to the register, Katie, and warm those cold little paws, lias our stately papa been telling you the good news ?' lie draws her forward, eves, smile, all alight with love and joy. Last night he was in despair last night this cozy par lor had been forbidden ground. Sorrow and weeping had endured for the night, but joy had came with the morning. This time yesterday he had been a beggar, and Katie had been refused him to-night he was a rich man, and Katie might be his for the asking. Papa PiOglehart, after a genial, father-in law sort of a nod, had slipped away'and left them together. 'Why don't you ppeak, little girl?' cries jubilant Harry, 'or has the power of speech been frozen with you ? Wish me merry Christmas, Katie, and congratulate me on my capital fortune.' She looks up at him with eyes full of wistful love. 'I wish you a merry Christmas with all my heart, Harry; but congratulate you on what ?' 'Why, hasn't the diar old dad been telling you? Then wonders will never cease. Oh, pshaw ! Of course he has told you my uncle is dend ?' 'Poor old Mr. Hatton yes, I know he is dead. ' 'And all i mine, Katie, all. And next April the old house shall have a newinis tress, and Harry Hatton shall have a wife. WThy don't you speak? Why don't you smile ? What is the matter with you to night ?' 'Harry, you mean to keep this ioheri- .r' t LJJLXL i t-i.- . By Joye, what s udftstion I What should I do with it bat keep it?' Kefiign it to Rose Hatton Mrs.-An drews now to whom it rightfully be longs.' A most likely idea, and nuite worthy of Katie EDglehart. I have had poverty and hard work for seven-and twenty years, and now when the golden shower falls in my arms I am to mien it to Rose Andrews and her drunken brute of a hus band ! No, no, Katie; in the nineteenth century men keep all thej' get, aud they ask for more. 'So I perceive,' she says, quietly, though she is trembling as she stands. She draws a ring off her finger and lays it on the table before him. 'Our engage ment ends to night, then, Mr. Hatton. Here is your ring.' He stands gazing at her, utterly be wildered ? 'Katie,' he exclaims, 'you don't mean this?' 'I mean it, Harry. 'If papa had let me, I would have been your wife in your pov erty oh, so gladly and worked for you and with you with all my heart; but now 'now that you take the portion of that wo man worse than widowed of those chil dren, worse than fatherless 1 would die first.' The gentle eyes flashed, into the pale cheeks an indignant glow leaped, and the soft, tender voice rang out as he had never heard it before. 'But this is all nonsense, Katie,' he cried impatiently; 'sheer nonsense ! ask your father a smile crossed Katie s lips 'ask anybody if this money is not fairly mine- Rose Hatton, a headstrong, ob stinate schoolgirl, elopes with a scoundrel who only seeks her father's money, and she is disinherited, as she deserved. I am his sister's son, and to me what she re signed fallen.' 'Her father forgave her before ho died, and would have made another will if an other day had been given him.' 'Look here, Katie,' says Hatton, still impatiently; 'I will seek out my cousin Rosie, and if she leaves her beast of a husband, I'll provide for her and the little ones. Will that satisfy you ?' '1 know Rose Hatton,' Katie answer. 'She was proud and obstinate, and she would die of starvation sooner than accept as charity what is hers by right.' He comes close and stands before her, his eyes flashing angrily. 'I must either choose between resign ing you or my uncle's fortune ?' 'You must.' 'If I resign it, I am a pauper as before, and your lather will order me from his doors. You will not disobey your father, so in either case 1 am to lose you. '1 love vou tlarrv. she says, with a gasp. 'I would wait ' "Thank you, Katie,' he says, with a laugh; 'that is poor consolation. You are a woman, and waiting may be easy to you. I am a man and don't choose to wait. Since I must lose you in any case, I'll not lose my money as well. Good-night, Miss Englehart; 1 wish you a very merry Christmas, Harry !' she cries. But he is gone cone in a fine fury, banging the street door after him and it is her father white with passion, who stands before her. Twice the Christmas tide has come and gone twice the joyful anthem of 'Peace on Earth, to Men Uood Will, has sound ed down the stately aisles of St. Phillip' , and again the time is here. Once more it's Christmas eve; once more altar and pulpit are wreathed with evergreens; once more the voices of the choristers rise to the vaulted roof; once more the slender, pale- faced browneyed organist sits at her post her white fingers evoking wondrous music from those pearl keys. But the face has a eraver beauty, the darkteyes a sadder ligb than of old, and for the bilk and sables o other days her dress is deepest mourning plain of make and poor of texture- The last piece is sung something grand and old. and triumphant: and tiood nijht. Miss Englehart, one and all ery, as tney nuner away ana aown me stair. She smiles her farewell.' but lingers after f ihey have gone as is her custom; and as kher hands float over the keys, and her 'eyes rest oh the music, she is thinking of another Christmas eve, three years ago, and Of her father and lover who stood by her side that night.' She has lost them both the lover j then, never to hear of or see since; the father one year ago. A great financial crisis had come and involved shrewd law yer Englehart, and swamped him. He had broken down under the blow, and in Jess than three months after he was dead and buried. He had never forgiven Katie her refusal of Harry Hatton: he did not forgive her even on his death-bed. IfVQu hadnot been a fool with your scruples and whims,' he had said to her bitterly, "jqol ned not have been a beg ger to-Jay. Harry Ilutton is ! married long ago, no doubt, to some wiser woman, and when I'm gone you may earn your living as best you can.' They had buried him, and Kathrine had earned her living bravely and well. For years she had played the organ of St. Phillip's as a labor of love. It became a labor of necessity. Her salary as organ ist and half a dozen piano pupils gave her all she needed, and life went on, some how, and Christmas had come again. She had dreaded Christmas- the old pain and struggle st emed to come back afresh. She did not regret what she had done. Better loneliness and poverty than ill gotten gain better lose her lover for ever than becorre the wife of a man capa ble of wronging the living and the dead. She had lost him, but she had not ceased to love him. While she deplored his sin, hor pure prayers followed him in his reckless wanderings over the world. Mie 1 -: r the organ at last, and slowly quitted the church. Unlike that other Christmas, no moon nor stars shone White, soft, ceaselessly, the snow fell. She put up her umbrella and hurried on home, the home of a boarding house took her belated and solitary supper, and ran up to her own little sitting room. A fire burned in a grate, and her piano sole relic of former splendor stood open with some new music upon it.' Before sitting down to her long practice, she went to the window and looked out. All the world was white and still and ghostly, and faster and faster I he snow was falling. A8 she stood the tall, dark figure of a man opened the gate and came plowing through the snow to the front door. 'One of the boarders,' she thought, 'be lated as I wa?. How cross Mrs. White will be.' She left the window and went to the piano. Before she commenced her prac tice, and half unconsciously, she began softly to sing the old anthem : Haik the herald! angels sing Glory to the new born king Peace on earth and mercy mild, God aud sinners reconciled. Then she stopped, conscious that the door had opened, and that the intruder did not advance. 'Conie in,' she said, 'and shut the door, please; there is a drau She stopped with a low cry, but he took her word, shut the door, and came TWrward. 'I have come back, Katie,' he said. Will you forgive me and shake hands ?' He took both hers without waiting for leave, aud held them fast. '1 only reached A&ierica yesterday,' he went on. 'All these years I have been in Europe, trying to forget you and to be happy, and I have neither forgotton you nor been happy. Vou were right, and I was wrong. I have come back to tell you so, and to ask you if you have forgotten me.' : 'Forgotten you?' she repeats, almost with a sob. Oh, my Harry, my Harry!' 'I am no longer richV he says. 'Rosie and the little ones are at the homestead, and the drunken husband has drank him self to death. I tried to palter with my duty, Katie, before I went away sought out Rose and proffered her a portion of her father's fortune. ' She was proud as you told me she would be, and refused it with scorn. 'I am poor,' she said, 'al most starving, but I will not take as a favor from you, Harry Hatton, that which is my right; keep all or give all.' I kept all, Katie, and, if I could have forgotten you, might have kept all to the end; but I love you so well, Katie, that I ask nothing but you for the rest of my life. We will be poor, but we will be to gether. Say you forgive me, Katie; you have not said it yet.' She said it then, holding him close, her happy tears moistening his already damp coat collar. . ! 'You and I are to spend Christmas with Rose, he says, presently, that first trans port over. 'She's a jolly little soul as ever lived, in spite of all her troubles and right glad to have done with matrimony forever. Who knows but that, after eight years of it, you may echo her senti ment! 'I think I will risk it, though,' said Miss Englehart, looking at him, hand' some, ana Dig, ana Drown, witn aaormng eyes, un, uarry i to inmg x aia not m rv a .11 w know you, striding through the snow up to the gate. I was just thinking, with ever so little of a pang, that no gift would be mine this year, while all the time the best and dearest of Christmas boxes was coming to me over the snow. ! 'Christmas has brought you your lover, and New Years shall bring your husband,' said Harry. And New l ear did. 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Einstein & Co. : m ' The first new crop Champagne Cider of season is now- being received by roo- vielle &. Sauls. Parries who have been waiting can now be supplied. t A State ljocal Option Convention will be held in Richmond, Va.won the 20th of December. The wheat growers will find Blue Stone in abundance at Miller & Uobb a. T LETTER FROM MISSISSIPPI. Aberdeen, Miss., Nov. 10. Editor Mesenaer : Enclosed I send you $3 postoffloe order, please apply it to my creait ana continue your very valua ble paper, so full of local and general in formation. To me it is always a welcome messenger; I read it with pleasure and profit; it revives many pleasant associa tions, and fond recollections of the past those happy days when childhood was free from care and heavy responsibility, when all was clear, bright and full ot hope, no dark gloomy forebodings to ob scure the bright future. At Whitehall, the place of my birth, I first learned to lisp the name af my now sainted father and mother. It was there I first received those early admonitions, that moral and religious training and instruction that has directed and controlled my actions through life and enabled me to resist the many temptations that have been thrown in my Eathway. It was there I spent my school oy days, happy hours, among those I dearly loved, most of them gone to an other (I trust a better) world." In looking over your very valuable pa per, I discover a few cames who were my school mates and associates, whose friend ships I so highly value and esteem Wil liam Whitfield, Col. George Moses, Col. George Collier, and others, whose names are dear to me. I trust they have im proved their fortunes sufficiently and gathered around them evety comfort and enjoyment that adds so much to our en joyment in this life. 1 am truly glad to see the old North State has made such rapid and wonderful f rogress during the last 30 or 40 years, ler internal improvements, her mineral wealth, her increased manufactures, her farming interests, have grown and im- f)roved beyond the perception and calcu ation of her most wise and prophetic statesmen. Those who have left the State and remained away several years, upon their return can see much more plainly the wonderful improvements and changes that has taken place, much bet ter than those who have lived there con tinuously from childhood to old age. When a boy, my father, Edmund Whit field, owned the Whitehall farm, where the Seven Springs are located, the water of these springs were then only known on account of the difference in the taste of the water and not from any chemical or medicinal virtue which they contained; hence, they were never resorted to for any sanitary properties, and were consid ercd of very little if any value. It is true at that time very few springs were favor ably known for their therapetical effects upon the human system, still 1 fully be- leivo it these springs were extensively and conveniently improved and carefully ana lysed and their curative powers properly and fully placed before the world, they would be celebrated for their medicinal qualities and become a place of great re sort both for the invalid and the pleasure seeker- ror these seven mineral foun tains ot healing, possessed or so many different articles in nature s materia mod ica, each possessing adaptations somewhat peculiar to itself tor the different diseases or condition ot the human system, must become extensively known and largely patronized. These springs at that time were sur rounded by a very wealthy population (none more so in the State) up and down the Neuse river for 40 or 50 miles, their rich lands immediately on the river were owned by the Bryans, the Washingtons, Collin Cobb, Croom's, Whitfield's Woo- ten's Davis's, Kornetry's, Broadhurst'H, and many others equally wealthy, culti vated and refined, most all of them have moved to the far south, and went as they believed to improve their fortunes. ttTI . t a .m Whitehall naa been in the possession of the Whitfield family lrom the time it was first settled by the whites until my father sold it and moved to the State of Mississippi to improve his fortune, as it was then said, "to get rich." Although he moved to one of the most beautiful, fertile and productive portions of that State, purchased and settled on a farm at that time which would produce a bale o lint cotton to the acre weighing 500 pounds, and 40 to CO bushels of corn to the acre without fertilizing, and required but little cultivation; still, I believe he made a mistake. JIad he remained in North Carolina, arM enriched his lands by using the many fertilizing elements that lie imbedded beneath the surface, his children this day would have been equally cantented, prosperous and happy, and they would have avoided the many trying and difficult hardships incident in settling a new country. And in becoming a vic tim to some fatal disease before their sys tems becomes fully acclimated as many do, who have passed the meridian of life. How lew consider this importaut change until it is too late. It is true, the soil io Mississippi was then much more productive than in North Carolina, and labor much better remuner ated; still, by a continuous succession of the same crop year after year, the lands become impoverished and greatly reduced in strength and fertility; its primitive or virgin strength taken away, no fertilizer can restore its original productive power. If the waste and refuse substance that was continually thrown away had been converted into manure and applied to en riching our lands, they would possess still its original strength, whilst our soil, nat urally rich and very productive, are being worn out by watefulness of cultivators; yours are being constantly enriched by the use 01 fertilizers, now in many mstan oes yielding a bale of cotton to the acre a much larger yield than is produced on our lands in this section. Naturally, the most beautiful and pro ductive country 1 ever saw; what a great and wonderful change has taken place in the last 35 or 40 yeara l ue farmers then in North Carolina planted and cultivated their best lanas in cotton, wnicn vieiaea . . . .1 ".V 1 '.ii.i about 600 to 700 Dourids of seed cotton to the acre, which was considered a heavy vield. This sudden and rapid increase in m a n a the productive power ot your lands snows clearly how susceptible they are of being improved by manuring them. I suppose your sandy sous generally consists ot par tides of broken down granite and felspar, which is rich in soda and potash, and do ficient in lime and phosphoric acid. If so: the lime can be readily obtained from vonr rich marl beds which lie beneath vour soil scattered all through your sec- tion; 1 suppose your marl is composed 01 calcinous earth mixed with carbonate of lime and clay in various proportions and differing m degrees of compactness, while in the northern and western portions of your State the poor red soils are depend ent on phosphates, ammonia, sulphuric products, without which profitable crops cannot be produced These mining elements can be found in the pyrites mines in your State and in Georgia, and immense marl beds in South Carolina, near Charleston, wheie phos- phate of lime is obtained from the bones 01 iauu aau marine animaix, wnica can readily transformed and changed into rich fertilizers, that whnn annhpH t vonr worn ... ... ont lanas win give vour state as well -1, . r V. I the South a bright future in commercial and agricultural prosperity. God bless North Carolina 1 may she still prosper and grow in wealth and knowledge, with such a liberal system of education she has inaugurated to educate her sons and daughters, and her cultiva ted, generous and independent press to defend and extol her many advantages and excellences which she possesses, she can but have a bright and glorious future., I could write much more, but I fear that I have already exhausted your patience, if so. please pardon this heayy tax upon you by one of her native sons, who loves and cherishes the name of North Carolina with that sincere devotion and attach ment that a mother, does a dutiful child. N. H. W. THE EARTH DRYING TJP. A Startling Statement About the Scir- . jM city of Water. New York Times. There is abundant evidence that the amount of water on the surface 01 the earth has been steadily diminishing for many thousands of years. No one doubts that there was a time when the Caspian Sea communicated with the Black Sea; and when the Mediteranean covered the greater part of the Desert of Saraha. In fact, geologists tell us that at one period the whole of the earth was covered by water, and the fact that continents of dry and now exist is proof that there is less water on our globe now than there was in its infancy. This diminution of our sup ply of water is going on at the present day at a rate so rppid as to be clearly ap preciable. The rivers and smaller streams of our Atlantic States are visibly smaller than they were twenty-five years ago. Country brooks in which men now living were accustomed to fish and bathe in their boyhood have in many cases totally dis appeared, not through any act ot man, but solely in consequence of the failure ot the springs and rains which once fed them. The level of the great lakes is falling year by year. There are many piers on the shores of lake side cities which vessels once approached with ease, but which now hardly reach to the edge of the water. Harbors are everywhere growing shallower. This is not due to the gradual deposit of earth brought down by rivers', or of refuse from city sewers. The harbor of Toronto ha9 grown shallow in spite of the fact that it has been dred ged out so that the bottom rock has been reached, and all the dredging that can be done to the harbor of New York will not permanently deepen it. Tho growing shal lowness ot the Hudson is more evident above Albany than it is in the tide-water region, and, like the outlet of Lke Champlain, which was once navigable by Indian canoes at all seasons, the upper Hudson is now almost bare of water in many places during the summer. In all other parts of the world there is the same steady decrease of water in rivers and lakes, and the rainfall in Europe, where scientific observations are made, is mani festly less than it was at a period within roan's memory. What is becoming of our water? Obviously it is not disap pearing through evaporation, for in that case rains would give back whatever water the atmosphere might absorb. We must accept the theory that, like the water of the moon, our water is sinking into the earth's interior. THE ENGLISH THE LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURE. A writer in a recent number of the Atlantic Monthly predicts that by the end of the twentieth century the Eoglioh will be spoken by eight hundred million people, occupying, besides England pro per and its contiguous dependencies, India, South Africa, Australia, North America, islands in every sea and naval stations on every cape. By that time, it is thought, so large a proportion of the business of the world will be done by masters ot the countries named that, as a mere matter of social and compercial con venience, the whole world will devote it self to learning English. The languages spoken by other civilized races, according to this anticipation, will sink to the character of local dialects, which will gradually lose their distinctive differences and finally disappear altogether. Many barbarous races also would be drawn into the prevailing current, so that as is now the case all over Europe then all over the globe the Englishman will be ad dressed in his own speech. Leaving out of view the comparatively simple unin flectcd character of English words and the direct constructions of its syntax, which greatly facilitate the acquisition of the EDghsh language by foreigners, it is enough to show what advantages tending to this end English-speaking people al ready possess over others in having al ready engrossed the most fertile unoccu pied or weak quarters of the world, and left to the French, Germans and others only those lands least desirable for colonization. To enumerate England's possessions would be a tedious undertak ing, scattered as they are at points of ad vantage throughout the world. It is enough to say that in Asia she controls an area of 1,640,000 square miles, witn a nonulution of about -:30,uxi,ow souis; in Africa 200,000 square miles, population 1,700,000; in America 3,700,000 square miles. Dorulation 6,000,000; in Europe 121,000 square miles, population 30,000,- 00 a total area ot 8,811,000 square miles, with a Donulation ot about 280, 000,000. English commerce, ideas, books and fcnncne nroht bv this breadth ot em pire. Our appreciation of the future ot tne Angio-oaxon race ana rjogusu wuguw is heightened, however, when we add to the English-speaking area the 3,024,494 noil are miles of the United fctates, witn their population of 50,152,866 souls. No doubt the period is yet very remote, . 1 . 1: t. and mav never be reacnea. wnen xogiibii will become the universal language of I iQaaAittL The probability is that many isolated races will never he converted to I. v& a if use. liut when an aggressive, ener getic, commercial people, possessing so vast an area into which to develop, is at the same time the wealthiest on we globe 1 and the most enterprising and practical, it is difficult to set limits to its future. I The Romans were able to impress their laws and language upon the whole of I Eurone. and the Anglo-Saxon is the Ro- man of the modern world. In competi 1 tion with the races ot the continent tne English and American possess the ad- vantage of beginning with .11,835,494 square miles of the earth s surface and the oualities which first gave them this - wide domain, f IKaneiort, (Ind.) Dully Journal. I sell more of St, Jacobs Oil remarked Mr " D. E. Prvor. 112 E. Broadway, to our renorter. t han of any other article of its kind, and I consider it the best lini ment in use It has to my own knowl 1 edge cured severe cases of rheumatism in oe this community. I . a a M-mm . I For atrliah ClOtninsT. fiTO 10 as T 11. vt -n- ot j-b.u. 1 ti ir.. t. tj STATE NEWS. ; ; Gleaning! from the State, Preu. Laurinburg Entrrpnxe: Mr. T. B. Brady, who wa shot two weeks' ago by Mr. D. W McLaurin, died on Wednes day evening last l'roui thouadaxecfiived. , The cotton gin of Dr. Geo, Gee, about five miles from Weldon, N. C., accident ally caught fire on Monday and was to tally destroyed, together with quantity of cotton. The loss is estimated at $5,000; no insurance. . . Winston leader : The members of the Methodist church, of thu place, are tak ing steps to the erection of a new church building. It will occupy tho wte of (he old one, and is to cost $10,000, $7,500 of which has been subscribed. , ' . ' c Wilmington JirviftajWo are glad to learn that Judge Brooks; who, it will be remembered, was too ill to hold the Fed eral Court in this city at tho recent term, has recovered, and will be able to preside with Judge Bond at Raleigh, this week, at the session of the Circuit Court. Wilmington Star : Mr. John Rook?, who ' had his arm mutilated by a cotton gin at South Washington, Pender county, a few weeks ago, and afterwards suffered ampu tation, died from his injuries. r There were two fine looking watermelons in market yesterday morning, just from the vine, and grown near this city. Greensboro Trihune: The Raleigh New$-Observer says Senator Mahone threatens to ask for an investigation by the Senate into the "course of Southern States that have scaled their debts. lie hopes to mako n .pass -at Senator Vance, who spoke in Virginia against him, by showing that North Carolina has read justed. Wilmington Un iiw : The residence of Mr. James Moore, at Pittsboro, was de stroyed bv fire last Friday night It caught from a spark. Nearly all of Mr. Moore's furniture was saved Mr. Wil liam A. Patterson, senior member of the firm of Patterson & Hicks, is dead, Hfe had been a sufferer for a long time from consumption, the disease which term inated his life. Asheville Cith n : Western North Caro lina is the best Fpot on earth. It not only produces products not produccable else where, also everything of importance that can grow profitably from Georgia to Canada, This week we were pleased to receive a visit from Mrs. J. M. Palton, of Haywood, who brought us a stalk of as beautiful middling cotton as was ever raised in Mississippi, raised in her garden. It was thoroughly matured, and she say she has gotten threo pickings from her patch, and will get another. , Greenville F.rpress: In Beaufort and Hyde counties the crops of rice, cotton and corn are him ply luatruificcnt this year. The farmers have about housed cotton and corn, and arc now very busy thresh ing ana cleaning out tlio largo crops ot rice for market.- John Langley, col ored, was arrested Saturday near Pactolus, charged with the horrid crime of attempt at rape upon a white girl. The girl was going to school when-the monitor waylaid, her, and her screams and cries and strug gles alone prevented a further outrage. Talk was openly male of lynching the scoundrel, but wiser counsel prevailed, and he was taken to jail Sunday. Greensboro Evnmnj Tribune: Mr. Frank Gorrcll, who resided on West . Market street, went into the basement of the house for tho purpose of getting a large stick of wood to build a fire, that he said would last all night. His wife, heard him coming up stairs with tho wood, and when he had gotten some three or four steps, she heard the wood fall, and on running to the head of the -stairway, she discovered that her husband had also I fallen. As he had recently had several hits, t-he supposed he had fallen in a fit, and immediately ran for Dr. B. A. Cheek, who lived next door. The doctor was at homc and was with Mr. Corrcll in two minutes after he fell, but his life was already extinct. Ho had not moved a limb after the fall. Asheville Nrwt: Dixon, who was tried in the Federal Court one year ago for rob bing the mail, in Mitchell county and con victed, and judgment suspended, was at the present term of the court sent to the penitentiary at Albany for one year. Mr. William Reeves and wife, of Ten nessee, who had been vuiting their brother, Dr. Rufus Reeves, of this place, met with a severe accident on their trip home last Thursday. While going down the Tennessee side of Walnut Mountain the horses became unmanageable and ran violently down the mountain, throwing Mr. R. out of the hack and seriously and dangerously injuring him. Mrs. Reeves jumped and was somewhat bruised, but not dangerously. The hack was broken entirely to pieces. Wilson Ahtiice: The case of Tom Beaman, who stolo about $1,500 from Col. Beaman in urecn county on the day the Colonel attended the circus in Wilson, came up for trial, in Inferior court, and attracted much interest. The evidence induced by the State was overwhelmingly convincing, and this was most powerfully' augmented by the defendant himself who, in weaving that tangled web, man bo often weaves when struggling to mislead and deceive, got the threads that his own ton gue spun so inextricably confused ' and mixed that every effort made to straighten them out only served to tighten and har den the knot of his guilt and conviction. Every struggle therefore made for release ,' bound him closer and closer to the thorny bed he himself spread; and so the Jury had no difficulty in finding him guilty, The Judgment being prayed, he was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, the full extent or tne law. Lumberton RoLetoman: In Wisharts township, about threo weeks ago. a little child of Agrippa Phillips was badly scalded by turning over a pot of hot cof fee, from the effects, of which it died last Sunday .evening. In Blue Springs township on the 17th a little son of Mil ton Baxter was badly burned and died on last Saturday. Though tho burn, was not serious it is not known what waa the im mediate cause of his death. The gin ana iour or nve uaies 01 cotton belonging to John Mcrhaul. ot islue Springs town ship, was burned on the 17th.. The fire was accidental and it is supposed was caused by a spark from the engine.' No insurance On Sunday, the 20th. a little- daughter of Ann Eliza Tyner. of Burnt hwamp township, about seven years old, while cooking supper had her dress to catch tiro and was burned 10 badly that she died 00 Monday morning. V 0 regret to learn that on last Wed nesday the cotton giu of Mr. Lewis Pit man, of Black Swamp township,' with eight bales of cotton was consumed by fire. The fire is supposed to hare origi nated from a match parsing through the gin and igniting. No insurance One night last week the dwelling housj and kitchen of James Pre vat t, living in Black Swamrt township, was destroyed by fire, which is tnpposed to have origninatcd m the kitchen chimney. " , "