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KNTARMNIfED IJf IS23.1
SEW MEKIEA, XO. j
he Young Ladles f Modern Tine.
Hiiro's WEKtr.J j
I know I'm an old-fabioned bod v. though not
adu I d like well to Fpetk my miml about
f mum of mooern iay :
Their own grakdmothers wouldn't know them, and
I in kt in amazement myself:
Uut whether the old or the young one n right. I
t wkh bvuiv ruse person wouia tell.
" V 1 ? a girl 'twas not awthetic. but fine
. iwuKietpuif woa bib 'i pmn. i
And ahe was counted a notable woman that a rood
pie cru. coiua rame. j . i,
n bo could make a luwiou (mdial, and who etudi-
- i aeamnings and ragouts; !
But the young Indie who manage the world to-day
have very different views, f
My graoddaoabter Polly ay : ' "Yea.
therw mm MrvanU t. hat mil in fVv
indeed ;
, That eordiab can now be bought in the store.
moo i reoommena ie ;
That ahe kbowt better than waste her time
,n wt waten and potuade. .
" nfn'5f re barber and perfumers glad
uiojvo lor a iraue. '
sirituirht LL Italian, ahc,
x" all the new game n,i I,
Ijl-Lt the.ir. nh ar
At the Y SiiiV
When Llook at them ftatv
i laoe, feathers, and t
All pirtwrea of "po.-ic' '
BattotfiTthed!
ra
Kenr waa boaa
paint-
loan osi aa ill
" mm iid'j.
ana aumor iivii w rz -,r
! rigbt.
'"Www seen.
uniitant. ethereal tyr
the
f
',nawte'
Vonf v -
" .4 t noderii
r-y urn tS lover
4.. . . .
'f'wikinjt al
fssiAl -
'Jent, ma'am
. 3 are fair in every
rem of the sex in the
i i ar war.
"teiiirt. r.t..7
-egeiT.'?'"
and bangs Ple told
then at me, with a kind
. ojy, and think ot the past, till
ioa:
.. old or new way ia best. I wish
jjement myself:
body would tell.
ThMuder.Clap Hollow.'
Correspondence Patriot.
avails: reau witn consiueraoie
rest a graphic account of Yel
Tstone rart by a recent corres
ondentofthe Philadelphia Times
which a wonderful gorge is de
scribed as possessing the marvel
ous peculiarity of deadening com
pletely the "report or a gun," and
in which a horse in vain endeavors
to ' whinny," in fact, in which no
sound whatever can be produced
I am reminded of a gorge in the
inouhtaineous region of our own
State, that is the antithesis of the
one in the National Park, and as
a freak of nature, throws it entire
ly in the shade. As it may perhaps
interest your readers I will attempt
a description.
In company with two companions
I repaired to the vicinity of Black
Mountain last summer to rough it
for a couple of months. We went
-well prepared with camp equipage
and provisions, and having procnr
ed the services of a native to act as
guide and cook, we pitched our first
camp on the banks of a creek re
puted to be a fine trout stream,
One Sunday while we were louug
ing listfegsly about the vicinity of
the camp, our native propounded
the question, "Would'ut you ones
like, to see Thunder-clap Holler 1"
and then he gave ns a description
of the wonderful phenomena he
had witnessed, there, which arous
ed our curiosity sumciently to uu
dertake the trip, (about five miles
from camp.) although we had little
faith in the fellow's account After
tiresome scrambling
l ifh nra
uesignatetl. And a wonderful for
niatiou it was, irrespective of the
marvelous nature of the interior, as
depicted by the' guide. Before we
entered the "h611ern we paused on
a spot that gave a good view of a
greater portion ot the interior, in
order to contemplate the formation
so wonderful in itself. 1 We conld
see sufficiently well from our stand
point to give us quite a correct con
ception of the surface conformation
of the "holler" we were about to
enter. The contour or the entire
hollow or gorge, (about a mile in
length and a third of a mile to
wards the middle,) if projected
overhead to obscure the day light,
would form a perfect ellipsoid, as
though a collossal egg had been
used as a mould and then with
drawn, leaving the shape behind,
with large openings at either end
and a good slice out ot the top of
the ellipsoid, through which a
pretty wide streak ; of blue sky
could be seen from below. The
Bides of the gorge would thns con
form to the curves of an ellipsoid,
with overhanging precipices on
either side, bounded by the sky
line of the opening overhead. It
will thus be observed that the
holler"1 was built by nature upon
acoustic principles, so that it in
tensifies instead of deadening
sounds like that in the Yellowstone
Park. Having made these prelim
inary observations, we addressed
ourselves to the object ot our
tramp, and entered "Thunder-dab
Holler." ,
We soon found ourselves at the
entrance, and before we could ad
vance .half a dozen paces, we were
perfectly deafened by a 'tornado of
defused sounds, Bounds that in the
way of ear-piercing intensity we
had never before the least coucep
tion of. Itseetned as if yandamo
nium had broken lose, and all the
devils of bell were there shonting
through . speaking trumpets. It
was some time before we could get
our ears sufficiently aeeustotned to
the tremendous intensity of the
sounds to distinguish between
them. We were at first struck by
and attracted to a deafening sound
that emanated from beneath our
feet and caused us considerable
alarm, but upon investigation
proved to be the result of our own
fooUteps, which, iu this wonderful
gorge, sounded like the tread of so
many cyclops shod with iron sabots.
While proceeding we all involun
tarily jumped aside as if to avoid
7
r
i iaal fsthArw. inav
I So maybe, I roT'
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:-. , tzr
.fU I I MleI..
bdged rock
being: crush I YM seeing- that
I1IIW U I 1)11
wo iiiuutw from no such
side of tb- grtf a i0g8 ac.
oar alarr rvrV v4i
fool.
the
dauber, 75Cufnt. r A-,aan,
" ' ii nine rt tier awav n
j r iuuuu uul uisl
nr. 'ir alarm was nothing
thee' than the dislodge-
mor' ,yeel DV the cricket that
mJ then rolled down in his
Afler this adventure we
.trneeAilMi hnt i fnv naces
i extremeU diaapreeable
sound, resembling that of I
- " . I
ic file sharpening the teeth
antic saw. aroused our at-
The sound came from
to .ur risrht. which we loca
a tree, aldose scrutiny of
ih revealed a squirrel seated
ghtbn a limb, midway,'gnaw.
A wav. at a hickory untl We
scarcely finished marveling at
iiAn wo i were stunned by
riaafeninir sounds, resemunng wie
noise made by a quick succession
of enormous sledge hammers upon
.... omntv imiier. anu iui wo
tel as coming from a tree on iuo
' . .a...
Bir,rw tn onr left. Th noise,in
nneation came at intervals, and
f 2. Va. Kaviti V A (at.
while waiung ior w
length discovered ara motion
ot a biru' n ".. -'-To
ioaua proceeaea
necking away on
ead, hfjilo w limb ! At the bot-
torn jTthis igorge flows a small
bran not much bigger than an'
ordinary yard stick: at one place
it rushes down a bold declivity for
about three feet, making a miuia
ture cataract' As we approached
this spot a noise emanated like the
rush of many waters. Louder and
louder it got, nntil we expected a
veritable Niagara would come in
sight Judge of our surprise when
we stood over this puny waterfall
little but loud! Joggiug along,
wondering what ould come next,
we were startled by a series of
sounds like so many steam whistles
turned loose, and which came from
a clump of laurel bushes a little
ahead. After diligent searching
with onr eyes through the maze of
the thicket, to our utter astonish
ment there sat-a wood thrush, sing
ing' away those self same notes,
which, ordinarily, are so soft and
flute like, that j he is deservedly
pronounced the sweetest of all wild
wood songsters! I had to pause
right here to make an endeavor to
take in the wonders of this marvel
ous gorge, for my faculty of won
der was aroused to the utmost, so
I proposed to my companions to
dispose ot the lunch we had the
forethought to bring with ns. But
we bad soon to desist, for in biting
off pieces of hard tack the sensa
tion produced by the sound arising
therefrom was like taking the top
of our skulls off. The noise was
like the breaking off of ice bergs
from the edge of the glaciers
around the north pole. After this
attempt to munch our lunch we
proceeded down the gorge. Wj
had not progressed many steps be
fore we were attracted by a deep,
sonorous, muffled souud, reminding
ns of the rumbling of distant thun
der. It seemed to proceed from a
little pool in the branch not far
ahead, and upon approaching,
there sat a green-headed, goggle
eyed bull frog on the bank 1 As he
dived out of sight his plunge mada
a noise like that of a bnge boulder
burled into take from the top of a
rtKHxnow-. jrrcBeuuv u uuise UllCU
the air all around about ns, resem
bling the humming of the machin
ery of a cotton I mill in full blast,
when lo and behold, a bee flew by
and settled upon a wild touch-me
not blossom ! ne had not been on
the blossom over a few seconds
when a tremendous glug glug came
therefrom it was the noise made
in the act of sucking honey from
the flower! Up to this time not a
breath of air had been perceptible
in the gorge, but on a sudden a
breeze sprang up, and simnlta
neously the whole air was filled
with sounds, reminding ns of beat
ing carpets with long poles, inter
spersed with noises similar to those
produced by the flopping of huge
canvass sails,
accounting for
We were sometime
this phenomenon
At length it was sucr crested that
perhaps it was the result of the
rustling of the leaves by the wind,
which I soon corroborated by plac
ing my ear close to a branch of low
down quiveriug leaves, which near
ly deafened me, and the sounds
ceasing, at this juncture, with the
dying away of the wind, still furth
er corroborated the fact! We were
now near the end of the gorge, and
we observed that the sounds were
not as' intense as towards the mid
dle, where they were at the maxi
mum height. But before we emerg
ed into a natural state of things,
we thought of trying the effects of
a pistol shot. We fired a shot from
a 30 Smith & Wesson, and the re
port was equal to the concentrated
concussion of ten simultaneous
claps of thunder ! The concussion
was so great that it nearly knocked
us down, and we were loath to re
peat the experiment As we pro
ceeded through this marvel of wou
ders we had to address each other
in whispers, and even the lowest
at our command came forth with
stentorian loudness and volumn,
while an ordinary conversational
tone of voice was so tremendously
thunderous that the words ottered
were not distinguishable, but seem
ed like meaningless shouts from
the throat of a forty times piled up
Goliath I 7 .
1 t
As we retraced our steps towards
camp we could scarcely realize the
contrast between the, wonders of
"Thunder clap Hollow" and a na
tural state of things, aud it exer
cised onr powers to the utmost to
convince ourselves of the reality of
what we had just witnessed, and
which lingered in the mind like the
impression of a dream. A very
-
ii. r
. i.a utnndl. v
-sr mn Backer
disagreeable ringing in our ears,
however, for several uays auer, ao
companied- with partial deafness,
was a reminder sumcientiy rcaiwua
lAoiniu na that wA had 0XDlor. I
ed no phautom gorge. Indeed, j
snch was ! the impression maae, i
that we arrived at the conclusion
rtiof it th human oran of hearing I
was as accute as in some animais,
uav C . . I
th deer for instance, tne very
rrrnwinor nf the GTraSS 111 that WOU
druns gorge would be audible, and
that no more appropriate name
conld have been given to It toan
the euphonious One with Wtticn It
. 1 1 h thli
r.nnxLHUKU. auu "
locality was known to the moan
tninoer nf the reinon ior ECaera
tions back "Thunder clap Holler."
An T Am not HuQcientiy veraeu
in Mtientiftc matters to account ior
the wonderful phenomena witness-
ed in Thunder clap iioner," i win
not expose my ignorance by mak-
ing the attempt Only I will ven-
ture to observe, iu mi
tli.pA aoami trt DO lit VUO BUr-
face conformation oi una Bf8f
.UUI' Hl . i ... LI
(already alluded to) an .eg.iw
l!!Z?XZt
transcendiuc any verification of the
principles or this orancn oi acieucw
' . . ..v. nnt ' In
expounded
put in
lecture hall; he might get a hint
that escaped all the investigations
to ncousticsand go away with val
uable suggestions to enable him to
construct a lecture ball exceeding
in perfection of acoustic principles
any hitherto devised. Some enter
prising parties have commenced
the erection of a hotel in the vicini
ty of the "holler," which will bear
the unique cognomen of "Thunder
Hotel," thns making the region
more accessible to tourists.
I am aware that the above ac
count will appear somewhat upon
the Munchausen order, and that I
have rendered myself liable to be
classed and compared with that in
teresting individual, but all who
have been fortunate enough to
visit the locality . and witness for
themselves the wonderfully magni
fied sounds I have attempted to
depict, will attest to the correct
ness of the relation. So, the Yel
lowstone Park contains no freak of
nature comparable to that we have
in the Old North State, and nntil
one is discovered to transcend the
wondrous "Thunder clap Holler,"
old North Carolina will take and
hold to the cake, Rockingham.
An Appointment Revoked.
Gapt James Blackburn,' elder
brother of Senator Blackburn, was
selected to be Collector of Internal
Revenue for the Lexington district
of Kentucky. The commission was
made out at the Treasury Depart
ment aud sent to the White House
There it was bung up permanently,
the occasion being the discovery of
the following letter, written by
Gapt. Blackburn to his wife, in
1861: ... : :
Abingdon, Va., Oct. 2, 1861.
My Deab Wife: I have left
you and our children In the land ot
the despot, but God grant that I
may soon , be able to make' the
Union men of Kentucky feel my
knife. From this day I hold every
Union traitor as my enemy, and
from him I scorn to receive quar
ter, and to him I will never grant
my sonl in death, for they are
rmwards and vj.'JAjjsL enough.
Brother Henry and I arrivett'here
without hinderance. I have had
chills all the way, bnt I hope to
live to kill forty Yankees for every
chill that I ever had. I leant that
Hardee is still in the Arkansas
lines, inactive, and if thi proves
true I will tender my resignation
and go immediately to Kentucky.
I hope that I will do my dnty as a
rebel aud a free man. Since I know
the Union men of Kentucky, J in
tend to begin the work of murder
in earnest, and if ever I spare one
of them may hell be my portion.
I want to see Union blood ron deep
enough for iy horse to swim in.
Your husbaud, ', ;.
Jaxes Blackburn. I
This letter was captured and for
warded to Washington and has re
mained in the Government archives
until the announcement of Black
burn's appointment as Collector of
Internal Revenue at Louisville.
Seuator Blackburn is verj indig
nant and says that he will never
again ask another favor from the
Administration. The Washington
papers report that he went to the
White Honse the other day filled
with indignation. The more he
glowed, however, the calmer and
more courteous the President be
came. He repeated to the. Presi
dent the senteuce he has since used
in defense of his position, "that he
had not once since the inaugura
tion secured a single thing be bad
asked for, and he was persuaded
that tbe Administration was not
disposed to consult him about Keu
tncky appointments or to pay any
atteution to his indorsements or
recommendations." The President
assured htm that no hostility was
entertained upon his part, and that
be was glad to unite with tbe Sena
tors from every State in selectiug
good men. The President's pladd
and dignified demeanor did much
to qniet the Senator's' warmth of
manner, but be still thinks that he
who dallies is a dastard aud he who
doubts is damned."
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Prohibition's Go4 Work.
Washington Latter.)
Iowa Republicans, who claim to
be good tmliticians, say that it is
doubtful how that State goes next
fall on accoout of prohibition. The
course of the Republican leaders
has got the party on the losing side
in the State, and should it go
Democratic it will be on that ac
count purely and not national poli
tics. Internal quarrels also have
hurt the Republicans, and alto
gether the party there is ih a bad
wa3- : ' v, I1- ' .Hi
nr - u w as
1 I aft aTkfl
r",f VLView the construction of a
raraTOfflBOBO. N. C.; TUESDAY, MAY 28,
rWfcPIT THEMES.
-' HasaaCraak.
In St. Paul's Evangelical Church
aMiir Arnintrthe Rev. UOEn j.
nt-n.a- lutnnxl nnon th AXCiSQ
aue8tion. In the-course of bis lec-
tare ne gave expression to tne ioi- i
ow utterances : ! f
r mwm that there are some I
- " . . . I
ionc lutired men audi short cairea
in t the Temnerance uoss i
who are objectionable, jnst as mere
am Rome WUOlc suuieu. ,"
low on the other side wuo are id
nyprr wav loveable. Still, we must
uot look so tnucn to peraonain.i
to getting on the ngut sme oi iuo
There nave oeeu "-crauM iu
a it Y mTI In nil
times, and they nave aone wjiuo
very good work. A cranK.' ia
something that turns not a mere
umniuor viinn mat is tuniea. wubu
tin IkMH fenmrjlished in the past
W waa.
b thc pertinacity and obstinacy of
te trank." History will yet do
, ingtiee xo mm. .
l ,T J- an omit QQWHOD' Vtieiuer
prohibition is inwiuauw y vm
- . .- ---- - , -
advisable,' It is ccrtam vuut, au
i
triJ it haa failed to aatifacfclfri
carry oat' ! t br "ii-" Huo t come for
tftis&rtftvta in-New York city-
There are 10,000 liquor shops in
this city land 7,000 food stores.
This number of saloons is too large.
I would make the price of liquor
so great that it was beyond the
reach of any ' save the millionaire
dude and the dnde at the other ex
treme of I the social ' ladder the
tramp who sets no value on money
as agaiust rum. ' ?
j Tobace. OpUaa and Chloral.
Dr. Talmage discussed ' the to
bacco question in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle Sunday morning. He
chose his text from Genesis i., 11
"And, God said,1 Let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed." After a general reference
to herbs and their uses the Doctor
dropped to his subject Some three
hundred years ago a plant was
discovered in Yucatan and taken
to Europe. It was potent in its in
fluence. It conquered France. It
was taken' over to England by Sir
Walter Raleigh, and it soon con
quered the British Isles. It was
tobacco. ; It had been going on
conquering and enslaving ever
since. . Dr. Talmage conld speak of
tobacco from experience. He had
been its slave, but, thank God ! he
said, he had been able to conquer
the habit ! There were hundreds of
persons to day who were asking
the question, Does tbe use of to
bacco tend to produce Cancer !
THE ABUSES OF THE WEED.
. It was not his intention to limit
the discussion to that narrow issue.
He would not overlook the question
but he would .look at the tobacco
question from! a more commanding
standpoint It was a common de
fence of those who used the weed
to remind ns that God made it. It
was a poor defeuce. True enough,
God made it, but God made many
things besides. He made bella
donna, nux vomica and hundreds
of. other things which had their
uses. He bad also gi ren man com
mon sense, to enable him to dis
tinguisb nse from abuse. It was
undeniable that tobacco was a poi
son. There were those, however,
who would not have it so. Men
who smoked lived to a good old
age. Yes I but so did inebri
He remembered a man who lived
to me age ot one nundred years,
a a a m a ai &
ana whose extraordinary longevity
was attributed to the fact that he
had been ! continuously drunk for
the last fifteen years of his age
Men were surely born for a higher
purpose than to pickle their own
bodies and to smoke their ! own
lives. (Loud laughter.)
Tobacco was bad for the mind as
well as the body. It filled our asv-
lums.- iUeaicai testimony was
abundantly strong on this point.
There were hundreds and hundreds
in our asylums who, iu their lucid
intervals, conld trace their misfor
tune, to the influence of tobacco.
It created unnatural thirst! He
would not! say that every smoker
was a drunkard, bnt most drunk
ards were j smokers. The pathway
to the drunkard's grave was strewn
thick with tobacco leaves In all
us rorma tne ' nse or to'mcco was
offensive. Horace Greeley spoke
of its "profane stench." Daniel
Webster thought that the smoker
should retire to tbe horse shed.'
(Laughter.) Ministers were much
to blame iu this matter of smoking.
it was bad example to others, es
pecially to tbe young meu, bot it
was also ruiuious to themselves.
Many of them annually smoked
themselves sick, and annually their
good people eame to their rescue
and sent them to Europe to recup
erate. (Laughter.) ! . I
MINISTERS KILLED BY BMOKEtt'S
I - CANCER. . . . .
He could name at least five min
isters whom be had known to die
from cancer brought ou fros the
nse of tobacco. Over many a min
ister's grate the epitaph might
with truth be written, "Here lies a
good and pious servant of God who
died' front1 too much Cavendish."
(Loud laughter.) In all thecbnrclies
Episcopal Presbyterian, Congre
gational, Baptist, Methodist there
was need for reform. ' Tobacco was
to be denounced also because of its
cost Give him the $15,000,000 a 4
year ana ne woma clothe and feed
all the poor in tbe country..
NARCOTICS OF ALL SORTS.
Dr. Talmage had sotnething to
say about cigarettes, and the young
man was j informed that in many
cases the question to be considered
was whether he would have a home
without the tobacco or the tobacco
without the home. References was
made to nepenthe, in which tome
of the ancients indulged : lo hash
isb, to opium aud chloral. Of
opium 33,000 pounds were annnal
ly imported to these shores, and I
a mriM had at least 600.000 opium
victims. , The use of chloral was on
tru increase. One nous m wit
many, the preacher said, mauufac
tu red, half a ton
of
week. Mightier
far
were t these
narcotic and anasthetic devils than
devn cf alcohol, bad as he was,
and it was a sad fact, in connection
UK vA n.k lmRhiah. onium ana
Wllili BUV mww w. -
chloral. that its victims were incnra-
,x, . traver was of no avail. 1 ne
ven of Almighty God seemea to
reiuse w mwiwiw
i Revlaloa af tbe Bible, j
iuwta tWA vision, and make it
vioin nnnn tildes, that he may ran
that readeth it" (Habakkuk, U4 2),
... tha tAtt. diosen bv the liev.
TmAa fin amhern for his Sunday
morning sermon the revision of the
Ttir.i in . tha Cal varv Presbyterian
r.hnrrh Nv York. The Lord's
commands are not ephemeral, said
tire nreacher. but are destined to
ji ii t Tii. r.,.f t- .
eiiuurv i u "tLaa; mm a 1 1 1 a
- m. written revelattou 1
clear oroof that God intenaeawe
should have one. .JLciiux'
e BiMoFthe fact that of
published
six hundred do not pay the cost of
printing, ami that of all the books
mZirZLAZ?ZZA
r L" r".r.i " .:r "Z
past three thousand years not more
than five hundred survive, the pop
ularity of the Bible is daily on the
increase. It is annually taking a
stronger hold on the minds of the
people and is revered by! some to
such a degree that' they are shock,
ed with those who propose to cor
rect the errors due to a faulty trans
lation.. Even1 the slightest tamper
ing with Holy Writ they Consider
utterly unwarranted. They forget
that the Bible in its present shape
did1 not come to us direct from
heaven, but it is a gradual! growth.
They do not see how unreasonable
it is for them to expect that the
sixty six books of the Bible should
be absolutely perfect: j Others,
however, noted many inaccuracies
of expression, and it was! fori the
purpose of correcting these that
scholars set about the work of re
vision in February, 1870. , Eleven
years later on May 17, 1881 tbey
issued the Revised New Testament,
and next Thursday their completed
work will be given to the public,
j What every Christian desires is
that truth should be expressed as
clearly as possible, and what every
Protestant glories in is the fact
that he can read his Father's will
in his mother tongue. It was to
make truth clearer and the re vela
tion of God's will more apparent
that this revision was undertaken.
Objectors will doubtless say that
tbe. Book has been raultilated and
that it is wrong to discard the old
familiar language on account of a
trifling grammatical ori textual
error. But it must be remembered
that the version of 1611, which is
admired so much, is 'the result of
five previous versions, and that it
succeeded Sim ply because it was
the' best Textual criticism was,
however, at that time in its infancy,
and inaccuracies unavoidably crept
iu. Not many, it is true; only 1,
314, of which 147 affect the sense
of the passages in which they
occur. Quite enough, however, to
make this present revision desira
ble. " i - . .
Christian Un"
r Newton, rector of
oonis' unurcu, mew lork.
a-a . a a ; araa a w
preached upon "Christian! Unity,"
as suggested by the Congress of
Churches held during the past week
in Hartford. Inathis event, he said
he recognized a real step in the di
rection of Christian unity. 1 For the
first time, said he, in the history of
Christianity, representatives of
orthodox churches have appeared
upon tbe samt platform with
Swedenborgians, Universalists and
Unitarians in the effort to promote
a common Christianity. Howard
Crosby has stood alongside of
Father Grafton, and President
Porter, of Yale, has stood along
side of James Freeman i Clarke,
each speaking out his own miud.
.each recognising in the other the
disciple of the same Master a
child of the same Heavenly Father.
Mr. Newton theu spoke of the
evils of our present denomination
alism. The best thing for our civ
ilization today, he continued,
would be to nip the budding hopes
of a host of preachers and teachers,
and doctors and lawyers -and art
ists, and to turn these hosts of
would be professional workers into
some tanks ot productive labor.
The world would manage to get
along without their sermons, their
briefs, their prescriptions, their
paintiugs and their poems, while
they themselves would be better off
and would be helping to make the
race better off. . j
The miuistry of American Chris
tianity is upon a bay diet The
average parson through the coun
try can scarcely find potatoes for
his pot, much less books! for his
shelves. ; He rereads those joyous
volumes which he studied in the
semiuary. He chews over the cud
of his knowledge of which he par
took in years gone by. He re
hashes his early theological specu
lations. He cannot keep! np with
tbe current literature. He is half
starved mentaly. He is overworked
in audition. The result is an out
cry of .frightened astonishment
which every now and then goes up
from among men in the ministry
against some oue who simply says
to bis ieople what every educated
man ought to be saying to his own
flock, i .They simply have not been
reading enough to know where the
great world of thought stands to
day. I r
Newton then passed qu to
consider how for. Christian unity
was possible of realization. Unity
of thought, he. said, is impossible
save as an ideal -toward which all
kuowledge tends. Unity! of wor
ship is not practicable. Worship
must of necessity express tbe na-
1885.
are and character of the worship-,
t. . l ! Aa nna
per. j.uere is no hucu wub
perfect form of worship for an sorts
and conditions of men. (The whole
question about ritual is mainly a
matter of taste, u nity oi mcwiw-
in church life and work is imprac
ticable. These methods grow out
of the varying needs ! or various
classes and must adapt themselves
to those conditions, u nuormiiy in
church methods will be had only
man orA made n alike aim ueve
IaiuuI tn the. name ooint. What
nnifv thn. 13 lX8SlDie I IV w uav
ft., at ! TtV It naA
ideal schemes. The
Ar Hia new Jerusalem navu
' m L
rrT haan rtnen lO 1IUU11U iiisiifsviivM
xi a .rim nnhmits to use an author
ized draft of those plans- writes
himself dowu a charlatan. j
j "; COMMON OBOtTND. j
What do we hold in ! common
alreil. Wo hold . in
common the essential
a nan OLViava w -w - . - , t
m the raii,,--xsvfr0id in
hT . - dm r ' in . Jesus
i2. ' ."ir.T.jeeives the supreme
reveaamr ot God. We hold in
common the Christian ideals of
character. We are one, therefore,
in he essentials of spiritual life. It
needs now but a recognition of this
spiritual religion aaessential Chris
tianity to find the Drinciple which
is to lead us
anity.
onward
into Christi-
Tax ou Llqnor Dealers. '
i The following interrogatory has
been submitted to State Treasurer
Bain: , '.'-- I j i ! .
"If a man gets a liceuse from
county commissioners,! to retail li
quor, and then sells, not -only by
retail, but also by large quantities,
is he liable for taxes prescribed in
second and third paragraphs of
same section f ! ) J i
He answers: "The tax prescribed
in each subdivision of Sec. 34, is
for selling iu ' the! quantity men
tioned therein. , 1 f j . y
Under the Jaw as it is, the ideal-,
era who have not paid the taxes,
are liable as far back to the State
when the first license; under jthe
new law of 1883 was issued or old
license expired.'? j i j
Tbe following are the provisions
in brief with a construction of sec
tion 34, schedule B. o "An Act to
Raise Revenue," passed in 1883,
construed by the. State Treasurer:
Every person, company or firm,
for selling spirituous, j vinous or
malt liquors, or medicated bitters,
taxed as follows: j . j j . j j
1st. For selling in qaantitieis less
than a quart, twetityj dollars for
each' quarter. -j ' ;; ' -..
2d. For selling in quantities of
one quart and less than five gal
Ions, twelve dollars aiid fifty cents
for each quarter. ; Jjj
3d. For selling in quantities of
five gallons or more, fifty dollars
for each quarter, j 1 ilQvjjl
4. For selling malt liquors; ex
clusively, five dollars
for leach
quarter. ' j.: j
The tax in each case is
for selling
in the quantity mentioned.
Randall's- Leadership Elected Cleve-
.-" . laud, j "
Correspondence Ualvexton News.
Don't you know Messrs. Editors,
that if the old serpent had succeed
ed in coercing "Mr. Randall and his
forty Denioegatitfi jitW into the
Bcaav t S V tV
Morrison
land would have been, licked out of
his very boots f You see' then' the
convention in Chicago would have
been forced to indorse it and. make
it a part of the party platform lit
'could not have escaped this with
out repudiating its own party.
lbus the party would have 'gone
into the presidential election advo
eating a policy for which the coon
try is not prepared, which it dou't
want, aud which j at
fourths of the people
least
three
hate.
That
would have been ruination.) (It
would have been destruction' and
weowe toMr. Kandall and bis forty
Democratic friends") that the; old
serpent did not get in! his Work.
The Lord be. thanked that there
were so many wise men in Congress
whom the old snake could not be
gile. . , , p .
About Surveying,
Between now and ithej llthjof
September next, the Secretary jof
State, by the aid jof surveyors is
to have erected in each eouutyjof
the State requesting him to do so
through the board of com mission
ers, two meridian) mouumeiits for
the correct retracing (of surveys.
The county commissioners are to
keep these mouuments in go6d re
pair; every surveyor in the month
of December is to test his needle
by them, and a record of these
tests, ana all corrections resulting
therefrom, are to be j recorded j in
the "Meridian Record", book, In
the office of the Register of Deeds ;
and no survey "after the; llthjof
September is binding, upon, any
party in interest unless it appears
in the "Meridian Record."
Congressman Held. !
Leakrill Ecad. j
We had the pleasure Of meeting
Hon. James W. Reid at Went worth
on Monday. Mr. Reid, is in full ac
cord with tho administration of Mr.4
Cleveland, and thinks when! our
people fully comprehend the situa I
tion they will more fully! endorse
the President's policy in regard to
appointments. Mr. Reid has been
an indefatigable worker J has made
the intricate machinery of the gov
ernment a diligeut study aud when
Congress 'again assembles will be
fully equipped to render! his dis
trict valuable services, j The man
tle of Scales could ! not fall on a
more worthy successor.
1:
Deaerredly Popular Paper
f E-V! tTwia-City Dally.'! j '
The Greeusboro Patriot,; has
ever been a staunch old Democrat
ic sheet aud in every; contest has
bared lier breast ! to the Toei and
struck, with steady, sledge-hammer
blows, the solid ranks, of ithe ene
1 1
ia I
my it is
lar paper.
Virginia bi.'."
thnt . tv. i eter.
hnainea man of Liberty. Va.,
calling a dog by his sister's name, j
was hanged by.a moo at u caijr
hour last Monday morning. About
fifty mounted men roue up to
the jail in Liioeny at wu a
o'clock a.;m. and uemanaea u-
mittance. They mislea tne jauer
(Kirkwood Bell,) by telling him
they had a man to put in. When
the door was openeu uuu w v
party pointed his pistol at Bell and
5amnii tha kevs. which he said
tin iiiMn't have, and refused to tell
thov WATA. Thev were not
fr Ha nnt off. however, and imme
drately searchetl his room and
fonnrt them. They then went up
stairs into Terry's room frhrougbt
at, a4 ie- ess tnanupeen
sautes. As soon as possible
and a friend who stayed with him
gave the alarm, but all to no effect.
The party had joined another party
awaiting it at the warehouse of
Jeter & Newspm and proceeded at
orice to the scene of the hanging.
When Terry's cell! was entered he
realized at once the purpose ot the
masked intruders. He made no
resistance and went along with his
captors. - He remained 6tolidly
k quiet as the rope was placed
around his neck. V
This affair is regarded as the out
come of the last two notable mur
der trials in the State, in which the
murderers were acquitted on the
I plea of insanity. ' The first was
tnat or Thomas Lie Jarnett, who
deliberately shot and killed his sis
ter in a house of ill repute, iu Dan
ville. . After his acquittal Le was
sent to a lunatic asylum and is now
at liberty. The seeoud is the more
recent case at Charlottesville, iu
which Martin shot and killed Percy
Carrington, son of the mayor of
Richmond, because , Carrington re
fused to give up the seat he occu
pied in a car. Martin was acquit
tetl ou the plea of alcoholic iusani
ty. The Martin verdict especially
stirred up the people It was be
lieved that Terry would get off on
the insanity plea.
The funeral of Jeter took place
on Sunday. lie was the most pop
ular man in the county. He be
longed to the Masons, Knights of
Honor, and the Tobacco Associa
tion, and was identified with every
interest ! One hundred and fifty
men rode from Liberty to attend
his funeral, twenty miles away iu
the country. On the ride home
these parties planned the lynching,
and selected a committee to get the
keys from the jailer. A negro ou
the way to Liberty discovered
Terry's body hauging to the limb
of a tree, and gave the alarm. Tbe
lynchers bad done their work so
quietly that the jailer had been un
able to trace them up.
1 Subsequent developments show
that Terry was undoubtedly in
saue.. He was a good natural fel
low, aged 23. Between him and
Jeter there had always existed the
most friendly relations- Jeter was
a particular friend of Geu. Terry
aud his family, aud held them iu
the highest regard. Gen. Terry,
who is superintendent of the State
oenitentiarv. and now rasuies
TTii In ii hi I
I . r f i. -'
a nue aog to Jeler
r M,
some time ago, which was highly
prized by the recipient, who gave
her the name of Lettie, the name
borne by the youngest daughter ot
Terry.. Hajrston Terry went iuto
Liberty on Saturday morning, and
to tbe People's Warehouse, which
ia a urn Pit hv .Tt.or Sx. ,Ktranm
Jeter and several other gentlemen'
were standing in front of the warx(
house when young Terry approach
ed. The dog Lettie was lying ueas;
Poiutiug to the dog, Jeter said, it
a jocular manner: "Why haven't
you been around to see your kins j
folk P Those words were imme
diately followed by two pistol shots)
and Jeter fell with two woundsT
this abdomen. Five minutes later
he was a dead man Terry crave
UlUIOIL UT - aVA-V ll(ll TVV
udou his nerson Jeter
lit iti O A 1 4" i TTa It wl n a srva a 4- T
pistol
widower, and leaves three daugh-
A week ago Terry's mother!
quested a puysician to exam
her son, saying that she feared
brain was disordered. Iu Ri
inond he showed proofs of unsou
mind recently. About the time
was to have been examined
father was stricken with paraly
ami during tne-commotion canseti
by tuis calamity the young man
was. lost fight of.
Gen. Terry was one of the most
lopular Generals in the Confeder
ate army, and a favorite of Stone
wall Jackson's. He has not been
told of the Mad affair, his physician
fearing that the knowledge of it
will kilt him. Wheu the shooting
occurred on Saturday, Mrs. Terry
left her husband's bedside and
went to her son in Liberty. While !
1. I. i I
iuiu buiuiijuuiui; wet uaua licr l
husbaud. and while en route she
received a telegram announcing the
lynching of her son. Hud young
Terry, been tried and sent to, the
penitentiary, bis father would have
been in tbe painful position of sup
erintendent of tbe institution in
which his son was a convict
It is asserted on! good authority
that young Terry; wrote to his
mother about two j weeks ago de
claring his intention of killing
Jeter. The threat however, was
regarded as a wild outburst of a
disordered brain. I Nine mouths
ago Terry was examined by one of
the most eminent physicians in
Ridimond, ' and his family was
warned by him that Terry was on
the border of insanttj.
, Raudall tbe Choice of Mississippi..
rVtcksbunr Port, i
'Mr. Randall ia growing in popu
larity in Mississippi, and . we hope
and exject to see him tbe choice of
the Missippi Democrats for Presi
dent when the National Conven
n re. X
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"is
1 hi,'
i r
v a io I
I -
tion meets ih 1888..
You
Dart. -v
gone mania. c-
below .
Mar tha aeaveoly
bestow. .
Seek not to Borrow troaDies. wu
Study oarh other's diupoaiuon w
' . . ' . I . 1 . . '
Ana ins lining si uo ar
Lynching NatarV'
In the town of L
countyt Ya,, Satunf
a prominent busy""""
and instantly kr
named Terry
Terry, superr
penitentiarv
had given
Jeter nam.
Meeting TJ
aVuJirJ
he did not
meaning tUy
strued as a r
drew his pistol auat,.
Now, for the sequel!
mind the trial of Ma'
lottesville, a body of i?i
forcetl the Liberty J
night, seized ...Terry
him. Martin hadwa
man and escaped on the
"alcoholic insanity." j TerfV
murdered his man and alreaih
plea of emotional insanity had bet ,
suggested, auo ivucuersr'Siinr
saved the State the expense ot
mock trial.
Panic in aCnarcbt-
While a revival was in progress
last Sunday at the African MethoJ
dist Episcopal church hear Cool
Springs, Cumberland' ccWvnty, mi
UlillLU naa tiiicu u.j .uii sail ui is
pillar under tad
discovered that . the wal
church were swayed fro
right position: Seeing
mense crowd, eatinia
Hfarteii tn rnah iron.
The aisles were soor
way blocked. '' In f
get out some've'
and trampled upr
more or less hi 7
fronrjthe gal
ground belowy
lower wirt',1'
lately bJi.
roof put on, w
be supported
Has cut'
with an in
of purposj'
map. A
tive perfo?
single to j
and a 'r
laws, wil
believe f
of the
strictjv
part of
no -aw
w ur 1 1,
the p
est o
und.iv
member
'"I pend
reseii
w'Ulch i
. I
-OUjH
-The eo't
A. - I
Tireana";
everytlr
tory cot
in ev. A
nortell''7
room,
were sil
floor, wher
:,.-
aa
land
ago td
them, v
bought ' in
lands are in
fifteen vears ii
from the State U
8. T. Carrow, wj
there and lai'
They: failed H
term a ; nf t he ci
resale. These
vacant swamp !
are held by tb
Education, wbn1
some portions
swamp tracts.
Bosljon sir
a farmer, 44 D
a farm
James
Boston
enough 1
but to g
to gat In
i
1
IMSJJSL...J
vest win
bo aiiyth
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