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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.
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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. .