J : r If fi ill it ii AY yy . i i "''"' 1 - ' ' 1 11 r " ' TERMS CASH $2 Per Annum. Pledged to Truth, to Liberty and Law,.... No Favors Win Us, and no Fear shall Awo. ESTABLISHED 1841. Vol. 8. miltojst, n. c, Thursday, jttne 3, isso. no. 17 MBBBIMHBMBHMMBaBBIMMBMMBMffWam Ml' " I " MPMiMMMM"SMMM"'SSllMS"SS'MM"SMlMMMBSMMMS Entered at the Post-Office at Milton, C, as Second-Class Mail Matter hc IJilioit lromclc win TOr." f.C r... Je 3, Wanted, A Man. "A man of nerve and heart and bTain, A man whose life is pure and clean, "Whose public record shows no stain, Whose name is stamped on no machine. A man of honest touch and sight, In every office high and clear. Whose love of liberty and right Is always active and sincere. A man tUo seeks no selfish end, Who knows no clique that he must please "Who dares not break and vtil not bend The Constitution's guarantees. A man whose mind's extensive scope Takes in the Nation and the State, And who, with equal strength and hop?, To both his life will dedicate, i The Baker's Daughter. 4:Sho walks in beauty like the nigh t Of cloudless climea and starry skies," And lovely though she is to sight, , She is not lovelier than her pie3. The roses of Damascus blow Their scents to far Arabian sands, But sweeter is the kneaded dugh That steals the odor of her hands. Nor sated Turk nor gouty lord. Nor pampered prince did e'er partake Of dainty dish that could affjrd Such rapture as her simple cake. I crave not fame, nor wealthVinor poW3r, I only wish that I culd bit A pound or two of some prime flour, And she were gently kneading me. Andrew's Bazar. Political Items. Shotweli says (Poli-tickle'emM Poly means many, you know, Mr. Landmark; and con- twist you, don't ask such pesterin' questions 'til we get down off'n the fence, will you!) Don't you see how particularly he avoids swearing under 'aggravating circumstances!'' ' God bless the man," as the old lady said under similar trying difficulties, we "want to hug him and kiss him too!" He's our choice for Auditor. Don't torget to remember this, everybody and the rest of mankind!' Shotwell always shoots well- 'whether aimed at duck or plover!' The laurel is in due process of cultivation with which to enwreath his brow. Galfdnt Saxon, and so on. 1 Edenton Clarion f An increasing demand in the selection of candidates for popular favor in the matter of personal morality i strong through out the State. Among all the qualifi cations for candidates, this is not the smallest. For instance, there are rnariy good partisans who dislike to vote for a man who is notoriously ad dicted to strong drink. - Reidsville Times:' Cat Fish Eat Snakes. As Mr: Howard and a friend hauled the seine in Dan river near Milton, the water was up and muddy, "they dragged out a pretty good-sizd cat fish, and asjsoon as he touched bank he vomi ted up "who? which? Howard or the cat fish? a water moccasin snake at least two feet long and bigj as a man's thumb, and the snake crawled ofF,fcc. I Capt. Tom, "bonnie boy,'" quit telling your snake and , fish stories about our eccentric foreman, who means so well but does so "worse ,r If you listen at him, hell h II How do you spell it? make you be lieve Jonah swallowed the whale, a long time before these sea-sarpints in tho 'rolling Dan-ube were invent ed. But 'train up a child away he goes! Whereabouts? 4 Dad' didn't do this nor this way either. Such a Getting Up Stairs. N Y. cor. Hal. News. This city is sometimes called the modern Babel, one in which "all the languages of the earth" are spoken, and people are building up towards heaven. Having iuduced the water to flow to the tenth story, with steam to torceit when necessary,and having invented the modern "elevator," they are putting up houses not five stories high, to which they were. limited. by law fifty years ago, but six, seven, eight, nine and ten. How much high er they will go, who can tell, unless their sins shall cause them to be scat tered abroad like the descendants of Noah. One day lately I happened to look up at the building opposite the store I occupy, and there I saw to my surprise that two new stories had been added to its five. Hiving the assistance ot the elevator, one is not put in the predicament of my old townsman, Gen John Winslow. He once arrived at the Ator House, and was assigned to room 691), perhaps The Irish waiter started to show him up to his room. After climbing three pairs of stairs, addressing the Hiber nian he said, "Patrick, how much further have we to go?" " We are about half way. your honor." "Well, go down to the office and say to Mr. Stepson t hat if he will send me a mint julep I think lean gain strength enough to finish the journey. I will wait here till you return." Stetson was so amused that h not only sup plied the julep, but changed the Gen eral's room to one the access to whic h could bo had without alcoholic assis tance, and I never learned positively whether he had to call for like aid during his -sojourn at tha Ast.or. Poor fellow ! the world ho uld have better spared a better ms?n! Fall in Ranks. The following from the Raleigh News is applicable to any place where the side valks in front ot a church are occupied after services by a crowd ot impudent and imprudent gazers: "Wanted thirty-six young men, more or leas, all shapes and sizes, from the tall and graceful, with hair sufficient on the upper lip to stuff a cush.ion.down to the little bow-legged fre.4kled-face, carrot-headed upstart. The'object is to form a gazing corpse, to be in attendance at the church doors next Sunday evening, to stare at the ladies as they leave the church, and to make gentlemanly and delicate aemarks about their dross, &c. To prevent a general rush it may be well to is-tate that no one who po3Feeses the intellectual capacity of a welfa bred monkey will be received. The rumor that Senator Vance is Roon to be married, seems to have been 'well grounded, as the Senator, in a private letter to a gentleman in this city, a few days ago, admitted its truthfulness. The lady is a wealthy Kentucky widow. Hal. Post. The last we heard of Vance he was presiding over the Senate of the U. S., in the absence of Vice Presi dent Wheeler.- Even if there is a 'nuptial feast in contemplation, we concur with the Charlotte Democrat when it says the public has nothing to do with such private matters and don't care much about it; but another exchange says the lady is a devoted Catholic and that the parties are to be married by a Catholic Priest. V. is a P. . but he will adorn the position any way. You bet. Raleigh Visitor: The female pop ulation of tins eity exceed the male by over a thousand: but that's all right joung risen from other cities and counties, and even States find it necessary to come to Raleigh to get pretty wives. The Baltimore Sunadvertises seven strawberry festivals in-oDe issue.- Gargling Oil will cure it.? LADIES IH THE BATH. An Animated Scene at Hiss Bennett's Swimming School-PI ashing Beauties in Graceful Motion. New York Herald. & ' A picturesque scene was revealed within the walls of the Ladies' Swim ming Academy, corner Fifteenth street and Seventh avenueesterday; A reporter presented himself at the reception parlor for admission, and Miss Kate Bennett, the manager, was sent for. She -said that gentlemen were not allowed to enter the galler ies of the reservoir when ladies bathed. Her subscribers represented the best families, and it was necessary to ex clude all oittsiders,except lady report ers holding special invitations. However she would consult her guests, who were then enjoying them selves in the water. Miss Bennett bowed herself out and was gone for some time, when subdued voices be trayed discussion. At last she ap peared smiling and said that consid ering the circumstances, the ladies would yield, but they wished a little time to prepare for masculine com pany. Ten minutes later word was sent in that all was ready, and a somewhat embarrassed individual was ushered into a long corridor opening into a series of darkened dressing rooms. In a gallery running arouud a tank ot water, seventy feet long, sat forty or fifty ladies in fashionable attire, with ten dollar parasols beside them An arm gleaming like-polished ivory vanished behind some drapery as the visitor turned a corner toward the rear robing rooms. . A brief pedestrian effort along the qen tre aiel e bi o n t bitr io afSa of steps, and there a sight was presented worth walking miles to see. Sirens from .Fifth Aveuue, naiads from Mur ray Hill and mermaids from Wash ington Heights were coquetting with the brine, iney swarn arouua as it they were vivified statuary; tney div ed, they leaped out of the water and played pranks with each other, while some of the more agile performed marvellous "stunts' on the horizontal bar, and turned summersault back ward and forward until the place became a sort of South Sea Island blushing with modern improvements. The fair bathers were encased in a species of modest modern style? ball room costume, without trains, and in some instances the edges of tjie gar ments were ornamented with lace ruffling, which, although moist, con trasted pleasingly with the snowy skin beneath. CONFIDENTIAL. The mammas of several of the young ladies came forward and took Reats by the visitor and proceeded t? narrate various striking incidents connected with the aquatic education of their daughters. " Oh, ydu should have heard my Nelly scream and yell and have seen her kick and go into tan trums when I first brought her here! But she soon got over that, and now you can't keep her out of the water." said the fond mother, as her daughter glided through the water like a sun- fish, and threw kisses at her sister behind the railing. As the bathers became more free in their movements there was a diving after hair-pins and other mysterious things that bad become loosened and allowed some of the most beautiful hair in New York to have its own way for once. Bouqets were tossed to the swimmers, who flung them back again amid peals ot silvery laughter Meamwhile the swimmers did not forget their graceful .motions mo tions and evolutions that would have broken the heart of an Anthony. What these beauties did not know about rait water exercise was not worth recording. Miss Kate Bennett now led off with some fancy strokes that were cleverly imitated; then a bevy of ladies link ed themselves together into what thoy,.called a "railroad trainband the newly constructed figure " glided arouud the reservoir as graceful lyCa a sea serpent . "Let 8 feed the fishes, saug out a boarding school miss as she threw in a spray of roses. The sport continued until the shades ot evening and robust appetites summon ed the bathera borne.- N. Y.Snn. For the want of something more profitable to discuss, the Methodist ministers of Pittsburgb,Pa., spent the time at their last meeting in talking: about the proper attitude to be main tained during prayer. The shape which the question took was: '"Ought we to insist on our congregations kneeling during prayer?" The general sentiment-" the meeting was in favor of k n eel i n g, a! th oti g h j t was con si d 6 r -ed by some that many people in the congregations would look with disfa vor on the pieacher who would too positively insist on the adoption of any particular attitude. Formerly in the Methodist church es kneeling in prayer was the almost universal rule, the only exceptions being in favor of invalids and the aged The rituals of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches prescribe kneeling, and indicate when the con gregation are to kneel. The more rigid of the Presbyterians were quite urgent as to the duty ot standing in prayer. Modern custom has relaxed the habits both as to kneeling and standing. In Presbyterian churches it is seldom that any but the old peo ple stand during prayer. In the oth ers kneeling is to a great extent going out ot fashion. Nothing had SO great, a tendencv to make people give up the habit of kneeling as the .ample boop skirts which the ladies wore twenty or twenty-five years ago. Accoutred in one off these in f ull stvle, it was a great undertaking for a lady to turn and kneel in a pew. The skirts of to-day are more manageable in genu flection,, but the habit of kneeling. once suffered to fall into disuse, is uot. likely ever to become as general as it was. In most ot the churches the ministers allow the largest liberty as to posture in prayer time. , Mr. Vennor Prophecies Again. Mr. Henry G. Veunor comes for ward again with his direful prophe cies of storms, heat, cold, &c. His letter is dated at Montreal, May 18, and in it he says : "I believe that Juue wMl be an intenselv hot month on the whole, but the encf of the pres ent month, and probably the first of June, will be fall like, with frosts again. July will be a terrible month for storms, with terms of intense beat, but another fall-like relapse, with frosts, will, in all likelihood, occur a fe days before the 20th. I fear the storms of thunder and hail will be of unusual severity during July, I must claim the verification of my prediction relative to "h co)d wave, with frosts, over a large portion of the United States between the 10th and 15th of May The relapse toward the close of the present rnonth will te more severe than that just past' Durham Recorder: The Directory of the Western North Carolina Rail roacj met at Salisbury on .he 14th, their regular quarterly meeting, and somewhat expected to have rrade a formal transfer ot the road and prop erty to Mr. Best or the Syndicate. He was notpresentThowever,ana some intimations of bad faith have already been made. ! . I The versatile S. S. Cox is now wn--ting a Beries of theological articles for the Independent, in whih the good old-fashioned Bible doctrines are stoutly maintained. 1 The Ga8tonia Gazette publishes - list of the names of old people,? 21 in number, all living within six miles of Cherry ville, the oldest of whom is 114 and the youngest.81 years. A writer in the Gastonia Gazette is hot for Holt for Lieut-Governor The Daily Post is hot ngainst him 'And the Post is a six shooter, 'whereas the Gaston man can fire but once week; Travelling Stones. 4 , .- Many of our readers have'doubtless heard of the famous travelling stones of Australia. Similar curiosities have recently been found in Nevada.which are described as almost perfectly round, the majority of them as large as a walnut, and of an irony nature. When distributed about upon the floor, table, or other level surface, within two or three feet of each other, they immediately begin travelling toward a common centre, and there lie huddled like a lot of eggs in a nest. A single stone, removed to a distance of three and a halt feet, upon beino released, at once started off with wonderful and somewhat comical ce lerity to join its fallows! taken away four or five feet it remain? motionless. They are found in a region that is comparatively level, and is nothing but bare rock. Scattered over this barren region are little basinR, from a few feet to a red or two in diameter; and it is in the bottom of these that the rolling stones are found. They are from the size of a nea to fire m six inches in diameter. The cause of these stones rolling together is doubt lees to be found in the material of which they are composed, which ap. pears to be lode stone or magnetic iron ore. The Whittaker Case. Richmond Whig, This case, which has made so much noise at West Point, has come to a sad termination. The poor creature supplied unconsciously the proof of his own guilt. He was in the habit of tearing a sheet of paper in two, and writing on the; half sheet. An expert was supplied with two half sheets of a letter written to his mother a half sheet on which the warning was written, and a half sheet contain ing ah order for postage stamps by Whittaker. Here were four half sheets of paper. One of the halt sheets ot the fatter to his mother and the halt sheet with.theietter of warnings on being put together, were found to have constituted originally one whole sheet and the othertball sheet of the letter "to his mother and the pos tage order, another full sheet. The proof was oonolusive, and the expert, when he detected the fact, was said to be so much excited that, he could not tpeak. What prompted the fraud we are not advised buf there has been a great waste of sympathy. Even Mr, Beecher threw awaj- some of his. Spurgeou said in a recent sermon; "The worship of the golden calf is pretty general now. There is too much bowing down and cringing be fore it in all classes of society. No end of dodges are tried to get a scra ping of one of the creature's hoofs." A bright son ot a dyer in a Birming ton woolen factory went to New Yprk a few years ago in the employ of F: & J. By attention to business he advanced from post to post and now hfs the whole charge ot the business ad is a millionnaire. What became of F. &. J. is not stated. However, that has nothing to do with the mor. al. i Amasa Wjlsey of Petaluma, Cal,, dreamed last fall that be would die on May 1, 1$80. The occurrence im pressed him, though he affected to attach no" importance to it, and he joined three life insurance societies, so as to leave his wife provided for mease of his death. On May 1 ho was apparently in perfect health. A dinner was tjo have been given to him in the evening, to celebrate his es cape frooKa fulfillment of the dream. The party bad just gathered, when he fell from. his chair stricken by heart disease, and; died in a few minutes. Gold in Yirgisu. Two men.with out any other facilities than a tin-piif in five day s I obtained $100 worth of gold in Byrd s creek, ten miles from Chri8tianbui:g, Va. They have now hired a number of hands and gone to work systematically. .